City Commission - Regular Meeting

I want to welcome you all to your Danville City Commission meeting for today. Today is a regular meeting, and the time is Monday, June the 8th. The time is 4.30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. I'd like to call our meeting to order. We're going to be led in a moment of silence, and then we're going to have a Pledge of Allegiance this afternoon, led by sixth-grader Bate Middle School student, Coyne Walker.

Is that right? Did I say it right, Coyne?

All right, thank you. Okay, a moment of silence, please.

Thank you all.

Come on, young lady. Next on our agenda is the approval of our agenda. The chair would like to entertain a motion to approve the agenda with one change, and that is to move number 17 up to number 6A. They both involve parks and recreation information and updates. So is there a motion to approve our agenda as presented with that one change? So moved.

Thank you, ma'am. Second.

Thank you, ma'am. Any other questions or comments from all those in favor of approving our amended agenda, please say aye. Aye. Those opposed, motion carries. Thank you all. Next on our agenda, as we hear from the public, this is an item where folks in attendance can come before the commission and speak to us for three minutes or less about items that are only on the agenda tonight. So is there anyone present who desires to speak to his or her city commission about things on the agenda? Hearing none, let's move right along then. There will be a second opportunity for the public to speak to us about things that are not on tonight's agenda. So the next item is the approval of the minutes of our previous meetings. The chair would like to entertain a motion to approve the minutes of our previous meetings.

I'll make a motion to approve the minutes of 526, a special call meeting, and 6126 as presented.

Thank you, ma'am. Second. Thank you, sir. Are there any corrections, additions, or deletions? Hearing none, all those in favor of approving the minutes for both of those meetings say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Thank you all. Next on our agenda, we have a group of special young men and a couple of coaches who are also young men who are going to talk to us about a performance that took place at the state track meet here very recently, like last week, two weeks ago. Do you want to come up, coach, coaches, and take the microphone, tell us about the accomplishment of these young men, and introduce them to us, and introduce yourselves to the commission?

I'm Coach Ryan Jackson. I'm the head coach of the Danville Admirals track team. Right here I got one of my assistant coaches, Darius Napier. And then we've got sophomore, well, you're gonna be a junior now, right? Junior, Shaden Brown. Sophomore, JV Mewks. Gonna be a freshman in college, Gavin Walker. And then gonna be a senior, Trendon Sellers. They were a part of the four by two relay team that placed first at state this year. That was roughly two or three weeks ago. We had a really good season. A lot of high moments, but we also had some lows. Just a lot of stuff that we got to tighten up next season. Very proud of them, though. Very, very proud of my boys.

You want to tell us the time? What was the time? 1.32. I was going to say 1.32. Yeah. All right. That was probably not a New Denver High School record, was it?

They were short by two seconds. Two seconds off. But I will say that at the state meet, it rained from six in the morning to six in the afternoon, completely showering. We went home literally drenched. That's why it's called the state track meet in Kentucky. It always rains. Anything can happen. It rains or it's too hot. But yeah, super proud of the guys. That's awesome.

How many runners total?

We took around 20 kids total to state, boys and girls. Trying to remember exact numbers. I think it was around six girls and then 14 boys.

Wow.

Had a bunch of sprinters. We had our long distance boys, shot put guy and discus guy. And then some jumpers, girls and boys, a hurdler. sprint and just other sprinter girls.

Yep. Scored several points, I assume, then, right? Oh, yeah. So the winning track team, was it a 10-point score for the team? You talking about them?

Yeah. Yeah. 10 points, right? Yep. 10 points, yep. Gold.

Let's stand and give them a round of applause. Absolutely. Mr. Walker, where you going to college? Oh, crazy. Okay. You don't get locked up. All right, now before we dismiss, do we have some courage in the audience?

We're making that courage. It's hard work being here. And wait, wait. Did?

Huh? Oh, yeah.

Thank you all for having us.

Tell your sister I said hello too, all right?

Coach Jackson used to walk the halls with them in high school with me. Well, he hadn't grown up very much since his high school days, but he'd walk with me and say, Mr. Atkins, I got your back. Oh, man. Good guy. Let's move right along then. Okay, we're going to have a banner request. Where's Waldo? Well, Waldo's over in the, oh, you're not Waldo, are you? How did I know? How you doing, ma'am?

I'm doing well. I did think about wearing my costume, but next year, next year. My name is Kate Snyder. I own Plaid Elephant Books downtown, and I am pleased to share that we were selected again this year to be one of 300 independent bookstores around the country that was chosen to participate in this very fun initiative called Find Waldo Local. So it is a downtown scavenger hunt where we hide little Waldo cutouts in 25 different downtown businesses. And then throughout the month of July, visitors and community members can come through and sort of search for him in all the downtown places and win prizes if they find him. And we had about 100 people complete the Passport last year, which times, like I was thinking about that, that's 25 different stops that they made. So that works out to 2,500 like points of contact between, Community members and downtown businesses, which is that's a pretty great thing and I'm really excited about it It's one of the pro one of the events that our downtown businesses Collectively get the most excited about because it brings new people into their stores every year I hear people tell me. Oh my gosh. I didn't even know we had a Fill in the blank downtown. And we'll have a few new businesses. There's always rotation through the down, you know, what's opening, what's changing downtown. But we have a few new businesses this year participating, including Lavender Blooms Florist, Mystical Bluegrass Jewelry, and then the new Obscurious Market as well have all sort of rotated into participation this year. So I'm just asking permission. We made that lovely banner last year that you were so kind as to let us hang out in front of City Hall. Melanie tells me it's been stored here somewhere over the year and she knows where it is. And so asking permission to hang it up again so that folks who are visiting know that they can participate and enjoy some free family fun downtown.

Did you announce the dates of the contest?

It's July 1 to 31. So it'll just run the whole month of July and kind of whatever portion is appropriate to put the banner out is great. If somebody else is arm wrestling me for some of the time, that's fine. But we would love to have it out there.

Well, thank you for taking the leadership role in doing this because it has been a fun event.

My pleasure. It's fun. Yeah, you have to apply to the publishers of the Where's Waldo books are still active and still making Waldo books after all these years. So you have to apply to the publisher and explain kind of how, give examples of how your community is involved with it and what benefit it brings to the community. And then they review that and pick the ones that they are going to support themselves by sending us the little cutouts and whatnot.

