Fiscal Court - Regular Meeting

Good morning everyone. Welcome to court online word of prayer and then we'll go into this being order. Our dear gracious heavenly father, Lord, we just want to thank you for your for the opportunity to come here tonight today to discuss county business. Lord, we just uh want to thank you for all that you continue to give us on a daily basis. Lord, just watch over us, lead and guide us, help us make right decisions that have your favor. Thank you for all you continue to do. Bless this court, bless this county, bless this nation. In your name we pray. Amen. Amen. Let's call this meeting to order by saying pledge of allegiance. Heat. Heat. Good morning once again. Thank you for being here. First order of business approval of minutes. Motion to accept the minutes as present. I have a motion to have a second. Have a [clears throat] motion to second. Any discussion?

Welcome. Yes. Good. Yes. Wil, yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Yes. Baker, yes. Next up on the agenda is our bills. Approval of bills. Make a motion to approve bills. I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second motion and a second. Any further discussion? Roll call. Absort. Yes. Goodman. Yes. Wila, yes. Harper, yes. [clears throat] Crawford, yes. Balden,

yes. Baker,

yes. Next up is our treasure report. Miss Mandy, would you come forward, please? Good morning. We do have three things for you this morning. Uh the first of them is the second reading and adoption of a budget amendment ordinance number 025220.04. Amendment number one uh to end to amend in unbudgeted receipts into the 911 fund revenue code 754506 state reimbursement refund by 118,00013 LGA fund 04510 state grants by $2,000 general fund owed 14733 insurance reimbursements by 6772.65 65 which will increase expenditure code in the general 015015340 share of maintenance vehicles by 6,772.65 65 911 fund 755145703 911 communications equipment by8,8913 LGDA fund 045205384A spay and neuter grant by $2,000.

Motion to approve. Second. Have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Roll call. Yes. Goodwin, yes. Wilcott, yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. We do have a couple of budget transfers that we need to get approved today. Make a motion to accept the budget transfers totaling $1,39611. Second. I have a motion, a second. Any further discussion? Roll call, please. Dort. Yes, Goodwin. Yes, Wila. Yes, Harford. Yes, Crawford.

Yes, Balden. Yes, Baker. Yes. And I do have one cash transfer today. We need to transfer $145,000 from the occupational profits tax fund to the jail fund. So moved. Second. Thank you. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Roco. Diver. Yes. Goodwin, yes. Wilco, yes. Harper, yes. Harford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. Thank you.

Moving forward to road work request. District one.

District one. Um, I got a report of a tree being down on Kyle Lane at the end of it towards the end of Kyle Lane over there. We could get that taken care of and check it out. And then um, Case bypass. Uh, we're having we're having I have reports of some issues of people running stop sign there. So, if you could do anything to address the current stop sign, maybe I think it need to be straightened up a little bit. Um, and also maybe another sign ahead of that. It's kind of on a heel right there. Another sign ahead of that that says stop ahead so we can try to help alleviate people run that sign. And maybe Sheriff can keep an eye on that too. People run Kates by Did I say that? I'm sorry. Kate's Bypass Road.

Kate's bypassing Kate bypass right there where it comes up to New Town. Right there. Yeah. Yeah. So, other than that, continue maintenance. Appreciate everything. Fisher two.

Um, on Smith Road there is a I don't know if you what you'd call it, an honor sign or a a sign honoring a veteran. Uh, like a on a bridge or or whatever. I don't know if y'all put those up or not, but it's leaning on a guide wire and um it's not even in the ground. So, somebody's going to get it or something. So, if you can look, it's it's right there at the right as you go into the into the Smith Road. And then I've sent you the pictures for Trober Road, the potholes and stuff on the edge. Thank you for everything else.

District three, we just continue maintenance. Appreciate all the road prep for the paving and uh just let me know what you find out about the Bethany Church situation. Thank you. District 4. I just wanted to see if you could follow up on the ditching on Peach Orchard. Just see if that all got done. And then the shouldering on New Hope Road and that 90. Did we ever build that shoulder up? I haven't drove out there and checked it. Okay. Just keep that on the list. And then uh just thanks for prepping the roads and getting ready for paving. I appreciate it. Continue maintenance. Five.

Yes. I need to address the court. I've got several constituents wa watching. Um, we had an occurrence. I was out of town with elderly friends and I had to miss the park meeting, but um, I also missed that the bridge was open. I don't check email all the time and I definitely don't check Facebook. So, I did not know the bridge was open when it was, but I need to address that.

Yes, ma'am. I had brought up to court that that bridge being closed was a terrible problem for the people with family members on both sides and people that had to go through there to get to work. So I know that the bridge was opened early to address the problem for the constituents that live on Liberty Church Road. Yes, ma'am.

And so I'm grateful for the efforts to get the bridge open. The problem was that the gravel that had been put down was not sufficient for heavy traffic and I think that was addressed on Facebook. I checked it was. The problem is that not everybody knows to look there or did look there and and here's the thing. Some of the most wonderful people I have ever met live on that road. And when they realized it was dangerous, several people got mired up when they realized it was unsafe. We had three constituents. Went to the time, trouble, and expense to haul gravel in there, dense grade, compact it down. And when I got back and drove down there, I was amazed. It was perfect. I talked to the farmer who lived on the Bucksville side on that big open farm area, and he said, "This is fabulous." And I said, "Well, I don't think it was fabulous at first, but I think the road department hadn't gotten there to finish it up." So, unfortunately, if we had had a sign, and I would take all that blame because I am the constituent that is supposed to represent my area to the court. So, the fact that I didn't know it was open and the fact that the rock was not safe at that time is on me because I wasn't here and didn't know that it was a safety hazard. So, for everyone that lived on that road who had to deal with it, I'm sorry. I'm sorry there were unpleasant circumstances, but I'm extremely grateful that people took it upon themselves to do what we believe in this country is the right thing to do and to fix it. Now, I was hoping that today I could ask the court if we could use the money that the road department did not have to be

out since it was put on by people who were willing to take their time at their own expense to do it. And uh the judge has something to say about that which I'm really grateful. So hopefully that part of this will be rectified. I hope that in the future I don't feel like somehow my not being here affected the outcome of something that was meant to be very good. An open bridge for people. Extreme effort on the road department. I see everything you've spent on that and time and effort and people. And unfortunately sometimes the best efforts don't come out with the best results. So the people on that road took it upon themselves to try to fix what was not what they wanted. But I will say this, I talked to the farmer. He said, "Miss Anne, I can tell you this. I know Mr. Risby," he called him by your pet name, Peewee. He said, "I I can guarantee you he did not intend for that to be unsafe." I said, "Well, I don't think he was done." He said, "No, he wasn't." So, the the main thing is all good people, good people on every side of this had bad results coming back at them, but especially the people who had to use the bridge. So,

I I would like to I would like to say something on top of that. Please do. I'm done.

