It will be led by Joey Curtis, our city clerk, followed by the invocation by Commissioner Chenal.

And I plan to leave the providing United States.

Definitely both thank you for lighting us down last night and waking us up this morning.

We thank you, O Lord, for starting this day and bringing us up for this point of the day.

Now we asked you having bothered to go with us and guys as we try to make decisions the best we can in your name and price name with everyone's saying.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Thank you, madam clerk.

Okay.

We'll officially call the meeting to order.

And let's get right to the first presentation, which will be our strategic update.

Uh presented this evening by the Kentucky League of Cities.

So Sarah, I don't know if you're coming up or Jonathan's coming up, or it's all John.

Okay.

But thank you all for having us here this evening.

We really do appreciate and want to recognize the work that the commission has done in helping us to create this updated strategic work plan for the city.

Uh to provide a little bit of background context.

Uh my colleague Sarah Stoll as well as our colleague Tad Long were here back in 2023 developing a 2023 version of the strategic work plan.

And as many cities do, and as Winchester did, you all completed a lot of the work that was in that 2023 plan.

And so we've gathered with you all in the fall of 2025 and earlier this year to develop this update.

And since we've worked so closely together, I'll try to keep my points brief and to the point.

As far as the vision and the top four goals uh for 2026 in this plan, the city commission identified quality of life, housing, parks and recreation, and infrastructure as its top four goals.

And also we want to recognize some of the completed projects from the previous 2023 plan that you all have completed in that time.

This includes uh items such as the Fulton Road extension, uh establishment of a downtown entertainment district, the Jackson Street Bridge Removal Project, and adding Juneteenth and Veterans Day as city holidays.

We also wanted to recognize the current and ongoing projects of the city, and I'm sure some of these items have already been completed or are well on their way to completion.

This includes uh the seventh uh street project, uh maintaining EMS as a city service, exploring the potential of merging some city services, replacement of the MLK Junior Bridge, and construction of a roundabout along Fulton Road, and also the Fifth Street Stormwater Project alongside other stormwater upgrades throughout the city.

For this 2026 strategic work plan, the commission identified seven strategic areas.

These are listed in no particular order, but they are as follows infrastructure, quality of life, community events, parks and recreation, housing, safe city, and education slash workforce training.

The commission also identified some direct budget impacts that include housing, such as buying blighted properties, stormwater, a family entertainment center, first responders' needs, parks and recreation, and salaries and benefits.

Looking at the strategic areas and a couple of the items contained within under infrastructure.

We have an inventory of stormwater needs uh citywide and developing a replacement program for that under quality of life.

We have uh maintaining the public spaces and ensuring they're beautiful for city residents, as well as exploring recreation opportunities for young people underneath community events.

Underneath community events, uh the commission identified evaluating existing city festivals and events uh for areas of improvement under parks and rec they identified conducting a feasibility study on a recreational area, such as an outdoor swimming pool, and possible a wish list item of determining the visit feasibility for the development of a sports complex.

Under housing, uh one of the critical items was converting dilapidated properties into affordable housing and providing people the opportunity to move into home ownership.

Under Safe City, uh, one of the critical items was maintaining and supporting the needs of all essential city services, including salaries, equipment, planning, and personnel.

And then under education and workforce training, uh, they identified uh items such as supporting entrepreneurship in the city and maintaining and seeking additional grants for scholarships and internships for young people.

All these items are uh identified by the commission and with the help of KLC to help move the city forward for the next three years.

And um I believe if it's anything like the previous version, y'all will be calling us back here real soon.

But I'm happy to answer any questions about the plan.

Uh, we do have a hundred copies up here of the plan that are open for the public to utilize and Sarah wanted to point at a magazine for me and not tell me what to talk about.

But within the uh KLC City magazine, uh Winchester pops up twice in there, a nice little article about the city, and then also one about funding for tomorrow, in which the city invested 12 million dollars into a variety of uh community projects, and that's the help of the KLC Kentucky Bond Corporation.

So thank you, Sarah.

We also have a hundred copies of the city magazine to disseminate and give out to everyone who's interested in that.

I just want to make a fantastic team.

Are there any questions on the other?

Any questions, comments?

I was glad we have a new one in hand now.

That's awesome as always.

KLC is the top of my charts there, therefore, lots of things.

And helping us create the strategic plan is it's it's phenomenal, it really is.

And I when I go back, and I'm sure all the commission when we look at um the page there, I don't have my glasses on, I think it's a five.

Um, the completed projects would all we've completed in the last two years, it's pretty outstanding, I think.

So very proud of that.

So anything else?

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Sarah.

Thank you, Jonathan, very much.

If you don't care, would you be van and pass the city magazines out?

Absolutely.

Not the strategic work plans, but the magazines.

Thank you.

Okay.

Bye guys, be safe.

Thank you, Mayor.

Okay, new business.

Uh item A.

Cancel the April 21st, 2026 special meeting at 4 30.

