Meeting of January 25, 2024

good evening I'd like to call this U meeting of the Davis County Fiscal Court today is to order this is uh Thursday January 25th and uh commissioner Marksbury would you lead us in the pray opening prayer and the pledge sure would you pray with me please dear heavenly father I thank you so much for always being with us for never leaving or forsaking us regardless of what we are facing I realize what a privilege it is that you've invited us to your throne of grace that we might receive mercy and find Grace for help in our time of need we need wisdom father and you know our limitations better than we do thank you for promising to guide us and for doing it so generously how thankful we are that you instruct Us in the way we should go when you counsel us with your eye upon us us please direct us with knowledge and insight as we make decisions for our County as we begin this new year we ask for wisdom on what would be best for our community please guide and protect us

and all who serve our community and I ask these things in Jesus name amen now the pledge please I pledge flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands One Nation God indivisible andice for all thank you commissioner marksberry and I would like just for the audience to know and those watching from home uh the commissioner Casten is joining us uh remotely via Zoom this evening so uh yes Brook one consideration for presentation a 2023 Christmas at Panther Creek Park checks okay we we got Mr Lee this is always a a high point of the Christmas at Panther Creek it is for most people Christmas is over but for these five agencies tonight is Christmas and um for the 21st year Davis County Fiscal Court

um will make presentation to five Davis County nonprofit organizations who spent eight nights a piece between Thanksgiving and the 2nd of January at Panther Creek Park collecting uh the $5 per vehicle fees uh for Christmas at Panther Creek I'm proud to announce that this was the third highest amount of money ever collected at Christmas at Panther Creek totaling a little over $30,800 and so tonight each of these agencies that I call up will receive a check made out to their organization for $3,080 essentially we take the total collected and divide that in half um we as a county will maintain our half to be able to continue uh seeing to the success of the program and then the other half is what's divided amongst the the five agencies and so tonight I will Begin by inviting Carolyn fber up Carolyn is with the Aubrey song foundation for eating disorders and Carolyn here is your check and you're certainly welcome to be able to make some comments well um just thank you very much for the opportunity this was our first year of being able to of putting our name in the pot and we were really excited to get drawn so we really appreciate the opportunity and actually

had a lot of fun doing it so thank you thank you thank you and if you don't mind hanging around after everybody all the checks are presented I'd like us to get a a picture thank you absolutely thank you very much judge there were about 30 applicants this year uh and so five of those are the ones that are being recognized tonight the second is is a very popular Owensboro uh program that's been around for a number of years we're going to invite Mr Byron Owen up uh with the Owensboro Dust Bowl byren there's your check for $3,080 thank you sir thank you good evening we were indeed thank very thankful and honored to be one of the five nonprofits selected to participate in Christmas and pther Creek Park it was a privilege to be there eight nights we were there and I should to say thank you thank you the next agency is Mosley Ville volunteer fire department and I've asked him to be able to keep this short [Laughter] she I don't know why everybody always says that when I get ready to talk I you

act like a talk bunch or something but I can but I'm not going to today but um thanks to Fiscal Court the parks system and and everybody involved in this U MOS fire department on behalf of all my firefighters we thank you for the opportunity to do it they had a good time really enjoyed it and we're always willing to make money any way we can make it at the fire department so thanks everyone involved that's pretty quick wasn't it you did a good job yes sir representing the Stanley Community playground tonight is President Robin Tucker I want to thank you all so much as part of Stanley Community there's uh just a lot of us that came together as volunteers a lot of students came out to help us and we just we're just honored to be part of this so thank you all for this opportunity thank you and the last organization tonight representing the help office of Owensboro is Angela settle thank you all for this opportunity um the help office has been around for over 50 years and it's because of a community that supports the nonprofits and we

simply couldn't do it without the help of our community it was a great opportunity thank you so much thank you all right so at this time we'd be able to before we do the picture and before we dismiss them do you mind telling those who might be watching uh when when they can get their names in the hopper for next time absolutely so the five agencies uh that collected in 2023 unfortunately are not eligible to be able to reapply for this upcoming year but the application for Christmas at Panther Creek is available on our County website 12 months out of the Year anytime a nonprofit in Davis County wanted to be able to submit the application they could find that there uh and once they submit it it'll come over to the park office uh so if they'd like to be able to do that this week uh or you know sometime across the uh summer they're welcome to do that at any time uh it will be at the October um par board meeting uh where those applications will all be brought together and a board member then will choose numbers uh to be able to select those five agencies obviously we couldn't ever go into the missions of these five agencies and determine that one's better than the other uh so we just assign them all numbers and then

draw those numbers out of the Hat very good so y they're available at any time and we're also always interested in New sponsors for lights at the park um there's a lot of opportunity for us to be able to expand that as well and and certainly we'll be working hard this year to be able to do that very good thank you here we go three two one we're take another one three two one all right looks good thank [Applause]

you come on Larry Ro roll B executive order number 01 2024 local Emer Mercy operations plan this is not something we'll be voting on it's just uh Mr Johnson you want to speak to this yes judge the judge executive is required by Kentucky EMA to annually provide an executive order stating that Davis County local Emergency Operations plan or the leop is still active and maintained as part of the annual leop review process as a noted executive orders that do not require action by the legislative body appear under consideration for presentation as an update to the commission on executive actions I've reviewed it it is an order no action necessary and this and this will be in the clerk's office if somebody wants to see it right this will be filed in an executive order book if anyone needs to