Meeting of August 7, 2025

Good evening. I'd like to call this meeting of the Davis County Fiscal Court to order. Uh today is Thursday, August 7th, 2025. If you would uh please stand for the prayer and the pledge. Dear heavenly father, we pause and we thank you for the many blessings you bestowed upon us. Dear Lord, we live in the greatest nation there is. You bless us beyond our our what we deserve. I just ask you to bless our citizenry. Bless us as we do the work of the county. Help us to be guided by the Holy Spirit to do that which is right and good. We pray these things in the name of Jesus our Lord and Savior. — Amen. I alian to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Let's go. First item,

— one consideration for presentation a rural secondary program recommendations by KYTC Scott Phelps. — Mr. Phelps, welcome. — I apologize. I pulled up out front and realized I left my presentation at the office. — Oh my. Okay. Well, you made it back in. — Yeah. For some reason Yeah. For some reason, traffic on 54 is not moving. — Yes. is uh I don't know who that is. So, um what I have for you tonight is our our funding for this year total funding is 1.3 million20,632. The Davis County is going to receive 25% of those funds which is the max the maximum amount sorry the maximum amount of $447,787 and then our portion is $872,846. So, the first item that we are going to

recommend is resurfacing Kentucky 298 starting at 431 and going all the way over to 231 for a total cost of 625,000. The second recommendation is going to finish out uh Highway 662, which we paved up to Campground Road this last year. or with those funds. Uh so we'll finish that out all the way to the Hancock County line at an estimated 140,000. And then the last item I have is any if we have any remaining funds left over, um we're going to use those to replace cords and make base figure repairs on the previous routes I just mentioned. Uh if there's any funds left over from that, we'll also use those to replace coverts on other rule secondary roads. — Okay. Thank you, — Commissioner Conor. — You can breathe. It looks like you're out of breath a little bit. Just a curious question on the uh Kentucky 298.

The scope of that work. I know that there seems to be some base issues, I believe, on several stretches of that road. Uh will those be is that part of the scope of the work is actually doing that? — There are some base failures that I have set up at the project. — Um the ones that are not our crews will be taken care of. — So we'll be going out. Um you may have noticed there are some stretches that have already been done. Yeah, that was our crews. So if if there's stuff that's not set up in the proposal that I have right now that the remaining funds will be used to fix those before they go out and pay. — And your time frame? — Well, it's going to be up to the contractor. I mean, I'll send this into Frankfurt as soon as we get the approved meeting minutes and then Frankfurt will start working up the proposal and send it out. — Thank you, sir. Thank you, Judge. — Thank Thank you, Commissioner. Anyone else? Eric, do we need to take any action on this at not at this point? — Okay. Thank you. So, — thank you, sir. — Uh, you'll have to make sure that your motion also addresses that Davis County is keeping your flex funds as well. — Okay.

— Two, consideration for approval. A minutes of July 25th, 2025, Davis County fiscal court meeting. — Motion to approve. — Second. Got a motion second to approve the minutes as presented. We've all had them for a few days to review. Are there any corrections, additions, or deletions? — Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. — B. All claims for all departments. — Motion to approve. — Second. — Motion second. These are all the bills doing payable by county by Davis County Fiscal Court. Are there any questions for our treasur? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by sign sign saying I I — I — C resolution 14-2025 YMCA CDBG grant application. — Motion to approve. — Second. — Got a motion. Second, Mr. Johnson. Per the Kentucky Community Development Block program guidelines, each year the county can submit a single application that is either a public facilities project, uh, housing project, or a community project. Resolution 14, 2022 is authorization to

apply for YMCA's project that qualifies as a CDBG community project category with a grant ceiling of 850,000. This project is for a renovation at YMCA to create a statelicicensed facility for child care programs that will add approximately 71 new child care slots. According to GRA, the YMCA is the only interested applicant among the three initial categories. And Tom Levit with GRD is present to answer any questions you may have. — Any questions or comments from the court? Commissioner Coner. Uh, if you could judge, I believe that Tom Bonager is here with the YMCA and possibly he can give us an update on phase one, how that transpired and then phase two, what we're potentially looking at doing there, please. — Yes, sir. That was my next ask, but go ahead, sir. — So, um, the first question was phase one. So, um, phase one is kind of hit some snags, but we are going to open up infant and toddler preschool as planned on September 2nd. Um, we've done some internal remodeling of the Y and the board has approved, uh, the Y board has approved about $40,000 for us to go in and do some real quick remodels so we can get the infant and toddler in. Um,

the snags we have run into um are simply that and the biggest snag we ran into is the air conditioning unit has to be qualified as a hospital air conditioning unit, which takes about 12 months to get built. and there's only two companies in the world that build them. Um, we have an 11:15 date that'll be arriving so we can open up January 2nd the new our goal is the 1 of January to open the new childcare center uh that you gave us the funds for the 330,000. Um, one of the things with this these funds are that the the 330 that you gave us and the state and the county gave us has opened up a lot of eyes on the state level. I was talking earlier that they were shocked that it's costing us $2.5 million for 71 slots. I mean, we were on the Zoom call with Lure today and they had no idea of the cost. And we went through the regs that are the issue. There's four or five regs that are one of them is the air conditioning unit. I mean, during CO that probably made a lot of sense, but there's no other state in the country that does that. It when I say it, it caught our architects off guard when they were like, "Whoa, we have to do this." The other reggg we hit

was um and this got resolved thanks to um the city and county working together was there was uh we had to put a fire suppression system in. Um but state code does not say that, but childcare code does. Uh which was another $180,000. Um, we're not putting a suppression system in because we have outside doors on every classroom and they're they're within 15 steps of being out of the room. Um, which is okay to do. Um, but they that did get worked through. Uh, DJ Johnson, um, Suzanne, Olive worked diligently with us on phase one to make sure we get through everything through the state. Um, we, uh, the new rooms we just talked about at the beginning, uh, the state has already licensed them. So they came in um and we got them licensed within seven days um from when we realized we had a problem to us remodeling. So we would invite you to come to the Y the last week of August and see the whole upstairs is going to be completely different than what it looked like before. Um and thanks to the I mean a lot of people in in Owensboro and Davis County have helped out. I mean, Crannle's basically at cost putting the floors in and I mean, there's just a lot of people have stepped up to the plate to make