Fiscal Court - Regular Meeting

stuff like that. They would come in and and engrave it with the with the flash. Some papers you see are concrete based. These are clay fire. Okay. Two questions. Where are those done? You said the other ones were in Ohio. You're not going to take those. Where are those done? Was it in Georgia? Georgia. Georgia. Okay. two on your 8 by8 bricks because at D yesterday they were pushing this which is what we want. But it says on the 8 by8 something about an emblem on the brick and they were questioning what emblem. So fill me in.

Okay. The emblem would be like, of course, this is the second project, but we're already committed to the bricks. And the emblem would be, we haven't come up with it yet. Oh. So, it's not out there to choose from. Okay. But we would think it would be like Army, Navy, Marines. Oh. Something service

to the papers you would see out at Russell High School when they put those out there. would be to uh signify what branch of service your uh your ancestor was in. The bricks aren't necessarily all for revolutionary war soldiers. It will be for any veterans in your families put your father on it, your brother, your husband. Okay, that was my question because of the number of lines, number of spaces to include everything. You have to for every space you have to count a slot, right? And a lot of people don't understand that. So, I'm helping you clarify here and we're on TV, so it helps. And then the emblem, I understand the emblem will take away regardless of where it is, it's going to take away of some of your lines.

That's right. That's correct. Yes. Okay. That's correct. All right. That was my question. We're not so far into this project that we've come up with all the answers just yet, but we wanted to get the color face behind us so we can we a little more lightheaded and a little more pressure off our shoulders that we continue with at least the first phase of the project right now.

Well, I think quality is always going to trump everything else. You want this to represent the best. Well, that's one reason why we we came in as a cont like we're going to be the ones that are actually physically building this on the spot. I mean, we want it to last forever, you know? I mean, we're neighbors here. We live here in this community. We want this to be something that's excellent. So, I mean, we would rather, you know what I'm saying? Try to use the best products, you know what I'm saying, that we can and uh just have as smooth of a process as we can. And so far, just in all the development stages that we've been in and stuff, it it's went really, really nice. Good.

This brick is designed and he said in the matter that we have that later on after we install the initial bricks if somebody wants to come in and put a family member in later on and they want an 8 by8 brick then these bricks are designed to be edges here that they pretty easy to pop up. Take two of these out.

Yes. kind of what we were talking about as far as like getting these replaces like maybe once a quarter, you know, once a half a year because you don't want people saying, "Hey, I need to get this, you know, just this one." You want to be able to do it where, hey, things aren't obstructed whenever they're out there and everything's done. You can come in, pop them up, put the other ones in quickly. We want to make sure that that process is super from our good friends that we're looking probably what they call passive weed. There's all kinds of patterns and that probably would be one of the best a couple. We show we can show you that. But yeah, I think the reason why it worked good is because of the the 8 by8s and the 4x8.

I [cough and clears throat] think there was a question about the plan too. Um, we are working with artist Alexander Brenley and his brother has just come in from Savannah May this year. He's a historical restor restoration architect. He's worked down there some years. We are going to meet with him into this month and talk about the design. Give us options and we'll bring that back to y'all. But also what we want to ensure is that we have a plan when we engrave that it doesn't disrupt the overall appearance of the fossil. You understand what I'm saying? the patterns going so we don't have bricks that get changed and direction and it just skews everything. So we're going to have a plan. We're going to have a numbering system so you know that if you have a brick engraved, you know you're at age something something whatever. And so that's going to be part of this too. So you guys can see what you lost. [clears throat] That's normal. But anyway, so Richard, while you're standing there, if someone wants one of these bricks, how do they get it? They got a

What's your answer? You can. You and Randy can answer it. What's that? Denise. She's got the forms. I know, but no one else does. [laughter] Shoulders. See Denise shoulders and archives. There we go.

We do the stone plaza. obtain with that. There's a number of other things we're talking about, but hopefully we can do the stone and the plaza the same time if we can. That's that's basically that's based on fundraising and that's what we're in the middle of right now. Can't wait to have something here and some of y'all going to get an invitation to help us out. How's this happen? So, I'm just looking around and see anybody in all of us. [laughter] video. I don't know if there any questions in relation to

I appreciate y'all taking the time to really think it through. And as far as I'm concerned, you know, the longevity of it is what I'm more concerned about when it comes to colors. My wife don't let me get nowhere near a swatch like when we're painting or nothing. So, I'm like lean on the experts when it comes to that. So, looks like you yourself today. [laughter] That's the reason why we're so excited about being. [laughter] [laughter]

So what is the name of the color? This is what I'm looking for cuz that that what you're showing me is not the same company as this. Yeah, we showed you that just for the pattern because they didn't have the book. All right. So it's WG company. Write that down. It will [laughter] be these a mixture of these three. We think we think uh these three. Yeah, they look better when they're mingle. Yeah. So this is just to show basket we and it's going to be either conflicting with

uh dark antique or mulberry, right? combination. We're doing both of these. This is going to be a combination. I like that idea. Yeah, it does. That looks really good with two darks in there. And then the Did you want to see that? Yeah. I'm not I don't need to be making that decision, but somebody who does could put that up against that thing and look looks fine to me.

If you look at if you look at that yellow piece of paper right there, that's real close to the brick color. So So it's real close. So So that's one when we sitting that pointed over here though, you know, that's that's in the family of the color than the brick over there. So good quality.

Well, gentlemen, thank you for your time. We appreciate it. And as I said, if anyone wants to purchase one of these bricks, you can see Denise at archives or Peggy see someone archives. Thank you, gentlemen. Moving ahead, we need approval of bills. Make a motion to approve. I have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments? I got a question. Um, on the jail bill, there's two bond payments. Yes, sir.

I I don't know what that's for. You That's for the reimburse. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I just never seen that before. Yes, sir. I didn't know what that Yes, sir. meant. Okay. Which one was that you were asking about? Now, there's two on here for bond payments, and only bond payments we do is for elected officials, but that's the reimbursement for the funds we were talking about. Is that the end of that story or is

No, it's still ongoing. I've been in contact, you know, we're identifying people on video, send shots, and that's still in there. I wanted to ask, I guess this may be a question for Joe or her because you know we talked about bond payments for like bonding the sheriff or bonding the clerk and things like that. When this type of scenario happens does is that a bond claim? It can be. It could. My thought would be if we pay it directly it might save us money in the long run based upon the amount of money that it was. It's not worth

claims drive up prices and this was a relatively low price. So paying that as opposed to [clears throat] is there I mean on a case like I'm ignorant on this but is there a deductible per se on a bonding plan? I don't know. I would assume there is but even if there wasn't I would guarantee you your next bond would be a lot higher and we've had issues with that in the past where those were very high not for any reason other than the market going up. So my I think it's the right move to pay it based upon what the figure is because that market can skyrocket to a point that you're over a barrel in terms of even bonding somebody.

