Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

It's time for us to begin our meeting and want to welcome everyone who is here in the chambers tonight.

This is um a special call meeting.

It's a replacement meeting for next Tuesday, which would be our regular meeting.

So anytime there is any time there's a meeting other than our announced meetings, which are the second and fourth Tuesdays, 6 p.m.

And our workshop third Thursday at noon.

The meeting has to be declared as a special call.

We'll conduct the meeting tonight as uh with the same uh agenda that we would have used uh next uh Tuesday, but uh this is special call because it isn't one of those three times for our invocation tonight.

Jamie Jordan is here, and Jamie, if you'll come please and lead us.

Almighty Father, uh, we give you thanks for this day, and uh we give you thanks for all the things that uh maybe that have blessed us this day that we've just taken uh for granted.

We give you thanks for a great city, uh great city leadership, Lord, that you have blessed us with for good people who will gather in meetings such as this to make a great city even better.

So Lord, uh you love us, your people, more than we could ever know.

I pray that uh those who are voting and making decisions, Lord, will just um realize that love that you have for uh for your people, Lord, and uh that they would operate out of that same kind of love.

Lord, I pray for all tonight that you would just pour out your wisdom, let us lean on you and not ourselves.

Lord, uh my heart um is heavy for uh and and and just feels tugged towards our uh first responders as just always, Lord.

I'm gonna pray a special protection over them, some of whom are represented in this meeting here.

Lord, would you look after them, those who uh are called uh to look after the rest of us?

And I pray that you would uh just protect them and Lord that you would use them uh in mighty ways to save the people that you love, Lord.

So continue to equip them and equip the rest of us to do what you have called us to do.

We pray this all in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Everybody say, Jamie.

Serves on our housing uh section eight housing board and uh newly on our housing authority board.

Thank you for your service, sir.

Honored to have a local U.S.

Armed Forces veteran with us to lead the pledge of allegiance.

We're pleased to welcome Mr.

Paul Mazurik, Staff Sergeant retired.

Mr.

Missouri is the chairman of the Madison County Veterans Committee.

He served 21 years in the Kentucky National Guard and is a desert storm veteran.

He was a member of the 2123rd Heavy Equipment Transportation Unit here in Richmond and is also a member of the Kentucky Veterans Hall of Fame.

Congratulations, sir.

Mr.

Mazurick, thank you for your service to our country and for leading our pledge this evening.

Please, sir, proceed.

And to say one individual with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, sir.

We'll call the meeting to order.

Madam Clerk, please call the role.

Commissioner Cole.

Yes.

Commissioner Gobel.

Yes.

Commissioner Newby.

Here.

Commissioner Brewer.

President.

Mayor Blythe.

Thank you.

Our first presentation for the evening.

The domestic violence awareness proclamation.

And let's see, those are there.

Okay.

You guide me.

Wow.

Yeah.

This is always I guess the time of mixed emotions for us.

Not that we even do this.

Says something about our society.

We're so grateful for those.

I can for who give it themselves that some good things can be provided for those who are found from time to time in certain undesirable circumstances.

Why don't we do this in reverse this time?

Why don't you do your remarks first and then we'll read the proclamation?

Okay.

All right.

We're doing this a little early what we typically do.

But unfortunately, we do have to come together in October to recognize domestic violence awareness month.

And honestly, it's a beautiful mixture of colors because it's breast cancer awareness month as well, and unfortunately, we have to continue to fight that as well.

Last year in Kentucky, we're working on the numbers for this year, but last year at this time I reported the year before we had 57 people in the state of Kentucky who lost their lives due to domestic violence.

That's an issue.

We are working strongly with our first responders and our criminal justice system to look at cases that are more high risk so we can lower some of those numbers.

Unfortunately, we have people who die at the hands of people who are supposed to love them all the time.

So domestic violence awareness month is something that we work hard to recognize and to pull the community in with us as well.

So you know that we always when we do that, we kick it off with lunch at City Hall.

So we are doing that again this year.

We'll be eating here this year.

We were at Berea last year, but we're back in Richmond this year, and it will be on Thursday, October 2nd, I believe, and we'll be here at 11 a.m.

Come.

We'll we'll read the proclamation again, and hopefully we'll have all of our governments together.

Uh Mayor Fraley and and uh Judge Taylor are wonderful to make it over or send somebody and so we all come together and we invite the community to come and have lunch with us, and you'll hear a wonderful speaker this year who will say some words, share her story, and we will have lunch together and talk about ways that we can you know battle domestic violence in this community.

Madison County is a safer community because it has so many resources like Hope Swings, like Enrich, like the food pantry, like the folks at Baptist Help.

We are a very fortunate community.

So I invite all of you to join us for lunch at City Hall.

Um there are a few other things that we'll do in October where look, we are planning our first 5K.

I may have to lean on you all because we you know we have never done this before, and I clearly do not run 5Ks, right?

So I will stand with the snacks, I'll wait for people to finish on with the snacks, but we're doing our first 5k.

It's called Hope Takes Flight, and that is on October the 17th, and it'll be at Whitehall.

It's an evening run.

So come hang out with us, register, I'll walk with you.

Somebody walk with me, I'll I'll do that.

Um, but register, come out and join us for that.

We're gonna be doing some other things around the community, smaller things to raise awareness throughout October.

Um, but we're just always pleased to have the city of Richmond support.

You guys are always wonderful to Hope Swings.

You're our family, and we appreciate you.

We appreciate our community because we are your shelter.

We are not a state-operated shelter, we're not part of the coalition, we are strictly Madison County's shelter.

You saw a need for us, you went to work, you built us, you sustain us, and we appreciate it.

So thank you for reading the proclamation with me a couple weeks early, because you'll have to do it again on October 2nd.

Practice room, oh, and while I had the mayor did say that he would be buying lunch for everybody as it called at Mad Mushroom.

If you have it saying and all of you by lunch at Mad Musher, Rodney, your officers need fed for Mad Mushroom tomorrow.

And I'm gonna push Mad Mushroom because they are given a hundred percent of their sales to Hope Swings tomorrow.

I think they have three locations, two in Lexington and one here in Richmond.

So all three locations are given a hundred percent of their sales to hope swings tomorrow.

So eat lunch.

We are down grants.

You know, I got notice this week that a grant that we get from Kentucky Housing Corporation that isn't a discretionary grant, which if you were in the grant world, you need to understand that those are hard to find.

Those are grants that somebody says you spend it however you see fit, however you need to spend it.

And it's usually a sixteen thousand dollar grant that we're not getting this year because they are not able to offer it.

Kentucky Housing is not able to offer because of funding cuts that they've gotten.

So I need you all to eat pizza tomorrow.

I need to make up sixteen thousand dollars.

So eat pizza.

What time is it?

It is whatever, whatever they're open.

So whatever time you need to think of your people.

Okay.

Let's make them super busy tomorrow.

