Fiscal Court - Regular Meeting

Good morning everyone. Court uh before we uh start the meeting uh nothing we come up please pray.

Let's pray. [music] Father we thank you for this wonderful day that you made. We rejoice and we are glad in it. As we come to this time today to do business of the county, we ask that everyone that that needs it will receive the perfect wisdom, dear God, that you're willing to give without finding fault. Reveal that to us here today. We ask that you minister in this community. We know there are many that are hurting. And we ask that your peace that passes all understanding will guard hearts and minds. Work in this great nation. Lord, we pray for your public. We pray for your revival to come. And we believe for good and all these things. So we ask these all in the precious name of the savior Jesus. Amen. [music] [music] Once again, good morning everyone. First order of business is approval. Second have a motion and a second with no discussion. Roll call, please. Yes.

Goodwin, yes. Yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Molden, yes. Baker, yes. The next order is approval of bills. You should have all the all you should have the bill list in front of you. Make a motion to approve. I have a motion to get a second. Second. I have a motion to second approval of bills. Is there any further discussion? Not broken board? Yes. Goodwin? Yes. Will cut? Yes. Harper? Yes.

Crawford? Yes. Holden? Yes. Baker? Yes. Next up is treasures report. This a man come forward, please. Good morning court. Good morning.

Few things for you this morning. The first will be the financial statement ending January 31st, 2026. The balance in the general fund was 2,054 637.62 growth fund 634 385.06 06 g fund 141097.73 LGA fund 49,513.48 federal grants fund 54.68 Solid Waste Recycling 4206.72 Parks and Recck Fund 2,679 344.02 O2 occupational tax 3,474942.78 life skills fund 17157.20 National Opioid Settlement Fund 484506.86 86 911 Fund 87,145.78 Health Insurance Fund 1,912 666.57 County Clerk Document Storage Fees 144894.78 ARPA fund 315 385.71 Special Reserve Fund 6,16600.0 O for a total of all funds 18,716538.99.

Motion to approve. Thank you. Second. I have a motion and seconds. Any further discussion? Ro call. Navenport. Yes. Goodwin. Yes. Wilcut. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Molden. Yes. Baker. Yes. We do have a list of budget transfers that we need to get approved. Motion to approve budget transfers totaling $39,7654. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Dort. Yes. Goodwin,

yes. Wilcott, yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. And I do have three cash transfers today. We need to transfer $135,000 from the occupational net profits tax fund to the jail fund. So move. Second. Have a motion and a second. Will Davenport? Yes. Goodwin? Yes. Wilcott? Yes. Harper? Yes. Crawford? Yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes.

We need to transfer 35,000 from the occupational net profits tax fund to the 911 fund. So, second motion and a second. Roll call, please. Davenport, yes. Good. Yes. Wilcut, yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. And we need to transfer $125 from the occupational net profits tax fund to the special reserve fund.

Pass. Second. Explain cards. Roll call, please. Yes. Good one. Yes. Yes. Harper, you love what I said. Yes. Crawford. Yes. You pass. Yes. Yes. Right there. Triple sixes in there.

All right. Next item up is road work request. District one. Mr. Can you maint?

Thank you for everything. I know y'all are still cleaning and working and uh I've turned my stuff in to you. So, thank you very much.

Three. Anyway, I shared these to you by text back before the storm. So, I'll put them on here just in case. Uh but Joe Smith Road request for pedestrian sign and a a pothole field at 2067 Stevenson Chapel Road. But otherwise appreciate all the work you all done the last few weeks. This report I was just looking through the road work request list and u to see y'all went over the same road seven or eight times pretty impressive. Y'all put a lot of miles and a lot of hard work and we appreciate the effort that the road department put in. Um, other than that, just continue maint.

Um, yes, same thing, Jason. I could just say ditto ditto or pass for my turn. But, um, the people at Menite Church was hoping to have some date to work toward thinking when you would have evaluated the condition of their new road. Um, so just just let me know at a future date, but I told him I'd bring it up today. Okay. Uh, because they said, "Well, this this weather should have given them a good I said, "Yeah, but we got to get through the summer." And then so just a date so that they can look for it. Thank you.

District 6 and your maintenance fee. We appreciate everything y'all did in the snows. Yeah, they uh during this ice they worked their they worked a lot of hours and made multiple passes over roads and uh you know uh last week I was with a bunch of judge executives that were dealing with the same roads and the same conditions we were and they all were saying the exact same thing we were this was hard to move impossible the salt wasn't working because of the temperatures and it didn't matter how many passes we made it was taking just a little bit off at a time. Uh I appreciate everything the guys have done out there. They're out there right now cleaning, putting more maintenance in, getting ready for it in case we have another storm come. So, thank you. That being said, u I need approval of road work request.

Motion to approve. Second. I have a motion in a second. Roll call, please. Navort, yes. Goodwin, yes. Wilcott, yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Molden. Yes. Bankers. Yes. I wanted to thank you publicly for the messages you put on Facebook every single day and have people call me and say they look for Good, good, good. Like I said, I have a face for radio, not a face for video. So, I try keeping people. [laughter]

I didn't need anything from you guys. Thank you all. I do appreciate that. Rolling forward with uh elected officials. Shir make a motion to acknowledge the sher board. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Ro, yes. Yes. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Poland.

