City Council - Special Meeting

this May 18th uh city council meeting to order in ward 10 for invocation. I'd like to ask HFD Chaplain Miller do the honors. that I promise he's not going to take off this time. That's okay. He won't go far.

Let us pray. Father, we love you so much and we thank you for another opportunity to come together and uh be a part of what has been given to us as civil government. And Lord, I pray Jesus that you would continue to guide all of those that are here that are apart, our civilians, our our population. Um, and as we uh come from celebrating uh police week, we are now uh looking forward to celebrating EMS week this week. We won't forget the sacrifices that they've made, whether they be EMS, police, or fire. And we thank you for their services. We thank you for all the services that are provided within this city. And we ask that your continual blessings to our community and to our county and to all the citizens that are a part of Hawkinsville. and we love you in Jesus name. Amen.

Amen. We stand for the pledge, please, if you can. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We'll have the clerk call the role. Uh, Councilman Meeks is out sick and councilman Bogart is out sick. Council member Smith present. Council member Stalins here. Council member Marsh here. Council member Crabary here. Council member Craig. Council member Martin here. Council member Sumar

here. Council member Meek. Council member Bogard. Council member Valz here. Council member Bell here. Council member D here. Can we do the perform? Thank you. And Councilman Craig is trying to finish up some pieces at school tonight on that. Miss Amy is okay. All right. Wards and recognition. I call on Hawkinsville Police Department. Chief Newbie.

I'm going to have Amanda come up here and help with this one. Uh basically we had our thin blue run uh a couple weeks ago and uh we just wanted to recognize uh one of one of our biggest donors that we have for the run.

So for the thinly run, we raised raised over $16,000 for that and this is our champion for children award that we're giving to our largest donors. So we wanted to recognize you tonight. Thank you so much for and remind me of Steve and Diane Thomas.

Steve and Diane Thomas. I knew Diane, but I knew there was two of you. So, Steve and Diane Thomas, these were our biggest donors and we really appreciated it. All of these proceeds, if you didn't know, go toward the um Children's Advocacy Center and for Sanctuary House. So, a great cause. The community really got engaged. We have a lot of great donors. If you're listening out there and we're a donor, we really appreciate the support. We're looking forward to doing it next year. So, thank you so much. and if you want to on behalf of your agency speak or put you on the spot, but this is a sanctuary house representation. So, um yes, just on behalf of sanctuary, um we just thank you so much. Um we appreciate it. Thank you, Chief, and thank you um to your staff and for Amanda and all of your hard work in the city. Um we greatly appreciate it. So, thank you so much. And I'm a quick picture for you with you guys. Next, we're going to be promoting Detective Michael Luckingham to Sergeant. So, Sergeant Luckingham, if you would. I state your

do solemnly swear that will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the Commonwealth and will faithfully and truthfully to the Commonwealth of Kentucky. So long as I continue as citizen therefore and that will faithfully execute to the best of your ability as police sergeant according to law and do further solemnly swear that since the adoption of the present constitution being a citizen of the state have not fought in a duel with a deadly weapon within the state nor out of it nor have sent or sent or accepted the challenge to fight in duel with deadly weapons, nor have it acted as a second in carrying a challenge, nor aiding and assisting any person through offending this. So, we help you God.

All right. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. sir. Appreciate Righty. All righty. We'll move into item six, public comments. If anyone would like to come and speak at the microphone, they can at this time. Please state your name. And that's all.

My name is Rose Jackson. First, I would like to thank the mayor for being transparent regarding the decrease in the budget and for sharing that information publicly with the community. Transparency is important and I appreciate that effort. I also hope that everyone serving on this council understands that citizens should feel comfortable speaking during these meetings without fear of intimidation, disrespect, or feeling discouraged from voicing their concerns. In addition, I want to remind everyone that the citizens of this community have a right to ask questions and seek transparency regarding issues affecting our city, especially matters uh impacting the wards that we live in and we raise our family and children in. I believe it's important that all citizens continue to have access to attend and participate in in these meetings even when their comments or concerns may be critical or unpopular. Open dialogue and public input are important parts of local government. Lastly, I would like to ask when additional information will be released regarding the opioid committee, including how the opioid settlement funds and are being handled, allocated, and communicated to the public.

