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Fiscal Court approves budget amendment, adopts road ordinances and authorizes bond-funded paving
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Summary
Spencer County Fiscal Court adopted a FY23/24 budget amendment, approved first readings to adopt subdivision roads into the county road system and approved using remaining bond funds to pave Lincoln Drive and Crafton Drive.
Spencer County Fiscal Court voted Oct. 16 to adopt Ordinance #3 Amendment #1 to its FY2023-24 budget and approved multiple road-adoption measures and a plan to use bond funds for local paving work.
The court completed the second reading and adopted Budget Amendment No. 1 (Ordinance #3 Amendment #1), which adjusts receipts and expenditures across the General, Road, Jail and Opioid funds to account for an aggregate change of $1,338,736.31 listed in the ordinance packet.
The court also approved first readings to adopt several subdivision roads into the county road system. Magistrate motions carried to add five Top Flight roads (Clubhouse Ct., Moonlight Cove, Eagles Nest, Goldenview Ct., Birdseye Ct.) under a limited-maintenance classification and to hold bonds at 50% for one year pending final inspection. Magistrates approved the first reading to incorporate Arbor Green Way and Brianna Court into the county road system under similar bond conditions.
The court voted to change a stop sign location in the Top Flight subdivision from Clubhouse Court to Eagles Nest.
Road-department requests to use remaining bond funds were also approved: the court authorized using the balance of the available bond dollars (estimated at $94,447.17 in the packet) to pave the remaining segments of Lincoln Drive and Crafton Drive, with an estimated paving cost of about $62,023.50.
All motions were approved by recorded voice or roll-call votes with one magistrate (Esq. Cotton) absent from the meeting. Following the vote the court instructed staff to continue final inspections and engineering confirmations before releasing reduced bonds after the one-year hold period.
The budget amendment and the road-adoption ordinances are recorded in the meeting packet (Ordinance #3 Amendment #1; Ordinance No. 5 for Top Flight roads; Ordinance No. 6 for Arbor Green). Officials said final release of bonds is contingent on a satisfactory annual/final inspection report from the county engineering firm.