City Commission - Regular Meeting

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Stephen Dexter.

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Good afternoon. I want to welcome you all to your Danville City Commission meeting for today. Today is Monday, September 14th, 2026, and it's 4.30 p.m. I want to welcome you and thank you for your attendance this afternoon. We're going to start off our meeting with a word of prayer by Commissioner Holland, and then we're going to ask you to remove your hats and stand with us as we recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. Not you, ma'am.

Okay. Let us pray. Lord, we thank you for the blessing of living in a safe and thriving community. We pray for those living in fear and war around the world and bring them peace and bring them comfort. Thank you for our hardworking city staff and employees that keep our city running smoothly. Help us to make wise decisions today that are in the best interest of everyone. In your name I pray. Amen.

Amen. Thank you, ma'am. Please stand.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you all. Commissioners, next on our agenda is that we are going to approve tonight's agenda. I'd like to entertain a motion to approve the agenda with item number six being removed. We're not going to do item number six tonight.

So moved.

Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, sir. We'll probably move the second. All those in favor of approving tonight's agenda with item six being removed, say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Next on our agenda for tonight is this is our first opportunity to hear from the public. At this time in our meeting, the public can be recognized, come to the podium and speak to us about items that are only on our agenda. There's another opportunity later tonight where you may speak to us about items that are not on the agenda. So is anyone desiring to speak to us about items on our agenda? Hearing none, thank you all. Next item is approval of the amendments of the previous meetings. The chair will entertain a motion to approve the agenda.

I'll approve the minutes of the regular meeting on 8-24.

Thank you, ma'am. Is there a second? Second. All right. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, sir. We'll probably move to second. Is there any corrections, additions, or deletions to our minutes? Hearing none, all those in favor of approving our minutes as presented, say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Thank you all. Next item is one of those exciting times, but one of those unfortunate times, recognizing the retirement of one of our First responders, Officer Aaron Rainwater. Chief Gregg, you want to start the presentations off?

Mayor, Commissioner, Today we give thanks to Sergeant Aaron Rainwater for his contributions to the city of Danville and the Danville Police Department. Aaron came to the DPD in January of 2019 with 13 years of previous experience ranging from being an officer to rising to the ranks of chief deputy at another sheriff's department. Aaron started as a DPD patrol officer and after two short years he was promoted to patrol sergeant in April of 2021. Somewhere around 2023, 2024, when codes enforcement was transitioned to the police department, Sergeant Rainwater took over the day-to-day supervision of codes and parking enforcement. Codes enforcement is more than tall grass and dilapidated properties. It has drastically changed in those two or three years with the ever-growing homeless population and all the challenges it presents to our community. Sergeant Wayne Water attached himself as the department and city's liaison to the local homeless coalition. It is because of his hard work and collaborative attitude, the coalition, along with the city's public works department, were able to clean up many homeless encampments and continually prioritize the city aesthetics. The most important and inspiring accomplishment, in my opinion, is his help with the coalition and the Boyle County ASAP agency in helping individuals who were once homeless become stable homeowners. Re-establishing a sense of pride in those individuals is something you cannot measure or quantify. In seven years with the city and this department, Sergeant Rainwater has been engaged in efforts to better the lives of our residents. We are grateful for his service and his retirement leaves large spews to fill. Sergeant Rainwater, enjoy your retirement and we will carry on from here.

Sergeant Greenwater, before we let you speak to us tonight, I better get a motion to make sure we get this retirement approved. We don't want you to jump the gun on us because we've had some hesitations about allowing people to retire from the city. Is there anyone brave enough to make a recommendation to approve this retirement request?

Are you still carrying a gun? Yes. I'll make a motion that we accept his retirement with regrets and appreciate your work.

Yes, sir. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, ma'am. Any other questions or comments on the motion? Hearing none, all those in favor of this young man being allowed to retire, say aye. Aye. Those opposed, say likewise. Congratulations, sir. All right, you can talk to him now.

Good evening. I'm not up. big speaker, but I'm gonna try to get through this. It's hard to put into words what my years with the Danville Police Department have meant to me. When I first put on this uniform, I knew I was accepting responsibility to serve and protect the community. What I didn't fully understand then was just how much this department and the people in it would become a part of my life. Over the years, there have been good days, difficult days, long nights, and moments I'll never forget. We've laughed together, faced challenges together, and stood beside one another when times were tough. Through it all, I've been fortunate to work alongside with some of the finest men and women anyone could ask to work with. To my fellow officers, dispatchers, staff, city officials, and everyone who has supported this department, thank you. It's been an honor to serve beside you. To my family, especially my wife, thank you for the sacrifices you made that allowed me to do this job. You endured missed dinners, holidays, late night phone calls, and the worry that comes with loving someone in law enforcement. I could not have made this journey without you. And to the citizens of Danville, thank you for giving me the privilege of serving this community. Wearing the badge of the Danville Police Department has been more than a job. It has been an honor, a responsibility, and a part of who I am. Retirement means I may be taken off the uniform, but I'll always carry the memories, friendships, and lessons from this department with me. I leave proud of the work we've done, grateful for the people I've served with, and confident in those who will continue the mission. Thank you for the memories, the friendships, and the opportunity to serve. It has truly been an honor of a lifetime. God bless the Denver Police Department. our law enforcement, their families, and the city of Davenport.

DAVID BURRAGE.

Thank you, sir. Well said. DAVID BURRAGE. Yeah. Yeah.

Thank you for your service.

Thank you.

Ma'am, if you change your mind, you can always send him back.

We will take him back, all right? Next on our agenda is an employee recognition. How do I say this? Crystal Blackburn? Are you going to do it? I'll do it. Oh, come on then. OK. 9-1-1, right?

Good evening. Good evening. A little over a month ago, dispatch supervisor Melinda Butler nominated Crystal Blackburn for Telecommunicator of the Year, in recognition of her exceptional dedication, professionalism, compassion, and commitment to the 911 profession throughout her 18 years of service to the community. Crystal's commitment to her community, the citizens she serves, and her fellow first responders has remained unwavering, even while facing one of the most difficult personal challenges imaginable, her battle with ovarian cancer. Throughout this incredibly difficult time, Crystal continued to show up for work whenever she was able, demonstrating an extraordinary level of strength, resilience, and dedication to the responsibilities entrusted to her. What makes Crystal's dedication even more remarkable is that while navigating her own battle with cancer, she continued to serve as a peer counselor and source of support for her fellow dispatchers. She remained there for those who needed encouragement, guidance, compassion, and understanding. Rather than allowing her circumstances to define her, Crystal drew upon her own experiences and strength to lift and support those around her. Crystal embodies the very best qualities of a telecommunicator, dedication, compassion, resilience, professionalism, strength, and an unwavering commitment to service. Her willingness to continue caring for others even when she herself was facing tremendous challenges is a true testament to the kind of person and telecommunicator she is. On Thursday, September 10th, 2026, in Louisville, Crystal was selected by the Kentucky Emergency Number Association and the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials, better known as KENA APCO, as the Telecommunicator of the Year for the entire state of Kentucky. Congratulations, KB. We are beyond proud of you and this incredibly well-deserved accomplishment Your strength, heart, and dedication have made a difference in the lives of so many, and we are honored to celebrate you. You are an incredible example of what it means to serve others, and this recognition could not have gone to a more deserving person.