Thank you, ma'am. Anyone else? Okay, we'll move into item seven. Mayor's comments. They're short. Uh, lay most of you a flyer out there for the uh camp for kindergartens, June July the 20th through the 23rd. So, look at that. If you got any questions, Christian County, I'll get you one. like I run out before I got to you, but we will get you some on that. Um, so this is going on. We're trying to get that out for everyone. Says transportation will be provided by the Christian County School Board. So, we would like to make sure everybody and every child gets to be able to go to that on that. Uh, take kids fishing on Jeffers Ben on the 23rd of this month. It starts at 9:00. So, come out and enjoy it. We're going to have a great time. We always do. Travis, you driving a tractor?

You're not. Graduation.

Gradu. Hey, you got to take care of that. That's right. But hey, but that's okay. We're come on out. We're gonna have a lot of fun. Catch the biggest catfish. Somebody might come out and enjoy yourselves. Bring the kids. We're going to have a lot of fun there. Um, Chief Newbie and everybody, the FOP, thank you for the police memorial the other day. And let's remember the officers that did the ultimate sacrifice for us. So, we get to do what we get to do. We had the uh special forces memorial was held Saturday um at Fort Campbell. Had a great time there. A lot of people seen and talked to. Don't forget to go vote tomorrow if you ain't already done the early voting. Get out and vote. That way you can have your say. And I want everybody to have a fun and safe Memorial Day coming up. And hope everybody has a great great Memorial Day on that. All righty. We'll move into reports item eight from officers and committees and guest speakers and that would be Melissa Clayton talk about finances today.

Good evening. She is smiling. Smile. She is smiling. She has a reason to smile this time.

Um, April was a good month for us. Um, so I'm excited to share tonight's monthly financial report with you guys. All right. Um, we'll start with the inter fund transfers. We had four interfund transfers in the month of April and you can see them there. Um, I'd be happy to answer any questions you guys might have about those. Um, total inter funds for the year um, 81,166 leaving a balance of 18,835 in the inner fund account. And that difference right there is just rounding. So our payroll tax for the year um budgeted at 19 million310 we've collected $18,686 350 last year at the same time we had collected um 19 million50942. Um I added a couple slides here on the screen that are not in your packet to kind of help explain um why I feel like April was a good month. So all year when I track payroll like this um too which is by month I compare last year this month with this year this month. So as you can see each month has been kind of negative as we've gone along. Um with worst month being November at a negative of 190,503. Um December was negative, January's negative. We hit February and I told you guys that it was a little bit over last year's amount. It was over by 17,000. Last month I told you for March we were over by 72,000 compared to um this time last year. And when we hit April um I there are a couple things I want you to point I want to point out for April. So in April we collected 2,106871. That is the highest month of payroll tax over the last two years. So it brought me some great hope that we are getting out of where we have been. Um, so

overall compared to last year, we're up 140,728. Um, compared April of last year to April of this year. Overall, we're still down 364,592. When compared to last year, year to date, we're still running a little bit behind, but if May and June are the same as April, we have fingers crossed. Um, we may come out to the exact same as what we had last year. So, when I say April was a good month, that's our highest payroll tax month we've had over the last two years. So, it was it was a really good month payroll tax-wise for us. Um, I also just kind of wanted to point out that we have seen a lot of payroll growth. I told you guys during the budget process, I track the growth percentage of different of all of our big four revenues and and how they come in. And so, I just pulled up the last 10 payroll growth years. Um, this is another slide I just kind of added so you can see right now we're still um showing a negative. Um, but negatives do happen. The last time we had one was 1920 which was COVID. Um, generally we usually have positive payroll tax growth. Um, but there are occasional years where we have a negative. And so we had some really big growth um really fast. 22 23 at 9.49% that's the highest on record. like it's really unheard of to have that big of a payroll growth in one year. Um, and then the 7.36 and last year was 6%. And so to me, it's only natural that it would pull back some. That's economics in general. You can't keep going up up up without at some point having a a downward turn. Um, but anyway, payroll u for the month of April was great. Um, also our property taxes are still above last year's by about $100,000. And then our insurance premium tax, it rebounded some. I don't know if you guys remember the percentage from last month,

