Meeting of June 7, 2022
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Summary
Grayson County Fiscal Court – June 7, 2022
The court handled routine business first, approving minutes, bill payments, and budget transfers for both the county and the jailer.
The bulk of the meeting was a detailed presentation from the state Department of Highways on the Rural Secondary (RS) road program. Representatives explained how RS funds are allocated (based on population, road miles, and land area) and laid out priorities for the coming year: routine maintenance, the county judge executive's statutory allowance, an asphalt resurfacing project on KY 2766, and a culvert replacement on KY 736, totaling about $1.42 million. They also gave updates on numerous ongoing and upcoming projects, including US 62 construction delays due to a contractor's financial troubles, resurfacing on KY 54, guardrail work, bridge replacement near the Clarkson interchange, and safety improvements on KY 259, many of which are held up by utility relocation issues.
The court approved a discretionary funding agreement resolution for Wilson Church Road and approved a payment of $78,488 in ARPA funds to the Edmonson County Water District to help fund replacement of a water intake booster station at Sleepy Hollow, which serves thousands of Grayson County water customers. This mirrors a similar past contribution the court made to help Caneyville's water system.
The court also accepted the Grayson County 911 audit for fiscal years 2019-2021, discussed the upcoming volunteer fire department petition deadline (to be voted on next meeting), and heard committee updates including new fire trucks arriving and continued delays on pickup trucks. A new tractor purchase was also discussed, explaining recent delays in mowing services.
Notably, the court discussed the need for a new county ordinance to regulate alcohol sales licensing, prompted by recent local option elections in the Rock Creek and Falls of Rough precincts that passed to allow alcohol sales, requiring the county to establish rules consistent with state ABC requirements. The meeting closed with a motion to adjourn.
Agenda (15)
- 0:00
Call to order, invocation, and pledge
The meeting opened with a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance before being called to order.
- 0:46
Approval of minutes
The court approved the minutes from the previous meeting.
- 0:54
Approval of payment of bills
The court approved payment of county bills.
- 1:04
Approval of treasurer's budget transfers
The treasurer's budget transfers were presented and approved.
- 1:12
Approval of jailer's payment of bills
The jailer's bill payments were approved.
- 1:17
Approval of jailer's budget transfers
The jailer's budget transfers were approved as presented.
- 1:36
Rural Secondary Road Program presentation
State highway officials presented the RS road program funding formula, priorities for the upcoming fiscal year totaling about $1.42 million, and gave updates on numerous ongoing and planned road, bridge, and safety projects throughout the county.
- 12:22
Approval of discretionary funding agreement resolution for Wilson Church Road
The court approved a discretionary funding agreement resolution for improvements on Wilson Church Road, a roughly two-mile section that transitions between state and county maintenance.
- 14:26
Approval of payment to Edmonson County Water District
The court approved paying Edmonson County Water District $78,488 in ARPA funds to help cover the cost of replacing the Sleepy Hollow water intake booster site, which serves much of southern Grayson County.
- 17:22
Acceptance of Grayson County 911 audit
The court reviewed and accepted the 911 audit covering July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2021.
- 17:31
Volunteer fire department petition deadline update
An update was given noting the volunteer fire department petitions were due to be turned in that night, with a vote to accept planned for the next meeting.
- 18:01
Fiscal court committee updates
Committee reports covered new fire trucks that had finally arrived, continued delays on new pickup trucks, and other routine matters.
- 19:33
Discussion of alcohol sales ordinance need
Following local option elections passing in Rock Creek and Falls of Rough precincts allowing alcohol sales, the court discussed the need to draft an ordinance regulating licensing per ABC requirements.
- 21:31
Old business: new tractor delivery and mowing delays
It was noted that a new tractor purchased months earlier was expected to be delivered that week, explaining recent delays in mowing service due to being short two tractors.
- 22:33
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned.
