Meeting of September 19, 2023

thank you good evening I'd like to call this September 19 2023 meeting of the Davis County Fiscal Court to order if you would commissioner Marksbury lead us in the prayer interplay the pledge we praise your name you have given us so many blessings here in our community and for that we thank you please bless the upcoming harvests for our farmers please bless the sick and bind up the Brokenhearted please grant us your peace that passes our understanding we thank you for this past weekend for the beautiful weather for our air show and we thank you that it was such a joyous and safe time to enjoy in our beautiful community may we carry that joy in our hearts this week please grant us wisdom and all we do in Jesus name we pray amen enough for 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 with liberty and justice for all foreign thank you commissioner Mark Sperry Brooke one consideration for presentation a Proclaim September 17th through the 23rd of 2023 as Constitution week commissioner Castle okay this is from the Davis County Kentucky it's a proclamation from the office of the County judge executive whereas the Constitution of the United States of America the guardian of all of our liberties embodies the principles of limited government in a republic dedicated to rule by law and whereas September 17 2023 marks a 236th anniversary of the framing of the Constitution of the United States of America by the Constitutional Convention and whereas it is fitting and proper to Accord official recognition to This Magnificent document and its memorable anniversary and to the Patriotic celebrations which will commemorate it and whereas Public Law 915 guarantees

the issuing of a proclamation each year by the president of the United States of America designated September 17th through 23rd as Constitution week now therefore in Davis County Kentucky I Davis County judge executive Charlie caslin do hereby Proclaim September 17th through 20 through 23rd of 2023 as Constitution week and ask our citizens to reaffirm the ideals the framers the Constitution had in 1787 by vigilantly protecting the freedoms guaranteed to us through this guardian of our liberties remembering that lost rights may never be regained presented in Davis County Kentucky the 19th day of September 20th 23rd 19th day of September 2023. and tonight uh accepting this Proclamation is going to be Mary Coombs with the general Evan Shelby chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Ms Coombs if you come for us please three two one

form two one thank you sir my name is Mary Coombs and I'm the chapter region of the general Evan Shelby chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution and um you may wonder why we have this Proclamation signed every year well our mission we are a service organization and our mission is threefold historic preservation education and patriotism So This falls under the mission of a mission of patriotism and each chapter meeting that we have September through June we say the Pledge to to the flag we say the Americans Creed and um it's you know sometimes very moving but we also support veterans in any way we

can Terry is our veterans chair and we support homeless veterans by taking um small food items and uh toiletries and things like that to the veterans clinic three or four times a year and there are other ways that we show our support we're a Vietnam War commemorative partner because this is uh coming up is it the 250th year no the 50th year what is it Terry 75th year 75th year of the Vietnam War and so we do commemorative events three times three or four times a year for to commemorate Vietnam War veterans so we accept any woman ages 18 and over who can prove their direct lineage to a revolutionary war Patriot and um some of you other people may be interested in joining the sons of the American Revolution are our brother brothers and the Revolutionary War Chapter so um in fact their

their entrance is not quite as strict as ours so it should be easy for most of you to get in but it is it is a we work with this SAR quite a bit so um I don't have anything else to say but thank you so much for this Proclamation we appreciate your time well thank you I know several years ago I I contacted a gentleman and and I actually had a uh first cousin who was a member of your group uh she she lived in Colorado but I used her paperwork to establish my lineage but but I actually never signed up I just submitted it but I but I haven't no I need to contact him well Terry she she just did the paperwork for her husband her husband is uh Frank Smith he's a AF Air Force Junior ROTC commander-chief at Apollo High School and she just recently did his application for him and and so we can hook you up if you if you're still interested into one of the SAR all right very good thank you thank you very much all right thank you and y'all do not have to stay for the rest of the meeting but

you're welcome B A Owensboro Family YMCA report yes sir come ahead good to have you come join us yeah thank you for allowing me this is I'm John Alexander do I need to give you my address no but that's right you're with that social security number or anything tell them who you're with though I am the uh the executive director as of now uh for the Owensboro Family YMCA and it served in that position four plus years thank you very much judge Brooke for allowing me to present this evening I just want to give you an update but I want to thank you first for the support that you've given me personally but also to our YMC over the last four years it's been a it's been a roller coaster with the coven situation and then all the the efforts that we put in concerning the the collaboration of the senior center I know commissioner Waltham attended numerous numerous meetings on your behalf and representing the the Fiscal Court in that regards too but thank you for the efforts in that regards I just wanted to give you a brief report post collaborative efforts so that you would know exactly where we are right now and what our thoughts are first of all I want to to say and I've I have shared

this with some of you about the the fact that the why is is very very anxious to collaborate in any way shape or form and we do some collaborations with the boys and girls club Salvation Army even with the senior center at this particular time we're looking for something as as perhaps significant and and serious as the proposed collaboration with the senior center and we're going to be reaching out to any other organization if you have suggestions or can can help us with locating that that possible or potential partner or Partners we'd be happy to talk with them not all of us line up in that situation but there are so many non-profits in this community doing great work but the pie is shrinking and there's also the possibility of of some of those not existing non-profits not not existing after the coven money is gone and we're concerned about that because we have we have experienced the the benefit of some of that coveted money and it's really helped sustain us during that period of time so we're very concerned about about that aspect of its sustainability which is why we entered into the talks with the senior center in November I'm sorry September the 11th of 2020 almost three years well now three years ago so we're looking for that