This was in this morning.

On the podium, please.

Okay.

But I'll please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance to be led by Mattea Knox.

Matthew.

Pledge of allegiance is the United States of America.

And to re-roll it for which stands.

Please remain standing and uh Commissioner Coxon, but I ask you to leave some prayer tonight.

Pray with me, please.

Dear Lord, we thank you for this day.

We thank you, Lord, for what you have done for each of us and for our community.

We thank you, Lord, that our friend Jerry is back here with us tonight.

Lord, as we go about this meeting today, we ask that you would bless each action we do.

Everything that we do, Lord, would be pleasing in your sight.

We have special blessings, Lord on our city, it's employees, that you keep them safe.

And Lord, as each of us leave here this evening, we pray for traveling mercies as we get to our we pray these things in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior.

Amen.

Please be seated.

We'll call the meeting officially to order.

First item on the agenda is public hearing.

And uh I will now call the public hearing to order.

See if anyone has any comments, Joyce.

I'll let you uh read what we're talking about here.

Okay, legal public notice fiscal year 2027 budget hearing.

A public hearing will be held by the city of Winchester, Kentucky at City Hall on June 16th, 2026, at or after 530 p.m.

during regular city commission meeting for the purpose of obtaining written and oral comments from citizens regarding possible use of municipal road aid funds for the upcoming fiscal year.

Okay, does anyone have any comments?

I don't even know what we're talking about, but I'm so sorry.

Okay, seeing none, I will uh adjourn this public hearing.

Yes.

All right, let's move on to item three.

Uh before we move that, let's see.

I think Commissioner Strode, you said you had a little something to do tonight.

I do.

Okay.

Turn it over to you for a few minutes.

Brian, would you come forward, please?

I would have to run every week for one.

And um, I decided to prepare to be a good time to honor you all at work.

If you all don't realize what his whole group does every day, get ready for this weekend.

And we water, mulch, we can we ask them to do, and then they work all the way with this on Saturday.

So anything that happens in this community, I'm going to take these guys.

I wonder if you can take that up and put it up in your office, honey.

Thank you so much for everything you all do.

She'll call you tomorrow.

Tomorrow she'll call until we get something.

I was thinking.

Okay, moving on to item three.

We have another presentation.

Uh that will be on rural health transformation program grant applications.

And Jacob or Alicia, which one of you are going to speak?

You, Alicia?

Okay.

Come on down, tell us about this.

Uh come on, tell us about this grant application.

It's pretty exciting.

Yes, I'd like to give you guys a brief update on a significant health care funding opportunity that was recently made available to the state of Kentucky, and then how Winchester EMS is positioning itself to benefit from that investment.

So Kentucky was recently awarded a grant through the Rural Health Transformation Program, which is a federal initiative through the centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The program was designed to improve health care access, strengthen emergency services, medical services, support workforce development, and enhance health outcomes in rural communities of Kentucky.

So as part of the state's implementation of that program, there were several competitive grant opportunities made available to health care providers and EMS agencies.

So Winchester Fire EMS submitted applications for two of those opportunities.

And I think there was a memo in your packet that kind of went into those more, but I'll tell just briefly about the two.

The first one was seeking funding to establish a community paramedicine program, which would serve Winchester Clark County.

The program would provide enhanced in-home and preventative health care services, improve care coordination, reduce unnecessary ER visits, and it would strengthen our partnerships between our EMS, our health care providers, and then behavioral health organizations in our community.

So the total funding request for that one was approximately $644,000.

The second one that we submitted focused on EMS education and training modernization.

It was a proposal that would expand regional EMS training.

It would uh involved a mobile training unit that would have advanced simulation resources on it, and it would really increase the workforce development opportunities for EMS providers throughout central and eastern Kentucky.

So I didn't know this, but in the process of preparing the application, our department has 20 certified training providers within our department.

So having this mobile training unit would allow them to deploy our resources and give some of these communities better train access to training that they may not have, and it would be a future revenue source potentially in the future.