Is there a motion?

Motion by Commissioner Strode.

Is there a second?

Second.

Second by Commissioner Schenal to any discussion.

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

And I would like to also add we will be canceling May 19th because that is election day.

I was going to put it on there.

And you would remind us though.

Yes on the next one.

In this room is used for voting.

So that puts us out of the room.

So City Hall Precinct.

Item B, opioid settlement RFP discussion.

I'm going to ask our city manager to come forward and uh get us started on that.

And I'm sure some others in the room may want to make some comments.

So in your pack tonight, uh, you have before you the um request for proposal that had been prepared, and um we basically uh took a template that had been prepared by CACO and then reviewed uh by some others and uh put into a format by which um we develop goals and eligibility and all the other things that go along with an RFP and who would review it.

Um probably some of the most important things that uh we need to go through is um you had some blanks that were in there, and I just wanted to make sure you all were okay and aware of this.

And I I took the liberty of filling in some of the blanks on my on my end as it relates to this.

And um, if you look, of course, the goal uh of the RFP and and those monies that we're getting are to um re-infuse those monies back in our community uh through the organizations that will help us uh fight the epidemic that we have with opioids, and we're thankful to get those monies and of course those monies are set aside uh from the city perspective and from the county perspective as well.

Uh the city has approximately uh and this is approximate about 470,000 uh that has been provided to our community to disperse to those organizations.

So in doing that, you have to have a criteria by which to hand those out.

If you remember two or three years ago when I uh when I had the opportunity to be here, we it wasn't as developed as it is now, and uh we did provide those monies to very needful uh organizations, but it was not as uh structured as this will be.

So in looking at this, um, if you look down at the availability of funds on your first page there, page one.

Um I I don't feel like there's any uh need to reinvent the wheel on this.

The county has approved theirs.

I think they've got their uh open enrollment right now out on their web page whereby you can download their document.

And if you wanted to uh submit for those funds, you could if you're an eligible organization, and their dates from March the first to April 30th.

I know I understand that it's April um uh 7th right now, but I think that uh we could rearrange the dates here at the first of this, and and um I I'll I'll do that with the uh commission's uh permission.

I don't want to sit on these monies uh for another year.

The these money sent in a bank account are no good to the entities that could be using these funds.

So I propose to adjust those dates, but moving forward, it would be from March 1st to April 30th, and that would reflect what the uh county has in theirs as well.

Uh the period of funding would be from July 1st uh through June 30th, and uh that would be year over year uh that we would do that.

Um as we go through the rest of uh the uh um the the document here, the requirements that would be there, the indirect cost under the requirements for the organizations that would be awarded the funding, uh, the indirect cost there.

Um the county um had placed the nurse 15 percent, and I think that's a reasonable number, the indirect costs that are shown on uh uh from that, so I would suggest to do that.

Um, and then uh the next bullet point would be is talking about providing data on the program outputs, the outcomes, and the impact of effect uh of effect effectiveness following agreed upon metrics with the selection committee.

That would be the selection committee that we have, and I'll tell you who who I'm proposing that that be as we roll down through here, and then they would complete required uh quarterly reports.

I think quarterly reporting is fine.

We don't need monthly reporting.

I think that's a cumbersome uh requirement.

So we would have quarterly reports and they would be due the 15th uh on the month um that uh follows the uh three preceding months.

So it'd be October 15th would be a reporting date for the time period through July, September, and would follow through the calendar physical or the fiscal year that way.

So that's the way we would have that, and then on August uh the first, they would provide an annual report that would summarize everything that they've done in the previous physical year uh to review, and that would follow exactly what the the county's doing as well.

If you look down on page two at the bottom under the reporting require uh requirements, uh the organizations would uh report on a quarterly basis by the 15th of that month, basically saying the same thing, and then they would report that to the city manager.

So the city manager would be the one to receive that, disperse it out to the commission and those that uh that are there that need uh to be privy to that information.

As you continue to go on down on page three, you would come up with the annual report would be provided by August 1st and following the last day of the uh the quarter.

I think that's what I'd put in here.

Um let me make sure that I put that in there correctly.

Um that would be for the allowable um annual report to be provided at project close by August 1st, following the last day of the quarter to the city manager, is how that would read.

Um, as you look at the metrics there, um I uh I took the as appointed by this the the city Winchester Board of Commissioners.

I took that because it would I'm gonna call this or I would call this the city opioid abatement program committee.

That's what this committee would be and and what we will name uh the committee in doing this.

So those would be the ones that uh would work and and do it.

And when we look at this, I think what that uh committee, the the makeup of that committee and what we're looking at doing is having three voting members of the ASAP board, and I do say voting members of that ASAP board, and then two uh city commissioners be on this committee.

So it's gonna be we're gonna have to have a commitment from the city come two city commissioners to be on that mayor.

Um I don't know if uh you know you you would want to ask and and appoint those, but um how that would go, but there would be two city commissioners.

