Fiscal Court - Regular Meeting

All right. Approve our prayer meeting minutes. We have minutes from the July 28th meeting. Is there a motion to approve? I make a motion. Mr. Bodner, is there a second?

Second.

Mr. Sleeper, any discussion on the minutes? Seeing none, all those in favor of the motion to approve, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay. Motion carries. Minutes are approved.

budget transfers machine and budget transfers $8,025 and 18 cents. All right, motion to approve.

Second by Mr. Bodner. Any discussion on budget transfers? All right, everyone in favor of the motion to approve signify by saying aye. Any opposed nay? Motion carries cash transfers.

From occupational tax to the general fund, $1,192,377.68. From the general fund to the interest bearing account, $500,000. From E911 to the general fund, $3,500. From the general fund to jail, $100,000. From the general fund to EMS, $200,000. And from general fund to fleet, $10,000. That's it.

Okay. Is there a motion to approve cash transfers?

So moved.

Master Sleeper, is there a second?

Second.

Master Cullen, is there any discussion? No. Okay. All those in favor of the motion to approve, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay. Motion carries. All right. Approve our bills. Ms. Delano.

Good morning.

Good morning.

All right. Today's bill packet totals $2,172,115.74. At the request of the judge, one of the bills is being pulled. It is America's 250th bill for $1,827. That should have been billed to... Economic bill. Economic billment. and your grand total is going to be $2,170,288.74. Okay, is there a motion to approve the bill?

I'll make a motion. Mr. Cohen, is there a second? I'm sorry, Mr. Harmon, any discussion? Just going through, there was a couple of sponsorships, one for Soul 2nd Street, and...

Your occupational tax bill. Okay. It's in there. That's why the number's so high. All right.

So, no discussion? No questions? No comments? All right. All those in favor of paying the bill, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Motion carries. Thank you.

I have one more question, if you don't mind. Sure. This morning, I did get the paperwork in for the piece of equipment we bought for EMA, the side-by-side. I do need permission to go ahead and do the paperwork at the clerk's office, so I need to pay the title and transfer fees. Motion. Thank you.

Second. Motion by Magistrate Bonner, second by Magistrate Ellis. Any discussion on that item of business? All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay.

motion carries thanks thank you just as a follow-up because it was kind of left out we did go ahead and get approval for the excavator yes yes uh we worked on that last

The last couple weeks, actually, it was questionable at first, but July the 15th, part of the KRS was changed, and it does state now that if we get a used piece of equipment, as long as the sale price to us is below 75% of the MSRP value, then we can purchase the piece of equipment without going out to bid.

We might need it this weekend.

Yeah, coming up tonight and tomorrow. all right perfect thanks for that absolutely thank you okay we have one item in old business and that's our second reading of ordinance 842.3 our animal control ordinance has there been any changes since the first reading all right so is there a motion to approve second reading still move measure sleep second by mansion harman any discussion on the ordinance yeah there's

One part where it's taken from the statute that's left off, that I wanted to add back to it. It's not like a big deal, but let's see if it's in the KRS. It's just like one sentence that I need to add back to it. And I can work with Julie to get that done. Other than that, I would ask to approve it, pending that one sentence.

You just want to cite the KRS?

Right, well, yeah, like how it reads, it's reading like Paris, but there's one sentence that's like left out. Okay, okay.

You know what page we're talking about?

What table wouldn't come back?

H-19 has it for Paris.

Let me look real quick at this.

yeah what can we like yeah we can do that okay we'll pause on that for a moment and come back okay homeless coordinator Bryce Gibson Bryce in the hall come on in good morning

All right, so come give you a little update on homeless numbers. Yeah. We've got 127 intakes done today. So over the summer, spring months, we've had a slight influx of people just moving through the county. Like I've seen. So basically, my numbers like it 38% out of the 127 have been here for less than a year right now. And I'm not seeing them for a long period of time. I'm only seeing them for two or three weeks or up to a month, and then it seems like they go on wherever they're going. We had one guy, he was here in the early spring, and he stayed around here for two or three weeks, and he said, I'm just traveling the country. And he wasn't staying in a hotel or nothing. He was on foot. And that's just what he was doing. Real nice guy. So we're still at 62% overall as far as been here at least two years. We've got 29% that are lifetimes. 23 or 26%. from 2 to 10, and then 7% from 10 to 20. So we're still seeing that it's overall still a community problem. And there's a lot of different factors in that. And I've told you all this number before, and this number always amazes me that three quarters of them report having grown up in stable housing. that number just I don't know what it is about that number. But that number really just continues to stand out to me. And I guess it's because it's so much Yes, out of the number that you have, have you been I able to identify veterans? There's not many veterans in in this because there are so many across the country. Yeah, I know. And I don't understand why they bet is being the case here, but it's not. And I think maybe it has to do with the veteran services that we don't really have many of them here. Most of them are in Lexington or bigger populations. So that's just my opinion about why we're not seeing them here. I could be way off, but we're not.

Go ahead. A second question. I was turning right after being on Euclid Hill Road on the bypass to go home the other night, and I looked across near Dizzoli's. This gentleman had to be 60, could have been 75 or older, and his osteoporosis was so severe that he was bent over like this pushing a cart. Are you familiar with that gentleman?

Yeah, Arnold Parker. You had to walk there. It'll probably look like a car. Yes, and he's housed. We housed him a few months ago. He was previously homeless and through all those kind of working together, including crisis response, and all of us, we have gotten him housed. And he's been housed for probably three months. Thank you.

He just likes to wander around.

Absolutely does. Yeah, he's been seen over at the Viaduct. Yeah. Oh, he's everywhere. And... I've seen him, Mr. Kidd is his name, and I've seen him, I'm pulling out from, I think over at Nesco, and I've seen him walk, and I said, he's gonna walk straight into my truck. And I get to looking at traffic, and the next thing I know, I hear a ding, and he walks straight into my truck. So be aware, he's, yeah. But he's everywhere, and... He doesn't come into the office very much. Every once in a while, he will. But he's a nice guy, and I'm just glad that he's staying in his apartment, at least sleeping in it. But we've housed about, over the last four or five months, we've housed approximately 20 people. My numbers are a little bit down from what they were this time last year, and I do believe that that is the reason why. Because we've pulled... Well, there's four, six, about eight people out of tents. And we're able to help place them in apartments. The thing is, is like some of them have went together and are splitting the rent, which is huge. I mean, they were living in a tent together or an encampment together. And they decided, we'll just pull our money and we'll go get us a place. And we were able to help them with some deposit money and things like that along the way to help get them a place. Hey Bryce, just going back to the veterans thing.

Do we, I have to imagine that we have such an active veterans community here at the VFW and others that they kind of look after their own. I have to think if there's some problems, they're probably getting help at that level first before it becomes a bigger issue.

I would think so. I would definitely like to think so. I just don't, I don't see it. Yeah. And I don't know why that is.

Yeah.

Well, I think that's I think that really is what it is.

I think they're getting help.

We've got several in the community here, several VFWs and whatnot in here. So I really think that's what it is.

Some are working jobs here.

Yeah. That's another thing. A lot of these individuals are working. We've got another family that started in Ringwater somehow or another a trailer, really, really cheap. Now, I'm sure it's a disaster. I think it's been gutted, but they haven't moved into it yet. But I would think within the next 30 days, that family will be inside of it. And they've been working, both of them have been working for months. We've got eviction history, we've got bad credit. I had a phone call late last week, a mother of two children, she's got bad credit. And for her to get in, she just got her children back, she's actually a drug court participant. And it's gonna cost her $3,600 to get into a house. Because of her credit, they want first month, last month, and deposit. Rent's 1,200 bucks. I mean, that's, that's a pretty healthy house payment. It's more money is quite a bit more. So there's things like that, that are contributing factors to all this stuff. And it's not going to change overnight. For instance, so you all know we do the meal kits, the emergency meal kits. Well, this time last year, $400 would buy us about approximately about 75 meal kits. Now it's only doing about 40. So that's a big increase that everybody across the board is going to see. And I have a person that that goes out and looks for this stuff for us. And I know how she is, so she's definitely bargain shopping and trying to find us the best deal to make every dollar stretch as far as it can. And it was approximately $1,400 that we just did a couple of weeks ago, and it made 150 kids. So, I mean, that's something else. We probably don't really think about a lot. There are big deals when we really get to looking at all this stuff and the root causes.

