Fiscal Court - Regular Meeting

start up this meeting. Good afternoon, evening, whatever time it is here. And uh just check your cell phones if you wouldn't mind and make sure they're turned turned off or turned down at least. All right. So, let's go ahead and begin. This is the November 25th, 2025 Harden County Fiscal Court regular voting meeting. Let's begin and call this meeting to order. Roll call, please. Squire Clim here. Squire Hicks here. Squire Muse here. Squire Pennington here. Squire Saltzman here. Squire Thompson here. Squire Whitehead here. Squire Yates here. Judge Tall

here. Uh next we'll have our invocation by Magistrate Salsman and pledge of allegiance uh Magistrate Whitehead. Father God, we thank you for this day that you've given us that we can be here. Father, we pray that you would help us to uh do the business for the county to glorify you. Father, we uh thank you for our families. We thank you for our citizens here in Harden County. We thank you for our first responders, our military. Father, we just pray that you would bless them and their families in this time of thanksgiving. And we just uh ask all of these things in Christ's name. Amen. Amen.

Please join me in pledge. I pledge algiance 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. [clears throat]

All right. Again, thanks uh for joining us today. It's great to see all of you here and those that are watching on TV or streaming online, whatever. Um, can uh acknowledge our sheriff's in here. We have Sheriff Ward and uh we have mayor from West Point, Mayor Sesi. Thanks for being here this evening. So, let's review the agenda. Uh it's pretty typical tonight and it is um we'll go through the minutes from the last me uh meeting. We will have a couple of presentations. Uh we have a time of citizens concerns or comments. We have one resolution to uh discuss and vote on. And then after that we have the consent agenda that has um several items in it that I'll review before we uh vote on it. After that just a time of comments and um then we'll adjourn. So that's that's the agenda uh for our meeting today. All right. Um, I just wanted to make uh one comment um uh to uh note that this Saturday is small business Saturday. uh was able to u there were a couple um folks from the RSBA from Radcliffe that came in and was able to do a proclamation and provide that to them as a um a reminder really that we have a huge number of small businesses in Harden County. Uh, I was able to put out a a note about it and I just wanted to take a moment and remind all of us uh about our small businesses in Harden County and that we need to support them. Just a reme reminder that they aren't

just shops. They're they're dreams built from hard work, determination, and love for our community. And they are they are the the coffee shop that knows your order, the boutique that greets you by name, and the family-owned store that's been there for generations. And Small Business Saturday, let's choose to shop local, [clears throat] as we need to all year round. Every purchase you make is more than a trans transaction. It's an investment in your neighbors, your town, and the future we share. So, every dollar spent locally helps a family thrive. Every gift bought here straightens our strengthens our hometown and every visit reminds small business owners that they their work matters. So, as the holidays approach, let's just celebrate by giving back to those who give so much to us every single day. So, let's shop small, support local, and build community. So, it's just a reminder again that um we have a huge number of small businesses and they need our support. It's become very easy to go to Amazon and push a button and it shows up at our door and those dollars don't generally stay in Harden County. So, let's take a little extra effort and try to find some items here in Harden County that we can purchase during this holiday season especially. All right. Um just a note too uh on that um this for those that are interested um we have a pretty big event coming up with the ambulance the ninth ambulance that we are going to um celebrate really at White Mills station of the West Harden Fire and Rescue and we're going to have a ceremony there a pushin ceremony on Monday December 1st at 8:30

at White Mills um fire department station. So uh we'll be there and that's if anybody's interested and wants to join us and uh celebrate that and commit uh to to really um uh you know be part of history you know uh for that part of the county. So pretty excited about it and um if anybody wants to come please come and join us on Monday. Now, if the weather, if we have a lot of some snow or ice and things that are unsafe, then we will put that off until f Friday, December 5th at 8:30. So, just kind of u keep track of what's going on there and we'll put out if we need to change that date. But, uh if it's raining or just kind of a dreary day, we'll still have the ceremony u whenever we get there. And it won't be long. It'll only be probably about a half an hour or so. All right, I think that's all the comments I have. So, we'll move on to the next agenda item. Uh, it is to approve Harden County fiscal court minutes from November 10th, 2025. And I need a motion to approve.

