Meeting of April 26, 2022
4-26-22 Ohio County Fiscal Court Meeting · Watch on YouTube ↗
Summary
Ohio County Fiscal Court – April 26, 2022
The court handled routine business (minutes, bills/claims, a sheriff's budget amendment, and setting county salaries with a CPI-based increase) and approved letting the county clerk set up a separate account for a new $10 records-digitization fee created by state law.
KYTC's district office presented the county's 2022 road funding (about $580,000 total, with roughly $354,000 in flex funds). Because of a state accounting catch-up, KYTC funds are lower this year, so most paving will be covered by flex funds, including resurfacing on KY 505 and continued work on the Beaver Dam drainage/resurfacing project on US 62. Magistrates asked KYTC to look at a dangerous, narrow intersection at Goshen Church Road and to check on status of resurfacing between Lake Washburn and Dundee. The court voted to retain its flex funds rather than turn them back to the state.
Justin Mattingly (probation/reentry coordinator) reported strong results for the quarter, including dozens of people placed on monitoring instead of jail, connected to treatment, housing, and employment, and a new $10,000 state grant to expand the program.
The court considered a request to partner with KEDFA on a $300,000 matching grant to upgrade electric service to 95 megawatts at Bluegrass Crossings, with hopes the Industrial Development Authority and grid board will help cover the county's share; a motion was made but the outcome was left open pending further work on the partnership.
Personnel actions included promoting road department employee Jimmy Cantrell to a higher pay grade, making a part-time treasurer's office employee full-time to handle a backlog of tax filings, and appointing Toby Southern to fill a vacancy on the airport board. The OCEDA board reported it will resume monthly meetings and got approval to post a job opening for an economic development director. The jail committee reported on a fact-finding trip to Edmonson County regarding tri-county jail arrangements and plans further visits. Magistrates also discussed county food pantry improvements, senior center refrigeration grants, and a possible new truck for the road department, with follow-up planned at a 4:00 p.m. road committee meeting.
Agenda (16)
- 0:03
Call to order, invocation, and pledge
Judge-Executive opened the meeting, Anne Melton led prayer, and the court recited the pledge of allegiance.
- 1:18
Approval of April 12 minutes
The court reviewed and approved the minutes from the April 12 meeting with no corrections.
- 1:52
Bills, claims, payments and transfers
The court approved payment of the county's bills, claims, payments and transfers for the period.
- 2:28
Sheriff's estimated revenue budget amendment
The sheriff submitted an amendment increasing the 2022 estimated revenue budget, which the court approved.
- 3:29
Wage scale / county salary schedule (CPI increase)
The court approved the annual salary schedule for elected officials and staff, based on a CPI adjustment as required by statute.
- 4:34
County Clerk's office fee and separate bank account (SB 135)
The clerk's office requested a separate bank account to hold a new $10 per-filing fee created by state Senate Bill 135, dedicated to digitizing county records; the court approved.
- 7:01
Reentry/monitoring program quarterly report
Program coordinator Jimmy gave a detailed quarterly report on GPS/alcohol monitoring, treatment placements, housing assistance, employment placements, and a new $10,000 state grant.
- 13:41
KYTC road funding and project updates
KYTC representatives presented the county's 2022 road funding allotment, discussed flex fund options, gave updates on US 62/Beaver Dam drainage project, and fielded questions about several county road safety issues.
- 30:38
Second reading of county budget
The scheduled second reading of the budget was deferred because the county had not yet received required information back from the state.
- 31:00
IDA/EDF grant partnership for Bluegrass Crossings electric upgrade
The court discussed partnering with the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority on a $300,000 matching grant to upgrade electric service to 95 megawatts at Bluegrass Crossings.
- 36:03
Personnel matter – Jimmy Cantrell pay grade increase
The court considered and approved moving road department employee Jimmy Cantrell from pay level one to level two, per wage committee review.
- 37:00
Treasurer's office staffing – part-time to full-time
Charlotte Jones requested making a part-time employee full-time to handle a backlog of tax filings and reconciliations; the court approved.
- 40:53
Airport board appointment
The court appointed Toby Southern to fill a vacancy on the airport board, per recommendation from the airport board and county leadership.
- 41:53
Committee reports
Reports were given on the OCEDA board (resuming monthly meetings, posting an economic development director job) and the jail committee (visit to Edmonson County regarding tri-county jail models).
- 47:00
Individual magistrate reports
Magistrates discussed the county food pantry's improvements, senior center refrigeration grants, and possible purchase of a new dump truck for the road department.
- 53:21
Closing remarks and adjournment
The judge-executive closed the meeting and announced the next road committee meeting at 4:00 p.m.