So you need donations.

If somebody wanted to help, they could donate. Yes, absolutely. Homeless coalitions, we've got a PayPal account where somebody can just go online. And then we have a checking account where they can just deposit it at farmers. I think there's even now like a stocks account. Where people can donate their stocks or donate their interest and things like that from their stocks. So we're doing okay on the fundraising, but we're always gonna be just like everybody. If we're trying to expand this and really trying to make a bigger difference, we're always gonna be screaming we need donations. Food is kind of okay right now. But that may change in 30 days or 60 days. I think I've got enough to get through 60 days at a pretty good rate. But we always need all that stuff. And we now have a storage building. We went and rented a storage building so that way I could keep length. Like when we get these grants, like Center College gave us a grant last year and they're giving it to us again this year where we'll make these emergency tent kits. And so that way I can store them because I don't give as many of that stuff out during the winter time. I just don't. During the summer, I've ran through almost all of them. I think I'm down like five kids. But the middle of next month is when they should be putting these 10 kids back together.

So is there a list on your website of food items that you want?

There's an Amazon wish list. Okay. And the Amazon wish list has everything on it as far as food items, the type of stuff. Cuz we try to build those meal kits very purposely. We try to pack as much protein as we can into them.

And what do you search on Amazon?

Bull County Homeless Coalition. And it should be on the website also. It's bullcountyhomelesscoalition.org. All of those links should be on there. I want to thank you all for... helping fund this housing initiative that we're getting ready to do. I think we're about 60 days away from having our first participants inside of this. We haven't found a location yet. but we're really, really looking. So what I've been doing on that front is making sure that I've got all the policy procedures, the handbooks, all of those types of things underway and lined all the way out. Last week I presented it to the Homeless Coalition Board and it got approved. So that was kind of like the first step after securing funding from you all, which I'm really, really thankful for that. When you really start dissecting the numbers and this data that we're collecting right now, you can really see that workforce development is one of the biggest reasons why people are losing housing. And along with fixed incomes and can't afford deposits, I think that's why they can't get back into one after they have a job loss or get on hard times, whether it be medical bills or whatever it may be. Then when they're on a fixed income, Or just like the family I was talking about, you know, both of them working, what they just can't get the first month's rent and deposit together. So I think that that all these things in 12 months will start seeing a real like lasting impact on on some of these situations.

Any more questions?

I just want to make a comment. The reasons for homelessness are so varied. Just to give one example, this past Friday our volunteer admission group at a center helped move a lady's possessions because she's a 61 year old widow with a teenage daughter. Her husband committed suicide two years ago, very limited income. And she was living in a house and the landlord passed away. And so the new landlord committed, you've got to get out by the end of the month. So that's the emergency eviction situation. So we're working with her now with housing authority and other folks to try and get her housing. But we've already moved her possessions into a storage area. So there's lots of reasons for homelessness.

Thank you for the work that you do, Bryce. We appreciate you stepping up and starting all these wonderful things that you and your team are doing. So we appreciate you.

This is... very humbling and very stressful. I look I got I get to go get on a tractor every afternoon and kind of decompression and figure out, you know, the frustrating things not the stressful things. But thank you all very, very much. Thanks for all the support. Can't do none of this without y'all. Y'all have a good day. You're welcome.

Thank you. county attorney are you ready or you want me to keep going all right yeah we can go back okay so we're gonna go back to our second reading and we do have a motion in a second on the floor and you were discussing adding a Karius right back to what page well we were looking at the definitions on pages five and six okay for example physical injury well it also lists it physical injury on

11D, which goes into more detail. Sorry, on page 11 on the top at B. So I think that just on those definitions, they're listed there, which is listed at 525.135. We just want to cross-reference that to see the... So you're going to... So what language are you going to add?

So I'm going to put C Section 4A to...

yeah so for example physical injury torture there's another one serious physical injury they're defined on page 10 and 11 of our proposed changes whatever but it's kind of a lesser definition on page six and seven, so I want to make sure that the full definition is referenced. So I think, for example, on...

So are you going to put that on page six under physical injury to C, section 4A? Is that where you're going to put that at?

C, section 4A, number two, small a. And that's for physical injury. And that takes it to physical injury, and then I'll do the same for the trauma that will say B. Okay, yeah.

All right, yeah. So we have a motion and a second on the floor to approve second reading now with the additional language regarding physical injury and physical trauma. Is there any other discussion, questions?

No. Do we need to amend that motion? Do I need to amend my motion? Yes, please.

I'll amend my motion to include what?

Okay. And the second? All right. All right. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Any opposed nay? Motion carries.

Second reading is approved. So Animal Patrol is officially, as of right now, under the chair.

Yes.

Yes.

All right. Thank you all very much. Jailer Brian Wolford, leave these out in the hall. Good morning, gentlemen.

Good morning.

Good morning.

So I'll start with the quarterly report. As of today, right now, we have 29 full-time employees. Six of those are in academy. We started the third or fourth? Third. Third. So that'll be about four weeks, but we actually have some with some prior experience. So we're gonna try something different. We're actually going to divide that class up into kind of two groups because the ones that have experience, they already know how to handcuff, how to search, how to do those. So we're going to kind of just, hey, here's our policy procedures and kind of scoot them through early. We've got two part-time employees or deputies. So we've had some issues with one of our HVAC units. I think we've got that repaired. It's back online. And we're still having problems with our walk-in fridge, which has been a constant. It's almost a daily thing. Our state inmate work crew has helped with the fair, brass band, the 250 celebration, Eddie Montgomery concert, the balloon race cleanup after it, and then finishing up the garden. Our numbers today, Boyle is 56, State is 68. 37 of those are sap, zero for other counties, so we're holding 123. Other than that, everything else is about normal. So the good news is we're about to start our boiled rice program, and I'm with Chad. He's worked really hard on this. This was his ideal and his initiative on it, so he's done all the heavy lifting on it. So I'm gonna turn it over and let him explain.

This is the bull rise initiative is what we're calling it and I passed this out before in a flyer tells a little bit about it. We're excited to say that we finally got all the ducks in a row. Everything's going to restart on Thursday. So on Thursday. We've got 11 county inmates, Bull County inmates, and we've got one employee actually. We have our lieutenant in charge of maintenance. He's going to go through the OSHA 10 part, and he's also going to go through the forklift certification. So the great thing is, is it's all paid for through grants. It's not costing Bull County taxpayers any extra money. The whole reason for this is we started working with reentry employment services branch that led us to Bluegrass Workforce Development. And what Bluegrass Workforce did is they sent out a survey to all the employers, the major employers here. So what certifications are you looking for in a new employee? What would help you hire someone to hire someone? And so they came back with, we need forklift operators. So we're doing forklift certifications. It'd be great if they had their OSHA 10 card. Thursday is CPR first aid. Friday, we do half of the OSHA 10. Then we start into forklifts on Friday. Saturday, we do the other half of OSHA 10. And we do the practical part of forklift. So they're actually bringing a forklift. And Mike Rogers has agreed to allow us to use that recycled part. So we can do it indoors for Saturday, which is going to be great. They'll get forklift certified. Judge Johns, she's got a person in drug court right now making like $40 an hour running a forklift. So we want to bring these people, have them day one ready. Starting Monday, we get somebody off. Starting Monday, we go into, with adult ed, soft skills. So they're going to get certified in soft skills. And the class itself, it talks about how to make a resume, why it's important to make a resume. How to go through job interviews, set up mock job interviews. A lot of these people have never had to sit in front of an employer and present themselves for a position.

Sell themselves.

