[0:01] professors from the from the uh from d.c to our state to the local

[0:06] officials lord and continue to bless all the ones

[0:09] that's in and out of the hospitals over atlantic country bless our

[0:13] our first responders over our our teachers our administrators but our

[0:19] elected officials locally lord but please continue to bless his fiscal

[0:23] court and the rightful man of lord and please allow us to be able to make the

[0:26] rightful decision that we have to make lord

[0:29] in jesus christ's name amen amen amen to the flag of the united states of

[0:41] america and to the republic for which it stands

[0:45] one nation under god indivisible with liberty

[0:49] and justice for all

[0:56] all right so we've got uh representatives of the soil

[1:02] conservation district here today and i understand chad you're going one that's

[1:06] going to present the budget and gentlemen we just they're here to

[1:09] present and we'll just acknowledge that we've received the budget today

[1:19] the judge said i'm chad conano with simpson county conservation district

[1:22] i think each one of you have a copy of the budget in front of you correct

[1:26] um just real quickly there's not a lot that's changed from

[1:32] last year to this year other than uh due to some covert things we didn't get to

[1:35] work in schools like normally when you're looking at that balance

[1:39] brought forward most of that is what we didn't get to use

[1:42] in the schools due to the covid um there's a 7 500

[1:46] grant in that figure for dead animal removal we implemented that here

[1:50] recently to help with dead animal there's nothing

[1:53] that is there so we implemented that when you look at general operating funds

[1:58] we're asking you all for 80 000 last year you presented a 65.

[2:04] we've got some things that are we're doing more each and e every year so it

[2:08] requires more money to keep the office open and

[2:11] as you all know we explain this every year to you most of this money that

[2:14] comes into this board is pass-through money

[2:17] it's not to be used in our day-to-day operations it is to go out to

[2:21] the residents of franklin and simpson county on different programs whether it

[2:24] be cape there's a whole list of things that can

[2:27] be done through our office and that's what that money's for

[2:34] we

[2:37] that that pretty much is the budget i think there's it's pretty

[2:40] self-explanatory as you go down through there do you all have any questions as

[2:44] to the budget

[2:52] gentlemen dude you're going to have a question

[2:56] i don't okay the one thing that we are implementing is called the backyard

[3:01] conservation and that will go that's not on the

[3:04] budget i'm just telling you all there's going to be a program called backyard

[3:06] conservation that's going to go into the cities uh to

[3:10] people living in city and town things that they can do in their backyards

[3:13] there's like we've told you before it's not just

[3:15] for the farmers it's for the whole community

[3:18] there's a lot of things that can be applied for

[3:21] but if we don't have the money to get michelle as our admin to do these things

[3:26] then those things don't happen and that's the reason we're asking for an

[3:29] increase is the office is busier and i know i know

[3:33] you all have several budgets that come before you that you have to balance and

[3:36] make work but without this money our office cannot

[3:41] productively work like it needs to work on the state level

[3:44] and on the county level

[3:49] any other questions comments the only thing i'll say chad of course

[3:54] you know scott's obviously on your guys board the only thing i will

[3:58] say is i think as a fiscal court we all made the

[4:02] obligation to try to incrementally get that

[4:04] up as best we could so we will do everything we can to get it

[4:09] there okay we appreciate it thank you

[4:15] thank y'all do do we uh sam do do we have to just

[4:22] note in the minutes that we've received it we don't need a vote that we've

[4:25] done anything okay all right thank you guys

[4:34] all right gentlemen if you had the opportunity to review the minutes of our

[4:37] february 2nd regular fiscal court meeting we just

[4:40] need a motion and a second to approve uh those minutes

[4:45] motion by name next second by myron any question or discussion

[4:51] all in favor aye aye any opposed that motion carries next gentlemen if

[4:58] you had the opportunity to review the minutes of our february 8th special call

[5:02] fiscal court meeting there's no corrections or additions we need a

[5:05] motion to approve those motion by scott second i saw i heard

[5:12] nate second by nate any other question discussion

[5:18] all in favor aye aye any opposed motion carries

[5:26] all right next is to review and approve the first reading of fiscal year 2021

[5:31] budget amendment number eight ordinance number 220.224

[5:37] and this is and nicole may do a better job explaining this and hopefully i

[5:42] won't get it wrong this is moving money from surplus

[5:47] to cover our tractor supply occupational or yes occupational tax obligation with

[5:53] the industrial authority uh

[5:59] the whole the whole taxing district but it'll all it's all replenished money we

[6:03] just got to move the money to be able to write the check

[6:07] or it's got to be it's got to be amended into the budget

[6:11] in that [Music]

