City Commissioners - Regular Meeting

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for the Ash board of city commission. If you will rise, we'll ask the commissioner reg to do our invocation and Minister Warts if you'd lead us in our pledge. Let's pray. Lord, we come this afternoon thanking you for our city. We ask and invite your Holy Spirit to enter our chambers and to preside over our meeting today. We ask for your wisdom and guidance over this board of mayor commissioners as we attempt to make the right decisions for our city and the citizens we serve. Bless our city manager, our staff and employees and those in attendance today. We pray always in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.

Stand and salute. I pledge algiance 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. Please, it's hard to keep up with. Thank you, gentlemen. Motion to receive and file the agenda presented. Second. Any addition to corrections? All in favor say I. I. All opposed. All right. We'll move into our hearings and reports. Before we do that, I'd like to call on Mr. Wheeler. I believe you have a slight presentation for us.

Uh, it's a resolution for your consideration. Uh, mayor and commissioners. Resolution of the city of Ashlin, Kentucky, recognizing March as women's history month and honoring Mary Elliot Flannry for her historic contributions to public service and journalism. Whereas March is nationally recognized as Women's History Month, a time dedicated to celebrating the achievements, leadership, and contributions of women throughout history. And whereas Mary Elliot Flannry, a resident of Kentucky and journalist for the Ashland Daily Independent, became the first woman elected to a state legislature south of the Mason Dixon line following the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. And whereas Marielle Flannry's service as a legislator and journalist demonstrated courage, dedication, and commitment to expanding opportunities for women in public life. And whereas recognizing the achievements of pioneering women such as Mary Elliot Flannry inspires future generations to participate in public service and civic leadership. Now therefore, be it resolved by the city of Ashlin, Kentucky. That March is hereby recognized as Women's History Month in the city of Ashland. that the city of Ashlin honors the legacy of M Mary Elliot Flannry as a pioneering legislator, journalist, and advocate whose leadership helped open the doors of public service to women across the Commonwealth. That this recognition encourages residents, schools, libraries, and civic organizations within the city of Ashlin to reflect upon and celebrate the contributions of women past, present, and future to our shared civic life. And this resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption as required by law.

So move second.

Any discussion? I I know that I also would like to add on to that, you know, the the women in our community, but the women are in our um organization here, the city of Ashlin. And I commend all of those uh ladies for what they do uh every day and their leadership. uh and they do that with uh dedication and they have integrity and and compassion in what they do in in our city. Without you, we sometimes would be lost and I appreciate what you all do. You inspire the generation that is here and you inspire that next generation, but I wanted to add that uh especially for our our city employees. So, we have a first and a second. So, all in favor say I. I.

All opposed. Thank you, Mr. Wheeler. Now we'll move into our um mayor and commissioners. We'll start with Mr. Renfro.

Oh, thank you. Um when we get to new business item E, I I'm I'm bad about skimming over stuff and first thing I saw was a change order between the city of Ashen Ga Construction. I thought, well, here we go. But I didn't realize it said decreasing. is $724,000 now on a $100 million project. I know that's not great amount, but in my house that that's a heck of a lot of money. And uh I hopefully this is the the sign of things to come. Uh, also Commissioner uh, Rhymer and the mayor and I were down in Frankfurt yesterday at the KC and uh, spoke to some of our elected officials and the agriculture commission and uh, trying to wrangle few dollars out of them. Of course, what we heard was, you know, budget's tight. So, um, but, uh, I think we've we've, uh, got a pretty good agriculture commissioner that may be able to help us out on the project.

Yeah. A matter of fact, I've already been in contact with them this morning with that. All right. Good.

