Meeting of January 9, 2025

good afternoon I'd like to call this meeting of Davis County Fiscal Court to order today is January 9th 2025 and this is our first meeting of 2025 commissioner Marksbury could you do the opening prayer and lead us in the pledge please yes thank would you stand with me please our gracious heavenly father thank you for allowing us a start to a new year as we begin doing the work for our County give us fresh eyes to see the needs Open Hearts to heal the wounds ears to hear those who speak and hands to help those who need all the help we can provide as their elected officials I thank you for the steadfast commitment of our County employees and local workers who have kept us safe the roads cleared and the Heat and lights on I ask your blessing on this court please guide me judge castlin commissioner cond commissioner castlin and all we decide this year and our governor Andy Brasher and all our Kentucky leaders who serve please B bless president-elect

Trump as he prepares to lead our country and on this day as our nation remembers its longest lived President Jimmy Carter we pray for your peace and comfort for his family at this time and we thank you for his servant's heart thank you for your love and mercy in Jesus name we pray the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and Justice thank you commissioner Brook you ready yes one consideration for presentation a executive order number 01-2020 is an update to the commission thank you

so for the for those watching for those in the audience this is strictly a presentation that's why there won't be a vote on this any comments from the bench here next item Brook B executive order number 02- 2025 Declaration of a local state of emergency January 5th 2025 Mr Johnson the judge executive has granted Authority by KRS 39 a100 100 section two to declare the county to be in a state of emergency such to activate the local Emergency Operations plan empower the Davis County Emergency Management agency to effectively manage the event and wave procedural formalities that are otherwise required for the county to respond to the event Declarations of a local state of emergency also open potential avenues for the county to recuperate unbudgeted and unforeseen cleanup costs that occur in the wake of any emergency presented as the Declaration for January 5th 2025 for the winter ice storm as they note again executive orders that do not require action by the legislative body appear under consideration for presentation as an update to the Commission in public thank you uh just just for the benefit of those watching

and also for the other members of the Court um generally when there's a severe weather event uh possible uh usually usually I actually pre-sign one of these um the in consultation with our EMA director Andy ball and um and usually they're shredded because if like in the case of a tornado uh obviously we have lots of tornado warnings and no tornadoes uh that that hit Davis County and and therefore those are just shredded U they were signed in advance in case you know if we're all out of the loop all out of power he's the guy that's got to get it to the state and so he has to have it in his hand in the case of the ice storm that was a late developing thing uh early on it wasn't we weren't really um in the ice storm warning area it was way west of us uh and then once they they issued it I reached out to him he said well we're the farthest East County let's wait and see and uh and it was and it wasn't until um our neighboring County started having uh significant power outages if I don't know if y'all ever went on to the

kenergy uh website and looked at their outage maps but but I know uh at one point both Henderson and and U Union County had over 40 over 44% of their total metered homes were were out without power so they got hit really hard and when those started u jumping up is when Andy called me and asked me didn't make this declaration so that's that's why that was made and that was the timeline just FYI two consideration for approval a minutes of December 19th 2024 Davis County Fiscal Court meeting I'll make a motion to approve second got a motion and second we've all had the minutes for some time to review uh do I hear any additions deletions or Corrections hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I B all claims for all departments motion to approve a second got a motion and a second these are all the bills doing payable by the county are there any questions for our treasure hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I C cash balance trans transfer and fund closure motion to

approve second got a motion second Mr Johnson as of December 24 of 2024 the final payment of arpa fund obligations cleared our bank this was the last payment to conexon for the 100% fiber Broadband deployment Milestone I have submitted the quarterly slf frf report and reconciled all activity for fund 84 the residual cash balance of the account is interest accumulated over the life of the fund in the amount of $28,269 I am requesting your approval to transfer this balance to the general fund close the respective bank account and retire the fund any com commissioner thank you judge um so treasur Johnson this basically means when anybody ever asks the court well can't you use your arpa funds well no it doesn't exist anymore that is exactly what is happening here the arpa is finished correct it is fully exhausted that is correct thank you sir thank you judge thank you commissioner that's a good point to make any other comments no all those in favor signify by saying i i d

annual authorization allowing the judge executive to execute and submit any and all Court approved documents make a motion to approve second got a motion in second Mr Johnson you want to say anything about this sure anytime that the court approves an item this authorization would allow the judge executive to sign and submit any and all documents that stem from that item as long as the Court's approval is not modified it's an annual approval that is simply for efficiency of conducting County Business business it only grants the judge executive the authority to sign documents that fulfill the original intent of a court approved item I would recommend your approval thank you any questions or comments from the Commissioners no hearing n all those in favor signify by saying i i e resolution 01202 Owensboro Regional Recovery CDG cdbg Grant application motion to approve second got a motion and second Mr Johnson PR the Kentucky Community Development block grant cdbg program guidelines every year the county can submit a single application in the Public Services Program area up to $200,000 for operational cost to support

a Regional Recovery Center the Owensboro Regional Recovery Center or o RC is the only entity that meets this Criterion each year orc applies for $200,000 of cdbg funds 190,000 of that is for salaries and 10,000 of that is for grad to administer the Grant we simply act as the Fiscal Agent passing These funds along after receipt and appropriate draw applications are completed this is the resolution and cdbg Grant application to meet that end and I see no issues thank you Mr Johnson any questions from the Commissioners any questions from the public hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I F apply for the fiscal year 2025 2026 Kentucky ambulance block grant program move to approve second got a motion second Mr Johnson Davis County Fiscal Court has applied for and received this Grant on behalf of the County's ambulance provider for more than 15 years the court is the financial conduit for this grant only since a government entity must apply the ambulance provider cannot apply for nor receive this grant themselves if awarded and received we