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Barren County fiscal court approves grant payments, FEMA road contracts and first-reading budget amendment
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Summary
At its March 17 meeting the Barren County Fiscal Court approved a $92,685.50 grant payment to Community Partners for Recovery, signed off on FEMA-funded road contracts and accepted a first reading of ordinance 703, a fiscal-year budget amendment. Multiple invoices and transfers also passed by voice vote.
Barren County Judge-Executive Jamie Beulah Byrd announced Monday that the fiscal court approved a series of payments and contract invoices, including a $92,685.50 check to Community Partners for Recovery from an opioid-state grant and FEMA-funded road contracts to Bluegrass & Associates.
The court approved the Community Partners payment after Byrd explained the group was selected through an opioid statewide grant. “This was a grant they had applied for through Barren County, and they were selected from the opioid statewide grant,” Byrd said, as the court moved and carried the payment by voice vote.
In new-business votes the court approved several invoices and transfers: an invoice to Bank of New York Mellon for $15,555; an Oilwell Road contract to Bluegrass & Associates for $199,000 (fully FEMA-funded); a Truist Bank wire transfer of $381,265 for the jail bond payment; and a Bluegrass & Associates invoice of $691,500 for Ritter’s Mill Road (also FEMA-funded). Each motion passed by voice vote and was recorded as “motion carries.”
The court also adopted ordinance 703 on first reading, a fiscal-year 2025–26 budget amendment described at the meeting as a technical revision to the current year’s budget. Byrd emphasized that this amendment is for the current year, not the next-year budget.
One payment recorded in the minutes, listed as a payment to Metcalf 911, appears garbled in the transcript; the court approved the payment by voice vote but the amount in the audio/record was unclear. The clerk’s office will carry the transaction details in the official claims register.
The court scheduled its next regular session for April 1 at 9:00 a.m. and noted that many of the infrastructure projects approved are fully or substantially funded through outside sources, including FEMA and grant awards, meaning no local tax dollars are required for those contracts.
Votes at a glance: • Community Partners for Recovery — $92,685.50 — approved (voice vote) • Bank of New York Mellon — $15,555 — approved (voice vote) • Bluegrass & Associates, Oilwell Road — $199,000 (FEMA-funded) — approved (voice vote) • Truist Bank wire transfer, jail bond — $381,265 — approved (voice vote) • Bluegrass & Associates, Ritter’s Mill Road — $691,500 (FEMA-funded) — approved (voice vote) • Ordinance 703 (FY2025–26 budget amendment) — adopted on first reading — approved (voice vote)
The court’s approvals allow work on several emergency- and storm-related road repairs to proceed under FEMA funding and let the county finalize fiscal housekeeping for the current budget year.