I just want to welcome everybody to this noon meeting today. Uh, as Commissioner Renfro said and and Mayor Charles, we had a very productive meeting yesterday uh, with KC for the city uh, day and night at in Frankfurt. spoke to a lot of local legislators, uh, legislators from across the state. Uh, we worked with a lot of, we had communication with a lot of city leaders throughout the state from, uh, us here in Ashland to all the way to Puka to Mazeville, uh, Covington, Frankfurt. So, we got to talk to a lot of folks and hear how, uh, some things that hear about what what's going on in their community and some things that we may be able to bring back to our community here. Uh, this past week in in Ashton's been very busy. We had the CB Knuckles History Museum dinner which was a great turnout. We had the Gravy Bowl which I was unable to make that but it looks like it was a a resounding success. So

we've got a big event tonight in a community too. So that's all I've got. Mr. Martin,

thanks for being here. It's nice to see uh the turnout that we have. Um I want to thank the city manager for putting the agenda on the website in advance of the meeting. I think it has been the practice to put it on either after the meeting or no earlier than the day of the meeting. And I think the community wants to know what we're meeting on. And I think that's an informative uh improvement. The the event uh for the Black History Museum was a a wonderful success. I want to thank uh uh Mr. Hall for the uh groundbreaking that we had on the wastewater treatment plant. I thought that went off very well. Look forward to the Paramount reception tonight. And I want to thank um Sandy Woodward and Paula Bowling for proposing the uh woman's uh history month uh resolution. Thanks for being here.

Thank you, Moot. I just like to welcome everyone to our new meeting. And we had a couple ribbon cutings downtown that I got to attend. And the first one is the Dandelion Patch there at the corner of 15th Street right there in the Mayo Arcade. Uh I learned a great lesson. Never take your wife to a grand opening of a of a boutique.

Uh and so uh but I wish them well. Uh Mary Kay Ror and and Susan, her sister. And so uh and then I had the the uh privilege of going to Mikasita, the new Mexican restaurant at 16th Street. And we had a I wish them well great food, great service. It's an excellent restaurant. And u then we of course the gravy bowl you mentioned and we have our grand reopening tonight of the Paramount. Thank you leadership, new leadership are back there in the back and thank you very much for your efforts. And then uh we have a district I'm going to have to duck out a little early because we have a district championship tonight between Boycat and Ashlin and it'll be a packed house out there. So that's all I have. Thank you. I think gentlemen, you you've covered a lot of grounds of what's going on, but I'm going to um uh use my time and and ask Mr. Cook um uh to come up and and uh with venue works and just give us an update of people that won't be able to make the this evening and uh give us a chance to to see what they're they're where they're at.

Yes. Thank you, mayor, commissioners. Um HR Cook with Venue Works. Uh currently located my residence in Debuke, Iowa. Um it seems that Ashlin is my second residence uh for the time being. This marks uh I think about seven or eight times we've been been in town. Um our update is absolutely fantastic. Um we we had anticipated not having any events the first six months. Um and as Matt I'm going to turn it over to him here in a minute. Uh relate the the phone is ringing. We have events coming in. We're going to announce some tonight. We do have an open house uh kind of a grand reopening um not necessarily ribbon cutting because they cut that back in the 30s uh but a reimagination of of the uh Paramount Theater uh with some heavy orderves and some light entertainment. We got a jazz band coming in and we're going to do some more announcements of our upcoming events tonight too. So um our staff is uh coming coming along nicely. We got a great local staff. But more importantly, I wanted to take a moment to introduce our COO, uh, Mike Silva, who came down from our head headquarters. Just to kind of reiterate that Ashlin is not just a forgotten small uh, market for Venue Works. This is one of our cornerstones. We see this as one of our resume makers for our company and we're building upon our business model based upon what's going on with Ashlin. Uh and we hope to be here for a long time and create a lot of success for you. But I just wanted to introduce Mike uh who's our CEO. If you want to just kind of introduce yourself.

Uh thank you. HR is always such a hard act to follow. Um but uh yeah, I I mean he's absolutely right. Venue Works is a national company, but we love and we prosper in communities this size because we want to hire people to be our employee owners, to be part of this community and uh to to know what works here in Ashland. So, we're we're so excited and we're thrilled uh on the national level all of the people that want to bring their tours here. So we we have a lot of fun stuff to announce here today uh beyond our expectations and hopefully uh uh beyond yours as well. So thank you for your time today. Appreciate it.

