City Council - Special Meeting

I want to remember two individuals of this community. One is Brad Pant, who used to be a council member here, and also Charlie Hoffman, who used to be our state senator. So let's keep them in our family and ask them to pray. Or not pray, but pour us out. Thank you. I'll ask Ms. Mitchell, if you'll leave us a little bit of time. Thank you, you may be seated.

I would like to welcome each of you to a special call meeting for the North-South City Council on Monday.

In the first you know we say we're here to conduct business for the city of georgetown and we're following the agenda and read. That in court if you call will.

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Thank you. I'm number 3 Google minutes for May 18 2026 special city council meeting at this time you should receive it. At this time I would entertain a motion. Some of the motion a miss Hamrick you have a second that's second made by Mister Stone. Other further questions and or comments. All those in favor of this motion signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed say nay. Let the record reflect that it passed. Item number four, receipt of the check registry. If you haven't seen that, show of hands, counsel. Let the record reflect that it all has received. Item number four is public comments. On public comments, you will have four minutes for which to come and state your business before the city council. Once again, please say your name for the record, and Madam Clerk will time it at three minutes. She will let you know three minutes have elapsed. There's only one minute. So is there anyone that would like to sign? No sign-offs? All right. Item number six. Event application, Splash, Spin, Zoom, Super, Sprint, Triathlon.

Okay, so let's go to Mousewood. All right, so my name is Brian Parker. I'm the Appliance Recreation Manager for Georgetown-Scott County Parks and Recreation. I'm coming to you for approval for this Splash, Spin, and Zoom Super Tri or Super Sprint. It is a 400-meter swim inside the Pavilion Pool. The athletes will then transition to their bikes by 10K from the pavilion utilizing Pavilion Drive and Champion Way. And then they will do a 2.5K run utilizing Pavilion Drive and Champion Way as well without crossing all four lanes of traffic at that point, staying against the flow of traffic for the run. I do request that we have an EMS vehicle on site at the pavilion for the event. Therefore, it will be a sanctioned event for USA Triathlon. Association and a emergency vehicle or police to assist with the bicyclist crossing us twenty-five on a champion way to the roundabout and then we'll return back to him from there. Any questions.

All right you're afraid to request at this time I can't emotion. Motion motion made by Mister stone you have a second second second by Mister other further questions and comments. All those in favor of this motion, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. Thank you. And that means everybody's . All right. Mayor comments. First, we have the five chiefs of commendation and Steve Johnson. Yes, thank you, gentlemen.

You guys will be separated by your crews that day, please, for the two days. So thank Bronson, who was on the horse ship on the 24th. Yeah. Thank you. So good evening, Mayor, Council. It's an honor of mine to be here tonight to recognize two crews and present them with Chief's commendations for their heroic efforts. As I've said before, the members here tonight will tell you why, will tell you they were simply doing their jobs. And they are right. However, We all know that not every call results in a positive outcome. Because of that, it's important that we take the time to recognize when things do go right and when our people make a real difference. First, on April the 24th, Engine 1 first shift, consisting of Battalion Chief Chad Heisel, this is the crew here on the right side, Firefighter Chase Philpott, Firefighter Bronson Williams, Firefighter Braxton Webb, and Probationary Firefighter Tanner Hill, responded to a call of a possible Code 500. That's also known as a life or death situation. Engine 1 was the first agency to arrive on scene and found an unresponsive patient with no pulse and no signs of life. The crew immediately began CPR and deployed the AED. They quickly established an airway to assist with breathing and continued resuscitation efforts. Engine 1 personnel worked seamlessly with Georgetown-Scott County EMS to load the patient for transport, with our members continuing patient care in the back of the units. While en route to the hospital, the patient achieved ROSC, which is return of spontaneous circulation, meaning the patient's heart began beating again on its own after full cardiac arrest. Today, that patient has made a full recovery. Second, four days later, engine one, second shift on the left, consisting of Captain Lincoln Pruitt, Firefighter Josh Ford, and Probationary Firefighter Logan Downey, responded to a call for a person who had fallen. Upon arrival, the crew found a patient unresponsive. I'm sorry, did I miss battalion chief Chris Logan on that call? My apologies, I just recognized that. However, upon arrival, the crew found a patient unresponsive and pinned underneath the motorcycle. Their crew immediately removed the motorcycle and assist the patient finding no breathing, no pulse. A code 500 was declared and the crew immediately began life-saving measures, including CPR, and establishing an airway to assist the breed. Engine 1 then transferred patient care to Georgetown-Scott County EMS upon their arrival. Due to the quick actions and professionalism of these members, the patient was successfully resuscitated and has since again made a full recovery. I want to reiterate that the actions of these crews reflect the highest standards of our profession and demonstrate the impact that our rapid response, training, and teamwork have on saving lives in this community. At this time, I would like to ask the members of NG1, both first and second shifts, to please come forward when I'll call your name to be recognized. Battalion Chief Chad Weissman.

Battalion Chief Chris Logan.

Captain Lincoln Brew Firefighter Josh Ford Firefighter Chase Philpott Firefighter Bronson Williams. Firefighter Braxton Webb. And the last two, these are two of our most recent firefighters who we just hired. It was December, and we had a degree graduation. Probationary firefighter Tanner Hill.

And Promotionary Firefighter will be down.

Mayor, Council, that's all I have for you this evening. Appreciate the time and the continued support for our forum. Thank you.

Thank you, Chief Johnson, and thank you, gentlemen, ladies, for your effort and also the But people, on their worst days, we respond in a professional way and out of that, we have saved lives for the city of Georgetown. Thank you so much for your service. Next is the various comments. I just have a couple items to bring to your attention. A little update on City Hall. They're not breathing a little bit, I believe a little bit, but we're still not really yet, but the windows have been shipped and I didn't see by the installer in some said, and they should be coming. I think we started to put that in. So that's, that's a good plus. There are still some other other things that needs to be addressed and also some AD stuff to be done and The hope is that our first city council meeting in a new building should be in July 13th, city council meeting. And hopefully also during that time, from 4 to 6, we'll have an open house for the public to see the new building itself. So that's our date. We'll keep you abreast as things progress and any changes or changes that you need to be aware of. So that's good news. All right. Next, item eight, which is council committee reports. I'll start with police. Mr. Mankey. Right, Senator.

The police committee actually met this morning with our normal first Monday meetings. All of our members were there, along with the PD command staff and dispatch coordinator. Basically, the content of the meeting turns around staffing, hiring, and recruiting. In the police department, we're currently at 72 officers out of 77. We have five additional officers have accepted offers pending physicals. So hopefully, of course, we would We're being fully staffed here shortly. Both of our safety officers are on board, and they're already seeing the building with the SWAN officers. Just in the last several weeks, they have taken 100 calls collectively to offset that workload. So it's a big benefit. We also have interns for the summer that are being lined up. One is in background, one is in physical fitness testing. For dispatch, unfortunately, we've lost two dispatchers to new employment. So we currently have 19 full-time dispatchers, three part-time, three in training, and still have seven . Some of the challenges that we're seeing there, The other is this ongoing issue that we've seen in attraction and retention. Starting salaries seem to be that issue, and that's part of the budget package that they submitted. There is still a high demand in this region, so what we get folks trained, maybe and move, 40%, about 40 plus percent of our host factories are on move. So that's a real challenge for us. And they are working a lot of overtime because of that activity, needing to fill empty spaces. We did have a conversation again about potentially looking at salary, bumping that up since it's in the local. and as a dedicated 911 for you to not pay for that activity. So we need to get to that competitiveness as quickly as possible. And the mayor did make the comment this morning about perhaps we need to look at then the next amendment, depending on how things go, is his recommendation there. Let's see. Just one of the dispatches, that first step for all the emergency agencies is something we need to really take part in. We also talked about the current status of the feasibility study that's going on with the police department and the dispatch center. The initial drawings didn't really meet the request that both agencies had seen. They marked those up and sent them back to be reviewed and returned. So we're hoping to get that second attempt here real soon. We did talk about the original schedule for that. The report is due in the June to August time frame. So we really need to get that Thank you, Mr. Lincoln. Next, we got Fox.

