Meeting of April 10, 2025

Good evening. I'd like to call this meeting of the Davis County Fiscal Court to order. Today is Thursday, April 10, 2025. This is our first meeting of April. Uh Commissioner Condra, could you lead us uh with a prayer and pledge? Thank you, Judge. If everyone would please. Dear God, our creator and preserver of life in our world, we ask you to hear our humble prayers today to those afflicted by our recent storms. And when I mean recent, I mean like right now and the flooding that has touched almost everyone. Protect both life and property. And in your mercy, bring relief to all those affected and their homes. Heal those broken in body and spirit. Protect all who are most vulnerable. Turn the hearts of all to you to to ask for that comfort. And finally, please bless our first responders who are actually going into this flood to be able to rescue and heal and bring people out. stop the flooding because it will the

the water will recede and we will rebuild but only with your blessings. I ask this in your name. Amen. Amen. Now the pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [Music] Thank you, Commissioner. One, consideration for presentation a executive order number 05-2025, declaration of a local state of emergency, April 1st, 2025. Mr. Johnson. The judge executive is granted authority by KRS 39A.100 section 2 to declare the county to be in a state of emergency such to activate the local emergency operations plan or LEOP, 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 this nature also open potential avenues for the county to recuperate unbudgeted and unforeseen cleanup costs that occur in the wake of an emergency. Presented is the declaration for April 1st, 2025 for the potential severe thunderstorm flooding event of April 2 through April 6 of 2025. As a note, executive orders that do not require action by the legislative body appear under consideration for presentation as an update to the commission and to enter them into the permanent record. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. I do want to just I normally don't say anything about these uh but at on a Zoom meeting with the governor and and other judge executives and EMA directors today um I think the governor said so far 70 of the 150 county judge executives have issued uh states of emergency for their counties and they don't remember a time that's ever been done that many. So um this is an truly a historic flood across our commonwealth. So next item two consideration for approval. A minutes of March 20th, 2025 Davis County

fiscal court meeting. Motion to approve. I'll second. Got a motion and second. We've all had the minutes uh for few days to review. Are there any additions, corrections, or deletions? No hearing. None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. B. All claims for all departments. Motion to approve. Second. Uh we've got all the list of all the claims doing all the bills due and payable by the county. Are there any questions for our treasur? No. Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. C. Rate schedule for Davis County Fiscal Court. Motion to approve. Second, Mr. Johnson. This is the rate schedule that we update annually for goods and services offered by fiscal court that are subject to the state sales tax. The changes from the last RA schedule, which was approved on May 4th of 23, are the removal of animal shelter services, the inclusion of miscellaneous ballfield services, and the removal of incentive rounds at the gun club. All other rates remain the same and no department reported any desire to alter any other rate nor do financial staff see a need to do so. I request your approval. Thank you Mr. Johnson. Any

questions from the court? Any questions from the public? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. D. Memorandum of Agreement between Commonwealth of Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, Office of the Secretary, Office of Drug Control Policy, and Davis County Fiscal Court to establish an agreement for the Davis County, Kentucky ASAP local board for opioid harm reduction. Motion to approve. I'll second a motion and second, Mr. Johnson. The local ASAP board's 2526 opioid harm reduction budget was approved by the state in the amount of $20,000. This is in addition to the $20,000 they received for their traditional grant. Davis County Fiscal Court acts only as the fiscal agent for these funds as laid out in this memorandum of agreement. I, as the county treasurer, prepare the local ASAP board's financial statements and issue payment from the restricted funds for approved expenditures once the necessary criteria have been met. This is a standard annual agreement. I would recommend your approval. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Any questions from the court? No. Any questions from the public? Hearing? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. E. Joint funding

agreement between the US Geological Survey, OK Science Center, the US Department of the Interior, and Davis County Fiscal Court for water resource investigations. I'll make a motion to approve. Second. You got a motion and second, Mr. Johnson. In the fall of 2022, Brian Wright with the Owensboro River received approval from Davis County Fiscal Court in the city of Owensboro to install a digital river gauge on the Ohio River with the understanding that the Riverport would pay all initial costs with the annual cost split equally among the three entities. This is the continued agreement for the county's portion of the annual cost, which is $2,000 per year. I would recommend approval. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Any questions from the court members? No. Any questions from the public? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. F. Second reading of KOC 1010.9042025, an ordinance repealing and replacing KOC 1010.6, establishing an animal control and protection policy. Motion to approve. Second, Mr. Johnson. On April 1st of 25, it takes a Village

K9 Rescue Incorporated or ITV assumed responsibility for the animal shelter and clinic operations per the contract awarded in fiscal court session 123 of 25. And the Davis County Sheriff's Office assumed responsibility for animal control law enforcement. I have attached a redline version showing the changes from the existing ordinance and the final version of the new replacement ordinance. To reiterate, we have removed the dog licensing section as it is an antiquated logging system that is no longer used. The only other changes are various name changes and minor corrections to allow the proper operation of the ordinance in light of the approved contract and transition of animal control to the sheriff's office. First reading was held on March 20th of 25. This is the second reading and adoption. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Any questions or comments from the commissioners? Commissioner Coner. Thank you, Jud. Just as a comment I'm reading, I guess on social media and different places like that since ITV has taken over. The vast majority of comments that I've read are overwhelmingly positive, which you know there should be some missteps. There always is whenever you're transition like this has been been occurring. But uh I it seems as if what I'm hearing is they've done a very

good job right out of the box unless someone has another narrative. That's what I'm hearing. So, good job for them. Amen. Commissioner Marksberry. Yes. I just wanted to uh reiterate what I mentioned earlier that I look forward to working with you, Sheriff Youngman, and hopefully Ashley um our animal control officer just to take a look at this ordinance and there may be some other areas that could use some work. So, I look forward to doing that in the future. Thank you. Commissioner Cass, anything? No, sir. I'm good. I just want to say again, thank you to Sheriff for for assisting us with your part of of this transition. So, and absolutely. No. So, yeah, it's been about eight days since we've started doing this and things are going really well. Um, the animal control officers have uh been brought into our operation. Uh, we've trained them on a few things that they've not done before and um they're picking that up very quickly and um they're answering calls for us and the uh city of Onsboro. So, things are going really well and um we're going to look