The opening of the bridge was solely on me. It was opened way too soon. The entrances were not where it was. The the people of blood liberty church took it upon themselves. I've asked them in a message to please send me the bills for any ma money monetary num numbers that are out and I will reimburse them. Make sure they're reimbured. Um, as I said, the bridge was open solely on my decision and I take that on my shoulders 100%. There was some problems with it. I apologize for the problems. I'll take sole responsibility for it. Um, we are in a better spot now and the county will 100% reimburse any money that is out for that. Continue, please.

No, I'm done. I just wanted them to know I am your magistrate, someone who's [clears throat] supposed to fix problems before they become big. And if you uh know of anyone who has a problem and needs my number, it's free for you to give because this I felt like if I could have been a go-between, we could have kept some of the problem from occurring. So, thank you. And I'm really grateful you're here because this is what our court's supposed to do. It's supposed to represent you and you being in court to ask what you need or to tell what didn't happen that you wanted. And so that's thank you judge for being willing to reimburse them. The irritation and frustration and mired up vehicles.

You're not getting reimbursed for that, are you? But the bottom line is I think we all meant for this to be better. You're absolutely right. I was trying to do my best to get the community growing again because of the closed bridge. I opened it too soon and I apologize. After that, I'm as far as I'm concerned, we can go from there. Thank you. Do you have anything else, Miss An? No. District six.

Uh he on uh on the northbound lane of Highway 100, but on the south side of the bypass, and that's really probably state. So, I'm just passing this along so you can tell the state. There's a pothole there. And I mean just in a matter of weeks it's gone from being size of a Coke can to it's the size of a basketball now. And uh so on 100 northbound lane so if you're heading into town but on the south side of the bypass following me. Yeah.

There's a Yeah, there's a there's a pothole right there at the light. [snorts] So, uh, if you could let somebody at the state know, you know, it just needs needs patching. It's right in the tire mark, too. On the state, sir, it would be on the state. It would be on the state cuz it's it's on uh I my understanding is our road stops at the bypass, and so it is on the south side of the bypass. If you could let um Mr. Wilson or somebody know there state I'm sure they can get it fixed for for us continue maintenance. Thanks for everything.

All right with that being said need approval road work request move. Have a motion to have a second. Second. Second. No further discussion. Roll call. Trainport. Yes. Goodwin. Yes. Wilcott. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Yes. Moving forward to department heads or I'm sorry, uh, elected officials. My apologies. Sheriff Stratton, you have anything for us? No, sir. All right. Jailer Josh.

Yes, sir. Good morning. Morning. As of this morning, our count was 81 county 52 state 32 on our state side holding two for county for 135. That's a little high. What was the total? 81 and 52.

Does that do damage to your budget when it's that high? No, it's actually it's pretty set up for 162 bids. Okay. So, thank you.

Yes, ma'am. Uh our uh to give you an update, our pre-release class last Friday went very well. We had some good guest speakers that give some good testimony uh a good uh good positive message uh to help these men with uh looking forward on uh on resources that's out there for them when they get released. But that was very that went very well. And then our next workload boot camp is going to be uh December 5th or 1st through the 5th that first full week of December. And [clears throat] then uh of course we'll follow that by the job fair event that that following Monday on the 8th from 1 to 3:30. And I'd give you all flyers, but I can give you some more if you want. But if you're able to make it, we'd love to have you uh stop in. But this is actual job fair event where we'll do a uh a round table. Um, everybody will get so many minutes with each business represented and actually uh given their resume answering questions just like any other job interview. And uh like since we've started this uh every individual that's that's that's completed and graduated the program has gotten at least two to three job offers. So uh so we're looking forward to that that event. So, if you'd like to uh to join us, we'll have lunch at 12:00 and then as soon as everybody gets to eat, uh we'll uh we'll start on the job fair, the interviews at one until everybody's finished and rotated through.

Is that the same flyer you gave last time? Yes, ma'am. Okay. Yes, ma'am. What is your percentage of inmates as far as that after they go through your program? You've got it. I kind of need to know that. People ask about it. 7. We've been 75% successful as far as uh going straight into jail. Yes. From the jail. Yes. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. I'm working on getting some individuals that can come and share their testimony and uh and what that's done for them in the upcoming future. So, that would be helpful, especially if they could come to court so the public can see that.

Absolutely. [snorts] Absolutely. And uh also this morning u I've got a personnel action request. You have anything else, Josh? While I'm looking at that,

uh my last item was uh to give some dates. If you're able to make it, we'd love to have you. what we're doing uh working with uh local churches and uh some other outside community uh some groups that come in and uh give services throughout the week uh every week. Uh but we're planning a revival for the 15th, 16th, and 17th as of right now in December. So, a revival at the jail. Yes, ma'am. That's great.

Yes, ma'am. I've got several several guest speakers. Uh, one pastor I've known for a long time out of Wilson County, Tennessee. Some local pastors here, Men of Valor out of Nashville, Clarksville. Uh, Tommy Leo. Their program uh is really, really good. Um, they come and offer classes as well as religious services. They come every Wednesday, but I've got several speakers lined up and working on music and things, but we'd love to have you all. But is it just Wednesdays?

Uh, they come on Wednesday, but I've got so many churches now. I've got the first Monday night this time slots this church. Second Monday night throughout the month, but I do that for every day of the week. So, but uh but I'm trying to get as many that are available. Uh but we've got several men that help with uh celebrate recovery and others that are also uh that teach that but are helping with the revival. So, Oh, that's wonderful. But uh the way I look at it, you can't change the mind. He own harden the heart first. So, and that's what that's what we're trying to tackle first. So, but of course they it's all voluntary. No, nobody has to go.

I was going to you did get push back on that. So, it's voluntary. Make sure that's nice. Absolutely. But yeah, good. Really good. That's the last item, but if you all don't have plans, we'd love to have you say something. No. So, all right. Looks like that in field to your last slot is fully on on your on your deputy. That's good. Yes, sir. That always helps hopefully with overtime.

