Council - Regular Meeting

Ron, you ready? All right. All right. I'd like to call to order the Rackliff City Council regular meeting for Tuesday, November 18th, 2025, 5:30 at Rackcliffe City Hall. It's being streamed live on Facebook, recorded by Harden County Television. if you can please rise for an invocation and can remain standing. Uh the young man from boys uh the boys or boy scouts, excuse me, Adam Doulan, am I saying it right, Dulan, come on up and I'm going to let you do the pledge after our invocation. All right, so

let us pray. Father, we thank you for this day and we thank you for your abundant blessings. Father, we bring to you tonight um those who are sick within our community, those who need comfort, those who need love. Father, we ask that you give them strength during this time. Father, we ask to bless those as we go throughout this holiday season. Bless our service members both here and abroad in Jesus name. Amen. All right, Adam, it's all yours. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Adam, what troop are you with?

152. 152. Well, thank you for being here tonight. Thank you. All right. Can we have a roll call, please? Bill present. Brown here. Ro here. M here. Owens present. Thompson here. We have a quorum. have consideration approval of minutes for October 21st, 2025 regular meeting, November 10th, 2025 special call meeting and November 10th, 2025 work session. So second any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Well, thank you all so much for being here tonight. I want to give a special hello to my old friend and colleague, Mayor Inert.

See you. You want to come up here and do this? Bring back some old memories.

I'll even let you sit next to Mr. Pike just well I'm glad you're here. Good seeing you. Um so we have public comments to start off our meeting tonight. If anybody has a statement or would like to come up and speak for a few minutes now is your opportunity before we go intoformational. I'll let Yeah, you can come up there. Might as well let you do informational. But either way um nobody All right, we'll go toformational now. All right, I'm going to call up um Ramona Coffee, president and I don't know, CEO, I don't know what the official title is, of the local uh Hurricanes football team. And you all have had a very exciting season here, the Rackcliffe Hurricanes. Would you would you turn that uh switch up just there? And I should have said, yeah, it's good. Should have said Dr. coffee. But yeah,

first and foremost, thank you all so much for being here and having us here to have a voice. Um, please listen. And so, I'm Dr. Ramon Coffee. Grew up here since I was nine and definitely love working back in my community. I've been here for about 13 years now working at the military position. And this is my president. Um my name is Scott. I'm a prior um veteran. Well, I'm a veteran now. Prior military service 21 years. Um Ramona has entrusted me and given me the position of president for the youth football league and we made it to the championship. Two teams to the championship. won my 11U team,

got the championship in the division against Louisville teams. So, a great big feat. I'm very excited. Love all these kids and I just want this program to grow.

And that's really why we came today. Thank you. So, our football program is called the Kentucky Youth Football League, and we actually started in 2016, um, when Mayor Weaver was here, and we wanted to just do something different. Um, there was already youth football program here, but we wanted to kind of bring a different culture. My family is originally from Florida. My husband coached football in Florida for like 20 years, so we said we don't do it. We want to do a little different, okay? We have some fun. And my main thing was I wanted to have something for the girls and the boys to do, not just the boys. Um, but the girls seem to have just as much of a spotlight as the boys do. So, I was going to be the cheer coordinator and, you know, get the cheer program going. Well, it exploded way more than we thought it was going to be. Uh, we started our program with 144 kids and that is football and cheer. and we set it up originally to have different teams with different mascots kind of playing each other all at Dolly Park um in the city and we wanted them to be able to play other teams from different areas. problem is there was already kind of a I guess bad taste in there was not from the previous league that was there and a lot of people did not want to play us and didn't want to give us a chance and so we kind of had to start advocating going out to Barstown going out to Etown and they're like no Radcliffe they got a bad reputation Radcliffe they fight Radcliffe I'm like really I'm like we're new like we're not the same league so the only teams we could get to play us were in Louisville Louisville was scared of Radcliff So guess what? We started playing teams in um Louisville and our first year joining the LYSL which is Louisville youth football league. We won a championship which is the smaller of the trophies over there. But that was our first year. Our teams here in Radcliffe beat the teams in Louisville. And we

were like what? And our program became so much bigger because one thing we did not have when we started we didn't have nothing. We had no helmets, no uniforms, no nothing. My dad always said, "Put your money where your mouth is." So when me and my husband decided to do this, we invested $10,000, wrote a check. Stan Holmes was there, Chris J was there, and I handed them check and said, "This is how serious I'm about doing something different in this community." And Stan Home said, "Let me see that check. I just want to hold it." I'm like, "Listen, I'm serious." From that moment, they knew we were serious and we were here to stay. Our program for nine years has done nothing but grow. We've been doing things. We've done a football camp here. I know uh JJ remembers when we had 2023 football camp with Michael Irvin, Warren Sap right here at Dolly Park. We had kids from Georgia, Tennessee, all over Kentucky coming to Radcliffe to be a part of this program. And guess what? Guess what? The camp was $50. $50 camp. And all that money went towards making sure that Tony Sans and the people that he had brought up here were taken care of because we didn't have anything to do with that as far as getting money for that. We just want to do something for the community. We wanted kids to have something. It was girls in that camp. It was boys in that camp. You see what I'm saying? Because it was a training agility camp. So, it wasn't just football. And I have the uh brochures here because I want you guys to see the video that was made for our camp with all of our players, all of the uh celebrities that we had out there. Newspaper, News Enterprise talked about it. It was on wave three. This is something that was big in Radcliffe. You see what I'm saying? Something that we brought to the community. We want to keep doing things. We do Munchie Mondays. We've been doing Munchy Mondays ever since 2021. When we have our kids out there from

