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, udicial center plans hit snag
Vol. 155 No.7
By Cecil Lawson
KyNewsGroup
cecil@kynewsgroup.com
Plans for a new judicial
center in Owingsville have
encountered a problem be-
cause one property owner
who offered to sell contin-
gent on finding another
home to move into has been
unable to do so.
Members of the Bath
County Project Develop-
ment Board ‘ overseeing
the new judicial center
discussed this issue dur—
ing their regular February
meeting held via Zoom vid-
eoconference on Monday
afternoon.
Chairman Bobby Rogers
said that property owner
Steve Bashford has not
been able to find another
[suitable residence in the
'city to buy if he sold his cur-
rent home at 52 Main Street
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V Fiscal Court outfits county road
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By Cecil Lawson
KyNewsGroup
cecil@kynewsgroup.com
The Bath County Road
Department will be getting
some new equipment in the
coming weeks.
During last Thursday’s
regular February Bath
County Fiscal Court meet— .
ing, court members voted
to approve the purchase
of a Kubota M6060 tractor
with cab for $35,188 and the
lease of a four-wheel drive
Chevy dump truck with
salt spreader and grader
blade for $91,000 for the
county Road Department,
to be financed over 5 years
through the Kentucky As-
sociation of Counties.
The Fiscal Court received
two sealed bids for the trac-
tors, one from Montgom-
ery Tractor Sales for the
‘Kubota, and another from
Ag Pro for a John Deer 5065
SE for $36,250.
At the suggestions of
Commissioner Jamie Cline,
they also approved the pur-
chase of a new Tiger ditch-
er for $10,890 from Wright
Equipment.
T 0 help pay‘ for some of
the new purchases, court
members also voted to sur-
plus two tractors owned by
the county, a Case-Interna-
tional and a New Holland,"
and advertise them for sale
on Govdeals.com.
They also approved to
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Gregory told" board mem-
bers that a site plan would
normally be completed by
the end of Phase B for a
project like this. He said the
surveyor had included the
Steve Bashford property
into his survey.
Danny Rhoades, Execu-
tive Director for Facilities
with the Administrative Of-
fice of the Courts, called
the issue “unsettling,” since
the state’s Court Facilities
Standards Commission ap
proved their plan on Dec.
4, 2020, fo. the new judicial
center contingent upon the
availability of Bashford’s
home.
Bath County Board mem-
bers voted during their
November 2020 meeting to
make offers on the prop-
erties of Steve Bashford
and Harold Bashford, both
located next door to one
another on Main Street, to
make space for additional
parking for the new judicial
center, which is located be-
hind their homes on Water
egm avertismg or two
seasonal worker positions
for the county road depart-
ment The positions will be
for 9 months and will pay
$10 an hour.
Court members also
voted to approve an 80/20
project through the state
for steel drilling by King
Crete Drilling on North
Little Flat—Ledford Road for
$113,141, with the county to
pay $22,677.
They also voted to adver—
tise for sealed bids for a low
water bridges on McVey
Road and Toy Road, to also
funded in part under the A
‘state’s 80/20 bridge pro-
gram.
Court members also
discussed maintenance of
school bus turnabouts on
private roads and drive-
ways. County Attorney Kim
Price said that the county
cannot use public funds
to maintain private roads,
even for school buses
turnabouts, While Commis-
sioner Millard Pettit said it
was something the county
has always done in the past.
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Board members agreed
to wait and see if Steve
Bashford would be able to
find another residence be-
fore next month’s meeting.
Ple has already sold the
back portion of his property
for the project
Board members also
voted to approve 'a requisi-
tion certificate for $11,178
to Lynn Imagining provid-
ing online document and
records management for all
plans, drawings, and docu-
ments associated with the
judicial center project.
They also discussed a
$20,885 in expenses in-
curred by the Bath County
Fiscal Court regarding the
purchase of the final mobile
home on the Denton prop-
erty as well as legal filing
costs. A requisition certifi-
cate will be requested from
the Administrative Office of
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also brought up how this
might affect trash pickup
in the county by Advanced
Disposal, which also use
those turnabouts. Price
said she would look into the
matter. .
In other matters, court
members also:
* approved a first reading
of a ten year cable franchise
agreement with Spectrum
to provide cable television
service for the county
* approved a motion to
advertise for a residential
appraiser and surveyor for
the county’s old jail building
approved the first read-
ing of an amendment to the
county’s alcohol beverage
control ordinance to allow
for the creation of a special
Sunday retail drink license
(to allow alcohol sales by
the drink), to replace the
word “restaurant” in sec-
tion 9 of the ordinance
with the word “business,”
and to create a'dormancy
clause in the ordinance that
will cause an active alcohol
sales license to expire if a
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Photo by Cecil Lawson
The groundhog saw his shadow on Feb. 2, and as promised, Mother Nature has
delivered
a few rounds of ice and snow beginning last Wednesday evening and
continuing through
Tuesday. Last Wednesday's freezing rain and snow caused thousands of
people in Bath,
Menifee, Rowan, and surrounding counties to lose power due to falling trees
over power
lines. State, county and city road departments worked to clear roadways,
while local rural
power cooperatives serving the area labored around the clock and with
assistance from
out of the area to restore power. Local counties judges all declared states
of emergency. A
second round of sleet and snow froze roadways again on Monday, in time for
the Monday
evening commute, but the area managed to avoid further freezing rain as
temperatures
stayed in the lower 205. Another storm front was expected to move through
the area on
Wednesday eVening and Thursday, followed by’ warming temperatures over
the weekend.
business is closed for more
than 90 days. Judge Rogers
said the first two changes
are aimed at helping a new
business, The Barnyard
Venue near Sharpsburg
which plans to open in the
spring, to have Sunday
sales if they scheduled, per-
formers on that day.
* voted to advertise for
sealed bids for the sale
and/ or removal of mobiles
homes located on the Gary
Denton property in Ow-
ingsville. County Attorney
Price said the last tenant
there will be vacating by
mid—March. She also said
that all remaining buildings
on the Denton property will
be demolished by the con—
tractor for the new judicial
center. Funds from the sale
of the mobile homes will go
to the judicial center’ 5 proj-
ect fund.
* Court members agreed
to move ahead with legal
action against individuals
who have been given two
notices to pay their county
occupational taxes but have
not Judge/Executive Rog-
ers said the overall amount
owed is in the “tens of thou-
sands of dollars.” County
Attorney Price and Trea-
surer Cline agreed to set
up a meeting this week to
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Bath County Sheriff’s Department would like to congratu-,
late Deputy Tanner Tout for
receiving the 2020 Governor’s
‘Award for Impaired Driving
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for your dedicated service and
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