That's right. Uh so I make a motion for a personal action request for Rachel Sweeney. Um effective hire date November 26, 2025. uh she'll be in the base schedule of LC-DC-1 with 6 years uh credit experience. Thank you. Second. Yeah. I have a motion and a second. Is there other discussion? Roll call, please. Yes. Goodwin, yes. Yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. Thank you all.

Thank you, Josh. Thank you. Next up, Stacy Watkins. Do you have anything for us today? Okay, that being said, let's move ahead to department heads. Hey, you have anything for us, sir?

Okay, Denise, I know you have some stuff for us. So, let's start with the archives. Uh this is your November reminder that you have about 30 something days if you're going to participate in the first families project. Deadline is December 31. Has to be in the office by that day. Uh 4:30 would be the goal. Um just don't wait till that day. Remind the public first families for people who might be watching it for the first time.

Yes. So the first families project is um something that we created um after learning Coffee County, Tennessee had done this. The first time we did it was for the 2017 birthday of Logan County. It is to just honor and recognize your ancestors who [clears throat] were in the original borders of Logan County um by 1820. It was just a random year that we chose. Um, so anywhere within the 30 counties that were created from Logi County, um, is the requirement. Um, yeah, we just need there's a form so you can call us or email us. Email us is better unless you're going to come in and pick one up. Um, because then we can just email you the form. Fill out, send it back to us. $15 for the first one. Five for each additional one that comes in with it. Makes it a lot cheaper. Um, we do have people that are giving them for Christmas presents. So, she knows they're looking for something that, you know, for somebody who might have everything, what do you give them? Right. Um,

knowledge heritage. Knowledge heritage. Right. Um, so the goal is that the second edition of the first family's book will be released in time for the July 4 American 250 celebration. Ah, next summer. Yeah. Okay. And the books will remain available by print on demand after. Thank you. Absolutely. Anybody have any other questions? No. It's called the second edition of First Families. All right. So, we've got some grants um to talk about today. First um you want to start with the Morton Road judge or you want to start with Yeah, absolutely. Please do.

Um Thomas, since this one is in your district, I have shared that whole folder with you. that way you can give us input since you know what the residents are out there facing. Um I saw that come through yesterday but I didn't look at it. So

that's what that's about. Um so to be honest I'm still working my way through the mountain of information in the local public agency guide on this one. It's brand new. It is um I've had to call Bryant for some assistance to get this one through. I'm not really sure what um this one has me a whole lot confused because I don't know exactly what we're asking for today. I don't know I I don't know. All I know is we're working on it. Um and this is to alleviate the flooding issue in Warren [snorts] on Morton Road.

I can meet you out there and show you. Pee-Wee knows, you know, we've looked at a couple of different options. Basically, the road needs to be elevated. I I've never measured it. PE we may know but probably 400 ft you know back right because when we have the 6 plus inches of rain in two days that roads underwater and residents have no other way out that is the only in and out

right and that I get so um I can tell you that this is on the tap grant it does require a 20% match the um Kentucky grant program is available to get % match. In the event they say no, the court will have to have that ready. Um I think judge said he may have something that might be able to cover that depending on what the expense is. Right. Do you have an engineer's estimate on that project?

Yes, we have we have a estimate from Scotty's. They they've they've engineered it. They've looked at it. they've come up with. It's going to be raising it appro approximately three 36 to 40 in at the highest spot just to try to alleviate that flooding. Yes. Cost estimate. Oh, my apology. Uh you told me and I forgot. I think it's 300,000 for some reason. Well, cuz I know I've done these tap grants and I mean you will have to have an engineer because it requires inspection and the whole nine yards. I' I've got all the pay for it done in my office. Can you put all of that in that Google Drive for that please? Yes, cuz I need those. Yes, absolutely.

Um so he thought it was 300,000 but I'm not 100% sure. That's probably just construction. I imagine you're right. Yeah, it's probably just construction. Okay. Um, so I mean are we asking for permission to submit this one? Yes. Okay. So move second. That was pretty quick. You did well with that for saying I'm not sure that I'm asking for it. Yes, sir. [laughter] I mean I guess separating the permission to to apply for it separately from the commitment of the 20%. I mean cuz really the 20% is pretty well and unknown at this point. It's it's pretty well unknown, right? Yeah. Just apply. Just apply. We can turn it down if too much.

80. Yeah, we have we have that and I have some other I think that's actually going to be twofold is that's huge. I said I need I need to apply for this one followed up with approval Kentucky grant program that's not people that's and I can tell you right now that county has not received a Kentucky grant program granted and they are going to every county. So this may be a this may be a grand opportunity to get that road paid for. A lot of competition must have it.

Right. All right. Any any other discussion? Thank you for all the grant work you do. Right. I know you are. Thank you. It helps the county for yesterday. It saves all of our people. Thank you. Absolutely. [cough and clears throat] No further discussion. Roll call, please. Yes. Good. Yes. Wil, yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. All right. What else you have for us? Um, we need to follow that up with permission to apply for a Kentucky grant program grant to cover the 20% match on. So, move second. Motion in a second.

Any further discussion? No. Roll call. Davenport. Yes. Good. Yes. Roll cut. Harbor, [clears throat] yes. Crawford, [snorts] yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes.

Okay. Guard rails. Um, PeeWee tells me there's potentially 10 or less that are needed throughout the county. And based on the grants and the way that they the information is asked for, it appears that we need one for each section of current guard rails. Um, so I need permission to apply for this one as well. It is also a taff grant that requires the 20% match. Um I know we've got some estimates. Mhm. We got estimates on yet. We got estimates on about three of the probably six or so that we need. I guess there's probably about six guard rails we're talking about.

Well, it goes anywhere from about 100 foot to about 1,700T. Oh wow. So, we've got we, you know, we've got six or so different areas that that are in some more uh pressing than others. Um,

so, so, uh, we're going to press for those ones that are are needed. We've got some down the lake and some some in the, uh, some in your area, some in Tyler's area, uh, district 1, four, and five that we're really going to be pushing for uh, to try to get this money for it. So, uh, it's kind of a loaded question on which one takes priority. Uh, really there's some down in Jason's area that's been needed for years that we need to get get on pretty hot and heavy. Uh, Tyler's got some in his area and and Miss Anne, you've got some in your area that we really want to push for. Uh, and we're just trying to find the money for it uh through through these grant programs and we're hoping that we can secure that money. Well, we're so lucky we have Denise who searches and finds what the state will give us. [laughter]

I I appreciate it, but no, she's the one doing all the work on it and and as I said, we just need permission to to apply. I guess we need a a kind of a blanket to apply for all of these and then uh if we get them, we can come back and discuss them. But we need we need a a motion to to go ahead for her to apply these and then another motion to do the 20% through the state to hopefully get the state to reimburse that other 20%. So move. There we go. We have three seconds [laughter] to Thomas. He hadn't had one in a while. Is there any more questions on That's for the first part, right? This is for the first part. Yes, indeed. The permission to to turn these grants in for guardrails. Okay. This is for the tap grant submission.

