Meeting of August 23, 2022

23rd 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 vibrate mode we'll begin with a roll call if you would miss donnelly judge barry here easter doug goodman here william dear cleo wiseman here thompson here ronnie goodman yeah king your manchester doug goodman will lead us in vacation and manchester king in the pledge if you please stand join me in prayer dear god our heavenly fathers we're assembled today we're most thankful for this beautiful day you've stolen upon us we ask you guide us in their decision may we use the best skills judgments for all decisions today for hardin county for this we ask thy name amen would you please join me in the pledge i pledge allegiance to the law 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 the first order of business this

afternoon is uh public hearings we have two of them the first one will has to do with the 2022 county property tax rates today we have assistant uh county attorney peyton griffey here with us to conduct these hearings thank you judge the purpose of today's first hearing is to hear public comment on the proposed property tax rates for hardin county 2022-2023 notice of today's hearing was published twice in the news enterprise on august 6 22 and august 13th of 22. if anyone like to be heard on these rates please come up to the podium state your name and address for the record hello my name is sarah jo best i'm the public health director for lincoln trail district health department and the secretary of the hardin county board of health our address is 580 westport road to wisdomtown kentucky the harkin county board of health met on june 8th of 2022 and voted to retain the property taxes our current tax rates will remain the same at 2.2 cents per 100 of assessed

valuation for all real property a rate of 2.2 cents of assessed valuation of our personal property and a rate of 2.2 cents per 100 of the assessed valuation of all motor vehicles in hardin county good afternoon i'm steve wooden i'm the chairman of the hardin county extension district board i'm here to talk to you about the tax rates for the district uh board have agreed to the compensating tax rates 1.8 cents in real property 2.6 cents on tangible personal property motor vehicles watercraft and aircraft 1.46 thank you thank you sir hello ladies and gentlemen how you all doing today thank you thompson hard county conservation district anybody that doesn't know me um we've retained our

rate at 0.015 percent as we have for the past numerous years since i've been on the board as always if you'll allow me the indulgence of reading off some of the things we take care of with that money i'd be happy to do that first thing we have right here um art writing contest we had 49 students and 18 schools participate that award banquet happens every year in march you all been able to come hopefully i'll be able to come in the near future we have the next ones scholarships we have one high school and five college awards this year allotment for six high school and six for college so you know anybody's looking for a scholarship this year next year we'd be happy to interview the application recycling projects we have a project with jt middle school recycling bins we do the tree ceiling giveaway every year last year we gave this year we gave away 2400 seedlings we're actually putting the order in for trees right now so if you've got a particular preference let us know and if we can find it we'll have it there next year for y'all we also sponsor four awards for the 4-h ffa youth project completion show at the fair 250 each for a total of 1 000 we uh do a scholarship program for two children to attend conservation camp every year i don't think we had anybody this year but again you know anybody that's uh looking to go in that camp we

happen to assist system we also do the same for the 4-h camp two kids we sponsor seasonal high tunnels the last one we had put in place was at meadowview elementary i think the project's going very well saw mr honaker at the back to school bash that center hard i did it but marcia did and it seemed like things were going well i'd like to get out there again take a look at it excuse me we also sponsored and support the envirocon teams at area schools we didn't have one this year but uh years past we've had one they held that at saunders springs i think two years ago so another good boon for hardin county back to school fest we were present sorry we weren't marcia was president at the basketball fest i was there as a parent walking my daughter around trying to get out of the heat as fast as possible so but it was a good event we also have three winters farmers market farmers market events at the extension office we do educational programs at the area schools again marsha does the majority of that sponsor safety day worth the 4-h and sorry extension office for the last few years on that harton county schools family resource center summer camp we do ag days at lakewood and creekside then we have the ag experience of the

hardin county fair i'm sure we might have forgotten something so if we did i'd be happy to take the credit right now if you want to give it to me call marcia yeah i credit you and marcia for great leadership appreciate that thank you all marsha did the work though right marsha did the work right he didn't work thank you was there anybody else and not anyone else on the court that would like to provide a comment today seeing the uh judge that'll close this hearing all right and the next public hearing is for road closing at cherry hill estates uh again mr griffey thanks judge a request has been made by property owner robert moore to close a 40-foot undeveloped right-of-way known as cherry hill drive in elizabethtown notice of today's public hearing was in the news enterprise august 14 2022 on august 9 2022 fiscal court appointed viewers to make a written report to the court as to any inconvenience that would

result from the discontinuance of the road and the report is included in your materials the law requires the planning commission to review discontinuance of the road in accordance with the county's comprehensive plan and mr adam king will speak about that and mr king will make a report to the court with background and answer any questions that you all may have thank you mr kim thank you all right so as stated again it's a road closing request for mr robert moore to close an undeveloped 40 foot right away known as cherry hill drive that's in cherry hill estates the exhibits will enter into the record are the meeting notification requirements uh kentucky revised statue 100.3244 the vicinity and zoning map the city of elizabethtown zoning map aerial photographs the plat of cherry hill estates from 1978 a proposed amended plat photographs the site we have staff report and comprehensive

plan analysis the county's comprehensive plan and zoning mornings planning commission resolution 2022-018 uh fiscal court resolution 2022-143 appointing the viewers the viewers report and then lastly fiscal court resolution and make a recommendation to the referring body in this case fiscal court for the project's compliance with the comprehensive plan the meeting notification has been three-fold so we've had signs posted out on site since friday july 22nd a newspaper ad in the news enterprise since the august 13th 14th edition and then nine letters were sent to adjoining owners so we are just west of here out off hutcherson lane cherry hill estates is a subdivision with six lots a single road cherry hill drive that was never constructed so here we are again we're right near the corner of patriot parkway and hutcherson surrounded on three or four sides by city limits of elizabethtown that's our zoning map there so the white is city limits the pale shade of green would be our urban residential r1 zone