literally June to October, that is five months out of the year that 150 kids are spending four days a week not on the streets, not getting in trouble. They're playing football. They're with the cheer team. They're with their parents. They're at the playground at Dolly. They're having fun. And we hold them to that. We have mentors with our coaches. Our coaches are there as fathers when they don't have fathers. We had a gold star member which is a child that parent had died in the military in active duty and we praised him and we stood by him and his family the whole year and even when he was aged out we kept up in contact with them. The mom reached out to us a few times because he was having trouble. We don't leave these kids because they leave our program. We stay with them. We have kids right now playing at John Harden playing at North Harden. We follow those kids. We have kids at Kentucky Westland right now. You know, our kids are getting picked up in the the schools in Louisville. Trinity has picked up one of our kids. Stand picked up one of our kids because they see the talent that we have in our program. Our cheerleaders, oh, they won first place varsity. Hello. You see what I'm saying? We have a dance team. Those girls, they do halftime shows. They go out there on John Hart's football field and they perform for all the parents. This is what we're doing. Munchie Monday is from June, first Monday to the last Monday in the summer. Every Monday we are feeding every single kid for our team and their siblings food, chips, drink every single Monday. We call it Munchy Mondays and all the parents know and they all bring their kids and they all we let us know how many comments and we got the food ready. But we come out of our pockets to make sure that happens. This is what we're doing in this community. We've been doing this for a long long time. But we have not had a whole lot of support doing that and we are asking for more support to be able to do that because

this is not a cheap program to run. We have to pay for things. We have to rent a field. We reached out back in 2020 um to be able to play at a high school field because we tried and we talked to DJ plenty times about having a gate. Our games are not cheap. When we play these games, we're playing for security. We're paying for our referees. And when we first started, we were literally going to the ATM pulling out $500 every Saturday to cover our expenses because we didn't have a gate to be able to get money for our expenses. I told my husband, "We can't keep doing this. We have five kids. None of our kids play football. We need to be able to take care of our kids." So, we put a whole thing out to all the high schools. If anybody will let us play at their field, we were literally writing them a check for $5,000. That was my money. But I'm like, listen, somebody please let us play at their field. John Hart opened the doors and said, "Hey, y'all come over here." We started playing there and we have been doing so well ever since. Because now we have a way to pay for our referees. And by the way, the referees fees went up from $40 a game to $65 a game. And that's four referees for three games every Saturday. And that's just referee cost. And do we pay our police officers? And we have three officers. So you can imagine we spending over $800 every Saturday. Those are costs that we don't have money for. We are having to come out the pockets for our helmets. Me and my husband bought every single helmet. Okay? When we first started this league, the helmets were $85. Our registration fees were $75. Uniform was $75. See what I'm saying? And then at death, we cover cheerleaders. We spent $25 our first year of our own money just to make sure we could start our program. I'm serious about this community. I grew up here. I'm not going nowhere. I'm here. Okay. I want to have help to do what I'm doing for this community. This is my community. I didn't go away and leave. A

lot of people do that. I didn't do that. I came back. They asked me to go work in Etown. Guess where I'm at? Down the road in Brad Cliff. I've been there all this time. This is where I want to be. I want to be helped to stay here. We got kids with talent. We have kids that are off the streets. We have kids that are surviving and doing very well with mentors, with coaches that have background checks, with team mom that have background checks. You know what I'm saying? These are safe people doing good in our community. So, we just want to have that support. But I have these for you all also because I really want you to see the video that we make because I want you to get a full scope of what we're doing and that we have way more planned, way more planned. But we want to know how much help we're going to get through all that. And that's what I'm asking you all today.

Before you finish that, will you tell us about the taller trophy?

So the taller trophy is her success. So this was mine, the smaller one, I will say. But this is my president who, like I said, she stepped up in a big way for me. She led this program because I have not been able to be there as much as I would like to with my my my job. And I said, "If I can't get somebody to step up, y'all, I kind of kind of sat down because it's too much to handle when I'm doing it by myself." and she said, "You know what? I'll do it. I'll step up." I said, "Can you can be out there?" Because we like to physically be out there with the games and the practices. I don't like to be somewhere else and the games are happening. She was at every practice. She's at every game. She is the one that was responsible for these coaches getting these kids to play that ball and to understand the goals and understand the aspect of what we're supposed to be doing. We only had 22 kids on this team. They were beating teams with double back

and that's the first place trophy that they ended up winning against the team in Louisville. The the 11 teammates in Louisville, okay, but our team literally was just doing amazing. And by the way, we got a girl on that team, okay? And she hits hard, okay? So that's the success of the kids and rap. We want y'all to see that. You want to pass those out there? But this is what the kids are able to do.