Thank you. Go ahead.

Hey guys, we've we've met before. I'm Matt. Uh I'm from Louisa. We're also in the district championship, but we're in the 15th region, so we're okay. We'll see each other abrupt hopefully. That being said, though, uh we've hit the ground running. Our staff is I'm from Louisa and uh our marketing director is from Olive Hill, Colobby Rice back here. And uh our food and beverage manager is from Huntington. His name is Jason Webb. And uh our event manager is from Ashland Art Lima. If you notice something about that, it's distinctly our area, right? There are wonderful qualified people that Venue Works chose to be here and uh local people working in our local theater to make sure that it's successful. We have 47 dates on hold right now already. That is because of the expertise of Venue Works and the hard work of the staff. Venue Works has such a wonderful reputation in the booking community that uh it's helped us hit the ground rolling. So, we have 47 on hold and 45 already committed. Some of those include things that will never disappear from Ashland. Festival of Trees and Trains. The Paramount Players just announced Spongebob. We have auditions tomorrow. Um, we're getting the ball rolling. But the first thing we did when I took over as education director was meet with Maria Wheel and here in the tri-state, we take care of our people first and then, you know, we have success with the National Registry. So, uh, the last thing I'll say is that I've came up with a little bit of a motto for the Paramount right now and is sustainability and creativity. We want to be creative. We want to do all of the amazing things, but also 95 years from now when someone else, unless I have impeccable health, as executive director of the Paramount Theater, uh, we want to still be around. We want to be here for our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren. So, Venue Works is helping me do that. I

appreciate it, guys. Thank you. Thank you, gentlemen. And one one last thing I do want to say because we have uh uh PAC Inc. uh is is still still working with us now. Uh and they are presenting the Paramount Players. So that that uh combination of that partnership still exists. Uh we hope to continue that into far into the future and and again they're getting they're getting their feet wet and the ground running on there on the educational side and we look forward to working with them. Matt, I believe, is the music director for the Spongebob show. So, that's kind of how this all works together. So, thank you very much for having us in in the city, and we look forward to seeing everybody this afternoon. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Cook. All right. Um, city manager report. Yes, sir. Mr. Mayor, I'd uh yield my time to Director Murray. I think he's going to give us a brief presentation on public services. and it looks like he's brought his A+ team.

Thanks everybody. I'll I'll get started here. Um I did I brought a couple of our supervisors here. What I'd like to talk about um is something that we we usually see the the results of of the hard work that public services and the city in general does. Um, what I want to talk about briefly is a little bit about what goes on behind the scenes in training to get uh these individuals working like a team and utilizing the best of their abilities. Um, about a year ago, the public services department in its current rendition was formed. So, we've had a chance to work together for about a year now. Um obviously in year one with a a group that size it takes about that that uh long to understand where our capabilities may be or where we can grow. Um it's a lot of selfanalysis and a lot of professional development. Um what I wanted to to start off by saying is when when this was done and again I I want to thank leadership for putting public services together like this. Um, we had a bunch of meetings up front and we got the groups together. We identified what the leadership was in those divisions that we were working with and we identified who those persons were and then we went immediately to try to identify what their strengths, weaknesses, uh, the entire department obviously, but the leadership in particular. Um, a lot of self-reflection and a lot of training where we'd identify what their personality traits were. uh things that came out very objectively on um a lot of testing to see, you know, what their internal or external motivations were um where they see themselves fit within the city currently and where they see their professional development going in the future. Uh this is the stuff that again it's not on paper all the time, but realistically this is kind of how behind the scenes your your public services is

