Meeting of March 9, 2023

foreign I'd like to call this meeting to order and let's see here we got a public meeting we're going to go and do the blessing of the opening prayer and the pledge before we do the other so if you wouldn't stand with me your heavenly father we pause and we thank you for the many blessings that you bestowed upon us as individuals as a community and as a nation we ask you to please send your Holy Spirit to be with us and guide us as we do the work of the county of the citizens we ask your blessing upon all those that we represent there are people who are hurting there are people whose hearts are heavy people who grieve we ask your blessing on all of those all those who are sick we ask for healing dear heavenly father we just ask your guidance as as we have our meeting this evening we pray these things in the name of Jesus our lord and savior amen [Music] but play ball

before we begin our regular meeting we actually have a public meeting scheduled um Jenny you want to read the first item yes sir habitat for building project [Music] yes sir good evening judge Commissioners my name is Tom Lovett I'm with Green River area development district and since this is a habitat project in in a sense of full disclosure I am also a member of the Habitat for Humanity board habitat wellensborough board so but that's just a kind of a coincidence that I'm I'm like assign this to me not knowing that anyway we're having a public hearing this evening for the cdbg project the purpose of this public hearing is to provide information to the public concerning the proposed Davis County housing community excuse me Davis County Housing Community Development block grant project and to obtain views on Housing and Community Development needs this public hearing also serves to inform low and moderate income persons that there is technical assistance available through the Green River area development District in developing Grant proposals for the cdbg

program there are essentially four main types of CDG cdbg projects public facilities Economic Development Housing and Community facilities Community Development excuse me the total available funds for Kentucky cdbg in is 26 million six hundred twenty five thousand five hundred seventy nine dollars with 3.3 million dollars of that set aside for housing which is the category that the county is applying for on applying under for this funding the split is Kentucky's allocation is 26 million 625 579 as I said the admin costs are 898 776 dollars leaving for total the total for distribution at 25 million seven hundred twenty six thousand eight hundred twelve dollars uh the breakdown of that is eight million eight hundred thousand eight hundred thirty four thousand six hundred sixty two dollars for public facilities five million five thousand four hundred forty nine dollars for economic development three million two hundred eighty two thousand nine hundred ninety eight dollars for housing projects five million eight hundred three thousand seven hundred three dollars for Community projects

and two million eight hundred thousand dollars for Recovery Kentucky public service projects Community emergency relief funds are to be determined they will be on a sign up basis on need the estimated construction cost of this project is 975 000 with the total project cost of one million dollars the county is applying for eight hundred thousand dollars through the cdbg community program the county will be the county excuse me Habitat for Humanity will be providing a match of two hundred thousand dollars and twenty five thousand dollars will be going for administration fees which will be conducted by grad cdbg funds are available through the Housing and Urban Development Administration the uniform relocation act applies to this project and the county does not anticipate any residents being displaced or relocated due to the activities of this project for a copy of the uniform relocation act you can contact the Green River area development District or the department of local government in Frankfurt a previous cdbgo project uh pursued by the county is the Owensboro Regional Recovery annual funding and that is it I will now take any comments or questions and I can address any of that for you does anybody from the public having comments or questions about this

Community Development block grant I see none Tom okay I will be back at the next Fiscal Court meeting we anticipate I'll be back at the next physical point with a resolution asking the authorizing the court to go ahead and apply for these funds so okay that's it for this evening and I'm done thank you thank you sir so I will close the the public hearing for the city cdbg funds does this Habitat for Humanity building project and I'll open the meeting for this is our Thursday March 9 meeting a regular meeting of the Davis County Fiscal Court Jenny item number one item one consideration for presentation a Proclaim March 2023 as American Red Cross month s we don't vote on a proclamation what we don't vote on sorry Mason that's all right I'll mark this off anyway all right so that helped so uh Proclamation from the office of County judge executive whereas disaster emergencies up in lives and Community heroes are stepping up to care for one another and whereas the Western Kentucky

chapter of the Red Cross is honoring their board members and Volunteers in Davis County who make its Mission possible during the 80th annual annual American Red Cross month celebration and whereas the mission of the Red Cross is to prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of Volunteers in the generosity of donors now therefore our Davis County judge executive Charlie casandu hereby Proclaim March 2023 as Red Cross month in Davis County Kentucky presented in Davis County Kentucky this ninth day of March 2023. and we have Miss Misty Thomas with the Red Cross if you'd like to come up and receive the proclamation you won't come forward and get the menu foreign ly give you a few stats about your Davis County chapter it is our strongest chapter in Western Kentucky I'm the executive director and I cover 25 counties in Davis County carries nine board members that helps us with our

leadership team you have 20 plus volunteers who not only serve their friends and family and Neighbors in a time of Crisis and home fire or even man-made disaster but those volunteers are deploying this past year to Hurricane Ian multiple times the Alaskan typhoon California wildfires and even serving our neighbors in the Eastern Kentucky floods making sure that shelters were open that they had food and that they had the things that Red Cross provides we also are working with your military families as we are commissioned by Congress as when a military when they take their oath of office Red Cross is with them through their Journey until they navigate Life as a veteran as well we are collecting life-saving blood and we are also teaching life-saving skills CPR hands-only CPR AED and first aid training and we are also preparing students it's we have two classes that we teach that's their first introduction to disaster and we now know that Kentucky can suffer major displacement and mass casualty disasters so in Western Kentucky we saw that last year Eastern Kentucky we saw that six months later so we are taking this very very seriously as we always do but we are recruiting and we are always looking

for people to serve the Red Cross so always want to ask if anyone's interested in that come see us at our office but we thank you for your support of March being Red Cross month thank you Fiscal Court well thank you thank you and all your board members and all the volunteers across the our community in particular that that uh step forward to assist our neighbors both here at home and also those in surrounding counties I think where you all serve them we have incredible volunteers we couldn't do it without them so yes thank you very good okay I gotcha you're good thank you and Jenny before we go on I failed to