So, move. Moved and seconded. Any discussion hearing? None. We have roll call. Squire Clim. Yes. Squire Hicks. Yes. Squire Muse. Yes. Squire Pennington. Yes. Squire Saltzman. Yes. Square Thompson. Yes. Square Whitehead. Yes. Squire Yates. Yes. Tall. Yes. Motion passes. All right. Next, we'll move on to some presentations. We'll start out with uh EMS Mark Peterson.

Good evening. I've got the uh October activity report for Harden County MS call volume. Uh we were dispatched on 1,371 runs. We responded uh to 1,363. Eight of those were transfers and 132 of those were nonvillable runs. And this is a look at our year-to-ate data. We are almost we are one run up from 901 runs as of this time last year. So, uh, 5,373 dispatches and 5,335 91 responses. Mr. Salsman's slide here, a breakdown of the, uh, responses by unit and their jurisdiction. Uh, collections, we collected $627,923 last year. That is up from last year where which was 562,000. Here's a comparison of the run volume versus revenue. And then fiscal year to date, we're at uh just shy $2.5 million in collections, up from 2 million uh this time last year. And again, a comparison of collections to volume. I would also like to add to to the judges um sentiment about the pushing in ceremony on Monday morning. Um, for those of you that may not know where Little White Mills Fire Department's house is at, it's at 9225 Sonor Horn Springs Road. Uh, 8:30 Monday morning. We'd love to see you all there.

Any questions? Mark, I just want to say um I'm sure many of y'all heard about one of our local police officers, Lieutenant Homeman. Yes, sir. Had a cardiac event couple weeks ago, I guess it is now. Last weekend, maybe. Or the weekend. Saturday. Yeah, last Saturday. And our EMS personnel did a fantastic job and saved Lieutenant Hullman's life. Yes, sir. They did. So, good job to them. Yeah. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Any other questions? Good financial report, too. Yes, sir. I'm pleased with it. Very pleased with it. All right. You all have a good Thanksgiving. Thank you.

Thank you. All right. Next up, E911, Mike Leo. Here's alert.

Good evening.

Good evening. Here we go. I'm here to present the activity report for the 911 center for the month of October. 911 calls answered. 4,445 10,233 CAD report CAD reports created answered 5,738 administrative calls dispatched 1,384 EMS runs 442 fire runs and handled 2,340 attempt to serve prisoner transport and traffic stop type calls. This shows the calls for service by agency to EMS at 33.9% followed by Racklet Police at 26.4, Sheriff's Office 21.6, and the other agencies we provide dispatching services to, you can see their percentages there. Fire runs by department, Elizabeth Town at 35.5%, Radcliffe 19.2. You can see the remainder of the fire departments and their percentages there. Calls transferred to secondary sites. Total calls transferred 893, 700 to Etown police, and 193 to the state police. That's all I have. Have any questions for me?

All right. Thank you. Appreciate the report. Thank you, Mike. [clears throat] Thank you. Okay. And there's an additional written report by our clerk, Brian Smith, that's included. All right. We'll move on then to any citizens concerns or comments. Do we have any uh anyone that wants to comment or have a concern that they want to please just come up here to the microphone if you wouldn't mind just to state your name.

Good evening. I'm Bob Baker. I'm here tonight representing Bucks Long Hunters. Uh I have the president and vice president with me, but they decided for me to come up speak tonight. Thank you all. Um our concern is possible sale of or trans of the landfill area next to adjacent to our Bucks area that we lease. Uh our concern is that if the state we get it or something of that nature that we could be at some point stopped from doing our functions that we do down there as a club. Long rifle flint lock um black powder shooting club is what we are and we've been down there for 26 years. Um I didn't see it till yesterday that we were even this was coming up on the agenda. So, we gathered together yesterday and last night, decide we need to be here tonight and just voice our opinion that uh we're not for it to move forward with that sale. Um, more input would be great if we knew what was going on a little deeper probably, but we don't unfortunately. Again, thank you all very much.

