Meeting of December 13, 2022

foreign good afternoon welcome to the December

13th meeting of Hardin County Fiscal Court I'd remind you this is a voting meeting and if you have cell phones please turn them off or put them in vibrate mode we'll begin with the roll call if you would miss dollar here Doug Goodman here here William here here clam here Wiseman here Thompson here Ronnie Goodman yep King here judge Berry here Mr Thompson will lead us an invocation and magistrate Roy or Ronnie Goodman releasing the pledge I invite you to pray with me father God we are so thankful that you're a mindful of us that you're here right now among us we pray father that your holy spirit will guide our thoughts today allow us to focus on the business at hand and be about decisions that are best for Hardin County father we thank you for each one who gives up their time to make where we live a better place we pray father that all glory and honor will be given to you for that in Jesus name amen amen please join me in a pledge all right congratulations of

America and to the Republic for which it stands one Nations for all thank you for departments and elected office reports today first up we have animal care and control Mr Mike McNutt good afternoon first slide please in November we adopted 32 we returned 12 to their owners and we sent six to rescue all rescues and all shelters right now are full according to the statistics from Across the Nation we're taking in 17 percent more animals than what we have going out so actually I had emails to me this morning from Michigan wanting me to take animals from them um I mean which we have our own problems here we I was telling everybody we ran a special where if you brought in a toy

um for the foster home kids that we would uh give you a free adoption and through Friday and Saturday we adopted out 13. uh we sent a truck out yesterday and they brought back 13. so and I know one of the places they had eight runs that they were doing before I came up here this morning one of them were supposed to have 19 in the house so I have no idea how many we're going to have tomorrow it's amazing how it can go from 90 to 150 in just one day but that's how it works next slide please uh for the year to date our dog adoptions are at 268 so we're actually higher than we was last year next slide rescues are at five percent uh like I said one of our biggest um customers when it comes to rescue if you want to call it that is Canada believe it or not they actually pay us for our animals but with coven it has slowed down so much that we're lucky to get two or three there in a month when we used to get it like 10 or 15 a week next slide please for the year today the euthanasia of dogs sits at 12 percent that's a little bit higher than what we

want but it's still technically no kill um next slide please our dog adoptions are at 63 percent next slide 21 of the dogs that we pick up have been returned to their owner and That's not including the ones that if you know I've told y'all before if we come out and the dog's running loose and it just jumped the fence if we can get it back to you without bringing it into the shelter that's what we're going to do so that's not including those which that's happening a lot more and a lot of people are microchipping and it's it's a great thing it saves the county money when you break it down next slide complaints investigated for the year today we're at 640 complaints it's not the highest that we've had recently but it's up there next Slide the pie chart for November unincorporated calls are at 48 percent and Incorporated calls are at 52 percent next slide for the year today uh unincorporated sets of 46 percent and

Incorporated at 54 percent next slide so for the year to date the shelter lab release rate is at 92 percent so 92 percent of our animals have found happy outcomes the cat live release rate is at 96 percent next slide please the monthly monthly lab release rate for cats is at 93 percent next slide we had 978 visitors either to adopt or looking for their Lost Pet next slide we started throwing this in just uh to give everybody a you know while we only take in so many animals from Hardin County which you don't realize is how many surgeries and different things that go on there which are sometimes um they come in and get the surgery and they leave that's still hands on these animals if you look there was 139 spay or neuter surgeries were performed our veterinarian Dr Mcintyre he is on medical leave right now so we are working with Dr Gregory

she is a relief vet so that's actually just somebody coming in one day a week we usually average right around 300 surgeries a month but you know when they do it every day they're very quick and and very very good at it and she's she's speeding up let me tell you but um that's just a glimpse of what you know the officers responded to 136 calls um we took in 45 or 45 dogs and one cat was picked up by the officers this month so any questions an article about animals being returned after Christmas is that reality for us every time we run a special we have to try to figure for at least 20 to 35 percent of the animals coming back I mean that's it's an Impulse buy I mean and even when we when we do a special like oh it's free and people come in and then they don't realize that there's work that goes along with having an animal you know you got to take it out you got to clean up after it and stuff like that so yeah it's it's a it's a reality so but it goes with the territory you just try to do your best to plan for it and right before Christmas as much as we can

just because you know everybody's out for the holidays um so a special you know while it got 13 homes we took in 13 the next day it's just it's just the way it works so but we we have a great Community I mean whenever we ask for help or whatever that we get it I mean then you know we do a radio spot and the radio spot helps out a great deal so I mean we're we're in a good place we're blessed we're mentoring like eight different counties right now on policy and procedure and I've been asked to help out mentoring Anderson County um yesterday so it's probably going to be the ninth County that we're trying to teach them the best best practices so you know prior to this we created a disposable Society for pets and you know that's not the way it should be it shouldn't you know shouldn't be that pets are are like garbage you just take them one place and you're done with them you when you take a pet you're responsible for it and you need to own that responsibility thank you Mike do a great job and we really appreciate everything that you all do out there well thank you very much Mike the 12 percent