Fiscal Court - Regular Meeting

Oh, two minutes. Less than a minute. According to Okay, we are live. Good morning. I call this meeting to order of the Boil County Fiscal Court. uh February the 10th at 9:00 a.m. And clerk, has this meeting been properly advertised? And do we have a quorum? Yes. All right. Thank you so much. We will start our meeting with the invocation by Magistrate Harmon. And

let us pray. Father, we thank you this morning to have an opportunity to live, be a part of our community, but most of all to follow you and be obedient to you. Lord, we we thank you for the break in the weather. We look for the warmth, but Lord, we look mostly for the warmth from you. Go with us now through this day as we meet as a court. Lord, that we can do things that will honor and lift you up. Be with our communities. Be with those that have experienced death and are experiencing right now. As they grieve, may you minister to them. Father, forgive our sin. We ask all this in Jesus' name. Amen.

Amen. Thank you very much. We have a special guest with us today from Bait uh Middle School. Ruth Goodwin is in eighth grade. And Ruth, if you'll come up and lead us in our pledge, please. 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.

You all may be seated. And Ruth, I have a certificate for you. This is in certificate of recognition for leading the court. And if you'll look at Miss Julie there, she's going to take your business. Great. Thank you so much. Appreciate you coming. Now you can stay and be entertained. Thanks. Very entertaining. Thank you.

All right. Uh prior meeting minutes January 30th special called meeting. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. A second. Master Boder. Second by Master Gay. Any discussion on the minutes? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carried. Thank you. Uh, budget transfers. Miss Shannon. I have budget transfers in the amount of $16,441.79. This is on behalf of Jared Thomas. Well, thank you. We will share that. Thank you so much, Kelly. We appreciate it. All right. Sorry.

$16,441.79 for budget transfers. Okay. Is there a motion to approve? Motion second. Measure second. They've had their coffee. Any discussion on the budget transfers? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? N. Motion carries. cash transfers. I have cash transfer from the money market to the interest bearing of $24,270.70. And after I move this money, I will close that money market account.

Okay. And then I also have occupational tax to general fund 731,62207 from general fund to the road department 50,000 general to the jail 125,000 and from general fund to EMS 75,000. Okay. Is there a motion to approve cash transfers? So move it a second. Second passer. Any discussion questions on the uh cash transfer money market? Um at one time someone had told me that was at a really good rate and all this.

It's not anymore. The interest bearing actually has the better rate right now. So So there's no advantage. Talk to Jesse. He said there's no advantage advantage to keep. Okay. All right. Any other questions or discussion? All right. All those in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carries. Next we will Is that all you have? That's all I have. Okay. Next we'll approve our bill. Miss Elena. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning.

Okay. I do have some add-ons this time. So your bill packet does total 1,365,23.34. I would like to add three. Uh the first one being our Martin Luther King Jr. Day shirt uh funding. That is $3,51040. The second one I would like to add is the arts commission allocation for $3,000 even. And the third one I would like to add is the uh an HIA reimbursement of $1,000. That's going to bring your grand total to1,372,533.74.

All right. Make a motion to pay the bills. Motion to approve the bills by Minister Bogner. Second by Minister Harmon. Any discussion on the bills? Just have a question. The 130,000 to Kodell. What did we get for that? Now, what page are you on? Page one. Okay. Um almost to the bottom, about 34 the way down. Um, I can answer that if you like. Yeah, I was just curious. That is all the work preparing the u preliminary numbers. Um, kind of the pre-work that we're doing on the EMS building. They've done actually I was surprised it was that low considering what they've done for us. This the first bill we've gotten from them.

Um, and you're probably going to see them come in more regular at larger amounts as it goes along, but this one was mainly just the pre-development work. architectural drawings diagram the RCL design build that's out of the J it's RCL design build page hold on RCL three page three it's the office renovation the that is the 862 862 yeah yes that's the offices for solid waste that they solid wasting I see the SW Yes.

Good questions. Anything else? Anybody good? Okay. All those in favor of the motion to approve the bill signify by saying I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carries. Thank you.

All right. We do not have any old business. So, we will move right into new business. And first order of business is a proclamation for Black History Month. and I will read the proclamation. Whereas Black History Month observed each February provides an opportunity to recognize, honor, and celebrate the rich history, culture, achievements, and contributions of African-Americans who have helped shape our nation, our Commonwealth, and our local communities. And whereas African-Americans have played a vital role in the founding growth, defense, and progress of the United States, contributing to every aspect of American life, including government, education, science, business, agriculture, the arts, and the ongoing pursuit of freedom and equality. Amarez, the year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, a milestone that invites reflection on our shared history. the ideas set forth at our nation's founding and the continuing work required to ensure liberty and justice for all. And whereas the story of the America's two 250 years is incomplete without acknowledging the perseverance, sacrifices, leadership, and resilience of African-Americans whose struggles and achievements have helped expand the promise of democracy and strengthen the nation. And whereas observing Black History Month during the America 250 commemoration provides an opportunity to engage residents in meaningful reflection, education, and dialogue about our past, present, and future while affirming a commitment to inclusion, understanding, and unity. Now therefore, be it proclaimed by the Bo County Fiscal Court that the month of February is hereby proclaimed Black History Month in Bole County, and all citizens are encouraged to learn about and honor the contributions of African-Americans throughout our nation's 250 year history. Be it further proclaimed that the Bo County Fiscal Court recognizes Bo Black History Month

as an important part of America 250 observance and encourages community reflection on the shared responsibility to uphold the values of freedom, equality, and opportunity for future generations. In witness whereof, the B County Fiscal Court has caused this proclamation to be issued this 10th day of February, 2026. Is there a motion to approve? So move. Magistrate Ellis second. Magistrate vote. Any comments, discussion? I don't think it was well written. I was gonna You took the words out of the way. Well written and here here. Thank you. All right. All those in favor signify by saying I. I.

Any opposed? Nay. Motion carries. Thank you all. All right. Next up, we have parks and recck director Tommy Barton. And I believe is he got a special guest? I do. Okay. I'm going to go thank the judge and this court. I'm going to go through uh the the uh joint city county um uh capital project for the year first and then uh former judge exec Tony Wilder is going to discuss what we've been working on for the 4th of July uh 250th anniversary. So

So first of all uh the joint projects we have uh we have several of them, a lot of them going on. Um so I'm going to go through where we're sitting on each one. Uh first baseball softball field rehab. We're taking care of three new fields, putting in new infield skins, uh grass, uh uh uh putting out a lot of new soda and warning tracks on all these. We are 90% completed on that. Unfortunately, the last 10% is going to be the toughest now that we've gotten into this weather. Uh I hate to say it, but I wish everything would melt and then freeze again would be the best for me. I know that won't be good for everybody else, but we're going to have to kind of come up with some ingenuity on how we're going to finish this uh project u without kind of tearing up our fields here in the spring cuz we actually have baseball games starting in in 3 weeks. I think our first year

Oh my goodness.

