Fiscal Court - Regular Meeting

Good morning everyone. Welcome to fiscal court. Before we call this meeting to order, I see uh brother Mike Humble in the audience. Mike, brother Mike, would you uh come forward and lead us in prayer before we open this meeting? All right, let's pray. Lord, first of all, so blessed to be up here praying because you said, first of all, pray for those in a so grateful for the authority that's here in our county and living right here and having the leadership that we have. So we ask you to bless everything that the court does and and the county sets their hand to do to prosper. and we bless this meeting today in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Thank you brother Mike to order by saying the pledge to our flag. I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to stand indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Never moment. Sounds good, dude. Thank you all for uh coming to fiscal court this morning. Uh glad to see everyone out here. First order of business, approval of minutes. Motion to approve minutes. Second. I have a motion and a second for approval of minutes. No discussion. Roll call, please.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Parker, yes. Crawford, yes. Yes. Baker, yes. Next up, approval to amend the agenda to add to approve the House Bill 556 agreement with Commonwealth of Kentucky as item number seven. 556. Oh, I didn't get the new one. There's a number seven. Okay, I have a motion in a second. No discussion. Roll call, please. Yes. Good. Yes. Wil,

yes. Harvard, yes. Crawford, uh, yes. Balden, yes. Baker. Yes. Next up is representatives from the Logan County Burden Bears will present to the court. Brother Mike, Miss Teresa, how are you guys? Good.

Glad to have you. We thank this opportunity for all help through the times and years that you've helped us. I just kind of give a little history of of the chapter program and then Tesla she's more detailed than I sure but we started chapter program I went to ground zero in 2001 and it was quite quite a horrific scene of course as we all know and I realized that we're rural America but rural America still have streets that's right you don't have highrise buildings it was hard to have to do in such a city like that but we still have stress. So that's when uh I started working on the burn chapter program actually uh the uh uh Williamson went to him talk to him about it. Tommy Allen was a police chap. He was on the police department. He was chapter was a chap with ASO. Uh it was some of that and so we pulled everybody together and started 2003 when our first calls in 2002. And so we've been doing that ever since. We have uh uh we've had several chapters over the years and Teresa will go over that with some of the people we got and and some of our protocols cuz we have certain protocols and Ginger we work with her so much you know uh she did done such a tremendous job with central dispatch cuz that's how we get changed out through central dispatch and um I was on fire yesterday just uh so we're all we're always out there somewhere. So uh that's what we do. We

just try to serve the first responders and when we do when we get on the scene they say the family's right there. So then we go to the family and minister to the family cuz you know in trauma and that's what we deal with a lot is called trauma. We deal with a lot of trauma and we're trained to deal with trauma. So that's part of our training chapter. Okay. Good morning. I'm Teresa. Good morning.

I am Bernie Fair chaplain number three. I have been a chaplain with the Bird Bear since uh 2017 on the front lines. I do a lot of back uh work for them before that office work where there been a crisis they would land in my office after the crisis and we would meet whatever need might be there whether it was a fire and they needed clothing and assistance to those things. Bird bear chaplain stay very very active as you will see on the report that I printed for you. We have had 115 official page outs in the 2025 years. All of those have come through our uh emergency services. We do receive phone calls from time to time. Brother Mike and myself and our other chaplain Jim Marne and Mr. Dannis Comble, we will get phone calls that say they have met an individual on the side of the road has no criminal history, but they're homeless right now. What can you do? So, we meet them at their need. Uh we'll if if there is a room available at the local motel, we'll put them up overnight in the motel. Um but there's always a background check run before we do any of that in those situations. Sometimes it's a need for food. They have no way to get in to get food. So we go out and get a box of food out of our care center and deliver that to them. And sometimes that's delivered into the hotel room because not only are homeless at that point hungry. So uh sometime we have to provide some food on sink recently. Uh we have had and most of you will be aware there was a suicide this weekend in our community and we had a chaplain Mr. Jim Marne that was on that scene and he served there for about 2 hours. That's mostly what our calls take is about 2 hours. Occasionally if we have a tremendous field fire, uh the mulch company catches on fire, we may be

out there four, five hours, 6 hours, something to event. And we will have to provide food for them. That might be pizza. That might be McDonald's. Um just you don't want your first responders to be hungry and you don't want them to be thirsty. you want to make sure they're taken care of in the best of place. So, that's one of the things that we do. Not only are we on the scene looking at their eyes as a first responder, but we're there to be there behind the scenes. If you're you've got an emergency worker that's on the ambulance and they go to take care of a child that is drowned, they may have a child at home that same age. And we have been trained in what to watch for and what to ask them. And then we work with them after the scene. We've gone back and interviewed with the whole entire emergency services and ask them what do you feel? This is not a critique of what you have done. We are not there to critique what you've done. We are there to help you through the crisis. So what do you feel like was your most benefit? What do you feel like you could have done better? And it gives them an opportunity to talk and they talk among themselves. It's not they have to talk to us, but they're they're actually bringing up what they're feeling at that point. So, we do behind the scenes counseling. We do on the scenes counseling with families and situations. We do first responders counseling and we [clears throat] can't do any of this if we don't attend training and we have lots and lots of training. Um, matter of fact, we've got training Tuesday afternoon and uh, so that training comes a lot through Kentucky Community Crisis Response Team and Brother Mike and myself are members of that along with uh, Larry Richie and Jim Marne. We go to those trainings.

Some of them are virtual. We attended a two-day assist training which is applied skills suicide skills intervention training. That was tough. That one was really really tough for all of us to go through uh because that's acting out scenarios and that's getting down deep into things that are going on. We do have to travel for some of the training. A lot of them are done virtually. uh we have to carry liability insurance because the things that are said to someone can be held against us. So we have to have liability insurance on that. And we have a $2 million policy to cover the chaplain. If somebody comes back and says, "Well, he talked to a chaplain and he killed himself anyway." We're going to see we have some coverage today. We have accident insurance. Uh we have active 911 which is the way we are dispatched out and we have that cost. We have our members of the inter national conference of police chaplain Kentucky Federation of Fire Chaplain and we have three radios that we rent out for Logan County. the um our hotels, meals, needs for those who are traveling through whether we're transporting them to Brass or to Salvation Army, wherever they may needing to go, those are huge expenses for us. So, in 2025, we came in, it was expenses at $10,182.

