Fiscal Court - Regular Meeting

25 Harden County Fiscal Court regular voting meeting. So, let's begin and call this meeting to order. Roll call, please. Square Clim here. Square Hicks here. Square Muse here. Square Pennington here. Square Saltzman here. Squire Thompson here. Square Whitehead here. Square Yates here. Judge Tall

here. Uh, next we'll have our invocation by Magistrate Hicks and the pledge of allegiance led by Magistrate Pennington. [clears throat] Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we just thank you for uh watching over us and bless us and keep us safe and keep us healthy. We just ask you today to just lead and guide and direct us uh in everything we say and do. And we just pray that you'd bless our county and our state and our country for just give us uh the good watch over us. Keep us safe. We lift all this up to your name in Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen.

Say pledge with me 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 for all.

All right. Next, um have a few comments to make today before we really get going. Um start out by uh again thanking all of you uh for being here today. It's great to see all of you and others that um are watching um on TV and appreciate appreciate your interest in what's going on in your county. Uh just take a moment to review what looks like a uh a short um agenda today. Uh we'll we'll go through some our minutes and approve those. Um I do have oneformational item that I've added. I have a proclamation to do today. After that, we have a few presentations and then a time for any citizens concerns or comments on any of the things that we're voting on today. And then we don't have any specific ordinance and resolutions, agreements to vote on, but we do have a short consent agenda that we'll look at and vote on today and then comments after that. Okay, so that's the agenda. Uh just a couple things to mention. Uh as I uh everyone knows, we're still in a government shutdown. Although I'm I'm hearing on the news a little bit that things may be moving in a good direction today. So um I'm hopeful that that is um going in that direction. Uh the impact especially here um in Harden County and uh with Fort Knox here uh is a very large impact. Uh most people don't really realize the the u the families all the families that specifically are are having trouble making ends meet because they're not getting a paycheck. And um and then the the impact that has on all of us and we all know people that

are struggling. Um on the positive side, a lot of organizations in this county stepping up to the plate and helping out including churches and just all kinds of organizations and u so uh I much appreciate that and um hopefully this thing is going to come to an end very quickly but just need to continue to to remember these folks in our prayers and to reach out and help as much as we can. Uh the another item of course that uh that we need to continue to recognize is the UPS uh plane crash that recently happened. Um, we do need to remember these families and in our prayers, we need to also be thankful and grateful to our first responders. Um, in Jefferson County and surrounding counties, Bullet County, um, Harden County also have has been able to help out whenever it's been requested. Uh, even u we Even Pat Elmore, our coroner, has been there to help out and u and do his part to um help them get through this very difficult uh terrible situation. Uh Joey Scott was able to help with uh um working with our our firefighters in in in Vine Grove that were able to go and and support some other firefighters that were going onto the scene. So, um I feel like Harden County, we're doing our part to help out and and be a part of that uh and do the best that we can to support uh to support them. So, uh just to to continue to remember them as the some bad news

continues to roll in on on some of these families as they find out u what what's happened to their loved ones. In addition to that, um we have uh Veterans Day, which is the reason that we're here today. And I I did want to um have a few comments about Veterans Day as a reminder. Uh since the founding of our a great nation, uh more than 41 41 million men and women have stepped forward to defend the United States of America. and their courage and sacrifice, their unwavering commitment have safeguarded the freedoms we hold dear. So tomorrow we commemorate Veterans Day, a proud tradition that began in 1919 when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11th as Armistice Day, marking the end of World War I. It was later renamed Veterans Day in 1954 to honor all who served. The date itself carries deep meaning. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 marked the formal end of major hostilities in World War I. And today we carry that legacy forward by recognizing every veteran living and deceased who served honorably whether in times of war or peace. So Veterans Day is especially a time to thank our living heroes. It's a moment to acknowledge their contributions to our nation's security, our national security, and to uh show our appreciation for their service and sacrifice. Without them, our freedoms would not exist. In recognition of this sacred day, we've illuminated the sign in front of this building in green. This gesture uh first recognized nationally in 2021 by the National Association of Counties is a

symbol to our veterans and our community. You are seen, you are supported, and you are appreciated. Let us continue to honor our veterans, not just today, but every day with gratitude, respect, and action. God bless our veterans and God bless the United States of America.