I think it makes it uh uh a board made up of those that have the genuine interest of the city in mind and know what's going on there as related, and then having three ASAP board voting ASAP board members, they have the feel of what's going on in the community and where the needs are uh for the city.

So I think that that's uh would be a logical thing to have there, and then as we go on down through the selection and award process, uh the dates there, like I said, um we're gonna have to do some work on those.

I'll have to adjust the dates this first year.

So we're probably gonna have to condense our dates a little bit compared to what's in there right now to um meet the needs.

Um, but you know, April 30th notice of awards expected to occur by June 31st.

We would hold that date.

Um, and then um but we'd have to probably work on the April date there.

Um City Manager would be the one that that would meet with them and to discuss the contract process and the specific metrics for the project identified, and the period of funding would be July 1st through June 30th, as I've mentioned before.

So with that all being in place, you know, the the city manager is probably going to be the one that's going to be facilitating the effort overseeing it, reporting back to you, and then the committee uh would be the ones there.

But this is a an RFP process that we have to use it's uh and it would follow uh the guidelines of model procurement code.

Um KRS chapter 45 is the model procurement code, and that's uh what we would be adhering to and doing this and uh be a process uh to do it.

And I I think it's you know, based on what I've seen, uh it would basically mirror what we're doing um across the street as well.

So I and I think that that's what we ought to do.

It would be a process that all of our uh those that would be applying for those funds would be a process that they would be used to and and something that they could duplicate in both places.

Now, the one thing that I am going to say here as we look at this, and um you all um offer comments on it, is that um our paramedicine program.

Um Chief Whitely and the uh City Fire Department, uh Winchester Fire Department has put together a proposed budget to operate that paramedicine program, and we've discussed that with Bluegrass Area Development District.

Um the uh the officials there, those that are professionals in this area on how these monies can be used, and they've said that that's an approved use of these funds.

Um I think it's something that we need to do.

I think it's something that this community would uh benefit from in that paramedicine program, and he's put together a plan, and that plan is about 200,000 in totality, and I think that's for an 18 to 24 month time frame uh to do that, and that's the equipment, the personnel uh that would be part of that.

And furthermore, I think um that um the county needs to have some um for lack of better words, some skin in the game on this.

And uh if I'm correct in saying this, and I forgive me for not getting the number, I think they got about 700,000 in opioid abatement monies.

They've as I understand, they have a 75,000 dollar cap on theirs for um being able to submit.

That's one of the things you might want to consider as well as a as a group that there'd be a cap on this, but I think that it would behoove us as a city to submit an application to the county of our paramedicine program and be approved for at least uh 75,000 of those funds, and then that would let let the city be um uh take the line the the line chair of that and be at 125,000 and 75, and then that would open up some more monies for us to give to some other organizations as well.

So I want you to know those are the thoughts that uh uh were going through my head as I was preparing some of this and uh putting this together for you.

approved for at least uh 75,000 dollars of those funds and then that would let let the city be um uh take the line the the line chair of that and be at 125,000 dollars and 75 and then that would open up some more monies for us to give to some other organizations as well so I want you to know those are the thoughts that uh uh were going through my head as I was preparing some of this and uh putting this together for you but uh I think the the meat of it is there we just got I've just got to massage the dates a little bit and then um and get your blessing too on submitting um for their monies as well I I think that's uh incumbent upon me to get that approval before I send it across the street uh this is actually for Chief White like he can come up here if he wants to and come on up Chief I know you love talking um so the paramedic program he's talking about yes sir two hundred thousand dollars is that bare bones or is that with all the bells and whistles uh yes sir so the upfront cost would be 136 thousand dollars even that would include the vehicle for the for the person selected that would be a life pack 35 plus pro care which is the cardiac monitoring equipment that we carry all of the other costs associated that would be additional reoccurring cost and truly reflect annual salary family health retirement social security and Medicare and I broke those reoccurring costs down for a six month 12 month and an 18 month how long we trade we're gonna do this and I'm a hundred percent behind it okay I don't want the bare minimum I want the best yes sir the equipment and the vehicle will be exactly what is already in place now at the fire department um the equipment that would be the same thing that's on our EC units the qualifications of the individual will be that of a paramedic or more um so very excited about the program and what it offers the community and I think it's a wise investment of those opioid abatement monies as a C major articulate it's obvious around here that a lot of opioid money not just here but all around here folks see it and they get and people with their eyes turned into dollar signs like a you know yes sir but this I can you know yes sir I I think that the majority of our uh teammates when I say teammates it's not just the the community impact that it's gonna have to the society and the customer and the visitors of the region but things such as Clark Region or Center Point Health.

There's benefits to them where they have um chronic patients and they come back within that 30 day window and the hospital's eating that cost.

Yeah community pair medicine can partner with the emergency room we can be the follow-up um and that leads into further discussions with the city manager on exactly how we outlined that program but there is a benefit to not only our community teammates but to the community members in itself.