Thank you, Mayor. We met April 23rd at 3 o'clock, and I was there, and the Mayor, Committee Member Michael Chris, Fire Chief Seth Johnson, Assistant Fire Chief Cam, Johnson, Assistant Fire Chief Ann Willett, City Attorney, Emily Butch from Finance, Chief Director Stacey Clark, and I still think the Grants Administrator. You're on the, I think you're on the last session. Oh, I'm on the wrong one.

Yeah. Well, thank you.

Why don't you come back for me?

All right.

All right. Public Works. Thank you, Mayor. We met on May the 20th. All members were present. The minutes were approved. As far as the general update from Public Works, we discussed the Horsey 100, which is deep in wind. Chief Cruz talked about that all the salt, his salt orders, 800 ton was... 600 has been delivered uh that he they over 25 26 winter they bought 1800 to 1900 pounds of salt uh may 20th the salt auction had occurred but he hadn't heard anything as of that time um and The house on 1829 Oxford Drive, the house that was on the property for the Lexus way, the house has been secured, the gates are up and locked, and the property is being mowed. Eddie Highpower gave an update on engineering. The brickyard head for Main Street, they've jumped around working on West Main Street. This was due to the Horsey 100, so they'll go back and catch up East Main Street and get it all done. He is really pushing them to get it done and get as quick as possible and make sure that they're keeping up to date on things. Two bridge projects, the one on Flood House Drive, bids were opened. Nothing as of yet on those. And the old Oxford Bridge, the engineering contract was released. So, as far as the sidewalk project on West Main Street, the project's been sent to the Heritage Council for historical evaluation. They did come back and say that any of the existing walls on West Main Street are not to be touched due to the historical value. and that we would be looking at purchasing easements and getting at least two utility poles moved. Talked about the Sims Pike landfill that was still catching polluted water and that we're going to use the cameras to clean out the lines as far as that goes. or the street paving list was sent to Hamilton Hinkle and they're working on prices and potentially a couple of streets in the state was maybe adding to that list. One thing that was brought up in general discussion was parking on the south side of East Main Street, maybe having a round table discussion coming you know, about getting use of all the parking spots back there. Right now, there's approximately 45 spots that are available. You may even be looking at a quote for paving and striping and looking at looking towards tourism for signage. And we adjourned at 4.48. Thank you.

I have one thing to say. I've been turning on the formal ones later, but we have a push-in date for the new apparatus, which I believe is June 15th. And I'm not a real good explanator, but that I believe there's a tradition to actually push in the new engines and the new ladder truck. Go ahead.

Yes, that's June 15th at 11 a.m. at fire station number three. And we'll do all three apparatus at the same time. Thank you.

So everybody take your vitamin I. I'm sorry, no, at 11, 3 p.m.?

11. 11. I'm sorry. Three apparatus. Three apparatus. At 11 a.m. Okay. Three apparatus. We're pushing three apparatus at 11 o'clock. Yes. Be at Station 3 at 11 o'clock. Yeah.

Station 3, 11 o'clock, 3, I'm being pushed in. Yeah. All right. Mm-hmm. THEY CAN PUSH THE OTHER ONE IN FOR A WHILE BACK. YES. NO, THEY WILL HAVE TO REVERSE. DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. PUSH THEM FORWARD. ALL RIGHT. NEXT, LET'S SEE. FINANCE, YOU HAVE SOMETHING? YES. THANK YOU.

THE FINANCE COMMITTEE MET ON MAY 18th. THE MEETING WAS CALLED AT 8 A.M. EVERYONE WAS PRESENT FOR THE MEETING. the committee and the mayor's staff. The minutes from the May 4th, 2026 meeting were presented and passed unanimously. On the agenda was the 2026.7 proposed budget discussion. Thanks to Director Clark stated that we had received a check for payroll taxes, putting us 6.9% ahead of last year at this time. Insurance premiums are trending 1.6 ahead. And then Clark plans to have the 2026-27 fiscal budget ordinance completed by the end of this week. That first reading will be on June 1st, which is tonight. The second item on the agenda, the final budget amendment discussion, we talked about the items that will be on that. They have been generated and the first reading of that ordinance will be on June 8th. The new investment proposal, finance director Clark shared the investment proposal with a summary prepared by Stockyard Bank and Trust. A motion to recommend it to full council was made by community member Lesley and the motion is passed unanimously. Also, we talked about the current cash balances. Director Clark provided committee members with an updated cash balance and explained who might serve on a scoring committee, and the committee would focus on the rate structure and investment type. The Finance Committee will discuss the scoring committee's recommendations, and it's just... And under general discussion, committee member Leslie Mitchell asked about a grant that Parks and Recreation had applied for to update the Brookings Park playground. Granting administrator Karen Levins stated that the park director, Drew Beckett, had approached the foundation but was not awarded any grant money. With that, the meeting was adjourned at 8.34.

All righty. They have got one. These are the books. I guess is I'm not really first reading. The first one is I'm a which is important or is of the year this year. You got to say 27. Sponsors of this will be yes, I'm telling the Mitchell to read it.

Good evening. As always, we usually have a few changes between the initial presentation, which was on May 11th, and the first reading. A couple of these changes we found out about, I know, prior to that Finance Committee meeting and came in after, but you had a memo in your packet, but I wanted to walk through those for the public to have. So the first thing I had mentioned, I think, during the presentation and also at Finance Committee, because of how we account for our lease payments, payments for our leased vehicles, you will see the movement of those lease payments from the individual department budgets to our debt service, our 10710, which is our debt service department. Same thing in the dispatch fund. They have one leased vehicle, so you'll see the movement of that from their regular accounts to the debt service accounts. That was a net zero effect on the budget. It was just a change in how we account for that to show it as Because at the end of the year, we account for that as principal and interest on the lease. So just wanted to reflect that. The second thing that we did discuss at the finance committee was we had not included our lease payments on the ladder truck that we purchased last year. So we added that in and I was able to go through and review some of our revenues and some other things to help offset that. So I'll walk through that. Those lease payments were about $364,000 per year. You're around $30,000 per month. And also, the fire department had inadvertently left off an $8,000, the Cortico Wellness Act that you all had approved a while back that they split with PD and dispatch. We had left that out of their professional services. To make up for this and to try to bring their budget back to balance at the time, I looked at the property tax revenue and was able to increase that. I think initially in the presentation, I had only done about a 4% growth trend on property taxes. Over the last seven or eight years, we've never trended less than 7%. So I went ahead and increased that projection to a 7% growth, which was $122,647 in additional revenue. That is the main area that I was able to increase. Even though we did have an increase after that last payment on payroll taxes, I wasn't quite ready due to how last year trended to increase that. Franchise fees, garbage, I increased that $15,000. Again, that's based on how we had collected. We had gotten another quarter in. So just kind of bringing that up to really what we would expect to collect this year. The franchise fees for KU or electric, $50,000 increase there. That is just a 2% growth over what we expect to collect this year. We've collected all four quarters this year. That one happens to come in early. And then police services, I increased $40,000. This is what we bill the school district for their portion of the SROs under the MOA that we have with them. And again, just basing that on what we've been billing. Obviously, we've added a lot of SROs over the last year, so I was able to increase that revenue. So those were the four revenue accounts that I was able to increase. And then workers' compensation. You may remember in the first budget amendment that we did for this year, we decreased our workers' compensation budget by about $180,000. I just kind of went ahead and went in and looked at that and based it on. So when I calculate the workers comp budget, I'm taking straight salaries times those worker comp percentages. Typically, after we pay the bill, we get a lot of discounts, a lot of modifiers, but we're not paying that full amount. So I used a very conservative modifier. I went over it with our risk manager, Patrick Johnson. I said, does this look conservative? and was able to reduce that workers' comp budget by about $100,000. Again, we did that in the first budget amendment last year, but I just went ahead and rolled it into the adopted budget. With that, the Finance Committee meeting on the 18th, we were still balanced, but we did have some last-minute changes come in from the interlocal budgets from the county. We received those, I think, the Thursday before Memorial Day. And the total increase on those which are outlined in the memo was about $322,000. And some of them were small reductions. Some were small increases. Most of it had to do with calculation of benefits. They found a couple of errors in calculations of benefits in some of their departments. So the park supervisor that actually went down by 11,000, electrical inspection was a small increase of 735. EMA had an increase of $33,000, but most of that was they added, that one was a specific capital project that they added of $37,500. And then animal control had a reduction of $11,200. The majority of the increase was in EMS, about $310,000. $125,000 of that was a new position. I'll talk about that a little bit more here in just a minute. And then the rest was just the belief some of the benefit costs had been omitted from what we had been given in March. So what we did, obviously, looking at that, trying to look at our operating budget versus capital, I went back through their budget and did pull out any capital items just to reflect that capital versus operating. They did have about $258,000 of capital in their budget. So I showed that in our capital total. And that still left us with about $64,900 of our operating budget where expenses are more than revenues. So we're having to use prior year reserves. So again, but the reason I wanted to come back to that position, I don't remember the exact name of the position. I forgot to put that email and bring it with me. But they added that new position that they expect to be grant funded. It's a $125,000 position. So our half of that is about $62,500. Our understanding from the county is if they do not receive the grant funds, they will not add that position. So they included it in their numbers for EMS when they gave it to us. It is in here. So that would reduce our expenses by $62,500. Or if they are awarded the grant, then we will circle back to them and talk about in one of our first budget amendments, I would assume we would have a revenue line to help offset that.

