[0:00] All right. So, uh 6:35
September 9th, let's call the sess
[0:05] regular session of Grand Amless Tax and
District. So, can we get a roll call,
[0:11] please?
>> Yes, sir. I've got Tony Morgan,
[0:14] » present.
>> David Curtis,
[0:16] present by Zoom. Chad Bedard, absent.
Brook Cumins,
[0:23] » Ashley Brinker, present. We have a
quorum.
[0:25] » Have a quorum. Everybody hear us good
tonight? Okay. Thanks, Sean. All right.
[0:30] So, if you would, let's let's pledge our
flag and have a moment of silence
[0:40] of
the
[0:43] stands nation,
[0:49] justice for all.
[0:59] Okay, thank you.
Like to thank everybody that's here
[1:04] tonight. Come to visit with us, be part
of it. Uh so moving on the agenda.
[1:09] Everybody get an agenda. They're back on
the table. Uh and all of us got one.
[1:14] Dave, you got yours?
Yeah. Okay.
[1:20] Yeah. Okay. Check this. So, move down to
item number three is a motion to approve
[1:26] the special session minutes of August
2026. Everybody's got their copies.
[1:32] Ashley sent them out the other day. So,
if I could get a motion for that
[1:39] motion
>> make a motion by Brook. Do I have
[1:42] second?
Dave, you with us? Hello. Hello.
[1:56] Are you with us?
>> Hello.
[2:01] » Yeah, I'm here. I had it on mute.
>> Head on mute.
[2:08] » We got a lot of noise going on here.
>> Okay. Uh we've got a motion on the floor
[2:14] uh for line item number three to approve
the special session meetings by Brooks.
[2:19] And we need a second. I'll second.
All in favor? I
[2:26] » I
>> Any oppose? Like sign?
[2:30] Motion carries.
[2:38] Okay. Number four is a motion to uh
addend or approve the regular session
[2:43] meeting for tonight. The agenda
September 9th, 2026.
[2:48] Has everybody had a chance to look it
over? Everybody good with it?
[2:53] Okay. Motion to approve the agenda for
tonight.
[2:57] » I'll make a motion.
>> I'll second his motion.
[3:01] » Okay. Motion by Dave.
Can y'all hear Dave?
[3:06] » Okay, good. Make sure y'all can hear.
Motion by Dave. Second by Ashton.
[3:12] Ashton.
I line it up number five. Order of
[3:18] business, presentation of the treasures
report.
[3:23] » Okay. So, we only have the one expense
[3:30] » same contract
[3:36] number
[3:42] 111,583.
[3:46] Okay.
on the expense the
[3:52] income and expense category.
I'm again just doing this from the time
[3:58] that
I have all of the
[4:02] bank account open
>> right
[4:04] » um so this is
but the total of what's in the account
[4:11] right now
[4:23] report by the treasur Any questions?
[4:28] » You did contact the lady about the audit
and
[4:31] » Oh, yes. Um, yes. So, they were doing
the audit of all that they've asked for
[4:36] so far statements
those
[4:42] banking dropped those off. They have
those.
[4:45] » Okay.
>> All right. Very good.
[4:49] » As long as it's, you know, it's ongoing
and we're moving forward.
[4:52] » Yes.
>> Yes.
[4:53] » Okay. who the lady is or who the company
is doing it for us.
[4:57] » It is uh believe her name is Tammy. It's
>> PTA.
[5:11] » Can you hear me?
>> Okay.
[5:23] Can you hear me? Okay.
[5:33] » Technology. Technology. Okay. Need a
motion to approve the uh treasures
[5:38] report.
I'll motion approve the report that
[5:43] Brett presented as well as audit.
[5:49] » Okay,
>> I'll second.
[5:51] » Second by Dave.
[5:57] Okay, thank you, Brooke.
Uh, moving on. Any old business?
[6:05] We have none.
Uh just to bring everybody up to speed.
[6:11] Uh there was discussion last minute in
my last meeting about the first reading,
[6:15] second reading of the taxes. Uh what was
that KRS? I sent 65.110.
