Meeting of March 8, 2022

and we'll call the march 8th 2022 davis came 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 you bestowed upon us as a community as a nation and as individuals we ask you guidance this evening as we do the work of the county we pray for those who grieve this evening especially the bowen family upon the loss of joe bowen our former senator we ask your blessing upon his soul and bless them and console them in their grief we pray for all those who have lost loved ones dear heavenly father we we ask you to bless our community and bless our world as we are in a trying time right now a frightful time at some level yeah it's your blessing just watch over all each of us we pray these things in the name of jesus our lord and savior amen i pledge allegiance to the light of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty thank you commissioner once again i want

to welcome everyone to our march 8 2022 davis camp fiscal court meeting and on behalf of davis campus court and all the citizens i too wish to send our condolences to the family of uh senator joe bowen he was certainly an asset to this community and will be sorely missed so just know that we have you in our prayers jenny are you ready yes sir item one consideration for approval eight minutes of the february 22nd 2022 davis county fiscal court meeting move to pray second i have a motion second commissioner you've all had a copy of minutes in your hands for some time any additional solutions or corrections hearing none all in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries jenny hold on just a second uh today is the we have reopened the courtroom again uh for visitors one of the ways that that you would come to the courtroom we're open to the to the news media we ask that anyone that wants to come and speak to the commission on any issue either during the reading of the agenda or on any item that's not on the agenda

that you would call jenny warren or brooke give them your name and phone number and make an appointment now we do that because we want to be respectful of the folks in the community who might want to come we don't want 10 people to show up and speak on the same issue so right now we are are open to 10 folks from the public if we continue to see the dramatic dramatic decrease in covid i'm thinking that we're probably commissioners hoping that we will open the courtroom to full public participation by the middle of april i'd like to have it open by then and that way we'll have people who'll be able to come in and talk to us about the budget if tonight if you're watching on facebook live then you're certainly welcome to call or send us any comments regarding any item on the agenda we're on a delay so it might your comment might come in we may have already voted but we want to hear from you so certainly send it in and we will try to answer your question you also can call 270-929-1010 that's 270-929-1010 either call or you can text a question

and that will get to us as well i forgot to do that jenny next item b on claims for all departments mostly approved i have a motion second again commissioner you've all had a copy of the bills doing payable by davis county fiscal court in your possession any questions of the treasurer hearing none all in favor 65 saying aye aye opposed motion carries c fund transfers second i have a motion second mr hendricks the following fund transfers need to be made the first one is a 570 000 transfer from the general fund to the road fund 70 000 was in the original budget and then the other half million was the budget amendment the court approved a few weeks ago putting an additional 500 000 over in the road fund the second one is 800 from the general fund to the convention center for the bond payment that is budget uh already budgeted i request approval questions or comments hearing none all in favor 65 saying aye aye opposed motion carries next item the administrative code amendment section

seven commercial driver's license class a motion approved second i have a motion second mr hendrix the requirement to attain one's cdl has changed drastically recently individuals will have to participate in a four-week course it's expensive and the court considered that cost and this is being passed and added to the administrative code to clarify that the court will pay the cost for the employee to take that test one time uh if if they pass it then that cost because again it is a considerable amount of money the this spells out how long an employee must stay in order to not have to reimburse some of the funds so within 12 months that's 100 within 24 months 75 percent within 36 months 50 percent uh i've reviewed it's a good change i would recommend approval any questions or comments was this yes was the change that was made was that federal or state federal okay so

this basically is going to make it harder all across the country for people to get their cdl license yes so it will be another limitation on our truck drivers commissioner uh when this went into effect immediately i was contacted by quite a few judge executives across the commonwealth some of the smaller counties particularly the counties that do not have a community college right or a school that would teach this it's going to up their costs because they're they're going to have to pay the cost of going to the school plus room and board while their people are out and away i know mark we were training our people we were helping them study the book and you have to pass the test so the community college is going to help them study and pass the test so they're not going to get any better training i don't think than what we were getting from our folks and then they're going to have to be trained on the road and that's what we do anyway right so it's going and it's going to increase i think the time that it takes but it is what it is and we're held to that

federal standard so uh any other question or comment hearing on favor 65 saying aye aye opposed motion carries next item e resolution for 2022 fair housing move to prove a second i have a motion second commissioners this is a standard uh resolution that we pass every year in dealing with the owensboro regional recovery i don't see any change in the language it just says that we're not going to discriminate against any protected classes in order to get the federal funds any question or comment there being an on favorite 65 saying aye aye opposed motion carries f modification of intergovernmental agreement with the united states marshal service move to approve exactly i have a motion second and again commissioners this is a standard agreement that we we have with the united states marshall service it changes some of the some of the wording in the agreement it adds some wording regarding tele video teleconferencing voter registration body cameras restrictive housing suicide prevention those types of items it's

been reviewed by the jailer he sees no issue claude has looked at it and he sees no issue any question or comment hearing none all in favor signify with saying aye aye opposed motion carries g facility use agreements with the following saint martin's parish hall saint peter of alcantara parish hall owensboro sports center move to proof second i have a motion second commissioners this is some one of those standard agreements that we sign with various places that are used as polling places during the election uh this these agreements i assume jordan these agreements are only for the primary yes okay so whenever we have the general election in the fall we will come back with other agreements to be signed yes sir right okay any questions or comments there being uh all those in favor 65 of saying aye aye opposed motion carries h professional services contract with grad regarding the administration of owensboro regional recovery's cdbg grant move to approve