So on that grant money, do they know how long they'll receive that grant money? I mean, is it for like a couple of years it's going to come or?

Yeah, so I was calling it grant money as well, but it turns out it's a reimbursement from the National Guard. So it's a program where there's a certain number of training units and at There's a training component to the position. We'll get that to you all, but it's year to year. So they would enter into a memorandum of agreement with the National Guard to be reimbursed for that person's, the compensation for that individual. So ultimately, I would guess it would be a different thing, but they have expressed that that will not, that position will not be hired, but for that agreement, reimbursing the full costs.

And what is the position?

You can have that email for Michelle. So there's just a moment starting to look that up.

Okay.

Yes. So I guess in reality, the 64.9 deficit right now would be pretty close.

It would be pretty close. Yes. Yeah. right if they hired or not if not then we'll talk about how that works funding wise again they included it in their ems expense numbers so we didn't want to not include it uh because we didn't want to not account for it but i would assume that we would either be reimbursed from the moa ourselves from the county uh either that or the expense will go away from our budget one of the two so with that said again uh that's the main thing that's increasing on the EMS side plus those benefits. So with that said, our budget has just under 9.1 million of capital and then using 64,900 operating of prior preserved balance.

Stacey, you may not know this, but haven't they arrived at $125,000 a year for a training officer?

That includes benefits. So that is salary and benefits. So, for example, our police officers cost about $123,000 by the time you factor in salaries and benefits. But that is all inclusive. It's not the salary, that much I can tell you. That is not the salary. That is benefits and retirement. No, that's benefits, retirement, health insurance, benefits, retirement, all of that plus salary.

Okay. Okay. All right. And of course, you read the street, please.

An ordinance of the city of Georgetown that the adoption of the annual budget for fiscal year of the last month, 2026, or June 30th, 2027, by estimating revenues and resources and appropriating funds for the operation of city debt. Summary section one adopts by incorporated exhibit. The fiscal year 2026-2027 budget of the city of Georgetown, Kentucky, S. Falls. Prior year revenues, 13,676,290. Revenues, municipal taxation, 4,287,647. License and permits, 38,000,000. 234,674. Franchise fees, 2,399,000. Fines and forfeitures, 45,700. Intergovernmental revenues, 15,3554. Charges for service, 1,944,189. Other revenue, 507,000. Other financing sources, transfers, $10,400,608. Total city revenue, $72,822,444. Expenditures, general government, $3,729,553. City council, $256,423. City clerk, $407,457. Police, $15,877,222. Public Works, 5,214,764. Stormwater, 2,294,498. Fire, 10,096,429. Code enforcement, 464,748. Building inspection, 866,719. Dispatch and telecommunication, 4,930,193. Utility, 1,012,060. Community service, 876,000. Interlocal, 9,826,811. Self-insured medical plan expenses, 5,361,622. Capital Outlay, 16,144,782. Debt Services, 3,172,699. Transfers to other funds, 5,966,834. Total City Expenditures, 86,498,734. Quarantinary funds, revenues. Sanitation, 3,012,000. Cemetery, 210,000. Intergovernmental... Intergovernmental revenue, 219,928. Other revenues, 6,000. Other financing source transfers, You know, I'm 2,928. I'm trying to recognize 3,000,813,856. Expenditure sanitation 3,000,012,000 cemetery and her 1,800,856 total proprietary expenditures 3,000,813,856. Section two authorizes the mayor except as provided in the Georgetown purchasing policy adopted in municipal order 11-08 and amended by municipal order 22-17 to enter into any contracts or agreements necessary to fulfill the operation of the city government within the allocations listed in this ordinance. Section 3 provides that if any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such informalities shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the ordinance. Section 4 provides that all ordinances or parts of ordinance in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. The full text of this ordinance is available in the city clerk's office of 6.9 on Broadway or some Kentucky or at www.georgetown.com dot gov. I would be introduced to read for the first time June 1st. 2,026. I don't I read.

Amendment to the Personnel Ordinance. Sponsors Todd Stone and Signers Open Grant.

Good evening. This Personnel Ordinance is to accompany the budget. So we are bringing first reading simultaneously with that. As mentioned in the May 11th presentation of the budget, the additional positions being added are an Assistant Finance Director, three police officers, two maintenance workers, and the change of the administrative assistant to code enforcement from part-time to full-time. So those were all mentioned in the May 11th budget presentation, and no other changes have been made.

And ordinance amendment section 2-60 of the Code of Ordinances regarding personnel, summary, men's exhibit B, of Section 2-60C of the Code of Ordinances to add three positions of police officer within the Georgetown Police Department, two positions of maintenance worker within the Public Works Department, create one position of assistant finance director at the grade 118 within general government, and change one position of code enforcement administrative assistant from part-time to full-time. 2 provides a repeal of inconsistent ordinances, servability of provisions, and effective bank upon passing a publication. Full text of this ordinance made available to city clerk's office 629 on Broadway, Georgetown, Kentucky, or at georgetownky.gov. Introduced and publicly read for the first time June 1, 2026. All right.

Next, we'll go to item 9c. Don't the go to dash 2 0 2 5 dash 4 1 officers can make these and Michael Chris.

And going into many part of the new sessions. In point one definitions and sections 2.5 Pacific use rest regulations of the Georgetown Scott County zoning ordinance as recommended by the Georgetown Scott County Planning Commission. One, amend Storchtown-Spout County zoning ordinance, article two, section 2.1, definitions to consolidate definitions in one location and renumber items. Two, amend zoning ordinance article two, section 2.5, specific use regulations to restructure sections to meet updated use regulations and accommodate expansion. Three, provide repeal of inconsistent ordinances, certability of provision, and the effective date upon passing. Full text of this ordinance made available at the City Clerk's Office, 629 Mark Broadway, or at www.georgetownky.gov. Introduced and publicly read for the first time, June 1st, 2026. Next, item 9D, ZOTA-D.

20-25-03, responses Kim Minke and Michael Christ.

An ordinance amending the Georgetown-Spout County zoning ordinance to align with state law ARS 100.275 Ministerial Review. and to recognize the structure to create a more expandable framework for future use regulations as recommended by the Georgetown Scott County Planning Commission. One, amends the Georgetown Scott County Zoning Ordinance to incorporate changes following a comprehensive review of the language and format of the document for compliance with KRS 100.5.275 regarding the administration of land use regulations. This amendment also includes changes to section 2.1 to consolidate definitions to one location and renumber items accordingly. Section B changes the entire document to relocate and renumber existing sections items to facilitate recent use regulations and allow for expansion as needed. Provide provides for repeal of inconsistent ordinances, severability of provisions, and effect date upon passing. The full text of this ordinance can be read and is available in the Georgetown City Clerk's Office, 629 North Broadway, First Town, Kentucky, or at www.georgetownky.gov, introduced and publicly read for the first time June 1st, 2026. Thank you.

All right. I'm going to take a breath now. Each. All right next we go and change your time is to want to serve serve and chase. This all these are saying unless you have any objection and I'm going to go ahead and go to item a to g and then we'll go to the last one.

