City Commission - Regular Meeting

Did we get the mic? I wasn't paying attention.

Uh, if I can have your attention, please. Welcome everyone here today. Uh, it's time to call the city of Franklin city commission to order. And to open our, it's a regular meeting. And to open the meeting, I will ask Commissioner Bush to lead us in a word of prayer. Our Father, you are in heaven. Be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. Give us our daily bread. Forgive us our trespasses. Forgive those who trespass against us. Not into temptation, but is forgiven. for yours and kingdom power and glory. Just pray. Amen.

Thank you, Mr. Bush. And I don't believe we have anyone signed up to hear the subject. I think we will move on to approve the minutes. That'll be the approval of minutes uh of the April 136 regular meeting. And I'm sure anyone had an opportunity to read over those, look over those. Are there any comments or questions? Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Powell to approve. Second, mayor. Second by Commissioner McCquary. Uh, any further comments or questions? And we'll have a roll call. Commissioner Pal, yes. Commissioner Bush,

Mayor Dixon, yes. Commissioner McCra, yes. Commissioner Stewart, yes.

And that motion passes. Okay, thank you Kathy. From here we will move on to recognitions and recognitions. We have Logan Kaufman with us here today and I think Johnny Skipworth is going to come and speak to us and commissioners. Thank you very much. I am so happy to recognize today passed his class three water treatment operators certification test and um and he's moving forward to get his class 4. So the class 4 certification is the highest surface water treatment certification you can get in Kentucky and he's just an excellent asset to to us as a team and to the city. Um he ensures that our water is safe to drink and has the best quality. And not only that, he's like an electrician and a pump specialist and a motor specialist and a landscaper. He's really just, you know, jack of all trades. Helps us out every day at the plant. I don't have any lights on.

I'm not a licensed electrician, but yes, we've got someone who's willing to look into just about anything I throw at now. Logan, congratulations to you. Thank you for the job you're doing.

Okay, moving on. Uh, under recognitions, we'll have introduction of officer Travis Frank and our K and K9 Rico and, uh, I believe Major Thompson is going to comment. Good news and some bad news. Good news and bad news. Um, Frank's able to make it today. He has been tied up since 8 this morning on a call where Rico could not be with him. Um, so we'll schedule for the dog to come meet all y'all. But with that said, I still think he needs to be recognized as long as his partner. I just want to start out with saying Officer Brian and Rico have been together since October of 2025. Since then, they've already been deployed approximately 35 times, which has led to arrest, investigations, and quite a bit of seizures of elicit drugs and narcotics. In addition to that, officer Frank and Rico entered into an onpoint training seminar competition last month, March of this year. There were 30 teams that went to this competition and seminar, and they came from six different states as well. Um, Officer Frank and Rico were able to compete in the single purpose category where they placed second place. So that that's pretty outstanding uh to do in such a short amount of time. I can speak from experience. I've competed with my dog in this same competition. Um, and I didn't come nowhere close to second. That's pretty awesome. Uh, I will say that I want you to have a chance to meet this dog because it's a very beautiful dog. And I'm going to turn it over to Travis Frank so y'all can ask questions and anything y'all want to ask about this dog. And again, we'll bring him in here so y'all can meet him. It just didn't work out today. As well as you can say whatever you want. Let them know what type of dog you have. For you guys that don't know, my name is Travis Frank. I'm Caner here at Frank Police Department. Uh, Rico is a 2-year-old German Shepherd. He weighs about 85 pounds. Uh he's love bug for

the most part. He looks a lot meaner than he actually is, but he's he's a good dog. He's trained on three odors. Uh heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine. Uh he is a passive dog in alert sense. He doesn't have he doesn't scratch cars or or do anything like that. He is very passive alert that that we are trained. Uh which is good. He like Major Thompson said, he's at home right now. I've been at the hospital for about four or five hours now. So I leave him in a place where it's so easy to just have to sit in the car and be uncomfortable for that period of time when I know him be stuck on something. U the on point seminar that that Major Thompson spoke about, we competed against a handful of other dogs. The way that worked was it was five days of various scenarios, sniffing various odors and false odors, all the things and it was all times. Mr. Thomas wanted me to bring my belt buckle that I won second place. So they'll buckle with that try to figure out how to put on my D. Yeah, if you guys have any questions, I'd like to set up something maybe at one of these commission meetings where I can hide some odors or hide something and should kind of show how the dog works or just he kind of gets nervous in big crowds of people unless he's working. If he's working, he's fine. So bring him in here, maybe putting him on a stand or something, show everybody how it works.

