The Paducah City Council convened on November 4, 2025, to address updates to the public transit system, approve routine consents and municipal orders, and discuss new ordinances regarding board member compensation, golf cart usage, and the retail sale of pets. The meeting also featured the proclamation of November 2025 as Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Month and initial discussions on funding a new homeless shelter.
Paducah Transit Authority (PATS) Updates:
Board Member Compensation Ordinance:
Golf Cart Ordinance:
Prohibition of Retail Sale of Dogs and Cats (First Reading):
Homelessness Awareness & Shelter Funding:
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. I'll go ahead and call this meeting to order on November 4th, 2025, and ask the city clerk to please call roll. Commissioner Henderson. Present. Commissioner Smith? Here. Commissioner Thomas? Present. Commissioner Wilson. Present. Mayor Bray. Here. Um I will ask uh Commissioner Wilson to say the invocation, and then we'll remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. Hey Late Father, thank you on behalf of all of us who are gathered here today for all of the many blessings that we have. Thank you for the ability to be involved in useful work. Please provide your guidance for us tonight and for those who are making decisions that impact other issues across our country. Thank you for the opportunity to serve our community. Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, and invisible with liberty and justice for all. And whereas communities, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and volunteers across Paducah are working tirelessly to provide food, shelter, and critical services to those in need. And whereas Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Month is an opportunity to educate the public about the realities of poverty to celebrate the dedicated service providers who work to meet immediate needs and to call for systemic solutions that address the root causes of hunger and homelessness. And whereas every person deserves access to safe, affordable housing and nutritious food, and it is the collective responsibility of our community to ensure these fundamental human rights are protected. Now, therefore, I, George P. Bray, Mayor of the City of Paducah, proclaimed November 2025 as hunger and homelessness awareness month. Mayor, you want to step to the captain. Get your steps in. There you go. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay, the next uh item on the agenda is uh we have uh Jeremy Bumpus here, the executive director of uh the Paducah Transit Authority. I know Jeremy and his board have been working hard over the last uh six to twelve months uh to kind of uh transform the uh the system, the bus system that we have in Paducah, and been hearing a lot about it, so I've been looking forward to having you here. Thank you, thank you. Good evening, commissioners. Uh thank you for allowing me to present today. I'll be very brief, but just want to go over the uh major updates we've made to our fixed route system here in the city and uh how it impacts the city. Uh so if you all turn your attention here, so I want to start by saying for those of you who may not be familiar, so Pats has been in existence since 1981 serving Paducah and it's since expanded, and so we now serve four counties, of course, McCracken County, Ballard, Marshall, and Northern Graves. Um last fiscal year we did 192,000 trips between fixed route and demand and response, what we called our scheduled service. So the major updates are what you're looking at here to our fixed route system. We have four fixed routes, red, blue, green, and yellow that operate throughout the city. Um, and I'm just going to point out a few things, and then I will finish up. Um, what you see here, these dots here, these are what you these are what you call designated bus stops. So in PATS 40 plus years of existence, it never had designated bus stops. Uh, we operated on a hail system, which was dangerous, it was inefficient. Um, and so with the work of a consulting firm, uh, we were able to determine where these bus stops should be. Um, they conducted a transit study that took about six months to complete, um, where they interviewed our staff, interviewed passengers, collected data to help us determine where these stops are. Um, so as you see, we have approximately a hundred and thirty stops between those four routes all throughout the city. Um, and then of course, here, let me.