Okay, folks, it's exactly 4 30 according to my phone here.

So if we could please stand.

I don't know if Jeannie Wynn is here you see your test.

She 5 30.

Oh, she got the wrong account now.

Is she gonna wait and come at 5 30?

She's not on the 4 30.

Okay.

Oh, yeah, we're gonna have her.

Okay.

How about Jennifer Golden?

Would you leave the pledge for us?

I pledge it to apply the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

And liberty.

And Justice.

Please remain standing and Diana, would you leave us in our invitation?

Father God, I want to thank you, dear Lord, for your presence here with us.

I want to thank you that we live in free country where we can worship you, where we can walk with you, where we can make decisions.

And Lord, I pray that you would give us wisdom.

You would give us strength, you'll give us understanding of situations, and you would give us unified hearts and minds.

Thank you, Father, for your watch care upon this city and upon its residents, and for all of our staff, dear Lord, we thank you for each and every one of them and for the gifts and the talents that you've given them.

Now, Lord, we pray that this every decision that is made in this meeting would be honoring to you, and we thank you for all you do in Christ's name.

Amen.

Please be seated.

Just checking to be sure my cell phone's off.

Yeah.

Okay, everybody's sales off.

I hope.

Uh Commissioner Strode is out of stake this evening, and uh she will be excused from this meeting, but at 5 30, she will join us in the ceiling as we say when when bills in Philadelphia.

So okay.

We officially call this meeting to order.

And the minutes are the first thing, September 2nd, 2025, special 4 p.m.

and regular 5 30 p.m.

meetings.

Is there a motion?

Public.

Motion by Commissioner Cox.

Is there a second?

Second, second by Commissioner Tool.

Any discussion?

Any additions or any corrections?

If not, all in favor, aye.

Motion carries.

Item three, departmental and agency reports three A through F.

Is there anything anyone would like to highlight?

If not, I'll take a motion to approve departmental agency reports.

So moved.

Motion by Commissioner Toole.

Is there a second?

Second.

Second by Commissioner Cox in discussion.

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries.

Item four, informational items.

As we always say, informational items are for information only.

I do want to highlight uh number four A.

Uh I went out to RDC the other morning for suicide prevention um event at 8 a.m.

You know, we don't realize how many kids are taking their own lives in that age bracket.

It is heartbreaking.

And they had a recognition.

We greeted students as they came off the school buses with signs that said have a great day.

We're proud of you.

A lot of these kids never get any recognition at home.

They go home to uh lives that are not pretty.

And so think about these kids and and know that it is a real dilemma.

But it was uh a very sobering moment, and we did a proclamation over the intercom and um just think about our kids.

Let's put it that way.

Okay, also on um 4B, our city manager has received his Kentucky safe occupational safety and health certificate.

So we're glad you completed that, Mr.

Manley.

And um that's all that all right.

Let's move to item five work session.

City of Winchester Energy Audit Results and the Perfection Group is here to present that to us this evening.

So you all will come forward to the podium and reintroduce yourselves to everyone.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah, you said you wouldn't be more than two hours.

Two hours.

I just verified.

Um, thank you very much, Commissioner.

Uh yeah, my name is Carter Alpha and I'm with Profession Group by myself and Ben were here in December, and we presented um what we call a facility condition assessment, just an overview of the city's buildings that they you all own and operate and ways to maybe make improvements to those buildings.

Just an overview of the city's buildings that they you all own and operate and ways to maybe make improvements to those buildings.

We recommended that you all move forward with the guaranteed energy savings performance contract, RFP, which will approved in December that hit the streets in late February, early March.

We were the only company that showed up to the pre-bit meeting and participated in the RFP.

And in June, we submitted this book, which there were some mistakes in here, so we're gonna get updated copies to you all.

What you have in front of you is a very quick summary of this book.

So we submitted this to uh Mr.

Manley and the team in June, met with you and a handful of folks thereafter, went through everything cover to cover.

That meeting was about two hours long.

So at the conclusion of the meeting, we determined that let's get a one-page snaps out together, present kind of the highlights to the commission, and then uh make a plan of action from there on uh how to test forward.

So as I said, my name's Carter Andrew Afro, he's the president of our uh green building solutions group.

We also have Then Apro and Tony Averrow.

Tony's not their big brother, he has their dad.

Uh building company for over 30 years, and uh glad that he put this here today.

So there is a book, more information code in that supports all the numbers, all the details on the page uh they're just gonna dump into, and you have any questions, interrupt us hearing or cardinal.

Should we not hang on to this one since you can hang on to it, and then I'll bring over uh new copies and then I'll have mistake.

I mean, yeah, just a mistake in the uh fire station two and fire station three, some pictures and details of a book.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, so quick we can start.

We're just gonna go over the everyone have a copy of the spreadsheet.

Pretty cut and dry.

This is a snapshot of what car just alluded to within the big book, which has a lot more detail, scope, detail, savings detail, just building information.

But this is just the highlights to get conversation rolling.

You can read, we're gonna go from left to right, uh, pretty clear.

The the six facilities we looked at, you can see there background on the age, that's some older buildings, but what's ironic here is they're operating very efficiently, which we'll go over.

You can see some electric data from LTD, you can see natural gas data, only gas, and then our rolling summary as we move across the page.

But at the end of the day, I mean we're looking at let's go to the cost per square foot uh column.

Everything's pretty efficient.

You made a big investment in this building uh 2024, 2024 last summer with uh windows approved.

Thank you for your business.

Um take the city hall, for instance, a dollar nineteen a square foot for a building that was built in 1912, pretty efficient.

Now, a few things to go with that.

You made some investments with obviously windows and roof, you've done some Legate lights, but what we would recommend to generate a bit more savings would be replace remaining lights in the building.

Install some thermosets on the units that would be able to set the building back when it's not occupied in the evening hours and weekends.

You can see HJC scope is for working across the page.

You have a boiler that was installed here back in 2008-ish, uh by the seat from the building.

They have several different standalone units that condition individual spaces and offices.

Those units are you know there between 2010 and 2012 model units, uh, but they use uh refrigerant that is becoming obsolete, which is R22.

Uh, but overall, I mean that's about it in the scope of this building.

If you can see the rollover, or the big price tag and do that, all our main lights, boiler, the one boiler the four units, and that was about the scope for the city hall.

When we looked at the city hall, so we took pretty in-depth look at your utility data, stripped out the taxes, the fees, and really generated what we would call an energy usage index.

That isn't a big book.

