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Votes at a glance: Warren County fiscal court approves routine contracts, grants, equipment purchases and appointments
Summary
The fiscal court approved a broad slate of routine actions including personnel changes, road and stormwater projects, contracts for emergency operations design and equipment purchases, the TransPark property conveyance, and multiple appointments; itemized roll-call votes were recorded for each action.
Warren County fiscal court on Thursday approved a range of routine and time-sensitive measures by recorded roll call, including personnel actions, infrastructure contracts, equipment purchases, intergovernmental agreements and appointments.
Highlights from the meeting’s recorded actions include:
- Conveyance of approximately 0.27 acres in the Kentucky TransPark to the Intermodal Transportation Authority, Inc., to allow transfer to an industry buyer (resolution 25-12). Motion: Squire Cummings; second: Squire Aldridge; roll-call approval recorded.
- A rural secondary program agreement with the Commonwealth of Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for resurfacing Will Bohannon Road in an amount not to exceed $319,107 (flex funds reimbursement). Motion: Squire McWhorter; second: Squire Aldridge; roll-call approval recorded.
- Acceptance of qualifications from Sewell & Sewell for architectural and engineering services for an emergency operations center and safe room (only response to an RFQ). Motion: Squire Cummings; second: Squire Aldridge; roll-call approval recorded.
- A one-year preventive-maintenance contract for community outdoor warning sirens with Federal Field Services for $15,300 (single-source). Motion: Esquire Lasley; second: Esquire Lawrence; roll-call approval recorded.
- Approval of an emergency determination for roof reconstruction and interior repair to Taylor’s Chapel in the amount of $100,033.55 with insurance reimbursement of $75,033.55 and a county deductible of $25,000. Motion: Squire Lawrence; second: Squire Lasley; roll-call approval recorded.
- Acceptance of the lowest and best bid from Scotty’s Contracting Stone for the Basil Griffin Park stormwater improvement project in the amount of $575,700 to be paid with OSG grama funds and the FELOC fund. Motion: Squire Aldridge; second: Squire Cummings; roll-call approval recorded.
- Approval to advertise for bids for fire apparatus (two structural engines, two rescue engines and two brush/wildland trucks) with specifications emphasizing compressed delivery timelines. Motion: Squire Aldridge; second: Squire McWhorter; roll-call approval recorded.
- Multiple single-source and low-bid equipment determinations and professional services approvals, including a $11,714 purchase of a utility boat with trailer for Emergency Management (Renegade Marine), salt boxes and a chipper axle, engineering work for pipe replacements under a hazard-mitigation grant, and parking-lot design services for Sugar Maple Square.
- Several administrative items and appointments, including appointment of Stephen Kenworthley as interim treasurer, cemetery-board appointments, reappointment to the Warren County Water District Board of Commissioners, acceptance of various quarterly reports and approval of memoranda of agreement with partner organizations (for example, a canteen report, jail MOU with Hope Harbor, and a memorandum of agreement with Baron River Safe Space for a domestic-violence advocate for the sheriff’s office).
All recorded roll calls that are shown in the meeting transcript registered affirmative votes from the magistrates present for the items described above. Where the transcript listed movers and seconders, those names are noted. Amounts, vendors and other details are recorded in the court minutes and were cited by staff during the meeting.
