City Commission - Regular Meeting

I wanna welcome you all to the Danville City Commission. This is a regular scheduled meeting. Today is Monday, August the 10th, 2026. The time is 4.30 p.m. and we're gonna start off our meeting with prayer led by Commissioner Cottle and then we're gonna ask you all if you would to volunteer to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance to us. Mr. Cottle?

Thank you. Back heads if you'd like. Father, we thank you for the chance we have to join here in freedom and discuss the business of the city. We ask that you guide us in a way that allows us to do that in a cordial, understanding, thoughtful manner. We pray for peace, and we pray for those who are trying to keep the peace. In your name we pray. Amen.

Thank you, sir. Amen. Thank you, Commissioner Cottle, and thank you all for your attendance this afternoon. The next item is that we're going to approve our printed agenda today, but I would like to approve it with one amendment, and that is to add Amendment 16A on the shade procurement. and it will be Resolution 2026-0810-09. So the Chair will entertain a motion with that one amendment to the agenda.

So moved.

Thank you, ma'am. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, ma'am. Any other comments or questions? Hearing none, all those in favor of approving our amended agenda say aye. Aye. Those opposed, motion carries. Next on our agenda, this is where we hear from our public today that's in attendance, and you may be recognized and you may speak to the commission about things that are only on our agenda at this time. We will listen very patiently. very attentively. And then later on in our meeting, we have a second here of the public where you may speak to us and talk to us after being recognized about things that are not on our agenda. And I only have one requirement is that what you want to speak to us, we just pray and hope that it's going to be something legal within our jurisdiction. So anyone desiring to speak to the commission at this juncture in our meeting? Yes, ma'am. When it comes to the microphone, identify yourself. It's about something that's on our agenda. Okay. Thank you, ma'am.

I'm not sure.

All right.

When I look down through here, I don't really know. I have two situations I'd like to address. One is our water bill and two is recycling. Will you allow me to do those at this time?

You said water bill?

I did.

And then your second one was about... Recycling?

Yes.

Okay, I think you ought to wait until the second period of the public. I've got to. All right. It's all right. You've got to be patient, you know, because it'll take us a few minutes. I have all the time. All right. Well, thank you for your patience, ma'am. All right. Anyone else about items on our printed agenda? Hearing none, let's move along then. Next item is approval of the minutes of the previous meetings. The chair will entertain a motion to approve the minutes.

I'll make a motion to approve the minutes of 7-27-2026 as presented.

Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you, sir. Any corrections, additions, or deletions? Hearing none, then all those in favor of a... Approve in the hour of minutes as presented. Say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Next, we're going to have a local government series recognition presented by Melanie Crossfield. Ms. Crossfield?

Good evening Mayor, Commissioners. I wanted to take this opportunity to recognize some citizens who participated in the local government literacy program. We had five different sessions over five months. We covered form of government utilities public safety planning and zoning and Parks and Recreation so they got to visit all different city facilities and this group was fantastic they were all very engaged and had great questions and I think they've gone on to be great ambassadors for the city and so And in helping us solve problems. So there are a few of them here tonight. A couple of them couldn't make it, but I did want to call them up and recognize them. That was a time commitment, and they were a fantastic group. So I just wanted to thank them for joining us and let you guys know who participated. So I will call you guys up so you can come join me. I've got Jan Sutton. Jasmine Hubbard Blake Murphy and Jasmine both Blake is the general manager right of the home to suites and he was also he came to email and then I've got Karen Landland So these are your, we're going to call you guys graduates, your super citizens. They came to all of the sessions, well, most of the sessions, and everybody was very engaged. And I hope you guys learned a lot. I had a lot of fun getting to know you guys. So I just want to thank you guys for being part of it and hope you'll come back next year if we switch it up a little bit. So thank you.

Thank you so much.

All right, everybody smile. Perfect, thank you guys so much.

Thank you, Melanie.

Next on our agenda, we have a banner request for little cherubs. Are you here for that? I'm here for that. All right. Good to see you, young lady.

Back again. Thank you, ma'am. All right. So we have our cherubs sale coming up next week. I appreciate you all putting the banner up last in March. So we were hoping we could request to have that put up, I believe, this week from today. And we come down the following week.

What kind of money are you talking about? We can be bought.

I can figure out something. I can provide a meal.

I move for approval of the matter request as presented. Thank you, sir. Is there a second?

Second.

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

Did you say the dates of the event?

It's the 17th through the, well, 17th will start in check-ins, but the actual sale is the 21st, 22nd.

August or September?

Next week.

Okay, August 17th. Yeah.

Okay.

Thank you, ma'am. Thank you very much.

Chair Neese, we've already got a motion, so any other comments or questions? Hearing none, all those in favor of this banner request say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, ma'am.

Okay, thank you.

Next is the second reading of Ordinance 2072, a zone change request on 115 East Walnut Street. Madam Clerk, you want to read the second reading for us, please, ma'am?

Yes, this is the second reading of Ordinance Number 2072, an ordinance changing the zone for multifamily residential RM3. to Central Business CB for approximately 1.502 acres, more or less, of real property located at 115 East Walnut Street in the city of Danville, Kentucky. DAVID BURRAGE.

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

I move to approve the second reading of Ordinance 2072. DAVID BURRAGE.

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

Second.

Thank you, ma'am. Any questions or comments? Ms. Gray, you want to make any comments?

No, just here to answer any questions or concerns you all may have. Okay. Any questions or comments?

I hear none. Chair, we call for the question. Roll call vote. Madam Clerk?

Commissioner Caudill?

Yes.

Commissioner Peek? Yes. Mayor Atkins?

Yes, ma'am.

Commissioner Holland?

Yes.

Commissioner Sayers? Yes.

Thank you all. Next item is a second reading of ordinance number 2073, Zone change with Stoneland LLC.

And Mr. Mayor, I'll have to recuse myself. And I've been asked a lot about it. So if I could explain, I made a mistake and attended a zoning meeting and just made some comments, kept them very neutral, not for or against, but somehow that disqualified me. So unfortunately, I have to legally recuse myself from this zone change to ensure impartiality in the review of the zone change per direction of our attorney. and KLC, so thanks.

Thank you, ma'am. You want my Walmart list before you leave? All right, yes, ma'am. Madam Clerk, want to do the second reading for us?

This is the second reading of ordinance number 2073, an ordinance changing the zone from agriculture AG to single-family residential R1C, two-family residential RM2, and general business GB for 48.592 acres, more or less, of real property located along Kentucky Highway 33, Shager Town Road, which is north of the Streamland subdivision and south of Kentucky Highway 2168 in the city of Danville, Kentucky.

Thank you, ma'am. And, Mayor, if I may request that when a commissioner makes a motion today so it mirrors the previous motion that was made at our last meeting, if you'll refer to page two of the minutes, starting with the second paragraph and number three, and if a commissioner will make a motion that is in adherence to what is written in paragraph two, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you, sir. Is there a motion?

