City Council - Regular Meeting

Ladies and gentlemen, I appreciate your patience as we uh fixed our technical difficulties, but we are good to go. According to Jared, so I'd like to call to order tonight's uh Rigger City Council meeting for September 9th, 2025, 7 p.m. Roll call, please. Miss Klene, member Horton, present. Member Ner here. Member Nean here. Member Kelly. Member Jud present. Member Leven here. City administrator Faucet here. City attorney Edmonson here. Mayor Baker

here. Appreciate everyone's attendance. And uh if you could now please rise for a moment of silence and a pledge to the flag. To the flag, United States of America to the stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you everyone for that uh that moment. Next up on the mayor's report, we had a really uh exciting week or month here. Uh we opened up uh the new Green Devils Field of uh next to the high school. It was well attended and it was uh a a great performance by our Green Devils. So, we're very proud of our our our kids that are are winning football games. We're very proud of the school for for what they're doing uh building that community right next to us. Uh next up we'll have approval of the minutes. Do I have a motion to accept?

So moved. Member Ner's made a motion to accept the the approval of minutes. I have a second. Second. Second by member Jud. All in favor? I. I.

Any nays? Any abstensions? The eyes have it. Next up is we're going to open up the podium for anybody who has uh uh comments they want to bring out tonight's agenda. So again, the rule of thumb is if it's on tonight's agenda, the podium is yours. You're welcome to speak to council. I don't see anybody bum rushing the mic, so we'll go ahead and close that out as well. Next up are our ordinances. The first is the second reading of ordinance 2025-4. Miss Klein, please.

An ordinance amending chapter 38 of the city of Dayton Code of Ordinances titled Code Enforcement Board to update the ordinance to provide more clarity to organizational and regulatory requirements in the ordinance. I discussed this at the last meeting. This is sort of a cleanup uh ordinance uh changing some things to be more consistent with our current practices and also reflecting uh changes that we've made in code enforcement department. Thank you, Miss Klein. Mr. Faucet, do we have a motion to accept 2025-4? I'll make that motion. Member Neman's made a motion. Do I have a second? A second. Member

Horton's made a second. Do we have any conversations or questions regarding uh 2025-4?

All right, we're go ahead and uh open this up for a roll call vote, please. Member Levens. Member Horton I. Member Ner I. Member Nean I. Member Jed I. The eyes heavy unanimously. Next on the docket is the second reading of ordinance 2025-5. Miss Klein, please. An ordinance amending the city of Dayton, Kucky's annual budget for the fiscal year running from July 1st, 2024 through June 30th, 2025 and estimating revenues and resources and appropriating funds for the city to the full extent authorized by KRS82082 and interpretive case law.

So when you you u adopt a budget, you don't know exactly what's going to happen. It's clearly an estimate. So under state law, we're required to adjust that budget at the end of the actual year after we have recognized the revenues and expenditures to reflect the true nature of our budget. That's what this does. Jar can have any can answer any questions you may have specifically about it, but that's why this is on you to the for a second reading.

So this is a second reading. Do you have a motion to accept 2025-5? I'll make a motion to accept. Member Horton has made a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Second by member Jud, which opens up for conversation within council. Does anybody like to discuss 2025 to F5? Um, more of a comment than anything. I I would just probably like to see other than us cleaning it all up at once at the end of the year more often than that. Um, I believe it's best practice to do it as needed or monthly, something like that was what I heard through the uh the KLC group that um you guys sent me to training for. Yeah.

Um so, uh I would probably just like to see it more often. That way it's more more transparent, more up todate with the budget as we go throughout the year. Yeah, we've done it in the past a couple times, but I think I don't know we've done it I don't remember doing it twice or three times this time, but I know in past years we have done it a couple different times, but we only did it once this year. Okay, thanks. That makes sense. Great comment. Thanks, Aaron. That training pays off. Excellent. Any other comments, questions, concerns regarding 2025-5? We have a motion by member Horton, second by member Jud. Miss Klein, please. Member Jud. I. Member Leven.

I. Member Horton. I. Member Ner. I. Member Neman I the eyes have it. The last on the ordinances for the evening will be the first reading of ordinance 25-6. Miss client please. An ordinance providing for the imposition levy collection and aortionment of taxes for the city of Dayton Campbell County for the fiscal year July 1st 2025 through June 30th 2026.

So this is a first reading of the tax rate. uh we have to establish this every year. I sent an email out yesterday kind of explaining a little bit what about the compensating rate. So uh we are only allowed to uh raise our taxes by the compensating rate which is the same amount we got the year before plus 4% which is designed to allow us to cover inflation. Uh the last three or four years uh we've done the 4%. Most cities do the 4% because you're losing money if you're not doing that because your costs are going up and you're not getting additional tax money to pay for those inflationary costs. But this year, because the financial situation, the city's in in good shape, we decided that we would just do 2%. And that way, we would actually be able to reduce our city rate for another year, uh, making it, I think, the lowest rate now we've had in 16 years. So instead of taking the full percent uh we're want we're recommending only 2%. And uh we think that because of the financial stability that we'll be fine with just that raise but also keeps our keeps us from raising the property tax above where we are right now. So that's our recommendation to city council.

