Meeting of January 19, 2023

foreign to order this is our second meeting of January the meeting of January 19 2023. if you would rise with me commissioner Kasson if you'd lead us in prayer in the pledge Heavenly Father thank you for the many blessings we have within our community and within our great nation please guide us as your children that we may treat all others with the love and kindness you have taught us in your name we pray amen amen I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and I'm going to just ask if you would if you've got your cell phones on if you'd put them on silent if you got your cell phones with you so we don't get to start distracted while we're having our meeting um [Music] I don't see him but I've been there he

is our Senator I wanted to welcome our Senator uh Gary Boswell thank you for joining us this evening and uh Sheriff Keith Kane our former retired Sheriff thank you for joining us sir and uh and our current Sheriff I thought I saw him in the room and I just want to make you all three Phil welcome so thank you for joining us uh Jenny item one consideration for presentation a 2022 Christmas at Panther Creek Park check presentations okay we've got several checks to present for Ross you want to come up and tell folks what we're doing and who's getting checks and how much but judge I do believe that that is the most important part obviously with regards to exactly how much we are going to be presenting tonight on behalf of Christmas at Panther Creek of the 30 plus applicants that submitted uh back in September and October these five were chosen by a member of our Parks Board by Lottery of the 5500 cars that drove through

Panther Creek Park and the 16 to roughly 20 000 attendees who enjoyed the lights and the opportunity during the course of those five weeks we are very proud tonight to be able to present five checks all of them equal of 2753.36 which in essence means that we had collected 27 533 dollars during the course of of the five weeks of Christmas at Panther Creek uh tonight we have uh five different agencies I'm not sure that all of them are going to be able to be with us tonight but the first we'd like to do is with the Wendell Foster Center thank you very very much [Applause] thank you on behalf of the board the staff and the thousands that we serve and support at Wendell Foster every year this is an amazing way and a big help to us meeting our mission of empowering people with disabilities thank you very much thank you very much [Applause]

the next agency is the Joe Ford Nature Center [Applause] on behalf of the Joe for Nature Center I just want to let you know how grateful I am to be a part of that again grateful to you for allowing us to be a part of it thank you very much God bless [Applause] the next agency is Owensboro Regional Recovery if you don't mind we'd like to get a group picture after after everybody's presented thank you we won't hold you past that though thank you for selecting Owensboro Regional Recovery to be part of this year's event we really appreciate it we enjoy being able to get out and help our community our clients enjoyed it we had a very good uh very good time doing it even though we got the coldest nights I think I have the feeling back in my toes by now

thank you very much the next organization is Elite Tsar training [Applause] on behalf of elite star training and our board of directors back here along with some of our officers thank you guys for providing the opportunity for us to come out this money will go towards helping us fulfill our mission of bringing high quality search and rescue training to the area and more available to our local responders and volunteer organizations so thank you thank you [Applause] and the last organization is Southern Oaks Elementary PTO [Applause] on behalf of Southern Oaks Elementary we just would just like to say thank you so much we were just able to purchase a new playground for our boys and girls and if you could just hear the squeals and the laughter and the Joy from all of our students and so on behalf of all of our staff and faculty and our students we thank you you [Applause]

judge I would like to remind all of our local non-profits if they are interested in pursuing an opportunity to apply that they could let me know now and when those are available in September I'd be happy to send that to them as well very good thank you if we could do these one at a time we'd appreciate it okay thank you [Music] so much all right okay

absolutely thank you very easy to change foreign that's always one of the fun things to

be able to do is is to reward these volunteer organizations after they've participated in in they for those who don't know they're the ones that that had to provide volunteers to work the the um take up the money when folks come through uh and and so anyway it's it's uh I've I've been on uh non-profits that have done that as well and it's kind of a fun makes for a kind of fun week uh this year there were some folks who got some uh really cold uh nights and we missed it Ross I don't know uh there were two nights that we had to shut down because it was bitter cold dangerously cold and uh so these numbers would have been higher if we had had those you know the traffic because those were right before Christmas which was when our traffic's typically higher Jenny next item Item B Treasures report for December 2022. Mr Johnson foreign sorry about that