working. um clearly defining their roles uh was important in the beginning and then continuing to define my role. Again, I go into that and I didn't know about a year ago what we had to work with and I was very surprised with how much talent um and how hard everybody worked and unfortunately for them probably they had to learn how to work in a different system. Um it wasn't a better or worse system. It was just a system that we were trying to utilize all those talents. Um, fortunately, as we look over and if you can just raise your hand, uh, we had some individuals step up very early and show that internal motivation to try to help the city out not as a division, not as a department, but as a city uh, in whole in real time and in the future. So, I've heard a lot of buzzwords around today about sustainability and the future and current. Um those all play and we want to make sure that our supervisors have that opportunity to learn at that same level that others do. U if you would step up. Aaron Profett, sanitation supervisor, does a fantastic job. We've had some generational storms come up here recently and with his hard work and Superintendent John Jenkins standing next to me, uh they were able to provide services that had not been provided in the past with regards to shorter routes, um more shifts and coverage to be able to, I guess, accommodate some of these storms and to provide a safe environment still for our residents. So, I I definitely wanted to thank you guys for that. um they come to me with solutions at this point when we started about a year ago and I apologize for using me. It's all about them. So they used to come and say, "Hey, what what would we do on this situation?" And I'd say, "Well, tell me the answer. Research the answer and come

back, man. Uh they surpass me in so many different ways. Now, uh they're utilizing talents that supersedes my research talents. So they come to me with answers before I even know what the problem is. And sometimes now they're even adjudicating those problems without me even knowing. And I'll have to come back and say, "How how did we take care of this?" Um, a year later I can tell you that's a really really nice feeling to have when you can trust your employees like that. Um, if you would Dan, right, could you stand up? Another supervisor in sanitation, specifically in the mechanics. U, this is what puts all of your equipment back on the road for the entire city. What we've tried to do is blur the lines between what our resources are and it's not just a situation where if Mr. Wright, thanks Mr. Wright, um if he needs equipment, trucks or parts, he isn't, I guess, uh capped at just using his resource. He can go to fire, police, utilities, uh any other department, engineering, um to try and get resolution. And so I think what they're finding they have much more resources available to them than they did before. Excuse me. Jess Collins, could you stand up? Jess is one of our newest members. Um she is administration for public services and she helped develop the funnel during these last couple of storms that all the calls that all the residents were calling in or mayor and commissioners or our city manager. uh they took that funnel and they were able to I guess dispersed all of the I say I guess they dispersed all of those calls to the appropriate parties regardless of department or or division. Um how many calls a day did you have Jess if you don't

over Thank you. Um what we're trying to do as a as a department and as a city is to make sure that our communication is one it's open, it's fast, it's relevant, and it's accurate. A lot of times I we can get a lot of information, but the accuracy or the context um sometimes is a little bit left to be desired. And we've worked really hard over the last year to make sure that we're getting that type of production and that type of accuracy out of all of our employees. So basically I wanted to say and again I think people know this. I believe our biggest asset in the city is our employees. It's not the equipment. Um it's not some of the you know the properties we have. They can do quite a bit um given the right uh I guess the right paths um or different paths and find out where their strengths are. And man, I'm I'm just so proud. a director doesn't usually get to come up and say how proud they are of the of the community, uh our employees, the whole nine yards. And I'm I'm here to say that they're doing it for the right reasons, and I'm very very appreciative. That being said, uh John was kind enough to write a few words. He wanted to speak them today. Um I asked him what he's kind of learned over the last year, what's what's he doing to help make the city better, and he was going to speak for a second. Uh if you have any questions, please let me know. But again, I this is a director saying thank you to this body cuz you're letting us do our work. Uh we hope it's efficient for you, but I'm also very appreciative of my staff and all the resources and connections they're building throughout the city. So, thank you very much.