So in your opinion I guess when is it worthy of filing a claim like I mean when we typical bond payment though would come back. So if you made a bond claim and they paid it they're coming back to you and asking for reimbursement. You know, that's how it works in the construction world. So, if I had a bond called on me and it took $200,000 to finish the project, the the bonding company, which [clears throat] is an insurance company, is coming back and saying, "You owe us $200,000." And your price for that bond next year is also going to be higher. Or they might not even bond you again. Yeah. So

that's why I guess that's why I sort of preface that with is this the end of it or is it part is the taxpayer going to be made whole at some point. So

the only way the taxpayers will be hold at this point made whole at this point is if they are they find who did it and are forced to reimburse. But most likely we've lost every dime of that [clears throat] which by the way does not make me happy at all. Yeah. Well, it doesn't make me happy either, but I'm it's being investigated into everything's turned over and like I said, I'm just as upset as you all are. Uh, but I'm we're doing everything we can. I work with state police every day trying to get updates. So, I appreciate you doing that. I mean, I know you know you [clears throat] are. I just didn't I didn't know when I saw that bond in the payment. Yes, sir. or in somebody's name. I thought we were bonding somebody and I'm like only people we bond is people who handle money and elected officials in certain scenarios like you know Stacy because she does money the sheriff you know they handle money they're bonded positions

that being said is there any other questions? If not roll call, yes. Good. Yes. Yes. Harper, yes. Robert, yes. Balden, yes. I do have one more question, though, but I'm still voting. Yes. Yes. What's your question, sir? Some other question. This is the jail too. What is the uh what is the underground vault and storage? There's like UVNS that used to be Lancome shark. Oh, okay.

They there was some [clears throat] They will send sometimes instead of just the or the invoice, they'll send you like how much how many bin tips, how much you saved, how you know recycling and so we didn't get all the invoices. So we were trying to go back and make sure all those were were caught. Okay. Yes. That's what used to be land sharks and the county all offices use that countywide.

So these dates on those those are just the dates of the invoices. Yes. some of these back to 23. [snorts] I guess since we're asking questions on the rock on the Liberty Church Road, the reimburse is that does that finalize some of the discussion we had last meeting about those that bought property? Yes, sir. Is there any other question? If not, moving on. Treasures report. Uh Amanda is not with us today, but Hannah's going to come up and go over budget transfers and cash transfers. Good morning.

Got a couple things for you. First, we need to get approved the budget transfers. Make a motion to approve the budget transfers totaling $4,1618. Second. I have a motion and a second. If no discussion, no. Roco, yes. Goodwin, yes. Wilcott, yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes.

Okay. And then we have three cash transfers to do today. And she made a little note on here for you all to know that these are a little higher since we do only have one court meeting this month. Uh so the first one we need to do is transfer 350,000 from occupational net profits tax fund to a general fund. So move second. I have a motion a second. Any further discussion? No. Rooff. Savort. Yes. Goodwin. Yes. Wilcott. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Baldwin. Yes. Baker.

Yes. I need a transfer 75,000 from the occupational net profit tax fund to an LGA fund. So moved. Second. Motion a second. Roll call. Yes. Good. Yes. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Balden. Yes. Baker. Yes. And then we need to transfer 125,000 from the occupational net profits tax fund to the one fund. I move to accept that second. I have a motion and multiple seconds. Roco Davenport, yes. Good. Yes. Yes. Harper,

yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. That's it. Thank you, Hannah. I appreciate it. Moving along. Roadwork request. District one. District one. Continue maintenance. Appreciate all the work you done on the list and taking the calls. Appreciate it. District two. Um, nothing. Um, are we still working on Kirby? Yes, ma'am. Still working on that?

Yes, ma'am. We got We've got uh we turned it into FEMA to see if we can get them to pay for it. Nothing happens fast with FEMA, unfortunately. Um, and we've got some other avenues that we're working on in case it doesn't to try to keep the county from having to actually pay for any damage that was occurred to that. Okay. I had somebody ask me the other day and I that's why I was asking if we need we'll get with Peewee and you and if we need to go out there and do something temporary until we can get a good answer, we will. Okay. Thank you. Yes, ma'am.

All right. District three. I think we had a call from a gentleman on Milton Sharp Road, see if we could meet, talk about some road concerns. I called him back, left a message, so I might try to get you to schedule a visit out there. Uh, but otherwise, you should maintain all the departments doing District 4, continue maintenance. Thank you.

District five. [clears throat] Yes, Peeweee. I had mentioned to you this morning, I talked to the people at Plain View Church Road um about their new paving and they're wanting that to be added to the county road system and I said it we would defer to what you saw uh in your evaluation. Let that sit. Watch it for a while. Let it set this thing. I'll get back.

All right. Peewee says he needs to wait to see if it settles and at that point we will get back with the people who put that in as far as accepting it into the county. Thank you. Peewee um it's Guy Canler who they've changed it. They've already paved it, but Peewee says we need to make sure it's, you know, not going to settle. We We'd like for that black top to go through a couple at least a few a season or two just to see what it's going to do before we I told them I would bring that up so they could feel justified that they've done everything they can do. And I said that Peewee and and you judge would Yes, ma'am.

um be who we confer with. Thank you for everything you do. Um Cemetery Roads, very grateful for the trees down. Thank you. District six continue maintenance. Thank you for everything. With that being said, I need approval of road work request. So move. Got a motion and a second. Rooff. Yes. Good. Yes. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Balden, yes. Baker,

yes. Next up on the agenda is elected official. Sheriff Stratton, you have anything for us. There's a fee report. Make a motion to acknowledge the sheriff's fee report. Second. Have a motion and a second. Roll call. I got a question. Oh, sorry. on the commission on taxes, $453,553.89. That all doesn't get turned over to the county, right? Um I think it does, but I'll [clears throat] double check and see real quick.

Can't be cuz our our income off No, that's probably right. Our income off property tax is about 2 million, right? Yeah. Two. Yeah. Okay. I apologize. I I was I'm pretty sure I was thinking, man, I thought that was only But you're right. It's 2 million. So fe So that's why it's probably okay. That that cuz that was I got you. You think after 19 years I figure that out. No, no, actually when I was reading it and signed I think that's not that much money, you know. hear that. Yeah, but we still got a million and a half to go. So, get with it. [laughter]

Well, it it it just gets more, you know, we actually collected close to 97% of our taxes. So, it's going to start reducing uh because it'll be less taxes. I think it's 4,000 bills left to collect. So, there go. So, great. So, anything else worth sharing? I I forgot to mention dur my road work. Sorry. Um I got get a complaint about J.R. Williams road. Um it's off Proctor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh some people speeding through there. So I'll give you some times later. I'll get with them and Okay.