Yeah. Can you believe that? Really playing. Um uh alum Springs Mountain Bike Park has an official name uh at and uh the committee has named it Pine Knob Trails uh after the groundbreaking um we had a great turnout for the groundbreaking uh and this is a great joint uh project. uh we meet I don't believe meet too monthly we meet and uh it's a big group uh both city and county um and we also have involved the trails alliance in that a lot so we have a big committee that's kind of deciding on the direction of that of that project um Josh and I actually walked it the day before the snow hit we walked it and we saw them they were out there working and uh it's hard to find them uh cuz we found out they started working from the top down. So,

you got to really look for them if you're going to find what they're doing. It doesn't look like much is getting done, but they're deep in the woods working. I'm sure they've probably had to hold off on this with this storm, but I'm sure after this is over, they'll be right back at it. Um, as a group, we're also though kind of working on the ins and outs of it. Uh, we're working on uh the operation. We are working on the annual budget that we'll share with the city and county when we go through the budget. We we're going to give the Pine Knobs Trails its own uh it's going to be its own little separate it'll be a big part of the whole parks erect budget, but it'll have its own line item. So, uh we've kind of already established one. We're kind of reviewing it and we're going to uh tweak it a little bit, but we'll be presenting it probably in March um with the rest of our budget. Um, we're also working on uniform signage. Um, so we can uh we're trying to get everything to kind of when you're at a B County uh Danville B County parks and recck facility, you'll know it by the signage. So, we're trying to get them that all uniformed. And uh another thing we're working on,

uh as far as pickle ball, it's pickle ball and skate park are both kind of in the same uh phase. We're kind of in the design phase. Uh Julie just got the first kind of pickle ball rendering uh yesterday. We've got a couple questions. Um we're going back with uh to get a second uh drawing up and uh she's sharing it with the picklers so they're getting their input in. Uh but we'll tweak that design and uh work out some things, but it's you know and then of course it's willing on weather when we get uh get that project started. Uh, but I think you're hoping to put it out to bit here real soon. Y, go ahead.

They really want this on the record. U, I I played competition tennis in high school and college and the margins on tennis courts aren't always built. They're I call them holiday in uh courts where people really don't play tennis cuz there's not enough room on the back and on the sides. Let's make absolutely certain that I don't know anything about pickle ball other than the fact that there will be regulation size courts as opposed to two types. They've given us the actual dimensions day. They're very on the very involved. They're all over it. Yeah, they're all over it.

So, uh and that's good too because like you say, you got you know we can't be all be experts at everything. You got to you got to involve the people that know what they're doing. So, thank you.

Uh, as far as the skate park, we're in the design phase. They're going to bring us uh they're going to bring us two separate designs. Um, they're going to bring it to staff and officials. Uh, hopefully next week. We're going to tweak it a little bit, but we are having on February 24th, we are going to have our final design public meeting at Genie Rogers like we did last time. Uh, but like I said, that's when we're going to present the design to the public. And again, just like the Picklers, the SK I I couldn't skate a bowl. I wouldn't know how how it works. So, uh, we're going to involve the skateboarders. We're going to have them there on the 24th, go over the design with them. Then they'll take it back, finish it up, and going, of course, then we'll get construction going on that um the playground, the main playground at Millennium Park, uh, all the replacement features have been ordered. They're in uh uh they're in Ronny's uh workshop ready to be installed. He's got all the parts. And the the main thing is we're doing a a a rubber surface instead of instead of the uh uh what do you call those? Wood chips. So, we're going to get rid of the wood chips. We're going to have a nice solid surface uh um play surface. And that should be again waiting on weather. Got to be at least 50° at all times for that. Hey, Tommy, if I can pause you on the skate park real quick. Um,

have we given any more thought to re utilizing the existing Yeah, I haven't. Yeah, to some other location. We still have the a final plan. We all think it's a great idea. We just haven't been able to to to finish that. Um, I didn't know and I don't know if there's a place at Juny City that would have a nice concrete spot. So if if you're looking and anybody knows of spots, I think because we've we've told them that we would

we would remove the old uh so it's not the skateboard companies, it's not their it's not their priority to get it out. That is going to be city and county. So if we do have a spot to put it, it would be great. I I know Gina Rogers we've talked about talked about Junction. We talked even about Jackson Park, I think, too. Yeah. Yeah. I just think it's it's I think it still has more useful life. I think it does too. Yeah. In it with maybe a little bit of rehabbing and would be good to utilize it in a different spot cuz it's it's been very well used up this point. And I think it would be a good way to spread things out. At Junction, we've got so much groundwork to get Uh-huh.

the ground even ready to start. So, we're nowhere near. Yeah. We couldn't Yeah. It'd be nice if I don't think God had fast jump. If we had an old concrete pad that was already established, we don't we don't have that at all. If not, you know, the old tennis courts. Old tennis court. Y at um Jackson Jackson that be a logical spot. That was a spot that we originally had thought about putting it anyway is in that spot. So, it's still a good spot. I think if anything, I'm sure we can get it that we'll I'm sure we'll we're going to take it to public works and then we'll we'll store it until we at least do come up with a spot. I know and if we have to make a spot, you know. Okay. Still on the radar. Yeah, exactly.

Great.

Um uh then we and then we have a small the last couple ones. We have the site furnishings at Millennium Park which we've already done uh we've already improved and updated all the cameras. Uh we've uh made we've also made sure that we have an AED at each building. Uh we were going to put them on the outside uh on in a cabinet, but we found out that they can't sit out there over over the winter, so we did put them inside. Um but each building now has an AED. And then we're also replacing all the 30-year-old doors on all the buildings cuz they're worn out. So again, that one's we're waiting on weather. Again, it's pretty much all of it's waiting on weather. Um, and the final one we have is is the MOA with the hospital. Uh, the city is working with Brandstead or Carol and the hospital with with coming up with how would we do a joint uh uh indoor facility on how would that work out? Um, right now we're in the midst of public input surveys. We have uh a we have a survey on our website on the city website that the public can take regarding this indoor rec center. What it's basically asking what would you like to see in it? How would you see how do you see this partnership coming together? Uh and we've also at at uh Saturday basketball we had four gyms going. We had one at Perryville, we had one in Caliber, Jenny Rogers and Kentucky School for the Deaf. Uh we had a team at each one of those last Saturday engaging the public. Uh we've gotten we've gotten up around 600 people have taken the survey. Uh plus all the uh uh what Bransair says they give out uh they give out dots for you get three dots and there's a board that they put them on of what features they'd like to see

at a at an indoor rec center. So what's going on with that is we will be reviewing that with the hospital on uh uh February 24th. No, February 20th is going to be the next meeting on that. And then we've also asked the branch carol and the hospital to have a stakeholders meeting where some of the board of directors of the hospital uh so we can get their input. Um I think in April we have to have that uh decided and presented to both the city and the fiscal court. So that is where we stand and all that. So we working on all that through this winter here. But the other thing we're working on is our 4th of July 250th anniversary. Uh I've had the pleasure of being able to work with Tony uh on a lot of the issues on our big we're basically getting into the festival business is what we're doing. Uh we're doing a big concert on the 3rd. We're wrapping it up, cleaning it up, getting it going, and hopefully just doing the whole thing over again on the fourth. Um, so, uh, former judge exec Tony is going to go through some of the things we've been working on and we'll hopefully answer to any questions you guys have.

Do you want to go over the fire? I'll do that afterwards. We'll we'll talk about it and then we'll do that. All right. Good deal. Welcome. Good morning, Judge. Members of the court, um, thank you for having me. Uh, if if you permit me just, but I'd like to speak as a citizen just for a couple minutes. I want to congratulate the court and national bodner on the park uh at Pine Knob. Um pretty gratifying for me to see that land used for that purpose and I want to congratulate you all for working that out. U also want to commend Pastor Carman for wearing the proper attire. I almost feel like I

um I've got some Let me make some updates and then I'll follow up on the concert thing too, just real quick. Okay. You have or will be receiving an invitation to our official kickoff on February 23rd at 1:00. Now, we're going to have this kickoff down at the old replica of the courthouse on that sacred ground on Constitution Square. uh got some little special uh uh um uh things planned for that day. Um and uh I hope you all can make it. Uh we're we're trying to plan now. That's a smaller space. We're inviting a lot of folks, a lot of the local officials, and we'll see how many show up, but we'll make it work. We'll make it work cuz it'll be a special day.

Now, we were discussing heaters yesterday. So, yes. Is that part of discussion with Well, we're going to try to locate some. Okay. I don't know if you can assist with that, but uh I've checked the long range forecast. It's hard to do this, but it looks like it might be moderating a little bit during that time. We'll see. But we'll be prepared for that. There are some other props we're going to have to acquire that I'm looking into right now. Yeah, that's awesome. I What are you looking for?

