Board of Commissioners - Regular Meeting

I call the meeting to order of the city of Frankfurt Board of Commissioners. This is the October regular meeting. Today's October 27th. It's 5:00 p.m. And before we begin, if everyone will stand and we'll do the pledge of allegiance. I aliance 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. And Madame Clerk, will you please call the role?

Commissioner Richardson here. Commissioner Anger here. Commissioner May here. Commissioner Smith Willis here. Mayor Wilkerson present. And we begin tonight with the citizens comments that we have a couple of folks here. And I'll invite you to the podium. We give you five minutes if you'll state your name and uh we may have some questions or discussion after that. So first Rachel Moore if you want to come up.

Okay. So for those of you who do not know me, my name is Rachel Moore. I'm the executive director and founder of William Joseph Crisis Nursery and I also work for W Joyce Robinson Foundation. I'm very involved with the community with CARES and I'm here on behalf of many of the local nonprofits. I'm sure you guys are aware that due to the government shutdown, many families in our community are going to lose SNAP benefits for the the month of November, if not longer. The responsibility will ultimately fall on us as local nonprofits and the churches and the schools and we already struggle struggle with funding. Um, we need to be proactive and come up with a plan to prevent this crisis. This is something that we've never had to had to navigate before. According to data provided by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, 5,282 individuals in Franklin County are currently receiving SNAP benefits. 2,328 of those individuals are under the age of 18 and 730 are elderly participants ages 60 and above. Many in our community will be faced with the choice to either eat or pay their bills. And this will be a ripple effect. Temperatures are dropping, so people will be unable to pay utilities and they will be without heat. With the lack of affordable housing, people are already struggling to pay their rent. Families will be evicted from their homes. We have no place to house them and very limited resources to help them financially. People are going to be desperate to make ends meet. Every month, Locals distributes 200 food food boxes to the schools and 50 boxes to the community. Access distributes about 20 to 30 food boxes. Capitol City Activity Center around 700 boxes and the Salvation Army hands out around 50. I've personally had to go to the grocery for families recently who were turned down for food boxes because there are no resources and those families already received SNAP. So, they're already not having enough. I've organized a committee consisting of

organizations, churches, and individuals willing to help with planning for this emergency. I'm asking the city to join our planning efforts and help provide funding to feed our community. The planning committee will meet virtually this Thursday at 1. And please let me know how I can get you the link to join. And we will also meet Monday, November 3rd at 4:30 in the community room at Paul Sawyer Public Library. So, I don't know if we have a plan as a community if you all already have one, but we're going to need help um navigating this. Any any questions or discussion for Miss Commissioner May? Real quickly, when was the virtual meeting this week? Um, yes, this Thursday at 1.

Thursday at 1. November 3rd at what time? 4:30. Commissioner Richardson. So, the third is the Paul Sawyer, right? In the community room. Is there an estimate? So, we know the number of of households and how much in monthly benefits are at stake here for the average household. I'm not sure. I wasn't able to find that data on the website. And how are we uh we have the director of the access well men's shelter. Where are we at capacity there?

Yes, we're at capacity. And our food boxes are basically emergency through the police department. You know, the police department contacts me. We're not set up to give out hundreds of food boxes every month. It's a it's a case by case emergency. The police will call. You know, we have family with children that there's no kids and they call me and we take care of it. Yeah. Commissioner Smith Willis, forgive me if I'm maybe just shooting at the stars for this. So the community fund that we have for the flood, is there a way that this can be intersectional for something like this or is that that might be a question for them, but is there a way to work with people like that have already have a fund established?

Although it is designated for the flood relief, how can we, you know, combine team efforts, collaborate because there's already funds established there. So sorry Harry if you're watching this and I'm just throwing you out there, but it's just an idea. So, I'm on the committee for um for the community fund through CARES, and we still have families reaching out for major needs that we still haven't even communicated with. So, we could maybe use some of those, but there's still a lot of unmet unmet needs for the flood as well.