That would be I don't have a question, but I can see you all being really pissed. Yes. If you figure out how to get that, you know, I'm sure you have a couple cowboy fig. I appreciate you guys. Thank you for coming and sharing with us. Okay, from here we will move on to community services and under uh community services to have discussion and a possible action regarding amnesty days and I think Kinton was will speak.

Yes, mayor. This is uh something that's become very successful over the years. I think it grows every year. Uh we're getting offered again this year May 29th and uh May 30th, Friday and Saturday uh is amnesty days. So uh the items is not allow allowed is motor oils, paints, refrigerants, tires, asbestous, chemicals, batteries, contractors, scrap, demolation, and building materials. So typically what's set up is uh you just need to show your license to make sure you reside in the county and and basically you can come and go. But uh but mayor, the proposed motion is to have amnassy bay for household waste disposal at no charge Friday the 29th and Saturday the 30th contingent on the right action by Cincy County Court. Uh if we approve this, we already have a flyer that we can just push out and start advertising on social media.

You've heard the proposal. Do I have a motion? Mr. Mayor, we have a motion by Commissioner McQuery. I second. here. Second by Commissioner Stewart. Are there any further questions or comments? If not, we'll take a vote. All in favor? I I.

Any oppose? And that motion carries unanimously. Thank you. U moving on community services to federal government. Uh we have discussion and a possible action regarding request for street closing. And I believe Angela is here to uh bring that to us and and you're welcome to speak.

Um I my name is Angela Fontis. I'm the president of Windsor Park HOA and we are planning to host a community event um on May 16th from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. We plan to close off a portion of the street. However, there w there is a street um before the closing where we'll essentially be redirecting traffic. So, it won't be closed off completely. There will still be access to get in and out. What length of time will that hour? May 16th from 11:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. I didn't read it. I see that.

That's okay. So, it's going to be closed from that first intersection to where on Victoria um just past the second stop sign. There's uh the last street that goes in between St. George and Victoria. It'll be um just on the other side of that. So, it'll just be a portion of Victoria. Yes. Angel, you also have communicated to the neighbors and everything about this event.

Yes. Yeah, we've um we've already um posted um we discussed it on our HOA meeting on Saturday um and neighbors that are closed are aware um of the closing um that uh the area that we've designated for this are actually empty lots. So, we're not going to be blocking anybody's driveway. Um we were pretty placement. When we close a road, do we have a process or procedure in place that we alert like emergency services?

Yes. Uh I know that we typically push it out, Dan usually takes care of that. We push it out to emergency management. We put it on social media. So on the street closers request and they will still be able to have access. Um, we will have a food truck present, but it wouldn't be blocking the street if there were any emergency services that did need to come through. That's still made possible. Um, we would just more than likely need to move the cups if that were the case. Sure. Yeah. More people can get on board in their communities.

Okay. So the propo proposed motion is to close a portion of Victoria Way at Windsor Park subdivision for a neighborhood event sponsored by the Homeowners Association on Saturday, May 16th, 2026 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. And do I have a motion to that effect? We have a motion by Commissioner Bush. Second by Commissioner Pow. Is there any further discussion? All in favor? I I any opposition and that motion carries and thank you. Thank you. Have a good day. Thank you.

Okay. Under general government moving on will be discussion and possible action regarding the residential building an electrical inspector and Hinton will speak to us.

Yes sir Mayor. Um what we have before you uh just one thing we had uh Ron Taber with us uh since Jan uh I guess July of last year uh he was a building inspector. He worked from basically from 8 to noon every day but he is recently out and uh probably will not be coming back. So, the way we was set up, we basically had building inspections uh pretty much half the day and then we had the electrical inspections uh after 3:00 p.m. and that was uh it was successful, but with Ron not coming out, we had a void. So, we have an opportunity with Troy Mills. that we've just discussed with him. Uh we've had two three different meetings and we're really uh extra blessed because he has both certifications in residential and electric. Well, he has a level three electrical and um he has the full gamut. So, um so he's agreed to kind of come in and and support through normal days, you know, Monday through Fridays from the normal work hours. So it it would be a real bonus for us. Um

this have taken care of the situation with the pizza place or no? What place? The pizza place because it Oh yeah. Also you've noticed that um does that require expand does he have expand? Is that what the level three is? Spanish

levels three. You can see after about a few months he said uh he said about three or four months working here he can go ahead and exp apply for the get the expanded jurisdiction so he can handle anything state related he can all do it here. So uh yeah it would take care of the the pizza or any other project that could happen he could do it all. So, uh, the motion would be to enter a contract with, uh, actually is Troy Mills for building electrical, uh, inspector in terms of the attached contract and have the mayor assign all necessary documents. Okay, you've heard the proposal. Do I have a motion?

