Meeting of March 9, 2021

[Music] good afternoon welcome to the march 9th meeting of hardin county fiscal court i'd remind you this is a voting meeting and if you have cell phones please turn them off or put them in vibrate mode we'll begin with roll call if you would miss dolly ronnie goodman yep king here judge barry here easter here doug goodman here william here clam wiseman here thompson here mr thompson will lead us in the invocation of mr king in the pledge if you'll please stand would you join me in a prayer father god we are thankful today that you're in control that you have authority and you know our very uh wants desires and needs and uh you know every hair on our head lord we thank you for your omniscience we

pray father that as we meet today you would send your holy spirit to allow us to be able to make decisions that would be best for the community that we serve here lord we thank you that you've sent your son jesus that we might know you as a lord and savior and as our father god we pray lord that you guide our thoughts do you guide our actions and that you'll be glorified through our work today in jesus name amen amen would you please join me in the pledge i pledge of the united allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Music] first today with informational items we have two reports today annual presentations from the two water districts first up is district number one's annual presentation we have

mr stephen hogan general manager good afternoon everyone uh yes i'm stephen hogan general manager for hardin county water district one uh we'll jump right into it it's been an unusual year for all of us a lot of things changed some things didn't so you'll see some of the similar items from last year so some of the board actions we had we did have one employee retire earlier in the year michael mckinney he had 24 years of service with us he was one of our award-winning plant operators at portal spring we did complete construction of the two million and a half gallon elevated water storage tanks at fort knox it took us about a year even through challenges and issues with coven they are standing they are in the air but they are not occupied we still have to build the water plant pumps to bigger so we can feel the fill the tanks i did want to show you something that was interesting we have a small video clip of how

the bowl gets to the top this is the estrada tank it took about two hours to raise the uh the steel bowl which was constructed on the bottom and lifted to the top in place that bowl weighs uh a whole lot less than that but it was amazing at the technology and the mechanics that they used to to raise uh raise it to the top once it was up they welded it in place and poured the concrete floor to anchor it up there a funny funny story when fifth corps shows up at fort knox they want to add a logo to the to that tower how long will it take you to bring it back down so we can paint it sorry guys sorry guys it's there it's there it's already there a couple of the personnel items were added to our our board took care of a couple of personnel policies new succession policy computer use and some employee travel policies and going on to our system our capital

improvements in our capital purchases last year we completed 10 million 324 thousand dollars worth of work despite coveted that was a pretty pretty significant challenge in our fort knox water capital improvement plan we had the two tanks which you see are five million five hundred fifty-five thousand was was for both of those tanks uh this year going forward we have started the construction for uh the muldraw water treatment plant which is on post that's in the range of 15 million dollars and quite honestly the 1941 plant was a juggernaut but now it looks like a bombed out mess it's been completely gutted the only thing that remains are the structures so we have one project over at the radcliffe wastewater we had three projects in excess of two million dollars at fort knox wastewater that's the plants we were we were working on in fort knox stormwater we had 300 thousand dollars worth of work so this year in progress including uh the mold draw plant we have 23 million dollars worth of work going on and we do

plan to complete that this year it will be a challenge but we will complete those this year under design we have three projects and it's shy of a million dollars radcliffe right around 800 000 uh fort knox water uh we have six small i'm sorry waste water we have six small sewer line projects uh these are replacements to the aged buildings and that kind of thing out there and then the fort knox stormwater we're replacing the box culvert for about 45 000. so we also have some water lines at fort knox that we'll be replacing the old cast iron pipes that have been in the ground since 190 whatever we had a challenge this last cold snap one time we had nine breaks going on at one time it started about 11 o'clock at night and went on until about 2 o'clock the next morning crews were out there at one point in time we were having trouble keeping the tanks full is draining so much water out so quickly moving on to our standards of excellence we have a few awards this year

again our associations did not meet it was hard to meet in person but we were uh fortunate to have the waste water system at radcliffe awarded the operation outstanding operations award by kwwa and we had the clean water professionals or formerly known as west grant operational excellence award for the fort knox wastewater treatment facility and again this year for the third year in a row the kentucky chamber of commerce has awarded us the one of the best places to work in the state of kentucky we did receive a moody's surveillance report that's our credit rating and we're still very good at double a3 so moving on covet 19 impacts what how did we operate well i'm here to tell you we didn't stop we kept going we met the challenges we had all personnel in house or in in our facilities but as usual according to cdc guidelines we did start doing temperature checks and cleaning and the like and we still have our lobby closed

we're just not quite ready to face the challenge of having the public come into to the facility the idea of the personnel impacts we had 28 employees that in some way shape form of fashion had to take coveted leave under the cares act and uh thanks to my counterpart we had to check some numbers uh it's showing 520 hours that actually should be 934 hours and the emergency paid leave dollar amount should be twenty two thousand nine hundred eight dollars but all in all uh we only had uh i think it was twelve that actually contracted uh covered myself included so we were able to manage pretty well by keeping our distance keeping our facilities isolated we curtailed or prevented any kind of co-mainly between the different facilities so you're in your isolation point you're in your isolation point and you're over here don't don't come together you stay over there so we were able to manage pretty well so as mentioned before we were able to maintain operations we had no