Um I know I think Virginia maybe cleared it a state of emergency, so I don't know how we could get Kentucky to do the same, but I think we're going to have to depend on state funds. Like, this is going to be huge. I don't think the city even has enough money to do that. I think every community like ours is going to be well, they're probably having these same conversations. So, we thank you for coming and and making everyone aware that's watching this and it's going to be all hands on deck for the next few weeks until this is resolved. And it sounds like that the state's not even allowed to do anything on this. That's there was a Zoom call last week about it. So, it's a Well, we'll make sure that somebody there's representation.

Yes. At that meeting. Okay. Thank you. I just feel like the all the responsibility of this can't fall on the nonprofits or churches or schools because we're already struggling, you know, to fund our programs and stuff. So, agreed. Thank you. Thank you. Thank [clears throat] you.

And next, Robert Howell. Welcome. Um, I'm Robert Howell. Um, last summer I submitted a report, a concern, a request to frankfurt ky.gov regarding weeds and tall grass on the property adjacent to my backyard as a possible code violation. The area was inspected and determined to be woodlands with no violation. I met with the inspector and the manager and explained my disagreement. The manager said he understood my concern and offered to review the situation. The weeds have grown worse in since then and extend onto my property and I haven't the means to cut them back. I have a photograph from September 23rd. [snorts] I request your assistance to have this property cleaned up and the weeds and tall grass cut back. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to voice my concern and set the record straight. I will be pleased to answer any questions you might have.

Commissioner, what was the what was the area again? Um, well, my area is uh my address is 202 Compton Drive and the area of concern is 1015 Wilkinson Boulevard.

We'll certainly look into it. Thank you. Then is that a city property? Well, I don't It's a Buffalo church property. Okay. Thank you, Mr. H. Any question? Any other questions for Mr. H? All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we'll move on to ceremonial and recognition. We have a special presentation tonight for the city of Frankfurt Fire Academy graduation. if um representatives from our fire department will come forward and honor the the graduates. [snorts]

Hey everyone, how are you all? Hello. Yes. So, we just wanted to come tonight um [clears throat] take a few moments to recognize our 2025 Citizens Fire Academy. Uh it wasn't the biggest class, but it was a great class. They all came together really well, worked really hard together. Um so, uh Chief Clayton actually led this class. He taught all the classes, worked with our crews, and uh it was a really good time. So, I actually wanted to give Chief Clayton a moment to just kind of talk about how the class went.

So, this was kind of my last fora as a training officer for the fire department before I went back on crew. We did a lot of fun things. We got to dress up in our fire protective gear and our hazmat gear. We did a little um flowing water and then we really culminated the whole experience with a 911 stair climb up at KSU's football stadium where for about 52 minutes which was the duration of time between the first terror attack where the plane hit the first building to the first building fell. So we got a little bit of taste of the hard work and effort and sacrifice that those men and women um showed the nation that day just a little bit. We had a really great time and I want to thank them for participating and for getting to kind of see a little bit of taste of what we do but also reminding us where we came from as citizens. So that was a great opportunity. I appreciate you chief for letting me be a part. So again like I said it wasn't the biggest class. Uh I think the police uh their citizens uh police academy they get a bigger class but they like feed them steak and they sit around in the classroom. [laughter] Uh we work really hard, you know. We go out and we train. So [laughter] wait,

I was I was a low. No, I know. Well, Chief Napier was talking trash back there, so I had to get my jabs in. [laughter] But uh so the first uh one is Tish Shade. She's not here tonight. Um but I'll call them up. Uh so we have uh Tiffany Saraphini [applause]

and then she was chaperoning her hardworking son Dalton Saraphina. [applause] Then we have Thomas TR. [applause] We have Parn Thompson. [applause] And then I feel like there's one more. I I don't know. Uh Katima Smith Willis. [applause]

No, I just [laughter] won.

I did. So, they all got a certificate for graduating the class and then Chief Clayton actually gave them a challenge coin and that means something special for us to give you all a challenge coin and that was uh just graduating the class coming out being uh at the KSU stair climb with us. So, uh if you all want to come around, we'll get a picture and then we'll get out of your hair. [laughter] I don't have anybody take a picture.

Huh?

[laughter]

What class number is it? This is two. That's okay. You know, I've started class one.

And now I got to stand

here. You one, two, three. 302 Marshall. [laughter]

Congratulations. Congratulations. By the way,

see I'm already

Well, everyone left. Everybody left. [laughter] We'll we'll move on to consent calendar.

