Meeting of May 26, 2026

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Turning those off or vibrate, that would be helpful. With that, we'll get started. This is May 26th, 2026 Hardin County Fiscal Court regular voting meeting. So, let's begin and call this meeting to order. Roll call, please. — Squire Clem. — Here. — Squire Hicks. — Here. — Squire News. — Here. — Squire Pennington. — Here. — Squire Saltsman. — Here. — Squire Thompson. — Here. — Squire Whitehead. — Here. — Squire Yates. — Here. — Squire Hall. — Here. — Next we'll have our invocation by Magistrate Pennington and pledge of allegiance Magistrate Whitehead. — Please bow your heads with me. Father God, we just thank you for today. We just thank you uh for the many blessings that we have. Father, as we come away from Memorial Day, uh Father, we are extremely grateful and humbled to receive all the sacrifice that we have. For all the men and women who have uh given their lives, and Father, we just are extremely grateful for the one who gave his ultimate life to save us all. Father, we just ask that as we continue to go out uh through our days, that we would remember those that have gone before us. Jesus, we ask that you would open our

minds and our hearts to do your work today and every day. It's in your son's name we pray. Amen. — Please join me in the pledge. — I pledge allegiance 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, again, thanks everyone for joining today, and it's great to see all of you here and those that are watching on TV. Uh just a quick review of the agenda. Uh next we'll approve the last meeting's minutes. Uh we have a couple of department reports to go over. Uh we'll have a time of any citizen's concerns or comments. And then we have one resolution uh to vote on, and then we have the consent agenda that I'll go in detail about everything that's in there. And then we have our typical comments and then adjourn. So, that's our agenda today. Uh I wanted to make one note. I just received some information this afternoon.

Um and I don't know how many people know about this, but um there's a uh a new number that people can call whenever there's a crisis uh suicide prevention, mental health, and substance abuse. Um there are counselors that are available nationwide. And this uh phone number is 988. 988. So I think that's fairly new. Many may already know about this, but I just want to take an opportunity to to talk about it for a moment. Um so the uh there's 14 Kentucky call centers that are available right now. And uh connection to additional crisis services will be provided if necessary whenever called. Um and it's a uh Kentucky now offers two dedicated 24/7 text and chat centers also. So um this information if you go out and you can um check it out online. But um anyway, that's something that's fairly new and uh it might be something that that uh could be utilized. All right. And just uh

forgot about this. Uh there was a um uh kind of a uh I guess you would say a celebration. Uh we just received this afternoon a um approval basically for a 2026 rubber modified asphalt grant. And um one of the reasons that that's so significant, that's $162,624 that's coming our way from the state uh for us to utilize for for asphalt that we wouldn't otherwise have. So that's a uh uh pretty big deal and um thanks for those that worked hard on getting that grant. And um very happy about that. All right. At that, we'll just move on then to uh the next item, which is approve the Hardin County Fiscal Court May 12th, 2026 minutes and need a motion to approve. — So moved. — Second. — Been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none, is roll call, please. — Squire Clem. — Yes. — Squire Hicks. — Yes. — Squire Meuse. — Yes. — Squire Pennington. — Yes. — Squire Saltsman. — Yes. — Squire Thompson. — Yes.

— Squire Whitehead. — Yes. — Squire Yates. — Yes. — Mr. Hall. — Yes. Motion passes. All right. Next up is uh are some presentations and we'll start out with our EMS, Mark Peterson. — Good evening. I have the April activity report for EMS. I'd have the There it is. We uh were dispatched on 1,244 runs, responded to 1,238 runs. Of those, 111 were no needs and six of those were transport uh transfers. That puts us at 13,360 runs for the fiscal year, down just a little bit from this time last year. This is a breakdown of uh responses by unit and their location. Um Elizabethtown being the busiest, then Radcliff, followed by Sonora and White uh West Hardin, I'm sorry.

Squad 51 in West Hardin made 43 responses in April with an average response time of 15 minutes and 34 seconds. Our collections for April, we collected $729,000 up uh just over $100,000 from this time last year. And then for fiscal year to date, we're at 6.5, which is up about $800,000 from this time last year as well. At this time, I'll take any questions. — All right, hearing none. — All right. All right, thank you, Mark. — Thank you. Appreciate it. — Thanks, Mark. Thank you. — Next up, uh E911, Mike Leo. — Good evening. — Good evening. — Good evening. — Here to present the activity report for the month of April for the 911 center. 911 calls answered were 4,130. 9,063 CAD reports created. Answered 5,546 administrative calls. Dispatched EMS 1,280 times and handled