Amen. So, uh, if if you are a veteran, uh, if you wouldn't mind just to stand up and let's and we can acknowledge you today. [applause] Thank you. Thank all of you. Appreciate you very much. Okay, at that we'll move on to our next item of business and that is to approve the Harden County Fiscal Court uh October 28th, 2025 minutes. I need a motion to approve. So move. Okay, move a second. Second.

Second. All right, any discussion? Hearing none, we'll have roll call, please. Square [clears throat] Clim, yes. Square Hicks, yes. Square Muse, yes. Square Pennington, yes. Square Saltzman, yes. Square Thompson, yes. Square Whitehead, yes. Square Yates, yes. Judge Tall, yes. Motion passes.

All right. Next. U just oneformational item today. Uh it was late in coming in, but there was a request that we would um acknowledge some very important uh people that help help us out in our time of need and in uh our healthc care. And so I'd like to read a proclamation today. And uh just uh to acknowledge these folks. Uh there's 231 advanced practice registered nurses who live in Harden County. And uh this week uh we celebrate uh this November 9th through the 15th, 2025 as the uh registered nurse week, NP week here in the Commonwealth. So, in order to do that, um, we weren't with a quick, um, just came in today to do this. So, kind of had to pull this together pretty quickly. And I don't think, uh, there's a actually a registered nurse here today to u hand this over, but we'll set that up at a later date, maybe next week to uh, to do that. But I would like to read it today publicly uh just as a reminder of the impact that these folks uh in their service ha has on each each one of us as we need it. So this proclamation, whereas nurse practitioners play a critical role as trusted providers of health care for patients in Kentucky, and whereas NPS work to expand health care access in underserved communities, promote health equity in care, and whereas NPS provide highquality primary, acute, and specialty health care services while emphasizing health promotion, disease prevention, health education, and

counseling, guiding patients to make smarter health and lifestyle choices every day. And whereas more than five decades of research demonstrates the high quality of care provided by NPs. And whereas better utilization of NPs through modern modernized state laws and improved policies creates better health through a more accessible, efficient, coste effective, and higher quality health care system. And whereas NPS serve as the primary care provider of choice for many Kuckians and play a pivotal role in the health and welfare of our communities. And whereas Harden County is proud to recognize and honor the service of NPs to our county and state. Now therefore, be it resolved on behalf of all the citizens of Harden County, I do hereby proclaim on this 10th day of November, 2025 as nurse practitioner week. Let's give them a hand. [clears throat] [applause] Much appreciated. All right, moving on. Next item of business is uh some are some presentations and start with planning. Adam King.

Good afternoon. Good afternoon.

All right. I've got uh September and October's report. Uh start off with a couple things that went before the board of adjustment. Um so this was a permanent accessory dwelling. Um, we're out on Fuller Road there near French Lane, which is a private gravel road, and the marshals were uh requesting to add about a 1,000 square foot apartment there to that uh detached garage. Um, built to match the garage and the home that was approved that was a,08 square foot. Um, we had another permanent accessory dwelling that went before the board of adjustment. This is on South Dixie Highway down towards Glendale. Um, just a little bit south of RDS Creek and this was James and Wendy Pence [snorts] and they were building a 800 square foot I guess what you'd call a tiny home. Um, not too tiny though. Uh, they're behind the uh, existing house and this was actually the 80th permanent accessory dwelling that we've approved since 2009. So something that folks are really taking advantage of and it's kind of um it's a piece as far as affordable housing that these could be for rent. More oftentimes than not they're for a family member like a caregiver caretaker type situation. Looking at the various land use applications through the end of October. Um so board of adjustments been pretty busy. 21 conditional use permits and 24 variances. Planning Commission's been busy, but not as busy as in the past. We've done eight zone changes and then staff has reviewed 18 development plans for non-residential projects. Looking at plats and lots, uh we'd be at