We'll get you proud to that.

But really, this building's operating almost at energy star level as we speak.

So, yes, you have some older pieces of equipment, but overall, there's just not a whole lot of savings to generate uh with that investment.

That makes sense, and that's gonna be kind of the common theme as we rolled down here.

Leave stations next.

You can see same thing, building background, what race structure you're on, natural gas and electric wise, a summary of those two expenses, and then the basic scope.

We looked at things that were gonna generate savings.

Now there are other items in the building that we we've looked at from safety security, AH, AGINC, but this project specifically was how can we reduce your energy consumption?

And you can see, I mean, rolling through the rest of this fire station one, two, and three.

Um, we know you're doing some other things, uh, particularly in fire station one, public works, which has got a variety of buildings and different construction dates up there, but overall, the theme of this project would be lighting replacements.

What you haven't done.

You made some investments in your buildings, like I said.

How can we limit the runtime on the assets eating and cooling assets?

And then what is age uh need for place mainly mainly capital driven.

Yeah, that the buildings aren't going anywhere.

You know, we've got some age assets uh that we're gonna either gonna have to replace now or put on a plan to replace over the next couple of years, which one of the common things.

Um, one thing that's not on the sheet that is in the big book, we did take a look at street lighting saw bud.

Uh you'll have a lot of street lights, a lot that haven't been replaced with LED.

KU is gonna be the best option to talk to and negotiate with.

They have they gave us uh three options that we put in here um from replacement, you know, full conversion all the way down to the most banks for your buff.

Um, but as we've discussed, Mr.

Manley and the team, whenever that time comes, which you all feel is necessary to uh directly with pay is gonna be the best out there.

You know, one we'll be on the street lights.

A lot of the street lights you currently have with over 2,000 street lights across the city, those are on a fixed fee structure, so you're not paying per usage on the flights, which is a little unique.

If you were to convert them, that would flip kind of the the way you're paying in the future, but currently about just under 300 lights that have been converted to LED.

That's likely because they've been knocked down, maybe neighborhoods were were built recently that that went with newer technology.

But there's around 2130 street lights, 286 RLED, 1844 remain to be converted if you were to do that.

Um but again, that's that's gonna be a better negotiated deal directly with KU.

They offer a fixed fee per hole or per light to replace, and uh it's a lot.

That's a big pilot thing.

Is it is uh should these be individual projects, or do you go in and fix?

I'm just uh making this up here kind of do you go in and fix all the Wi-Fi thermostats and all the buildings at one time?

And then and then pick out the next thing, or should these be done as isolated projects?

Yeah, that's a that's a great question.

I think you know I love to say let's do it all at once right now.

It's gonna be a great project.

You can save all kinds of money sign here.

But it just you don't have enough savings with what you currently how you crypto buildings are currently operating to do that.

So you can either budget building by building, um, you could focus on age.

So you're some in the book you have more detail, but some of them can be just for 30 years old in some of your buildings.

But as we're walking, you know, less than long-term, you know, playing with the police station.

What are we gonna do with this building?

We looked at a totally different system in this building that was gonna get each office space individual comfort cooling, but we're talking about 700,000 to retrofit this building.

So we went back more of that light for light, it's newer technology, it's more efficient technology, it's gonna give you more comfort and conditioning for your associates and guests, but it it's really your choice.

Um it's just like I said, there's not enough savings.

You can see here, if we were to look at the annual energy savings, we're gonna do all this tomorrow and do this whole project.

There's only about 10,000 in utility savings total.

Total spend is just under 100 grand between the six buildings for the city, so it's about 10 percent.

It just won't cover that investment cost.

Does that make sense?

I wish it didn't.

Yes, but uh now there's other things you will generate with a project like this on any of these LED lighting, Wi-Fi thermos has four HVC.

You will get rebates from the utility company that's not shown here.

Um that's a check right back to the city for making that investment, and uh there's operational savings you'll certainly say.

I mean, we were out here helping fix the boiler over the the winter months.

That's a cost.

I mean, with a new technology, you certainly wouldn't have as many calls to fix whole equipment, but that's not showing in that savings model.

But you know, really it it's it's up to you guys.

Uh you did need procurement.

We looked at we priced all this out.

We've looked at carrier equipment, train equipment, botholmia lighting, alligram.

It's it's all price in here if you were to say, hey, we want to do one building and do a pilot project for budget for a building next year.

You have met all the model procurement with KRS statues.

So that's if you want to.

So we're looking at six buildings, and in round numbers, one point one million to bring them all up to speed.

That's about a right.

Okay.

The save how much a year?

Yeah, to save about 10,000 utility.

So it'll take you about over 10 years to 100 years.

No, a hundred years.

You'll be doing it five times in that period.

Yeah, yeah, that's right.

Yes.

Yeah.

Well, even at that, it's not going to pay for itself.

No, certainly not.

That's not.

We're not here to tell you this.

No.

Yeah.

And I think it shows you know that we're being pretty efficient right now.

And I think when we talked about it, you know, really, if we were going to prioritize what to do next, it would be the street lines.

Yeah.

That would probably be the next utility on a monthly basis.

There's been about just on a four and grand a year street license.

And not a not to pick on the guy's fire department, but where those bay doors go up and down all the time.

Every time a bay door goes up, it sucks all the cold air out if it's in the summer or all the heat heat out of if it's in the water.

Well, and there's no way you you could stop those bay doors from going up and down because those trucks have to move.

Stations are pretty optional.

We looked at infrared two heating where the objects on a switch where the bed door comes up and it gets off.

So again, there's just not enough savings to pay for.

Then you look at it.

And a lot of the we're planning what you did with the windows group here.

Right.

Yeah, uh over here.

Sure.

I think that's excellent for the city hall.

Those windows and the roof, and that has made a huge difference in here, even in the facility when you walk around.

You know, you can tell the difference.

But you know, any questions from the commission?

Commissioner.

Anything.

We really appreciate the work you've done on this.

We're really glad to know that we are basically energy efficient.

And uh we will keep moving forward.

And uh, you guys have done a lot and helped us understand a lot of what we did not understand.

So thank you.

Very well, and uh when our bay doors won't go up, then we're gonna come get you.

So thank you very much.

Thanks, Burr.

Okay, let's move to item B, recovery ready community certification update.

Uh Jennifer Goli is here with us this evening, uh representing the Clark County Health Department for a little while longer.

She is uh just about to be the brand new director of um I don't even want to say where you're going to in Fleming County, she'll be leaving our health department and going there.

