Meeting of October 19, 2023

good evening I'd like to call the uh meeting of the Davis County Fiscal Court October 19 2023 to order uh commissioner cond if you'd lead us in the prayer and the pledge please thank you judge if everyone could join me in prayer this uh prayer that I'm about to speak was uh written and said by my wife at the last I think U it needs be repeated and everyone please take the heart uh God of all we thank you for the gift of today we ask you to bless all this here we thank you for the challenges and opportunities you send us each day that allow us to be a reflection of your love and faithfulness to everyone we encounter help us to remember that each of us is unique and created for a purpose help us to appre appreciate our freedoms how we react and respond to people in situations that are placed in our lives thank you for allowing us to live in a country where we are free to disagree but help us to accept and

respect our differences help us to drown out those narratives that really go against your love and that is a reflection of you in all we do thank you to for us to grow in our understandings and acceptance of of others bless our community with abundances and success especially those who seek to use their influence to lift up and encourage others to be their best selves those who give back and pay forward bless our leaders those in government and the decision makers in positions of authority those who have the power to say yes the ideas and dreams of thriving in a caring Community thank you for our health and our safety and most of all in this time of world conflict that those in the Middle East your most holy sa that we find peace and we understand each other and one day we can understand what that

really means I ask this for your blessings today and always amen am to the flag of the United States of America to the repblic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you commissioner yes Brook one consideration for presentation a treasurer's report for September of 20123 Mr Johnson yes judge as of sep December 30th 2023 the total cash balance is 68,7 36,800 for all funds general fund balance is$ 28,749 19,8 193,50

36 all variances within the treasures report are normal expected and explainable and I have nothing else to report any questions of our treasure from the Commissioners no no hearing none thank you and Brook next item two consideration for approval a minutes of the October 5th 2023 Davis County Fiscal Court meeting I'll make a motion to approve second got a motion of second uh we've all had the minutes for some time to review are there any let's see additions deletions or Corrections hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I i b all claims for all departments motion to approve a second got a motion a second are there any questions for our uh Treasure of the items on the list of claims to be paid no hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I C lease agreement with Western Kentucky Raptor Center motion to approve second and a motion second Mr Ross Le thank you for being with us absolutely

judge thank you for the opportunity uh tonight I present to you for your consideration uh a lease agreement between Davis County Fiscal Court and the Western Kentucky Raptor Center uh the Raptor Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the rehabilitation of injured and orphaned Birds of Prey uh currently at Yellow Creek Park they are capable of servicing about eight birds at any one given time uh and currently U they are servicing a total of about 300 animals uh that they that they are rehabbing so let me explain to you why it is that we are only doing a one-year option on this lease uh essentially uh it has become a uh Mutual understanding between uh myself and the Raptor Center that it would benefit them to be able to have these birds at a different private site uh located on Jones Road it's a property that they own uh where they are rehabbing these other uh bir other animals and U so we are presenting them uh with this one-year uh lease so that they have that amount of time to be able to remove uh their facilities from

Yellow Creek Park uh those are all property uh that those Muses the bird houses if you will uh were all constructed uh by their volunteer Labor uh it's not any thing that the county has any money in and uh we are looking at trying to be able to get them um successfully moved out of Yellow Creek Park again within that next year uh so I would recommend approval thank you Mr Brasher do you have anything to add or no okay any questions from Mr Lee no commissioner Conor uh thank you judge uh Ross so the yes sir current five buildings will be taken down uh within whatever time frame it takes to be able to get those taken down and then the land itself will just be uh brought back to just grass or anything like that correct that is correct and the Raptor Society is the ones that's going to be responsible for doing so that is correct okay they essentially are are made aware of what needs to be done with regards to moving they built the muses to be transportable so okay if at any time they needed to be able to move them 10 ft one way or the other that was very simple to be able to do um the original design and plans for this 15 years ago

that Eric and I originally conceived of um didn't didn't come to complete fruition and and so they have uh transitioned some of their leadership as well from Eric Miller uh who has signed this agreement on behalf of the Raptor Center over to the Allen Family who owns the property on Jones Road they all have the federal permits it's required to be able to do the rehabing so it it works out perfectly fine thank you Ross just and then one other small comment if I could make sure concerning yellow Yellow Creek Park in particular uh recently uh I think the Judge castlin uh change the hours that's correct and when the Park is open for this coming November that is uh starting November 1st uh we will go to 700 p.m. closings as opposed to 5: obviously L A lot of people get off work at 5:00 in the evening we have lit pickle ball courts and that is the only lit pickle ball courts anywhere in the County or the city uh so we will have an additional two hours each evening to be able to allow people to come out in the month of November to be able to play pickall what type of comments have you gotten so far very positive very positive there there are a lot of people that are very interested and very happy

with that decision thank you Ross thank you judge thank you anyone else no there been no more questions all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose thank you next time D second reading of KC 91.7 2023 11- 2023 an ordinance relating to goals and objectives of the comprehensive plan motion to approve I'll second and a motion of second um first of all is there for for purposes of the legal process do you need to read anything into the record I think I should okay if you would please thank you uh an ordinance relating to goals and objectives of the comprehensive plan I'll just go through the uh whereas Clauses whereas on the 14th day of September 2023 the sboro Metropolitan Planning Commission held a public hearing and approved amendments to the comprehensive plan goals and objectives pursuant to KRS 100 .193 and whereas the Davis County Fiscal