Meeting of April 21, 2026

Okay. Well, good good morning. — Good good morning and welcome to the Bullet County Fiscal Court. Today is April the 21st. It's 9:30 a.m. And at this time, um Keith Griffy, if you would lead us in an invocation in the pledge, please, sir. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for this opportunity to come together and to do the business of the county. Uh Lord, be with each member here and and each individual that's taken the time out of their day to come uh uh be with the state and our country as we move forward in Jesus name. Amen. — Amen. — 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, Keith. The signing sheet. — Thank you, sir. — At this time, Sam, if you would call a

role to bring the court to order, please. — Yes, sir. Very Sanders, — present. — John Logston, — here. — Karen Johnson, — here. — Ron Leel, — yes. — Judge Summers, — yes. All present. — Thank you. Um approval of the minutes from the April 7th, 2026 Bullet County fiscal court meeting. — I make a motion to approve the minutes for April 7th, 2026. — Have a second. — Got a motion by First District Magistrate Sanders, a second by third district magistrate Johnson to approve the Bull County fiscal court minutes from April 7th, 2026 as presented. Sam, call the role, please. — Logen. Yes. — Johnson. — Yes. — Leel. — Yes. — Judge Summers. — Yes. — Sanders. — Yes. — Motion carried. — Thank you. Treasures transfer report. Cananan. — Yes. March 31st and also for April 21st. — I'll make a motion that we accept the treasurer report — as presented. Sorry. — Second. Got a motion by third third district magistrate Johnson, a second by fourth district magistrate blamel to approve the treasures transfer report as

presented. Sam, call the roll, please. — Johnson, — yes. — Leel, — yes. — Judge Summers, — yes. — Sanders, — yes. — Logan, — yes. — Motion carried. — Thank you. Presentation and approval of all bills. — I'll make a motion that we approve all bills as presented. I'll second. — I have 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. — Logan, — yes. — Johnson, — yes. — Motion carried. — Thank you. Treasures report. Cananan. — Yes. Report, a revenue report, a liability report, an cash transfer. state of 2026. [snorts] — I make a motion to accept the treasures report. — Second. — Got a motion by first district magistrate Sanders, a second by second district magistrate logden to approve the treasures report as presented.

Sam, call role, please. — Judge Summers, — yes. — Sanders, — yes. Logson, — yes. — Johnson, — yes. — Leo, — yes. — Motion carried. — Thank you. Uh, we do have a guest speaker, uh, Mr. Hilton from Beach Valley. Please, sir. — I want to start off by thanking each and every one of you for doing what you do. You know, I appreciate you and everything. But, uh, reason why I'm here today is Beach Grove Road. Uh, East Beach Road has turned into, you know, it's beer cans land side road, people burn out, rubber, every everything. And I'm afraid that one of my loved ones is going to get hit and killed, you know, and it it is becoming a problem. And I see it all over the county. And I know you're busy. I know you're busy, man. It's a big county. And I think something need to be done about it. you know, um, safety is the main thing for everybody. Everybody sitting here and everybody out here and I think that's something should be enforced all over the county, you know, and you know, you get on Beach Grove Road, you know, first off, you

leave Winter's Red, you leave Kroger, takes an hour and 20 minutes to get to Beach Grove Road. There's people outtowners blocking the box. There's no signs. There's no I know at that time y'all busy. Your officers are busy. But you know you got Shepardville police are nowhere around. I mean you know what can we put? Don't block the box and signs at every red light in Shepardville. Would it help or should we put cameras? — Block the box. — Huh? Don't block the intersection. — Okay. you know, uh, anybody's been out state of Kentucky in big cities, it's don't block the box, you know, and that's an intersection. And like I said, you know, Beach Grove Road is not made for a lot of different things because the infrastructure ain't there. You know, it's just like when you leave, you leave here and get take the hour and 20 minutes, get there, then you get on Beach Grove Road at Pumpkin there. They're semi there blocking road. You're two hours sitting there and there is signs there that says no semis on

pumpkin but they're you know 100 ft away from the entrance the way pumpkin is on both ends you can't even see them till you're already on it you know I mean it's it is a concern to me because I do live there you know you you figure the hour and a half then two hours you know you're you know if if you're running your car that's 2 hours of you know, and everything. But, uh, like I said, that's what I kind of wanted to address today. And I do appreciate y'all resisting and I thank every one of you. — Okay. — Y'all have a great day. — Thank Thank you. Mr. Hilton, — what about like when we have these wrecks on the the interstate, you know, like it was shut down month or so ago. Is there any way we could do a state of emergency like that the semiis we don't let them off the interstate? You know what I'm saying? because they're coming down these roads like they had chap blocked that one of them tried to turn around in 480 right there between the jail and the interstate you know just in the road you know and uh then then you can't go this way then you can't go that way is there any anything like that we could do any suggestions — I mean I'll leave to the county attorney state of emergency and thereby

just traffic maybe. — Well, I mean, I I get what you're saying, but but the bottom line of that is if I tell you you can't go there, — I am it's the government affecting your freedom of movement. Now, putting up signs that say no semis and pumpkin road, for instance, the fiscal court determined to put a sign up there. Now, maybe it needs to be close to the intersection. I don't know. And unfortunately, my belief is we don't need to be having semiracker trailers that local uh on Beach Grove. — However, that's a state highway and we and the fiscal court can't prohibit, — right? — Okay. So, to your point, if I may, I went out. I had some complaints from folks about, you know, people on be. I went out and I set myself and I just monitored the traffic and people are driving 55, 52, 53, 58, 50, you know, this or that on on Beach Road. The ironic thing is the north end of Beach

Grove Road is 35 miles an hour. What's in the city limits of Sheffersville per state highway department determination. The lower end of East Grove Road is 55 miles an hour. Highway 61 at the lower end of Beach Grove Road is 45 miles an hour. Now, I had a conversation. So, I get on the telephone and I call uh up to the uh uh the folks at the district highway department and I can't get a return call. And then I called Frankfurt and I couldn't get a return call. And then I spoke to the young lady and I said, "What's going on here?" You know, is it I'm the sheriff of Bullet County and I can't get a return call from somebody with highway. Pretty soon I got a call from somebody who said they were calling for that young man that is the district engineer and he put me they put me in touch with a fell that is over speed limit and he said well we'll go down there and we'll do a study and we'll have somebody you know park and watch and see how fast people are going and we'll determine whether to lower the speed limit from 55 to 45. I said, "Well, what's the what is it that you look for about that?" And he said,