Um known Jennifer for quite a while, she's been very dedicated to this community, and we're a better community because you've been here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, so recovery communities.

Uh one getting my data on site visit that happened on July 23rd.

Um are you changing the slide point?

Okay, so I wanted to back up for those of you that may be hearing this for the first time and not familiar with the communities, and just provide a little background about what the program is about.

So it's a state certification process that evaluates and recognize cities and counties that have built local systems and prevention treatment and recovery supports for individuals with substance use disorder.

And the goal is to end a uh to identify gaps to reduce stigma and build the system again that supports people in recovery.

So this came out of this is a result of House Bill 7.

Uh that became law on March 23rd, 2021, which created an advisory council for recovery ready community, and it authorized the development of a state certification program.

Uh in June of that of 2022, uh Governor Pashir publicly announced the recovery ready certification program, and that its intent was to have to implement a to implement a program to help communities become recovery ready.

Um throughout the rest of 2022 and 2023, uh the advisory council was formed, they drafted standards and protocols, um volunteers of America of the mid states and the Office of Direct Control Policy were named partners for program implementation and evaluation, and the uh certification criteria was developed.

And then in January 2023, the program was launched, and the governor announced that they would start receiving applications.

So from then until now, this shows certified counties across our state and opening applications.

So the DARP for counties that are certified.

There have been 31 that are certified, and you'll also see that there are 12 open applications in the pipeline for anyone.

On September the 5th, Boyd, Carter, Clay, Brenda, Fletcher, and Awesley were certified.

And those counties have not been turned dark blue on that map.

So our application.

There's 80 criteria that we had to respond to.

There are you'll see circled up there.

The points that are required are based on a community's population size.

So Clark County, Winchester Park County fell into category three, and we required 70 points in each of those three categories, and 210 overall.

That went into this, a lot of phone calls, a lot of meetings, and other things sidelined this project for a while, and then about this time last year.

We submitted the application on February 19th of this year.

So I wanted to show you, you know, during the final period, we we waited.

We didn't hear anything until June about uh late June about setting up our site visit.

Uh so we had a long period.

During that time, we had seven members of Clark County ASAP who took our application and read it and compared it to here's what the criteria is and gave it a score.

And then we took those seven independent reviews and merged that together.

So we kind of come up with our own kind of our in-house gap analysis to look at as part county ASAP to think about where are our gaps and what categories we work to do.

Now it off the merits.

We will also be getting a formal report by after our application is presented to the advisory council, and a decision is made.

We'll have that to compare this to the site visit on July 23rd.

This is what our agenda looked like.

Um the site visitors told us that based on the review of our application, they wanted to go on site to four locations in our community, and those are listed at the bottom of that agenda.

That was the Roland Art Center, the homeless coalition, the recovery community center, and the NFO.

And then we could fill in the rest of the day based on what did we want to showcase.

So, an example of one of those things was the our critical supports team.

That was not something that was formed when we submitted this application, but it's something we want to make the site takers aware of.

So we included that on our agenda.

And if you're not familiar with the critical supports team, um, it brings together service partners twice a month to review complex cases or situations and a problem solved together to identify ways to best meet the need.

So this is bringing together our social service providers, like our county community services, uh, homeless services and school systems, law enforcement, um, again to problem solve together about complex situations, individual or family needs, and how can they best be solved together.

Um we were told uh to do an agenda starting at 9 and ending at about 3 or 3:30, and we put together what we wanted them to see, and it would have been two days, so we had to really cut, and uh we still held them till 4 30.

Actually, I don't think they left until 5 30.

I think it was five.

Uh, but when they got there that morning, uh we were we were talking with them and bringing to their attention uh the agenda, and they told us don't worry.

We knew at the beginning of their application that uh this was going to be a pattern, so we were prepared for it.

So we had wonderful participation.

Um some of you all here in this room participated in this site visit in some form of fashion.

Um we had over 40 uh individuals from this community to participate in a site visit.

Uh we were uh we were told that we had a huge turnout, they were impressed with our turnout.

So the feedback we received, and this was at the end of the day after we got back from the site visits.

Um we were able to sit down, our application team was able to sit down with the site visitors and to ask them questions and get feedback from these.

And these were some of the things they told us.

They were they were impressed by the level of collaboration they saw in part.

They told us that it was a huge turnout for the site visit, and they said that it was in their site visits that they had done to that point, 25, that it was the biggest turnout for a site visit, second normally to Northern Kentucky, which was a four county regional application replay site.

So we were very pleased, and we thank those of you here participating.

Uh they told us that they saw no red flags.

Uh they commented that uh the youth drop-in center, which they were referring to the role of the arts center, uh, was a crown jewel for the community, and they were very complimentary to the level of services that were available for the homeless in Clark County.

They also said that through their site visits, the main pressure points that they see for communities are four things services for the homeless, NIMVISM, which is the kind of not in my backyard, uh, recovery housing and transportation, and they did not view any of those as pressure points for Clark County.

Now that doesn't mean we're optimal, we don't have work to do.

Um so what are our next steps?

So the um advisory council, their next meeting will be in November, but there's not been a date set for that.

And I actually emailed the contact earlier today to check on that, and it the date has not yet been set.

But the site visitors will present their site visit report to the recovery ready communities advisory council.

They meet at the Justice Cabinet.

We will know when that meeting is, what the time is, and we can attend that in person, or we can we'll have a link where we swatch online.

They will make a decision at that meeting whether we're approved or not approved for certification.

Um if approved, well, whether we're approved or not approved, we're going to get a recommendation report back and a scorecard that will outline our strengths and opportunities.

And this is not a punitive type thing.

If we were to not be approved, they have told us we're here to help you, we're here to help you look at the gaps and how you can fill them so that you can achieve certification.

Um certification is for three years, and they are working on a recertification program.

So Boyle County was the first county in the state to be certified, and they were certified in 2023.

Certification time period.

So how can this be used?

You know, the second bullet there and their recommendation reports for part.

Um as a copy of the application we submitted, and she was able to read through it.

There's a lot of time and effort that went into collecting this information and documentation.

And we as Clark County members of Clark County A staff hope that this body will use this information and the recommendation report score part to come to help determine it will be one piece of data to use to determine how should we allocate openly doctors to best needs.

It's about telling the story and an applicant to be able to tell here's how local abatement funds is is being used.

Here's why we need to apply, we need state abatement funds.

