Meeting of March 18, 2021

we'll call the march 18 2021 davis county fiscal court meeting to order uh commissioner colgar would you lead us in the prayer in the pledge i will thank you lord we 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 as you that we truly serve when serving the citizens of this community we praise you for entrusting us to lead our county pray for our firemen policemen military and first responders to always be safe all this we we pray through our lord jesus christ amen amen 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 thank you commissioner and once again i want to welcome everyone to our march 18 2021 davis came fiscal court meeting uh you saw me take my mask off i always wear it to start to emphasize the importance of continuing to mask up

today davis county is at two or ten point two cases per hundred thousand population that i think that's as low as we have been we're right on the verge of of popping over where we will be in the yellow instead of the orange we've been doing a good job but we can't become complacent we've got to continue to to social distance to avoid large crowds wash your hands just like mama told you when we were little charlie when you come inside all dirty what'd your mama say she probably go out there to the side of the house washington wash your hands that's exactly right and wear your mask the vaccines are here they're doing a good job particularly in our nursing homes and our seniors that reduce 92 percent of the deaths that were occurring with covid were occurring in those who were 70 years 60 years or older so anyway i think we could see a light of the tone at the end of a tunnel let's not get complacent uh jenny are you ready yes sir item one consideration for presentation a owensboro burger week update commissioners with us is the very famous and or infamous

dave kirk from the convention visitors bureau and he wants to talk about how how successful burger week was yeah push the bottom and if they're if we can afford bad reese there you go hey first try very good very good well judge and uh county commissioners thank you so much for allowing me to come talk about something fun a little bit of good news that i think everybody is welcoming in right now owensboro burger week first year we've ever done it the reason we did it is obviously as you all well know with some of the grants that you'll come up with you know restaurants are hurting the hospitality industry is hurting hospitality was probably the first thing hit by covid it's probably been the hardest thing hit and it'll probably be the last to recover so we wanted to come up with a way to uh inject some business into these restaurants uh we thought a burger week would be fun i've seen them done in other places i kind of always wanted to do one here so we pitched it out to the restaurants got some feedback and they were all in so just a little bit of data for you we had 24 restaurants participate in the inaugural year to kind of give you an idea lexington and their winter burger week had 24. lexington is a little bigger than owensboro so really good participation

rate between the restaurants for that week we did it for five days including lent and we sold eleven thousand six hundred and six hamburgers and that's just the featured burger you know people got other things at these restaurants and tried other burgers that's just featured burgers so that was huge the actual money brought in by just the burgers seventy thousand dollars in five days again that's including lent in a very uh catholic community that observes lent so we thought that was very impressive now what's even more impressive that you all are going to enjoy are the the top three finishers were all in the county you had uh o'brien's bar and grill first second you had legends and third yet wonder whip so uh three davis county restaurants uh the story with o'brien's i think that you know you couldn't have scripted anything better now it was a blind judging the restaurants didn't know when we were coming to get the burgers and the judges didn't know where they were tasting the burgers from but you had an owner in eric ashworth that had just bought the business 2019. he's my age 33 years old just bought this business in 19 boom coveted hits what a story for him to win and his burger's always on the menu so people can go out and try it and i would

encourage all of you to try it so again it was a wonderful event brought in a lot of buzz all the tv stations uh the best choir owns world times really got behind it we even had a station out of bowling green come up for it so it was just a good piece of news uh for for owensboro and people were looking for that i think especially right now so uh and then i have to i have to thank the judge publicly for your video you did with jordan to talk about your burger story uh that was a i didn't know that the uh well first of all i hope that wimpy showed up and someone bought him a burger and he paid them back next tuesday remember wimpy from popeye he was always after a hamburger and while i was doing that commercial he photobombed me i think yeah so very good anyway but again it was a great thing for the community and we appreciate you all support and uh anybody else have any hamburgers that week anybody trying hamburgers that week they like i did not well not either so you all didn't and we still sold that many yeah good news uh but it was it was a wonderful event i thank you very much and i really

appreciate the cbb coming up with this is the kind of things that we want out of the convention and visitors bureau uh and particularly when it has to do with food and or drink uh we enjoy that very much so keep up the good work and we look for the next promotion yeah we've already got a couple things in our back pocket you know we built the week talking to the restaurants getting feedback from them of how long we should do it and when so we've already had a couple of people reach out with other events that we think will be fun i'm shocked i'm shocked that they were able to stay up at that pace because it was so out of the ordinary i honestly i thought we would have you know 10 to 12 restaurants participate i thought you know if we could sell kind of in my head 5 000 burgers that would be a heck of a thing you know to bring that kind of money into our local restaurants here in davis county so certainly was not prepared and and i don't think the restaurants were so i mean they had to hustle they were going back to the different places where they they get their stock and and repurchasing so i mean when you think about just the economic boom just in that week yeah you have the 70 000 for the burgers but they sold other things then that money goes to the you know the suppliers goes to the farmers i mean it really is a beautiful thing for our county and you know a couple of our sponsors

were cattle farmers here in davis county so we really tried to make it a local event as much as we could so thank you for the presentation you're welcome to stay for the rest of the evening i guarantee you won't be as much fun as eating a hamburger very good thank you guys for your time i appreciate it thank you jenny next item yes sir b treasures report for february 2021 mr hendricks cash from february 28 45 836 753 the general funds 21 million 186 679 and through february all the funds are operating within the expected range questions or comments this is for presentation only a copy of it will be in the davis county clerk's office that's our fiscal court clerk not leslie mccarthy's office before we go any further i want to remind the folks out in the audience that you're welcome to type in comments on the facebook page as you watch this we'll try to get to you we have somebody that's monitoring that they'll get it to us we would like for you if you have questions on anything that's on the

agenda let us know and at the end of the meeting i will ask for comments on anything other than what was on the agenda so if you have something that you want to ask you might go ahead and type that in right now and then we'll get to it toward the end of the meeting all right jenny you ready yes sir item two consideration for approval a minutes of the march 4th 2021 davis county fiscal court meeting motion approved a second i have a motion second commissioners you all had a copy of the mention in your possession for some time any additions deletions or corrections hearing none all in favor 65 by saying aye aye opposed motion carries be all claims for all departments motion to approve i have a motion and a second commissioners again you've had a copy of all the bills doing payable by davis county fiscal court in your possession for a while any questions of the treasurer hearing none all in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries see fund transfer from the solid waste operating account to the construction account move to approve second i have a motion second ms hendrix this fund transfer is from the operating fund for solid waste in the amount of