Thank you Mr. Foss on the recommendation. Uh do we have a motion to accept the first reading of ordinance? No, this is just a first reading. So that's just it. This is first reading. We are going to have a special meeting uh at the end of the month on Tuesday the 30th. I think I mentioned my email. We'll meet here at 5:30 uh for a second reading on this ordinance and then we'll have our joint meeting with the school board at the school board uh chambers. Excellent.

We have to do that because we have to get our tax bills out next month. So all the cities around the state are scrambling to do this right now. So, thank you for the first reading. Next on the docket would be order resolution 2025-23 Romeo, Miss Claim, please. An order resolution accepting the perunit bid of TMS Construction Incorporated for future concrete work within the city of Dayton.

So, we did this about three years ago. Um, this allows us to do concrete projects throughout the city without bidding them out every time, which is timeconuming, expensive. And so if we select a um if we advertise for various contractors to do this work and we select one, then we can use that contractor for the next year. And we also have years two and three that can also be done. Last time we uh pending contractors were the lowest bidder and we used them to do the work. But this time JMS came under their bid and we had two other biders as well. So we're recommending that we approve the um contract with the not JMS but TMS Construction Inc. They're based out of Fort Thomas to do concrete work in the city.

Thank you for the explanation. Do I have a motion to accept order resolution 2025-23 Romeo? I'll make that motion. Ne has made his motion. Do I have a second? Second. Second been made by member Jud. Miss Klein, please. Member Neeman. I member Jud. Do we have discussion? Yeah, we kind of skipped discussion. Oh, I I apologize. You're right. Uh do we have any discussion regarding 2025- uh 23 Romeo?

Yeah. So, one comment, one question. Uh, one is I I like the detail of of mapping out all the different biders up top. I much appreciated there. I like that. Um, and then question is in there. I'm not seeing anything that details timeline for completion. And I don't know if that's standard in these contracts or not, but so we have it bidded out. Say we need a project done. We'll tell them um that we need it done. Is there a time frame that they have to get that completed by? No, but um I mean each project's different. We don't know the time frame until we know the scope of the project. So it might be something that takes a week or takes four weeks. I don't know. So we've not had a problem in the past with Hindi. Okay.

They have to slot us into their schedule, but um if it's been a problem, we probably would do something like that, but I I don't recall that being in there. But I have to look at the bid documents. It might be in there, but I don't think so. But okay. I I don't think it's never been really a problem in the past. So if it is, I guess we'll have to deal with that. But yeah. Okay. All right. Thank you. I had a question, Jay. Um, would this work in with the incentive program for the sidewalk with would we will we be able to let the citizens know that they could work with this specific?

They can. So, we have three or four contractors that are approved and they'll they are one of them, but we also want to get bids from a couple others when we do these projects. So even though this bid is generally going to be cheaper than the other ones or the large projects, another one might come in cheaper than on an individual project. So they they'll be one of the one of the people we send the project to and say, "Give us your what you want to do this project for." They they have to abide by what these what these rights are here. So we get that number based on these rates, but we're also going to let other contractors bid on it, too, in case they're lower than that. And that has happened. But usually my our experience is that Hindi when the bids on these contracts are generally cheaper than the other ones are because we have a cheaper rate here and we negotiated it through this process.

Okay. Thank you.

Sorry about that skipping protocol. Do we have any other conversations about 2025-23 Romeo? Does this include or exclude the Riverwalk project? It excludes that's a separate federal contract and would had to be bid through a whole different process. So that I got some information on that. It's about ready to start, but that's yeah separate. And the same for the Dayton Pike sidewalk.

Same thing. That's got to be bid through the f the state KYTC process. And that's different than this. This is for like when we do uh asphalt repaving, we have to do all the um ADA ramps. That would be one thing. Or when we had the project out uh in Grant Park, we use them for that, too. So that's it's just local projects, not anything with federal money. City projects. City projects. That's correct. Thanks for that clarification. Any other conversations regarding 2025-23 Romeo?

Roll call, please. Mrs. Clink. Member Neman. I. Member Jed. I. Member Leven. I. Member Horton. I. Member Ner. I. You guys have it. The last on the docket for the evening for orders resolutions. Order resolution 2025-24 Romeo. Miss Klein, please. An order resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into an agreement between the city of Dayton, Kentucky, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky for statewide emergency management, mutual aid, and assistance.