Congratulations.

We also want to celebrate that she has cancer free this month also.

This award was afforded to me by the 911 professionals across the state of Kentucky recognizing my 18 years of service. Even while I was fighting for my own life, not even a cancer diagnosis with poor prognosis kept me from showing up and doing what I love. So thank you for your recognition and please continue to remember the rest of the first first responders who may be out of sight but are truly the backbone of emergency services.

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Smile. Smile.

Smile. Smile. That's the best.

Well, I appreciated your comments about that's the toughest job in the entire city. Because when that phone rings, you know, you have someone's life in your hands every time it rings. So we sincerely appreciate that. Okay. Thank you, ma'am. And congratulations. Congratulations. Next is an update about our Lamar billboard campaign. The lady behind the camera, Ms. Crossfield, you want to come up and give us an update? PR person doesn't like to be in the pictures. So somebody got a camera, take a picture of her. She's always . Thank you. Did you get one of her the other day? She didn't crown you?

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Good evening.

But anytime you see her out doing a promotion for us, please take a picture of her.

Please don't. So I just wanted to give you guys a little update. Do you remember that the mayor won a $250,000 award from Lamar Advertising? So we got to choose some locations, design a billboard, and... We get $250,000 worth of impressions from that billboard. So what that means is they went live today and you'll see the design here. We worked through a few different options, fought over the colors a little bit, but I trust Lamar's judgment in what's visible from a busy highway. So what we went with is to kind of promote and advertise the city county EDA property, which we're calling Lakeside at Reading Farm. The process is we went through and created this billboard, which links to a website that was developed. Anthony's in the back. He's going to scroll down for me. So this website, lakesideatreadingfarm.com, just gives you kind of an overview of that property and what the master plan says. We got some good aerial photos, and he did a great job on an aerial video. So hopefully when... 27 million impressions takes place. 27 million people will go visit this website. That's the goal, right? All 27 million of them. So anyway, they went live today. They are located in New Orleans. Orlando, Cleveland, and Atlanta, and those are to coincide with some economic development or site selector events. So one of the bigger ones, the Site Selectors Guild Annual Forum Annual Conference is actually this week in Cleveland, so this will be shown in Cleveland. And they scroll. So it's in multiple locations throughout the city. So I'm excited. We'll be able to see how many visits this website gets. So we'll see if it's effective or not. But anyway, because the city and county own this property and we're looking at advancing the development of it, this is the property we chose. And we think that it has strong potential because it's such a large property. The zoning is flexible and there's really a beautiful lake there. Yes, sir.

Is that up there?

It is not. That's in your packets, and I just made you a copy. The billboard just talks about the perks of the land. So do you have any questions?

No, I'm still a little disappointed when I heard I won $250,000. I wouldn't run into the roof, you know?

Well, they do expect that to last until about mid-November, so we should get a lot of people looking at it, hopefully a lot of people looking at the website and getting interested in what can happen in Danville.

Do you have any other business plans or travel plans for the mayor to put his business cards in other lotteries?

You know, I mean, he just needs to start playing the lottery in general. And if he can do that on behalf of the city of Danville, he can make that aquatic facility happen sooner rather than later.

Earl and I was on the run. He was running through the convention center. He was going to get there on time. Then the guy came to our booth and located us. So I said, wow. We need time.

He's a winner. Yes, they'll be in different places throughout New Orleans, Orlando, Cleveland, and Atlanta. And they are kind of timed for, like they'll start now and go through November, but we chose those locations based on conferences that are in the area. Okay. Any other questions?

Did you tell them we were in Las Vegas, Nevada?

Yeah, he was a big winner in Vegas.

Didn't have to play the slot machines to win anything. How about that? Really neat. Okay. Okay.

Okay, thank you. Thank you, Ann.

Anybody get a picture of her? Okay, next on our agenda is a zone change recommendation for the 828 Ventures LLC. Is someone going to present that to us?

Or you want me to?

their letter here. At the regular meeting on July 22nd, 2026, the Planning Zone Commission were presented a zone change proposal for Let me get the acreage here. 41.482 acre parcel on Stanford Road. That's out there by just past the football stadium on the right from 828 Ventures. And the proposal was highway business and general business to R1C, which is small lot single family residential, and to RM4, which is kind of higher density multifamily residential. There are two conditions here in the letter. Removal of prior land use conditions placed on the last zoning map amendment and remediation measures of the sinkholes as discussed in the geotech report, which that geotech report is in your packet, I believe, and that's a pretty thick document. So those are the only two conditions on it, and it was voted nine yays to zero nays to be accepted. So that's the recommendations being brought to you all. I think in the packet there are a couple of maps. Page 15 has a good kind of site plan on it. Page 14 of that particular item in your packet has the survey that shows the areas that are being changed. This site was originally zoned to general business and highway business. I believe it was around, what, 2019, 2020, or somewhere in there. And I think they're slightly tweaking the plan. I think the original plan was more of a... townhouse mixed use with some small commercial in there and this new developers wanting as you can see on the site plan on page 15 is a portion of it being multi-family residential the blue and then the green area being single-family residential lots so they had to rezone it to those two designations to meet those to for those to be compliant with the zone so yeah i don't know any questions from you all for us i think we can try to answer as much as we can

Let's do a motion. Is there a motion on this zone change recommendation?

I move that we approve the zone change as recommended by the Planning and Zoning Board. Is there a second?

I second it.

Thank you, ma'am. Questions or comments for Josh?

Do you know what the removal of the prior land use conditions that were placed on that? I mean, and you may not be able to answer that.

I'm not real sure. Steven, do you? Well, they would have pertained to the reclassification at that time. So we don't know. I mean, I don't know what they are without going back and looking. But they would have been specific to that. What was it? I can't remember what it came from, Josh.

