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Owensboro City Commission digest, June 3, 2025
At its meeting Tuesday, the Owensboro City Commission took the following actions:
• Recognized the retirement of Sgt. Whitney Adamson-Payne, Owensboro Police Department.
• Approved appointing Meaghan Woodruff to the Dugan Best Neighborhood Alliance; reappointed Katherine Zboril to the Owensboro Sister Cities and Regions board; appointed Landon Tong to the City Utility Commission; and reappointed Harry Roberts Jr. the the Regional Water Resource Agency board of directors.
• Approved an ordinance adopting the city budget beginning July 1, 2025.
• Approved an ordinance establishing the compensation for city employees and non-elected city officers.
• Approved an ordinance amending the 2024-25 city budget to include $600,000 to purchase property (Colonel House Motel); to appropriate $400,000 for cold food storage; for construction of bus shelters; to provide a $375,00 incentive payment to TS Enterprises; and to transfer $462,000 to the Debt Service Fund.
• Held first reading of an ordinance amending the fiscal year 2024-25 city budget to receipt of and appropriations for funds from Daviess Fiscal Court toward the construction of a senior center.
• Approved a municipal order authorizing the mayor to apply for a Cops Hiring Program funding grant through the U.S. Department of Justice for $125,000, with a possible match of 25%.
• Hired Teresa Jarrett as probationary, full-time, non-civil service bus driver with the Public Works Transit Department.
• Hired Allison M. Maier as probationary, full-time, non-civil service administrative aide with the Police Department.
• Promoted Michael J. Knight to regular, full-time, non-civil service instrument technician with the Public Works Engineering Department.
• Promoted Danny J. Prater to regular, full-time, non-civil service mechanic with the Public Works Garage Department.