So if you can help us out with that, we appreciate it.

Otherwise, I'm gonna be open in hot dog stands.

I'm not above it, I'll do it.

I started out doing it.

We saw hot dogs at uh Southern States whenever I first started at those wings, so I don't mind.

We'll turn it into whatever we need to.

Let me spread me in that.

Okay.

And we have a moral obligation to support the victims and their children by putting in place strategies for preventing it in the future.

And whereas domestic violence destroys lives and damages the dignity of men, women, and children, whereas domestic violence awareness month is an opportunity to emphasize our commitment to ending domestic violence in our community, and whereas a home should be the ultimate place for safety, comfort, and love.

Domestic violence shatters these basic foundations of life.

We are strongly committed to addressing domestic violence and helping those who have been victimized.

And whereas during domestic violence awareness month, we're grateful for the agencies and individuals providing care to those affected by these acts of cruelty and to law enforcement and the court system for bringing offenders to justice.

By working together, we can build a community where every home honors the value and dignity of its loved ones.

Now, therefore, the Madison County Fiscal Court, the City of Richmond, and the City of Borea.

We hereby proclaim October 2025 as domestic violence awareness month in Richmond, Berea, and all of Madison County.

We urge all our citizens to reach out to victims and to help end domestic violence.

Officially signed by Regan Taylor, Madison County Judge Executive, Bruce Fraley, Maria City Mayor, and Robert R.

Blythe, the city of Richmond.

And it is an honor always to join you in this community and recognizing some of those things that cause us to be less than we ought to be.

So thank you for what you do.

Let me see.

Those persons who were representing our paint the town pink monthly this proclamation again from the three government in Madison County and always we are happy to join with those who make special effort to make our community our county community more aware of some of those things in this case health issue that uh is again less than design if you believe this.

Well, listen, thank you so much for having us this evening.

I am standing in for my amazing colleague Sarah Stringfield, she had a family emergency this afternoon.

So thank you for welcoming me.

If I don't know you already, my name is Carrie Martin, and I'm the director of the foundation at Baptist Health Richmond.

These are my two esteemed colleagues here.

Mary Lindsay is our director of cancer care.

And then Kelby Robinson is our community liaison, and and no slight to your position, Mayor Blythe, we call him the mayor of the Baptist.

So very special individual.

But you know, we're here to represent Paint the Town Pink, and Paint the Town Pink began about 17 years ago when some talented team members at then Patti A.

Clay had a vision and recognize the need for us to just better raise awareness of cancer and to help educate our community and to really have a conversation around prevention.

And I don't know if you know this or not.

President Greg Gerard shared with me a few weeks ago that Kentucky is now leading in cancer in the whole United States of America.

We have taken the lead, and that is unfortunately a tragically growing club.

And so we feel called more than ever, as with our Paint the Town Pink campaign to really have this conversation and raise awareness, talk to people, and encourage them to take those preventative measures.

And we do that in the month of October, and we plan a number of events that help us celebrate and uh not celebrate, but educate and pull people together to have a conversation around that prevention space.

And so I'll share with you that the Paint the Town Pink, it didn't start out as a fundraising effort.

It truly started out as a special community campaign, but it ended up realizing generosity.

And so over time, it's realized over 150,000 in generosity, and we've done some really beautiful things with that generosity.

And I'll share with you a couple of them.

We've realized a new cancer center.

We opened the doors on it over a year ago, and really feel called to make sure that we can serve all those who need that care.

And then Mary Lindsay has a beautiful quilt here.

Mary Lindsay, why don't you hold that up so they can see it?

But this quilt is made by a wonderful group of women in our community who gather every single week to make quilts that we can turn around and give to our cancer patients at Baptist Health Richmond on their first day of treatment.

Generosity is what empowers and allows those quilts to be made.

So I assure you that not only is Paint the Town Paint creating a conversation, it's helping to realize generosity that is making a big difference in the lives of those who are navigating this journey.

So with that said, I hope that you will plan to join us.

We have a couple of special events coming up on Friday, September the 26th at 1030 a.m.

on the courthouse lawn, we will gather for the kickoff, the paint the town paint kickoff, and you'll enjoy hearing from a few special speakers, including some really special survivors.

And then on October, Friday, October the 3rd, we too.

Where's Jennifer?

I don't know.

Here she is.

We too are gonna have a 5K, and so I hope you'll come out and uh get in some hours with us.

It's gonna be here downtown.

It's gonna be called our neon night run.

And again, it's all for the sole purpose of realizing generosity that we can invest in the lives of those who are walking this journey.

I'll end by saying this.

Mary Lindsay does a fabulous job of helping run the team and lead that team over at Baptist.

I had the pleasure of sitting with someone who was overcoming breast cancer.

She was getting her last treatment, and she said to me, and and I'll she was also a mother of two boys like me, and she said, Carrie, look around this room.

She said, look at the nurses, look at the doctors, look at everything you see in this room.

The only thing I've ever seen and felt here is love.

And that's what we're committed to at Baptist, and that's what we're committed to with this campaign.

So my heartfelt gratitude to you all for your support for your in coming, being a part of our events, and encouraging others to do so.

Thank you.

And it reads.

And whereas the promise of Baptist Health Richmond is to save lives and increase awareness of breast cancer by empowering people by ensuring quality care for all and energizing science to find the cure.

Whereas the battle with breast cancer is ongoing.

We urge all women to practice monthly self-exams and women over the age of 40 to have a yearly mammogram and whereas the city of Richmond, the city of Berea and Madison County offer and recognize breast cancer survivors who have triumphed over this devastating disease.

Their courage and spirit are inspirations to us.

Now therefore, the city of Richmond, City of Berea, and the Madison County Fiscal Court, who hereby proclaim the month of October as paint the town paint month.

And in recognition of breast cancer awareness in the city of Richmond, the city of Maria and Madison County, Kentucky.

And we urge all citizens to join in the fight to promote breast health awareness and to find the cure for breast cancer in official recognition whereof.

We hereby affix our signatures.

And Robert R.

Blind Mayor Street's room calls.

Okay.

Wow.

Okay.

It's actually based on the public.

Yep.

Yeah.

You know, so often we talk about the uh the wonderful things that are going on in our community, and we talk about such things as industry and other kinds of uh events of that nature.

Um openings of businesses, but uh this is some of the good stuff, the community coming together to help folks, and um uh it's it's a credit to this community that that they're the hearts that um are willing.

All righty, we have in our packet the minutes from the workshop meeting, August 21 noon, regular meeting, August 26, 6P, and the regular meeting September 9, 6P.

If you've had a chance to look at those, may we have a motion, please that we will accept all of those as presented.

So moved.

Commissioner Cole, second, Commissioner Newby.

Is there any discussion, question, or comment?

There being none, Madam Clerk, please.

Commissioner Goble, yes, Commissioner Newby, yes, Commissioner Brewer, yes, Commissioner Cole, yes, Mayor Blind.