I move them. Have a motion by Commissioner Stewart, second by Commissioner Powell. Any further discussion or comments? We'll take a roll call vote. Kathy, please. Commissioner Stewart, yes. Commissioner McCra, yes. Mayor Dixon, yes. Commissioner Bush, Commissioner Pal, and that motion passes.

Thank you, Kathy. Okay, we will move on to under general government discussion and a possible action regarding professional support for gateway 65 project and hinton will on that one.

Yeah, on I think in our last meeting March 3rd basically the commission approved to kind of go out and look for a a professional specialty group as far as uh overlooking the data center which is the planning and zoning it approved. And uh with that we had narrowed down our research to it's a company called UK4. Uh their headquarter is in Louisville. Uh we've had uh several conference calls or Zoom meetings with them. Uh you can see the proposal on your page 34. Um, and basically I'll kind of read it. It's it's provide an in independent engineer review uh services for public interaction and necessary for any new data center projects proposed for the city of Franklin. Our goal is to support the city decision-making process with clear technical ground analysis and clear communication for electrical officials, staff, and residents. So QK4 if you can to think of as an umbrella they're pulling in you can see on page 34 a company called CMTA which have basically have built data centers another company called RES Resource Environmental Solutions and another company ground solid ground consulting engineers. So you have all aspects of design if you go to page 35 and what does that mean? They're going to take care of sight and civil constructions. Number two, um utility demand and capacity implic uh loading, environmental and natural resources, uh mechanical systems, uh electrical systems overview, plumbing systems, processes, uh you can see life, safety, energy, and then uh soil foundation consideration. So it's really looking at the whole gamut uh and uh and basically reporting back as you know if the company

progresses and submits plans uh QK4 will review it in 15 days and then say does this meet uh standards or basically acceptable if not then they ask for further investigation. So there is a kind of reporting back and forth and the reporting goes back to the planning and zoning board. So um so really I was really impressed with um their discussion and their uh the support to give the support that we need. Um it's kind of the first in the area as talking about I I think u we're the ones that kind of from a city perspective from the area perspective to ask the company to do an oversight. Uh you can see also their budget is $40,000. They thought that would be a good budgetary start. So, um, I'm open up for questions or

do you know how long they've been in business? 1974. 74, please. Yes. And, and obviously these other companies that are working under them, they have worked directly or indirectly with each one of those groups. So, um, what so 40,000 what's the what would be the deliverable? Basically, they're going to be researching all the drawings and submissions for the data center if it develops. They'll look at processes, uh, electrical, loading, environmental, uh, uh, fire protection, uh, they'll go through the whole gamut. I mean,

it's somewhat when when we initially talked about this and Kenton, he laid out a list of different things that may bring up some concerns. what I read, they check off all those list of things that we talked about as it relates to the data center. I don't think any of us I don't know how those things come into to fruition. So therefore, this is a check and balance that we have. And I do want to make it clear, you know, this I I I don't think this group is uh supporting for nor against, but they are the checks and balances of the concerns that the community has how these how this process is and how these data centers come into being and and they're built. So I guess it's just

Well, I I think it's a little further than that, Commissioner. I I think what they'll do is they'll look at it, but they'll look at it the way I understand it from the community standpoint. Sure. To make sure the community point to say to make sure if if something looks funny, they put they put it out, right? Because none of us know what what we're doing. I hate to say it that way, but it's just true. We've never dealt with this. Planning and zoning doesn't. They're they're there for to be our watchd dogss and say, "Whoa, you don't want them to do that." And at least that's what I envision them to do for this community and I think it's just fine.

So, I mean, if that's the case, can we So, so what's so the ask we have an ask today? Is there an ask today? Like we're going to ask to make a motion to Yeah. Yeah. So like my only clarifying point would be like to your point, can we see some data that they've provided other communities? Well, this will kind of be the first one that they're have done as a total oversight. There's there's hardly anybody out there from what I understand that has done this to protect the community. You know, they're always been working for the data center people. So we're we're kind of ahead of the curve to make sure we're okay on this. has where are we at with the lawsuit? Has everybody been serving?