There you go. All right. I make a motion to get through this then you can have the rest. Okay. [cough] Yes. Wilson. Yes. Harvard. Yes. Carver. Yes. Balden. Yes. Baker. Yes. Now you can make the motion further. I make a motion that we apply for the 20% grant for the garboss in Logan County so that we can save taxpayer money on buying those. Thank you. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Roll call, please. Driving. Yes. Good. Yes. Pack. Yes.

Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Balden. Yes. Baker. Yes. As far as I know, that's it. Unless anybody has questions. Have you have you heard anything from Brad on the land and water grants that they said? It ought to be about time for those again too. And that's not yet. Once we get this purchase thing here in the next month, I would think who would be eligible to apply and apply for that and apply towards the park. But Brad administers, I have not, but I need to call and ask our representative some questions. surprised.

I have a I have a whole list of three dozen grants that it's time for that one to be coming out. A lot of these uh grants are just kind of hurry are depending and waiting on other uh other scenarios to fall in line before we can actually apply for them. There's a lot that we we've discussed. I mean, we we have a weekly pretty much a weekly, if not a bi-weekly meeting where we discuss the grants and stuff trying to get money into the county uh over this and uh there's a lot of things with those are just hurry up and wait, you know, we're waiting on things to fall into line. Uh so, but yeah, she's been working diligently on this and uh very proud of the work she's doing.

Popular one that Yeah. uh as soon as I see every time I see a grant that's worthy and sometimes unworthy, I send it straight to her to you know this is my recommendation. Unworthy, you know, even the unworthy ones are are worth looking at. Correct. It saves taxpayer money. Yeah, we got we got two or three. She uh Denise submitted a list to uh to me and uh Amanda and Karen uh yesterday that had a whole list of what she's applied for and the ones that well we haven't received the one we don't know and the one that are p you know um the ones we didn't. So uh she's doing a great job with all that and I'm very appreciative of her doing that. All right. Anything else?

Thank you. Thank you. Ginger, you have anything for us from the ECC? No, it's just further down on the agenda. I saw that. Okay. Okay. Well, oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. I see which one it is now. I look past you twice. Uh, next up is uh Nathan Solid Waste. Come bring us a sermon, sir.

I appreciate it. Good morning. We I had a couple of things I wanted to mention to us this morning. So, we do have a code enforcement board meeting on Monday and just trying to make sure everybody is aware of that. It is Monday the 1st, December 1st at 4 p.m. and probably will be in this room if I'm correct judge. Uh, and we do have the new cases uh going to be deal with as well as our old cases. New cases on Aaron Lane off 79 North. trying to work at that and uh continue the process of getting these cases through. And then of course I may come back to you all eventually with some recommendations from them and myself on how to make the ordinance a little bit better. So I'm already seeing at least a couple of things we probably need to do. We'll come back talk about that. But

did you say what time? I'm sorry. What time was that?

400 p.m. this coming Monday. And one other issue I wanted to talk about um that has been definitely in the public and we mentioned it last meeting at court was the Sims Park smoke situation out there on off 431 South and it's uh something that I've been discussing with Jamie and just a little bit about that. We mentioned last meeting there's an air quality um inspector named Lane Fowler. He has visited the site and spoken with the manager. He's t I've talked to him several times and he's going to continue to work to monitor that situation, make sure they're doing what they're supposed to and checking the smoke, checking what they've got, all the things that he's he's been in good contact with me and also the manager out there on the site. And I want to say to Phil and I, Judge Baker and I visited the site yesterday and we spoke to the manager, Mr. Webster, out there. Uh we we had I felt like a good conversation. I think the judge agreed seemed like it was productive. It was it was productive.

We we wanted to assure him we want industry and business to succeed in Logan County, but at the same time there's been a lot of complaints. It's not just been one individual as he might have thought it's been several individuals that have complained from the the neighborhoods that surround the site out at Sims Park. And so he his his plan that he went over was the following to work on this and what he's been doing to try to keep it from happening. As you may recall, there was a fire out there a couple of years ago that was a major major concern for the community and took a lot of effort to put that out. But his his plan to keep that from happening, Mr. Webster, someone on the site is there 247 and they do have uh walkthroughs with their insurance often to make sure that everything is where it needs to be. Uh he told me that if he works the pilots too early in the morning, they're a major mess. But if they work them later in the day, that was his plan to have less steam and smoke coming off that. And they have monitoring post on the site. They do have um the piles that they're walking in the correct season. Uh he told me this is about the worst season for them with that. The piles are bigger uh than they usually are. And he's trying to make sure he was mindful of the seasons he was working, trying to keep the pile smaller. That's something that Elaine told me he was going to work with uh Mr. Webster on. and also um um just kind of continue to monitor. That's that's what I plan to do and uh he gave me I have his number. I'm going to contact him whenever I need to and there there's a situation out there. But that that's his plan and we'll work and if there is a way that or a need for uh some enforcement action, they will definitely come.

Yeah. One of one of the things that I can add to that is is as he explained to us is when those piles start start smoldering like they are, they have to run them through the machine in order to get them knocked down. They can't just move it around and such because it creates more fire. So once they catch one smolder and they go to that pile and they try to work it as quick as they can to get that that that pile brought down to get get to where the smoldering is happening. And uh so uh we had a really good conversation with him. uh he understood what was going on and they are working doing what they can. Uh there's some noise pollution that they've been working on. Uh that they're they're working on a solution for that to try to knock down some uh for the surrounding neighborhood. Uh and like I said, uh like like Nathan has said rather um there's they're they're working they're they're they're keeping up with what's going on. They know what's going on. They're aware of it and they're they're they're working on it. This time of year, I would say that it it might be a little worse

because of the the low the low Yeah. the the low. Yes. Weather's back in. You said once it gets cold, it'll be okay. And even in the spring, usually it'll be okay because there's not as much mulch out there. But the combination of more mulch and the weather changes is correct. We talked about spontaneous combustion kind of. Yeah. Kind of. Yeah. It's it's u those piles just are basically spontaneous. They just they just grow heat and where they're where they're breaking down the heat causes. I'm surprised at this time of year, but wow. I I learned something every day. Well, we we did too. So, we learned a lot while we were out there.