Okay, sounds good. Mayor. Thank you. 1st, item we have for your consideration tonight is Judy construction. It's our monthly pay application and this is further work completed and the month of April of this year. So, what have I brought the last meeting that, um. WE MISSED BECAUSE OF THE HOLIDAY, SO WE'RE BRINGING THAT FORWARD TO YOU. THIS IS THE AMOUNT OF $336,681.86. AND I'LL JUST SAY THIS, WE'RE MOVING FORWARD, WE SHOULD BE AT THE END OF THIS, ANOTHER MILESTONE, SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION. AND THEN FOLLOWING THAT, END OF THIS YEAR, END OF DECEMBER, WE'LL BE AT FINAL COMPLETION. Next, we have a, this is item 10B. We have purchase order and this is for our water treatment plant. This is a monochloramine analyzer. Our disinfection is done through chloramines and the sensor will provide us continuous monitor of monochloramines levels throughout the water treatment plant. And what we can do is take the readings from the sensor and it helps us better in real time, helps our staff to adjust it and our primary disinfectant in water. So cost of this analyzer is $13,085. Always touch on a little bit related to procurement. This is not a budgeted purchase item as you see on that kind of purchase cover sheet. We're using some funds. We replaced some actuators that was a budgeted maintenance operation. Those came in under budget. So instead of putting this in next year's budget as That'll be kind of a common thread through some of these purchases. Next, we have a purchase order for our water distribution department. Need a new trailer for hauling equipment materials. And we got some quotes on the trailer that we wanted. The low price was $17,095.78. This is similar. It's not in the current budget. We're going to put this in next year's budget. But since distribution has done a good job controlling their expenses this year, equipment, this trailer, purchased now before the end of the current fiscal year for FY26. Next we'll go back to the water treatment plant, another analyzer sensor. This one is for $24,156 and I'd say one of our biggest threats of utilizing the spring for a water source is that it can be contaminated. Biggest threat is hydrocarbons, fuel oils. So what happens is if that does occur and that gets into the water plant, that's worst case scenario. It's bad enough it's just in the spring. We don't want to pull that contaminated water, raw water, into the water plant. So this will give us early detection down at the spring. So if we detect those contaminants, specifically the hydrocarbons, we can shut down our pumps and we don't bring that water into the water treatment plant. So this actually is a budgeted purchase, doing this kind of at the end of the fiscal year. And so that was multi-sensor unlimited. And next we go to Buchanan. This is maintenance-related purchase order. And this is, we go to wastewater treatment plant number two. Every few years, we take one of the two ditches out of service. We drain it down. And then we put equipment down in the bottom of the ditch. And we get out all the grit, debris. I've only done this, I think, one time since I've been here, so I'm kind of excited to do this a second time. We're going to have our annual services contractor that's bid. Really, we just need equipment, personnel to operate. We'll control the operations, the lowering of the tank and taking it out of service. But we need to do this every few years. It's estimated to take just over 30 hours, 33 hours, I think, what they put together. And we'll complete this on one of the ditches when TMMK goes on their next shutdown. So this is budgeted. We'll go next to, that was Buchanan. We'll go next to Meat Tractor. We'd like to purchase, again, for wastewater treatment. Number two, this is a utility vehicle. It's a Gator side-by-side, and it's replacing a unit that I believe was purchased in 1992 or 1993, so over 30 years old at this point, and it's time for a new one. This was approved by Toyota's purchase, and the cost is, through the state bid contract, $30,000. That is a high dollar utility vehicle, but it is one that has the horsepower capability, I believe, to push snow so they can do their snow removal on their plant roads, as well as I think it can fall up to a certain load. So it's not just a golf cart, it's an actual piece of equipment. That is for meat tractor. Then we move on to, and that was budgeted, by the way. Sorry, I skipped over that point. That was a budgeted purchase, correct budget. So we move on to the next one that is Boyd-Kent. It's the final standard purchase, and that is purchased through the State Master Services Agreement. $61,726.15. This is for a mini excavator for our distribution department. We've kind of started going that direction. This will be our second mini excavator that we've purchased instead of the traditional backhoe. I feel like these are, they do less damage when we've got to dig in somebody's yard and they can get into smaller spaces. They do generally what we do as far as water distribution work. And this is another purchase order, not in the current budget, but we can do that with, again, the money they didn't spend in operations. I feel like we don't have to put that in next year's budget that we present to you at the next meeting. We'll not go in the FY27 budget and purchase it now with these saved dollars. So that kind of wraps up the normal business, and I'm happy to answer any of your questions.

Okay, I made a motion. Mr. Hampton, do I have a second? Second by Mr. Menke. Are there further questions and comments? All those in favor of these purchases from item 10A to 10G, signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed, say nay. Let the record reflect that those items have been passed. Next, TNH. And TNH is Customer Service Water Usage Update.

These next few, sorry, H and I kind of, they go together. But as I start this, this is just kind of monthly updates that we've been bringing you related to the questions that you all have received, we've received about usage. And I think it's appropriate that I'll embarrass one of our new commissioners, Mr. Gibson. The board has kind of, they want to let you all know that they're on this, they're involved. And so they're trying to make sure we have representatives at your meetings. And Mr. Gibson's been here the last few meetings. So I hope you'll point that out, have that appreciation. I'm appreciative to have support from the board at the meeting. So jumping into this part, which is more into the kind of the monthly update that we promised and First, we have kind of just this slide is related to leak checks. And this is for the month of April as it was completed. So the left side of the screen for our 15,404 water customers. Sorry, it was actually the exact number is 15,404 for April. For that number of customers, we performed a total of 100 leak checks. Those are leak check work orders. of those 100 on the left side, we had 69 of those that resulted in no leak detection. That means when they go out and they work with the customer to shut off all the fixtures on the property, is that do we still see continuous flow at the meter? So 69 of those 100, we didn't have any leak detection. So 31 of those customers, they did show continuous movement of that meter once everything was shut down. So we saw that continuous flow when the fixtures were turned off. So 169, no leak. 31, we did find a leak. So of the 100, we moved to the Right side of this slide, 73 of those, those were initiated by customers. And then 27 of them were initiated by Georgetown Municipal staff, mainly customer service, as they review the monthly data where bills go out. They picked those 27 and said, we've got to get somebody out there to take a look with the customer. And then as we break that down a little bit further, bar of the customers that requestedly checked 53. We didn't have, we didn't see any issue at the meter when fixtures were shut off. And We saw that 20 did, in fact, show continuous flow of the meter. So we work with the customer from there to try to figure out where that water is going. And similarly, the second line on the right side, those are the Georgetown Municipal initiated leak checks. 16 did not have a leak. 11, we did have a leak showing continuous flow of the meter. So that's when we have to dig down and try to help that customer find where that water's going. If it's not leaking out the meter and we're showing that usage and nothing's on, the water's got to be going somewhere. So we've got some breakdown on what happens on this next slide, but I'll stop there. Do we have any questions? So here's where we kind of break down further and we go from kind of the actual leak checks. This is where we get more granular and it is related to the actual leak adjustment outcomes. So we received 41 requests for in the month of April, 41 customers called and said, something happened to my bill, whether it's my fault, whether it's not happening or whatever, can you give me an adjustment because this isn't going right and I can't afford this this month. So we had 41 requests. And within our policy to issue a leak adjustment out of the 41, 16 of those requests actually met the different parts of our board adopted policy that would make that customer eligible for a leak adjustment. 16 of those fit that policy. So those are the ones in the columns, the first one, two, three, four, five columns there. They're the ones on the left side that don't have the orange line going under it. Those are the ones that met the policy. and a leak adjustment was issued. Then we've got 25 others that were, just because you don't necessarily meet every line of our border's adopted policy, that doesn't mean we just say we don't care, pay your bill. We did issue 25 courtesy adjustments. That's meetings, again, didn't meet the policy, but we still want to work with our customers, try to help out where we can. So mainly what we're looking for there is, one, is looking at the history. We'll These are customers generally that will get the courtesy adjustment, always paying their bill on time, never had an issue before. Now if there's somebody that's calling every month for any adjustment, always, sorry, not paying their bill, We're probably not going to be as lenient when it comes to a courtesy adjustment. Sorry. But I rely on our very experienced customer service staff. They can look these things up. They say, you know, this person has been a customer seven, eight years, never had a late payment, never come in at any issue. We'll issue a courtesy adjustment, rely on their expertise, and they do that. So as we get in, we break those down. see here on the adjustments issued by policy we found that 11 of them were either underground or they weren't visible like they had to go out once we determined that water was going through the meter they either worked with their plumber we helped where we can they had to do some digging and actually find the leak and so 11 of them 11 of those 16 did in fact find a leak and then five were just kind of missing leak at the valve, a water heater, or a hydrant on their side of the meter, a yard hydrant of some type. So then on courtesy adjustment side, 12 of those were, in fact, toilet leaks. Seven of those were miscellaneous, as I just explained, valves, water heaters. And then six of those were unknown. I know last meeting you asked, what are those unknowns? Well, it's either we haven't found it yet, Or it could just be usage. I hope that doesn't sound blunt or callous, but part of this, they can be usage, in fact. So that's kind of the breakdown on leak adjustments and where we're seeing problems. So again, that's 41 total in the month of April. And that's kind of the breakdown. I'm happy to distribute these slides as well.

