Meeting of February 17, 2026

There you go. I'd been better. — I didn't get to go. Didn't realize I was the We'll talk about information. Well, good morning everybody and welcome

to the Bullet County Fiscal Court. Today is February 17th and it's 9:30 a.m. And at this time, Pastor Parking, John Parking from the Church of the Crossroads, we welcome you to the Bull County Fiscal Court. And if you'll lead us in an invocation and the pledge, please, sir. Father God, we just first of all recognize you as the Lord of all creation. Um the Lord over this state, over this county, over this city, and we give you thanks for what you've given us, uh this beautiful city, this beautiful county. And uh we we recognize that as as a blessing and a gift from you. And we also recognize that what we have, we are given to steward. We don't own it. You own it all. And so we thank you for that. Help us to be good stewards. And I pray for these elected officials and what happens in this room today that that you are glorified and honored and um and that you're here um that you're working in this room. So lead this meeting. Um thank you most of all for your son Jesus Christ. In your son's name we pray. Amen. — Amen. — 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, Pastor What? What — at this time? Sam, if you'd call the role, bring the court to order, please. — Yes, sir. Vera Sanders, — present. — Sean Logson, — here. — Karen Johnson, — here. — Ron Leel, — yes. — Judge Summers, — yes. — All present. — Thank you. Approval of the minutes from the February 3rd, 2026 uh Bullet County Fiscal Court meeting. I make a motion to approve the minutes for February the 3rd, 2026. — Second. — I got a motion by First District Magistr Sanders, the second by fourth district magister to approve the Bullet County fiscal court minutes of the April of the February 3rd meeting of 2026. Sam, call the roll, please. — Logdston, — yes. — Johnson, — yes. — Leel,

— yes. — Judge Summers, — yes. — Sanders, — yes. — Motion carried. — Thank you. the treasures transfer report. — I'll make a motion that we approve the treasures transfer report. — I'll second. — Got a motion by second district magistrate logs, second by third district magistrate Johnson to approve treasures transfer report as presented. Sam call a roll, please. — Johnson, — yes. — Leel, — yes. — Judge Summers, — yes. — Sanders, — yes. Logston. — Yes. — Motion carried. — Thank you. Presentation approval of all bills. — I 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 — yes. — Judge Summers. — Yes. — Sanders. — Yes. Logan, — yes. — Johnson, — yes. — Motion carried. — Thank you. Treasures report can end. — That includes appropriation condition report January the 31st of 2026.

— I'd like to make a motion to accept the treasur's report. — I'll second. I got a motion by first district magistrate Sanders, 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. — Lost, — yes. — Johnson, — yes. — Leel, — yes. — Motion carried. — Thank you. Um, yes. Speakers, Tara. — Terara's with the public libraries. She's in charge of all of them for full disclosure. — Yeah, there you go. — Just seen you just a little while ago. — I know. I apologize if you get to hear the same thing you heard at the Hillview City Council last night. — So, but those that weren't there get the exciting news. — Yeah, that's right. — The library is honored to be able to have a grant that we won from the Kentucky Science Center of downtown Louisville. We are bringing the whole first well we have brought the whole first floor of the Kentucky science center to the central location here in on Konisoga. So we believe that learning STEM is more in play than it is sitting in a classroom. Things like that. Kids

learn from you saying you know why'd you put that one on there or why'd you use the green one or oh it fell. Why? And kids can understand and build better by re don't need to try again. Try again. Try again. So, right now at the central library till May 30th, which just happens to be the summer quest kickoff date also, we will have the Kentucky Science Center um present and all of their exhibits from their first floor are there for anyone. It says eight and under on the card, but that's for everybody. They just like to really publicize it to that age level. But we've had teenagers in there. We've had adults. We've already had some class visits. So, we encourage you to come and try and play with everything. Bring little ones if you have them. If not, just go and try it. We have blocks that are taller than I am that you can build with and things like that. We have ball drops. We have store a little store they can shop with. Our first week, we had like kind of a soft opening last week and we had over a thousand kids come to it already. So, we're excited to bring that to the community. It's completely free. You don't have to have a membership to the science center. So, kids can have this is an opportunity for Bullet County to have to not pay or go downtown Louisville and actually visit the science center right here in Bullet

County. We are having a press conference. Um PNC is the grant sponsor. So they'll have a press conference on Thursday at 10 at the central library and you're all invited and everyone's invited to come and knock down some blocks with us and build them back up. And we brought some information as QR code if you'd like more information on that. And of course the Pioneer News has it in the online and it'll be in the paper also. — So thank you. — Yeah, thanks a lot. That's really a thousand kids. That's really amazing. So, thanks for thinking outside the box and doing things and and that's really neat. — Yes, it is. Um, Prodigy Engineering, um, we we've asked them to come back to, uh, refresh the court's uh, memories on their proposal for the, uh, Ridgeway Library. And uh we have some we're going to have some meetings scheduled with uh Kevin an and and Dana a little bit later on this week to uh see our time frame and where we need to go. But I want the court to be well informed about what Prodigy's proposing. — Thank you for coming back to that. I still got my original.

— It's okay. All right, that's fine. — Thank you. — Come on. Jason Lang with Prodigy Construction. I'm kind of the architect at Prodigy. Um, thank you for letting us come today more. I think I'm here to answer questions and maybe kind of run through just what our general kind of um take on the Ridgeway project was originally. Um, this is a copy of the same presentation we did on in October, but I rearranged it a little bit. The front end stuff about Prodigy introducing us. I've just moved that to the back. I didn't think there was need to kind of rehash that part. Um, if you want to move forward a couple slides, please. Um, so really this is kind of the topic. Just want to kind of go through the project again, what we saw, what our proposal is, our budget, our timeline, answer any questions that you all might have. If you could move forward to the slide