Wow. So um without donations, without the support of the court system, you know, it comes out of a general fund for agape. So we would love to have your support. Is there any questions that you have? Great. We appreciate your service. I mean, I I know a lot of families personally that y'all have impacted and you know, last year was at my neighbor's house when it caught on fire and it was awful comforting to them. We really appreciate it.

Yeah, you guys do amazing work and we're very appreciative of it. As a matter of fact, Denise and I were shoulders that were just talked about. She's our grant writer for the county. She has mentioned that there may be some grant opportunities and if you guys are interested, she she would welcome the chance to work with you guys cuz I kind of put her on the spot where she has to say yes now. But but if you guys are interested, she's going to look around. She sees anything, she'll bring it to you or she'll get with you. If I may, I'd love to personally thank brother Mike, Miss Teresa, uh, coming from the freezing side worker road, you work a collision and it feel like 100 100° and plus humidity outside, they bring Gatorade, water, cooling towels when you're out on the scene for hours or or structure fire. Uh, any type of call like that or in the winter time when it's freezing outside, they bring hot chocolate, try to help keep you warm. and they're they're there to help you uh help you as well, talking you through things that you see as well as at the jail uh helping us with the with inmates, helping us with with staff if the staff has got something personal going on or with death notifications if we've got an inmate there. Obviously, nobody wants to be there and their situation is probably not the best, but uh that message was that that'll mess with anybody's mind if they they've got a family member that they lost that help with those notifications. But I'd like to thank them and all their work. It's hard to put a price tag on on their group and what they offer. But thank you very much. They're also really good about giving closure to my department cuz with my department, we just hear it. We don't see it. And so a lot of times we've already been on to another call where we've taken a really bad call with straight to the next call. They will come in after check on my

staff, let us, you know, just kind of make sure everybody's okay. And even on personal notes when we had things going on families, they come and check on us. You know, brother Mike and James come to my house and and checked on me when mom was sick. You know, just they do so much for emergency services. I just we can't thank them enough for what they do. Same here. They're right hand of the sheriff's office. So, we don't we we know when when we're going, we know they're coming. So we it's just an automatic connection. So again they very instrumental in what we do for all Logan County especially

once again. Thank you for all you do for local. Thank you so much. Appreciate y'all. Before we move on, we have a representative from Congressman Kumer's office in the crowd, Miss Sandy Simpson. Sandy, would you like to come and just say a couple words before we move on to regular business? Uh Sy's been a uh an angel as far as I'm concerned as far as talking.

You're extremely nice judge this morning. Thank you. Just right quickly, first of all, the most important thing I want to say here this morning is thank you, judge, and members of the fiscal court for allowing me to say a couple words on behalf of the congressman. And most of all, importantly, thank you for your service. uh we realize that uh it's a um 24/7 job and you all do it greatly. So, thank you for what you do. I I reached out to the congressman this morning, told him I was coming to Logan County. He said, "Thank you very much, Sandy, for getting over there because I know you haven't been there in a while." But he sent me a couple of things that he asked me to mention to you. And first, I want to say that he's monitoring what's going on in the Middle East and keeping keeping up on what's happening there. And uh I want you also to note he told me this morning that he wants you to know that he voted to fund uh the Ontario Department of Justice and he hopes that we can get get that settled right real quick because some people are not getting paid and we want everybody to get paid for their for the job that they are doing. Um and and and before I walk away I just wanted to say this which I think is very important locally because it affects you. The congressman has a casework office office over in Topkinsville and we have case workers there that handle cases for people who are having trouble issues with the federal government whether it's social security, VA or or whatever. And we also get sometime requests for issues that involve state. So even though we don't have that jurisdiction, we're happy to pass it along to those in the state that work on those issues for the governor and the governor's office. So whether it's a federal issue or a state issue, uh please do not hesitate to reach out to congressman because we we all know you all have friends and family and know people who are probably struggling with with things that uh sometimes a govern government u is a hindrance on. So thank you all very much for allowing me to say a couple words this morning and please do not hesitate to reach out to the congress anytime that we can possibly help. We always

consider you. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Moving on. Approval of bills in the bill list. They should be on your iPads. Make a motion to approve the bill list. I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. And a second. Got a question. Yes, sir. Where which page and where are we at? Okay. So on C page nine, this is just out of curiosity on there's a printers plus refund for $44. Why? Why would that I have that flag? That's the incorrect line item number.

Yeah, I thought so. It didn't make sense. That should go in office supplies instead of refunds. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Uh thank you. U and then just out of curiosity does under the refund which is on eight and nine is they have two different projects that they're getting a KBI more of a question for sure cuz it's two different checks. Where are you at right now? Uh at the very last line item on page eight,

it's a refund three Logan aluminum for the KBI project. Uh I'm assuming two different two different projects. Yes. Yes. Super Carol and I talked about that. She told me that there was going to be two different checks coming out and that's two different projects that involve Logan Aluminum. Okay. And do we know how much time is left on each one of those? I do not, but I will get I was just curious. Yeah. No, no. I I couldn't I honestly can't answer that one. Uh but I will uh get with Sue Carol and I'll send that email out to every one of you guys. And then one last thing, do what about CAP? Was CAP a KBI project?

I'm thinking it is, but I don't think they have. Yeah, I know it is, but but they have not uh they haven't started any of that. They haven't met qualified in the resolution here for C. Man, that happened so far in advance. Maybe we did. I'm just a guy. Y'all remember I don't remember doing it either. KTI thing, but I don't know about KBI. Let me I'm the KPTDI for the development of it. I don't remember. Let me let me let me look into that. I don't remember KBI. Let me let me look into that one. You know that probably happened a year and a half ago. Would have been even more. Didn't period.