So they can cut some times. Maybe you can help slow people down out there. So we did we posted a new speed limit sign a few weeks ago. So they've had time. 25. Did it go down or was it 25 and got reduced? Uh, I don't think there was one on JR Williams, but there was on the other road, the other side, which is a different road. Yeah. But it's I think it's 20. Okay. With that being said, u for the fe, I need a roll call. Yes. Good. Yes. Yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker,

yes. So, on the bypass at 100, can't remember if it was cuz my daughter is the one who witnessed it, not me. It was either Tuesday or Saturday. I have to go back and ask her, but later in the evening, close close to 5:00. So, what do y'all call that? Headed east. If you were or if you were at 431 headed to 688, headed east towards Binger Road. 55 60 mph. Never checked up. never checked up, you know, and uh she said that they realized it after they went through it,

you know, and you know, again, people aren't doing it on purpose. It just blows my mind though how you don't go, you go through rumble strips, you have a flashing light, and I mean, yeah, I don't know. I the only thing I know like the stop signs on the was that second street the city has at the new intersection that actually are on the sign. I don't know if that's an option state can do. So we got that on the 431 side coming into the bypass. That's a flashing stop.

And it's a little more again eye level I guess you could say even though you got r signs that two different signs but yeah I'll have somebody go. It's mostly after I see him. I I see the sheriff's department regularly sitting there. It's not a lot of policing. People don't they just don't pay attention. Yes, man. It just people live at 100 know for the most part they don't. You better watch.

But I It's the people who don't regularly travel that road. You better stop. You better look and see if somebody's 300 yard street the other day and they were from Tennessee in the little escape by Bezel. They stopped. They they they just stopped and they didn't know what to do because just continue on. But there was that intersection. They just froze. They just stopped to sit there and of course they got butt chews cuz everybody know what to do. Gave them a butt chew for stopping. So I was like stop to I do for you. [laughter] But you know people don't pay attention. A

well I thought I'd take it. Thank Thank you, Sheriff. Thank you. Next up is our county clerk, Miss Stacy Watkins. She got a handful of paperwork there. And then I'm in a minute. Motion to approve the clerk's November fee report. Second. Have a motion, a second. Any further discussion? Roll call. Dors. Yes. Good. Yes, Wil. Yes, Harper. Yes, Crawford. Yes, Balden. Yes, Baker. Yes. Thank y'all.

You didn't want to talk about your shelving. We can uh I had put Well, I was going to try to apply for a grant and it came out, the bids came out to over $30,000 for the shelving that we needed. Um and I had just put out before I put it out for bid, I um I just put out a call to all clerks, hey, this is the kind of shelf I want. who's the vendors that you guys would recommend. And in doing that, we were given um probably $15$20,000 worth of shelves. And then I have more coming from Austin Johnson at the Simpson County Clerk's Office. They just opened a satellite office. So I'm actually going to wind up with more shelves than what I did. Excellent. God's good.

Wow, that is cool. Really cool. Thank you, Stacy. Next up, Jaylor Joshua Tammy. Josh, you have anything for us, sir? Yes, sir. Good morning. Good morning. Morning. Good morning. As of this number or this morning, our numbers uh 77 county 52 state 28 our state side. Uh holding one for out of county for 130. Give me give me those numbers again.

77 county 52 state 28 on our state board side and then holding one for out of county for 130. Thank you, General. We have 50 since the last four days. I keep thinking it'll go down. Unfortunately, those numbers are pretty very very low historically. We've always ran over 200. You had county county inmates well above 100 as the norm. So, it's the norm. It was sad but true the norm. Okay.

Uh last week uh last week our our work rate boot camp went really well. We had 12 graduates uh outstanding students uh did very well in the program and then I always followed up with a job fair. That was yesterday throughout the day and that went very well. Very good turnout. I'd like to thank all the businesses that uh that did participate uh in our our job fair. uh very grateful for that. John Swords and his group uh I actually asked to speak about that Thursday at their end of the year board meeting, but we're in the works uh right now working on the the next boot camp date uh for February, March uh time frame 26. And then our next pre-release class will be uh January 16th from 2 to 4 uh in our our classroom or library at the detention center. And uh and then as far as just uh updates uh for the end of the year, uh we've been in the works for for several weeks uh on revival and that is scheduled for the 15th through the 19th. I have numerous churches local and out of town and even out of state that's coming to attend and we're looking forward to that event. Uh but it's going to start at 5:00. Every start on Monday and go through Friday. There's no timetable to end. It's all voluntary. uh voluntary as far as individuals who want to participate, but uh but uh but it's again starting 5:00 the 15th through the 19th, but uh but anybody who wants to attend is welcome to.

Where is it at? We're going to be outside. Okay. I've got heaters and lights, vanities, [laughter] uh stage. Uh so like a tent type deal.

Yes. Yes. But uh but yes, so put a lot of work into it. I'm I'm very excited and they are too. And uh like I said, I've got another follow-up meeting with all the individuals. It's uh uh coming up the end of this week, first of next week before before to finalize the schedule. But uh it's going to be a lot lot of testimony shared. Uh the way I look at it, can't change the the mind until you change the heart. You got to unlock your heart first. So So we're trying to give them that opportunity, get them thinking, get them talking, get them asking questions. So, uh, but I think we're we're doing good things over there and, uh, we've come a long way and we've got a ways to go. We always want to strive for to be better and push ourselves. So, but thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, sir. Moving on to department heads. Um, Ginger agenda. Okay. We'll get back with you, Miss Denise Shers, Grant and Archives. would you like to come and give us some updates? [clears throat]

Good morning everybody. Um no great news today. We'll take a break for that back up in January. Um on the archive side I wanted to share that as of this morning for all of 2025. We have um either received a call, answered an email, gotten a visit, received a letter, a smoke signal, or carrier pigeon contact in some form or fashion with researchers from 27 states, the British Columbia, from Canada, Mexico, and Turkey have either been in our office or contacted us in some way. We also have had 117 guests sign our register. Many more who came through that didn't sign. Um and one last time you got 22 days to get your personal certificate in the office.

Thank you. Any questions? No. Very thorough. Thank you. Thank you very uh road supervisor Pet. All right. Eric, since you're sitting there, animal control or animal shelter, rather, control shelter, all of the above. How y'all doing, man? Good. Morning, sir.

All right, we just run through our numbers real quick. Uh, our November totals, we ended with 38 dogs, a net loss of four dogs for the month. We brought in 14 from acco. We had 14 or surrender uh and two trial adoption return. We had 22 adoptions, one foster, four transferred out to other facilities, five owner pickups, and we had two uh unfortunately euthanized. Uh [clears throat] we have an average daily dogs of 36, which is pretty insane for the month. We've never had that kind of number, so that was pretty cool. But the sad part is we're at 48 dogs as of today. We just got in two sets of four puppies with their moms. So that kind of jumped us up. So

puppies make puppies make great Christmas presents. Exactly. All dogs do. And they're as cute as cute can be. Um but for the year we brought in four 526 dogs. We've had 536 dogs leave the facility with 268 adoptions. Wow. Good. Other than that, that's all I have for today. Your Was that a monthly average of 36? Yeah. So, yeah. So, we do every month we just average what we've had. We had a low of 33, which was pretty crazy for us. We've never pretty awesome.

