By JAMES BROWN
Glasgow News 1
Barren County magistrates met for their “short” June fiscal court meeting Tuesday morning.
During the meeting that lasted about 30 minutes in the court chambers on the third floor of the Barren County Government Center, the fiscal court approved payment of claims as presented, along with transfers of funds between county accounts. They also approved the hiring of Christine Horton within the county attorney’s office.
Not within the routine business of the first meeting of the month was the discussion of developing an opioid committee, and the agriculture exposition board.
“The plan for the opioid committee is to have two magistrates … the sheriff will be on there, the judge-executive will be on there, the jailer will be on there, the county attorney and a citizen at large to be nominated,” Barren County Judge-Executive Jamie Bewley Byrd said during the meeting.
She explained that she will nominate the two magistrates and the citizen at-large, and that those nominations will be presented for the court at its next meeting on June 16.
Byrd explained that the judge-executive, sheriff, jailer and county attorney positions on the board will be filled by those elected officials who hold that office.
The opioid committee will oversee the disbursement of opioid settlement funds available to Barren County.
“We’ll get that going and get applications in a form for people to go and apply for those funds,” Byrd said.
The motion passed unanimously.
The fiscal court magistrates also unanimously approved the establishment of the agriculture exposition board.
Byrd said this board is being created as a non-profit entity that will be the board that will govern the operations of the new ag expo center being built adjacent to the Cave Area Conference Center in Cave City.
This board will hire the director of the expo center and the director will report to the board. This board will also pursue new market tax credits.
The board, Byrd explained, will consist of three representatives from Barren County nominated by the fiscal court, one from the University of Kentucky Extension Office in Barren County, two from Cave City, and one nominee from the Hart County Fiscal Court.
“At the next meeting, I will have the three [Barren] county representatives,” Byrd said. She said she expects the nominees from the other parties involved by that meeting on June 16.
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