No, not yet. No, sir. So really, that's I mean that's just delaying the process. I mean, is this something that we need to do now given the fact that we're in the middle of that? Well, if there if the commission approves it, there's no work or activity to to be build. But if something happens, it'd be nice to have somebody to to be able to be proactive instead of waiting. I think you are. But that's proactive. Huh?

Do you have to do it today? No. But I I here's here's what you've got. You've got a company that could be could start today recognizing even with the lawsuits going on because they're not enjoying to stop. Define who's they Well, I mean, they could do dirt work and stuff like that. They really they couldn't they couldn't go too far because they don't have the all they've got approved is the preliminary plan. So, but would I would I want to get them in sooner rather than later? Well, yeah. I mean, you want you want them to hit the ground running and to be on the to be able to look at this stuff as it comes up.

So, if they needed I mean, we're going to be proactive. So, I mean, I understand what you're saying about looking at the plans, but like is there things that they should look at prior to looking at the plan? I think the plans whoever the company's developing the plans it'll be submitted to the group or to this company and they review the plans and say okay as I said right here in the qualifications we will focus on the objective and documentation findings and clearly stated assumptions so the city can set defensible conditions protect infrastructure communicate transparity transparity with the public. So they will review every plan going forward before they say thumbs up or thumbs down.

Well, and I think it's a little more to it than that, Commissioner. I think I mean right now we've paid them zero. They've done nothing. There's all this preliminary stuff that's been filed that they need to read now or soon and get up to speed in case something comes up in the notsodistant future because we just don't know. I mean, that's that's I mean, I'm not trying to shove it down your throat. It's just whatever you all want to do. If you want to put it off to the next meeting and look at it some more, certainly I can't imagine something's going to happen between now and the next probably two meetings or three meetings if then. But better be safe. Sorry.

Yeah. I mean, I would appreciate probably two more weeks to kind of I think that's perfectly acceptable. Yeah. I would make a motion to table. I I don't even think you need a motion. I think you can just ask to be put it back on next meeting if you want it next meeting or two meetings from now. The problem is is remember the we only have one regular meeting in May because of Memorial Day. So it's just whatever you want to you tell you tell these guys I think the next meeting on the 11th you okay put We'll have time for

you. Okay with the waiting till the 11th or you going to push it off further? The next meeting after that is our special call budget. I think the next reg regular schedule B. Carol everybody good with that? No, I have a question.

Okay. Um, I'm not in favor of moving fast at all, but I do want to understand um why are we waiting? Well, just so I think the thing is like from my perspective like one I just need to I'll be honest like I need to read over the what they're task one task two again to make sure that I fully comprehend what they're going to be providing us for $40,000. The only thing is like so normally what I would do in a situation like this is like we would like we would request to see some kind of sample sanitizable from the agency or the consulting company that we would be working with to kind of make

So you say you haven't read it? I haven't read I've read over this but I need to read it again. Okay. But I mean it's the only thing that I'm concerned about is like I want to make sure that we know exactly what we're getting and we're not missing something that we probably should ask about because it's again this is something that not everybody's doing. So it's the Donald Rumsfeld thing. We don't know what we don't know. So, knowing that, we've got to try to figure out like are there questions that we

So, when the phase two processes this cuz I think obviously when we when we uh when we allocated I think up to $100,000 to find or find a company to do this for us. Okay. That was we got did that. Uh now we found the company. So, you're saying we need to investigate the company? No, no, no, no. I'm just saying that that for me. I mean, we I I mean, we can vote whatever. It don't matter. I'm just saying for me, I would like another two weeks just to make sure that I don't have additional questions. I Well, I'm that's what I'm asking. I'm I'm trying to understand because I I know that that there was no rebuttal against the the the $100,000 that we allocated to do this,

right? And I'm not And we have a company now and then there's rebuttal against the company. No, it's not against the company. is just to make sure that we're getting that we're that the work product that we receive will be beneficial to us. I'm not saying that what is right here is not. I'm just saying how are we going to know? You going to call them? H you going to call the company and talk to them? No, probably not. I mean, other than reading the material, how how will we know? Because that still dates back to the day. So, I don't want to prolong this. It's not it's not everybody else. It's not everybody else. It's just me, okay? And this is just me. So, if y'all want to vote, I'm just saying I need to that's that's there's it's nothing.

I mean, that's not a problem. It's not a big big It's not an issue, but I know that I mean, I know this is a very sensitive situation in this community. Correct. And so, uh uh as as as Scott pointed out just a few minutes ago, you know, for the community and the checks and balances um that we want to put in place. Yeah. uh for the all the concerns. You know, this is this is we're trying to address that, right? And so I you know, I don't I don't know. I don't know. I don't want to pause and create something if if we need to be getting on this. We need to get on this. I agree. I I will say that's my concern.

