Meeting of October 25, 2022

hmm good afternoon welcome to the October 25th meeting of Hardin County Fiscal Court I remind you if you have cell phones so please turn them off or put them in vibrate mode we'll begin with real call if you're in the Stanley Thompson present Ronnie Goodman here King judge Berry here Easter here Doug Goodman here William here clam here Wiseman here Mr Easter will lead us an invocation Mr Ronnie Goodman in the pledge if you please stand please join me in a word of Prayer their Heavenly Father we're so thankful for your love and your grace we thank you for the many blessings that all of us have received Lord there are a lot of concerns around the table here out in the audience with family medical issues a lot of concerns we just lift those up to you for special healing I ask that you be with us now God and direct us as we conduct the business of this County God and direct us so that we're found

faithful at the end of the day to all those that we serve be with us now for all these things that give you all the praise and the glory and it's the name of Jesus Christ I pray amen amen amen please join in and pledge allegiance I pledge allegiance of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation of America indivisible with liberty and justice for all foreign elected office reports and first up we have the Hardin County coroner Dr Lee good afternoon August September activities to live August 105 cases we were we bought with to see it break down seven accidental a variety of accidents a month of August overdose is still on this

how numbers uh I guess Nationwide actually methamphetamines and Fentanyl seem to be the biggest ones around our County of civil one undetermined pending some genetic testing that has to be sent off don't have very many of those that seem like I've been calling what over 30 years now that we 've only the last couple years judge will have to do this helps out the pathologist to determine the cause of death when the normal autopsy is not showing the exact cause so next month the September 106 cases four accidents assorted type back since you see them correct phone Industrial accident after the workplace and school and so forth natural was still up around 100 Once Suicide was overdose September next slide is coming here total cases here to date so through the end of September

950 cases for the year still have three more months then reporting is no week report on the calendar year and these the numbers keep on climbing studying plan next slide shows the let's see my order here I think a matter of death it's anything excluding the I want you to read about the papers and you don't get accent suicide and homicide or this is just a natural disk all right excluding naturalness so a matter of good accident of course numbers have increases and the homicides we were down I don't know what's happened this year judge said we've had this year you see the last couple of years had six and eight so then the last category one natural lists and suicide so we're down a little bit on low so that's good okay next slide drug overdose deaths and uh see Shayna has the side here

first three columns 2019 2020 21 we'll show the entire year for 12 months and the last category just months through the end of September so you see 40 and effect since since this was printer would worry about three others of course they'll be reported on the next quarter I'd say by the end of the year we'll be up around 50 or notice again okay next slide you heard me talk about this one being kind of a busy side her relative landed up more than that one page there autopsies as you can see on the far left down from last year I haven't seen quite as many people up to Blue before the autopsy we've been able to figure it out among ourselves or the help of law enforcement doctors and so forth locally next column will be the cuetos and it's been applied for the last couple of years and covert has messed that up a little bit I think I'm not sure if you will and UK both you still may not be accepting the

cleethyls yet recovering from the past time they don't call them there you see the cremations and then you heard me talk about that this keeps on going it would be the cost of funerals cultural differences people's attitudes whatever a lot more cremations done but not personally started in this job and the next column kind of cremations it's remaining pretty stable here in the last few years last two calls into the transport of the U.S not having to transport ation you guys not ever transport of many bodies for us that we have our own vehicle see 103 transports we invite ourselves with Corners now so on that side the next slide then this is I think this is the last one just showing the breakdown of The Residency of the proceedings and get a complete town that continues to be the number one in the largest city in the hospital nursing homes 44 of our deaths pronounced here

see on down Radcliffe and other Incorporated cities and then unincorporated 13 percent out of state I brought me back we had one brought up from Parkchester tonight at hospitals and those are about 16 of those from Madison County's out of state community that's the last Saturday any questions some comments for Dr Lee I'm just going to say happy birthday luckily it's Thursday he'll be I'm not going to say but happy birthday another day older and Friday won't you another year over excuse me well we certainly appreciate the great job that you and your staff do it's not it's not an easy job it's not a job that most people want to do it's not a job that most people could do we we appreciate you doing it for us it's a teamwork thing for me a lot of people helped contribute obviously police officers like probably years ago he taught me a few things back 30 years ago probably Hotel downtown thank you

thank you sir appreciate it next we'll hear from the Hardin County Sheriff Sheriff Tom Ward good afternoon the law enforcement side it says follows address 206 citations 291 once 132. civil processes 803 complaint calls 1087 accidents investigated 87 criminal cases 85 2915 other activities 689 school safety checks 236 warnings issued and 1990 attempts to serve office operations records checks 97 carrying concealed metal and weapon permits 232 vehicle inspections 1449. Court transportation