[5:10] Okay, I'm going [clears throat] call
this meeting to order this July the
[5:15] 20th, 2026.
Uh if we will, let's all have word of
[5:21] prayer.
Our
[5:24] gracious most heavenly father, we thank
you and praise you every day for all the
[5:29] grace and glory that you give us. We
praise you for Jesus for taking our sins
[5:36] at the cross. Father, we just pray that
we guide every day from our thoughts,
[5:43] from our hearts to our minds to eyes to
our ears that we just follow Jesus in
[5:50] everything that we do. We pray that this
meeting tonight will benefit the people
[5:55] of this community. Father, just give us
the wisdom and give us the righteousness
[6:01] that we need to just move this town
forward and that we could help the
[6:06] people of this community in Jesus name
we pray. Amen.
[6:11] » Amen.
>> Pledge allegiance. Salute. Pledge. I
[6:17] aliance to the flag of the United States
of America and to the republic for which
[6:23] it stands. One nation under the
indivisible with liberty and justice for
[6:30] all.
[6:42] » Okay. The first on the agenda is the
approval of the minutes. Uh 136.0.
[6:51] » Move to approve.
>> Second.
[6:55] » Jimmy with a motion to approve. John
second. All in favor say I. All oppose.
[7:04] Motion carried.
[7:07] Next is uh our financials 137.0.
[7:17] » Make motion to approve.
>> I second.
[7:23] Kathy Kathy has a motion to approve and
a second.
[7:29] All in favor say I. I.
All oppose.
[7:34] Motion carried.
Next is our reports.
[7:40] And uh while we're looking at the
reports uh and I think this is a special
[7:49] time that we need to I'd like to
recognize two members of our community
[7:57] who have served 20 plus years uh on our
Camelville planning commission
[8:05] which uh don't blame them that's a long
time they're stepping now. But I just
[8:12] want to recognize them for and we as a
city, you don't know how much we
[8:19] appreciate
for uh for you doing that. And Dwayne
[8:25] Squires and if you would, Barry Blevens,
I'd like for both of you to come
[8:31] forward, please.
[8:49] right in a circle here or what have you.
But uh there's a flag for you for your
[8:56] 20 plus years.
>> And we look back to try to see exactly
[9:02] and couldn't find it. So it's probably
we just know it's 20 plus. Yeah,
[9:08] » that's good.
>> Yeah. And I appreciate it very much.
[9:13] Appreciate you very much. appreciate
[9:26] I know you
[9:36] appreciate the opportunity
[9:41] to
grow
[9:44] here.
[10:10] » Any uh questions on any of the reports.
[10:18] If not, we'll move along.
[clears throat]
[10:22] Um
139.0 is old business. Uh
[10:28] 139.1, we have no old business. So,
we'll move along to new business.
[10:37] 140.0.
And the first is 140.1
[10:44] and that's an approval of resolution
26-02
[10:49] from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
MOA
[10:54] memorandum of agreement. So we're very
proud to have received this. Uh it's
[11:01] around $458,000
[11:05] in additional asphalt funding.
Uh we applied for this uh it's came
[11:13] through uh it is designated to certain
streets that when we did this uh we had
[11:21] to go down each street every 300 ft take
pictures and show the streets. So but
[11:28] that is an outstanding
uh uh an amount of money. So, we're
[11:35] going to hopefully get a lot of our big
projects that we know would take our
[11:42] whole entire black top
just to do one or two streets and uh
[11:48] this way we can get those major streets
out of the way and and move on. So, I'll
[11:55] need uh if y'all approve it, uh we'll go
from there. Any
[12:06] strings attached with this money?
>> Huh?
[12:08] » Are there any strings attached? Is this
8020 grand or anything or is this full
[12:13] funding?
>> It's full funding.
[12:15] » Awesome.
>> Yeah. So, Sharon approved and Jimmy
[12:20] second. All in favor say I.
>> All oppose.
[12:25] Motion carries.
And then next is uh
[12:32] 140.2
approval of a resolution 26-03
[12:39] application for Kentucky Office Homeland
Security Grant and that's for uh fire
[12:46] equipment. Uh we applied last year on it
and came really close
[12:53] uh almost to getting it last year, but
hopefully this year we're confident
[12:59] enough maybe uh we can obtain this
funding this year. Uh and it's for
[13:07] rescue water rescue um equipment.
[13:16] You just need a motion to approve.
>> Yeah, I move
[13:23] » Jimmy with a motion to approve
>> phase second. All in favor say I. I.
[13:30] » All oppose.
Motion carried.
[13:35] And uh the next is approval of
resolution 26-04
[13:41] emergency management plan.
[13:46] » I think that was the email. The plan was
actually emailed out to all of
[13:52] the emails or board that was PDF, right?