Are those 5 year or 10 year? 10 for 10 years. Well, I'm pretty sure we've done two since we for Logan since we've been here. So, they ain't they're several years from expiring. Well, one was DC4 and I would say DC4 is probably 5, six, seven years old at least. All right. I I'll figure I'll get that information. Champion was one and Champion's probably getting the beat. I say Champion on here. There was another one just different times. They hit at different times. Yes. Yeah. We've done a champion since we've been on one was on board.

I will see what I can do to get those get that information. I'll get with Sue Carol and go over that. I was just curious, you know, just be interesting. It kind of helps you to understand when that rolls off how much money you'll be getting in your coffers, you know, cuz that's that's sign that's $200,000 just with two projects. Exactly. And when that time rolls off, that's $200,000 that will hit our general fund. Yeah, absolutely. I will uh And is that $200,000 in occupational tax? It's occupational KBI is occupational money from the employee

the new employ employee right it's the employee portion of it I'm almost positive that cap is with KBI because you know with their association with Logan aluminum they knew about it I'm I'm positive I just don't know the details I will get that those answers for you I got at the top of my list all I was just I was just curious cuz I what is There's going to be about 30 30 employment 30 uh initially it was going to be 30 to 40 and then rolling up to 75 or 80 up to initial was 30 to 40 and then 75 to 80 somewhere 70 to 80.

Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, it's good good for Logan County. All right. Is there any more questions that I can't answer? [laughter] You did a very good job. Well, I appreciate it. S uh Sue Carol is off today. Uh she she's off with her mother. Uh so when you're thinking about that, uh please remember her mother in your prayers. Um if there's no further questions, roll call, please. Yes. Go. Yes. Wilco, yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. Moving forward to treasures report. Yeah. Thank you very much.

Good morning, Miss Amanda. Good morning. Um, the first thing that I'm going to bring up, we uh it's not on your iPads. We do have a budgeted contribution to the burden bears of $1,000. So, um, we probably need to approve that for payment. That's what I'm just asking. Yeah. Well, okay. Yes. I Amanda brought that to my attention. I knew we had money in there. I just think we'd pay it, but we need to go ahead and have a motion to pay. Second. I have a motion and a second. No discussion. Roll call. Diver. Yes. Good. Yes. Welcome. Yes. Parker, yes. Crawford, yes. Holden, yes.

Baker, yes.

So, the first thing that I do have on your iPad is the first reading of a budget. It's ordinance number 0262205. Amendment number two. This is to amend in unbudgeted receipts into the road fund uh receipt uh account number 024503 federal reimbursement refund for 36,45211 solid waste fund 134510 state grants for 17,15632 road fund 024727 reimbursements miscellaneous by 18,193.75 5 general fund 014733 insurance reimbursements by $7,23420. Road fund 024733 insurance reimbursements by $7,450.63 which will increase expenditure line item in the general fund 015015340 sheriff maintenance vehicles by 7,234.20 20 Solid Waste Recycling Fund 135212446A illegal open dump rent by 17,15632 Road Fund 026105336 road Equipment Compact Repairs by 7,156.57 Road Fund 026105443 Road Motor Vehicle Parts by 294.06 06 road fund 028033128 contract bridge construction by 13,641.01 road fund 0292999 contingent appropriation by 41,0004.85.

So, the federal reimbursement money is where we received FEMA funds on uh debris cleanup and things of that nature. There's two different FEMA payments on there. One of them is just labor for cleanup of on one of our disasters. The other one is for Ed Reynolds Road and Kirby Road. And then um the reimbursement miscellaneous that $18,000 number that's where we had um Chris the AP Miller Road uh repairs. So we're amending the money that we received back from Silicon Ranch back into the budget there. Um and then we did get an illegal open dump grant and then we had some insurance claims that we're amending back in.

Motion to approve. Second. I have a motion and a second. Is there any other discussion? Not roll call. Yes. Good. Yes. Wilco, yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. Uh, so the next thing I have for you is a list of budget transfers that we need to get approved. Make a motion to approve the budget transfers totaling $44,268.73. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Rooff. Davenport. Yes. Goodman. Yes. Wilco, yes. Harper, yes.

Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. And then I do have three cash transfers for you today. We need to transfer $125,000 from the occupational net profits tax fund to the jail fund. So moved. Second. Motion second. Proport. Yes. Good. Yes. Wilcott. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Balden. Yes. Baker. Yes. We need to transfer $45,000 from the occupational net profits tax [clears throat] the LGA fund.

So move second. I have a motion and a second discussion. Roll call. Dor, yes. Goodwin, yes. [clears throat] Wil, yes. Harvard, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. And we need to transfer $25,000 from the occupational net profits tax fund to the 911 fund. I'll move second. Have a motion. Second with no discussion. Roll call. Diamond. Yes. Goodman. Yes. Wilco. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Balden.

Yes. Baker. Yes. And thankfully that's all I have for you. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Amanda. Moving forward to road work request. District one. District one. Uh looked at the list. Everything looks good. Appreciate all the work you done and just continue maintenance. Thank you. District two.

Appreciate all the work that y'all been doing out that way. All all in district two. Um Baron Plains and Dot Road. That gravel has gotten in that on that little rise and curve again and I hit it yesterday and kind of slid so it off. Pardon me. [clears throat] I appreciate you. Thank you. It It's It is It is pretty dangerous. They Yeah, she Yeah, she was riding probably motorcycles and stuff. Yeah, it's it's pretty bad.

District three. Uh Peewee, I just continue maintenance. I appreciate the work you did on Milton the Sharp Road. I rode out there the other day. I know you said there's still some work to be done there, but I appreciate you all getting on that. I'd like to see a good rain on it, I guess, to see how effective it's been. Um otherwise, I appreciate you calling me with the updates. But otherwise, thank you for all you do. Four, continue maintenance. Thank you. five. Um, yes. I already talked to Peewee that the citizens at U the Plane View Church. Yes.