Yes, thank you.

Ordinance 25-22, an ordinance of the City of Richmond levying an ad valorum tax for the 2025 year upon all properties situated in the city that is subject to taxation.

This is a second reading.

We will vote tonight.

Mr.

Attorney, please.

Good evening, y'all.

Good evening, sir.

Now therefore be it ordained by the City of Richmond Board of Commissioners that Section 1.

There is hereby levied upon all property real and personal situated within the corporate limits of the City of Richmond and having a taxable status in said city, which is taxable by the city for city purposes for the 2025 year, an ad valorum tax fixed on each 100 worth of said property as a value thereof has been determined in the manner required by law as follows.

A the ad velorum tax for personal property for the City of Richmond General Fund for the 2025 year shall be at the rate of 13.7 cents on each 100 worth of said property.

B the ad valorum tax for real property for the City of Richmond General Fund for the 2025 year shall be at the rate of 11.1 cents on each 100 worth of said property of the said property.

Section 2, the ad valorum tax for motor vehicles for the year 2025 to be collected by the Madison County Court Clerk shall be at the rate of 28.7 cents on each 100 dollars of assessment and will be used as follows.

Section three, there shall be a 2% discounts on all tax bills paid prior to November 1, 2025.

The face amount will be due from November 1, 2025 until December 31, 2025.

A penalty of 10% shall be added to all taxes and assessments remaining unpaid after January 1, 2026, and that such taxes and assessments shall bear interest at the rate of 15% per annum from January 1, 2026 until paid.

Section 4, this ordinance shall become effective immediately upon second reading, adoption, and publication by the City of Richmond Board of Commissioners.

Thank you, sir.

That's ordinance 25-22, and this again is a second reading.

May we have a motion, please bring the floor for discussion and approval.

So moved.

Commissioner Cole.

Second.

And Commissioner Brewer.

Is there any discussion?

Anything you want to add, Mr.

City Manager.

Mayor, I just point out that we did take the compensating rate this year.

And if you look at the uh personal property compared to the 2024 rate, uh the 2024 rate was 15.3 percent or 15.3 per 100 dollars, and that was lowered down to 13.7.

Um and then on the real property uh 2024 rate was 12.1 per 100, and it dropped down to 11.1.

So we are lowering property taxes.

I will point out that we we have increased our footprint in taxation for assets uh to approximately 396 million dollars.

So that's the kind of growth we're going through right now.

Thank you, sir.

Is there any other discussion, comment, or question?

All right, there being none, Madam Clerk, please.

Commissioner Newby.

Yes.

Commissioner Brewer?

Yes.

Commissioner Cole, yes.

Commissioner Goble, yes, Mayor Blythe.

Yes, thank you.

Ordinance 25-23, an ordinance of the city of Richmond, Kentucky, changing the zoning classification for property located on the corner of Heath Street and Estel Avenue within the city limits.

This is again a second reading, and we will vote tonight.

Turn the page and Mr.

Attorney, please.

Whereas MBR Properties LLC owner has filed with the Richmond Planning and Zoning Commission an application for a zoning map amendment at the corner of Heath Street and Estel Avenue, 165 South Estel, with 0.289 acres, Richmond, Kentucky, and whereas the property is currently vacant land with zone classification B1 neighborhood business and requesting change to I-1 light industry.

Whereas the Planning and Zoning Commission conducted a public hearing on the requested zone change on August 20th, 2025, in the course of which it received evidence and testimony from persons in favor of and opposed to the requested zone change, and whereas at the conclusion of the public hearings, the planning and zoning commission voted to recommend that the zone change be granted, and whereas the planning and zoning commission at its meeting adopted written findings of fact as to the zone change and the issue is now before the Board of Commissioners for final determination.

And whereas the Board of Commissioners believe it to be in the public interest that it adopts the recommendation of the Planning and Zoning Commission in accordance with the findings of fact adopted by that body.

Now, therefore, be it ordained that Section 1, the Board of Commissioners does hereby adopt the recommendations of the Richmond Planning and Zoning Commission as to the requested zone change.

The property in question, located in Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, as to which the zone change shall apply, are corner of Heath Street and Estel Avenue, 165 South Estel Avenue, 0.289 acres, Richmond, Kentucky, Deed Book 867, page 598.

The Board of Commissioners does hereby adopt the written findings of fact adopted by the Planning and Zoning Commission as its findings of fact.

In accordance with these findings, the zoning of said property shall be and hereby are changed property is currently vacant land with zone classification B1 neighborhood business and requesting change to I1 light industry.

Section 2.

The Director of Planning and Zoning shall make the appropriate changes to the official map of the City of Richmond, Kentucky.

Section 3.

This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its enactment following second reading and publication in accordance with the requirements of applicable Kentucky law.

Thank you, sir.

This is the second reading of ordinance 25-23.

May we have a motion, please, to bring to the floor now for discussion and approval.

I move.

Commissioner Newby.

Second.

Commissioner Brewer, is there any discussion?

There being none, Madam Clerk, please.

Commissioner Brewer.

Yes.

Commissioner Cole.

Yes.

Commissioner Goble?

Yes.

Commissioner Newby?

Yes.

Mayor Blythe.

Yes, thank you.

Ordinance 25-24.

An ordinance of the City of Richmond, Kentucky amending the city's zoning and development ordinance.

This is a second reading also, Mr.

Attorney, please.

Whereas the City's Director of Planning and Zoning has presented to the Richmond Planning and Zoning Commission for its consideration various amendments to the City's zoning and development ordinance.

And whereas the Planning and Zoning Commission, following public notice as required by applicable law, did conduct a public hearing on August 20th, 2025 for purposes of considering the various amendments proposed by the Director of Planning and Zoning, and whereas the Planning and Zoning Commission, at the conclusion of such public hearing, recommended that the various amendments presented to it be enacted and adopted by the City's Board of Commissioners, and whereas the Board of Commissioners has considered the various proposed additions and does find that the adoption of some is necessary.

And the same hereby is amended as follows.

Section 1, Section 406.5, allowable land uses is amended to provide for following zone determinations.

Social assembly shall be a conditional use in the following zones.

R1A, R1B, R1C, R2, R3, RE, PSP, B1, B2, B3, and B4.

Shooting range shall be a conditional use in the following zones.

AG, B3, I1, and I2.

Section 2, this ordinance shall be effective immediately upon passage following second reading and publication in accordance with requirements of applicable Kentucky law.

Thank you, sir.

That's ordinance 25-24.

Again, this is a second reading.

Maybe have a motion to bring to the floor, please, for discussion and approval.

So moved.

Commissioner Cole.

Second.

And Commissioner Gobel, is there any discussion?

I just had a couple of questions again, and we talked about this, you know, a little bit last week, so I don't mean to repeat myself, but I just I understand that we need to make the modification because our ordinance wasn't clear enough, and I understand that.

