Meeting of April 1, 2025

Good, good, good morning and and welcome to the Bull County Hey, good morning. Welcome to the Bull County Fiscal Court. Um, today is April 1 of 2025 and it's 9:30 a.m. at at this time, Magma, would you mind please invocation? Amen. I pledge 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. Thank you, Brian. Thank

you, Candy. At this time, if you'd call the RO to bring the court to order, please. Summer. Yes. Johnson. Here. Yes. Thank you. Approval of minutes from the March 18th, 2025 Bullet County Fiscal Court meeting. I make a motion that we approve the minutes dated March 18th, 2025. A second. Got a motion by second district magistrate logen, a second by first district magistrate Sanders to approve the bull county fiscal court meeting minutes of March the 15 March the 18th as presented. Canyon call the roll. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Treasures transfer report. Can I April 1st? I make a motion that we accept the

treasures transfer report. Second. Got a motion by first district manager Sanders, a second by fourth district manager blame to approve the treasur's transfer report as presented. Candy call. Yes. Wisconsin. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Presentation approve of all bills. I make a motion that we approve all bills as presented. I'll second. Got a motion by second district magister logs, a second by third district magister Johnson to approve the bills as presented. Sam, call. Candy call a roll, please. Miss Johnson, yes. Mr. Bling, yes. Judge Summers, yes. Miss Sanders, yes. Mr. Lman, yes. Motion carries. Okay, we have no guest speakers. Uh, presentations. Brian Whitaker, Jaylor, and Keith Griffy, CFO, Jailer's budget for the uh fiscal year 2025 to 2026. Uh Keith is going to present the budget for me. I just want to thank uh Keith

and the judge and Cananan and Debbie Judge K Parish for helping us with it. we're very happy with and u I'll give it to Keith. Thank you. So, I sent that out to you all. Y'all got a copy of it and there were some changes since then. You got an updated version and just kind of some highlights on it. Uh a couple of things uh in fiscal court a few months ago. You all talked about making sure that when the raises were done that we had the 2.9 floor and but you all had also mentioned having a cap of 5%. So what you'll see in this is a 5% increase on the salaries. Now I'll let Brian touch on this a little bit. He is doing evaluations and not that doesn't mean that's across the board 5% for everybody. He basically has a bucket of money 5%. Some people will get the 2.9 get lower than that. Some people might get a little bit more but it has to average out at 5%. So even though you'll see those numbers on personnel uh his his chief deputies that will be that's going to be solid there but on the personnel which is the the over $2 million that's a bucket of money for him doesn't necessarily mean he'll spend all

of that. So it is capped at five it has a floor of 2.9. So that's the way those were were put in place. Uh everything else is pretty much standard from from uh what was uh what what he's had in the past. We did bump up uh some of the insurance uh we did some things that uh uh that we looked at. Kenan and K looked this over. There was a couple of things to try to keep from transferring money. Uh whereas we were trying to cut more out, but there are some things that that they thought we discussed and that's why it went up. So when you look at this uh the bottom line for us and the other side of this is that Brian is bringing in more money if you look at the revenue side that has continued to go up under Brian's watch. Uh and so he'll continue to do that. We were really conservative in the first the first goound on the budget with that uh got a little bit more aggressive with it. Uh puts a little more pressure on Brian to bring this in. uh but those numbers look like they're going in that direction and he's done a really good job of of uh of adding to that. Uh so when you look at this, the bottom line for us is he is a

a revenue uh generator. However, as everybody here knows, a a jail never pays for itself. That's I think I think I can say that with about 100% accuracy. Uh and I would say that AC across the state. Uh so the the bottom line with this is that what is it that we have to uh uh to transfer into him to make him whole? And and this year that number is 3,333,116. The difference between that and last year is roughly an addition of $100,000. That's how much more. So with Brian doing all the raises, doing the things that he's doing again generating more revenue, it's going to county $100,000 more which is really in a budget that's $6 million not a lot not a lot so I think he's done a good job we're comfortable with the budget we think it's fair and we think it's sustainable again having said that knowing the way Brian has done with his revenue it might be less that we have to give him because if his revenue continues to go up and he knocks out park just because we put that number

in he could actually bring in more So the 100,000 is the very most that we probably have to and of course we appreciate all the hard work that those inmates do for our community. Yes, they do amazing work and again it's a pleasure. It's good again with the judge yesterday and Keith and K and Kane yesterday. We're very pleased. Appreciate the support and we will continue working hard for everybody. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Brian. You all need a motion. Yes. I'll make a motion that we pass the budget for the detention center for 2025 to 2026. Second. I got a motion by first district magistrate Sanders, a second by second district magister log to approve the detention center budget for the 25 2026 fiscal year. Candy, call the role, please. Yes. Judge Summers. Yes. Miss Sanders. Yes. Mr. Logan. Yes. Miss Johnson. Yes.

Motion carried. Thank you. And again, thank you, Brian, Keith, Kenan, all involved. Charlie. First reading public hearing. Zoning ordinance 25-11. Robert and Roxy Clark. probably might need a timeout or a tap in today. You won't have any next month. They all go to Shepherdville next month. There you go. Planning docket 2025 Z05 Roberty Clark seeking to resone from a to R1 located at 8404 Cedar Grove Road 072-000058A 1.11 acres more or less purpose to build single family dwelling comprehensive plan calls for agricultural or rural residential the planning commission pursuant to provisions of KRS 100.211 public hearing the application on March 13, 2025. Based on the testimony at the hearing, the Bullet County Planning Commission finds a map amendment is in agreement with the community's comprehensive plan and there is R1 zoning in the area because of the testimony received. Bullet County Planning Commission