Uh, where Guy Canler has been offset to be a safer road. They're hoping that they can get a date for um hopefully the county being willing to take that road since the paving and everything's been done. Peewee said probably he would talk to you about that, but I told him I'd bring it up. Yeah. And I agree with that, but we're just kind of watching. when you go through any other season, we don't want to take on a road and then end up having to spend thousands of thousand dollars repairing a mistake that might have been made. So, we just want to keep eyes on it. Just let it go through one good season. We haven't had any really good rain season since they built it. Well, Kiwi said the same exact thing. Yeah. So, we have to have a heavy rain. See what happens to that.

He's a pretty smart fell, but I told him I'd bring it up. Thank you, District 6. Uh,

continue maintenance. Thank you for everything. Uh yes, thank thank you very much for the road department. They've been out patching over crews been out patching. They've been putting uh replacing crawl styles. They've been really busy. Most season is about to begin. Uh we're we're excited about that. Uh we uh as I don't know if anyone has watched, but u I've been making videos. So So if anybody's watching, I've been trying to keep an update every every week uh of what's going on. and road department was the focus last week. Uh we're putting some GPS units on. We've been doing that, but the new the newer versions of these GPS units are going to allow us to completely track it the way that we need to to that way we can get reports to you guys so you can see where the mowing has happened on snow removal and what we're doing. You guys can get active reports on that. That's our plan. Uh Jordan's been doing a really good job of keeping up with that. We just got to get the rest of the units uh calibrated and installed. With that being said, I need a approval for road work request.

So move. Second. Have a motion and a second. With no discussion, roll call. Savort, yes. Good. Yes. Wila, yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, [clears throat] yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. Moving forward to elected officials. Sheriff Stratton, what do you have for us? Pass. All right. Golly, that white picture. [laughter] Oh, County Clerk Stacy Watkins, you have anything for us either? No. Hey, this is turning into a good day. Jailer Joshua Tumi. What?

What is going on here? Somebody check and make sure the sky hadn't fallen. Well, I would I would tell them about the revival again. Yes. Well, the dates will be the week after spring break for the county schools, the 13th through the 17th of the evening, 5 to whenever it concludes. No time limit. So, the more that gives the public. Good. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. Moving ahead to department heads. Uh let's start with Ginger. You said you didn't have anything. My goodness. Archives and grand updates. Nothing. Road supervisor Peewee, I know you've got something. He never has any. This is a weird He never has anything today. He has something. This is weird. See, I gave you [laughter] on your drive before he before he speaks. On his drive is item number 10. You'll see the paperwork about what he's about to present.

This is the turn road to it for Jamie's district. Here's the three bids from uh David De and uh Kmax and Scott Mer. David Deah is all is under the Macintosh Welding. By the way, um this is uh the bids to repair that bridge as needed. Notice that the KAC bid looks like it's more surface area but thinner approach to the far side. Cook it out.

Feel like all these are apples to apples or any comment to it. Any thoughts? Yeah, I just went out there and came back one make it just a little more he thought it would be better fish there and I know what he thought I went along whatever he was the same he's the expert on u Macintosh the guy dropped the sales tax off that yeah absolutely it'll be 18,000 even yeah I've seen that small Are you familiar with Mintosh? Just

he just works through. He just uses him to get he gets his job to them. He does good work. The only reason I ask I know K and and Scott Murphy are pre-qualified contract. Really? I know. He's a good Jason. job done. What's your recommendation? Davis is a chief and he does good work. I mean, I've seen a lot of work. Good work. Mr. Jamie, whatever. Jes,

we're going to use the FEMA money that we were reimbursed to pay most of it and the other I'll probably pull my discretionary. Um Tyler just pointed something out too that and I don't have the paper but like it's um um um 24 by 24 I can't even say 24 by 24. Mhm. [clears throat] And then another one is 33. Yeah. Is that going to be a It's just a few feet difference length and width. His is also 10 10 in or 12 in thick versus max 8 in thick. Okay. So I think six as far as like amount of concrete it's about the same. Yeah. Yeah. Gotcha.

So we need we need to decide what we're going to do right now. It's your reach. Well I want it's your time to shine. Oh no. Um, I made a motion um for Macintosh Welding LLC uh for 19,000. No, 18,000 um for the Kirby Road Bridge repair. Um second. I have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? That's great.

Not back to you, bud. Yes. Good. Yes. Wilc, yes. Yes. Yes. Holding. Yes. Baker, yes. Thank you, Peter. Thank you, Peter. You have anything else to pay with? I appreciate you. Thank you. And I appreciate good bids. Great. Get it fixed. He worked hard on that. I was with him way worked through that. Um, I see Rodney from Mercy Management Show has graced us. Do you have anything for us, sir? No, sir. All right. Well, thank you for all the work you guys do. All you do.

Now, moving on to uh Solid Waste, Nathan Coch. Got to bring the holiday spirit to be the Grinch say here. Dig into it here on the tablets. I had a couple recyclers that were ready to present. One is the uh Will Heights out there off Stevenson Mill Road. So, Will Heights, uh, sadly the owner passed away at that location and it's not a trust fund. It's not a, um, kind of a caretaker situation and the plan is to clean the site. It's a actually a really good plan that the gentleman gave me uh, with that. And so, but right now, all those cars are still out there and I did inspect everything and present that site as well as Ernie's Lawnmower Repair on Morgantown Road. Motion to approve those sites as presented.

Second. I have a motion and a second. [clears throat] Any discussion? Roll call. Nort. Yes. Goodman. Yes. Wilcott. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Yes. Balden. Yes. Baker. Yes.

Couple haulers as well. H&H. Sheet metal and Russ were public services out of Bowling Green. They do some roll off dumpsters in the community and they needed to get a hauler's permit to they're actually a new permitted hauler, but I present those two for approval as well. Make a motion to approve the hauler permit applications as presented. Second. I have a motion and a second. Roll call. Davenport. Yes. Good. Yes. Will cut. Yes, Harper. Yes, Crawford. Yes, Balden. Yes, Baker. Yes.