>> The emergency management plan that was
[13:58] emailed last week or I think
>> yeah last week or the week. That's
[14:04] something that's more than one PDF.
>> Yes, that was it probably. Yes.
[14:08] » I'll make a motion that we
[14:16] » second.
>> Donnie
[14:19] stand with a motion to approve. Donnie
second. All in favor say I.
[14:25] » All opposed.
Motion carried.
[14:30] Uh
next is uh appointments of the ethics
[14:35] board. We have
um
[14:40] three that are
actually expired.
[14:47] One um
be Cody Jerry, Debbie Wimworth, and of
[14:54] course u the late Philan Burch. he was a
chairperson.
[15:01] Um,
I've talked with several people on on
[15:05] this and uh the ones that um
I would like to replace for those three
[15:13] individuals uh Jeremy Wood being an
attorney. Um it's always good to have an
[15:20] attorney on every board or anything
else. He's agreed to serve another
[15:26] attorney.
Um, brother Chapman Bean, uh, who's a
[15:32] good individual in this community. He's
fairminded and I think he'll would be
[15:38] great to have on this. And uh I've asked
uh to take uh Phil Allen's place as
[15:48] chairperson
um as uh Mitch Bailey, which Mitch used
[15:54] to be chief police here, retired colonel
state police. He's I know he's very
[15:59] familiar with ethics and uh the rules
and procedures of hearings and so forth
[16:06] and u and he'll play it straight down
the line. So I think he'll be good for
[16:14] that.
>> What was the last name?
[16:18] » Bean.
>> Bean.
[16:19] » B A N.
>> Is that right?
[16:22] » Yes. And I have to replace
Drury.
[16:33] » Do you need a motion?
>> Yes.
[16:35] » I'd make a motion for the three
gentlemen to be appointed.
[16:39] » Okay.
[16:42] » Kathy,
I got swimmers here in this.
[16:47] [laughter]
[16:50] Okay.
So John with the motion, Kathy second.
[16:55] All in favor say I.
>> All oppose.
[16:59] Motion carried.
Uh [clears throat] next is 140.5
[17:06] the appointments to the housing
commission.
[17:10] And what this is, they all have
expired their terms with the housing and
[17:18] they're just asking for us the city to
approve them to be reappointed.
[17:26] Uh, and there Jennifer [clears throat]
uh, uh, Rasgens, Chris Christina Shley,
[17:34] Frank Kwell, and Lisa Gupton,
their current ones on that board along
[17:41] with myself. Um,
so they're just asking our approval
[17:47] because they they would all like to
serve another term on that board.
[17:54] So I made a motion.
>> Okay.
[17:57] » Recommended
>> Heather with a motion to approve.
[18:03] » Second.
>> Yeah. Sharing second. All in favor say
[18:07] I.
>> I.
[18:09] » All oppose.
Motion carried.
[18:13] Uh next is the approval of the water
sewer project for the emergency services
[18:19] building.
[18:30] This is the estimate to hook on to
what's currently on 55
[18:37] to the location where the building will
be.
[18:48] Is this the cost that was expected? Is
this
[18:52] Yeah, it's basically what we had kind of
thought, you know, by looking at it
[18:58] earlier and knowing that we'd have to
have a lift station and all that.
[19:02] » Yes.
>> Yeah. It's half million dollars, which
[19:05] this Well, it is a lot,
>> but it's within what you thought it
[19:11] would be.
>> Yeah. Well, also too by
[19:15] having that list station too, it will
also help the land beside it too
[19:22] eventually if we needed to too to
additional.
[19:29] » I'll
[19:33] be paid for
>> we'll just have to pay for it. And
[19:37] » I had a cushion and capital project. So
we'll just pay for it out of there
[19:42] because it was not part of the
>> the project.
[19:45] » No, it was not part of the project.
>> That's what I was saying. Part of the
[19:47] project.
>> Yes.
[19:53] » What was
>> f? Yeah. F of the motion to approve and
[19:59] stand second. All in favor say I. All
oppose.
[20:04] Motion carried.
[20:08] Uh next is uh
140.7
[20:14] the approval of water company purchases
[20:20] and you can see you'll see the areas
there that's broke down
[20:27] uh what's actually needed uh
in the
[20:34] water treatment wastewater plant.
[20:41] » Yes, ma'am. Get it?
>> Yes.
[20:42] » And they all look like they're basically
within budget of all the things we
[20:45] already voted for, right?
>> Yes.
[21:01] » A second.
>> Okay. favor with a motion to approve and
[21:07] a second. All in favor say I. I.
>> All oppose. Motion
[21:16] resolution.
>> The what?
[21:19] Resolution.
[21:23] » Hang on.