I was gonna ask you if you would for the public information talk just a little bit about what the paramedicine program is.

You should on a few things a little bit chief Robinson is the assistant chief division of VMS I can articulate all those points but his skill sets much more qualified to the medical terminology thank you.

So the community paramedic program um so we actually go out into the community to people's houses and to where they're at and we offer them different um programs that might be available that they may not know about and we'll have those resources and the contacts that we can get them in the treatments and the proper medicine making sure they're taking their medicines as far as talking with the center point when a patient is discharged we would go directly to their house making sure that they're compliant with all their medications making sure that their house is safe for them to be in and all those kind of things.

So we're out in the community in their houses right where everything is happening.

Thank you.

Yeah so it's really meeting the needs of the community where the community member is where they are in life making sure that we're coming to them identifying um the chronic use of the emergency system we can identify several um frequent flyers customers that we see regularly that this would enable us to uh put some resources more readily available that are a lot more cost efficient and a much more personal where they would have the time to go spend the time um to invest in that individual get them to places get them medication so it's a great thing for the community further no unless someone has a comment or chief or mic no ma'am um I just uh you're just uh want to make sure that uh you all are okay that was very uh improper the commission is uh very well aware of what's going on here with this RFP and it'll be uh going out I'll I'll do the advertisement just like we would any uh other advertisement I want I do want to give those that are here in the room that um that represent the health department miss uh kissick and and others that represent other agencies in our community the opportunity to speak if they would like in regards to the program and uh offer there um uh you know they these are the folks that uh that are uh out um you know in in the trenches doing the work and um you know we we don't like talking about the this part of it but these are the things that we we've got to do so let's make the best use of the money that we can and uh do the best that we can with it

I want I do want to give those that are here in the room that um that represent the health department, Miss uh Kissick and and others that represent other agencies in our community the opportunity to speak if they would like in regards to the program and uh offer their um uh you know they these are the folks that uh that are uh out um you know in in the trenches doing the work.

And um, you know, we we don't like talking about the this part of it, but these are the things that we we've got to do.

So let's make the best use of the money that we can and uh do the best that we can with it.

And uh, you know, I I think that like I said, I think the county's done a good job in putting those together, and and I think that what we've got here, we can follow suit with that and do some of the same things, and that there's no sense in reinventing a wheel that's already been invented, and uh, but you know, our focus from the city perspective would be on the paramedicine program for sure, and uh, once we get that flying and off the ground and uh doing what it can do, then I think we uh infuse these monies into the other agencies that are so important to our community uh and what they do and the pillars that be will repeat more time have sanctioned that that isn't proper use of the dollars.

That is correct, yes ma'am.

So yes, ma'am, and it's and it's laid out in that RFB, so uh it would go right along with okay.

Anything else for Mike on that issue?

Okay, if you want to come back up, Mr.

or let's go back.

Becky, Lindsay, Cody.

Looks like you got it, Cody.

Yeah, I got three showers, Mary.

I know you do.

So my name's Cody Angel.

I'm the vice chair for our ASAP committee here in Winchester.

Um Mr.

Flynn talked about the formation of the committee.

Um I briefly talked to our president Dickie Everman.

Um he'd be more than willing to appoint those members from the ASAP board, and we would really love to have a couple of members or whoever would want to volunteer for that committee, and then we can make it an odd number on our end of the ASAP.

Um, I think it'd be beneficial for you guys to see what all goes into this and really have buy-in from this from the city level would be it would it'd be bit it'll benefit everybody in the community.

So I would love the opportunity to work alongside of you guys in one form or another to serve the community.

Okay, we will be appointing two from the commission to serve.

All right, two.

Well, we'll find we'll try to find three.

Don't want to stay a quorum, do you?

Okay, all right, just checking.

Well, I think those meetings need this is a significant amount of public money.

I think those meetings need to be entirely open open to the public and advertising.

We can do that.

Yeah, they can.

Yes, sir.

Understood.

Commissioner Tool.

Um, so my thought was, and that could have been two years ago that we were here discussing recovery services and regulations, and there really isn't any format formula or anything.

And so while that's not an answer to my question necessarily, um I feel it's pretty wide open.

I thought I read this as applicants must be more than one of the following.

Um, so I guess I would just like to see.

I know that there's some state regulations and KRS statutes mentioned throughout this.

Um I don't really know what I would suggest, but I think things like public meetings are important.

Um, and I would like to see a cap on the funds.

Yeah, I don't know.

Yeah, it's not outlined in this, and the and the information that I got on the cap on funds actually came from conversations that we were having.

And I don't I didn't see it in their uh literature either that they provided.

So I don't have any problem with putting we could put a cap in here and and you all tell me what that cap is.

And that would be excluding the paramedicine program.

Right.

