Meeting of August 2, 2022

here so good morning everyone and welcome to the Bear County Fiscal field [Music] it's 9 30. and this time uh I would like to have uh where's Joe Wells at Joe if you come up and lead us an invitation and uh judge facer for two or more Gathering my name there I will be in their midst father God we thank you we know you are with us father God and we just asked by the guy that you continue being with us I pray father God there's so many people suffering

today all over the world especially in Ukraine I just pray father God that you just help them to find peace in that country and help us to get back to some sort of Civility in this world I pray father God that you bless our judge our Sheriff our Council I mean our magistrates all those present here today Father God I just pray that you keep us all safe be with the magistrates and the judges they make the decisions of this County and I just pray for all the guys that it is to glorify you in some way father for all these things I ask in your son Jesus most holy name amen amen amen [Music] yes thank you um Treasures transfer report thank you command presentation proof of

our bills got a motion by First District Magister Mitchell a second my second district magistration logs team to approve the bills is presented between discussion members can you call the road please Mr Mitchell yes Mr loxton yes Mr Laswell yeah Mr Ray Hill yeah that's Summers yes motion Kerry thank you approval the minutes from the July 19 2022 meeting minutes got a motion that fourth district magistrate right here a second by second district magistrate logsman to approve the minutes as presented in the discussion members of the Court [Music] thank you um presentations at this time I'd like to have the sheriff show um yes Alex you step up let me introduce you to the court uh

gentlemen ladies and gentlemen uh and everybody what I'd like to do today is introduce Mr Alex Payne [Applause] and Alex is our new Chief Deputy here at the Bullitt County Sheriff's Office and uh to give you a brief uh run down as to what Alex brings to the table here uh Alex started in 1983 with the Davis County Sheriff's Office he spent about two years there doing that and then he got on with the Kentucky State Police in 8-5 served first over in Pikeville then he served in Henderson about four years then he stood up with the first group when the Kentucky State Police formed their first full-time SRT team and Alex was on that unit and served there from 89 until 94. at which time he then went to the Kentucky State Police Academy and worked there for the next 10 years serving ultimately as the coordinator defensive tactics for the State Police Academy he then retired and went to work for the J-Town police subsequent to that he went to work for the department or the league of cities served as a law enforcement specialist and and that traveled around and gave advice and saw what police

departments all around the state were doing for several years and then went back to the J-Town police uh in 2016 he was appointed as Deputy Commissioner of the Kentucky State Police served in that capacity for two years and then in 2018 he began working as the acting commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice training and served in that capacity then and I 19 he went on as the uh appointed commissioner and did that until the administration changed and and uh Governor Bashir came into office and he changed uh changed horses in that regard so uh Alex has has been a mentor and friend of mine for 10 years or so and we're very very blessed here to have him and I personally just very uh blessed to have him serve as as uh I let disturbance my right arm or me service his right arm or one of the two and he'll be heading up all of the uh policing end of the sheriff's office so uh England and Alex this is uh Dennis Mitchell uh Sean logsdon judge

Summers Joe Ray Hill and uh so last will back in the back he's a magistrate and then our County attorney Rob Flaherty so and then the people of Bullitt County good day to be here I'm honored the last couple of years I think uh Walt left out uh my wife and I raised five children we have five grandchildren and one on the way this December so I've been a babysitter professionally that is for the last couple of years and uh uh this fine man asked me to come and help and I'm honored to do so and I look forward to serving serving you folks and I thank the good Lord each and every day there's people like you all here watch over this County and uh I promise you we'll do what we can't protect and serve each and every one of you thank you thank you foreign presentations we haven't done very many of these in the last three and a half years but it just so happens we've had a plethora of real good Community stewards and servants I decided to move on and do something different with their love and

at this time I would like to call Joe Wells up here and members of the court if you're welcome to join me with this if you would but uh I know y'all knowjo has been a real supporter and advocate of our community Joe recently was a chaplain and under the chaplain's duties he he did he comforted people in distress and he said some real tragedies to deal with in the last day when I'm a senior last year that's happened in our community and we can't thank Joe enough for his service but Jose chose to move on to do other things with his life and Joe we truly appreciate you and we miss you but keep us in your prayers if you will please thank you Joe okay thank you thank you and at this time another guy that fell out known since there was dark and mine was black but uh he will come up here

please sir uh the Pioneer news were the Great uh what I'm going to say biography and history of this guy but what he did with options unlimited for our community it deserves more recognition than we can get in here at Discord I can't say enough about Willie and what he's done to help the Youth of our community move forward and to prosper but really thank you for everything that you've done and uh we're going to miss you but enjoy it and we're always welcome here you know that thanks you're welcome Willie thank you so much what are you doing foreign and last but not least someone who helped start a fire department many years ago and he's had an outstanding career and made a lot of tough decisions out there and some real great decisions too George wrote it George if you come up in here and Kevin you all are all welcome to come up here Connie as well some of the board members are here tart for ourselves police officer thank you