And I'm gonna invite Ron if he has anything to add, any other comments about the top project or anything you'd like to share.

Well, just one two things.

I just wanted to mention one of the things they were impressed, and I don't know if if all of you are familiar with the locks box, um, but essentially it's it's it's a box that contains doses of Narcan, and we have been promoting that throughout the community.

They were impressed with the number of boxes.

Essentially, what we've how we've promoted it is that you put it in an office or a play put that as access in case some emergency, like at the library, they have it behind the counter at the front desk in case somebody passes out or somebody's in the parking lot, whatever.

But we have we have over 60, I think it's 60 cents, something like that, throughout this community and businesses, grocery stores throughout the entire school system.

Um the you know, uh the like I said, the library, chamber of commerce tourism office, you know, they were impressed with our ability to get those boxes out, and we do we do the training as well with the staff when those are when those are out, and um, so that was just one of the things that they mentioned that you know was Clark County was unlike other counties with with that in that one regard, well, many others, but um, but also the uh again the turnout of the folks that came from a variety of across the community, elected officials, you know, justice or the local court system, law enforcement, service agencies, individual citizens who are concerned.

Um, they were as Jennifer mentioned, they were very, very impressed with with the collaboration in this community.

That's one of the things from a so as a social worker from my perspective that I've heard many many things about this community is that we have a we have collaboration and cooperation, so I think we were proud to hear that mentioned in that review.

So we were just comment, and you may have something to add about this.

I don't know.

Um Judge Mayer did a presentation at lunch, and I it was very impactful.

She talked about her work as a public defender now as a judge, and had the changes she's seen in the court system, the work she has done, and she talked about how these are our majors, how are we going to help?

Um, so we were very glad that she was able to join this.

And thank you, Mayor, for which uh mayor gave an introduction, what the community work that you all are doing.

So uh we were glad to have her and she often for a big part of that.

Any questions from the commission?

And you will let us know, or someone will let us know on the November date when that decision will be made.

Yes, and just briefly explain to us, everybody else besides me may know the answer.

But at one point it was called substance abuse disorder, said, and now it is called sudstance use disorder in the reason substance use, use and abuse two different, they have two different kinds of connotations.

It's an effort to deal with the stigma, you know, uh, because addiction is a disease, and so it's you may change that in the DSM, the diagnosis.

Um, but it's you know, it's an effort to take away the negativity and um and this you know, and deal with stigma that you know we still continue.

I think we've come a long way in this community, um, and across the state, really.

But um, it's still an issue that we have to continue to deal with, but that's why it changed.

Thank you.

Okay, um, on the slide that you had where you kind of self-sorge yourself and we were highlighted, and we were the lowest.

But it's don't uh be because look at that.

To take away the negativity and um and this you know and deal with the stigma that you know we still continue I think we've come a long way in this community um and across the state really but um it's still an issue that we have to continue to deal with that's why we change thank you okay um on the slide that you had where you kind of self-scored yourself and we were highlighted and we were the lowest don't uh see because look at that well no and I'm just wondering yeah so are three well and even corrections and employers I mean employers means community employers yes okay not city employers okay no right and how do you employ yourself I guess I would just be interested to see the self-assessment at some point because it I just wonder how how do you do better is it by having them the nalox boxes is it by having training is filling out the survey something like that there's one criteria for government and that is anti-stigma training that we did officials and first respondents okay so we gave ourselves a two we thought yeah we've done pretty good but we're not we can't say that 100% our first responders and elected officials have done gotcha we went in the middle but that was the sole score with that was that training is understood okay okay yeah now in the other categories there's a lot of other factors that go that would that would take another presentation yes ma'am um but something that should be looked at as we um get our certification decision and our recommendation report and digging into this how how does this look compared to what they tell us our school sure ourselves accurately all and then digging into the the criteria and then no there's not enough money to fix everything instantly and there's not enough bandwidth of people who but prioritizing things sure yeah what are what are quick links what are things that are going to take more long term investments and help thank you questions any other questions if not thank you and Ron both for being here uh best of luck in your new venture and don't forget us here in Clark County I will not all right have formed a lot of wonderful relationships I have some a tremendous experience that I'm going to take with me again for me county's my home county so I'm going back home to work this will be out of 35 years ago so uh I'm excited about it um but I'm also excited to fight the home office well we appreciate again all you've done for this community thank you thank you much appreciated okay uh seeing that's all that's on our agenda um does anyone at the table have any audience for closed session Mr.

Dykman no Mr.

Dr.

Mealy I know we have uh industrial prospects and property KRS chapter 61810 G and property also Mr.

Cox has it for property for property all right which is uh KRS chapter 61810 B okay is there a motion to go to closed session I will make the motion we adjourn to closed session for KRS uh chapter 61810B and KRS 61810 C for property acquisition or for property and potential G for industrial prospect I'm sorry and that at the end of that closed session we adjourned that closed session and also this rate this special call session second all in favor any opposed like son all right we'll go to the city manager's office and take up further business thank you all for being here we'll be back in 22 minutes I'd like to ask Miss Jeannie Gwynn if she come forward and lead us in the pledge thank you so it's your stands under God please remain standing our police chief grabis thompson will lead us in our vacations hell and father would thank you for the opportunity to go here and business of the city for you with commissioners as they make good decisions just pray for our country lords when the what we can we leave that such mainly broke okay please be seated we'll call the meeting officially to order in commission and then you should get right back up we need to go down front then it's genie gwyn come forward I think this thing is taller than me commission um that's made the neat thing is we have great people that work with digital we're always doing some things that they're our lady right here just with our results department

feet your son's mainly broke hey please be seated we'll call the meeting officially to order in commission and need you get right back up we need to go down front needs genie gwyn come forward i think this thing is taller than me commission okay um this ma'am the neat thing is we have great people that work with the wind and they're always doing a thing to better our this young lady right here just retired recently police department wasn't any time she's back again helping out and she's just one if I see an award that's bigger than me then what they got uh but this quite just quite a tribute to Gene and what she has done I'm gonna read you what stay proof of red at the ceremony all right the Kentucky National Emergency Member Association the Kentucky in the NA3 presented to an individual who goes above and beyond the support division of Kentucky Nina and 9.1 across Common this year's recipient is Gordon even in retirement Jeannie continues to serve as a part time focus safety telecommunicator with the Winchester police department but what makes Jeannie truly deserving of this recognition is her unwavering dedication to her 911 family in Kentucky known affectionately as the Queen of Kentucky 91 if we had a costume source for leadership joined for her properties and it's her social she is the driving force for hospitality the contact emergency services conference ensuring that every attendee both welcome and careful beyond her work he continues to be a resource a mentor and a free and self-mitting not just in the chest for Clark County but across our home and then always count on her the radius mile to any room she walked into for her dedication professionalism and her unmatched spirit hospitality we're proud to recognize Jeannie Quinn as the 2025 Kentucky man presence of war and this was read by Truth there and okay there we start so we are really proud of you we also have a certificate slide thank you but we appreciate you let's give her a good thing one says coming in light up the room I've always been tired of people keep it up okay next on our agenda item three commerce lexington we're just gonna give us a little presentation and that will be Bob Quick and Sandy Johnson.