So that total funding request was approximately $751,000.

So we're looking at a million three.

Right.

Very very close to 1.4 million dollars.

Yes.

And I wanted to while while I was up here, provide um some important context regarding the opioid abatement funding applications.

So prior to this opportunity, the rural health transformation opportunity becoming available.

Winchester EMS had submitted applications to both the city and the county's abatement fund programs to support the community paramedicine program.

When the rural health transformation uh grant opportunities became available, it was clear that it offered a more comprehensive and sustainable funding source for that program, and it would allow the full implementation, the full scope of that project.

So as a result, Winchester via EMS withdrew both opioid applications, and that decision just allows those funds to be used for organizations in our communities that are you know focused specifically on the prevention treatment and harm reduction.

So we believe that this approach with withdrawing those applications pursuing this funding would really just maximize the impact of those investments across our community.

So like mayor said, combine the two uh application, the rural health transformation applications represent nearly $1.4 million in potential investment into Winchester, Clark County, and really this uh surrounding region.

And most importantly, these are $100 federally funded grants, and they require no city match, no local match.

So we submitted our applications ahead of time, ahead of the June 12th deadline, and we are expected to hear back on them July 1st, and then if awarded, the funding would be here August 1st.

So they are really trying to roll this program out.

And you know, obviously, these are just these two programs are just meant to really strengthen the health care access in our community, public safety services, um, enhance the more EMS workforce development and regional training capacity, and this is all while leveraging state and federal resources, not our local tax dollars.

So we appreciate your continued support of the commission, and we will keep you informed as the process moves through.

So we had a BMS meeting at the hospital this morning, and they were Jacob was there, and chief both chiefs were there, and um they were very excited about what this can do for health care in this community.

And I think we positioned ourselves well whenever the chiefs uh Chief Robinson and Jacob Allen heard about uh the state getting the program uh really early or getting that funding really early on, and we submitted a letter to uh the commissioner of the public health department for the state of Kentucky just saying we're positioned and ready to take this on before the grants were even announced.

So I feel like we are a competitive applicant.

So we'll know they're working two weeks.

We'll know.

Two weeks.

Jacob, you have anything you want to add?

Go, Alicia.

Commission, any comments or that's great.

I guess if it's not granted, yes.

So since we're working through some of the submitment, yes, yes, please.

It sounds like we're in a good spot then.

Yes, ma'am.

If they're not awarded, we'll work on a backup.

And you know what's so cool is watching you all work as partners.

You're working with the police department, you work with public works, you're working with the fire department, and it's all partnershipping and and just cooling our resources, so which all end up benefiting this community.

So if there's nothing else, thank you for great presentation, and we'll look for the check.

Okay, uh, and I understand Mr.

City Manager item four is removed from the agenda for this evening.

Defer any action, please.

That will be deferred.

Uh item five resolution city miss uh city clerk.

Resolution of the city of Winchester, Kentucky authorizing the completion and filing of a staffing for adequate fire emergency response safer grant for up to 2,293,658 dollars and 64 cents in grant program funds with a federal emergency management agency fee.

Is there a motion to approve the resolution?

Motion by Commissioner Cox.

Is there a second?

Second by Commissioner Toole.

Any discussion?

All in favor of the safer grant, please say yes.

Yes.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries item six ordinance for we have A and B.

Both of those are for first reading.

Madam Clerk.

Um this is a summary and ordinance amending ordinance number 14-2025 with respect to certain appropriations in the city of Winchester, Kentucky fiscal year 2026 budget.

This is an ordinance amending the city of Winchester annual budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 2025 and ending June 30th, 2026.

Ordinance number 14-2025 shall remain unchanged except as follows.

Estimated revenues changed from 27 million eight hundred and fifteen thousand dollars to 31 million three hundred and ninety-seven thousand three hundred dollars, transfers in and out zero.

Total resources available track change from 29 million fifteen thousand fifteen thousand dollars to $32,597,300.