[21:27] » Yeah. Hang on.
>> Yes. It's It looks like it's a repeat,
[21:32] but it's
It's an additional.
[21:35] » Yeah, it's two different resolutions on
that one grant.
[21:41] » There's two grants that apply for both
of them.
[21:44] » This is also for rescue equipment.
>> This will be for trenching equipment. Be
[21:49] like a trailer. So like if there's like
a a um
[21:55] » Oh my goodness. [clears throat] What am
I
[21:58] » like?
>> Yes. Yes. Yes. It'll have
[22:01] » rescue.
>> Yeah. all the everything in it. So, um
[22:05] that we had to have a second resolution
because it's two separate crises.
[22:10] » Okay.
>> Okay.
[22:11] » Second. [clears throat]
>> All right.
[22:16] Jimmy with a motion to approve. Heather
second. All in favor say I. I.
[22:22] » All oppose.
Motion carries.
[22:26] uh session. At this time, we will need
to go into close the executive session
[22:35] reference to KRS618.0
[22:39] uh pertaining to uh real estate uh sale
or purchase. Um,
[22:54] » we approved that resolution. We did the
resolution on it.
[23:00] I would assume without Lonnie here it
may not be okay.
[23:05] » I have a lot of questions.
>> You're talking about the emergency
[23:07] management plan? Yeah.
>> Yeah. He sent me an email today. The
[23:11] last time that that plan had been
revised was back in
[23:18] I think around 2000. So, uh
he's going to redo this plan where we
[23:27] have to have a resolution from the city
and the county
[23:31] for it to be revised or whatever.
>> Put out my list of questions.
[23:36] » Sure.
>> And they're not being answered, just to
[23:38] be thought about.
>> Okay. In Orlando, I went through
[23:41] conducting a lot of emergency management
sessions. We all knew that it's not the
[23:45] broad overview, but the details that
make all the difference. This is a broad
[23:50] overview for the state, but the
community needs details. Being Red Cross
[23:54] in Kentucky, when the last tornado hit,
I was at TCHS where people were sent
[23:59] that needed to be evacuated. The
superintendent didn't know what to do.
[24:02] Teachers were there. They did not know
what to do, but some wanted to be in
[24:06] charge and made wrong decisions. No
information was shared and the place
[24:09] became inundated with clothes that were
not needed. Several restaurants had an
[24:14] abundance of food with few there to eat
it. Where were people who evacuated
[24:19] could it be known well in advance of an
emergency, not at the last minute? Who
[24:23] will receive and care for them so they
know what to do? Some type of police or
[24:27] magistrate needs to be there. The plan
mentions September County School's
[24:31] transportation directors being the ESF
director. Does he manage all
[24:35] transportation during an emergency? Does
that include road crews? Has county
[24:40] transportation and the city street
department been trained on what to do?
[24:43] Do they just clear roads? Do they help
each other? And if so, when the city and
[24:48] county work together, who's in charge?
Do the police and sheriffs have specific
[24:53] duties so as not to get in each other's
way? Does that happen? Does each fire
[24:58] department know what to do depending on
where the emergency is? Magistrates left
[25:03] love to help. Are there duties for them?
Is TH's emergency management plan not?
[25:09] Now, I learned today that they are
reviewing theirs. So, it's probably a
[25:12] good thing I asked them. Are there
budgets or vans that could help with
[25:16] patients? Where would they be taken? The
same with nursing homes and assisted
[25:20] living. Schools have to have separation
plans for chemical spills, gas, etc. Are
[25:26] those plans known? At the last
tornadoes, there was mass confusion with
[25:31] traffic getting in the way going to
look. Could there be individuals placed
[25:35] in advance of a hit area to keep people
out of the area as best as possible? Was
[25:40] there a meeting of the departments after
the last tornado to talk about what went
[25:45] well and what needed looking into? Are
there any plans for animals? An old
[25:50] emergency plan held vet names and
numbers and names of lots of people most
[25:54] of no longer exist. Red Cross had
information on people who were
[25:59] temporarily house animals. It would be
good to generate something similar to
[26:03] that along with this broad overview. It
would be nice if we could be better
[26:08] informed with details and I'll send it
to
[26:11] » Okay, I can answer every bit of that for
you if you like for me. Uh there is an
[26:18] emergency management book that's about
that thick
[26:23] » and you can read through it. Everything
you talked about is in there
[26:28] » in your old book.
