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The Hardin County Fiscal Court met for their first meeting of the month Tuesday.
Hardin County Judge/Executive Keith Taul announced that Hardin County EMS has been awarded nearly $55,000 in grant funding from the Cabinet for Health and Family Service’s Education and Training Modernization Program.
“This grant money will be used to update training mannequins for pediatric and adult CPR training, advanced and difficult airway mannequins, and enhanced AV equipment,” Taul said.
Hardin County Engineer Mark Absher provided the magistrates with an update on recent office activity. Absher said the county is working with consultants on the best possible solutions for the historic White Mills Bridge.
“If they come up with something better than the others, we’ll look at that, and I also said that converting the bridge over to pedestrian traffic is an absolute if there’s no other options at all, but we’ll present you with how much money it’s going to take for the other options as well to kind of look at,” Absher said.
Absher also said he would begin looking for funding sources for needed repairs on the Pierce Mill Road Bridge and the Solway Meeting Creek Bridge.
The Hardin County Fiscal Court will next meet July 28.
The Kentucky State Police is participating in a federal enforcement effort involving commercial vehicles.
The KSP’s Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division is participating in Operation SafeDRIVE, which runs through this Saturday.
The KSP says the campaign targets unsafe driving behavior that often leads to passenger and commercial vehicle crashes. During Operation SafeDRIVE, KSP officers will patrol major highways, conduct commercial driver safety inspections at scale facilities, and ensure compliance with federal safety standards.
The KSP encourages drivers to maintain good driving habits on the roadway to assist commercial vehicle operators. Stay out of the blind spots of large trucks, signal early, pass safely, don’t cut off large vehicles, and avoid sudden stops and tailgating.
Operation SafeDRIVE is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s “Our Roads, Our Safety” campaign. Learn more by visiting the U.S. DOT’s website.
The Elizabethtown City Council met for their first meeting of the month Monday.
The council approved several municipal orders, including the acceptance of a bid from B.C. Concrete for concrete installation services for sidewalk repairs and the approval of an application for a $2 million grant from the Department of Local Government for the Elizabethtown Nature Park. The transfer of property on Moore Drive to Hardin County Habitat for Humanity was also approved.
“The city has now installed public improvements in the Glendale Hill neighborhood, and the city has determined that the remaining properties along Moore Drive in this neighborhood no longer serve a public purpose,” said City Attorney Ken Howard, reading from the municipal order.
City Director of Finance Jeff Hawkins provided an update on a mailing issue for city natural gas utility bills. Hawkins said issues with the U.S. Postal Service in Louisville led to delays in billing notifications, so the city is waiving late fees for billing cycles 1 and 2. Hawkins said alternative options are available for customers.
“You can sign up for email bills, which I do and I love it,” Hawkins said. “I don’t get anything in the mail anymore. We ask people to sign up for an ACH-like payment to where on that due date your payment automatically comes out. You don’t have to worry about it.”
The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet Tuesday in a joint meeting with the city’s Planning Commission.