Estimated appropriations change from $8,998,528 to $32,413,528.

Excess of resources over appropriations changed from $16,472 to $183,772.

Estimated fund balance into fiscal years changed from $16,472 to 183,772.

Capital Equipment Fund balance forward to $475,231.

Estimated revenues change from $3,049,974 to $13,330,974.

Transfers in and out zero.

Total resources available changed from $3,525,205 to $13,806,205.

Estimated appropriations changed from $3,525,205 to $11,043,205.

Excess of resources over appropriations changed from zero to $2,763,000.

Estimated fund balance into fiscal year changed from zero to $2,763,000.

Room tax fund balance forward $2.

Estimated revenues change from $160,000 to $210,000.

Transfers in and out zero.

Total resources available changed from $160,000 to $210,20.

Estimated appropriations changed from $160,000 to $210,000.

Excess of resources over appropriations, $2.

Estimated fund balance into fiscal year, $2.

Other funds balance forward $412,201.

Estimated revenues change from $258,500 to $2,500,500.

Transfers in and out zero.

Total resources available changed from $670,701 to $2,914,701.

Estimated appropriations changed from $197,200 to $658,700.

Excess of resources over appropriations changed from $473,501 to $2,256,1.

Estimated fund balance into fiscal year changed from $473,501 to $2,256,1.

A complete copy of this ordinance is available for inspection in the office of the city of Winchester City Clerk.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is an accurate summary of the contents of the above entitled ordinance.

William A.

Dykman, attorney law.

Would you mind repeating that?

You want me to do the other one two at the same time?

Okay.

Okay.

Is there a motion to approve this ordinance?

Motion by Commissioner Toole is there second.

Second by Commissioner Strode.

Any further discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries item B.

Sorry.

An ordinance adopting a pay classification plan that conforms with the fiscal year 2027 budget.

Is there a motion?

For motion by Commissioner Chenal.

Is there a second?

Second by Commissioner Cox.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries.

Item seven ordinances.

These are for second reading, so there will be a roll call on both A and B.

Madam Clerk.

This is a summary.

An ordinance adopting the city of Winchester, Kentucky annual budget for the fiscal year July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2027 by estimating revenues and resources and appropriating funds for the operation of city government.

This is an ordinance adopting the city of Winchester annual budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 2026 and ending June 30th, 2027.

The budget contains the following estimated revenues and appropriations.

General fund balance forward $1 million.

Estimated revenues $28,688,000.

Or $28,688,000.

Transfers in and out zero.

Total resources available, $29,688,000.

Estimated appropriations, $29,517,890.

Excess of resources over appropriations, $170,110.

Estimated fund balance.

Oh wait a minute.

End of fiscal year.

Okay.

$170,000.

Capital equipment fund balance forward $740,000.

Estimated revenues $1,674,804.

Transfers in and out zero.

Total resources available, $2,414,804.

Estimated appropriations, $2,414,804.

Excess of resources over appropriations, zero.

Estimated fund balance into fiscal year, zero.

MAPS fund balance forward $50,533.

Estimated revenues $242,500.

Transfers in and out zero.

74,804 dollars, transfers in and out zero total resources available two million four hundred and fourteen thousand eight hundred and four dollars, estimated appropriations two million four hundred and fourteen thousand eight hundred and four dollars, excess of resources over appropriations zero, estimated fund balance into fiscal year zero max fund balance forward fifty thousand five hundred and thirty-three dollars, estimated revenues two hundred and forty-two thousand five hundred dollars, transfers in and out zero total resources available two hundred and ninety-three thousand thirty-three dollars, estimated appropriations seven hundred and forty-four thousand dollars, excess of resources over appropriations, negative four hundred and fifty thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven dollars, estimated fund balance into fiscal year negative four hundred and fifty thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven dollars room tax fund balance forward two dollars, estimated revenues two hundred and two thousand five hundred dollars, transfers in and out zero, total resources available two hundred two thousand five hundred and two dollars, estimated appropriations two hundred two thousand five hundred dollars excess of resources over appropriations two dollars, estimated fund balance into fiscal year two dollars other funds balance forward two million two hundred and seventy-nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-six dollars, estimated revenues two hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred dollars, transfers in and out zero, total resources available two million four hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars, estimated appropriations 124,200, excess of resources over appropriations two million three hundred and seventy-one thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars, estimated fund balance into fiscal year two million three hundred and seventy-one thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars.

