Meeting of February 10, 2022

i want to call the february 10 2022 davis county fiscal court meeting to order commissioner colgar would you lead us in the prayer and the pledge i will maybe pray glory praise and thank you for all your blessings please continue to guide the members of this body in your willful direction lord remind us that it is you that we truly serve in serving the citizens of this community we praise you for you entrusting us to lead our county pray for our firemen policemen our military first responders to always be safe all this we play we pray throughout our lord jesus christ amen amen 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 european justice for all thank you commissioner colgar once again i want to welcome everyone to our february 10 2022 davis county fiscal court meeting uh before we get started i want to remind everyone that we are on facebook live this evening uh because we kovit has kind of kept us

in that manner here for last gosh uh year and six months at least i look forward to the day that we can open those doors have individuals come and step up to the podium and address us and i think we're going to get there because we have gone from almost 400 cases per 100 000 people a day four weeks ago to under a hundred thou under 100 cases today so i even saw some orange counties a couple days ago so we're getting there but if the public has a question or comment uh during the meeting you may post that question or comment on facebook live or you can contact us at 270-929-1010 by voice or text so on facebook live right now you can text or you can email us a question or a comment and i will stop at the end of each uh item on the agenda and see if there are any comments or questions now we are on a delay a 30-second delay i think so it may be that i don't get to you in time if i do i promise i'll go back and and we'll catch you

during the the public's comment period where we ask for comments on anything other than on the agenda again i will announce that we will give you a chance to make your comment or ask your question and then at the very end i will go back and see if anybody did so we have two folks we have commissioner caslin and our county attorney claude porter who are joining us via uh live our via zoom this evening so things will go a little differently a little slower but we'll get through it jenny you ready item one consideration for approval eight minutes of the january 26 2022 davis county fiscal court meeting motion approved i have a motion a second commissioners you all had a copy of the minutes in your possession for some time are there any questions additions or deletions hearing commissioner colgar pass no how do you vote hi hi okay commissioner wathen hi judge mattingly votes high commissioner castlin hi

i always have it uh anyone opposed i suppose not unless there's more than four of us next item jenny b y'all claims for all departments moved to april second i have a motion and second uh commissioners once again you've all had a copy of the bills doing payable by davis county fiscal court and your possession for some time any questions of the treasurer hearing none i'll call for the vote commissioner uh wathen judge mattingly votes aye commissioner caslin aye commissioner coker aye are there any days hearing none motion passes next item jenny see amended sheriff's department 2022 budget second i have a motion and a second uh mr hendricks as you know the court has to approve the sheriff's budget by january 15th of each year and report to dlg but the department of local government doesn't release certain information that affects salary and pension benefits until the end of january so this amendment to the sheriff's budget is simply reflecting the updated

information that we've received after the the initial budget was approved the net result is an increase to the budget an amount of 30 597 on a total of a six point three million dollar budget which le is less than one half of one percent i have reviewed the request that is an order and i request approval questions or comments they're being uh judgmatically votes i commissioner castling commissioner colgar i'm commissioner any opposed there being none motion passes next item d audit engagement letter with mcm for fiscal year 2022. mr proof second i have a motion a second mr hendricks this agreement is the engagement letter for the annual audit that we're required to have the state has declined to audit us this year and we have permission to request an outside auditor we've used mcm before and have been satisfied with their services i've reviewed it as it's similar to prior years

the fee only increased by a thousand dollars and it's an order i request your approval commissioners any questions or comments there have been uh commissioner kohler mr wathen hi judge mattingly vote side commissioner caslin uh any opposed there being none motion carries next item jenny e utilize the option to elect the standard revenue loss allowance for 10 million dollars at the 2021 american rescue plan act funding moved to free second i have a motion second mr hendricks in 2021 davis county fiscal court was notified that it would receive 19.7 million funds from the american rescue plan act or arpa we would receive those funds in two payments half in 21 half and 22. the treasury issued interim guidance laying out the eligible project categories in january of 22 the treasury issued their final rule in reviewing the final rule we learned that the revenue loss provision had been

modified and it went from a multi-year calculation to now a standard loss allowance of up to 10 million the 10 million dollars could then be spent on normal government services unless expressly prohibited by the act for example the fund still could not be used to lower a tax directly or indirectly they cannot pay pension liability costs cannot pay judgments and a few other things but the standard loss allowance was designed to simplify both the determination of the loss and the reporting burden that are placed on the entities after review and after discussions with the court members staff is recommending that the court elect the standard loss allowance of up to 10 million dollars of aquafunds if approved then the arc of funds would most likely be allocated to two projects the broadband project which we previously discussed and the standard loss allows which would be set on government services the item on the agenda is the court's approval to elect a standard revenue loss allowance and i recommend approval

commission questions or comments while we wait for any comments for the public uh jim this is i think the the federal government listened to local governments in particular and decided that what they had originally said they wanted done was going to be way too complicated they did but and they because they realized there was we had noticed there was a lot of nuances that you really didn't have an ability to adjust for if you raised or lowered a tax during the period that they're looking at that clearly affects your your revenue loss calculation but there was no mechanism to adjust for that i think there may be now but they they did a calculation and came up with the 10 million and this i i guarantee you most agencies will go this route right and i think the reason we're moving now is we really were told by the federal government we needed to make this election as quickly as possible it's a one-time election we can't reverse it in the the last report that went in january 31st that's where you were supposed to make that election okay so we we're we're going to do we're going to finish it if approved here