Meeting of April 15, 2021

i'm going to call the thursday april 15 2021 davis county fiscal court meeting to order uh commissioner wathen would you lead us in the prayer and the pledge yes dear god our father thank you for all the blessings that you have bestowed on davis county in this country please provide protection for our military and our deputies and our police keep them from harm's way bless all of our employees and their families we ask that you protect all of those who have been affected in any way by the pandemic and we ask that you bless our country and protect it from all those who wish it harm and we ask that you give us the wisdom that we need to make the right decisions for the citizens of davis county in jesus name we pray amen amen of the united states of america one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice thank you commissioner and once again i

want to welcome everyone to our thursday april 15 2021 davis county fiscal court meeting i might remind you that we were doing this on facebook live uh but we will take comments regarding any of the items that are on the agenda tonight we are on a delay david is at 30 or 45 32nd to 45 second delay if you send a comment in we'll try to make sure that we get them uh in a timely manner also at the end of our meeting is a time period in which we invite people to talk about anything or ask questions or make comments on anything other than what was on the agenda before we get started commissioners i want to just take this opportunity to send out uh davis king fiscal court's condolences to the family of chartez mchenry uh who was a member of the fratern or the david or owensboro police department opd we know how close-knit the the law enforcement uh in our community is and charters was a member of the police force

for 14 years i've quite quite some time with some somewhere around 14 years so our prayers go out to for her and particularly for the loved ones who are left here to cherish their memory i also want to take the opportunity to send out our condolences to my good friend and of many of you your friend chris belcher who lost his wife vicki this morning uh vicki was the daughter of jessa low a friend of the court and we just want you to know that you're you're in our thoughts and prayers okay are we ready first item consideration for presentation a treasures report for the month ending march 2021 and i think that our assistant treasurer george johnson is over there right yes such and i'm not going to ask you to say anything except the bare bones fair cash balance march 31st 2021 is 44 million 837 783 of that the general fund is 20 million 309 163 all funds are operating within expected ranges

and i have nothing else of significance to report any question or comment commissioners while we have a rather large balance of cash on hand you might notice that 20 million of that is our operating fund and that 20 million is about 6 million that we're holding for our radio uh rework so we're we're just about where we are every year doing doing okay uh if there are no questions or no comments this report is on file and the officers of the davis county fiscal court and anyone is welcome to to take a look at it and the treasurer would be happy to answer the questions then next item two consideration for approval a davis county fiscal court meeting minutes of april 1 2021. motion approved second i have a motion and second commissioners you all had a copy of the minutes in your possession for some time any additions to lesions or corrections hearing none all in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries be all claims for all departments move to approve i have a motion second again

commissioners you've all had a copy of the bills doing payable with davis county fiscal court in your hands for some time any questions of the assistant treasurer there being an all in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries next item c county road aid co-op program resolution number seven 2021 and contract with the kentucky transportation cabinet for fiscal year 2021 2022 most approved thank you i have a motion second mr johnson i think you were going to explain this yes judge this agreement is between the commonwealth of kentucky transportation cabinet department of rural municipal aid in the fiscal court of davis county to provide county road aid funds for construction reconstruction and or maintenance of certain roads and bridges within the county these funds are derived from the state gas tax allocated via the fifth formula and this year's apportionment is one million five hundred and twenty five thousand one hundred sixty one dollars and eighty cents we will receive ninety seven percent of this figure which is one million four hundred and seventy nine thousand hundred 407 the remaining three percent is withheld uh by the state in an emergency fund

this agreement is the same as in prior years with the exception of how funds are distributed historically they were distributed on a strict 60 40 methodology on certain dates throughout the fiscal year however for this apportionment funds will be distributed based on available kytc financial resources we anticipate no issues with this alteration and i would recommend approval commissioners any question or comment county engineer are you uh okay with that description okay if there are no comment or question all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries uh before we go on jordan i'm sitting here looking at this little bitty screen in front of me and it's got a very tiny teeny incy bitsy witsy there you go that's much better is there any way to make it any bigger than that okay well we'll just leave it alone i just hate to spend money and i'll be able to use something

so next item terry d passageway easement with glof llc mr proof second i have a motion second commissioners this has to do with an easement that gives passage from one piece of property owned by diamond lake to another piece of property by diamond lake we happen to have bought the property uh when we close off the water rights we also close the easement off so we we need to restore uh this any question or comment this this will go with like if there's new owners it will yes follow those new ones there is a new owner right now okay as of today i think so we're just doing this uh brian smith was very kind in in accommodating us on on getting rid of that water right and uh it just was a slip of the pen gotcha any other question or comment there being that on favor signify saying aye aye opposed motion carries e amended material handler lease agreements with

ricky moore trucking llc move to proof second i have a motion second david do you want to talk about this or do you want me to take a attempt so a year ago we approved the original agreement with ricky moore regarding this material handler it was not clear regarding the handler at the end of the agreement it is a lease to own so since it was not clear it was implied that it was a lease to own but it wasn't clear so he asked that we make it clear so we amended the agreement so it clearly states that if they make the payments all the way through the term that we will sign the equipment over to them this was the original intent of the agreement but when his accountant was looking at it asked to see the agreement he said whoops this is not how that's written as i said it's implied in it but it doesn't state it yeah and it had some tax consequences so any other question or comment there being none all in favor signify saying all right all right oppose motion carries f hired julie gray as a veterinarian