but right now we're still showing a decrease um through April at 1.97%. And then our business license have finally rebounded um and we have collected now year-to date more business license tax this year than we collected last year. So, two of the big four are now above April of 25 and April of 26. So, that is good news for us um revenue-wise. So, let's get into them to the big numbers. Um the general fund balance we started the year with 317,904 in encumbrances. Um we've collected year-to- date 47,668253. Our year-to- date expenses,

sorry, good bless you. um 44,391919. So we have positive revenue over expenses of 3,594238 um when we compare that to last year. Now for April we are running above um April of last year um by about $200,000. Our municipal road aid um we started the year with 353535. We collected year-to- date 1,1,880. Our actual expenses 1,448072 giving us u more expenses than revenue of 92,656. We are going to get positive though. I promise it's coming. Um our capital fund year-to- date incumbrances 967863. We've collected in capital 2,78589. actual expenses out of capital 3,71147 giving up positive revenue over expenses of 41,545. As far as our departmental expenses, um departments are still coming in under budget. Through 10 months, we should be at 83.3%. Um so admin at the end of April was at 79.8, the tax department at 82.8, 8 information technology at 80.1 and legislative at 85.9. In our public safety area, the police department was at 79.6, ECC was at 80.6, the fire department was at 82.3, EMS is at 84.2, and fire prevention at 69.1. Public works, public works admins at 81.3, city maintenance at 74.1, Fort Camel Contracts at 43%, the service center was at 78.5,

parks and wreck is at 71.4, the sports at 70.6, and the aquatic center at 67%. So overall, um, through 10 months, we have spent 76% of what was budgeted. uh municipal road aid has spent 86.2% and the capital we have spent 80.8% of what is budgeted. So our fund balance um cash fund balance at the beginning of the year$18,269128 plus our year-to- date receipts minus our year-to- date expenses gives us our cash fund balance um April 30th at 21,545462 minus our incumbrances. Our available cash is 21,425826. When you subtract out our two reserve accounts, we get our unassigned cash fund balance at 20,129239. That is at 42.8% of our operating budget. Last year at April, we were at 44.2% of our operating budget. And you can see the available cash there and the unassigned cash how that um compares this year and last year. So our new graph um this year is the blue line. So you can see we are under where we were this time last year but above where we were in 2324. And my last slide is our investment fund. Um, our investment fund, we started the year with 1,2812. We've collected 25,217 in interest, and we have an unrealized gain in the market of 86,712.

I would be happy to answer any questions you guys might have about April's monthly financial report. I'm not going to ask you to go back to the beginning, but where you had the 10 12 year um you know payroll tax. Yes. So the growth percentage the growth percentage the road the growth the percentage.

Yes. I wasn't going to ask you to go back there, but but my my question is, so you had three years of increased revenue and then of course you've got this year's down here, whatever. Those three years of growth, are they is that growth attributed to the construction work that has been going on? And are those temporary jobs that we're going to see go down or is that permanent jobs excluding the construction or is it both?

It it's both. So we have some regular growth that is related to new jobs coming in or higher pay jobs or or greater wages and we do have we had some big construction projects going on. We still have some construction projects going on. So when those construction jobs end, hopefully there is new jobs taking their place. Um but not always, but sometimes there are. So yes, it's both. Okay. Any other questions for Miss Clayton? Thank you, ma'am. Thank y'all.

Item eight, item nine, approval of minutes for May 5th, 2026 regular meeting. So moved. Motion second. Miss Dallas. All right. All those in favor say I. I. I. All righty. Any oppose? Likewise.