All right. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you.

Anyone else? All right, seeing none, we'll move on then. Um, [clears throat] so we'll move on to this resolution. This is resolution 232 related to approval of Pearl Hollow Land Cell. And um I just want to give a some explanation of what this actually is um before we move into um whether further discussion about it because there may be some confusion about it. Um a little bit of explanation uh the pro the property that uh we are looking at to um transfer over to uh the Kentucky Heritage Land Trust. um is not part of Pearl Harour Pearl Harbor landfill area and is approximately 193 acres. Uh it's on the east of the uh Blue Line stream whereas the the landfill area is west of the Blue Line stream. It is currently a buffer area and it will rema remain as such with the transfer to the Kentucky Heritage Land Trust. Uh the property has already been identified as endangered bat habitat which comprises approximately 162 acres of the 193 acres. These endangered bat species were captured and identified by a consulting firm when the landfill was first cited at this location. The proposed transfer of the property is to the Kentucky Heritage Land Trust in perpetuity to be combined with the Vernon Douglas Nature Preserve, which is adjacent to it. The land trust received

a grant for $1 million to purchase land for conservation from the Kentucky State Legislature. and the trust allocated $500,000 for this addition to the Vernon Douglas Nature Preserve which was um commissioned back in 1992. Uh this 730 acre preserve protects one of the most mature second growth forest in the Knobs region. Ver Vernon Douglas state n uh nature preserve supports an array of spring wild flowers stands of sugar maple beach and tulip popular has about 4.5 miles of hiking trails over uneven terrain and is said to be good for nature study and for birding Kentucky nature preserves intentionally keep trails away from the property lines to protect the hikers and neighboring properties. The Vernon Douglas Nature Preserve was recognized as being a part of the old growth forest network in 2016. The old growth forest network was created to identify a forest in each county which will remain in a natural condition and is open to the public. It is the only na national network in the United States of protected old growth native forests where people of all generations can experience biodiversity and the beauty of nature. There are only six counties in Kentucky in the old forest network and of course we are one of those six. [clears throat] The Kentucky State Nature Preserve will protect the land without using the resources of Harden County government and relieve the county of any future liability. The n the trail system is limited to foot traffic only and visitors must not reroute or shortcut

the existing trail system. Any person in violation of the state regulation may be liable for a civil penalty of $1,000 per day. I propose that the net proceeds, which would be a half a million dollars, uh would be used toward u some needs that we have and emergency medical service uh equipment needs or andor uh county fire service needs in the future. And just a a couple of notes about some more recent things that we've looked at. Um the uh the proposal we one of the items that of the the initial assessment of that land was that some of it was um prime farmland. And so we will um after looking through that we will hold approximately 17 acres of the northern section of this land which is prime farmland. and um we will take that out of the acorage and we'll go ahead and sell the remaining 12 acres of non-prime farmland to the Kentucky Heritage Land Trust. Also proposed to hold approximately 16 acres of prime farmland in the southern section and we would sell about seven acres of prime farmland that is really not accessible. it'd be like selling that that acreage and taking a donut, you know, out of it or taking a hole out of it and saying, you know, we're we're going to hold that out. So, it didn't really make sense to uh those seven acres to uh remove those uh from this. So, that uh approximately 139 acres are non-prime farmland, wooded areas uh and and pretty hilly areas. The acreage is subject to a survey which hasn't been done yet and extra acreage

will be carved out to make sure that the landfill permitted area is excluded and that there will be extra buffer space carved out for the bucksort lease to sat satisfy any safety concerns there. Uh this leaves currently about 158 acres that we would propose to be uh transferred uh over to Kentucky Heritage Land Trust. Um so um okay so I'll [clears throat] I think that covered several of the issues um that we were talking about. Let me go ahead and mention two that is part of this resolution that that we are looking at here. um and and just kind of read most of this so that everyone knows what's going on. So um this is a recommendation to negotiate the sale the sale of the property known as Harden County Fiscal Court property 158 plus or minus acres lo located at Ottoman Trace. Okay. Okay. It's got a deed number to it [clears throat] and everything. And this agreed to pay agreement would pay the full half a million, $500,000, whatever the acreage turns out to be. It's our request and requirement really from them is that they would agree to pay us a half a million dollars total. Uh they would have to find the money to also uh pay for the survey. The survey cost would not come out of that. Uh be it further resolved to authorize judge executive to negotiate the additional terms and