I don't feel I need to read this right now. Everyone's gone. First item on the consent calendar, the minutes from work session September 8th, 2025. Regular meeting September 22nd, 2025. Special meeting September 25th, 2025. And special meeting September 29th, 2025. Item number two is theou between University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and the city of Frankfurt for the Fathers of Frankfurt program. Item number three is a revised old landfill maintenance agreement with Colon Jones. staff request approval of a revised maintenance agreement with Colon Jones for the maintenance of the old city-owned landfill and for the mayor to sign all ready documents. Uh there will be a slight in there or be the increase in this uh the increase is not budgeted. Therefore, a budget amendment of 38,000 will be required to fund this request. Item number four is a request to approve amendment number one for EZ construction. Staff request approval of amendment number one with EZ Construction Incorporated. for structural work on the sidewalk adjacent to the Mccclure building and for the mayor to sign all related documents. Total cost $29,88.65. Uh this is funded through bond proceeds. Item number five is the 2025 strategies to support children exposed to violence grants. Uh staff request authorization to apply for 2025 strategies to support children exposed to violence program funds in the amount of $860,000 and to authorize the mayor to sign all related grant documents including aou with Wanda Joyce Robinson Foundation. There is no match for the city on this grant. This grant we are applying on behalf of Wanda Joyce Robinson. Item number six would be personnel actions. We have an appointment. David Perez, public works transit 1072025 transit driver.

Appointment. Chessa Stevens, public works transit. 1072025 transit driver. We have an appointment. Javon Bush, public works solid waste. 10212025 public works tech solid waste. We have an appointment of Noah Medley, E911. 1072025 E911 telecommunicator. A resignation of John Unger, public works transit 103 20225 transit driver. A termination of Benji Clim, sewer department 1017 2025 plant operator. Resignation Shannon Sparks, finance 1027 2025 license and accounting specialist. A resignation from David Perez, public works transit 1022 20225 transit driver. And a termination of Timothy Weber, public works solid waste. 1022 2025 public works tech solid waste.

Motion to approve. Second. Okay. Any discussion on the consent calendar? Commissioner Richardson, just got two things that I just want to point out on number five. That is the uh 860,000. That's not a match. Correct. Correct. On record. That's a full grant we would receive. Yeah. That they would receive it. We're just a pass through for them. We're

Okay. And then second, um, on number three on the old landfill, I I I remember when that first came, I I spoke to Mr. Jones. I just think this is a our responsibility. I real I'm not big on uh I know it was a non-budgeted item, but it's our responsibility. Uh whether it happened decades ago, 50 years ago, I just think that's a good thing that we're owning up our responsibility on that. Clerk, will you please call the vote? Commissioner Richardson, yes. Commissioner, yes. Commissioner May, yes. Commissioner Smith Willis, yes. Mayor Wilkerson,

yes. And consent calendar is adopted. I move on to one discussion item tonight. We have one discussion item that we have Eric Cochley, the director of planning and community development to discuss uh the update on the zoning code rewrite. Evening everybody. Hi. [clears throat]

Um yeah, so work continues on the development code rewrite as you all know. Um you approved funding to help the planning commission fund both our new comp plan which we completed. Um and then now the rewrite of both the city and county's development codes entirely which hasn't been done since like well 26 27 years. Um [snorts] work continues. We we have drafted all or portions of um up to this date um all but two articles. The the zoning ordinance is broken down into articles, if you will, think of them as chapters. Um it's been, you know, we we meet with the consultant every other week. Um and you know, so far, uh that's that's 241 pages drafted up to this date. Um, so we still work through those every other every other week with our call with a consultant. Um, we'll start going over a chapter. We just just this past week um started going over the first draft of their landscape chapter um and continue discussion of a a um buffer chapter. [snorts] Um but yeah, we we continue our original um scope and plan of work was to hopefully have this process complete um middle of 2026 um scheduled for May we hope. I think we're broadly still on track for that. Um, happy to answer any questions you have. The one thing I would add is just as a reminder, you know, one of the nice things about doing this immediately following the adoption of a new comp plan is that it enabled us to think about um the direction we wanted to go with this during that comp plan. So, we really do have, you know, some specific directives that I think we got from the community about what to do within this development code rewrite and and um we're working to to include all those things.

