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MINUTES REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING

CITY OF SHEPHERDSVILLE,

MONDAY, FEBRUARY, 8^TH 2010

Police Officer Mike Miller said the invocation.

The Pledge of Alliance to the flag was said.

Mayor Tinnell called the meeting to order at 6:29 p.m.

In attendance were Council members Don Cundiff, Scott Ellis, Bonnie Enlow, Larry Hatfield, Tony Miller and Alan Wetzel.

Mr. Ellis made the motion to dispense of the reading of the minutes from the January 25, 2010 City Council meeting.  Mr. Alan Wetzel 2nd.  Motion carried 6-0. Mr. Ellis made the motion to approve the minutes as presented.  Mr. Wetzel 2nd.  Motion carried 6-0. 

Mayor Tinnell announced the City of Shepherdsville is having its annual chili cook off here at city hall on February 19th, at 6:00 pm and encouraged the departments to participate.   Mayor Tinnell welcomed Linda Johnson from Seven Counties to the council meeting.  

Old Business:

Second reading of Ordinance 009-777 Civil Service. 

Mr. Hatfield made the motion to approve.  Mrs. Enlow 2nd.  Motion carried 5-1. Mr. Wetzel opposed.

 New Business:

First reading, Ordinance 009-778 De-annexation of Portion of 1020 Corridor and North Parcels. 

Mr. Brown from Rogers Group was present to answer any questions the council had.  Mr. Cundiff asked if this had to be voted on and whether the city incurred any cost.  City attorney Bill Wilson said since it was during a regular election year he didn’t think so but he was going to check on it.

Sign-in Speakers: None

Planning & Zoning update- Daryl Lee: None

Board of Adjustment update- Duane Price: None

Departmental reports:

Chief Brad Whittaker spoke about a new traffic study they are participating in.  He spoke about their new website being up and invited people to visit the site.

John Bradley spoke about the new GIS system he recently trained on and some of the features of the program.

Chief Doug Puckett introduced our new police officer Rocco Besednjak to the Mayor and Council.  Chief Puckett explained that Rocco was hired and would be paid through a grant for the next three years.

James McAuliffe spoke about the chili cook-off and encouraged participation.  Mr. McAuliffe stated April 16^th Joe B. Hall would be here for the road dedication.  He then requested that the Mayor and council let the people from Seven Counties come up to meet them.    

Council reports: 

Larry Hatfield asked that the building be named legally.  He said the tax payers are paying for the building, that it was never named by ordinance or resolution.  Mr. Hatfield feels that the tax payers should have a say in it.  He stated that within 30 to 45 days he would be asking the council if they want to leave it like it is, which is fine, he just wants it to be done legal.  He said he would be making a motion to name it after the Veterans.  He also asked the Council to start considering a “Systems Development Fund”.  He stated he and Alan Wetzel have been talking about it for the new South East Regional Line.  Mr. Hatfield said it was getting to the point to where we need to hammer out some issues.  He said he believed the line would cover 22 thousand acres and we needed some revenue.  He also stated that other cities do it, MSD does it.  He stated the engineers are going to start working with him and Alan and Sherman and hopefully they can come up with something in the next 60 to 90 days.

The Mayor said that he would like to add to what Larry Hatfield said about this line going out to the South East area.  He stated that we took some flack on this project, that a lot of people said not to touch it, but he believes it will be the biggest thing since I-65 came through the county as far as future development.  The Mayor thanked Alan and Larry for taking this on at his request as well as city attorney Bill Wilson for walking them through it.  The Mayor said he feels the project is right on schedule and will open up thousands of acres of ground.  He stated that this is revenue.  He said he heard they were considering a new high school in that area, that it would relieve some of the pressure at Bullitt Central and he hopes that becomes a reality.  The Mayor then stated that we will see a lot of development in that area when the economy lets up. 

Mr. Cundiff said he had received several requests about doing repairs on the side of the road on

The Mayor stated that there was a work order in to do that project and we were hoping to get funding for curbing to hold it.

Motion by Mr. Cundiff at 7:00 p.m. to go in to executive session to discuss personnel and litigation issues.  Mr. Hatfield 2nd.  Motion carried 6-0.

Motion by Mr. Hatfield to reconvene at 8:28 p.m.  Mr. Ellis 2nd.  Motion carried 6-0.  Mayor Tinnell announced that personnel and litigation issues were discussed but no decisions were made.

Motion to adjourn at by Mr. Wetzel, Mr. Ellis 2nd.   Motion carried 6-0. Meeting adjourned at 8:31 p.m.

____________________________                            Attest: ________________________

Sherman Tinnell, Mayor                                                  Brenda Taylor, Deputy City Clerk