[6:23] » Yes. 65A10
is the KS reading that we follow
[6:30] of our district and it explains that um
one is set it for us.
[6:46] » And there's
>> and when you read that there is uh also
[6:50] other taxing districts, fire taxing
districts, ambulance taxing district.
[6:55] There's like four of them that are
exempt from the uh the first reading,
[6:58] second reading.
>> Yes. And actually the form that I fill
[7:02] out
uh states that if they hear nothing by
[7:07] October 3rd they will set the rate at
whatever last year's was. So
[7:12] theoretically we don't have to do
nothing.
[7:14] » Okay?
>> You know
[7:18] so there you go. Anyway, uh county vote
on last night so the tax rate is set.
[7:26] Okay.
[7:29] new business. Uh insurance policy
update. I talked to VFIS this week and
[7:36] uh he didn't get it to me today, but he
is working on our our new policy will be
[7:41] due
uh for the next year of insurance, our
[7:46] liabilities and uh our bonding
insurance, things like that. Um he's
[7:51] going he's going to send me the quote.
Obviously, we'll vote on it. uh pretty
[7:55] much the policy stayed the same as far
as uh amounts and what we're bonded for
[8:00] and things like that. So once we get
that in, it'll probably be on next
[8:04] meeting, I guess, cuz he didn't get uh
he didn't get that to me by the day. So
[8:11] So that's just to give you an insurance
update.
[8:14] Line item six, address from the city of
Dry Ridge per section five of the
[8:19] interlocal agreement general service
update.
[8:31] Thanks, sir.
[8:45] All right. Well, good evening.
Uh the packet I hand you there is the
[8:51] August 2026 report um monthly activities
reports on the first page. Basically
[8:57] like as usual goes over the run volume
for the month of August which included
[9:02] 255 EMS calls uh for the month of
August. Breaks down where those calls
[9:07] were located based off of taxing
districts
[9:10] um municip municipal taxing districts. I
apologize. Um also shows your patient
[9:16] dispositions. how many were transports
where those patients were transported
[9:19] versus non-transported.
Uh breaks down also the unit responses.
[9:24] Um I believe and I do apologize I wasn't
here last week. I had a family or last
[9:29] month I had a family emergency uh had
come up that I had to tend to. There was
[9:32] a questions about the breakdown on unit
responses. Um on this report uh since
[9:38] been handing it out to you, it does
break down the differences on EMS
[9:41] responses and fire responses made by EMS
by the ambulances. Um, it does break
[9:47] that down in there. I think there was a
question about um how many ambulance
[9:51] went to different fire calls and this
and that. Um, it breaks that down there
[9:56] in that section.
>> Do you have uh Dave's copy?
[10:01] » What's that?
>> Yeah, I have Dave a copy.
[10:03] » Yeah, if you would. Yeah, give it to his
wife. That's fine.
[10:06] » That's fine. Yeah.
>> That way he he's guilt tonight when he
[10:10] get home or in the morning.
>> Absolutely.
[10:11] » Thank you.
So, like I said, the total monthly
[10:16] responses
uh for EMS is 255, year to date 1927.
[10:23] Any questions on that page?
Very good. The second page now breaks
[10:29] down the fleet management report. Uh
breaks down the mileage and stuff that
[10:33] was uh performed um was driven on the
apparatus in the month of August. Uh
[10:40] total miles driven was 7,93.
Uh total uh breaks down the engine hours
[10:48] per apparatus. As you can see on EC4, um
it's marked at a zero because we got the
[10:53] back on July 31st uh with a new motor in
it. So with that first month, we put 185
[11:00] hours already on that new motor. uh with
a total mileage put on that new motor of
[11:07] 2,293
miles.