[6:19] i mean if you look at area financial statement you'll see this tracking well

[6:21] over and it's the type of district and it's

[6:24] mainly the transition with the very classics where

[6:28] um the industrial authority was receiving that money now we are

[6:31] so that may come [Music]

[6:38] [Music]

[6:46] yeah i told y'all she could explain it better than i could

[6:49] so with that exploration all right we got a motion by marty to

[6:54] approve the first reading of ordinance number two

[6:56] point two two four got a second by myron but they don't wanna ask

[7:00] questions all right how long has uh how long was that agree

[7:04] was it 10 years yes okay and what year are we in on that it

[7:10] finished

[7:13] yeah okay

[7:22] so we have another 10 years of it look what you're saying or it ended in 2020

[7:28] it ended in 2020.

[7:33] any other questions or discussion and we're ready for roll call marty

[7:38] chandler thurman scott poston nathaniel downing

[7:44] yes mason barnes yes

[7:48] all right next gentlemen should be fairly straightforward

[7:53] to approve ordinance regarding the sheriff's four and a quarter

[7:57] commission for collections of fire subscribers fee

[8:00] and we would need a motion and a second to pass the second reading

[8:05] of ordinance number 310.25 regarding the woodburn volunteer fire district

[8:11] y'all recall we discussed this in our previous meeting and the reason we don't

[8:15] need to do one for each we're doing them separate this

[8:18] is just woodburn okay second who made the motion motion by

[8:23] marty second by nate any other question or discussion

[8:29] all right pam yes nathaniel downey yes scott poston yes myron thurman yes

[8:35] mason barnes yes and then the other one gentlemen is the second reading and

[8:41] passage of ordinance number 310.26 this is regarding the plano fire

[8:46] district same ordinance same language same commission just it's plain old

[8:51] rather than woodward motionless gone second second by myron

[8:56] any question or discussion on that one

[9:02] yes myron thurman yes nathaniel downey yes marty chandler

[9:08] yes mason barnes yes all right gentlemen this next one we

[9:14] have mr bruce powell with us today in in case you have any questions uh but

[9:19] i think this one's pretty straightforward too

[9:22] mr powell is working to get some higher speed internets available to

[9:27] our county residents and he's just requested that we grant him

[9:32] easements to our county rights of way along the county roads and sam has

[9:38] looked at this uh bobby's good with it uh

[9:45] i'm i'm good with it i i wish you was hooking everybody up tomorrow

[9:53] okay you're starting to know

[9:59] brooke is there anything that you want to address do you want to address the

[10:02] court on anything or not unless you have

[10:06] questions [Music]

[10:08] so basically what we've got is is this road easement agreement

[10:12] that we would have to make a motion to approve this agreement

[10:17] authorize the judge to sign it and what that does is gives fastnet the ability

[10:21] to work in the county right away to install fiber i've already got one

[10:28] question bruce sir the depths what do you what do you

[10:32] estimate the depth of this cable man we like to go at least three feet we

[10:36] have the capability of going deeper we recently acquired a drilling boring

[10:42] machine that that's got sonar on the end of it

[10:48] that we can guide it if we see a gas line we can actually make it go

[10:52] under but we can go as deep as we want it to we can go

[10:56] under creeks without so you'll probably be

[11:00] below the water lines or oh yeah we don't like to go back and fix

[11:06] stuff yeah it's going to be deep and the thing

[11:10] about it too is the equipment we have we have

[11:14] one machine that's got a blade it's got a big hammering blade

[11:18] it'll go four feet and um the roll of fibers on the front of it it

[11:24] goes over the top it puts it in the ground without

[11:27] actually breaking the ground so it's not going to leave a big muddy

[11:30] mess all the way down the roads the only place we'll have to dig is for

[11:35] putting in a vault or something like that

[11:38] i know we've talked about this before and i have absolutely

[11:42] no problem with this i don't know do we need to put something there that he

[11:46] needs to work you know that maybe if you're gonna do

[11:49] say blackjack rogue or whatever or not

[11:53] blackjack because it's not a counter over sailing road

[11:55] say he's gonna do silent road before you do that

[11:58] could you uh contact bobby show him the plan

[12:02] and make sure that you know it's you know we talked about this before

[12:06] if if there's ever attention of that road being widened or any of these you

[12:11] know chain roads an example would widen that

[12:13] road about four foot well if at the time if you put it

[12:18] in the right of way and put it a foot off the road then later then the

[12:22] fiber will be under the road so my only thing is i would like i

[12:26] really like for you to before you do it show bobby

[12:31] or whoever the public could announce bobby i mean he's doing a good job i