That's great.

Well, I'm going to make a motion that we approve the vendor request.

Thank you, sir. Is there a second?

Second.

Thank you, ma'am. Any other questions for Ms. Snyder?

Well, thank you for going to all that work and getting our community approved. We've done it before. It was a lot of fun.

I want to thank you for all the efforts, everything that you do for downtown, trying to keep people going and the businesses and having little meetings.

We're pretty excited. Third Thursday is off to a great start. I'm loving the farmer's market on Main Street now. I think that's just a really nice addition to those events. So June 18th is the next third Thursday. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Chair had moved and seconded that we approve the banner as requested. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed, motion carries. Congratulations and thanks again, ma'am. Next is a Planning and Zoning Commission appointment. We have a current vacancy on planning and zoning and you have had some input and we have a recommendation. So the chair will entertain a motion to approve the planning and zoning appointment.

I'll move to approve the planning and zoning appointment. It's Leon Smothers and it's a period of four years.

Thank you, ma'am. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, ma'am. Questions or comments?

Who is he replacing? Do we know?

It's Kenneth Alexander. Mr. Alexander, yes. Thank you.

All right. Any other questions or unreadiness? Hearing none, all those in favor of this appointment say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Thank you all. Next item is first reading of Ordinance Number 2065, a zoning ordinance amendment. Madam Clerk, are you going to read the first reading?

Yes. This is the first reading of Ordinance Number 2065, an ordinance of the City of Danville, Kentucky, amending Articles 2 and 4 of the Zoning Ordinance, Boyle County, the Cities of Danville, Junction City and Parable, in order to align local regulations with state mandated standards pertaining to qualified manufactured homes and all rules and regulations pertaining thereto.

Thank you, ma'am. Mr. City Attorney, you want to?

I just wanted to remind you that this was basically the ordinance format of what Hannah reviewed with you at your last meeting and is merely an attempt to bring local regulations in compliance with the state law that was passed by the General Assembly. It goes into effect July 1 of this year that prohibits cities from regulating where modular homes can be located I can't remember the exact language. It's in front of you. But they can't be prohibited in zones that allow, in residential zones.

Thank you, sir. Any other questions? The chair would like to entertain a motion for approval of the first reading.

I'll make a motion to approve the first reading of Ordinance 2065. Thank you, ma'am.

Is there a second? Second. Thank you, sir. Any questions or comments?

I'm just going to say, like I said before, I'm not very happy about this because it's kind of stepped on home rule, in my opinion. But I don't really think we have a choice.

I agree with you, Commissioner Cotto. Other comments?

And I believe we talked about deed restrictions still are active. So those will protect those areas. Yes.

And you said if a new subdivision development were to be built, they could put restrictions on those deeds as well?

Absolutely, they could. But what it will prevent is a lot of times we've gotten into a habit in our zone change process of adding conditions that prohibit these types of dwellings in certain residential zones and that's been by condition and that will now be prohibited. not only by state law, but to be frank, that's not an appropriate spot for them anyway. The appropriateness is built into the text of the zoning ordinance itself and shouldn't be as a condition to zones, but that's where you see them most often. However, a new developer and a new subdivision can still freely restrict the dwellings to whatever he or she desires them to be in that neighborhood. and existing neighborhoods with existing prohibitions against modular homes or mobile homes are still enforceable.

This bill also does a noble attempt to try to explain and quantify what specifications are necessary. That's correct. Not just anything. Okay. Any other questions or comments? Hearing none, Madam Clerk, roll call vote, please.

Commissioner Caudill. Yes. Commissioner Peek. Yes. Mayor Atkins. Yes, ma'am. Commissioner Holland. Yes. Commissioner Sarris. Yes.