Chase.

Yes, ma'am.

The Carson adjustments, Is that where you meet them halfway from what their average yield is?

One is we have a, for the ones that are by policy, is we look at their history and their average and we try to bring it either to get the delta, what's above the historic average, We try to do half of that, and then half of that may be on the customer. Sometimes we go beyond that. Just, again, depends on the situation or lack of discretion of the customer service reps that they can see what they think is a fair adjustment to the account. But it starts with looking at the 12-month average, and then we start with half of that delta that's above the rolling 12-month average, and then we look.

Thank you.

I'll push on them. That's perfect. I'm honestly, I'm not correctly, right? But I'm sorry, I'm on the spot, but I think that's, I believe that's correct. So other questions on leak adjustments? I appreciate, you know, you said it was blunt, but I appreciate it. It is what it is, so I appreciate that. Not saying that there's not something that you can't see.

Yeah.

It can happen. It can be in the ground, and you might not see it. It could be under a slab. It happens. But occasionally, it can still be used as it is. So we go to the next slide. This is just something that we're tracking, and this reflects residential usage over the last three months when we've really gotten into bringing you all this data. So February, March, and April, you will see a little break there in the orange and orange. I believe blue lines because we added that between 5,000 on the X-axis between 5,000 and one gallons and 8,000 gallons of usage. We added that breakdown because we did see that we had some, a good bit of customer usage monthly average that is in that category. So we add that. as we track that we will populate those but that's just kind of a something that's jumping off the screen there that might not look quite right but what I want to show is is generally for our residential usage on the y-axis you'll just see the total volume and then on the x-axis we're breaking out different ranges of volume of usage and I'm doing this to show month to month those are tracking pretty closely we're not seeing these wild variations this tracks pretty well now we saw all three months looked very different lines we'd have a big problem there i'd be pretty nervous up here talking to you if that was the case but we're seeing this and as we track total system usage that we do in our ops report that includes treated water and purchased water each month and then we track that annually that's presented to the board every month we're not seeing a lot of wild variations there either it's pretty consistent so Kind of happy with where this looks and we'll keep adding to this, see if we can find any trends that can point us in a direction if there is a problem. Next slide, please. Last thing is I want to give you a quick update on where we stand on kind of two different, I'll say, metering audit actions. And so first we'll touch with the customers that have reached out to Council Member Dingell Sames. That started with 31 customers. Then I believe it was five of those were actually American Water. And then you got some more, some more. And so what we've done to date is with exception of the that aren't our customers. As of today, we have pulled every one of those meters and we will be sending those off to Frankfurt Plant Board because they have a certified bench. We have a testing bench as well, but I feel like if we use ours and we do it all, I don't think that that has the credibility that we're looking for. So those meters have all been pulled as of today, and we're coordinating right now when we can take those to Frankfort Plant Board. They'll test those, we pay them for that service, and they'll issue those results on the accuracy of those meters. Those are the ones that have just contacted you as of today, but all those meters have been pulled. We're coordinating that to get those over. The second part of this is kind of the system-wide audit that we're looking at that the board's directed me to do. So there's a lot of considerations in this. It's not something that will just happen overnight, but we've got to explore the methodology to do this correctly. So one of the first things we've done, we reached out to a law firm that has worked with a number of Public Service Commission regulated utilities, and they've done metering audits for these utilities and just said, what if we retain you? And so they're sending us some information about how they've done that and what it would involve for us to retain them to do this specific metering audit that's going to be done of a statistically accurate representative sample. So that's one approach. Another is I've reached out to a couple of meter manufacturers because they've all got their own meter testing equipment and they have a new meter they have to certify its accuracy before they send it out. I don't know that I like that approach quite as much, but it still is an approach out there. We can work with them to see if they'd be willing to come and pull these meters. And again, kind of have a chain of custody. As we do this, I don't want our operators pulling the meters. I want a third party doing it. So we don't touch the meter. We have to be there and on site to see it and then put in the new meter. That's another option. The third option is we just approved just recently, we're working with Jacobs Engineering on implementation of our advanced metering infrastructure, is we could add a task order to their contract to say, you've got to hire somebody independently as testing bench. You've got to have the field personnel come out and pull this sample of meters. let Jacobs Engineering as a metering engineering consultant, let them handle this for us and then report back to the board and council. So I don't know where we'll land on that. We're still evaluating those options. I kind of like the law firm that's done this before. I kind of like that approach. I also like having an approach of just having Jacobs do this since they're now our metering guru, if you will. So I think either way, one, as we do this, we have to make sure that we have replacement meters in stock. So as we pull them, however many we end up pulling, we have them in stock to replace them. So nobody's at service as we do it. And then we also have to evaluate within the system. On the residential part is how old are the meters, and we want to pull the right number within certain age ranges, whether it's 5 to 10 years, 10 to 15 years, 15 years beyond. We have to make sure we're pulling a representative sample of the different brands of meters we use. We don't just use one single brand. I think predominantly we have three brands, and we've got to make sure we pull a sample that's representative of each brand we use. So it's not something, I don't want you to think we're not working on this, but I do want you to know that this isn't something that's just going to happen overnight, but we are working on it. We'll pick the right methodology and we'll move forward with it. I will say, I think with the cost associated with this effort, it will require a vulnerable procurement process through an RFP or an RFQ. Any questions?

So you're saying system-wide, but system-wide means that you're going to Do random sampling. Yes. Based on studies that have shown how this can be done well.

Correct.

Do you have any idea of how many you think you might end up pulling?

Well, as I mentioned at a previous meeting and just going to my engineering statistics book, and you look at before it, 15,000, 15,000 to 16,000 customers in your confidence intervals. That was, I think, around 350 years when I talked to the representative of Stolking, and they said they've never done One of that magnitude. They said we usually pull for your 50. I don't know what number that is yet. We'll just have to I'll get some input from the board. Happy to have council input, but So I'll say somewhere between 50 and 350. But I don't know the answer there. I've never done this, but we'll figure out what is the correct way to give us the confidence we need to show you what we need to show on our meter accuracy.

We appreciate you and the board working on this.

approximately how many extra meters do you guys have of those three different types? And then the ones that you're running a little low on perhaps, what's the wait time on getting those?

Wait time isn't as bad anymore. A few years ago it was It was very difficult to get new meters, but now we can get them. Not too difficult. I mean, we buy them when we have them available, but I will have to send you out what we have sitting on the shelf. I don't know that off the top of my head, but I can send that out.

Okay. And with those big metering audits, what are some specifics that they're trying to confirm or rule out? Of course, they're in general want to know, you know, do they work or not? Are they accurate or not? But It lightens terms.

Good question. I think one of the first things I'll say is results is if you'll see, I think that what, again, what the representative on the law firm says, generally what you'll see is at 16 years, your meter accuracy falls to a really bad level to the customer's benefit as it's under-registering usage once you get to a certain age. So if you've got an older meter and we put a newer in, you're probably not going to be happy because you are bills. I can say that with quite a bit of confidence.

And perhaps we get our hands on some of those older meters.

I don't know the answer to that. But that was one thing. And I will say, I think we've got, especially within outside the city limits, a lot of our county customers will have older meters. They just said that it was very important to document what you're going to establish your age of meter ranges and make sure you have good methodology for how many you're going to sample within each range, whether it's zero to five years old, meaning it's a pretty new meter, five to 10 years old, 10 to 15, meaning it's getting to the end of its service life. And then how many do you have in your system that's beyond that? And I don't know where we're going to, where we'll line up on that.