[11:11] Um with that sadly to report over the
weekend EC2 decided to drop the
[11:16] transmission on it. So we're getting a
transmission uh put on uh put it in this
[11:21] week. Um should have it back from um the
maintenance uh company, the fleet
[11:26] maintenance company we use hopefully uh
sometime mid next week. Um, so as you
[11:32] can see, it's pretty we're already uh
into September
[11:37] and we've already exhausted a pretty big
chunk of our maintenance budget already
[11:41] on the fleet. So, um, hopefully,
knock on wood, we've hit a lot of the
[11:47] major expenses early that we should be
able to stay afloat uh, the rest of the
[11:51] year. Breaks down the different PM
different maintenances that were
[11:55] performed on the apparatus is listed
there below. On the right side, it also
[11:59] shows the same uh on the fire fleet.
Any questions on that report?
[12:06] » So, you're going to replace the whole
transmission.
[12:08] » What's that?
>> You'll have to replace the whole
[12:10] transmission.
>> Yep. Yep.
[12:12] » And that was 30 something thousand.
>> No, the quote I got back uh was about
[12:17] 7,000 for the transmission, maybe three
or four for labor. So, it's not It won't
[12:21] be dramatic. I think it'll be somewhere
around 10 11,000 time we get it back. um
[12:27] he's going to go ahead and change the
intercooler on it as well because that
[12:30] is the cooling system for the
transmission.
[12:32] » Um typically when you do one, you do
both.
[12:36] » Right. Right.
>> And then the sec the next page goes over
[12:41] our response times for the month of
August. As you can see, our response
[12:44] times are excellent um as they usually
are pretty much every month for the city
[12:49] limits of
Corinth is 13 minute response time. from
[12:54] time of dispatch uh to the time the
ambulance arrives on scene. City and
[12:59] Kitten is 4.5 minutes. Uh Dry Ridge city
limits 3.88 minutes. Um the county
[13:07] respectively in the Grant County Dry
Ridge fire district areas 8.9 minutes
[13:11] outside the district is 11.3 minutes and
then Williamstown is 5.15 minutes. Uh we
[13:18] did make some mutual aid calls over in
Owen County um which is not unusual this
[13:23] month as well with a total response time
of 25 minutes.
[13:28] It just kind of gives you the breakdowns
of how we're performing, how quick we
[13:31] get out the doors, and how um quick we
arrive on scene.
[13:37] And then last but not least is the
breakdown of our our billing cycle um
[13:42] for the fiscal year starting uh July 1
and also for the month of August. As you
[13:48] can see, collections is struggling a
little bit. Um I do project these
[13:51] numbers to go up. Um it's not unusual uh
for this to happen. Um it the billing is
[13:57] so sporadic. One month you'll hit 125%,
one month you'll hit 60%. That's nothing
[14:02] unusual that we will see uh back and
forth. is just simply by when insurance
[14:07] companies decide to write checks. Uh,
one thing I did see that is a little bit
[14:11] slightly alarming that I have been kind
of watching over uh the past year is we
[14:17] are seeing an increase of patient
self-pays, meaning they're not insured.
[14:21] Um, and we are starting to see a little
bit of more increase in Medicaid
[14:24] patients simply because I do believe the
economy has a great effect on that. um
[14:28] with the changes in the American Health
uh the Obamacare plan um now that you're
[14:34] not necessarily required to hold
insurance um a lot of people have
[14:38] dropped insurance and decided to go on a
self-pay method um as you can see that's
[14:42] up over to 11%. Uh which is very
alarming in the fact that it's very
[14:47] close to our commercial payments on
insuranceances. So we watch that
[14:50] carefully because tenency people who are
uninsured usually turn into bad debt.
[14:55] So, we'll be watching that for the next
uh year, but we're right on track. Our
[14:59] ALS percentages transport is sitting
right around 76 77%. Um, which is not
[15:05] unusual. We did have a pretty uh tough
month with a lot of sick patients the
[15:10] last month. Um,
lot of things have happened. So, that is
[15:15] increased a little bit over the month,
but we're pretty much right on target
[15:19] where we expect it to be.
Any questions on the revenue side?
[15:26] the spectrum.
>> No, carry on.