Thank you all. Next up on our agenda is Parks and Rec update from Mr. Barton. Mr. Barton, while you're in front of the commission, we'll go ahead and do number one. MILLION PARTS SCHOOL BOARD.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONERS AND MR. MAYOR. IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE. IT'S BEEN A CRAZY MONDAY, BUT WE HAD A CRAZY RAINSTORM. I GOT TO RUN TO THE BASEBALL FIELD AS SOON AS WE GET DOWN HERE, SEE IF WE CAN GET SOME GAMES IN TONIGHT. First, I want to talk about some of the capital projects that are happening around town. We've finished up a bunch. We've finished up the renovation of three baseball fields, the Millennium Park Playground, and all the Millennium Park site furnishings successfully completed, Skateboard Park. We've got the design completed. And the site prep really begins this week. So you're going to see a lot of action out there. And I kind of wanted to inform you and the public The construction will start on June 15th with Pickleball following right behind it. So Pickleball is also the design's complete Site prep is starting, and the construction will begin probably a week after that. So by the 4th of July, we're going to be tearing up that front. Unfortunately, there's a little bad news with that. Due to the new constructions, we are losing one basketball court at Millennium Park, which Public Works, the city and county will be removing on Wednesday. What we have done to compensate for that is the second court, we've moved the good baskets to it. We refurbished and seal-coated the court and repainted lines on it. So that new court looks good. And then what we did is we transferred a few of those baskets down to Michael Smith and bought a few new ones at Michael Smith. refurbish that court and are painting lines on that. So technically, we're not losing a basketball court. We move one to Michael Smith, and we've got one nice one at Millennium Park. The unfortunate news at Pickleball, we will be losing our sand volleyball court at Millennium Park. Josh and I are trying to figure out a place where we can put that and are hoping to do that in-house soon. One potential spot would be at Jackson Park. We're also looking to find around the county a place to move the old skate park ramps. We've talked about a few spots. Haven't settled on a spot yet because we need a nice big clean surface that we can put those at. But hopefully we'll get that figured out and we'll get that volleyball court built. But in the long run, our long range plan at Millennium Park is to have those back there. So hopefully within a year, two, three, we'll have both basketball courts and a sand volleyball court back there. They're kind of due to the big master plan on what we'd like to finish there that we'll be discussing over the year or so how to do. So in the meantime, we lose a basketball court, but we've replaced, we added one at Michael Smith, and we're looking for a place to put the volleyball court. The other big project is Pine Knob Bike Park. I had Josh Eye and Magistrate Paula Boner took a hike out there a couple weeks ago. It's fascinating. I've never seen it built like this, so I don't tend to be an expert on it. It's amazing, the bike trails they got going on there. And out in the middle of the woods, there's these amazing jumps that they built. And it's really something you got to see. And pictures don't do it right. You got to kind of walk it. So hopefully we'll get through this rain here, and they'll be back to building it. And I also believe Public Works added two miles to woven wire also, right? Yeah, so we batted a lot of trails around town, and those weren't big capital projects. That was a kind of in-house thing that Josh spearheaded. So we're pretty happy about all those projects coming through. Our summer programs, just wanted to report on them a little bit. All our numbers and everything are up. Baseball, softball, we're up 81 participants to 565 this year. What's odd is... Most of that is tee ball, so that's good job security that we got more kids coming up the pipe. Our tri-county fast-pitch league, we added two counties, so we're up to five counties now that compete in that. That's 13 to 15-year-old girls. So we have five counties, and I believe eight teams in that. We run a summer men's basketball league out of Jeanne Rogers, and we went from six teams last year to 10 teams, so we're up there. Swim team has doubled from around 25 to 45 kids. And day camp has maxed out. We were a little worried about it at first. It didn't quite sell out as quick as it did. But we ended up selling out. And right now we have 99 part-time and full-time kids registered at day camp, which I want to say last year we had around 70, 75. Our pool dailies are up also. Our Pickleball Ladder Summer League is up to 70 participants, which I believe it was around 55, 60 last year. And our daycare at the Rensnest Daycare is at full capacity. So we're pretty happy with all those numbers, and everything's looking good. Last, I got a few big events. We have a couple big, huge events coming up. First off, the Juneteenth. celebration we are gonna do from 11 to 1230 at Ginny Rogers, which the city is providing lunch. There's gonna be some guest speakers. There's gonna be some youth projects that we're doing. There's gonna be some entertainment there. And then I believe, Later in the day, we're moving it to Michael Smith Park from 6 to 9, I believe. I'm going to be doing my barbecue. I'm cooking for the whole thing. And then the Juneteenth committee is going to be putting on a lot. They're doing square dancing. Michael Hughes is going to be there DJing. We're going to have cornhole. And they've got a lot of events planned for that day. So we're pretty excited about a full day there on Juneteenth. On July 3rd, of course, we have our big event. We start with, at nine o'clock, we're doing Paint the Park from nine to one. That's where the kids paint four by four squares. We had 160 last year. This year, we're hoping for 200, and that's partnered with Arts of the Bluegrass. We both put on that together. Then at 1 o'clock, we're shutting the park down and getting set up for the Eddie Montgomery concert. And just to let everybody know, we won't allow parking in the park. We're going to be parking at the high school and at the junior high. We'll be running shuttles. And then also, we'll be doing a lot of parking at the fairgrounds. We've hired professional parking. We've hired professional security. So we're hoping this goes off. And we also have a bluegrass band opening for Eddie. And then on the 4th, we turn around and do the whole thing again. Then we have all of our usual 4th of July events that the Parks and Rec put on. And we are also adding, since we got a big stage there, we're adding another big concert on the 4th. That'll be local band Michael Fly and The Sound with a jazz blue groove opening for them. And our firework promoter, who is a local, has promised me that this will be the best firework show you've ever seen at Danville. So, oh, and to add on to that, both of those days we're running a Cal Ripken State Tournament at the baseball fields. So we got big events coming up. We can put concert promoter on my resume, so I'm pretty happy about that. I've always wanted to be a concert promoter. If you have any questions, I'll stick around for Josh is gonna do the scoreboard, so I'll let him read that and I'll answer any questions that you guys have on that. Comments or questions for Tommy?

No, thanks for all that you're all doing out there. Are y'all taking like a month break after July the 4th?

No, no. Amber's going to go to Hawaii next week, so she gets her break next week.

But it is, I mean, I've seen there's a lot of activity out at the Woven Wire.

Yeah.

I think the bikes have been out there.

The high school bike team is using it a lot too, I saw. Yeah.

Other questions or comments?

Bless your heart. Thank you. No, we appreciate it, of course. Yeah.

Everything's looking good. Oh, the splash pads. The splash pads are up and running. Man, I was like, came up over the hill and was like, where'd all them kids come from?

And the pool, I mean, I see it on the end. The pool is, it's full all the time, which is great. And then you see the, I mean, Pickleball, they're parking everywhere. Yeah, yeah.

So, it's pretty hot.

It's sort of sad if it were to close, like all that activity.

And you said you had a Pickleball League?

Yeah, we're in a Pickleball League. We do about, I want to say two a year, two through the year. And the summer one just starts up and we've got like 70 signed up for it.

And you've signed up with memberships?

No, it's just they sign up for the league, just like a basketball league or something like that. That's good, though. No leagues yet on the, or no membership on the pickleball courts yet.

I'm gonna work to change that. Okay, let's go on.

I'm sorry.

Okay, Josh, you want to thank you, Tom, for this good report. You want to take the next item for him?

Yeah. In your package, you have a quote from Nevco in the amount of $49,908.80 to replace eight scoreboards at Millennium Park. We've been fighting with the scoreboards a couple years now. They're 20 to 25 years old, depending. So they've lived their life as a scoreboard. Tommy kind of came to me and said, hey, can we try to get these scoreboards replaced? We didn't have that in this year's capital budget, but we have some money left over from the ball field improvements capital project. We came way under budget on that. So we had some money left over. And also, Tommy, I mean, you can speak to this a little bit more than I can as far as getting sponsorships for those school boards. So hopefully we can get those funded with sponsorships. We'll talk about that a little bit.

Yeah, what we're trying to do is, you notice on all the old ones, they got a business or center college or something that's got a big... sign on there. Each scoreboard is between six and seven thousand dollars. Why we're kind of lumping them together is because we get a ten percent discount if we get them all at once. So what we're trying to do is we're going to reach out to local local businesses, communities, events, and schools and stuff, and see if they'd like to sponsor a scoreboard. And we're going to offer them, they can either fund the scoreboard up front all at once, or I've seen in the past what I've done is you give them a three-year contract that, hey, pay it off in three years. Sometimes that entices them a lot better. They get a... tax incentives for three years instead of one. So what we're hoping to do is get the sponsors lined up before we really do anything. What we're really trying to do, the city is kind of acting like the bank to get it up and running. But yeah, that baseball rehab, we projected it at $150,000, and we ended up at about $75,000. So we actually have the money right there to do it. Wow. Yeah. I'm going to try to get them running tonight because that's what I said. It can rain in the day and we can still play at night. So I'm going to get out there and make sure we can play tonight.

