Meeting of November 25, 2025

start up this meeting. Good afternoon, evening, whatever time it is here. And uh just check your cell phones if you wouldn't mind and make sure they're turned turned off or turned down at least. All right. So, let's go ahead and begin. This is the November 25th, 2025 Harden County Fiscal Court regular voting meeting. Let's begin and call this meeting to order. — Roll call, please. — Squire Clim — here. — Squire Hicks — here. — Squire Muse — here. — Squire Pennington — here. — Squire Saltzman — here. — Squire Thompson — here. — Squire Whitehead — here. — Squire Yates — here. — Judge Tall — here. Uh next we'll have our invocation by Magistrate Salsman and pledge of allegiance uh Magistrate Whitehead. Father God, we thank you for this day that you've given us that we can be here. Father, we pray that you would help us to uh do the business for the county to glorify you. Father, we uh thank you for our families. We thank you for our citizens here in Harden County. We thank you for our first responders,

our military. Father, we just pray that you would bless them and their families in this time of thanksgiving. And we just uh ask all of these things in Christ's name. Amen. — Amen. — Please join me in pledge. I pledge algiance 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. [clears throat] — All right. Again, thanks uh for joining us today. It's great to see all of you here and those that are watching on TV or streaming online, whatever. Um, can uh acknowledge our sheriff's in here. We have Sheriff Ward and uh we have mayor from West Point, Mayor Sesi. Thanks for being here this evening. So, let's review the agenda. Uh it's pretty typical tonight and it is um we'll go through the minutes from the last me uh meeting. We will have a couple of presentations. Uh we have a time of citizens concerns

or comments. We have one resolution to uh discuss and vote on. And then after that we have the consent agenda that has um several items in it that I'll review before we uh vote on it. After that just a time of comments and um then we'll adjourn. So that's that's the agenda uh for our meeting today. All right. Um, I just wanted to make uh one comment um uh to uh note that this Saturday is small business Saturday. uh was able to u there were a couple um folks from the RSBA from Radcliffe that came in and was able to do a proclamation and provide that to them as a um a reminder really that we have a huge number of small businesses in Harden County. Uh, I was able to put out a a note about it and I just wanted to take a moment and remind all of us uh about our small businesses in Harden County and that we need to support them. Just a reme reminder that they aren't

just shops. They're they're dreams built from hard work, determination, and love for our community. And they are they are the the coffee shop that knows your order, the boutique that greets you by name, and the family-owned store that's been there for generations. And Small Business Saturday, let's choose to shop local, [clears throat] as we need to all year round. Every purchase you make is more than a trans transaction. It's an investment in your neighbors, your town, and the future we share. So, every dollar spent locally helps a family thrive. Every gift bought here straightens our strengthens our hometown and every visit reminds small business owners that they their work matters. So, as the holidays approach, let's just celebrate by giving back to those who give so much to us every single day. So, let's shop small, support local, and build community. So, it's just a reminder again that um we have a huge number of small businesses and they need our support. It's become very easy to go to Amazon and push a button and it shows up at our door and those dollars don't generally stay in

Harden County. So, let's take a little extra effort and try to find some items here in Harden County that we can purchase during this holiday season especially. All right. Um just a note too uh on that um this for those that are interested um we have a pretty big event coming up with the ambulance the ninth ambulance that we are going to um celebrate really at White Mills station of the West Harden Fire and Rescue and we're going to have a ceremony there a pushin ceremony on Monday December 1st at 8:30 at White Mills um fire department station. So uh we'll be there and that's if anybody's interested and wants to join us and uh celebrate that and commit uh to to really um uh you know be part of history you know uh for that part of the county. So pretty excited about it and um if anybody wants to come please come and join us on Monday. Now, if the weather, if we have a lot of some snow or ice and things that are unsafe, then

we will put that off until f Friday, December 5th at 8:30. So, just kind of u keep track of what's going on there and we'll put out if we need to change that date. But, uh if it's raining or just kind of a dreary day, we'll still have the ceremony u whenever we get there. And it won't be long. It'll only be probably about a half an hour or so. All right, I think that's all the comments I have. So, we'll move on to the next agenda item. Uh, it is to approve Harden County fiscal court minutes from November 10th, 2025. And I need a motion to approve. — So, move. — Moved and seconded. Any discussion hearing? None. We have roll call. — Squire Clim. — Yes. — Squire Hicks. — Yes. — Squire Muse. — Yes. — Squire Pennington. — Yes. — Squire Saltzman. Yes. — Square Thompson. — Yes. — Square Whitehead. — Yes. — Squire Yates. — Yes. — Tall. — Yes. Motion passes. — All right. Next, we'll move on to some presentations. We'll start out with uh EMS Mark Peterson. — Good evening. I've got the uh October

activity report for Harden County MS call volume. Uh we were dispatched on 1,371 runs. We responded uh to 1,363. Eight of those were transfers and 132 of those were nonvillable runs. And this is a look at our year-to-ate data. We are almost we are one run up from 901 runs as of this time last year. So, uh, 5,373 dispatches and 5,335 91 responses. Mr. Salsman's slide here, a breakdown of the, uh, responses by unit and their jurisdiction. Uh, collections, we collected $627,923 last year. That is up from last year where which was 562,000. Here's a comparison of the run volume versus revenue. And then fiscal year to date, we're at uh just shy $2.5 million in collections, up from 2 million uh this time last year. And again, a comparison of collections

to volume. I would also like to add to to the judges um sentiment about the pushing in ceremony on Monday morning. Um, for those of you that may not know where Little White Mills Fire Department's house is at, it's at 9225 Sonor Horn Springs Road. Uh, 8:30 Monday morning. We'd love to see you all there. — Any questions? — Mark, I just want to say um I'm sure many of y'all heard about one of our local police officers, Lieutenant Homeman. — Yes, sir. — Had a cardiac event couple weeks ago, I guess it is now. — Last weekend, maybe. Or the weekend. — Saturday. Yeah, last Saturday. And our EMS personnel did a fantastic job and saved Lieutenant Hullman's life. — Yes, sir. They did. — So, good job to them. — Yeah. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. — Any other questions? — Good financial report, too. — Yes, sir. I'm pleased with it. Very pleased with it. — All right. You all have a good Thanksgiving. Thank you. — Thank you. — All right. Next up, E911, Mike Leo. Here's alert.