Any questions or discussion? Thank you, Eric. Commissioner Hunger. Well, I appreciate the update and I was able to ask you a couple questions earlier today and I just want to make sure I sort of get those out during the meeting as well, but um I was wondering if um if anyone listening or anybody here knows Strong Towns. It's a nonprofit that I follow and I've read some of the [snorts] um uh books related to what they sort of put out there for cities and um they talk about complete streets and I was wondering how this might help address complete streets. So that would mean that streets are you know safe for pedestrians, cars, we're looking at, you know, widths of streets and um so that everybody's safe near and on the road. And I was just wondering how this might address complete streets.

Sure. I mean, part of um part of the regulations that we're rewriting um are incorporating our what we call our subdivision and development plan regulations today, which are where we have those required street typicals, streetscape requirements, things like that, connectivity. Um that's going to be lumped into what we're referring to what we're [clears throat] referring to as our universal development code rather than have a separate zoning ordinance and subreg. [snorts] Um but yeah, certainly we'll be looking at those street typicals at the things we want to require. Um I know some of the other things that that our current code kind of has blinders on about and and this has come up with the parcel B redevelopment um and looking at things like the Home Street project and Second Street is that we don't really have a good um set of different urban street typicals um for for things just like that. So we can kind of address that in case we have another, you know, significant redevelopment downtown. Um but yeah certainly be thinking about some of those those you know principles from both strong towns and just generally speaking you know the concept of complete streets. So

Okay. Sure. Commissioner Smith I was just going to say thank you for also I was with you and commissioner um and Mr. Jason earlier so just that conversation itself kind of was an eye openener for me being a newly um elected commissioner. So, I just really wanted to say thank you for your work on this and also I was thinking about our core values and how we're always talking about sustainability, but I think creativity is a really huge part of this rewrite. Um, and I just look forward to having this keep continuously having this conversation, but also just making it a little bit more easier for people to want to develop and grow here within Frankfurt. Anybody else? So, who is we, you and Autumn are meeting with uh the

both planning staffs and our consultant team um have doing most of the heavy lifting. Um we at one point had a planning commission chairperson that was a little bit more involved and wanted to sit in on some of these meetings even though it's really largely um a consultant and staff kind of driven thing. Um but right now it's it's mostly mostly just us every other week. Um and then doing work in between and shooting back and forth notes and revisions and that kind of thing. So, so when do when do we get to take a a look at this and see if some of those things like Commissioner Hunger was bringing up are are in the the new code rewrite? I mean, officially it won't come to you until the end of the process. I mean, I'm more than happy to get you access if you actually you know want to read through as I as I mentioned it's you know quite a bit of a technical document or if there's any particular things for example you know complete streets or something that that are important to you to have included then we can you know give me a shout. we can get together and go over if we've got a draft chapter with that particular thing. You know, that might be easier than shooting you a 200 plus page document and having you spend the time to go through and find maybe the two or three things that are really important to you.

I I have a few that I I just want to make sure that we're addressing lot sizes and parking minimums and ADUs. And along those lines with the ADU, I we we recently passed the the ability to do ADUs in South Frankfurt, right? And are there any of those other things that we could go ahead and do and not wait for the code rewrite? I mean, because we were waiting on ADUs for the code rewrite, but then we went on and did it. So, is are there any other like lot sizes or or parking? Anything that we can go on and pass and not wait on this?

I mean, you are the legislative body. you can pass anything you want. Um the the reason that unless we've had a very immediate need to do that is just because we're we're we're working through all this stuff kind of together and if we start pulling pieces apart um then that just it it means extra effort now to like amend that in our current ordinance while we're simultaneously it it's not as straightforward. Um, but I mean you are capable of amending any of those things. I will tell you though that everything you just mentioned. I mean, many of those things came from directives we got in the comp plan and and I can tell you from the drafts that we've been working th those things have all been part of our discussion about gentle density, possibly lowering lot sizes, um more contextual setbacks and bulk density and height to create to well not to create to solve some of the problems that have already been created by existing code. allowing things like ADUs in many of our our zoning districts that don't currently in including different housing types um and and a bit more diversity in even those single detach zones so that we can get affordable housing. All those things we've talked early and often

