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Fiscal Court advances administrative-code revisions and enacts 12-month moratorium on new data centers
Summary
County staff proposed administrative-code updates covering appointments, procurement thresholds and the placement of animal control under the sheriff; the court also enacted a 12-month moratorium on data-center applications to allow planning and ordinance adjustments.
County Administrator Julie Wagner led a review of proposed administrative-code edits, asking magistrates to review a clean copy before formal adoption. Revisions discussed included moving duplicate appointment language into a single deputy-judge procedure, clarifying appropriations categories for permanent line items, updating procurement thresholds (the negotiated-procurement threshold will be $50,000 under House Bill 392 and will increase periodically), and assigning animal control to the sheriff's office subject to confirmation with the sheriff.
Magistrates discussed the policy trade-offs for permanent line-item funding (senior center, parks and rec, 911) and agreed to present a clean administrative-code draft for passage at the next meeting. Wagner said a clean copy will be circulated for formal approval at the court's next meeting.
The court also approved a 12-month temporary moratorium by resolution on the acceptance, review or approval of any applications, permits or requests related to establishment, expansion or construction of data centers within Boyle County. The moratorium gives planning and zoning time to prepare ordinance language and public education before any permits are processed.
"The fiscal court enacting a temporary moratorium on the acceptance, review, processing, or approval of any and all applications... related to the establishment, expansion, or construction of data centers within Boyle County," the resolution reads; magistrates approved it by voice vote.