Yes, that would be excluding the paramedicine program on our side if it's you know, because our you know it if, and I say that's a big if if we're approved uh for though those monies over there, then that would mean our cost would be approximately 125,000.

So uh if not, then that means our cost is gonna be if we don't get approved, that means we're gonna our cost is gonna be 200,000 of that money if we if we do the paramedicine program in its entirety.

But I either way, my recommendation to you as a commission is to do the paramedicine program regardless of that.

Right.

So the money you know we just went over the uh the master plan and a critical part of education is in enhance opioid abatement by creating with the private sector second chance employment thing.

program in its entirety but i either way my recommendation to you as a commission is to do the paramedicine program first or regardless of yeah right so well and you know we just went over the uh the master plan and a critical part of education is in enhance opioid abatement by creating with the private sector second chance employment thing i've been talking about that for three years we need to find somebody to do that i i talk to these electricians and hVAC guys and plumbers all the time that are willing to hire these people but nobody out there nobody out there is trying to get a program together to put these people together you know okay lindsey can you have conversation I can't imagine you not jump in hi so uh Lindsay Horsman I think I know most of you um so I completely agree with you we absolutely do need those second chance employment opportunities it is not from lack of effort I'll say that um I spent the last four and a half years in that uh process Jessica Rose who is our uh coordinator for the ASAP board uh is the best that there is at it she was the one that was able to secure an agreement with Winchester Farms Dairy for a second chance employment we were just um recognized as a recovery ready community uh by the state and so part of that included an agreement with the chamber of commerce um in those efforts but I will tell you that in my in the work that I've done in that vein a lot of it revolves around education right people don't understand um Becky Hissick and I've had many conversations she now employs a great number of people who have been in recovery and so you don't understand the benefits that you get from that I completely agree with you I would say we have been working on it um I have some ideas of what can be done and I'll tell you if I could have every job I want to do the paramedicine I want to do the employment thing I already have like three full-time jobs um but yes I this is what this money should be for and there are agencies in this community that can do it well now I have talked to Judge Barnes right up in Powell County and he has talked to some people at in workforce development about pooling this money uh you know you get what Winchester has and what Clark County has and what Powell County has and Clay City and Stanton and Montgomery County with all those little you know what if what if uh uh uh a Camargo going to do with 90 000 in open abatement but you pull that together and you get a program to formulated where those people will will actually be employed by an electrician or a or an HVAC guy and this program would then uh pay for their schooling at night and help them and ensure they have transportation to BCTC in Lexington for the three nights of school they have to have to go to for a year and there is a place in Pennsylvania that did this that had literally an 84% an 84% success rate we don't have anything close close to that here in any program we've done you know 84% is is the national that's what everyone strives for.

Yeah it is phenomenal for sure I will say that leap had a 96% success rate um but a sustained over eight years well we're it was year three ish um when I left that agency but I want to say this because I've said this in many different spaces but I don't know that I've said it in this one um I agree with you that those are like pooling and and working regionally and those kinds of things are super important but those are super those are really great opportunities for state abatement funding right if especially if you're thinking about regional that's what they're looking for and so it it is always my thought suggestion to keep the local money local and then if you want to do those bigger programs apply for state funding for that it's perfect.

Yeah that's just my opinion one to one match on the on the state abatement program.

Yeah.

Thank you, Lindsay.

We agree with what you're saying there.

Becky, Jessica, anything.

Okay.

Um I I did not prepare anything this evening, but I will say that I I absolutely agree with you, and I agree with the workforce development piece.

I think this is really where we begin to address those barrier relief items.

I will share with you.

I worked literally on Friday evening with an individual in this community that couldn't afford to pay for a license test fee.

She has worked incredibly incredibly hard to do all of her hours, all of the things, but couldn't afford to pay for her licensure test fee.

We weren't able to access these funds in any other way.

And so it really became how do we access this this piece called barrier relief.

And so this is this is the goal of that money.

Doing this work for that true workforce development.

Exactly your point.

Enabling or not enabling, but ensuring that our folks have access to those pieces that can then go on to contribute and give back and grow and continue to build in this community is exactly what we want to see.

And so it's exactly what we want to see with this money, whether it be in this way or in other ways, but that barrier relief piece is so so important to all of these agencies out here doing the work and that flexibility as well.

So just don't lose sight of that piece either.

Thank you.

Good point.

Good point.

Jessica, anything.

And it's other things other than that, as she's coming up here.

Uh last night.

I I went out and took a guy to Encore shoot buying a pair of work shoots to work in.

I could uh set out it's on my Discover card mail.

Yeah.

You know, and uh that's the kind of things we have to provide for these people to have equipment to work with and tools and things like that.

You know, the one of the guys who I hooked up with the local like trick tracian here, who now has his journeyman's license.

He said the tools cost him several hundred dollars before he could ever start to work just um so I will say very early funds are super important.

Uh for me when when I got here, I didn't I'm not from here.

Um I didn't have a relationship with any of these employers.

