The Breckinridge County Fiscal Court is the elected governing body of Breckinridge County, Kentucky. It usually meets on the third Monday of each month in Hardinsburg. Meeting video is recorded by WXBC 104.3, the local radio station. See also the official county website.
Every meeting the court has recorded, summarized and searchable. Results link straight to the moment it was said on video.
25 agenda items · 18 motions
The Breckinridge County Fiscal Court met for its regular session, opening with the pledge, prayer, and roll call showing all magistrates present. The court approved the minutes, fund transfers, and monthly claims, though it withheld payment on a claim from G&N Excavating because a culvert/box-cover job on a road project was not completed to bid specifications — the court will review a possible…
24 agenda items · 16 motions
The court approved minutes, transfers, and claims (with a small correction to an animal shelter invoice), and gave second reading to a budget amendment allowing the county to accept $175,000 in CPP and $780,000 in LAR asphalt funds from the Transportation Cabinet. Magistrates spent considerable time discussing the logistics of spending these road funds within the same budget year, since counties…
25 agenda items · 21 motions
The court opened with a brief public hearing on LGEA/county road aid funds (no comments, adjourned), then moved into its regular meeting. Routine business included approval of the May 18 minutes (amended to note fire department follow-up), year-end budget transfers, claims, and the second reading/adoption of the FY2026-27 budget ordinance, with a small addition to help fund a WIC/SNAP farmers…
20 agenda items · 19 motions
The court handled routine business first, approving minutes from two prior meetings, transfers, and claims. The main old business item was the second reading and adoption of a comprehensive new animal control ordinance, which passed after discussion about state law alignment and definitions for enforcement purposes. A significant portion of the meeting was devoted to citizen requests to bring…
28 agenda items · 18 motions
The court opened with a special-called public hearing on removing the St. Clair Extension Lane from the county road system, which was adjourned with no objection, then moved into the regular meeting. Routine business including minutes, transfers, and claims were all approved unanimously. The Soil Conservation office and road department gave their standard monthly updates — the county received…
25 agenda items · 14 motions
The Fiscal Court handled a routine but full agenda, approving minutes from three prior meetings, transfers, and claims with unanimous votes. The court gave second readings and adopted two significant ordinances: one establishing a county Tourist Commission and a companion ordinance creating a transient room tax to fund it, pursuant to state statute. A lengthy public comment period featured…
13 agenda items · 1 motions
This special meeting was held solely to gather public input on whether Breckinridge County should adopt planning and zoning. No decision was made — the Fiscal Court emphasized this was purely an informational and listening session. Jennifer Smart, Director of Meade County Planning & Zoning, gave an extensive presentation explaining how planning and zoning works under KRS 100: the roles of the…
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The court handled routine business (minutes, transfers, claims) before hearing the road department's report on the recent ice storm response, including a costly truck engine repair (roughly $18,000). A lengthy and heated discussion centered on the McDaniels Fire Department's objection to a county-mandated audit, which will cost the department and the county roughly $6,000 each. Fire department…
24 agenda items · 18 motions
The court opened with routine business: approval of minutes, transfers, and claims, including a brief discussion about the discontinued 'Step Works' program which was covered by a grant. A major portion of the meeting was devoted to a dispute with McDaniels Volunteer Fire Department over a court-ordered audit. Fire department president Chris Wooley argued the county lacks statutory authority to…
32 agenda items · 27 motions
The Breckinridge County Fiscal Court held its regular December meeting, approving routine business including minutes, transfers, claims, and several budget items for the county clerk, county court clerk staff, sheriff's office, and jail. The court also gave second reading and final passage to a controversial 365-day moratorium on data center construction and operation in the county, though the…
13 agenda items · 10 motions
The court handled routine business including approval of minutes, transfers, and claims, followed by a road department update. The road crew is focused on ditching and grading ahead of winter, dealing with soft spots on roads that had digouts, and coping with recent staff turnover. Discussion touched on setting earlier deadlines for blacktop contracts, buying spray equipment for roadside…
21 agenda items · 11 motions
The court handled routine business quickly, approving minutes from two prior meetings, budget transfers (including an additional $200,000 into the jail fund, bringing total jail transfers to $400,000 for the year), claims, and the second reading of a budget amendment ordinance tied to unbudgeted state transportation funds for road paving. The road department reported finishing chip-and-seal work…
