Meeting of September 28, 2021

[Music] and i talked to ralph but he's he's working with colby i just wanted you to say good things about ralph and well i think everybody knows ralph miller and he's got an award and i'll let the judge read it as soon as he gets it and uh one of the highest awards there is in the state for medic so to speak kentucky to get this there you go yeah we're lucky to have it yeah okay and i think you covered it pretty good and i think if you see ralph i think you should congratulate him because that is a big honor for him uh also this week we've heard that uh that our sheriff's office has uh received an accreditation okay let me go back to ralph still i think if i i've got him we'll read mouse first as some may be aware ralph miller has been selected as a 2021 rural kentucky ems provider of

the year an award sponsored by the kentucky office of rural health and the kentucky board of emergency medical services this award recognizes someone who works or volunteers at a rural kentucky ems service and who demonstrates exemplary free pre-hospital care and a dedication to the community ralph has worked with the local ems service for nearly 25 years now and is very deserving of this reward award also ralph works as a volunteer in addition to him this job as a fireman and a uh manic for authority park as well also this week the sheriff's office got an accreditation for the kentucky association of chiefs of police by the kentucky sheriff's association making the first time the os ocso has ever reached accredited status it was an achievement that took the agency 30 months to accomplish the kentucky association of chiefs and police accreditation program provides kentucky law enforcement agencies

and avenue to demonstrate they meet commonly accepted standards for efficient and effectively effective operations uh they did many things to prepare for this and they've got it uh that tells us that we have a very well trained and dedicated police force sheriff's office in our county that we should be happy very happy with that and very pleased that we have the best ambulance protection and the best sheriff's department protection that we can have and so i think we ought to be very proud to live in uh ohio county kentucky where we have all that and yes we do have a good coroner's office too but you didn't get an award this time all right i'll keep working on it okay okay we're proud of you sure enough uh before we get to september the 14th manage and leave a motion to approve so much from sam's mom secretary joe barnes any discussion corrections or additions to the minutes discussion corrections or additions to maintenance being nine on fair say aye aye aye hope

like sign means approved before you have the bills and transfers including a late nest make the most of the text that motion but jason bolt and and second but sam small to uh through the minutes of the of the september 14th maybe is there any discussion any discussion or questions being nine authors say aye all right post like sign the bills and claims are uh approved and the clerk's uh august 2021 financial report knowledge motioned by but joe varnish to acknowledge the receipt secretary sam small is there any discussion being um we have two budget amendments one it's

the one you've done the last meeting uh 20 22-3 second reading the motion to approve that so much molarity came second second by sam small is there any discussion on that that's the one we did before 20 22 three yes second reason okay uh rob call that miranda olaf yes barn yes johnston yes yes small yes okay the next one this is a new one ordinance 20 22 days four for the first three and go ahead and explain what that one is the million dollars is for the cdbg grant that jodie has obtained and the second one for 87 000 is a usda flood control grant that charlie has obtained and where's that is that peru what does that look for

the 87 000 for the river gates here in hartford oh for heartbroken yeah we got we're farm bureau paid a bunch of money on it and we got the branch we extend that for another six years but free money so i'll make a motion motion sam's mom a second segment obama is there any discussion or questions yes barnes yes johnston yes yes small yes i think we need to have a a closed session hope it's not don't keep y'all waiting too long we're going to ask jody to join us and uh if we get through this door we'll go back here if not somebody go around and unlock it 61 810 chapter motion larry larry joe okay um everybody everybody uh in favor have a

seat i will tell you we did not conduct or do any uh voting or any of that kind of business in there we discussed uh economic development things um so now then we have to i'm saying yup i'll make a motion uh to pass a resolution 2022-16 uh to apply for a production development initiative grant for 300 000 and for jody ashby to be the contact we're going to move something up a little bit we're going to talk about the uh amendment to the administrative code it's on page 19 of administrative code section b we got another one

we got three three paintings no the first one was the it's actually the 50 50 on the pdf ramp i just didn't hand it to you earlier do you need a motion to accept the changes to the administrative code i do i'll make a motion to accept the changes to the chapter seven of the uh yeah and what it does is to um i'm sorry i have to make the motion you say because it's not intended right i'll second okay to uh uh and i uh in our thing where he said you all full-time positions uh must have a high school diploma or a ged we change that to actively or be actively seeking one and to further to further lay it out those employees working the truth through the ged