Meeting of May 19, 2022

i want to welcome everyone to our may 19 2022 davis county fiscal court meeting if you would uh bow your heads our heavenly father we thank you for all the gifts that we receive from you we ask that you watch over the men and women who serve in our armed forces as well as all of our emergency responders i ask for wisdom and understanding for this court grant us humility in our everyday life and give us the courage to make right decisions for all those who live in davis county tonight especially watch over our community with all the storms and tornado watches that are out there we ask that those storms pass us by we ask all these things in your name amen i pledge and to the allegiance for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice once again i want to welcome everyone to our may 19th 2022 davis county fiscal court meeting

the first item on the agenda this after uh evening is to welcome our sister city olmutz from the czech republic they are running just a little bit late so jenny we're going to bypass item a and let's go on to b one consideration for presentation b treasurer's report for april 2022 mr hendricks second don't vote we don't vote mr hendricks you want to give us the report the cash balance april 30th is 62 734 476 general fund is 27 million thousand six hundred eighty nine uh everything's in good shape through april there's nothing new that the court is not aware of any questions or comments we have a few people from the public out there any question or comment from them as as usual mr hendricks just briefly tell them why we've got a lot of cash so that they don't believe that we're sitting on a pile of cash that we can do whatever we want with primary reason is be we have two escrow accounts associated with the solid waste fund the closure and the post closure fund we are required to escrow those for when

we're finished with the landfill so that we can close it off that's approximately eight million dollars we and we don't cycle that annually it just sits there until we need it the general fund is up because of the uh the way the tax revenues come in we collect primarily majority of the tax revenue in november and december so we we would be at a high point as far as cash yeah this would be the point where we would have most of the cash that we're going to collect now we're going to spend it down throughout the year waiting on the next tax season we also have some harper funds in there that i think we're waiting seven and a half seven point six here and we should get a the next tranche uh any day right okay and of that 10 million is going to go back out in the contract to provide broadband throughout rural davis county of which i can confidently say that that is going to happen and we're looking 18 to 24 months it should be every everyone that signs up for the service should be turned on i'm looking at jordan because he attended a meeting yesterday isn't that your understanding

okay any other question or comment this uh is not an item that we vote on the uh report is in the office uh clerk's office uh the judge executive you're welcome to come in get a copy of it and ask any questions next item jimmy item two consideration for approval a minutes of the may 5th 2022 davis county fiscal court meeting motion appraisal second i have a motion second commissioners you all had a copy of the minutes in your possession for some time any additions deletions or corrections hearing none all in favor signify by saying i i oppose motion carries jenny slow down just a little bit talk a little slow i'm going to talk a little slow we'll vote a little slow give our own months people time to get here be all claims for all departments second i have a motion and second commissioners once again you've all had a copy of the bills due in payable by davis county fiscal court any questions of the treasurer at this time hearing none all in favor 65 is saying aye

aye opposed motion carries next item c davis county fiscal court salary schedule motion approved second i have a motion second mr hendricks uh annually the court approves the salary schedule uh this was the one that will be effective july the first this list the the salary schedules i'm not sure looks like we just have the first page i don't know how many got printed if you all have a full set one page i had emailed it so i think everybody has seen it but again this is something that we do annually it's just our just the auditors will use it to to spot check payroll and make sure people are making what they should be making right i recommend approval commissioners any question or comment i would note that the minimum wage that davis county pays even our part-time employees now is at 12 if i'm not mistaken we raised that several years ago in an effort to recruit more folks to work part-time at the parks department i suspect that the next court

will be required to increase that because it seems that even at that taking it from seven and a quarter seven thirty five to twelve dollars we continually have issues we don't have as many issues as the city has but we still have issues any other question or comment [Music] there being none all in favor signify with saying aye aye aye opposed motion carries jenny are they out in the hallway trying to come in wanting to come in wanting time to come in all right [Music] commissioners if you don't mind we're going to interrupt our meeting and move back to the first item where we welcome our sister city representatives from the city of ole miss and from the czech

republic welcome ladies and gentlemen ross lee is the county's representative on the sister cities group if you would do the introductions i practice all day saying your names and ross assures me that he won't mess them up so we're going to have ross do it it's a little technical for you all right it is okay judge commissioners it's a pleasure to be able to be here today not only of course serving in my role to our county citizens as the director of parks and recreation but also as a co-executive director of the owensboro sister cities and regions with me here today are representatives of the city of olimotes and it was actually in october of 2016 that for the first time we welcomed a young man into our personal home in hosting a student that was enrolled in the english english-speaking section of a high school uh in in olomoucs in october of 2017 my oldest son and wife returned to olamotes and were able to

stay in that family's home to be able to officially make that exchange in october of 2018 we welcomed our second student from olomots his name is matias wreck matias is currently studying medicine in a university in brno and in october of 2019 myself and my son and other high school students from owensboro returned the exchange by going back to olomots and to be able to stay with those families of the students that we had hosted the year prior to that this october my wife and i are proud to be able to host our third student her name is julie thankfully very easy to pronounce and in october of 2023 my youngest daughter our third child will actually have the experience of staying with julie uh in the city of olomou and spend a couple of weeks uh involved in that culture so it is a very important thing to my wife and i both to be able to to have experienced this opportunity with us today there are several individuals that are with us uh that represent the city of olimoto's one the first that i would like to be able to introduce is my friend zarinka