And I saw Scott pull this up earlier about the garbage rate increase. We wanted to make sure that everybody was knew what was going on, wasn't blindsided. As it's in the contract that we worked out last year, they're entitled to a cost of moving increase once a year, and they're set to do that on April 1st. uh the garbage rate and I looked into it the inflation index that we had uh let me pull that up up here but that is uh around 5% it's actually a little under 5% but that will cause the unincorporated rate to go up to 2258 per month the smaller cities of air and Lewisburg 1982 a month and then Russellville 1539 a month and so it does everything does check out there based on what I was looking at so we wanted to make I'm sure everybody knew

Auburn goes up to 1982. Yes, cuz I've had some calls about that. That was a previous contract as well. Yes, it may have been, but they they heard through the great vine there was going to be a price increase and I said I think that was the cost of but we had a discussion about that. Yes, approximate increase in pennies about a dollar about a dollar and it covers everything. Well,

that covers it. Awesome. Couple other things I'll mention. I did want to give a shout out to brother Nick Stamps, the Postto Baptist Church pastor. He uh as we worked on the ordinance last year for the uh code enforcement for charity pickups, he did some charity work on a case on Morgantown Road. And I just want to say looks a lot better at that site now. It does extend my appreciation to brother Nick on that. Very appreciate.

It does. Sounds really good. And one other announcement I wanted to give. Um, Scott Waste has put a new recycling container, like a new recycling receptacle out at the transfer station. So, it's for single stream recycling. Putting [clears throat] your Scott Waist tote. You can bring it out there to them. And so, just as a recap, that's cardboard, paper, plastic, food containers, and metal cans. You can bring all that out there at the Auburn Transfer Station. The address again for that is 55 Pleasant View Drive in Auburn. You can bring it out Monday through Friday 8 to 3 or Saturday on the freedom days. And uh they asked that it not be abused uh once a week for folks, no commercial folks and then also no trash cuz it couldn't be a problem. So we wanted an outside and we're uh glad that they were doing that.

All right. Thank you, Nathan. Thank you so much. Thank you.

All right. Moving on. I think I've got everybody moving on to judges announcements. Uh once again, Mr. Denise, thank you for uh getting these. Uh there are a lot of things going on uh this Saturday, March the 28th. So, let's just start there. The Logan County Clerk's Office will be open for uh vehicle business only from 9:30 to noon. If you received your card, it says CPBA message on the card. Please see them before Friday uh Friday afternoon. Close time on Friday afternoon. Uh March 28th is also Logan County's free dump day. Um, at 55 Pleasant View Drive, you're limited to one load consisting of trash, furniture, construction, debris, and electronics, and it should be covered. They will not accept tires, for your non-contained appliances, paint that is not dried out, and hazardous uh chemicals or cars. Uh, also 28th is light blue for autism awareness. The communitywide family funday is at the extension office at 255 John Paul Road in Russellville from 1 to 3 with a balloon release at 2:30. Uh this is an event to uh raise awareness about autism. Um also on the 28th, the night of is the search and rescue is holding their 54th annual fish fry at 255 John Paul Road. Um, beginning at 5:00, uh, we're going to have, uh, music provided by Clay Blue. Uh, Haley Auctions will, uh, conduct the auction. The meal will be served from 5 to 7. It will be a donation of $10 per catfish plate or $4 for a hot dog plate. Um, and grand prize of $300. Also on the 28th is Auburn Tourism Adult Easter egg hunt at the park in Auburn at 250 Spring Street. uh starting at 6:00 p.m. uh hunt till 8:00. Uh April the 5th

is the monthly county outdoor warning system or cows test. Uh scheduled at noon on April the 5th unless weather is bad. Uh then the last thing I have is April 11th is Russell Royal Fire Department's holding their fundraiser uh at the extension office uh starting at 5:00 pm. Uh more details to follow later. [clears throat] Moving forward to citizens participation. If anyone in the audience would like to come speak to the court, now is your time. Not everybody wants of the hundreds of thousands in attendance today. All right, let's move on to old business. We have no old business to discuss, so that brings us right back to new business. Item number one, open bids for re relocation and upgrade of radio tower equipment on Reservoir Hill. This is moving our equipment finally to the new tower we bought uh last year from Electric Plant Board. Uh we only received one bid and this is from Communications International. Sorry, I know there were two. I thought it was big. Yeah, there's just two. Um, there is a full parts list on the quotes. The main bid is $122,93623 with a optional lighting upgrade of $3,695. Uh when we did the required when we did the required meeting, the Communications

International was the only one that showed up to do the for the meeting. Okay. Um I have Derek Derek the optional um lighting on the tower for $30,695. What's your thoughts on that? Is that something we need to do or Well, I mean, it probably be done eventually, but the lighting that's on probably Can you climb up and change? [laughter]

So, is it We're literally talking about the lights that flash. So, like that's kind of important. $30,000. I just That's amazing. That's cheap. Is it really? I don't know. I was going to say I I just found that shock controller system. Yeah, we we discussed that when we was up there. That control system is is pretty old and adequate. No, not adequate. Pretty old. Yes. In order to be legal. Well, it should be. I mean, obviously for what it's for, but just seems so expensive. Wow. Just for life. Well, just put the option.

Yeah. We we'll be end up putting more money into into this than we gave for the tower, but it's the upgrade that we needed to do. The lighting will have us back in compliance, correct compliance. Um I uh I don't know what else to tell you other than there. The money Well, we've got the money sitting in there for the uh the ARPA money we pulled out and that's what we designated for was for projects like this. Okay. I mean, do we is this something that you and Derek want to look over just to make sure or I mean, do you want us to make a decision today or is it something y'all want you want to look over to make sure after after make sure everything's included?

After speaking with them, they know the they knew the project. They knew what was going on and I'm fairly confident that what was their time frame? I don't know if we even put a time frame on it. Okay. So, it's uh it looks like a four-week preliminary schedule. Week one uh coordination, mobilization. Week two, remove the tower, removal tower installation, roof maintenance. Do you have it in the budget for the tower and the light package?

