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Meeting of August 16, 2022

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Summary

Grayson County Fiscal Court – August 16, 2022

The court handled a full slate of routine business, approving minutes, bill payments, and treasurer/jailer/sheriff settlements without discussion. The court also held the annual public hearing on the 2022 property tax rate and voted to keep the county's real property rate unchanged from last year, along with setting rates for the hospital district and extension office, all of which stayed level or saw only minor changes.

A major topic was the Caneyville water system project. Grayson County Water District director Jeremy Woosley told the court that the project—now fully managed by the water district—has run into unexpected costs, including a leaking water tank that needs rehab, and asked for an additional $150,000 in ARPA funds to finish the work. The court approved moving the money from Caneyville's allocation to the water district rather than raising local water rates.

The jailer asked for authority to solicit bids for a used transport van since new vans with the needed engine type are no longer being manufactured; the court approved this. The court then went into executive session to discuss potential litigation, returning with no action taken.

Magistrates and county officials announced a flood-relief fundraiser for Eastern Kentucky at the Walmart parking lot, with the Sheriff's Office 'Behind the Badge' fund matching public donations up to $5,000, all proceeds going toward a Shop with a Cop program for flood-affected children, likely in Letcher County. The court also voted to formally donate a transport van (previously loaned to the Letcher County coroner's office) to that county.

Finally, the court accepted a 12-foot easement over the Whispering Hills/Millwood walking trail so the county can maintain it, and approved sending $325,000 in ARPA funds to the City of Leitchfield to support a still-developing economic development project. The meeting closed with a motion to adjourn.

Agenda (22)

  • 3:11

    Approve minutes of previous meeting

    The court approved the minutes from the prior meeting without discussion.

  • 3:20

    Approve payment of bills

    Routine approval of bill payments.

  • 3:29

    Approve treasurer's budget transfers

    Routine approval of treasurer budget transfers.

  • 3:40

    Approve treasurer's monthly settlement

    Routine approval of the treasurer's monthly settlement.

  • 3:50

    Approve treasurer's quarterly financial statement

    Routine approval of the treasurer's quarterly financial statement.

  • 4:03

    Approve payment to board of assessment appeals and county clerk

    Routine approval of payments to the board of assessment appeals and county clerk.

  • 4:18

    Approve jailer's payment bill

    Routine approval of jailer's bill payment.

  • 4:27

    Approve jailer's monthly settlement

    Routine approval of the jailer's monthly settlement.

  • 4:43

    Approve sheriff's monthly settlement

    Routine approval of the sheriff's monthly financial settlement.

  • 4:53

    2022 proposed tax rate public hearing

    A public hearing was held on the proposed 2022 county tax rate; no members of the public attended to speak.

  • 5:06

    Set Grayson County 2022 tax rate

    The court set the county's real and tangible property tax rate at 6.7/7.9 cents, unchanged from the prior year.

  • 5:34

    Accept Grayson County Hospital District 2022 tax rate

    The court accepted the hospital district's tax rate of 4.3 cents on real property and 5.0 cents on vehicles/watercraft.

  • 5:49

    Accept Grayson County Extension Office 2022 tax rate

    The court accepted the extension office's tax rate of 5.8 cents real property, 11.2 cents personal property, and 14.2 cents motor vehicle.

  • 6:19

    Approve 2022-2023 flex fund agreement resolution

    The court approved the resolution for the flex fund agreement for the upcoming fiscal year.

  • 7:04

    Caneyville water expansion project funding

    Water district director Jeremy Woosley explained that the Caneyville water system rehab project, now managed by Grayson County Water District, has run over budget due to unforeseen issues including a leaking tank, and requested additional ARPA funding.

  • 17:59

    Transport van bid authorization for jail

    The jailer requested authority to solicit bids for a used transport van since new vans with the required engine are unavailable; the court approved allowing him to seek bids.

  • 38:57

    Executive session on potential litigation

    The court went into executive session to discuss potential litigation and returned with no action taken.

  • 1:11:46

    Flood relief fundraiser announcement

    Officials announced a flood relief fundraiser at Walmart collecting supplies for Eastern Kentucky, with the Sheriff's 'Behind the Badge' fund matching cash donations up to $5,000 to benefit a Shop with a Cop program.

  • 1:15:38

    Donate coroner's transport van to Letcher County

    The court discussed formally declaring a previously donated transport van as surplus and giving it outright to the Letcher County coroner's office.

  • 1:16:59

    Accept Millwood walking trail easement

    Property owners deeded a 12-foot easement along the Whispering Hills/Millwood walking trail to the county so it can be maintained for public use.

  • 1:20:21

    City of Leitchfield economic development funding

    The judge executive proposed giving the City of Leitchfield $325,000 in ARPA funds to support a developing economic development project, similar to funds given to Caneyville and planned for Clarkson.

  • 1:25:30

    Adjourn

    The meeting was adjourned.

Motions & votes (21)

  • 3:11

    passedApprove minutes from the previous meeting

    Moved by Tommy · seconded by Brian · unanimous

  • 3:20

    passedApprove payment of bills

    Moved by Neil · seconded by Baron · unanimous

  • 3:32

    passedApprove treasurer's budget transfers

    Moved by Darren · seconded by Tommy · unanimous

  • 3:40

    passedApprove treasurer's monthly settlement

    Moved by Brian · seconded by Neil · unanimous

  • 3:54

    passedApprove treasurer's quarterly financial statement

    Moved by Darren · seconded by Kevin · unanimous

  • 4:03

    passedApprove payment to board of assessment appeals and county clerk

    Moved by Brian · seconded by Neil · unanimous

  • 4:18

    passedApprove jailer's payment bill

    Moved by Tommy · seconded by Brian · unanimous

  • 4:27

    passedApprove jailer's monthly settlement

    Moved by Brian · seconded by Kevin · unanimous

  • 4:43

    passedApprove sheriff's monthly settlement

    Moved by Tommy · unanimous

  • 5:21

    passedSet Grayson County 2022 tax rate, unchanged from prior year

    Moved by Tommy · seconded by Brian · unanimous

  • 5:43

    passedAccept Grayson County Hospital District 2022 tax rate

    Moved by Price · seconded by Neil · unanimous

  • 6:04

    passedAccept Grayson County Extension Office 2022 tax rate

    Moved by Kevin · seconded by Tommy · unanimous

  • 6:23

    passedApprove 2022-2023 flex fund agreement resolution

    Moved by Darren · seconded by Brian · unanimous

  • 17:29

    passedMove $150,000 in ARPA funds from Caneyville's allocation to Grayson County Water District for the Caneyville water project renovation

    Moved by Darren · seconded by Kevin · unanimous

  • 19:55

    passedAuthorize the jailer (Brian/Jason) to solicit bids for a used transport van for the jail

    seconded by Tommy · unanimous

  • 58:26

    passedMotion to go into executive session to discuss potential litigation

    seconded by Tommy · unanimous, also seconded by Baron per transcript

  • 1:11:14

    passedMotion to come back into open session from executive session

    Moved by Neil · seconded by Tommy · unanimous

  • 1:16:35

    passedDonate the coroner's transport van to Letcher County

    Moved by Tommy · seconded by Darren · unanimous

  • 1:19:05

    passedAccept a 12-foot easement over the Millwood/Whispering Hills walking trail

    Moved by Tommy · seconded by Darren · unanimous

  • 1:23:19

    passedGive the City of Leitchfield $325,000 in ARPA funds for potential economic development growth

    Moved by Darren · seconded by Tommy · unanimous

  • 1:25:30

    passedMotion to adjourn the meeting

    Moved by Thomas · seconded by Brian · unanimous

Transcript (31 segments)

  • 0:00

    [Music] [Applause] [Music] norman uh would you care to lead us in

  • 2:00

    prayer sure dear heavenly father thank you for this day we have together this group of christians lord we ask that you please be with each and every one of us today we ask that you be with the victims of the flooding in eastern kentucky lord we ask you to slip them up and wrap your arms around them more we ask that you uh be with us today as we make decisions that concern our citizens that we circle where we ask that each decision be a godly decision we as you protect our service men and women that are uh overseas and in a domestic lord we ask that you be with your families that should be with our officers and all of our deputies officers and troopers in grayson county and be with their families as well please forgive us of our sins and we thank you for many blessings that you give us each and every day it's in jesus name we pray 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 liberty and justice for all call the meeting to order first thing on the agenda is approve the minutes from the previous meeting

  • 3:14

    motioned by tommy second by brian all in favor any opposed next we have approved payment of bills motion by neil second second by baron in favor any opposed next we approve treasurer's budget transfers has been limited promotion motion by darren second second but tommy all in favor any opposed next we have approved treasurer's monthly settlement motion by brian second by neil all in favor uh any opposed next we have approved treasurer's quarterly financial statement promotion who done that motion by darren second second by kevin all in favor any opposed next we approve payment to the board of assessment appeals and county clerk who was that brian second by neil all in favor any any opposed uh next we have approved jailor's payment bill promotion motion by tommy second second by brian all in favor any opposed next we have approved jailor's monthly settlement

  • 4:28

    motion by brian second by kevin all in fact any opposed uh we've got approved jailers budget transfers that's presented but there is no transfers so we'll move on approve the sheriff's monthly settlement my promotion uh motion by tommy secretary all in favor all right next we have uh the 2022 proposed tax uh public hearing for grayson county is anyone here for the hearing all right little ones here approved to set the grayson county's 2020 tax rate which remained the same from last year to 6.7 to 7.9 tangible real real property 6.7 tangible 7.9 so it remains the same as last year's i need a motion formation motion motion by tommy second by brian all in favor next we have accept grayson county hospital district 2020 tax rate uh 4.3 real property uh vehicle watercraft 5.0 need a motion

  • 5:42

    micromotion motion by price second second by neil all in favor next we have except the grayson county extension office's tax rate which is real property 5.8 personal property 11.2 motor vehicle 1.42 and that's it i need a motion to prove that promotion who's that kevin motioned by kevin second second by tommy all in favor any opposed next we need to approve the 2022-2023 flex fund agreement resolution we got that back so most emotions prove that second motion by darren second by brian all in favor any opposed all right next we have uh other new business and uh before we do that we've got a couple things on this business uh jeremy i'm going to let you go ahead we can do that one and then

  • 6:56

    we can we need to go into executive session and talk about some issues and i'll let jeremy tell what we're going to do but that jeremy that jeremy if you want to go ahead and go if you want to go ahead and talk tell the court what's going on water expansion yeah so i i reached back out to kevin with a few months ago when we started that came a product that y'all already invested some money in we was a little afraid that that project would run over and it is going to still a little bit early to tell for sure how much but uh i'd ask kevin to consider pitching in a little bit more for us to to to help finish that project up and then i also found out that as we took over came those systems start doing some work down there that they've got a tank that's going to have to be rehabbed that's a that that project in itself uh will be at least annual green uh that's something that we wasn't expecting to find when we ran right to when we started doing some work down

  • 8:11

    there so i came back to kevin and talked to him about those two things and asked for a little bit more help with that to finish that project that projects probably got two to three months left in it from work so it's coming along good everything's going fine had a little hiccup with a railroad getting permit for railroad but we've got that finished up this week so it's all going okay i got questions about that i'll be happy to answer him what uh when i talk excuse me so what i've talked to jeremy about jeremy woozley is uh the city of caneyville is actually still got this project correct yeah so uh we we did uh we got to a point in the project where they uh exhausted their uh that was the party foundation that we they received from us so that allowed them the option to go ahead and turn that over to us and

  • 9:26

    so as of august 1st grace game water district is fully managing caneville system we don't own it yet but we can't own it until that project's finished that we're we're we're taking on all the debt the revenue as of august 1st which it's grayson county water districts essentially today but we would actually if if the court decided to uh advance more funds that would go to the city of caneyville am i correct no it would have to come to us because it can't go in that project got you because since you all got already got ownership up we don't we don't physically own the properties but we have ownership of the revenues down there so is there 800 meters on that yeah their system is around 800 active services they have a little closer to 900 total services down there projects about around 240 or 50 uh services that that's getting replaced