Sell themselves, that's right. And they've got to make up some ground. They've been incarcerated. Well, what this shows is they're not just sitting there, and they have to earn this. It's not given. If they don't earn it, if they don't pass the test, do the work, they don't get the certificates. When they show up to that employer, it's about $3,600 worth of certification that the employer does not have to pay. Wow, that's awesome. So we are really excited about this.

With Forklift up to this innovative program, Would that piece of equipment be one more like a chainsaw where we could not allow them to touch them without your program? No. No, they can run it for us. So they could have already, but this is just to get them. The important thing is they're getting certification. Correct, correct.

And that helps to bridge that unemployment gap. A lot of our guys are in recovery. Part of successful recovery is successful, gainful employment. That helps to fill in a lot of gaps where you can afford to have a place to live and be able to afford to have a car and work towards correcting the errors of your past. And the financial gap needs to be filled. Also too, we've got 300 something positions available right now in Boyle County in the surrounding areas. They are looking for employees that are day one ready. They don't wanna have to spend six months training somebody. So hopefully we're gonna fill that gap all the way around. I know we're work ready county, we're recovery ready county and this meets those qualifications for both oh yeah once they they go through it's not just over they're going to continue to follow up with them as they go into the workforce when there's there's gaps that they need they're going to be able to jump in and help fill those with more education help fill those that we've even got a partner that will help pay if they have to have steel-toed boots. They can put them in the right people where there's some grant money right now that will help pay for those steel-toed boots and any equipment they would need to take on that job.

Now, do they have to be so far close to being released, like so far in their sentence?

Ideally, it would be. So where these are county inmates, some are final sentenced. The majority are pre-trial detainees. So we don't really have a control over that. So if for some reason they don't get released in the next four weeks, then what we're doing is adult ed has agreed to come back in and continue to do more classes with those that have successfully completed this program. I spoke with our attorney, Chris Herron. Judge Barsotti, they're both on board with this, wanting to incorporate it into their Rocket Docket program. Attorney Johnson, Justin Johnson, the Commonwealth attorney, And Judge Johns both want to incorporate parts of this into their drug court. So perhaps if somebody absconds in drug court, they mess up, they get sent back. Rather than just sitting there waiting to get back into the program, this would be something that they could put into place so that when they go back into the program, they've got some tools to go forward and be successful with.

And how much was the grant?

but the grant comes through two or three different departments and it depends on the people. Um, but roughly it's about $3,600 per person that they're getting certified in. And these aren't make-believe certifications. Uh, KCTCS is, it's all like through BCTC, um, those places that are proctoring it at our facility. And one of the things that Joe Wolford has done is agreed to is if we have someone

that is involved next week and they bond out on friday afternoon they can come back on saturday um and complete it yeah right and like i say it's saving the county thirty six hundred dollars to have you know glenn osha certified certified and then in the future well because we can only do 12 at a time because of our space If we have an altering down the road, if there's a county employee that needs that, we would work them in to save the county the cost of getting those, if we have the space.

This time we didn't have the space. We had 12, but one did back out. So they gave us the space, but hopefully, We like to have at least 10. I'd love to be able to see us put two employees each class. And they can pick and choose. They wouldn't have to go through soft skills and financial literacy. That was the other one. Financial literacy is next Tuesday, where they learn about how to open a bank account, how to manage debt, create a budget, and that type of information.

Sounds fantastic.

I was just wondering, can we put the jailer through these clients? We should have put him in first. It was already called. And his dog in there, too.

Yeah. But anyway, wish us luck, because we're probably going to need it over the next few days.

Well, thanks for sharing.

We're going to come back and make a report on follow-up on how we get through it completely. And throughout the year, they're going to follow up with these folks in their employment and

Do we have any kind of like special recognition form or is it because they're all going to be graduating at different times you really can't do that?

We'll probably have a graduation for the ones that this class successfully complete.

We're going to do some things to encourage the inmates to want to take this. So we've got some stuff that we can pay for at the canteen that we're going to do to kind of, you have to give them something that'll draw them in a little bit and then

Yeah.

This is great because they're going to come right out of jail and be able to contribute to society, to occupational tax and things like that. Be with family. Be with family.

Support their families. Get their family back and be put in and less likely keeps our recidivism going down if they can get out. So just laying on somebody's couch trying to survive, then they'll be able to provide for themselves and thrive. Yeah.

And these are also part of the qualifications. They can't be violent offenders. They can't be sexual offenders, that type of thing. So these are people that are going to be safe to go out and work in the community. We found a way to do it.

Yeah, that's awesome. Sounds good. Good job. Thank you. That's great. Thank you. Mr. Mark Gordon will be next. Mr. Gordon. And good morning.

Good morning. How are you?

Good. Mark's going to present some quotes on that spring fence, but we've also added a couple of other things. He can go ahead and get these projects going while he's here. So we start with the fence if you want to.

Okay, now we put a fence across the front. Two new gates. One is to access the convenience center. The other was to access an entrance or an emergency entrance for the bike park. This fence will actually go down to be the west side of the property and then across the back, which will totally enclose the convenience center, which will enable us to give the people working there a key to that to the gate on the right to access that wheel. So I've got two quotes, one from the company, Elite Agronomics Consulting. It was at $23,381. I got another company, Soki out of Bowling Green, he was at 2537. Also contacted Acres. They called me back. We were going to set up the time the following week and that's been two or three weeks ago. I've never heard anything back. I was going to suggest or recommend the person that done the front part.

The same type of fence.

It's the same fence. At the back of the fence or the back of the property or community center, there'll be a gate to access where the brush is at. Out the back side of it. But other than that, it'll be enclosed. Or being closed on three sides. There's a creek on the left-hand side.

Okay. So you've got a quote from Elite Agronomics, 23,381. Is there a motion to approve?

I'll make a motion.

Mr. Cullen, is there a second?

Second.

Mr. Harmon, any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, nay? Motion carries.

The second thing, I don't know what's on here.

I have Wiley Electric for Public Works. Okay.

We are currently, we're getting closer to getting the public works department moved into their part of Red King. Yeah. Myself and Roger walked through with Wiley, the electrical contractor, and told them in our building where we wanted to plug in for welders, our compressor, our lift, our truck. different plugins on the wall. And he came back with a quote of 36881. That's what that quote is for. It will actually be wiring everything in the building.

He's state contract. He's state contract.

He is a state. He is a licensed state.

Professional service.

Professional service.

So this is already in our budget. We already have this in our budget or?

No, it's not, it'll come out of, it'll be the same thing. Everything else that we've been doing out there, it'll just come out of the reserves and then we, when we bond, we get back. Okay. Yeah.

And also, separately, I ask him to give me a price on our electrical service. Currently, it's, um, a three phase, what they call the CL, the old style donuts. And we did the same thing with the recycling building. Their electrical service coming into the building was overhead and it was obsolete. And KU done explained that if one of those three donuts go bad, we'll have to change it over anyways. put their electrical service underground and put in a new service to the whole building. And this building, the back building, which is public works, is set up the same way as that one was. And in order to bring it up to date and to put it underground, not overhead, he gave me a bid of $18,209.

Which was considerably less than recycling.

Yeah, because that electrical service was a lot bigger.

Okay, so we've got two quotes. We've got one, what you explained.

One is for the electrical service coming into the building. Right. One is for everything inside. Inside the building. Okay. And he actually We could see. Okay.

Let's vote on them separately. How about that? Okay. So on the first one, the electric coming into the building, which is the 18,209.11, is there a motion to approve that quote? I'll make a motion. I'll second. Okay. Motion by Magistrate Bodner, second by Magistrate Sleeper. Any discussion on that particular item? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Motion carries. Okay, the second one in the amount of $36,881.38. Is there a motion to approve that quote?

I'll make that motion.

Mr. Cullen, is there a second? Second. Mr. Sleeper, any discussion on that item?

Yeah.

Was the overhead situation one that OSHA would encourage us doing otherwise? OSHA? Yeah. Because of the problems that you can have with electricity? State code.

No, I'm not... But it sounds like it's... Well, it's an odd belief.

You said inner county or somebody told you?

KU. KU.

Bring it up to state code.

