Meeting of September 9, 2025

[Music] call this meeting of uh county fiscal court to order. I'm going to ask brother Gary Hines to come forward, lead us in a prayer and a pledge to the flag. — Let's pay respects to our flag. Attention. Salute. Pledge. I pledge algiance 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. — Would you please uncover? Thank you, heavenly father, for this opportunity to be here and to conduct business of this county. Thank you Lord for those who serve this county. Be with them. Give them guidance, wisdom be with each of us and protect us. And we pray it in Jesus sweet name. Amen. — Uh brother Hind since you're up there, we're going to move on down the agenda to your other item here.

— Okay. We came here as representatives of the Ohio County Honor Guard and we didn't come to ask for anything. We come to thank you because your gift did a lot of work at the post. The contractor was Kenny Broie and he said the roof had screws missing in different places. Some of them were loose and some were too short or whatever. So he replaced all the screws and sealed it with a lestro I think is what the product is called. Should last forever. So we have a new roof. It doesn't leak. And uh we had Mr. Disease do the uh lighting. Instead of replacing all the fixtures, he just replaced all the tubes, which they were they were in good shape. So now we have beautiful lighting and a dry building. And so now you've put us in a spot because now we're going to have to get off our can and and paint the floor

and do some cosmetic work. But we're here to say thank you for your generous gift. God bless you. — Thank you. Thank you, brother H. Thank you, Honor Guard. Um, before you gentlemen, you have the uh minutes of the August 26, 2025 meeting. We'll need a a motion, a second to approve. — Make a motion approve. Motion by Michael McKenna. — Second. — Second by Bo Bennett. Is there any discussion, corrections, or additions to the amendments? Discussion, questions or uh I mean corrections being none. All favor say I. I post like sign car — before you have the bills claim payments and transfers. Need a motion for that. — So move motion by Larry Morphw.

— Second — second by Jason — Michael — Michael second by Michael McKenna. I have some question — the uh — Veterans Memorial. There's a electric bill for 11281. Is that the one in road scene? — My question is it says KU, but I didn't think KU was up that far. — Well, it's probably the one at the park then. — Okay. — Probably want to county park cuz it's Well, it would be it could be KU. — That's Kennedy though, the park, isn't it? — Well, most of it. We got the very beginning there's K. It's on page four of 10. Is it on the look at it?

— Okay. — Okay. And also, how many meters does a home place have? I got four of them and they're all the same number. That's That's on Warren Electric, I believe. — Yeah. On one road, but there's four of them. Should there be four up there? — No. — No. Yeah, maybe because of all those plugs and hookups out there. Maybe on separate meters. — They should be on the same home place. — Well, they're scattered out. One for the — There'll be separate meters like on a a farm or something to a barn or something. — Yeah, there they are. There's one for where all — Looks like most of those are minimum charges. — Vendors hook up. $27 will be minimum — right there by the whole place itself kind of set up. Yeah, there'll be more next month cuz they'll be used this as we — and the uh

the sirens for the emergency. Cromwell's got two and uh Rosine's got one and they're all different. Shouldn't they all be the same price? I don't know what — it's on page same page four. And I've got one more. It's — FEMA — Kane and Ford Lane rocked for $13,000. the road department. — Yeah. — Yeah. It's where they rocked the road and it — $14,000. — It cleared the rocks high

— and it and it was because it was all washed off during the flood because — washed off during the flood. — That was awful high. — Rock dly high. — But the fire department wants two different vendors if you look at it. So it's probably they get it. You know, the way I look at it, they probably bought one partner bought one and the other partner bought from somebody else. — Okay, that's all I have. Any other discussion? Being none, all in favor say I. I — oppose like sign. The bills are paid. Uh okay. We we need to uh approve the bond for the tax administrator. It's time for it to be renewed. The bills and tax — back of the uh claims. — It's on bills and claims, but it's separate. — You have a separate we — so we've already agreed to pay on the bills and claims, but we got to approve that. We — did on the last page. How much was she

from? — So I need a motion, a second for that. So move — second. — Did you get them? — Motion Larry. Second by both. Any discussion? Being none. All in favor say I. — I. Like sign post car. Next you have the clerk's uh August financial statement. We just need to acknowledge that we got it. — Motion received. — I'll second his acknowledgement. — Motion by Bo, second by Jason to acknowledge the receipt of the clerk's August 2025 financial statement. On favor say I. I. — Oppos like sign. Motion carries. Um, I don't believe that we I don't know that we need a close session for anything. Do you have anything, Justin? — Uh, no. No, sir.