So you all come forward and they'll be quiet in the whole minute thank you very much for letting us come and present our regional competitiveness plan you been supporters from the beginning participating in our initial group that set up um key leaders from a nine county area to uh figure out how could we become more competitive so let me just take a step back uh commerce lesson we do an annual trip or we go to someplace different uh and we learn from those communities typically we're targeting things that they do whatever we know we need to be better at or well I shouldn't say the work and then during those conversations they also help us to avoid pitfalls maybe they may during their their journey on whatever the different topics are well in um in 2018 we went to Rotley North Carolina and we knew before we went that we asked this individual I mean that ever happy we said uh we would like for him to compare us our what we're doing in central Kentucky to what they're doing in the Broadley region or one of our other competitive regions that would be awesome and uh he made the presentation while we were there so we have 200 business and uh community cleaners public and private uh and he started to go through uh sharing with us where our economy stayed as compared to our competitors and we found that we were losing that at the moment we found also that we were like right in the middle

We said uh we would like for him to compare us our what we're doing in central Kentucky to what they're doing in the Broadley region or one of our other competitive regions.

That would be awesome.

And uh he made the presentation while we were there, and so we have 200 business and uh community leaders, public and private.

Uh and he started to go through uh sharing with us where our economy stayed as compared to our competitors, and we found that we were losing at the moment.

Yeah, we found also that we were like right in the middle uh area of other communities that we compete against for jobs, and um, so anyway, it was alarming.

Uh we realized that uh we don't want to be in the middle uh with our competitors, and we also realized that economically speaking, we want to be on the up third, not the downturn.

And so uh and I'm gonna have Andy, she's gonna show you the chart there and then with a whole bunch of others, but we also found some very exciting results of opportunity on the letter of all the public data information too.

So um anyway, when we came back, we formed a group of 45 plus leaders in the county area, and uh this is the same counties that work together, play together, uh interact together over all these years, and um we started the discussion.

So it's again public project, we started discussions about how can we be uh how can we turn that around to the work academy?

And so um we did we have and so we are coming forward number one here at ESF leader of the region, and uh we also would love to have you invest in the plan.

Um we're going out to all the different counties and interacting with them, the cities uh for that, and uh so we just have some information that we want to present to you.

One other thing I want to throw out is we've been working well as a region for 35 years, the economics down the post commerce, government leaders, but in the world we live today, we gotta step up our game, it's gotta be much more effective about the economic health.

So, with that, I'm gonna bring up the person who I think has been the real visionary behind us, who's been the real uh person's really got her hand in a project that's got trust of those alone region, and rightly so she put I don't know when she sleeps, but I I'm sure she does.

Uh she just is so committed to making this successful.

So that's Andy Johnson.

She's our director of regional engagement and our chief operators.

There you go.

Thank you, both and I didn't turn the slides on this.

This really that's very kind of fun.

Harmer's Lexington is what we call the administrative backbone behind this effort, but this really is a team that this takes our local developments, our economic development professionals, our tourism partners, chamber professionals, our education leaders, all working together on this plan for it to be effective.

So we do for shape of communities because we all want to date on it, you know, how we come along since 2023 to where we are today, and what workforce.

So it's all mission, just the uh just as a quick overview.

We have worked within this county footprint for several decades now on economic development and working together as a part of the region worked on public policy, starting first with having a federal uh agenda that was united to be more effective in DC and now working on state issues as well, just unite behind those common issues and common challenges we have.

We also work on the leadership programs through our chambers to help educate reader respondents, you know, breaking down those barriers and county lines to see what we have in common, but also to celebrate those unique actors that make up this region.

As Bob mentioned, he talked about the collaboration that um in 2023 we did pull together a group of our regional leaders um to help us look at where we were as an economy.

We all know now the pandemic that the economic landscape was rapidly changing in terms of what people were looking for in jobs, how technology was changing things, a lot of different variables were impacting competitiveness, and we looked at other cities that we were competing against.

A common thing we saw is that they were really figuring out how to work together as regional units on a shared vision for more effective use of resources.

Um that process through that process, we've looked at what does it mean to be competitive?

What does that mean in terms of each end cities, communities?

And so we looked at a lot of data and research on the nine region within these different categories, and so within that we benchmarked at that time some of the cities that we knew that we were competing advanced for for jobs, for businesses, and for people, and so the big takeaway from this slide is that the Lexington region, we says like that means the nine-county region, we were in the middle of the pack, and quality plays right behind Nashville, and that's strength that we needed to leverage.

But when it came to the momentum piece, which is a lot of the economic data, the jobs we were creating, the wages people were making, the GDP growth, our workforce growth, we were flagging behind the national average and behind many of these as you can see.

So through that process, we've really dug into what was causing our data to slow.

We were still growing, but it was much slower than these other things.

Through this process, we also looked at this.

Oh thank you.

Um so we also looked at what were some of those challenges that may be impacting them on that.

And the data and regional leaders came up with this list of items, which I think many of you all would agree with in terms of the land we needed for job creation, housing availability, affordability, skilled workers, development costs, and what really stood out to us is from a marketing perspective, whether it was e-comment, development, or talent attraction, we were behind those competitor cities in the way we were telling that message.

But we have a big list of strengths to really leverage in terms of quality of place.

And none of these would be surprising to you all to our communities, Excel as all of these areas.

Something else we did is we went out into external markets, four different markets where we knew that young professionals were leaving the region for Cincinnati, Chicago, Nashville, and Indianapolis and did some surveying of those young professionals to see what they knew about the region.

And so the bigger the word, the more often it was mentioned.

So the big takeaway here is just people, even though we know a lot about this region and we're super proud of it.

People in other markets are not, and so really telling our story is something important to leave it to.