There was one of the conditions on the transportation plan. This transportation plan that is here was discussed with Josh and myself. And actually, I would suggest that one of those conditions was to clean it up so that this transportation plan could be drawn in the way that it is. There were some connectivity variances that was on that original condition. So it was, in essence, the original condition would have been transportation plan to match what is shown. That's replacing. It has to be replaced to do this plan, which is also acceptable.

Yeah, there were a couple things that we were watching with this whole development in general, even before this zone change came here. One was there was a 25-foot easement set aside along Stanford Road for a future trail. That's still there. That isn't even part of this zone change. That's all staying highway business, so that isn't impacted by this. And the other thing was that there was a stub to the west. So if J.E. Wood or some other street ever got extended from Second Street, they could tie into this. And that's shown on their site plan. So we're okay with that as well. It's acknowledged in their general development plan.

So is this the plan for McAfee to move out there?

Yes, that is. The current building being built is McAfee's future location. The building that's currently under construction out there.

Okay.

Yeah.

That would be great. I think downtown will be excited.

Yeah, that's not part of this zone change. That's already appropriately zoned.

Oh, okay. That's not part of this.

That's part of the area up front that's staying highway business. That's on that.

Okay.

Thank you.

Other questions or comments? Hearing none, all those in favor of this zone change recommendation say aye. AYE. THOSE OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU ALL. WE'RE SKIPPING ITEM NUMBER 6. THE NEXT ITEM IS CVB JOINT APPOINTMENT. THE CHAIR WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPOINT MR. JOHN FRY TO THE CVB BOARD.

I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPOINT JOHN FRY AS PRESENTED.

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

I like when the application's on there, because I don't know who this is or what they've done.

This was straight from the mayor's recommendation.

Oh, okay. So we will trust J.H.

Well, CVB recommended him.

Okay. Okay, so they don't fill out an application for this with the city?

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay. It was a joint appointment as well. So it had met with a recommendation from CDB and also confirmation from the county. All right.

Any other questions or comments? And none. All those in favor of this appointment say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Next item is Resolution 2026. 09-1401, center internship learning agreement. Mr. Boyd. All right, thank you, Mayor.

So in front of you, you have an internship agreement with Center College. This is for one of our interns that has worked for us for the last year in the HR department. His name is Prince Underwade, and we've had some meetings with Center in simple terms. Moving forward, we wanna work with Center and other colleges for that matter on allowing students to get a blended approach of workforce readiness and educational workshops through their internships, meaning they get course credit. This internship agreement is to allow our HR intern to get three hours of semester credit for interning with us in the fall, full disclosure, where you would like to maybe keep them on for the whole school year. So we're working through that, but we got to do it one step at a time. And this is also just on a grander scale. We talked to center about overall internship programs. Um, and this is part of our succession planning that we've laid out a couple of years ago and we're excited to see where this will go in the future and other departments as well.

Thank you, sir. Is there a motion approving this internship?

I'll make a motion to approve Resolution 202609-1401.

Thank you, ma'am. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, ma'am. Any other questions?

No, just thank you, Randy, for doing this, bringing in the next generation.

Yep.

All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Those opposed, motion carries. There was a center college senior in the lobby tonight just before the meeting, and she's looking for an internship. I told you where to go, so let's see what happens. Next item is Resolution 2026-09-1402, Symmetry of Buyback. City Clerk?

Thank you, Mayor and Commissioners. Mr. Aubrey Edwards has requested that the City buy back his one grave that he has in Bellevue. That was grave number four in Section S, Lot 1. It'll be about $358, Edward. for. I'm just asking that you all approve that.

Thank you, ma'am. I move for approval of Resolution 202609-1402.

Thank you, sir. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, ma'am. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed, motion carries. Way to go. Next item is the City Manager Report.

Thank you, Mayor and Commissioners. The First thing is United Way Day of Caring is the 15th tomorrow. Hopefully, folks, we would like to raise awareness of that, and hopefully folks can get out and volunteer. I had a typo. September 21st is not the next commissioning. It's the 28th, so note that. The 22nd through the 25th is KLC's annual conference, which that is next week. It's going to be a busy week for us. Generally, we have something all next week, so it's going to be rushed, I'm sure, for you guys as well. Center College, the 18th and 19th is family weekend. We'll have a lot of visitors in town. You'll see a lot of... quote, strays, unquote, wandering around town trying to find their way. So please be patient as we get a lot of visitors in that weekend. The FY26 audit, they'll be back in the building this week and processing the FY26 audit. Millennium Park Skate Park Grand Opening is the 19th. We'd like to note that, 10 a.m. to 2. We'll also be... Touch a Truck will be also occurring during that same time period, more or less, at Millennium Park. There's a job fair the 24th at the showroom, 10 a.m. to 1.30. And then a couple of loose end items. There is a service order request from Spectrum that needs authorization to sign. It's... Not a bill or anything. It's to get those folks scheduled to come and do that work. It does require a signature. I've included it in your packet. It's two pages. Could we get authorization for the mayor to execute that if we could?

Is there a motion to authorize the signing of this contract?

So moved. Do you mean make a motion? Yeah. I make a motion that the mayor be allowed to sign the spectrum service order repair agreement.

Second. Can I get a second? Thank you, sir. Any questions or comments to the city manager about this one? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Thank you all. Motion carries.

Thank you, and then we are, as we have the ongoing bond sale, Bond rating, I wanted to include that in your packet so you all could have some exposure to that as that was completed. We were AA-, which is very strong. It's the second highest, so there's a summary page in the packet that is page five in the PDF. There's a chart there that shows you where we're sitting. In summary, we are in the second highest category, the very strong category. The category above us is exceptional. And there's only AAA rating there. As we read through the report, the thing that would move us up is essentially just growth of our overall economy. um and and so we we feel very good about the double a minus rating considering um the size of city we are and and the size of our economy locally so for me as i read it that's the biggest distinction lee do you have anything you want to add

No, just like you had mentioned, we're compared on a national level. They don't just take Kentucky and compare us to similar size or budgetary cities. So we're always going to come up a little bit on the short end when it comes to dollars when you compare us to a Nashville or a Cincinnati, right? And Frankly, there's only two cities in Kentucky, Lexington and Louisville, that are on a regular basis a triple A, and they're not a triple A every time they get rated. So I think where we're at is considered pretty, you know, a double A minus, but I would give us a double A plus.

Make a motion we go with her. Thank you, ma'am. Mr. Coffey, anything else?

That's all I have. I just wanted to give that a little update. Thank you, sir. Any comments or questions for Mr. Coffey?

Yeah, with the changes, is there going to be the City Hall data center meeting or not?

Not at this time. We will try to have some commentary maybe on planning and zoning or On that issue specifically at the next meeting, we'll try to come up with a strategy tied to data centers. Thank you for clarifying that. That is not lost on us.