And he mentioned about the noise. I know there have been some issues about that. He was talking about enclosing some of his machinery on couple sides if I'm right, Judge. Correct. and and making sure that it the sound was less that got out of there. Okay. Yeah. Any questions on that or something else? No. Thank you for all your work. Appreciate y'all. Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you. That's it. You do. All right. Thank you, Nathan. Uh I don't think we have any committee reports. I'm not aware of any with that move. Let's move on to then we you know the the event we talking about like yes

I mean our event we had last Monday was very well attended and I think that um we had lots of good comments so far you know we're still waiting on the online results but I mean um I think it went very well. Everybody seemed to I agree like the concepts and I agree. Um, so appreciate the public coming out and and giving their input and uh looking forward to moving forward with what we've gathered. Absolutely. And if you're still interested in seeing, you can go to our Facebook page, the Logan County Fiscal Court Facebook page, or you can actually go to our web website, which is uh Logan County.gov, and I believe the link is there, so you can look at the plans and fill out the survey.

Well, how long are [clears throat] you leaving the comment period open? probably till the end of the first week. Probably was it December 6th, I think is where we're going to leave it open to. Maybe it's plenty of time for what we what I assume would be plenty of time. Just go to the news section.

Okay. Oh, okay. Of the website. Okay. Thank you. News section of the website. All right. I don't think there's any more reports. And I have just noticed I skipped over judge's announcements. So, uh, I got quite a few. So, buckle up. Here we go. Uh November the 27th, the Auburn Senior Center is hosting a Thanksgiving potluck. Uh doors open at 11:00 and learn lunch is served at 12:00. The center will supply the meat and dessert. Please bring a vegetable dish. Uh this will be a sit down meal. Uh come and be part of the family. Uh everyone is welcome. Uh, November 29th, Turkey Tracks Thanksgiving Tracker Pool at the Arena starting at 11:00. Gates open at 9. For more information, call 615 766741 or 270-221-5466. December the 2nd, veterans from the uh area and guests are invited to attend the Veterans Plus One dinner at 6:00 p.m. uh at the Fellowship

Church Church of Christ located across from the Old Hospital on Franklin Street in uh Russell. What I miss? Well, I missed part of that. Veterans what again? On December 2nd, the veterans uh from our area uh veterans plus one dinner.

Okay. 6 pm on Tuesday, December 2nd at the Fellowship Church Christ right across from the old hospital. Uh December 5th is Russellville's Hot Cocoa Crawl beginning at 10:00 and runs to 5. Uh Cocoa Crawl Cups can be purchased at the chamber through December the 4th. The also on December the 5th, a lot of stuff on December the 5th. Uh December 5th will be the the Logan County Chamber. Uh second annual Christmas parade starting at 6 p.m. in downtown Russell's paid entry or parade entries must be lighted. For more information, contact the chamber at 270-7262206. I encourage everyone to go out to that. That was a great The first one was very was great. It's it was a great time. Um it's fun. lots of lots of people participating. Uh December the 5th also would be the Auburn Tourism is hosting a gingerbread house party at 5:00 p.m. in Auburn City Council Chambers at 103 East Main Street. Um everyone interested to participate is invited to join for the fun of decorating the gingerbread house and cookies. Uh all supplies are provided. Uh December the 6th, the cow system, our countywide outdoor warning system will be tested at noon. In the event of severe weather, the testing will be rescheduled. Um also December the 6, Leburg Lions Club presents the Lewisburg Christmas Market. Vendors will be set up in Mount Pleasant Church, uh, 954 Stacker Street from 9 to 4, selling baked goods, uh, boutique clothing, home decor, crafts, and much more. Santa and Mrs. Claus will be there. Join for a funfield day, shopping, a sport local, uh, just in time for Christmas. For more information, uh, 270-820121

or 272024108. We're almost an end. December 7th is the Shako annual Christmas parade. Uh at 2 PM lineup will take place at Walnut Grove Farms. Uh that's December the 7th. Also December the 7th is the annual Christmas candlelight service at the Red River Meeting House located at 3008 Shaka Road uh at 400 p.m. So right after the parade, stick around and go to the Red River Meeting House. Everyone is invited to attend. I believe that is all I have on. Next up, citizens participation. If anyone in the community would like to come forward and speak, the podium is open. Please state your name, your address.

Good morning everybody. Good morning. Morning. Chris Lover. Uh I'm hearing concerns about the bridge on church. Uh I had talked to you. Yes, sir. Wednesday. Yes, sir. And I suggested we got some grade out there. Yes, sir. To recap the 23s. Yes, sir.

And you had told me that you could not get rock. That was I I would prefer this conversation, you and I have it downstairs like I'd ask oneon-one versus bringing it out because we have a local business owner that I've had lots of discussion with since then and I I'm trying not to hurt his not to hurt anybody's business if I can. So if you would prefer to do it, if you want to continue, it's your right. But I'd prefer if you and I had a conversation oneonone on this if it's okay with you for the simple fact that [clears throat] I'm trying to protect local businesses. Yes. Thank you. I totally understand. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

And we should boost the agree. Young individuals that's actually trying to start business. Agree. Agree. And staying out of trouble. Yes, sir. I am not a public speaker by no means. That's fine. You're doing a great job. Continue. But supposedly there was a concern about his gra. Yes [clears throat] sir.

But when he won the contract in April 22nd, Mr. Ross had insisted we put if it came to a point which pee we asked y'all if you pull out both which y'all said that would be a conflict of interest because it needed to go with one person or the other. Correct. But with an executive order you could pull out of the other courty. I could correct that is on record at about 2 hours and 23 minutes into this meeting. Yes sir.

Anybody can pull it up. It's on YouTube. It's public. So what I am asking, why wasn't there executive order after complaints on bridge to deliver the news? The the complaints happened on a Wednesday night. Yes. Thursday morning before I could even before I could do that, Jonathan Sears and I spoke and before I could say anything, he had already went and and got the gravel from the other one. approximately probably 11:00 or something. Exactly, sir. Now, you did keep your word to me. You did send the road department out. I did. Yes, sir. They was down there with their skid steer and they was graing the road. Yes, sir.