Yes. Maker.

Yes. So, I want to give a little update with Chris about how things are going with the drug task force that we're doing now. So, um, we roughly started July 1st, took over. It took a couple months to get things going, uh, with some equipment and things like that, but since then, we've we've got 145 cases that we've actively opened and, uh, some have been arrests, some of them are still long-term investigations. But uh 145 cases uh in 5 months basically is uh is good but bad at the same time. But so they're very very active. We actually have um they indicted one individual for an overdose death in the case and we've also worked a fairly large case with ATF with guns and drugs and also with Homeland Security with some guns and drugs uh with repeat offenders. So, um I really debated on how much to talk about and what to say, but you know, I think our presence is being felt and uh we're very proud of that and they're they have a really good energy going. Uh things are great with the city. Uh they uh Chief Sanford and the mayor have been, you know, hey, they need something, they buy, nobody asks, you know, are you going to do this? Y'all going to split this? we just get what they need. Uh we've spent out probably well we've spent out several thousand dollars uh just out of our drug fund and so and the city has two. So it's it's a it's a very good uh marriage. So like we knew it would be. So they're super active and we were only we only had three active agents at that time. One of the other agents for us was still recovered from

back surgery. So he's actually just now gotten back. So that was when three agents working and they come up with 145 cases. We've done one drug round up. You might have seen that on Facebook or whatever a little bit. We don't put out a lot what we're doing. Uh we just show results. So but I I did want to kind of give you an update. So and about half of those are drug traffic cases as well. Good deal. We're doing doing good. Thank you for keeping our county safe.

Appreciate all I do. Nobody has anything about that. Derek may come up. I'm just going to talk about it real shortly cuz I I'll bring it back next court meeting. But we've been demoing a uh what is it called? Uh how's it the technical term? So it's for radio. It it ties in the county radio system.

We talked about that before. It allows it allows uh people to have access to a app on their phone to radio and as a as a backup. So what it what it does since the county has been using it since co so um we've been demoing it for about a month. So you can put this app on your phone and it's connected to our radio system. So if our system has total failure we can still talk through the app just like it's a radio. So like we had uh a big accident on night street that knocked the power out to the tower. The generator ran but then failed. So we were without radios for like 2 hours I think it was. So they were using cell phones to text calls to. KSP would call give us a call and then they would have to call units on their phone. With this you can just turn the app on and you can hear the transmissions of everybody else talking. you can talk and we can talk to dispatch. So, it's just a it's a very inexpensive backup system that we would that we're going to bring to court next time and try to u get us get get involved with everybody in the county. So, that there is a channel that you can go to and communicate with dispatch uh when you have those failures. It

has online portal so the county retains control.

That's right. We It's under our full control. It's very uh it's US-based made. Some EMS uses Zillow and some agencies use Zello as well. It's not it's China based and it's not very good. Uh we can also use this. It's called Tango Tango. We currently pay for the was it the 91 number one. This will do all that. So we can actually do away with that and this this will work better than that. That's so do alerts and audio recording for 30 days playback um GPS tracking and inapp messaging and it's got all kind of features and we currently do not have a backup system in place other than literally just call your cell phone to you know if we have that delay of activity. So, just a little something we're working on to try to if you're using an app, you got to they've got to use their use their phone.

Yeah. I mean, and like I said, EMS has demo on it with us. Uh, and they were using Zillow and I think they just bought their own account and was using it uh to communicate between units and on callers and things like that. It also kind of takes the place of a pager and a radio. If some, you know, fire departments can get on, we can get them in, get them set up. But it it's it's a really an inexpensive thing to have to to have a backup system, which we don't have. So, we're just working always trying to figure out something better. So, it also works outside of the county. Anywhere you go, as hard as you get. Um,

so it goes with you. Yeah. And that's why EMS uses it a lot because if they're in Nashville or, you know, Louisville or Lexi, then they can still talk to each other through the app. Uh so we they're using Tango Tango and they like it a lot better. It's more clearer. Uh you can hear better and and it's just it has more features. So we're we're looking at that. We we'll bring back the big presentation later. Okay. We're looking for that BIG [laughter] That's right. Next office. Stacy, you have anything for us?

Make a motion to acknowledge the clerk's fee report for January. Second. I have a motion in a second. Well, that was quick. Just a little exercise. Marriage license sold in January. What is a marriage license? Uh $60. Okay. Yeah. Oh, that's pretty good deal. And you know, you it's not that high, you know. Yeah. How much you collect in the month of January? That's pretty good. [laughter] [laughter]

just making a motion in a second after all that we're done with discussion. Yes. Will cut. Yes, Harper. Yes, Crawford. Yes, Molden. Yes, Baker. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Stacy. Next up is Jay. But you have anything? Okay, just checking.

Next up is we have a report from Ben Camp on our corner. [clears throat and cough] Slow down. This is just a rundown of the cases that we've worked this year. Um, thank you.