One important update. Your u your partners in city government appeared last night. they have appropriated $40,000 to the uh to the effort. Um so we'll be talking more about uh how we apply those funds along with yours. Uh and I need to report back to you. Um the $33,333 that you appropriated uh has been a great help to get us going and started. This $40,000 now will carry us over the hump, I think, unless something comes up. We have one more outstanding big expense on staging, lighting, and sound that I don't know exactly what it's going to be yet. Um, so we have we have secured parking

parking assistance through a through a firm that I'm very pleased with them in working with them. Uh, we have secured security.

So those expenses now will be known to you soon. Not not as much as we thought. Uh, so it's that's a good thing. Um now the schedule of events uh you you may recall I didn't bring you with you today but the only thing that's really changed everything is solidified now our our schedule is set there might be one little thing we slip in later there will be some local like perville junction maybe something we do I don't per we're going to plan something special that we'll advertise but in terms of our planned core events it's and you will be getting an updated card. We're going to get those out next week that will have everything on it. We're actually uh having a banner uh prepared that we'll be carrying around that will be at the grand uh at the kickoff event. Uh

now we have a banner down there right now. But this banner will have our schedule of events and everything on it. Uh hopefully get some good press coverage that day because it's going to be a special day. Now the only thing different in our original schedule presented to you is something that sort of uh arose percolated up with me uh over Christmas. I I bought a book uh uh that Frank X Walker had authored um called Load in Nine Times. And being a history affectionado like I am, uh it was fascinating to me that this book he's prepared put together a collection of poems written by African-American Union soldiers.

And it is fascinating to read and uh we've asked him under our umbrella of the 250th to come and uh give a reading and uh answer questions. And also it has morphed into we we kind of wanted that obviously to occur during February for Black History Month. Mhm. But Frank uh sponsors a arts festival the first week in March. Mhm. At Devil High School. Mhm. So this fit perfectly. Wow.

And there was a day available. So Tuesday, March 3rd, you'll be getting hearing about this as well. That will be our first event. and he will be there along with Stephen Fawn who is the chief historian and curator at camp Nelson and there will also be a history professor from UK there and I can't recall her name presently but it's going to fit so well under this 250 theme and umbrella because this community sent many African-American soldiers to enlist at Camp Nelson

and Frank Linage and his family has Union soldiers that enlisted from this area at Camp Nelson. So, that story needs to be told and it's an obscure story. A lot of people don't know a lot about Camp Nelson and and what it meant to the state and union cause. And I tell you what, recently I'd come across a quote or I read a passage uh in a book I'm reading about Lincoln. And in 1864, there was a movement to remove Lincoln from the ticket, the Republican ticket, a strong movement, because of his emancipation Mhm.

policies. And they thought they were going to lose to Mlelen. And he stood strong and said, "No." He said, "We must have the African-American soldiers to win." And that's how important that was. So, I'm really looking forward to to Frank's performance uh and the whole night. Yeah. There. So, that's under that's the new thing and I hope you all feel that's very appropriate. Yeah, that's good. And uh

now with the concert u um we're uh we're working together on that and and like I said, the parking, the security, the staging, lighting, and sound is still we're working with the a gentleman out of Monaceel who does the brass band staging and all that. uh very helpful, very knowledgeable, a lot of experience. So, feel good about that. We just haven't got the final version yet. So, we'll be back with that uh uh to let you all know. Um anything else about that? We need to Oh, one thing we we did have a You didn't bring the crowded, you know.

Uh we're in working with the parking management firm. we've created a aerial photo of the area out there that can be marked up and that kind of thing. So, we're going to work with them on that. Uh our initial uh plans are not to park anybody in the park because the crowd's expected. There also happens to be unfortunately unfortunately a baseball tournament going on on the other side. Oh, no. So, we're going to have to have some the parking management is so important because we're going to allow handicap parking in the park up near the fields

close to the event, but they're also going to have to manage some people entering and and exiting from the ball field on the other side. So, uh we've got that covered. We're going to we're going to work with uh Morning Point, uh Bo Middle School, and then over on the fairgrounds. All those three adjacent areas can provide plenty of parking. Uh so that's what we're going to do. Most people when they go to a concert realize they may have to walk and carry a chair and that kind of thing, but the handicap folks can go on in. Okay. So, uh so where exactly will the stage the stage? Uh I wish I had a picture. Uh you used to have a picture in here, didn't you? Uh

once upon a time. Okay. If you're if let's say you're standing on the back where all those soccer fields are, the back, you know, where the road comes in from the bypass and the administration buildings back of you and the other baseball fields in back of you on that corner of that major field looking back at the bleachers at the football field is where the stage will be. Okay? And it creates a great vista, okay? and people can sit and it'll be lots of folks can see it without tree problems. Great. Now, if it get a big crowd, if it go beyond the trees, there might be a little tree issue. Yeah. Cuz it'll be leaved out in July. But I think it provides us the best look. And to be honest with you, somebody that has a lot of

great affinity for that park. It feels good that we're going to use that park for something like this, a community event like this. Now, we've stepped out. We stepped across a threshold we hadn't before, but we're going to get it done and I think it's going to be a wonderful time. Yeah, it will be. So, uh, so with that, um, anything else about that? No, basically all the soccer fields, all those soccer fields, football field is going to be Yeah. your, uh, your viewing area.

The one the soccer field immediately the stage will be will be quarantined off and that's going to be where you it's kind of like general mission. uh no chairs, uh no coolers in that area, but but in all the other soccer areas, uh you know, you'll be able to put up a tent, put bring a bring your coolers, whatever you need to do. So, it's going to kind of be basically, you know, you got general mission, and then you got kind of got family seating. We we doubled our amount of food trucks,

and we're also going to have uh we're going to have West Six. Uh we've talked about them being there. We we're not doing liquor, but we are doing beer. Uh, and that's about it on what and what we're hoping to do is since we've already got that big stage there is we're we're it's going to it's going to stay for the fourth. So, so we're going to have the huge uh Eddie Montgomery concert which which we're expending. We're topping out we think around 10,000 we think, you know, anywhere between 5 and 10.

Uh, but then hopefully the next night we're going to, you know, it's going to kind of be a more of a down home uh Danville crowd. We we've secured uh Michael uh Michael Flying the Sound is going to be playing on the Fortnite. So, and then of course the fireworks show. Blues and jazz. Nice. So, right now we're thinking we're thinking uh we got a bluegrass, we got our country act, and then we're going to have a hopefully a jazz act and and then our R&B soul music. So, trying to hit a little bit of everything. Have you have you touched base with our emergency services? Well, we will we will and some of the other they probably need to be staged out there somewhere.

They will they will be we'll talk to them about met with Danville chief assistant chief police. Yeah. I think our plan for that they were doing everything kind of outside the park and like I said actually we got a big security firm that's you know going to do the security inside and but it's more detailed than I expected to and I've talked to the sheriff as well. So, we're as as time draws near, we'll we'll solidify some of their assistance and what they need to do and how to stage it and uh but we still need to know about certain things. Finalized parking, finalized stage and all that. Then we'll get to that. You got a question? I do.

Actually, I don't have a question. I would like to inform you of something. When we first started talking about bringing Eddie Montgomery in, Judge Wilder said, "I am going to raise his fee and not use government money." And he did it. Yep. He did it. And he didn't say that. We We were fortunate to raise uh $40,000 uh from some of our most um treasured businesses here. I mean, they're they're well uh established here and and they have Tural Ford, PayPal, Lafayette Engineering,

Bob Allen, and Farmers Bank. and I want to thank them and I will as we move through this process they will be uh uh noted and and recognized throughout the process by any of and our two governors. So uh again that's let me just thank you all for embracing this and uh uh we're glad that we're glad to be a part of it committee's worked hard and uh hope you can attend our kickoff. Um Tom's got a question for you.

