Meeting of May 28, 2024

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good to see a bunch of our Scouts here with us today so thank you for joining us uh just uh again a reminder for cell phones if we can get those um turned off or put on vibrate that would be good uh this is the May 28th 2024 Harden County Fiscal Court regular voting meeting and let's begin and call this meeting to order and we have the roll call please Squire Clen here Squire Hicks here Square Muse here Square Pennington here Square Saltzman here Square Thompson here Square Whitehead here Square Yates here judge tall here uh next is our in vation by magistr Pennington and the Pledge of Allegiance by magistr Hicks can you please bow your heads with me Father God we just thank you for today we just thank you for this beautiful weather and father we just uh we continue to thank you for those that are serving our country and father we just ask that as we conduct business today that we would just um just do it in your in your light and father we just be stewards of um of your money and of

your words father we just ask that um from this past Memorial Day father that we continue each and every day to remember those that have uh sacrificed for our country and for our freedoms and for our abilities to vote and father and just for our abilities to be able to enjoy a good weekend father I just ask you now just to bless us today bless us making decisions in your son's name we pray amen amen PL ladies to the FL United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all all right well thanks again everyone for joining today uh just a quick review of the agenda it's a fairly simple agenda today uh we'll we'll approve the uh minutes from the last meeting uh we have a guest today that will will um go over an economic development update uh Andy games will do that for us and uh then we have some presentations from different um uh

departments and offices and some um written reports are also um part of the packet uh we'll have an opportunity for any citizens concerns or comments and we don't have any specific ordinances or resolutions today to vote on but we do have a a fairly large consent agenda and um I'll go through and revie review all of those items when the time comes and then uh we'll wrap up with some comments and then we'll adjourn okay so that's basically the uh the agenda that we have ahead of us um I did want to uh just make one note and comment uh you know we just went through u a couple of waves of of storms recently and as we're all very aware of um Harden County uh we we were fortunate um uh this time not to have a whole lot of damage there may be some obviously some individuals that uh would disagree with that but as far as widespread uh damage and property damage we were um we were pretty fortunate compared to some other counties so uh but at any rate

there were a lot of down trees a lot of things that were going on at one time and when that happens it stretches our resources in uh 911 especially and uh just want to um get you know kind of send out a big thank you to our First Responders 911 our Ambulance Service uh fire service uh in the county uh our road department that responds to trying to move trees and such um our Sheriff's Department that responds you know all of these people are are servants they're out there whenever the rest of us are are taking shelter they're out there receiving phone calls and trying to respond and get people out to uh to those folks that need it as quickly as possible so just a again just a shout out to them just want to thank all of you for what you do and um and I do appreciate it very much and I know Fiscal Court does too so uh just thank you um next on our agenda is to uh approve the Harden County Fiscal Court May 14th 2024 minutes is there a motion to approve move okay I heard paty

first and second second okay Aaron Pennington second uh any discussion hearing none we have roll call Square Clen yes Square Hicks yes Square Muse yes Square Pennington yes Square Salzman yes Square Thompson yes Square Whitehead yes Square Yates yes judge tall yes motion passes all right next on the agenda um I'm very thankful that uh president of uh the Elizabeth Town Harden County industrial Foundation Andy games is here today and is going to present us um with an economic development update and um I'll turn it over to him well thank you appreciate you judge and uh welcome to all of you all thanks for having me my name is Andy games I'm the current president COO of the Elizabeth Town Harden County industrial Foundation it's an honor to speak with you today and I appreciate you uh inviting me in and judge tall serving on our board uh we have monthly meeting so I see him uh most every month so it's a pleas yeah maybe somewhat too often no I'm just kidding uh but uh no just wanted to give

you a little quick update uh on what kind of happened last year and what's been going on I I've been there since October of 2021 um so two months after blue es announced that they were come to town so as you can imagine and you all have seen um a lot of things have happened since 2021 and starting in 2022 so just a quick uh recap of what kind of went on last year just work there we go um so uh we did an economic study the chamber with some Partners here Baptist Health and ourselves and a couple others we did a Economic Development study and you all probably saw that when it came out but you know we're expecting somewhere between 22 to 25,000 residents in the city and probably another 22 to 25,000 in the in the county I would say by 2030 um this will be the 10th largest manufacturing facility in the world by square footage um two plants at 8 at uh 4.2 million square ft a piece uh 3.63 billion in direct payroll uh from 26 to 35 um as you all see in town here locally and probably out in the county I see it some too there's lots of housing