[15:29] » Cool. And just a couple little brief
updates to kind of just go over like I
[15:33] try to do uh every month some of the
things that we've got going on. Uh we
[15:37] finished up some community events. We
did finish up the blood drive up in
[15:40] Kitten. Um for our cancer patient,
pediatric cancer patient that was a
[15:45] pretty good hit. Um unfortunately the
weather didn't cooperate so we didn't
[15:48] get to do the big large scale event like
we'd like but we uh did get that
[15:52] rescheduled.
Uh with that also um did have a kind of
[15:58] a precursor is going to come out
hopefully next month. Um we did receive
[16:02] another accommodation from St. Elizabeth
uh today from the American Heart
[16:06] Association. We had a gentleman that was
having I don't know if you ever heard of
[16:10] the widowmaker heart attack. The
ambulance crew was able to identify this
[16:13] patient having this uh immediately start
a treatment on this patient. The patient
[16:17] went into cardiac arrest three separate
times on this crew. Uh they were able to
[16:21] revive him all three times, get him in a
helicopter and get him up to Edgewood to
[16:24] the Kath lab. Um he was discharged two
days later with no uh defects
[16:29] whatsoever. So with that, the American
Heart Association and St. Elizabeth
[16:33] usually does a presentation because that
is a rare event that does happen. U so
[16:37] there will be a special presentation for
that crew. Uh, I would expect within the
[16:41] next month. Um, I'll broad give out some
more details, invitations to the board
[16:46] if you guys like to participate with
that. Um, that's always open and
[16:49] welcome. We always wanted to tell our
crews when they're doing a good job and
[16:53] honor them for that. Um, last update I
got on the critical care protocol stuff
[16:58] like I've been working on for last year.
Got everything already finalized and
[17:01] approved through Scott County. Um, the
judge executive and the fiscal court
[17:05] signed off on it last their last fiscal
court meeting. Um, I now have the
[17:10] assigned agreement from them. I have to
bring up to uh to our mayor then also to
[17:14] Chuck uh exe judge executive dills uh
for its signature uh which will launch
[17:20] our blood program that I've been raving
and talking about which will be very
[17:23] important factor to have especially with
the bridge closures and we'll be getting
[17:27] that on inservice training on it
hopefully within the next three or four
[17:31] weeks. We are doing that collaborative
with air evac um and Scott County. Um,
[17:36] we have doing we do a lot of inservice
trainings like this and a lot of
[17:40] trainings every month with our evac and
other community partners as well. So,
[17:45] I'm looking forward to that. Hopefully
getting that launched and, uh, long time
[17:48] overdue. Big project. It's been years in
the making. So, with that, um, I don't
[17:54] have anything else to report. Does the
board have any questions for me,
[17:58] comments, concerns?
>> Anybody got any questions?
[18:04] » No.
Appreciate you.
[18:06] » Thank you, sir.
>> Y'all have a good evening.
[18:08] » Do the same. Be careful.
>> All right. Line item seven, board member
[18:14] address.
I'll start to my left this time. Ashley,
[18:18] you got anything?
>> I do not have anything at this time.
[18:22] » Okay.
Dave, you got anything?
[18:26] » No, I don't have anything.
>> Everybody hear that? No, we didn't have
[18:30] nothing.
Okay.
[18:35] Chad's not here. Brooke,
>> I do not have anything.
[18:38] » Do not have anything. Well, the only
thing I had was that insurance update,
[18:41] and I brought that up earlier.
Uh
[18:48] I guess uh one thing to bring up is me
and Ashley and Chad are due up coming on
[18:53] our two-year term.
So, that'll be voted on at at a physical
[18:59] court meeting coming up.
[19:05] the 22nd. Kean is a replacement. Yeah.
So, just uh
[19:11] everybody be aware of that.
It's your opportunity to retire, resign
[19:16] or whatever, I guess.
>> Yeah. If anybody's interested in
[19:22] applying for it, there might be an
opening. Who knows? Okay.
[19:27] All right. Well, that's it for tonight,
folks. Uh, can I get a motion to journ?