[clears throat] um with our consultant team about um and we've made it clear what we're thinking about parking as well. And so we haven't delved into that particular chapter in depth, but um that's also on my own uh priority list for sure. Need more housing in the city. You know, we need density in the city, more population. Um what's the timeline here do you think before we're [snorts] voting on it? uh as I said mid mid 2026 is the goal

you know I went through there as I as I said there's 13 chapters 13 articles um and we have some if not a significant portion drafted on all but two of those um so we've we've got a dropbox open with all this available um and yeah it's just kind of it's you know the comp plan was our significant kind of public engagement part of this and and a lot of this is just it's a different animal. It's it's more of that sort of technical just um hard slog through the document and work and back and forth with the uh consultants um before we have something ready to kind of present to the public and get some input, share back with our stakeholders we met with um early on in the process to get some some of those folks that are used to using our code in the community. Um, if you recall, we met with them before we even started the rewrite to get some some ideas, some criticisms of the current code, some hopes for the proposed code. And we uh I can tell you from our conversation just um last Thursday, we were talking about um uh within the landscape chapter actually something that came directly from one of those stakeholders that we were talking about strategies to incorporate. So, we're we're very much trying to um take the input that was received through stakeholders in the comp plan process and and make sure we're we're holding ourselves accountable to deliver. [snorts]

Commissioner, just a quick followup. So, um, along with just something that I would like to see, abolishing the parking mandates, the lot sizes, and possibly even allowing like the, and we sort of talked about this earlier, two to three unit developments within like any neighborhood. So, I know some communities have basically created like a house housing plan or like housing types that could easily be, you know, put into certain neighborhoods depending on [clears throat] lot size. Have you do you have any experience with that or do you think that might be good?

Are you referencing like when they have like templated plans that are preapproved? like like what if we our housing committee pre-approved [clears throat] some potential plans or ideas of you know duplexes or triplexes or you know would that do you think that'd be helpful

that that's kind of that's going to be a little bit different scope from what we have from the consultants but it's it's ironic that you'd say that because in our discussion last Thursday about landscaping in particular the idea came up um because we were discussing what we had heard from one of our stakeholders which was that he would like to that our our landscape requirements are are a bit more like consistent and thematic. um basically where when you come into Frankfurt Franklin Franklin County um it's not just oh that yeah they have landscaping they require landscaping but it has sort of its own character in some way so you can tell like you're you're in this place

and we were discussing that and one of the ideas that we came up with um that the consultant suggested is to consider doing just that and have like pre-approved landscape buffer designs with species and everything where you can say hey you can copy and paste this into your development plan makes it easy too and it'll it'll be very you know it'll be the same as many other developments might have used. And also, you know, right off the bat that it's approvable, and a lot of communities have done that with with housing designs and that kind of stuff. You know, that's that's a different investment we'd have to make.

Um, and a lot of the communities that do that probably have more issues um with getting quick approvals than we really do, thankfully. Um, but it doesn't make it necessarily a bad idea to consider. Um, okay. I like that about the landscaping idea, too. Okay, thank you. We've talked about that other the the pattern book approach where we would pay for the design architectural drawings, I don't know, three or four or five different models and if the developer wants to build that and I don't know, they're approved. They know they can get it through faster. But anybody else? We good? Thank you.

Thank you for your input. And moving on to action items. First item is a second reading. An ordinance fixing the rate of taxation for the year 2026 on all motor vehicles and living said tax for all city purposes. This ordinance fixes the rate of taxation for the year 2026 at the sum of 22 and 7/10 costs or sorry cents on each $100 valuation on all motor vehicles subject to taxation in the city. Motion to approve.

Second. Any discussion on this motion to keep the rate the same? If not, I'll ask the clerk to call for the vote. Commissioner Richardson, yes. Commissioner Anger, yes. Commissioner May, yes. Commissioner Smith Willis, yes. Mayor Wilkerson, yes. Motion carries. Action item number two will be another second reading. Motion to table. We have a motion to table this one. Second.

