Fiscal court approves KYTC 2025-26 secondary road resurfacing recommendations including Montgomery and Bridal roads

Lewis County Fiscal Court on Monday voted to accept the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet(KYTC) secondary road recommendations for fiscal year 2025-26, including resurfacing work on Montgomery Road and a remaining paved section of Bridal Road.

The KYTC presentation, delivered by Brandon Howe, outlined the cabinet's recommended allocations for Lewis County for the upcoming fiscal year and the county flex funds available for resurfacing. The court moved to accept those recommendations and to assign a formal resolution implementing them.

Why it matters: the recommended allocations will determine which county routes are resurfaced or completed in the coming construction season and how much county flex funding is available for locally selected repairs.

How the plan was described: Howe told the court that the package reflected annual KYTC secondary program recommendations. He said the recommendation includes resurfacing the entirety of Montgomery Road (KY 3311, from the Greenup County line to Kentucky 8) and completing a still-unpaved portion of KY 1021 (Bridal Road) of a little over a mile. He also provided packet figures for the program totals, maintenance and traffic operations, county flex funds and KYTC resurfacing funds; several dollar amounts in the oral remarks and handout were difficult to read in the transcript and are noted below as not specified or quoted directly from the handout where verbatim numbers were given.

Court action: Commissioner Woody Underwood made the motion to accept the KYTC recommendations; Joey McCann seconded. The clerk called the roll; the recorded votes were yes from Mark Horsley, Johnny Osborne, Judge Sparks, Joey McCann and Woody Underwood. The motion carried.

Details and limits: Howe said the Montgomery Road work would run from the Greenup County line down to Kentucky 8, and that the Bridal Road segment would include the short section by the large barn and the area known locally as Five Points. Specific packet numbers discussed during the presentation included references to prior-year carryover and allocations to maintenance, county flex, and KYTC resurfacing funds; those figures in the transcript were not consistently formatted, so the court record and KYTC handout should be consulted for exact dollar amounts.

Next steps: The fiscal court approved the recommendation and will execute a resolution to document the county's acceptance and any required local commitments.

Sources: KYTC presentation to the Lewis County Fiscal Court; formal roll-call votes recorded in the meeting transcript.