Okay. Item 10, ordinance A is 10-20 26, chapter 91.R. Rate established on Riverside and Cave Springs Cemeteries. Second reading. Yes, ma'am. an ordinance amending a certain section of chapter 91 of the Hawkinsville code of ordinances pertaining to rates established for Riverside and Caves cemeteries. Now therefore be it ordained by the city council of the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky as follows. One that section 91.04 of the Hopkinsville code of ordinances is hereby amended as follows. 91.04 rates established for Riverside and Cave Springs Cemeteries. Riverside Cemetery. The following rates are hereby established to take effect July 1, 2026. Grave price $725 each. Grave price reader set $1,300 each. Grave opening Monday through Friday $850. Burial Saturday, Sunday or city declared holidays $525 each. Cremation burial Monday through Friday $150 each. Cremation burial larger vaults Monday through Friday $275 each. Cremation burial Saturday, Sunday or city declared holidays $325 each. Cremation, burial, larger vault, Saturday, Sunday, or city declared holidays, $525 each. Discenterment charges $1,750 each. Late arrival service charge after 3 p.m., $200 each. The following rates are hereby established to take effect July 1, 2028. Grave price, $750 each. Grave price reader section, $1,350 each. Grave opening Monday through Friday, $900 each. Grave opening Saturday, Sunday, or city declared holidays, $1,200 each. Infant burial Monday through Friday, $300 each. Infant burial Saturday, Sunday, or city declared holidays, $550 each. Cremation burial, Monday through Friday, $175

each. Cremation burial, larger vaults, Monday through Friday, $300 each. Cremation burial, Saturday, Sunday, or city declared holidays, $350 each. Cremation, burial, larger vault Saturday, Sunday or city declared holidays $550 each. Disentment charges $125 each. Late arrival service charge after 3 p.m. $100 each. Cave Springs Cemetery. The following rates are hereby established to take effect July 1, 2026. Grave price $725 each. Grave opening Monday through Friday, $850 each. Grave opening Saturday, Sunday, $50 each. Infant burial. Infant burial Saturday, Sunday or city declared $525 each. Cremation burial Monday through Friday, $150 each. Crem Cremation burial larger vaults Monday through Friday, $270 each. Cremation burial Saturday, Sunday or city declared holidays, $325 each. Cremation, burial, larger vault, Saturday, Sunday, or city declared holidays, $525 each. Disentment charges 100 I'm sorry, $1,750 each. Late arrival service charge after 3 p.m., $200 each. The following rates are hereby established to take effect July 1, 2028. Grave price, $750. Grave opening, Monday through Friday, $900. Grave opening, Saturday, Sunday, or city declared holidays, $1,200 each. Infant burial Monday through Friday $300 each. Infant burial Saturday, Sunday or city declared holidays $550 each. Cremation burialation burial larger vaults Monday through Friday and burial Saturday, Sunday or city declared holidays $350 each. Cremation burial larger vaults Saturday, Sunday or city declared holidays $550

each. Disenterment charges $1,825 each. Late arrival charge after 3 p.m. $200 each. No grave openings or closings or funerals will be permitted on Thanksgiving or Christmas Day. Section two, if any section, subsection sentence clause or phrase of this ordinance is held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such affirm shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. Section three, all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section four, this ordinance shall take effect July 1, 2026 after its passage and publication according to law. Okay, got a motion second by Mr. Ves. Any discussion, Mr. Mayor?

Yes. What What this raise help in what what what is the raise actually for to help in what it help in for is the mowing of the cemetery cuz I know me and you talk about the topple graves and stuff like that. Will it help in that and those Civil War veterans? It will be helping take care of the that more. Mike, go ahead.

Uh, Council Member Smith, the the real reason for the changing the rates is right now we're actually spending more than what we're bringing in. Uh, we hadn't increased rates now in 19 years. Uh, so with the cost everything is more than doubled in the last five or six years, it's it's expensive to maintain a cemetery. So instead of tax payers paying for people to be buried in the cemeteries, it needs to be run as a business and all and it needs to be offset by itself. Thank you. But he's also asking we have some grazing cave springs right there that are lay the stones are laying over. Yes. I think I think blame them's on top. We'll have some guys work on that.