Okay.

Any questions? Is there a motion for the school board?

I'll move to approve Resolution 2026060806. Thank you, ma'am. Is there a second?

Second.

Thank you, ma'am.

Mayor, I'd just like to say for the record while everybody's in the same room, we reviewed sponsorship opportunities and created a menu of methods in which local businesses could participate in sponsorships at Ginny Rogers and other places. And in order to kind of bring all of that under some kind of careful review and equal opportunity for all local businesses to participate, I thought now would be a good time just to remind everyone we do have that policy in place and to make sure that the sponsorship opportunities are properly advertised on our website and Facebook and things of that nature so any local business won't merely be solicited. but those that may not be touched would still have an opportunity through our normal communication standards to participate.

On that, we wanted to hopefully get the city approval on this, so we knew we had it, and then once the city approved it, then we'll advertise it all up, and hopefully it'll work all as planned.

Thank you. Thank you all. Resolution 26.06.08.06. Say aye. Aye. Thank you, Tommy. Thank you very much. We need it, so I'm not really... All right. Next item. A whole bunch of resolutions coming up. KLC workers' comp renewal. Resolution 26.06.08.01. Mr. Bowen.

All right, thank you, Mayor. Yeah, in front of you, you have a renewal for our workers' comp insurance with KLC for this year. I will say the total amount of that insurance premium is $241,097. That is a $34 increase over last year, so we're staying relatively flat. I do want to point out a couple things here with this. As we talked about with safety and our initiatives, this is a relatively flat increase with also an increase in payroll dollars and work hours over the last year. So that's a reflection of staff's ability to put a high priority on safety. And our mod rate is 1.0, which is your, that's the industry standard when you pay out the appropriate number of claims versus payroll dollars. And so this is a good reflection of, and a lot of credit goes to the safety advisory group for this. So just wanted to point that out briefly. Thank you, sir.

Is there a motion?

I move for approval of Resolution 2026060801.

Thank you, sir. Second?

Second.

Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you all.

$34 difference.

Yeah, and we, I think we have, I think at the last meeting we talked about we had 155,000 work hours just this year to date, and so, and a lot of those work hours are on our hazardous duty jobs, so when you balance that out with payroll dollars, it's actually a decline in the insurance premiums that we can continue to see.

That's a good job by staff to keep, to stay safe, I guess.

Yeah, we've ingrained safety as,

Thank you mayor and commissioners I get to follow Randy's very small increase with two very large So in front of you you have your property insurance renewal for KLC and

And that insurance renewal this year is $319,987.83, which is an increase of around $51,000. I know property rates went up this year. And then we have added a few new spots. But we do have some that will fall off, like the demo of the old barn at the fairgrounds. That will come off. So that's not going to make that big of a difference. So we're just asking to renew our property insurance for the year.

Yeah. Well, it's really not a major increase if you think about it. So is there a motion to approve this resolution?

I'll move to approve Resolution 26060802. Thank you, ma'am. Is there a second?

I second it. Thank you, ma'am. Any questions or comments?

Actually, do we... Bid this out or is League of Cities just so much cheaper that it's not worth it?

We haven't looked at bidding it out. I think we've just been with KLC consistently. And you see a lot of the cities in Kentucky that use them. Yeah. I know within my clerk's group, they tend to be the most reasonable. I've talked to several of them about and ask, you know, what are you all using? And we have people that ask us all the time, like, who are you all using? And most cities will tell you KLC, just because they're the most reasonable for cities.

DAVID BURRAGE.

All those in favor, say aye. Aye. DAVID BURRAGE. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Next one, Ms. Phillips.

Yes, this is for our liability insurance renewal. And it is $456,643.46 for the year. that is an increase of $20,879.29 from last year. That one, we have had a few claims on our policy throughout the year, some larger ones, so that's affected that number as well.

Yes. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion to approve Resolution 2026060803.

Thank you, ma'am.

Is there a second? Second. Thank you, sir. Not really a big increase considering all the activity we've had. Any other questions or comments on the liability renewal? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Resolution 20-26-06-08-04. City Manager, Mr. Copeland.

Thank you, Mayor and Commissioners. The morning point adjacent to Cunningham Drive going into Millennium Park, we are seeking just a simple MOA to allow for parking during the July 3rd festivities and July 4th festivities there. The agreement is attached, and it's simply communicating that the liability will hold them, or the city will hold them them harmless and cover the liability for any damages. The resolution authorizes the use of the MOA.

Thank you, sir. Is there a motion?

I move for approval of a resolution 2026-06-0804.

Thank you, sir. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, ma'am. Any questions to our city manager?

I'm sorry.

I said there's no cost to it. No. No. Okay. That's nice.

Schools are doing the same thing, right?

As far as I understand, there's no cost.

Well, that's all in Walter's business. That's the neat thing. He just said no parking on the... in the park that night.

Well, I mean, it's complicated with the various events going on out there. And if it wasn't for those neighbors making that space available, both Morning Point and the schools, and frankly, the Fairgrounds property, it'd be much, much more difficult to have an event there with the other events that will be ongoing. State baseball tournament, that's going to be an interesting gate experience.

So, yeah. I put the word out that there's a lot of... Park at Atlanta subdivision. We charge $25 per square foot. Parking's gonna be terrible, gonna be crazy that weekend, man.

Are you charging 50 and is it covered at your house, covered parking?

Yeah. They can go to Bunny Davidson Park and walk across the new crosswalk out there.

To my neighbors in Lenox, I don't live in Lenox. That's why I said Lenox. Oh, okay.

We haven't really talked about this much yet, but Bluegrass CAP has agreed to provide shuttle buses. So that was a real game changer when we were talking about it, because now we can reasonably park at the high school and run a shuttle from the high school there, and it's going to be pretty convenient for folks. I think we've been talking about parking a lot the last week or so. It's 10,000 people is a lot to find parking spaces for, but I think we're okay.