Yeah, they can see that because that's what we give out to all of our sponsors so that we let the sponsors know what we're about and what we've been doing. Um, and it kind of also shows them the cost that we build, what we're doing every season, what we do with our kids. And and I know of course you announced, do you want to announce the gentleman back there behind you who he is? So this is my co-founder, my husband, Coach P. Pronounce Spencer. So, and he's he's really responsible for a lot of the culture with our music and our DJing at our games. So, an announcement, anybody that knows knows that we bring a Florida vibe. We play music. We have fun. Um, a lot of times we have dance competitions in the middle between games.

Well, and I know one of the things like with my boys obviously playing for you guys, but with the Longhorns like Mrs. King's, you know, grandkids and stuff. They're now at North Middle and they're all friends and they all know each other and they're all playing football on the same teams and it's, you know, they still talk a little trash to each other, but it's a fun it's fun, you know, and so they build that, you know, we want them to that's why we follow the kids even after they leave our program after they age out. We still go to their games. We still support them in their high school. We don't have been in a lot of our games. Yeah,

we go to different schools, different games, but our program, we don't just have winning seasons. Please understand that. Our parents stay with us because it's more than just about football and cheer. We're doing dances. We're doing things with the families. We have family fun day, which is open to everybody in Ragwood, by the way. Bounce houses, free food. We've had military soldiers come off the base. When we did our thing with our camp, we actually coordinated that with Fort Knox. Fort Knox had the NFL players come on the base. They were talking to the soldiers, meeting the soldiers, and then their soldiers came off the base to our camp and was giving out things to our kids in our community. They were helping to support our camp. This was a literally a coordinated effort that we did right here in Radcliffe. And this wasn't us paying some event coordinator. This was me, my husband, JJ, Tony Sans. You see what I'm saying? We just worked together. We just network together to get something done that needed to happen in Radcliffe. And that's the kind of stuff we can do all the time and bring more exposure to Radcliffe and do more with our families in Radcliffe. That's what I've been here doing. That's what I want to be doing with you all because we've been here nine years doing this.

I want to say one um thing that she brought up about um the military base. So, my husband is still active duty. Like I said, I'm not active duty anymore. I'm retired. I mean, new new life. I love it. Um, but what was very important for me and why I really got involved in the program is because Fort Knox does not have this for the kids at all. So, they have to find somewhere to go. They have to go to Longhorns or they have to go to Hurricanes. Why we have to choose, I didn't understand that when I got here, but we're also trying to mend those relationships as well. But they do not have a middle school football team for tackle. And I feel like that hurts them when they h they have a high school team and that hurts them when that's the first time they step foot on the football field or touch that football. So with us teaching those fundamentals and those structures, it helps that transition. So a lot of our team are military kids because they they need somewhere to go. They want they love the game. My son loves the game. He aged out this year. He's so happy that he got this championship. We woke up the next morning like, "Mom, we did it. We got the championship." So, it it's very it's very humbling because I've been that parent that was just on the sideline and I now I've made my way all the way up, you know, to this high level that I graciously appreciate that you gave me. But it's the kids. It's always about the kids. And I tell them that every time and I'm on my coaches because it's about the kids. the the moment you make it about yourself, it's not worth it. So, it's about the kids. We want the kids to have a great time. We want them to love football. We want them to have teamwork and that building of community and family. And that's always every time

I I reach out to um my families and everything. Hey, family. Hey, Hurricane family. Like, it's it's that thing. I love them all. I'm going treat them just like they were my kids. And I mean that part and the love, you know. So I I really love this program. I just want to see it continue to grow, but it definitely cost definitely cost. All right. Well, thank you for coming. Got your message. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Um, just let everybody know um how you guys doing. I still contact the NFL players, the ones that came here and visit Michael Urban, NFL Hall of Fame, Warren St. Actually, they came back. He came back without, you know, the people, but he really wants to come back and help Rack. He told me that whatever he does, he wants to do it here at Rad. Just think about having ESPN or Sports Illustrated here in Radcliff with these football things going on. I'm still having conversation with these guys and we really want to put the spotlight on Ragnar and Bill Ratner. Those guys was walking. They was in the community. They went to IHOP. They was looking for houses and stuff like that.

Waffle House. Waffle House. Waffle House. Yeah, you said IHOP. That was Waffle House. I was fired. all they they really want to come back and do it all over again because they feel like we have a lot of growth and they can feel that they can help us

um whatever we need them to help us. They just want us to have partners. So just let you guys know I still talk to these NFL players and they want to come back next year. Yeah. And it was just a side note and then we'll move on, but uh when I was in Florida for Cameron's football camp, there was a guy sitting next to me and he played at Kansas and I asked him if he knew who Tony Sans was. He goes, "Yeah." He goes, "Yeah, he actually knows him." So I texted Tony and I was just like, "Hey, do you know this kid?" He goes, "Yeah, what's he what are you doing with him?" So you see, it was just a weird connection, you know, cuz his son was on this football camp the camera was in, right?