Any other questions? Um, can you tell us or just let the public know if there's a situation where someone wants to call in just kind of explain the process? Someone wants to call in a dog or call in something not, you know, doesn't look humane for a dog, what's the process? They need to call the EOCC, right? First and then you all dispatch. So, yes. So, what happens is Yes. Anybody who calls even calls the shelter, we direct them to the uh non-emergency number. Um just where they can make a k.

Yeah. So we can have a kad. We always want an account accounting for it. So then we have a report. So then then we send out the animal control officer uh or he'll get the cat report and then he'll either reach out to to the number that called and see what's going on if we need to go out on site. um board. So he does all that like based on state laws. Whatever state law there is, he state law, county law, city law, you know, with all the ordinances and everything else, but yes, basically whatever we follow the KRS and any city. All right. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you all.

Thank you, sir. Thanks, Eric. Looking around. Next up, U Nathan Solid Weiss. Good morning.

Just had a couple reports go over for time frame report in November 48 miles were picked up in 66 back. Always appreciate the road group in the day with appreciate them and crew out there. They're working at it. Nonprofit groups, we still have them coming even with the colder weather. So appreciate that. And they also have a recycling report uh tending to crew out there. 27 bales of cardboard and metal from the uh schools. That project is really taking off and continuing to grow and also some from the cart's office. We had some metal that's on that sheet that was recycled as well from the we just mentioned about the shelving the old stuff and we recycled that. So, one note I'll have in addition is we, you may recall back in June, we approved um bids for code enforcement as far as the uh [cough] removal and the mowing of yards. And so, that was approved through the end of 2025. So, we'll be going back to you uh in January to get that. And I'm talking county attorney's office and judge banks how we appro January to recount that.

Okay. Okay, I appreciate the work on Smith Grove Church Road. That looks amazing. And I did need to mention that too. Uh, as you all [clears throat] recall, there was a provision for volunteers to clean and um, Michael Blue's lawn landscape and clean that property that you just mentioned, so Church Road. So, I want to express my appreciation to him for his volunteer work and he's got that property looking a whole lot better. Good deal.

I uh cleaned View and Proctor the my son was involved in their team was cleaning up there and I I was out there some and man I just can't express enough on how much people what they're throwing out. I mean I know some of it's the trash trucks stuff like that ever so often but I mean full bottles of liquor, full bottles of beer, fake pins. I mean, I wish the sil would just be a little more What kind of pins? Fake. Vape pans. Oh. Oh. Oh. Fake. You can't take three steps on the county road and not step on a fireball shot. You trip over them if you walk down the side [snorts] of the road.

We've got a lot of cattle, you know, and around in our our area, too. So, I mean, it's like I know, you know, all that stuff blows and that's your livelihood. But I mean, I just wish people be a little bit more especially I mean, I'm glad he gives these kids opportunities to to make money for their teams, but if you wouldn't want a kid seeing it picking up on the side of the road, then don't throw it out your window. [clears throat] That's just my opinion. That's right. So, but uh

people are callous. Um when my youngest son was young, I'd make him clean our road front. He drag a bag behind him, throw the stuff in. He loved it. No, not but [laughter] he said one day he he came up. He was so mad. He says, "Mom, I was going around there picking up and this guy rolled down his window and says, "Hey, here's some more for you." Threw a whole bag out. People can be really, wow, I'm not surprised, but wow. Wow. Yeah. [snorts] Keep chipping away at it was a slim team. That's what they picked up. So, appreciate what the work they did. Yeah. We try the education. We try to get them young. We're

appreciate you keeping that lined up. It's It's a good program. You know, back, of course, everything I say seems to indicate age here, but back in the 70s and 80s, they had a picture of an Indian crying, and it it said, "Please don't litter our land." And that was very effective. It really cleaned up the litter that had been really bad before that. Is there any possibility we could get some something that would catch their attention about littering? Nathan has some signs with the I do. So I have

PICTURES [laughter] we do try to as as money permits we did put out some some ads and different things. I've done some of that on the radio and then I had, as Tyler mentioned, I do have some signs. In fact, I put out one on Plane View Road yesterday that just tell people not to litter. And um I know the road department, they've had some signs from back in the past from previous waste coordinators that they they put out. So, we try we try to put that out there and [clears throat] that. So, appreciate it, Nathan. Thank you. Yes, we do. Thank you.

Thank you, Nathan. Moving on to judges announcements. Uh once again, Denise, thank you shoulders for providing me this list. Uh there's a lot of good things going on in Logan County. So let's just start right now. Uh from now till December 31st, Logan County Tourism is hosting the county Christmas light trail through the end of the month. Uh an address list is available at the tourism office uh or their Facebook page. December 13th, Wreaths Across America ceremony is at the Advil Square and the Auburn Cemetery uh at 11 a.m. with leaf reef line to the following a to follow, excuse me. [clears throat] A third cemetery at Mapler uh in Russville will be held at 100 p.m. uh with Ree Lane to follow that. Uh anyone want to help lay Reese are welcome to attend. Uh, also December 13th, the quality Christmas parade begins at 1:00 p.m. with line up at noon at the old and an I think this is Andrew store on Highway 106 East. Um, December 13th is the Lewisburg Christmas Parade. Uh, line up beginning at 3. I think the parade starts at 4.

4:30.

Is it 4:30? Okay. Uh, December 13th, uh, Logan County's free dump day is scheduled. uh for residents of Logan County. Um the located at the Transfer Station, 55 Pleasant View Drive in Auburn. December the 14th, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, the theme of this year's Auburn Christmas parade. uh starting at 300 p.m. uh December the 15th, Kirby Funeral Home. Uh the the coat drive ends December the 15th for at Kirby's funeral home. You can drop off new or gently used coats. Uh December the 18th, Open Hearts Open Hands, uh 9 to 11 at 85 Dunore Cemetery Road in Dunore. And following on December 20th, Open Hearts Open Hands uh food pantry uh 9 to 11 717 South Lewisburg Road. Also December 20th is the clerk's office will be open for vehicle bit. They're not open.

So that is not happening December 20th. You can do that before anytime during the week. Uh with that being said, merry Christmas to everyone on that one. Moving forward uh to reports uh I don't I don't think any reports that we have individually I think everything will come up later. Uh moving on citizens participation uh anyone who wants to speak to the court. [laughter] Good morning Greg. How you doing?

