Meeting of July 27, 2021

good afternoon welcome to the july 27th meeting of hardin county fiscal court i'd remind you that this is voting meeting and if you have cell phones please turn them off or put them in the vibrate mode we'll begin with the roll call if you would miss donnelly doug goodman williams here clam wiseman here thompson here ronnie goodman king judge barry here easter here mr easter will lead us an invocation miss williams in the pledge if you'll please stand join me in a word prayer dear lord we thank you for this day and just the blessings of life and we definitely thank you for the life itself we ask that you be with us today and guide and direct us and everything we do and say and by the end of the day we found faithful and those that we represent and serve i ask that you be with us now and all these things ask in the name of jesus christ amen amen amen please join me in the pledge i pledge allegiance 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 we'll start out with the apartment and elected office reports today first up will be ems and mr bryce shoemates filling in for mark peterson good afternoon judge and members of physical court i'm kind of pinch hitting today report we're going to start off uh average monthly connections comparison from 2018 all the way to current and even though this sounds cliche here lately is covet has hurt everything to include uh collections on ems it would appear that when people were told that they didn't have to pay their rents or their other things uh that they were responsible for through covid it appears that it is

dwelt uh and gone over into ems as well and it's hurt us dramatically in fact the next page balance of collection accounts if you look at 2019-2020 compared to 2020-2021 the balance of our collections have gone up dramatically as far as accounts being turned over to collection agency to try and receive those accounts that are owed to us total billable runs um compared from 2018 through current you can see that we were up quite a bit on on runs when covid kind of eased out at during covert we were running anywhere from 25 to 30 runs a day and when it's eased out it has gone up to as much as 60 to 80 runs a day and you'd think that that would dr dramatically increase the revenue that we're bringing in and it it it is slowly coming back but i i use the term slowly and that's not the term that we want to hear uh when we're talking about an agency where we're billing out for our services non-billable runs ran about 4

500 billable runs ran about 13 300 and their total runs at 17 851 runs today for 2020 2021 looking at mileage comparison our mileage comparison from last year 466 000 compared to 490 000 miles this year and you can see that that adds up quite a bit from the runs that we're making the increase that we're seeing and last page just shows a summary of 2020 and 2021. total collected was four million six hundred and ten thousand compared to total expenditures of five million six hundred and thirty seven thousand i realized that ems is very much a service that we provide the citizens of hardin county but part of that is that we're trying to collect money for those runs as we build and it's been it's been a rough year for ems with that i want to add that i want to thank our emergency services this last week we were very taxed with

things that happened that were not uh very very good uh events that happened with the drowning at freeman lake and then a train derailment right in the middle of that while we were searching so i want to thank our first responders all of ours through the county through the cities we had you all may not know this but we actually had larue county emergency management and our regional uh kentucky emergency manager that came in and helped us at the derailment because i couldn't get out there were so many first responders at the lake that i was blocked in we were able to get richard out but we already had first responders on the scene by that time i was able to get richard dewitt there thank goodness we didn't have any hazardous material spills we were three cars away from having that three cars away from where the last car went off the track there was a butanol tanker that was on there and i want to thank sheriff ford because sheriff ward responded and we kept in constant communication with one another to keep from closing down i-65 because at one point

from the information that one of his deputies were getting from volunteer fire departments was that we were going to have to shut it down because we had a hazmat leak it turned out that it was silica beads and it was not a hazmat leak at all but sometimes when you're hyped up and you don't know exactly what's on there there's all kinds of chemicals that travel through our county every day on the rails so sheriff ward thank you for that appreciate you that's all i have any comments or questions for bryce as always we appreciate the great job thank you thanks next we'll hear from hardin county 9-1-1 mr mike leo fifth ninjas barry members fiscal court here to report the activity report for the month of june for the 911 center my glasses got new glasses they're kind of weird 911 calls answered 4992 8360 cad reports created answered 3379 administrative calls

dispatched ambulance service 1528 times dispatched 352 fire runs handled 1260 attempt to serve prison transports and traffic stop type calls and conducted twelve thousand five hundred and seven link ncic link transactions scratches the breakdown of cost of service by agency ems at 62.8 percent the sheriff's office at 19.7 percent you can see the other agencies provide service to there in the pie graph fire runs by department for june elizabethtown at 33.6 percent rack left at 18.5 percent these are the remainder of the fire departments in the county that we also dispatch for in their percentages calls transfer to the secondary psaps here in the in the county total cost transferred 1 313 454 directly police 626 to e-town police

and 233 of the kentucky state police the next few slides are just a five-year comparison of uh different key elements that we track at the 911 center cad reports created for 2021's 45 870. you see it's a little up from the year before total 911 calls received by the 9-1-1 center 5-year comparison for 2021 27 209 also a little up from the year before wireless calls we track wireless calls and landline calls there at the center five year comparison 2021 we're at 21 992 at the moment also a little up from uh year before administrative calls we also track ministry of calls at the center five year comparison 2021 we're at 18 302 at the moment sure to see that drastically increase we get a lot of admin calls for