Meeting of December 16, 2025

Welcome to the Bull County Fiscal Court. Um, good good morning. Welcome to the Bull County Fiscal Court. At this time, I would like to have Father Adam Carico, pastor of St. Benedict and St. Elawishas, lead us in the invocation and the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Father, — it's an honor to be here with you all. I might have one of the toughest jobs in the county as Judge Summer's pastor. So, pray for me and I'll pray for you all. It's a prayer adapted from one written by St. Elizabeth an Satan who had passed in 1821, the first canonized saint born in this great nation. Oh Lord, our eternal governor whose glory fills all the world. We commend this great nation to your merciful care that we may be guided by your providence and dwell secure in your peace. Grant to the President of these United States, the Congress, the Supreme Court, the Governor of the Commonwealth of

Kentucky, the State Assembly, local officials, and to all in authority, wisdom, and strength, patience, and understanding to know and to do your will. Fill them with love, truth, and righteousness, and to make them continually mindful of their calling to serve this people in reverent obedience to you. May this day be filled with your mercy and justice for those most in need through Christ our Lord who lives and reigns with you the Holy Spirit God forever and ever. — Amen. — Amen. — Amen. — Now pray the pledge of allegiance. — I pledge allegiance 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. — Thank you, Father. And I will see you this weekend. — Yes, sir. — At this time, I'd like to bring the court to order. Sam, if you'll call the role. — Yes, sir. Vera Sanders, — present. — John Logen, — here. — Aaron Johnson, — here.

— Ron Ble, — yes. Judge Summers — here. — All present. — Thank you. Approval of the minutes from the December 10th, 2020 this approval of the minutes for the December 2nd, 2025 Bullet County fiscal court meeting. — I make a motion we approve the minutes from December 2nd, 2025. — A second. I have a motion by fourth district magister, a second by third district magister Johnson to approve the minutes from the December 2nd, 2025 Bullet County fiscal court meeting. Sam, call a roll. — Austin, — yes. — Johnson, — yes. — Leel, — yes. — Judge Summers, — yes. — Sanders, — yes. — Motion carry. — Thank you. Treasury's transfer report. Cananan for your approval. — I'll make a motion that we approve the treasures transfer report. — I'll second it. — Got a motion by second district magistrate Logen. A second by first district magistrate Sanders to approve the treasur's transfer report as presented. Sam, call the roll, please. — Johnson, — yes. — Leel, — yes. — Judge Summers, — yes. — Sanders,

— yes. — Boxton, — yes. — Motion carried. — Thank you. The presentation approval of all bills. — I'd like to make a motion to accept the presentation and approval of all bills. — I'll second. — Got a motion by first district magistrate Sanders, a second by third district magistrate Johnson to approve the bills as presented. Sam, call a roll. — Blamel. — Yes. — Judge Summers. — Yes. — Sanders, — yes. — Logdston, — yes. — Johnson, — yes. — Motion carried. — Thank you. Treasures report. Cananan that included the appropriation condition report. — I'll make a motion that we accept the treasures report. — I'll second. — Got a motion by second district magen, a second by first district magister Sanders to approve the treasures report as presented. Sam, call the roll, please. — Judge Summers, — yes. — Sanders, — yes. — Logan, — yes. — Johnson, — yes. — Yes. — Motion carried. — Thank you. Uh, we do have one guest

speaker, Perry Cop. Perry, — morning. — Good morning. I just wanted to kind of review our 2025 results, kind of see uh what Mark 12 has been up to uh and also to share kind of the vision of what looks like. — Hello court and uh county. I'm Perry Cook from Mark12 Ministries and uh just wanted to share 2025 uh was a very exciting year of growth uh and being able to help a lot more people. Um I will start off though with just a uh funny fact somehow we we were the we were picked the sixth best thrift store in the state of Kentucky by uh by travelestinations.com. So, um, we're working on bringing tourism to Kentucky or to Shepharddsville and Bullet County with our little thrift store. Uh, you would be amazed how many people come from all around the state to look at our

treasures and our finds uh, at the thrift store. And so, going along with the thrift store, uh, this year we were able to have five uh, vehicles donated and four uh, we've already given out to families. one to a homeless vet, one to a recent graduate, and two to families in need. Uh this past year, we were able to provide $73,990 in material assistance, which is a a 10% increase from uh last year. Um and um and also that doesn't uh count our assistance that we provided during the flood. Uh we didn't even count that, but we were able to um completely furnish eight families residents once they were able to get replaced. Um as far as the pathway home goes, we had 19 participants this year. Four graduated. Um but we are really excited. We have four currently in the program that would very easily have graduated this year. Uh but they're continuing on with meeting their goals and will probably graduate in the first part of of this coming year. um healing together. We continue to to partner with the library um and train

facilitators. Uh we're also very excited to be on the steering committee with the Bullet County Health Department uh in um the the development of a resource center for the county. Um I I know you guys probably started hearing about that uh and so we're really excited what that will look like. Um Operation Restore, we are very excited this year. uh we were able to place two homeless veterans from our county into permanent housing. Um these are are folks that have been uh chronically homeless in Bullet County. Um and one of them uh from Mount Washington had been in this situation for quite some time. Uh and so we're very excited to be able to get them connected with the right resources and get them in to permanent housing. We also um uh was were able to get Rampaul uh here to Bullet County to do the uh constituent event. Um KDVA with their standown at November and the Department of Veterans Affairs when they did their town hall this spring. Um and then lastly, just the White Flag. This year already we've had 15 um folks that have stayed at the White Flag and of those we've already had one referral to a

recovery center. um and he's going to come into the Pathway Home program after and we were able to refer someone else who is from Louisville back to Louisville back to those resources. Uh but last year um we had uh 28 folks we were able to get uh two people back home who were stranded here from out of state uh and then one person back to Eastern Kentucky. We also helped with the warming stations throughout the winter at Hillview. Uh and also we hosted one at Mercy Hill. Um and so I just wanted to thank you for your continued uh support and partnership with Mark 12 Ministry. We're very excited about the new year um and what that brings with Grace Village, getting that started and our new thrift store, which is going to be three times as big as our current thrift store. So, we hope to be able to help even more people uh with uh that assistance and also being able to hire more people. So, bringing more jobs uh to the community as well. So, that's Mark 12 Ministries. Can I have answer any questions for y'all? — Yeah. — Great job. — Thank you. — And he's been a great partner for our mess. — We we really appreciate our partnership