Good. Well, I'm here to ask for help with the uh ballpark at the city park. Um I need help now. Um and here's what I got going on. I'm trying to get the bottom field fixed to start girls softball. There's been a quote for $110,000 for lighting on the bottom field. Uh I met I went to city council last week. I think he's pretty well going to do that. Uh, I've got a quote for fencing and it's around $50,000. I'm going to replace all the fence. Uh, more or less just cut it into a smaller ballpark. Um, I've called I've been talking with Coach Hire, which is the ad of of south of the Warren County Schools. Now, uh he's pro he just donated me probably $20,000 worth of bleachers that I can get to put on his field.

Uh I last week, uh I applied for a partner foundation grant to completely redo my my little league field to finish what I want to do to the little league park. Um I applied for a partner grant. The grant was for $74,450. I gave the city last week a check for $74,450 to finish my little league park. Awesome. Good for you.

But I need help to finish to do some other things to finish my back to to rebuild back stop on the bottom field. Um I'm I'm going to say I'm 85% if not 90% the city is going to redo the lights. Uh if you've been to the bottom field, it was designed for it was a senior league baseball park. They played softball there years ago. They divided it up to three different fields to play teball and stuff like that. I [clears throat] want to turn it into which we can play baseball and girls league softball. Um the there's nothing I mean there's park in red ball at Auburn or softball um but there's nothing far as a organized like a kid pitch leak. Uh I'm trying to get this done. I got to do it now. I need to start by the first of the year to get everything done. Uh for softball, I got to find out if I'm going to get the help because I need to start advertising it so I can get kids to start signing up. Uh I know what you know, y'all got plans for a park. Um I've heard great mind what she's done for the county and and as far as giving the county for their park. I don't know if that's true or not. Um, but if it is, I mean, have y'all been and seen the other county parks? Have you been to Lewisburg parks and seen what it it's bad shape, ain't it? And it's and and the other ones are pretty good shape. Uh, and what I'm saying is is what I do with the money that I I get, you can see where it goes

and how it's taken care of and the improvement that's made there. Uh, I'm probably I'm going to get a quote on my back stop and the stuff that I need done at the bottom field, but probably what I'm asking for is probably around $30,000 to do that. That's uh if you've been to the Little Lake field, it'll be a block wall, a mesh netting, and some concrete around so people can sit in their lawn chairs. Uh, like I said, the bleacher that uh, Coach Hire just donated, I'll probably I'm going to try to get as quick as I can. U, Ethan Holloway, he's going to let you know, they got plenty of trucks at H&H, so he's going to help me get them. Um, but my thing is is like I said, I need help now. Um, and I just like to know if I could get it. Um, have has the city already requested the one time 25,000

that we give every year? We have not paid that. No, we usually wait till after the first of the year. We did $100,000 from the grant from the grant. Right. They've already they requested that and received that for playground equipment. We always do a onetime $25,000 a year for a special project that we have not dispersed that yet. So if you if I don't know if that's well if when you had discussion with them if if that was brought up but if they you know they can use that money towards a project that they want to use it towards because it's their part but but um you could talk to them about that 25,000 still coming to them if it go towards that. I reckon my question is the 100,000 that you give you give to these parts.

Yes. Did you have any say so in what to do with it or they they submitted what what they wanted to use that money for? The mayors have at this point. Mayor Stratton's the only one that has and it was playground equipment at Hampton Park and at at Russville Park. They submitted that. That was the project they submitted for. That's the project they put in. That's the project we paid for. The playground. The playground equipment. Yeah. [clears throat] But they're still But that was also that was also ADA compliant

foundation for this county that's going to a lot of places that people probably don't know where the money's going. Uh and I'm glad you was my question is you know if you're giving these counties money long as they're telling y'all asking what to do because I'm going to show you what I'm going to do with it. Understand? I'm going to you know I'm going to do it. with with that money that I offer to the cities, they have to show me a project and they have to do the project and they have to show me where they have paid for that project before I reimburse them for it. There is some misunderstanding about it being a reimbursement

there. There shouldn't be any misunderstanding with any of the mayors. We have all had this discussion. We know and I've told the public the reimbursement it needed to be said today. Well, it's being said right now. It's it's reimbursement is what it is and uh that's that's what it's for. They the mayors that are over those parks and the councils submit a project that they want to do and that's when when the project is done we and they show that it's been paid for that's when we reimburse them for it. I think that was doing they're rebuilding their concession stands and res that that was their plan and I think that project is already underway. Yes. Yes, it is.

Um, Mayor Hughes in Auburn's going to use his for um I think he told me he's going to use it for matching grants. He's trying to get grants. He's going to use it to match for the grants for redoing their ball fields and whatnot. Uh Lewisburg, when I spoke to Mayor Kathy yesterday, it was actually yesterday I spoke to her about it. They've got uh some basketball courts and some sidewalks and such like that that they want to improve.

Yeah. when they when they submit their project, you know, as long as it's a [clears throat] need and it's something that is needed, you know, we can't tell them, you know, it's their parts. We can't say um you need to do this. But if it's a legitimate need that they're they're submitting, it's hard for us to say, you know, no, we can't do that with the money. But but I would I mean, I would definitely if we haven't dispersed that 25 said you need somewhere around 30,000 more. if we haven't dispersed that 25,000 yet and they haven't chosen their project. Um I would definitely urge and and we could we could also recommend to to the mayor you do it talk to him that use it towards what you're needing to finish up. Now I don't know pretty the discussion I had was the fencing how turn the fencing and the lighting uh and on the lighting. I think TVA is probably going to help with the lighting because they help they done the lighting at Hampton Park. Uh and he's pretty well I went back and gave him another quote on the fencing to kind of cut it down a little bit to help. Uh, but like I said, the total for lighting was around $110,000 and the quoting on the fence that I sent them back the other day was 33. That's about 20 to 30 less than what I need to do all and so I don't know. I don't know if they've already counted that money towards that or I'm not Yeah, I'm not sure. I mean, definitely a conversation we're having.

But but but you know, I would love to go up and give you the 30,000, but that's unbudgeted money we're not budgeting for. I mean, if you would have came I mean, we can we can look at trying to find some for next next budget cycle, but we just can't reach in there and pull 30,000 out. And that's kind of that's kind of you know, I'll go ask you something. Well, I was just, you know, off, well, you know, you didn't meet our you didn't we don't have our budget meeting. You know, I don't need to be going out there to the park. whoever's running the park or who the county park, they need to go look at some of this stuff. It needs to be done theirelves. You know, I'm trying to grow something with some kids, right?

Uh the park needs, you know, I don't feel like I should be telling everybody how to run their budget. I agree. But I'm just saying again, I'm asking fail. If I could get it fine. Uh it'd be greatly appreciated because like I said, I'm trying to start something that, you know, it's never been they don't they never had girls little league softball here. Uh, and if you got kids that play ball, all you hear is travel ball. And for girls, that's the only opportunity they got to play travel ball. There's no organized softball here. I appreciate your time. Let's follow up on that one time a lotment. See if they've already got that earmarked, but if not, I mean, I would I would say you could use that. You haven't dispersed that.