A complete copy of this ordinance is available for inspection in the office of the city of Winchester City Clerk.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is an accurate summary of the contents of the above entitled ordinance will you may document attorney law.

Okay, is there a motion?

So moved motion by commissioner tool is there a second, second by commissioner strode.

Any further discussion?

All in favor, aye, aye.

Okay, it's yours.

Uh Commissioner Schnaught.

I'll approve it.

Commissioner Strode, yes, Mayor Reed, yes, Commissioner Cox, yes, commissioner, yes.

Okay, motion carries item 7B.

This is a summary and ordinance amending section 14-81.1, water utility rate schedules to include public pool or splash pad.

Is there a motion?

Motion by Commissioner Cox, second by commissioner tool.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Any opposed by likes?

We have to sorry.

William I sitting here thinking about geez, what I was doing.

Thinking the city, the WMU commission approved this and sent it to the commission for the vote.

So thank you all very much.

Okay, roll call.

Commissioner Schnapp.

Yes, Commissioner Strode, yes, Commissioner.

I mean Mayor Reed.

Yes.

Commissioner Cox, yes, commissioner tool.

Yes.

Okay, motion carries.

Item eight orders.

We the general orders A through H.

Madam Clerk.

An order approving a contract with Palmer Engineering for Engineering Services for the Town Branch stormwater improvements in the amount of twenty thousand dollars.

Is there a motion?

So move motion by commissioner strode.

Is there a second?

Second by commissioner chenault.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Uh any opposed by like sign.

Motion carries item B.

An order accepting the final completion and final adjusting change order and project acceptance of the Eugene Gay splash park in the amount of one million six hundred and eighty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars.

Is there a motion?

So is motion by commissioner toole.

Is there a second?

Second by commissioner cox.

Any further discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries item eight C and order approving an agreement for medical director services for fiscal year 2027.

Is there a motion?

Motion by Commissioner Schnault.

Is there a second?

Second.

Second by Commissioner Toole.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries item eight D.

An order approving a standard agreement between the city of Winchester and records service operator.

Is there a motion?

So Commissioner Strode is there second.

Second by Commissioner Chennault.

Any discussion?

Sorry, go ahead.

I will ask Chief one thing.

If I understand right, these are on a rotational basis.

The records.

And when you call for a record, you go through the alphabet.

Call them in.

Correct.

So no one, one person takes care of the three in the agreement.

They go in alphabetical order.

I'm not certain on that.

Yeah, I think that's in there.

So that's why there's not an offer here.

Yeah, five seconds.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Okay.

Do we take a motion on this?

Yeah.

Motion second, but no.

All in favor.

I mean opposed by likes.

Motion carries.

Item eight E.

An order approving an agreement for a city attorney for fiscal year 2027.

Is there a motion?

Motion by Commissioner Shenald.

Is there a second?

Second.

Second by Commissioner Cox.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign.

Motion carries.

Item eight F.

An order authorizing the renewal of a self-insured health plan coverage.

Is there a motion?

So moved.

Motion by Commissioner Toole.

Is there a second?

Second.

Second by Commissioner Strode.

Any discussion?

Um, if I may, Mayor Shannon, Commissioner Cox and I sit on the insurance committee.

And I think it's important to boast that it's been very nominal.

Changes, correct me if I'm wrong here, Salisha.

Um for our employees and their health coverage.

I do think it's important moving forward that we continue to look at the split of 95-5 and keep it healthy for our employees but also sustainable for the city.