Yeah, I gave y'all one last year. If you still have it, you can compare them. Uh it's a good thing where our deaths are down by two from what we were last year or at least the cases out deaths could have gone up. Uh cuz we were cases outside of hospital. So this doesn't account for hospital deaths. But anyway, we had uh 80 natural deaths, 15 accidental deaths, six suicides, no homicides, thank goodness, and I'm waiting for one uh result from one to determine whether what happened there exactly. It's a medical examiner's case. And then we had 13 cremations. Um so, one thing I can say is I was glad that our overdoses went down. Uh that could be due to the work that our sheriff's department's doing and our can being available. Um I'm sure it helped a lot with that. So if y'all have any questions about any of these

No, this is wonderful. I will color coded either for things that I thought you might not understand. Yeah, sure. Um just as a guide for [snorts] you. No questions if no questions. And I thank you all for your time. Thank you. Thank you. Moving forward um to department heads. Ginger, do you have anything for us?

Ginger with the ECC. Well, I didn't get to thank everybody, but my staff was amazing during the storm. They took care of everything. I was all they were in everything, and I just wanted to give a big shout out to them for that. and uh thank you all for your support and all your messages and things and everything else I have on the agenda.

Thank you very much. Moving forward to archives and news shoulders archives and grants. Sorry about that. Okay, we're going to start with the easy one this morning. Field grant is available. It is due on the 24th. Um, we can do construction or we can do planning. And after talking with judge and peewee, I think the decision is a planning grant for the Tor Road issue. In order for us to get that done, we need an engineers's input so that we can get the grant paperwork finished. So, we need permission to get that done.

Motion to approve. Second. I have a motion in a second. The reason really quick since we're in discussion, the reason for this is because the um the full build grant is a $1 million minimum where a planning grant has no minimum. So that allows us to move forward. Mhm. In time, Thomas. That one has been submitted and we're waiting. Same amount of money or different? That's a tap grant. Different different grant. Just for clarity, what are we voting on?

We need permission to get engineers input on the Trober Road issue on what can it take to fix that. Um, it's it's flooding really bad cuz then you're just you're assuming given the judge permission to seek out professionals to do that or are we hiring one now? I don't know how to answer that one. We will be using Scotty's for professional input on that and they will the same as what we do for bridges and such. I'm sorry. I just wasn't clear. No, that's what we were actually doing. I I didn't want to have to come back and say, "Okay, we're going to hire company X to do that." You know, you already got one. Let's hire them. So, sounds like we're hiring Scott.

Scott Murphy Scotties basically. Same same one of the one of the Scotty branches. Yeah. Okay, lots of skies here. All right, I have a motion and a second. Is there any more discussion on this? Thank you again for doing those. Roll call, please. Mort, yes. Goodwin, yes. No, yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes.

The other thing I have is a proposal. and pass it down. Um, Judge Baker already has his copy. Um, for the people that are here, the ideas are being put up on the screen and you'll notice the first thing is a for resolution and um, Joe has a copy of that to weigh in on. So, you should have two pictures and then you've got two documents that are associated together. The first document is a proposal for resolution. The second one is a draft um to give us consent. And what this is about is we have talked we being all of us at various times about how the archives front door still has a water issue. It's coming in underneath the door.

No matter what kind of ceiling is done at the front door, it's still um we need a covering of some kind porch. We also need to some extent to make the building wheelchair accessible because we have a resident in the county who wants to visit us but they are in a wheelchair and she cannot get in the building. Even if she brings ramps we can't help her because if we help her and she gets hurt legal issues

that's an issue. So these are two AI generated ideas. One has a direct on path. Um the other one um has the wheelchair ramp going to the right of the door and then wrapping back around to reach the um talked to Judge Baker about this and he said looks great find money. So I did some research and figured out that if the court will give us permission to take a lead on the project, we can actually get money easier and quicker than the court can. So that's my ask is to consider this and maybe give us a decision at the next meeting. That way you guys have time to read the proposal and look at the pictures and ask any questions and let me do research based on what I don't know today.

You want us to tell which one of these we like the best? Um no no these are just ideas. Okay. Um right now the ask is consider the proposal and give us future different uh resolutions or no one one is a resolution the other one is a consent of property owner to let us make changes to the property.

Yeah. I don't want Joe to look over this before we make the decision. [laughter] Well, anyway, it basically just opens up. They get access to better uh grants than what the county can and if we give them some disability, they can go after those grants to to do this. Uh it's a win or in a single way, but not a norainer. I just I'm all for it. But is once you get in the door, is your doorway into this room? I don't know how to answer. I guess I was just curious about the accessibility once you got in the door.