So, this is a resolution requested by the Kentucky Emergency Management Office um through their local Gamble County Office. um whenever there's a major disaster, which we've seen in Kentucky unfortunately several times in the last couple years, uh a lot of cities send people down to help. So, this kind of helps set forth the protocol and kind of organizes that process better than what's been done in the past. And the Kentucky um management services office will also help us with FEMA recovering any monies. we send firefighters down and expend city money, they will help us recover that money through this process. So, um, they've requested us to do that. A lot of cities don't exactly are approving this at the same time we're doing it as well.

Thank you, Mr. Faucet. Do we have a motion to accept 2025-24 Romeo? I'll make the motion. Member Love has made a motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. Member Hort has made a second. Do we have any comments, questions, or concerns regarding 2025-24 Romeo? By entering this agreement, it's just like a just a blank blanket agreement with the safety with the people. I think James Sparks, he runs that department in Camp County safety department. Is that is that what we're entering agreement? Yeah, he's the one that requested us to do that. Okay. He's the one that requested this. Okay.

Good question. Do we have any other questions, comments, concerns for 2025-24 Romeo? Roll call, please. Member Ner, I. Member Neman, I. Member Jud, I. Member Leven, I. Member Horton, I. The eyes have it. And so concludes tonight's order, resolutions, and ordinances, which brings us to the department director's monthly reports. So, first on the docket, we always like to do ladies first because we're proper southern gentlemen over here and southern ladies as well. Miss Patterson, code enforcement, please.

Oh, you have a copy of my report and Bill's report. Um, and the same thing, grass. I think people are finally getting a handle on their garbage cans, where to put them, what's going on with them. I think um Rumkey is doing a great job. Um I don't see as much trash out the streets. Um so that's a good thing. The only other thing I wanted to bring up is I am on the family resource um committee and they're looking for mentor mentors at the school. So if anybody's interested, if you want to shoot me an email and I can send you the information.

That's give us a So the the the mentor thing. So, it's anybody from the community.

So, they're looking for adopt a class and the mentoring programs. The mentoring program is kind of a one-on-one type of deal. You go for about 20 to 30 minutes um once a week. They like for you to come usually during lunch. Um just kind of have a little conversation with them. How's your week? That type of thing. They want you to start out at a younger. kind of a a little bit of a commitment because they want you to start out when they're young and kind of move all through elementary, middle, and high school with them if possible. That's the plan. Um, they do have a lot of mentors, which I was kind of surprised to find out that had started with kids in like, you know, first grade and they've gone on through with them through college and they kind of still keep in communication. So, it's a really nice program. The other thing they're looking for is an adopt a class and it's usually a business and then different um speakers from the business will come in like say for instance if it's um you know like the Coca-Cola company they would have you know maybe like some bottlers come in and kind of tell what they do and then they would have like the attorneys come in and tell what they do and then this you know secretaries come in and tell what they do and it's kind of like a monthly thing and you go and you visit the class and of course I guess you bring little like trinkety type things or information or coloring pages or um so that's also what they're looking for, but they're looking I think the mentoring program is a little bit more in need than they adopt a class. So I told them I'd throw it out there at the um council meeting and kind of see where it lands. But I can hook you up with the right person if you want to send me an email or you can contact the school directly, however you want to do it. But it's it's a pretty neat program. So

awesome. Yeah, we love collaboration between the schools. I know. It's great. We have a meeting once a month. We kind of hang go there and kind of throw around things and it's it's it's a the family resource center is is that they do amazing things for the school. Yeah, that's it. Anybody have any questions with the you mentioned about people are getting used to the garbage cans, but I still see a lot of garbage cans left out seven days a week on the sidewalks. Um, and I know we're probably given somewhat of a grace period. When are we going to start reminding people to get them off? Pardon me.

I do. if I if I see them out. Now, typically I give people a full 24 hours after the garbage because, you know, some people work late or, you know, they're they think their kids are getting it, they're not, and that type of thing. But typically, I'll hang a door hanger or I'll send them a notice and just say, "Hey, you know, these cans really need to be put back." A lot of times they're calling and saying, "My sister said she wanted them and she's supposed to come and get them." And you know it's so there's still a few scragglers out there. Good. You look at Alex. Is it Alex?

Every recycling can [Laughter] he got a nice little notice from the code enforcement lady. Could you rectify that, Alex? I have to have to call my city attorney against you. pulled my trailer up twice as many as I could. Wow. But I also think that's happening as well is some people don't I think some people don't realize about the recycling. So they're like, "We don't need this can." So they put it in front of their neighbors and then the neighbor puts it back in front of theirs and then it's kind of back and forth because I've had people actually call and say, "These these garbage cans keep showing up in front of my house and I don't know whose they are."