Okay, thank you.

Any other comments?

Okay, all in favor, aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries item 8G.

An order authorizing the renewal of general liability, public officials, law enforcement, automobile property, and workers' compensation insurance coverage.

Is there a motion?

Motion by Commissioner Strode, second by Commissioner Cox.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries a H and order approving a memorandum of understanding with the Miami Valley Fire EMS Alliance, Ohio Urban Search and Rescue Task Force.

Is there a motion?

So motion by Commissioner Toole is there a second.

Second by Commissioner Shenault.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries.

Item nine, personnel orders A through D.

Madam Clerk.

An order employing Hunter Rainey to fill the position of police officer one.

Is there a motion?

Motion by Commissioner Chenault.

Is there a second?

Second.

Second by Commissioner Cox.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries.

We'll let the chief intervention a sec.

Item B.

An order employing Austin High School to fill the position of police officer one.

Is there a motion?

So move.

Motion by Commissioner Strode.

Is there a second?

Second.

Second by Commissioner Toole.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries.

And let's stop there for just a second.

And Chief, I'm gonna turn it over to you for a minute.

Sure.

It's my pleasure to introduce you all to the two news police officers.

Honored Rainey and Austin Heisel.

All right.

As you can see, this one serving the country.

And he's ready to serve a city.

Mr.

Hussel, I think it's installing it for somebody.

So they did very well in the process.

They ran our spring uh hiring process just like the last two we hired a couple months ago, but for budgetary purposes, we spread it out.

They'll be starting on the first paper on the new budget on June 28th.

All right, welcome a board.

We're glad to have you and Chief, why don't you do a photo with them?

Sure.

Not here.

It's been a long time.

He's good.

Can't wait to get home.

Thank you.

Welcome the board.

We're anxious to work with you and wish you the best of luck and know that we're all here for you at all times.

Okay.

All right.

Item nine C.

An order accepting the position description of community paramedic personnel and pay classification plan.

Is there a motion?

So moved.

Motion by Commissioner Toole is there a second.

Second by Commissioner Schnauff.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries item nine D.

An order amending the position description of city manager personnel and pay classification plan.

Is there a motion?

So moved.

Motion by Commissioner Toole.

Is there a second?

Second by Commissioner Shenault.

Any discussion?

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Any opposed by like sign?

Motion carries.

We're now down to item 10.

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

Did anyone sign up to speak?

No.

No.

Okay.

We'll move it to item 11.

Thank you.

Comments from the mayor, commissioner, city manager, and city attorney.

Um let's start with you tonight.

Mr.

City Manager.

Oh wow.

Yeah.

Look lonely over there.

I'll just I'll defer until you all go down the row and see if you missed anything and then I'll and then you'll clean it up.

I'll clean it up.

All right.

All right.

Commissioner Toole.

Um this is our last meeting before the Fourth of July holiday in the semi semi semi-semicentennial.

It's hard to say a couple times.

Um Diana Lane has worked tirelessly along with numerous other volunteers.

It's gonna be July 3rd at Lacens, and it is a big celebration.

So make it if you can't.

And you know, that's been the a difficult thing at the beginning to get the fireworks for this year because not only is it July 4th, it's the best.

I mean, it is the 250th birthday of our country.

So a lot of people have been buying up the fireworks, but Diana got fireworks for us.

So we're good.

Mr.

Cox.

Uh couple things.

Uh this Saturday from 10 to 2 out at BC TC Habitat is having uh an event called the hard hat hustle.

Uh and uh it's not a race, which we're glad it's not, or I'm glad it's not because I might do some of these things.

There are different uh uh different events, you go from station to station, and and big time will be had by all it'll be great to be food trucks and all that, and we have decided to waive the registration fee and go for donations only because if you've ever done a nonprofit type thing, you know, you make more money just asking for donations than you do with registration fees, and and all this will go toward the first house that'll be built on Lincoln Street, so that's a big or the first house on the east side of Lincoln Street.