conditions as to the surveyed areas to add additional buffer zones around the sheriff's firing range and the Bucksnort leased area to the satisfaction of both parties. Be it further resolved to authorize judge executive to obtain written assurances that the state would not seek to shut down the firing range if the property is sold. And be it further resolved upon successful negotiation of the additional terms and conditions stated above that uh the judge executive will present the revised offer to the county attorney to review as a legal form and then present to fiscal court for approval for execution of the contract. So, I just want to make it clear that what we're looking at today is um that this resolution does not commit fiscal court to sign this current contract that was attached to it. That was the one that was provided to us and we had problems with it. We've spent several months trying to work through what we can do about that. But if we do approve this resolution, it is basically an agreement uh that we will if if they meet all these stipulations and they change the contract that we will be ready to sign it. So the idea here is that you know are do we have enough support to move forward with the negotiations and see if they will agree to these things. Um and that will take some time, take some effort to do all of that. And uh if we do, then we'll proceed with that and see if they will. There's no guarantee that that um that they will, you know, agree to do all these things. So if they don't, then uh then the contract then it it'll just die and we won't have anything to uh to to work on. Um, however, if today we don't have enough support for it, then of course

we'll just uh go ahead and let them know that and they'll uh move the money to some somebody else or another project in the state of Kentucky. So, that's pretty much what it is. I I just wanted to make sure that um we [clears throat] that everybody understands that we're not um committing ourselves really unless all these stipulations are met. And even then, we would have another opportunity to talk about it. But I would hope if we we have the support today and they do meet the stipulations that we wouldn't change our mind and uh not go ahead and move forward with it uh once we have a contract that's acceptable. Okay. So, that's really what the what we have today. And I just uh see if we have a motion to u approve.

So move. Second. Moved and seconded. Uh so now we have some time of discussion. [clears throat] Yes, judge. Yes, sir. So, we've had numerous memory meetings concerning the sale of this property around the landfield. Countless hours of county employees time have been put into this as long as members of this court have put several hours into it, which also equates to countless amounts of money. [clears throat] I hope that once this vote is final that we can put this just as much energy and effort into balancing our budget as we have trying to sell this land. Okay. Anybody else? I think

my sentiment pretty much echoes to some degree what Master [clears throat] Yates said, but we've said many times as a court, at least a majority, uh that we're really not interested in selling any of the land surrounding the the landfield. We had one vote on another piece of land that did not uh prevail and now we're here again with another option. We've got a 200 to $250 million asset in that landfill. And I don't think anyone that's serving on this court uh should want to make a decision that could ultimately diminish the value of of the landfill. And I've said it many times in our committee meetings and in the last time we had this vote. Anytime we decrease the the buffer zone, we're pulling these alleged bats closer to the operation of the landfill and thereby exposing the landfill operation to some potential decision in the future by some environmentalist at the state level to come in and say that you're messing with the bats. So, we need to either alter the operations of the landfill or change directions of what something that's going on in the landfill. We ran into that the last time when we sold timber, when we harvested timber, we had to do it at certain times and it made it difficult to get it done. So, we're at the mercy of the state of anything we do. Uh, if they discover that there's a bat, say the bat comes close to the buckn guys, we all know what environmentalists can do. that can shut down a whole operation. They've done many millions of dollars of projects that's been involved and across this country that's been stopped because of finding a a lizard or a mouse or something that they think's endangered. So, I just don't think it's something that uh we need to decide to go forward with. Uh I came across a little quote yesterday I think is very uh pertinent to this situation. and it says the most valuable math you can learn is how to calculate the future

cost of your current decisions. Think about that our current decisions and the future cost. That's all I have. Judge. All right. Thank you. Anybody else?