Good afternoon. Uh Sean touched on a few of these things, but first and foremost, I just want to say thank you to everyone. Um, over the past year or so, we've been working together as a newly developed team. We are now one big cohesive unit. We hold regular staff meetings weekly or bi-weekly to discuss issues at hand, what challenges we are currently facing and so on. This helps to keep everyone on the loop and allows everyone to provide different perspective and ultimately a solution that is functional, operational, and ethical. I first want to start out by giving praise to my teams, Mr. Murray, Mr. Dave Travis, Chris Tucker, Jesse Collins, Curtis McGraw, Amber Barry, and so on. My mechanic supervisor Dan Wright, my mechanics Brady Carroll, Frank Jones, Brian Lucas, Dave Renfro, Tyler Sparks, Leland Stanford, Jeff Wellman, and automotive parts clerk Kyle Hensley. My solid waste supervisor, Aaron Profett, and my solid waste employees, Eric Baldridge, Chris Connley, Rodney Craft, Gary Ellswick, Daniel Garinger, Tyson Green, David Laroo, Ricky Magcguire, Andrew Nichols, Wesley Rucker, David Rhyr, Lee Sammons, Kyle Ceser, Nathaniel Stewart, Ryan Thomas, David Treble, and Brandon Williams. Uh during this snow event the week of January 24th through the 30th, the central garage remained staffed around the clock. The crews went above and beyond with altered shifts picking up overtime as needed at the garage. We were prepared based upon previous years. We knew preliminary preliminarily that we needed to check all street apartment vehicles and have them up and operational. We knew based upon years past what issues typically arise during snow events. So we were able to keep all

parts and stuff in inventory and stock so that we can get the trucks back out on the road quickly, efficiently, and make adequate repairs to keep the trucks going 247. Solid waste crews altered shifts as well, working Tuesday through Friday, 10-hour shifts. safety and safety and precautions were executed while working. Every areas that were reachable was collected and very little was left behind showcasing their commitment to go above and beyond as well. Also like to touch on we had zero automobile accidents, zero employee accidents. We even done a car pull system for employees that wanted to work but didn't feel safe driving into work. We picked them up, we took them home. whatever we could do to get people in, showing the commitment to the community and the city. I can't say enough good things about this group and this city. We all work together better than ever and it's just, you know, big thank you to Mr. Murray. Um, you know, kind of showing us that way. It's a change and and it's going well. I think we're in good hands.

We appreciate what you do. I think a city is only good as its services that it provides to the citizens and you guys are the backbones out there because that's the the calls that we get. You know, it's about services and you all have come together to do a really good job and what I think what this commission enjoys is to seeing all the departments working together. You know, they help each other. Um, and you mentioned that I mean uh how the police are involved in letting you know on something and um when you need parts go from one department to the other. Um it it you should be commended because we put our trust in you guys. I mean you're you're the feet on the ground. Um, so we appreciate what you do and we don't want that to go unnoticed because and we commend you for what you've done, especially during this ice and snowstorms. I mean, it's been crazy. I know you have just repeating,

but it's the truth. Um, but we appreciate that. Well done. Thank you, John. Thank you and Sean. Thanks. We can't uh forget um you know Dave Travis and the uh street crew and the work they've done through some serious serious snow issues and we appreciate you keeping our community safe. That's big deal. Thank you.

I neglected Mr. Travis. I apologize. Um Mr. Travis in particular, he is one that bleeds and I'm sorry, Mr. Martin. He bleeds the uh the the colors of the city and you know rain or shine, anything that's coming, he's going to be out there ready to answer the call. He's one of those those types uh that you don't have to motivate. Great department. You got great leaders in your department. We're appreciate what you do. Well done. You're good. Yes, sir. Okay, I'm good.

All right. With that, we'll move into our public participation as giving an opportunity for anyone would like to address the commission on any subject that is not on the agenda. Uh but is anybody would like to address that? You can come to the podium. How would you not at this time? If you'll state your name and your address, you have five minutes. And u Yes, sir. You state your name?

