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Meeting of July 26, 2022

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Summary

Hardin County Fiscal Court – July 26, 2022

The court heard department reports from EMS, 911 Dispatch, and the Hardin County Detention Center, all of which highlighted improved efficiency and community service. EMS reported it had significantly reduced its budget deficit, ending the year with a net loss of about $191,000, down from $1 million the prior year. The 911 Center reported steady call volumes and praised staff resilience during a recent COVID outbreak among dispatchers. The jailer reported strong inmate work-program contributions to local cities and the county, ongoing efforts to reduce medication costs, and continued success in the jail's GED program.

The court also acknowledged completion of the county's FY2020-2021 audit, which came back with an unmodified (clean) opinion and no findings of weakness — a strong result reflecting well on the County Attorney's office and staff.

The most significant and emotional item was the sale of the former library building at 800 South Boston Parkway in Radcliff. After a failed motion to table the vote, the court approved selling the building to the Hardin County Board of Education, the high bidder. Several magistrates expressed sadness that the building would no longer serve as a library, but ultimately supported the sale because the buyer, the school system, would use it to benefit local children and schools. The vote passed 6-2, with Magistrates King and Doug Goodman opposed.

Routine business included approval of a budget amendment ordinance (second reading) and adoption of the consent agenda without objection. The court closed with condolences for the passing of former solid waste coordinator Bob Hall and detention center kitchen manager Betty Flynn, along with reminders about county text notification services and the next meeting scheduled for August 9.

Agenda (8)

  • 4:51

    EMS Department Report

    EMS presented FY2021-22 activity data showing increased average monthly collections and a reduced net operating loss of about $191,000, down from $1 million the previous year.

  • 7:25

    911 Center Report

    The 911 director presented monthly and five-year statistics on calls, dispatches, and transactions, and discussed redundancy systems that kept service uninterrupted during a fiber cut affecting nearby counties.

  • 14:05

    Hardin County Detention Center Report

    The jailer reported on lodging income, inmate population, medical costs, inmate work program savings, and the jail's GED program achievements, and acknowledged recent deaths of county employees.

  • 20:41

    FY 2020-2021 Audit Acknowledgment

    The court acknowledged completion of the county's FY2020-21 audit, which resulted in an unmodified opinion with no findings or material weaknesses.

  • 21:26

    Second Reading: Budget Amendment Ordinance 3291

    The court held a second reading and adoption of an ordinance amending the 2022-2023 budget.

  • 22:12

    Resolution 2022-137: Sale of 800 South Boston Parkway (Former Library)

    The court discussed and voted on the sale of the former Radcliff library building to the high bidder, the Hardin County Board of Education, following debate about the loss of library services in the area.

  • 29:40

    Consent Agenda

    The court approved the consent agenda items included in the electronic packet without changes.

  • 30:25

    Magistrate Comments and Announcements

    Magistrates offered condolences for recently deceased county employees, wished Magistrate King a happy birthday, and reminded residents about text notification services and upcoming meetings.

Motions & votes (6)

  • 21:46

    passedApprove second reading and adoption of ordinance 3291, amending the 2022-2023 budget.

    Moved by Mr. Thompson · seconded by Mr. Wiseman · unanimous

  • 23:42

    unclearApprove resolution 2022-137, approving the sale of the former Radcliff library building to the high bidder, Hardin County Board of Education.

    Moved by Miss Williams · seconded by Mr. Wiseman

  • 23:49

    failedMotion to table the vote on the sale of the library building with no definite date.

    Moved by Mr. Ronnie Goodman · seconded by Mr. King · 3 yes votes, motion to table fails

  • 29:05

    passedApprove the sale of the library building to Hardin County Board of Education (original motion, after failed tabling attempt).

    Moved by Miss Williams · seconded by Mr. Wiseman · 6-2, Magistrates King and Doug Goodman opposed

  • 29:55

    passedApprove the consent agenda as presented.

    Moved by Mr. Doug Goodman · seconded by Mr. Easter · unanimous

  • 32:29

    passedMotion to adjourn the meeting.