Motions & votes (8)
- 0:46
passedApprove minutes from the previous meeting
Moved by Damien · seconded by Tommy · unanimous
- 0:54
passedApprove payment of bills
Moved by Darren · seconded by Neil · unanimous
- 1:04
passedApprove treasurer's budget transfers as presented
Moved by Tommy · seconded by Kevin · unanimous
- 1:12
passedApprove jailer's payment of bills
Moved by Brian · seconded by Darren · unanimous
- 1:17
passedApprove jailer's budget transfers as presented
Moved by Neil · seconded by Brian · unanimous
- 14:11
passedApprove discretionary funding agreement resolution for Wilson Church Road
Moved by Neil · seconded by Darren · unanimous
- 17:15
passedApprove payment of $78,488 to Edmonson County Water District using ARPA funds for the Sleepy Hollow water intake booster replacement
Moved by Darren · seconded by Brian · unanimous
- 22:33
passedMotion to adjourn the meeting
seconded by Tommy · unanimous
Transcript (19 segments)
- 0:00
[Music] we have to serve as citizens of this county we pray that as we come together today that we'll make decisions in a way that's pleasing in your sight we thank you for your many blessings each day and we pray that you'll continue to bless and protect this community in jesus name we pray amen pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all it's called meeting order first thing on the agenda is approved minutes from the previous meeting promotion by damien second second by tommy all in favor next we have approved payment of bills motion motion by darren i think second by neil all in favor all right next we have approved treasurer's budget transfers that's presented by tommy second by kevin all in favor next we have approved jailers payment of bills
- 1:13
motion by brian second second by darren all in favor next we have approved jailor's budget transfers as presented motion by neil second second but brian all in favor rural secondary road program he's got kevin on here but brad or whoever wants to take care of it [Music] judge himself my name is bo warren i'm the branch manager over our western half of the district for construction and maintenance thank you for letting us come and present our program today and uh with us is brad bob he's our acting chief district engineer for the district and james beecham he's our transportation engineer supervisor that's over pretty much the maintenance function in breckenridge racing and meat keys and mark stone as you all know him these are our foreign all right just a little background our real secondary program is funded by 22.2 percent of the motor fuels tax those funds are allocated to all 120 counties based on a five-point formula
- 2:26
and that formula is one-fifth based equally among all counties one fist based on the rural population one-fifth based on the road miles and two fists based on the land area and once that money is allocated to accounting it is not transferable to any other game i passed out a copy of our our current rs plan for this current fiscal or this upcoming fiscal year to all the magistrates and judge here just to go over it our total real secondary miles are 133.852 miles for grayson county our first priority for our rs funds is the routine maintenance and traffic for our rs routes in grayson county that cost is estimated at six hundred forty thousand two hundred dollars our second priority is the county judge executive expense that's set by statute at three thousand eight hundred seventy five dollars our third priority is an asphalt resurfacing project on kentucky 2766 and that's going to go from kentucky 185
- 3:40
and 9.0 to kentucky 187 at mile 0.6.32 for a total distance of 6.323 miles an estimated cost of 626 128 our fourth priority is a culvert replacement project on kentucky 736 approximately from 9.12.66 to 12.7 and estimated cost of that is going to be 150 000 all that totaled up gives us an estimated program of one million four hundred and twenty thousand two hundred three dollars for the year [Music] i'd like to go over some of our existing projects that we have going on in the county just to kind of keep you all informed we've got u.s 62 that's currently being constructed from kentucky 3155 a bypass to beehive curve that project is currently experiencing some delays just because of contractors
- 4:53
financial difficulties so we're not 100 sure when that project is going to get completed it's a working day project we're still continuing to count working days but we have been informed that the contractors potentially bankrupt looking to be bought out so it might end up being delayed from who was it that had that that's charles louise construction uh other project we've got is a reception project i'm kentucky 54 from the ohio county line to kentucky 79. it's got an anticipated completion date of 6 30 22. we have our remaining rs program that we presented last year that still has yet to be started but still has a 6 30 22 completion date that was kentucky 7 479 from trapman lane to 1214 kentucky 720 from u.s 62 to 1168 and kentucky 1168 from 224 to kentucky 720 and i don't think any of that work has been started yet the best of the violence i think 720 1168 yeah another project we have is kentucky 79
- 6:16
from just north of 736 for about a half a mile it's a guardrail project that has an august 1st completion date and the shawwell road bridge that's county road bridge that we replaced it's it's pretty much complete all except for i think paving the approaches is about all they have left because of my knowledge it's got a completion date on september 1st the project that we have that has already been led is it's a uh 10 asphalt overlay of the wk parkway in a couple of segments from the 91.1 to the 95.03 and the 116.9 to the hardin county line trying to keep those sections that are in pretty decent shape in real good shape with a thin asphalt overlay and then kentucky 187 is a research project from phelps johnson road us-62 that's got a november 15th completion date some of the projects that we have upcoming that haven't been let yet there's a potentially a respectancy
- 7:31
project i'm taking 88 from kentucky 889 to the rock creek bridge and we've got a couple of highway safety improvement projects on kentucky 259 in the northern part of the county and in the southern part of the county the northern part of the county is supposed to go from outpoint 16.39 to to 21.459 which is the county line and the southern portion is supposed to go from the edison county line to kentucky 226. um i'm not sure you know when the lighting on those is anticipated we're about having a lot of utility issues with those just getting utilities moved out of the way we've had them ready otherwise for a while but mainly communication companies just dragging their feet getting everything moved so we're hoping to let them over the winter start working on them next year both of those projects but it kind of depended on utilities and that progress so 226 saint anthony churchill right yeah what uh what what's what's that project what are you doing on that one it's primarily uh lengthening some cold which i had some shoulder yeah that's okay yeah nothing's nothing real significant
- 8:45
we're not getting any right away it's kind of just pushing out what we've got a little bit making what's there a little bit better yeah it's a small pot of money we had but it was a that's how we applied it to the project so yeah [Music] thank you [Music] what else we have the bypass extension that's supposed to go from 259 around to 54 to 54. yes 54 station it's anticipated to be lit sometime this fall early winter based on what we're looking at and then we've got a wk parkway rehab that's probably it's been two projects been put into one that goes from the 111.25 to the 116.949 and that's some base repairs and reconstruction of the wk through there and then the last thing i've got on my list is the continuation of the us62 from the beehive curve on 224 it's