I just I wanted to note [clears throat] I think we've discussed this several times. One big thing that Fred had kept mentioning is potentially not even discovering a single bat. So, if this species that's endangered is no longer endangered because they don't exist because they're extinct, what what does it do to that zone, right? Can that zone come away? Can we use it? Um, and I think that has value into that that land right there. [clears throat] Plus, we've also discussed how the land itself that the or the timber that the bat zones are that there are opportunities to harvest there, but it depends on the time and there are fees and there might be an opportunity to make some money there. Ultimately, my biggest um qual with this is we've like Chris had said, we've discussed this five plus times. And I don't think at any one of those times there's been any unanimous support and moving forward. And I just think that the amount of time and effort that we've been putting into this could have been balancing the budget or finding other revenue sources elsewhere, finding ways to make it work. U so that's my opinion. Um, I just think that, you know, there's comments of, well, you know, people aren't allowed to get off the trails that are there. Well, there's laws that people break every single day, and I'm pretty sure our county attorneys is used to that, but that we're just getting them closer and closer, like Fred keeps saying, and that's that's a huge concern. I know the sheriff expressed some concern um about the range, and that's an asset to the county that we can't jeopardize either. So, just for all those reasons, this is still a continued no for me.

Okay. Anybody else?

I'm going to have to agree with um Magistrate Pennington and Clam and Yates. I feel the same way. I want to ditto those remarks. Um don't think we should start splitting up property at the landfill and and uh start guessing with a crystal ball what might or might not happen in the future as far as the bat habitat. Um, and we can't guarantee the safety of anyone at this point. Um, and it and it does serve as a buffer at this time and and that's the importance of it. It's it's a buffer and and we need that and and I realize that the state cannot do anything with it either because it it is a a a u nature [clears throat] preserve. Okay. But but I just don't feel like this is the time to start guessing what might happen in the future um with the sale of this property. I'm I'm I'm opposed to it and and for the same reasons as as those magistrates that have spoken out.

Okay. One more thing real quick. Um, I know we discussed even when the bike trails were looking at a different options, we discussed the old landfill and I know there's land that's sitting there that I propose that maybe we look at utilizing that land to utilize this grant or this money for land that truly is sitting there, no access. Um, and I I know that Brenda Douglas had public access, but if they're looking for other sources of just land to preserve, that's more ideal in my opinion. Um, because it's still our land, but it's sitting next to already another preserve. So, my suggestion would be look for sources like that to to utilize that money for. Okay.

Anybody else? Yes. My thoughts on this are um the landfill is the only money-making operation in county government other than taxes and I don't want to do anything to jeopardize um that money- making mechanism that we have in place. So, I am a no. Okay.

All right. Thank you. Anybody else? And I'll be voting yes because I don't believe selling this land to the Kentucky Heritage endangers our landfill. It's a buffer with the heritage. It'll remain a buffer. Agreed. It won't be between two different things, but it's still a buffer. and we put in a bunch of stipulations that's supposed to guarantee the rifle range, the shooting range. And if you know, and I don't even know if they'll agree with that. I kind of have my doubts, but if they were, it is $500,000. I know some people that doesn't solve our budget, but $500,000 helps. And I'm hearing we need to do other things to generate the revenue, but I haven't heard of what we're going to use that land to generate the revenue with. You know, if there are, then then let's proceed with whatever you can do to do that. If it's it's harvesting the timber or quarrying underneath, whatever. But we haven't moved to do any of that that I know of. That's my thoughts.

All right. Thank you. Anybody else?

I guess I should just share that I believe it has been an investment in our future to have that property for ourselves as a county. Um and to sell it in my mind is not uh looking toward the future. Um we we don't know the possibilities that are there. Um I think the land is invaluable. uh even though it may appear to be quote useless except for a preserve, I hesitate uh to ever look at turning land over to a government agency that's larger than Harden County. Um and uh I will share with you that u the feedback that I've heard from voters is in opposition to the sale, but that will be my position also.

Okay, anybody else? I think we just about covered everybody. Okay, Larry, do you have anything?