We have a second. Any discussion on the motion to table? This just applies to one company and uh we're going to see if they [clears throat] not everything's in settled yet I don't think so. Um any other not I'll ask the clerk to call for a vote to table this motion. Okay. Commissioner Richardson yes. Commissioner. Yes. Commissioner May. Yes. Commissioner Smith Willis. Yes. Mayor Wilkerson. Yes. So that motion is tabled. That's item [clears throat] number three.

We have another second reading. An ordinance amending ordinance number 9 2025 series appropriating the revenue to be received by the city of Frankfurt for the fiscal year 2025 2026. This ordinance amends ordinance number 9 2025 series appropriating the revenue to be received by the city for the fiscal year 2526 by adding the following expenditures and transfers out as noted. General fund $553,847 transfers from general fund $199,029 capital improvements $199,29 sewer fund on&m $350,000 and by adding the following revenue and transfers in as noted capital improvements $66,964 all aggregate total

motion to approve second. Any discussion? If none, I ask the clerk to call for a vote. Commissioner Richardson, yes. Commissioner Anger, yes. Commissioner May, yes. Commissioner Smith Willis, yes. Mayor Wilkerson, yes. And that motion carries.

Action item number four is another second reading. an ordinance amending the city of Frankfurt's Code of Ordinances, Chapter 150, by amending the permit and inspection fees contained in subsections 150.1, building codes. This ordinance had its first reading on September 22nd, 2025. The ordinance amends the city's building and electrical code fees, chapter 150, section 150.01, to delete all outdated fees and exemptions there, too, and replace them with updated fees as set forth in the chart in section 150.01. Motion to approve. Second. Any discussion on the motion? And

if none, I'll ask the clerk to call for the vote. Commissioner Richardson, yes. Commissioner, yes. Commissioner May, yes. Commissioner Smith Willis, yes. Mayor Wilkerson, yes. And that motion carries. Action item number five is a first reading in search of a sponsor. Commissioner May.

All right. An ordinance amending Frankfurt Code of Ordinances Chapter 38 Ambulance Service Section 38.30. This ordinance amends section 38.30 30. The city of Frankfurt code of ordinances related to ambulance billing rates to increase the rates for basic life support, advanced life support, specialty care transport, and special procedures, and establish new charges for basic and advanced life support, disposable supplies, and treatment without transport. Motion to approve. We don't need a motion on this one, but uh any any discussion? Chief Carpenter presented like did a great job presenting last time. I was so excited a motion. Sorry.

We're ready. If not, uh, no discussion. We'll move on to action item number six. Number six, we have a surplus property order from the fire department. Staff is seeking approval to declare a 2006 Ford E450 Superduty bus a surplus property and authorize the mayor to sign all related documents. Motion to approve. Second. Any discussion? Not. Madame Clerk. [clears throat] Commissioner Richardson. Yes. Commissioner Unger. Yes. Commissioner May. Yes. Commissioner Smith Willis. Yes. Mayor Wilkerson.

Yes. And that motion carries. Action item number seven. Action item number seven is a resolution of the board of commissioners of the city of Frankfurt, Kentucky, declaring the city's intent to reimburse itself for the cost of capital expenditures from the proceeds of taxexempt obligations fire. This would be the bond for the fire station. Motion to approve. Second. We got a motion in a second. Any discussion on this reimbursement resolution? I ask the clerk to call for a vote. Commissioner Richardson, yes. Commissioner Unger, yes. Commissioner May, yes. Commissioner Smith Willis, yes.

Mayor Rookerson, yes. Motion carries. And action item number eight. Number eight is an updated interlocal agreement and resolution for the aquatic center facility and wellness center [clears throat] facility. Uh, this update was removing Frankfurt Independent. They voluntarily removed from there and it's just getting the approval you all to vote on that again with no other changes. Motion to approve. Second. Any discussion on this resolution or the updated agreement? If not, I'll ask the clerk. Call for a vote. Commissioner Richardson, yes. Commissioner, yes. Commissioner May, yes. Commissioner Smith Willis, yes.

Mayor Wilkerson, yes. And that motion carries. And that's the end of our published action items. We move on to unfinished business. I don't believe we had any. I was not in person last time, so I don't I don't think we had any though. Um, any new business to come before the board? Commissioner Anger.