I didn't know any of these people.

I started at art um working the first pay forward grant, and I had participants that needed employment.

So for me, it was consistency and persistence.

I was I literally Googled factories in Winchester, and I started calling them.

Hey, what can I do to build a relationship with you?

What can I do to get you to hire my people?

It took them seeing that not only was I I wasn't just trying to get them a job, right?

Like I was walking through, I was walking through their journey with them and doing what it took to advocate for them, if that meant finding clothes for them, if that meant going to an interview, if that meant helping them prepare for this interview.

Um, and and they were receptive to me because they saw that I had as much, I had as much skin in the game for my clients as they did, right?

Not they didn't just get a job, like they got to be moms, they got to they got to get homes, they got to provide for their children.

Like it wasn't just a job.

And for me, art was not just a job.

RCC was not just a job, it was an opportunity for me to give back a thing that was given to me.

So second chance employment is super important, but I think that the person that's building those relationships can't just be anybody, right?

Like it has to be somebody that has the heart to sit down with the employers and to explain why it is so important to give a second chance and what that does for the person receiving it moving forward.

Um, so yes, second chance employment is super important, barrier relief is super important, and there are people, there are individuals in this town that are doing the work that are capable of building those programs here with what we already have, keeping our money local and doing things with it right here in town.

We don't have to go anywhere else to get that.

We have everything we need right here.

We just have to get to work.

Thank you.

Tish, do you want to say anything?

I wasn't going to though I was to shoot um community volunteer with Shannon.

I think you just proved the point of why that money should probably should stay local.

Is because so many times everything they just described is you need people on the ground.

You need that strategic strategic attack system.

So that when someone comes in and they need the they need a haircut.

They need those work boots.

We could go on and on with the little things they need.

We can you need that?

Here you go.

We can show up to work tomorrow.

We can get you a cab tomorrow until we get other uh travel arrangements worked out.

So I mean, those kinds of things are why we need the local money.

Like Lindsay was saying, what you described is perfect for the state funding as far as maybe big dollars, but even locally, we have quite a bit of funding.

We could pay for some good schooling and stuff, and that could still stay local.

But we can't take that state money without a local match.

It's a one-to-one for every every dollar that's contributed locally, the state gets a dollar.

But we could we can apply.

Somebody from here in Winchester could apply for that, or your bluegrass ad could apply regionally.

Right, right.

But you got the state need you have to have a a pool that the state will match local, they'll match the local money.

I don't believe that we've been working on this for a year.

So far to take some of the local money to do that for them.

Because I've been at some bluegrass ad meetings where they've talked about trying to pull this money, and everybody's for it, but like you mentioned earlier, when you talk about money, everybody's eyes kind of they start thinking of ideals, and then all of a sudden it's regional, and that's the last thing I'm gonna do is have to go to Lexington or wherever to I don't know, get my boots or not just this maybe forgive me for how taboo this may sound, but I've heard echoing sentiment over the years of how and it's gonna sound a certain way, but how other counties, other towns come down the parkway and drop people off in Winchester.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, good reason as to why we need to get rid of it.

It's not a ton of I mean it is great amount of money, but it's also not a ton of money.

Right.

I mean, in both ways to look at it, it's it's a great opportunity and and a helpful hand, but it is certainly not as much as we need.

Right.

But we're gonna entrust this committee to do great things.

I guess I'll probably do some research.

I didn't realize I've never because I've had other agencies, and you see them when they do the state wards.

It's never mentioned that they had a city match.

Yeah, so that's kind of that's news to me.

Well, no, this is this is just for work for development.

Okay, oh yes, okay.

We're just talking about the general payment.

Maybe no, no, no, no, no.

No, this the work for development.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Seeing nothing else, we'll go to item 3C, and uh that is Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard.

Review the March 23rd, 2026 scope of work for conduit and street lights, and Mr.

City Manager, I'll bring you back up again, please.

Um stay seated, ma'am.

Yeah, if you're tired, you can yes, ma'am.

Uh thank you, you're welcome.

Uh we had uh discussed this with the uh school board uh staff and the uh the superintendent and his uh chief of operations, and um there's a need for street lights from Martin Luther King from Shoppers Drive all the way back through uh the end of Martin Luther King Drive there, and in doing that, um there's proposals uh in the future that that street will be interconnected uh somehow somehow.

There was a recent proposal that it was going to be connected to uh uh US 60 Lexington Road uh and the bag.

Uh but at some point it's going to be connected to the development that's back there, and then they're gonna be coming to the city asking the city to accept this into the system and those type of things.

So we felt like it was a good idea to get the uh uh the the horse ahead of the the cart here and do the right thing.

And in doing that, uh we had Fisher go out.

Jesse's uh been part of this.

He and Brian have been the ones that uh have spearheaded this and worked on this.

Uh we got a quote to to install the street lights, and I can't remember the exact number.