Right.

includes a new breaker box, which currently you've got a huge breaker box there with, I'm guessing it's probably 50 breakers. None of them's marked. So you're trying to figure out what's controlling what. When he does that, he'll put a new, and then everything will be labeled.

That's worth $36,000.

Right. If you ever look at your box at home. He actually makes a... a little tag, a metal tag and glues it to each breaker so that it will stay and you know what powers, what is power.

Okay, we have a motion and a second. Is there any other discussion on that? All right. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Motion carries.

Okay. The next thing was our We need a water and sewer line installed for our office and break room. The water meter and tap and the sewer tap has already been paid to the city. And I've got three quotes on installing the water and the sewer to the building. He does the sewer and water on the inside, but it doesn't include anything outside. So we have to have it installed. I've got one company here, Commonwealth Plumbing, both water and sewer at 11-3. I've got another company out of Lexington, it's Plumberology. He quoted the sewer at 12, the water line at 86.10.

For a total of 20,016.

Yeah, significant difference. And then I got a quote from Soki. The water line was at 18.30. I misplaced this.

Well, it's all together, I think, because it isn't stocked. Oh, water, sewer, and water. Yeah, sewer and water.

He didn't separate.

No.

But I was going to recommend Commonwealth or a fairly local company and considerably cheaper. Make that motion. Second.

Okay, we have a motion by Magistrate Cullen, a second by Magistrate Ellis. Any discussion on the water sewer line folks? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Motion carried.

To give you guys an update on our building, our office is framed up, the electric is roughed in, the plumbing is roughed in, they've both been inspected. The HVAC, we've kind of been holding this up. We got a permit yesterday to install it from the state. He says he'll have it done by the end of the week. And then when the builder comes back to start over, he said within a month's time, he'll be done.

And we'll be able to walk. So hopefully by October 1st. That's what we're shooting for.

Like I said, we get the water there. So we're going out trying to put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

Well, thank you for everything that you have done and continue to do to get in all these quotes. I know that's a job calling all these people and trying to get things lined up. And so we just appreciate the work you're doing. You're doing a great job.

Thank you.

Appreciate it. Anything else? You guys?

Girls?

Men and women?

Okay. All right. Thanks, Mark.

All right, IT Director Bill Nichols.

Thank you, sir. Right on cue. Right on cue. Better than earlier, right?

That's right.

I'm here not to talk about ProTech, but the reason ProTech is listed is they are our preferred vendor for our Microsoft product. It is a budgeted item. I did manage to bring it in $2,000 cheaper than I budgeted for. and it came in at 43.

Awesome.

So if I need, do I need to make a motion to get an approval for that or just acknowledge it or however you all want to do it? You can't make a motion. I'm sorry.

You all want a motion?

We're listening.

I won't be able to do all the motions.

So I'll make a motion and we'll go ahead and approve the project bid. I guess that's it. They're a preferred vendor.

Microsoft makes you choose your vendor and then they give the same price to everybody. So I think we'll keep it low.

All right. We have a motion by Minister Cohn, a second by Minister Boehner. Any discussion on the estimate for Project IT Solutions? All right. All those in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Motion carried. Thank you all. Thank you.

A important footnote in this is that we tried going down the free Google route for a while, utilizing their office system, and that became a hassle, and that's why we switched it.

Well, and one of the reasons, we even went down the paid Google route, but Google didn't at the time, and I don't know if they do now or not, but didn't at the time. We have a lot of just email accounts, and Google said, no, you've got to have all of these, all these or whatever accounts. And it turned out to be just a little more flexible for us. And we've made that transition. I think we're doing really well with it. Plus, Microsoft has been real proactive about doing the phishing stuff. I mean, like I said before, we got in that phishing campaign with Know Before. And even though they were whitelisted on our Microsoft account, Microsoft still analyzed the emails when they came in, stopped them, and said, I'm not delivering these. So unfortunately, that just showed us that it was not worth spending the money with no before but it showed us that our system was doing what it needed to be doing supposed to be doing.

Yes, right.

Some still get through but not very many.

All right.

Thank you all. Thank you.

Okay, Kenny administrator. Welcome back.

Good morning. I think you have a copy in your packets. The draft request for proposals for architectural design, engineering design for the new sheriff building, which is the old post office on Walnut Street. I wanted to get you to look over this and see if there's anything else we want. Otherwise, I asked for you to approve the RFP so we can get this out for bid.

Now, the RFP publication, they said it's going to change. The date for that, target date was today. I'm page three schedule of issuance and award yeah today I'm going to publicize it today you up so that they just go give if it's okay all right wonder my theory to go yeah sorry you're all right is there a motion to go ahead and

approve the publication of the RFP. I'll second.

All right. We have a motion by Magistrate Cullen, a second by Magistrate Sleeper. Any discussion on the RFP for the Sheriff's Department building?

And EMA. And what? And EMA.

And EMA. Yes. Okay. EMA. And EMA. EMA. I wasn't sure what you were saying, Department. All right.

Check that call, too, please.

All those in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye.

Aye. Any opposed, thanks.

Motion carries. I tell you, things are moving right along. We are getting lots done. Great.

Okay. Hope Hollow Road Survey? Yes. In your packet, I'll fill with a copy of a proposal from our county surveyor to do the survey of the property on Hope Hollow Road. There's a bit of a discrepancy in the deed and PDA's records. He's gone back to the 1900s and is probably going to have to go back to when it was first divided and recorded. His estimate is $18,700. He doesn't think he'll need all that, but he may. So he put a number in there if he had to. That's the worst case scenario.

He's already... found a couple discrepancies and it's going to take a lot of time to figure it out. So we want to make sure that what we're purchasing is what we're purchasing. According to the deed and what we think we're getting. So that's the little higher cost because of all the man hours that are going to be put in.

I'll make a motion.

All right, motion made by Magistrate Boehner, second by Magistrate Ellis. Any discussion? On the survey. A cost. All right, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay. Motion carries. All right, next up is our treasurer, Ms. Shannon Green with the treasurer's settlement.

In your packets you have the annual treasurer's settlement The list of vendors was what was spent by each fund, and then it also included salary breakdown. Do you have any questions?

Good job. Thank you. Looks to be all in order, but if anyone has any questions or comments, we'll certainly allow those. And do you want approval or just just acknowledge? All right, acknowledge. Thank you, ma'am. Good job. Okay, so we have two meeting dates that we need to discuss and decide what we want to do. Okay, I got them in reverse order, but that's okay. We'll go with December 1. Last year, The meeting fell the week of Christmas and it does again this year. And last year we set it back a day and had it on Monday instead of Tuesday. This year it's December 22nd. Do we want to keep that date as the second meeting of December or because it's two days before Christmas, do we want to push it back to the 21st or even earlier?

Make a motion to move it to the 21st.

Okay, I have a motion by Mr. Ellis. Is there a second? Second. Mr. Bodner, any discussion on moving the December 22nd meeting back one day to December 21st?

Give us a little more travel time. So last year, Christmas was on Thursday. This year it's on Friday.

The courthouse is closed the 24th and 25th. So that gives, if we move it back to Monday, that gives the staff... Everything else being by the 17th? Yeah. Well... 16th. 16th, yeah.

I mean, does that cause any issues for staff having to change stuff around?

Actually... 21st?

You still only have, even though it's...

special call 24 hours, so I don't really have to move that much stuff around.

Just notification, stuff like that. And again, like you said, it'll be a special call meeting, so we can only discuss the things that are on the agenda by moving it.

That means everybody will have to get their items in.

No comments, no none of that stuff at the end.

Well, now that's, I mean, whatever's on the agenda. So if comments are on the agenda, then we'll still have them.

No, but no add-on motions or anything like that?

No, no, no, no. Only what's specified on the agenda. Yeah, so if something comes up like, Mark come in today and he had those two other things that weren't on the agenda, then he wouldn't have been able to do that in a special call. He would have had to just spend the one. Correct. So any issues with moving it to the 21st? that's that's my question do we really i could see when last year was on thursday chris was on thursday it was kind of closer but i think manager gay was the one that requested it last year he had a holiday and i'm i'm not sure you know this year if it's the same but i think he was the one that did request it last year and it's fine with me i mean you know if you all want to move it to the 20th it doesn't matter to me

So, do we want to keep it Tuesday? It's fine?

