Meeting of August 10, 2021

so goddess good afternoon welcome to the august 10th meeting of hardin county fiscal court i remind you this is a voting meeting and if you have cell phones please turn them off or put them in vibrate mode with the roll call if you would miss donnelly ronnie goodman here king beer judge barry here easter here doug goodman william here clem here wiseman here thompson mr doug goodman will lead us an invocation and mr ronnie goodman and pledge if you please stand could you join me in the prayer dear god our heavenly fathers we're assembled today and was thankful this day he was told upon us we ask you guidance and recessions that recessions be used for our best skills and judgments peace and harmony prevailing this we ask in thy name amen you join me in the pledge i pledge allegiance to the flag of the

united states indivisible with the liberty of justice for all for department and office reports today mr mcnutt wasn't able to be with us unexpectedly here so we'll have emergency management now mr bryce shoemate and i would ask you all to remember mr mcnutt in your prayers as he's lost a family member so i appreciate if you all could remember him today i wanted to do something a little bit different than a normal report that i give you all i want to talk a little bit about our warning systems for hazardous weather and since we are even in this summertime heat we have a chance for even hazardous weather today so i want to go forward and show we actually have 36 warning devices outdoor warning devices in hardin county and that includes what the city of

elizabethtown has the city of radcliff and the city of vine grove and then hardin county itself so with that being said one of the common misconceptions that we see going on is people think that they should be able to hear these sirens in their homes we want to make clear these are outdoor warning devices they are not meant to be heard in your home they're for outdoor activities this becomes more important out west since storms can pop up there very easily and without any kind of notice whatsoever in the ohio valley most of our storms come up and they're embedded into a thunderstorm unfortunately many of our tornadoes are rain wrapped it makes it difficult for us to see them but these are meant to give people warning that are outside and in some type of outside activity and i put up some various because we've got about two or three different ones that we have throughout the county and the first one is one that the city of radcliffe has all over their area and there's nine of those elizabethtown has 12 and that that's what theirs look like and they're based all over the city county wide we have 12 of them and they're based in various different areas

throughout the county and when we first tried to put those out we tried to put them out near ball fields or places where there would be outdoor activities and i just happened to be on the committee that set up these warning signs and the purchase of them through a grant back in 1998 and then jennings smith mayor radcliffe put me on that committee when i was ranked police officer one in vine grove now these it can be heard much better than the others but uh it's almost an out-of-date siren gary that siren was put up in vine grove back in the 50s when durdley was the fire chief there and that that siren is older we have two more of those sirens three more of those sirens throughout the county and various fire stations and one actually at the water treatment plant in white mills the other thing that we recommend people instead of instead of uh depending on these weather sirens we recommend that people buy noaa weather radio and people a lot of times don't know what noaa stands for and for you folks that are watching this at home it's the national oceanic atmospheric administration they have the

software and the ability to set these radios off all across the united states and the reason i put this up there is because we consider this your indoor weather siren um it's knocked me out of bed at night and kim is ready to throw it at me many nights when it's going off because i set it so that it picks up meade county most of our storms come from meade county so just as soon as a storm hits meade county it sets us off it hadn't even hit hardin county yet so that's why i get in trouble all the time but this truly everybody should have one of these all the big box stores have these um you can they're very inexpensive they range anywhere from 20 to 45 dollars um they have a battery backup in them some of me they have a can crank on them so that you can utilize them when you are truly out of power the other thing that we have with modern technology are our weather apps and i i put two of them up here one from wave three and one from wdrb but they're free most everybody now has a smart phone we no longer use those cell phones for making calls only um they are truly a handheld computer and one of the great things is we've got apps in them and

those apps can give you an audible tone telling us when hazardous weather is near hardin county so when we start talking about the tornado sirens folks we put those up in hardin county back before we had smartphones and back before we had many weather radios so we were dependent on those sirens modern technology has has taken that part somewhat away from us where we should be depending on our weather radios and our weather apps on our phones much more so than any of these outdoor sirens here's some other apps that are available for free that you can put on on your phone the weather channel has a great one weatherbug has a great one they're all free and so i would strongly recommend that you all put those on your cell phones it will ask you if you want to have the audible alerts and you absolutely want to sign up for the audible alerts that go with these weather apps because even when we have tornado severe weather here in hardin county those audible weather apps those audible alarms on those weather apps

will go off for severe weather in hardin county one of the things that i have in my budget every year that runs i get a four thousand grand four thousand dollar grant to help with this but about a fifteen thousand dollar amount of money is used on this uh ability to have in your cell phone and it's somewhat like a reverse nine one one and if you will install this on your cell phone all you have to do is go to the hardin county government's website scroll down to the front page and i'm going to show you that there's our hardin county website there's a place where you scroll down the bottom of that front page and if you look it says rave mobile safety there's a form for you to sign up on and you folks at home you can go on there and sign up for that one thing it does ask for it does ask for an email address for that if you don't have an email address that you can put on there we've had several people ask the same thing my 91 year old dad and 86 year old mother do not have a computer at their

home so they don't have a an email site so we just made one up for them and put that on there and it took it so it will give you alerts through your cell phone it can give you alerts through your landline and it can give you alerts through an email so it's very cool and this rave app that we have so to speak is very much a reverse 9-1-1 and mike leo our 9-1-1 director has hooked this up to the national weather service and the judge reminds me several times that he's not a weather bug like i am and so it bugs him because it bugs several people it's not just the judge because it it will give you severe weather notices every time they come out so you'll get several of them but it is a great way for us to be able to get information out as far as severe weather but we can also put information out through rave on if we've got a street closed if we've got a severe accident if we've got a large fire that's blocked off things we can send that information out to not only the whole county but to groups or