Yes. Yeah, Tony, it's more than a question. You and I talked and I even mentioned it in our last committee meeting. Um, as we've looked at what you and I talked about about parking at Centinary, um, it would be more than awkward for us not to consider, and I've talked to the council of the church, which I'm honest about 20 of us. Uh, we would still go before another group for approval. But the pastor is enthusiastic. The council is enthusiastic. And here's the awkward circumstance. Um, yes, you can come in here. you're a member of our church, I'm sorry, you can't park here. We've got 12 acres and if the ground is solid again sometime in our lifetime, um we're willing to have parking there. So, there's some logistics we're going to have to work out for that approval. But, I can't imagine me standing there and and telling folks they can't park in here when they see a stream of cars coming into our two different entrances that are right there as you go into the main gate of uh the park.

You know, if you want to peel a few off, that's I mean, it's I guess that would be fine. I would I think in terms of proximity, those three areas I identified are closer. I understand. But uh if you have something else that you want to Yeah. We we'll have to figure out some logistics there. But now if you're going to be out there barking, Tom, get them in there. You're going to have to offer us something. Yeah. But just just want to let let you know that. Okay. We've got to figure out cuz so many people will come to the main entrance and they will see that we have two entrances to our property. Yeah. And speaking of entrances, I think we can use the bypass entrance, too, to get folks in the back way.

Uh we're going to have to coordinate that. Um egress is going to be the problem, and that's where our local law enforcement uh will help us at each at each pl at point. So

um I I presume we covered everything we need to cover today. So thank you for your time. U hope to see you hope to see you on the 23rd. I'd just like to read something that took place uh if you don't know the name Tom Clark. He was our historian laurate for the Commonwealth of Kentucky and his 100th birthday. And Jamie, I think I told you that before. Uh the celebration in uh dinner meeting was in a hemp building at the foot of the bridge um that's owned by Center College. So we were on center college campus and to show how consequential Kentucky is in this whole process of the 250th, Dr. Tom Clark's quote that night was, "Had it not been for the brilliance and untiring patience of Samuel McDow, federal judge Samuel McDow, America today could well be Europe West." And think in the context that the Russians had been all the way down to Mexico cutting trees and um they had other operations going on and they got sick and tired of being all the way down to Mexico and they left in 1839 and they were trapesing right over the top of Sutter's Mill where 10 years later had they found that gold, we would be worse than Europe West. So, it's prec you're referring to the Spanish conspiracy.

Yeah. Too. I mean, Spain was trying to to lure Kentucky into their sphere and uh some of these patriots that you're talking about like Sam McDow, like John Nicholas, no people. Uh James Wilkinson, one of our own, yeah, kind of was was was on the graph. He was getting a lot of money from Spain. So, that is a neat story. And Tom is right. That could have changed everything had we not had some of those patriots that we're going to honor on the kickoff too down here. So, thank you all. We appreciate you. Thank you for heading the committee and all the work that the committee has done and the subcommittees and it's going to be a great celebration all year long. Um first one you said is coming up in March with

March 3rd Frankx and then the field is March 17th at the point middle school. And don't forget Lincoln at Fort which is really neat. But we appreciate all your efforts and the efforts of the committee. So, thank you. Thank you very much. And I think once once we've gotten everything locked down, uh, all our contracts and everything like that, then we'll come back and we'll have a visual aid at that time. That way we can kind of get the word on how we're going to handle. That would be great. Yeah, that'd be great.

As I said, on the third, we're not letting them the in the park to park, but on the fourth, we're going to do it the same way we've always done where they actually can come in the park and park. Um so our final thing of business is in your packet you should have a contract uh with pyro shows. So u to end this show right we uh the firework contract this one is for $29,998 uh50. That is a few,000 more than last year. This is the same company that did it last year, which as you looked at officials, I'm sure you heard that it was a great show and a lot of people said one of the best we've had uh in a while.

Is there a little bit more added because it's a little bit more added because of the two because the 250. Um he did state that the uh tariffs were part of part of the price increase also. Um but uh the the the lead pyro technician is actually a Danville resident. he lives here and uh he told me that he is going to make this the best show that we we've seen and he's very prideful about it and and happy to do this. So uh the city approved this last night. I don't know if you guys need to do it now or however you do. We do. So the city Yeah. the city and the county, this is the amount that they split. Correct. This is the amount that they split.

So we budgeted 12,500 is what's in our budget. So the extra amount would be an additional almost $2,500. $24.99. You need a motion. So if you want to pay the extra. Yes. So moved. All right. Have a um second. Okay. Motion by Master Ellis. Second by Master G. Any discussion? Well worth it. Isn't it Isn't it interesting that 2500 is 250th? It is. It is. All right. So, all those in favor of the motion to approve paying the additional $24.99 for the fireworks signify by saying I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carries.

Thank you all very much. Like I said, once we get all our ducks in a row, we'll probably be back in another month to fill everybody in on the on it. So, appreciate Thank you very much. Thank you, Johnny. We appreciate you being here and all the information you g us today. Thank you. You all have a great day. Thanks so much. All right. Next up is Humane Society director Carrie Q. That's me. I'm her. That is you. And right on time. And right on. Right on. Q. No.

Well, he's wearing your favorite color, too. I know. I know. He He's good like that. Do me. Just hit the space bar. That's page two. That's page two. We were counting on you, Bill. He can do it. Thank you, Bill. I guess I'll wait around. Make sure get through it. There you go. The space button, right? Should cool.

You can do it, Carrie. I can do it. Uh first off, good morning. Thank you uh judge magistrates uh for the opportunity to speak. I will try to be brief. Um I believe you all got um these um one sheets in your last meeting packet. Um but weather, illness, other things I had to postpone until today. I'm sure you have been anxiously. We did receive them for last meeting.

Excellent. Uh, basically I just want to give you all um a brief overview of 2025, give you some insight into where we're going into 2026, and I'd be happy to fill any questions once uh once I'm finished here. I think that the biggest um accomplishment that the Humane Society and Bo County Animal Control did last year is really um driving our spay and neuter numbers up. Um, as we all know, the best way to control pet population and keep everyone safe and healthy is to make sure we aren't having litters of kittens and puppies over and over again. So, as you can see, uh, we did 530 surgeries for cats and kittens. Um, the cats and kittens, uh, also we had I think we brought in twice as many this year as we did in 24. Um, as you can see, we adopted out 338 cats and kittens this year.

Wow. That is shocking and astonishing. Um, a couple reasons we could do that is, um, you haven't met him yet, but our, um, our intrepid cat, community cat coordinator scheduler, um, Chuck Gther joined us a couple years ago, and he has absolutely taken the community cat program under his wing, which is why we were able last year to bring in so many cats and kittens and move them quickly. Um, try to But you've lost an employee, Eric. Well, yes. And you know what? While while I'm here, I should bring that up. Um, Cody was our community cat trapper.

We loved having him. He was here for almost 5 years. Um, but he wanted to move home to New York. So, of course, the huge loss to us is gaining to his family um in upstate New York. Uh, but we had gotten to the point where our community, just regular members in their neighborhoods have uh know that they can go through us to get their cats fixed. So, um, instead of replacing Cody, we are relying on also, uh, Boil County Animal Care and Control, um, their TNVR program dovetailes nicely with what we're doing. Um, and really the the only barrier we have to doing more spay and neuter for cats is accessibility of the vets. Um, we just don't have enough vets and enough appointments. And this isn't a boil county issue. I mean, this is a nationwide um crisis, a lack of vets, but we are positioned this year to do at least as many as we did last year and maybe more. Um but again, that's Can we get a couple new vet clinics in town? I mean, that would be ideal. Um because it just it itself, you know, it it runs itself now. It's just a matter of getting people into the vet. Um dogs and puppies, 255 um were adopted or sent to rescue. Um, and you know, some of these numbers are going to be lower than usual because of our compassionate care assistance fund. Um, if you're not familiar with that, we created it three or four years ago um, initially just to help community members with um, emergent issues with their pets. For example, we really focused on medical concerns to begin with um, with a goal of keeping again people and pets together and making sure these pets are healthy. We found out over time though um that there are a lot more um needs out there than just emergent medical care. So in the

last year or so we've expanded the community uh the compassionate care fund. Uh we will grant up to $500 for pet fees or spay and neuter um or simply vaccinations. Um, and again, the goal is if we can invest in our community so they can keep their pets happier, healthier for everybody. You know, the last thing we want is for our shelter to be full. Um, a lot of, you know, a lot of times people think, well, if your shelter isn't full, you aren't doing your job.