Well, [clears throat] you know, I was I was kind of staying neutral on this. I mean, I would be in favor of settling it. I'd be in favor of not selling it, but what I've seen with the opposition here today, I would say just let's just take it off the table and forget about it. Okay. Yeah. I will um make just a couple comments because I think um even though we have talked about this the total land mass out there uh uh quite a bit since the first of the year and we did make a decision then to not um sell that uh on the u other side of the u landfill. Um but this this land that was on this side is was not part of any permitted area. Um it's not part of any agreement with Republic. Um so this was a different project and this of course was um very much um you know that had a lot of interest then from uh this this entity there in Frankfurt to add to their preserve. Um, so [clears throat] I did I don't think that we've put a massive amount of uh time and effort into this particular piece of property and um we you know whenever you get offered a half a million dollars then you know I feel like you need to take a look at it and um I feel like we have and it looks like we are um we'll go ahead and vote here in a moment but it looks like we're not going to proceed with it And so, uh, that's fine. I just wanted to make sure that we did our due diligence and because, you know, the budget is tight and half a million dollars is a half a million dollars. And it's also the other side of it is that

uh you have a preserve that uh would take care of that piece of property uh forever and it would u you know, it would just be part of that u park system for Harden County. So given all that, I don't think I'm changing anybody's mind. So, uh, we'll just move on to a vote. Square Clim, no. Squire Hicks, yes. Square Muse, yes. Square Pennington, no. Square Saltzman, no. Square Thompson, no. Squire Whitehead,

no. Square Yates. No. Judge Hall. Yes. Motion fails.

All right. We'll move on then to the consent agenda. And so I'm just going to review these items. Uh the first four items are all financial. Uh typical things that we have on there. Um the next and which includes resolution 220. Uh the next one is uh resolution 221 and this is related to approval of Foxwood subdivision and we're bringing that into our county maintenance uh system of roads. Uh items uh 220 uh resolution 222 uh is the approval of a library appointment for Kevin Addington to be added to that board. And resolution 223 is approval of Harden County Extension Board appointments for Brandon Thompson and Val Hicks. The next four or the next three items are 224, 225, and 227. All dealing with uh various personnel uh changes in 911, EMS, and the road department. Next item is uh resolution 228. It's related to approval of vertive maintenance agreement, which is a battery backup maintenance agreement. And we have uh item 229 or resolution 229 related to approval of Harden County Crimestoppers affiliation agreement. This is a two-year agreement that uh needed to be resigned. Uh the next two items uh resolution 230 related to approval striker agreement for a proare power load service plan.

And so this is a a u maintenance agreement and a service agreement uh $23,000 approximately. And then another one with striker. Um this is resolution 231. This is u again EMS uh equipment service plan for Lucas and Lifepack field repair service plan. And this is about $26,000. And the final four items are all approval of the four committee meetings uh that we had this month. Okay. So those are all the items in the consent agenda. Um does anyone disagree with or want to uh remove any of these items? All right. Hearing none, then uh we need u a motion to approve the consent agenda.

Second. It's been moved and seconded. And roll call, please. Squire Clim, yes. Squire Hicks, yes. Squire Muse, yes. Squire Pennington, yes. Squire Saltzman, yes. Squire Thompson, yes. Squire Whitehead, yes. Squire Yates, yes. Tall, yes. Motion passes. All right, that brings us to our comment time. County attorney, do you have anything? I don't. Okay. County Clerk,

I'll just share a couple of uh election related u deadlines and and dates that are coming up. Um as you know, 2026 is an election year. Um the filing deadline for those offices that will be that will have a primary is January 9th at 4 p.m. And thanks to my local uh my uh faithful app, that's 44 days, 21 hours, and 50 minutes from now. Not that anyone's counting. Um, if you're filing for an office that does not have a primary, the deadline is June 2nd, uh, also at 4 p.m. And if you're not sure which office is due and do not have a primary, that information is available on the clerk's office. Um, as we get close to the end of the year, I will be repeating this at every meeting. Um, December 31st is the is the deadline to change your party affiliation in order to vote in the party primary in 2026 of your choice. So, it's a good time. Um, if you haven't looked at that lately, you can visit go vote.ky.gov or you can come to the county clerk's office. Also, if you have moved since the last time you voted, um, go to go vote.ky.gov or come to the clerk's office and update your address. Thank you.

