Meeting of August 26, 2025

agenda today. Um, so anyway, good good afternoon. Uh, again, just a check of your cell phones if if you can uh turn those turn those off or place them on stun, whatever you need to do there. All right, let's go ahead and get started. This is the August 26th, 2025 Harden County Fiscal Court regular voting meeting. Let's begin and uh call this meeting to order. — All right, we'll start out with roll call. — Squire Clem — here. — Squire Hicks — here. — Squire Muse — here. — Squire Pennington — here. — Squire Saltzman — here. — Squire Thompson — here. — Squire Whitehead — here. Squire Yates — here. — Judge Executive Keith Tall [clears throat] — here. Uh, next we have our invocation by Magistrate Clam. And the pledge of allegiance will be led by Magistrate Thompson. — Pray with me. Our most gracious and loving heavenly father, we thank you so much for this beautiful day that you've given us. Father, we just come praising your holy name and thanking you, Father, for all the many blessings that you've given to us. And Father, we just uh lift

up our leaders across this country. Father, give them strength. Father, give them wisdom. And Father, for those that protect our country day and day and day day and night, Father, we just uh lift them up and ask that you give them a very special measure of your your blessing, protect them, be with their families as their way. Father, go with us through the meetings today. And uh Father, just give us clear thought. Let us be uh mindful of uh the business that we're to conduct for this community. Father, may we uh go forward with a positive attitude and father with vision. Father, just lead and guide and direct us in all the things that we say and do. In your son Jesus name I pray. Amen. Amen. — Please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. — All right. Well, thanks again uh for

joining us today. It's good to see all of you here today. Uh I'll just uh take a moment review the agenda. Uh we will have some um severalformational items today and we'll work through those. Uh we do have a public hearing for our uh property tax rates. Uh after that we have a a couple of uh report outs and presentations. Uh we'll move on into any citizens concerns or comments section and then we have uh five uh resolutions that we need to vote on today and then finally the consent agenda after that. Uh just a note that the close session um will be pushed out to our next meeting in uh in September. So we will not have a close session today. Okay. Okay. And then we'll have the comments at the end as usual. All right. So, that's the agenda. Um I don't think I have anything else to um to talk about today. So, we'll move on in and look at our uh approval of Harden County Physical Court uh August 12th,

2025 minutes. Is there a motion to approve? — So, moved. — Second. — Been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll have roll call. — Squire Clim, — yes. — Squire Hicks, — yes. — Squire Muse, — yes. — Squire [clears throat] Pennington, — yes. — Squire Saltzman, — yes. — Squire Thompson, — yes. — Squire Whitehead, — yes. — Squire Yates, — yes. — Judge, sorry, Judge Executive Keith Tall. — Yes. Motion passes. — All right. Next, we'll move into the uhformational items. And first up, uh, we have, um, an update from Blue Oval SK. So, look forward to hearing what that might be. — Hello everyone. How are you guys doing today? — Good. How are you? — Thank you for making time for us. We're glad always to get to come and share information about our company. I'm sure you may have seen a little bit about us in the news recently. I hope that you have, but I wanted to make sure we share an update as well about what's going on

in um that little plot of land over there in Glendale. I I've met all of you, I believe. But my name is Kelly Mallister. Not advancing, is it? Let's see. Oh, thank you. Thank [clears throat] you. Uh my name is Kelly Mallister and I have the priv privilege of serving as external affairs director at Blueville SK. I also get to work with Miss Sarah Vaughn who's our community engagement specialist and uh any day I get to work with her is a good day. Right. — All right. — Yes. — So, um it is go time. That's what we say. Uh because as of one week ago today, we began full commercial production at Blue Oval SK. — So, we are very very excited. For all of the people who were unsure if we would make a battery, we are making a battery and they are going in the Ford Lightning F-150. They will be shipped up to Michigan and they will go in those trucks and we're very excited that the product made right here in Glendel and Harden County will be driving on the roads of America very very soon. So, um that was a big deal that happened exactly one week ago. But the day before on Monday of last week, we also had a very special time on our campus. And we

actually have a video um we'd like to show you um that uh was very special for all of us. We are very proud to be an American company based right here in Harden County. So that was a very special moment. That was the first time that a flag has been raised officially at our plant. We had our ver veterans who are part of our employee um resource group and they took part in that and helped us raise that flag. So it was a very special moment and exactly how we wanted to start out the week before we went into production. It is what I would say a monumental time for us and we hope you feel that too. The fact that we have more than 1400 people who are working in

our plant in Kentucky. 94% of those are considered local hires. And I think we've covered this before, but that means that they did not require to be relocated. So they call Kentucky this area home. So we had two days of celebrations to officially kick off our start of production, also known as SOP. We did put a video up on our social media, but if you have not seen it, we wanted you to see exactly how fun it was to finally start production in our plant. This is awesome day. Been waiting for this for 3 years. Start a production. There's nothing like it. Let's go Kentucky. — And this is indeed the most exciting day. — And this is time to start producing for the world. Sir, — I can't really I can't really put it into words. It's a freaking amazing time. — We held multiple uh celebrations. As you

know, we operate seven days a week, 24 hours a day. So, to make sure everyone got a celebration, we partied well into the night and early in the morning. So, it was a very fun two days to make sure that every single one of our employees felt celebrated and appreciated. Um, I think we can all agree that we have indeed come a long way. It has just been three years. So to know that we have started from just that open field off of I65 and 222 to two 4 million square foot facilities is pretty awesome in such a mount a short amount of time. Uh, and you know it our company was actually announced back in 2021 when Ford and SKON said that they would build the the battery plants here in Glendale. And in 2022 in July, that's when we were officially formed. So we're just over three years old now. Construction, of course, the celebration there was in December of 2022. We moved in in November of last year. And again, we started production just last week. And you can see here the progression of how this field became what we are today. And we will have an official public