Meeting of June 24, 2025

30 and time to start. Good afternoon everyone. Um again, if you would just check your cell phones and make sure that they're turn turned off or in silence. This is the June 24th, 2025 Harden County Fiscal Court regular voting meeting. Let's begin and call this meeting to order. Okay, we'll have a roll call, please. Squire Clem here. Squire Hicks here. Squire Muse here. Squire Pennington here. Squire Saltzman here. Squire Thompson. Squire Whitehead here. Squire Yates here. Judge Executive Keith Tall here. Uh, next we'll have our invocation by Magistrate Clim and pledge of allegiance by Magistr Yates. Please pray with me. Our most gracious and loving heavenly father, we just thank you so much for this beautiful day that you've given us, Father, and all the blessings of it. Father, we just come praise in your holy name. Father, uh we lift up our men and women in uniform all across the the globe, especially in the Middle East. Now,

Father, we just ask for calmness and wisdom. And Father, we just ask your blessings upon Israel. Father, we ask that uh you be with everyone that's in the decision- making process there. Give them calmness and give them uh wisdom in the decisions they make going forward. Father, today I I was going through Facebook and I saw something that was written that really touched my heart. It said, "No matter how rough life gets, the cross still stands. Grace still flows and God still reigns." And we praise your holy name for that. It's your son Jesus name I pray. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Um, thanks again for joining joining our meeting today. It's great to see all of you and some that are, I'm

sure, watching on TV. U thanks again to Mayor Sesi for joining us today, coming all the way from northern Harden County. And uh so let's review the agenda. Uh we have today some umformational items that we'll go over and then we have some department and office report presentations to run through. Uh we'll have a time of any citizens concerns or comments. Uh after that we have uh an ordinance and several resolutions to address and then the consent agenda after that and then comments at the end. So that's that's the uh agenda and um one uh just a couple notes that um again we'll have a a little bit of an update on the flood recovery where we're at with that. That's coming up here in a moment in theformational items. Uh, one note that we are still waiting on public assistance declaration from the president. So, we still have not received that declaration, which is a bit odd. Now, maybe he's been a little

busy. Okay. So, um, that may be part of the part of the reason. So, we'll see how that goes. All right. Um, we'll move on then to the next item, which is approve of Harden County Fiscal Court June 10th, 2025 minutes. I need a motion to approve. Second, Muse and Yates. Yeah, that's good enough. I heard muse. Okay, that's fine. All right. All right. Very good. Uh, any discussion? Roll call, please. Square Clam, yes. Square Hicks, yes. Squire Muse, yes. Squire Pennington, yes. Squire Saltzman, yes. Squire Thompson. Squire Whitehead, yes. Squire Yates, yes. Judge Executive Keith Tall, yes. Motion passes. All right. Next we will move on intoformational items and Mark Peterson is going to uh present

a very exciting um achievement award. Good evening. Good evening. Um Harden County MS got word at the beginning of of this month that we are awarded the uh American Heart Association Mission Lifeline uh silver award. And I just want to kind of talk to you about what that entails. The mission lifeline EMS uh is the American Heart Association's uh program focuses on the quality of care and outcomes for prehosp stroke, heart attack, and cardiac arrest patients by connecting all care components into a seamlessly integrated care system. Key tenants of these systems of care reinforce evidence-based guidelines and measure performance, identify gaps, and engage in quality improvement. So, in order to be recognized, we have to meet 75% or greater of the American Heart Association EMS measures one through seven. I'll kind of briefly go over some of these measures with you. Measure one is the pre-arrival notification for suspected stroke patients. That's letting the uh receiving hospital know that we have on scene with a patient that could could potentially have a stroke that gets

balls going in their court going CT stuff like that. Document documentation of last known well for patients with a suspected stroke. It's very important to us that we know the last time um the patient was seen normal. That's what the last known well means. Last time they were normal. Um so we can the treatment is based on that time frame. evaluation of blood glucose for patients with suspected stroke. Uh stroke symptoms can sometimes mimic those of patients that are having um diabetic issues. So that's why it's important to document those. Um and then we do a stroke screen performed and documented on all our patients. Continuing that uh 12 EKG performed within 10 minutes. Um those are specifically for chest pain related type calls. the administration of aspirin for STEMI which is a um indication of a heart attack on the 12week and the aspirin administration for suspected heart attackers um patients as well. Little history last year in 2024 only 24 EMS agencies in the state of K received the EMS EM the mission lifeline EMS recognition. Uh we last received this award in 2019

and next year um when we submit our data that will make us eligible to submit for the gold standard. Right now it's just silver. This is what the award looks like. Um we're getting ready to outfit the back of our ambulances with that um um design there on the left so that everybody knows that we have received this um this award. Um and all thanks goes to Eric Cook, the new deputy director. he did all the the data input for this which was pretty cumbersome um and got the ball rolling for on this for us. So, we're pretty excited about it. It's it's all stuff we do every day but to be recognized for it at this level is pretty pretty remarkable. So, any questions on that? Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations to you on that. Thank you. Yeah, that's uh awesome. I have the award up here and uh before I I thought we could just present that and get around and take a picture and u um just celebrate uh a little bit here uh for all the hard work that our providers are are you know giving their patients which are all of us and our citizens in the county. And this is just another way to say, you know, we're at a high level and

it it should comfort all of us that we have such a good agency here that's that's providing those services. So, I hope that you'll um since they're out working right now. Yes, sir. They are very busy. You know, that that uh there'll be an opportunity maybe uh to, you know, thank them and um you know, let them know how much they're appreciated uh through all of this. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Okay. And then I've got a quick um briefing um from Joey via Florida. He sends his his well wishes. Um there have been a 472 registrations for assistance following the flood event. Of those 472, 469 were valid registrations. And so far, 2,945,4369 has been awarded um to those registrations for disaster assistance in the county from FEMA. And I I I I don't have the date in front of me right now, but I believe it's July 25th or in that ballpark of when uh uh that people still have the ability to go and and register and still get some help, financial help from FEMA. So, uh there's still more time. If anybody's watching or if you