[19:33] » Oh, yeah. Sorry. Citizens address. It
wasn't on here. I've been
[19:38] » I've been following my notes here. Sorry
about that.
[19:41] » Yes.
>> Don't know.
[19:54] » Please.
[19:58] I'm I can't hear you.
[20:03] » Sorry about that. I was just kind of
curious about Chad. Um, so you haven't
[20:07] heard from him. Are you guys just going
to kind of wait till his
[20:11] » We haven't heard from him. We We treat
him like I do everybody else, you know,
[20:15] including emails and texts and things
that are sent out.
[20:18] » So, have you talked to the judge or
anybody about maybe replacing him?
[20:22] » We've had discussions the judge
>> discussions with it.
[20:24] » Mhm.
>> Okay. So
[20:27] » that's okay. That was
>> I came by. I don't know.
[20:31] » Okay.
>> You know which way they'll go and
[20:34] » Right.
>> Well, like I said, I was just curious.
[20:37] » Right. Right.
>> Okay.
[20:49] Yeah.
[20:55] » Yeah.
Have you called him or anything?
[21:04] » Like I said, I'm just I'm just curious.
Okay.
[21:09] I haven't talked to him.
>> I have not called him. I That's usually
[21:13] kind of frowned upon, isn't it?
>> Yeah.
[21:14] » Okay. Yeah.
>> Yeah. Pete got on me one time for
[21:17] calling everybody. So,
>> yeah. Yeah.
[21:18] » I I get everybody on an email that way
everybody can see it
[21:22] » with witnesses and all that, you know.
>> So,
[21:26] » Okay.
>> And then I do group text when I do text,
[21:32] » right?
>> Yeah. It's not it's not like discussing
[21:37] anything. It's just like kind of reach
out to go where are you?
[21:41] » Yeah.
>> Yeah.
[21:43] » And and I can't advise if Chuck has
reached out or not. He hasn't said one
[21:47] way or the other.
>> So okay.
[21:50] » All right. Thanks. Thank you.
>> Anybody else got anything?
[21:55] » Sorry about that.
>> What was the name of the
[21:59] » name of what?
>> I did have I did I did have a question
[22:02] just clarification for my part. the um
the insurance company,
[22:08] » Volunteer Fireman's Insurance,
>> VIS.
[22:12] » VFIS.
I for some reason I heard MIS and it's
[22:16] like no, I don't think that's it.
>> No, no, no. Yeah, VFIS. Greg Sammons is
[22:22] our adjuster or salesman or
>> agent.
[22:26] » Agent.
>> I'll get it right. Yeah, that's a guy I
[22:29] talked to.
>> Yeah. Thank you. that and they and they
[22:33] carried us last year.
>> Right. Right.
[22:35] » Right. We we done we went through bid
process last year and and the way we're
[22:41] set up with the contract and stuff, it's
just best stay with them.
[22:45] » Oh, yeah. I just I just wanted to
clarify.
[22:48] » That's fine. That's fine. Yeah. All
right. Anybody else?
[22:55] » All right. Motion to adjurnn.
Anybody?
[22:59] I make a motion.
>> Motion by Brooke to adjourn the meeting,
[23:05] » second by Ashley. Any discussion?
All in favor? I.
[23:13] » Any opposed? Like sign.
Motion carries. Meeting is adjourned.
[23:19] Our next meeting will be I'm looking it
up.
[23:25] October 14th,
6:30, right here, same time, same
[23:31] station.
6:30.
[23:35] Thanks again for everybody's attendance.
I think we got some storms moving
[23:38] through, so be safe going home. I don't
think it's nothing violent. Just summer
[23:43] storms, rain, showers, stuff like that.
>> Please.
[23:48] » We need the rain.
>> We need the rain.
[23:51] » Well, I I don't know. Now we got cracks
in
[23:54] » up up to two weeks ago was mowing like
it was May. Now I got like he said
[23:58] cracks in the ground.
>> All right. Well, thanks everybody.