And then we just started talking and then him and I started talking and he didn't know Pernell, though. He had no idea who Pel was. But you know, it's just a weird when you start talking to people, you realize connections and how things work.

Let me tell you a little bit about the potential that we have because I knew from the beginning not to change what we originally started. So, our actual business name is the Kentucky Youth Football League. I never changed it. Our mascot is Rackcliff Hurricanes because we always want to represent Rag Club and we did a mascot. But I've always known the potential of this program if we become big enough is that we're going to grow into a national football league, a youth football league like we originally planned. I don't know if you all understand, but the location of Radcliffe, where we're at, is a key point for a lot of places in Kentucky when it comes to playing football. I've been contacted by multiple teams throughout Kentucky about wanting to join our league. And I'm like, "No, we don't have a league here." You know, and they're like, "You know when we can join?" I'm like, well, I'm trying to direct them different places, but this is an area that it's easy to get to and it's a very big area to be able to have people, hotels, have people, but we have to have the vision to do that. Youth is important and everyone's looking for youth camps, youth clubs, youth. We have a program for nine years has been successful. It's only grown bigger, but we have to have people with the same vision. We have to grow to bring the youth to this area, bring the tournaments to this area. Everyone goes to Gatlinburgg for, you know what I'm saying, their rocky time.

That is a huge thing in Gatlinburgg that our kids are going down to Tennessee to go to. Why are they going there? Because we don't have that same level of tournaments here, but we can. We put on things with NFL players. We put on championship games with John Harden. We know how to organize things. That's the reason why we keep getting reached out to do more things. Our police security is phenomenal. The LFL uses our security for their game because that's how good they are. That's how organized our program has been for so long that we can do more, but we need to help to do that and we want to have the vision with you all to do that. But that's what we want to do. All right. Well, we appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Thank you for coming. All right. Next, uh, on the agenda, we have the Rackcliffe Women's Club. I think you guys have a presentation you'd like to do. Presentation. We have a check for the resource center. Okay. Computers computers. Okay. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. I don't know. You want to take a photo or you just want to give it to us? I'd like a photo. Okay. All right. Let's all get up. All right. We're gonna get up and take a photo. I got dressed. Yeah.

And she was here. And she was here yesterday. Yes. Yeah. Everybody, we're gonna step over here.

Long as you don't stand beside me. Come on. Come on, Becky. Yeah.

Hold on. Cheers. Three. One, two, three. I know. All right. away.

Ashley, I give you that. And I just want to mention that from Rack Club and that is just in case uh Mike for the rack rack from the Rackcliffe women's club for the resource center computers and that should hopefully get us to computers. So, thank you very much. We appreciate it. Thank you guys and you all. And honestly, when that idea floated several years ago, the women's club here has been very instrumental in supporting, helping, bringing books. I know I see Mary and your car over there all the time working inside and the women's club in general as a whole. So, thank you all for contributing to support that since we lost our library.

Thank you all. All right, I think and then I have one more from Miss Bell. You've had a couple of recognitions. Yes, I believe. And so I'm going to do my best, but you have two for completions. And this is for your leadership. This is certification. Uh you did the city officials for the Kentucky League of Cities. Yes.

And you received your plaque. So, and then you also you had another one from the League of Cities and this was your uh city officials training day. You got that in the mail as well. That was given to us. And then this one is from someone that I somewhat know, but I guess he doesn't care that I recognize you. From Mayor Greenberg. Do you know who that is? All right. And this was a recognition that you received in honor of being a distinguished citizen. And he did he did proclaim that there in the city of Louisville uh during your bell award. So congratulations. This was sent to us. And so I'm going to give you these, right? All right. Congratulations.

Congratulations, Maria. CONGRATULATIONS. You're welcome. Congratulations. Thank you. All right. All right. I think that's all, Ashley. Is that all we had forformational? Believe that's correct.

All right. We will move on to new business. And I need an introduction for the first reading of an an ordinance reszoning property located at 238 Oak Cedar Oak Drive. Have an introduction. Thank you. This is a summary of a zoning ordinance reszoning property located at 238 Cedar Oak Drive, Vine Grove, Kentucky, part of Arlington Center, lot 3B, PVA, map number 138-20-07-003 from CZ zone to R4 zone 8.840 acres. The city of Radcllay Planning Commission conducted a public hearing on a zone map amendment request on November 6, 2025 made by applicant owner Silvergate Properties LLC for 8.480 480 acres of property located on the west rightway of Veterans Memorial Parkway, US Highway 30 361 at 238 Cedar Oak Drive, Vine Grove, Kentucky, part of Arlington Center, lot 3B, PVA number 138-20-07-00003. CD book 1182, page 769, Office of the Harden County Clerk. The request was for an amendment from commercial zone to residential 4, high density single family and duplex zone. The planning commission recommended the zone map amendment request be granted as a request was supported by the evidence of record, the city's comprehensive zoning plan and applicable law. And the city council is now enacting an ordinance to change the property zoning. Please find the full ordinance on the website www.racliff.org or by contacting the city clerk at ashley.russocliffky excuse me ashley.russocliffky.gov by email. That's first reading. Mayor,

thank you Mr. All right. Um, next need an introduction of the first reading of the ordinance adopting the code of ethics for the city of Rackcliffe, city officials, employees. I'll introduce, sir. Thank you, ma'am.