I guess in the way that we're rewriting it.

So I just I just would like to, if we could include comments in there, that I just really want to encourage us as a city to closely monitor where we approve those wedding venues to be at in residential developments.

I you know, I live in an older part of town where we struggle every single day with parking, and so if there were a social gathering of a large nature on my street, we literally can't get home.

Yes.

And that happens, believe me, I'm not exaggerating.

So anyway, I understand we need to do this, but I just I'd like for my comments to just express that it's important to me that we provide a little bit more monitoring with this and are very cautious as we you know approve business license and so forth to do wedding venues and residential neighborhoods.

Thank you, Mr.

Cole.

Anyone else?

I just on the shooting range part of it.

A few people would ask me about that, and I you know encourage them to tune in for tonight.

Um I mean, when I think of a shooting range, I think of DOCJT on the EKU campus, and I understand that.

Um we're gonna be able to have shooting ranges within the city of Richmond outside the core.

So I guess if we could just clarify what that means outside the core, I'm not sure what that means.

And then they can be in B3 and I1 zones.

So if we could just if you make it clear what those are, and then what outside the core means I'm not sure what outside the core means.

I will tell you that in these zones, they are indoor shooting ranges.

They're not B3 for business.

Ag B3, I1, and I2, but outside the core, it's thrown me off as well.

There's no language of the Commissioner, where are you getting that language?

From the outside the core?

It was discussed in the planning and zoning meeting.

And there's a lot of things that are that they should be more outside the core, which I totally agree with.

I'm just not sure what to do.

So out what they mean by that is not right downtown Richard.

Not downtown.

Outside the core of downtown.

So that's what that means.

So you could have a shooting range in B3, and that's business.

What's the three?

What what zone is that, B3?

Uh it's it's B3, it's not a road front business.

So think of your business as a B1 as main road front, B2 behind that, and B3 behind that, and there's different classifications.

I can't tell you those off the top of my head, but they're in our zoning classifications.

And then the other one's the industrial.

Right.

That they could be in an industrial zone.

And so I the I feel like on this one it's also monitored by the State of Kentucky, because to do a shooting range, the Kentucky building codes and so forth would be involved too.

So I think that gives us another layer of protection in terms of where those go as well.

And remember both of these, the social assembly and the shooting range, they have to be approved.

They're conditional use.

So if somebody comes to the city and wants to do a shooting range or a social assembly, they've got to go in front of the board board of adjustments.

And they'll have to show that they can meet parking requirements and the guidelines by the state for the shooting.

The safety part out of it is the most important part out of that.

Through the Board of Adjustments with the Mr.

Yeah, I understand.

That's why I wanted to provide my comments so that when those do become the before the board that we pay particular attention to parking because it it gets tough.

Yeah, commenting one of these uh from the same record.

Um commissioner, planning and zoning commissioner feels the areas cannot support the parking traffic and the noise generated.

And I think there has to be that kind of respect for the residential area.

Yeah.

Any other discussion?

This is again a um second reading.

There being none, Madam Clerk, please.

Commissioner Cole.

Yes, with my comments, please.

Commissioner Goble.

Yes.

Commissioner Newby?

Yes.

Commissioner Brewer.

Yes.

Mayor Blythe.

Yes, thank you.

And Commissioner Cole, to further that.

I would I would think in the spirit of this, if we determine down the road that the granting of the permission to do some of these events is just not working.

Uh, you know, that there would be action that we then would take accordingly.

Thank you.

Yes, indeed.

Um there is the concern in many of our long-settled neighborhoods uh that some things are changing.

Change is not bad.

It's just that sometimes it's an imposition some of the things that are taking place, and I've seen it in several.

And uh so we'll be keeping the eyes and ears open.

Applications, regulations being the titles, this is a first reading.

Mr.

Attorney, please.

It's a first reading, not a filibuster.

I promise that.

But there was just a lot of changes that need to be made in this ordinance.

Whereas Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Charles M.

Leipzig described Kentucky's alcohol statutes as a maze of obscure statutory language, which were confusing at best, and whose meaning was anybody's guess in Howard v.

Taylor, 695, Southwest 2nd, 420 at 427, Kentucky 1985.

And whereas the city places a priority on presenting ordinances in a manner that are easy to understand for a layman citizen and or business owner.

And whereas the city, through this ordinance amendment, seeks to provide city residents and business owners with the most current city process for the application for city alcohol licenses.

Now, therefore, be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Richmond as follows.

Section 117.17 of the City of Richmond Code of Ordinances entitled Licenses Required Applications Regulations is amended to read as follows.

A license required.

One, no person shall sell deal or traffic in alcohol without having procured a license as provided by ordinance or without complying with all statutes, ordinances, and regulations applicable thereto.

2.

Any person violating any of the provisions of Division A shall be deemed guilty of a Class B misdemeanor for the first offense with increasing penalties for subsequent violations as defined by KRS 243.990.

Each sale, each dealing, or each trafficking without the required license shall constitute a separate offense.

B state application for license.

Applications for the issuance of new licenses shall be made through the Kentucky Alcoholic Beverage Control Portal at HTTPS colon backslash backslash ABC Portal.ky dot govern external backslash.

If required by the specific type of license, if required by the specific license applied for, the applicant for a new license shall have cause to be published in the newspaper for legal notices for the city as required by KRS 243.360.

The notice shall state the name and address of the applicant and the name and address of each principal owner, partner, member, officer, and director if the applicant is a partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, corporation, governmental agency, or other business entity recognized by law.

The notice shall specifically state the location and of the premises for which the license is sought, the type of business and the type of license being requested, and the notice shall state the date the application will be filed and shall contain the following statement.

Any person may protest the approval of this license by writing the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control within 30 days of the date of legal publication.

One, the publication requirement will not apply for the following licenses.

A out-of-state malt beverage supplier's license.

B limited out-of-state malt beverage suppliers license.

C out-of-state distilled spirits and wine suppliers license.

D, limited out-of-state distilled spirits and wine suppliers license.

E.

Supplemental bar license.

G, special agent or solicitor's license.

H special non-beverage alcohol license.

I transporter's license.

Or O, vintage distilled spirits license.

C, local application for license.

The City of Richmond ABC license application may be found at HTTPS colon backslash backslash WWW.

Richmond KY.gov backslash departments, backslash codes underscore enforcement, backslash ABC underscore license, underscore application.php, and must be completed contemporaneously with the state application.

An applicant's business license and any other city issued licenses must be in good standing before the license may be issued.

Applicants are also apprised that the city of Richmond may revoke an ABC license should any of the information on the city ABC application be found to be incorrect and the declaration that the information in an application is true, correct, and complete to the best of the applicant's knowledge and belief is done so under penalty of perjury.

D, local administrator to approve application first.

Before being eligible for the license approval through the Kentucky Alcohol Beverage Portal, an applicant city license for manufacturing, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages must have been approved by the city ABC administrator.