Hang on, hang on, hang on. Oh. I wouldn't expect it. Oh, you got the written old Fred Flintstone version.

If you were in section three of the minutes.

All right.

And then the second paragraph is a recitation of the motion that was made at the previous meeting.

So I move that we approve the second reading of Ordinance with the clarification that any requirements imposed by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet pertaining to entrances on Kentucky 33, Shaker Town Road, concerning the subject property and the adjacent Brook Co. property, as well as the traffic study concerning connectivity, take precedence over any other stated condition therein, so as to be in accordance with Kentucky law.

Is that your motion?

Yeah, don't ask me to repeat.

Oh, man. Is there a second?

I second it.

Thank you, ma'am. Any questions or comments? Madam Clerk, roll call vote again, please.

Commissioner Peek? Yes. Mayor Atkins?

Yes, ma'am.

Commissioner Saris? Yes. Commissioner Caudill?

Yes. Thank you all. Should I wave her back in here?

Oh, she's going to be surprised.

I thought she was running. All right. Welcome back. Next item is a second reading of Ordinance 2074, Zone Change, Chen Property on US 127. Item clerk, you want to read? Second reading for us, please.

This is the second reading of Ordinance Number 2074, an ordinance changing the zone from Agriculture AG to Highway Business HB, Office Professional OP, General Business GB, Two-Family Residential RM2, and Multi-Family Residential RM3 for approximately 133.85 acres, more or less, of real property located off of U.S. Highway 127 South, immediately south of Popowell Lane in the city of Danville, Kentucky.

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

I move for approval of the second reading board that's 2074.

Thank you, sir. Is there a second?

Second.

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

I just wanted to tell Hannah that I've been very appreciative over the last six months with the Planning Commission's growth and professionalism. They've really been approving a lot of things while also hearing legitimate citizen concerns. And a big difference from like a year ago and a year and a half ago. So I just wanted to commend you for that and just thank our volunteers because one small line here is two, three, or four hours of hearings. And so I just want them to know that they're very appreciative. Thank you.

Other comments or questions? Hearing none, Madam Clerk, roll call vote again.

Mayor Atkins.

Yes, ma'am.

Commissioner Holland. Yes. Commissioner Saris. Yes. Commissioner Caudill.

Yes, ma'am.

Commissioner Peek. Yes.

Thank you all.

Thank you. I had a question for her. I asked the mayor. Do you want to ask her?

No, you can ask her.

Okay. Did you all finalize the public data center meetings yet? We did not.

That got introduced at the last meeting in July, but we have an advisory committee meeting to finalize those dates for public meetings on August 13th. And so then at this month's meeting, we'll have a full introduction of those dates.

And that's just another reason why I commend you guys that the citizens are very thankful right now. Before it was gas pipelines and now it's data centers that planning and zoning, they're very thankful to have it here in town. So just thank you for getting all the citizen concerns heard and yeah, we'll get the word out when shows meetings are set. So thank you.

And thank you. And I would also like to note that on our website there is a section on the front page for all public comments and about data centers, zoning ordinances, or anything. So I always like to get public comments, and so that's available online. Is it Boyle Planning? Yes, yes, BoylePlanning.org. Okay, thank you. Yeah, thank you.

Thank you, ma'am. Next item is the first read of Ordinance 2075, Compensation Classification Plan Amendment. Madam Clerk, you're earning your money tonight, aren't you?

I sure am.

One more time.

This is the first reading of ordinance number 2075 and ordinance amending CDO 2-96 pertaining to the classification plan, compensation plan, and policies and procedures for city personnel.

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

I'll make a motion for the approval of ordinance 2075, first reading.

Second. Thank you all.

Mr. Board, any comments? No, sir, Mayor. Just other than, well, other than this was a collaborative proposal between the city engineer, the HR director, and the Parks and Recreation director. All right.

So basically, the position that we had is just being changed to a coordinator versus a supervisor, and then... the chain of command has changed.

That is correct.

But we're not hiring two people, we're hiring one.

That is correct.

At a lesser rate.

At a lesser rate, and the estimated cost of the budget is probably approximately $500, which could be absorbed through personnel budgeted funds, so there's no additional cost to the city with these requested changes, in simple terms.

Okay.

Other questions or comments?

I like the new... the new setup there. Okay. That's all.

That's all. Okay, roll call vote again, Madam Clerk.

Commissioner Holland.

Yes.

Commissioner Saris. Yes. Commissioner Caudill. Yes, ma'am. Commissioner Peek. Yes. Mayor Atkins.

Yes, ma'am. You feel like you're finished for the night? All right. Next item on our agenda is Resolution 2026-08-1001, fiscal year 2017. The board, you have that one?

Authorized position list amendment, I'm sorry. Yes, sir, Mayor. That also is in correlation with the compensation proposal. It's just to align the job quantities, but it does not change the authorized headcount in totality for the city, which still remains at 182, which was approved through the FY27 budget.

Thank you, sir. Is there a motion?

I'll move to approve Resolution 202608-1001.

Thank you, ma'am. Second. Thank you, ma'am. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, call for the question. All those in favor of passing Resolution 202608-1001 say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, motion carries. Thank you. Next item is Resolution 2608-1002, Health Department Contract. Mr. Boyd?

All right, thank you, Mayor. So yes, in front of you, you have the Bull County Health Department contract proposal. So staff's recommending continuing on with him for another year. They provide us services for multiple screenings, such as biometrics, HEPA, HEPB, TDAP, and TB screen test. We have a health fair with him every year, usually around October. It's part of our wellness program. And so we're just Requests and renewal with them for another year. Estimated cost is about $2,000 annually projected cost, which again ties into our overall wellness strategy with the city.

Thank you, sir. Is there a motion?

I make a motion to approve Resolution 20-26-0810-02. Second.

Thank you all. Any questions to Mr. Board? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye.

Aye. Aye.

Those opposed? Motion carries. I think you are. Next on our agenda is the City Manager Report. I guess I should recommend you back to Kentucky and back to Danville, right? Yes, sir. Glad you made it safely.

Thank you. I don't have a ton of action items or... really commentary the couple dates that i would like to point out uh... after i say that the garbage transition is still ongoing will let josh talk about that during the city engineer report more uh... so won't provide detail there would like to to uh... complement the solo second street festival in the blue balloons of the grass both of those were without what i would consider successful dance well attended given we had good weather for both. August 18th is casual conversations with commissioners, with Commissioner Holland and Sirius at the Wine Cellar at 6 p.m. The State Fair booth, the CVB booth, still needs volunteers and we'd encourage it to be, if you have the opportunity, Melanie can help you get signed up, but also others in the community you're welcome to go through the CVB and sign up for that service. Two action items. One, we have a property damage release form. We included that in your packet. That's the first attachment. That is related to a vehicle accident where it was a truck versus downtown traffic bollards and streetlights. It was one of the bad ones. That was the value that the city will be reimbursed will be $44,178.54 with the release and I need an authorization to sign that form that came through today. We don't have that. It should be digitally in your packet. It's not.