I would say that we don't have to worry about the whole special call thing or whatever. Okay. It's the end of the year.

I'll take that. Resend my motion.

I'll resend. Okay.

Just putting it out there.

Okay. All right. So, Magistrate Bodner and Magistrate Ellis have rescinded their motion in seconds. We will leave the second meeting of December as December 22nd, 2026, 9 a.m. Okay. All right. Now, moving back to October 27th, the county clerk will be doing absentee voting in the courtroom. So I would like to have that meeting. It will be a special call meeting, and we will conduct that meeting at City Hall. Danville? Danville. Danville City Hall. We'll conduct that meeting there.

I'd love to invite you to Parable.

Well, we've been to Parable, we've been to Junction, so now we'll take advantage of Danville City Hall. What date was that? That was on October 27th. and we will conduct the meeting at Danville City Hall, and that will be at 9 a.m., and I have already spoken with the city manager, and they have approved to let us use their facility.

A reminder would be good, so we won't wait.

Well, we will send out, and we'll announce it at every meeting. All right, now we're up to magistrate reports. You had smart proclamation on that. That was pulled. You may not have gotten a revised agenda. Sorry about that. Okay. Magistrate reports. We will start with Magistrate Boehner.

Well, I'm still tired from the balloon festival. We had lots of walking and running and doing. Lots of people helping. It was a really good event and the balloons went up. If nothing else works, if the balloons go up, everybody seems very happy. So the balloons went up. It was really neat to see it and had a lot of good work. And Brianna, a vice director, really, really did so much with this. She was a key person in this event. So we'd like to thank her for all that. And let's see. Thank Public Works for looking at a tree that the limbs are falling down every day. And I'd like to thank the state for... clearing out the bamboo that was growing out over 300, right near Yates Road. And the county's gonna start mowing, or is already mowing, so they should be out my way on Wednesday. Some people were complaining that the grass, it, of course, grows so fast. But anyway, appreciate them mowing. And let's see, I wanted to mention, waiting to hear about the grade change from grade nine to grade 10 with the county administrator in that report. So, I'm still, I know you said you talked to Steve Griffin, is that right? The personnel committee? Yes, yes. So that's why I was looking at Jason. So I'll be glad to hear about that. I've talked to Josh Morgan about the EVA property, about where we're going to take the, burner, air curtain burner. He says he's getting, you know, going to have that entrance to that soon. I haven't talked to him in about three weeks, four weeks, so maybe I'll open it now.

It's not.

No, it's not.

Okay. No, he actually gave a, I was at City Hall last night for their meeting, and he gave, they need to put a culvert under that road, and that's going to require them actually removing power lines, de-energizing them so they can get a crane to come in there, set it, so that's going to take a few days. But it sounds like it's something that's going to happen, I think, in the next couple of weeks.

Yeah, that's good. Sounds like that's coming right along. And let's see. We are at Junction City. We've got a really huge group of people that are working on a cemetery. And so my sister and Kathy Shelton, my sister Landy Lieberts, Kathy Shelton are helping that up with Mayor Douglas. And they're going to do some getting an estimate today. In fact, I'm getting some stones that are in the 1800s that have fallen over, trying to get those straightened up. And we're going to do a really big cleanup and beautification and go around our veterans. We've got a flag there. They're going to do some work around the veterans flag. And so they're going to work on that.

I'm still working on it.

No, they're not involved in that. And then we're going to, I'm still looking, I've got this park thing planned from Ronnie Bottoms that is planes, trains, and automobiles that is just, I said, if you don't dream, you don't get. So he sent me that and I'll have to, I will send that around to you all if we could one day. We've got the 10 acres now. We've got the great entrance for the park and they're, doing some studying about the water so the park is another one of my big uh interests and that's where i'm going to work with the city on that and i'm also going to work on our community center so i've got some a lot of work ahead of me uh and i'm encouraging everybody to get out and help go you know i'm going to try to get some funding for some of these things for junction city so it's uh we got a lot of work ahead

All right.

And that's it. Sounds like things are going on.

They're going. They're moving. All right. Good deal. Thank you. Master Harmon.

We're finally getting a new entrance coming off the bypass going into the bottom side where the tractor supply.

Yep.

That thing has been horrible. People lose a vehicle and a lot of tire. Yep. A vehicle. And i think damel city is doing this and they are pouring concrete it's not blacktop now you're talking about before you turn into tractor supply no when you turn in that street that goes in the back of cloverdale okay where they've got their chain link fence and all that for sale yeah yeah right And it's been horrible. And I guess enough people complain that the city of Danville is going to do something with it. They're going to do it right, because there's a whole lot of traffic that goes in and out of there. And haven't got anything done on the left turn lane coming south on Houstonville Road onto the bypass. There's still a hole about like this. And the state has to do it. They put a little black top in it, it lasts about a week. So then they'd come back, flip the cab.

That's where you're going south and turning right on the bypass, 127. No, you're turning left. 150.

Going 150.

Yeah, 150. That's all I have. Okay. Well, thank you. Master Cullen.

Most of the EMS committee met this morning. Master Gabe was excused. It was Mike, Tim, Jessica, Judge Bottoms and myself. We talked about reviewing EMS HR specific policies and training and we had, I'm sorry, we also had Steve Griffin in here as well to kind of help us navigate through that as well. We talked about pre-employment and annual fitness for duty statements. There's a KRS that refers to that and so we're making sure we're in compliance with it. It's very vague, but you know, we're still trying to double check. We also discussed funeral leave for EMS since their schedule is a little different. They're on a 24-hour schedule. So we talked about that and made sure that policies are understood. We talked about the Danville Fire Department Mutual Aid Agreement. Jessica gave a very thorough update on the Crisis Response Unit. We did get the grant, which is fantastic. It's slightly delayed because of government, so that's going to be a wonderful thing for the community. Crisis response, they responded to a total of 46 different case individuals for the month of July. They had made 71 home visits, and that's basically a follow-up. So they establish communication with somebody that falls under their parameters, and they go back out and speak with them. And then throughout the community, they've had 191 encounters for the month. things we talked about for a little bit was under mental health we did unfortunately have one fatality for suicide in the month of July and I bring that up mainly because this person had never been on the radar, had never reached out and Although they did have 12 other people that did reach out, this person was just kind of, they said they had no idea, nobody spoke to them, they never reached out or anything. And so please make sure that if there's anything you're going through, there's lots of help in this community. And then for runs for June was 624. runs for July was 737. So that's a new high for us. So that's about 25 a day that they're doing. And so we had a meeting about a week and a half ago with with one of our partners just to try to get them to assist us with some of the runs we're doing to help maybe bring some of those numbers down. So we're going to get back together with Ephraim and see what they can do to assist us with some of these numbers as well, which will be great for for our providers out there that are just running left and right. A lot of the numbers came from the heat. It's still hot, so please look after people as they're out and about, making sure they're drinking lots of water and staying indoors when they can, because that's where a lot of these problems come. And so that's all I have, and I'll submit that for approval.

Okay. I have a motion from Mr. Cullen. Is there a second? Second. Mr. Gay's not here. Are you the proxy? Alright, any comments on the report? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Motion carries. Mr. Gay is absent today and we pray safe travels on his return. So that brings us to Mr. Sleeper.

Oh, I thought you were finished. No, I just submitted that.

My apologies. Please continue. I tried, Steve.