82 plats recorded for the year so far. Um that's down from 2024 when we were at 105. But looking at the number of lots, I'm very happy to report we're up to 170 new lots for this year. That is up from 126 at this time last year. And you'll notice that big jump. The jump was so big it didn't quite fit on my bar chart. Uh we recorded 74 new lots last month. So majority of those we've got a new subdivision going in off 313 called Hidden Ridge. Um, so that was 35 new lots. And then we also did a large auction plat out on Salt River Road. That was 15 lots last month. So that was 50 of the 74. Uh, but 170 new lots. We're really happy about that. Looking at permits, building permits, so far we're at 436. That is down from 480 last year. Electrical permits were at 764. And that's also down from 833 at this time last year. Single family dwellings, October was a good month. We really outside of the floods and the the drought, we've been having good weather uh as far as buildings concerned kind of until today, but uh 84 new homes so far for the year. Um that is down from last year when we were at 123. uh at this time in 2023 we were at 95 and we were at 98 in 2022 and again I don't think that really we can point to anything for these numbers being down probably other than [clears throat] uncertainty in the market but 84 is still not betted inspections um 1139

total final inspections that's building and electrical again 129 in September 126 in October So, a lot of projects wrapping up, but at the same time, we still have stuff getting started with 26footers in September and 34 footers in October. Um, wanted to just go ahead and go public that uh November 24th, that is a Monday, at the basement of Glendale Christian Church, we will be releasing the draft, the small area plan we've been working on for Glendale. Um, it is an openhouse style meeting. It'll go from 4:00 to 6:00, but you can come in. There'll be about 15 different stations presenting information, um, getting feedback from the public. But again, this is kind of looking at Glendale, uh, all the way from historic downtown Glendale out to the interchange, uh, what, uh, the community wants each one of those areas to look like and feel like. Uh the plans of course it's uh in collaboration with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. So we're obviously looking at mobility and looking at that Northeast Glendale bypass, but we're also looking at how that ties to land use, how that ties to economic development, and also just placemaking to kind of preserve and protect downtown Glendale. Um but also make it a and keep it a unique place. Um so everybody's invited to that. um the next day we'll put the draft plan on the website so that even if you can't make it, you could provide us feedback. And then lastly, just want to almost congratulate every member of my team here. Uh I don't know what it is about September, October, and November, but that's everybody's uh anniversary dates. But Rachel with two years, Greg with three years, Edwin with five years,

Susan with 12 years, Jimmy with 18 years, and last but certainly not least, Maline Hornback with 33 years of service. So, congratulations to all them. That's all I've got. I'm happy to answer any questions y'all might have. Thank you, Adam. [clears throat] All right. Thanks. All right. Thank you for the report. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Next up, public works, Stephanie Given. Good afternoon, judge and magistrates. Good afternoon.

So, I have the solid waste code enforcement activity report [clears throat] for the deceased farm animal removal. Uh, for September, we had 36 and for October, we had 21. So that shows you a total there for 2025 of 214. And we're right in line with what we had for 2024, which was 213. Our free landfield service day was held September 9th. Um we had 509 total vehicles come through, 279.95 tons of trash that come through, 70° for that day. So seems like we usually get a few more cars when the weather is uh rainy or colder. So it looks like we were down a little bit from 2024 to 2025. The code enforcement September report uh as it stood in September, we had four cases that were new cases opened, 10 cases were closed with 49 outstanding cases. And you can see there at the bottom of the page there the breakdown on how those come in. for October. Four cases again new, eight cases that were closed, 45 cases that were still outstanding. On our document document shred event that we do every month for October, we had 102 vehicles with 108 bags. On November, we had 86 vehicles with 103 bags. Um there's the uh chart there that shows you how it was broke down for 24 and 25. um every year it seems to continue to increase. So that's a positive. We've had lots of great feedback from this event. Lots of the general public love coming to this event. Our next uh document shred day will be our last one for the year, December 1st. Again, it's going to be from 1 to 2:00 p.m. and it will be at the county road