Other questions or comments? Hearing none, let's move along. Next item is to hear the public. This is your second and last opportunity to speak to the commission tonight. You may speak to us about items that are not on the agenda. Is there anyone desiring to do that? Mr. Mayor, you want to come up and speak to us? I thought you brought lunch along with you.

Good evening, Commission. I want to take a moment. It doesn't start my three minutes. Don't you start my three minutes? It does. As soon as you say hello, it starts. I want to thank whoever and everyone that was involved in Friday's ceremony. Yes. That was impeccable. That was just perfect. I wish it had gotten filmed. And I'm sorry that more people weren't here. But Ashley was involved in that. Who else? Melanie. Where'd Melanie go?

I'll tell Melanie.

Somebody took her picture, so she left.

Both of our chiefs.

First responders, both of our chiefs were involved in that along with Melanie.

It was just impeccable. I couldn't have been more proud of the community for that, really. So, Mr. Mayor, as I indicated to you, I did want to approach the commission. It will be longer than three minutes because I don't have any other way of talking to the commission and educating on economic development. So, that said.

So, we get three minutes tonight.

That said.

Come back next time and finish it up.

Well, I can do that.

All right.

Well, I got to be cautious of these folks. They're going to get three minutes. Oh, you got other people that want to talk? Come on. OK. Start the bill. When we presented our report to you folks.

Who is the we now? Tell us the we.

Mr. Dennis Cox back there.

All right. Keep them connected.

It was our effort to really promote and create some kind of different framework from how we have done economic development in the past. And I've sat there and thought, why did no light bulbs go off with anybody? And it finally dawned on me. I've been around here too long. And I know the context of our economic development effort since 1961. That's when the nonprofit Industrial Foundation was founded, and it was founded by individuals. Government had no role in it. And the history's essentially a story of how Danville was built and maintained, an inventory of industrial land so that the community could compete manufacturing and other employers. So from 1961, and this was a very important period for Danville, from 1961 until 1971, they had amassed the following companies. American Greetings, Kentucky Textile Industries, Jackson Chair, Royal Industries, Servomation, Corning Glass, Sellers Engineering, Bluegrass Plant Foods, Fred Kane Manufacturing, Boyle Block, Cowell Stone, Danville Ready Mix, Danville Construction, and Palm Beach. A fantastic period of growth in this community. John Hill Bailey was kind of the leader of that pack. Mr. Bailey was employed by KU. KU wants to sell electricity. KU said to John Hill, tell us what you need, go make it happen. And he was a tremendous force for us. Make no mistake about that. But as we were at the leaders in this game, others began to catch on. And the competitive forces crept in. One of my concerns about the Industrial Foundation was always that it was private. They didn't consult with the city. They didn't consult with the county. So we had no really way of knowing as leaders who did they turn down. We don't know who they talked to. Now why is this important at this point is because You folks represent the taxpayers. The taxpayers depend upon you to know everything that's going on. The taxpayers depend upon you to promote economic development in order to keep their taxes at a minimum and provide the services and be an integral part of this. So I take nothing away from the Industrial Foundation. I'm glad that they changed and morphed with the times as we developed something called the EDP, where Jody Laster was the leader there. They still had a very strong position within the EDP. where they weren't fully disclosing. I understand that there is a need for privacy, but I will say this on a side note. When Ron Scott and I went to Frankfort first time, we paid a visit on the Cabinet of Economic Development and the chairperson, and I asked him about confidentiality because that was such a big thing around here. He just laughed. He said, there's no confidentiality anymore. Everybody knows who's coming in and who's going out. So confidentiality is not necessarily as important as it was. So the EDP now morphs into the CDC. The CDC in its components has four elected officials. If you go back to part of our report to you folks, we wanted to make it so that The taxpayer was in the majority representation. We have always delegated economic development since 1961. Most communities have not done that. We are unique in that. So we've kind of always said, hey, it's not really our bailiwick. Somebody else is going to do it. No, it's our bailiwick. It's our job to do. So in two weeks, I'm going to come back with some practical information that I hope will provide some tools for you to use as you measure economic development activity. I want to thank you all for my six minutes, seven minutes, whatever it was. Thank you. Thank you, sir.

And you are welcome to come back. Next time, get your partner to sign up and he'll get three minutes as well. You stretch yourself. Not tonight. He didn't sign up, but next time you come, get him to sign up. No, you can't use it. Well, I'll tell you what. We appreciate you coming and sharing that with us, and you keep coming back. And I just want to make one correction, though. The report that you guys did for us was outstanding. Please don't feel that it was ignored. Some of us are still talking about it. Well, you do a good job. You don't have to receive any questions. So we're good, OK? But we're still working on it. The Economic Development Corps is a public meeting. And EDA is another public meeting. So there are other opportunities for you to get your thoughts shared with folks in the community. But please do come back. Commission, there are updates and comments. Some thank yous are in store.

I just wanted to echo what he said. I was going to say about the 9-1-1 on Friday for the plaza dedicating all of that for the people that we've lost in the line of service and recognizing those that were lost in 9-1-1. It really was a great event, and I've had so many comments after the fact of that was just really beautiful. So I appreciate staff and everybody that worked on it and Public Works building the wall and whoever did the podiums. I mean, it was really nice.

Thank you, ma'am. Other comments? No comments about Saturday and Sunday?

Oh, and Saturday was busy. So busy.

The Constitution Square Festival, right?

Yeah.

And the Arts Commission does that, right? Yes, ma'am. And we give them very little money, and they do so much with it. And I just want to thank them for all they do without using taxpayer money. And they do so much for our community. It was a beautiful day outside, luckily.

Did you all hear about the winner of the Constitution Square Festival run yesterday afternoon? You all know who the overall winner was? Not I, no. I'm not calling your names. Let's move along. Any other commissioner updates?

I should have brought it up during City Manager. On Houstonville Road, by Dr. Kloss's, where there's all these wrecks, one of the one-way signs is all bent up and needs fixed, because people still, and thank you, Josh, for putting the do not enter, because as you know, that's really cut down on the wrecks there. But yeah. Yeah.

And I'll add to that.

I wanted to let you know that was bent.

The KYTC, the Highway Safety Office in Frankfort, has a study ongoing for 3rd and 4th Street for us, a safety study. So I think we have a meeting, I think, tomorrow or Wednesday with them about that. So we're still working towards getting that even safer. It's going to take a lot more than just signage to get all that fixed.

Okay. Thank you. Yes, ma'am.