Chase, I will say thank you for, I have not received in the last month, I have not received as many phone calls, and I have not received a whole bunch of emails with water bills in the last, so I, the few that have received phone calls, I've told them to come to you all and call you, work with, and then if you all weren't working with them, they didn't feel satisfied, and I did not get the phone calls that called me back. So thank you for taking this in the board. taking it serious and trying to get answers for people that, as I said, were frustrated because I laid it down on you far harder than anybody else did. But with saying that, I want to appreciate that for that year of reaching out and trying. And your staff must be really playing on customer service for people to realize, yes, we care about your water bill. So thank you.

Thank you for saying that. And I'll pass that credit along where it's due. And that's the folks that sit up at our customer service office. Absolutely. Any other questions? Thank you.

Thanks, Chase. Sorry if I could just, not on metering, but just because there's been some issues and things like that, do you want to address that at all?

If you have, as elected officials, if you have received calls about odor issues, I will say that one of our last parts that we've been getting started up and really dialing in at Because it was a part of beneficial use that's part of substantial completion is our sludge processing. And I will say I've noticed that it's bad at any number of calls. But we aren't dealing in things that smell good at point one. And in getting our biosolid or sludge processing dialed in, we've got to churn up some of that sludge that's been sitting in tanks for a while. It's gone septic and it does not smell good. However, I do believe on that issue specifically, I think the worst is behind us, and hopefully we should get that once everything is working and we've learned the new processes, I think that you're not going to have those complaints. Thank you.

Thank you, Jake and the staff for their work. Item number 11.

uh it's reported by how things homelessness prevention for the update and it's yes but i wanted to come tonight do my quarterly update i know we're a little late but um we just just how it's falling so here we are um I do have my timeline on the next slide that I gave out last November. This is kind of how I'm still tracking the progress of my office and making sure that we're staying focused on the goals that were outlined in the housing needs assessment. And so the first thing I wanted to talk about tonight was that first goal, was to expend the money from our emergency solutions grant. And as of Friday, that has been done. We've wrapped up our first round of that grant. If you'll go to the next slide. I had this the last time that I was here, but I just wanted to bring it one more time. So we were funded, the ESU funds originally for that first cycle on the top line. And we had to file for an extension for those funds. Again, I mentioned this last time, but we were notified of funding a few months into that grant period. And then because we are a new project, it took a few months to get all the way set up and rolling. And so we extended those funds until last Friday. And so we have now suspended all those and we will be moving to the next grant cycle, which is that second one. ESG 2025, and then we will, we have officially applied for the ESG 2026 funds as of a couple of weeks ago. So I just wanted to update you where we're at in those funding cycles. You'll go to the next slide. So I say these numbers are the official numbers. However, I'm sure over the weekend, we probably served a few more clients. And so it might be a little bit higher than this, but as of last Friday, with our emergency solutions grant, the very first cycle, now that it's completed with our emergency shelter funds, we served 322 clients from July 1st to May 31st of 2026. If you go to the next slide, I have a little bit of a breakdown there, because I know that folks like to see that big number broken down. So I have the age breakdown there, and then the clients broken down, men, women, and children, and then lengths of stay. I thought, I don't think I have brought this up before, but I thought it might be important to bring, for you all to visualize how long folks are staying in the low barrier shelter. that largest number is zero to seven days. So that is the staff really working to get folks in to get their needs met and then try to move them to where they need to go next steps, the next steps for them. And so they're not lingering. I feel like that is something that folks get concerned about with low barrier shelter. Are folks staying for long lengths of time and that's simply not happening with Heather and her staff. Those numbers, like those highest, 100, 181 days and over, I know for a fact, I think I know all of those six clients have some really severe medical or disability needs, and they're having to work really hard to advocate for them to get into some sort of very specific program assisted situation. And so they're working with them to get them to an appropriate next step instead of just moving them on because they've been there too, quote unquote, too long. And so I was really proud when I was running those numbers of the gathering place and the way that they're serving clients there. Does anybody have questions on that?

I have a question. Yeah. There's quite a bit of discrepancy between men and women. Which surprises me. Do we know why? Are more women just falling through the cracks of getting help or do they go with family more easily?

I think there can be lots of reasons. I think the number one for gathering places situation is they have more room for men. They've been serving men in their emergency shelter scenarios for longer and added women just a few years ago. Um, I think that's partly why we're wanting to get them more space. Um, so that way they can have more, open up more beds. Um, I also know that when women come with children, they try to fast track them to their gathering place program instead of the low barrier shelter. It just seems to be a better fit when there are kids involved. And so I think, um, if you looked at their numbers in their program, it might be a little higher than the low barrier shelter as well. Um, So I would say those are probably the two main reasons for the difference.

And it's on the length of, say, December 7 and April 14. Do you measure, that's 322 clients, do you measure any routine people that may leave and then come back?

Yes, and I believe there is a report I can run on that for folks who do return. so I could look at those numbers too.

That would be a good measure of how successful they are in getting into other areas, whereas if the people are coming back, they're going to need something else. Thank you.

We'll go to the next slide. The ESG grant also funds our Rapid Rehousing Program. And so I believe these numbers are actually very no changes over the weekend. But we've served 57 clients since the beginning of the grant. Eight of those are those ongoing rental assistance households. So folks who we are paying part or all of their rent for 12 to 24 months, depending on situation. But our bigger number, the one that we get really excited about are the 20 households that we serve with move-in assistance. These are folks that we just helped them move in, pay those security deposits, first month's rent, utility deposits, things like that. And then they are able to sustain their housing on their own. So it's been very big, especially with Heather at the Gathering Place, freeing up beds there because folks are there and they're ready to move out, but they just need assistance. Not saying that all of those came out of the Gathering Place. We also had community members that we helped out Quite a few referrals from Scott County Schools came through our movement assistance program. So it's really been a community effort to get folks who really have the resources to be able to live unassisted, just a bump to get them there. I think the next slide has also, yeah, some breakdowns too. So yeah, let's have the age breakdown again. And then the clients, a lot of kiddos started with this one. Do you have any questions for this one? All right. We'll go to the next slide. One of the goals on the timeline is to try and talk to our community members and research how to possibly mimic the Transylvania Affordable Housing Project in Lexington, but kind of create the Scott County version here because that project so unique, but very successful. And so I will say we have had some really great meetings about this. And I feel like there's been a lot of good conversation about that really seeming like a very good project for here in Scott County. So I hope soon to bring more details on that to you, possibly a work session on that. One thing I did want to educate on tonight is if you go to the next slide, we have been talking a lot about, or I talk a lot about workforce housing. And so that typically is in the 60 to 80 percent AMI range. And so someone in a meeting the other day was like, I hear that a lot, but I don't know the incomes for that is. And so I just wanted to bring this chart with me. I think it's very eye-opening because Workforce housing, affordable housing, I think there's a stereotype behind that and a population of people that people tend to think about. And when you look at these income levels, it kind of shifts viewpoint a little bit. The workforce housing targets folks like teachers and nurses and folks working at Toyota. And I think that helps shift the way people feel about this conversation a little bit. That's the housing that we're needing on all levels. And so I thought that chart might be helpful to share tonight. And I can keep bringing that back too as we talk more about housing projects. You go to the next slide. One thing that we have, another thing we've completed is our K count 2026. We do not have final numbers for that because KHC takes all the data that we give and they process it. And a lot of times We don't see that until the fall of that year, because things in KHC will move a little slow. But if you'll go to the next slide, I did bring a chart that has the numbers from the past seven years. 2021 is blank because they essentially did not have K count. But you will see that the trend is that the number is growing. And I've talked about this before, but I think one, There's two reasons for that. I think is one that we do have a growing population here in Scott County. And so I think the trend will grow, but we also are becoming more efficient at knowing how to capture those numbers and gather data and know where folks are and be able to accurately count. And so with that increased stability, we've been able to capture more people accurately. So I do think that the number coming out on 26th will maybe be between like 90 and 100, but I will update you with that whenever they release that number, probably in the fall. The next thing on that timeline is to consider ordinances to reduce soft costs for affordable housing. To go to the next slide, there's an example that I have been looking into. I will say I'm not as far in this initiative as I would like to be because we've had a lot of federal funding things I've had to work on in the past couple of months. But I am meeting with some folks to see what this would look like in our community and the effects of these changes, positive or negative, and hope to bring more rounded research on that in the future, the near future. But that is something that we are looking into. You go to the next slide. The next thing, the next bullet is to apply for COC rapid rehousing funding. When we put that on there last fall, we thought that that would be, that it would be open by now. However, it is not only opened and closed, but it is now tied up in court. I guess the notice of funding got walked back and it is not active right now. At a meeting I went to a week ago, they said a new notice of funding would be released by June 1st, but I did not see that today. So don't keep a lookout for that. And we will anxiously await reading the note that they do finally release, but I will update you all with what happens with that. I should probably back up. COC rapid rehousing funding is different than the ESG rapid rehousing funding that we have right now. It's two different funding streams. The COC is more competitive, and that funding comes directly through HUD, and so it has been a little bit odd with this administration, the way that those NOSA fundings have been coming out, if that makes sense. So this would be a different rapid rehousing revenue stream. Do you have a question about that? Sorry, I should have said that. Okay. The second quarter items, the long-term rental registry and the CDBG grant are things that I'm currently working on. One thing I did want to say is we are actively working with the Gathering Place to try and put in an application for them to build the actual low barrier shelter building instead of just trying to put beds where they can. I think it would be a strong project. Karen, our grants administrator, is certified in CDBG. The thing that we're working on right now that Heather at the Gallagher College is actively working on is looking to close the funding gap between what we would be able to get with CDBG and what the total of the project is. And so we are looking for ways to close that gap and Heather is actively looking for ways to fundraise and donors to help with that as well. It's a big project that I think is a really big need. They stay fully around at this point and so additional space would be very helpful and also appropriate like flexible space so that we can serve more clients than they do now.