department there on Bacon Creek Road. Here's a list of our current drop off trailers for recycling for September and tonnage um that had came in through those trailers. Your breakdown for cardboard, plastic, newspaper, tin and steel cans, and aluminum cans. And there's the same report for October. Here are the trailer locations that is listed throughout the county for everybody to visit. open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There are seven site locations. And this is just a reminder for the bulk item uh pickup service that Platform Waste provides for us free every month. You're able to schedule three different items. As long as you call that in or email them and schedule that, then they will tell you exactly when to put those items out and how they need to be prepared to be picked up at your curbside. This is our 2025 September daily route completion [clears throat] time. So, with uh the evenings getting a little darker earlier, we're trying to keep a close eye on that to make sure that all the trucks are coming in at around about good time. Uh for September, their average time was 3:30, 3:36 to be exact. In October, it was 356. For September, the daily tonnage collection was 73.44 tons and for October was 70.94 tons. This is our daily average time at the landfill when the trucks go to empty out. They're roughly spending about 20 minutes average time for September and 18 minutes was their average time for uh October. This is the next Saturday that is going

to be for the landfield to be open uh November 29th from 7 to 2. And of course they ask if you come out to visit just make sure that your load um or your truck load is is securely um bundled up and tarped up just to complete for any kind of spillage or anything up and down the Parkway. And this, as always, I try to remind everybody to um sign up for our text alerts where they can text Harden County to 91896. This gives them plenty of information to know about different things going on in our community um by text message to let them know about all of our different events that we hold every month or every year. And just as a quick reminder, although tomorrow is Veterans Day, the landfield is open their regular scheduled hours and platform way services will be working and doing their curbside routes on their regular time frame tomorrow. So we will not be running a day day delay for Veterans Day. They will be operating regular schedule. If you're a Tuesday pickup, you'll still be a Tuesday pickup tomorrow. And then one of my last slides is just a reminder on how you can skip the phone call to let us know about litter or mist trash um an illegal dump site that you may see out in the county to get more information about recycling. Um that's the 2709510951 phone number. You can text one of those key words and that information comes directly into our department heads including myself. and then you don't have to wait for uh a Monday through Friday 8 to 4:30 time fra frame to be able to report your issue. That's all I have. If anybody has any questions.

All right. Well, thank you very much for the report. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next up is engineering Mark Abshire.

Hello everyone. Hello. It's not as long as it normally is. Sorry about that. I'm trying to cut down on how long I take up your time, but uh you can see here. Go to the next um we're working on the font size. Sorry, it's kind of small, but you can read it when you look at the hard copy. But on the on FEMA, as every all you may know, we're already working with them on a bunch of this stuff. are actually out there working on snowball right now. Um hope this is all go through. I'm not sure the specifics on what all we've been approved for and stuff, but it's going pretty smooth on that part. Um EPSC, we're doing inspections out there. We've got a new subdivision going off Queens Lane. Um they're doing fantastic on their EPSC. We went out there for our first test. It'll be the first subdivision we run the testing on that's under our subdivision ordinance for roadway design and uh we were going to do nuclear density but the road was just too messy to go out there and do that. So we'll come back another time when they're ready to do that and run a nuclear density testing. If you're curious about it, I'm more than happy to talk more in detail public works committee meeting. But it's a simple little device that checks out. um you want to run proctors first, then you're going to go out and do density. And what it does, it helps hold our roadways up for longer than just simply doing proof rolls and stuff. So, it's a little higher standard than a basic proof roll. Um I think you'll like the product when it's done. I think they did really good on doing the subdivision ordinance back when they did it. Um and then on the um next page, we've got traffic pavement analysis. We um conducted um you can see here Lincoln Troad is almost done. We actually got one of the last billings. We got a

