Meeting of May 24, 2022
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Summary
Hardin County Fiscal Court – May 24, 2022
The court opened with a detailed presentation from the Kentucky Department of Transportation on the Rural and Secondary Road Program. District engineers outlined roughly $1.87 million in allocated funds and walked through eight priority resurfacing and maintenance projects, plus updates on ongoing larger projects including the US 31W work, I-65 concrete rehab, the KY 2222 bridge closure (June 1–August 1), and the major I-65 Glendale interchange project tied to the Ford mega site.
Department reports followed with generally positive financial news. EMS reported increased collections ($486,097 vs $318,202 the prior year) despite fewer total runs, attributed largely to improved billing review. The 911 center reported call volumes and dispatch breakdowns by agency. The Detention Center reported strong state per diem income, with a $4 per diem increase expected in July, along with statistics on inmate population, charges, medical visits, and community road/trash cleanup work.
The court then handled routine legislative business: second reading and adoption of the FY2022-23 budget ordinance, first reading (restarted) of an amendment to the FY2021-22 budget to include newly received federal reimbursement funds for jail housing, and approval of the consent agenda.
Magistrates offered brief comments, including thanks to members of the armed forces and a reminder about safe driving. A public works committee meeting was announced for June 7th. The meeting adjourned with the next fiscal court meeting scheduled for June 14th at 3:30 PM.
Agenda (8)
- 4:42
KYTC Rural and Secondary Road Program presentation
KYTC District 4 engineers presented the county's rural secondary road funding allocation (~$1.87 million) and prioritized list of eight resurfacing projects, plus updates on ongoing and upcoming road and bridge projects including the I-65 Glendale interchange.
- 16:46
EMS activity report
EMS reported April 2022 run statistics and a significant increase in monthly collections compared to the prior year, attributed to improved billing review processes.
- 19:45
911 Center activity report
The 911 center reported call volumes, dispatch statistics by agency, and calls transferred to secondary law enforcement sites for April.
- 21:40
Hardin County Detention Center report
The jail reported income, population, intake/release figures, charge breakdowns, medical visits, and inmate labor/community service statistics for April, noting an upcoming per diem rate increase.
- 25:12
Second reading of FY2022-23 budget ordinance
Ordinance 329, Series 2022, the fiscal year 2022-23 budget, received second reading and was adopted.
- 25:48
First reading of FY2021-22 budget amendment #5
Ordinance amending the FY2021-22 budget was given a restarted first reading to include newly received federal reimbursement funds related to House Bill 556 jail housing costs.
- 26:58
Consent agenda
Items included in the electronic packet were approved as the consent agenda with no corrections noted.
- 27:24
Magistrate comments
Magistrates gave brief remarks, including thanks to armed forces members and a safety reminder; a public works committee meeting was announced for June 7th.
Motions & votes (4)
- 25:31
passedSecond reading and adoption of Ordinance No. 329, Series 2022, the FY2022-23 budget
Moved by Mr. King · seconded by Ms. Williams · unanimous roll call, all magistrates voted yes
- 26:29
passedFirst reading of Ordinance No. 3245, Series 2021, amending the FY2021-22 budget (amendment number 5)
Moved by Doug Goodman · seconded by Mr. King · unanimous roll call, all magistrates voted yes
- 27:09
passedApproval of the consent agenda (item 5)
Moved by Mr. Clem · seconded by Mr. Wiseman · unanimous roll call, all magistrates voted yes
- 29:16
passedMotion to adjourn the meeting
Moved by Mr. Thompson · seconded by Mr. King · no objection
Transcript (22 segments)
- 2:18
hello good good afternoon welcome to the may 24th meeting the pardon 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 the vibrate mode we'll begin with roll call if you would okay clam here wiseman here thompson here ronnie goodman king here judge barry here easter doug goodman here williams here
- 3:33
we'll have the invocation by mr easter today and mr king will lead us in the pledge if you please stand here join me in word prayer dear lord we thank you for this day we especially thank you for all the blessings for life we ask that you be with us today god direct us as we go about this agenda and at the end of the day be found faithful to those that we serve and we represent i ask that you be with us now god direct us for all these things we give you all the praise and the glory it's the name of jesus christ i pray amen amen amen could you please join me in the pledge i pledge allegiance to the life of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands we'll start out this afternoon with an informational item we have today the kentucky department of transportation it's going to talk to us about rural and secondary roads from
- 4:47
