Consulting Group. Uh it's a ambulance supplemental payment program services that uh basically, this is some additional funding for uh for Medicaid reimbursement, which…pretty sophisticated and a lot of work to try to get this funding. So, this is a um consulting uh company that will help us do that…which is resolution 110, related to agreement for correctional facility health care services. This is for the this upcoming fiscal year for for the medical services
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about $52 million is really what we need to make all these Services go each year and in this next budget so a couple of conclusions…safety and emergency uh again we've mentioned the equipment upgrades with the ambulances we've got uh an emergency services study that has been started…regard to our EMS and fire in 911 services uh that will be completed uh this next budget budget uh year um we were able to get funding
chunk of it the rest of it is really around our Emergency Medical Service our Ambulance Service we we have some medical supplies that are with additional unanticipated…this fiscal year so to cover that we are pulling from our general fund and pulling from some interest that has been earned so about five hundred
this budget includes over one million dollars being allocated from the general fund to support the hardin county library system as we have discussed numerous times hardin county…handful of counties supporting library services directly from its general fund the vast majority of kentucky county's libraries are supported by a local taxing district hardin county…animal control was funded and nearly with nearly 880 thousand dollars for next year almost exactly the same as this current year the income to support the animal
million that that uh we subsidize that service to the county sheriff 3.4 million and then um the attorney uh County attorney…staying steady at about 2.6 million and this is with two rebuilt ambulances that are included in that budget the Total EMS expenses are about 10 million…asphalt and Bridge improvements that aren't covered by the state or federal funds increases in Insurance health
ambulances and again I mentioned the $4 million of insurance uh $45 million of funding the uh and supplementing the Detention Center 2.7 for the county sheriff…county clerk for election expenses uh 777000 to help fund the County Attorney attorney's office um 2.1 State Road Aid and then you can see some…just in case you didn't know we do help fund the volunteer fire departments in the county at the rate of 372,000 uh Public Library
Machine Lease. d. Approve Resolution 2026-114 related to HCWD #1 & #2 — Grant Funding. e. Approve Resolution 2026-115 related to LARP 2026 MOA. f. Approve Resolution…Middle Creek Road. g. Approve Resolution 2026-119 related to HCEC-TV Service Fee Agreement. h. Approve Resolution 2026-120 related to Surplus Vehicle Transfer from Hardin County…related to EMS Personnel. I. Approve Resolution 2026-122 related to Surplus of Ambulance and transfer to Sonora Fire Department. m. Approve Public Works Committee Meeting Minutes July
Approve Resolution 2026-109 related to Public Consulting Group-Ambulance Supplemental Payment Program (ASPP) Services i. Approve Resolution 2026-110 related to Agreement for Correctional Facility Healthcare Services…Approve Public Works Committee Meeting Minutes June 10, 2026 I. Approve Emergency Services Meeting Minutes June 11, 2026 m. Approve Resources & Community Support Committee Meeting Minutes June…over 40 years, will be closing next Tuesday, June 30. The state legislature funds domestic violence shelters and other services in all 15 Area Development Districts
purchase of New Never Titled Crew Cab Diesel I Ton 4X4 Dually with Service Bed. j. Approve Resolution 2024-267 related to Bid for purchase of New Never…Titled Crew Cab I Ton Gasoline 4X4 Dually with Service Bed. k. Approve Resolution 2024-268 related to Financial Transfers. l. Approve Resolution 2024-269 related to Rescind…Proposal for Broadband Expansion Service. m. Approve Resolution 2024-271related to ARPA funding - Subaward Agreement with HCWD#I for Rake System & Boone Trace Main. n. Approve Resolution
equipment maintenance replacement costs maybe some surprises that may crop up HVAC maybe ambulances various different things like that not anything specific really noted here there…some other services growth that needs some more space we do have pieces of equipment that sit outside and it would be good for us to have some…balance this budget. So the hospital sale annual payout revenue is unrestricted general fund revenue per the county financial audit reports. Annual hospital payout is a consistent revenue
here this is your budget I don't agree with using the Legacy funds to balance our budget but I would like to take this opportunity right…discuss my feelings on the Legacy funds Legacy funds are the monies either in the account or payments still coming in from the sale of Heart Memorial Hospital…term Legacy fund was established by our prior Fiscal Court because they wanted Hardin Memorial Hospital's Legacy to live on in Hardin County by funding special projects
