Meeting of August 16, 2022

i want to call the august 16th 2022 davis county fiscal court meeting to order commissioner caslin would you lead us in a prayer and the pledge dear heavenly father we thank you for the many blessings you bestowed upon us as individuals as a community and as a nation we ask you to bless each of us gathered here and all those that we represent as le as elected officials we ask you to send the holy spirit to guide us as we do the work of the community we pray all these things in the name of jesus our lord and savior amen amen thank you commissioner and once again i want to welcome everyone to our august 16 2022 davis county fiscal court meeting typically our meetings are on the first and third thursday but several of us have some business to do elsewhere in the next couple days so we're going to have the meeting early i will tell you that this

interferes with my regular lunchtime which is right at 11 o'clock and if we hadn't had food back on the table i'd have fallen over from a sugar low probably uh jenny you ready item one consideration for presentation a proclaim august 2022 as the yellington annual camp meeting's 125th anniversary commissioner castlin presented this to those folks was it last friday or last friday but we're going to read this publicly commissioner whereas for 125 years the yellington annual camp meeting has been held in eastern davis county providing a living history of the nation's religious traditions especially as it is held in the original tabernacle where many thousands have gathered over the years and whereas the yellington annual camp meeting seeks to preserve the history of the camp meeting site and tradition while also creating an ongoing source of worship and renewal and whereas the camp meeting continues to uniquely provide a non-denominational annual revival bringing together people from across the area to fellowship together

now therefore in davis county judge executive al mattingly does hereby proclaim august 2022 as the yellington annual camp meeting 125th anniversary presented on the 12th day of august 2022 and they were very appreciative that you took time to do that for me when i was a very very young man back when young men wore short pants i went to a couple of those meetings even though we have been members of st john paul's parish for years my grandmother and grandfather were members of yellow creek baptist church and thrusting and it's it's pretty cool place up there no one's ever been they had a nice setup yep all right thank you commissioner for doing that next item jenny b treasurer's report for july 2022. mr hendricks cash balance at july 31 is a total of seventy million two hundred and ten thousand seven hundred twenty eight dollars the general fund is twenty two million four hundred fifty five thousand two hundred ninety seven dollars that's obviously the end of the first month of our new fiscal year everything's coming in as we would have expected thus far commissioners any question of the treasure

this is just a report a copy of the report is on file and the judge executive's office just asked for jenny warren and she would be happy to give it to you jenny next item item two consideration for approval a minutes of the august 4th 2022 davis county fiscal court meeting motion to prove second i have a motion and second commence you've all had a copy of the uh minutes in your possession for some time any additions deletions or corrections hearing none all in favor signify by aye opposed motion carries b all claims for all departments move to approve second i have a motion second again commissioners you've all had a copy of the bills doing payable by davis county fiscal court in your possession for some time any questions of the treasurer hearing none all in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries next item cmoa with davis county attorney commonwealth's attorney and davis county jailer for mental health court motion to prove second i have a motion second claude are you going to do this presentation i'm going to let judge jones do that judge oh okay judge would you i will do that okay well let me tell judge jones to get

up there and do it i don't get to tell her what to do very often no both of you claude the two of you should probably do that we don't want to make her we don't want to make her uncomfortable judge welcome to fiscal court by the way thank you all thank you very much so mental health court is something that we created here in davis county after a process of many years as a district court judge before i became circuit court working with claude working with law enforcement working with our mental health court providers because we noticed that law enforcement was getting called over and over and over again to certain residences in the community where there lived people with severe mental illness and so gradually we tried to come up with a plan for how to deal with that we developed response plans with law enforcement that were kept at those individuals houses so when people came to check on them they knew how to de-escalate the situation and hopefully to avoid an arrest because a lot of times these people also were not competent to stand trial not competent to face their criminal charges but to find a safe place to put them but if you could de-escalate the situation then you could find a safe way to handle the situation that would keep the individual safe keep law enforcement safe keep the community safe and not cause the person

to further spiral downward by putting them in jail where they may not have access to their mental health medications may not have access to familiarity into routines and to their providers eventually that came up with a plan to present to the department of corrections of kentucky to create a mental health court here in davis county we follow the sequential intercept model as best we can and that model basically states that the earlier you can intervene in the situation involving a person with a severe mental illness then not only can you improve outcomes for them but you can improve cost savings for your community and you can also improve community safety and we've implemented that plan in coordination with river valley behavioral health with the administrative office of the courts with the county attorney's office the commonwealth's office the public defender's office ohrh the hospital here and several local providers as well as probation and parole who have donated a specific probation officer who gets all these cases involving mental health people and we've been able to come up with case plans to identify people upon arrest or as soon as someone trips them on our radar a law enforcement officer can do that and has

been able to do that simply by calling rachel pate our director of mental health services they call her at any time of day or night she's been called at three o'clock in the morning she's been called multiple times at multiple hours of the wee hours of the morning to address situations to help answer law enforcement questions because many times they don't want to arrest but they view arrest as a last resort or as their only option if we don't give them other tools and so mental health court was designed to identify these individuals to help the community work with them if they are arrested to get them out of custody and into a safe placement and get them access to medication to services and to some of their basic needs because many of these people are some of them have been homeless that we've worked with through mental health court some of them have been illiterate unable to read and write um some of them have been in dire financial straits because through incarceration or through a lack of education and ability they don't have social security they don't have disability they don't have insurance they don't know how to get that for themselves and we've been able to access them into services with our community partners and that's helped improve outcomes for these individuals and has helped us save the county money as well well the money part judge i think we've

shown over the last little over three years somewhere in the neighborhood a little over two million dollars in savings for incarceration that does and we have reduced the number we don't have recidivism i think commissioner wathen was asking about that because they get into these programs and are monitored uh weekly bi-weekly depending on the nature and the severity of their mental illness we have been able to to keep up with them and reduce the times that they go back into jail and through these programs we've also been able to bring more services to our county davis county has been recognized now as a pilot site throughout the state for senate bill 90 which will get people incarcerated immediate access to mental health evaluations to determine right away who has issues we're also getting an assisted outpatient treatment court one of the few of those courts in the state where we can work with individuals who don't have criminal charges but also have severe mental illness and try and access them with services and hopefully keep them from being involved in the criminal justice program so through our mental health court involvement through miss pate's involvement and willingness to work with all of our community partners we've been able to access additional services and additional um pilot programs from the state they're