So the regional leaders came together and said, okay, let's get intentional, let's have a strategic plan, but we don't want them that it's only 20 pages long, it has a ton of bubbles.

We want to really make this tight and something that we can measure success.

So, and they wanted it to focus on that momentum index.

So, this plan is focused on three things over the five-year period that we're working on it together, increasing our jobs, our wages, and GDP to increase the national average, really increasing our labor course, particularly young professionals into the region, and then continuing to be intentional about our advocacy efforts to attract investments into our communities that support competitiveness goals.

And so, within that, these are the seven action items that the regional leaders identify.

And you can see there's seven specific things to break these into economic development, talent attraction, and policy.

So we'll go a little bit into these just to let you all know if they're comments and the things we've been able to last year.

So we break these in internally, as I say, Connor Substitute is more of that administrative act on who's responsible for making sure we're executing these things, but we break these into talent, economic development, and policy internally.

And so, with talent over the last year, you know, when we got the plan together, 2023 was really initially resourcing it to make sure that we could that we had the funding to execute the deliverables.

And last year was really the first time that we've been able to show deliverables for those, but that's those initial first rent.

So, what those things that we're working on are a talent attraction website, it's look at lexington.com, and in your booklet, you've got a QR code to it, or you can type it into your phone, but take a look at that, it's over 30 pages of content, live, work, play content about the nine county region.

It's a one-stop shop.

We've got a digital front door to the region.

And if you were interested in living and working in this nine county region, this is a great resource to be able to share to give people an idea of what to expect.

It has a jobs board, it profiles our key sectors, it has housing information, and it has education.

Anything you want to know, it's it's on this site, and it's still a work in progress.

We want to continue to make it better, but please check that out.

Your community is uniquely profiled on a regional behalf.

We've now got a county page.

So we just want to make sure that all our communities are reflected on that website.

The other piece of this is we've launched a new town attraction campaign at digital marketing and social media campaign that's directly targeted to alumni of our 10 colleges and universities in the region and to visitors.

Those are warm audiences that experience the region that we feel like we'd like to attract them back to uh the nine counties.

In addition to that, we've created a whole host of count resources for key stakeholders, education institutions, HR professionals, our key employers that they use when they're attracting talent.

And then a goal of this year is to really create a retention strategy to strengthen those connections with businesses, our higher education leaders with students.

We've got over 20,000 graduates that are coming out of those 10 college and universities every year.

So we want to figure out how do we retain even a small percentage of those students for the region to help with the workforce growth numbers.

So I just want to show you it's hard to profile the website just in a PowerPoint slide.

But this is the county map.

In addition to that, something I was really proud of since this campaign launched last October to date, these are the campaign results.

So these digital ads that you see on the right-hand side have been served to over 4.4 million unique individuals, visitors, alumni, they are seeing these ads, and then over 10.8 million questions overall.

I mean, some folks may have gotten ads a couple different times, particularly they've clicked on something, they were research content, and so that's driven nearly 50,000 new people to that Crater Lex website to raise awareness about the nine county region.

And I think most importantly, we know that over 500 people have gone to the job support and then clicked on a job to go to indeed.com to look at those job postings.

Um that's really uh I think a success of this initial effort.

So the second leg of this stool is economic development.

And again, those economic development professionals and Brad Urals community has been working with the Commerce Lex team for a number of years on job attraction, job retention.

But what we're doing for this effort to come alongside of you all and continue to elevate this community in this region is to refresh that regional job attraction websites, make sure it's user-friendly, that the information that site selectors and businesses want is easily available to them.

Um, we are also engaging with over 120 site selectors a year to try to promote this region, not just Lexington, all the communities, the different sites that we have, and then we're targeting exclusive networking events with these site selectors to build those relationships so they know about the region.

The other goal is to be going to 10 plus industry trade shows within those key sectors to represent the nine county region.

Additionally, we're hosting leadership and education events with our regional leaders just to bring awareness of things that each of our communities need to be doing to be more competitive.

The regional summit on November 12th is the next event.

That's our annual convening where we're benchmarking these different uh goals that we have for the plan.

So we encourage you all if you have a chance, please come to that tent.

And then just regional marketing for economic development.

We've launched a new digital strategy to see suite executives to site selectors in these targeted sectors to try to get content directly to them through their funds.

And this is just a reminder of some of the economic development return on investment for this community through this effort.

Again, it's not to prevent to replace anything that you are doing locally, it's meant to bring more awareness to this community, both for site selectors, industry targets, and for potential workers.

And we are listing your sites and RFPs, RFIs, and then your team here has access to reports, these events, economic impact models, marketing resources.

Again, we want you to view us as an extension of your team locally.

And so, as we're rounding this out, um, policy advocacy continues to be an important component of the plan.

Bob always says this: you have to have good public policy to help support good economic development.

So we're going to continue to advocate for infrastructure projects, infrastructure funding, things that help support job sites and the things that we need in this community, growths, bridges, water sewer, all the things to help the nine county region, as well as improve business climate policies.

So this is just an example.

The Kentucky Product Development Initiative is something we know we'll be advocating for in the coming session to continue because it has helped address one of the key challenges for the region, helping us get more shovel-ready sites ready to go.

I just wanted to show you all this from the time this program has been implemented.

We've been able to get 15 projects approved, and that has really helped accelerate shovel ready land and buildings in this region.

And so finally, um, in conclusion, just letting you all know funding breakdown.

This effort is supported two to one business to government.

We've got over a million dollars invested from the private sector in these efforts, which a lot of this is marketing.

Um, and then for the first time ever, our local governments of the city of Lexington and in the region are coming in and supporting this effort as well because we all see the value in collective marketing, enhancing that from the economic development and the valley.

Um, we talked to the governments about following that dollar per person ratio based on those 2020 census numbers as a starting point, and that is typically a best practice for how these efforts are done in regions across the country.

These are some of the governments that committed through the first round of funding that helped us get through those deliverables that I mentioned earlier.