Well, but yeah, it's old book, but it's
[26:34] like everything. It needs to be revised
with new locations, but everything from
[26:39] you're talking about from dead people,
you know, mass u
[26:46] transportation, all this, water, food,
every bit of this is in there. The only
[26:53] one thing that you did say and I was not
involved in any of this last tornado
[27:01] stuff or anything. I I wasn't a part of
that, but I'm well equipped with
[27:06] emergency management. One thing that was
not done that should have been done, I
[27:13] asked two times for it to be done, and
I've never seen a report this day on it,
[27:20] is an after
uh
[27:24] cash after event
followup, like you said, anytime that
[27:32] you have anything like that, that's just
like our Fourth July. I've already met
[27:36] with all of our people and I have all
that laid out to meet with the Fourth
[27:44] July board and Jason to what went bad,
what went good. So, but that needs to be
[27:52] done after any casualty or event like
that because you never learn until you
[28:00] find out. There was communication
problems the last time. There was all
[28:05] kinds of problems. I agree with that. I
wasn't a part of it. Uh but I know about
[28:10] it. I I was around and uh you know, we
put a lot of things in place now. All
[28:18] our communications now, all of that's
tiptop. If if it took three of our
[28:23] towers out, we can still operate. We can
still do all this. But all of that is
[28:32] this man's position right here. He is
the emergency management director for
[28:39] the city and county. Now, when we talk
about disaster, if it's a county event
[28:47] that h that takes place or a county
disaster,
[28:51] the the county judge and emergency
management should be the one in charge
[28:58] of the county coordinating things
together. If it occurs in the city, then
[29:05] it should be my responsibility along
with emergency management. One thing we
[29:10] are going to do in this new emergency
management building we had, we're going
[29:16] to have an emergency management
operation center. Uh that and I think
[29:24] there's things that need to be trained
on that. We need to have classes on
[29:28] that. But again,
it's not my responsibility. We have an
[29:34] emergency management director. I'm not
saying anything bad with Ron. I mean, he
[29:39] had inherited a lot from back, but and
it takes time and time to go through
[29:44] this to revise all these just like we
did our policies and procedures and all
[29:50] that. But you're absolutely right. that
uh there needs to be an an after report
[29:59] uh because
our
[30:04] when this last time happened, our guys
was going in the county. We was getting
[30:09] people from everywhere.
I think there was a problem with phone
[30:13] lines. It was at the Taylor County Fire
Department when they didn't have enough
[30:19] phone lines. There was a lot of issues,
but it's like everything else. We work
[30:24] those issues out over time, but it is a
learning experience and uh believe me,
[30:31] we're we're going to be on top of it.
We're going to get all this revised and
[30:37] uh so when anything happens, we'll be
able to plug in and ABC go down the
[30:43] line. So,
>> we've come because when I first came
[30:46] back, I went to an emergency management
meeting which you weren't there or
[30:51] nobody even knew where emergency
management book was. They had no idea
[30:56] what to do. It was
>> well ask Ronnie to provide you or give
[31:01] you time to come in and look at it.
Anybody can come in and look at it. It's
[31:06] open
record just like anything else. there's
[31:11] nothing, you know, to be hid on it. Um,
but yeah, I asked him to review it and
[31:17] sit down and when I was chief police
here years ago, yeah, we used to have
[31:23] emergency management meetings. There
were several of them, but uh we had it's
[31:29] been
probably about
[31:34] three or four months, I think, since
we've had one. So,
[31:39] any other questions on that?
>> Like I said, I'll give this to I'll talk
[31:44] to him about some of the details that I
feel like.
[31:48] » Yeah.
[31:51] » Okay. I need a motion executive session.
>> Okay. And second,
[32:03] » all in favor say I.
[36:32] Sharon second.
>> Okay.
[36:40] » Let me come out of the executive session
and then All right, Dan. Motion to come
[36:45] out of executive session. Sharing a
second. All in favor say I.
[36:51] » All oppose. Motion carried. Now,
>> but we recognize our new development.
[36:57] » You came here tonight. Stand up.
[37:07] » Speak a little bit.
[37:16] » Very I feel very honored and grateful to
have the opportunity to serve our
[37:22] community.
looking forward to working closely with
[37:26] everyone here and likewise with the
fiscal court. I think that the campus
[37:32] has just a tremendous amount to offer
anyone looking to call a place home and
[37:38] we want to make sure we get our message
out there, tell our story. So, look
[37:44] forward to it. official start date is
August 3rd, but I can I can tell you
[37:48] that already working.
>> The second Friday, that is our schedule
[37:54] period. Obviously, with volunteers, we
sometimes have to adjust that. We try to
[37:58] to be as meaningful and thoughtful that
as we can doing so, but we'll always
[38:04] make sure we have our notices out well
in advance to
[38:08] wishes to join us.
[38:14] Thank you.
[38:20] » Motion to
>> Okay, then there's a motion to adjourn.
[38:25] » Jimmy [laughter]
[38:29] second. All in
>> favor say I.
[38:35] Thank you.