[12:35] hope he stays there for a long time but just show that to him sure and make

[12:39] sure just in the future because he may know of a road

[12:42] you know that's that's going to be widened or there's an intention of road

[12:45] being winding and you need to move it over you know two

[12:48] foot instead of putting it two foot from road he needs to be four

[12:51] foot from road that's all i was just thinking for future you know

[12:56] just to make sure that there isn't anything

[12:57] we've dealt with some of that over in line county too right right

[13:02] and and you know you could talk to me about about roads in my district but i

[13:06] wouldn't have a clue what some of the plans for scott or myron and

[13:10] they would be in their district so that's the reason i would suggest and

[13:12] talk to bobby and he would know okay i just don't want you to spend the

[13:17] time and the money it takes to put the

[13:19] infrastructure in if somebody could have showed you something that you could have

[13:23] done moved it to a different spot and saved you a lot of trouble in the future

[13:27] that's what you think marty so i don't want to say i don't know if

[13:31] we need to include that in here that he or just know that you

[13:35] need to talk to bobby just before you before you do a road

[13:40] i don't know sam does that language need to be included in this agreement or do

[13:44] we just because i'm sure one thing that's going

[13:48] to go out before you start digging or boring holes or anything i mean

[13:52] you're going to have to call that 8-1-1 number and those notifications are all

[13:55] going to go out yeah if we don't then of course i don't

[13:59] imagine we're on that notification list yeah and you know one thing works i know

[14:04] bobby has talked we did this with water lines you know water

[14:08] lines they talked about putting them so deep

[14:10] and bobby wanted to know where they were going to put those if it was real close

[14:13] to the road because if you if they ditch it you know

[14:17] if it's here now and and they have intentions of putting in a ditch that's

[14:21] a foot deep that automatically changes your depth of

[14:24] foot so if you're wanting to be three foot you might need to go for

[14:27] that's i'm just thinking of things that that has happened in the past for

[14:31] utilities and i was right just trying to make it work be as

[14:35] beneficial to you as possible i appreciate that so you wouldn't have

[14:39] any problem contacting public works to coordinate all that no sir

[14:42] so i i mean i i have no problem with granting this easement in fact i'd like

[14:48] to make it as easy as i can for anybody that's willing to put some fiber

[14:51] into the rural residence i'll also move on this second got a

[14:56] motion by marty second by nate any other question or discussion

[15:03] all in favor aye aye aye bruce will get you a signed document asap

[15:09] if there's if there's anything we can do to help you let us know

[15:18] this is the final document and i'll get my signature on it after

[15:23] this meeting bruce and we'll get you a copy of it

[15:29] be a good day to start one i was just thinking

[15:34] tomorrow too yeah it'd be a good day for him to start because he'd need to clean

[15:38] the snow off the roads and everything to get to it

[15:45] gentlemen bruce thank you very much i want to i want to say here too

[15:50] i appreciate your willingness to make that kind of investment in simpson

[15:53] county

[15:56] [Music]

[16:02] i think we got to be more concerned about the federal government

[16:08] [Music]

[16:18] you're going to have the ability to offer up to one gig service with this

[16:21] right [Music]

[16:26] yeah you might not be able to say but do you

[16:29] can you say where your first area you're looking at

[16:34] uh we want to shore up our main tower out

[16:38] on rapids road we have a lot of customers out there

[16:42] probably know rapids road is a state road

[16:45] we have to have another line of permission for that

[16:49] but probably john's loop around in there and then at the hickory flat area okay

[16:57] that sounds good yeah no you will we gotta ask the whole time yeah we were

[17:02] coming

[17:15] all kidding aside we greatly appreciate your willingness to make that investment

[17:19] thank you bro

[17:23] thank you much thank you man

[17:26] next gentlemen if you had an opportunity to review

[17:31] the industrial authority land purchase waivers

[17:34] we need to approve that this is something that i guess one of these

[17:39] we have an interlocal agreement i think you guys have a copy of the interlocal

[17:42] agreement here and there's a paragraph in there

[17:45] that the county when those property sale the county has the ability to waive the

[17:51] sale proceeds in order that the industrial authority

[17:55] would keep those to do infrastructure and road improvements with that money in

[17:59] those industrial parks and a couple of land purchases have gone

[18:03] through that uh i guess kind of got by us one of them

[18:07] all the way back to 2018 you see so you see the letter that

[18:12] that's proposed to waive this from these two sales

[18:20] so i need a motion in a second and then we could open up discussion

[18:24] so local basin so we've got a motion to approve the waiver so

[18:28] you want to add to that authorize the judge to sign those waivers

[18:32] um so we got a motion by myron second by marty any other question or

[18:40] discussion all in favor aye aye

[18:48] any opposed motion carries all right gentlemen next is uh

[18:57] let's see if i can i'm really gonna have to get to where i can figure out how to