It was uploaded this afternoon. It should be in there in your city manager report.

Oh, all right.

Where it goes down 44 pages?

Yes, that one.

Okay. It's right after his report.

Yeah. The property damage release is the very first page after my memo.

It's page three, Josh said.

No.

Well, and the only question is, before we approve this, is that this is an ample amount for reimbursement for damage reduction?

It was the amount of the claim and the total of the damages, and the insurance company requires the release of additional damages to make the reimbursement to the city. So once you sign it, you'll get reimbursed the $44,000.

It was filed through the party that did the damage, their insurance, and they're asking us to sign this release form before they release the funds to us for repairs. Mm-hmm.

Is it a resolution or just a release form?

It's just a release, just an authorization to sign the release form.

I'll make a motion for approval of the mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, or city manager to sign the release form.

Yep. Thank you, ma'am. Second. Thank you, sir. Any other questions? If not, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Let's close.

Thank you for that. And then the second thing that popped up today was the chairman of the airport board had forwarded to the mayor this weekend and we received it today. The FAA Airport Infrastructure Grant Agreement, if you'll recall back in June, there was a solicitation of infrastructure dollars through the FAA by the airport to be contributed towards the construction of the hangar that is adjacent to the air evac facility there just to the east of that. This is the grant form, the grant agreement form, has been given to the airport board and then is the second step in the process of receiving the money. We need authorization for the mayor to execute that on behalf as the sponsor for the airport board. That is the total of all those pages, Commissioner Holland, that you're seeing. I'll have to go back and look. It's... 250, I lost the page, turn 85,000. Thank you, sir. Is there a motion to accept this on behalf of the airport?

I make a motion to approve, authorize the mayor to sign the documents needed for the FAA loan.

Grant.

Grant, I'm sorry.

Thank you.

For the airport. Thank you, ma'am. Second.

Second.

Thank you, ma'am. Questions or comments?

And it looks like, I mean, it just came in. That was sort of how Stewart did it. It would come in that day. It says August 7th, so.

Yeah, we received it today. I think it was emailed. Both of those, both the insurance release, and there's no reason to delay the insurance release two weeks. Fairly straightforward. So we appreciate your all's consideration of those.

We figured Mr. Powell would be here if he was, you know. To haunt you.

Well, an FYI to you all is that when these great things come in and they ask the mayor or anybody that's on staff to sign them, you know, I always say I got to talk to Ms. Compton and Mr. Coffey here, and I don't sign until they can verify that we have approved it as a commission. Yeah. They're really on top of that, so I just said, I'm not signing this thing, but okay, appreciate that. So, any other questions or comments? All those in favor of accepting this $285,000 grant, say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Thank you all. Okay, next on our agenda is we come to that second opportunity to hear the public. We're supposed to be recognized and can come to the podium. We can speak to the commission for three minutes or less, and we'll listen to you. Yes, ma'am. You didn't wait for me, did you? You're good.

I figured I wouldn't hold you up.

No, you did good.

Yes, ma'am. My name is Brenda Mitchell, and I'm a citizen of Naples. We've had a lot of misinformation to the public about our trash charge and our water bill and our recycling. And I would just like to see if it can be clarified this afternoon. If not, could we have something put out to the public? In June, there was a publication put out that stated that one trash cart, and that would be on our water bill, would be a monthly rate of $14.94. Is that a correct amount? Or I have not had that amount show up on my water bill as the trash charge. It is higher than that. Could anybody...

And you keep on going and asking all your questions, then we'll try to give you some feedback.

And then as far as the recycling, there's, to begin with, the city put out a notification that all the citizens would have to do is put their recycle bin to the curb and it would be picked up. Everybody went by that, thousands. This has been the biggest fiasco in the world and I have tried and so have some of my friends. I've even gone door to door where I saw some bins sitting out. I had instructions on a sticky note. I did offer to leave that with the resident because I wanted them to be sure to put it by their computer, their phone, or somebody that would help them get the proper information out which Republic sent to us, but there's still people that aren't either looking or they're not getting the proper information, and I would like to challenge Any of you that have made these decisions to do what I'm doing, if you see Ben's out, and if you voted to get that first letter out, Do what you can to get this out to the citizens and help them, even if it's individually, because they're still sitting out there two and three months later. And as a citizen, I'm trying to do what I can. I've met with the recycle people. I challenge you each to go to the recycle center on North Stewart's Lane and look. Take a picture of those tables that have the yes items and the no items. And I would like to see what we can do to help all of our citizens of Danville. Thank you.

Okay. Now, if you'll take a seat, I'm going to do a great protocol right here because I want you to hear the rest of the story, right? Sir? I'm going to get you an answer that you're going to be verbalized so you can hear this answer. Okay. Mr. Morgan? I might let Lee take the billing part of it.

Okay. All right. I think the short answer is that the bill that folks received for July that was due today has part of June and part of July in it.

Before you go forward, your service dates on the bill that was due today on 8-10, and you would have received that in July. Your service date is June 2nd through July 1st of 26. So the new trash rate does not start until 7-1. So you should see that on your bill that's next populated that will be due on 9-10. But that's a back bill. We don't bill that up front. So that may answer that question for you. But otherwise, we can look at your individual account separately if you would like, but not in full public. But in general, everyone's...

So the one due 9-10 would be $14.94?

Yes.

Okay. All right. Okay.

The recycling cart collection is still ongoing. Republic is, we think we have clear information from them about that. They do. They just want everybody to leave them at the curb. tentatively Republic is scheduled to be here in two weeks at our next Commission meeting to talk to us about all this so I think we can we can get some real answers then hopefully they're pretty much done collecting recycling carts we see them out it's we see them out picking them up it's going slow but yeah we should be able to get some more definitive answers from them at that I do a comment about that yes they do

put them at the curb, but until those citizens get an answer from the Republic Recycle by the instructions specifically that I'm giving them, and Republic has put those out specifically, until they get a date from Republic as to what date their bin will be picked up, they'll stay there till you know what.

Well, and that's, Republic has told us that we've got a little bit of both information from Republic. They don't, sometimes they tell us they don't want a date. They just want to, everybody just leave them out, and they'll go street by street and pick them all up.

Well, then we need to do that.

And then some people are calling and getting a date.

Yes.

So I think it's a little bit of both. I think just to be safe, we've told folks just leave them out there. That seems to me the most efficient way to do it. It seems much more efficient to do a street at a time, everybody they can, instead of doing... bouncing from one to another and scheduling all, you know, 4,000 or 5,000 pickups. So, yeah, I think we get a little bit of both, but we're telling folks when they call here, just set your card out. We keep passing that along to Republic. Hey, we're getting calls, people asking what to do, and they're just picking up as quick as they can.