When are you up next? The only other thing I had is I reached out to Kelly Baker yesterday with District 7. 34 is a nightmare. We've had two major accidents within 24 hours. A total of six cars involved. The state is not... is not spending any money on roads right now, it seems. And, you know, this project, this is, thanks to the judge, this is a top priority project for the county because this, along with a couple others, is a main artery into Bull County. And so if you have an accident at 6.30 p.m., it's going to bottleneck people coming and going. You have an accident the next day at 8.30 a.m. It's going to cause delays for an hour going all the way back to, you know, we actually had to call over the sheriff to see if he could get some help kind of directing traffic at Lexington. and 2168 there because the accident was at Old Lexington and so it just was it was a mess out there and so you know Kelly and I spoke and then I reached out to Amanda Mays Bledsoe as well to see what kind of help she could get us for that the short term Kelly is per an email that Judge and I sent him before, is trying to get his state crew out there to clear a lot of that brushback, a lot of it's line of sight. You know, it's people turning left onto Old Lexington, which leads to Kemper. And so people are just flying through there, not seeing it, not having enough time to break. A lot of it is speed. Yeah, a lot of it is speed. That's our number one problem around here. So anyway, so Kelley's actually has the state crew, Willie and those guys, working on cutting a lot of that line of sight back. But the, you know, you can keep putting little Band-Aids on it, but we need them to widen that area.

We need to widen. We need a third button.

Yeah. And so hopefully Amanda will be able to get some funding for that maybe in January. You know, the state has not done any letting in four months of road fund. And... What? is really going to cause some problems, and we're really going to be behind the eight ball, is that our governor decided to pause the gas tax for about 45 days when gas went a little high. That is going to cripple us in the next couple years because of, you know, that was... Less money. Several million dollars that we're not getting because of that boneheaded move. But, so, we're... There's all more reason why The connector road that's being pushed at $55 million for about two and a half miles of road needs to get put on the back burner because we have several roads in my district, in Tom's district, Paula's district that need to be fixed before we go opening up new roads. So if we spend $55 million, we can pretty much kiss any of those roads getting improved by for a decade at least. So anyway, so I had a good conversation with Kelly, had a great conversation with Amanda. and so 34 is on our radar, and we're getting it pushed. I have seen some flags going up on 52, which kind of gives me hope that there's going to be some work out there.

I talked to Nick Lester, and he said that's preliminary work, just, I forget the word term he used, just to prepare for future, but there's no plans for it.

Well, there's plans, but not

Not money for it to do it right now.

It's funded. It's funded, just not, they don't have the green light is really what it is. That's really what it comes down to.

No plans to start anything.

This preliminary stuff needs to happen before they can actually get the green light. So that's what a lot of this is.

Judge, I want to echo, and I was going to say this in my report about our public works meeting, but I want to echo the concerns of Magistrate Cullen, and I hope the media is listening to this. I drive frequently on 52. Anybody mowing along there, especially in the curvy areas, they're subject to be wiped out by a big truck with a mirror when they're up close to the road because you are at the grass and at the road. Magistrate Cullen had a public meeting with District 7 at a church just past that four years ago, five years ago?

No, four years and a half ago.

urgently with probably 80 people in the room and three representatives of DOT District 7 heard the concerns and here we are now back then when we might have had money available a very dangerous situation was ignored and here we are now talking about it with no money available. And I think this state needs to be held to account on issues like this. I would not want to sleep at night as a member of state government with all we hear when we go to all the conferences about road improvements when we're subject to someone either mowing or someone coming around the curve not understanding how close they are in those curves to running off the road, I think it's time for the state to hear from us, perhaps collectively judge, that they can find money. Got too many years of going to Frankfort and Washington to not know that when there is an urgent situation, They amazingly have a way of coming up with funds to rectify dangerous situations, when to me the sole responsibility of the Department of Transportation is to protect the public on the roads.

They have a significant rainy day fund. Some of that needs to get spent. But District 7 is doing everything that it can. I will say that it wasn't the exact improvement that we wanted totally but that they did change that road a little bit They did add a little bit to it, which has stopped some of the accidents from happening around there, which is nice. I don't hear as many cars going off the road like they were. No, the way they changed the topography of the road and everything actually has helped a lot. It's still, like Tom said, a nightmare for the people that live there because it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. But with my conversation with Kelly also was, you know, you guys did not realize the significance of that corner on 52 until we asked you for a traffic study and an accident report. Have you done the same thing for 34? And he said, no. He said, I'm going to do it right now. And we'll be able to see, you know, how many. accidents are actually happening along that road because it it really goes from the old bridge general store pretty much all the way up to to lexington avenue but we can pull the numbers from the cad and and yeah but i want that yeah they yeah they need to get my head start on it yeah and so that he's he's working on that i think he says he doesn't get a meeting a meeting next week that they'll have these numbers for, and they can really see the seriousness of the issue.

Just one more comment. We're looking back four to five years expressing these concerns with no remedy done by the state. And it's not District 7. These kind of decisions come out of Frankfort. And there's a new head of Department of Transportation. I do not know him. I have had lengthy face-to-face this close to make an individual, his predecessor, uncomfortable at one of our conferences for 15 or 20 minutes about these type of issues in Boyle County. And we need help. Agreed.

Okay, that's your call.

On a more positive, what a weekend we've had in Lowell County. Yeah. You know, sold Second Street Festival, balloon race, balloons over bluegrass. And we, I played it smart this year. I went out a little later, went a little cooler. But, you know, just place was packed and vendors were there and Brianna and Junction Voices did a fantastic job putting this whole thing together and you know I remember just four or five years ago just a nightmare of traffic in and out of there and man it was different.

It was seamless. I mean it was just amazing how quickly everybody got in, got parked and

Everyone just out there having a good time. Yeah, yeah, it was great. Joining him in Seoul. Representative David Meade out there enjoying his time. Because people don't know, a lot of people don't know that a good portion of that runway is in Lincoln County. Lincoln County, yeah. So he was out there talking with people. So pretty neat. It was a good time. So back to school. Please be careful. Starts tomorrow. Unless you're going to KSD and then they've been postponed until the 24th. Or DCA. Or DCA. DCA is the 24th as well and I'm not sure when Bates started. Anyway, so just be careful, be cognizant, slow down.

I think the traffic light is now fixed out at the bypass where it was stopping on each section. Now it's back to the regular schedule. Don't have to wait so long anymore.

And those concrete improvements at the traffic lights will be big when it comes to saving money, having to repay them more and more. Anyway, that's all I have.

And everybody remember the bus, the new rules about meeting the bus on four lane highways, nothing in between it, both lanes stop. I think a lot of people do not know that.

We need to really push that. I know the school, Bull County schools, I'm not sure about Danville, but I know Bull County have put it on their Facebook page.

Echoing Paula's comments, we're all going to have to be extremely careful because by following the law and that person looking at his or her cell phone as they're coming down or just not paying attention with enough coffee, You better be looking in your rear view mirror when you stop for a school bus because having had two rear ends when we lived in Lexington, my wife having one rear end crash into us, this is such a dramatic change. Houstonville Road, that lane counts as one where you'd better stop for the school bus. Because you will get a $300 fine the very first time and points. But you're also subjecting yourself to being rear-ended if people aren't paying attention. So this is a critical change. And all too many people with the statistics they've been talking about in Kentucky with folks running past school buses on two-lane roads, for heaven's sakes. Mark my words, we're going to see the data on rear-end collisions.

Only other thing is that the Danville-Boyle County Economic Development Partnership will meet today for a special call meeting and we will have a good announcement coming up after that. All the improvements that's happening out as far as parks and rec goes are great. I'm astonished to see some people with the negativity of the county investing in the health and well-being of its citizens, but maybe if people would spend less time on Facebook and more time out and about they'd be happier, I don't know. But I'm excited to see all the things that are going on for this community and it's really going to be well received with economic development because that's one of the biggest issues when people are coming in to look to say, hey, I'm going to relocate here. What do you have for my employees? Oh, well, we have got nothing. We don't invest in it. So kudos to all that we're doing when it comes to economic development via our parks and rec and the people that are using that stuff. There's a lot of people that are going to use it. So anyway, that's all.