William Reeves, 207 Proidence Hill Drive, apartment 90 Ashlin. I'm here today to speak on behalf of the connect people's union. Um we had a meeting recently in the park and we tried to develop a set of goals for our thing and among the ones were the issues of housing and homelessnesses and tenant rights. We went through all that that received several votes. Some of the other issues received votes. When we got done, I got up to speak to the newer members and remind them because they and didn't know about it that several years ago I was up here speaking to you about the landlord tenant registry. They said, "Well, what was that?" I said, "Most of the commissioners didn't know either." I said this was an ordinance that was passed several years ago to the city to develop a landlord tenant registry and that would actually still to this day help anybody with rentals availability knowing what they can do who they can see instead of sleeping on the sidewalk or in the park or anything like that. So we would urge you to readopt that again. And if you remember, if any of you were here last time, the city commissioner did bring it to the vote in the past. In fact, two weeks later, they had another meeting and about 40 landlords showed up and said, "Well, we can't do that. You know, this will be landlord New York City rent control." So the next week the city commissioner dropped that. So I'd like you to reconsider that decision.

All right. Thank you, sir. Any other would like to uh address the commission? Hearing none, we'll move into our old business. The item A, second reading and final adoption of an ordinance entitled an ordinance of the city of Ashlin, Kentucky authorizing and directing the mayor to execute task order number 26-01 between the city of Ashlin, Kentucky and Strand Associates, Inc. for preparation of the annual 2025 combined sewer overflow reports for the department of utilities in an amount not to exceed $22,500.

So move second. How uh how long would he or how often do we have to do these reports? They're annual. Annual annual. Okay. When did it began with the consented uh order, Mark? When when was that? Don't hold me. What year? around two 2010 or something further 2010 2012 era is this 22,500 has that been a set amount that has been it's it's very has it gone up with but they very rarely expend the full amount

for what actually h what they actually do so this is not to exceed 225 is that yes okay yes all All right. All right. Any other questions? Uh, all in favor say I. All opposed. Item B, second reading and final adoption of an ordinance entitled an ordinance of the city of Ashlin, Kentucky, repealing ordinance number 117 series of 2025, which authorized an agreement with First United Methodist Church as a subreient of $5,000 from the community development block grant. Salute. Second discussion. All in favor say I.

All opposed. Item C, second reading and final adoption of an ordinance entitled an ordinance of the city of Ashlin, Kentucky, authorizing and directing the mayor to execute an agreement with the Salvation Army of Ashlin, the subreient of $5,000 for operating costs from the community development block grant. So move. Second.

You had said Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, all right. Any discussion? All in favor say I. All opposed. Abstain. Item D, second reading and final adoption of an ordinance entitled an ordinance of the city of Ashlin, Kentucky, imposing a temporary moratorum on the acceptance, processing, and approval of applications related to data centers for a period of 180 days pending review and recommendation by the planning commission. An article on it this morning. Motion. I'll make a motion that we uh approve this. All right. Have a second. Second discussion.

You know, I think it's pivotal that we um approve this at this moment. That would give our staff, administrative staff enough time to review um these data center u proposals or or what could potentially have interest in our community and see where it lines with our zoning and and BCA regulations. I know that there's a lot of uh public comment on data centers locally, whether it's being in Ohio, southern Ohio or in West Virginia. So, I think that we need to get a good grasp on what this could do to our community uh before we, you know, move forward with

That's true. Even with us, I mean, um, you know, some of the other, uh, cities have had, um, some issues with these and some positive and negative and then we can get a lot of information from a six-month time period ought to suffice for planning commission to review and get things together. Yeah, if they if they complete the review quicker than that, we'll bring it back to you. I mean, it's not right at 6 months. They'll they'll Well, would it would be kind of crazy to adopt something without looking at it pretty closely. That's that I agree. In all reality, there's not that many places in the city where something like this could go. That's true, too. Could

All right. All in favor say I. All opposed. All right. Consent agenda. The resolution of the city of Ashlin, Kentucky, adopting, authorizing, and approving the course of action presented by the city manager on the items appearing on the consent agenda for the regular meeting of the board of city commissioners of February 26, 2026. So, move second. First and a second. Uh, any questions?