And the deadline...

The deadline, ma'am, the date is prayerfully by the 1st of September. Yes. It'll all be picked up.

I agree.

And be sure to tell your neighbors like I've been telling mine.

Brenda.

I know. Tell your neighbors, daughter. Oh, I have. Leave the recycle bin set out empty.

That's correct. The lady that picks them up from Republic, one of them, stopped in front of mine and I asked him about the cart across the street. I said, can you not go on and pick that up? He says, ma'am, if it's not on my list, I can't pick it up. They've got to get a date for me to pick it up.

Was he picking up carts or was he emptying carts?

No, he was

So he was collecting recycled bins that nobody, that people did not want. Okay.

And we had called and gotten a date. So as soon as I took the information to that neighbor, they called or texted or emailed, and within another day, theirs had been picked up. So I don't think the message from the city to just leave them out is complete.

Yeah. Mrs. Mitchell, the other thing I want to stress to you is that everybody's got a water bill. There's some more up-to-date information in the water bill. And then if you get the city newsletter that I just got this past weekend, had some more information about it. So we're doing all we can to get the information out. Yes. And we don't want to leave anybody hanging. We want all the cars picked back up.

Right.

And then the other thing I want to clarify is that The $14.97 is for one trash can only. You want a second trash can, it's with you and Republic, and it's a different charge. Yes. You want a recycling can, it's with you and Republic, not the city. The city's only going to do the $14 for the one can on the bill, and that's it.

I understand completely, and I'm doing it.

I broke protocol for you, so you had a little discussion, so let's go on to the next person now. Okay. I'm getting out of here. I'm trying to get us out of here before the Super Bowl starts tonight, so I'll move along. Okay. Does someone else want to hear the public? Speak to us? Yes, sir. Oh, I thought you had your hand up.

You don't want to speak to us?

No, no. This is here to public.

Anybody wants to speak to us about any item, they can speak at this point because we're going to move on here real quick. Mayor, commissioners, staff, nice to be with you all again. Good to see you. Well, I'll let you stop me somewhere in the middle of it. Several months ago, and with me today is Mayor John Bowling. real estate magnate Dennis Cox about three or four months ago. Mr. Cox and I requested some time to have a conversation with the mayor who then included Commissioner Cottle in that. We enjoyed an hour and 15 minute conversation at the end of which Mayor Askins asked us to commit our thoughts to paper. Well, we've done so, sir, and we have a 28-page summation of a lot of research and data. And the purpose of this report is to provide an objective assessment of the community's economic position, identify opportunities for future growth, and recommend strategies that can strengthen the local economy over the coming decade. The information contained herein is based on publicly available data, historical trends, comparative research, and observations of successful economic development practices throughout Kentucky. This report is intended to encourage thoughtful discussion, informed decision-making, and collaborative leadership. It is not a criticism of previous efforts of any individual or organization. Rather, it is an acknowledgement that economic development is an ongoing process requiring continuous evaluation, adaptation, and cooperation among public officials, private businesses, educational partners, and community organizations. The recommendations presented should be viewed as a starting point for discussion and strategic planning of their successful implementation, and it will require leadership, partnership, and a shared commitment to the long-term prosperity of Danville-Bolt County. So some questions. No answers at this time. Are we creating enough jobs? Are wages increasing? Are we attracting investment? Are we growing the tax base? Are we retaining our young people? Are we attracting commercial development? And are we competing effectively with neighboring communities, Lexington, Richmond, E-town, and other surrounding communities? So economic development is not solely measured by the number of new businesses recruited or jobs created. It is a reflection in the opportunities available to the future generations and the abilities of families to provide, or excuse me, to build prosperous lives, the strength of local businesses, and the overall quality of life enjoyed by residents. It's our hope that this report contributes to meaningful conversations and serves as a resource for community leaders as they continue working to build a more competitive and stronger and more prosperous Danville and Boyle County. As a result, ladies and gentlemen, I respectfully request, because we have put in a significant amount of time at the request of the mayor, respectfully request an opportunity be it a workshop or some other opportunity, to get into this and dissect it and really make it a thoroughly understood effort on our part to be productive.

Thank you, sir. Thank you. Now, again, I'm going to break protocol. Mayor Perez, I'd like you to give a copy of that document there to the mayor of Danville, the current mayor. tonight, and I also would like to ask your permission to share with the rest of the Commission, and then we'll go forward from that point. Thank you, sir.

Appreciate you working with me. You asked me a question, and I'm glad to give you a copy with the stipulation that the three of us, including Commissioner Cottle, reconvene as we did initially and let us go through this, and then as you see fit from there.

Well, I won't request a copy for tonight. I'll wait until the four of us reconvene. However you wish to do it, sir. Okay. Thank you, sir. Anyone else here in the public? Mr. Cox, you want to speak to us tonight? Anyone else? I want to thank Mayor Perez for his efforts. And I am excited for the opportunity for Commissioner Cottle and I to meet back with this duo, OK? Anyone else here in the public? Commissioner, comments and updates?

I think mine will probably be like everybody else's and talk about the assault on 2nd Street. What a great thing that was. Farmer's market was good. Weather was hot but good. It was a nice weekend. Those are the things that I did that were well attended. Anyone else?

And just remember school's starting. I think most schools are starting Wednesday, so it's gonna be really traffic-y out there early and late starting Wednesday. I had the opportunity to go to the art center. They had a kickoff of 50 local artists on Friday. So check it out. It's gonna be displayed through the end of September and you'll see four different works from probably several of your friends and neighbors.

Anyone else? Mr. Pete, Mr. Siri, any comments? I guess not. Let's move on. I echo what's been already been said. Next item on our agenda is the payment of the bills. Chair would entertain a motion to pay the bills as presented.

I'll make a motion to pay the bills in the amount of $793,255.43 as presented.

Thank you, ma'am. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, ma'am. Any questions on the bills? Hearing none, all those in favor of approving the bill as presented, say aye.

Aye.

Opposed? Motion carries. Next item is Resolution 202608-1003, the KPDI Disbursement Number 3. Ms. Compton?

This is actually disbursement number five for the KPDI phase two funds. This is the grant where we are the grantee and the Economic Development Authority is the beneficiary of this grant and they are working in conjunction with the Industrial Foundation to create a road in the industrial park To further develop that, we need to submit this to the Economic Development Cabinet for $85,766.88. Thank you, ma'am. Is there a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve Resolution 20-26-08-10-03. Thank you, ma'am.

Is there a second?

Second.

Thank you, ma'am. Any questions for Ms. Compton about this one? Hearing none, all those in favor of accepting this resolution, 08-10-02, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, ma'am. Next item is from Mr. Carrier. KIA loan application, Mr. Pershing, 08-10-04. Mr. Carrier, I want to entertain a motion to... except this TI-8 loan application, and then based on what the motion is for, we'll get to talk about it. Is there a motion for this resolution?

