Meeting of May 27, 2025

get started today. Good afternoon. If you'll check your cell phones real quick and then we'll get started. This is the May 27th, 2025 Harden County Fiscal Court regular voting meeting. Let's begin and call this meeting to order. We'll start off with a roll call, please. Squire Clim here. Squire Hicks here. Squire Muse. Squire Pennington here. Squar Saltzman here. Squar Thompson here. Squar Whitehead here. Squar Yates here. Judge Saul here. Next we'll have our invocation by Magister Pennington and the pledge of allegiance. Magistrate Whitehead. Before I pray, I was just going to take a moment of silence in observation of Memorial Day. Father God, we just thank you for the sacrifice of the men and women who have given their lives for our freedoms. our freedoms to come together to today to do business on behalf of the county

that have given their their lives for the freedoms to allow us to enjoy our county and our state. And Jesus, we just thank you for the ultimate sacrifice of your life and what it means to all of our our our beings to be able to be free and to be able to one day be called home. Father, we just ask that you would continue to bless the men and women who are continuing to serve each and every day in all capacities. Jesus, we just ask that you would continue to bless this county, bless this court, allow us to do the work that you would have us do. Allow everything that we do and say be glorifying to you. It's in your son's name we pray. Amen. Please join me in the 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. Right. Again, thanks uh again for joining today. It's great to see all of you here. Uh just a quick review of the agenda today. We'll uh approve last

court's minutes. Um we will have a couple of department reports, a time for any citizens concerns or comments. Uh we do have a close session today that we'll go into and then we have uh two resolutions to vote on and an ordinance, a second reading. And then we have the consent agenda and then the u comments sec time of our meeting and then we'll adjourn. So that's the agenda. Uh just to kind of give a quick update on the flooding uh and the statistics that we have. Uh Joyce Scott just provided me the latest statistics from FEMA and to date we in Harden County individual assistance registrations. There's been 48 48 of those and that has added up to almost two and a half uh million $2.5 million claims that have been approved and paid. So things are progressing and people are going and and getting some assistance as they need from the flooding. So that's a good thing. One thing that we are waiting on uh we

haven't received our public u uh declaration for assistance u hopefully we will receive that soon from the president so we can get some help to pay for some of the uh uh damaged roads and some of the other um things that that uh we've been um that have cost the you know our local government local governments uh Elizabeth Town, Radcliffe, uh and um our um electric companies and u all those costs have added up to a lot. So, it'd be good if we can get that declaration from the president, we can get uh some assistance there, but we're still waiting for that. All right. Uh, with that, I'll move on then to um our uh April Harden County Fiscal Court uh May 13th minutes. Is there a motion to approve? So move. Second. Okay. Uh any discussion? Roll call, please. Square Clim. Yes. Square Hicks, yes. Square Pennington, yes. Square Saltzman, yes. Square Thompson, yes. Square Whitehead,

yes. Square Yates, yes. just tall. Yes. Motion passes. All right. Next, we'll move on to our presentations. Start out with EMS Mark Peterson. Good evening. 1343 total responses of those 1321,5 years. So far we've made 13,928 total responses. of those7 questions. Mark, I got a question about the

um white mills. When you when we aiming on them going online over there, I'm sorry. The white mills are construction. And are we adding an ambulance service? Where are we going to move from? I thought the West Point volume was only like five or six calls. Great. Thanks. Thank you. All right. Next up is E911 Mike Leo. Good evening. Good evening. Evening. I'm

here to present the activity report for the 911 center for the month of April. So 911 calls answered 4,118 9,973 CAD reports created. We answer 6,117 administrative calls. Dispatch the ambulance service 1,355 times. 479 fire runs were dispatched and we handled 2,450 attempt to serve prisoner transport and traffic stop text calls. Graph just shows a breakdown of calls for service by agency EMS at 32.9%. followed by Radcliffe 25.5% sheriff's office 21% the remainder of the agencies that we dispatch for you can see their percentages there fire runs broken down by department for the month of April town leading 34.3% follow at 18% you see the remainder of the fire departments and their percentages calls transferred to secondary sites here in the county. Total calls

transferred 653, 589 to Etown police and 64 to the state police. That is it for me. Any questions? Take a phone call answer. Very simple job. All right. Thanks. probably start developing this report a little bit more in depth with texting as soon as we get some more data. Hasn't really had a whole lot of traction on it. So soon as we start compiling some of that data, maybe quarterly we'll throw how many texts we're receiving. So as it's online now. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it, Mike. Okay. Moving on to written reports. Uh there are there's a report from planning and one from our clerk that's in there available to look at. Uh moving on then to the citizens concerns or comments. Do we have anyone that wants to come forward and have any comment concern question at this point? All right. Seeing none, we'll move on. Uh next we have a close session