So you know, I advised her to call Rumkey and you know that type. What's that address again? Do you have some? 114. Are you looking to take some or drop some? Joking. I use my recycle. I've actually thrown some in my truck and taken them up public works because, you know, somebody elderly will call and say, "I have I don't know how to call Rumpky and I don't want this can and blah blah blah." It's interesting. The only ones that they've deposited are so people Yes. They only have they have no use for the site. Right. Right. So, yeah. If you see any, call me. Give me an address. I'll ride back.

I just wonder I I know that like I said, we're giving everybody the chance to get used to the new Yes. And I know with the 95gallon cans, a lot of people have We didn't need them, right? That large and Rumkey was very responsive. All I did was get on their website, tell them please swap these out for sure 232s and we're good to go. But I know that's been the excuse and I can call I mean I have a direct connection. I don't want to call 8,000 for 8,000 residents. But I don't mind you know a few if they need if they have a problem getting through or if they you know some people work all day and they can't make phone calls.

So if they want to you know call me and leave me a message on my line I'll be more than happy to you know help them out. Well, I think the biggest uh occurrence of it is with the multifamily uh buildings that we have. I mean, they could have, you know, 10 trash cans out there. Uh the big ones, which takes up the whole sidewalk. A lot of room. Yeah. Yeah. But you are starting to send out reminders. We are. Yes. Thank you. Yes, we are. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Patterson. We got that kind of moves right along the public works. So, Mr. Lucas, you mind?

Just another day. You guys have been a little busy lately. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're real busy. Um, one thing I want to let you know about, uh, the not hole baseball coach from, uh, I forget what college it's from. Thomas Moore, he's starting to play games on Friday night at G Park. Yeah, he's already cleaned the field up and everything. And so this Friday, you're going to have lights on everywhere. Uh, the baseball field, football field. So that that should get a a look of what it's going to look like when it's all said and done to park. Nice. So it should be pretty nice.

I told Rick he might want some of his folks to park here in our parking lot because I'm sure it's going to be crowded over there with the football game going on, but we have available parking here. So let them know they can use that. Yep. And they they have eight eight Dayton kids on the team. Great. And I think five uh other places. I'm not sure we're at. Is he the coach at Thomas Moore? Is it Thomas Moore baseball? He's Thomas. Well, he he coaches uh the league down here in Dayton during baseball season. He's the one to take care of the field. He's coaching that whole young kids. Yeah. Now he's doing this, too. It was a nickel. Um his last name's Nickel. I saw him out there with a tiller by themselves. They did it. They tealed that whole infield. Man, that was impressive to see the community coming out.

They take great care of it. They don't have to do nothing. And it works out good. Other than that, I mean, we just been typical, busy. Uh, ins and outs and, you know, Jay, you talk about a couple things probably before the night's over with, but um, other than that, I don't really have anything else. I will say, Rick, um, Friday night's game is a homecoming game. Craig starts at 5:30 from Davis Field to the New Field. Okay. So the avenue on one side will be blocked I'm assuming. So that should bring a lot more people in

which contact me whether they need public. We just did but that I didn't say anything. I'm just giving you the FYI. Okay. Yeah. We probably ought to get with Rick Wolf and find out if they need any any Normally I don't have to do anything. But what the parade probably starts at Okay. Did the parade start at um Davisfield? Davis field. But we'll do we'll do a um letter of control and everything down the route before we leave at day and it starts at 5:30.

Okay. Other than that, I don't have anything else. I have no idea what that meant, but good evening, sir. Thanks, Rick. Next on the docket will be fire department.

Chief Schaer, how are you doing, sir? Doing good. How are you doing? Well, thank you.

Good. Everybody has a copy of my report. Um, last month we made 195 responses, 65 fire and 130. Um, training, just training every day. So far this year, we're a little over 1,700 hours at the end of the month in training. Uh we did teach one CPR class last month. Um so we did get the training center that was down on Third Street. We were able to get that moved up on Wildcat Drive. So sharing that with Newport. So we're working on got a fence around it. Looking to get it painted and getting it fixed up so we can both use that. So it's going to be good good for both of us working. We we pretty much run together in fires anyhow. Um just FYI, our Aimless was involved in a accident down in Fairfield. Um but it's actually Summit took care of us. We had it repaired and back in the street in 10 days. So that was pretty amazing on them.

When that's down, we have the backup is Newport, right? We there's a county backup which was in use. Usually if when we're going to be down, we get Newport. It's closer and easier. They have an extra one if we need it. But if not, there's a county backup ambulance, too. But we actually have the new Newport backup ambulance in our in our firehouse. Right. We did for those 10 days. Yeah. Right.

