Meeting of March 22, 2022

tonight uh we're going to have a public meeting regarding the owensboro regional recovery see this is not the ones for regional recovery is it it is okay recovery cbg cv closeout documents and joanna shake is here from grad to explain to us what we're doing joanna everyone must have heard that you were going to be here talking about this because we've got a full courtroom all right thank you judge make sure it's turned on on the bottom i think he turned it on he checked it okay brian are those your kids oh wait a way to go brian's kids coming in late go ahead joanna all right thank you judge the purpose of the public hearing is to notify the public of the closeout of the cdbg covid project for the owensboro recovery regional recovery effective august 10th 2020 hud made these funds available to prevent prepare and respond to the coronavirus this the state of kentucky's allocation over the three rounds of funding totaled over 41 million dlg set aside 2.8 million of these funds for each recovery center in the commonwealth earmarking 200 000 per cent

orr of course received that amount as well the funding was utilized for necessary costs associated with the pandemic including purchase of masks hand sanitizer and to continue services to clients that would have been eliminated are reduced due to a significant decrease in referrals and revenue and i'm just here to officially close out the project and take any questions this is the second grant cdbg grant that we got for our this is the coving grant the additional for operating expenses that's exactly right yep correct that's why i was thinking this was another yes commissioners any questions any comments do you have all the documents ready for us to sign i do so you'll deliver them to jenny warren so she won't have to track them down that's exactly right okay i i would be remiss if i didn't ask does anyone in the audience have a question okay we don't we don't need any other action other than to officially close the public hearing thank you joanna you don't have to hang around now i want to welcome everyone here

on our march 22 2022 davis county meeting joanna you can go ahead and leave if you would bow your head our heavenly father we thank you for all the gifts that we received from you we ask that you watch over the men and women who serve in our armed forces as well as our emergency responders ask for wisdom and understanding for this court grant us humility in our everyday life and give us the courage to make right decisions for our davis county community and especially i ask that you bless all the candidates for public office here in owensboro davis county it's a long hard road and sometimes we get off track keep them on the straight and narrow and we ask all those things in your name amen amen i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all once again i want to welcome everyone to our march 22 2022 davis county fiscal court

meeting um housekeeping things uh this will be the last meeting that we will be generally closed to public now you might look out through this crowd how's this some people would rather hear me without a mic we will open the courthouse to the public at our next fiscal court meeting that's at our next meeting in april i believe jenny is that the 11th it is monday okay it's on a monday so just understand it's monday after spring break so we changed it from the first thursday of march to accommodate all you folks who want to go on spring break or go somewhere else and play more hockey uh i i suspect there won't be anybody here if they party down there you know they will and just won't they'll be sleeping in charlie that that may be true but we'll still be doing the government the counties we will okay so uh

tonight we still have facebook live and we still have you would still have an opportunity to text us or email us messages on facebook live regarding any item that is on the agenda uh and during the public comment period you will be able to talk to us about anything other than what was on the agenda uh or you can text 270-929 jordan at our next meeting we will continue to post these facebook live for your convenience but we will again want to reiterate open the courtroom for uh the public the general public it's been two years i think since we did that we we were last year we were going to do it and all of a sudden we had a spike and we we had to keep it close so it's pretty exciting we're going to have real people in here not that you guys and you moms and dads aren't real people the first item on the agenda jenny item one consideration for presentation a

recognition owensboro rampage as the three-time reigning state high school hockey champions well it's a little a little long in the tooth waiting to do this recognition but we only meet a couple times a month and we wanted to bring these guys and moms and dads and coaches and everybody in and tell them how proud we are of them the owensboro youth hockey association sponsors the owensboro rampage high school team which won back to back to back kentucky high school hockey league state titles in 2020 2021 and 2022 and before that they won titles in 2012 and 2016. they played in the 2021 usa hockey national championships and will leave for this year's championships tomorrow good luck guys that will be played in dallas texas the owensboro rampage started playing high school hockey in 2007 and is open to players from all high schools in western kentucky predominantly you guys are from owensboro and davis county and i think you have some team members

on uh from bowling green warren county i believe so where evansville that's right [Laughter] so everybody please join me in a round of applause for these young folks [Music] [Applause] now just to make sure that he received accolades of his own coach jason link would you stand up please coach link coach jason link won coach of the year this year congratulations [Applause] coach if you would why don't you come up the podium and uh just talk to us a little bit about the team a little bit about your expectations in this national championship we're very thankful to have such a

community that embraces us and gives us opportunities like that so first of all i'd really like to thank you for recognizing the hard work that these boys have done and the dedication that they put forth to this they practice at least four times a week we play games almost every weekend their life is dedicated to this sport and and to have the facilities that we have and and such a great county to support us we're very very thankful for that as far as coach of the year that's a reflection of what these guys have done they see what they do on the ice and they see that the work they put in they see their back to back to back championships and i get i get coach of the year for that but that's that's what they've done we've made kentucky history we're the first team in kentucky to ever win the state title three times in a row we have seven players that have one been on every team that has won those three games so we have seven kids that have three rings again which is a kentucky history for the state and also for our county that's great yes sir thank you guys so much okay real quick starting right there with that gentleman