Steve keeps looking at us like, are they ever

Just one item. On July 28th, Animal Control Committee and Judge Bottom and Director Jessica Joseph and Administrator Julie, we met with the Sheriff and ironed out some of the details, worked on some details of making the transition to Animal Control being under the Sheriff's Department.

um that's really all so that's the torch well i'd be official today all right that's right okay thank you master dallas thank you judge everybody come out 6 30 forkland there will be a pig roast plenty of barbecue a baked potato watermelon and just bring your family out and Get your dinners there. It's always a great, great opportunity to just meet and greet folks from the pioneer spirit of Portland. So please come out. 6.30 on Friday, right? 6.30 Saturday. Saturday. I'm sorry. Thank you. Thanks for the clarification. I was going to be out there today. We'll be out there any day of the week. Judge and Public Works, thank you so much. we had just gotten pavement at the entrance and throughout the convenience center in Perryville and that will happen soon at Portland as well and my comment and thanks to the judge yesterday when we met Public Works we get so many people who come out of historic Harrodsburg on 68 into incredibly historic Perryville And improvements have been made for the past two years. The fence line and everything and mowing and making sure that the weeds are down between the road and actually where people take their trash. It's looked good but the gravel would get potholes and we were constantly having to go in there and fill those and the hillside which probably had trees in it the size of my arm. We've mowed that up and we're keeping it mowed. It's been attractive, but now it just has almost a subtle sophistication to see the pavement rather than potholes in our gravel entrance. So people coming from everywhere on tourism will just appreciate all that's been done along that stretch by the county.

And we should have, well, I'll go ahead and let you comment.

Oh, go ahead.

Well, I'll wait until you get down to your own. Okay. Because you may go ahead and tell it anyway.

All right, well, you'll get credit. Please, a congregate from Centenary Methodist is in the back corner there. He might want to speak. Pat Bennett, thank you for being here. This weekend... Our tradition will continue for another year where the coaches and the football players and parents, if they wish to come, and they often do, they fill our church up so much that we have to go up in the balcony. But we call it our tailgate Sunday for Danville and Boyle County football teams. And when we finish, well, actually, as a Gideon, I'll be part of a crew of Gideons passing out small pocket Bibles to all the young men and anyone else who would want one that day. And some of these young men have gotten them two and three and four years in a row. That's fine because they have friends who might need a Bible. So it's just a wonderful opportunity to invite so many people from all across Boyle County and Danville. That's exciting. That's Centenary Methodist right there on Cunningham Way at the entrance to the park. So it's very gratifying to see these young men, young women who support them as anything from trainers to cheerleaders. That's critical to the total community, both Danville and Boyle County. So it's just an exciting Sunday for us. And none of them go away hungry. We make sure after church that they come in and have a great meal with us. So I definitely wanted to get that point in. We met yesterday as public works in our regularly scheduled meeting. We decided to meet here because we had so much on our plate with the one major agenda item. And the judge was with us. Monday, August 10th, 2026 at 830. the Public Works Committee met with its primary agenda item, the reacquisition of the acreage surrounding Perryville's Crawford House from the State Finance Department. We met here in the fiscal courtroom and those in attendance were the judge, Roger Johnson, Mark Gordon, and of course Paula, my colleague on the committee. Attending the public at large were Perryville residents because of our discussion of the land acquisition reacquisition and Donnie Leonard Harold and Donnie have been instrumental in so much in Perryville and they are part of a group that is and Tony Wilder has not was not with us but those three gentlemen have done so much for Perryville and now that the judge vision of a park a true Boyle County owned and operated park can take place where folks can go down to the river, they can go down and see that in 1862 with the worst drought on record up to that time, there was an everlasting spring where The general and his officers were in the Crawford House recently, amazingly saved and restored by Dr. Ted Steinbach out of Louisville. And hundreds of troops and horses were down on the trickle called the Chaplin River due to the drought, but that everlasting spring was down there sustaining the troops so that they could go into battle a few days later. So it's just very gratifying to think that we will, for perpetuity, own that land. And we have all sorts of a vision that it will be a park that will be attractive. And with great long discussions, even before we met and formed a committee yesterday, It will be a secured park. Unfortunately, and perhaps it was mostly my generation, would gather down there and party and things would often get out of hand and so it will be a gated park and we will be putting this out for bid. I had the idea of the awkward situation of perhaps Allie Huff, the director in Perryville Main Street having a key and people having to go and get it and bring it back and lock it and make sure that it was locked at night but at least one vendor of gates and this gentleman lives here but we I told him we'll have to put it up for bids because this will be an extraordinarily expensive gate gated situation It can have a mechanism on it that would automatically unlock the gate and open it whatever date and depending upon the sun, winter and summer, 8 to 5 in the winter, 8 till just after dark in the summer, all automatic by technology. So it's just exciting to know that that's going to be taking place. The other part of my report had to do and has already talked about this, paving, weed and grass mowing, and a few more potholes. And if you have them, Roger wants to know about them, but I reported a few in my district. And then Paula showed us this, and it's a term used when I was woodcutting 50 years ago and cutting down trees in Louisville. They call it a Widowmaker, and there is an oak dead in her district that is overhanging major roads to the point where I think they actually go to the far lane overhanging.

It is now gone as of just five minutes. That quickly? That's wonderful.

We authorized a local vendor taking that tree down because one of those 30 or 40 foot limbs, six to eight inches in diameter, falling on a school bus could have been an absolute tragedy. So thank you for acting so quickly on the judge and our motion to get that done. So, Judge, that is my report, and I've actually submitted with the report the minutes of yesterday's meeting, because I think that is so important that folks know the details. And anybody who wants those details, I'll be happy to push the email through to you. So those go together. Is that your motion? Yes, that's my motion. And, Judge, if you'll sign top left, and then we'll get Roger when he's in here.

I'll make a second motion, the motion on the way in.

Okay, we have motion by Mr. Ellis is your second measure boner. Any comments on measure else's report? Okay, seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Any opposed? Thank you all.

And I just want to say, as we make progress, walk down, they almost gravel road with me. And of great interest to folks in Perryville. The old Boy Scout building, thanks to Harold Edwards, after our meeting yesterday, he went down and took 14 pictures outside and inside of the old Boy Scout building. It has a wonderful fireplace in it. And I was ready for him to say that the roof had collapsed because it looked so bad. It's a jungle even trying to get to it. But the roof is fine. There is no leakage, amazingly. And we're going to be working on the restoration of that building for multi-use that Judge might want to speak to, because you mentioned that yesterday.

I just say it would be a nice place if we could either do some type of museum, small plaques or history information. type things where people can go up and read look at pictures and read them or a place for meetings because there's not really any place in you know parable or that area to have any type of meeting so boy scouts could meet there um you know different large yeah just different people in the community uh lion's club could meet there i mean there's just there's lots of options so we haven't really pinpointed finalized any particular use, but it's a lot of options.

Just an excellent meeting yesterday. Volunteers from the community.

Could I say one comment? Can you hear Pat? He sat behind the

the band the entire time.

John came and helped him a while, and Tim Puckett helped him a while, but Pat said the whole time. I don't know how. It was very loud, wasn't it? We really appreciated that. I wanted to make sure we did. That's it.

Pat's a leader in our church, and we really appreciate it.

All right. Does that conclude Magistrate Reports? That's it. Okay. Moving right along to County Attorney.

Yes, I had a great weekend. I got to go to solo second both Friday and Saturday and that was really good. Great meal Friday night. The balloon over the bluegrass was pretty amazing. I was talking and I found out that over like 6,000 people were there. So it was a really beautiful day. It was pretty hot. Wanted to get that phone party, but I decided not to.

It did look fun.

It did look fun. But yeah, great, great weather. We were lucky to have such a nice weekend. And I was going to mention to Magistrate Ellis, I had someone come in regarding a speeding ticket they received in the Parksville-Mittlesburg area. And they brought it to my attention that they showed a picture that one of the 35 mile per hour signs, we have the post, but there's no sign on it. Is it between Parkville and Mintzenburg? I think so, yes. I'll take a look, yeah. And so I ask that you look at that, because if so, we need to get a new sign up. Appreciate that, thank you. I mean, I think that you're still in an area like that. You're supposed to go 35, but I think that It's very helpful. I was reminded of it.

I judged it that one time when I got a ticket because the sign was down and I played over it and I paid the fine. Correct.