Is back. Um we were uh found a great deal. Our rescue tools, our Jaws Life we had, we purchased them back in the late 90s that we couldn't even get parts anymore. uh got a a great deal through Vogool. Um so we were able to get all new rescue tools. So they will be actually here Thursday. Uh pretty excited about that. So we'll be training that. Probably still get some cars to go go down there and like we talked about, but um at Riverfest that was uneventful, thank goodness. Um so that was that was good. And then I just want to touch base on it's that time of year again. It's beautiful out, beautiful evenings. Everybody wants to burn. Um it open burns are not still permitted until October 1st. Um

let let them know that that's a state state law, right?

Correct. That's a state EPA law. Um, if you are going to use a fire pit, Kentucky Fire Code, chapter 3, uh, they must be commercially manufactured for burning. Uh, they must not be within 15 ft of any structure or anything or any other combustible material. Someone must constantly attend the fire, attend the fire until it's extinguished, and there must be a water hose or portable fire extinguisher. Um, along with all those, even if you're following all the laws and rules, if it's a nuisance and it's putting off a lot of smoke and bothering a lot of people, any any fire pit can be extinguished. We do have have a fire pit guideline. It has a state laws. Um, and what we can do in the city, I think Tristan was going to put it on the web page. There's some extra copies of the city building if anybody needs that. Should be on our website, too. Or you're more than welcome to give me a call. Any questions?

Thank you. Uh I believe you had an you had an add to staff in the budget, correct? Pardon me. Did you guys have add to staff uh on the budget for this year? We were able to we budgeted and were able to get back to five per shift. Okay. So, you're fully staffed now at this point? Yes. Okay. Thanks. Thank you. See them.

Thank you. Chief Chief Ail have my report. We've been pretty busy. Uh just we've had a lot of events over the last month. We had Rock the River. Uh that was pretty uneventful. Riverfest, uh that was pretty uneventful. Uh opening day of the football that did pretty good. They was a long night of overtime for some of the guys. I think it was 10:30 at night. They they finally got out of there. But um we will be helping with homecoming. We'll be I guess since we're changing it. We were usually down here going up to Davis Steel. Now they've changed from Davis Field. So we usually block we'll be blocking the uh eastbound lane.

Okay, good. So uh it's usually pretty quick and uneventful uh to get them back and forth. We usually don't have any problems. Um, and then just upcoming things. We just, uh, Caleb's going to be graduating, uh, Thursday. Uh, he'll be graduating the academy, so he's ready to go get on the street. Uh, excellent.

He's our fully staffed individual we've been waiting for. Uh, so he'll be on thirds. Uh, social worker's been doing really good. We've had a lot of, uh, mental health issues that she's helped us on and addressed. Um, so she's been a really good resource for us. So, uh, we're just continuing to, you know, take things in stride monthto month and dayto day. So, that's about it. I think, uh, one thing that kind of stood out was parking complaints. Again, I think we had 58 for the month and that's not including the ones that Cassie gets and the ones we get called into the office. So, you can probably add another what,

30 onto that. So, we've been dealing with a lot of parking complaints over the last week. So, we've been trying to take care of it as best. We also got a noise complaint about the cruises on the river again apparently starting up again. So, we're scheduled to meet with the people who operate the uh Queen City Marina u either tomorrow or Friday. Yeah, I sent you an email. Okay. I haven't replied to it. Yeah, I've been stuck in training for the last 10 days. So, but if we're going to have to deal with that again, which was an issue last year. Yep. And do you guys have the 5K coming up, but October the 5th? Is that

Yes, we're going to have a 5K. I'm not sure of the participants. Uh I'm going to try to do it. I'm not I haven't been training, so I need to Time's running out for me. So, uh I think we got an okay amount. We got a lot of sponsors. They really hit the pavement. Uh Sergeant Lynn Cougall and Officer How, they got a lot of sponsors to sponsor. It's just a Halloween fun run that we're doing for breast cancer and we just got a lot of uh it's just something new. Just trying something new, new event. And then of course we'll be you know at the monument. We'll try to do that this year hopefully weather permitting uh you know hand out stuff for the kids and stuff. So

and that flyer says run slashwalk because I'm signing up. So you can walk it and you are supposed to dress up in some type of costumes. I just want to say you are allowed to walk. You are allowed to walk. It's a walk. I'll probably be walking with you. Chief, you mentioned you mentioned the parking complaints, 58 of them, which is chewing up a lot of time for your officers. What what are these all about and what's the solution to this? Is this

uh well that's the addit edit uh I think report for the month that I put in there by citation for violations uh expired plates. Usually we get a lot of neighbor complaints and neighbors want to complain on the other neighbors for their cars not moving and we're getting a lot of more people in the city so parking spaces are very limited and uh neighbors are calling on neighbors because their cars aren't moving. Spots are being taken. So, we're still doing the out of state plates a little bit of time, expired tags and inoperable vehicles and get getting those off the street when we find them. So, it's like the 48 hour.