I think they're making um well, it's the conduit, and then there's actually gonna be like 10 to 12 lights that are 10 total lights that are going to be put up to light that area.

These lights will be put into our specifications, they would be street lights that would be um uh match what we what we do in any subdivision or any place within the community that would be maintained by KU, those type of things.

The cost for doing that is listed at the project pricing, it's on page two on the back of that page, and it's at the bottom there, it's 25,000.

The question that was brought before me uh by the school board by the superintendent would the city pay half of this, and um I said that I would bring it to the commission.

I've already checked with Alicia about the funds.

Uh, are we going to be able to um bear the burden of this cost?

She has told me that we can afford to do this work.

I would recommend to you as a commission that we move forward and doing it.

We're gonna have to do it now.

It's good, it's gonna be cheaper now, and it's gonna be a year or two from now or two or three years from now.

Let's do it, let's get ahead of it and already be that far ahead of the game.

So I would recommend to you tonight to accept this uh scope of work uh with us paying uh half of the cost and the school board paying the other half of the cost.

Madam Clerk, can we go ahead and take that vote?

Yes, okay.

I'll make the motion.

Is there a second?

Second, second by Commissioner Strode.

Any further discussion?

Well, this being the 26th or 27 budget.

It'll be in this budget here.

We'll we'll those funds be allocated, and we have the monies to do okay.

All in favor, Jesse, yes, sir.

This will also have a connection point for when email pay those extended.

We're not having any extra money for that in the future.

It's already stubborn, it'll be ready to connect in case you said that they can finish the email extraction to the back of the free school with no problems.

Let's be a little proactive.

Exactly.

Okay, uh all in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by lake sign?

Motion carries item 3D email from uh interim city manager Mike Flynn regarding parking on East Broadway near the Veterans Memorial.

And um it what's in our packet.

If you look on the back of your letter, there's a diagram, and then we'll turn this over to the city manager to discuss.

Yes, uh, of course, you you can see what's there, and I think I'll um laid out there.

No parking spots are going to be lost with this proposal.

Actually, we're gonna gain a handicapped spot in the process.

I've been down to the site with Brian.

We reviewed this.

I just want to make sure before we go down there and do the striping and do everything that's associated with this.

That you're okay.

I don't know that a vote's necessarily in order with that.

You can vote on it if you'd like.

Um, but otherwise, uh, I just want to make sure that I had the concurrence of the commission as we move forward with this.

Commission, I think some like the move forward.

This is something we discussed years ago, too.

So that yes.

Shane, if you okay.

I'm just completely against diagonal parking, but or the uh the yeah, diagonal parking.

I can't park it on parking because my neck won't turn around enough.

We'll use some of those funds in there, get you the code, right?

Well, no, I've got a mirror.

Um I I've got a camera, but not everyone with back and neck problems having camera in their carpet.

Let's go ahead and do it.

I mean, uh, you know, we of course, you know, I can't park on main street because you know I I can't get out, but uh you know when we see you coming, we'll get out of the way.

Well, you just don't not go into park, you know.

Okay, all right.

So no action needed.

No, ma'am.

Okay, let's move to item four resolution.

Madam Clerk.

The joint resolution of the city of Winchester, Kentucky, and the Clark County Fiscal Court supporting America 250 KY.

Okay, uh I think the fiscal court has already voted on theirs and passed this mayor.

And this is just basically a joint resolution for us.

Uh we know this is the 250th birthday of our country, and uh we want to be part of that.

So it's just saying that um we're we're concluding and conceiving that we are gonna be a part of what goes on and happy birthday, America.

So wouldn't you like to say anything?

Oh yeah.

No, just thank you.

Okay.

I didn't even see Barbara didn't see you.

That's fine.

Um, the city um and the county supporting this endeavor.

I'm I'm not sure in official capacity, but I am a member of our chapter DAR, and we are very much involved with this and have worked very well with the mayor and I am getting things going.

So but thank you.

You're welcome.

And as I mentioned to you at rotary a few weeks ago, I still work great.

Well, can you I went to the website, and I you know I know it's historical.

Can you share any insight as to any details of this and and what um will happen in the community?

First of all, the county agreed to become a part of this, and then the city picked up the banner and agreed to do the same thing.

So what will happen on the Kentucky Historical Society?

We will now compose our events, and those will be available throughout the state, or anyone who gets on the age as website.

So that's going to be some great advertisements there.

Um that enabled us also to uh some of the things that they are doing.

One of the things that we as an EAR chapter are doing, um, and thanks to Brian and Public Works, we have a liberty tree, and as soon as we it has been planted, but it will be dedicated, and you guys will be a part of that ceremony, and hopefully, as soon as I get the okay back from Washington that we can use the plaque and the insignia, then we'll get that planned, and that will start it.

We just want to keep a lot of things going.

And to bring to the attention that yes, we're in 2026, but the revolution was over eight years, so actually started in 1775 through 17 uh 83.