I'll make a motion to approve Resolution 20-26-08-10-04. Second. Second. Thank you, sir.

Mr. Terry, will you give us a little overview of this one?

Thank you, Mayor. The city of Danville has recently been extended the invitation from Kentucky Infrastructure Authority, the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, to apply for a loan in the amount of $10 million to be used for the Wastewater Treatment Plan Improvements Phase 2 project. This goes very well with the recent announcement under House Bill 900 in which the city of Danville was granted 12 million dollars as well to go towards this project. That's a state line grant. Of course, you know, obviously we would look to expend money out of the state line grant first and then subsequently move into the KIA loan. That House Bill 900 is $7.5 million in fiscal years 26, 27, and another $4.5 million in fiscal years 27 to 28. The plan right now, estimated schedule is bid opening in summer or spring of 2027 for construction, and then closing construction in spring of 2028. Wow. Thank you, sir.

Other questions or comments? Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all those in favor of approving the KIA loan application, please say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Thank you all. Next item is 08-1005. Hubbert, change order number one. Hubbert, order number one.

Mr. Carrier, that's yours as well. Thank you, Mayor. We're requesting approval to change order number one for the project for the Clarks Run Phase 2 Sanitary Sewer Improvements Project. They're currently doing the construction along J.E. Woods Drive. So the folks, you know, in the public may have seen a lot of that construction going on at the end of J.E. Woods. This is for the amount of $27,500 for removal and replacement of a section of box culverts. So we had a We had a construction conflict with an existing box culvert on J.E. Woods, so we had to demo the end of the box culvert and have to build it back in order to maintain grade on the gravity sewer, so this is what that was for. Thank you, sir. Is there a motion?

I'll move to approve Resolution 202608-1005. Thank you, ma'am. Is there a second?

I second.

Thank you, ma'am. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next item is Resolution 2026-0810-06. This is a Deniman. Change order number two.

Thank you, Mayor. This is the contractor that's doing the work on the Parable Wastewater Treatment Plant with the ARPA funds. This is essentially to correct a clerical error in the original contract amount. The amount that was originally provided by the design consultant was $1,278,400, but upon further inspection and inclusion of appropriate electrical costs, it should have been $1,287,400. So this is just an adjustment to the, what was making it the appropriate contract amount. Okay, thank you, sir. Is there a motion?

Move to approve resolution 2026-08-1006. Second.

Thank you all. Any questions? Hearing none, all those in favor of approving change order number two, say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Currier. Mr. Morgan, now is your turn, but thanks for that brief information about the trash and the recycling.

