Meeting of May 15, 2025

Heat. Heat. [Music] 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. All right, call the meeting to order. And first thing on the agenda is to approve the minutes from the previous meeting. Make a motion. Second. Motion by Neil and second by Ben. All in favor? Next we have approved the payment of the bills. Motion second. Motion by Darren and second by Jason. All in favor? I. Next we have approved the treasures budget transfers as presented. Motion. Motion by Ben. Second by Brenda. All in favor? I. Next, we have approved the treasures monthly settlement. Motion by Brenda. Second both. Second by Ben. All in favor? Uh, let's see. Approve to change the opioid fund number to 74 per DGL. What's we got? Yeah, I'm sorry. They didn't tell us. That's okay. They didn't tell us what account number. We just had several

choose from and um different counties chose different ones and they want everyone to use the same one and they picked 74. So I need to change the 76 but now it's 74. So it's just a it's an identification number. Yes. Okay. Gotcha. I need a motion to approve that motion by Ben. Second by Darren. All in favor? I. And uh approve to close the AR the ARPA bank account, the ARPA bank account at the end of June. Motion. Motion by Darren, second by Brenda. All in favor? Next, we have a county road aid CRA and local government economic assistance LGA hearing. And is anyone here for the hearing? And nobody. Okay, moving on. Uh, next we need to approve first reading of the Grayson County Physical Courts budget for 2026. Motion motion by Ben. Second. Second by Brian. All in favor? And you all got a copy of that? And Matt, did you all get a copy of all that? Yeah, it's not in there, but I'll

get them one. We'll get you all a copy of it. So that way you can publish it or what have you. And then plus we give her a copy and it's at the clerk's office as well. So, uh, approve the jailer's payment of bills. Motion by Neil. Second. Second by Ben. All in favor? I. Next, we have approve jailer's budget transfers as presented. Motion. Motion by Darren. Second by Brenda. All in favor? Next we have approved county clerk's claim for calculation of motor vehicles and boat bills for 2025. Motion motion by Darren. Second. Second by Ben. All in favor? I. Uh next we've got approve the sheriff's monthly settlement. Motion by Brenda. Second by Jason. All in favor? All right. Next, we've got a presentation from Sheriff Chaffens on flock cameras. Stand up. We can see you. I'm going to I'm calling Spencer. He's with Flock and I'm going put him on speaker phone. That way you

all be able to ask any questions. He can hear what's going on as well. Hey, sir. Hey Spencer, I've got you on speaker phone. I'm getting ready to just give them my spill first and then I've got you available to answer any questions if that's okay. Okay. So, um we uh been working with the city police and I've been following up with them about how their flock cameras are working. Um and they've used them on a couple of occasions already. I know they've got a couple stolen vehicles and other complaints as well. Um I actually followed up with um um called Jeremy Thompson. He's the chief of police in Elizabeth Town and he said his his exact words were this has been a gamecher for law enforcement in Harden County. Um and he said they're actually not going back. They're actually probably going to purchase more cameras because it's helped them solve uh robberies, abductions, and things like that. So um he's uh or kidnappings is the word he used. But, um, I wanted to kind of knock out some rumors and things that they're not that they that people think they're going to be used for. I can go up in front of a camera, clock camera in Lisfield right now and stand in front of

the camera and it's not going to tell you that that's Norman Chaffens. I mean, people see it will probably recognize my ears and know it's me, but other than that, then it's that's not what it's for. Okay? This these are simply plate readers. And um if we have a vehicle that was involved in a crime um and we get a a somewhat direction of travel um we can if they if they go past one of those cameras, it's going to pick up that tag number. It doesn't tell us who's in the car, but it tells us who that vehicle belongs to and it certainly gives us a tool a huge tool for law enforcement to be able to track that vehicle. Um, we have used actually we we didn't have cameras and we used flot cameras that Harden County had and we're we were able to get a suspect that was here in Kyville, uh, Kentucky that uh, stole something was out of something an item out of a purse out of one of their citizens cars. U, we had a general direction of travel. Um, the u um, we knew what kind of vehicle it was based on a camera that that wouldn't pick up the plate. We had a vehicle description. We sent we put that vehicle description in the flock system which is I think it's about 18 it's they're connected to 18,000 other cameras uh flock cameras throughout the nation and there's also it was it was that same vehicle was seen in Harden County and they knew it because of the tag number they kept

switching tags but even though they kept switching tags it was still picking up that vehicle description on the flock cameras and we were able to develop a suspect from that. No one actually got a look at the driver, but I think there's going to be charges in Harden County and probably on him. Um, so that's what these um that's what these are used for, these flock cameras. Um, it would certainly help us in um um it would certainly help us in our investigations as well. Um I think that it's kind of getting ahead of the curve um in doing things because you know in the past we've kind of been about 10 20 years behind as far as technology for law enforcement goes and we're just starting to get that back up with computers and and Wi-Fi in the car and and tools like that. So I think this will be a game changer for us as well. Um you know if we get extra u get a request to have a deputy at this location to look for a car you know that's essentially what these cameras are going to do. Um, it's almost like having additional deputies out there um looking for tags and looking for tag numbers or stolen vehicles or whatever crimes being committed. And I know I don't have to sell this to you guys because I've talked to each one of you individually at at points and I know that um most people are for them and I know it's going to be a financial thing, I'm sure. But um I think it's something that will

benefit us and I think in the long run it'll pay they'll pay themselves off with the with the uh the good things that happen because we have these counters. you want. Well, they did um Flock has done like he got on a map and did Grace encounters. We you know we would uh we looked at having 20 cameras that would cover about every road that we need, especially the major roads in the county. Um and um we would have to, you know, we're going to sit down and if we were get approved to do this, we would sit sit down and and fine-tune where we're going to place these cameras at. And um you know it would certainly that those cameras would cover all the major roads in and out of the county as well. You name a location and there's probably somebody gets on one of the uh major roads or even the county roads then they're going to be caught on this block camera if they committed a crime. What's the cost of the cameras and then the reoccurring cost every year? Did you hear that question Spencer? They're want to know. So, the the reoccurring cost for the the cameras, which include hardware, software, maintenance, uh install, any upgrades that we do to our software, is uh $46,000, $46,50. And then we were also able to