The Hardin County Fiscal Court met for their second meeting of the month Tuesday.
The court approved the first readings of two ordinances. The first is an amendment to the county budget to take care of about $6 million in unfunded receipts. Judge/Executive Keith Taul said most of those funds are library bonds for the expansion of the Hardin County Public Library.
“There’s money that’s being pulled in, bonds that were sold, and that money is coming into Hardin County government, into our treasurer’s department, and then being dispersed back as needed as they build and as they move forward with that,” Taul said.
The second ordinance relates to the creation of a guide for the design and construction of county roadways. During public comments, Settler’s Crest resident Dave Foreman said he hopes the new ordinance will make up for a lack of design that has been seen in previous road planning, which he says results in unsafe conditions for county residents.
“We need to make sure that what we do today is going to have a positive, lasting impact over the next 25 or 50 years, because on the rear end like where we currently live there was no planning, no ordinances or a lack of, and you end up with a very, very serious situation,” Foreman said.
The court also approved a resolution concerning a bid for the purchase of three new Type 1 ambulances.
During department reports, Hardin County Sheriff John Ward said from April through July the sheriff’s office made 409 arrests, issued 606 citations, and responded to 2,246 complaint calls. Ward said the office has responded to more than 12,000 calls so far this year, which puts them on pace to pass last year’s total of about 17,000 calls.
Hardin County Clerk Brian D. Smith said his office has seen about 100 new voter registrations each month. Smith said the county will be adding two new voting locations, the clerk’s office and the Colvin Community Center, and will replace the Pritchard Community Center as a voting location with Elizabethtown High School. The deadline to register to vote is October 10.
The Hardin County Fiscal Court will next meet September 12.