E.

Payment of delinquent taxes prerequisite to issuance.

No license to sell alcoholic beverages shall be granted to any person who is delinquent in the payment of any taxes due to the city at the time of issuing the license, nor shall any license be granted to sell upon any premises or property owned and occupied by the licensee upon which there are any delinquent taxes due to the city.

In such cases, if taxes due to the city for any taxing period prior to the date of the application for a license are unpaid, and delinquent upon the property or premises upon which a license to sell is sought, the alcoholic beverage administrator may at their discretion approve a license after receiving from the finance director a written statement to the effect that the applicant for the license has paid or has made arrangements with the finance director satisfactory to them for taking care of the indebtedness represented by the unpaid and delinquent taxes above referred to.

This section shall apply only to taxes which are due and payable by the licensee.

F issuance of city licenses.

Upon approval of the application, the applicant shall pay the amount of the license fee provided in the subchapter within the time prescribed in this subchapter to the finance department, after which time the city will issue the license.

G, persons who may not be licensed.

One, an individual convicted of any felony until five years have passed from the date of conviction, release from custody, or incarceration, parole or termination of probation, whichever is later.

An individual has been convicted of any misdemeanor involving a controlled substance that is described in or classified pursuant to KRS chapter 218A in the two years immediately preceding the application.

3.

An individual has been convicted of any misdemeanor directly or indirectly attributable to the use of alcoholic beverages or cannabis infused beverages in the two years immediately preceding the application.

Four, an individual is under the age of 21 years of age.

5.

An individual who has had any license relating to the regulation of the manufacturer, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages or the regulation of the sale, distribution, or transportation of cannabis infused beverages revoked for cause or has been convicted of a violation of any statute within within KRS 241 to 244 until the expiration of two years from the date of revocation or conviction.

H.

A partnership limited partnership, limited liability company, corporation, governmental agency, or other business entity shall not be licensed if one each principal owner, partner, member, officer, and director does not qualify under G1, two, three, four, or five of this ordinance.

Two, it has had any license relating to the regulation of the manufacturer, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages, or the regulation of the sale, distribution, or transportation of cannabis infused beverages revoked for cause or has been convicted of a violation of any state statute within KRS 241 to 244 until the expiration of two years from the date of the revocation or conviction.

3.

Any principal owner, partner, member, officer, or director, or any business entity in which they were directly or indirectly interested, had any license revoked for cause or has been convicted of a violation of any statute within KRS 241 to 244 until the expiration of two years from the date of the revocation or two years from the date of conviction.

I expiration date renewal of licenses.

All licenses except for temporary licenses and state multiple license holders issued under this subchapter shall expire on April 30th of each year, and the fees thereof shall be due and payable on or before May 1st of each year.

State multiple license holders shall be known as batch licenses, licensees.

All batch licenses shall expire on August 31st of each year, and the fees thereof shall be due and payable on or before September 1 of each year.

J.

Special temporary licenses.

The city alcoholic beverage administrator may, in their sound discretion, approve a special temporary retail drink license to any qualified group and or person who is qualified for such a license in accordance with the provisions of KRS 243.260.

The fee for such license shall be $166.66 per event for which the temporary license is issued.

The city alcoholic beverage administrator may, in their sound discretion, approve a special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license to any charitable or nonprofit organization who is qualified for such a license in accordance with the provisions of KRS 243.036.

K.

Special Private Club License Nonquota Type 3.

A private club or non-quota 3 type, a non-quota type 3 license may be issued to any nonprofit social, fraternal, military, or political organization, club or nonprofit, or for-profit entity maintaining or operating a club room, club rooms, or premises from which the general public is excluded, which for more than one year prior to the date of application has maintained and operated a club room or rooms from which the general public is excluded.

This license shall authorize the licensee to exercise the privilege of a distilled spirits and wine retail drink license at its at the designated premises if the general public is excluded.

All restrictions and prohibitions applying to a distilled spirits and wine retail drink license shall apply to a special private club license.

L.

Transfer of assignment of license without authorization prohibited.

No license issued under KRS 243.020 to 243.670 to any person for any licensed premises shall be transferable or assignable to any other person or to any other premises unless a transfer or assignment is authorized by the state administrator in the exercise of their sound discretion under KRS 243.630, 243.640, and 243.650.

If this is so approved, a payment of $50 shall be made to the finance director.

M.

Transfer of license to other premises.

In cases of destruction by an active God or casualty for which a licensee was not responsible, or premises for which a license under KRS 243.020 to KRS 243.670 has been issued, the state administrator who issued the license may, if in their discretion such action is necessary to attain justice, change the license to authorize continuance of business at other premises.

No such transfer shall be made unless the licensee had filed a written verified statement of the reasons for the necessity of the transfer.

If the transfer is made, the state administrator shall endorse a description of the new premises upon the license and shall date and sign the endorsement.

N.

Posting of license.

One, before commencing or doing business for the time which a license has been issued, the license shall be posted and at all times displayed in a conspicuous place in the room or principal room where the business is carried on, so that all persons visiting the place may readily see the license.

Licenses shall be enclosed in a wood or metal frame enclosing a clear glass space so that the whole license may be seen.

Two, no licensees shall post the license or permit it to be posted upon premises other than the license's premises or upon premises where traffic and alcoholic beverages is being carried on by any person other than the licensee or knowingly deface, destroy or alter the license in any respect.

O.

Lost or destroyed licenses.

When the license shall be lost or destroyed without fault on the part of the holder of the license or their agent or employee.

A duplicate in lieu of the original license shall be issued by the finance director after the finance director is satisfied as to the facts, however, the person applying for the duplicate license shall pay a fee of $10 for issuing the duplicate.

Pelles only at a place specified in license.

No license issued pursuant to the subchapter shall authorize the sale of alcoholic beverages of any kind and more than one place, which shall be specified in the license, and a separate license must be taken out for each place in which any alcoholic beverages are prepared to be sold, unless the statute authorizing the types of business a specific license can do includes with specificity that the license travels, such as a small farm winery or a microbrewery license to specific statutorily recognized events like farmers markets.

Q.

Distilled spirits, malt beverages, and wine licenses, kinds, fees.

The following kinds of distilled spirits and malt beverages and wine licenses may be issued, the fees for which shall be distiller's license per annum $500.

Rectifiers license, Class A per annum, $3,000.

Rectifiers license, Class B, craft rectifier per annum, $160.

Wholesalers, distilled spirits and wine license per annum, $3,000.

Quota retail package license per annum, $752.45.

Quota retail drink license per annum, $752.45 cents.

Special temporary license per event, $166.66.

Nonquota type 1 retail drink license includes distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages per annum, $2,000.

Nonquota type 2 retail drink license includes distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages per annum, $1,000.

Nonquota type 3 retail drink license includes distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages per annum, $300.