For me, for I just think that I just need two weeks. So if you guys feel comfortable voting on it now, that's fine. I would abstain or vote no. Well, I we you want to definitely, you know, respect your you know, your your ability to know bring yourself up to speed. So, we're going to so we're on the same page like we're good or probably not, but Okay. Uh because I don't see no reason why we we can't move forward with it. But it's okay though.

Is there any other companies that that you're aware of that is off? have uh we reached out to a couple other um I don't want to mention but this setup was the best that I thought it was. Uh I read over it. So uh you don't you don't have to mention the company's name. Can you say why you don't want to mention? Is it just Well, I I don't want to bring up their name from another company. I I don't think that be appropriate. Um so as as always Yeah. I you know what's the what's what's the total wishes of the commission?

The only thing I was going to do is just look at the company online, but as Commissioner Stewart said, that's that's really not going to tell me anything. So, I'm good with voting numbers today. That's I am too. If well, I think it would show if we develop that the city is committed to have something in place. So if you have something committed into place, then company A knows that they have to start looking before they even start designing because they have somebody's going to look at it. If we back off, they're going to be a little bit more relaxed. I'm just telling you, if they know they have somebody that's going to start looking through all their paperwork and doing all the math, they're going to make sure that they're making sure everything's

and one thing I would say too, and again, it makes no difference. too is too reasonable matter. Probably not. But if we go ahead and send them what we have, all of the stuff that's been filed with planning and zoning, it gets them up to speed. And then if you all want to talk to them as a commission and tell them your concern before we really get into this, I think it'd be appropriate. I think that's and that way you'll have some time. Let them look at it. Let them get up to speed. Then you all look at what whatever concerns you have and address that with them early on. I'm not going to be here, but I mean that's what I would recommend you to do is, you know, talk to them and tell them what you're concerned. Okay.

Well, we will call for we well, let me let me let me read this and see if it's okay from a motion and then you can correct me if I'm wrong. No, go ahead. Because you normally do. What time? uh QK4 to provide independent engineering review services and public interaction as necessary for the new data center projects proposed within the city of Franklin for amount of $40,000 and have the mayor to sign any and all documentation. Perfect. I'll make that motion, mayor. And we have a motion by it only took 15 years. Have a second by Commissioner McQuary. Uh it's it's perfect session.

No, I'm just I'm just I'm vote no. Not because I don't think it's a terrible idea. I just think that like from my perspective from a wording standpoint may include. So I'm just used to statement of works and those things being more concrete. So more concern. I'll have a roll call vote. Kathy, please. Um, I'll start with Commissioner Bush. You've already said you're voting. No. No. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Commissioner Pal. Yes. Mayor Dixon. Yes. Commissioner McCra. Yes. Commissioner Stewart. Yes.

And that motion passes. Thank you, Kathy. Uh there we will move on under community search general government uh discussion under possible action regarding appointment to the historic preservation committee. And Hinton, you want to Yes, sir. Uh it's a motion to reappoint Lee Ross Denwitten to the historical preservation committee for a four-year term to expire on April 30th, 2030. Okay. We have a motion by Excuse me. Second, mayor. Second by Commissioner Stewart. Uh, comments or questions?

We'll have a roll call vote. Ky, please. Mayor Dixon. Yes. Commissioner Bush. Commissioner McCra? Yes. Commissioner Stewart? Yes. Commissioner Pal? Yes. And that motion passes. Thank you, Kathy. Uh from there we will move on under general government to discussion and possible actions uh regarding uh HA and FSA administration. Uh rule and Carol I believe you have done a lot of work on that and so far we'll have discussion if we'll

that was this is an annual agreement we signed. Currently, McGregor has been administering the health reimbursement arrangement and the flex spending arrangement for us for the last several years. Um, so our current contract expires June 30th. Uh, their renewal rates, they've kept it the same. It's $5 per employee per month for HA and for FSA, they actually dropped the rates from $4.25 25 cents to $4 per member per month um for the next year. We've had really good experience with them. No real issues. They administer it and are on top of things. So, we would just like to renew that for another year. Um the contract does have to be renewed electronically. So, I'm requesting that the commission authorize me to complete and sign that electronically rather than have the mayor sign it. That's all right. And we have a motion by Commissioner Push.