I think Tony Wilder's really realized what he's bitten off to. He's been around him lately. He's fairly stressed.

Yeah. Yeah. Sounds good to Tony until he gets down to the finite. Yeah. OK. We didn't carry this motion, right? Do we have a motion and a second? To all those in favor of 06, 08, 04, say aye.

Aye.

Opposed? Motion carries. Oh, I promised the folks in the office that there'd be no city management report tonight.

Well, we won't take very long. June is a very busy month. And if you notice the emphasis on events that's in the report, the Unity Bench dedication is Friday morning of this week, 10 a.m. We appreciate that. Melanie's working hard to coordinate that. Reminder of the Juneteenth. Juneteenth events down at Michael Smith and Jeannie Rogers. The fair is ongoing out there. If you've noticed on the bypass, we'll remind that. Brass bands at the end of the month. Some other things, June 18th is the third Thursday that's going to fall out. That'll be the next week, of course. And so this is our reminder for that, even though it's not this week. And the next after Friday's event, which is considered coffee with the mayor, the next one after that will be July 7th. So you can store that on your calendars. Civic Engagement Local Governance Series, June 16th, which is next Tuesday, 6 p.m. We'll be here at City Hall. It will be planning and engineering. Pioneer Playhouse, the Iron Baby Angel becomes active at the end of the month, June 30th through July 18th. It plays the nights that they're open at 8.30 p.m., the reminder of the July 4th parade. There's a lot going on that day. And the biggest thing is attached is the announcement that we're trying to communicate related to garbage. Republic has their details, their flyer that they're sending out. Of course, we are trying to reiterate those things on our social media and feeds and doing various press releases and direct mailing in the utility bills and those things, trying to communicate the message and the variation on the garbage contract as we've gotten into. The standard trash, everybody will get one cart and for additional carts you'll be getting those through Republic Services and also if you want to sign up for recycling, you'll have to do that through Republic, which is hopefully that cleans up the relationship and some of the issues related to customer service. And so we'll continue to monitor that and try to communicate as best we can. I would like to give Angie Muncy out of the county a shout out. I was with her the other night at a meeting and Her recycling center is online. She's doing her first bit of processing now, and so we're excited to see what she can make that and give her credit for working hard on implementation of that facility and activating that. Yes, we talked about it a long time ago. Kevin will remember it. He and I participated together. when we went and looked at some other recycling centers. And so this has an opportunity to become an asset for outside of our footprint. One of the biggest issues we began having was when Lexington shut down their recycling center for a little bit. And so now that this facility is operational, it is possible that they could, create a little bit of revenue for the county by accepting some recycling materials from from other places that where if they have a reserve capacity out there to process it and also have a market to get rid of it so that that's always something and she and i talked a little bit about that and we encourage her to continue to be creative and we'll be here if she wants to talk about issues as they arise you have any other questions

She put a big post out today also about how recycling was changing and that everybody could come there free.

Yep. We are working to communicate the message.

Earl, the civic engagement thing is tomorrow night, the 9th.

I stand corrected.

All the reason I know that's because I got to be there.

Well, I was reading off the numbers, so I obviously missed the date up. So there you go.

And I think Pounder Playoffs is starting dinner at 7, and all the plays are starting at 8 o'clock. They have a great one going on right now.

Yeah.

This takes us down to our second through the public. This time, citizens who want to talk to us can take the microphone, speak to us for three minutes or less, and talk about items that are not on our agenda. We promise just to listen. Since there's no one present, we'll move right along. The next item is comments from the commissioners.

First of all, I wonder why Jenna doesn't have her mouse ears on. She just went on her second vacation since she started here. Apparently she's not answering that question.

I just quickly got lost on that one. The running head of you. Any other comments from the commission?

I just want to say the flags look great downtown, the veterans' flags. Had a lot of comments about those. I think there's a lot of positive going on. Somebody's like, oh, I saw a group of people standing under it, and they had the actual veteran there.

He didn't know it, so that's pretty cool. That's neat.

A lot of good things going on.

Oh, is it Friday? The Unity Bench at 10 o'clock? And have we announced that the family that donated the bench to the community is going to be here that Friday at 10 o'clock? I've invited all the commissioners to join me at my talk with commissioners for pictures. Oh, and KLC is sending a photographer and a reporter on Friday. do an article on our Unity event for one of their upcoming publications. So it would be nice to see some of us there. Other comments from the commissioners? And staff, I should say. Not just commissioners, but staff needs to be present and take a picture with Kevin Cottle as he sits on the bench. Okay, let's go right along then. Next item is payment of the bills. The chair will entertain a motion to pay the bills as presented.

I make a motion to pay the bills in the amount of $1,459,949.99 as presented.

Thank you, ma'am. Second. Thank you, sir. Any questions about the bills? No questions for Ms. Compton?

I already asked her.

All right then, all those in favor of paying our bills, say aye.

Aye.

Opposed? Motion carries. Next item is second reading of ordinance 2064, fiscal year 27 ABC regulatory fees. That's a whole lot. Ms. Compton? I mean, Ms. Madam Clerk, you probably should read the ordinance first, right?

I'll just say Kevin requested to hear my voice more tonight, so that's why there's so many ordinances on this agenda.

That's it.

This is the second reading of ordinance number 2064, an ordinance establishing the regulatory license fee for the sale of alcoholic beverages in the City of Danville for fiscal year 2026 through 2027. Thank you, ma'am.

I move for approval of the second reading of ordinance 2064. And you're supposed to sing the...

Okay. Is there a second?

Second.

Thank you, ma'am. Any questions? These fees are all staying the same. There's no increase, right?

There's no increase to the rate. They'll be all set at 5% for drinks sold by the glass, drinks sold for gross sales of packaged distilled spirits, and gross sales of packaged malt beverages.

Thank you, ma'am. Madam Clerk, roll call vote.

Commissioner Peek? Yes. Mayor Atkins? Yes, ma'am. Commissioner Holland? Yes. Commissioner Sayers? Yes. Commissioner Caudill?

Yes.

Thank you all. Next item is first reading of the fiscal year 27 budget, ordinance number 2066. Madam Chair, you want to read that one? Oh, you want to sing that one to Kevin?