Yeah, the 48 hour. Yeah. So, uh left side curb, overtime parking, that was like six. Some some handicap spots have been taken. Um you blocking driveways, just a whole abundance of complaints. So it's not just narrowed down to one thing. So two a day. Yeah. Yeah. Every day is different. Thank you. Yep. [Music] Thank you, Chief. Anybody have any other questions for Chief Hatfield?

All right. Thank you, Chief. Brings us up to Mr. Faucet's report. Mr. Faucet, the city administrator's report, please.

Thank you, Mayor. So, last meeting uh went late, so I didn't do a report, so had to write it out tonight. So, I got a few things to talk about. Um, first and foremost, I had a pre-construction meeting today with Mike Jagger, our city engineer, Kentucky uh transportation cabinet, and representatives of Puce um concrete who in construction who is doing our phase two and phase three of Riverfront Commons. And so, I have some update on some on the timeline for that. So um according to um the contractor um he will his company will start true removal and clearing work uh either the last week of this month or early October. By midocctober the contractor will seed the exposed top soil. Then the contract will place aggregate along the trail path after this work is done. Um they expect to start pouring concrete after the aggregate is placed in mid November and this work will continue through the winter months. weather permitting and into the spring. The expected completion date of phase two and three which will run from its current terminus uh at the SD1 outfall at McKenna to uh the Mary Engles road will be scheduled for completion on May 1st of uh the spring. So that's good. They'll be working on it as winter as the weather allows. Um, also got good news today about the levy walk at the River Commons, which is a grant we had before OKI to upgrade the trail on top of the levy by widening it, adding access an access point at the eastern end of the trail and installing new amenities along the trail. We learned today from Mike Gagger that the OKI staff has given this project a high score, which is a good sign for federal funding, but we won't know for sure until a final decision is made by OKI next month. Uh if this project is approved next month, we're hopeful that

it can be constructed next year so that we will then have a brand new three-mile loop on the upper and lower trails in our city that are connected. So that's good news. So, uh a lot of stuff's been going on at Gilden Park and that's one of the reasons Rick and his crew have been so busy. Uh they've removed all the old playground equipment that's there and installation of the new playground equipment is expected to start the week of September 22nd which is not next week but the week after. Work on the pickup ball court continues. The asphalt has been installed and the one-mon curing period is over. So, the painting crew has been leveling the low spots on the court. And once this is done, the courts will be painted and striped, and then uh we will put up the fencing that already has the poles in place, but we had to wait installing the fencing until the that work is done. We've also uh constructed two retaining walls for the area. Uh the public works crew has leveled the areas around the pickle ball courts. They've seated the area and straw it. already have grass growing and um and that's where we are with the pickleball court. So, I think we're on track to have those done here very soon. Um we've also taken out the old fence that ran along Green Devil Drive. Um and um we were going to put on new fencing there when the playground equipment work is done. Uh that will be fencing that looks like the fencing that the football field has. So it will match uh in in style. Manhattan Boulevard uh today. Um no permanent no parking signs were installed on the south side of the street which we've been waiting for some hardware to get those up and we finally got it and they have been installed. They look good. The temporary ones were taken down. Um so that's good news. So, the public works uh building site on Third Avenue, Chief Schaffer talked about the fact that they've removed the training facility there, which we appreciate. So, today uh public works

crew members start removing the fencing around this property. Um a tree removal contractor is expected to take down, I think, what was it, 14 trees, some pretty large ones on this site, and that will start on September 15th. Uh the city staff has also been discussion with architectural firms about design plans for the building at this site and we're having a call on that tomorrow. And finally, curb painting on 6th Avenue. I know some people have raised this issue. They they do need to be painted. I was able to walk uh the whole avenue with public works folks. Uh last week we identified the curbs that need to be repainted and repaired. Unfortunately, they've been busy on timesensitive issues, so they really didn't have time to do it. So, I think we'll be able to get to that hopefully either later this week or next week. Um, so that's pretty much there's a lot more going on, but that's the highlights. Happy to answer any questions.

Could you repeat the tree part? Why are you taking trees down? I didn't hear that part. So, there are about 14 trees that are in on Third Avenue where we're going to build the new public works facility. They all have to come down. So, uh, Rick's in the process of getting the fencing down now. the trees come down and then we will start the design process. Um, and that will take some time. We'll have to bid that out, but we're working with architecture firms now to move that process forward. Okay. Thanks. Uh, quick question for me on the engineering report that was provided to us. Uh, it mentions a line item item about VO apartments and how we're going to have to take chunks of their sidewalk out in order to build the riverfront

commons area and then we're going to build them for the work done on that. um that we that this is a point of contention with VO. So we sent them the design plans for um what we want there to match up with what we want on Riverfront Trail, which is a much wider sidewalk. They got approval from Campbell County just to put a normal sidewalk in there. They're saying we got county approval and I said, "Well, we als we sent you this before you built the sidewalk. You should have built it right." So, it's a point of contention with them that we're trying to address and there's rumors that they may want to build something else in the city. So, maybe that will be part of our discussion with them in the future. Okay. Thank you.