district 4. please you might introduce who else you have with you i will judge thank you for letting us come here and present our role secondary program today um my name is bo warren i'm a transportation engineer branch manager for construction and maintenance here for hardin county and today we have with us our acting chief district engineer brad bottoms he's taken over since paul sanders retired at the end of the year and our new tes for harding county that's cody ditto he's responsible for most of the maintenance supervision of maintenance crew in the county so if we're not happy we blame brad yeah and it will for sure roll downhill this year we were allotted 1 million four hundred and 873 five dollars for our rural secondary program and that program is funded by 22.2 percent of the motor fuels tax receipts those funds are allocated to all 120 counties based on a five-point formula and that formula is based on one-fifth equally among all counties one-fifth for the real population
- 6:01
one-fifth for the road miles and two-fifths based on the land area of the county and once that money is allocated to the county it is not transferable to any other county so it must be spent in county it's assigned to this year our real secondary program i'll just i've passed out a copy to each one of the magical judge our first priority is our routine maintenance and traffic for our maintenance crew that's estimated at seven hundred sixty seven thousand six hundred dollars for the year our second priority is the county judge executive expense that's three thousand eight hundred seventy five dollars for the year and our third priority is kentucky 391 from bridge over otter creek to kentucky 144 it's an asphalt resurfacing project it's 1.655 miles long and that's estimated at one hundred seventy thousand one hundred sixty one dollars our fourth priority is kentucky 2213 from kentucky 86 at my point zero to kentucky 2199
- 7:14
mile 0.4.932 or 4.932 miles in distance and it's an asphalt resurfacing project that's estimated at 373 064 our fifth priority is kentucky 1904 from kentucky 3005 ring road at my point 4.049 to u.s 62 at mile 0.4.702 it's 0.653 miles long an asphalt resurfacing project and that's estimated at sixty four thousand two hundred and twenty six dollars our sixth priority is kentucky 1868 it's horseshoe bend road at mount point 1.982 to kentucky 84 at 3.028 for a total distance of 1.046 miles and the estimated cost for that project is 118 420 our seventh priority is kentucky 447 from us 31w at mile point zero to kentucky 220 my point 2.116 its total project length is 2.116 miles long and it's an asphalt resurfacing
- 8:28
project it's estimated at 236 853 and our our last priority is number eight it's kentucky 220 from kentucky 333 at mile point zero to atkins lanes mile 0.2.406 with a total distance of 2.046 miles it's asphalt resurfacing project an estimated project cost is one hundred eighty eight thousand one hundred and eighty nine dollars so all that totaled up is an estimated total cost of one million nine hundred twenty two thousand three hundred eighty eight dollars which is slightly over what we were allotted so that last project is kind of on the bubbles we may or may not get that project also considering our asphalt prices that have been going up so that that might cut that project off if we might have to do it next year or something like that to go through some of the existing projects that we currently have in hardin county we currently are still working on us 31w that project's in its third phase right now and [Music] it's it's being impacted by some concrete
- 9:42
cement shortages that's impacting the concrete industry at this time we're having a lot of issues with that so that projects may or may not be completed whenever it was intended it may end up being delayed slightly the next project we have that's still outgoing is our i-65 concrete rehab that project was supposed to be completed this august and they are working on the southbound lanes they've completed the inside portion and are working on the outside lane and shoulder but they are also experiencing some shortages of cement so that that project's probably going to be delayed a few months potentially to be able to get it all completed another project that we have going on right now is our wk rehab from the 119 to the 130 that has just started recently in the last month or so and the big thing to know right now is that the kentucky 2222 bridge is going to be end up closed with that project starting june 1st through august 1st for the replacement of the concrete structure there's a resurfacing that was left over from
- 10:56
last year all of the rs work that we brought to you last year it has yet to be completed that's kentucky 222 from 0.154 miles east of roby drive to us 31w all of kentucky 253 from 86 to 1357 and kentucky 1135 from kentucky 61 to kentucky 210 kentucky 1375 from blue ball road to kentucky 920. and kentucky 2199 from brooklyn ridge county line to the breckinridge county line that whole section that's a little piece that's in hardin county and then kentucky 2802 from kentucky 361 to kentucky 447. it's wilson road there and another project that we have that has been lit is a u.s 62 from college street to 100 feet west of brook street so that'll be most of us 62 through the curving gutter in the middle of town it's supposed to be resurfaced and a kentucky 84 from the breckenridge county line 1.5 miles