I would I would comment that we've got three um awards and it'll they'll be in the new business. of uh demolitions to a contractor that um and given them 60 days to complete. Um do you feel like that's u going to be sufficient time, Mr. Atkins? It's not.

Okay. I'm sorry, Mr. Pull. Thanks for the chance to speak on this. Actually, yeah, I typically they it it won't take them 60 days. 60 days is a pretty big window, but you know, just, you know, have all three in one contractor. And I I was just curious as to whether you think that

Well, depending on do all three in that 60-day period. depending on the property, they can usually tear them down in a day or two and then you've got to haul off the grading and seating after that. Um, so I I would think with that amount, I think we we would be okay within that 60 days. Okay. And if anything should change, I'll alert the commission immediately. Thanks.

I I had a question just or comment on um I on the generator to police station. I know I'm I'm really glad we did this so that we can continue to uh operate our emergency services in uh in times of need like that. But also had a question about our gas pumps to be able to you know supply their vehicles with gas during these um these times when electricity out. Are we focusing on that? Uh yes we are. And I think Mr. Atkins, okay, give us a brief presentation on it. Yeah, absolutely. Um, thank you.

This is something that was brought to our attention um by the city manager about a month ago and we've been investigating that, myself and uh Mike Garlinger. For all for those of you who don't know Mike, he's a professional electrical engineer. So, we've been working together plotting out a plan. He's been meeting with John and Dan. Um, and we're getting a plan put together right now and we're looking for local contractors and also trying to buy purchase local equipment locally. So, yeah, we we we have a plan put together and uh we're putting the finishing touches up on it now. But yeah, we we expect to have a generator installed at the at the central garage here in the next couple months. Excellent.

Question on item E and it may be you, it may be Mr. Pullum again. Um, this is on $38,000 uh sidewalk on Ferry Street. The the um item says that the contract start date was January 5th. Is that right?

I believe that's one from Mr. P's department. I can attest that this work uh I travel that area often and this work has actually progressed very quickly. Uh they they've done a lot of work and you know I was really surprised that they could how they could work in in uh colder weather and and inclement weather, but they they've done quite a bit of work on Ferry Street sidewalk. We already have a um the work's being done and we've got approval of the contract on the on the agenda. I'm not That's a pay increase. Okay. A pay excuse me, excuse me. A pay invoice. Pay invoice for payment plan. It It's $150,000. Is that what it was? Yes, sir.

Gotcha. And it was budgeted. It's in an action plan. It was Why would we do both s Why would we do both sides of a street? I'd defer to Mr. Paul.

Just Just curious. I mean, ordinarily if you you do a street, it's one one side and this we've done both sides. Mr. Morton, I I'll have to apologize. I cannot recall why we chose to do both sides. I'll have to go back and check with Jacob Risyner if I'm curious to why we would do both sides. Okay, I I'll get you an answer. All right. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you, Chris.

All right. Any other comments or questions? All for the vote. All right, one more. I'm sorry. Um we're donating um three buses to Boyd County Fiscal Court. Is that correct? Yes, sir. Do we have idea of the values of these?

I do not have a value. No. Pardon me? I said I do not have a value right now at this time. Um I think we we had the same issue the last meeting about the tasers. Tasers the ammunition. Um these buses we've had for many years. Usually around auction time we usually get three or $4,000 a piece out of them. I don't know what the blue book value or anything would be, but I could do some research. Well, do we attribute some value when we make the transfer? We the FDA decides that they are ready to go on the usage with mileage and we're probably 100,000 over on each one of those.

They don't do it on monetary value. It's it's on the mileage and the lifespan of the vehicle. Yes. And we we exceed both of those greatly. Okay. Thank you. All right. Any others? All I've got. All right. All in favor say I. All opposed. All right. We'll move into our new business. Item A,

first reading and approval of an ordinance entitled an ordinance of the city of Ashlin, Kentucky, authorizing and directing the mayor to execute a mutual aid agreement between the city of Ashland, Ashlin Fire Department and Boyd County Emergency Management and repealing ordinance number 139 series of 2022. So second back second um on the details of this I know we're this will actually bring in to do the uh agreement but then we got to work out the details. I mean um in the bottom part it says remaining work.