little bit of money left in there. So thinking they're pretty close. Most of it's been paid out. Um hopefully what they'll do next is they'll give us an analysis, a GIS map readout so we can look at that, see where the roadways are, see what kind of condition they are um based on what they give us our feedback and then we can use that which feeds into the later discussion I'm kind of coming up about LAR. We'll use that to kind of show the state, hey, these roads really are as bad and these are our priority and we are working on getting this caught up because the worst thing you can do is just sit on a roadway and let it go and go and go. Um, so county road parking, we're working on that. We're close [laughter] and we'll bring it up at public works meeting. Um, and then road safety reviews. Um, we're still I begged, I pleaded, done everything I can to get the data back from them. And what we end up having to do is just go back out and reproduce. I just want to hit one roadway, go through it, figure out what we need to do, and just do it internally. and whatever we can't afford, we'll just have to put that on project list. Um, bridge spreadsheet had the state consultant come down and we spent probably six hours going all their different bridges, looking at them. He really likes what we're doing with Harden County. I'm working on a spreadsheet to actually help analyze which bridges we should prioritize. Obviously, you want the red ones first, the poor ones, and you work your way through the list. from putting up a factor in there too because of your poor ones of your next ones. Just because it's in a certain condition doesn't mean it can't hold off a little bit longer. It's a basic on ADTS and things like that. So, um and then KYTC meeting creek um pavement analysis KYTC funding. I another information source I've been trying to get. Where is this money? Where can we what's our status on that? We'll hopefully get something soon. We've actually met with I think we

brought it up during our meeting with the senators and the congressmen that could they please fund us that information. Where's that money? Um because we've got at the time we had four poor bridges. Two of them would be taken care of with that funding. Um and it'd be our last two poor ones at that time. Um, and just to give you a heads up, if you do look at the spreadsheet sometime, we've got more bridges that went into poor, not because what anything we did or didn't do for maintenance or anything like that. They have a higher criteria now for establishing where you go book good, fair, or poor. Um, and then city county CC CCBIP money. Um, we're at the meeting with the with the governor and he was talking about with this shutdown is we statewide we may not be budgeted as much as we were before for that, but I'm still going to push forward and see what we can get. Um, and now I get to talk about Meeting Creek. It's on my mind. Meeting Creek, they said that they're going to let it in January 2027. Um, and so I got to get more details on what's going to be involved, but more specifically, what do they mean? When do we need to close that area? And so we'll coordinate with all you guys on that. Um, but it is um significantly over what the estimate was so far. But and once I get more details on that, I'll send that to you as well. And then back on LAR, um, we helped out with picking some of those roadways that were submitted to the state. Not all of them. something got added but I'm hopeful on that that we can get some good money out of that. Uh and in KYTC we have a meeting with them about once a month or so over at Lincoln Trailad and we talk with them about different projects they're working on and and um we're we're hugely benefiting

from those programs. We have probably the most significant of any counties in the area of amount of contribution KYTC is working on for projects. Of course, that also includes EAL, the big project there, and um other ones like that. And then the last one, I get a lot of requests. Let me switch it for you. Sorry. I get a lot of requests regarding sinkhost. Um and best for people to go to this website and look at it because those things aren't something you want to play around with. You don't want to just cover them up in dirt, pretend they're going away because they'll find another location. Um, you don't want to really mess with them too much. People ask me, "Well, what if we rip all the trees out?" I'm like, "Don't do that either because that tree kind of helps hold some of that structure up." So, um, and that's kind of it for me. If you have any questions or anything.

All right. Thank you, Mark. Thanks. Yeah. uh ask you, you kind of tailed off on me on bullet point seven under traffic. Yeah. What did you say about the government shutdown? What effects it have on that bridge at Gator Station bridge?

Well, they're trying to budget the state budgeting and they specifically said, you know, be aware that there won't there may not be as much money available for CCB and BIP grant money. Um just be aware of that, but that's not fact yet. So, I don't want to go too much detail on it, but because we're having to pay for additional services that weren't provided by the federal government. Um, the Kentucky budget was a little tight and it's it's all in paper, too. All this Well, originally that was under the 8020 program. Right. Right. And they moved it over to CCBIP money, which is another

The 8020 means the state pays 80,000, we pay the balance. Right. What was the balance? Do you recall on that project? What was it going to cost to the county for Meeting Creek? No. Oh, no. Meeting Creek. Gather station. Which one? Gather station. The 8020 program we have. Oh. Oh. And and that's another thing I want try to shift it over to that to the CCBIP money. And that'll be my top priority because if I can get that in in time, we may not have to pay anything out of that other than just engineering fees.