And, you know, that's money that we give to the city. And the city is the city's park. It's their decision of what gets done. And I mean we give them uh I think00 no more than that,000 a month for maintenance. Then we give them 25,000 one time a year. Oh to I think right now I mean Mark's wanted to give the lighting part of the be that's big deal right there. Yeah. I mean that's I can get started but I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. How do you spell his last name? Anyone else? right there.

If not, moving on to old business. Item number one, discuss radio equipment, radio parts and equipment and radio labor bid that were open on November 25th, fiscal court meeting. Um, yeah. So, on you know, committee met, I sent this out to everybody. It's also in your drive. Um, committee met about the I I'll let the judge speak about the parts after we talk about the maintenance, but it was more it was more straightforward. on the maintenance, you know, we had to evaluate um several pages from the few the three vendors that that were submitted. U and basically we all met and we we kind of we did a scoring where we we scored on on the uh one two three six different factors uh with cost being the most weighted factor. Um so when we scored the three vendors um um VEI was was best on the cost uh prior experience Wilson we we awarded the most points for that availability according to the bids uh Wilson the CI was best on that locality of vendor VEI was best on that uh covered items in the bid um Wilson was was best on that and vendor requirements or expectations um Wilson and and CI was best on that. So with when we evaluated and scored each one um the committee uh is making a recommendation to award the maintenance contract uh to our to Wilson Communications. That motion form a motion second [clears throat] ask that the minutes reflect that his statements would be stating that it's

not the lowest bid but considering all the factors it's the best bid in the the view of the court. Everyone get that? Yes. Is there any other question comments? Roll call. Davenport, yes. Good. Yes. Yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. Appreciate everybody putting in their bid.

Very good. With that being said, we also need to approve the parts, radio parts, and equipment. um by looking at the numbers. Uh there's really it's hard to to put a put a low bid on that one. But um and I hold to those bids. Uh with that being said, by looking at the equipment, um Wilson offered a flat 18% plus parts uh plus shipping on material. uh VEI U was was in there with uh they were offering state uh bid uh on all Kwood equipment but uh MSRP on anything else. Uh we talked about this in great length and uh CI was uh just realistically not not even in the ballpark to be honest with with the parts. Um looking back um we as a committee I think suggested going with Wilson for the parts the 18 flat 18 plus.

So move for Wilson. Yes ma'am. Second. I have a motion and a second. Is there any other discussion? Well done with that scoring. It was that Tyler Tyler that was well done. Just just before before anybody knows, we took a lot of we spent a lot of money in the [laughter] You could put it in there and you can see what you did. Much better than just looking. [laughter] Well, it it's very clear to see. Thank you.

As I said, we spent a lot of time looking at it and we spent an hour, hour and a half almost going over each one with a fine to just making sure. With that being said, is there any other discussion on parts? Great. Roco, yes. Good. Yes. Wil, yes. Parker, yes. Crocker, yes. Holden, yes. Baker,

yes. Moving on to new new business. Item number one, open bids for rock for the Low County Road Department for the remainder of the 2526. We received three bids for this. First one from Hidleberg. Say it right. How to merge materials.

Yes, sir. Um [clears throat] 11s aren't readily available all the time. It says when available. Yeah. Uh, Peewee use 11s. We don't use 11s, do we? Peeweee, what do we ever use 11s? Yes, sir.

We do. What do we use those for? Last time we used a little parking lot where they got airport last time. Okay. big files. Just says it's not always available. Uh, [laughter] next up is bluegrass.

I've made it my I think he's already cut off just And the last bid is from Todd County Stone. That's good. Yeah, I can look at it. I think heat. You have the three bids in front of you, judge. After going over all this, I think it would be best if we uh reject

all bids and allow you and pee-wee to make this decision based on availability, but always keeping the cost priority. Agreed. So, that would be my motion. Second. I think it's an excellent motion. Thank you. Now, let me ask you this. In the event that you that we choose something and then it's not available with the bidder, do we have a backup? That's why that's the whole purpose of this is that we have a so we have one and then a backup. Yes, we have all three. We got three. That's what I was asking.

Cheaper cattle, we go there. But if they don't have them full, okay, and available cost, but that is absolutely the best thing to do for the county. Thank you. Is county stone closed? It's right there outside of Elton. Right in Elton. Yeah,

they're not really close, but if for some reason one of the other cory's are closed and they're open, we could go we have the option where we can go get or you know with their pricing on some of those some of those rocks if if the rock isn't available, it might be better if we're on that side of the county. Sometimes it's just as easy to go across to grab it as it is to to come this way. Come all the way back. Yes, ma'am. Yeah. Clear. All right. With that being said, is there any more discussion on this? Not roll call. Yes. Goodwin, yes. Yes. Parker, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes.

Baker, yes. Item number two, open bids for commissary service for the location detention center. Excuse me. We have four bids. The first one is keep you in shape, sir. Carousel. carousel. Thank you.

Excellent. Thank you for coming, sir. Nice book. once you look through it. Definitely going to have to lot to go through my evaluate these judge. Yeah, I think there's going to be a lot of evaluations before we make a decision

between you and the jailer. looking at all of them over the next item. Cafe cafe I don't know apparently I don't know I'm guessing on that one me somebody else try to try to figure out I'll be 100% honest with you I hope I've never funny

I'm not going to so Mine didn't dress me. [laughter] Yours didn't proofre yours. You're exactly right. Mr. Harper's asking me how to spell a while ago. Big mistake. With a person's name and people's names are always different that you can't go by the English rules for words and say if somebody way back in the middle of nowhere wanted their name spelled a certain way, they got it. So, you know, I know I know I I know the name real embarrassing myself but the jokes that you asked me how to spell something

it was it was a name and I I wasn't sure how to spell that name but you know what he wrote it on my paper [laughter] yes he did yes he is good for you proud of that They had when he was a third vendor is Killwell Thomas.

Okay, that is definitely different. on almost all of it to I made my own grid. It's not quite as nice as Tyler just on how much it cost per mile to drive to get there. And that's because they could be on the north end or the west side of the county and it be closer. Yeah. gas wherever you were at.

You can't drive across gas. The last fourth and final is from Tiger Correction Service.

I mean, they do all kind of with you. Who was that one? Tiger. Tiger. the last one. That's the last one. We had target. You remember each one? I'll [clears throat] make a motion to table this and let the judge and the trailer go over these bids and we can make a better decision on based on what they I second that. I think that's a very good idea. I have a motion and a second table decision right now.

The items. Uh I'm sorry. What was your name again? I'm sorry. Yes, sir. Would you like to come and address the court before uh since you're here? You like to answer any questions? I I don't know we have any questions, but I mean you can you can make sure we said the name of your company correctly. Carousel. Carousel. Okay.

