Meeting of October 11, 2022

foreign meeting of Hardin County Fiscal Court I'd remind cell phones the police turn them off put them in the vibrate mode we'll begin with uh William here Wiseman here Thompson cheers Ronnie Goodman here King Mr Glenn will lead us an invocation Miss Williams in the pledge of your police stand privacy please our most gracious and loving Heavenly Father we come praising your holy name and thanking you father for all the blessings that you have given to us fathers the beautiful day that you've given us and father we just thank you so

much and father we thank you for the blessing of living in Hardin County and the father of the wonderful people that live here and the leadership father we lift them up to you and our First Responders father we lift them up to you and thank you for for their dedication to our community and father as we go forward today in this meeting we just pray that you be with us help us make the right decisions follow this lead guide and direct us and all the things we say and do in your son in Jesus name I pray amen 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 foreign with department and office reports today and first up we have animal care and control Mr Mike McNutt good afternoon Judge Barry members of the Court good afternoon first slide please it's in September we adopted doubt 61 animals or 61 dogs sorry about that not

animals that's strictly dogs we returned 21 to their owners we sent five to rescue and eight were euthanized next slide please for the year today dog adoption set at 156 and we return have returned 55 dogs to their owner next slide for the year-to-date on Rescue we're sitting at four percent um all the rescues are full pretty much all the shelters Across the Nation right now are full uh it's a backlash from covet it's causing a problem everywhere even here we actually had an event where we did free um adoptions and we were sitting a little bit less than 200 at the time and through the the three-day event we got down to where we only had like 25 total animals and we were full in less than four days back up to around 200 so all shelters are sitting full it's just something everybody's experiencing right now next slide please for the year to date on animal youth are dog euthanasia we're sitting at 12 percent

next slide please for year-to-date on adoptions we're at 62 percent so our adoptions are pretty I mean they're better than they have been but still just not enough that's what's coming in uh next slide for return to owner we're at 22 percent um actually you know Darren covet we didn't have as many return owners because we didn't have as many strikes people were at home so they went out and caught their own dogs which was was good the cost stayed the same you know we were still on those many calls but they all made it back home which was fantastic uh next slide please for complaints investigated for the year today we're at 364. that's exactly what we were at this time last year next slide and September we were at 45 and unincorporated and 55 on the Incorporated next slide for the year-to-date unincorporated sits at 45 percent and Incorporated is at 55 percent next slide so for the overall shelter release rate we're sitting at 93 percent for

everything that's going on that's that's really good uh only seven percent of what has been brought into us has had to been euthanized either for illness injury or some form of progression the cat lab release rate is at 97 percent next slide so this is just the cat numbers there for the monthly cat lab release we're at 95 percent next slide we have 1013 visitors come through the shelter either looking for a lost pet or to adopt next slide this is just the additional information I did have the honor of being elected president of the Kentucky Animal Care and Control Association at the state conference um so it's a lot of a lot of stuff going on in that world right now because of the floods and the tornadoes it shine a spotlight on Kentucky not having what they need shelter-wise so a lot of work to be done there I've got a good group with me so hopefully we can chip away at it and get as much done as we can um

94 dogs and 67 cats were taken into the shelter so that's just what came in from Hardin County um that's you know it's a hundred dogs and almost 100 cats really when you look at it um 55 dogs and two cats were picked up by the officers out in the field um six dogs we found were microchipped we did 299 spare neuter surgeries when you think about that that the cats can reproduce at three months of age and if eight eleven eight to a litter if you think of how much we stopped it's that's really good and 22 cats will return the field has anybody got any questions are you going to talk about your article that you were featured in that magazine well we uh and I sent it to all magistrates and it's trying to help me with it because it bounced it back we were nationally recognized in the national animal care and control associations digital magazine for how we handle covet and what's funny about that is we really got slapped

around for some of the decisions we made if everybody remembers we really did but now that the smoke is cleared and everybody's seen we were one of the few successes and for it to be in Kentucky is even bigger you know most of the time if you see something in the national animal Control Association about Kentucky it's negative this was the first time I've seen a positive story in there and it's strictly because we we didn't put all our animals into foster we we kept doing curbside adoptions we kept our employees working and we kept them working with the animals and we still have not had to euthanize for time and space the president of kaka at the time he actually called me when he saw the article and he said man I sure wish I'd listened to you back then and he's somebody I looked up to a great deal so for him to say that to me meant the world to me but because they had had to use the mask for time and space because they sent those animals out into foster but when people go back to work those Fosters have to come back so if you send out 50 animals and you take in 150 it doesn't matter you still got to take those 50 back when they need you to and that's what caused all the problems I'm not saying we're special I just wanted to make our people be able to have a job to do while they were there

other than just going around cleaning stuff and if we were a success and that's why we were recognized and it's a big deal and I'm trying to get it to everybody trying to get it out they were going to print it but covet made it to where they can't afford to print it anymore so now it's all digital but I will send it to anybody if anybody's interested please email me I'll send it to you it's a great article it was a great article good job thank you thank you anyone else congratulations thank you guys congratulations on the article and congratulations on become a president Association next up is Bryce she made Emergency Management good afternoon judge and Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury one thing I want to say about Mike you folks that are watching at home you need to if you all are looking for a pet you need to go out and look at the Facebook page because they list several dogs and cats constantly that are up for adoption and my wife has told me no more pets Bryce so I'd go down and adopt every one of them but folks if you all would look at Hardin County Animal Care and