Special temporary alcoholic auction beverage auction license per event, $100.

Special Sunday retail drink license per annum, $300.

Caterers license per annum, $800.

Bottling house or bottling house storage license per annum, $1,000.

Malt beverage licenses are as follows.

Brewer's license per annum, $500, microbrewery license per annum, $500.

Malt beverage distributors license per annum, $400.

Nonquota retail malt beverage package license issued to a holder of non-quota type 4 retail malt beverage drink license per annum $50.

Nonquota retail malt beverage package license per annum $200.

Nonquota type 4 retail malt beverage drink license per annum $200.

Nonquota type 4 malt beverage drink license issued to a holder of a nonquota retail malt beverage package license per annum $50.

Limited restaurant license includes distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages per annum, $1,200.

Limited golf course license includes distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages per annum, $1,200.

Supplemental bar license per supplemental bar issued to same licensee at the same premises.

No charge after the first five per annum are the same as the fee for the primary drink license.

R.

Payment of the license fee.

The license fee for every license issued under this subchapter shall be payable by the person making the application for the license and to whom the license is issued, and no other person shall pay for any license under the subchapter.

A violation of this section shall require the revocation of the license, the fee for which was paid by another, and also revocation of the license, if any of the person so paying for the license of another.

S.

Partial license fees, forfeiture, proportional payments in law.

One, when a person applies for a license required or authorized by this subchapter after May 1st of any year they shall be charged if the license is issued, a license fee equal to as many twelfths of the annual license fee as there are calendar months, including the month in which the license is granted until the following May 1st, except that no license shall be issued for a shorter period than six months.

No abatement of license fees shall be permitted to any person who held a license of the same kind for the same premises in the preceding license period and who is actually doing business under the license during the last month of the preceding license period.

Two, the proportionate part of the license fee prescribed shall be paid in advance of the time the application therefore shall be made and the license issued as herein provided for.

If any license is revoked or canceled for any reason by the city alcoholic beverage administrator, the licensee shall forfeit any and all claims which they might otherwise have had to any portion of the license fee paid by them upon issuing of the license.

Should any person after obtaining a license to carry on any of the businesses mentioned under the subchapter be prohibited from conducting such business for the full term of the license because of any changes that may hereafter be made in the laws of the state with reference to intoxicating liquors, then the city shall refund to them the proportionate part of the license for the period during which they are prevented from carrying on the business.

T Revocation and or suspension of licenses.

Licenses issued under the subchapter may be revoked or suspended as spelled out in section 117.99.

You disposition, all money derived from the collection of license fees or the forfeiture of bonds percentage to the subchapter shall be paid into and become part of the general fund of the city government.

This ordinance shall become effective immediately upon its enactment following second reading and publication in accordance with provisions of applicable Kentucky law.

Hallelujah.

Never been so glad to get through the alphabet.

He's not scheduled to read any more than you.

Good job, Chris.

You have heard the readings of ordinance 25-25.

Thank you, Mr.

And uh and and I I did not interrupt because this is a first reading.

Uh there may be those that don't have access for whatever reason to the to the text.

And um, we do have a second reading.

Uh you govern yourself accordingly, if you want to say let me do some summarizing or whatever.

Like I don't want to listen.

Mayor, I want to point out this is a great example of Chris's experience from Kentucky League of Cities, what he calls going around and kicking the tires on some of our ordinances.

Yes, and making uh proper changes.

So it's actually I know it was long-winded, but it is exciting for him to see him pick up on these changes that need to be needed made to our orders.

Yeah, that was one of my changes.

Those suggestion changes that we have are to bring us into compliance with Kentucky guidelines, correct?

Yeah.

You heard there are a couple mentions of cannabis infused beverages.

Obviously, that wasn't a Chris.

Let me do this.

Sure.

Uh we've heard this uh reading.

May we have a motion, please, to bring to the floor for discussion.

So moved.

All right, Commissioner Cole.

Second.

And Commissioner Newby.

Now, discussion.

Well, the changes you read to us that are in the in the new guidelines are to get us in compliance with Kentucky guidelines, right?

Commissioner Cole, that is correct.

You heard there were some references to cannabis infused beverages.

Obviously, that wasn't in place when this ordinance went into effect.

Uh, there were a couple other just wrinkles under the law that um it didn't mesh with the statute that needed to be fixed.

Um, and uh just trying to clarify and try to make it more accessible for people in our community that may want to obtain a license.

Uh obviously, like the reading the websites for that, you know.

Obviously, we're we're not we're online now, and the state is as well.

There's not a paper record that they would apply for, which the former ordinance reflected.

That's a place that sales alcohol.

And they sell cannabis.

There, okay, so there is a distinction as far as the the cannabis being sold is derived from hemp.

Right.

So that's that's a little bit different.

That's a wrinkle from the federal agricultural bill from about 10 years ago.

Right.

So my understanding is under under State ABC regulations that there's they they can sell both because it's it's over the counter, and I know the state is looking to regulate it more conclusively than they are currently.

Uh I'm not aware of any regulation right now under 241 to 244 that states you cannot sell both currently.

And we're probably riding in this buggy while we I mean we're probably riding in this buggy while we're we're building it.

A little bit, yeah.

Yeah.

Or to update it flying to plane as reporting.

That was under H.

Thank you, Jim.

Could you repeat that all again?

Sure.

Thank you, Chris.

Thank you so much.

Any further discussion?

Or in our next regular meeting, we will have the second reading.

And uh thank you.

Thank you, thank you.

Order 25-140, that's order 25-140, in order of the city of Richmond accepting resignation by an employee in the recycle department.

Madam Clerk, please.

Whereas Gary Lockhart in the recycle department has submitted a resignation notice to the city.

Now, therefore, be it ordered that the Richmond City Board of Commissioners accepts the resignation of Gary Lockhart in the recycle department effective September 26, 2025.

The Board of Commissioners would like to thank Mr.

Lockhart for his service and dedication since 2017.

This order shall be effective immediately upon its adoption by the City of Richmond Board of Commissioners.

Thank you, ma'am.

That's Order 25-140.

May we have a motion, please bring the floor for discussion and approval.

So moved.

Commissioner Gobel.

Second.

Commissioner Newby, is there any discussion?

There being none, Madam Clerk, please.

Commissioner Newby.

Yes.

Commissioner Brewer?

Yes.

Commissioner Cole.

Yes.

Commissioner Goebbel.

Yes.

Mayor Blythe.

Yes, thank you.

Order 25-141.

Order of the City of Richmond hiring an employee in the recycled department.

Madam Clerk, please.

Whereas the recycle department needs a full-time labor one due to a recent resignation.

And whereas the position was advertised and interviews conducted.

And whereas the city manager has recommended a hire for the position.

Now therefore, be it ordered by the City of Richmond Board of Commissioners.