Right. That's about $10,000. I understand. Well, for engineering fees. Yeah. Well, that's that's a ballpark. We haven't actually got the RFPs on that, but it would be probably around that much money. So, instead of paying 20% um for we get less. That's what I'm driving at. Instead of paying 20%, we're we're going to be out the engineering fee and the state will pick up the balance. Correct. Right.

Okay. So, I just want to give credit where credit's due on this liquor trail ad. their executive director and our engineer both brought that to our attention after we've we've contacted them about this program and we were able to wrap that change the 8020 and get into CCBIP program. So I just want to make sure that instead of the taxpayers of Harden County paying 120 25,000 we're going to be paying 10,000. So I just want to make sure we all understand. Well, for the record, I was already gonna work towards that and I met with Charlie and we talked and he said, "Mark, do this." And so that's and then I contacted the state for compliance. What do we need to do for that? So she said, "Once you get this approved, you can give that money, that $80,000 that we're going to use for that, that goes back to the state and you have to make sure that goes back to the state." But I've heard this too. It's not the first time it's been brought up to me about them coming up with this first. But it's Charlie's awesome at these programs and I would love to have him help out with some of this down the road, but I originally was already thinking on this. I just there's just so much going on with Harden County. I didn't have time to address every single thing that comes in like I would like to. Um we're still short staffed and so just for the record, I know I've heard that too, but it's it's not

I mean just because they brought it up to me doesn't mean I'm already not already working on it. Well, we'd already approved the 8020 though, my point. So, I understand that. Well, he was aware of it at that time too when he did the 8020 that you could have used a CCP IP money. Well, I was involved in that process, so I understand what happened. So, thank you. Oh, you're welcome. Anybody else? All right. Thank you, Mark. Appreciate it. You're welcome.

I do appreciate all your hard work very much. It's a lot going on. All right, that concludes the presentations. Uh there's some other written reports that u you have access to and so we'll move on then to the next agenda item and that is citizens concerns, comments. Um anybody? Yes sir. Good afternoon. And I just want to mention for anyone here and also people listening watching at home about mobile tax collection. We had our first mobile tax collection Saturday at Upton Sonora and White Mills and had had our biggest uh it was it was a record there at all three locations. We were proud to have a uh a 92year veteran, 92 year old military veteran come into Upton to pay his taxes and had a 96 year old veteran come in at White Mills paying their taxes that uh and very in very inspiring it. But uh just wanted to let everybody know tomorrow we'll be at Radcliffe Fire Department from 9 till 11:00. Vine Grove Fire Department from 11:30 to 1 and West Point City Hall 1:30 to 3. Uh on Saturday, November the 15th, West 8, well, West Harden Fire Department, the the the Western Station there on 84, the old 84 fire station will be there from 9 till 10:30 and at the 86 Fire Department from 11 till 12:30. And uh and also I just wanted to uh to thank uh and recognize all the veterans, all the

military veterans that serve in the Harden County Sheriff's Office and uh thank all of our veterans. We uh truly appreciate them. Thank you. Any questions of me? Thank you. All right. Thanks, Sheriff.

Okay. Anybody else? Okay. Seeing none, it's all hand raised back there. Is does he want to come up and make a comment? Okay. All right. We'll move on then. And um we have our consent agenda. We have uh four items here. The first two are financial and uh these are November claims and October recurring claims, utility claims, uh these types of things. And um item B which is resolution 217 is related to approval of some financial transfers. The next item C which is resolution 218 this is related to approval of some EMS personnel. And then the last item D is resolution 219 and this is related to approval of a surplus vehicle in the judge executive department and it's a 2012 Ford Explorer. Okay, that's what's in the consent agenda. Does anyone disagree with or want to remove any of these items? Okay, hearing none. Then is there a U motion then to approve the consent agenda items?

