Meeting of October 12, 2021

good afternoon welcome to the 12 october meeting of hardin county fiscal court i'd remind you that this is a voting meeting if you have cell phones please turn them off or put them in the vibrate mode we'll begin with the roll call if you would miss donnelly doug goodman here thompson here ronnie goodman king here judge barry here easter mr doug goodman will leave us an invocation mr ronnie goodman in the pledge if you'll please stand did you join me in prayer dear god our heavenly fathers we're simple today we give you the place and glory to ask you guidance in your decisions my decisions be for the betterment of hardin county this we ask in thy name amen join me in the pledge i pledge allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all we'll begin uh with department reports

this afternoon first up we have mr mike mcduck with animal care and control hello everybody next slide please uh for the month of september we adopted 51 dogs returned 26 rescued three and euthanized 10. next slide for the year to date we actually almost more than doubled their adoption so i guess being open and not having to go through the online thing to see the dogs has helped us out a great deal next slide for the year to date we're we've rescued 35 percent that's significantly up and i'm not i'm not for sure where we're going to end up at for this year though a lot of the animals that we need to send across canada they raise their restrictions on a lot of stuff that's happening there so it's kind of cut into what we're used to sending out to rescue next slide please uh for the year the year to date we've our euthanasia at seven percent um that's pretty good considering being closed like we've been we're pretty

happy with those numbers next slide our dog adoptions are at 63 that's up 28 compared to the last year next slide our return to owners are at 26 which is pretty much the same as last year so that's pretty decent next slide our calls are down 45 compared to the years before the year before next slide the september pie chart we are 34 were in the unincorporated areas and 66 percent were in the incorporated areas next slide the year to date the unincorporates at 40 percent and incorporate us at 60 percent next slide for the overall shelter release rate we're sitting at 92 percent so that number is dogs and cats only 8 percent of what's been brought to us has had to been euthanized a lot of that is hit by cars some of them are animals that medically we could not get sound enough to adopt out it would be adopting somebody else a problem or sending it to rescue the cat live release rate is at 92

percent next slide the monthly live release rate for the cats is at 92 percent next slide we've had 828 visitors come to the shelter which is good considering everything going on with copenhagen next slide we have dr mcintyre he started with us on september 1st his first month he did 255 surgeries he is uh he's a character i can't wait for y'all to meet him he's wonderful um the entire staff is drawn to him he uh he actually teaches the staff which is what i think daniel and i both wanted to see he takes the time to explain why something is sometimes he takes a little too much time he's kind of like me he does like to talk but just having him there has just been phenomenal and i can say is the future belongs to us i mean we're especially with him with us there's nothing we're going to be able to achieve next slide we did our first radcliffe rabies clinic we service 92 animals

that was on a saturday and it was after the big one we had here we're going to try and spread out a little bit more and do these clinics to help people get their rabies shots most of these people that we see do not go to a veterinarian and it's kind of obvious um and but the bottom line it keeps the community safer if we can get those rabies shots done any questions comments for mike thanks for a good job thank you appreciate it and next we'll hear from emergency management mr bryce shoemaker good afternoon judge and members of fiscal court have to check this uh remote to make sure because last time it wasn't turned on and robin got me pretty well we want to try to keep not only you all informed but the folks that are at home watching this on hcec tv we're getting ready to come into winter weather we can still have tornadoes so one of the things that we want to make sure that we talk about is building a disaster survival kit for your home um it includes several things we put one of the pre-made kits that you can go

online and get and you don't have to do it at all you can you can actually buy them but they're really easy to make and one of the things that we've got to think about is nowadays if we have a disaster in this area it may be up to seven days before anybody can get to you so we try to make sure that people understand that you want to make sure that your disaster or survival kit for your family lasts up to seven days used to be three days is what the federal government recommended but nowadays with so many disasters occurring in so many people in our community seven days so looking at water one of the most important things a gallon per person per day and of course we don't want to forget our furry friends they get an ounce per pound of animal per day so make sure that you put enough away for them again seven days worth of food supplies non-perishable i was gonna too bad magistrate easter is not here i was going to point out the cheez-its there you know he seemed like so so we've got to make sure we have those in there and plenty of canned foods and something that our young people don't know anything about nowadays

you got to make sure that we've got a manual can opener in with that because there's a good chance unless you have a generator which we strongly re recommend you have lots and lots of people from our and i hate to even mention this word ice storm many years ago did not have a generator so you need to make sure that you have this available disposable plates and utensils because you're not going to have any place to wash those possibly if you're not able to get the water if we don't know we can't we can't always to depend that we're going to have that luxury of having running water pet food supplies seven days we can't forget our furry friends again make sure now i i realized that somebody at home sitting there goes why did they pick out those brands i just uh copied and pasted off the internet folks so please don't get after me for these two brands but make sure that you have enough of a supply for your furry friends as well annoy weather radio in fact most of the sites recommend not only a noaa weather radio but also one that's capable of receiving

am am and fm sites because you want to be able to make sure that you're able to receive news from outside your home so the noaa weather radio and if you notice that one has a hand crank on it so that you're able to generate your own electricity there most of our noaa weather radios have batteries but you know it's it's quite all right to have one of those and regular am fm radio with batteries make sure you got a flashlight and extra batteries for that flashlight and a first aid kit a well-stocked first aid kit and if you're not sure what you need to put in that first aid kit please google or go online and look up what kind of items you need to put in your first aid kit and and you can do that it doesn't have to be in a nice little plastic box like you see this first aid kit it can be in any kind of canvas bag anything that you can keep all that together and then label it so that you remember know what that is a whistle everybody that has looked this what's the whistle for in case you have a tornado and you have debris on top of your safe's place in your house you would want that whistle so that you could let those folks that are looking