I was going to say, also, to the trash pickup and the recycling bins, thankful that they're putting out, or the city's putting out the list. That's helping a lot of people. Comments on that, too, are like, oh, well, I see my name on the list, so that's good, and they actually are picking them up. I think people are happy. Okay.

Anyone else? Commissioner Carter? Commissioner Seary? Okay, next item on the agenda is payment of the bills. Chair, would you entertain a motion to pay the bills as presented?

I move for approval of the bill list of $1,825,661.95. Thank you, sir. Lee feel bad. I could hear her from here. Is there a second? Second.

Thank you, ma'am. Any questions about the bills on the list? Hearing none, all those in favor of paying our bills, say aye. Aye. Those opposed, motion carries. Next item is Resolution 202609-1403, Solid Ground Proposal. Ms. Compton, and we've got some representatives here about that.

Yes, so I'll make a brief introduction, and then I'm gonna let Bryce talk to you guys a little bit, and then I'm hoping you'll make a motion for approval. So we received a proposal from Bryce Gibson, he's with the Boyle County Homeless Coalition, for funding for a pilot program called Solid Ground. And the program is to support transitional housing for the homeless. And we've worked with Bryce so that their program has a pathway to allow us to use some opioid funds to help support this pilot program. Bryce, do you want to tell them a little bit about the program and how it works?

Good evening, Mayor and Commissioners. So let me start off with we've got 136 homeless intakes done today. I think we'll be around 150 by the end of the year. Those are no duplicates. And that 30% have some type of income, meaning they're either working or they draw disability. So that leaves us 41% unemployed. So that's where solid ground kind of comes into play. Because solid ground, what it'll be, it'll be a transitional living program. You won't be required... to have an SUD, but your funds will be required and restricted to those with SUD, substance use disorder, or opioid use disorder in this case. So what we'll do is we'll make them have a job on day one when they come in. So we're starting to attack that 41% that's unemployed. The thing about transitional housing is that they'll come in, they'll have to have a job, they'll come into a furnished apartment, and this will be only open to male individuals. We'll run between three to four male individuals. They'll have 90 to 180 days, so three months to six months, and we'll transition them out of the solid ground apartment into their own apartment. They will have to pay 30% of their income. They'll be required to work 30 to 35 hours a week. They will receive 95% of the program fees back to them. And that will go towards their first month's rent deposit and all the things. So the ideal behind it is to actually transition them out of homelessness, treatment centers, whatever they're in, into their own permanent housing. We're looking at this as kind of an overall approach of how can we permanently house someone and then be self-sufficient so that we're not looking back six months later working with these individuals again because they've become unhoused again. So I believe that by working with them through life skills, budgeting classes, all the things that we take for granted that these individuals don't have. They don't know how to pay rent every month. They just don't. So we get them in a routine of doing these things, and then we transition them into their own place, and they have self-sustainability from having done this, and then they're in their own apartment, plus we're making them work and doing all the things. Any questions?

Any questions for Mr. Gibson?

No. Bryce, it seems like this is a good marriage of the opioid funds and... the homeless issue because I don't know what the percentage is, but I would say a good percentage of homeless people also have opioid abuse disorder or some sort of substance abuse disorder.

A lot of them do. A lot of them suffer from mental illness also. The way we've gotten this program written is that it's not a requirement. I understand it is a requirement for the funds that I'm asking for. We've also secured $30,000, which is what I'm asking the city for. We've secured $30,000 from the county. That money is not restricted for opioid use disorder or the opioid abatement funds, so we can use that $30,000 to run two male individuals that don't necessarily have opioid use disorder, and then we can run the city's $30,000 with individuals that do. Great.

That's great. Well, that was a great report that was submitted, a great proposal. Yeah, yeah. Appreciate the effort. Let me say this to you. You must really have something going in your favor, because you've got the finance officer of the city of Danville that's recommending us to spend some money. It's always the opposite. She said, don't do it, don't do it. You got something going on, brother.

It doesn't have nothing to do with me.

I appreciate your dedication, though. City Commissioner, is there a motion to spend this $30,000?

Yes. I'll move to approve Resolution 2026-09-1403.

Thank you, ma'am. Is there a second? Second. Thank you both. Yes. Do you all have any questions for Lee or for Bryce? Just thank you.

Participants are in the program six months, is it? Up to six months.

Up to six months. So the ideal is that if they're checking all the boxes and they're just doing really, really good, then let's go on and transition them out within 90 days and they can stay up to six months. Anything longer than six months becomes a little bit too permanent. because our ultimate goal is to transition these individuals into their own apartment. That's the ultimate goal of the program. It's not succeeding if we're not giving them permanent housing and also giving them support to become self-sufficient, give them the tools that they need so that way they can survive. after that, and we'll do follow-ups with them, you know, three, six months, nine months, 12-month follow-ups, just to check in to make sure that they haven't become homeless again. And I'm sure that if they do, we're going to know pretty quick. Yeah.

So hopefully you can come back and give us an update. Absolutely. Let us know how it's going.

Absolutely. When does it start? I'm looking at hopefully 60 days. Great. Okay. I have all the infrastructure type stuff done that we don't think about, like participant handbooks, all of that stuff that they're going to have to have because it's the program. So we have all that stuff done. It's approved. I just didn't go on and start when the county already approved that money because I wanted to know exactly, because I'm going to rent a property to do this out of.

No, no, don't tell the location, but you do have a location.

Yes. Yes, absolutely.

We don't want to know the location because you know what happens, right?

Yeah.

All right. Okay. Other questions or comments? Come back with a very successful, positive report and... Get our treasurer over there to recommend some more money for you. We'd be excited about it, okay?

Thank you all.

All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed, motion carries. Thank you, sir. Keep it up. Next item is, oh, wait, wait. You got three of my favorite people sitting back here with you, too, so you know you got it going on, man. It's about the crowd that you keep, right?

That's right.

The next item is first reading of ordinance number 2076, fiscal year 27 property tax rate. You want to read the ordinance for us first? Then we'll let Ms. Compton talk to us about it. Then we'll all go home. I will.

This is the first reading of ordinance number 2076, an ordinance establishing ad valorem tax rates for fiscal year 2026 through 2027 and penalties for nonpayment.

Is that all? Is there a motion? I'll move for approval of the first reading of Ordinance 2076.

Thank you, sir. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, ma'am. Ms. Conte, you want to make some comments to us?