Also, this will be our last regular meeting before work camp comes.

Uh I'll have a setup crew here June the 29th through July the 3rd, and we plan to park on the veterans memorial and watch the fireworks that night.

And uh the kids will roll in here on July the 5th, two hundred and ninety-six of them as of right now.

We we've lost four, and uh they'll start work on July the 6th, work through the 10th.

Coach manager's going to be over on the 8th and speak to the kids, and uh opening ceremonies will be uh July the 6th at 8 in the morning at the high school and uh hope everyone can come to that.

It's a big deal.

And uh welcome these kids to our town from as far away as Massachusetts and Texas.

Anything else?

And hopefully by nine o'clock on the 11th, they'll be gone.

Thank you for all the hard work you do on that event annually.

So uh anything else?

No, okay, Commissioner Strode.

I'm gonna try to be brief here.

Um it was Beer Cheese weekend, and it was fabulous.

Everything went so well, thanks to the police, the fire and public works and Alicia and Matei.

I have been unbelievable.

I don't know what we would have done without the two of you all and Diana, because this is the first year we haven't had somebody in City Hall that was actually in charge, so you've kind of had right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing, but I think it all came together, and I think it's the biggest crowds we've ever had.

Everybody I've talked to felt the same way.

We had a huge crowd for the rock the block on Friday night, tribute to the Eagles music, and it was wonderful.

Weather was perfect.

Um, I want to give the DAR credit for putting up the bunning and the flags that you see downtown.

They worked on Friday.

Um again, public works got the baskets, the flower baskets up on Friday.

They have flags in them as well, and had to water what yesterday, Brian, because we haven't had that's another thing they do is take care of everything we have downtown.

We had the work release program out from the jail.

They were wonderful on Friday and stayed out with you quite a while on um, I mean on Saturday night, didn't they?

Get everything done.

So I will thank fiscal court for that.

Um in all, it was it was great.

Um, I want to remind everybody of Juneteenth at Heritage Hall and Heritage Park from four to nine.

Those hours right.

I've seen a couple of times.

Okay.

Isn't that on Saturday the Saturday?

Yes, I'm sorry, 20th June.

Yeah, right.

I was trying to get the Juneteenth in, but it is on Saturday.

Exactly.

So I hope everybody will try to support that.

And another thing that Public Works does is put our stage up.

So they're putting the stage up on Saturday and taking it down.

Um, so thank you, Brian, for that as well.

And again, thanks to everybody that volunteered and worked so hard to make uh marriage success.

I really think it was, and I think everybody made money.

I think the vendors made money in the businesses downtown, restaurants and all.

So it was a win-win for our community mayor.

It definitely was anything else?

That's it.

Okay.

Uh I just like the complimenting Miss Kitty on the this past weekend.

And Saturday morning at nine o'clock, there's a breakfast at first Baptist Church for all men.

No disrespect.

No, disrespect on sight.

That's the way you said all men at nine o'clock.

There will be a breakfast for all me at first Baptist Church.

Understand all weekends, um, I'll be I'll give it to them, I guess.

It is Sunday.

Okay.

Yes, yes.

That's all I have.

Okay.

Oh, no.

No, he was very silent.

Yes.

We didn't know about that.

Oh, other visitors room that didn't say anything either.

Are you gonna tell me?

Just let it go.

Let it go.

Let it go.

Okay.

I just tell uh three three things I want to share.

I'm sure as you all driving around town, I took these pictures the other night, and I don't know if it goes to Spectrum or if it goes to ATT.

Brian and I've looked at some of the telephone poles, and there are wires everywhere, they're tired tied to street signs.

One of them is a major wire hoop, and you know, there's a telephone pole there, and my you know what dogs do when it comes time for a telephone pole to be passing.

Well, my dog got caught in this one the other night, and I reached in and had to you know grab him out.

So I'm gonna ask Brian and along with the city manager, I'm gonna share these to take a look.