This is summary of the ordinance adopting code of ethics for city of Rackcliffe officials and employees. The city of Rackcliffe is adopting a revised code of ethics for city officials and employees pursuant to KRS 65.003. The ordinance defines terms and standards of conduct regarding conflicts of interest, receipt of gifts, use of government resources, confidential information, political solicitation, patronage, honoraria, meeting attendance, and other related issues. The ordinance outlines required financial disclosures, processes for enforcement, hearings, and appeals, penalties, and repeals the previous code of ethics. The full version of the ordinance can be found at Rackcliff City Hall during regular business hours or can be accessed by contacting Ashley D.Russo Russo at racklift ky.gov by email. That's first reading, mayor.

All right. Thank you, Mr. P. All right. Next is going to be the find it here. The uh building uh this is consideration approval. This was the amendment for the bid. Uh we discussed I mentioned that at the last meeting that difference in that bid price. And I need a motion and a second to second. We had a motion. We have a second. And then that was what we discussed at the work session and we had the one bid that was submitted. So if we have nothing, I'll entertain. Roll call, please. Bon, yes. Brown, yes. D Ro, yes. Marl, yes. Owens, yes. Yes.

And then the final item is the consideration and approval of the Rackcliffe Fire Chief. Is he here tonight if he's present or not? Oh, there he is. Uh so as you all know um Mr. Tim Marsh has been our interim fire chief for the last few months and from all accounts they have not ran him off yet up there but uh Tim has been with the department 25 years and so uh we made the as a body you know we considered him as the interim and now that we were getting into December he's approaching that sixth month and so I'm see yeah six almost six months but I'm making a recommendation uh and I need a motion in a second for approval.

Motion second. Make a motion. Second. All right. You got a lot of seconds, Tim. I don't know if it's good or not. All right. We're hearing no more. Any discussion? Hearing none. Mr. Russo Brown, yes. Bro, yes. Merl, yes. Owens, absolutely. Thompson, 100%. Bill, yes. 1,00%. I guess that I guess that means you're approved. All right. And then, uh, congratulations. I know Ben. been how you've been 23 21 years and you've just been promoted to captain. So congratulations. No, no, you ain't going to say no. I didn't get to say nothing at your thing.

So the story the story behind this is I I had planned to be in Nashville this weekend and was unable to attend and I had taken hours out of my day to write a nice speech to, you know, for Ashley to read at the ceremony. And I asked her earlier, I said, "How'd my speech go?" She said, "Well, they didn't get to read it. They didn't have." So, I called him. I said, "I worked I worked myself to death to get that speech done." So, that's the story behind that.

But I do apologize, of course, for not being able to attend, but congratulations to everyone that was promoted and all the guys. So, absolutely. But you can say yes, absolutely. Um, first of all, I want to say uh thank you all for having the confidence in me and the mayor and council uh entrusting me with the uh livelihood and the safety of the citizens of Rackcliffe. Uh I don't take it lightly. It's a it's a privilege and honor to do this. U you know I don't do it alone. I have a great group of employees, staff. Um, you know, thank you for the extra captain because having Captain Vandermmon and Captain Green helping me, uh, makes the day-to-day stuff a whole lot a lot better, a lot easier. We run a lot smoother. Uh, with all the new promotions, we uh, finally had our staff meeting today where we're getting everything on track from with all the lieutenants and the sergeants. So, everybody's on the same page now. Uh, it's onward and upward. Uh, you know, like I said that it uh I don't do this alone. I have a great group of firefighters who uh have really high spirits about the direction of the department. You know, uh Chief Leadford, Chief Henderson, uh you know, left me in good shape.

You know, they uh built the department to what it is now. And uh I just hope to continue to improve what they left me. You know, we're we're in good shape. And uh also uh because the other night I didn't have anything I lost my papers that for for the mayor's uh letter that he had wrote and uh you know I I forgot to thank some people you know it's I want to say thank you uh to all my firefighters all the staff and uh especially want to thank my wife and my family for all their support.

I was waiting for that. I can't uh I can't do this alone. I won't do it alone. Uh you know, I need their help and I appreciate all they do for me, you know. So, thank you again. And I just want to say thank you to Ashley for all her help, all her guidance. Uh had a lot of conversations with her since I've taken over. you know, four months ago, I sat in this chair in the hot seat when uh when we were promoting for looking for a chief and uh you know, so and it was 25 years prior to that when I sat in this hot seat. So, you know,

well, I was thinking about it because Marinette was here if you think about So, she hired you, she hired Ben, I guess she hired John, if I'm guessing right, was John. Yeah, it was 2006. Yeah, mayor in. So, you did pretty good, mayor. I have to say you did good. They hung in there. Yeah, I really appreciate her, too. So, but all right, that's all I have. All right. Thank you. Congratulations.