It's I think it will determine what size chair they might have. Um part of the process is going to be that we're going to have because I don't know that it's ever been done. We'll have to have a um ADA compliance or AD some kind of study on the building. Um, we do have to get in touch with the Kentucky Heritage Council Historic, I forget what H is. Um, but with it being on the National Register, there are things we're going to have to do and have to follow. Um, this resolution and the the consent letter with our long-term lease is exactly what funders want to see. your thoughts. I would say the resolution would be fine. The uh the other document I might want to tweak a little bit, but if you all wanted to go ahead and pass the resolution to allow Denise to move forward, that's going to be the biggest thing that would allow her to apply for stuff and the um agreement of the contract. Basically, we've got time on that. So,

and I do have these in word documents from jail. Thomas, if you want to make a motion, Thomas doesn't matter me. I just didn't want to hinder you from start applying. So, if you can't do one without the other, we just well do both next court meeting. I think maybe I might time reading it. Okay. Was the goal was to keep you guys, right? We'll bring you back next to look at it. Anything else? No. Thank you for doing it. Can you email that?

Yes. I think this looks great by the way. I think it looks Thank you. Next up is coordinator. Nathan, do you have anything for there on your tablets? So, I'll start off with the winner report for the month of January. 31 miles, 279 bags, and nine tires. Little get pro crew for the jail. Appreciate them and some other odds and ends out there. So, keeping it going. Also, the recycling center had a report there for uh from the beginning of the year until now. About 28 bail looking at and 13 loads of metal still from the aluminum can project for the schools and one other metal load. So, keeping it there, Tim, keeping it going out there as well. Nothing on those. Um, I did have a recycler and a hauler to approve. So, um the uh property out there on No Lane or Charles MRO Mckenni property. Um that is a a situation there that we've dealt with before with the court, you might recall. Um, and so he there's been quite a process through the state that he's he's gone through and some back and forth that I won't get into, but he does have a state permit now and work does seem to be moving forward there with the equipment to get the site prepared to actually bury that material and close it and met them at that McKenna site. And so, uh, but we had talked about this that he should be paying this until it's closed. So um so this is submitted for uh the all's approval.

Motion to approve. Second. I have a motion and a second. Is there any other discussion? Roll call, please. Davenport. Yes. Good. Yes. Sorry. Will cut. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Holden. Yes. Baker.

Yes. Hall is just go green recycling. They're out at 1850 Nashville Road uh in Russellville and they have a dumpster timber dumpster business. Uh [music] they haul various waste and recycles and stuff and haul stuff to the transfer station at all. And so they are they pay their fee and have their insurance goods. I would recommend them as well. Motion to approve. Second. I have a motion and I have a second. No further discussion. Roholf. Davenport. Yes. Goodwin. Yes. Wilcott. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford.

Yes. Balden. Yes. Baker. Yes, sir.

All right. So, I'm going through something else now that there's quite a few. I appreciate Hannah's work on this one. Uh getting all these codes bids in. So, as you might recall at the last meeting, uh, we talked about we need new code enforcement bids for voting and general and so we did get several this time more than last time. Was there anybody here with that process for codes bids? I don't see any, but but we did have uh some want to comment, but I've spoken with Judge Baker about this. So, these bids, like I said, there's five and four. Some have both. Uh you can see that on there that some have both there. Um and we can go over those individually if you would like. We discussed it because we asked the folks to give an hourly rate and then a minimum charge for property for their time. And so some gave better hourly rates and some gave better minimum charges. And so the thought might be on this with the mowing and the jump removal. Of course, it's the pleasure of the court, but we we could reject all these bids and use these on case by case basis.

Yeah, I'm in favor of that. Case by case. Case by case. Yeah, me too.

So, yeah, some of them they they did and I could go into examples here. And I I had you like so many had AI helping us a little bit to go through some. If you have better charge then small projects are better. If you have a better hourly rate than the longer projects are better. And so I call references. Most of the references were great. I don't have any problem with any of them. References. It's just trying to find one that fits the size of the job. Nathan, did the pricing basically come in roughly the same as last year's or any significant difference? It was interesting. Some the ones that bid again, some didn't bid again on the the things they bid on last time. What they bid on, I remember one was higher and one actually was lower. Some of them kind of came up, some of them came down. So, it was a little bit all over the place on that part.

We actually never utilized any of those.

We did not. We did not because there's the cases were all rolling through the system. And so none of those from last time were actually used, but I already have two ready to go. The code code enforcement board met last week, last Monday, and they approved two cases. And I get I'll go over that as well briefly here. One out on Aaron Lane and then one out on um uh Deer Lake Road. Two cases for code enforcement these contractors to work. And I'm going to try to work, you know, try to help people, you know, try to work. I was talking to about that earlier. Try to work with people the best we can. Sometimes it just we reach a dead end and there's nothing we can do. But but I've got two cases already ready to go to to to use a contractor. Uh I make a motion to reject all bids and allow the judge and Nathan to uh choose based on price and availability. Second.

Yes, that's good. I have a motion in a second. If no further discussion, no, that's a good idea. Roll call, please. Davenport, yes. Good. Yes, Wilcut. Yes, Harper. Yes, Crawford. Yes, Balden. Yes, Baker. Yes.