Um, so um, we want to have things throughout, and this will enable us to do that just beyond this year alone.

Understood.

Okay, thank you.

Yes, thank you.

And uh, Commissioner Tool, we are looking DAR is looking at doing a parade, maybe bringing the little kids down on their bicycles and tricycles, and that type of thing is being discussed right now.

Okay, so um is there we've already did we do the motion?

No, okay.

Is there a motion to approve the resolution?

I need an actual motion and a second.

Okay, uh is it making a motion?

Shannon, second, he strode all in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign motion carries.

I will mention that um I did sign the form today for our fireworks, uh being the 250th birthday of uh our nation.

Uh fireworks have been a little scarce this year because everybody's wanting to do that, but Winchester Clark County will have fireworks.

So that's that's been done.

All right, item five, orders general A through C.

Madam Clerk.

And order amending order number 2024-168, an order awarding a bid for three EC units to emergency transportation associates LLC Fraser Company in the amount of 1 million sixty-four thousand six hundred and ninety-seven dollars, change order number one.

Is there a motion?

Motion by Commissioner Toole.

I'll second that.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Any opposed by a like sign?

Motion carries item B.

Madam Clerk.

An order approving a contract with Palmer Engineering for Engineering Services for the Winchester Streetscape phase two and three main street.

Is there a motion?

Motion by Commissioner Tool, second by Commissioner Cox.

Any further discussion?

I didn't motion that, sorry.

It was me.

It was you.

Okay.

You get that, Joy.

I've got coxs and stroke.

Okay, you got it.

All in favor, uh any opposed by like sign.

Do I need to switch them?

Were you?

Did you make the motion?

And I made it.

I did not make a motion.

I thought you said that you made Shannon made the motion.

Got it.

Okay.

I'm just excited about it.

Continuing on.

Um, and and I'll make a comment.

Uh hopefully my last um the uh the the funds that'll be utilized for this.

This is a little bit different than we did the last time with the TAP grant.

Um the we did the engineering beforehand, and we paid for basically paid for all the engineering services except for the construction services out of out of pocket beforehand with this one.

This will be covered by the TAP grant.

So work will not begin on this um until that TAP grant has been acquired and there's monies uh to do that.

And of course, the TAP grant is the same um parameters of 8020 um uh in relation to the uh uh refund back to the city for monies expended.

Okay, anything else?

Okay, let's move along to item B.

Madam Clerk, C Lucy Jenkins.

An order appointing Lucy Jenkins to a three-year term on the Winchester Historic Preservation Commission.

Is there a motion?

Motion by Commissioner Cox, second by Commissioner Toole.

Any further discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries, and I believe um Miss Jenkins will be the number seven on the commission on the Winchester Historic Preservation Commission.

Okay, item six personnel orders, item six A through E.

Madam Clerk.

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

Is there a motion?

So motion by Commissioner Tools, second by Commissioner Cox.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by a like sign?

Motion carries item six B.

In order amending the position description, I believe payroll specialist HR administrator.

Is there a motion?

So moved.

Motion by Commissioner Chenault, second by Commissioner Toole.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries item six C.

I mean six D.

No, you were right.

Okay.

I don't have my glasses on.

I can't see a thing.

Okay.

Item 6D.

Now I see it.

Madam Clerk.

6D.

Well, I can see it, but I can't read it.

Okay.

Madam Clerk.

An order amending the position description of human resource coordinator payroll specialist.

Is there a motion?

Motion by Commissioner Strode.

Is there a second?

Second.

Second by Commissioner Shanault.

Any further discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by a like sign?

Motion carries item six D, Madam Clerk.

An order reclassifying Joanna Brady from accounting clerk to lead payroll specialist HR administrator.

Is there a motion?

So move.

Motion by Commissioner Toole.

Is there a second?

Second.

Second by Commissioner Cox.

Any further discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Any opposed by a like sign?

Motion carries item six E.

An order accepting the resignation of Kenneth Fall Firefighter.

Is there a motion?

So move.

Motion by Commissioner Tools, second by Commissioner Strode.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by a like sign?

Motion carries.

Okay, Madam Clerk.

Did anyone sign up from the general public for items not on the agenda?

No.

I'm not clear.

No, no one's on there, Lucy.

Yeah.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right.

Now we'll move to item eight, which we have already uh done that.

Everyone, I'm gonna remind you again, please, as our parade Sunday afternoon, five o'clock from the courthouse honoring our boys and girls uh state championship.

So please try to attend several speakers and the band's gonna be here and ROTC and the cheerleaders and go-cards.

So it'll be a good event.

Um I'm assuming we have not had anything come up for closed sessions since our last meeting.

So no ma'am.

Okay, I'll take a motion to adjourn.

Commissioner Cox, is there a second?

Second.

Second by Commissioner Chenault.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

All opposed, stay here.

Thank you.

Oh, okay.

No, she doesn't appreciate that.