But it's like sending a framer to a framing job with nails with no lumber. Understand? I insisted on some dent. Right. Anybody that builds ropes knows that you cannot compact 23s on 23s. It's like rolling your fist. It just won't happen. I understand. We have large vehicles that go over a bridge. We've got scout waste management. We got several feed trucks that deliver feed to farmers. Yes, sir. We've got farmers on the ground. Yes, sir. We've got combines. We've got You never know. Concrete trucks, rock trucks. We've got everything.

Yes, sir. Absolutely. So, was it a surprise that when Scotty's bid this and y'all accepted the bid for, let me see, $597,235 that that did not have the approaches? No, sir. In the package? No, sir. It was not a surprise to me. Okay. Did we not all lot enough money to buy the dance? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. We did. The money was never the problem. Well, apparently something somewhere was the issue

because y'all's church was sold getting rock out of the quarry at Bluegrass. Mhm. They was going to WL Hall Road. They said they put rock on the side of the road in Browning Road. You're right. Lewis Edwards Road. Those are there were several churchs in and out of blueberry stone. Absolutely. But yet we call and you say we can't get rock. Why wasn't there an executive order to take care of that?

The executive order was not issued because I just plainly did not have time to do it. I didn't get to it yet. Well, I was trying I sent and and and and I sent the road crew out there to make a determination of what needed to be done. and I was waiting for a return from them before I made any type of decision. Before I can make the decision, it was already taken care of, right?

Uh you know, uh this I apologize 100%. I do. I tried to do a right thing. I'm not a road builder. I don't know that much about road building. Uh you ask about the other rock. The other rock was not there to build roads. the other the other rock that we used was side winding along the edges which that's acceptable for that. Uh and some other other things. Uh the building of the road we discussed it. I I told you a few minutes ago I said I take full responsibility for the road being open premature. I take full responsibility. You and I had a conversation and uh your girlfriend Okay. I don't want to either way. I take full responsibility for that. Obviously,

you've done everything right. It's an unfortunate situation. It is and it's a perfect example for us all to learn that we jumped the gun trying to appease the public. The road should have never been open. True. Bew knows. He told us long before, but this is what happened when you allow pressure for somebody to open a bridge. It has no business being open. Shouldn't be open now. The bridge shouldn't be open now. That can't that

should should have a long time for that to be. And again, it's gotten everybody in trouble and emotions stirred up. And you know, we shouldn't have never opened the bridge, but you know, again, I appreciate you taking responsibility. You made that call trying to help.

And please understand, the whole the whole purpose open that bridge was to try to relieve pressure. I had no idea it was going to run up like that. And so, imagine my surprise when I when I start getting messages about a Facebook post instead of contacting the roadart. That's probably why when we had our first conversation, I was a little bit upset because there's I would prefer someone call me. You You didn't have my number. I understand that. I just wish somebody would have contacted us to give us a chance versus me reading about it on Facebook and demising and and criticizing my road department and myself and and and that's the way I took it. I and some of the comments that I've read, you know, it's Facebook. Uh it is what it is. It's social media. It is what it is. I can't control that. But there was a lot of mistakes made and I apologize and I can't continue. I I'm I I can continue to apologize all you want to. Uh I've I've I've sent a message to your u court, Miss Courtney, my Paul Saunders, excuse me. I sent a message to her and asked her to send me any invoices that you guys have and I will make sure they were 100% reimbured. I've talked to Jonathan. Jonathan Sears and I have had a lot of conversation since then. Uh we we we've been daily actually. I think yesterday was first day we that we haven't talked weekly and uh the past few days. There were mistakes made. I apologize for anything that happened. Frustration set in needs to go out there. You need to go out there and evaluate. Is it safe for that road to be open? I know it's an inconvenience. We knew it was an inconvenience when we accepted that $600,000, but we knew long-term it was the best. You know, we're getting a bridge paid for it by all means. I mean, it was a no-brainer to do, and I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but if it ain't safe and it's just going to bar up again, we

don't need this again, right? You know, uh, y'all need to make a decision based on the safety of the public and not a few people's raising cane that it's an inconvenience that they have to drive their garbage pickup trucks around or whatever, whoever's complaining. And, you know, it's just part of it. We knew that when we closed the bridge. I

I went to bat and and spent a lot of time working on getting that bridge paid for by the state. So, no offense and and please don't, but when I get a a ruthless attack on social media, a ruthless attack, I take it personal because I spent a lot of time and effort making sure that the public was taking care of that bridge. That old bridge where they were continuously lowering the ton rating. Before long, you weren't going to be able to pass anything over and it was narrow. So, so he's been fighting this bridge deal for years and years because we can't get across. It's too It's too narrow. It's widen now. It's got good base. That part is perfect. I have no problem with that. Thank you.

These approaches. Understand? I mean, there's got to be strength and state requirements to build up on a edge of a river. There's got to be compaction tests. There's got to be this and that and another. We just came back up with a dump truck and dumped 23s on 23s. The bridge itself [snorts] when I was down there when they was so working on it came up to my chest. Y'all had to build up to that

then make the ramp the approach to it. You can't just dump rock on rock on rock. You got to do compaction. I used to work in a rock quy. I've been around construction. I know how it works. You put layers, compact. You put another layer, you compact. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. You put smaller vines in between the bigger rock to interlock it so it does not move. That was not done. Yes, sir.

What we basically got, we've got a brand new house with a Harbor Freight Blue tarp for the front door. like I feel and I've got some other people that feel the same way. It was a waste of money to even do the bridge if we're going to leave the approaches that way. I do believe that we need to do core samples on the foundation. We'll just have to agree to disagree on that, sir. Okay. We will. The state's got to have some kind of requirements for base. Well, I will tell you this. I will never make this mistake again. I hope not. and I appreciate you coming up here today to express your interest.

Yes, sir. I've been researching this from the day it's happened. I have spent time at Mr. Sears's rock query. You cannot accept a 23 without accepting drain and say the drain's dirty. The reason being the whole process is one thing. You make 23s, you make drain, you make nines, you make this, you make that. It's oneshot deal. He does not produce one product at a time. It's not feasible for him. So how can the county accept the 23 from but not his dead script? So that's why we went up and beyond me and Mr. Sears and we bought the state required lot of rock from the other court with our money because there was where there would be no issue that we use dirty rock on this bridge. So by stag requirements we went to the query that has the stag requirements for the a. This is why I am so upset. Thank you.