Chief, can you come up please? Uh I mean we've probably done this before, right? Yeah. This actually renews every uh every couple years and there's currently it's my understanding this is a standardized agreement that is signed and updated every two or three years. Pretty much when it is signed that fulfills the obligations through the state that that we have a mutual aid agreement with that agency and they have one with us. Chief, one comment I'd make. I think um uh termination notice of 10 days is pretty short. I in my opinion, it ought to be a minimum of 30 days notice to to withdraw from the this agreement is what they sent us.

I I'm not I'm just saying since you're negotiating the I think it ought to be a 30-day termination. I'll talk to Tim and see if that can be worked out. Okay. All right. Um, any others? All in favor say I. I. All opposed. Do you Is that uh is that approval with the change of That's just a suggestion. I'm not, you know, it's in the negotiation part of it. I made a note of it, sir. Okay. All right. Item B,

first reading and approval of an ordinance entitled an ordinance of the city of Ashlin, Kentucky, authorizing and directing the mayor to execute a contract with Tri-State Construction for the purchase of all labor materials, equipment, and services for the demolition and removal of all debris at 1620 Popular Street in the amount of $4,960 for the Department of Community Economic Development to be paid from the general fund. So move. Second discussion. All in favor say I. I. All opposed.

Item C. First reading and approval of an ordinance entitled an ordinance of the city of Ashlin, Kentucky, authorizing and directing the mayor to execute a contract with Tri-State Construction for the purchase of all labor materials, equipment, and services for the demolition and removal of all debris at 3445 South 29th Street in the amount of $4,780 for the Department of Community Economic Development to be paid from the general fund. So move second discussion. All in favor say I. I. All opposed.

All right. Item D. First reading and approval of an ordinance entitled an ordinance of the city of Ashlin, Kentucky, authorizing, directing the mayor to execute a contract with Tri-State Construction for the purchase of all laboral materials, equipment, and services for the demolition and removal of all debris at 1204 Long Street in the amount of $4,980 for the Department of Community Economic Development to be paid from the general fund. Second first and the second discussion. All in favor say I. All

opposed. Item E, first reading and approval of an ordinance entitled an ordinance of the city of Ashlin, Kentucky, authorizing and approving change order number one between the city of Ashlin, Kentucky and Judy Construction Company for the Ashlin Water Resource Recovery Facility Expansion and Improvement Project decreasing the contract in the amount of $724,500 for the Department of Utilities. So move second. I think we've already had discussion there. All in favor say I. I. All opposed. All right. Item F.

First reading and approval of an ordinance entitled an ordinance to the city of Ashlin, Kentucky, authorizing and directing the mayor to execute a contract with Lights Enterprises, Inc. for the purchase of all labor, materials, equipment, and services for the demolition removal of all debris at 143039 Street in the amount of $3,800 for the Department of Community and Economic Development to be paid from the general fund. So, move Second. Second discussion. All in favor say I. All oppose. All right. Um, do we need executive?

Uh, yes, mayor. For prop property acquisition. Okay. All right. A motion to move into executive session for possible so property. Okay. Second. All in favor? I I

All right. For those of you uh that won't be here when we come back, we appreciate you coming and um look forward to coming down to the Paramount Theater Ashlin after at 4:30. Thank you all. Heat. Heat.

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All right, we're back in session from our executive session and no action was taken there, but I believe we may have a motion. A motion to uh grant Mr. Pullum authority as discussed in close session uh in regard to purchase of a parcel of property on behalf of the city. Second that motion. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. All opposed. All right. Any other business?

Oh, I want to adjourn u today's meeting in the memory of uh Joyce Bib. Uh she just recently passed. She uh was a longtime resident of our community, a champion for our region, and a champion for um for me and my family. So, I'd like to um adjourn in her memory. Very good. All right. We stand a j