Second. Second by Commissioner McCclary. Uh and this is this we previously Carol explained that do a great job. And so if no further comments or questions, we'll ask for a we'll ask for a roll call vote. Kathy, please. Commissioner Pal. Yes. Commissioner Bush. Mayor Dixon. Yes. Commissioner McCra. Commissioner Stewart. Yes. And that motion passes.

Thank you, Kathy. Time here. Continuing under general government, we will have discussion and a possible action regarding proposed orders adopting supplement to code of ordinances and Kathy will bring that to us.

Thank you, mayor. Um we have a proposed ordinance to adopt our latest supplement to our uh code of ordinances which we collectively refer to as our cotification. This supplement includes all ordinances that were passed through August of 2025 and any changes to the statutes that were adopted through 2025. And we have two adoptments. I only need two sponsors today. Commissioner Pal and Stewart. All right. Thank you. And we'll have first reading in just a little bit.

Okay. Uh and under uh general government discussion or possible action regarding proposed ordinance reszoning property located on Brown Road owned by the Manning irrevocable living revocable living trust and Scott will speak to us on that.

Yes, sir. uh planning and zoning conducted a public hearing on a zone change on these lots. There are several lots. They've got small warehouse looking buildings on them and the planning and zoning uh voted to approve the zone change and referred it to us. If it meets your approval, we will need two sponsors for an ordinance zoning. Pal McCra, thank you all. First have first reading and just Thank you, Scott. Okay, from here we will move on to public safety. Mayor, mayor, I we don't have anything under public safety, but I have a question if you don't mind me asking.

Um, I've noticed, you know, I know our streets are extremely small. Um, and there vehicles that are located on the streets. And I'm thinking mainly with our buses, school buses. I know on Washington Street, uh I know there's a home I mean there's a I guess a Airbnb on the end of the street and cars parked on the on the they the street is so small those buses have trouble trying to turn on the Washington street especially if there's cars at the stop sign going east. uh Washington Street goes east and west and I've noticed other places where uh even on Madison Street uh there are cars on the there are cars actually parked in the street for the businesses and that's a narrow street. you know, we got some of these issues around town that we're going to have to start addressing because this is really, you know, I don't know if you're out very much in the mornings when school traffic is is is massive. And you know, some of these places cars can pass, but some of these places, some of these cars are there overnight. And you know, with the traffic increasing and the community growing, you know, we've got some of these issues that we've definitely got to address. uh because they're becoming a real hazardous.

North street too. North street, same thing. Same thing. Yeah.

So, you know, I don't know what we need to look at in the future to start trying to maintain and and and keeping a breast on this uh you know, cuz at some point we'll probably have to look at transportation purposes around community around Franklin as we grow. But this is just some immediate things. I don't know if we need to block off like we did on uh on Main Street, those two uh parking spaces right there on the corner of uh 31W and Cedar Street. Uh uh you know, we blocked those off cuz when cars was turning and so we having more problems like that now. And so, you know, I I I know uh John had did some, you know, the the stop sign with the chief and and you know, we started evaluating that and we hadn't talked about anything like that lately, but I think that's something that definitely needs to be talked about a lot more, you know, with with as we grow and with more vehicles on the road and and things of that nature. So, uh you know, we I think we just need to start having more conversation about how we need to address that. if you know if we need something that we need to ongoing process you know to see what we need to do and as a part of public safety.

Might I make a suggestion? What would the commissioners that had noticed issues and particularly in certain areas send an email maybe to Carol and then she can push it out to Darl John or Roger and look into that and see what we can do to resolve it. I I like what you're thinking. Maybe we say no parking here to stop sign or something. Or at least do like they do at the school have a limited time frame. Say no parking from here to here to corner from 8:00 a.m. to 10 a.m. something, right? But these spots need to be identified. But that's what I was going to say. If you send the problem areas, then they can look at for others and then we can maybe get a global storage.

But I I like the way you're thinking particularly from a liability standpoint. What about I would rather you not I mean that I just come down the most I mean it's bad on top they're cutting through there like it's ter I get it but I would rather if I was going to inconvenience somebody I'd rather inconvenience the person parking on the road for a couple hours rather than our school kids who I picked up right in front their house where they don't have to have the potential to get hit by a car. And that's seasonal. The school bus is seasonal anyway. It's not like they ride all the time.