If you don't want me to sing, my husband is the vocal talent of this relationship. This is the first reading of ordinance number 2066, an ordinance of the City of Danville, Kentucky adopting the annual budget for the fiscal year 7-1-2026 through 6-30-2027 by appropriating funds for the operation of city government.

Thank you, ma'am. Is there a motion?

I'll move to approve the first reading of Ordinance 2066.

Thank you, ma'am. Second. Thank you, ma'am. Questions for Ms. Compton and Dr. Blitz?

I was just going to thank the Finance Department, Lee, and whoever did this like little synopsis of what we're doing, I appreciate that. That's easier to kind of keep around and lots of paperwork, so thank you.

We were just going to go over a couple quick highlights for the public. All of our budget meetings that go into detail of this big $74 million budget are available on YouTube, meeting by meeting. I encourage all the residents and those who are interested to get to our webpage. We have a budget page. page created by Melanie on our webpage and it links to each budget meeting where we talk about our individual topics, our capital program, community agencies, draft operations. Total appropriations are $73,525,453 spread out between our budgeted funds. This is very similar to our budget last year. It does include some significant capital projects in the current year in our utility fund. And then we have some capital, consistent capital work in our park and recreation and some more what we consider routine operating capital in our other funds, such as replacement of equipment, things like that. We did wanna emphasize that our budget is balanced and our operating expenses are supported by recurring operating revenues. Our usage of reserves reflect planned one-time investments rather than operational deficiencies. Capital projects, infrastructure improvements, equipment, and grant matches drive most of our reserve usage. And the city maintains reserve levels sufficient to support operations during economic downturns or emergencies. Included in your budget for this year citywide, again, we really do want to emphasize that our operating revenues are built to support our operating expenses. And one-time appropriations from our fund balance reserves, grants, or loans support our capital investments. We maintain full family coverage on our robust health plan. We provided a COLA, which is cost of living adjustment plus step adjustment for salaries for all existing full-time employees. And our investment into 20 plus community and shared agencies plus funds for economic development initiatives brought before the commission. And we're able to celebrate America's 250th as well in the upcoming fiscal year. Your total general fund budget revenues are $24,790,320. Your largest category of revenue, which is consistent between fiscal years and most city governments in Kentucky is 20 million. Property taxes are your next largest source of revenue, but account for 10% of the city's general fund at 2.6 million. We did build our budget based on the compensating rate for property taxes, which is no increase in rate for property taxes. We also maintained a flat rate for occupational tax, net profit, and insurance premium tax revenues. So the growth in revenue is really derived from your growth in your economy. General fund appropriations are $27,133,240 total. This includes a salary alignment for 911, reclass for a PD detective, an HR clerk, the addition of one public works maintenance worker, along with capital equipment for the general funds and capital for your park and recreation funds supported from your reserves. Just a highlight of a few of our capital projects scheduled for next year. This is by no means all of them. I couldn't fit all of them on one screen. But just to highlight a few of your parks programs that we have worked with the county to enhance at Millennium Park. and your Allen Springs Mountain Bike Park, along with some items that are grant funded, like your Butler Park playground. And then we've got quite a few things going on in utility fund. I've just got a few highlighted there at the bottom. But some of your bigger projects are your Clark's Run trunk sewer line, and then some funds we received for the wastewater treatment plant phase two. After our budget is passed, we'll have the line item budget detail available on our website and then a full budget book to follow after.

Further, you'll have a grant submittal, I mean a budget submittal letter, draft emailed to you towards the end of the week. It's actually done and we appreciate Lee's hard work on that and we're going through it, but we'll send that to you this week at some point. And so we'll have that for the next meeting.

Any questions for Ms. Compton?

I would like to suggest to you that we appreciate all of the staff that worked really, really hard on this. Frankly, for me, It was, and I know Lee will have her opinion of it just because she had to work on the financial end of it, but it was one of the more efficient and cleanest budget processes gotten to be around in a while. And I really, that's indicative of staff's effort, frankly, and that goes to all the department heads from Tommy and Josh to Rick and Public Works supporting them, fire, police, the two chiefs, Marshall, we appreciate that. Randy's work on all the personnel items. is significant, Ashley supporting us up top with Melanie. It takes all of those folks, and of course the staff in the back with Lee, we thank them, and we know that it produces an unusual amount of activities around their normal practices, and so we thank them, and Lee, we appreciate your effort, and it was, for me, we only, You know, there was a lot of guardrails we had to manage, but other than that, it wasn't very conflicted at all. And we hope, hopefully you all felt the same in the budget process this year.

Okay. Did we have a, did we make a motion on that? Yes. And see whether we have the ordinance, and then we vote on it, have roll call vote on it? Not yet, right?

Not yet.

All right.

Mayor Atkins.

Yes, ma'am.

Commissioner Holland. Yes. Commissioner Sarris. Yes.

Commissioner Hall. Yes.

Commissioner Peek. Yes. All right. Thank you all. Next item, the first reading report is 2067, the bond ordinance. Do you want to read that one for us?

This is the first reading of ordinance number 2067, an ordinance of the city of Danville, Kentucky, authorizing the issuance of its general obligation improvement bonds series 2026 to finance and refinance costs of public projects and to retire outstanding general obligation notes of the city. approving the form of the bonds, authorizing designated officers of the city to execute and deliver the bonds, providing for the payment and security of the bonds, creating a bond payment fund, maintaining the heretofore created sinking fund, approving and authorizing the advertisement and acceptance of bids for the purchase of the bonds, undertaking continuing disclosure obligations with respect to the bonds, and repealing inconsistent ordinances.

Well, since Kevin wanted to hear your voice, do you mind reading that again?

Thank you, man. Just a reminder, these bonds are associated with new revenue, which is, particularly on the water side, both McKinney and Springfield were considered. And this has been on the books, so this is really converting your short-term to long-term.

And these are just general, this bond, they're not revenue?

These are general obligation bonds.

Correct.

Is there a motion?

2067. Thank you, ma'am. Second. Thank you, sir.

Any other questions or any readiness?

I couldn't find the starting interest rate. I just saw could not exceed 6%.

