Meeting of April 11, 2023

I'd like to call this a meeting of Davis County Fiscal Court meeting to order a Tuesday April 11th and if you would commissioner Connor would you lead us in a prayer in the pledge thank you judge if everyone could pray with us dear Lord we finished celebrating Easter this past Sunday giving the ultimate sacrifice of Christ Our Lord to all people Sinners and Saints Gentiles and Jews make sure that we understand that that sacrifice goes on today for each and every one of us no matter where we are I ask you dear Lord to be able to touch Fiscal Court as we make the decisions for your people judge castlin commissioner castlin JD commissioner marksberry and myself that we do the right thing for the right reason not only today but in all the days to come we ask this in your name amen and now our pledge I pledge allegiance to the pride of the

United States thank you commissioner Connor Jenny item one consideration for presentation a Proclaim April 2023 is child abuse and neglect prevention month commissioner marksberry Davis County Kentucky Proclamation whereas child abuse and neglect is a serious problem in our society affecting every segment of Daviess County and whereas our children are our most valuable resources and will shape the future of Davies County and the Commonwealth of Kentucky and whereas child abuse is considered one of our nation's most serious public health problems with scientific studies documenting the link between abuse and neglect of children and a wide range of medical emotional psychological and behavioral disorders and whereas child abuse can have long-term psychological emotional and

physical effects that have lasting consequences for victims of abuse whereas every child is entitled to be loved cared for nurtured feel secure and free of verbal sexual emotional and physical abuse and neglect it is the responsibility of every adult who comes in contact with the child to protect that child's right to a safe and nurturing childhood and whereas effective Child Abuse Prevention programs succeed because of Partnerships created between social service agencies schools Health Community and faith-based organizations law enforcement agencies businesses and families and whereas prevention Remains the best defense and communities must make every effort to promote programs and activities that create and encourage strong thriving Children and Families now therefore in Davis County Kentucky Davis County judge executive Charlie caslin does hereby Proclaim April 2023 as child abuse and neglect prevention month

thank you commissioner marksberry I think we have Amanda Hertz with us and you've brought a group with us so if you could if you could come up here to the podium and uh maybe introduce who you brought with you and if some of them want to make a comment they're welcome to 8th grade students coordinator vet school and I would like to introduce Lucy Doyle Lucy Whitaker Kane Herrera Peter Gonzalez and John Martin Phillips thank you all right thank you and I think one of you had the mic before if you want to make some comments um hello my name is Kate Herrera and I came here to tell you why we decided to start doing this project and why we are so passionate about it in the beginning of March we were told that we were denied a request to be able to light the bridge blue in order to support our cause and we were what we would like to believe rightfully angry about this and so our teacher

assigned us an assignment write an edit tutorial to Mark Pagan not Mark me Nate Pagan telling him why we believe that we should be able to light the bridge blue and as five students were chosen and we wrote These articles hoping to cause like a change in our community because we are we all really like are passionate about this change it's something really important to all of us owensboro's youth is our future and we believe we should protect our future when we first heard that we were going to be in the newspaper all of us were ecstatic we were really happy that we are finally getting our voice heard and that things we are saying and what we believed was actually getting out there and we weren't just being silenced and we aren't being ignored and now that we're in this courtroom it feels like a lot more real it feels like we're actually our voices are being heard and we're not we're making a change in our community which is something that I I know that all of us really want when I heard that we were going to be on the news

I was super ecstatic because I want this is something that's personally affected me child abuse is something that's affected me personally it's affected family members and child abuse affects everyone even if you're not being abused even if you're not you don't know anyone being abused it'll affect the entire community and us being acknowledged is so important we we I received an email after y'all's picture had been in the newspaper from commissioner Condor asking if it was okay to light the courthouse uh in in the color you requested blue and we're not doing it for the whole month but we are doing I know y'all are going to be out at kwc again on Friday and we're going to do it Friday night and Saturday night through the weekend so that was prayer commissioner Connor's request thank you so if you don't mind we'd like to come out front and get our picture with you here we are okay three two one

I'll take one more three two one thank you Kane you did a nice job you can give it to your teacher for you [Applause] uh good afternoon everyone my name is Christy James and I thank you for the opportunity to be at this Podium today I would like to give a special thanks to the eye middle students and to Amanda for helping us with this project so my role is I'm the community collaboration for children program coordinator for our region and uh I have all of these people who helped me put on the annual stand Against Child Abuse I could not do it alone so I'm very thankful so I would just like to extend a personal invitation to all of you to come and join us Friday night from 4 30 to 7 30 at Kentucky Wesleyan College thank you for your support thank you and you all do not have to stay for the

rest of the meeting but thank you for coming you are welcome to if you like but you certainly don't have to B Proclaim April 9-15 2023 as National Public Safety telecommunicators Week commissioner Connor Thank you judge from the office of the County judge executive whereas emergencies occur requiring police fire and medical services and their prompt response is critical to the preservation of life and property and whereas the safety of our law enforcement firefighters and emergency medical responders is dependent on equality and accuracy of information obtained from citizens who call Owensboro Davis County 9-1-1 emergency Communication Center and whereas when emergencies arise Public Safety communication telecommunications are the first and most critical contact citizens have with Emergency Services and whereas Public Safety telecommunicators are the single most vital link for our law enforcement responders and firefighters by monitoring their radio activities providing them information and ensuring their safety and whereas