[19:03] operate bifocals

[19:07] all right next is uh an an ordinance number 220.225 addressing jail inmate

[19:14] fees uh this would be a first reading of that

[19:17] ordinance and and i had a request from the jail that

[19:22] if we pass this ordinance to make the effective date

[19:26] july 1 of 2021 so it would go with the fiscal year

[19:30] i think that's a good idea so and and i have no problem with that

[19:35] but what this will do the the the processing fee

[19:39] is currently 55 dollars this ordinance would establish that by ordinance

[19:44] the daily charge is currently 30 dollars and this would set it at 50 dollars by

[19:49] ordinance and the reason for the ordinance the

[19:53] best we can tell when we look back there was an ordinance

[19:57] done in 2001 that established these fees and so we we figured to

[20:04] change the fees we need to do so by ordinance

[20:08] second motion by marty second by any question or discussion

[20:19] yeah nathaniel downey yes scott huston yes myron thurman

[20:26] yes mason barnes yes

[20:32] all right next gentlemen if you had an opportunity to review the budget

[20:36] transfers we'd need a motion and a second

[20:39] to authorize those transfers some of the

[20:45] motion by nate second by myron any question or discussion

[20:57] all in favor aye aye any opposed motion carries next gentleman is to

[21:06] review if you had an opportunity to review is

[21:08] to prove a cash transfer of 1901 on 242 from the federal grant fund to the

[21:14] general fund and and i believe nicole did you say

[21:19] this is like some haida and cops grant money

[21:24] so it has to go from that

[21:29] federal grant fund to the general fund to be able to utilize that money for

[21:33] the sheriff's office

[21:42] okay so we've already approved the budget transfer so we probably ought to

[21:46] authorize the cash transfer sold both ways i got a motion by meyer

[21:52] and a second by scott any question or discussion about that

[22:01] all in favor aye all right any opposed motion carries gentlemen finally here if

[22:08] you had an opportunity to review the bills and claims we would need a motion

[22:11] and a second to approve those claims moshe may motion by nate

[22:19] second by scott any question or

[22:24] discussion all in favor aye aye any opposed

[22:31] motion carries then it's a special call meeting we do have reports on here so we

[22:37] can give reports the only thing we can't do from the report

[22:40] would be any action items we can't we can't bring up anything that would

[22:45] require a vote i guess i could defer to you guys

[22:49] because my name being at the top of the list on the reports

[22:53] put you all at an unfair advantage to say thank you to the road crew

[22:56] and all the people that's helped move snow and salt

[22:59] and i know that all of every one of us sitting here uh

[23:03] share that sentiment that these guys have worked tirelessly

[23:07] and we've had countless farmers and you guys can elaborate on that but

[23:12] i really appreciate the effort that's being put in to

[23:15] try to get things back to normal we we had a guy in

[23:19] that that moved here from new york i hope he watches this video

[23:23] and i told him i said listen buddy you're not living in new york anymore

[23:26] this is kentucky three inches of snow messes us up

[23:29] and uh so it is it's a big deal so and it takes a lot of people to get

[23:34] interested i wouldn't

[23:37] that's right so i know y'all all share that same sentiment but i'll let y'all

[23:42] speak to that that's all i want to say all right you know what you said on the

[23:46] uh thanking everybody i know had two or

[23:50] three texts me i'm taking care of this road

[23:52] and tell the road tell the road department you know

[23:54] and i appreciate all that but i also appreciate it seems like

[23:58] everybody's having as much patience as possible with it i mean i know everybody

[24:02] wants to get out and they're they're been home for one maybe

[24:06] two days and it's just like they're going crazy or something but

[24:09] it may be home for two more after tonight yeah it's not gonna get any

[24:13] better it doesn't look like but but uh you know everybody needs to

[24:16] realize it just takes it takes time i think we got what 350 miles

[24:21] of roads in the county and we they don't have enough equipment to

[24:25] keep every road every minute so you know just have patience and if you

[24:30] live on a dead-end road like i do they'll

[24:32] they'll get there when they can get there yeah

[24:37] hey yeah but the only report that i would have is about the boy and girl

[24:41] club they're gonna be where they're working with the school

[24:43] system as well opening back up and it seemed like that uh i heard this

[24:48] morning that the school is going to go to

[24:50] i think a four day week now starting i think march the 8th

[24:54] so and i'm sure and i'm someone that has to gonna be the date that the boys and