So, the other item I wanted to discuss at this time is the uh the uh missing out. You may recall a couple of previous times uh Mr. Armstrong was looking at at different sites and one site the the court had some concerns about and that he didn't go that direction. The other one was not one at auction. So he is open the third time is the charm and so I inspected the site here right the court where he is. It's it's in district 4. It's right across from open uh off 431 north behind cost building and stone and it's not visible from the highway. Uh he did speak with Jason about that. So Jason wanted to comment on it. It isn't his district. So uh but I have words in your mouth. So

well I mean the bullet points that you put up on our little paper. I mean it's I mean it's word for word. It's perfect. It's off the highway far enough that it can't be seen from the road. The way the landscape goes down. I mean it drops probably what 100 foot with the ice. It was hurting it down there. There's no neighbors vegetation all the way around the properties. He could put 100 I mean he could put 500 guards in there and you never know. I mean I think it's a perfect location for what he's going to do. What's who was the closest neighbors? Just up there on top of the hill. So if you know go ahead and north out Russ on the right. You got this this site is on the left. You know you know where?

Yeah I mean I know I know the site. I just was asking is that the only neighbor? There's no neighbors in behind it. Is it? No. You can't see it from the road. I didn't think there was. I I checked the roads RL Stew Road and those roads around you can't see it from there. And so, you know, you walk back there and I did walk back there and look at it. It doesn't seem like it has water problems like some of the other sites. It doesn't seem like it has um issues where anybody would be able to see it. As Jason just said, Jason, is that basically the old Cory? Yeah, it's right. It's their Cory. Okay. I thought that's what we was talking about. I just wanted to be clear on that. So the motion today would be just to conduct a public hearing.

Yeah, it's still we realize that these come to the court because there could be issues that we don't know about and so it's to give a public hearing and uh he would need to pay the the owner there, the prospective owner would need to pay for an ad with Olivia and uh to put it in the paper for this hearing. That's how the hearing be the next court meeting or I don't know if you have any thoughts about that how the timing on that goes. I don't know we would be able to get it in the news. Yeah. Probably the first meeting in March. First meeting in March before we could ever actually [clears throat] have the hearing.

So, but it would just be to to set that up the wheels in motion for that. So, it is an eyesight. If I could do a salvage, which I can't, I went back there and I saw that I could see cars and I could see no problems with it. With that being said, does anybody entertain a motion? I'll make a motion to approve this request and allow whatever needs to put into action to get it started. Second. I have a motion in a second. No discussion. Roll call. Do we need to say did you say when the hearing is or we go to after the paper? After it goes into the paper.

You have a certain time window. I know you have to get the paper to Yeah. the first meeting in March where we could ever have it because of the way that the paper ads run. Yeah. Yes. And the notice that we have to do. Good. Yes. Will cut. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Balden. Yes. Baker. Yes.

And as I did mention, we did have a code enforcement meeting. If y'all have questions about that, we can I'd be happy to go over that with you uh on that. But I I covered the basic highlights with that, but I appreciate the codes working with them and uh they've they've been very dedicated to help. Um nothing else. I'll be back in just a few minutes. Thank you all.

Thank you. Thank you, Nathan. Moving forward. Um animal control, animal shelter. If I say it fast enough, it sounds right. All right. So, we go over our January numbers. We ended with 41 dogs and that loss of three dogs for the month. We had 13 ACL pickups, 15 owner surreners, 10 stray drop off. We had six transferred in uh four trial adoptions returned. Uh out we had 18 adoptions, two fosters, 19 transferred out, uh four owner pickups, and we had eight euthanized. And that was a whole litter of puppies that didn't that we had to put down. Um, our average daily dogs at the shelter is 40. Um, yearly totals obviously what we had 48 dogs brought in, 51 dogs left with 18 adoptions. Uh, animals at the facility to date is 44. Uh, what I want to bring up, there's some pretty cool exciting news coming. Um, and it's for the residents of Logan County. In the near future, um, depending on hopefully this weekend, uh, we're going to be opening up a, uh, open pantry. So, basically, we're going to have, uh, dog food available for residents of low income.

Um, obviously, it's going to go about, you know, certain amount per month that they'll be able to come and get, but we're going to be it's going to be open. Um, I'll have the exact details of, you know, I'll give like what they'll be able to get and how much and I'll bring that to court when we get it totally finalized. Uh, we've been working great with Champion. Champion's been amazing. They've come back to the table and helped us out huge. We just brought in 30 pallets of food yesterday. [cough] It's been amazing to us and helped us out huge to the point where they're want to purchase a uh cargo storage container for us and donate it to us. So, they're going to purchase it and donate it so we can hold food. It'll be a little bit better than the the trailer we currently have. Um so, we're super excited with with that. Um they they stepped up and I just want to make sure that we're not trying to step on anybody's toes doing anything that we're doing. We're absolutely we put it out to to everybody to work with whoever wants to work with us to to do this. Um

I just want to make sure that we're doing this for the the residents of Logan County. I mean, it's a huge deal that we're going to be able to have an open pantry, you know, and it's going to be, you know, we've had talks with with Champion and I wanted to make sure that this was going to be ongoing and that we were going to be able to have food available and it's not going to be, you know, a one time shop. And they guaranteed and trust and said, "No, this is we'll be able to offer this, you know, moving forward." Um, and then today we're going to pick up shelving units cuz I don't know if upstairs in the building right to the right, that open spot, we're going to have shelving. We got really nice shelving we're going to pick up today. Uh, so we'll have the food up there. The people can come out, get what they want. They're going to check it in, check it out. Um, so we're super excited. It's going to be it's going to be a great thing for the residents. And as of now, it is only for the residents of Logan County. So, you know, but I think just 2 days ago we had a ton of extra treats. We have four pallets of treats. We gave away a pallet. We're like, we're just never going to be able to go through all this before it goes bad. So, we put it out and put out on Facebook free food. It was gone within an hour. Okay.

