Meeting of April 11, 2022

i want to call the april 11 2022 davis came fiscal court meeting to order commissioner cover would you lead us in a prayer in the pledge may we pray lord we praise and thank you for all your blessings please continue to guide the members of this body in your willful direction lord remind us that is you we truly serve when serving the citizens of this community we praise you for entrusting us to lead our county pray for us pray for our firemen policemen military and first responders to always be safe all this we pray through our lord jesus christ amen amen of the united states under god indivisible with thank you commissioner and once again i want to welcome everyone uh both here in the courtroom this is the first time that our courtroom has been open to the general public in two years so i want to welcome all of you here this evening and those folks who are watching

on tv again this is our april 11 2022 davis county fiscal court meeting jenny are you ready yes sir item one consideration for presentation a proclaim april 2022 as child abuse and neglect prevention month last first of april i think mr caslin read the proclamation to a group who were standing against child abuse on the lawn of kentucky wesleyan college tonight i've asked commissioner wathen if you would read this proclamation to the general public all right whereas child abuse and neglect is a serious problem in our society affecting every segment of davis county and whereas our children are most valuable resources that will shape the future of davis county and the commonwealth of kentucky whereas child abuse is considered one of the nation's most serious public health problems with scientific studies documenting the link between the abuse and the neglect of children and a wide range of medical emotional psychological and behavioral disorders

whereas child abuse can have long-term psychological emotional and physical effects that have lasting consequences for victims of abuse and whereas every child is entitled to be loved cared for nurtured feels secure and free of verbal sexual emotional and physical abuse and neglect and whereas it is the responsibility of every adult who comes in contact with a child to protect that child's right to safe and nurturing childhood whereas prevention remains the best defense and communities must make every effort to proclaim programs and activities that create and encourage strong thriving children and families and now therefore in davis county al mattingly davis county judge executive does hereby proclaim april 2022 as child abuse and neglect prevention month thank you commissioners as i said we've already presented the proclamation and we just wanted to get that out to all those who would be watching this evening jenny next item b recognition apollo

high school dance team national champions okay this is one of the the parts of the evening that we really enjoy where we recognize folks here in davis county who really had brought recognition to the county themselves but even more so have brought a lot of honor to themselves and to their parents and and all the other folks associated with them the apollo high school eaglets dance team finished their season strong with a series of state national championships the squad competed at the jam fest dance super nationals at kentucky international convention center in louisville on february 11-13 taking the floor against teams representing 15 states seems like a long time ago doesn't it ladies and they were rewarded with two national championships one in the category of varsity palm and the other in hip-hop and we do want a demonstration of hip-hop here in a little bit the eaglets competed at the kentucky dance coaches organization competition at butler traditional high school in louisville this past weekend taking the state championship in the palm category and finishing second in hip hop so

it's with great pleasure that i and the commissioners along with all the folks in davis county say congratulations and we're very proud of you so let's stand up and give them a round of applause [Applause] now i'm going to invite the coaches uh to come up and let's see i'm sitting here melissa jarbo and christine tucker is that are those the two coaches the correct ones so if you would tell us a little bit about the ladies and you might want to introduce them and at the end we don't want them to run out until we get a picture with them so floor is yours and don't they normally don't you normally have the young people introduced we are they're we're going to do that i think somebody's trying to take this meeting over [Laughter] okay ladies go ahead thank you so much for inviting us and honoring our dancers see it's jordan where are you is that on see if you can get that on yeah man you got a big voice

[Music] there we go now the girls don't usually let me use a mic because they can usually hear me pretty well thank you so much for inviting us and honoring our dance team this evening these young ladies have worked extremely hard this year and we are so proud back in november they went to their first competition for kentucky high school association where they placed second in both hip-hop and palm and when we returned to practice that monday they said oh no we can do this we can do better and they set their goals that monday and they never looked back and we worked really hard we fixed we fixed different parts of the routine we added practices on the weekend we added times to our practice so that's what we were joking we said it's been a while since it's been two weeks that we haven't seen each other because we feel like we saw all of us together more than we saw our family some and that's one thing we would also like to commend our families their support our parents who are here they have been right alongside of us this entire journey and it takes a lot of time and a lot of commitment from all

you know the whole entire community for us to do what we did this year and so i will introduce our ladies yes please and as the ladies come up or if you just stand it'll probably be easier if you stand in place as you introduce them if you have brought a guest with you if there's someone here that you would like to introduce and embarrass go ahead and ask them to stand up tell us who they are or we can introduce your parents too maybe not all right so i'll start here on this end this is lexi crabtree freshman couture johnson sophomore katie ripley freshman alexia latham freshman larkinjarbo senior euredia alvarez jr i'm looking to see who's next sorry grace ash jr alex swift sophomore chloe tucker senior let's see there you are caitlyn crawford sophomore and chloe kirk jr okay well again girls congratulations now if you sit back down and if you brought someone stand back up yep just sit down

everybody sit down look watch this now if you brought someone as you go down this list stand up and turn around and introduce them somebody who's one of the parents would you stand up and introduce your kid who do you who you have with you there you go this is my mom and dad chris crabtree this is my beautiful mom tiffany johnson okay tiffany corsi actually i forgot she got married um this is my mom lori ripley this is my mom megan layton [Music] this is my mom the wonderful dance coach these are my parents marty and angela higdon well thank goodness you spoke out i thought it was sign language [Music] um this is my mom sandy swift and that's my mom over there evelyn tucker um that's my mom christy crawford