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Perry County staff report recycling and work-release accomplishments; tire collection planned and transfer station redesign under review
Summary
County staff reported 17 tons of cardboard recycled in February and detailed work-release crew tasks, announced a late-March tire-collection event with specific acceptance rules and times, and said the transfer station redesign is under review.
Tanner, identified in the meeting as the presenter for recycling and the work-release program, told the Perry County Fiscal Court that for February the county recycled 17 tons of cardboard, roughly 250 pounds of plastics and roughly 150 pounds of aluminum.
Tanner also reported the Kentucky River Regional Jail work-release crew completed community tasks: picking up 748 bags of trash on county and state roadways, cleaning sites on Pratt Mountain and other locations, removing Christmas decorations at Leatherwood Battlefield Park, brush and tree removal at helipads, assisting with water distribution at the Perry County Courthouse during an outage, aiding in moving the county attorney’s office to the second floor of the courthouse, and other site support. Tanner credited Perry County Jailer Minor Allen and community partners and noted the work-release program allows participants to give back to the community.
Tanner announced a three-day tire-collection program at the county maintenance garage to be held in late March; the transcript lists the dates in a garbled form ('20 sixth,' '20 seventh,' '20 eighth') but gives operating hours in the meeting as 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the first two days and until noon on the final day. The program will accept passenger, truck, tractor, ATV, go-kart and bicycle tires; the transcript disallows large OTR tires, solid- or filled-rubber tires, and tires with a bead greater than 1 3/4 inches. Tanner said the program is open to anyone in the state of Kentucky, not limited to Perry County residents, and outlined drop-off traffic flow at the maintenance garage.
The Chair said the court reviewed plans that morning to redesign and redevelop the transfer station and said the court intends to return the transfer station to service. The transcript does not include a timetable, budget or contractor details for the redesign.
Tanner's remarks included a note that the firewood program distributed about 309 loads of firewood, credited to the jailer and the work crew; that quantity is transcribed as '3 0 9' and is marked as approximate in reporting.
The court did not record public comment in the provided excerpt. No new ordinances or contracts for the transfer station redesign were approved during this session; the discussion was presented as planning and review.