So anybody have a question?

Thank you. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm going to be affordable housing. That's not wanting to put you on the spot, but what would you say would be the biggest barrier right now for us to start getting into affordable housing?

I think the hard part is making all of the pieces fit together at the right time. So grant timelines matching up with the willingness for people to move forward and then finding that perfect piece of land that fits all the boxes. It's just a lot of moving parts. And I think that we have been planting seeds since my office has opened. And I think that we will soon hopefully see some fruit from those lots and lots of conversations that we've been having and trying to make connections. Awesome.

And if you want to form a CDBG application, um, remind on the design funding that's already in place that. Oh yeah.

Yeah. So it's CDBG. Um, yes, we helped. Yeah. I was trying to think it was not last year. It was the year before. Um, my office worked with Heather to secure funding from Toyota to be kind of the initial. donation towards the CDBG project and they have used part of that, not all of that, to do the design work and do a lot of prep work for the application when we do eventually put that in.

Yes.

So any updates on the public private partnership that I had raised?

Yes. So again, that We have some projects in the works. I just don't feel comfortable sharing a lot of details because there's nothing for sure yet to be shared. But hopefully we have a work session soon and we can bring something to you all.

What's up with July deadline for funding? What has a July deadline?

One of the public funding partnerships. Okay.

Thank you, Mayor.

This is, we do this every year. This is an agreement between the Transportation Cabinet

to pay streets for street painting. It now is $210,976.51. A little bit less than we've received last year, but nonetheless, I've asked your approval for the mayor to be able to sign the agreement and do the resolution and pass the resolution.

We'll receive the funding. Yes, I need a motion. I have a motion, Mayor. in May by Ms. Grant. Are there further questions or comments?

Eddie, did you say 210 or 710? Yes, 710. I'm sorry if I misspoke.

It's on the paragraph 1, first page here. 710-979-51. A little over 700,000. Any other questions or comments? All in favor of this motion, say it.

Mike, go ahead. Mike, I'm sorry.

Yeah, Eddie, are there any other deferred maintenance projects that remain unfunded after this? You know, any that Dr. Pett?

You mean deferred? When you say deferred maintenance, I

Will even, for example, will this include those potential one or two streets that might be added over in Staples, or is this a...

This is just to secure the funding from the state. The purpose of this is to sign an agreement with the state to receive the funding. And then from there, we, every year we put out a street list that we would like to pave. And we're looking at that right now we have a. Preliminary list, and we're, we're working on that. So we will do that and then we'll do a hearing and all that stuff.

Okay. Any other questions and comments. All those in favor of the motion signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. Item 13, your police resolution for Bullet Field Vast Partnership VBP grant.

Hello. We have existing funding for this program. And so this is just another round to continue it. It reimburses 50% of the bulletproof vests anytime a new officer is hired or an officer with an existing vest. The vest expires for lack of a better term. And I think that the cost right now is like just under $900 per vest. So we will be reimbursed about 450, maybe a little less. That's great.

From Marist. Motion by Mr. Snow that second. Thank you for the questions and comments. I would say that most of the same. I am 14. I miss the order for starting on being green. Reinvestment yet.

This is in our investment account at Stockyards Bank. We have another $500,000 that is about to mature or just matured. And Stockyards Bank sent a proposal that the Finance Committee has considered and is recommending for approval by Council. They have again asked for some flexibility to get us the best rates. At the time of investment, you can see they're recommending maturities of one to five years. The approximate yield, they're anticipating 4% to 4.75%. They'll invest this in $100,000 to $250,000 segments. And you can see with our securities that are maturing in July 26, August 26, and 2027, those securities are all just under 4%. And with the last rounds of investments they've been able to make where we've given them that little bit of flexibility, they have been able to start securing interest rates above 4% for us. So giving them that flexibility to get what is our most advantageous rate that the day they go to buy the securities has worked well.

All right. Let's have a motion. Motion. Second. Motion made by Mr. Hampton. Second by Ms. Mitchell. Other further questions, any comments? All votes in favor of the motion, standing by by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, opposed, say nay. Item 15, council discussion, bold business.

Mayor, if you mind, you can call Candace back up to get some clarification on Councilman McGee's. Yeah, go ahead.

Yes, so I guess I was wondering what the July deadline is that you're speaking. Is it the low-income tax credit?

Yeah.

So the deadline for that grant is in September.

June. June initial.

The pre-application was due May 14th. Right, I'm sorry.

Yeah, that's perfect. But that's the program you're referring to?

Yes. And that was final on behalf to secure it until the end of June.

What is the July deadline?

To secure the property to be able to be eligible to then proceed with Okay. Okay.

Thank you.

All right. Thank you. Old business.

Man, if I could, I think it's old business, but I was talking with a citizen today and they were talking about, I know it's been in to the traffic committee, but about, you know, And the third, third, you know, is the fast one. And they had, uh, asked the traffic committee and. Todd had commented this afternoon and they've asked for that to put instead of the calming mechanisms that we've talked about on that road, uh, is to put up a stop sign on the corner of Walnut, which has stops on, but then on, you know, so it becomes a four way stop. to slow that traffic down, that they would have to stop and then have to pick up speed again. I'm sure in the beginning, if we were to do something like that, there would have to be some grace in that to know that the stop sign has been there when there has been one for years, but I would like to propose that the council would consider doing that. I know it may not fit all the standards that we normally go by with that, but fry it and see if that wouldn't slow it down. And that's more cost efficient for the community if it were to put in the speed humps and things like that in place on that. It's just a long stretch of road that just needs something to slow it down. And the citizen, he lives on that corner. And so he made that suggestion. The traffic committee's talked about that suggestion. And so I think it's something that the council should drive up there, take a look for themselves, and something that we could do, and we could do rather quickly. And if it was unsuccessful, you can undo it and not have a lot of cost into it. But I think that could, if we had some of those long strips, that we could stop some traffic. And after a while, people will get used to, oh, I've got to stop here, so I've got to slow down.

And there's several residents in that area that have And there's some that have moved out of there because of the fear of their kids playing in the street and potentially getting hurt. So, you know, it's something that, you know, Eddie and I have argued on the traffic committee. I wouldn't say argued, but we've had discussions about it. And, you know, I still think stop signs work. He said, well, we've got to move forward with traffic. And so, you know, when... the resident also spoke with myself, you know, I said, you know, we'll, we'll bring it up and see what we can do, you know, because it is, it is a long stretch and there's a lot of people that, and I've sat over there myself and seen them fly down through there. So I didn't know you had to be in the unit of that area as well.

If we could, if we could actually put it on maybe an agenda item that if all the council time to go over there and set at that intersection and watch how many traffic and see what you think could be, it might be, like I said, when you first put it up, it's going to be a lot of grace because people are going to go through it, not knowing it's there, but it's a council way to go over, take a look at that area, see what they think, and then we put it on the agenda for the next agenda event. discuss it further, as to what action to take or not to take on it.