I've tried to take every poll has a number, and I tried to take pictures, so I don't know if they're ATTs or Spectrum.

Brian seems to think most of them are ATTs.

And that's like the contact and the the last set that we need to the last set that we looked at.

Um if they were if they were impeding any type of uh pedestrian traffic or something like that.

Um we found that most of the time with the fireparts went out, we just took the steps and cut them and get them out of the way, just to be quite honest with you.

There's a lot of them that uh everywhere.

Well, that they're old, they're out of service, and that's what happened when you get some of these subcontractors in here um that put up all that stuff, and they just leave the old and and then we end up having to deal with it.

So we'll we'll verify that, make sure, and then we'll go.

That needs to be fixed.

You know, school's out, kids are playing.

I can see little ones untying all that wiring and swinging on it and doing all kinds of stuff, and that's it's a it's a hazard.

Well, the amazing thing with the price of copper right now because it's still there.

Well, yeah, it's a lot of aluminum.

Okay.

And then the other thing, I wanted to share something that happened Saturday morning.

Um, and then I'm gonna mention a few of our officers.

Um I was walking home from the beer cheese festival on Saturday afternoon.

Um, and I got to the alley up behind the Methodist church, and there's a playground right there.

And a lady was looked like she was totally lost.

She was just walking around, she had her hands full of things, and I walked up to her and I said, you know, you okay?

And is anything I can do to help you?

It was like 91 degrees at that point.

And she said, I can't find my car.

And so immediately I called Chief Thompson and said, We have someone here in the alley that cannot find her car.

Remember, we're at the Methodist Church, okay?

Up Bow Catholic Church.

And I said, Do you have any clue where you park?

She said, buy a church.

And I went, not downtown.

We had lots of churches.

So our bicycle patrol came, three of them.

They took her keys and they drove all over downtown until they located her car.

She was parked on Broadway in church alley.

So she was blocks and blocks and blocks away at 83 years old, and she was hot as she could be.

But I want to say those are the people that are heroes.

Those are the people that care about this community.

So hats off to Matt Reed, Jake Walson, and Caleb Goodwich on what they did.

And I'd like for this uh, I'd like for that to go into their personnel fire file city manager.

came three of them they took her keys and they drove all over downtown until they located her car she was parked on Broadway and Church Alley so she was blocks and blocks and blocks away at 83 years old and she was hot as she could be but I want to say those are the people that are our heroes those are the people that care about this community so hats off to Matt Reed Jake Walson and Caleb Goodwich on what they did and I'd like for this uh I'd like for that to go into their personnel fires file city manager then uh I must have been a magnet for the weekend for things that that weren't positive went to the cemetery to water my mom's flowers on Sunday and looked up and there was a lady standing in the road there by the Harold Epperson sign as you go into the cemetery and she was having a major conversation with herself and uh concerned me so I drove the loop and came back in again but what she was actually doing was taking people's things off of their graves and she had her arms full of people's angels and all kinds of stuff she had a big potted plant and so once again I called Chief Thompson and uh they came out and the lady has serious mental health issues.

Uh she I mean you all she probably had 15 items off of people's graves but um I just want to say we don't realize in the community we have those that don't function well those that don't live life like like we live life and we need to remember that and and try to help where we can and that was responded to by Sergeant Lorette and Patrolman Baker and Patrolman Smithson and they were so kind to the lady and they said it happens pretty often with her but she was she had her arms full of other people's things uh and again that's that's who I call our heroes in this in this city then we've got great employees and that goes to show that we care about people not just things and and those are the services we need providing let people feel feel that we care.

So uh one other thing City Hall will be closed on Friday in celebration of Juneteenth so everyone mark that down and Saturday will be the celebration as Commissioner Strode said at Heritage Park.

So everyone uh have a blessed weekend and a blessed rest of your week and with that I'll take a motion to adjourn.

So motion by Commissioner Cox second by Commissioner Shenauth any discussion all in favor aye everybody have a great rest of your evening.

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