Yeah, I wish I had some more information to provide, but I think hopefully in two weeks we get a lot cleared up and we're a little closer to the finish line on it. Stop me any time to ask questions. It's been a while since I've done a report, so there was a lot of information to kind of go through when I was looking at the projects we've completed and trying to pull some pictures and different things. Public Works update, I use this kind of slide to talk about the things we're doing in-house. Long list of projects we've worked on over the past few months. I've got a good picture here of the guys working on the Unity bench up there at Whizzer Park. And I wanted to point out right now we're working on McRoberts, which is a street off of East Main that goes over to East Drive. We're repairing the drainage underneath it. And Denmark, we're repairing some pavement issues there next to Tractor Supply, between Tractor Supply and Five Star. That area gets a lot of traffic, a lot more than I think that road was ever built for. So we're continuing to work on that section of Denmark to keep it working correctly. And then a project that just popped up today, actually. I added this to the slide this afternoon. Rick Henry and I went out and looked at the Seminole median out there where the road splits and there's a drainage swell that runs down the middle of the road. We've had a few calls from folks out there. We walked it today. I think that's going to be a pretty big project, actually. We're going to try to do it in-house if we can get the weather over the next couple of months. I guess over the 50 years or so, that has been there. The swale has slowly filled up with sediment, and a lot of the pipes are blocked. Are we back on yet? So we're going to regrade that entire median is our plan. But we have some trees that have died. I'm going to get a different one. We have some trees that have died because of how wet that stays, I believe. So we've got to clear out some old trees and that's going to be a pretty big project, but that's, uh, we're going to go ahead and try to get that on our list because we have some pipes that the, you know, there was the old metal pipes where the bottoms rust out. We have a couple of those we need to replace. So those are all the things we went out there to look at a couple of trees and it turned into probably a couple of month long project that we're going to be working on this fall. So wanted to make sure you all were aware of that. Um, And then here's some pictures of projects we've completed lately. Here's the sidewalks on Maple Avenue. The food truck lot was on our list there. We did a lot of work in-house on it. Our truck signage, and then there's a picture on the right is the work on McRoberts. On the left is off of Heartland Drive. That's the... I'm losing this mic now, too. I'm just going to have a bunch of microphones sitting in front of me. Those are the houses you see in the distance there. Those are the houses that Habitat for Humanity are building on Heartland Drive. There was a culvert that came out behind the house on the left that was... it ended only like six feet from the corner of the house. And it was also the end, it didn't have a headwall on it. So we went out, we extended the pipe, put a headwall on it to make that function a little better for them. And then on the right, those two pictures are out at Dorothy Avenue and kind of the corner of Waveland there. We installed, removed, I wouldn't even call it a pipe. They had built like a box culvert out of, concrete blocks and pieces of concrete and stop signs. We found about 20 stop signs buried with this project when we dug it up sometime 40, 50 years ago. So we dug all that up, put in a new pipe, put in new inlets. This really got put to the test because right after we finished it is when we got those big rains back at the end of June, early July, and it seemed to hold up pretty well. So we're going to keep an eye on that. We've got to make sure that's an area that has a lot of garbage gets in those drainage structures. We have to keep those cleaned out. So yeah, those are projects we've done. And this is the work they've been doing out at Denmark just over the past week or two, trying to rebuild the edge of the road there. So that was kind of all the pictures from public works has worked on from on those projects. Here's some stormwater projects that we're working on right now. Um, Brookhaven out in the streamland, we've got a between Brookhaven and Brookhaven and Meadowbrook. Uh, we have a drainage swell. We're getting a design done on that. We're, we're in the process of getting easements now where we're at. We're waiting on the easement descriptions from this, from the surveyor engineer. And when we get those, we can go out and start talking to property owners. Um, East Main, we have the easements. We have the documents. We've been talking. We've been meeting with property owners. Everybody's on board. Everybody seems to be willing to sign off to get that project going. So we hope to bid out that project sometime this fall is our plan right now. And then Raleigh Court was a small project that you all awarded a bid on a couple of months ago. This picture up there I took today. It's two sections of pipe and a couple of inlets, but we'll solve a lot of flooding issues for a couple of folks out there. So I think that's going to be a good project. We can get it completed. As you can see from the pictures, there is a lot more rock involved in that project than any of us anticipated. So they've been hammering out there for a couple of weeks now. And as you can see, also some utility issues. We've got some electric lines and cable lines just kind of going across the trench there. Contracted street projects, I wanted to include, I've got a couple pictures after this as well. The EDA project off of North Sears Lane, that's the picture you see there on that slide. The fill work is complete. The last I heard, you can't see them. They're off in the distance. There's some overhead electric transmission lines. We have to de-energize those lines for the crane to set culverts. That is scheduled right now for August 23rd because you have to shut it all down for a couple of days. And once they get that culvert set, they can finish this project up. I'll be coming to you all with an MOA with the state at some point. To the left is the KYTC highway garage. We need to move their fence about 10 feet to complete the project. They're on board with moving it. The local folks are. We just have to get their real estate folks in Frankfort to agree to an MOA with us, and I'll have to bring that to you all to get everybody to sign off on it. um moving the fence was part of the bid originally so that won't add any costs they were we knew we were going to have to do something with that fence because the road to fill it up to fill to get to the right elevation for the road that slope is going to go into the fence so we're going to get to move the fence Industrial Foundation Project to Corporate Drive, that's the disbursement that you all just approved a few minutes ago. That's a grant project being funneled through the Industrial Foundation and the EDA. I'll show you a good picture of that on the next slide. Boffman Avenue sidewalks, we're rebidding that after we had to reject a high bid, and we have a bid opening scheduled for August 26th for the new bids. We're getting more interest this time. We've already got two or three more folks pulled plans on it, so I think we're going to get some better bids. And the 2026 paving list, we'll dive into that here in another slide in a couple seconds. But I've driven every street in Dayville over the past three weeks and given every street a grade. My family was laughing at me on my Life 360. You know, if you have that app where it tracks, you know, and you have kids that run around, you've got that app. A couple days I had, like, 30-mile drives where they were all within the city limits. So it was just bouncing all over the place. But, yeah, we've got that completed. I've got a preliminary list prepared with priorities. We need to pave a lot more than we have funding for, but we'll do the best we can with the funding that we have. But we'll look at that list here in a second. Here's some more pictures, another picture of North Sixth Lane. And then the picture on the right is the new street out off of Corporate Drive that is being built by the Industrial Foundation using that grant. So that's a great... That opens up another approximately 80 acres or so of the industrial foundation property within the existing industrial park. So that's a great project. So here's my list, my priority list. This is a lot to look at. Melanie and I did a podcast Friday, which I dove into this pretty in-depth about how I ended up here. But I gave Everett Street a grade on its condition. Really looking at trying to be a little bit unbiased as far as how much it gets used, but thinking about that a little bit. I know it's hard to describe, but And then when I got back to that, we put it on a spreadsheet, just, hey, this is an A, this is a B, this is a B-, this is a D, this is a D+. Got back to the office, pulled up the spreadsheet, filtered out everything that was, you know, just filtered out everything that wasn't a D, and looked at the, you know, that list. This is the list of everything that's a D+, a D, or a D-. There's a couple of C-s on there that are, They're coupled with an area that was worse. So like the first one, Waveland Avenue, Henson to Orchard is a D minus. Orchard to Dorothy, which is another segment right beside it, is a C minus. Go ahead and couple those together and let's do all that at one time. Same thing with Old Shaker Town. Had a couple of segments of Old Shaker Town, a D minus and a C minus adjacent to each other. So that's the property list I've come up with. Based on these estimates... I think we can do down to about Heartland Drive, Jefferson Avenue area on this list, which is a pretty good chunk of streets with some pretty major areas. I mean, when you're talking those top three, Waveland Avenue, Old Shaker Town, West Lexington, those are pretty highly traveled areas. I think we can really improve those. But then you have a lot of smaller streets, a lot of areas that don't get a lot of traffic. I mean, Ponder Court. Ponder Court is... a little cul-de-sac off of Ben Ali Whirl-A-Way area that is, you know, it's like 100 feet long. There's not much to it. It is completely falling apart. We need to get that knocked out. So not a huge cost there, but something we need to take care of. But yeah, we're going to make this list available for people to look at just because we want to be really transparent about how we end up where we end up with the list. I put all these on a map myself and looked at it to make sure we were kind of scattered out around town, and we've done a pretty good job of that, I think, with this list. And like I said, I said this in the podcast the other day, There are still really not great streets that aren't on this list. There's a lot of C minuses, a lot of C minuses that will be ready next year. We'll finish up the ones that don't make it off of this list and we'll go into the C minuses next year. There's a lot of streets that need paved. There's a lot of areas that have potholes that aren't necessarily on this list. That's one thing I wanted to talk about is we'll try to do some targeted repairs on some areas that When I look at the street, the street doesn't look that bad, but there might be just a couple of really bad spots that have stayed wet that have a lot of potholes. We'll try to spot repair those. That way, we don't end up paving an entire street just because we have a 20-foot section that has potholes. We'll get those fixed. We might even do a full dig-out and repair, which I've got. Shawnee is one place we've talked about doing that. There's a couple of streets we're kind of looking at for that repair. But yeah, I just want to get this in front of you all. I will send what I think we can afford of this list to the Allen Company because we use them through the state bid contract and get them to formally price it. And then I will bring that back to you all for you all to formally approve that number from them, that quote from them. So there'll be another step in the meantime. If y'all get a chance to look at this, if you talk to folks, if you think you want to see changes, everybody just let Earl and I know. We can look at it. But I feel pretty good. I've never done that quick a review of every street all at once. I've done it over, spread it over time, but I've never done like a three-week just review. all, you know, intense look at every street. So I feel like this is a pretty good list of the worst streets in Danville. It's a hard thing to say, but it's what we were attempting to find. But yeah, that's the paving list.

Any questions, anything? Josh, let me add a little bit of commentary to the state roads that are inside of the city. The state of Kentucky this year took the time to look at the report from the Asphalt Institute where they track the amount of tonnage that the state is letting. Year-to-date for Kentucky, there are about 800,000, 850,000 tons of asphalt that has been let on state roads. Traditionally, last year, they were at 3.5 million tons, and the year before that, they were at 3.9 million tons. The state is not letting paving jobs, and that is impacting... the roads that folks drive on that they assume are city streets. They are not. They are state roads. I don't necessarily have an answer for that. I would like to pass that information along. So while Josh is trying his best to do a good job with the information he can provide and also the funds that are allocated through the municipal aid program, the state of Kentucky does have an obligation or they do have a lot of infrastructure that they are maintaining. And like I said, for whatever reason, I'm not trying to... I'm just giving you information, right? So they just factually have not let much asphalt paint. So that is evidence on 27 going towards Lexington. If you've driven to Lexington lately, you can see the condition of the road. The same thing locally here for multiple internally, 3rd Street, different locations. Lexington Avenue is...

k is pretty choppy those are state roads i don't know i can't assist to you why tonnage is so low but uh... thank you josh for this report do you think that uh... the beneficial may have one city map with the state roads on it so people can i can refer people to that when they start talking about potholes and things that need to be repaved Yeah, Melanie, do we have it on our website? I think we have it on our website, don't we?