bridges in poor condition our jail is often at capacity our average ambulance has 176 000 miles on it in the coroner's office only has one vehicle…than one case going on at the same time we're tying up ambulances to transport a d to cease body now let me repeat that…tying up an ambulance to transport a DC's body imagine having to wait on the ambulance for a loved one because the ambulance is tied up transporting
entering into next year's budget discussions. We already know funding will be tight. We are facing the challenge of finding approximately $400,000 to maintain a full…time ambulance in White Mills. At present, we are spending more than we are taking in. It is time for this court to tighten its belt and begin
take care of our EMS or we're not going to provide the service or we're not going to give this equipment is a bold-faced…grandmother recently has made several trips in the back of an ambulance. My grandfather specifically needed a heart monitor cuz his heart rate
emergency budget amendment and it basically does what it does and move funds into the general account for non-budgeted these non-budgeted ambulances of 525 thousand dollars…move those funds so this is the amendment here and I think you all have seen it but it's actually 524 994 four dollars…vote on this and we're able to make the move of the funds to where we can actually use them is there a motion to improve second
thousand dollars for one-time purchase Investments including three ambulances we have EMS Improvement initiative that we are going to be working on and we may very well…help us through that so that money is in there uh County Emergency Services study something that I've talked about before which is mainly that…very large picture of the of the whole County all of the Emergency Services ambulance services and fire services for the county and trying to understand what
looked like um we have equipment upgrades that I just mentioned uh for ambulances that are pretty expensive and we've also got uh an emergency services study…took a couple months just to pull all the data for from our ambulance um our EMS 911 and also all of our fire department
designated or like would like to designate it towards some of the emergency service improvements and infrastructure that that we know needs to happen in that area with…gonna we know we're it's going to stretch our services particularly in that part of the county so um that's true thank you uh Magister…have any comments along those lines any hmm I had comments about the ambulance stuff but I'll wait till okay yeah I was just thinking
reactive to Emergency Services Emergency Services you're in you're in trouble you're you're in bad situation if you're being reactive all the time…trying to we're obligating or committing ourselves to the three new ambulances we're talking about three used ambulances right now with a lack of better terms…last the last uh meeting so today we're talking about three used ambulances at five hundred thousand dollars roughly that's correct okay
related to a bid for remount of one 14 foot uh Fraser Fraser ambulance box this one is we are as as already mentioned in discussion that…reject the bids and we're going to reallocate the funding to some used ambulances or at least a used ambulance as one or more become available
offered by the Kentucky Board of EMS every year for ground aim on services like us I mean it's not open to the air Medical email Services…past to help offset the costs associated with um remounting our ambulances or the purchase of a new ambulance uh this year where we are in desperate need
details around that we discussed it's about $1.2 million primarily EMS uh ambulance upgrade equipment from Striker and it's also got uh a bridge replacement…road flex funding uh mixed in there too. So is there a motion to approve this ordinance? — So moved. — Second. — Okay. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Roll call
vote. So, I'm not done. So, 5% grade increase for ambulance full-time hourly service providers and the EMS equipment upgrades. That's one of the things…There were also two fire protection additions. One was a new fire services deputy director. That's one position that is was added in this budget. It Some
revenues and expenses uh about $1.6 million most of it around uh some ambulances and EMS and Road funds for asphalt and a replacement truck in the road
some people too so it kind of varies our EMS are our ambulance equipment upgrades of three ambulances and we had one remount in the basic budget…need in in that department 2.7 to supplement the county sheriff 150 000 funding to supplement the county clerk's office 688 000 for election expenses…help fund the county attorney we have two million in State Road Aid we have 684 000 in supplemental Road and Bridge funds a little over a million