And, uh, one other thing, uh, we are in preparations for the Santa truck. Uh, so we're getting that ready to go and that starts Friday after Thanksgiving. So Friday after Thanksgiving. So So when you say that, what days will you be? Is it just on the weekends?

It's Fridays and Saturday evenings except for December 6. That will be our department uh Christmas dinner, but it'll be Fridays and Saturday evenings. And uh we will be posting the routes on the on our Facebook page so people will know what neighborhoods we will be getting into. Uh we can't hit every street. We would we wish we could but there's just no way. There's not enough time to get down every street and especially some of the culde-sacs that we have to go down. It's hard to get those big trucks turned around those culde-sacs. So, uh, if people will just watch the turn by turn on the, uh, on the Facebook posts on the routes, then they can get on street corners or go to another. We don't have a tracker on it, do we?

Uh, like where we do the Santa tracker thing. We don't have that on that, do we? Well, we'll we'll get it posted. We do have one Santa tracker. Okay. Yeah. So, they can see it on the on the Facebook where we're at located on the route. So, they don't have to go out and stand out in the cold for an hour or two waiting on us, you they they can watch when we're coming down their street and know when we're going to be close. So, anybody else? Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. All right, with that, we'll move on to mayor comments. I think I started on 10. I think I started that in last time. So, Miss Bell, we'll start with you.

Hi, everybody. And I'm glad to see almost full house again. I love that. And if you noticed, I can't wait for spring. I said I better start now because this weather it's all about dark colors. Nah, not me.

And also not just for that for two more reasons. Bill Change Inc. got a home after five years setting up in a corner in a street in a parking in a in a trailer park visiting people in their homes which I'm not going to say I'm going to say that I will continue that if they don't have a car that's another story. 849 North Dixie Boulevard in Rat Plaza is officially Be the Change Inc. Food Bank drop off anything you don't need anymore in the house. Anything people bring toasters and microwaves, we give them. We pass them on to people. And food, it used to be once a week, twice a week, three times a week. Now it's going to be every day. But who's going to do that? I'm going to cook it and volunteers will do that. And number three on my comments, uh the immediate next week, 26th of November, at four o'clock at that place, 8:49 North Dixie Boulevard, we're going to give out 300 free meals, Thanksgiving, uh turkey, all these fixings and everything. So, nobody will have complained. On my Thanksgiving, I had spaghetti like I had when I came to the United States. I came in November and we had no money. So, we did have spaghetti. So, thank you so much. Thank you so much.

Mr. Brown, I'd like to wish everyone a a warm, safe Thanksgiving. Thank you,

I want to say I was at the uh celebration on Saturday night and I just want to commend the fire department. Uh, it seems like everybody that was promoted talked about the, you know, the the bond that they have within the fire department and it was just um very inspiring to see how well everybody works together and and how much they all seem to appreciate each other. So, I just want to commend you for that and uh I like seeing that that camaraderie between your team. And other than that, I just want to wish everybody a happy Thanksgiving. happy and safe Thanksgiving. So, and thank you all for being here tonight.

Well, I'll echo uh Councilwoman D. Ro on the ceremony Saturday. That was It's one thing to sit here, Pam and I were talking and talk about the firefighters and when we're doing budget and things like that, but when we're actually in the room with the families and face to face and we don't really know what goes on in there, but the camaraderie was just amazing. And you have a chaplain or we have a chaplain firefighter also now which I thought that was pretty interesting uh and appreci appreciative. So very well done Saturday. Um our tree lighting is December 5th at Calvin Community Center. It starts at 6 o'clock and there is a free photos for Santa with Santa. So put that on your calendar. And since the Radcliffe uh Women's Club is in the room, I announced I believe last week that there's a food drive uh that we are as a a city and the women's club collecting just non-p perishables, um feminine hygiene products, baby diapers, and uh form formula things that you can't maybe necessarily get on SNAP. And the fire department uh both fire departments in Rackcliffe are drop offs. And when I was on there Saturday, uh, Miss Marsh showed, uh, me a room full of canned goods and the things that are going to be picked up at the end of the month that was donated by, I believe, a Cub Scout Troop 488 or are they Boy Scout? Cub Scout Troop 488. So, we were hoping for more collectibles, more items to be dropped off and they have been gracious enough to open their Well, they're open 8 to 8 Sunday through Monday. So, seven days a week, go to the fire department and take uh some non-p perishables. Um the festivals of trees, if you're wanting to still set up a tree at Calvin, you can still do that this week. Um if your organization or um company or school or whatever you have,

you can call uh Calvin if you want to get more information. 270351-479. And I waited to say this last because it's a um if I can do it. What you talking about? What you talking about? We had a big victory, a big win this week.