Do we have it on our website? Oh, okay. Well, thank you. In a shorthand, if it's got a stripe down the middle, it's more than likely a state road. That's one quick way to assess, but that's not 100% of the rule. If it's got a number, if you see signs that have numbers on them, that's a state road.

That is a foolproof way to know if it's a state road or not. Well, the people that complain just know that it's inside the city limits, and so they give us a call. I'd like to be able to refer them to it.

And I appreciate Magistrate Cullen being here for the conversation just strictly because it affects the county more than it does the city because folks assume all the roads are county roads, right? But there are a lot of state roads that are in the county that are there. So it's good information also for Jason. Magistrate Cullen, I apologize.

You also get that question of, The recently paved road, 2168, and the left turn lane that they put out there on that road and why they did that. I don't have an answer for that. That's a state road.

Which left turn lane did they...

Into the farm.

I think that's always been there. It's always been there. It was there. I don't know.

It was marked, so I didn't see it.

I think it's always... And I think that was just...

Marked as it was.

I think that's always been the case. Yeah, and I wanted to add to... And just to kind of prime for the spring, probably, when we get back into budget talk again, it surprised me how much worse our streets were than three years ago when I did this exercise. And it worries me a little bit that, you know, we've talked before about how much the revenue and the expenses part of paving is not, it's not done well over the past 15 years. We're, you know, triple the expense with barely any additional revenue at all. So I think that's finally starting to catch up with us a little bit. I think I actually saw it, that it's, hey, we're falling behind on how much we could pay. So I think next spring we're going to have to have a conversation about adding some additional funding maybe on top of our municipal aid revenue we get about three hundred sixty thousand dollars a year do we need to figure out a way to add an additional maybe I mean a hundred thousand or something like that to on top of that to start trying to at least keep up Because we've got a lot of streets that need to be paved, a lot of streets that are, you know, these are in pretty bad shape, but we've got a lot that, you know, just in a year or two, we're going to have a lot more potholes popping up, streets really falling apart on us. So I think that's something that, you know, we'll just talk about that spring. We'll get back in the budget of trying to up that budget a little bit next year. Thanks, Josh.

Any other questions or comments to Josh? Yeah, and I think our constituents would support that too. So that's a good idea, I think.

All right, so that was the paving list. Cemeteries, there's not a lot of extra ad here. We've got rules and regulations. We're implementing the new rules and regulations. We're doing it very slowly and thoughtfully. I was out at cemetery today with Rick, kind of walk around looking at a couple of things. We've started to put out some notices for folks to say, hey, give us a call. We need to straighten some things up here. Folks have responded well to that so far. Saw some today that they've been kind of shrunk their beds and kind of taking some things out that weren't really meeting the requirements. So we're trying to work on that really, really slowly and just do a good job at it. Master plan, I haven't really tackled that like I'd like to yet. We'll talk to the cemetery committee about it tomorrow. They have a meeting. And the database, we're working hard on that. Ashley and I, and Jenna, the three of us kind of tried to get that ready to go, get that ready to roll out to the public. It's really, Hilldale is really close. We've kind of working the bugs out back and forth with the company that is doing the website for us. I think we're really close on Hilldale. Bellevue's kind of a different animal. We're trying to get the data cleaned up for Bellevue enough to put it out there and have it public. but there's a lot at Bellevue to get through, so we're still working through that. Parks projects, just, oh, yes.

Quick question. I've been asked frequently, who is in charge of implementing the ongoing rules in the cemetery?

Well, you know, I think it depends on, it kind of depends on, how the people respond to our gentle nudging. Right now, we're gently nudging, and we're doing that with cemetery staff. We're doing that with Public Works, Rick, Rick, and John. That's all I wondered. Yeah, and this is more of like, hey, we're just trying to build relationships with folks about trying to get them within the rules. I think if we end up with folks just kind of refusing to work with this, we might have to bring codes enforcement in to do some violations, but we're hoping we don't get to that point.

It's a slow process. Yes.

Thank you. Parks projects. So Jenny Rogers parking expansion, we got that finished. We'll get that striped sometime soon. That was very, very much needed. I'm glad we've got it done before we get back into basketball season again. Indoor record aquatics, we got to feasibility studies. You all approved those a couple meetings ago. Those are in the works. Skate park and pickleball, I've got some pictures on the next couple slides of those. Those are expected to be completed this fall. Both of those are going really well. We're having to really coordinate the pickleball side of it. We're really doing a lot of coordination trying to get that shade structure implemented into, kind of inserted into the county's project. But we're working hard to make sure that doesn't hold that up. Pine Knob Trails is going well. The completion of phase one should happen this fall. That's a four-mile outer loop with some downhill sections that kind of go in the middle of that. And then, I just wanna keep this list on here, the FY27 capital projects that we're working on, getting started now that it's, we're into that fiscal year. Bruce Crowley Park playground surface, which is out on Lexington Avenue. The Millennium Park drinking fountains and park signage. So you'll see more about those over the next few months as we start to get those implemented. Pictures. This is the parking lot of Jenny Rogers. Public Works, in-house, we prepped the site in-house with our Public Works staff, and then we had a paving contractor come do the actual paving work. On the left is the pickleball courts, current pictures of those. They've got the pads ready. Now we're going to start. They're working on the underground electrical installation, and then we'll get the footers dug for the shade structure and the light poles, and then they can start pouring concrete around that so they get ready to pave this fall. And then on the right is a picture of the skate park. The blue doesn't look right on this slide, but the blue is a little more of the teal color you see at Millennium Park. I think the colors turned out great. But, yeah, they're moving along. They'll pour all the ramps first and get those completely done, and then they'll do the flat surfaces because they don't want anybody coming out there and using it. So this is their way of keeping people from using it before it's done. But everybody's really excited about it. And then the last, this is my last slide. This is just some stuff I'm working on kind of internally. The transportation master plan, I met with folks from the Kentucky Transportation Center last week at UK. They're going to put together a proposal to help us with that. That way we don't have to spend a lot of money on a private consultant. We can, they're just going to guide us through the process. They're really excited about it. I think that'll work really well. And I'm also, the asset development committee with the development corporation has started back up again. And I was going to coordinate that with them to make it, because I wanted to, It's hard to do a transportation master plan that doesn't include the county. We talked about that a little bit, and I've talked to the asset development committee about it, so I really want the county, through that asset development committee, to be involved in the process as we look at roadway expansion, those kind of things. Solid waste ordinance. So this is something we've been working on the past couple months. I've worked with codes enforcement and different staff at the city to pretty much rewrite completely the solid waste section of our ordinance. It was very dated. And so I'm going to bring a draft to you. I've got a draft done. I need to get that out to everybody to look at one more time and then hopefully bring that to you all to look at in September. It's pretty much a complete modernization of the solid waste ordinance. Facilities master plan, which was something that was put in the budget. We haven't really got started on it yet, but it's something I want to keep on this list. And then like I've done with the solid waste ordinance, I want to do the same thing with our sidewalks and street tree ordinances. Hopefully over the next few months, get those rewritten and bring those to you all for review. So that's all I've got.