Well, it's most all the time, but it's it's more it's not only seasonal, but it's only for a short amount of time each day. Absolutely. So, I stop on 31. You can you can do anything you want, but good luck is what I tell you. our our our ability to get uh our ability to get signals and things from the state is sometimes not very not very good. That's all I had. Thank you, Mr. Stewart. Thank you. That's that that is well taken and I think it's something we need to start addressing. Thank you. Send an email.

Yeah, that's Yeah, thank you. Thank you, Scott. Okay. From here we'll move on to public safety there. Uh anything other utilities further Trent? Okay. Uh ordinances and Kathy Mayor like you have a question to speak to this if this is the right time. No it's not. We we're going to bring that up. I I I know you're here. We're going to bring you appreciate it. Yes. Okay. active. We're ready for ordinances, please.

Thank you. We'll have second summary reading today of ordinance number 20260006, an ordinance of the city of Franklin, Kentucky, repealing and reenacting text and substance of a previous ordinance regarding sections 8.15.2 and 8.16.2 of the zoning regulations. And I will need a first and second motion for approval. So move by Commissioner Powell. Second. Second by Commissioner Stewart. And we'll have a roll call vote. Commissioner Pow. Commissioner Bush.

Mayor Dixon. Yes. Commissioner McCra. Yes. Mr. Stewart. Yes. And that ordinance passes. We'll have second summary reading of number 20260008, an ordinance repealing a prior ordinance and readopting a flood damage prevention ordinance. I will need a first and second motion for approval. Motion motion by Commissioner McQuary. Second, mayor. Second by Commissioner Stewart. And again, we'll have a roll call vote. Mr. Stewart, yes. Commissioner McCra, yes. Mayor Dixon,

yes. Commissioner Bush, Pal, yes.

And that ordinance passes. We'll have first summary reading of ordinance number 20260009, an ordinance enacting and adopting a supplement to the code of ordinances of the city of Franklin, Kentucky. And moving on, we will have first summary reading of ordinance number 2026 010, an ordinance reszoning certain property located on Brown Road from I2 Heavy Industry to B4 Highway District as requested by James A. Manning and Gail H. Manning Revocable Living Trust. This concludes first andor second summary reading of these ordinances. They will become effective upon passage of publication. A full copy is available by contacting the city clerk at city hall during normal business hours.

Thank you, Kathy. Uh that concludes our ordinances and uh at this point that moves us to executive session and under executive session will be litigation and that's discussion or proposed or pending litigation ARS 618101C personnel and that's discussions or hearings which might lead to the appointment discipline or dismissal of an individual employee or member under KRS618101F F and I will need a motion to go into executive session. So move mayor. Motion by Commissioner Stewart, second by Commissioner Bush. All in favor? I. I.

Any oppose? We now move into

Think it did. Yeah, we're good. I wonder if it was just another hookup. It's on.

All right. So are we. All right. Uh I will need a motion to come out of executive session. So move with motion by Commissioner Powell. Second. Second by Commissioner McQuary. All in favor? I I. And we now move back into regular session. And I believe we have a couple of motions to come before the floor.

We do. Mayor, as we briefly discussed earlier, uh, and the public knows, there has been a lawsuit filed against the city of Franklin with regard to the preliminary plat decision by our city planning and zoning commission. And we will need a uh a firm to handle that on behalf of the city. And the motion is to hire Pike Legal Group to defend the city and the planning and zoning lawsuit against the Franklin Citizens Responsible for or Franklin Citizens for Responsible Development, Inc. and to authorize the mayor to sign any and all documents that may be necessary uh in order to secure that representation.

I'll make that motion. We have a motion by Commissioner Powell. Second. Second, Mayor. Second by Commissioner Stewart. Are there any further comments? If not, we'll ask for a roll call vote. Kathy, Commissioner Pal, yes. Commissioner Bush, stay. Mayor Dixon, yes. Commissioner McCra, yes. And Commissioner Stewart, yes.

And that motion passes. The second motion is a motion to offer employment/hire Amanda East as the city as the next city attorney subject to the final rate negotiation by the city manager and the mayor and to authorize the mayor to sign any and all documents necessary including a contract with the attorney. So move mayor. We have a motion by Commissioner McQuary. Secondary. Second by Commissioner Stewart. All in favor? I need a roll call vote. Mayor, sorry, you're right. So, roll call khaki, please. All right. Commissioner Stewart, yes. Commissioner McCra, yes.

Mayor Dixon, yes. Commissioner Bush, there was no discussion, but I'm going to vote no because we have no contract and we did not discuss this publicly. Now, let's stop right here. We'll discuss it publicly. You have the floor, Commissioner Bush. We've already started voting. We can stop. How does that work? If whoever made the motion, Mayor, I'll make a motion to retract my first motion so we can have discussion for He withdraws his motion and second. We discussion.