Yesterday at 9:30 last night in Harden County courtroom, there was 31 guilty verdicts for torture of animals. That is a trial that's been waiting two and a half years. And thanks to our Commonwealth attorneys, our detective Radcliffe Matting Lee, everyone that testified, the families that lost pets to this um situation, uh Harden County set a huge precedent throughout this our county and the state of Kentucky for animal welfare laws. And I'm proud to be a voice for animal welfare. And I'm proud that it happened uh here in Rackcliffe and that the verdict was what it is. Tomorrow at 9:00 is the sentencing and uh this news is being echoed throughout the state with um just how excited everyone is that this was a vic a huge victory. So I I have to say that for

they don't think the jury was out long on deliver. They were out seven hours. We waited seven hours um for the jury. So 19 31 counts of all guilty. So we'll see what happens tomorrow. But um people throughout echo I wish we had stronger laws. I wish there were stronger animal laws. Um and this is definitely one of the strongest laws that you could ask for. So, I just have to say that I'm I'm Congratulations to our Commonwealth and to our community for setting that precedence and have a happy Thanksgiving. Thank you. I did it. Miss one.

I got a roll, sir. I got to roll. Um my apology for not making it to your ceremony, sir. I was actually over here in Coven Community Center at the charity auction for Shot with the Cop for Vine Grove. I understand they have 10k to um support 550 students at 200 a piece and then we raised $2,09 to add 10 more kiddos to that list. So that's where I was over there. Also much appreciation for the Veterans Day uh displays and observances both at Metal View Elementary School and Bluegrass Middle School. Also, Adam, who's back there, my scout, would you tell us why you're here when you're trying to get your merit badge real quick? You got 10 seconds. and kind of having an opinion whether you agree or disagree and think we can approve on something that civic engagement. Okay. Also for the hurricanes as their their prior homecoming queen that I got to be I have a scepter and the crown and some jerseys and for a while myself and the mayor were going at each other as we were trying to raise money. So every time I would give them money he would give it plus a dollar. So, we have another donation.

I'm going to start this again. Please come and get your money. Keep up with her. I can't keep up with her.

Come get your money. I was with them yesterday. Was it yesterday or Sunday? Sunday with turkeys and carrying on. Um because it does take a lot. It takes more than money. It takes presents and it takes a continuence from things that she talked about the equipment, the helmets have to be reertified. Kids get big and small. the girls the girls move on and you have girls to replace them as cheerleaders and you've got someone grilling and someone bringing fruit and someone trying to fix Cle and all these things are going on whether they're across the street which is where they used to be trying to do things and me getting after Mr. KO to get that area sprayed because the chiggers aters up once one

one summer. So when people say, "Hey Terry, do you have any children in the system?" I said, "They're all mine and I appreciate supporting them." Um, also I got the I say I could probably match a dollar above that. That was 2,000. So you need to give me 2,000. I say just a dollar to give her a

That's my my quiet way to, you know, fund raise. Uh, also I got to uh visit also on Sunday um Lieutenant Michael Holman as he is our police officer that had a heart attack. And so I was up in the CICU and like most men, you know, he doesn't want to take instructions about powering down and do what he needs to do. But I did meet a lot of family members and we we realized we had something in common by being out in Afghanistan. So then that comes along stories and whatnot about having, you know, just just dirt on our boots. But when they when an officer goes down, no matter who they are, where they are, and what relationship they are, it is definitely a gap. You understand how people sustaining in the gap, it is it is really horrifying to see him and have short memory. He doesn't remember anything beyond getting in the ambulance. He doesn't even remember, sir, getting in the ambulance. And so, he's got that short-term memory right now, but it'll all make its way back. He's dying to get on his cell phone. He's on cell phone restrictions. He cannot do the work but it's killing him because that's what he wants to do. So he is doing okay in the CICU. He's on the second floor at Baptist. Last thing similar to Maria I was also awarded the citizen of the year by the Omegas High five fraternity incorporated the local Zai chapter for doing what we all do and none of us do it by ourselves. So I just wanted to make sure that um I said that. And last but not least, or maybe it is my least, my president back there, uh, Kevin Russell has been diligently representing our Harden County branch for NAACP as we have been paying it forward to several organizations that have also been riding with us and riding hard when we have donated $500 to those organizations anywhere from the youth center services or what we call the ferisses at the high school. We're at um North Harden High School also helping Hannah Hope all these

organizations that continue doing what they're doing no matter where we are in the world or what the political environment is or who's doing what to John they have to continue doing what they do and it takes a lot to do with the D. So our little small piece was to make sure we had enough money in the coffer to pay it forward. So thank you Kevin Russell back there. Hi. Now he's our president of our NAACP Harden County branch. That's it, sir. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mr. Thompson.

Yeah. I'd like to echo what Councilwoman Dro said and wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. Also, uh a reminder that Els 2091 is going to have a breakfast uh December 6 at 9:00 a.m. admission is a canned good or something that's uh that's um non-p perishable and it is sponsored by algebra 91 and TZ. And since I don't have to do like a mayor and match the two, you can still do it though. You still do.