But that's on State Highway? Yes. Okay. So we'll have to contact them.

Right. But I'm not sure Ellis is good at contacting the State Highway about things.

I appreciate that.

But other than that, We're heading off next week. We have our prosecutor's conference. My two assistants will be attending and my victim's advocate. So we'll learn a lot of good stuff, bring us up to date on the laws that have changed in our state. We always really enjoy going there. It's just very informative and helps us to do a better job as a county attorney in our office. Other than that, everyone needs to be safe, definitely. And you're saying there might be more rear-end accidents because of the law, but also more concerning is we don't want any children hit or anything like that. So I would just encourage everyone out there to just be extra cautious when following a school bus. And just in general, as there will be more children out driving now due to the 16, being 16 to be able to do it. Even my daughter, we're ahead of schedule her test coming up, so watch out. Anyways, thank you all, that's all I have.

Okay, thank you.

Miss Julie? Tomorrow morning at nine is our regular courthouse AOC meeting to keep everybody on task and getting the courthouse cupola repaired. So that's tomorrow at nine. Those meetings have been very helpful in helping AOC to keep finding a place to move the court. And we had the HVAC consultant come in last week, and the sound person is supposed to come in sometime in the next ten days, I would guess. We're almost to a final number on bonding. I talked to RJ Wednesday last week, and he's talked to and our numbers are getting closer. So hopefully in the next month, we'll have a final decision on how much we're going to bond. And then the process takes six months. The first set of plans arrived on the EMS building last Wednesday. That was kind of exciting. We're having a meeting tomorrow at 10 with EMS in the corner to kind of start talking about fixtures and furnishings and things like that.

Do you invite me to that?

Yeah, I don't really have anything. I think the class is full. but I will find out which one is first and let you know. The bike park committee meeting, the next one will be August 31st, which happens to be my daughter's 40th birthday. Crazy, isn't it? So we're down to now starting to talk about signage, trail signage. everybody's getting very excited if you haven't seen the video some of the committee members riding the trails it's it's going to be great i think we are going to be a sports extreme sports destination i showed my grandson who's into mountain biking the video and he said holy moly even my husband who knows nothing about biking says that's a lot of air time yeah i guess that's cool what did you say was on the 31st the next pickleball oh yeah okay No, by part.

By part. I'm going to tell you first. Okay. Gotcha.

The pickleball committee met last week for our regular monthly meeting. Things seem to be relatively on schedule. So that's exciting to see those coming in. I don't think there was any major issues. Do you remember? Buster Pikebridge, have we heard anything? I haven't heard a word. I'm kind of worried.

I haven't heard any last emails.

So I believe we just need to follow back up with Johnson Construction. Yeah. And Laura. Okay. Yeah.

And then we got our first reimbursement for the tap grant, about $24,000, I believe, and got another invoice today. So that project in Parable is moving forward, and soon the drainage will be improved. That was very exciting.

That too is four and a half years old.

Yes.

That's it. Wheels of progress move slow sometimes Tom. But they eventually get there.

Do we have any info on the tank pond? Brian?

Yeah, our EMA director keeps up with that, but he hasn't mentioned anything to me lately. He comes in every now and then gives me an update, but I haven't heard anything lately.

Can I say one thing real quick? No. On the Crawford House deed, I just made a few suggestions on it. I sent it to Natalie Brawner. Not anything major, but one of them in the consideration part, we put through... that the value was about $50,000. I just felt like it read like we were buying it. And we're not buying the property. It's a gift. So I wanted that language changed just briefly. And I prepared a description for the property as well.

I probably can't find it. Could you send the judge and me the map again? Because this committee of citizens would like to see that.

The plat?

Yeah, the plat map.

Yeah, sure. We did that flat actually back in 2022.

And that's the status as of, I mean that is the correct one because I know you struggled with it with all the craziness.

Right, there's a lot of different things but basically we had a plat and then we wanted to flat off just the little part portion where the Carver house is which is less than an acre so we have like a little of that. the lot that we're getting this lot to.

Yeah, I promised them that I'd get it to everybody. Sure. Thank you. That's all.

That's something I need to mention to Rich, too, Julie. It's a proper property. The deed should be ready by the next meeting, so it'll be presented for approval, and then we'll take ownership.

Well, as far as Rich goes, like, interest engineering prepared that whole plat, so I don't know that he would have to do any work, because that was back in 2022. So it's basically just conveying Something that's already been approved and filed within the clerk's office. Has it been surveyed? Oh, yes. The plat's been surveyed by interest, engineering. So I don't know that we need to involve Richard in that whatsoever.

Good, good, good.

Yeah. Okay.

I think we ought to have a signing ceremony to get that back after all these years.

Is that all you have? Yes. Okay. All right. I'll close this out. I did get to ride in a hot air balloon Sunday at the Balloons Over Bluegrass. They interviewed, Channel 18 was there and they interviewed several people. I was told I looked like a wild white haired woman from Junction City. Well, you know. Some people just have to take that role and go with it. I guess I qualified. on the 18th we will be having our first joint parks direct committee meeting so we approved you know getting the committee back to oversee parks and recreation and so we'll be having our kickoff meeting on 818 so that'll be very exciting to get back together on that and have a little I guess ownership will be good work that Jason decision decision making education. Yeah, in in parks and rec. So we're excited about that. Master Gay will be serving on that committee. So be exciting to get started. Pardon if we can find them if we can find it. Yes. Where's James? Okay, Julie mentioned the courthouse meeting and the EMS design meeting. Also on Friday, we'll be having our first year review with Enterprise. We've now been with Enterprise for the county vehicles for a year, so we'll be sitting down with them and reviewing our contracts and just see how things are going in general, how things have been going. Don't forget, next Friday and Saturday is the Little Cherubs Consignment Sale, and it's also at Centenary Church. It'll be all day Friday and all day Saturday.

It's a fundraiser that helps children. I can't sum it up any better.

Right, right. It's wonderful. I work it every year. It's one of my top three community... events that I do and so I love to be there and love to help out with that. Then Saturday morning the 22nd will be the hazardous household waste event and that will be at the recycling center from 8am to 1pm. So this is where you can bring all of your household waste items including paint. so we got old paint sitting around be sure and load it up and bring it out propane tanks old propane tanks cooking oil just lots of different things no tires okay you have to stress that no tires but any any household waste that you have sitting around bring it out to that event Also, if you haven't signed up and you want to, they have the State Fair booth sign up going on and I think Chamber of Commerce is in charge of that so you can talk to Sarah or Tanya and they can get you the information. I believe there was an email maybe sent out. I don't know if everyone received it or not that you could sign up for state fair booth. So if you haven't done that and you're interested, that's available to go and represent Boyle County. And then the last thing I want to do is a shout out to my niece, Sadie Powell. She's going to be turning 16 tomorrow, so she'll be sweet 16 on first day of school. And my great nephew, Gage Bottom, will also be 16. They were born on the same day. And so both of them will be celebrating their birthdays on the first day of school. And I'll ask, if there's nothing else, I'll ask for a motion to adjourn. Do we have Oh, I am so sorry. Missed that. All right. We need a motion to go into today's session pursuant to KRS 61810, paragraph 1, paragraph F. Discussions or hearings which might lead to the appointment, discipline, or dismissal of an individual employee member or student without restricting that employee member's or student's right to a public hearing if requested. This exception shall not be interpreted to permit discussion of general personnel matters in secret.

I'll make that motion.

Measure Cullen, is there a second?

Second.

Measure Sleeper? Second. We are now in executive session. All those in favor, signify by saying aye.

Discussion. Discussion. Five-minute break.

Okay, let's... We can't. Signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay. Motion carries. We're in executive session. Okay. I need a motion to return to regular session.

I'll make the motion with no action taken.

Mr. Cullen? Second. Mr. Sleeper? All right. There are no other items on the agenda. So all those in favor of a motion signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Okay. Motion to adjourn. Mr. Cullen, is there a second?

I heard him over here.

All those in favor of adjourning, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Motion carries.