Um, I was going to make a a statement about the SNAP benefits as well. So, I'm really glad Rachel came in to speak about that. Um, and I was just going to say, you know, the emergency, uh, Frankfurt food pantry will always take donations. You can do that really easily online. I think that's a good way to help out if you want to. So, um, just want to get that out there. And it's frankfoodpantry.org is their website. Um, and I was going to bring up a couple other things, especially, um, these are sort of like two downtown issues. There's been a lot of cars parking on yellow downtown and also like in the crosswalks.

So, I I'd like to see enforcement on that. I know it's definitely hard to visually see when you're trying to cross the street when they're parked like on the crosswalks. So, enforcement on that would be great. And then I've also been hearing a lot from neighbors and my children about the noisy vehicles around town and downtown as well as the gun range. So that's, you know, I'm getting emails and texts and calls whenever people hear the gun range. Um, and you know, I try to, you know, some people are scared because just afraid there might actually be somebody out there shooting. So, um, I think that's something I'd like to discuss as well as some of the noisy vehicles that might be down and around downtown. I forwarded an email earlier this morning that I received actually a year or so ago. Um, so I sent that again and just to sort of let us all think about how we might be able to deal with some of that because we do have like you know cars with modified mufflers or you know just just issues with noise um nuisance sort of issues and also speeding. So question wanted to bring some of that up.

Question about the gun range. Well, don't they have [snorts] operate like they have hours that they that they operate? Correct. like at the gun range from what I learned from the citizens police academy. So I know they operate within the windows that are outside the noise ordinance. So I I guess maybe it's relooking at that maybe revisiting that. But from what I from from my educ from my understanding is they try to operate within a respectful time frame to practice. But I mean I do think it's something we can definitely look into. But I just was curious. Maybe we'll put it on an upcoming maybe a work session item if anybody we can just talk about because I get I get complaints too about it and and there's some days it's it's very it's really loud

and if you don't know if you're a tourist here and a visitor and you don't know you you probably wonder but that's we can commissioner Richard well part of the problem is ever since the tower was taken down that highly affects the range

the baffling system. Um, there are baffling systems you can put over the range. I've been part of many of those systems that will cut down on the sound uh echoing. You just got to remember where the range sits. It's in a it's it's where it sits in that valley and after that tower was taken down. And and believe it or not, I didn't realize I don't think anyone realized um how that baffled that sound echoing especially through downtown. Mhm. Uh, so that is I live up the hill from there. [snorts] I can hear it. Obviously, I know what it is. But I will tell you this, it also affects Benson Valley Range.

So, there's two ranges down there. You got to realize one's on the other side of the creek, uh, so to speak. But Ben Benson Valley Range sometimes late at night. Though, that is I know for a fact because I'm very in tune with what the police department's doing down there. I know uh that's not the police department's range. It's Benson Valley's range that's making that noise. Uh so I just kind of want to point that out. There is another range down there. Cool. All right. Thank you. And any other new business? If not, we'll we move on to board comments, which Commissioner Smith Willis.

I just wanted to put it on the community's radar. If you were not aware that Wednesday, November the 12th from 5:00 to 7:00 at Paul Sawyer Library, um the Kentucky Trans Station Cabinet is having a public meeting about the singing bridge. So, I know this is a really big topic for our community. I love that it's a public meeting. So, if you are um curious about the prel preliminary designs and things of sorts with that project, I definitely would um stop by the library on November the 12th from 5:00 to 7:00 to hear what's happening with the singing bridge. And I'll follow up on Commissioner Anger's discussion about the food pantry. I was out there last week. They received the $50,000 grant from Cumins Engines and who are now across the street where Meritor was and uh so that they have expanded and uh of course it's a all volunteerrun organization as far as I know. they don't ask for city funds. And uh that's going to be as uh Miss Morris said earlier, it we're going to it's going to take all of us to deal with this situation come November. And I don't know if we really have a handle on how bad this could get and or how long it's going to go on. So, um I think we just I'm glad that it's on our radar.

Motion to adjurnn. Second. All those in favor of adjourning say I. I. Right. We're ajourned. [music]

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