Meeting of September 2, 2021

[Music] i want to call the september 2nd 2021 davis county fiscal court meeting to order commissioner caslin would you lead us in a prayer and the pledge i will dear heavenly father we pause and we thank you for the many blessings that you bestowed upon us as individuals and as a community and as a nation we ask your guidance as we do the work of the citizens this evening we ask you to please bless all our citizens who are struggling with the copen and we just ask you to restore them to health and be in your will pray these things in the name of jesus our lord and to amen republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Music] thank you commissioner and once again i want to welcome everyone to our september 2nd 2021 davis county fiscal court meeting uh before we get started uh i want to welcome everyone that's watching on facebook live this evening and invite you to type in your comments and or questions

you may also send by voice or text to 270-929-1010 that's 929-1010 any comment or question typically we ask you to comment at the end of each item on the agenda or whenever we ask for the public's comments but knowing that everything is on a delay and sometimes we move pretty quick if david if you or jordan get a question or comment just raise your hand i'll recognize you and we'll address it at that time jenny are you ready yes sir item one consideration for presentation a davis county conservation district's fiscal year 2021 financial report uh commissioners if you in your package you're going to find the financial report from the the conservation district uh as well as a packet on some of the things that they have done in this past year they do an excellent job as you can see they had receipts this year of eighty seven thousand dollars and they spent ninety one thousand uh meaning they spent a little bit of money out of the reserve so i

wanna thank all those folks who serve on that board and the staff as well commissioner castle and you might comment you and i went out to take a kid outdoors day saturday and had an opportunity to visit with them we did we took our turns shooting shooting the bow and arrow i got a little tooting tutoring uh perhaps it would have been nice i had our clerk's daughter there and she might have shown us well that's that's just katherine could have probably showed both of us up but those little kids did a pretty good job showing this out they did all right any question or comment on the the presentation okay the next item jenny b davis county libraries 2021 financial report commissioners again the library being a is it s p e or sp ge special governmental entity i guess they have a responsibility to send us a financial report and for us to deal with their tax rate certification commissioner caslin

represents us on that board commissioner castle do you have anything that you'd like to comment on i do not okay so that's the presentation and again folks any of these presentations uh regarding their financial reports or tax rate certifications can be found in the davis cane fiscal court clerk's office next item jenny c davis county library's fiscal year 2021-2022 tax rate certification commissioners again since they're spge they have a responsibility of sending this to us we have uh we have a couple ways that we can go uh in this case the library district decided on real property to take a compensating rate which actually reduced their tax rate from 6.3 cents per hundred thousand down to 6.2 cents per hundred thousand all the other rates for tangible personal property aircraft watercraft inventory motor vehicles stay the same uh that is will bring in a total revenue of five five million 165 492 dollars

uh this coming fiscal year um i have the property tax rate certification uh that was submitted to us and it from uh the county clerk leslie mccarty and it again verifies that those are the rates that will be taken by the library board any question or comment i i just want to thank the board for the good job they do i do believe they do a good job with their responsibilities in running their library i think that's one one of the really great boards that we have it's a very diverse board it represents all all phases of life in owensboro and davis county and i too would like to thank them next item jenny d davis county extension district's 2021 tax rate commissioners if you look you'll have you will see a tax rate the the extension district does an excellent job i serve on that board by virtue of my uh title as judge executive and they have

set their tax rate for uh 20 22 at point nine cents so that's less than one cent per hundred dollars of assessed uh value again i don't know how in the world that they they do what they do on such a low tax rate i know a lot of other extension districts that that are two three or four times that amount any question or comment next item jenny the davis county extension district's 2021 financial report again commissioners the financial report you'll find in your book uh it is a copy of the audit and they got a very clean audit did a good job and again i want to thank all those members who served on the board uh all those who are watching i would remind you if you have any questions any comments regarding any of the things that we just talked about that were presented to us you can find them on file with the davis county clerk fiscal courts clerk

next item jenny item two consideration for approval a minutes of the august 19 2021 davis county fiscal court meeting motion approved second i have a motion and second commissioners you've all had a copy of minutes in your hands for some time any additions deletions or corrections hearing none all in favor signing five is saying aye aye opposed motion carries be all claims for all departments motion approved exactly i have a motion second again commissioners you've had a copy all the bills doing payable davis campus court in your hands for some time any questions of the treasurer hearing none all in favor 65 is saying aye aye opposed motion carries c resolution 14 2021 and contract with grad for professional services for the cdbg cv utility assistance project administration i have a motion do i have a second second and a second mr hendrix do you want to talk to us about this i guess this is part of

the administration for the utility grant is going to be done partly by audubon and then partly by grad and i guess they're going to split the administrative fee so we had formalized contracts with audubon already and this is the document formalizing the contract with green river ad so have you heard i haven't heard an update on are they about finish they from my understanding those funds should be available here at the end of this month beginning of next month uh probably will show up just in time for us to utilize them for the for the winter months but we're still waiting on uh dlg okay as far as i know we we have now formalized all the documents necessary between us all right and we're just waiting on the final approval uh that sets the procedures and once they get that we're ready to go commissioners what this is about i'm sorry i didn't say that we we are going to receive roughly 200 000 for uh utilities uh to help folks pay for their tax due utilities