We're based in county bus [clears throat] about 25 years. Um I think some of the things that set us apart from some of our big competitors which some big competitors uh our software that runs our commissary system is actually our software. We've got a sister company that's a software company that provides all of our software which is a big problem in our business cuz most of the companies are out there outsourced their software. Uh we found that out the hard way. We pretty much had tried to partner with two or three software companies through the years and it's ours is the most advanced. It uses facial recognition. Wow.

To identify the inmates so it's efficient for the staff. They can pass along area using the handheld scanner. So it identifies somebody excuse me [laughter] identifies them by I was running late. I started to stop water. [laughter] But basically, it's a lot more efficient for staff because they don't have to remember the face. They don't have to check wristbands quick. They just use the the scanner and it identifies the inmate plot. Great. We think we compete with a lot of big companies out there. We've concentrated through our entire business life on service. Okay. So, we'll provide the best service available for the inmates and their families and the counties that we work with partner. Well,

we appreciate you coming today. Thank you, sir. What county did you say you were from? Fton. Fton. Yes, ma'am. Any other questions? No. Thank you, sir. Thank you. All right. We got a motion to table this to give uh the jailer and myself time to look over these bids and come up with a feasible option. With that being said, is there any other discussion? Roll call. Yes. Good. Yes. Yes. Harford. Yes. Crawford. Uh, yes. Thank you. Yes. Baker. Yes.

All of them. We got any more. Item number three. You'll hand them to Mr. Tammy. Well, she's got everyone except for one. Here's only one. Okay. I'll make you item number three. Approve the receipt of the county clerk's office calendar year 26 2026 fee budget and maximum salaries for deputies and assistants.

Motion to approve. I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. I have a second. Any further discussion? Rooff. Davenport. Yes. Gibbon. Yes. Wilcott. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Baldwin. Yes. Baker.

Yes. Item number four, approve the receipt of the sheriff's department calendar year 2026 fee budget and maximum salaries for deputies and assistants. So moved second a motion and a second. Any further discussion? No. Roll call. Davenport. Yes. Don, yes. Yes. [clears throat] Yes. Crawford. Yes. Balden, yes. Baker,

yes. Item number five, approve the receipt of the county clerk's office calendar year 2025 amended fee budget. So moved. I felt that second. I have a motion in a second. Rooff, yes. Good. Yes. Wilcott, yes. Harper, yes. Robert, yes. Holding. Yes. Baker,

yes. Item number six, approve the million-doll county revenue bond for the sheriff Steven Stratton return beginning January the second, 2026 and ending January 2nd, 2027. So move second. Motion in a second. Roco Davenport, yes. Goodwin, yes. Wil, yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. Item number seven, approve the annual premium of the sheriff's $50,000 qualifying bond in the amount of $2360. So move.

Second. Motion second. Roll call. Diamond. Yes. Good. Yes. Yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. Item number eight, approve the annual premium. Judge, what's the diff? Just for education, what's the difference in those two? Qualifying or I don't really know the difference. The the million-doll bond covers the sheriff's office for uh the tax and whatnot. And the the other actually I think covers the sheriff himself.

But the qualify I guess the difference. I'm assuming they're somewhat the same. I do know his is a different amount. I'm pretty sure compared to Stacy's and Bill's, which are the same. So, I don't know since it is. I want to say his is off the top of my head. I can't remember, but I want to say his might be just a pair higher and that considered something different, but I don't know why. I was just curious.

It was a good question, Chris. Thanks. All right. Item number eight. Approve the annual premium of the county clerk's $1 million public officials bond for the amount of $47.20 $100,000. I'm sorry. It is $100,000. My apologies. It is. Wow. Sorry. Tried to make it more worth more than it was. Yeah. So, I have a motion in a second. You want her to be covered? I did. I did. I apologize. cuz I just looked at it wrong. Yeah. Roport. Yes. Gibbon. Yes. Loaded. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes.

Holden. Yes. Baker. Yes. I think I'll go back to that doctor later. Uh item number nine, approve the annual premium on the county judges $100,000 public official bond for the amount of $356.30. So move. Second. Have a motion. A second. Rooff. Dort. Yes. Good. Yes. Yes. [snorts] Parker, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes.

You question. Item number 10, approve the American Rescue Plan Act, ARPA, state and local fiscal recovery fund expenditure approval in the amount of $19,780.30.

So moved. Have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. And a second. Roll call. I have a question on the looking on page uh I don't know what page this is. There's a highlighted number there of 19,48798 on which where are you looking at? Uh it's on the pin aisle deal portion. What we just And there's $146 administration fee added to that. Is that down the next one or something? Oh, okay. I'm sorry. Yeah, maybe. Well, that don't add up. There may be Oh, okay. administrative $292.32.

Okay. Yeah, it's up on like page four. Is there a Are we this closed out? We still got more. This is just what we we owe compass on the Well, I'm saying on the project itself. We are real close to closing that out. Real close. Have we closed out with the plant board and put on pen is only we have left. I thought we finished p the last maybe we wrote I think I think pen is closed. Well, this includes a this includes an invoice for pen. Yeah, this was this one goes to pen. [cough]

Okay. Oh, there it is. Yeah. I think we still owe uh according to Hannah, we owe about $60,000 to Penny Rock. Did you say 60 or 60? 60. 60. After this? Yes. And you're saying this this 19,000 is going to pay off? Yes. Another 60 after this. And you thought it was done. So,

well, maybe we voted on the amount. We voted on something for a final. There is a final adjusted number. That's what I do know that was presented by penny rout. And here is your final number. Now, whether or not they requested that payment or not, they still have to go through that process with submitting. This is just part of that submitt [clears throat] process to get to get it all reimbursed. Right. So, and Amanda's Amanda's and that's this is why we pay compass to make sure that all that stays. They found they found us Watson. Yeah. Yeah.

Just don't see where we're just confused where we're saying this is going to penny. She's standing. Keep going. There we go. Okay. [clears throat] That's what Chris was talking about being.

Are you finding I I tell you when Amanda gets back, I'll get her to get you all the final numbers for that. Shut down. Do you have any other discussion?

No. That being said, broke off. Good one. Yes. Yes. Carter. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Balden. Yes. Baker. Yes. Item number 11. Approve the appointment of Dr. Jacob Clark to the Log County Health Board for a two-year term ending December 31st, 2027. Second. Motion and second. Roco. Yes. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes. [clears throat] Yes. Baker,

yes. Item number 12, approve the reappoint of Anne Crawford, Harris Dawkins, Dr. William Ham, and Trisha Campbell, AR APRN to the Logan County Health Board for a 2-year term ending December 31st, 2027. So move. Have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Second Jason roll. Yes. Okay. [laughter] Yes. Abstain. Yes.

