Meeting of January 26, 2021

i want to call the january 26 2021 davis county fiscal court meeting to order mr kover would you open the meeting with a prayer and the pledge of allegiance i will be heads please lord we praise and thank you for all your blessings please continue to guide the members of this body in your willingford direction lord remind us that it is 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 farming policemen military and first responders to always be safe all this we pray through the 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 and indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you uh commissioner i just removed my mask we are all socially distanced here in the court room uh as i look around it's a heck of a lot brighter in the gas the only problem that we have is there's an echo i'm hoping when we get the curtains in

place that that echo will go away if not we would expect jordan johnson who was kind of in charge of this project to come up with a solution oh he's shaking his head no no he's saying he's saying it's the engineer's job oh practice job all right uh once again i want to welcome everyone to the january 26 2021 davis came fiscal court meeting uh while uh i remember it uh since we are on a zoom uh anyone that might have a question or a comment for davis county fiscal court about anything other than what we're going to deal with tonight if you go ahead and submit it on facebook then we will try to answer it here at the end of the meeting i'd be happy to do it we are what we're in our ninth tenth month of not having anyone in the courtroom with us looks like we're probably going to be doing that at least for the next couple months or three months anyway but we absolutely look forward to any comments or questions that you might have

i would also remind you right now before we get started that tomorrow jordan is at noon or 11 tomorrow the 1 o'clock tomorrow at 1 o'clock i'll have my uh weekly code update on zoom and you can go on facebook to to watch it and to comment or question and i have pat bosley from uh the moonlight here with us and pat and i are going to talk about the impact that coed has had on small businessmen restaurants in particular how his employees have fared and what they're trying to do to cope with the limited opening the limited availability of seating and those kinds of things so it should be rather interesting the next week we are going to have the three college professors uh west kentucky wesley and brush college and octc to talk about the impact on higher education again we know what's going on you know in the grade schools and the high schools well this is what's going on with the adults in colleges so should be interesting jenny are you ready yes sir item one consideration for presentation a

proclaim february 7-13 2021 as food checkout week okay i had a call from joan hayden this morning and she asked if we would do this put it on the agenda whereas america's farmers are the most productive and efficient in the world providing us with an ample supply of safe and affordable food and whereas agribusiness is an important element of davis county's economy with numerous local companies engaged in the production of food and fiber products and whereas davis county farmers help feed our community our state our nation and other nations with goods they produce and whereas our community enjoys the most affordable food in the world spending an average of 10 percent of their disposable income on food now therefore in davis county kentucky i davis county judge executive al mattingly do hereby proclaim february 7th through the 13th 2021 as food checkout week and jenny i've signed it and you get it to joan it's in my binder and on behalf of davis county fiscal court all the folks in our community uh particularly those who work in

agriculture and agribusiness i want to thank all the farmers out there uh i'm not sure uh charlie and and george mike that they will have farm city breakfast this year i suspect they will not and i'll miss that because that's an opportunity to get together and say thank you to the farmers right next item jenny the treasurer's report ending december 31 2020 mr hendrix cash balance at december 31st is 43 million 540 074 the general fund is 20 million 70 559 halfway through the fiscal year the funds are performing within the expected limit limits and i don't have any additional things to alert you to that i haven't told you about prior to today commissioners any question or comment uh there are none this is for presentation for information a copy of that report will be on the in the office of the fiscal court clerk if you want to see it just call jenny warren she'll be happy to get it for you next item number two consideration for approval eight minutes of the january 14

2021 davis county crystal court meeting approved second i have a motion second commissioners all had a copy of the minutes in your possession for some time any additions deletions or corrections hearing none all in favor signify saying aye aye opposed motion carries be all claims for all departments move to proof second i have a motion second mr hendricks oh i'm sorry let me read them all no jordan i do not i had something out of order on my on my uh in my bond binder i'm sorry uh commissioners you've all had a copy of the bills doing payable by davis county fiscal court and your possession for some time any question of the treasurer at this time hearing that all in favor 65 of saying aye aye opposed motion carries seek untransfers move to proof i have a motion second jordan that was a slap across your lips uh mr henry i request approval to make the following fund transfers a million dollars from the general fund to the bond fund for the convention center

debt uh million 170 from the general fund to the road fund and 291 000 from the general fund to the jail fund these are all normal transfers they are budgeted i recommend approval commissioners question or comment there being all in favor 65 is saying aye aye opposed motion carries commissioners item d uh we have pulled that was a memorandum of agreement with the department of local government regarding the horse fort creek park inclusive accessible playground we pulled it but i've asked so we don't need a motion or a second i've asked jordan to explain to us why and what we were doing with this yes as we received this agreement last friday we thought that the document had been modified with the reviews that we've been waiting on for several months which would have required fiscal court approval however it's the same agreement that we approved in the november 5th 2020 meetings so no further approval is necessary for the match grant the national environment protection act reviews are completed the national historic preservation act reviews are completed we've received notice from dlg that we can proceed with the bidding process

okay and you expect to uh put a request for proposal out next week yes okay uh turn around probably about uh two weeks installation will probably be about a month once they start i anticipate we can finish it within the fiscal year so we could anticipate that it be in place when we open the water park hopefully that would be pretty cool to get that done any question or comment commissioners next item jenny e playground leases and babe ruth concessions contract most approved second i have a motion second commissioners uh ross lee the parks director is not here i don't think there are any questions because this is the same lease that we've had in the in the past and he assures me there are no changes if you do have questions i'll try to answer them hearing none all in favor signify with saying aye aye opposed motion carries f award rfq 01 2021 trap and skeet targets gun club