The following individual is hired contingent upon their successful completion of the city's pre-employment requirements as labor one for the recycle department at a salary rate of 1575 per hour.

Effective payroll October 3rd, 2025.

Jason Lewis is an at-wheel employee and will serve a one-year probationary period.

This order shall be in full force and effect upon reading and adoption by the City of Richmond Board of Commission.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

That's Order 25-141.

May we have a motion, please, to bring to the floor for discussion and approval.

So move.

Commissioner Brewer.

Second.

Commissioner Newby, is there any discussion?

I just wanted to ask our city manager if we could possibly do some social media around the fact that Richmond provides free recycling.

You know, you can put take your recycle bin to the curb and we pick it up totally for free.

I was out walking tonight before our meeting, and our recycle is tomorrow.

And was asking, you know, some of my neighbors, I'm like, you gonna, you know, it's recycle night, don't forget to take it down.

They're like, well, I don't want to pay for that.

But I don't think I think it's kind of one of the best kept secrets is that the city of Richmond does that for free.

And we're already running our trucks, so if we could get more people to recycle, it would help us get some economies of scale in there.

So I don't know.

I just thought maybe we could do something on social media to say we recycle, it's free, and make people more aware of that.

Absolutely.

We'll do it.

And and also uh maybe just an update, not right now, but an update on what we're actually uh taking now at recycle.

And then what we're selling.

Yeah, yeah.

I can invite uh uh Aaron to our next meeting, our recycling director to give us a report, maybe at the next work session.

Thank you.

I don't do glass anymore.

No glass.

No glass at all, and then cardboard boxes were cardboard and plastic.

Cardboard's been probably the biggest item that we have.

Do they pick up cardboard or we have to you they take rubber but don't pick it up, right?

Don't think they do the business is you have to drop it off.

Yeah, the drop I live with somebody that I live with someone that recycles it everything.

But uh yeah, we I think you take the uh cardboard and they pick up plastic and paper.

Cans.

In cans.

And then we pick up cardboard at you know, large retail plastic.

Yes, yeah, like that.

Have we voted on this one, Madam Clerk?

All right.

Order 25-141.

Madam Clerk, please.

Commissioner Brewer.

Yes.

Commissioner Cole, yes, Commissioner Goble.

Yes.

Commissioner Newby, yes.

Mayor Blythe.

Yes, thank you.

Order 25-142.

Order of the City of Richmond awarding a golf cart lease bid for Gibson Bay Golf Course.

Madam Clerk, please.

An order of the City of Richmond awarding a bid for a golf cart lease for Gibson Bay Golf Course, whereas Gibson Bay Golf Course leases golf carts for the course use.

Whereas the city did advertise for bids and received three bids.

And whereas, after careful review and consideration, a recommendation is hereby submitted for approval.

Now, therefore, be it ordered by the Richmond City Board of Commissioners that the City of Richmond accepts the bid from Lads of Memphis, Tennessee for a lease of the following quantity of 64 2026 Club Car Tempo gasoline golf cars.

The mayor is authorized to sign the lease agreement.

The agreement will be effective when both mutual parties have signed and dated.

This order shall become effective immediately upon passage by the Richmond City Board of Commissioners.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

That's Order 25-142.

Maybe you have a motion, please bring the floor for discussion and approval.

So moved.

Commissioner Gobul.

Take it.

Commissioner Brewer, is there any discussion?

Mayor, I would just say that this is a four-year lease.

It was the cheapest proposal for gasoline golf carts.

There's a total of 64 of them.

And looking to the future, we're probably gonna have to next time around in four years or probably three, three and a half years, look at going to electric carts.

So we'll need to need to be looking at building a building, a metal building out there to accommodate that.

So it gives us some time to do that.

Thank you, sir.

Any other discussion.

There being none, Madam Clerk, please.

Commissioner Cole.

Yes.

Commissioner Goebbel?

Yes.

Commissioner Newby?

Yes.

Commissioner Brewer?

Yes.

Mayor Blythe.

Yes, thank you.

Order 25-143 in order amending order 25-76 authorizing the City of Richmond to enter into an updated interlocal agreement with the Madison County Fiscal Court and the City of Berea for establishment and operation of a Madison County Emergency 911 Communications Center.

Mr.

City Manager, please.

Whereas Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapters 2039A through 39F authorize local governments to establish emergency management agencies to coordinate disaster and emergency preparedness response recovery and mitigation efforts, and whereas the City of Richmond, the Madison County Physical Court, and the City of Brea have jointly jointly developed an interlocal agreement to create and operate a unified Madison County Emergency 911 Communication Center, and whereas the proposed updated interlocal agreement outlines a governance structure, scope of services, cost sharing, and responsibilities of all parties involved in the management of emergency preparedness services, and whereas the city of Richmond finds it necessary and in the best interest of the public safety to formally enter and enter this updated interlocal agreement, which was previous adopted by Order 25-76.

Now therefore it be ordered by the City of Commission of the City of Richmond, Kentucky, that the City of Richmond hereby adopts and approves the updated interlocal agreement for Madison County Emergency 911 Communication Center as presented.

The mayor is hereby authorized to execute an agreement the agreement on behalf of the City of Richmond.

This order shall be effective immediately upon its adoption by the City of Richmond Board of Commissioners.

Thank you, sir.

That's order 25-143.

Uh updated and uh may we have a motion, please bring the floor for discussion and approval.

I move.

Commissioner Newby.

Second.

And Commissioner Cole.

Is there any discussion?

Mayor, if I may.

Yes, sir, please.

Uh one piece of language I I did not read and I struck out is under the third whereas where it says cost sharing based on population.

Notice that.

That's actually not correct in reference to the actual agreements where the cost is based on total calls of service on a calendar year, the previous calendar year.

So I just struck through that, and when you sign it, I think we're good with that being left out, right?

Where was that at?

I'm sorry, I got confused.

Uh the third whereas, the third paragraph down where it says cost sharing based on population, that's incorrect.

The call volume.

Yeah, it's it's actually it's based on the share of total calls for each for each government body on a calendar year basis.

So we pay 56 percent.

That's what it is at this time, yeah.

And then county is 24 and then Berea's 20.

That's the current, yeah.

But this in no way affects the agreement that we this board did about paying the first year.

No, this this agreement actually designates each local government to pay their own share each year, and that's reliant on what they determine is the best way to collect that fee.

Then more or less how it's just how it's distributed.

Yeah, right.

That's correct.

Thank you, sir.

Any further discussion?

Order 25-143 with its changes.

Madam Clerk, please.

Commissioner Goebb.

Yes.

Commissioner Newby.

Yes.

Commissioner Brewer?

Yes.

Commissioner Cole.

Yes.

Mayor Blythe.

Yes, thank you.

Order 25-144.

Order of the Board of Commissioners approving a change order number one for phase 1A on the Richmond Regional Sports Complex.

Mr.

City Manager, please.