Guess what? It's the exact opposite. Um, now it doesn't mean we're not going to get full now and then. As you know, we've been u pretty crammed up the last few months for a variety of reasons. Um but yeah, the compassionate care assistance fund we um granted $8,600 last year and this year, what is it? February 10th, we're 6 weeks into the year, we've had 12 requests already. Um 90% of the time we can approve them. Some things, you know, if it's if there isn't a good prognosis for the pet, unfortunately, that's when we're going to help with end of care, which is another thing we expanded. Uh there's nothing worse than having your beloved pet um need to be humanely euthanized and not be able to afford it. So that was another thing that we expanded the community or the community compassionate care cats um the compassionate care assistance fund. So, um, we're really trying from birth to, um, a comfortable end of life. Um, doing everything we can in between, uh, to try and help folks keep their pets, um, or have a dignified end of life. Um, let's see. I don't know. Do you want me to break down? These are so boring. We don't need numbers. 75% of our dogs and cats that come in are stray. Um and only about uh 12% are owner surrenders. Uh but again that isn't unusual. Um we have managed intake. So we help uh pet owners who need to um rehome their animals either through our our home to home rehoming website which is a self um it's supported by us but the uh the actual owners do it themselves. Um, our euthanasia rate is 7% last year. So,

anything under 10% is considered no kill. Um, obviously we're very proud of that. And there are times that the most reasonable, responsible, and caring thing to do is to have have to humanely euthanize. But again, our goal, if we keep them out of the shelter, that means we can keep them healthy and alive elsewhere. Um, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the partnership with Boil County Fiscal Court and Animal Care and Control on site. Um, obviously much of what we're doing here is only possible because the two organizations work together. Um, on that note, I think it's important for me to mention um that Jessica Joseph has really stepped up um in the absence of a shelter director. I have been pleased and impressed with how she and um do you call her Ally or do you call her Alexandra? Okay. Um how Ally have um committed to working closely with me and Chuck and our newest employee, Cat. Um and I feel like we are we're sharing the same messages um because they're what we want the community, you know, to hear and learn from. Um I feel like our collaboration I don't know who follows Facebook on are you on the Facebooks anyone? Um you may have noticed that the two organizations are including each other um in many of our posts because we're there together and we're doing most of these things together. So um

I I do want to make note of that. I feel like the last couple months we have done well um bridging that gap and um I'm just ple pleased to share that. So um that is actually hold on uh uh it's only because Bill is here right I've got the good juju. Yeah.

Um dovetailing on the fact that you know we couldn't do this without uh Bo County Animal Care and Control. We also couldn't do it without the fosters. Um, and the volunteers we have, if you walk into the shelter, uh, pretty much any time of the day, you're going to find four or five people who are helping take care of the animals, doing general cleaning, um, pretty much anything that we need them to pitch in with. Um, so volunteers and fosters make a huge difference in our organization success. Obviously um we couldn't do this without donors um businesses who sponsor us you know financial grants from uh national organizations um it it truly does take a village and I know we say that a lot um but it is an absolute fact when you are talking about community problems you need to have a community solution so and of course we couldn't get by without our adopters um like I said last year what did we Three. Well, who can add? 338 + 255. That's a lot. Let's just say that. Um 4055.

Huh? 4,55. I don't think so. That seems like a lot. Well, anyway, the point is over 500. Thank you. I mean, I like your numbers better, but don't get me wrong. Um, but those are animals that went to homes where they're going to be well loved. Um, and again, at the end of the day, this is about making sure people and pets in our community are safe and taken care of and uh, feel included. Um, I think one one area that some people get a little confused on is the home to home. Yes. Can you like elaborate on that a little bit because it kind of has to do with owners surrendering and owners finding a new

That's exactly right. That's exactly right. um 6 years ago, I think it was, um a blueg grass um development district, which is basically a nonprofit arm of of Boil County, um came through and did like a shelter um audit, I guess, is is the best way to put it. And at that time, we were euthanizing 30 40% of a lot of these animals that were coming in. And it was because um the influx we didn't have any control over it. People were just bringing in animals. Well, this particular um expert said that again the best way to prevent euthanasia is to prevent shelter intake. So she gave us she got us started on the community cat program um a variety of other things. Hooked us up with grants to help support uh spay and neuter surgeries. And the one thing she said besides spay and neuter that would make a huge difference is working with owner surreners in a different way.

So again, we go back to the compassionate care assistance fund and that helps keep a lot of people together with their pets. But sometimes you just can't keep your cat or dog. You know, there are things that happen. Um there are a couple reasons managed intake is important because we do have to take strays in, right? The one thing we have control over is how often we bring in an owner surrendered pet. So the compassionate care assistance fund um helps us cut that down um to start with. And then the second part of it is our rehoming website.

So home to home is um it's a self-supported promoted by the humane society uh process where folks get on our civil website um fill out basic information about their pet. obviously things like sex, age, breed. Um but more importantly, um we ask them to write good personality profiles. Um so they're essentially doing the same thing we're doing, posting good pictures, posting good personality profiles. Um and then we promote it um on our Facebook and website. So So there's actually a web page.

There is actually Yes, it's home-home.org. Correct. And check it out um if you'd like. Um, and the way it works then we promote the home to home uh animals on our Facebook page which you know got 17,000 plus followers. So it's a lot different than folks trying to rehome in their own network um because we've opened up that audience quite a bit. Um so our our support there

um is to promote the pets and of course again we always offer in the meantime do you need food assistance? You know we got plenty of food in the pet food pantry. Do you need vaccinations? Um, and again, the whole goal at this point is to make sure that we're all working together to give the best uh outcome for these animals. Do you have additional questions that I No, thank you for explaining that though. That's just one thing that I hear sometimes is that we don't understand the home to home and so I'm just wanted to get it out there.

I totally Yeah, I can appreciate that. And of course, if anybody I mean feel free to pop in. Um, we've had folks who I don't do computers. Well, that's fair. So, come in and we'll do computers for you. We don't want there to be any barrier um in that place. So, thank you very much. Yeah, it's helped quite a bit. Yeah. Thank you. Anybody have any questions or comments for Carrie? Heaping praise. No, there's nothing. Yeah, we appreciate you coming and giving us an update and we're thankful that um the two entities are working together. Yep. We got this. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Have a good day. Oh, I'm staying. Oh, good. Okay, good. Get a donut.

Okay, up next is our payroll clerk, which we don't get to see very often in fiscal court, but she's here today. Robin. Miss Robin. All right. I am presenting a motion to approve the following. The first is annual salaries for judge executive, county clerk, county sheriff, county jailer. And then also considering a 2.7 increase for annual salaries for county attorney, county corner, and county magistrates. And last, an incentive payment for the following. Casey McCoy, Brian Woodford, Judge Bottom, Jamie Gay, Steve Sleer, Tom Ellis, Paula Bodner, Barry Harmon, and Jason Cullen. Okay. So, let's do these separately. So, we'll do the elected official salary first. And you all have got copies of that. And you probably already received it at home as well. So I know I did. So u is there a motion to approve

on the elected official salaries? Is there a way we can have more discussion about the magistrates's salary at a later date even at after even we approve it? Sure. As this today, we can always bring it back. Okay. Okay. Because I think we've discussed that in the past about having some discussion about that about Yeah. This is just to approve the uh cost of living, the 2.7 CPI. So, you're calling for what? First of May. First of May. And And you want that as an agenda item? Yes. Good. Yes. Yes. Yeah. We're going to bring that back, but yes, we can do that.