So I'm going to let RJ Palmer, who is with Compass Municipal, step in here, as this is my official first bond issuance as well. And RJ here is the expert.

He's been waiting patiently for this opportunity.

Thank you, Mayor and Commissioners. So did you... Provide them with the timeline.

So there's a lot of pages.

I got it.

Yes, the very last page is their timeline. And I did stick in your packet. I believe it's on pages 65. 59 through 65 are sample final debt service schedules and bonding service schedules, but those are draft at the moment.

That's correct. So to directly answer your question, Commissioner Holland, we won't have that rate set until the actual sale date, which is currently scheduled for, September the 3rd. So that will be done in a competitive bond sale that we will advertise and solicit bids for, and we'll lock in the rate that day. We're currently estimating the rate at about 4.4% fixed for the 25 year term. Three, you know, three, four months from now that could change, but if it does, we will certainly be in touch, in contact with Ms. Compton and Mr. Coffey to let them know.

Other questions? Oh, we got him up here. No questions? How many years did you say? We're currently running this at 25 years. Okay.

These are projects that have already been, if the individual projects aren't completed, the remaining portion of the project will be utility fund reserves. The projects, we allocated four projects, I believe, for the original funding, but the majority of the funds were used to wrap up Parable Road phase three. which was our water line connection to Springfield, which does, like Earl had mentioned, generates its own source of new revenue, which will cover a significant portion of the debt service related to this. There was a bit of a funding gap in phase one, the original phase one wastewater treatment plant projects, and the funding we had from, was that KIA?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, from KIA. And then the McKinney water line. And those two items will be their own funding source.

So this is paying off, just as a reminder, the 2023 bond anticipation note. And the reason we did that in working with Ms. Compton and Mr. Coffey was to allow those projects to get closer to being built out so that they produce revenue to help with the debt service payment.

And at the time we needed, we had already started wastewater treatment plants. So that kind of that funding gap kind of... needed to be closed and then we were also at that point if you all remember we were behind on audits and bond agencies don't really love you to issue full-fledged bonds if you're behind. So we issued the bond anticipation note to get those projects wrapped up.

The timing also helped you understand what your actual bond amount should be. You have everything bid or you closed everything out. And we'd like to add, too, that the Parable Road water line enabled North Mercer Water District on the 68 pump station that was put in like 2012, I want to say, to be fully utilized now. So you don't just have new revenue on the Washington County side. You have... new revenue on the North Mercer side as well.

Anything else? All right.

Is the bond market strong? I mean, I'm very... novice at such things, so it's a good time for such an issue.

The bond market doesn't like conflict, and so we've had, we've seen some ups and downs with, you know, what's going on in the Middle East, but we've seen a rally recently. Initially, when we first ran this, I think for Miss Compton, we were running it at about 480, and again, I think the real rate today is closer to 440. Pretty good. But we monitor it on a daily basis. We'll try to schedule it when we anticipate that conditions will be good.

Other questions or comments? Hearing none, Madam Clerk?

Commissioner Holland?

Yes.

Commissioner Sayers? Yes. Commissioner Caudill?

Yes.

Commissioner Peek?

Yes.

Mayor Atkins?

Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. Thanks, RJ.

Next item is Resolution 2026.06.08.05, Parable Wastewater Treatment Improvement.

Mr. Kerr. Thank you, Mayor. This is related to the County ARPA funds. This is the second phase of those $2.8 million for sanitary sewer improvements. On May 15th, the City of Danville opened bids for the Parable Wastewater Treatment Plan Improvements Project. We had two bids ranging from 2.343 million to 2.827 million for the project. Thienemann Construction was low bid. The city immediately enter negotiations with Thienemann as Thienemann as low bidder. There are obviously budget constraints related to the leftover money out of the Junction City and Privilege work that's ongoing already. Obviously, the work product would expect it to be reduced. That's why we entered negotiations with Thieneman and they were very positive about negotiating with us to their credit. We reduced the net contract value down to $1,278,400. Now, we had the bids actually in various divisions. That way, whatever number we came back on the top end, we were able to go through each of those subdivisions of the project and negotiate things out of that, right? But still overall at the end of the day, safety issues were number one and regulatory requirements were number one also. So work is scheduled this fall. We'll provide critical improvements to maintain regulatory compliance, compliance to the favorable wastewater treatment plant, including new aeration systems, electrical controls, metering manhole systems, sampler installations, gravity line work, new valve installations, and parasitic acid PAA system. This new PAA system will replace the old chlorine gas treatment system, which is a health hazard for our workers, and be more eco-friendly in the treatment process. So upon an initial deductive change order, The net contract value of the project is going to be $1,278,400. And we recommend award to that value. Thank you, sir.

Is there a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve Resolution 2026-060805. Thank you, ma'am.

Second?

Second.

Thank you, ma'am. Any questions?

Comments?

And this is county ARPA money, it says?

Yeah. We had the total, if you recall, we had $2.8 million total. So we're doing work in Junction City and Parable on various pump stations. And so we went ahead and we wanted to go ahead. So you've got $2.8 million up here. We wanted to go ahead and let that as its own contract because those are similar work items over here. We let those and then looked at what we had left over to do the parable wastewater treatment plant. So that was the budget that we were shooting for for this project.

I don't know how you negotiated down that much, but hey, that's great.

Well, and to their credit, too, the contractor was willing to negotiate some things out of that work. It was kind of the way we entered into the contract initially and the way we drew it up was you're shooting for the stars. You don't know what you're going to get unless you bid the work out there and see what numbers come back. And then if you have a trend in those bid numbers, then you can say, well, those are probably about right. So we go back to the drawing board with a low bidder and then try to negotiate ourselves down to where we want to live with the contract. You still have to have contingencies built into that contract, too. Leave yourself enough cushion to have some, you know, 10% to 15% contingencies built into it, which is where we ended up.

Thank you, sir. All those in favor of Resolution 26060805, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, Marshall, and thanks for negotiating like that. Next item is Resolution 2026060807, Butler Draft Payground Grant Agreement. Mr. Morgan.

