Members of the Barren County Fiscal Court Building and Property Committee, which includes Ronnie Stinson, Tim Coomer and Jeff Botts, along with Garland Gilliam discussed the bid they've received regarding the wiring relocation. Michael Crimmins/Glasgow News 1.
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
The three Barren County magistrates that make up the Building and Property Committee — Jeff Botts, Tim Coomer and Ronnie Stinson — recommended the acceptance of a bid that would relocate the generator wiring thereby making repairs to the downtown parking structure possible.
During the Sept. 17 committee meeting the magistrates authorized Deputy Judge-Executive Garland Gilliam to solicit bids to move the Barren County Government Center’s generator wires from underneath the pedestrian walkway to a nearby platform. At the September meeting, Gilliam said the city of Glasgow, which actually is responsible for the structure, “would not touch it” until the electrical wiring was relocated.
Gilliam said Clemmons Electric submitted a bid for $55,000 with the intention of reusing as much of the existing wiring as possible and with the caveat that additional wiring costs would be added should any need to be purchased.
“The plan is to reuse the wire,” Gilliam said. “[The company’s] 100 percent intentions are to reuse the wire, but…you never know once you start [taking the wire down].”
The time frame on the work, Gilliam said, was roughly two weeks and they could begin in roughly two weeks.
“Our goal is to get this completed as quickly as possible,” Botts said.
“It’s affecting businesses on the square. We need to do our part,” Barren County Judge-Executive Jamie Bewley Byrd added.
Stinson, before making the motion, asked if this would be a reoccurring expense, which he was told it would not be. He also asked where the money would come from and Byrd said since it was not an anticipated expense it would be taken from the county’s savings account.
After the committee meeting, the bid was accepted by the full fiscal court.
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