I'm going to go ahead and donate $1,000. But you got to catch me tomorrow because after tomorrow night, I'll eat. You keep telling me about your vacation. Why you keep telling me? What jeeous? I don't want you to hate me. No. No. But uh I'll give you my phone number and I'll donate $1,000. I apologize. This isn't nothing to do with me. I forgot to mention something. Um, Patton Museum is reopened and, uh, the holidays are coming. So, family comes in from out of town, you're looking for things local to do. Uh, you can now go to the Patton Museum Tuesday through Saturday, 9 to 4:30s. They are closed Sunday and Mondays

and they'll be closed for the holidays on December 14th or the 16th. And they will not reopen until after new the first of the year. And it's still free in admission. on the breakfast December 6 in that co community center. Yep. I should have made y'all come like next May. Then I'd be able to help y'all out a little bit more. No. Uh

I know you will be. I do want to uh mention and I know Councilwoman just touched on Owens, but I do want to mention uh Lieutenant Holman. Chief, you want to come in real quick? Just give us a quick update. He did suffer a cardiac arrest this weekend and so he's doing better. He's doing well. We're very happy with his pro progress. But Chief, you got anything to add? Lots of prayers for him and his family. Yes, he has.

You know, when he uh and you and I joked about it, he woke up. He's ready to come back to work. He said I he said I'll be he said I'll be back in a week. So yeah. So yeah. So we're glad he's he's doing a lot better. So thank you, sir. Appreciate it.

All right. And then lastly, as I hate to mention, I've got to have I will be out for about at least two weeks. So that means, and I know Mary will appreciate this, when the mayor is out of town or out of office, I will be having surgery. I've got to have my for years I have been going to the gym and at the young age of 46 my body said you're not 21 anymore and I tore my bicep

and so uh I got to have surgery. I'm having surgery on Thursday and so it's about a two to about a two week recovery time and then I got to be in an arm brace for four to six weeks and then physical therapy all that great stuff. I know I joked with Mike about it cuz Mike has been through some surgeries over your time and so uh I was just thinking, you know, it's hilarious. Yes, it's a it's a fun time. So,

uh but I will be out for a few weeks as I try to recover. And what that means is, and for those watching at home, you call the mayor's office and you cannot speak to the mayor, I'm not going to call you during that two week period. I'm going to take these two weeks off to focus in and get myself back where I need to be. Ashley takes on all that responsibility.

And so for those that do, and I will if I have to call somebody out, I don't mind to call. That's just a joke. But I will say that a lot of times and and Ashley will tell you people call in and they don't want to speak to anybody but the mayor. And a lot of times sometimes, you know, that's what Ashley's here for is to help, you know, hopefully resolve some of those issues and and get people, uh, issues resolved quickly. So, uh, I just want to say, you know, I'll still be able to communicate stuff. Obviously, it'll just be in the arm, but if for the next few days, if I don't answer, that's why I'm not in the office. So, well, thank you. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Another great hire, Brandon Mayor in your Yeah, actually. I will say that.

Actually, we go around the room and start pointing everybody. Timmy, you hired Timmy. You hired Jeff. I can start naming everybody. It's amazing how long they've all stayed here because of because of you. I don't know. Kim still he was on plan. He put him on planning commission. So, I was on planning zoning and enforcement board. I'm waiting for the guy next to me to say and and and I came under mirror buring as well. Did he? I think you did, didn't you? Now we're getting into ancient history.

But uh Donald Skeers was city attorney for Radcliffe in the 1970s for several years and Terry Bennett was city attorney

uh for many years as well. and then Lori Lodge Lane who's now Lori Concincaid with city attorney for a while and then yours truly. So, but I enjoyed my time with with Mayor Inart. She was good to work with Kathy Weisner and Barb Wilkins and they helped raise me as well as city attorney. And I'll tell you funny story. Of course, Francis Jones was city clerk for many years. And in the old days in the uh courtroom uh as many in society did, they smoked cigarettes, right? So, you walk into a room like this and it would be filled with smoke. The literal smoke filled room. Well, anyway, Skeer says to me one day when I'm fairly new as city attorney, he says, "Now, Francis Johns used to have a drawer next to me and it was full of candy. do you have a drawer full of candy at the city? And I said, "No, sir. Times have changed." So he let me know that, you know,

get one better. I had a long way to go and I'm still waiting on the drawer of candy, but it's okay. But anyway, so yeah, but mayor, it's good to see you and hope you're doing well. Wish you a happy holiday season. Yep. You want me to still name every but Chance Fox? I can keep going, mayor. I don't know. They're all still hanging in here. I don't know. So interesting.

All right. Well, with that, uh, then we have a couple of quick things. Uh, we have the tree lighting on December 5th, uh, that evening. And then I think Kim mentioned the you mentioned the, uh, pancake breakfast the next morning. And then the following weekend, I believe the 12th and 13th, Ashley. Is that right? Is going to be at the cabins. our annual cabins, Christmas cabins that a Friday night. So just stay tuned. We'll keep you all informed. I'm sorry. Oh, when's the taste? December December 8th. Monday, December 8th. Okay. Monday's Can they still get tickets or can buy at the door? I know. I already have. Okay. So, women's rackliff women's cup their annual uh uh

taste of taste of rack Monday. Yes. Okay. Sounds good. All right, with that I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. So move second. Motion second. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed?