Meeting of June 15, 2023
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Summary
Grayson County Fiscal Court – June 15, 2023
The court handled a long slate of routine business, approving minutes, bill payments, and monthly treasurer, sheriff, health department, and tourism settlements and budgets, largely on unanimous voice votes. The second reading of the FY2023-2024 county budget was adopted with no changes from the first reading, and updated road department administrative and personnel policies were approved.
A representative from the state highway district (Beau Warren, with district engineers) presented the county's Rural Secondary Road Program, funded through a share of motor fuel tax receipts. Roughly $1.1 million is planned for routine maintenance, paving on KY 899, and a slide-repair project on KY 878. The court also discussed ongoing state projects including the US 62 Litchfield Beehive Curve, the Leitchfield Bypass (right-of-way largely resolved, railroad parcels still in condemnation), and a KY 259 widening/resurfacing project, including questions about coordinating water-line replacement with the Grayson/Edmonson County water districts.
The court approved a KYTC agreement for $201,649 in discretionary resurfacing funds for Martin Run Road and Foxboro Drive, accepted various bids for road materials (stone, asphalt, culvert tile, fuel, and hauling services), and approved a mowing contract for the judicial building. A new nonexclusive cable franchise agreement with Spectrum/Mid-America LLC was approved after review by the county attorney. Two 1990s-era vehicles were declared surplus for sale on GovDeals.
Bids for two new ambulances (from Mid-America Ambulance and PennCare) were opened but action was tabled pending further review of the specifications, particularly concerns about whether chassis pricing could fluctuate before delivery. The court also heard that occupational tax collections were running about 14% ahead of projections and announced a special called meeting for July 3 at 11 a.m. to handle redistricting/reapportionment required by the census.
Agenda (21)
- 2:22
Approve minutes and routine financial items
The court approved minutes of the previous meeting, payment of bills, treasurer's budget transfers, and the April and May treasurer's monthly settlements.
- 3:18
Second reading of FY2023-2024 county budget
The budget's second reading was approved with no changes from the first reading.
- 3:32
Road department administrative code and personnel policy
The court approved the road department's admin code and personnel policy with no changes from the previous year.
- 3:44
St. Paul's busing grant contract and resolution
The court approved a contract and resolution for a busing grant for St. Paul's.
- 4:09
Rural Secondary Road Program presentation
State highway district staff presented the county's road program funding, priority projects (routine maintenance, KY 899 paving, KY 878 slide repair), and updates on the US 62 Beehive Curve, KY 259 widening, and Leitchfield Bypass projects, including water-line coordination questions.
- 19:52
KYTC resurfacing agreement for Martin Run Road and Foxboro Drive
The court approved an agreement/resolution accepting $201,649 in discretionary state funds to resurface Martin Run Road and Foxboro Drive.
- 20:51
Accept saw bed (sawdust) bids
Bids from Cargill and Compass Materials of America were accepted for saw bedding material.
- 21:09
Accept volunteer fire department fire dues petitions
The court accepted paperwork from volunteer fire departments, including one submitted on behalf of Tony Whalen, allowing collection of fire dues taxes in November.
- 22:04
Jailer, sheriff, health department, and tourism financial approvals
The court approved the jailer's bill payments, chamber/sheriff budget transfers, sheriff's monthly settlement and 2021 tax settlement, health department minutes and 2024 budget, and the tourism commission's 2023-2024 budget.
- 23:29
Spectrum franchise agreement
The court approved a nonexclusive cable franchise agreement between Grayson County and Spectrum Mid-America LLC after review by the county attorney.
- 25:43
Declare vehicles surplus for GovDeals sale
A 1995 Ford Crown Victoria and a 2000 Jeep Cherokee were declared surplus property to be sold on GovDeals.
- 26:24
Open and accept road material bids
Sealed bids for crushed stone from Caneyville Crushed Stone and Scotty's were opened and both were accepted to cover different parts of the county.
- 29:18
Emulsified asphalt bid
A single bid from an asphalt materials supplier for emulsified asphalt (chip-and-seal oil) was accepted.
- 30:09
Hot mix asphalt bid
A bid from Scotty's Contracting and Stone for hot mix asphalt (pickup and laid-in-place pricing) was accepted.
- 31:27
Road culvert/tile bids
Three bids for plastic, metal, and galvanized road tile were reviewed and all three vendors were accepted due to ongoing inventory shortages.
- 34:12
Gas and diesel fuel bid
A single bid from Key Oil Company for unleaded gasoline and on/off-road diesel was accepted.
- 34:40
Hauling services bids
Bids from three local haulers (Daniel Oliver, A&E Hauling, and Timmy Decker Trucking) were all accepted to give flexibility when equipment is unavailable.
- 36:58
Judicial building mowing contract
A single mowing bid from Edwards Lawn Service for the judicial building at $130/month was accepted.
- 37:46
New ambulance bids review
Bids for new ambulances from Mid-America Ambulance and PennCare were opened and discussed at length, with concerns about chassis pricing, equipment layout, and specification exceptions; a decision was tabled pending further review.
- 54:12
Committee reports and occupational tax update
Committees reported everything up to date; occupational tax collections were reported running about 14% ahead of projections.
- 54:56
Announcement of special called meeting
A special called meeting was announced for July 3 at 11 a.m. to handle magisterial district reapportionment required by the census.
Motions & votes (28)
- 2:22
passedApprove minutes from the previous meeting
Moved by Neil · seconded by Ben · unanimous (all in favor)
- 2:29
passedApprove payment of bills
Moved by Darren · seconded by Brenda · unanimous (all in favor)
- 2:38
passedApprove treasurer's budget transfers as presented
Moved by Brian · unanimous (all in favor)
- 2:51
passedApprove treasurer's April monthly settlement
seconded by Ben · unanimous (all in favor)
- 2:59
passedApprove treasurer's May monthly settlement
Moved by Neil · seconded by Brenda · unanimous (all in favor)
- 3:18
passedApprove second reading of the FY2023-2024 county budget with no changes
Moved by Darren · seconded by Ben · unanimous (all in favor)
- 3:32
passedApprove road department admin code and personnel policy
seconded by Brenda · unanimous (all in favor)
- 3:44
passedApprove St. Paul's busing grant contract and resolution
Moved by Jason · seconded by Brian · unanimous (all in favor)
- 20:38
passedApprove KYTC agreement/resolution for resurfacing of Martin Run Road and Foxboro Drive
Moved by Ben · seconded by Brenda · unanimous (all in favor)
- 20:51
passedAccept saw bed bids from Cargill and Compass Materials of America
seconded by Brian · unanimous (all in favor)
- 21:09
passedAccept volunteer fire department petitions to collect fire dues tax
seconded by Brian · unanimous (all in favor)
- 22:04
passedApprove jailer's payment of bills
unanimous (all in favor)
- 22:16
passedApprove chamber's/sheriff's budget transfers as presented
Moved by Jason · seconded by Brian · unanimous (all in favor)
- 22:26
passedApprove sheriff's monthly settlement
Moved by Ben · seconded by Darren · unanimous (all in favor)
- 22:36
passedAccept Grayson County sheriff's 2021 tax settlement
Moved by Aaron · seconded by Brenda · unanimous (all in favor)
- 22:47
passedAccept Grayson County Health Department minutes from March 14, 2023
Moved by Neil · seconded by Jason
- 23:01
passedAccept Grayson County Health Department's 2024 budget
Moved by Ben · seconded by Brian · unanimous (all in favor)
- 23:18
passedApprove Grayson County Tourism's 2023-2024 budget
Moved by Darren · seconded by Neil · unanimous (all in favor)
- 25:37
passedApprove franchise agreement between Grayson County and Spectrum Mid-America LLC
Moved by Aaron · seconded by Brenda · unanimous (all in favor)
- 25:53
passedDeclare 1995 Ford Crown Victoria and 2000 Jeep Cherokee as surplus for sale on GovDeals
Moved by Neil · seconded by Ben · unanimous (all in favor)
- 29:10
passedAccept both crushed stone bids (Caneyville Crushed Stone and Scotty's)
Moved by Neil · seconded by Brian · unanimous (all in favor)
- 29:57
passedAccept emulsified asphalt bid
Moved by Jason · seconded by Brenda · unanimous (all in favor)
- 31:19
passedAccept hot mix asphalt bid from Scotty's Contracting and Stone
Moved by Brian · seconded by Jason · unanimous (all in favor)
- 34:08
passedAccept all road tile/culvert bids due to inventory issues
Moved by Darren · seconded by Ben · unanimous (all in favor)
- 34:32
passedAccept gas and diesel bid from Key Oil Company
Moved by Brenda · seconded by Brian · unanimous (all in favor)
- 36:35
passedAccept all three hauling service bids
Moved by Darren · seconded by Jason · unanimous (all in favor)
- 37:31
passedAccept mowing bid from Edwards Lawn Service for judicial building
Moved by Brian · seconded by Neil · unanimous (all in favor)
- 53:57
tabledTable decision on new ambulance bids pending review of specifications
Transcript (47 segments)
- 0:00
[Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] daughter's house and prayer yes sir father we want to thank you thank you for the opportunity of being here tonight and sharing these few moments and sharing prayer for the guidance of this Council we thank you God for each thing you do for us we understand that it is from the
- 1:13
least to the most major issues that are important to us and to our County and to the government of our County we thank you for the men and women that serve this County and the capacities they're in we pray God that there will be a guidance and that their spirited minds and hearts and and just direct us in everything that we're doing because we seek greater things from you we understand God that there are problems everywhere but we thank you God that we live in the county we're in and I thank you for our guidance to bring me into this County as well as these others that are here today we ask you to direct their minds in Jesus name amen I pledge of allegiance to like the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all right I don't mean to order the first thing on the agenda is to approve the minutes from the previous meeting notion by Neil II by Ben all in favor