Motions & votes (11)
- 1:18
passedApprove the April 12 fiscal court meeting minutes
seconded by Sam Small · unanimous
- 1:52
passedApprove payment of bills, claims, payments and transfers
Moved by Larry Count · seconded by Larry Morpheus · unanimous
- 2:56
passedApprove amendment to the sheriff's 2022 estimated revenue budget
Moved by Joe Barnes · seconded by Sam Small · unanimous
- 3:41
passedApprove the county salary/wage schedule with CPI-based increase
Moved by Larry · seconded by Jason · unanimous
- 5:31
passedApprove separate bank account for county clerk's new records digitization fee
Moved by Larry · seconded by Jason
- 18:31
passedRetain county flex funds rather than turn them over to KYTC (Resolution 202229)
Moved by Hillary Cam · roll call, all magistrates voted yes
- 34:48
unclearApprove pursuing KEDFA/EDF grant partnership for electric upgrade to 95 megawatts at Bluegrass Crossings
Moved by Larry
- 36:22
passedPromote road department employee Jimmy Cantrell from pay level one to level two
roll call, all magistrates voted yes
- 38:33
passedMake part-time treasurer's office employee (Sheila Moore) full-time at her current hourly rate
roll call, all magistrates voted yes
- 41:10
passedAppoint Toby Southern to the airport board
roll call, all magistrates voted yes
- 42:49
passedAuthorize posting the job of economic development director for OCEDA
Moved by Sam · seconded by Jason
Transcript (44 segments)
- 0:01
[Music] [Music] uh college mega walking physical order uh on this 26th day of april 2022 and 5 pm i'm going to ask anne melton to lead us in a prayer and a place to play [Music] our heavenly father we want to thank you for the day you've given us and thank you for all of your blessings to ohio county all the good and watch over our country in these times they are hard help people help the leaders to make good decisions and help our leaders here in ohio county as they continue to help ohio county grow strong and make a community for us to live in in your name we pray amen amen the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and
- 1:14
justice for all before you have the april the 12th minutes [Music] second by sam small is there any discussion corrections or any remission corrections or auditions being none all in favor say aye opposed like sign that motion cares before you have the bills claims payments and transfers motion by larry count the second by larry morpheus to approve the bill's claims payments and transfers is there any discussion there's no like that's right no likely is there any discussion on the bills and claims bing man all in favor say ah post like sign the bills are paid
- 2:26
[Music] um the sheriff has submitted the amendment to 2022 estimated revenue budget did it go up sure okay so yeah uh that's okay we'll always demand to that so uh do i have a motion i'll say i mean i'll make a motion but joe barnes second second but sam small to note the change in the sheriff's estimated revenue budget is there any discussion being nine all in favor say aye opposed like sign motion carries with one of you on the uh wage scale uh on the uh salaries thing make the motion to accept as presented [Music] i'll second larry's motion okay and
- 3:43
basically it's the cpi is that what yes sir blair did you make the notification okay motion malaria second with jason uh is there any discussion on it and like he said you don't mind me telling where he was arrived from right basically all elected officials other than the one to set the statute has to be sent by the fiscal court down and they've elected to not really make any increases in antibodies from the last term with the exception cpi so uh we have a motion second is there any discussion bang now i'll first say aye opposed like saying the salaries are set up um the clerk's office now has a new feed that they're collecting uh and where it has to be isolated or restricted that's been a separate bank account so what this is we're asking for and be able to set up a separate bank account to handle nothing but the county court clerk's uh
- 4:56
storage based on records just for records well the state passed senate bill 135 that allows clerks to collect an extra 10 on all the filing fees and that ten dollars into that will be put back into a special account and cannot be used for anything else and it is for them to get everything digitized second motion blur account second with jason bo taylor's got a question about it because uh yes so this fee is it on on each car or is it a one fee bert or do you know it's on if you file a deed it's it's following all those things i guess your marriage license you're going to pay [Music] and the money is going to be your last one to digitize everything so everything
- 6:16
will be online it'll take several years but statewide uh they're going to make it to where you can get online and see anything instead of going to the basement i don't really mean three things you want to but i mean she's the one that's got the guidelines and notes a lot of clerks are going through that now where you can pull up plants and deeds and those things and so i think that's the push by the state for that that okay well i'm sorry to say that all right all right close life saying it'll be inconvenient [Music] you put that on there is that separate from jimmy's uh no it's not it's the same thing okay jimmy you wanna make us a report on your program and uh next meeting bring the rent throw from the from the uh singer center i'll make one then the one after that bow right on my um park park this all has to do with the uh our funds eight and nine are together then on the agenda yes yes thank you judge and thank you fiscal court i just like to tell the fiscal court that i still thank you for what you've done
- 7:30
in this county by creating this program and putting the funding forward for it you will see progress as long as i can work and put due diligence toward it we will see that there is progressness i think we're already seeing progress for this quarter and this is not the entire time of the program this is for this quarter um you know we started a monitoring program for alcohol laundering and gps incarceration for this quarter we put 46 people on monitors 36 of them was gps monitors and 10 of those alcohol monitors for a total of 106 for just the gps monitors rather for 625 days that's 1625 days that person could have been incarcerated it could have been a cost of the county so combined that was 1625 days in this court someone would possibly could have been incarcerated it was not in use right now is 23 monitors 15 of those gps eight of them's alcohol we've assisted as far as our clients that we see just for this quarter 111 for this quarter that we've uh we've seen and
- 8:45
we've actually done something for we've had some come in that's just asked about the program and really didn't need the assistance that we could provide resources provided out of those 111 we've provided 383 resources to those people there's a vast amount of resources that we can provide some of it is just helping out getting them with their bills lined out helping them also with fines ways to pay fines and help them with their finances and working with their financial situation to make it better so they can pay those fines and not come back to court and uh justin today there's quite a few of those that we get recommended to us for that um treatment this quarter we've placed 34 people in treatment facilities for treatment we've housed and helped 25 people that did not have housing we we've got them in housing and sustainable housing that they're still in that was 25 people this quarter we've uh assisted and helped get employed 43 people this quarter that's people that was not working who were seeking jobs or was coming out of jail didn't have jobs 43 of those was placed in employment we are tracking those to make sure it is long-term employment we're staying with it some of them have switched a couple jobs here