[24:58] girl club is going to open up for they're going to try to at least start

[25:01] out between 100 to 150 kids you know and that's a lot less than what

[25:06] they normally would have but under the condition they're going to start out

[25:09] between 100 and 150 kids well it'd be roughly about 50 percent of

[25:13] what they typically do right right yes uh yeah yeah so uh

[25:19] uh and then you know they're looking good down there financially you know

[25:22] we're getting people to to really donate money in down there so

[25:27] financially we're starting to get on our feet so we can do more stuff for the

[25:30] kids good you know and just like the rest of

[25:33] you all said you know i want to thank the road crew and

[25:36] everybody else that's been pitching in i was like someone told me this morning

[25:39] one small one big advantage that a small town have over big cities is

[25:44] you know people tend to come together more you know like the farmers because i

[25:48] live out in the country and i've seen the

[25:50] farmer go up and down the road scrapping the roads off

[25:52] you know and then the county would come along behind them you know so

[25:56] i really was looking a lot better than some of the streets in town here

[26:00] and then someone told me this morning that born and green roads just you know

[26:03] don't look miracles our roads so that so that that says a lot about a

[26:07] small town atmosphere yeah true

[26:13] that's it it's got an echo what these guys said marty and myron

[26:18] they were up there doing their part for sure all the

[26:21] soil conservation folks i know they were out there too i thank them and anybody

[26:25] else out there that's done it i just

[26:28] appreciate all you do sheriff's department all the police

[26:32] state you guys be careful if anybody's out on

[26:36] the road respect them we sure don't want anybody

[26:38] hurt so thank you that's it

[26:43] it's all been said you know you've got enough money i would like to thank

[26:48] you you've got enough tractors you could drop me and scott and nate all for one

[26:51] week and help you all out come on i would like to say that

[26:56] i don't know i don't know if y'all have experienced in yale's district but

[27:00] the state has not done nowhere near the job they have been doing in the past on

[27:05] gold city road temperature 622 they got to but

[27:11] for today or for the first day and a half

[27:14] they would drive to gold city store and turn around they would not take it

[27:18] they would not clean that go see road off to the state line or to the county

[27:21] line nor would they go to the warren county

[27:23] line they would turn around at gold city and come back

[27:26] there's a lot of people live on and drive off we would always get out our

[27:29] way they'll just go so far and then turn around but

[27:32] but warren county was coming all the way down to the warren simpson line

[27:36] but so from gold city to the warren simpson line there wasn't

[27:40] basically anything done for about a day and a half and that's

[27:44] that's not good on that down the road that's traveled that much so

[27:47] you talk to him about the state just i encourage i know they have i-65 but

[27:52] i-65 isn't on the road we need to worry about

[27:55] bayern did you have anything else no i'd say the gentleman what i need to do now

[28:00] if i could i need to have a motion and a second to enter into executive sessions

[28:05] according to krs 61.810 paragraph 1b

[28:13] deliberation acquisition deliberations on the future acquisition of real

[28:16] property by public agency but only when the publicity would be

[28:20] likely to affect the value of of a specific piece of property to be

[28:24] acquired for public use or sold by public agency

[28:28] and krs 61.810 paragraph 1g business discussions between a public

[28:35] agency and a representative of a business entity in discussions

[28:38] concerning a specific proposal if open discussions would jeopardize the citing

[28:43] retention expansion or upgrading of the business most mate

[28:47] got a motion by nate second second by marty

[28:51] all in favor any opposed all right we will adjourn our sailors to

[28:58] the back

[29:10] musicians

[29:27] session if we could okay most of may motion by name

[29:31] second by marty all in favor aye aye any opposed

[29:37] all right next gentleman uh pursuant to discussion

[29:42] uh if you're inclined i would need an uh a motion and a second to

[29:49] authorize ordinance number 220.226 authorizing the issuance of a taxable

[29:57] general obligation bond

[30:02] yeah it'll be first reading of this ordinance

[30:05] number 220.226 i heard two i heard over here first was

[30:11] that marty nate so i heard nate nate made the

[30:15] motion do we need to put in the mountain i think we're going to play oh in the

[30:22] amount uh are you good in the amount of 1.2

[30:25] million dollars you all good with that in the motion

[30:27] yeah i just didn't i mean myron was second nate nate and myron

[30:38] all right any other question or discussion

[30:42] we need to do a roll call so uh sam would you take the roll call

[30:47] sure yes

[30:57] all right the only other item of business gentlemen would be a motion to

[31:00] adjourn i heard i heard marty and i seen scott's

[31:05] hand

[31:08] all in favor aye thank you

[31:20] you

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