So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Did you get that? Yes. I got Square Thompson moving and Muse second. Yes. Okay, we'll move on to roll call. Square Clim. Yes. Square Hicks. Yes. Square Muse. Yes. Square Pennington. [clears throat] Yes. Square Saltzman. Yes. Square Thompson. Yes. Square Whitehead. Yes. Squire Yates. Yes. Judge Tom. Yes. Motion passes. All right. Next, uh we'll move on to comments. Um our county attorney. You have anything? I don't. Thank you. All right. How about our county clerk? All right. And then we'll go on to our magistrates, Magistrate Yates.

Just want to remind everyone our next emergency service meeting will be Thursday, November 20th at 3:30 p.m. All right. Thank you. Uh Magistrate Saltzman. Yes. I'd like to uh take a moment and recognize uh the Veterans Day for tomorrow and express my gratitude to all those that have served our country. Uh their dedication and sacrifice has allowed us the freedoms we enjoy every day. I especially want to thank uh two of my fellow magistrates uh Mr. Fred Clen and Mr. Larry Hicks uh for your service to our nation. Uh gentlemen, we appreciate you and uh all veterans for what you have done to protect our way of life. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Magistrate Whitehead.

Yes, ditto on what Magistrate Salsman said. Thank you, Magistrate Hicks and Magistrate Clam for your service. Truly appreciate that. As well as I'd like to thank all the veterans um that have served our country and made uh sacrifices for all of us. Also, I want to again express my concern and and to to let folks know that they're still in my prayers uh those that are affected by the government shutdown and hopefully hopefully we will see the end of that um in the very very next few days. So, I think we're I think we're going to finally see the end of it, although there are some other things to be worked out, but but you are in my prayers. Our next uh resources and community support committee meeting is Monday, November 17th at 3:30. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. Um Magistrate Clem.

Yes. The next finance committee meeting will be Tuesday, November the 18th at 3:30 across the hall. Um appreciate the comments about veterans. Been a Vietnam veteran myself and I know Larry Hicks, Vietnam veteran as well. just kind of want to take the liberty to special shout out to my brothers and sisters and the Vietnam veteran veterans and they tomorrow at 11:00 at the nature park there will be a veterans uh ceremony the public's invited it's always a very very very good uh function to invite the public to come out and take part I don't mean to interrupt but it's been moved to the American Legion park the American American Legion building I'm sorry

oh has I just saw that come in while we were sitting up here today. I apologize for interrupting. No, I appreciate that people would have shown up with a lawn chair and they wouldn't have to. [laughter] And also uh want to remind folks not to drink and drive and not text to drive. You thought I missed it, didn't you? All right. Thank you, Magister Pennington. Yeah, I just wanted to ditto what Magister Salsman said. Just super appreciative of all the veterans, including the two that we serve with on this court. So, thank you all. Thank you all the veterans that serve our county in different ways and different capacities from the sheriff's department, EMS, etc. So, thank you all. All right. Uh, Magistr Thompson,

I could certainly reemphasize our thanks to those who serve us so well. Thank you. Thanks, Magister Hicks. Uh yeah, I just appreciate what you all said about the veterans and u I thank you and I know Fred thanks you and I just hope every veteran that is still here with us has a great day tomorrow. You you owe we owe you all the gratitude that we can give you.

Right. Thank you, Magistrate Muse. Uh yes, I'd like to thank the veterans too, especially the two serving on this court. Uh Saturday the Vine Grove had a veterans parade and there was quite a bit large attendance by the veterans. And the next public works committee meetings, Wednesday, 19th November at 3:30. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Uh next fiscal court meeting is uh Tuesday, November 25th at 5:30. All right, I think that wraps things up. So, is there a motion to adjurnn? Some moved. Second. Second. Second. Any objections? Meeting is adjourned.