- 2:27
they actually have this approved payment of bills no function by Darren second by Brenda all in favor they actually have approved Treasures budget transfers as presented who made the motion Brian Jason you say all in favor all right all right next we approved treasurer's April April monthly settlement motion promotion modern second by Ben all in favor approve the treasurer's May monthly settlement welcome by Neil II by Brenda all in favor all right next we have approved second reading Grayson County Fiscal Court's budget for 2023-2024 no no changes okay so no changes from the first reading so noon motion Darren first motion Ben second all in favor all right thanks approved brakes getting assist reports admin code and Personnel policy there's no changes on it from last year exactly motion but there in a second by
- 3:41
Brenda all in favor thanks we have approved St Paul's busing Grant contract and resolution motion by uh Jason second by Brian all in favor all right next we have Rule and secretary Road program but I guess it's just given you know but you ain't no no yeah judge and members of good support thank you for letting me know my name's Beau Warren I'm a branch manager for construction maintenance in our district for office with us today we have our chief District engineer Brad bottoms our maintenance section supervisor James Beacham and coverage Grayson County and of course you all probably know Mr Stone here County Foreman uh just before we get started I'd like to remind you how we fund our real estate program this program is funded by 22.2 percent of the motor's fuel tax receipts These funds are allocated to all 120 counties based on a 5.4 millimeter and that formula is based on one-fifth equally among all counties one-fifth based on the rural population
- 4:55
one-fifth based on the road miles and two fists based on the land area and once that money has been allocated to the county it cannot be transferred to any other mechanics they told me that you already had a copy of the presentations I'll just go over that we should our this year our first priority is our routine maintenance and traffic for our County uh maintenance crew and be able to treat snow and ice through ditching automation things like that that estimated cost is 626 500 this year this year our second priority is the County judge executive expense our third priority in Kentucky 8.99 it's an asphalt paying job at the beginning of 9.0 to Kentucky Ada and mile point 2.813 with an estimated cost of 438 585 dollars
- 6:09
our fourth priority is a slide repaired project on Kentucky 878 at 9.4 and the anticipated cost for that project is 50 750 dollars Donald told them that lets our program be about 1 million One hundred nineteen Thousand Seven or ten dollars for the county Nevada okay uh just to quickly go over some of the projects that have already been LED and what are our NP payment resurfacing you know the construction projects that are active in the county we have the us-62 project of Litchfield The Beehive curve has been awarded to studies from the bonding company and they are anticipating on getting started back on that project next week supposed to have a substantial completion date at the end of 2023 which means all traffic would be driving in the ultimate configuration but probably going to be on base and will be
- 7:22
completed the surface this spring of 2024. yes yes it is a construction season this year yeah I know there was a lot of back and forth between our illegal folks and Frankford and the bonding companies liberal folks to finally arrive at that so we weren't really part of that conversation but that's what we were told to schedule it was a great team so um the next president going on is the asphalt major rehab privacy from the educate Parkway that project is scheduled to be completed the middle of November of this year there's a NASCAR resurfacing project on Rough River but in the park that has a completion date of the end of August of 2023 and then there is an hsip project that's 17 miles long I think 259 South of Litchfield that has a July 31st 2024 completion I've done a lot of tree clearing out through there and took down a lot of
- 8:37
vegetation or extensions or pipe Replacements or any shoulder work that can be going on with all that on 259. what uh how how wide is that it's going to is they just doing shoulders or what's takes the ultimate configuration is 11 foot driving lanes and what's that 11 foot driving Lanes is two feet of shoulder it should be adding roughly two feet of pavement to the entire Lane on both sides so each satellite two by two feet of paper it almost a substantial difference on how it feels uh for sure we did we did one recently in LaRue County on Kentucky 84. but it's very similar to this and that's going from Bear Creek you said it's a 17-ish mouse pretty much right now because I know they moved a lot of fencing down through there I've had a lot of people ask me I thought I mean we've been here so uh