We have that ARPA of money that we have set aside over there uh that we've from back from Penny Riley. That's what we moved it over. That money is sitting there. We'll just have to do some budget amendments to do that. I think it was $176,000 or something. I don't know why that sounds familiar. No, it was like 600 something. Yeah, it was several. It was $176,000 somewhere. We moved to for that for the for 911 somewhere. Well, we took that for the tower. We took the $70,000 for the tower. Okay. And then I'll have to I I I'll have to look up the numbers, but but the money's there. Money's there. And I mean, the benefit of the coverage. Yes. Uh, okay. We're gaining what? An additional 120 foot of height. Hey.

Oh, you didn't go your way. It's 100 some odd. I was looking on Jason, but I look on YouTube.

And this is also going to include u we're going to have a microwave. Uh we've we've got the a microwave link between the EOC to the tower. We have fiber going up there now, but this microwave link will give us a secondary backup in case that fiber goes down. A redundancy rake. So we've got a loop clo going to that tower. Um hopefully more good news to come. I I mean if if the LED lights need to be changed, I think it's cheaper to do it now than wait 2 or 3 years. They're already climbing. They're already on the tower climbing it. And uh I think now if we're going to do it would be the because it's not going to get any cheaper. Well, like you said, I mean that's another trip, another climb.

Yeah. And it probably could be higher. Another trip, another climb. Every climb gets higher. [laughter] Yeah. And they charge they charge by the foot for this stuff. So

yeah, Jacob's letter has been replaced. That's funny. Oh man. He heard in the song goes every step goes higher higher. [laughter] I think that would apply him. I've been in I've been in contact with CI. They were here this morning. We had a representative uh Wayne and I spoke for a while and they're pretty confident that they going to and I' I've talked to them multiple times in the past. So, we're in pretty good shape with this company. as far as everything that you would need to get get everything moved. I mean, everything's good there.

Yeah, we've got to get the the tower all fitted first. So, so when we cut it over, we can just take the equipment that's inside the building, move it down the other one, and turn it on. But it has to be or everything has to be done.

Yeah, we were up at the tower a few weeks ago and looked over. Everything is there, ready to go. Backup generator is there, the air conditioners are there. Um, everything's good. We just need to move the equipment. Uh, I would suggest going ahead while we're in and doing the relighting. We've got the money in there to do it. Let's just go ahead and do it and be done with it. Uh, because if we have to come back and change those incandescent bulbs or that relay center goes out, we're going to be I would say that 30,000 is going to be a drop in the bucket if they have to come back and do it.

What's the down time? Uh, I'm going to say we probably could have probably could have it moved in probably four hours. You know, already have everything unbolted and then just physically move it. The the Auburn Tower in Lewisburg will stay up during this time. Correct. We still be able to use those for communications. Correct. Partially. Partially. So, why is that? We'll have everythingbody,

right? Everybody will be 100% aware of what's going on. We'll try to make sure it's decent, beautiful weather out and no storm. We will not do it when there storms in the forecast. Is there particulars about Okay. Is there any other questions? courthouse. Derek's going to uh be up there with them and oversee. Thank you. That was the word I was looking for. Uh oversee the whole project. And uh I know we're spending a lot of money on our EOC, but if we don't have that, we don't have anything.

And it's not just my department, which is every department. You're absolutely right. is feeding my veget. So some of this equipment is our existing equipment. So who takes liability for that? Like if like if they're taking down a piece of equipment and they drop it, it breaks. Well, the the stuff that's coming off the tower is not going to be reused. Is it the old tower? No, not the old tower. Okay. So we're basically they're going to build they're going to build the new tower. Everything's going to be there. Then we're just going to move the equipment from inside the room over to the new the new room. Turn it get it going.

I just want to clarify because they they have a whole section in here about builder's risk that they say that this is not a new construction project and they take basically I'm reading a little bit into this that they take no liability. So it'd be nice just to clarify. Right. You're walking up there with us. I saw I saw one piece of equipment here was about $22,000. They're working up there with a $22,000 piece of equipment and they dropped it. Who Who's paying for that? Well, if they they provide it, then that's theirs. Until it's until it's mounted and signed over us. Just clarify that. There's another piece of equipment that's $38,000, right? You know,

yeah, that that's their equipment. If they if that doesn't work, that's on them. I I think what Thomas is pointing out is heard point up from that volume. You know, did not reflect material labor cost escalations beyond the standard uh you know s rate of 5%. Uh I don't think that's

where where is it fire say was a third right here. uh they will not take exception to builder risk insurance spec specified as this is not a a not a construction project. So yeah, they're right. It's not a construction project. So they're not carrying builder risk insurance. It just needs to be and they do have their insurance here of workman's comp and general liability. So, I would assume that, you know, again, I just want to clarify, hey, when do I own the equipment

and it would be installed and it was working? Yeah. After they get installed, I I'm going to go through it thoroughly and make sure that it's up to standard and what it should be before I come back and say, "Hey, it's it's done." Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. We're entering a contract with them to complete the work that we that they said they were going to complete. So, Okay, looks good.

Thank y'all. Any questions? No, you answer. Is that the Oh, you got motion on it or what? We just got you have the uh and the LED lighting. I would I make a motion to approve CI's bid for the uh tower project of $122,93923 and to do the LED lighting replacement for $30,695. Second. I have a motion and a second. Is there any more discussion?

Okay. Thank you. Rooff Davenport. Yes. Good. Yes. Will cut. Yes, Harper. Yes, Crawford. Yes, Holden. Yes, Baker.

Yes. Thank you, Derek. Thank you, Court. I'm very proud to be able to do that. That's one of the goals I have this year. So, I'm glad to be able to see that finally starting to mature. Item number two, discuss quotes uh received for a equipment trailer for the Logan County Road Department. Uh there's three quotes in there. here. One from Boyd, one from McCoy, and one from Trailer Mart of Cave City. Um, this is equipment trailer for the new uh track hole. I've only got two bids on mine. You should have three. There should be three.

