Meeting of September 22, 2026

All right, it's 5:00. Josh, will you start this pledge and prayer? Yeah, I got it right here. — Let us pray. Dear heavenly Father, we come to you this evening and we thank you first and foremost for your many blessings. We just love and thank you so much for all that you do for us each and every day that we often overlook. We come to you now, Father, during this time of meeting and I just pray for the leaders that are here tonight, Father, and I pray that they all trust and lean in on you when making decisions that are in the best interest of us as citizens of Ohio County. We love you for letting us live here in Ohio County, a place all dear to our heart. We just ask you to be with us as we go along during this meeting and everyone act in a way that's pleasing to you and we give you glory in the process for it. I pray that anybody within the sound of my voice doesn't know you as their father, they'll do so before it's too late. I just love and thank you so much. In your name I pray. Amen. Let's do the pledge. — 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. — Thank you, Josh. Josh, I'm sorry. I didn't I thought you were done.

— Oh, no, that's all right. — Okay, does everybody have a copy of the September 8th, 2026 minutes? Have a motion to approve those? — Make a motion to approve minutes. — I'll second. — Motion by Michaels, second by Dale. Roll call. — Beaven? — Yes. — Morphew? — Yes. — McKinney? — Yes. — The law? — Yes. — Okay. Uh bills and claims, payments and transfers. A motion to accept. — I make motion to accept bills, claims, payments, and transfers. — Second. — First by Dale, second by Michael. A roll call, please. — I have a question. — Yes. — On the utilities on page five of 13, uh senior utilities, park utilities, a lot of them down through here, it's got ACH. Does that come out of the ARCH budget? — Oh, you're on the standing order.

Yeah. — Why would it come out of the ARCH budget when they have a budget of their own? When this ARCH money's gone, we might not have the money to replace it, and that's a very important part of the court. — So, you're on page five? — Page five of 13. — Okay, and which one? — There's about nine or 10 of them. — That's not ARCH, ACH. — What is the ACH? What is it? — That's where it just automatically comes out of your bank account. Automatic automatic withdrawal — That's the first time I've seen it on there. — You have asked about it before. You have asked about that before. — Not about that. Okay. But that comes out of their budget. — No, the ARCH's. — Huh? — Each Each of these departments, um — That's what I'm asking. Does it come out of that department budget? — the jail, here's the golf, the Yeah, it's — Okay, that's what Okay, you answered it. — Do we have let's see did you make a roll call please?

— Bivin — Yes. — Morphis — Yes. — McKinney — Yes. — Bullock — Yes. — All right, number four here is the clerk's August 2026 financial report. We just need a motion saying we received it. — So moved. — Second. — Roll call on that, please. — Bivin — Yes. — Morphis — Yes. — McKinney — Yes. — Bullock — Yes. — All right, there's no reason to go into closed session, so Justin — I don't have anything. — Okay. Anybody else have anything? — No. — No. — Okay. We're moving right along. Committee reports, any committee reports? Michael, start with you. Do you have any? — Just know that we're moving forward on possibly doing something with our landfill upcoming contract and presenting that. — Thank you. Any YouTube? Larry now we're on the bluegrass Foundation committee. We did you know have

Jerusalem Ridge Festival. We haven't got the numbers back yet. Hopefully by next meeting we'll have a next meeting or so we'll have a report of what's supposed to be a meeting it was canceled for Monday. So I don't think we're meeting. It was going to be a not enough people show up to have a quorum. So hopefully we'll have some numbers on the Jerusalem Ridge Festival that went on last weekend. So that's the only report I have of that. No other committee reports, magistrates and comments. Michael — I just want to thank everyone that supported the fair, even though we had some hiccups. That's all I have for the first district. — For the second district, I'm going to I do want to um I guess we can go ahead and do this. David's not here, but um told me to go and look into it. 13th Street in um Beaver Dam. Years ago, we kind of added to it. Uh there was a and I thought maybe we took it in at that point, but there was not. Um but we did There was easements all the way through, so Justin help me with this. So, to to extend 13th Street, there are easements already. It goes all

the way back through Knob Hill to um from 13th Street to Knob Hill, back where the Barnes house was. But, we only want to go 500 ft. The water line's already there. There's a fire hydrant there. The easements are there. Could we start a viewing process to — Yeah, you can you can do that. You can just — Okay. It's just a 500 ft extension. We don't want to go all the way through. Like I said, the water line, the easements, and everything are already done. So, do we need to appoint a viewing committee? — Yeah. — Okay. Our point of view committee. So, I guess on the viewing committee, you'll have the Nick Woolen and Charlie Shields is usually on them. Is that enough? — I think he usually has three. — Yeah, and you want to put a judge on there. — The judge. — The current or the ex-current? — viewing committee, y'all will be looking for it. — Yes. — The The digits are there. The only thing, the rock might be There was rock put on years ago. Uh And then we'll do Judge Johnson. — Here we go. — He can sit here. He can He can Yeah,

we'll have him. — Okay. — so uh that's uh 13th Street and Beaver Dam. It's a 500-ft extension. Like I said, the water line, fire hydrant, easements are there. Just need to point of view and committee, and we'll look at it next meeting. That's all I have for uh the second district. Dale? — Uh thanks everyone for coming out for today's highs it was. Uh got Dundy Days coming up this weekend. — It's supposed to be a good weekend, too. — Yeah. If you can make it out to see it, that's all I have. — Larry? — I just want to pass this resolution that we tabled last court meeting. Do I need to read it, or just uh It's real short. Do I need to read it? — I got a copy this afternoon. I I looked into it, too. Uh the only thing that I mean, the only thing uh and I know you're not going to like this, but with with David not being here and and Paul not being here, — I don't go along with that. They had opportunity. Neither one of them contacted me. I'm going to make a motion, and if y'all don't want to pass it, don't second it, and don't vote for it. I'll make a motion we pass this resolution. — Do I hear a second? — Sounds like y'all don't want it.

— Well, and two of the three people are dying. That's not treating it — Let me I seen my email this morning at 9:54. That's I've had since 9:54 to view it. — Let let let And let me look at this, too, cuz I looked into this, too, after — It's not that we're not for it, Larry. We didn't get copies of it. — I figured this was going to happen, so I Somebody I actually talked to uh Tracy, and he helped me gave give me this. The wording from June 4th meeting says the motion a motion for the court to pass a moratorium on the date a data center for 12 months. There was a motion made on June 4th. — That wasn't for moratorium. — Well, that's what it says here. — for a uh — A motion for the court to pass a moratorium on data centers for 12 months. — Well, we have to pass a resolution with that. Is am I correct on that? — Well, it it'd be better practice to So, I mean a and I think initially the court did vote on a moratorium for the 12 months uh by oral motion that was made at that meeting, whatever meeting day it was. Uh Larry requested uh something more uh formal as far as a resolution. And uh that was prepared. Uh it was sent