All right. Thank you very much. Move on to our magistrates. Magistrate Yates. So, I guess you're about 44 hours or 44 days, 21 minutes, and 49 minutes. 21 hours and 48 minutes probably now away from uh your fund to really begin. Right. Uh we we've already begun work. The uh county board of elections has already been working on the 2026 plan. Um if you liked where you voted the last time you voted, that that place will be available again in 2026. Appreciate all your hard work. Um want to remind everyone the emergency service committee meeting is at 3:30 on December 11th. And I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving. I hope you get to spend it with friends and family.

All right. Thank you, Magistrate Salsman. Yes. I just wanted to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving and um if you have family still around, uh hug them close and tight and um if not, my thoughts and prayers are with you. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mr. Whitehead. [clears throat]

Just a reminder about the resources and community support committee meeting Monday, December 15th at 3:30. I want to talk about the property taxes. Uh for those that want to take advantage of the 2% discount, uh you on the on your card that you got in the mail says November 30th. However, since the 30th falls on a Sunday, you do have until December 1st to pay those taxes and take advantage of that 2% discount. And um happy Thanksgiving everyone. Uh be blessed and and spend spend your holidays with family and loved ones and and stay safe. Thank you.

Thank you. Measures and clim. Yes. Uh finance committee meeting will be December the 12th at 3:30 across the hall. And I too want to wish everyone a blessed and safe Thanksgiving. And please don't drink and drive and text and drive. Thank you. Thank you. Uh Mr. Pennington just want to say happy Thanksgiving. Thank you. Uh Majesta Thompson, happy Thanksgiving. Be thankful. We have so much to be thankful for. Uh this county, the area that we get to live in. Uh we truly are blessed beyond what is imaginable. So be thankful, bring joy.

Thank you, Majest Hicks. I just want to wish everybody a Thanksgiving, not only here in Harden County, but uh all around the world. And I just hope we take time out that day to thank who is that we need to thank that be thankful to. And I I hope and pray that there's no child that day has to go hungry. All right. Thank you. Uh, Major Muse, like to remind everyone the next public works committee meeting is December the 10th at 3:30 across the hall. And I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving.

All right. Well, thank you. Um, also a reminder for next fiscal court is Tuesday, December 9th at 3:30 p.m. And I too want to wish every everyone a happy Thanksgiving, a safe one if you're traveling. And um also just a note too that [clears throat] um this uh building will be closed on Thursday and Friday. Thursday and Friday uh of this week. But uh as a parting uh just note on uh just a gratitude that I have. Uh I was thinking through this some and of course I I always start with my gratitude to my my God. In Psalm 136:1 uh just one verse here it say give thanks to the Lord for he is good for his steadfast love endures forever. So I thank him. I thank my and I'm very thankful for my wife, my family and friends and all their support uh to my church means a lot to me and their support and um I want to thank fiscal court and all that um you know we have our differences and we uh struggle at times but I am thankful for each person on this court and all the offices and uh the sheriff and the mayors all all the people that are serving in this county. I do have an a deep appreciation for each one of you and to our community, of course, uh all of our u uh I'm very thankful for um Harden County and the people that uh as I go around the county and and there's just so many u people that are giving of themselves and are serving others and helping each other. And I and I don't want to forget my staff and every employee here. Um you know these are folks these first responders um you know that are running

into the fire, right? And um so they're taking care of us in our time of need and um those that are working on our roads and and just all the things that we take care of as fiscal board. So I'm just uh I'm just very grateful and uh as as we move into the thanks Thanksgiving uh season here. So uh thanks everyone and I guess we are ready to adjurnn. Is there a motion? So moved. Second. Okay. Moved. I got square Yates as a move. Second. Second by Penny. Second. Okay. Any objections? Hearing none. Meeting is adjourned.