There's one from Boyd. Hayes is on the Huh? Is there one from Hayes there, too? One. It's on the there there's four there is four bids. I'm my apologies. Okay, I see them now. Okay. My apologies. I mean, do you want a tilt trailer pee-wee or what? Because way I'm saying they bid ramp trailers and tilt trailers. What's your preference? Ramp trailer. You're you're want the one from Boyd, correct? Well, that's the cheapest. This a trailer. This is a um

a couple weeks before you get in once which you choose to choose a couple weeks in. Um how's it been a teal trailer 6T station on the front 15T 21T of it tilled. Not much on a TR. Yeah, they're not apples and apples cuz those are the board trailer is just 12,000lb axles. It's a dovetail trailer, not a tilt trailer where I haven't looked at all of them, but it's about 2,000 less than the next one.

Yeah, they don't give any description. McCoy doesn't give any It's kind of weird. See what this one is. Trailer marked trailer mark. It's got 10k axles. Mhm.

Did you say you were leaning one toward one of them? You were leaning toward one of these for your own choice. This every one of the three will be bad for us. Whichever y they're about $4,000 between apples to apples, right? Yeah. They're not. Now the the one from Hayes is 15,000 lb axles and it's a tilt trailer. He said he didn't need a tilt. You don't need a tilt? Yeah. You'd rather have the ramps. Yeah. Said because of the machine is heavy weight. Mhm.

We could go to move up

15,000. Well, this this one from Hayes is a is a pin hitch trailer. It's not gooseeneck, [clears throat] but it's a tilt and it's got the heaviest axles out of the four quotes. Yeah, but I just got worried about it being all Doesn't compare to this one. That one's got uh 15,000lb axles, too, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah, I see that now. And it's less of course that's a tilt. It's not a tilt. That's not a tilt trailer, is it? No.

No.

I mean, hey, do you have a recommendation which one you want would work best for? Uh, no. They all three pretty much would be good trailer. I mean I one is good for me. They don't specific. Can we let the Yeah, I mean it's a pretty good price. We let the equipment committee meet, you know, talk about Yeah, let's uh let's do that and uh make sure we don't need to get some more apple quotes. I think maybe

I'm good with tableing this till next meeting. Um, just for the record, what where we at on total investment on this on this uh track that was 60,000 and then we got the repairs. Were they around? Yeah, we got the H&H quote uh with the work they did. I don't have it in front of me right now, somewhere around 10,000. And then we had some parts from builder, but that's about it. So 70,000 just the repairs and the track and then Yeah. And then and then the trailer be another 20. So another 20. So

20ish, 1200 to get the track. But the it's 20 years old. Low hours. And if you had to go buy it, it' be about 130. Oh, it'd be more than that. With those low hours with no trailer would be 140, 150. I think we're doing pretty good. Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I personally think we make a decision on this trailer right now cuz there's only two bids to look at and it's do we want to spend 23,000 or do we want to spend 18,000? Oh, I thought the other one was 22. Well, but he didn't want Okay, but not not really considering the one that's a tilt trailer. Well, that's the 23 trailer. Okay. The 23 is the tilt. This one.

This is not a tilt. No, but that's that's one. Yeah, it's the difference between the 23 and the 18,000 is the axles. One's got 12ks and one's got 15ks. 15, I think. What's that? And that m You'll never have I mean that machine only weighs probably 8 or 9,000 lbs. [clears throat] Little mini eggs. No, it weighs more than that. I don't say so. Yeah, it's probably closer to what do you think they weave? And that might not be the only piece of equipment that they have. The weight of that machine. Yeah, it's heavier.

Like say let them put a spreadsheet together with talk, you know, make sure we got what he think's going to wear best. That's that's the best thing. I don't want to get stuck on $2,400 or $3,000, but it's not going to wear look like it should. Well, let's do this. Let's take a quick break uh before we make a decision and the equipment committee and pay get together and talk. Let's take a 15-minute break. Let you guys talk out and then come back and we'll we'll make a decision whether to table this or to move forward. How about that? Okay. Good. Give us about 15 minute break. 10:20.

Are we back on? Okay, welcome back everyone. Thank you for your patience. Uh the equipment committee has sat down and spoke with Peewee. Do you guys have a recommendation? clean up the neighborhood if we could meeting give us a little more time to thoroughly review the beds and maybe ask a few questions to some of the vendors and also make sure we're meeting the needs of what uh uh the work crew is trying to like to table that. I have a motion to second to table item number two with uh no further discussion. Roger. Yes. Goodman, yes. Wilson, yes.

Harper, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Item number three, acknowledge or receive the loan detention center fiscal year 2627 budget. So acknowledged. Second. Have a acknowledgement and a second. Roll call. Davenport. Yes. Good. Yes. Wat. Yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker,

yes. Item number four, approve the ARPA state and local school recovery fund expenditure approval for the amount of $11,43647 for Penny Rural Electric. Um, Amanda, you gave me a post-it note and it is laying on my desk of what is left. THANK YOU. YOU knew it was going to be That's great. The balance that we have left electric is $27,4161 and the penny bra is $6,483.95.

Could you say that first one again? I didn't catch that. $7,416.61. So that totals $33,90056. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Yeah. I've spent sent a letter to both an email and a letter to both an email actually to both Penny Rob and Hopkinsville Electric asking them to get that to us so we can get this off our books. So we for sure owe them. We're just waiting on the invoice.

Yes. Yeah. They have to turn their invoices into Compass Group. Compass Group approves them. They send them to us. So, we're encouraging them to get those as quick as they can to compass groups so we can get these off our books before next fiscal year. So, item number four, do I have a motion and a second? Some moved. Second. Have a motion. Second. Is there any other discussion? If not, roll call. Davenport, yes. Goodman, yes. Wil, yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Balden, yes. Baker,

yes. Item number five, acknowledge and receive the North Logan Conservation District's budget and tax rate for fiscal year 2627. Motion to second. I have a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? No. No changes to the tax rate. Thank you. Ro call. Davenport. Yes. Goodman. Yes. Wil, yes. Harper, yes. Robert, yes. Balden, yes. Baker, yes. Item number six, acknowledge the receipt of the South Logan Conservation District's budget and tax rate for fiscal year 2627. I believe they're basically identical, aren't they? So, move second.

