Meeting of July 1, 2021

i want to call the july 1 2021 davis county fiscal court meeting to order uh commissioner caslin would you lead us in a prayer in the pledge your heavenly father we pause for a moment we thank you for the many blessings you bestowed upon us as individuals as a community and as a nation we ask your guidance as we do the work of the citizens this evening we ask your blessing upon all those we represent especially those who are in most need of your blessings and you know those needs lord leave them to you we pray these things in the name of jesus our lord and savior amen amen under god indivisible with liberty and justice thank you commissioner castle and once again i want to welcome everyone to our thursday july 1st 2021 davis county fiscal court meeting have a a special item on the agenda to begin with uh jenny you want to read it for us yes

sir item one presentation a davis county firefighter emt powell zamborli zambori how do you say it there you go becomes a u.s citizen commissioners the other day i was talking to chief smith and he informed me that pavel or pavel pavel pavel was taking his test and was achieving a lifelong dream of becoming a u.s citizen and i thought what better tribute what better honor that this country could have on our birthday than to have this young man and his family and his friends and and work partners uh come to court and us honor him uh because it really is an honor in my opinion when somebody leaves their home and travels miles and miles and decides to become a citizen of our nation i think it really says something about our nation about we know all the pimples and the blebs and all the

nasty things that we have about us we're just like a family in our families we know everything that's wrong with our family sometimes it takes sometimes it takes someone looking from the outside in to say man that's a great family i think the same thing happens to our country so here as we begin to celebrate uh the fourth of july the birth of our nation i think it just is appropriate so pavel would you prevail would you come up please now we asked for some background on this gentleman and his loving wife wrote a 12-page letter uh half of it i thought it was actually judy writing about me and then i got down to someone i said no it's not but just quickly uh paul was a borrel and i said that wrong too jenny but i'm closer than you are uh he uh was born say the czech republic yeah in czech republic but the law diplozzi dona plaza uh he's the oldest of five kids so i'm the

oldest yeah there we go i'm those 13 so i know the responsibility that older siblings have toward their younger siblings charlie doesn't know that he is the next of the youngest of 13. so in this country we have really big families he grew up in a farming community not unlike owensboro and davis county outside of ole miss check the czech republic and as you know ole miss is our sister city in the czech republic uh he was active in his church he enjoyed his time in boy scouts which i really like learned a lot at boy scouts woodworking and firefighting firefighting because he was constantly putting out the fires that he was building as a boy scout is that correct okay but last october he applied for his citizenship exam and last month he took the exam and passed it with 100 i went online and here i am i've been here for 74 years and i took that test and i don't think i scored 100 so it's pretty cool that you you made 100 uh and i'm very proud uh as is his family and his co-workers

to announce that on june 25th 2021 he received his official u.s citizenship certificate and documentation to which we all know he was excited and happy to be living out his american dream and it makes me so happy to say that because i hear people say the american dream isn't available to people anymore and i only have a few words to say bull hockey it is out there if you want it so pablo uh i'm going to ask everybody stand up with me [Applause] and on behalf of all the citizens of winsboro and davis gang let me be the one of the first to welcome you as a citizen of of our country now it's up to you you can say what you wish and then we'll ask this young lady who wrote 14 pages if she wants to say anything else are these young ladies these young princesses if they have anything to say i thank you for for welcoming uh

i'm really happy to be here we citizen i think great country live my american dream over here with amazing family and doing my dream job with my friends and uh i just wanna say thank you to everybody you're you're welcome and and we like to say that that uh i know uh chief smith is proud to have you i know all the guys are proud to have you uh and and again welcome to davis county we're sure glad that you chose this community to to be uh to to raise your family and to live and work in so thank you okay anything else anybody want to say something oh here she comes was wait a minute oldest daughter did you do this to mom put your finger up there like don't i just pull that down so yeah there you go i just want to say thank you for recognizing him um

it's an honor to be here and to be a part of the family of the firefighters and how accepting they've been over the last two years it means a lot to us to accept someone of a different background and um i would like to say that all of this started with our owensboro sister city of olamotes czech republic and i'm thankful to have participated in that program and without it we wouldn't have him here today so i'm thankful for that in the city of owensboro okay thank you very much and extremely proud of him we all are proud of him and and the fact that he's remained a firefighter after looking at the mugs of these guys that he works with is what's surprising to me so thank you guys thanks for coming and supporting one of your own so don't feel like you have to stay for the rest of the meeting i promise you it's going to be pretty boring okay thank you again jenny are you ready yes sir consideration for approval a minutes of the june 15 and 30 2021 davis county fiscal court meetings second i have a motion second commissioner you all had a copy of the minutes in your possession for some time any additions deletions or corrections

hearing none all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries see all claims for all departments move to prove second i have a motion second again commissioners you all had a copy of the bills doing payable but they just came fiscal court in your possession for some time any questions of the treasurer [Applause] hearing none all those in favor 65 saying aye aye opposed motion carries next item d resolution 9 20 21 regarding website court motion pre second i have a motion and second uh mark are you the one that's going to who's going to do this i can all right i don't have the resolution in front of me but i believe it's standard resolution the highway department part of their highway 54 project are going to be building a back entrance to the whimsic court subdivision what they are asking is once that is built and finalized uh they are asking for davis county to take that over i would recommend approval so this is a result of