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Woodford County fiscal court holds public hearing on amended use of remaining LGEA funds for road trucks
Summary
At a special meeting, the Woodford County Fiscal Court held a statutorily required public hearing on an amended use of Local Government Economic Assistance funds to apply $5,617.56 toward cost overruns on two road trucks; no public comments were received.
The Woodford County Fiscal Court held a statutorily required public hearing to consider an amended use of Local Government Economic Assistance (LGEA/LGA) funds that would apply $5,617.56 toward increased costs for two road trucks, Judge Executive said at the special meeting.
The hearing, called to satisfy statutory notice requirements for changing the use of LGEA funds, reviewed a prior proposal to spend $6,905.43 on small equipment for the road department and noted that $1,287.87 of that amount has already been expensed. The remaining $5,617.56, the judge executive said, would be used to help cover the difference owed on a single-axle truck and a tandem dump truck budgeted in the 2024–25 fiscal year but that arrived over budget because of tariffs and increased costs.
The judge executive said the trucks were ordered under the fiscal court's 2024–25 budget and that the increased cost for the vehicles was roughly $6,800 overall. He said using the remaining LGEA funds would reduce the need to draw on the court's reserves and would fully expend the county's remaining LGEA allocation. "This meeting was noticed ... for the purpose of obtaining citizen comments regarding amended uses of local government economic assistance, LGEA funds," the judge executive said during the hearing.
No members of the public attended the hearing, and the court reported no written or emailed comments on file. The judge executive made three calls for public comment during the hearing; each call produced no speakers. The court clerk confirmed there were no emails in the county inbox and no mailed comments on record.
The public hearing met the statutory requirement, the judge executive said, and there was no formal vote or other final action recorded at the special meeting. Court members present included the magistrates listed on the roll call and the judge executive; the judge adjourned the hearing and said the fiscal court would reconvene at its regular meeting at 5:30 p.m.
Members of the public were advised during the hearing that comments could be submitted by email to info@woodfordcountyky.gov, by mail to the fiscal court, or by contacting individual magistrates or the office of the judge executive. The county noted it had held a prior public hearing on April 22 proposing the earlier LGEA expenditures for blowers, weed eaters and chainsaws.