    Moved by Mr. King · seconded by Mr. Thompson · no objection

Transcript (24 segments)

  • 2:50

    welcome to the July 26 meeting of Hardin County Fiscal Court I'd remind you that this is a voting meeting and if you have cell phones to please turn them off or put them into vibrate mode we'll begin with the roll call if you would install it Easter here Doug Goodman here Williams here clam here Wiseman here Thompson here Ronnie Goodman yeah King here judge Baron here Mr Thompson will lead us in the invocation and Miss Williams in the pledge of the police standard I invite you to pray with me father God attack it is with a great humbleness that would come before you today knowing father that you're aware of us and our specific individual thoughts and needs you know the very hair on our heads father we ask that you guide us today to be about the work on behalf of Hardin County would make good and right decisions in your eyes to be the uh kind of servants that we need to be for you and bless us today as we consider the business of this

  • 4:05

    County Government and help us father to just move forward in your will in Jesus name I pray amen amen amen joined me in the pledge 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 we'll start this afternoon with department and elected office reports first up we have EMS Mr Mark Peterson good afternoon George magistrates good afternoon today I have the fiscal year 21 22 activity report for Hardin County EMS first off is our monthly average as our average monthly collection comparison last fiscal year we collected an average of 384 000 a month this fiscal year 489 000 a month comparing runs billable versus

  • 5:19

    non-billable we took a little dip in the total a total number of runs this year but we had more billboard runs at 13 545 versus 13 323. Revenue versus Net uh fiscal year 2021 we collected five 5.6 million and had a net of 1 million this year we collected 5.8 million and had a net of 191 000 which is something I'm very proud of miles comparison miles have dipped down even more last year we traveled 490 000 miles this year 464 000 miles summary for fiscal year 21-22 total miles 464 571. we've made 17 585 runs for the fiscal year of those runs non-billable runs were 4040. Bilbo runs was 13 545. we collected 5.8 million dollars with a ten thousand dollar KB Grant to subsidize that expenditures were six

  • 6:32

    million with a total net of one 191 435 dollars for the year any questions for me please comments or questions it appears you have cut the red quite a bit we are trying very hard sir yes I appreciate that uh no one needs to be operating in the red and you're seeking to get there it's so much better than it's been for years thank you thank you so much thank you anyone else great Improvement on Revenue thank you thank you sir next we'll hear from me 911 Mr Mike Cleo foreign I'm here to present the activity report for the 911 center for the month of June then I have some year-to-date statistics after that 911 calls the answer 4443 7741 CAD reports created the answer 3103 administrative calls dispatched the ambulance service

  • 7:45

    1672 times dispatched the fire departments 454 times and handled 1 415 attempt to serve prisoner transports and traffic stop type calls and 14701 ncic and Link transactions calls with service by agency EMS uh about 61.6 percent followed by Sheriff's Office 18.6 percent and then you can see the rest of the agencies we provide dispatching services to there in the graph their percentages fire runs by Department Elizabethtown with 33.9 percent where I collect with 23.3 percent and then you see the remainder of the 14 fire departments we dispatched for their percentages there in the graph calls transferred to secondary sites here within Hardin County these are law agencies that dispatch for their own identities total cost transferred 1194 with 409 to Raclette police 648 to eTown police and 137 to the constructive State

  • 9:00

    Kentucky State Police so here's a five-year comparison of CAD event reports created in 2018 and 2020. 2 it's a little drop down there next slide there total 911 calls received also a five-year comparison from 2018 until now we'll drop down there also now when Wireless calls received it's also a five-year comparison in 2018 2022 but you can see the amounts there listed a five-year comparison on administrative type calls 2018 2022 self-initiated events these are events that are self-initiated by Animal Control Sheriff's Office uh you see the five-year comparison there for 2018 2022 will drop down from the year before ncic and Link transactions those who are

  • 10:15

    new here these are pretty much when we run driver's license and tags uh in our terminal there in the 911 Center we enter warrants and epos for the courts and Sheriff's Office so you can see the five-year comparison on the amount of those transactions that we have we do for the county uh increase from the years prior that's about all I have take any questions anybody has them I don't have a question I just have a comment I these numbers that you you share here reflect individual people and uh I closely identify with those numbers because my wife and I were one of those numbers just recently and when I contacted 9-1-1 the person there was right on Target and within a matter of moments we had to emergency services that we needed there transporting her in a life threatening event for life-saving and she's recovering and doing quite well now after uh that and other difficult times

  • 11:30

    in her health life and we're blessed to have such quality people who are serving Us in Hardin County and I do have a thank you personally and I'm sure there are many others we have great staff we've just recently uh let's bring this up recently had a little coveted outbreak here in the 911 Center there's quite a few people that became ill and couldn't participate in the mission but everybody down there stepped up I mean the entire Nightcore was gone out so day shift people stepped up and had it all covered and we're still kicking around and we're still we're still doing the mission so a big thank you to you and all of them and thank you my wife's alone Mike if I may uh recently we've had problems with uh Telecommunications lines being cut and all that has 9-1-1 been affected by uh the disruption and service so we our Comm Center here has a lot a lot of redundancy built into it um multiple telephone companies that we have coming to our Center so if One telephone company fails we have the ability to swing everything over to the other telephone company so there was