29 agenda items · 17 motions
The court opened with the pledge and a prayer, then quickly approved the August minutes, a fund transfer, and monthly claims. Road foremen were unavailable because crews were out doing chip-and-seal work in another county, so no road report was given. The bulk of the meeting was devoted to public comment on a proposed alcohol ordinance amendment that would have allowed bars to stay open until 2…
32 agenda items · 23 motions
The court approved routine business including the June minutes, fund transfers, and claims (with an added bucket-truck repair claim). Discussion touched on pool maintenance costs, a spay/neuter partnership with Grayson and Butler counties, and reimbursements for pool supplies. The biggest debate of the day was the second reading of an ordinance that would have allowed "street legal special…
20 agenda items · 23 motions
The court opened with a short public hearing on the LGA county road program (no comments) before adjourning into the regular meeting. Minutes, transfers, and claims were approved routinely, and the road department reported ongoing storm cleanup, grading, mowing, and paving plans, noting flex-fund paving would resume around Constantine/Fairfield and that several magistrates are likely over their…
27 agenda items · 20 motions
The court handled routine business including approval of minutes, transfers, and claims, with a note of concern raised about a $5,000 legal invoice related to the zoning board. Pat Henderson gave the annual soil conservation district report, highlighting nearly $4 million in farmer assistance programs and a legislative change extending audit intervals. Phil Brown presented Anthem health insurance…
28 agenda items · 17 motions
The court handled a full slate of routine business, approving minutes, transfers, and claims, including a bill from a newly hired attorney related to a youth services matter. Excess fees from both the County Clerk (over $139,000) and the Sheriff (about $250,800) were approved, with the court discussing rolling sheriff's excess fees back into next year's budget and exploring making the two paid…
23 agenda items · 18 motions
The Breckinridge County Fiscal Court met February 17, 2025, opening with the pledge, prayer, and roll call. After amending the agenda to add an executive session on pending litigation, the court approved January's minutes, claim transfers, and claims before recessing into closed session. In old business, the court adopted (on a split vote) an ordinance repealing and replacing the 2022 solar…
23 agenda items · 17 motions
The Breckinridge County Fiscal Court met on January 21, 2025, and handled routine business (minutes, transfers, claims) before appointing Ian Brockman as the new Tourism Director, Troy Mills as the county's local building inspector, reappointing Mitch Jackson to a second term on the health board, and approving the hiring of a new dispatcher, Hannah Diaz. The court also renewed its yearly fire…
2 agenda items · 1 motions
This special session of the Breckinridge County Fiscal Court was called to discuss proposed amendments to the county's solar energy ordinance, which sets setback and permitting requirements for large-scale solar developments. Attorney-drafted language was reviewed line-by-line for minor wording corrections (citation numbers, typos, removing confusing tiered terminology for solar system sizes, and…
24 agenda items · 15 motions
The court handled routine year-end business, approving minutes from two prior meetings, transfers, and claims. A major portion of the meeting was a lengthy discussion (not a vote) between the fiscal court, the Optimist Club, and the fire department over renewal of a user agreement for the ballpark property, complicated by roughly $150,000 in state grant money for park improvements. No agreement…
21 agenda items · 12 motions
The Breckinridge County Fiscal Court held its regular meeting on August 21, 2023, opening with a public hearing on the tax rate (no public comment offered) before moving into routine business. The court approved minutes, claims, and a redistricting plan that shifted boundaries between the 2nd and 6th magisterial districts. The court set the 2023 property tax rate at 113 (up slightly from the…
3 agenda items · 0 motions
This special session of the Breckinridge County Fiscal Court was called solely to resolve a tie vote in the race for Fourth District Magistrate between candidates Ronnie Robinson and David Albright. By Kentucky statute (KRS 118.425, paragraph six), when two candidates receive an equal number of votes for the same office, the outcome must be determined by lot, in the presence of at least three…
25 agenda items · 15 motions
The court opened with the pledge, prayer, and roll call, then moved through routine year-end business, approving the November minutes and the month's claims without discussion. Much of the meeting focused on 2021 budget approvals: the County Clerk's, Sheriff's, and their respective deputies' and assistants' salary schedules (including a 3% raise), as well as the Sheriff's state advancement bond…
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