I wanted to try to keep it short, as short as I could tonight. Can I ask a quick question? Yeah. Just something I think I mentioned to Earl, maybe you got the word too about the... Storm drain at the corner of Coel and Cecil Street. Yes. It's sort of caving in there. That clown from It lives down there, so I think probably we ought to.

There's no clowns in our storm drains. Let's make that clear on the record. No clowns in the storm drains.

But it is. I mean, people, the ones who commented don't care about the drainage. They just say somebody's going to get hurt, or they walk there, drive there, or whatever.

Yeah, we've got a few of those around town. That's something that, you know, those old storm drains put in, you know, many, many years ago. They slowly settle. And we've slowly paved above them over the years. So it's like they've gone down, the street's gone up, and there's a lot of displacement.

I appreciate the pictures because I have not made it out to all the locations. So thank you.

We have a lot going on right now. It's hard for me to even get around and look at everything going on. I try to touch these projects once a day, but it's been hard to get to all these projects every day just with everything we have going on.

Any other questions or comments for Josh?

Yeah, real quick. You might have covered this at the special. Remember last time I asked about the $20 charge for July through September?

Yeah, I haven't gotten a clear answer on that yet. So I'm hoping we'll pin them down in a couple of weeks and get a good answer. Okay, so when they come. I get a lot of, yeah, we'll look into that every time I've asked. So we'll keep asking the question until we get a good answer. Because, yeah, it's the same. I think a lot of folks have had that question for sure.

Right. Okay. Thank you.

Anyone else? Josh, you covered a lot of important stuff, a lot of good stuff.

Yeah, yeah, and I like how you highlighted, because it used to be a big issue, that you met free with Kentucky Transportation at UK, and you saved money with no private consultant. So I will share that with others that get excited about that. The Transportation Master Plan, is that the one that's in the Planning and Zoning Comp Plan, or is this a new just a city?

This would be something, like I said, I really want it to be, it's going to be hopefully like a city-county. Once we start getting further into this, we'll bring the county. I want to talk to the Accent Development Committee about it because I want this to be, it will be in the comprehensive plan. It will be the document that gets included in the comprehensive plan moving forward. We haven't had a good official transportation master plan to include in that in a long time. The goal would be for it to supplement the comprehensive plan. Thank you.

Other questions or comments? Josh is getting fired up today, aren't you, buddy? Good job. Anyone else? Okay, next item on the agenda is Resolution 202608-1007, Highway Safety Grant Application. Oh, 16A. Oh, that's right, I did insert that, didn't I? Is that why the lights went out? Oh, it's pickleball? Yeah, I skipped item 16A, a pickleball update. Okay. Resolution 2026-08-1009. I guess that belongs to Josh.

Mayor, this was a resolution that you all discussed at your previous meeting, the need to add this shade structure. And for accounting and audit purposes, as well as at expense of this size, we prefer to have a written resolution as opposed to just you doing a voice motion on a quote. So therefore, the resolution officially approving the purchase of that shade structure is in front of you.

And for the record, we are using a cooperative purchasing mechanism to purchase this rather than bidding it out like other items through purchase pros.

Okay. So that's detailed in the resolution. It's just our standard cooperative purchase agreement that's standard and written in the resolution.

So I need to entertain a motion then for the $189,649. For the... 49.9. And this is with Bluegrass Recreation Sales?

That's correct. The motion can just be simply in your standard format to approve the resolution number 20-26-08-10-09. Okay.

Which confirms a previous action you all took.

At the last meeting.

Correct.

I'll make a motion to approve resolution 20-26-08-10-09. Second. Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you, sir. Any other questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor of resolution being passed, say aye. Aye. Those opposed?

I have a question. Do we get to see a picture? Is it like all the time up or up and down? All the time? Okay.

Yes, it's all the time up. It's six column framed with six different shades. I will get you all a picture. I should have included that in the report.

Yeah, just email us. Thank you. A lot of people are excited about it and would like to see what's being planned.

All those in favor of 2608-1009 say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. So item number 17 is the Highway Safety Grant application. Chief Doan.

Mayor, Commissioners, we would like to accept our yearly Highway Safety Grant approval. We were awarded $7,000. This is 100% reimbursable. It reimburses us for all overtime worked as it pertains to traffic safety activities.

Thank you, sir. Is there a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve resolution 20-26-08-10-07.

Thank you, ma'am. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, sir. Any questions or comments to Chief Doan? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Chief Doan, you have the next item as well.

Yes, sir. We would like approval to seek the Walmart Spark Grant. It is a grant that a minimum of $250 to a maximum of $5,000. We would like to seek approval to apply for that. Any funds that may be awarded would be used for traffic safety equipment.

Thank you, sir. I move for approval of Resolution 202608-1008. Is there a second? Second.

Second. Thank you, ma'am. Any questions or comments? Notice where it says grant, you guys jump on them real quick, don't you? No, I appreciate that. Yeah, that's good. That's right. All right, all those in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries.

Move to adjourn. We have one very brief five-minute conversation about personnel.

Was that Commissioner Carter? It was. Wow. It's taken me 12 years to teach you to do that. Is there a motion to go into executive session? Oh, well, somebody said no. Second.

We do.

I'll make a motion to go into executive session and discuss personal matter. Present to KRS-618-1010.

Second.

I was getting really excited because he made the motion, and I think Commissioner Seary said second. She said it real softly, though, didn't she? All those in favor of going into a very brief executive session, say aye. Aye. Regular session, please. So moved. Second. Thank you. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Okay. We're back in regular session. Mr. Morgan, you have a presentation to make for us?

Yes. We opened bids today for a sport utility vehicle. We received two bids. The low bid was some Stewart Powell Ford in the amount of $64,499, and we recommend the award of the bid to Stewart Powell. And this vehicle is for the mayor. I don't know. I don't know. This vehicle is for the city manager. This is to replace the current expedition.

I think we should mention that the current one is going to go to Parks and Rec. We're not getting rid of it or anything. It's going to be used.

So you make a motion to the...

Will I make a motion? Yes, sir. Mayor, we should also add that this is a contractual requirement of the city in adherence with the previously executed city manager contract.

You make that motion? Put all that in there now.

No, that's okay.

I'm just going to make a motion that we purchase the vehicle from Stuart Powell as the low bidder. Thank you, sir. Is there a second?

Second.

Thank you, ma'am. Any discussions? I have one question. When's the mayor going to get his?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries.

Chair Hayden, motion to adjourn? I'll move to adjourn.

Well, she was quick.

Is it a second?

Second.

You seconded us? All those in favor say aye.

Aye.