Withdraw my second. Uh, a motion and and second has been withdrawn by Commissioner McQuary and the second by Commissioner Stewart. There's a question on the floor. There is a question on the floor by Commissioner Bush. So, are we going to publicize the uh scoring criteria? I can't I I can't hear you. Are we going to publicize the scoring criteria? Is that something we generally do? I generally know. Why wouldn't we? I mean, you can once it's final. It's not a final until the decision is final. There is no public record out of this.

I just have a problem with the way the process was handled from a transparency standpoint. So, I don't know how it could have been more transparent. We advertised everywhere we could. I've tried to stay out of the process. You interviewed the only two candidates that applied both in detail. You all scored them. Well, you scored one of the two of them. They scored every one of them, right? The scoring has been tabulated by Billy, our HR director. Okay.

I don't know what else we could have done more fair. I contacted personally attorneys in this town to try to get others to apply to no avail. What else do you want to do? Send flyers to every attorney in the state? No. No. I think the interview part of it was fine. I think it's the the scoring part that I have a problem with that it's I'm still trying to work that one out. She went through every conceivable scenario in scoring in terms of the potential for numbers in the one that you did not score

including giving them zeros which is the lowest possible score. It did not change the outcome. I don't know. Again, what else do you want me to do? Or what else do you want us to do? That's a good question. I'll be honest. Like, I don't know the answer to that right off the top of my head. Okay. Since you said that, Commissioner Bush, I make a motion that we hire Amanda to East in accordance with my motion that Ily read. Thank you. And I'll second it in accordance with the motion to present it. We have a back a motion back on the floor. Our city clerk's flipping out over here. Sorry about that. I'm following. Okay.

We have a motion to come back on the floor by Commissioner McCquary and a second by Commissioner Stewart. And we'll call for a roll call vote. Okay. Commissioner Stewart, yes. Commissioner McCra, yes. Mayor Dixon, yes. Commissioner Bush, no. Commissioner Pal, yes. And that motion passes. There are no other motions coming out of executive session, mayor, and I do not have any city attorney reports. Okay, we'll move on then to uh uh city commission reports. Commissioner Stewart,

the only thing I can think of today, obviously, I think today was our city manager's last official meeting uh with us. Uh I think he's he's some other priorities, but I just would encourage the community maybe to go by and just uh give him a farewell. I think it's his last week. Uh uh appreciate all he's done. All his work, all the work that he's done and all the work that he's he's really he's a unsung hero. There a lot of things he did nobody know anything about at all. Uh and uh I appreciate his service to this community. I appreciate the tone he set for uh the city manager position. Uh he'd be greatly missed. Uh, and I just appreciate the the the the trail that he that he that he blazed that that to be followed and it's going to be a a tough act to follow.

Thank you, Mayor. Commissioner McCclary. Uh, nothing real big. This is still pro two weeks out. I think it's May the 16th. The, uh, farmers market's having their big spring fling. Going to have a lot of extra vendors down there. and had a decent turnout last year, but I want to encourage everybody to go by and support the local farmers market. Uh that they definitely need to support and they do a good thing for the community on Main Street. On Main Street. On Main Street. Yes.

Thank you, Commissioner McQuary. Um I just want to echo exactly what Commissioner Stewart said and I just want to add that Kenton Powell is an unhung is an un unsung hero to this community. Uh, I don't think so many people and there's many that do, but I don't think there's a lot of people in our community that really realize what Kenton Powell has done for this community. And I just want to thank him and I want to wish him well in any endeavor that he uh he plans to take on, whatever that may be. But uh as uh as we all know, our community has really grown under his leadership. And uh as Commissioner Stewart just said, Kenton Powell was much more than a city manager. Captain Pal did so many other things beyond city manager u uh uh of his of his responsibilities and uh I I just want to thank him again for all that uh that he has done and for this community. I can't say enough about what good things he's done. Commissioner Bush.

Good. I just want to echo, mayor, what you and Wendell said about Kenton. I I don't think people realize what he's done. I think when they do, they're going to realize they're going to miss him. And we were all here from the beginning when he first came. And I just want to thank him for all his dedication, everything he's done for the city, and wish him well. And with that, I make a motion we journ. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Pal to adjurnn. Do I have a second? Second, mayor. Okay. All in favor? I. I. Any oppose? We stand adjourned. out in