That's a lengthy and great report, Mr. Faucet. Any other questions for Mr. Faucet? Um, what's going on with Dayton Pike, if anything? So, Dayton Pike, you mean the work they're doing, the water district? So, I think they're getting closer. They're um I they said that they were hoping they have it done by the end of this month and I'm hoping that's true, but there's possibility they said they could go in October, but I think looking like they're going to be done by the end of this month. So, I don't know. I haven't checked lately on how I will try to find out on how much more time. Looks like they have to do it, but they're getting much closer. Okay.

I know it's been a it's been an inconvenience, but it's going to be so much better having a new pipe there because that one leaks every year, a couple times a year. But I I'll find out and I'll report back to council. Thanks.

Anybody else have any questions for administrator Faucet this evening? Well, thank you very much for your lengthy report, sir. Next up is anybody from the audience is uh welcome to join uh the podium up here and uh address council administration with any of your concerns. Yes, sir. Just make sure uh if you please state your name and address. Can you can you can you come up to the speaker so people can hear you? You got it. Okay. Just bend it down. You can bend

or hold your hand either way you want to do it. There you go. That's fine. Um, I brought forward an investigation a year ago. Uh, real quick, your name and address, sir? Kenneth Moffet, 911 Fifth Avenue. Well, you're aware of the investigation I brought forward a year ago. So, as a chief notified by the lawyer with my second meeting with him, his case is closed. To this day, I still haven't gotten my documentation of that investigation. It's almost been a year. How long do I have to wait? this investigation if I remember correctly and I see so many uh regarding uh your your truck. That's correct. And the guy who slammed into it in the parking lot.

Okay. And the chief well this police said there's no damage to his other vehicle. So why did he file a claim for the damage he did when he slammed it into my truck? William told me this case is closed. I'm just waiting for my documentation for this. I haven't gotten it's almost a year. Next week it'll be a year. They notify me in case to close. I still haven't seen my documentation. Chief, why don't you speak into the microphone there?

Yeah. All right. There was an accident report. Uh Mr. Moffett wasn't even there. He wasn't had no bearing in the case. It was a bumper It was bumper to bumper in the parking lot of the high school. The officer, the officer did a report and that report has been completed. He made a complaint. We even he came, I think, to council several months ago and last year. Yeah. Talked to Alex year ago. Yeah, I did. We did. And he told me the case is closed. Where's my documentation of it? I don't know what I don't know what documentation you're you're needing. Bumper to bumper. You weren't there. Now, you know, I don't know.

I read the report and I talked to the office. Sorry, sir. Sir, sir. You'll have to wait for him to people can't hear when you're both speaking the same time. So, let him finish and then you can respond. Yeah. Okay. We're not changing the report. The report as is. He has he has the report. He's had the report and he's had some questions. Alex met with him after council meeting. Talked to him. We actually met uh he came to Yeah. You came to city hall, too. So, we sat down and talked. You requested that? Correct. And we did look at the report and all the facts involving it. You didn't show me nothing that day. And we made a determination that the

I believe that if I recall the facts, I see a lot of them. It was um someone that you had loaned your vehicle to that was operating the vehicle. That's correct. And it was a girl if I recall correctly. That's correct. And the investigation revealed that she was the at fault party. Well, this is why I asked for an investigation to look into this police officer. He just says bumper to bumper. This guy t-boned my vehicle from a parking space into the side of my truck. Yeah. And I indicated to you the bumper out of that.

And I indicated to you from a criminal standpoint the investigation had been completed that if you wanted to seek a remedy, it would be on a civil format. And you promptly thanked me and you left. That was the conversation. Thanks. You're welcome. Well, I I took it as a thank you. Okay. Well, this case I was the one who brought the charges against this officer, documented charges allegedly. What? There's no there would be no charges against the officer. The officer did nothing wrong. Okay. The officer took a report. Okay. Where's the recording of this guy's body cam? If he knew this was going to happen before it happened. That's what he said in writing. Yeah. I'll have to check on body. I don't know if we had body cam two years ago. I I doubt