But wait, I've got a question. Yes, ma'am. We are looking at your descriptions. Um, it's where it is. Whether we like it or not, it's where it is. What do you if you were would you want to close it and just put signs? Yeah. If that's what we got to do, that's what we've got to do. If we got to dig up everything that we've already done, so be it. But make it right. There's no reason in building a house without putting a a door on it. That's what I'm trying to get to. No, no, you did. You did. Okay. I just know that wherever you are,

I know it's an inconvenience. People's going to hate me for it. If it's going to be right, it's going to be right. I would rather this a million times. Yes. Than, as Judge Baker said, to read about it, I would rather you bring it to us and say, "Hey, we got to fix this." So, at this point, Mhm. at this point, this is a public forum and it is on TV. So, all the people that have called me in the last two weeks are watching,

right? And so what I'd like very much is to know what you would recommend to the court to do to make the situation as good as possible in the meantime while we are trying to get ready to pave that which will end the problem. If you pave it in the state that it is now. No, I didn't mean now. We can't pave it now. No, because it's going to crumble. You're going to be throwing money. You're going to be wasting money. Bad money. bad money after bad money. So the question is as someone who's an expert in the field,

what do you recommend to the court that we do at this point?

To be honest with you, Miss Anne, like I said, I suggest doing quarter uh doing quarter samples on it, checking the compaction rate. If it does not up to par for pavement, which I'm sure Scotties has got a requirement somewhere that because you know, you look at it this way. If you put asphalt on a bad base, it's going to crumble. Scotties probably don't want that black guy. They probably don't want their name on that. Like, well, you know, yeah, we went out there and paved it, but we knew it wasn't right, but we done it anyway. But, you know, it's kind of a black eyed Scotties. It's like if you hire a concrete guy that don't do a base right underneath your concrete pad and it crumbles in two or three years.

Who are you going to look at? Well, what you don't realize is there's another group. Yes. Who has made a new road. Yes. And they want to black top it. And I said, "We got to wait till it compacts." Right. And they will be watching this carefully up on Plane View Church Road. Yes. and they will be watching this carefully to see how we deal with this because I told them they needed to wait for the pavement and so thank you actually for coming in. I'm sorry to judge Baker who works he works really hard right county and I I would not want anybody to think otherwise however however for the people who depend on that bridge this was a catastrophe

and what we need to know now what can we do to fix a band-aid as you said I don't want it to be a band-aid it's a great bridge yes it's a wonderful bridge I love it Uh basically the only thing you can do to this point is to tear up the approaches and redo them the correct way. You don't think that we can compress that rock? The thing is when you build up Rockville land, you can't you've got to start at the base and do your and work your way up. Anybody in the construction field knows that. Well, I apologize that I don't. So yes, I I totally understand. I'm sure you're doing other things.

Batter time. Yeah, it will come back over time, but it takes a lot of time, you know. So, well, it's extremely helpful that you're here. Now, go on, Jason. Was that a 20% match? Yes. No, I thought it was $600,000 straight. That was out of the grant. Yeah, the grant full.

I didn't know if we did that in kind of the approach. No, we we did the the approaches were done on our dime to to cover and we use whatever we can out of that $600,000 to to reimburse. With that being said, Mr. Glover, I appreciate your time. As I told you, please reimburse. Please make sure that my office is submitted. I we will not have you paying for that rocket. Well, well, I personally am. I I personally am. And I

I know you probably are. I know it makes you look bad, but I'm sorry to be up here and giving you heck about it today. I truly am. I mean, but the way I heard y'all this morning, we was just going to sweep it up underneath the rug and forget about it and smooth it over. That's what happened so many times in [clears throat] government. And I truly feel like this is going to be one of them or we was going, yeah, we going to talk about a little bit, sweep it underneath the rug and go on this and that and another. But I'll leave you alone. I've said my peace. Thank you for your time and thank you, Miss. I really appreciate you coming in. No problem.

Thanks for coming, man. Y'all have a great day. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Is there anyone else? If not, can we take a quick 15minute This office.

Welcome back. Josh, you got But before we proceed, uh during judge's announcements, I missed a couple. Josh, would you like to go ahead and

Yes, sir. I just want to announce that on on behalf of the the FOB Lodge 41 for Logan County, uh that we have I've been we've been working on taking up food uh donations and We're planning on helping as many families in local county in need as we can, but we'll be picking up some more food items today, starting to put boxes together for for Thanksgiving, and we'll get those delivered tomorrow. All right. Been working with the uh the schools, family resource personnel, and all the schools in the county, city, county schools. Um if if they've not gotten back with me, I'll follow back up. But again, uh for food boxes for Thanksgiving and then also uh the FOP will be doing Shop with the Cop this year. Uh we have uh taken up several donations, doing some fundraisers, and we've been working with some restaurants. one in particular that's coming up. We've got a couple more in the works, but uh on December 4th from 5 to 8 8:00 p.m. at Sugar Maple Drive in Auburn, the Solast Tekka has agreed to give uh 15% of all sales excluding alcohol uh as a donation to the shop of the cop program through for the FOP. So, uh so I just wanted to share that. But again, 15% of their sales will be will be donated to the FOP so we can help more more children of families in need at Christmas as well. So, but thank you so much.

Oh, and one more thing. Can I say um I found out um for Russville, you know, you can't throw candy. I found that out. Auburn you can. You definitely can. I'm sure on you definitely can. [laughter] But uh I just wanted to let everybody know, you know, country kids, country kids, it's always going to be a divided.

All right, moving moving. Thank you. Thank you all for that. Moving forward, we have no old business. So, let's move on to new business. First item on the agenda for new business is open bids for radio parts for Logan County ECC. I have three bids for this. The first one's from VEI. thing on Thursday trying at it. I swear I've got something every day now.

Every single myself two or three things every single day every year. to address it. I have to remind myself of that something. Oh, I've got them online. [laughter] Right. Um, you know, I don't I didn't say anything. [clears throat] It's a bad deal all the way around.

I may have to look. I'm going to leave you guys to look through it. See if we can find um that was VI. I'm going have to look a little stricter at that one. a little harder at that one to figure out. The next one is from Wilson Communication.