So, you know, we saw that need and we're really trying to to fulfill, you know, that need for the community. So, that's what we got coming. We're excited. Appreciate it together. Champion.

Yeah. They stepped up. We had three main donors. Champion, TSC, and Kroger. All three of them really stepped up and and and given the shelter the attention it needed as far as food. Uh TSC is sending pallets of uh toys, leashes, anything pet related. They're sending pallets of that at a time. Supply is huge help [clears throat] us out. We're working also with Kroger down in they have a factory in Robertson County right on in Tennessee. We've got [clears throat] a dozen food from them. So it's it's come together and people are are really you know these companies are helping us huge. So

do we send formal appreciation type letters to these places? If we haven't, we will we're daily contact with you and I don't want to say too late, but champion and I'm saying this out loud, but they really like to be acknowledged but under the table. They don't they're not doing it for the acknowledgement, right? and we've acknowledged and I've you know we've had talks and I but yes they she's been let's just you know we just want to do it cuz we're want to be good stewards the community so that's cool that's been my experience that when a place is acknowledged

right feels good it feels real continuing what they do

I think the last time I went over there and picked up a couple of pallets of food from TSC and whatnot you know we did a big Facebook you know thank you and then they they came out and took a picture with all the food they're their staff and uh they acknowledged it. So we we were very appreciative. We are very appreciative of everything that we're getting from these. So right now we're doing we're going to do dog food. I what I'm really going to do is I'm going to go talk to the humane society cuz I know the humane society's been doing a pantry and and like I said I don't want to step on anybody's toes or do anything that you know is going to be not you know kosher with everybody else. So, I'm going to go copy from mainy and see how they want to handle it, right? If you know they want to do all the cats and do all this stuff. I mean, I we're open to anything, you know, as long as we're helping the community. That's that's the only I have, right? So,

that is so good. So, if we can work with them, great. You know, if they say, you know, do what we need to do, then we'll do what we need to do. But we're here to work with with all the other rescues in town and try to make sure that like I said, it's all for the the residents of the of the community. So, however we can make that happen, whoever we can work with is what we're going to do. So, we're going to make sure that great that the residents get the help they need one way or the other. Thank you for doing that.

Best Friends does a lot of work with cats in the town, too, you know, with Spain and and feeding and stuff too. So, maybe reach out to them, too. I guess they probably what I'm trying to focus on and not to take away from the community cats and stuff in town, but I want to work on the residents of the, you know, the people that have the cats in the houses and stuff that need the food. And I get that the community cats that they all need taken care of, too. But I don't want that to be our focus on on feeding them, right? [clears throat] Because I have limited numbers and stuff. So I want to make sure that it's the the people are getting the help they need to help feed their cats in in their homes. So that's kind of but you know that's kind of where spaying and neutering man that's that's what we got to really work on especially in [clears throat] the you know with you know the issue of population we that's yeah we're working on that 100%. We have we're working with B County. Um I mean eventually of course we'd love to have get our own in town. Um it's not as easy as it sounds but we're going to start working you know and this is coming in. We're in the planning stage as I'm not ready this but yes we are going to be offering we're hoping to be offering some stuff to the pipeline for Sander because that's really you know the biggest thing. We appreciate everything. So, absolutely.

It does look good over there. We're working hard to meet to make things right. Whatever we can do. Yeah. Yep. Thank you. All right. Uh we uh grow department. Do you have anything for us, sir? No. All right. Thank you, sir. Yep. Sir, is the truck going? We got it in the shop today. We get ready to go. If you want to play, I know where there's a bunch of trees that be just perfect for that track.

I do too. 42 acres. If any of you are out by the road department and want to look at the new track, it's for the for what we got it for, I'm very impressed with, very happy with it. So, all right, moving forward uh to judges announcements. First off is um February the 13th, Logan County High School uh Ker Baseball is holding the third annual chili supper uh from 5 to 7:00 at the high school cafeteria. $10 donation receives a bowl of chili and hot dog chips, choice of dessert and drink. Uh Logan County's free dump day is being offered all week. You can look for Log County residents disposal items at the transfer station at 55 Pleasant View Drive in Auburn. Uh basically today through Friday, you can drop off items from 7:00 to 3. And on Saturday from 8 to 12, uh recycling boxes will be available for recycling. uh overflow. Also, uh big thing uh that I want to say since I've got your attention is all of the uh all those that stepped up during ice storm and use your own resources. Uh well, I want to say thank you to that. Uh we had uh a lot of farmers who come out and do a lot of work on it and they go unnoticed and I want to say I thank you for everyone that done that. Uh we had several residents come out and help neighbors. uh emergency management, all our fire departments, uh ECC, uh the sheriff, uh all the police departments, there's so many people that that there's going uh the the the jail, uh the inmates, the use of the inmates. Thank you for those. Uh our uh uh family service, they they would went above and beyond. So many people came together and stepped up and helped through this. And I want to say thank you to everyone. With that being said, we're going to