I don't believe I don't know if we had body cam two years ago. Sure did. Okay. Well, then you should have had it. That's right. I should have it. You got to file an open records request for that. My name's mentioned report. It doesn't matter. You have if you want the open records, we'll speak after the meeting. No, we ain't doing that again. Last time I did that, he gave his point of view. I told you my point of view and that's it. It's we're done. It's done. The investigation's over with. Uh I have an option to go outside the city, right? Sure. I'm sure

now happened 9 years ago before I came to your office, reached out to the state police. Then why he resigned nine years ago? He never resigned. Uh he did. I retired. Chief Hel never retired. He retired. I retired five years ago. Okay. That was five years ago, not nine. Five years. Five years ago. Yeah. Okay. But if you want to take it further, we're I more than happy to and we've given them instructions and talking to the city attorney on how to do so. It's it's a civil matter. It's an issue of you believe it to be the officer was not a an eyewitness to it. Anyway, the issue said he was

the issue was is that there were two parties involved including the one that you loan the vehicle to. This police officer claims he is an eyewitness. So if I again my recollection is is that the woman that you lent your vehicle to was the at fault at the at fault driver. No, that's what the investigation revealed. That was my recommendation. Whose investigation? That's you said an internal review was done or a review was done. Who did that review? The review was completed by the officer that was at the scene, sir. Sorry. The review is completed by the officer that was at the scene. displeas.

If you have a concern about whether or not it's all you then have a civil remedy, not a criminal remedy, a civil remedy to bring an action against the driver that struck the vehicle. Okay. Uh lastly, I heard the open records request is not combined with a public record request. Are they both on the same page? I didn't understand the question. The open records request for like police department documentation and a public records request, they've been combined. It's the same. It's those terms. Those terms are the same. No. If he wants body cam, he has to file an open records request. You're more than welcome to come.

You have you have a right to have the report because your name, your vehicle uh is listed in the report. But if you want a copy of the body cam, you have to file an open records request. Okay. As long as Yeah. This police office says there's no damage to vehicle number two. The officer said there's the damage that you're saying happened to the vehicle was not consistent with what happened in the accident. Number two vehic issue, correct? This is a civil issue. It's a civil it's a civil matter. Hold on then. Now you asked me to stop and let him talk. Can I talk now?

This police officer says no damage was done to be bigger number two because she clipped his bumper. Allegedly, this guy filed a claim with my insurance company for the damage that he did when he ran into my truck. Where's that? That's in this report, too, right? You're the at fault party. So, your unit is the at fault party. That vehicle ran into the other vehicle. That's what the report states. Ran into it. First, you just said it was bumper to bump and now you say he ran into it. Which one is it? I feel like I'm getting nowhere here. Yeah. We want to see I've been getting nowhere. Okay, no problem.

We We've explained to him multiple times and tried to help him multiple times. You'll be available tomorrow. How to do it? Uh no, I will not be in my office tomorrow. The police will be on there Thursday. Thursday, Friday. Uh I don't know the top of my head. Uh I got Alex will be there tomorrow. I I could possibly be there tomorrow. have a busy day anymore. I probably we ain't talking anymore. Well, he is our attorney. So, he is our attorney. So, you you you will need to work with him as well. I already tried to work with him. Okay.

I got it. Plain and simple. This case is closed. That's the end of it. And that's a fact. The case is closed. I don't get the documentation for the charges I brought forward. You're re you first of all you brought the report in that day that we reviewed together. You have the report. If you want to make another subsequent request, you can do so as permitted by the law. If you want a remedy, then you have a civil remedy that you can pursue. As far as from a criminal standpoint, the city is complete with your investigation. When I fill out this open records request tomorrow, how long does it take for me to get that documentation? We'll process it within 10 days. 10 days. Okay, all I got.

Thanks, Ken. Appreciate it. Unfortunately, I think this is going to wind up going outside the city. I wish it didn't have to, but we appreciate your uh decisions. All right. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Anyone else like to address council administration? Anyone? Anyone? All right. Any new business council? Then don't forget that we have September 30th as a secondary meeting to discuss

5:30 here, 6 o'clock at the school board. Okay? So mark your calendar to be here. So that's a today's the night. It's it's the last it's the last Tuesday, not the fourth Tuesday. It's the fifth Tuesday. And why not the fourth Tuesday? KC is having a conference in Owensboro on the fourth Tuesday. More importantly, the school district could not they could not do this was scheduled with with the school district in mind. They couldn't do that Tuesday. There's a joint meeting with the school district board members. Okay. At six o'clock and they requested this. We we suggested this for the second Tuesday, right?

But they they could not do it. So they asked this to be the last Tuesday of the month. So this is a special meeting. Yes. The only thing on the agenda both are special meetings. So ours is a special meeting here. Second reading of the of the tax rate and a public hearing on that. I think we also have a public hearing on municipal road aid if anybody wants to come talk about that. Uh after that we onlying half an hour. I don't think it's going to take much more than that. We go across the way here to the board of education for the joint meeting with the school board members. Thank you. Thank you. Any other new business? Do I have a motion to adjurnn? I'll make that motion.

Member Neman's made a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Horton's made a second. All in favor? I. Any nays? Any abstensions? See y'all on the 30th. said, "Well done.