It's hard for me. Basically, this contract I think says that's right here. They're going directly from the state contract. state contracts, you know, they go with MSRP of the product and 30% off is what they have with the state. So 30% off MSRP on There you go. Yeah. Thank Thank you. I I read that part, but I was wanting to read it slowly and make sure I understood everything. There's one for everybody.

Okay. Uh Wilson communication is 18% over actual cost of radio equipment and parts uh plus shipping of course. is such a suggestive thing. I mean, that's Which one's better? 18%. I don't That's where I have to do a lot of work on that. [clears throat]

I gave him one. This needs to go. We all got that one. Okay. You got one. Well, we were sharing that. Yeah, we got one. You have to get them back. I think when they have one for everybody, just keep it. I sometimes take them home and put it with court date. This

next one is from CI Communications International and theirs looks like uh discount for manufacturers list price of 15% off current manufacturer list price said this is going to be same as what I was thinking. Not sure they have it. You just kind of find the best one. It is. Communication International. It's like a 15% off MSRP or this price. MSRB. Is that the three on the radio part? Communications International.

I think on this deal right here, it probably be appropriate to table this and let you look it over and just see what the if if everyone's in agreeance. I I 100% agree with that of tableabling this currently, giving me time to look at them, and then come back into December meeting and make a recommendation. Maybe you can put them on our Yes. I'll I'll have Olivia scan every one of these so every one of you can look at them, put them on the drive. All right. I'll make that as a motion to table this and let the judge look over it and we'll come back, make a decision at the December 6th meeting. Second. I have a motion, a second. Roll call. Davenport, yes. Good. Yes. Wilco, yes. Harper,

yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. With that, with that being said, I I 100% agree with that. There's so many variables that need to be looked at, so many uh sides. I want to make sure I give each of the three a fair look. I mean, you almost have to have you almost have to know what the actual cost of the equipment is before you can absolutely. Yes. Yeah. Where I can look at those costes, but I'm sure those costs are also variable change. Exactly.

I would tell you for me it's going to depend on what the result of the next bid would be. You know what I'm saying? I mean that well I think it would be not impossible but a little tough to hire one company to do the maintenance and hire another company to provide the parts. Oh yeah. It's going to be well it'd be tough. You're asking two competitors. You know would you like to be doing the maintenance and have to buy your parts from a competitor? No. I see what you're saying. You know, I mean, yeah, but you get a bad competitor like this should be a bad

Well, the parts would almost you would almost have to as someone doing the maintenance, you would have to make a request like to Ginger say, "I need these parts." And she would have to correct. With that being said, second item, open bids for radio maintenance and monitoring. And once again, three three vendors. Uh the first one is VEIL. You must We're going back on YouTube and watch [laughter] over here. I wear you, man.

I don't know. Jason, we didn't get a replay on that. Did we or did we not? [laughter] I don't have any replay. We hit the Matrix. I know. We want the jumbo. We want the jumbotron like NFL. So we can do back it up. No. See Jason's not listening. He invalid. Um,

total cost for complete maintenance, parts and labor of $3,000 per month or 36,000 yearly. Who the uh the uh Did they not That was on the first one.

Somebody said, "Why you gave somebody?" Next up is Wilson. There you go. District association.

Is this the same thing? Well, this is No, this No, I mean letting him do letting There's two there. I do believe there's two of them there. I think there's two. Yep.

Wilson has it set up to 63.8750 per month. Wow. [snorts] It wouldn't include a tire climbing for me either. That's the same. Is it the same as

Thank you. Did you want to comment this? CI has submitted a bid also for 105,000 per year. Is that the right,000?

Much like the parts, I suggest we put this on hold. Let me look at it. Make a motion to table all bids for the uh maintenance and monitoring for the Logan County ECC pending a recommendation. Second. I have a motion to second. Any further discussion? [clears throat] Roll call, please. Time for Yes. Go. Yes. Wilc, yes. Parker, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker. Yes.

On the, you know, definitely on the maintenance, I I think it's going to take a lot of, like you say, it take a lot of looking into to make sure the the availability and what it is that they're what it is that they're covering and what it is that they're going to be included in the maintenance. And, you know, there's some things such as software, firmware upgrades on a regular basis, you know, that sort of thing. Got to, like I said, you got to make sure all that Yeah, absolutely. I will um have Olivia scan each one of these in and put them in your folders so you can see them and you can look at them yourselves. I think so.

Yeah, we probably need to do that. I'm taking mine. He think she going to rest. He say he's going to scan it in.

Yes. Yeah. Thank you all for sure for coming. We'll have a decision on the 6 Saturday. [laughter] We try hard here. You do. With that being said, you do the right things. Let's move on to item number three. Approve to reappoint Harris Dawkins to the East Logan Water District for a 4-year term retroactive to November 14th of 2025 and then November 14th of 2029. So move. Second. Have a motion and a second. Roll call. Travis, yes. Good. Yep. Wil

Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. Number four, acknowledge receipt of sheriff's calendar year 2024 fee audit report. Uh, I'll look through this audit. Everything look good. Motion to acknowledge. Second. Have a motion in a second. There any noted? There were no There were no notes. Is that right? Amanda, we didn't find any notes to the back of his said the sheriff and his department. We're doing a great job. So, appreciate very proud. The girls should get all the credit for that.

Tell the girls we know. We know. [snorts] [laughter] [laughter] YOU'RE WELCOME. THAT'S FUNNY. OKAY. Good leadership. Yes. Yes. We have a good vision. [laughter] With that being said, roll call police. Yes. Good. Yes. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Balden. Uh, yes. Baker.

Yes. Now, the one you all been waiting on. Item number five, approve the agreement with the Commonwealth of Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Department of Rural and Municipal Aid Flex Funding Funds agreement. That was a mouthful. Uh in the amount of $315,126 move second. Motion and a second. Any discussion? Ro, yes. Good. Yes. Wilut, yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes.

With that being said, we have no reason to go into executive session. Do we have anything for post agenda? If we have nothing for post agenda, do you have this one printed out, judge, while we're all here? Last one because we all we have to sign, right? No, it's just however you I mean y'all can if you want to. Typically, I just fill your names in of how you voted. Okay. Yeah, perfect. She's on the ball back there. He's underneath the office. I'll send everybody a reminder for that. Thankfully,

with that being said, I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. Um, I know the weather is supposed to get a little cooler starting towards the end of the week. So, uh, everybody, uh, be careful out there. I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn. Second. All in favor say I. I.