Item number 13. approve to authorize the county judge executive's office to complete payment of any necessary transfers for the card service center for December 2025. Uh, basically what that boils down to is our card, credit card that we use for necessities throughout the county does not come in until after this meeting. And with us disc uh uh hopefully in the next item uh uh not having the uh cancelling the December 23rd meeting, we'll have that card payment come in and we need permission to go ahead and pay that. I just got those numbers out of order. Yeah, I know.

I make a a motion to accept this, please. Have a motion. [clears throat] Do I have a second? Second. I have a motion in a second. Be in trouble if they didn't back. Yeah. Yeah, we really would. [laughter] He's really got the right order. Cuz we don't know as we're coming. Yeah, we'll be here December 23rd. Yeah, we'll call police. Yes. Good. Yes. Will. Yes. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Yes. Baker. Yes. Now item number 14, approve to cancel the December 23rd, 2025 fiscal court meeting. Second. I have a motion.

By Chris, a second by Jamie. Am I supposed to turn this back in? Roll call. Dort. Yes. Good. Yes. Wil, yes. Parker, yes. Crawford, yes. Yes. Baker.

Yes. We have no reason to go into executive session. [clears throat] Um, but for post agenda, Scott, I think you and I have something that we need to talk about. Come on up and tell your tale. Um, with our current website, we're not getting the traffic or the use out of it that we're paying for. Um, I've reached out to the people that run the kbby.gov site. Um, and I'm getting on a program with them. One, this site would be free to us. Um, and since we're not getting the benefits, you know, when I post bids, when I'm when I'm putting stuff the agenda out there, there's like a total of seven people that signed up for this website uh to get notifications. You know, I can do the same thing with the free website. Um, so we've come to a to a a point to where I can start building that, but I need I'm [clears throat] asking for permission for the judge to sign the agreement so I can start that and then start the transition so from one to the other.

So if I'm not mistaken, the way we had spoke about this is pretty much a new service that has just started to be offered. Is that correct? and we're probably one of the first few in line for it. Uh after the discussion we had, Scott went to work and he started looking right after the last discussion a couple months ago about the website we went through. He he found that this was this is now an option available. It wasn't available when we originally done all this. Uh but now they've always given us like a free but they changed it. They gave us some like very generic, but now we've got Department of Local Government control that. Who does? No, it's the um Oh, I don't know. Brad or Department of

No, it's not going to be Brad. Um Tech Tyler Tech. Thank you. Yeah, but they're they're they're doing a new thing with WordPress. Yeah. Uh rather than going through um what was it? they used in the past. Uh oh, I'm so sorry. What? What they [laughter] used in the past? We switched from my kw.gov over to a I can't remember what it was, but [cough and clears throat] I switched back because it was my kw.gov. Yeah, but it was more secure. I remember that's why they wanted us to supposed to be a more secure.

Yeah. Um I think definitely as long as Right. We make sure from the vendor that we're that we can we're totally out of the contract. We don't have to Well, we we are we're up until Jan uh July, excuse me. Then then that contract there's no got that was my question. Do we need to cancel the old one? No. No, we do not. We won't cancel it until till let it expire. No, within a certain amount of time,

right? Yeah. We're going to get we're going to get the new site built and that should and starting now building that new site. um working with Tyler Tech on that uh is going to allow us to give uh Civic Plus the notification needed to say goodbye to them. I know on mine if you go back into county cloud I think is where it was something that it will direct you to Yes. Yeah. We you can put you can put authority on there to to you can put an authority on there to direct it. Yeah, we we own that domain. So, yes. Right.

Love county ky.gov. Right. Cost savings. Yes. Yes. And it was an option like I said when we originally built the site, you know, Civic Plus did a did a really good job building the site, but this option wasn't available when we first did it. So now that it's available, it's a step that we can take to hopefully save some money for the county and have a little bit more control than what we had before. Good. Thank you. Not much, but a little second. Yeah, there we go. Real good. Any other discussion, questions? Great. Rooff, yes. Good. Yes. Yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker,

yes. Do I have anything else for post agenda? I have a question. Um I know that it's for Nashville Road 431. Um you got Clatus and Pinbrook and Wilham and there is a light over the entrance of of Wilham. Okay. Do do I need to say something possibly to the state about getting maybe a light over Pimbrook? We had a couple cars to come out of there and like they say it's just really dark and they can't see and I'm wondering if we could get like a street light. I don't know how that works.

I don't think the state pays for that. I think a private individual owns that or pays for that. That light at Wilham is paid for I'm 50% sure by the gas company by the Oh, because of the the interest rate because Texas gas. Everybody wants a light there, right? and the individual is gonna have to pay for it or you're gonna have to go through that whole scenario like we did get stonewall and go through a subdivision and it's put on the property tax bill and it takes 100% participation and it can be done but it's a process. Sure. Okay. I just

Yeah, I do I do not believe I will check and verify with the state, but I'm pretty sure they they won't pay for that. Uh but I I'll verify with them. They they won't. I don't think they will because if they did, there would be there's hundreds of them out there that could intersections that could use that in in the county. We don't Yeah. Just in Logan County. Okay. Okay. I had somebody ask me. Oh, well, no. It's it's a it's a very legitimate question and I wish I could say, "Yeah, they'll pay for it, but they're not going to." So,

and the other thing, the blinking light that that is um there's we've got a blinking light on uh Ornith Mill Road in the bypass and it at night it really helps out. So, 100 that could be possibly something cuz it it really shows up and tells people, "Hey, stop." You know, the red and the yellow. Yeah. It's like a flashing light. The flashing light. Yeah. At at Wonder Mill Road and bypass. It's really good. paywe and asked the state barn for us to see if we can get a blinking stop light at least on the east and westbound lanes of the of the new southern bypass [snorts] that

I guess we need to talk to Lucas about Lucas is the first conversation then yeah we can we can work on that Jack Crosley complained a lot about that that's how in the first Jack and another homeowner paid for a light for a while that lit up the road, right? Yeah. But he's talking about that flashing light. Flashing light. Jack brought that up every time they came down here. Yeah. Well, actually, I'll tell you who that came from. Uh cuz um Chris Hughes. Yeah.

He who what listened at the time was just listening to our court, you know, thing. It wasn't wasn't uh I don't think on YouTube. And we were having those discussions and you know Jack and another guy paid for a light but they were still a concern and Chris is the one who texted me and said man I think if you get one of these flashing stop lightss it might really help. So that came from a constituent listening to our not even in your district. Came up with a great idea. That was a good idea. At the time he was in our district that was district six. Oh okay. I was going to say he's not in your but they had a really bad accident. Okay. Okay. Okay. they had a really bad accident and that's when that's what really promoted that.

Un unfortunately I'm learning that it takes bad accidents to get anything done and that's a shame but that's the way that being said. Is there anything else for post agenda? Is that motion? Second second by curious. Thank you everyone and hope everyone has a happy