Okay. All right. So, I'll make a motion we approve the cost of living increase, salary increase. Okay. And the other are salaries are set by House Bill H10. 810. Yes. Okay. All right. So, we have a a motion by Maser Gay. Is there a second? Master Bogner. Any discussion? Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carries. All right. Next, we have the incentive payments for all of the elected officials that have completed their 40hour training uh that Robin mentioned. Yes, ma'am.

So, we need a motion to approve. um incentive payments for those elected officials. That's your slaver. Your second guy. All right. Any discussion? Anybody get left out? Just master calling. He should have to be here to win. Yeah. Yeah. Take his out. All right. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carries. Thank you very much. Do it before the first of May. So, we'll probably need to do it at our next meeting in March.

That's right. Before the first. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So, we'll get that back on the agenda for first meeting in March. Good. Okay. All right. Well, she's gone. Thank you, Robin. Uh, next up, EMS Director Mike Rogers.

Thanks, Judge, and thanks to the fiscal court. Uh, we have two items on the agenda today. I have my Padre Mo here that can help me work through some of this. Uh, the first one we'll do is the the ZO preventive maintenance agreement. We've done this agreement for many years. It just allows us to have permanent maintenance on our uh cardiac monitors. that allows us to have a green light from them saying it's okay to use and so and it's a budgeted item. It's a budgeted item. All right. So moved. Motion by Minister Gay. Second by Mor Bodner. Any discussion on this old contract? Same as always. The amount same from last year. Uh I'm not sure about the amount. It should be it should be the same from last year. I

think so. Yeah. Okay. All right. All right. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carries. And each year we reach out to Zo before our budget u to make sure that it hasn't changed. So yeah. Okay.

The the next agenda item is uh for a memorandum of agreement with the BCTC here in Danville. They've requested that we take over the instruction of their permanent class. uh it is a hybrid program and I'll let Mo kind of speak to that a little bit and then we can talk about the contract. So currently we're um teaching through Hopkinsville uh paramedic program and with EMS education and paramedic programs specifically um you have to have a a program that's been approved through COA is is what it's called. But um the way it works is they do all the administrative side of it. Um and then we're like an offsite agency. So um this year we've had three folks in that program um going ahead and um go through it. Um I have one, she passed her registry exam and then we got two more. They're I'm getting pretty close to being ready for that. Uh but that's a hybrid program as well. This is something that we've um been teaching for what was it? November of last year, I think. So, um it's not new. It's just BCTC is new. But they reached out to us and asked us, "Hey, would you all be interested in teaching this? Um we think it'd be an advantageous thing for us to do. Um it's local. Um we've had folks go through their program before. They have resources. Um so, we think it'd be a good partnership to

And you going to be the instructor?" Yes, ma'am. All right. So, we have one of our own that will be teaching at BCTC. Awesome. Yeah. And we've talked about this on several occasions in our committee and definitely recommend moving in this direction. Um, we mentioned this morning that we wanted to make sure the contract was reviewed by our county attorney's office and make sure there weren't any concerns. Have they done that? Yes, we have. We have. Yes, they look they look good.

All right. So, basically the way it'll work is the every hour credit hour we teach will be reimbursed for and uh we expect it to be around 27,000 u and so uh we we we uh that's kind of what the what we expect to come and so we'll have to make sure we have a revenue item for next year's budget as the program starts in August. So um other than that I mean the agreement basically the the biggest part is that on the first page there the first party agrees to pay the secondary party for and and it's basically they pay you on what their adjunct instructor is and uh so that's kind of basically the Any other questions about the contract? We we

it'll be renewed annually, right? Yep. We Yeah, we we did one similar in the past that's expired, but so this would be a new one. I'll make a motion to approve the contract. Okay. So, a motion by Master Gay, second by Mag Sleeper. Any discussion? I don't know about y'all, but I think this is pretty exciting. I mean, it's a wonderful opportunity for EMS and to go in there and teach and then get some of those students uh hired on to, right? Yeah. They'll have that relationship established. Yes. I think that'll be that'll be great. So kudos to you all for setting this up.

Judge, I think uh you might want to send an email to Brian Corals who's now the head of all uh the BCTC's across the state. Yeah. Uh because he's looking for professionals in all areas uh to have opportunities um at the local level. And I think he'll be quite pleased to to get an email from you. Sound good. He's got an extraordinary opportunity to uh help young people looking for alternative education and we need desperately folks that they'll graduate. Yeah, we do. We sure do.

All right. Any other discussion on the motion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carries. Good job. Thank you.

He survived he survived Green Ridge. Before these gentlemen leave, um if it would be appropriate, um as we adjourn, uh could we include some appreciation for the extraordinary work under duress of unprecedented ICE where I know of several circumstances where it was a battle and uh these guys won in terms of taking care of our citizens. So, you'd like to adjourn in honor of our emergency medical services? Yes. Okay. All right. Well,

we weren't the only ones out there. You know, we we had our community partners, Daml Fire, B County Fire, Sheriff's Office, and Dam PD. You know, we we were all a team. So, we we we lost without those. So, you might add and all responders, but I'd like to specifically mention EMS. Okay. We get that down. All first responders. Yes. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. All right. Up next, IT director, awesome, Bill Nichols.

I just wanted to give you all an update over the uh the cyber test that we had gone through the last couple of weeks. Uh and we fared fairly well. Um I found out a couple of things about uh fishing emails and spam emails. I found out why our um Jason isn't here to defend it, his favorite no before product. But um the reason that that wasn't working very well is because of the parameters that we had set up in our fishing design. Even though we whitelisted the company to allow them to send those emails in, our system stopped them. They opened them up. They examined them, said they were false, and deleted them. But when I got the report back from no before it said everybody had opened it, clicked on the link done everything which that yes that happened but it was done by our fishing software to stop it.

Our system was too smart. So our system was set up so that it basically stopped a lot of them. Now as you all have known here the last couple of days we're we've got some things going around in the city that have gotten through our our fishing stuff. So, it is good to stay diligent on top of it. Um, we didn't have any major issues. We do have some things that we're going to clean up. Um, next meeting I'm going to have, um, believe it or not, Colonel Sanders is going to come in and give you the full report from the Kentucky National Guard. Okay. Of, uh, how we did. Okay. Good. Good. So, uh, but they're in the process of putting that all together now.

And that's the next meeting. the next meeting um they are coming in and they will give you the full-blown unadulterated unfiltered how we did. Okay. So, I just wanted to let you know that we for the most part we did well. Uh we've got a lot of good things in place. We have a lot of things we need to improve on. So,

all right. Well, thank you so much for leave us. um being the elders when I almost called myself but the elder member of the court and you know my sensitivities you have sensitized me so much that I wouldn't open up that wonderful offer that the little orchestra is coming until I checked with you because I thought my goodness sakes I don't want to be in badstead with

and and I understand that and that you know but that's okay I mean you know I have had. You're not the only one. I've had people that are much younger than both of us, Tom, call me and say, "Hey, can I open this?" And a lot of times it's yes, you can open that. But a lot of times, no, delete it, get rid of it. And it's probably saved us a lot of heartache. Um, but we have rest assured that we have a lot of things in place that even if somebody does make the mistake of clicking on that attachment that might cause a ransomware situation, we have things in place to stop it proactively. So, is it always anybody out of there?

Is it always okay to open the email but not to open the attachment? Yes, I I think you can safely open an email, but you know, the links and the attachments, you know, stop, hover over them, make sure that and and basically most the emails like that, you should be expecting it probably, more than likely, if you're getting an attachment or they're going to send you a link, you'll have known. And if you have a question, call them. If it everything looks good and you're not real sure, you don't know why you got it, call the person. Say, "Hey, did you send this to me?" Uh that can that can thwart a lot of things. Um, you know, make a call. All right. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you for always keeping us safe. Bill,

my pleasure. All right. There's one more thing. Yes, sir. We said the first responders. I want to make sure give praise to our road department. We would be so lost without them. And I consider them first responders, but I want to make sure that Roger and his team, they are first responders. They are first responders. I just want to make sure mention them. Got it. All right. Okay. Uh, Magistrate Reports and Magistrate Harmon, we start with you today. I didn't get to make the last training we had. We missed you. But the doctor cancelled my visits, but I don't want you on ice cuz you'll break the arm. We don't want you on ice.