move on to reports. Uh I don't think there's any committees that met in the last couple weeks, so we're going to skip over uh citizens participation. If you uh have something you'd like to say, please come forward. Dr. Dan, Dr. Dan, one of the top two best dressed people in the room today. [laughter] Dan Costa, superintendent Logan County Schools. When I was 4 years old, my dad hopped on the 7,000 track without a cabin for a lot of people in the community to create roads. That was in 1978, helping make sure people get to the doctors, to the grocery, check on the neighbors, go to work, and that sort of thing. So, I just want to say thanks to to first of all, Judge Baker. He reached out to me last week and he said, "Hey, tell us what roads you need. Like, what are your issues? What are your turnarounds? What are those things?" So, uh, we collaborate a lot. We talk almost every day, Terry Cole, uh, some of you all as well. Um, and to echo what Phil said, the farmers in the community and individuals in the community, we appreciate as a school district because despite our best efforts, we didn't get back in school on Friday. We did get there yesterday, and I do think that was part of it. I think that helped. But we also were able to have some activities. There were some competitions. Uh, archery, for example, they they had competition on Friday and Saturday. Um, and had some of that work not been done, they would have had to cancel that. And that was a 10 or 12,000 opportunity, fundraising opportunity for them. So that Russville Logan County basketball game, Clash of the Cats, several other things happening because of the work of fiscal court, Judge Baker, I don't want to leave anybody out. Again, emergency management, ambulance, sheriff, road department, certainly Peewee, um, and individuals throughout the county. a lot of farmers uh I emailed yesterday and I said tell me the farmers that you know who we're

helping because we appreciate that and if I get a chance I want to acknowledge that to them and so in front of you all the support in front of the community I want to let you all know that on behalf of schools 3400 students and almost 500 employees we appreciate what everybody appreciate that

be careful Tommy I got a couple of things. Uh, when it comes to life flight, seems like you stay on the ground a long time, but I know that's their policy. When I was in Vietnam, I could have a wounded man on the operating table in 19 minutes and they sat there a lot longer than that to stabilize, but the helicopter is not big enough. But what I'd like to see in the county is each match should pick out a place where this helicopter can land and we go 1 2 3 4 and when we got wrecked close to that place and we go lifeline then we tell the number of worlds to land. [clears throat]

We already had that in place. We do. We already have that in place. We have LZ set up in every community. Okay. Um they already it's something established between the 911 center and also with Dback and with U PHI. It's already Well, if you need some more places I've got a couple places at the junction 1151 and 106. There's um there's several now. They do try to land them on the scenes. They um with the area back they choose the areas that are the safest. Right. Right. But it is already in place. I think she said there's 12 of them.

12. There's a total of 12. Plus, you know, there's there's a lot of times we'll land right on the scene. Yeah. Yeah. There's no power lines. There's no reason. That's something that they determine where an accident is. If they can land it there, they do. If not, we have them set up at the at the the safest place for the helicopters to land and take off without Yes.

Yeah. I know there's several sites that they they've came and surveyed and said these are these are safe areas to land. And I know through through what experience I've had with them is they try to get as close to the scene as possible. But sometimes if they're unsure of this position, they won't land. They'll go find a safer spot right there. Not right. Exactly. Exactly. And I get bunch from my house to county line and I was thinking about people. I say that way. I grade when I graded it. I went all over the black top. I mean, you could see black top in most of the places I graded it. 10 later, we get Scotty down there to move it over. Mine wasn't quite wide enough. So, they move it over a foot and a half. How much did that cost us to move that 10 days and the neighbors were fine on what they had? What I'm going to do 3/4 of a mile with one person is the farmer already. Did we pay Scotty? No, sir. We did not. Scott is not charging us unless we get the family money.

All right. I got you. Listen, it's always good to have say this is my question. This is my

We need that. I got the next thing I know and I should go right away uh to the county line. I got 10 blade and I just leave it straight and it does a real good job. And when you turn around, you move it over a couple feet when you go back. And uh but anyway, uh [clears throat] appreciate you doing that. Well, if you got me [clears throat] appreciate you coming and express your concern, yes, as I said, focus Uh I enjoy my [laughter] Thank you, sir. Is there anyone else that like to come and speak? If not, we're going to move forward in the old business. Old business first orders discuss quotes for generator maintain. You should see the only quote that we receive and that's from Paul's electric service. This is the one that's currently doing these generators for us. Um, move to approve.