Yeah, I know this is y'all's favorite time of year. It's like Christmas, property tax rate season. So we received our property tax assessment from the local PVA a few weeks ago, and we've worked to review those assessments and prepare taxes, which we do annually. Our total assessments did increase this year by approximately $23 million. Our tangible assessments, which include your furniture and fixtures, equipment, inventory, things like that, our tangible assessments did go down this current year, but our real property, which is your home values, things like that, did increase in total compared to last year by about $30 million. And we had new growth of $6.8 million, which is a decrease in new growth compared to the prior year taxes. But I know there's a lot of things going on in the community right now. and property development, but that usually precedes your tax values. Your taxes are assessed based on January 1st of the year. So you may see, especially considering the commercial development, commercial retail we've had in the current calendar year, next year we may see some bigger growth than we do this year. We have calculated our compensating rate. for the current year at 11.7 cents per $100 of assessed value. And if you remember, your compensating rate is calculated to generate the same level of revenue that you collected in the previous year. And any new growth in revenue is based on those new assessment and not existing home values And that would be a reduction in your actual property tax rate compared to last year Which was eleven point nine cents per hundred dollars Your tangible rate does actually go up due to that reduction in assessments Last year last tax year your tangible rate was point uh was 15.95 cents per hundred dollars and this year it is assessed at um point 17.59 cents due to that reduction in tangible property thank you ma'am Your motor vehicle rate is set at .2, 20 cents per $100, which is the statutory maximum that's been set by the state since the 80s.

Other questions or comments? It went down in one, up in the other, and stayed the same in the third one, right?

Which is actually the same last calendar year, last tax year. I believe our tangible rate either went up as well or was flat. Just tangible taxes vary kind of significantly. Like if you have a... large manufacturer that maybe keeps lots of materials on hand or that change for some reason in the current year, those assessments can vary pretty wildly.

When it comes to X, Y, and Z dollars, is there a certain percentage? Is it 4% or lower than 4% or what?

So this would be lower than the 4% you could increase as the maximum. Kentucky statutory maximum is you can only increase your revenue by 4% without a vote. And this is lower than that. The compensating rate keeps it that way. So we're projected to collect in real property and tangible property $1,947,795 in total. Last tax year, which would have been last fiscal year, we collected $2,287,000, but the biggest variance we saw compared to our assessment was in your tangible taxes.

Thank you, ma'am. Other questions or comments? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Oh, wait, wait, wait. We need a roll call. Roll call vote on this one, right? Wake up, Mayor.

Commissioner Caudill.

Yes.

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

All right. Thank you, ma'am.

Well, I'm glad the property tax is going down. But, well, tangible rebalance if we have...

So I was thinking about that today. Will we lower it if there's more? Yeah, so when your assessments go back up, if you keep taking the compensating rate, if your assessments go back up for tangible taxes, then your rate would go back down. I think this is my theory and is not backed up by anything whatsoever. A lot of our local tangible taxes is in inventory and things like that that businesses have on hand. And a lot of businesses aren't keeping as much inventory on hand due to the cost of shipping and tariffs and things like that that have happened in the last year and so those big picture things that we have zero local control over are going to impact your businesses and how they operate and it's probably more beneficial for them to have a lower on hand inventory for things or equipment things like that but if our tangible assessments increase next year then the compensating rate would lower If you elect to take the compensating rate, the normal calculation, if your tangible assessments decrease again, then in theory your rate would increase to keep the same level of revenue.

For the audience, talk in terms of real numbers for a minute. In 23, it was $157 million, the tangible assessments. In 24, it was 171 million. This year, it's 158 million. So that number varies by a significant amount. And so the compensating rate is theoretically designed that the public at large pays the same amount as they did the year before. So that's not necessarily an individual user will pay the same amount, but the public at large pays the same amount as they did the year before. So the city doesn't really, the metric is purely a math to flatline that.

OK. Next item, resolution 22. 26-09-1404. 2026 payment list. Mr. Morgan, whoa, you lined up in there. Mr. Morgan?

Yes, thank you all. In your package, you have the quote from the Allen Company to complete the proposed paving list. Like we discussed before, we generate about... We get about $350,000 to $370,000 in revenue each year from the Municipal Road Aid Fund from the state. That's from our gas tax money. In there, you have kind of the priority list that we discussed a few weeks ago... They have priced the quote through Bates Street. So I'm going to read them all off so the public can hear all these. Waveland Avenue. And this doesn't mean we're paving the entire street. It's the sections. If you live on the street, you'll see orange paint where we've gone out and marked lines and an arrow to show with Allen Company where we want to pay, so that's what they've based this quote off of. We've got Waveland Avenue, Old Shaker Town Road, West Lexington Avenue, St. Mildred's Court, Smith Street, Ponder Court, East Drive, Erskine Drive, which that's the section of Erskine that's the dead end that goes into the old house, goes down towards the old house. Poppy Court, Bruce Court, War Admiral, which War Admiral will be from the intersection there as it turns to the bypass. Whirl-A-Way kind of turns into War Admiral. This is all out in Bluegrass. And then it goes around to, I think it will stop about Iron Leage, Sir Barton, that intersection there. And then Bates Street, the full length of Bates Street. They have in red below those, Heartland and Jefferson. It would be West Jefferson. They're going to kind of do a not to exceed. We're hoping to hit about 350,000 would be our goal, but we're doing a not to exceed. If they have. If we come in underneath these tonnages that they're estimating, we'll extend on to Heartland. If we can go further, we'll go to West Jefferson. As you can see, their quote for paving is $275,838.75, but if you go to the next page, The milling, which we try to mill all of our streets that have curb and gutter to keep us from paving up the curb like we've seen in some of our older streets, the milling portion of it would be $89,025. So that comes to a total of $364,863.75. So yeah, that's the proposed paving list, and we would like approval to proceed with this list, and like I said, we'll do the ones I listed, and then if we have enough, we have some money left over, we'll go into Harland and West Jefferson.

Thank you, sir. Is there a motion to approve the paving list?

I'll make a motion to approve Resolution 202609-1404. Thank you, ma'am. Is there a second?

Second. Thank you, ma'am. Any other questions for Josh? Hearing none, all in favor of approving this list say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Next one, Josh, is 9-1405, playground. Servicing procurement.