Yes. So, I took the advice and stayed in 13 days. Yeah. Cabin fever was horrible. Yeah, it has been. I watched Tom clean his sidewalk back back step. Oh man, that's why I'm still standing. I've still got ice in front of the garage. Don't worry. Yeah. A lot of it to go today, though. Uhhuh. It did. Well, we're glad you didn't get out and fall. I probably would have. Yeah. All right. Plenty have, including myself.

Thankfully, I was just a little sore and no worse for the wear, but I know some are not fortunate. Yeah. Master Gay.

Um, yes. I also want to add on to Magistrate um Ellis's adjournment message and and Director Rogers that, you know, thanks to all those that have been out there working, our road crew, you know, everybody that's done an amazing job under tough circumstances and and gotten us taken care of because I've had a lot of good feedback about the roads and including one of my coffee buddies that delivers offers meals to people out and about. And he said he had kind of prepared himself for the worse when he was getting ready to go out and was amazed that the roads were as clear as they were. And he wanted me to send his thanks to the people that made that happen cuz I know some other communities aren't as fortunate in the road clearing. So, thanks to all of those that have done amazing work in trying times. Um, I also want to just mention some things that, you know, now that I'm back working part-time at center, it's been kind of neat to see really the community impact that our that the Champions Hall, which is the amazing indoor pool and indoor track facility have been having through the winter here. is just as an example is center has recently hosted swimming wise the the region high school regional um event we hosted last week the mids south conference swim meet and this week we're hosting the SAA conference swim meet and also along that way we've hosted multiple high school track meets um an indoor college meet and two weeks from now we'll be hosting the SAA conference indoor track meet at center. So this is um literally in that time

period thousands of um people counting athletes and families that are coming to our community to um see our community and eat and spend money in our community um on multiple ways. So I think it really is u important to acknowledge and recognize the economic impact that that has and particularly sports tourism

which I'm as most of you know a huge fan of and I think that's a a thing that will be will also reap the benefits of that many times over with the bike trails that are coming soon is I don't I don't think people fully understand or appreciate what a big audience and and participation um activity that that is and the number of people that travel and and go to different bike trails around the country literally. So looking forward to that. So that's all I have. I sorry I do have our EMS committee okay

report to give on behalf of Master Cohen and myself and he did attend uh um via phone this morning for that. But we had our crisis team update from um Mark and and Terry on the community outreach, the crisis and the community outreach and this and the and unfortunately and unfortunately we did have a tough month tough month in suicide ideiation and attempts of eight and uh one uh one fatality in that regard which is obviously always a hard hard things to hear. Um, and otherwise there's there's a lot going on with the weather in that area, um, with the housing situation and you know, it's working well, but there's still some work that needs to be done on the case management side of it. Move forward and and you know, it's kind of the what's the you can provide fish, but we need to teach them how to how to fish. And so there's still a lot of work to be done there in the homeless area. I know that manager sleeper and the homeless coalition are doing a lot of work in that area. Um but that's one of the holes that we talked about this morning is that whole okay we provide them housing but that's such a short time

fix and uh how do we take advantage of that to move them into the next arena. So that was talked about. Um then we talked about the ZO um contract, the preventive maintenance agreement and the BCTC agreement. Tim gave us an update on the new trucks coming in service and we talked about the appreciation for the blessing and the great job that measures sleeper did on that as well and how appreciative u the MS um crew is of that event and I thought that went very well and so um and then Mo's education update was we have um three new employees in orient ientation right now and two still pending their test. They're finalizing their paramedic

for paramedic school for paramedic school and waiting on some final little pieces and parts of that to happen to get them through that. And then we did have um in January busy month of 692 runs and then and then December also busy month. They're all busy months it seems anymore. 656 runs. So, it's busy busy service. It's amazing how many runs that they go on. And it really is just it blows my mind that we're almost up to 700 now, right? It's incredible. Yeah.

So, that's the EMS committee report and I'll make the motion we approve that. Okay. Have a motion by Master Gay or second. Second. Master Sleeper. Any discussion on the report? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carries. That's all I have. Thank you, Mr. Gay. Master Sleeper.

I just like to say it was a blessing for me to be able to offer the blessing. And uh this past conference we went to last week, the judge executive conference, I was really impressed with the information we received on AI and cyber security and data centers. there's so much I found out I didn't know about these things and so it's very much a benefit to be able to go to that. Um this afternoon 1:00 I'll be attending a virtual training on active shooter training. Um used to do that all the time when I was at the hospital. You know was like an annual thing but I haven't done it for a long time. So a lot that I've forgotten I'm sure

Mister Harmon has liked to joke that I sit here because I'm the human shield. So at least I think he's joking. Um uh on February 19th we're having pipeline there's pipeline training available. Are you attending that Tom? Absolutely. How many pipelines run under BC? Five. Five. Yeah.

They are all dormant. They are all dangerous and I would be happy for any of the entities that own them to challenge me on that. They were built by farmers during World War II and uh there are all kinds of concerns that those guys when we go to that every year aren't really happy with me. Well, I'm I'm pleased to be able to attend hopefully.

You may need to sit at another table if you're not going to be happy. Get your buffet out of a different tray. Uh lastly, uh this is a ways out there by April 1st, and you all should have received information on this. There's a human trafficking seminar. It's like the 2hour deal. Um and uh the detective uh Ricky Lynn spoke at the conference briefly, but um we uh my daughter Amanda, who's been actively involved in human trafficking, uh helping victims of that, uh went to his two-day seminar and highly recommended him. So, I'd encourage everyone that can to attend that. Where would that be? When

where? Where? Um, it is, let me see, your local. Yeah. Um, health department. B County Health Department. Okay. Uh, and it's April 1st from uh 10:00 a.m. to 2. It's 4 hours, I'm sorry. And lunch is provided. And um whether or not people realize that there is human trafficking in every county of Kentucky. So yeah. Yeah. Unfortunately. Yeah. So anyway, that's all I have. All right. Thank you, Mr. Sleeper. Measure.

Thank you, Judge. And I'm going to be as fast as I can because I'll tell you my first issue is the American Battlefield Trust, which has uh purchased land and or given funds um all across the nation for the preservation of battlefields like Perryvilles. And I'm very fortunate to have a virtual corporate lifelong friend who is now uh representing them and has called a lunchon for any and all of 138 legislators who are not in committees uh in an hour and a half um to meet for lunch in the annex and talk about the importance of pres preserving our battlefields like Pvilles. Uh so I'm really excited to get on the road and and be there as they open at 11:30. Uh I'm very pleased that Mag sleeper mentioned the uh the pipelines. It's over 12 years ago now and the first person to lead the way on a resolution of grave concern about opening up the pipelines was uh Mayor Sle uh in Perryville and then others followed. Um, at that time McKini was judge and he also followed suit on that. As briefly as I can, pipelines installed during World War II where they did not even realize that packing them back in with the rock that came vibrations which could breach the pipeline. Worse than that to me is the idea of these pipelines were, as Preston Miles studied them with me, going to send toxic materials from up around Lake Erie all the way down to the New Orleans area through these pipelines, one of which is 30 in

in diameter. And if you understand plumbing, it's male female. And these were built for the flow to go this way. And they were going to reverse flow from the Great Lakes and send it this way, which is not exactly a good plumbing thing that our guys would pass uh with houses being built here today. So there are grave concerns about that. the owner of one of the companies uh involved in that had a net worth of8 billion dollar.