Okay. That's that's something we need to make sure of because we've heard from family members over this about the the stones that been knocked over. Well, I think we had some vandals over there knocking stones over. Okay. So, but no, we are looking into about the stone piece of it for you on that, Vance. Thank you on that. Thank you. Any other questions for Mike while he's standing here about this?

I don't. But I'm I'm really glad that he made that explanation that, you know, it's been 19 years since we've had an increase in these. Even though it's a small increase to the people who are actually going to be using the cemetery because of the staff that doesn't have to be their extra time and they've served very well, it's actually a a huge savings to the taxpayers. And so, thank you for everything that you all have done. All right. Any more discussion on this? Right. Clerk, call the role. Council member Martin, yes. Council member Sumner, yes. Council member Valz, yes. Council member Bell, yes. Council member Draoud, yes. Council member Smith, yes. Council member Stalins, yes. Council member Marsh, yes.

Council member Cra, yes. Motion passes. All righty. We have item B, ordinance 11-2026, FY2526, capital budget amendment, second reading,

amending the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky annual capital equipment and property replacement budget for fiscal year July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 by estimating revenues and resources and appropriating funds. Now therefore be ordained by the city council of the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky as follows. Section one that section one of ordinance 042026 amending the amending the fiscal year 202526 capital equipment and property replacement budget is hereby amended as follows. Revenues transfer from general fund 2,310,771 transfer from general fund wins additional insurance premium 390,737 transfer from ARPA fund 440,000 transfer from grant matching fund 95,000 capital equipment replacement fund 620,000 total capital revenues 3,856,58 expenses administration 50,000 information technology 190,000 police department 575,400 I'm sorry 575,541 fire department 350,000 city maintenance 360,000 Fort Campbell contracts 22,000 parks and recreation 70,000 mandated agencies 230,000 buildings and properties 1,50,000 I'm sorry Yes. Transfer from MRA 583,967. Transfer from trust to trust $375,000. Total capital expenses 3,856,58. Surplus deficit zero. Section ordinance is for any reason held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid. Such infirmity shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. Section three, any and all existing ordinances inconsistent

with his ordinance are hereby repealed. Section four, the section effect after its passage and publication according to law. Need a motion? Got a motion, Clayton. Second. All righty. Any discussion on this? Right. Clerk, call the role. Member Martin, yes. Council member Sner, yes. Council member Valz, yes. Council member Bale, yes. Council member Draoud, yes. Council member Smith, yes. Council member Stalins, yes. Council member Marsh, yes. Council member Crafter, yes. Motion passes.

Okay. Item C, ordinance 12-2026, FY 2526, operational budget amendment, first reading. Amending the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky annual budget for fiscal year July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 by estimating revenues and resources and appropriating funds for the operation of city government. Summary now therefore be ordained by the city council of the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky as follows. Section one. By summary, section one of ordinance 072026 amending the annual budget for fiscal year July 1, 2025 and ending June 30, 2026 is hereby amended as follows. Revenues general fund 57,13,183. Municipal Road Aid Fund 1,36,57 Prior year prior year revenue 1,47470,394 building maintenance reserve $73,500. Total revenues 59,973,584. Expenses and general fund 58,647,77 municipal road aid fund 1,326,57. Total expenses 59,973,584 surplus zero. Section two. The full text of this ordinance is on file in the office of the undersigned city clerk of the city of Hopkinsville at 7:15 South Virginia Street, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where it is available for inspection between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

A motion second by Mike. All righty. Any discussion? Y.