Second. I have a motion to approve and a second. No further discussion. Yes. Goodwin. Goodwin. Yes. Wilcott. Yes. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. With that being said, Paul's Laker stepped up a couple years ago and took over this and they've been extremely reliable. One phone call in their own site. So, we're very happy with that. So, thank you. I was curious about the the sheriff mentioned about the generator at the tower. What was that issue? It was a

It was an anifreeze leak that was supposed to have been fixed when the company was taken care of. Yes, that's the issue we've had for a while is that leaking. Uh, of course, it's fine. Once this set, it kicked on and it has a sensor on it. So, we need to show Yeah, it stopped like it's supposed to. Yeah, it work out and fix it. Yeah. And we keep, you know, that's part of the thing that Russell and I spoke about is making sure that all these are

there. You check everything and everything [clears throat] looks fine. It does its test for 10 minutes and you know and everything's fine. But when it has we would have had no way of knowing until it been running for Yeah. I remember we didn't have a contract and y'all were taking a stick and putting in there make sure there was enough fuel in it. [laughter]

Well, after this one, this uh we we we check everything three times just about just making sure every uh the generator the tower down here. We checked every generator we had to make sure that we were ready to go. Everything was serviced and ready. And you know, luckily luckily, thank you all electrical services. Logan County did not lose as much power as some of the other surrounding counties. Thank you to all those electricals. I missed those a while ago, but you know business number one approve 26 train payments for Jaylor Joshua Ty Judge Executive Baker Masters Goodwin Crawford Wilcut Harper Sheriff Steven Stratton. A second.

A motion to second. Wilport. Yes. Good. Yes. Will cut. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Balden. Yes. Baker. Yes. Item number two, approve the 2025 annual solid waste report. If y'all have any questions, please let me know. It's just approved for judge to sign.

Motion to approve. second any noteworthy changes from last year's or anything that I noted for them of course were the new contract with Scottway services and and of course the new code enforcement ordinances for us. All right, I have a motion to second. No. Any other discussion? Will go Davenport? Yes. Good. Yes. Will cut. Yes. Harvard. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Molden. Yes. Baker. Yes. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you.

Item number three, approve modification to contract with the Department of Kentucky uh Commonwealth of Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for the inmate labor work crew and deputy from 7124 to 63026. This was basically a rate increase. um they actually seen that what they were paying was not enough and admitted to it and put more money in there. So uh what I'm asking for is approval to sign this caution to approve second.

That's great. You remember the amount of increase in the contract? Uh yeah, we were just talking about it and uh I mean right off the top of your head. What' you say, man? It's on It's on that that form. Uh it says the original contract for amount of 103,000 now increased by 6,000 making the original 109,000. Yeah, it goes Yeah, it goes 109,000. There's three different things they pay on and they increased each of those line items by a little bit to equal up to $6,000 additional dollars. We already did the math. With no further discussion, yes,

Harper, yes. Yes. Yes, I was going to say correct. Item number four, approve payment of budget contribution to the Logan County Fair Board for fiscal year 2526. Second have a motion and a second. No discussion. Yes. Good. Yes. Cut. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Holden. Yes. Maker.

Yes. Remember we were given $7,500 of that. Now $25,000. Success is continue to grow. It is. They got some big news hopefully coming soon. So actually have one piece that we can go ahead and share. Um we will have riding with a cow. What is it called? Double tea cow. Double tea cow. So, I am going to be doing youth bull riding and um barrel racing. Barrel racing. And this is in July. This will be June for the fair.

I think that's a really good uh campaign strategy for those who are running. They can sign up for that bull ride.

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I'm just going to take my chances. [laughter] just one of their it's a circuit. One of their biggest competitors is a child from he will be riding that line. thought it would be about 60 different competitors of all ages on their Facebook as I was getting on and it was it was really excited for what the fair is going to bring this year and I and appreciates all the different venues that they're trying to bring in here for the world. I've been in discussions with the some of the folk and I'm very excited to see some of the stuff that's coming in the right word.

With that being said, uh we have no reason going executive session. Uh post agenda. Do we have anything for post agenda? I don't know if the rest of y'all listen to that. House Bill 557. Mhm. virtual thing yesterday. But hey, I'd be in favor at the next court meeting. They suggested about passing a resolution, you know, as far as counties passing resolution support of that. Uh I be in favor of us drafting something similar for that maybe at the next court meeting. I did text Jason teacher, you know, and he said that he was reviewing it. Okay. I you didn't get a chance to listen. You might go back and listen. But

they they at the conference last week, they they spoke very they spoke a lot about House Bill 52. So, um I suggest you all review it. If you need a link to it, let me know. I'll send you all the information I have. You got an email uh like a one pager said something like one pager bullet point. Yeah, I didn't do the audio thing yesterday, but the book I was at conference too, but they spoke a lot about it, but the bullet point thing, which I thought was more than one page, I thought it was two pages, but had a lot of the information on I think it would be a take away from what they talked about in conference.

You know, there was a lot of discussion about it and, you know, it's not a foolproof plan. It's not 100% the the the answer, but maybe it'll take some of the stress off counties on the financial side of dealing with this. That was just one of the things they suggested that counties could draft and approve a resolution for for support of that. Yes. If that's you joke, I I don't see any reason why we can't have that for next time. All right. Any more for post agenda? I entertain a motion to adjourn.