We were successful from up the Great Lakes down to New Orleans. Boil County stopped that from happening when the public became aware of it. So, I don't know that anything's going to be discussed about those reopening for the future, but that's one of the reasons I don't miss that uh meeting every year. Uh we need uh the county attorney's help between now and either the next meeting or two meetings out. Um I classify in my own mind three levels of being on the road. I think it's illegal not only to be on the road, but to be in subdivisions on your golf cart, especially if you're 8 years old, which uh Magister uh Cullen has expressed grave concerns about. So, we need the ABC123 of golf carts of what I call uh your garden variety ATV and the very sophisticated side by sides that are out there now. And it it's the constituent that I has had has has has a compounded circumstance where a part of his farm is in Casey County and a part of his farm is in Boil County. And uh yes, he can. No, he can't. Um and he's even uh run into trouble across the hall in the clerk's office on registration. So it it's it's more complex than anybody really wants to imagine. But anything in those three levels that county attorney could provide us prior to the next meeting so we're educated would be very helpful.

Magistrate attorney Heron put out a piece last year about golf carts uh kind of the ins and outs and I will find that and send that to you again just so you have it. the the the major one is it probably costs another $1,500 on the most sophisticated side by side to equip it to be on the road. Um or the sheriff will stop you and ticket you. So, and I know the judge is very aware of this because you you have your own

except for farm exemption. Exactly. I understand and that's what Jason stopped me on, but but there are others who would like to have that opportunity if they get their vehicle totally uh equipped under the state law.

Uh and my last one is um tomorrow. Not tomorrow. Yes. My goodness, it is tomorrow. we're all that can uh go for our legislative meetings and hopefully you've had a chance to see what I put together on Saturday from Friday meeting of the legislative committee that I represent for this court. There are about 20 of us on that and uh there are some things that will absolutely have uh a detrimental effect on Bo County if we can't stop those. And then there are others that we want to support most of all the jail situation. Judge, I'm I've hit the road. I might speak today. Okay. Yes, sir. Thank you.

All right, Major Boner. Um, well, it's been an icy, slippery last few weeks, so we've all lived through it so far, so that's good. Uh, we had a meeting for Junction City Matters planned for Monday and we decided to wait and we're going to reschedu that. Um, went to the conference. I did slip. I did slide. I I slid and dropped all my mom's food. I was taking her some food, spilled all our food, but I wasn't even so I did it real nicely. Oh,

but u it's just been an historic storm. I mean, this really has been a historic. And I did I do want to leave everybody with my knowledge that socked feet out on that ice don't slip. They don't. So when I go out and feed my little birds, I put my little sock passing that on. Now I'm giving you credit. I tell you, I hope it works. When we uh regret it either way, nice could be like what we did with our mom. She got homesick and she wanted to go home. There was ice everywhere.

So, we couldn't chomp it out. So, we took a blanket and we got her right up to the door, put a blanket, she walked on the blanket, and we had all the steps and porch cleaned off, and she got right in. And then we went every day and checked on her. She she wanted to go home three or four days ago. So, she got homesick. So, yeah. Now, you put those socks over your shoes. I just I just go barefoot. Okay. All right. I can highly recommend them over your shoes. Okay. John said, "Put them over your shoes." I said, "No, I don't." And they don't get wet. And they didn't. It they worked. So, there you go. All right.

So, I'm not saying that's going to work for everybody, but it worked. I'm not getting the patent. U but we're we're I'm excited to go tomorrow to our legislative day and that's that's all I've got. Okay. Thank you very much. Um county attorney. You have any comments? I don't have anything today. Any any regards from our from our county attorney? Well, I guess I mean I think you may want to share. We did we did have a new person start with us. Kirk is a new assistant county attorney. He handles the criminal docket with Chris. So that's who will be handling district. And what's heir? Kirk. Kirk.

Okay. Kirk. Okay. Camera. No. It's okay. Curt. We'll go with Kurt. It's Kurt. Okay. We'll go with Kurt. That's good. All right. Thank you. Thank you for being here today. I appreciate it. Uh, Miss Julie, I got a couple things. Okay. Um, I don't know if everybody realizes, but on Valentine's Day, it is Boil County's birthday. It's our 184th birthday. On Valentine's Day. Oh, wow. So, that's a little piece of trivia that I discovered. Good to know. Um, that's nice.

So, celebrate as you wish. That's awesome. um the public safety building. We are um kind of regrouping that project and trying to get a meeting together and reset the scope. I think doing what we had originally planned is going to be a little bit out of outside of what we feel we can afford. So, we'll be bringing some information to you as soon as we get it. Um the bike park, we met with Andrew over at the at the conference and he's he just gets us all fired up. He's great. He does.

Um and he kind of talked about some of his ideas. Um we did ask Chris to send a letter. The property owner that sits behind um us is still encroaching over the line and Chris sent a letter or called him. I'm not sure which. Um so that's in process to get that resolved. Um there are two property owners that don't like the survey boundaries that we um we have. They are what they are. So we've encouraged them to have their own surveys and let's lay them down side by side and see if there's any discrepancies before we start construction along those side boundaries.

Um so that's kind of in process. Pickle ball, as said before, we're starting to get get some some things. So hopefully that'll be ready to go to bid this spring and start construction as soon as the weather turns. That's our hope. Uh Buster Pike Bridge, the bids open today at one. So we're we're uh we're hoping we get some bids. I haven't seen Kina has anything come in now. No. Um but sometimes those big ones come in. So let's hold.

Um the judicial center not not a lot of movement there. I think the judge has been talking to other counties that are doing the judicial center, so we'll be a little bit more ready. Is it on that note? Is it it's is it making its way through the in the budget process? It's still in the budget. Yeah. Yep. Still in the budget. Yeah. And that's probably the biggest thing tomorrow is to make sure that stays in the budget.

Um parable tap grant. We signed the green agreement last week and so that that uh that is to fix the the storm water runoff on Merchants Road that gets down in the buildings. Um the courthouse, the Koopa, we have an architect coming Friday to um take a look at it. It's the same firm that did the work back in 2000, Kate's Architects. So hopefully they can work with Pogue and get this thing done. Mhm.

Um I'm also working on the bid documents for HVAC preventative maintenance and it's also probably time that we rebid our healthc care management. You know the Cheryl Morgan I think it's been what we say almost yeah 5 years. So it's it's time to be responsible. We need to do that. So we're going to do that and we need to rebid our HVAC. Yeah. I got that's what I'm working on. Yeah. Yeah. I'm working on that one. Um, so other than that, I think that's it. I think good deal. All right. Thank you so much. Okay, Josh. Yes. His name is Kirk Smith.

Smith. Okay. Kirk Smith. All right. Well, good. I'm sure we'll get introduced at some point. Yeah.

Okay. So, um, Saturday is Valentine's Day, so be sure and treat your special someone to something nice on Saturday. Um, coming up in a few weeks is the Forkland Pie Auction. That will be on March the 7th. And I know some of you all like to get that on your calendars cuz you like to be there. And it's the spaghetti uh supper and pie auction. That'll be on March the 7th. And then on March the 18th and 19th, I know I'm reaching out there, but I want to make sure that everybody gets signed up for the KMCA spring conference. So, if you haven't contacted Kina yet uh about your room reservations and your conference reservations, be sure and let her know uh how many nights you're staying and and get your um registration paid for. And other than that, um, tomorrow, legislative day, um, Senator Bledsoe, I got this, uh, late yesterday evening, can meet at 9:30 in the morning. So, anybody that can be there at 9:30 to meet with her and then at 12:00 noon, uh, Representative Elliot, uh, has this on his calendar at 12:00 noon. So, I know some of us may be able to get there and some of I I cannot be there at 12:00 noon because we're having um judges legislative lunchon and meeting after the lunchon. So, but some of you I'm sure can can be there at noon uh to meet with Representative Elliot. And other than that, uh someone will make a motion to adjurnn. We want to adjourn in honor of our Bo County uh emergency medical services and all first responders including our public works department.

So move Gay second by Master Bodner. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carries. Where is