Allen Company has remained recommended a change order number four.

And whereas the city commission has reviewed the reviewed the agreement and made a recommendation to move forward.

Phase 1A between the City of Richmond and Allen Company.

Change order number one provises slopes on properties and regrade in the amount of 396,396.

Engineers project number 604-24-04.

The mayor is authorized to execute same on behalf of the city.

This order shall be effective immediately upon the adoption by the Board of Commissioners for the City of Richmond, Kentucky.

Thanks, sir.

That's order 25-144.

May we have a motion to bring to the floor for discussion and approval.

Commissioner Brewer.

Second.

Commissioner Newby.

Is there any discussion?

Mr.

City Manager.

Mayor, if I may, I know that's this seems like an awful lot of money.

This these changes were requested by actually us, the owner, and Bell Engineering.

And the the to kind of go through the changes we requested.

One of them has to do with exiting the park on Goggins Lane.

And if you're looking back towards Covington Woods and Brookline, that line of sight, and people coming over the hill is dangerous.

We've asked them to grade off that whole corner of the property so visibility is better for safety reasons.

The other pieces of this has to do with the roundabouts at the top of uh both Goggins Lane's uh entrances and the Tates Creek entrances, where again the slopes are too high around the roundabouts.

We're asking them to peel them off on the top and try to grade them back to a two to one or three to one slope on the back so maintenance will be easier to handle.

It also includes a drainage system.

There's a large berm that runs the length of the eight-pack of soccer fields on the south side, and we need to install a drainage system that goes underneath that berm so the water will run off properly.

The other thing we picked up on, so the eight-pack of fields is kind of tiered.

And if you've been out there, you see this.

You've got two fields here, two fields here, two fields here, and it just kind of goes down steps almost.

And in order to get pedestrian traffic from those different levels, and also park utility vehicles, we need to do some regrading to make paths more at a slope to get from each level.

So that's part of this as well.

Um it moves the traffic that way.

I mean, you had to well, right now it's it's tiered in four different levels without what I would call an acceptable way for people to get from one field to the other.

So they're gonna regrade that and fix that.

And then uh also park utility vehicles will need to get from field to field and need that access as well.

Um I will point out that we did have a change order, it's been some time ago that was a 200,000 dollar credit.

So if that helps your heart burn at all, it is a lot of money, but it is necessary.

It helps Tammy's heart.

Yeah, I can tell.

It hurts my heart when we do these big numbers.

But and I know we talked today, but just to make sure I understand, so just call it 400,000 because it's easier.

Um, but we do have that money in our original bonding and our original budget, so we don't have to go back and get dip into that in any way.

That is correct.

We have enough cushion.

Yeah, but we've got enough uh cushion there.

There's a contingency there, so we're good.

This is a big cushion.

We need a big cushion for this.

Trust me, I'm I'm I told them no more of these.

The wiggle room is getting smaller and smaller.

I'll tell you that.

Any further discussion?

Any questions, comments?

Order 25-144.

The elders would say is on its passage.

Uh there's no further discussion.

Madam Clerk, please.

Commissioner Newby.

Yes.

Commissioner Brewer?

Yes.

Commissioner Cole, yes.

Commissioner Goble, yes.

Mayor Blythe.

Yes, thank you.

This is the period for public comments.

Anyone come tonight to address the um commission, please give your name for the clerk's record and George Childs.

Um just a few little items here.

Here's a drain by the CBS on May.

It used to have an orange cone sticking in it.

I mean, it's a real deep rut.

I don't know if we can get a make it street level.

I'm surprised nobody's corner of uh North Collins and and the main well CBS right there.

There's a there was an orange cone in there for a month or two, and it's gone.

I'm just surprised nobody hires it's on the corner.

It's in the corner or at the corner, it's in the middle of the road.

Oh, I'm not aware of that.

And I drive that five times every day, but go ahead.

Okay, and then uh I think we need to be able to see the planning zoning commission meetings, like we do the city commissioners' meetings.

It sort of keeps us up to date a little bit.

We used to, and just it's hard to stay on top of that.

We can do that.

Uh then on the door district.

Uh way I understood it.

It's like you're not gonna be able to carry in cups from one business to another.

So that's gonna probably create a lot of trash or recycle.

I don't know how we can look into that.

And early on, there was uh discussion about fees levied to businesses and properties that are vacant or not doing anything.

Uh from what I remember, I don't think that fee was high enough to try and discourage them from just trying to sell or move on.

I don't know if there's like a limitation, but that's that and uh free or recycle.

I think it costs you ten dollars for a bin, but you take the bin back and you can get your ten dollars.

That's almost free.

It is I mean once you put the ten in it's it makes the garbage can a lot like I don't we haven't heard anything about uh the city of Richmond uh how they're going to be doing the taxing for the 911 system.

I you know, I mean we sort of kicked the can down the road for a year, I guess by I'm sorry, didn't he?

How are we rich city rich is gonna do what?

We're gonna pay for the 911 after this first year.

I mean for the for the first year, yes.

I mean they have paid, but what where are we headed after the second what were we gonna do for the second share?

Yeah, I mean, you know, the counties been talking water meters and this and that, and I just you know everybody it seemed like it was all together as one unit, and then all of a sudden we split the three different units.

Uh don't know if that was because of the way it was worded for the property value like the square footage or whatever, which I thought square footage was fine.

I mean you're gonna have the same square footage year after year, plus you've got I don't know how many subdivisions have been approved here, but there's quite a few.

So I was just waiting to hear how that all's gonna come about.

So that's all I got.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

All righty Commissioner Brewer.

I don't know.

Excuse me.

I'm sorry, Mr.

City Manager.

Uh, just two items.

Our Millstone Festival is Saturday, October 4th, and then we did get the uh EKU uh hoops event at Dillingham moved from the October 14th to the October 16th date.

That's all I have.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

I was gonna miss it otherwise, and I didn't want to miss it, so thank you.

That it got worked out about whatever means uh Commissioner Brewer.

Just on the Millstone Festival for the car show uh today I learned that we had some specialty cars coming from uh Ohio and other places for the car show that have not been there before, and it's gonna be kind of neat.

They're Mopar cars and gonna be neat, gonna be uh set above than what it has been.

So I look forward to it.

That's it.

Commissioner Cole.

I'm good, thank you.

All righty, Commissioner Newby.

I have nothing, sir.

Commissioner Goebbul.

I'm good.

All righty.

Anything come to the office today that we need to?

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

If all uh hearts and minds.

Hearts and minds are clear.

We'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

So moved.

Second.

All right, Commissioner Cole and uh Commissioner Newby.

Madam Clerk, please we'll make it official.

Commissioner Cole.

Yes.

Commissioner Goble?

Yes.

Commissioner Newby?

Yes.

Commissioner Brewer?

Yes.

Mayor Blight.

Thank you so much.

Yes.

Thanks all of you.

Thanks.