Yes, thank you all. In your package, you have the agreement with the Kentucky Department for Local Government for the Land and Water Conservation Fund grant to replace the playground at Butler Drive Park. They will provide $80,000, and we will be required to match that dollar for dollar, so it's an $80,000 match from the city. And we have this budgeted in FY27 budget. So yeah, this is one we've been waiting on for a while. Actually, I look back, I applied for this grant in May of 2022 is when we applied. So we're just now getting the funding four years later. So others in the hopper as well, but this one came through this year. So hopefully, hopefully we get some other ones soon.

Well, thank you for the work. Is there a motion?

I move for approval of resolution 2026-0608-07. Thank you, sir. Second.

Thank you, ma'am. All right. Any questions or comments about the playground? Thank you. Hearing none, all those in favor say aye.

Aye. Those opposed, motion carries.

I'll take this opportunity to tell you all that we've finally been approved to advertise the Boffin Sidewalks project. No way. So we're going to put that advertisement in the paper this Saturday. And hopefully in a month or two, we're actually breaking ground. So I thought that'd be good news.

And your hair's not gray yet.

Not yet. It's getting there, but not yet. I'll believe it when I see it.

Okay, the next item is first reading of ordinance 2068. Stormwater Ordinance Amendment. Mr. Morgan?

You want to go ahead and read it? I'll read it first.

This is the first reading of Ordinance Number 2068, an ordinance amending the Municipal Stormwater Management Fee Schedule in Chapter 6.5, Flood Prevention and Stormwater Management, Article 4, Stormwater Management Fee, Section 6.5 through 56, rates in the City of Danville Code of Ordinances.

Thank you. Yeah, we've been a couple things here. One, we... We've talked a couple years now for building a COLA into the stormwater fee. So that's one of the items here. This will officially put that into the ordinance. Right now we're at $3.75 per stormwater unit. A 2.7% COLA this year will raise that to $3.85, and then that COLA will automatically be included in the years after this. We mirrored the water and sewer utility has that clause in their ordinance now, so we just mirrored that here. The other item, we've been pretty aggressively auditing the stormwater billing. And one of the big issues that we're finding going through this as far as unpaid bills, issues with the ownership, is with the non-developed properties. So vacant lots or farmland that's divided up and doesn't have a structure on it. So we are asking to change, in the original ordinance, non-developed properties paid for one ERU, one unit stormwater fee. We are asking to remove that and they will pay no stormwater fee. It's going to clean things up a lot for us on the billing side as far as being able to keep track. It's hard to keep track of who owns those properties and where the bill's supposed to be going to and those kind of things. So that cleans that up for us. And also the kind of this, The nature of the rule, you're paying for the impervious surface for the runoff. So if it's an undeveloped property, there is no impervious surface. So we're requesting to make that small change. We'll lose a little bit of revenue. We're estimating about $3,000 a year. in revenue in a $700,000 budget. So it's a very small impact to the budget. We've probably spent more time than that over the past month or two just trying to clean up the building on it. So I think it's gonna be money that we'll probably save in the long run just from a time standpoint. So yeah, those are the two changes we're requesting in the stormwater management fee budget ordinance.

Is there a motion?

I'll move to approve the first reading. Let's see, are we on 19? The first reading of ordinance 2068. Thank you, ma'am.

Is there a second? I second. Thank you, ma'am. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, Madam Clerk, you didn't say that last one, did you?

I did not. Commissioner Saris? Yes. Commissioner Caudill?

Yes.

Commissioner Peek? Yes. Mayor Atkins? Yes, ma'am. Commissioner Holland? Yes.

Thank you all. Next item is first reading of, hang on, Ordinance 2069, Food Truck Ordinance Amendment. She's great.

Let's let her read it first.

That's what I was going to say. Sing it out loud.

This is the first reading of Ordinance Number 2069, an ordinance amending City of Danville, Kentucky, Code of Ordinance Chapter 13 pertaining to the operation of food trucks in the City of Danville.

Thank you, ma'am. All right, Chief Gray.

So the ordinance, what it does, it's been amended to add the lot here at 4th and Main as to be used by the food trucks. That lot was excluded. It just uses that, add that lot to the food truck ordinance to be used. Also, it has extended the times for the food truck ordinance to be operational. We were from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., and so now we'll go from 8 a.m. to midnight.

That's just on the weekend.

Well, I mean, the time changes, too. It's on the weekend, right? Yeah. It's on Friday and Saturday, so I'm sorry.

I didn't know that.

But it just makes sure those, some of those special events have, you know, increased their times to midnight now.

Other questions or comments? Do we have a motion, please? No motion? Is there a motion to approve first reading, Orders 29?

I would advise you to approve it. Those special events people will be up there.

I'll make a motion to approve the first reading of ordinance 2069.

Second.

You're really just adding the structure of the food truck ordinance to the property you now own from the time the truck ordinance was originally done. Bottom line.

Madam Clerk?

Commissioner Caudill?

Yes.

Commissioner Peek? Yes. Mayor Atkins? Yes, ma'am. Commissioner Holland? Yes. Commissioner Sayers?

Thank you all. Is there a motion to adjourn or is there a motion to go into executive session?

Mayor, we respectfully request executive session for the purpose of personnel. Is that personnel? Yep, personnel. All right.

Make a motion to go into executive session to discuss a personal matter pursuant to KRS 618101F.

You didn't say shortly. Is there a second?

I make a motion that we go home pursuant to Kevin Ordinance 126103. Is that a second? No, second to Donna's ordinance.

Thank you, sir. All those in favor go to the executive session dealing with personnel. Say aye.

Aye.

Opposed? She said short, didn't she? Executive Session. Kevin made the motion, Donna seconded it, and we're out of Executive Session now, right?

Something like that.

For record keeping, right? All right. Mr. City Manager, you have some things for us?

Staff is recommending the hiring of Jason Stauffer to the position of wastewater, I'm sorry, Water Treatment Operator, Class 4. So moved.

Second. Thank you all. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Congratulations to Jason.

Staff is recommending the hiring of Brandon Janel to the position of certified firefighter. Is there a motion?

So moved. Second.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Congratulations, Brandon.

Staff is recommending the hiring of Rick Carter to the position of water treatment operator class four. So moved. Second.

Second.

Thank you all. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. I would oppose. Congratulations, Rick. You said Rick Carter? Yes, sir. All right. Chair, would you entertain a motion to adjourn?

I'll move to adjourn.

Is there a second?

I second it. All right. All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Ashley?