And these are the folks that we're going back to to talk about that second round of investment this year and everyone is is upping and going back in for to help support for the second Up and so in conclusion we just feel like we are better together um these items were selected us leaders felt like these were mutually beneficial to all communities this was low mainly through that if we did these things together it would help everyone in a positive way so um do we have you want to watch it if not I can email that out to everybody it really kind of brings these things to life so that you can see that the websites and action that's something like I've gone over some so I'd be happy to email that out okay that'd be great commissioners and we're happy to take any questions that you all may have okay anyone have any comments questions okay everybody read your homework this uh gives you pretty much everything I said is in summary except you want to take a look at that there's some QR codes both of the websites um see that play around on it if there's something that's not right that we could fix about the can you just please let us know just continue to be with you all thank your support thank you and thank you and Bob both for coming over tonight we appreciate it and I think we're more informed okay thank you very much okay let's go down to item four resolution uh before we vote on this it's a good resolution I'm gonna ask Alicia Martin to come forward and just explain this to us if you would leisha county priority projects and then when she finishes we'll hopefully adopt the resolution is it just as good for us so thank you Zet so the county priority projects program is through the KYTC the transportation cabinet it is the opportunity to select some of our uh roads that need reping and a special grant program so uh I've been working with Brian to identify I think we identified five this round that we're gonna uh submit for we have photos he broke down the cost estimate so it came out 269 thousand dollars in grant for uh grant funds that we'd be requesting for those five roads so um I think uh included application in there so you guys can see what they asked for but happy to answer any questions about it it's due October 1st so we'll be submitting that with your questions for Alicia she's been hard at work I can tell you that thank you thank you very much thank you okay is there a motion to approve this resolution motion by commissioner tool is there a second second by commissioner chanal any further discussion all in favor aye any opposed by like sign motion carries item five ordinance madam clerk and at the end of this since it is second reading we will have a voice vote an ordinance creating and establishing forbid a non-exclusive electric franchise for the placement of facilities for the transmission distribution and sale of electrical energy within the public right of way of the city of Winchester for a 10 year duration.

Imposing a franchising fee of three percent franchises gross franchise's gross annual revenues from the sale of electrical energy within the city of winchester and reserving the right to impose a franchise fee and an amount up to five percent of franchisees gross receipts per year from the franchise's sale of electricity to electric consuming entities inside the city of Winchester's corporate limits and further providing for compliance with relevant laws regulations and standards indemnification insurance cancellation or termination and bid requirements all effective on date of passage.

Okay again this is second reading of this ordinance and uh joy if you'll take a voice vote please we need a motion okay motion I thought you were making it sorry commissioner chanal is there a second I'll second it commissioner cool any further discussion all in favor oh now I'm gonna do it yes okay uh commissioner schnell yeah commit uh mayor reads yes commissioner cox no commissioner tool yes okay and commissioner strode is on we can hear you but we can't see you so I'll have to excuse you from this vote okay she had some technical difficulty so I have her on so I'm just talking to the ceiling right but she's here okay all right five B an ordinance imposing an ad valorum tax on motor vehicles and watercraft for the calendar year 2026 is there a motion wait a minute no never mind okay that's all that's all you gave me to read

And Commissioner Strode is on.

We can hear you, but we can't see you.

So I'll have to excuse you from this vote.

Okay.

She had some technical difficulty, so I have her on.

So I'm just talking to the ceiling.

Right, but she's here.

Okay.

All right.

5B.

An ordinance imposing an ad valorum tax on motor vehicles and watercraft for the calendar year 2026.

Is there a motion?

Wait a minute.

No, never mind.

Okay.

That's all.

That's all you gave me to read to him.

So is there some Commissioner Toole?

Is there a second?

Second by Commissioner Schnauze.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

A minute.

Voice vote.

Oh, you didn't tell me that.

Yes, I did.

I said both of them.

All right.

You win.

Okay.

Commissioner Chenault.

Yes.

Mayor Reed.

Yes.

Commissioner Cox.

Yes.

Commissioner Toole.

Yes.

Thank you.

Motion carries.

Item six orders general.

This is six A through C.

And order declaring certain city of Winchester property to be obsolete and surplus.

Is there a motion?

And we have motion by Commissioner Toole.

Is there a second?

Second by Commissioner Chenault.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Any opposed by a lake sign?

Motion carries.

Item six B.

An order approving the purchase of property at 1496, Martin Luther King Jr.

Drive.

Okay.

Is there a motion?

So maybe motion by Commissioner Toole.

Is there a second?

Second by Commissioner Chenault.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

No.

Motion carries item six C an order accepting the substantial substantial completion and final cost of the Eugene Gay splash parking amount of 1 million 675,275.

Is there a motion?

Motion by Commissioner Chenault.

Is there a second?

We don't second it.

Do we just not pay it?

Second.

Wait.

Second it.

Off I guess.

Second by Commissioner Toole.

Any further discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like son?

Motion carries item 7A through D.

Madam Clerk.

An order terminating the employment of Nick Newman, part-time single role EMT.

Is there a motion?

So move.

Motion by Commissioner Toole.

Is there a second?

I'll second it.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries.

Seven B.

An order granting educational and certification incentive salary increases to certain personnel.

Is there a motion?

So move.

Motion by Commissioner Toole.

Is there a second?

Second.

Second by Commissioner Cox.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carry seven C.

In order reclassifying Owen Hellard, Lance Henry, Andrew Barnett, Xavier Riley, Michael Whitley, Connor Shank, and Corey Brush from Firefighter 1 to Firefighter 2.

Is there a motion?

So motion by Commissioner Chenault.

Was that you seconded?

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you, Commissioner Toole.

Second.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries.

7D.

In order granting longevity salary increases to certain personnel.

Is there a motion?

So move.

Motion by Commissioner Toole.

Is there a second?

Second by Commissioner Chenault.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by sign?

Motion carries.

Item eight.

Comments from the general public concerning items not on the agenda.

And I will remind anyone that's on that to we have uh four minutes.

Uh Chad Walker.

Okay.

Is he is Chad the only one on the list?

Yes, sir.

Chad.

Some papers I'd like to hand out if that's all right.

Sure.

So I'll be quick.

This was uh we met with our downtown business owners and building owners last night via Zoom.

And we uh this is back beating the same dead horse of the TIFF stuff.

Um we did this in an attempt to we filed a single open record request and attempt to uh not have multiple people wasting time and and having the same request over and over.

So since we didn't get an opportunity to really dig into this, I'll be brief.

Last time when we had the um work session, um city manager Manley said these are normal taxes that you would pay.

It's just what we have and on a base of 2019 property tax and occupational tax and whatever the increase is from the base of 2019, those property taxes go into the special fund.

He went on to say the visibility has not been limited and the city maintains transparency through monthly financial reporting and annual audits to the city commission.

If anyone is interested in reviewing detailed reports on the TIFF fund, they may request them via open records request, just like anything else we have.

Uh asking for all documentation related to deposit amounts, uh, the matrix for five uh for calculating these amounts, uh, as well as the quote detailed reports that was referenced by the city manager.

