Meeting of April 13, 2021

[Music] good afternoon welcome to the april 13th meeting of the hardin county fiscal court i remind you this is a voting meeting if you have cell phones to please turn them off or put them in the vibrate mode we'll begin with the roll call if you would miss donnelly here thompson here ronnie goodman here here here easter here here here and we got our first find today how much is that nowadays 500. we got to pay for roads somehow that wasn't even my cell phone well i guess i'll have to add that and ipads to my list all right uh mr easter is going to lead

us to the invocation and miss williams in the pledge if you'll please stand please join me in the word prayer dear heavenly father we're so thankful for your loving your grace we thank you for this day you've given us we just ask that you guide and direct us today be with us make the appropriate decisions on our agenda and at the end of the day we're found faithful to those that we represent and we serve lord also there are a lot of concerns we have in our community a lot of concerns around this table individual concerns we lift those up to you i ask that you be with us now for all these things we'll give you all the praise and the glory it's the name of jesus christ i pray amen amen the united states of america and to the republic for jesus chance one nation under god and indivisible with liberty and justice for all we'll start with department reports today first up is

animal care and control mr mike mcnutt all right first slide please um good morning everyone good afternoon everybody good to see you um this month last month we adopted out 44 we've returned 19 we rescued 13. we euthanized four that's down three from the previous year next slide please we're down 26 on euthanasia compared to last year of course the numbers are down too but you know still that's a good number to have down next slide for the year to date uh our rescue is at 31 percent that's up 11 compared to last year next slide we're down one percent for the year to date on dogs we're sitting at five percent which is lowest that we've been in quite quite a while next slide our dog adoptions are at 42 percent that's down 13 percent compared

to last year next slide the return of returns are up 22 percent they're up at 3 percent and we figured out now that we can put into the system when we return an animal in the field that's been a problem for us in the past because if we come and get your dog once and it's out and we return it to you that's that's one thing but doing it multiple times is not something the county needs to be responsible for so now we can put it into the system so when they pick up a dog it's microchipped and they return it to mr miller next time they pick it up they scan it they put it in they know that wait a minute we just returned this dog to him two weeks ago so it'd help out a lot with people that that need more help keeping their animals controlled and we've started carrying tools with us to help main fences a little bit and do little things like that it ends up saving the county money if we can do those things so it's working out pretty good for the year-to-date complaints investigated we're down 60 calls compared to last year which isn't a lot but it's uh i mean people are still calling but they're fixing their own problems and it's funny because it's happening all

across the nation the big talk in the animal industry is right now is what are we going to do we don't have any animals we're sitting down on like about 60 maybe 80 animals right now which typically we house around 200 at this time of year so i mean it's a good problem to have i guess but some of the people that actually i guess make a lot more money off of adopting out and stuff more of your rescues and stuff are a little bit more concerned about what the future's going to bring so the pie chart for unincorporated is at 44 and incorporated at 55.97 next slide unincorporated sitting at 41.02 percent for the year-to-date and incorporated to 58.98 i forgot my glasses i'm going to admit this real quick as far as i forgot my glasses but i have a good reason um i called daniel because i was worried about being late but when somebody calls me and says hey we want to donate a 15 000 piece of equipment to you when can you be here my response is three words on my way so we just went and picked up an x-ray machine from country critters that we

hope to have installed and put into place at the shelter which will save us money on some of the the different things that we're doing there but uh yeah i didn't bring my glasses so i'm sitting here i'm trying to match up the two and i'm realizing i might need to go a little stronger with the glasses this year you're excused for the cat numbers our overall shelter live release rate for cats is up two percent it's sitting at 97 percent the cat live release rate it um is at 98 percent the cat euthanasia is down 23 uh at 11 next slide the monthly cat live release rate is at 97 percent next slide from 2016 to 2019 our revenue has more than doubled we're projected to exceed 2 000k in 2021 despite covid as of this morning we were at 164 000 uh and a big part of that is what we refer to as its ppp which is professional pet partners so that is bullitt county grayson county meade county these are places that bring their animals to us

we provide medical assistance to them and then we invoice them at the end of the month last month's invoices were thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars so and that's nowhere near where i feel we can do what we're doing and the whole time that we're doing this and we're making this money off these people we're getting all of our veterinary stuff essentially for free plus we're making revenue off of it so i'm interested to see when covert breaks and we can actually get up and running full force what it's going to mean i i think it's going to be something really special and i think we're going to be able to grow the program in ways that that i haven't even thought of yet but i will any questions job sounds like it's good for everybody involved i couldn't be any happier i'll tell you that great thank you guys thank you all right next we'll hear from emergency management uh mr bryce shumate before he gets started i would like to mention this is uh national telecommunicators week and so thank you to all of our telecommunicators who do a fantastic job of uh responding and making sure that we get the proper

response out to the people it's it's a stressful job and a very hectic job at times and if you pass along our thanks to them we'd appreciate it it is thank you very much and good afternoon judge barry and members of fiscal court and thank you for that i noticed on facebook and of course i read quite a bit on facebook at night when i go home but i noticed last night one of our telecommunicators actually had to call 9-1-1 in another county and because of a wreck that they had witnessed and she said she was going through all the things that we ask people that is on our computer screen that's computer-aided dispatch and she was way ahead of the dispatcher because she was answering the questions before the dispatcher could actually ask them because of her experience and so we've got some very wonderful experienced personnel downstairs and i thank mike leo michelle bowen and all their staff for all they do to keep hardin county safe because they are our first line of first responders and a lot of people don't think of them that way but they are give you an update on emergency management and so that you all know some of this gets kind of repetitive when i come up and start talking about this because of coven