So, we're just going to do that. My question is, you know, we have a lot of streets that have them straightaways, and that, you know, and so if you're going to put it there, you may have to look at the name of those too. So, that's something we can look at.

And personally, you might take, you know, as a test strip, a test strip, or a speed strip, And take that as a test and see how it works or how it doesn't work. Because like Showalter, that's where Showalter, that's another one of that ones that we're talking about, right? Going through your neighborhood is another one. So just take Gnome. Gnome, it was in the top five of the street. Gnome is a lovely, long, big, wide street. But whenever we have a big, wide street, you want to drive faster on it. And I do. I'm guilty of it.

So my question is, before I go further, you know, Was this any kind of recognition, like the traffic meeting? I mean, that's something that ain't, I know it's just an advisory, but for this question, excuse me, discussion with that.

Well, we've had a lot of discussion with it, and I think that it's, you know, all part of, we've discussed about having the speed tables on there, but, you know, there's The first ones were started with Seminole and with Aztec and with Pocahontas and then moving to Showalter. So I think it's, you know, this may be something, be it even if it's just temporary, See how it works. To see how it works. So, I mean, it may be something until we can, because we get, you know, as Eddie just got up and spoke about, we only get limited funds from the state. And, you know, this may help defer that cost a little bit. And, you know, and it's, you know, speaking of the stop sign, you know, it may be better placed at, instead of on up at Walnut, maybe let's put it almost at the halfway point, which is right there at Chestnut. It's, you know, because they are, they come out of, when they turn off of Broadway, they wind up and they, I've seen them myself personally, they fly up this area. I mean, it's nothing for them to hit 40, 50, 60 miles an hour, you know. You know, just like on Aztec, where I live, you know, by the time they get in front of my house, I've seen them 30, 35, and I lived the first guess on that stick. So, you know. Yeah, Emily.

So you all did adopt the traffic calming program or whatever the word is for that. So there were the four test areas, but you have a program in place to address these. This would be one of the first opportunities to put that into to see how that toolbox, what's the word I'm looking for? It's a traffic corner.

It would be a tier one. It's a tier one.

The tools are here for you, but we just have not had the chance to use it yet outside. So you may want to consider using this as a test and just using it as a low, potentially low-hanging fruit.

And if it works, if it does slow down people, We may want to use them in other places. Maybe something. So, yes, we can look at that. There's a stop sign up there on Showalter on the back side. I don't know why it's there, but it's there and people have to stop.

You know, one of the things that Eddie's worked on this for quite a while on Seminole is you've got a roundabout. two blocks away, you've got stop sign, stop sign, stop sign. Then you don't have another one until you get to Broadway. So, you know, and we've worked, tried to work to get those stop signs either out of there or moved around or whatever. But, you know, I think this is something, you know, it's just another tool in the toolbox that could help Eddie, not only with the police department as well, but, you know, so. That's something that we can do with the county council. Yeah.

So any times we look at that and see what we can do with that.

I think it's interesting, too, that you have the input from the citizens who live there because the signal residents are like, try those stop signs. We don't want to. When are we getting our speed bump pumps?

And here's somebody who's saying we think a stop sign might do it. And it might.

It might. out one of those posts of those 10 streets that's supposed to be getting the speed, a speed device.

But, you know, and just with limited funding and that we, you know, we only get so much money from the state, we try to pave as many streets as we can, you know.

So you're saying maybe try this as a test and if it works well, then maybe something we can save on, pave a couple more streets on it. You know, and

I'm glad that we've made progress on the PNZ kind of technical terms and cleaning things up. But I think we want to keep moving this effort forward. And so maybe the next meeting we can zero in on some of the other priorities. I know the last meeting I mentioned two or three that I

i wanted to emphasize off the girls list um but i think it's time to put that back on the forefront and um be pushing forward does that sound so ideal or not have the planning commission staff back next two or three meetings to finish presenting tax amendments to you all um and then using that where you all have discussion and consider what does or doesn't address what you talked about. And I think the plan that we talked about as a group is once they get through those presentations and you all decide what to do with those, then the conversation turned back to what's still being out there.

That's my- So you have a logical progression in place for that.

But the next meeting, they'll be here to present on two of the proposed tax amendments. I think it's- to one and one. We're trying to group them based on the content and how similar they are. Also, digestibility, because the last one is a doozy. So if you want to shift that plan, totally fine. But that's what we've been communicating with the staff to coordinate how to keep all the pieces moving forward. But let's get through the work that they've written.

Okay, that sounds great.

I appreciate it. All right. Any other old goodness? New business.

The only thing that I'm getting phone calls about right now is the fact that the lazy river is down.

Yeah, it is.

And it's a pump.

Yeah, and that pump has been ordered. And as soon as they get that, it will be put back up. I can't give you a timeline on that. So once they get that, it shouldn't take them long to turn it over. I got a text from Drew on that. Okay.

And then I don't think the public knows that we have in the budget plans for an outdoor lane pool. And it's in the design. Where are we with that?

We're working on getting a contract to bring to you all. So we did open and review qualifications. So we just haven't been able to receive the fee proposal yet.

Okay.

From the selected contractor. vendor to see if we can negotiate that and bring it to you all, but I would be hopeful that we could bring it on the 22nd. I think next Monday would be a little optimistic, but the 22nd seems very realistic.

Okay, so it'd be good for us to be able to celebrate that when it's starting.

Okay. Any other new business? All right. Item 16, council comments.

All right. Mr. Chris. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. A couple of quick things. First off, we recently had the horse 800 and it's pretty rainy, but luckily, you know, as usual, no accidents, no major problems with that. A couple of days before the horse 800, I ran into a business owner downtown, runs a very successful business and a master of What impact does the horse demerit have on your business? She says it's huge that those riders come in and spend a lot of money that entire weekend. And so this was a couple of days before the reigning three-day weekend. I don't know how much they came in then, but... They definitely really like the horsey member and they also live in town and say it's for them, you know, worth it to have a minor inconvenience of occasionally getting behind the cyclist now and again. But when Lori Saunders says it's a great event, it sounds like it is. A long story great event that brings a lot of income downtown. So that Bigler Business owner wanted me to share that with everyone. And then second, a real quick brag on Georgetown. A family member of mine was in Bourbon County for business just a few days ago, met up with somebody from out of state. And when they came in and met, the out of state gentleman said, I just drove through this town on the way here, most beautiful downtown I've ever seen. They've got hanging flower baskets. She's gorgeous. It's like a Hallmark movie. And the person said, it's called Georgetown. And my family member says, yeah, I live there. Thanks. We appreciate it. We love it. So it definitely makes you feel good knowing how great the community we have and how public works and tourism and everybody involved are keeping downtown looking how it is. It's great. So that's Just wanted to share that as well. Thank you. Thanks.

I just want to get back on what Michael said. We got some, because it rained, we got some customers in the shop that were here from, fortunately, when everything's allowed to ride. But over the weekend, Kevin and I actually went up to Stanton, Kentucky, and they had a really nice festival up there, but I don't get out of Georgia a lot. I was in Kentucky a lot. But, you know, going to other areas, it makes you realize just how blessed and how fortunate. I mean, they had a wonderful, they did a wonderful job with the little festival they had, but how blessed and how fortunate that we are to have what we have. And when you look at some of these other Kentucky cities that you go through and look at them. So we're really blessed with the area that we live in.

Mr. Menke, just a quick request.

I think there's a lot of evidence that we are a working council and that we have working department heads and we've had a lot of presentations this evening. The water, the housing, the fire presentation with the commendations We are moving forward with a great budget. It's evidence in my mind that we do have a working Council that is paying attention to a lot of details, including It has been mentioned, but the police traffic unit is doing a wonderful job and getting some press for when when we stop cars. We're finding lots of other things that need attention, like drugs. And we've got safety at the forefront as well. So I just think we can celebrate what we need to celebrate and work on what still needs to be worked on. Thank you.

Ms. Brandt? I have not. All right. Mr. Hampton? I am good. Thank you. Ms. Mitchell?

All good.

Thank you. And that's not the stuff I'm doing. All right. If there's no meeting in information or with the service, we've also discussed with this group is adjourned.