Next page is the confirmation number, and then this is what we got.

This is the detailed report.

So what I don't understand is why we weren't given a complete report as we asked for, but also equally confusing is at the top here it says uh the 2017 is the base amount, and the base amount is 149,000.

If you continue in the packet, a another document that we had received a couple years ago, so the base amount is 132,000.

That's a difference of 17,000.

And we don't know why this is such a confusing thing, why we're not given information and why we can't get this thing straight.

Why was 2017 included in it at all?

That's when it becomes because we didn't approve this till December of 2018.

The first documentation that we have is that I'm sorry, you're right.

The first amount was for 2019.

That was the first amount that was uh added to the TIF amount.

Yes.

In fact, Chad, I think according to the letter from Todd Denham was December 7th, 2018.

Which one I'm sorry, which one are you referenced?

Todd Denham certification letter.

Right.

Just so we have our date, sorry.

Right.

That's that was part of a packet I received, and that was from Mr.

Denman 2018.

I'm sorry, it was two, Mr.

Denham, uh signed by Rob Jeffries.

And with that, this next page was part of that, and it relates that the city of Winchester baseline uh is 132,000 in change, but per the I guess we'll call this the detailed report, it says it's 2017, and the amount's 149,000.

Okay.

Um my only thing is, and I would echo what Alicia would say, you know, we need to probably go back and look at uh the details, and when I pulled together the numbers for our work session report, that was uh what I was uh reporting on at the time.

Can't remember exactly uh why it was based on 2019 versus 2017.

I think there is a reason, but I would have to go back and look uh at that reason.

Um and then you know, a report can be so you're saying this page right here was the only thing provided from the open records request.

That's correct.

That is the detailed report.

We can go back and make sure that we give annual amounts in there.

Is that what you're looking for?

Any amounts of work from looking for what I submitted via the open record request.

Definitely on the one page of that entire record.

Yes, yes.

Okay.

I I think that everything didn't on, I didn't I would make it on there because we didn't all read that entire thing.

There's a different I didn't stack them on because I'm not I'll I don't I'll work on that and they um I'll actually pulled everything and there was a part of it on it were enacting which is although there's all play on flakes after the report um uh all the we should have called everything if that's all it was given.

19 works that that's not much of an open work to question.

No, so will you go back and review it and specifically get Chad what he's asking for?

And the the baseline year if 2019, not 2017.

report um but um oh no we should have called it if that's all it was given 19 works that that's not much of an open work it's a question no so will you go back and review it and specifically get Chad what he's asking for and the the baseline year is 2019 not 2017 because that's what we're trying to figure out well two other documents say it's 2017 I guess and the reason I left this last page on here is this is the Winchester TIF documentation but that's for Winchester Plot I understand it is but this is what you get for that building this is what you give for downtown this little blur and one of them uh it was the 2021 actually said it was still in progress in the uh the planning stages that had been open for two years yeah we we just want the money to be in there properly this is a lot of a lot of investment from our downtown that has effectively uh allowed the city to fix its problems well of the base we'll take care of the baseline year is 2019 because that was the first year after it was introduced in December of 2018 which means we're not looking at 2017 for any reason I mean I don't have a degree in economics or accounting or anything but I know that we don't that I don't look at things three years ago or five years ago to to true figure out how much money I'm gonna write to the electric company today but again that was one of those that Mr.

Manley said the base is 2019 he actually goes on to say that twice and then we've got two other documents saying it's 2017 and they're different amounts they're they're wildly different amounts okay we'll get it fixed and I and I give you my personal apology that's all right that's uh I always love coming seeing you so that's all right that's all right too but we'll get it straightened out thank you appreciate thank you thank you I do let's talk about you like Mr email email okay uh it's now time for comments from mayor commissioners city manager and city attorney commissioner shanoff uh got a lot of calls on how to park about the uh homeless people I mean the mayor excuse me the chief about it over and over about two or three weeks in a row I'm getting called every day on the homeless people camping out in the park at hurt on a regular basis and um would you be on a park board got a lot of black about the uh admission on the splash pool and that's all I have right now chief what are we doing about the situation in the park so that's been an ongoing problem I don't know if Commissioner Chenault knows this or if it's been a dress since he's been on the board but they have a couple of clubs down there that keep the electrical attract some major phones we have trespassed everybody that we've caught of course they're gone in there again but it's always a different version but they like to charge their phones down there so a couple years ago we had a conversation with Mr.

Lewis about turning that electricity off at least certain hours per day or so that's what they're doing.

And are is the park are the parks doing that they turn in it off certain days would you speak with Mr.

Lewis about that place thank you.

Well they do it at the farmers market too on depot street well yeah okay commissioner cox um really nothing at this time okay commissioner tool I have nothing commissioner strode yeah do you have any comments ma'am um other than I'm sorry I could not get on with Zoom I could barely hear you all and then I couldn't couldn't seem to do anything more than that um just that I want to thank public works again for trying to keep everything alive down at the park it's a tough tough call now because we had no rain um and my heart comes out to all of you all grind for that and I think next year with all this new landscaping we're gonna have to have to have some additional part time people just to water um I'm gonna thank everybody that supported the bluegrass museum's fundraiser on Thursday and I would like to remind you of the fundraiser at Hollyrood on the 27th kitty what did you say the museum cleared on the fundraiser 6300 good good deal and which was great for a first time I think I think they're gonna try to do it annually but it was really nice event for the first time and the pig picking is September 27 27 okay and we're also gonna honor um we have preservation awards that night as well okay anything else um I I I guess that's all I'm sorry I couldn't zoom I tried my best but I couldn't couldn't do it okay have fun okay Bruce uh I have no comments okay Mr.

And the pig picking is September 27th.

27th, uh-huh.

Okay.

And we're also going to honor um, we have preservation awards that night as well.

Okay.

Anything else?

Um I I guess that's all.

Um sorry I couldn't zoom.

I tried my best, but I couldn't couldn't do it.

Okay.

Have fun.

Okay, Bruce.

Uh I have no comments.

Okay.

Mr.

Dykman?

No, we're not.

And I have nothing further for this evening.

It's just been a super busy three or four weeks, and we're moving forward with a lot of uh items and some exciting things will be coming down the fight for this community in the next few months.

Thank everyone for being here this evening.

And Commissioner Cox has already made a motion to adjourn this meeting.

So we stand adjourned at this moment.

I'll pack ahead.