Meeting of June 9, 2025

[Music] call this meeting Ohio County fiscal court to order. Uh on this 9th day of June uh 2025 at 4 pm, I'm going to ask Ann Melton to give our prayer and our pledge to flag. Our heavenly father, we want to thank you for this blessed day that you've given us and help guide these elected officials as they watch over our county and make decisions for us and watch our citizens and keep them safe. In your name we pray. Amen. I aliance 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. Uh we're going to move the agenda around a little bit. We're going to put personnel first. And uh the order of business there is to uh hire Sonia Davis as a judge executives uh uh

administrative assistant effective 68 2025 at the rate of 1904 per hour level two and a roll call. Bullock. Yes. Bennett. Yes. Johnston. Yes. Vivven. Yes. McKenna. Yes. Okay. Okay. This is back. Next thing is the minutes. Uh before you have the uh May 27th, 2025 minutes. Uh need a motion, a second to approve. Make a motion to accept the motion by Jason. Second. Second by Bo. Uh is there any discussion, corrections or additions on the minutes? Discussion, corrections, or additions? Being none, all on favor say I. I. Oppos like sign. Motion carries. Next, you have the bills, claims, payments, and transfers. Um, I need a motion to second. I make a motion that we pass bills, claims, payments, transfers. Motion by Michael.

Second. Second by Bo. Sorry, Jason. I'm sorry. I don't care. He was a millisecond ahead of you. Uh, is there any discussion on the bills, claims, payments, and transfer? Discussion or questions on the bills? You're not seated. All right. Well, uh, all in favor say I. Post like sign. Most carried. Nick, you're excused if you want to be. Appreciate it. What are we here for? Your truck. Just ping. Got you a truck. You need a boat with with the rain. You're needing You probably need a boat. Uh before you you have the treasures May 2025 financial statement. We just need to acknowledge we got it. Motion we received motion by Bo. Second. Second by Michael. Any

uh any u discussion or questions? Being none. All in favor say I. I post like sign. Motion carries. We need to renew the treasures bond. U So I was reading that one. Is that for you, Ann? It Yeah, it's until June 30th. So we're just doing it for a month. Yeah, it has to go through court. So So ours is already done though. We It will be effective July 1. Okay. So hopefully by the next court meeting or the first one in July, we'll have that. Okay. That's what I thought. Why are we We emailed it today, but Okay, I'll make a motion, too. So, if we don't, then we don't have a treasure for 30 days. No, I'll go get it. Motion for Jason. Second, Bedale, since he had got to second anything tonight. I kind of thought that was odd that we're doing it for just 30 days. Well, it is what it is. It actually expires May 5th, so it's from May to the end of June. You mean you could have run off with the county? I did. You would have thought it expired like at the end of of a year. It's when you It's when you're hard. Okay. All

right. Okay. All right. Uh all in favor say I. I. Post like sign. She's rebonded. Okay. You have the clerk's best is not here, but you have her financial report which we just acknowledge. We got I'll make a motion to acknowledge that we received the clerk's financial report. Jason May financial report. Motion by Jason. Second. Second by Bo. You got it. Any discussion? Being none. All in favor say I. I. Post like sign. Motion carry. Check authorization with Miranda second uh signature or the extra signature. third one I guess on the bank account leaving. We want to go ahead to put Cassidy, she's down there closer to do it. We want to put Cassidy Stevens on the bank account to sign checks in the absence of treasure and and we're switching Candy to Candy. This is effective July one. It says that on there effective. Yeah. Putting Candace and Cassidy on there. I'll make the motion to uh accept the uh following names to be approved for check

signatures. Okay. Jason. Um all in any discussion I guess none on f say I. I post like sign. Motion carry. Okay. Um the resolution there in Stanley Road. I was really hoping Eric would be here in case there was any questions, but we need to u uh sign the resolution for him to get the grant money, the water line. Yeah, it's already been done, but he's got to uh turn everything in to get the reimbursement on it and all that. I'll uh you make the motion. Motion to uh authorize me to sign. Do I have a second? Second. Yeah. Sorry. Second by the U um any discussion being none. All in favor say I. I like to sign. And that grant paid for every bit of it. No, you remember we we've already paid though part of it. It was just like a a little bit of section. I can't remember.

Yeah. No, the the bid went over and we paid some we paid on it. That's right. I I just I knew there was something I couldn't remember. Okay. Okay. Um, you're up next, Jason. Committee report. The admin code committee has met. Judge, I'm sorry. Where are we going to revisit close session later? Okay. You think we do we need one? Yeah. I'll make a motion. Go to close session. Okay. Okay. We'll come back to the committee. Second with regard to litigation. Okay. I'll second or Michael second. Okay. All in favor say I. I. Motion to go back into open session. Motion. Second. Motion below. Second to Dale. Got it. Um the um uh Yeah. All in favor? I. We're back in open session. And during close session, we did not make any

motions or do any official business. We discussed some possible litigation. Uh so, uh but now we're going to move on to committee reports. And as I was saying before, the admin como code committee has met and Jason has a motion from that. uh the admin committee just kind of got together. We we talked about a social media policy and we've got one I think I emailed it to you guys uh this morning to look at. And the reason we're kind of you can make changes to an admin administrative code throughout the year if the judge does it. But in the month of June, correct me if I'm wrong, magistrates can we can make changes to the administrative code without the judge. So, I make a motion that we accept the first reading of ordinance uh 2025-5 social media policy for Ohio County to add to the administrative code. Second. Motion by Jason. Second by Bo. Any discussion or questions?