So, as I've been talking to people and looking through the budget, I think there's two things that we need to look at. uh a a little bit deeper. Uh I was told today that our dispatcher PLA pay for 911 folks is less than the surrounding areas. Um I haven't been a police officer or fireman, but I what what I understand is those folks are the lifeline uh for our community. And so I think we need to take a serious look at funding that. understand it's it's in the it's in the works, but we need to address it in the budget, too. I I think the second thing, and this one is based on my own research, I'm anticipating extra legal expenses due to some of our economic development activity, and I think we need to budget some additional funds to do that. Now, whether we take it out of something currently in the budget or whether we find additional funding somewhere would be up to council. I have found one place that I think might fit and be fair, but Melissa may have an app for that.

I in this cleanup budget, we did budget extra legal fees. Um, in your packet on page I'm sorry, I didn't get the page ahead of time. I think it's page 30. Oh, it is page 31. No, it's page 30. Sorry. Under legislative the legislative department. Um, at the top we are going from 456934 to 576934, which is $120,000 increase. I've budgeted an additional $100,000 for legal fees.

Okay. How do we need to address the dispatchers? Do we wait? Yes. Okay. I I believe there's going to be a presentation made to you guys at the June Committee of the whole presentation. Okay with us adding that. I think we're going to talk about it in June at committee of. So what you're telling me is we don't need to address either one of these in this budget. not in 2526. This is the 2526 amendment. So I did address the legal fees in 2526 and we budgeted an additional 100,000 because we are going to have some bills before the end of the year. So I had to add some to it in this fiscal year. Okay.

Next fiscal year is when we would need to to address the ECC salaries which will be a couple of readings later if you guys want to talk about it then or we can talk about it now. I don't know. Doug, can we talk? I'm good to wait. I just want to be I want to be sure it doesn't get forgotten because I think it's important. Yeah, this is 2526 and we don't need to address it in this year's budget. To Chuck's point question, I'm just curious, why would we not just increase our liability limit for lawsuits and potentially change the deductible instead of putting 100? I mean, why would we not increase it for talking about potential lawsuits? Why would we? I mean, it's an insurance provider. We're going to pay a deductible, right? No.

No. We have a deductible of $100,000 on law enforcement. Um I think there is a fund. Um but this isn't a this is a bankruptcy. Yeah, I'm talking to Chuck's point. Sorry. More legal fees. Yeah. No, that's what I'm talking about is pure legal fees. This is not insurance. This is a bankruptcy. Okay. This would be for attorney fees. All right. Any more quick discussion? All right. Clerk, call the role, please. Council member Martin, yes. Council member Sunner, yes. Council member Veles, yes.

Council member Bale, yes. Council member Draoud, yes. Council member Smith, yes. Council member Stalins, yes. Council member Marsh, yes. Council member Crabtree, yes. Motion passes. All righty. Just move one second. Move that back. All righty. Item D, ordinance 13-20 26 FYI 2627 operational budget. First reading.

Amending the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky annual budget for fiscal year July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2027 by estimating revenues and resources and appropriating funds for the operation city government. Summary. Now therefore be it ordained by the city council of the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky as follows. Section one. By summary, the fiscal year 2026 2027 budget of the city of Hopkinsville is hereby adopted as follows. Revenues general fund 53 million35,3 municipal road aid fund 1,325,500. Prior year zero total revenues 54,630,53. Expenses general fund 53,281,191 municipal road aid fund 1,325,500 total expenses 54,66,691 surplus 23,812. Section adopts the classification and compensation plan pursuant to chapter 30 of the Hopkinsville code of ordinance. Section three sets authorizations to enter into contracts or agreements within budgeted allocations. The full text of this ordinance is on file in the office of the undersigned city clerk of the city of Hopkinsville at 7:15 South Virginia Street, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where it's available for public inspe inspection between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Need a motion?