Have a motion and a second. And as I said, I don't think their tax rate changed either, did it? No changes. No changes. That no further discussion. Roll call. Davport. Yes. Goodwin, yes. Wilcott, yes. Harper, yes. Crawford, yes. Holden, yes.

Yes. Item number seven, approve the House Bill 556 agreement with the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Um, this is this involves the uh education of the inmates. Correct. It's their program fees for like GED attendance, the GED program. There's several other ones, but uh so a year ago, we signed this contract um for the House Bill 566 funds. We weren't sure that it was going to be something that continued um but they have decided to go ahead and extend this. And so for us to continue participation, we just need to sign this contract to keep that going. I did have a check with me today actually, the one that we got for getting ready for the jail and it was in program fees. There was $11,520.

Is that a yearly or one once a year you get a check? No, monthly. Monthly. Monthly. Motion to approve. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Thank you. Yes. Thank you, Amanda. Roll call, please. Davenport. Yes. Good. Yes. Yes. Harper. Yes. Crawford. Balden. Yes. quieter today.

Yes, we have no reason to go into executive session. Uh so now we're into post agenda. Uh I do have one item. Uh Chris and Jamie, uh I'd like to meet with you guys sometime soon with Peewee to go back over this, see if we can get some better uh on this new road criteria. Um, so think about a couple of dates in the near week or two and please let me know where we can all get together and sit down and go over this one more time before we present it to the court. Okay. Does anyone else have anything for post agenda?

We seen the Have you seen the PBA's new assessment yet? Has it come through yet? I don't think it's come through yet. No, we don't get that until July. Okay. I didn't get it before then. Get it way before then. About the total the total calculate tax in July. July, right? That's that's what I was thinking. Seems early. You get a heads up before that. No, that that comes a lot. You get it way before that. I don't know when you get it, but

I have 45 days from the date I get it to do everything I'm supposed to do. Huh. I I thought I don't remember if it was March or May, but it's a month with an M in it. You remember that? We talked about I feel like last year he had some sort of anticipation on what the difference in revenue was going to be when we was doing our budget. I could be wrong. That's right. Right. Is that what you're talking about?

That's correct. Because I mean it has to be. We always had that number at least anticipated when we do our budget. That was the reason I was asking. But you know what made me think about it was Jay's budget and you know as we start thinking about you know I mean that was a half a million dollar increase. I mean I was just curious of what we thought new assessments were going to be. Right. I haven't seen it if that's what they're I haven't seen it. Okay. Uh as soon as I do do I will forward to the court $8,000 increase the J budget

half a million. Okay. Some of that is we're having to go down on our subject on our uh what we're getting for state inmate parade fans. Why do we huh? Why? Cuz we're not giving us as many uh state inmates. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. I was going to say they promised we'd get more state inmates. This is why House Bill 557 less than 45 years. So because less I mean in the jail. I mean, you know, he's getting what they're sending him. So,

25 to 35 is where we're staying right now on state inmates [clears throat] since personel previous was ill and end up having to retire since her new person still filling that seat. Um and the contacts made we've grown um in in a week and a half we got 10 from one location we uh we got 15 from [clears throat] so we we're growing our numbers this morning we want to see some gold but we're filling those those vacancies on on the state side right now.

That's critical that we do that you know for multiple reasons. Number one, we're, you know, I know we're not 100% fully staffed, but, you know, we're close to it at the at the jail. And, you know, how the DLC was understanding our population report cuz the way our facility set up versus others, the secure side versus our our our work center side is different classification levels can be on on different sides. But um but if they don't look at it right, they don't understand. They think we're over when we're really not.

And you had to just explain that to the right people to make sure they understood when the population report was being submitted. Now they got a better understanding and we're filling those those vacancies. So okay, once again this is why conference that they were going to raise that. Yeah. This is why we need to reach out to uh because regardless of the rate that he doesn't have if he doesn't have the inmate he does an old 70 and we're running staff wise we're running close to 100%. We usually have 70 in there if not our staffing. So it doesn't matter if they raise it. I get you this is why we need to reach out and encourage to support House Bill 557. Yep.

One size 80 one size 82 is what we've always been I think is the state 82 or is it Other way. The other way. Okay. I knew it was one way or the other, but uh it's always been 162 is our capacity. Yes, sir. Judge, I sort of said at the conference last week that it's not so much about telling them support 557, but to encourage them. It's in the different bill, right? 557 [clears throat] is in something else now. Oh, that's the I that's the first I've heard of that. So, but to really encourage the time surge. Oh yeah, absolutely. That was the main thing they were talking about.

Absolutely. Hope that makes sense. Yeah. Time served was very crucial. Very crucial. Any any reimbursement from the state back for their inmates? You don't think they do? No. [laughter] Well, you get credit for times and time you get arrested most of the time, right?

This isn't just a local county problem. This never jail house building. I I told Tumi I didn't I didn't feel like especially with as bad as the budget is where they're cutting everybody there's a way to give it all that there were about three different things and hope they give you one of the three and if they do thank them profusely cuz like it's it's lean on a lot of agencies so if you get any new money I will say if you do try to reach out just do it in a text or email cuz I don't they're in conference committee now which means that they're [clears throat] their time is very limited and don't expect to respond text cuz we're at that time where it's going to be decided on what money is spent. So, but I'm I'm

at the conference they told us text your rep and say you want this whatever you can get us. Yeah, I I agree with that. But it now is probably the the end of the time to be able to do that and it matter. But KO has worked their butt off on that so they know what the positions of the counties are. Yeah. Okay. All right. Anything else from post agenda? If not, I entertain a motion to adjourn.