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The Hardin County Fiscal Court met for their first meeting of the month Tuesday.
Hardin County Judge/Executive Keith Taul said it has been just over a week since Hardin County EMS formally launched their ninth full-time ambulance, which is housed at the West Hardin Fire and Rescue Station in White Mills, and the area is already seeing improved service.
“We have 17 responses so far and the average response time has been reduced down to right around 14 minutes from where it was, around 30 minutes, in that area of the county,” Taul said.
Hardin County Animal Care and Control Director Mike McNutt said the county saw 221 animals and administered 189 rabies shots at their final clinic of the year in October. He said the shelter is currently at an 88 percent live release rate for dogs for the year, but the county needs to get to 90 percent to reach no-kill status, and overpopulation problems are weighing on the shelter.
“Our sweet spot is 60 to 80 that we can take care of with the staff that we have,” McNutt said. “We have 123, and I had four people call out sick this morning, and we met and we discussed what we were going to do because when you’ve only got eight staff members for the day and it’s down that low, it’s a hard road to hoe.”
Hardin County Jailer Josh Lindblom reported the average daily population at the detention center in November was 606. Inmates worked 9,856 hours including collecting 2,104 bags of trash along 196.2 miles of county roadways.
Hardin County Emergency Management Director Joey Scott encouraged any county residents who have not yet done so to sign up for the county’s RAVE alerts, and said he has been making an extra effort getting the word out.
“I took an initiative to go ahead and get partnered up with Hardin County Schools and do a backpack flyer stuffer program,” Scott said. “We sent them home with the flyers and we’re already getting some feedback from them. We passed out roughly 10,000 to Hardin County Schools students, so we’re going to keep building and building and getting our message out and get more and more people to opt into the system.”
Sign up for RAVE alerts on the county website.
The Hardin County Fiscal Court will next meet December 18.
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