Motion. Got a motion. Second. Second by Mike. All right. Discussion. I have a few things. Melissa, if you don't mind up and down. Come on down. Just a couple things that I had questions about early on that I want to make sure we're good on. As I told everybody before, my bigger concern was with the police department and the fleet. So, I want to check. Have we been able to purchase, and I haven't had a chance to talk to Chief Newbie, have they been able to purchase some vehicles through asset forfeite or through drug fund in the last year or two? Yes. Okay. So, we're not going completely without. My concern is the fleet and

Okay. So, we do. So, we've got them somewhere. I think that's good for people to know also, but I want to make sure because that concerned me. The other thing, um, I can't help but to go back to your PowerPoint a minute ago about seven months ago, we were sitting here and every time I kept telling everybody our sign cash value was in a good place, everybody was like, "No, it's going down. It's going down." But here we are now, 42.8%. we actually have more cash than we did last year. If if you will recall, typically I've said April and May are our highest months because September is our lowest month. Um so I don't know if we

our percentage is a little less but our actual cash that we have on hand is actually increased. We have more difference in the percentage being the difference in the total budget last year, total budget this year, right? So cash on hand is more. So I just want to point that out. So, it makes me go back to mayor, you requested a 2% cut, an operational cut. You requested it. I have no problem supporting it, but I want to be very clear.

That is a mayor's request, not a city council after this passes and everybody goes, "Well, the council cut us 2%." That is not how this works. We're going off of what the mayor has asked for and said that his department can go with, and I'm good with it. I told the mayor, I'm good if that's what they're good with. The biggest concern I had was fleet, but I don't want to because it happens all the time to sit here after we pass this and everything and the next thing I'm hearing is how the council cut departments 2%. Complete false. We are going what the manager the management executive level branch recommended to us to do. Correct. Just want to be clear about that. Thank you.

Any more discussion? Okay, clerk, call the role. Council member Martin, yes. Council member Sumner, yes. Council member, yes. Council member Bell, yes. Council member Draoud, yes. Council member Smith, yes. Council member Stallions, yes. Council member Marsh, yes. Council member Cra, yes. Motion passes. Roger. Item E, ordinance 14- 2026, FY2627, capital budget. First reading

adopting the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky annual capital equipment and property replacement budget for fiscal year July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027 by estimating revenues and resources and appropriating funds. Now therefore be it ordained by the city council of the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky as follows. Section one, the fiscal year 2026 2027 capital equipment and property replacement budget of the city of Hopkinsville is hereby adopted as follows. Revenues transfer from general fund 2,320,546 transfer from general fund wins additional insurance premium 393,022 total capital revenues 2,713,568. Expenses information technology 272,183 police department 375,451 I'm sorry 375,541 fire department 170,000 city maintenance 188,000 service center 35,000 parks and recreation 145,000 mandated agencies 40,000 buildings and properties 550,000 Transfers 937,844. Total capital expenses 2,713,568. Surplus deficit zero. Section two. The mayor is hereby authorized to enter into any contracts agreements necessary to acquire capital equipment or services within the allocations listed in this ordinance. Section three. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such infirmity shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. Section four, any and all existing ordinances inconsistent with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section five, this ordinance shall take effect July 1, 2026 after its passage and publication according to law.

A motion Travis and Mike. All righty. Discussion. Clerk, call the role. Council member Martin, yes. Council member Sner, yes. Council member Veles, yes. Council member Bell, yes. Council member Draoud, yes. Council member Smith, yes. Council member Stalins, yes. Council member Marsh, yes. Council member Cra, yes. Motion passes. Righty. Item 11, executive order 26-2026, Pin Area Museum Board Directors.

Effective immediately, David Lafford shall be appointed to the Penroy Area Museum Board of Directors to fill the unexpired term of Chris Gilkkey. This term shall expire June 30, 2027, and no action is required. Okay. Item 12, council member comments. Any comments from council tonight? All right. See no comments. We'll move into item 13. We're going into close session. Got a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. All righty. Pending litigation KRS61.8101 C.

All righty, we're back out of closed session and we're uh had no business u no action was taken and now and all the department heads that have been represented today as they go home that you keep your hand of protection upon them everywhere that they go and we thank you. Thank you for their service in Jesus name. Amen.

Amen. Get a motion to adjurnn. Motion second. All in favor say I. We are ajourned. Didn't figure I was going to get a name on that.