Yes. You have a quote in the packet. It's from Little Tykes and No Fault Services. It's provided to us by Bluegrass Recreation. The reason it's done that way is because we're using the source well cooperative purchasing process. That way it meets the model procurement code requirements. It's in the amount of... $136,945.75 and this is to the large playground at Bruce Crowley Park out on Lexington Avenue, the large playground to remove the mulch, put in rock, put in some drainage features because if you drop by there after heavy rain, you'll see that whole playground holds water. So they're going to put some drainage in as well. So that's to remove the mulch, put rock down, put some drainage in, and then put a poured-in-place rubber surface on that playground. And then the area between it and the splash pad that is mulched now and has a tree in it, it was kind of a landscaping area, that's to remove the tree, remove the mulch, put rock, and then put a synthetic turf surface on that area. So it'll make a really nice kind of seat setting, a place for people to sit and relax. you know, synthetic turf. So it's not, we're not going to have the mulch washing off. It's not going to be dirty. It's not going to wear out. We're not going to, you know, wear it down to dirt. Um, so that total, we initially budgeted a hundred thousand for this project because we were really just looking at the surface. What really drove that cost up to one 36 approximately was that drainage work. It was a lot more rock and drainage work. And they've really, they kind of insisted that we do that work. And after looking at it, I think it's a better long-term decision. We've saved some money in some other places on these parks projects. I think we can, you know, put that into here. We saved quite a bit on the Jenny Rogers parking lot by doing a lot of work in-house. So we would like to recommend approving that quote for $136,945.75. And I think if we get this approved tonight, we can maybe get this done this fall before the winter sets in so it'll be ready to go when the weather gets nice in the spring.

So if we make a motion to approve this, Josh is getting started tomorrow, right? So is there a motion to approve?

I'll move to approve Resolution 202609-1405. Thank you, ma'am. Is there a second?

I second. Thank you, ma'am. Questions or comments?

This was in the capital plan anyway.

Yes.

There was $100,000 budget in the capital budget.

I just wanted to comment how busy this park is. And I love having something walkable also for that side of town.

Always busy. Yes. Any other comments? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, Josh. The next one is the performance pavilion grant agreement. This is getting exciting.

Yeah, in your package you have the draft grant agreement with the Department of Local Government at the state for the Millennium Park Performance Pavilion. This is a Land and Water Conservation Fund grant that we applied for a few years ago. So this... Once this agreement is signed by us and the state, that frees us up to start spending money on the project. So this is nice. It's a $250,000 grant. We have to match that with $250,000. Tommy's going to go. I think he's going to go to the county and see if they'll go in on that match with us and share that and be part of the project. I think we've had a lot of success with these two projects we have going out there now, Millennium Park. working with the county. So we're hoping they'll jump in and be a part of this as well. And we would like to, you know, just kind of getting into the future a little bit, like to do this as a design build project like we did the skate park to kind of accelerate the process. So hopefully next summer we're maybe building the performance pavilion out there. So that would be our goal if we can get this agreement back quickly from the state. So yeah, it's $250,000 grant with a $250,000 required match. And this was, I believe this was put in the budget. So it's budgeted as well.

So is there a motion to approve this proposed grant?

I'll make a motion to approve Resolution 2026-09-1406.

Second. Thank you both. Any questions? Should get us all excited. He'll have it done by 4th of July next year, right?

Probably not by 4th of July 2028. Don't say that.

Oh, I'm trying to rush you, Jack. Okay. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Those opposed? I wish we could hear it. Well, it's exciting, though. That would be great to get that done. Next item is... 09-1407, the Baughman Sidewall Rebid Review.

And that will get to the bad news part of my section. So we opened bids again on the Baughman Avenue Sidewall Project. We got, it was August 26th when we opened bids this time. Once again, we only got one bid from the Allen Company. They bid $1,037,444.68. Their bid went down about $50,000. It's still exceeding our initial, you know, our initial project, estimate when we applied for the grant was 500,000. We were hoping that we could get it more in the 650 to maybe, I mean, at this point I would be happy with like 800,000, then that range somewhere. Um, but yeah, we just got one bit again and it's really hard to, you know, we've met with them a few times. Like I said, they brought it down 50,000 with some changes we made and some, some of the things we discussed, but it's still not close to where we want to be. Uh, It's hard to make a good judgment on whether that's the actual project value or not without getting more bids. I wish we'd just gotten some more bids. If we'd gotten three bids and they were all a million dollars, I'd say, hey, that's what the project costs. We either go for it or not. But just one bid. I hate to do this because I don't like rebidding things multiple times. We would like to reject this bid. If we reject it, we've already planned to have it in the newspaper tomorrow so we can get this thing moving as fast as we possibly can. We're required by the grant to have it advertised for at least 21 days. But even if we can get it back out, advertise tomorrow, we can have it for you all. If we get a good bid, I think the bid opening is October 7th, so we would be able to have that on the first meeting in October for award. And we're going to try some different strategies this time to cast a wider net. We really thought we had more bids coming in. We had several local contractors reach out and get plans. We thought we were definitely going to get some more bids, but we just didn't. So, yes, we would recommend rejecting the bids and we'll re-bid it as quickly as we possibly can and hopefully get third time's a charm, as they say.

So, the chairman would like to entertain a motion to accept the staff's recommendation to reject his bid and to re-bid it again. Is there a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve Resolution 2026-09-1407.

Well, the other option would be we could accept this bid and find a way to pay $500,000 more, right? Josh did not recommend it.

I would let Lee handle that. I would. So for good procurement, you should reject this bid and re-bid it and if your bids keep coming in significantly over what you have budgeted and expected, you can then take additional steps like private negotiations and things like that. So for good procurement, you should reject this bid.

But her generosity only lasts for that one item, right? Okay. There was a second, right? So all those in favor of rejecting this bid, will there be a second? I did it. I just forgot.

All right.

Properly moved and seconded. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Those opposed, motion carries.

Man, I want to get that one done. Thank you all.

We can go out there and ask Mr. Zinn if he wanted to put sidewalks in. We'll pay him, right?

It's really tough conversation because we've talked about, like, we're thankful to get that grant for $400,000, but it's like we're, you know, it's become such a burden with the grant. Is it even, like... Are we spending more than we, if we had just done it in-house, if we had started three or four years ago and just started putting in sections of sidewalk in-house, we would be done by now for less than what we would have spent extra here. So it really is kind of, it's been a tough, tough process.

The grant requires a match?

The grant requires a match, but it only requires a $100,000 match on top of the $400,000 grant. So we're easily going to get to that $500,000 project cost. But it has a lot of requirements for oversight and contracting and the way the... I think it is pushing away a lot of our smaller contractors because it's almost treated like it's a KYTC highway project, the way the contractual part of it goes. So I think it's pushed away some of our smaller folks just because of the requirements put on them. So, yeah, I think we've got to find just the right person. It's the old Goldilocks of contractors that are trying to find the perfect program.

Get them at the end of the season and catch them at a good time, right? All right.

We did approve that. We did.

Okay. Next item is the Raleigh Court Drainage Change, order number one. Josh?

