Meeting of January 21, 2025

actually story was it's only $1,500 saw the little lamb what's on the sheriff's he was a special Deputy for the sheriff's

department for a while too he wants to be involved in this contract we're ready to get going well well good morning and welcome to the bull County Fiscal Court it's January 21st and it's uh 9:30 at this time Perry would you come up and lead us an invocation and a prayer and a Pledge of Allegiance please if you'll join me in prayer father that we so thankful for this beautiful day you've given us Lord we're thankful for this beautiful Community uh and the people that you have uh placed in this community God we're so thankful for our elected officials uh God we just ask that you give them wisdom and discernment uh as they uh lead and um set forth a path for all of your creation um and so God we just ask that uh your spirit be here

today uh with us uh and we are so thankful of your hand that's moving in this community be with us now it's in your precious son's name we pray amen amen I pledge ALG to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you Perry at this time Sam if you call the rol bring the court to order please yes sir fa Sanders President John logon here Karen Johnson here Brian blo yes judge Summers yes all present thank you now approval of the minutes for the January 10th 2025 bull count Fiscal Court meeting I'll make a motion we approve the minutes for the January 10th uh Fiscal Court meeting a second I have a motion by fourth district magistrate blo a second by first district magistrate Sanders to approve the minutes presented for the bullan Fiscal Court meeting January 10th 2025 Sam call Ro please Lon yes Johnson

yes FAL yes judge sumers yes Sanders yes motion carried Treasures transfer report Canan I'll make a motion that we approve the treasur transfer report as I'll second got a motion by second district magistrate logon and second by Third District magistr Johnson to approve the treasurer's transfer report as presented Sam call a roll please Johnson yes blo yes judge Summers yes Sanders yes lson yes motion carried thank you presentation approv of all Bills second got a motion by first district magistrate Sanders a second by second district magistrate logston to approve the bills as presented Sam col please Lio yes judge sumers yes Sanders yes Lon yes Johnson yes motion carried thank you Treasures

report canand please I'll make a motion we approve second got a motion by second district mist logon a second by forth District magist blam to approve the treasurous report as presented Sam col roll please judge Summers yes Sanders yes logon yes Johnson yes FAL yes motion carried thank you uh guest speakers we have two Perry if you'd like to good morning L and Gentlemen of the Court I've got some some things to hand out thank you Perry I just wanted to really quickly um

first update we're we're excited uh Saturday night we opened the White Flag shelter uh here in Shepherdsville right next door at First Baptist Shepherdsville we've had six guests um already um we're doing a warming station uh yesterday today and tomorrow um at Mercy Hill Church um and so we're trying to get you know folks uh we've got Street teams out trying to find uh people that are uh unhomed uh and that are or living in their cars and try to get them to to warmth and safety so we're excited that uh the white FL shelter is open and we're going getting ready to go so I just wanted to kind of update you really quick with some of our 2024 results Mark 12 Ministry and just kind of give you guys uh a landscape of of the need in our community um so in in 2024 we served uh 1,61 individuals um and 62% of those were vulnerable classes of of kids and and seniors um we provided uh $66,500 in assistance through through the thrift store uh which was a 36% increase from last year um and that touched

455 families um through our um operation restore um which is our veterans program we participated in the week of Honor um we've started veterans group and we've um started a partnership with USA cares which is going to bring Federal monies uh into our County uh to help with our homeless veterans um also with our healing together program uh we started six support groups and we've trained 20 facilitators and again that is hopefully to step into the mental health Gap uh or mental health services Gap that we have in our County and we continue to partner with the libraries for our mental health safe places uh we also were blessed to provide four vehicles to families this year those are donated vehicles to Mark 12 a lot of times they need a little bit of work and so we've got mechanics from churches that volunteer to get those Vehicles up and running and uh were're able to give uh reliable transportation to families uh and then we had 17 participants uh in our room thein program or pathway home and the exciting thing about this this year we had three

graduates but we also had uh 12 reunifications uh and and why I'm excited about that is these are folks that had came into our program and doing so well that their families came back into the picture and brought them back into the family um and so these are folks that had been incarcerated or had been in addiction had broken those bridges with their families and so they had come into our program and they had been reunified with them and so I just wanted to give you guys a quick snapshot of what Mark 12 Ministry was able to accomplish uh this year in the county and again All the Monies that we get everything um that we do is all strictly for bullet County so any questions very it looks good I just to thank you thanks app God has been good and we have been blessed yeah and it sounds like the thrift store is really doing good is that where all that money 66,000 did it come from just the thrift that's from the thrift store and that's from our the material assistance that we give and so um through our vouch program where we we um partner with um