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The Hardin County Fiscal Court met for their first meeting of the month Tuesday.
The court approved, as part of its consent agenda, an updated inter-local agreement with the City of Elizabethtown allowing for use of the city’s enforcement officer for recovery residences in the county. That agreement will run for one year beginning July 1, with the city paying for the enforcement officer and the county paying for needed involvement of the county attorney.
Also approved was the adoption of goals and objectives for the county comprehensive plan. Judge-Executive Ketih Taul thanked the members of the county’s Planning and Development Department for their hard work getting the plan ready for adoption.
Planning and Development Director Adam King said 16 plots have been recorded and 20 new lots created to this point this year, which is already up from this point in 2023. King encouraged anybody planning on doing building to contact his office to avoid delays.
“What I’m not thrilled about here is we’ve already done 18 stop work orders for the year,” King said. “So just educational: you need a building permit even if you’re out in the county.”
Deputy Judge-Executive Vicki Meredith gave a presentation on behalf of the county’s Engineering Department concerning the county’s Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Permit application process.
“The MS4 permit has six minimum control measures, so these are actual activities that are included in this permit,” Meredith said. “When I came on board in 2006, I said ‘this is the most comprehensive permit I’ve ever seen,’ but actually it works very well because it addresses all different elements of activities that need to be worked on to make sure that erosion and sediment control and controlling the storm water is done effectively.”
Meredith’s presentation also gave information for homeowners with septic systems to look for to help keep those systems running compliantly.
The Hardin County Fiscal Court will next meet March 26.
Meade County Family and Consumer Sciences is hosting a Disaster Preparedness Awareness event at the Meade County Extension Office Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m.
Meade County Extension Agent Jennifer Bridge says area responders will have more than 20 booths set up at the event.
“Those are primarily service agencies, people that you would contact in the event of a disaster,” Bridge said. “We’ll be giving away a lot of just helpful items that you can put in your disaster preparedness kit, and then they will have information on who to contact and what their role is.”
At 6:30 p.m. a panel discussion will be held on how the community responds to a disaster.
“Let’s say a disaster has happened,” Bridge said. “What happened, what are the next steps? And as a consumer, what do you need to do? Like, do not call RECC or LG&E if you don’t have electric. Who do you get your information from? So we’ll talk about our community response to disaster.”
All are welcome to attend and admission is free.
“We are giving away some really nice door prizes, two of those which are really, really nice disaster preparedness kits,” Bridge said. “There’s all kinds of things in there that you might need.”
Find the Meade County Family and Consumer Sciences Facebook page for more information.
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Officers with the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office and the Kentucky State Police Tuesday night were once again at the BlueOval SK construction site in Glendale in response to a threat.
“At about 6:25 p.m. 911, Hardin County Control, received the call of a possible active shooter at the BlueOval location in Glendale,” said Chief Deputy David Lee with the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office. “Then there was another report of someone brandishing a weapon in the parking lot, and someone in a building with a weapon.”
Hardin County deputies and KSP troopers were on the scene for about four hours.
“We’ve completed some searches of bags, we have searched a car with negative results,” Lee said. “Nothing was found, and there’s nothing that says anyone here brandished a gun or had it. We located nothing.”
The incident comes within weeks of a previous rumor of an active shooter at the site as well as two previous bomb threats. All the incidents have resulted in searches by police that revealed no threat.