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Barren River District Health Department nears completion of renovation; taxing district budget presented to fiscal court
Summary
Barren River District Health Department director Matt Hunt presented the renovated 55,000-square‑foot facility, mobile health unit and a taxing district budget showing roughly $4.4 million in revenue and $4.2 million in expenses; he invited the court to an October ribbon‑cutting open house.
Matt Hunt, director of the Barren River District Health Department, presented a renovation update and the taxing district budget to the Warren County Fiscal Court on June 13.
Hunt said the health department renovation at 1109 State Street has converted the facility into a fully usable 55,000‑square‑foot building and that the department now uses all three floors. He described new intake centers, updated exam rooms, an accessible environmental services area and a basement emergency operations and training space. Hunt invited fiscal court members to a ribbon cutting and open house scheduled for October at 3 p.m.
On the taxing district budget, Hunt said revenue is "a little over $4.4 million," which he described as including approximately $3.4 million in operational revenue plus about $176,000 in interest. He said expenses total about $4.2 million, including roughly $3.7 million for operations and a debt service payment of $504,705 over the next 20 years for the facility. Hunt also introduced a new mobile health unit intended to reduce access barriers across the eight counties the district serves, and said the department will focus on six priority health issues over the next three years: diabetes, nutrition, physical activity, mental health, substance use disorders and tobacco/vaping prevention.
