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Government

  • Fairfield mayor proposes $11,500 budget

    The city of Fairfield’s 2014 budget isn’t likely to be very different from this year’s, according to Tom Trent, the town’s mayor.

    The $11,500 spending plan includes $10,350 in general fund allocations, $1,000 in state road aid and $150 in a state minerals tax fund.

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  • City approves bid for electrical and other projects

    The Bardstown City Council has approved a bid of $277,023.56 for its electrical distribution and four-kilovolt conversion project for the 2014 fiscal year at its May 14 meeting.

    The bid by the company Cheyenne Construction of Mount Sterling was the lowest of three bids, even after the company discovered an error in its calculations and changed its bid from just under $264,000 to $277,000. The other two companies had bids of $415,487.54 and $455,737.59.

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  • Judge, magistrates discuss Salt River Electric request

    RANDY PATRICK
    rpatrick@kystandard.com
    Salt River Electric Cooperative Corp. wants to purchase land in the Nelson County Industrial Park on Woodlawn Road adjacent to the site where it plans to relocate its operations plant.
    County Judge-Executive Dean Watts, who presented the proposal to the Fiscal Court Tuesday, said the company wants the property to improve its access and provide a buffer around its transformers and other facilities.

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  • New Haven budget sees little change from last year’s

    After some minor tweaking, the New Haven Board of Commissioners held the first reading of the city’s 2013-2014 fiscal year budget Thursday.  The proposed budget is similar to the current budget, with the only real increases coming in the water and sewer department where the Commissioners had previously made a small rate hike in these services. 

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  • Lydian, Sheckles argue over HRB job

    Three weeks after the Bardstown City Council voted 4-2 not to allocate money for a full-time historical preservation officer for the Joint Planning Commission, Councilman Francis Lydian questioned Mayor Bill Sheckles for including $30,000 in the budget, plus the money from a Kentucky Heritage Council grant to pay the salary and benefits for the job.

    “In my opinion, it would be arbitrary to allocate funds for a full-time position when the council voted four to two for it not to be a full-time position,” Lydian said at the council meeting Tuesday night.

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  • Bardstown mayor presents $42.5 million budget

    Mayor Bill Sheckles presented a $42.5 million budget to the Bardstown City Council for its first reading Tuesday night.

    The budget, which includes $7 million in general fund expenses and $34.5 million in the combined utilities fund, is close to $1.2 million more than last year’s spending plan.

    It includes a 2 percent pay increase for city employees and a $700,000 unrestricted reserve for unanticipated needs.

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  • Planning Commission hires part-time historical officer

    The Joint Planning Commission has a part-time historical planning administrator — for now.

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  • City loses grant because of paperwork problem

    A glitch in paperwork will cause the city of Bloomfield to lose more than $130,000 in grant funding, but the city will not have to fork out any money from its general fund. 

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  • Cemetery panel considers columbarium, more parking

    At the Bardstown City Council’s cemetery committee meeting Wednesday, Roxann King of Keith Monument in Elizabethtown gave a presentation on a columbarium for the city cemetery.

    A columbarium is an above-ground structure, similar to a mausoleum, where urns holding the cremated remains of the deceased are kept and often displayed.

    The city will consider the company’s proposal, but made no recommendation at the meeting, said City Clerk Barbie Bryant, the cemetery’s sexton.

    “It’s a possibility for the future,” she said.

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  • Fireworks control spark heated comments

    There were a few fireworks at the beginning of the council’s monthly work session when Ashberry resident Elaine Matthews asked that the city limit Fourth of July fireworks in heavily populated areas because of the noise.

    If the city couldn’t control where fireworks were allowed, she said, it should at least limit when they could be set off.

    City Councilman Tommy Reed told her such an ordinance would be difficult to enforce, and Police Chief Rick McCubbin said it would go against state law to restrict them.

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