Meeting of April 15, 2025

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It's okay. Well, good good morning and welcome to the bullet county fifth. Good good morning everybody. There you go. Like to welcome everybody to the Bull County Fiscal Court. Today is uh April the 15th, 2025. At this time, Mr. Moon Kevin, please would you lead us in an invocation and a pledge of allegiance,

please? Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we come to you today in this meeting here for our local community and we pray that you would bless this bless this court and the members of it that the work they do is is will be pleasing to you and for the good of the people here in our community. We pray that uh we always remember that you are in charge no matter what and ultimately that your ways should be our ways. Watch over this group. bless them in the work that they do in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. 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. Thank you, Kevin. At this time, Sam, if you'll call the RO, bring the court to order, please.

Sanders, yes. Karen Johnson, here. Ryan Leel, here. Judge Summers here. All present. Thank you. Approval of the minutes of April the 1st, 2025 Bull County Fiscal Court meeting. I make a motion to approve the minutes of April 1st. Second. I have a motion by first district magister Sanders, a second by second district magister log to approve the minutes of B County fiscal court April 1st of 2025 as presented. Sam, call a roll, please. Logen, yes. Johnson, yes. Leel, yes. Judge Summers, yes. Sanders, yes. Motion carried. Thank you. The treasur's transfer report. I'll make a motion that we approve the treasur's transfer report as presented. Second. Got a motion by third district magister Johnson, a second by fourth

district magister to approve the treasur's transfer report as presented. Sam, call the role, please. Johnson, yes. Leel, yes. Judge Summers, yes. Sanders, yes. Logan. Yes. Motion carried. Thank you. Presentation and approval of all bills. I make a motion that we approve all bills as presented. A second. Got a motion by second district magistrate logen. A second by first district magistrate Sanders to approve the bills as presented. Sam, call the roll, please. Leel, yes. Judge Summers, yes. Sanders, yes. Log, yes. Johnson, yes. Motion carried. Thank you. Treasures report. Yes. I make a motion that we approve the treasur. I'll second. Got a motion by second district magistrate logs and a second by third district magistrate Johnson to approve the treasur's report as presented. Sam, call the roll, please. Judge Summers, yes. Sanders, yes.

Logston, yes. Johnson, yes. Leel, yes. Motion carried. Thank you. Um, guest speakers, we have quite a few. Mike and Don, uh, I can't read what what you've written in the last name. Come on up here from Alpha Ministries. How are y'all today? Good to see you again. Good morning. Good to see you. Yes, ma'am. I just wanted to come and share just briefly. U Alpha Ministries Reach, Rescue, and Restore officially cut the ribbon on our ministry. We've actually been um active in the community since January, but we officially had our ribbon cutting on Friday. So, thank you to all that came out and then the outpouring of support that we've received uh since opening. Uh what Alpha Ministries is, for those of us that don't know, is a it's a it's a residential recovery center for men that struggle with drug and alcohol addictions. U we are unapologetically faith-based. It's a six to 12 month program. Uh we actively have 11 men in the program and then a couple of leaders that are peer support specialist that stay there on campus. Um and we offer uh GED courses uh teleaalth with our we have an education lab and we uh

partner with uh Kentucky Works. So, they actually come to our facility and they help our guys get um work ready. They'll help them with resumes. They actually um will provide uniforms if they need it. Um once they get to a certain um level in the program, they can also um get two months worth of like their salary paid somewhere in the community. Um so, we've recently partnered with them. We have two of our guys that are in that program. Um we have um let's see we can house 38 men. So um being quickly opened. We're you know almost halfway through that number. So um we uh we had a couple men that were able to speak at our ribbon cutting. If you were able to see that, you could really see the impact that we're making being here in the community. Uh two of the guys that spoke are actually they are from Shepharddsville. parents still live in Shepherd'sville and um you know they're grateful that we have this program here that's able to help restore them back to who they used to be. We also uh had opportunity to get them out in the community with the flood uh relief. Some of the guys that they're actively rebuilding their lives they were