Fiscal Court explores Wilderness Trail road

OBSERVER CORPS REPORT
AGENCY: Madison County Fiscal Court
DATE: July 29, 2009
REPORTER: Howard Bowden 

The meeting was called to order at 9:30 a.m. with all present.
 
ORDER Of BUSINESS
 
Madison County Homemakers Happy Hands presented the Court with a quilt of barn blocks. There are 50 barns in the county displaying the quilt patterns. (To view the patterns online, go to http://ces3.ca.uky.edu/madisonquilttrail/patterns.html)
 
The Court approved Order #09-01 authorizing the Treasurer to use an Electronic Signature to sign payroll checks. She had been signing them by hand.
 
A number of actions were taken to purchase, deed, bid and rebuild a right of way along the Wilderness Trail. The Fiscal Court will act as fiscal agent in administering a $1.7 M grant. The trail will provide a means of ingress and egress for the new school complex.
 
Judge reported that a litigant on the cell tower construction has requested all county records. The County is going to give them all those they need concerning the law suit. The Judge congratulated Chuck Hardin, assistant county attorney, on his appointment to the bench as District Judge, replacing William Clouse who was elected circuit court judge in November.
 
Department Head Comments: CSEPP is upgrading emergency radios and installing new siren towers. Planning and Development has available, for those interested, comparisons of residential building and development over the past years. Home building is down about half of  what it was in 2007.
 
Magistrates Comments: Dr. Tudor asked the question: Where are today’s heroes and who do young people have to look up to? Roger Barger commented that going green is going to be expensive initially. Harold Botner reported that the County Fair was a success.