The Winchester City Commission met on Tuesday evening, June 2, 2026, with Mayor [Name] presiding and Commissioners Chenault, Strode, Toole, and Cox present. The meeting covered a wide range of business including a vote on an opioid strategic plan, a water rate ordinance for splash pads, a resolution for Washington Penn incentives, a public hearing on recovery housing, approval of the FY2027 budget, and numerous personnel actions.
Allegiance led by Commissioner Chenal, followed by the invocation with Chief Thompson. I both believed to fly. Please remain standing. Heavenly Father, we thank you for allowing us all to be here tonight and conduct the business of the city. We just pray you be with these commissioners and lead guide and direct us through the items on this agenda tonight. Please be seated. And we'll officially call the meeting to order. Uh the commission needs to take one little piece of business here as a cleanup just for a second. We need to redo the vote uh on the opioid strategic plan. So we'll go back and put it on to this meeting. So is there a motion? Yes. Motion by Commissioner Strode. Is there a second? Second, second by Commissioner Toole. Any further discussion? All in favor, aye. Aye. Any opposed by a like sign? Motion carries. Next item I'm gonna um move down to item four B. And that is an ordinance amending section 1481. Uh including the public pool and the splash pad. And Mr. Rainey is here this evening as uh the executive director of the WMU to answer any questions that the commission might have. So Kyle, if you don't mind, you'll just come forward and explain to the commission what this is. First, thanks everybody for having us my first city initially um there were a lot of questions last year when the splash pad opened about the water rates or the water utility bills. Uh you worked pretty heavily with uh Jeff uh on the project. Made a lot of recommendations which they followed, but it still uses water. Uh I met with Commissioner Tool at one point. Um trying to get some things to go through. Um really suggestions, so we just went ahead. We wanted to help as much as we could. Water's not free, but to see what we could do uh as active members of the community to help. So we we did this uh recommendation to you guys for approval. It's tier rate, so it's hard to say all the information I had to go by, but it's probably 55 to 60 percent uh cut on water. Uh there are some limitations on who can use it, uh for obvious reasons, so it's any city or county um brand pole or slash pad that has a leader uh designated for that use. So it can be use for uh restrooms or anything has to be used just for that uh for that use. We appreciate your guys' support uh as it's a little bit to go through guys. Kyle, it's my understanding that it does not affect residential rates in any shape, form, or fashion. We're talking about bulk water rate here. So, what happens is I think I'm just going off of a budget number, not on the actual usages for the splash pad, so it's hard for me to tell. I think they'll use the first two tiers. We drop them down to the bottom tier across the board. So if you want to know the exact numbers, I don't know my head. So uh the top two tiers are uh 620 and 567. This will drop them down to 259 across the board for all of their per 100 cubic feet of water usage. Thank you. And 100 cubic feet, if my memory serves me correct, is about 700 gallons for you. Yeah, okay.