Yes. Yeah, this is just a small change order to the Raleigh Court Drainage Project. They've pretty well wrapped that project up during the process. Due to the amount of rock that we ended up encountering on that project, we removed an inlet box that was just going to be more of a nuisance than it was going to be an add to the project. So we removed that, had to make some changes to that connection there, and then we added some channel lining in one area which rocked in the channel to prevent erosion. The total change order is, I believe it was... The original project cost was $45,000. And this is really, he cleaned this up so we can kind of, they can submit their final invoices and we get that project wrapped up. Haven't had a good chance to see if it functions as we'd like to see yet. We haven't had a really heavy, we need to see a heavy rain to see how it all reacts. But, you know, we're going to keep an eye on it. But I think it turned out well.

Thank you, sir. Fellow Commissioners, is there a motion?

I'll move to approve Resolution 2026-09-1408. Thank you, ma'am. I second it.

Thank you, ma'am. Any other questions or comments? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you all. Spent a lot of money tonight, didn't you, son? All right, next item is... 26-09-1409, Boyle County Fire, Denver Fire Mutual Aid Agreement. All right. I'd like to entertain a motion to approve this one before the chief even comments on it. Is there a motion to approve this one?

I'll make a motion to approve Resolution 2026-09-1409. Thank you, ma'am.

Is there a second? Second. Thank you, ma'am. See if you want to make some comments. This was exciting to me to read. This was a good one.

Yeah, thank you, Mayor and Commissioners. Yeah, so before you, you've got the Boyle County-Namble Mutual Aid Agreement. Again, we've cooperated very well with this department. This just helps us put the framework out there to make sure that we're all staying on the same page and we continue that cooperative agreement. It really just lays out the general guidelines for us to provide assistance to them and for them to provide assistance back to us. And it's really mutually beneficial for both departments. And it's a reciprocal agreement that's not intended to trade. It's intended for us to be able to trade services, like services, back and forth without any financial reimbursement.

Thank you, sir. It was good. Any other comments or questions? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Thank you all. All right, see if you got the next one too. Resolution 2609-1410. Kentucky Fire Commission. Their move is, wow.

Yes, sir. Yes, so the Kentucky Fire Commission just put out this grant, made it available to all fire departments in Kentucky. What it is is a 50% reimbursement on any purchases of thermal imaging cameras or other technical innovations used in the fire service. So what we're doing is we're seeking approval from the commission to actually apply for this grant. What we'd like to apply it to is for a thermal camera. When we purchased the last two fire trucks, we got new thermal cameras with those fire trucks. And we had a few older thermal cameras that are actually getting old and out of date. And thermal cameras for us as firefighters are a big safety tool for us to be able to, for firefighter safety and for victim search and rescue. When we go into a smoky environment, it helps us see through that smoke and be able to actually see what's going on in that room through the smoke. So that's what we'd like to apply this grant to. And we anticipate the costs to be somewhere around $4,000. I overestimated that. Since then, I have gotten a couple of quotes in that came in just under $4,000. So our costs would be, we'd have to pay the $4,000. The state would reimburse us for 50% of that. So $2,000 for a $4,000 camera.

Chair, would you like to entertain a motion?

I'll move to approve Resolution 20-26-09-14-10. Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you, ma'am. Sounds exciting. Any questions? All those in favor of approving this grant, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next one is Resolution 20-6-09-14-11, Backup Internet 9-1-1. Internet, all right.

Mayor and commissioners, Mayor and commissioners, the backup internet system is essential to ensure the operations of the 911 center to be consistent and reliable. There's a 36-month contract under net 30 payment terms. The cost of the service includes a non-recurring charge of $199.95 and a monthly recurring cost of $454.42. It's a budgeted line item.

Thank you, sir. Again, another great window. Is there a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve resolution 20-26-09-14-11. Thank you, ma'am.

Is there a second? Second. Thank you, sir. Any questions or comments? All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

All right. Next item is... 20-26-09-14-12, CAD system bid award. Chief?

Mayor, Commissioners, again, you have in front of you our 911 centers has been looking to upgrade our computer-aided dispatch for a couple years now. The city put out bids for the new computer-aided dispatch. We received six bids. Staff has reviewed those beds along with our other county first responders during our 9-1-1 advisory board meeting. We've also have done a regional kind of comparisons and the bed that we are recommending that the city commission go with is also compliant with and compatible with other regional dispatch centers, which makes it easy for us to work with those other agencies inside this region, not just inside the county. So with that being said, we would recommend that the city accept the bid from 10-8 Dispatch. I will advise it is not the lowest bid. The one-year set-up was $197,000. The cost in years two through five is $64,750. The five-year total on this whole bid is $456,000, and it is through a capital expense.

Thank you, sir. Is there a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve Resolution 2026-09-14-12.

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

Second.

Thank you, ma'am. Any questions or comments? Chief, you said it's not the lowest bid, but it's the bid that's going to get you the regionalism that you desire.

It is. We feel like this is working with all the first responders inside the county and as well inside this regional network with KSP and everybody. We feel like this is the best compatible thing for us nowadays. Sounds good.

Thank you, sir. Other questions or comments? All those in favor say aye. Aye. That was closed. Motion carries. Thank you all. Congratulations. A lot of money well spent, though. Okay, so the chair would like to entertain a motion to adjourn.

We do need an executive session, Mayor, if I may interrupt you before you make that motion. FOR PERSONNEL.

I TRIED ON IT. CHAIRWOMAN, WITH REGRETS, ACCEPT A MOTION FOR AN EXECUTIVE SESSION FOR PERSONNEL ONLY. AND ASHLEY WOULD SAY 15 MINUTES OR LESS. YOU CAN DO IT. IS THERE A MOTION?

I'll make a motion to go into executive session to discuss personal percent, personal matter pursuant to KRS 61810.

Thank you, ma'am. Is there a second? Second. All right. All those in favor say aye, and all those opposed? We just have to do it later. All right.

Thank you.

Thank you all.

Thank you for all you do.

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I didn't hear it.

No? Well, guess what? He's seeing the folks up front, though. They was all like, okay.

That was great. What's that? Well, you know what, though?

He is. I don't know why. I think he just wants to be seen by the camera.

Yeah, I think so. Hmm? Thank you.

All right, I have a motion to come out of executive session. So moved. Thank you, all. All in favor?

Aye.

All right, back in regular session. Mr. City Manager.

Thank you, Mayor. The staff is submitting to you our recommendation to accept the reclassification of Officer Todd Davis from his current classification which is a police detective to a revised classification of police officer at his request.

Thank you, sir. Is there a motion?

Aye.

So moved. Second. Thank you all. Any questions or comments? All those in favor of accepting this recommendation say aye.

Aye.

Opposed? Motion carries. Entertain a motion to adjourn.

I'll second.

All right. Thank you, ladies. All those in favor? Aye.