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October 15, 2009

By GINA KINSLOW The Glasgow Daily Times Thu Oct 15, 2009, 02:32 PM CDT

EDMONTON — MEETING: Metcalfe Fiscal Court

DATE: Oct. 13, 2009

ACTION: Magistrates took the following action: Approved minutes of Sept. 22 meeting and Sept. 29 special-called meeting; adopted a resolution authorizing the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Rural Secondary Program agreement in $159,000 to pave the following roads: Summit Drive, Timmy Circle, Silver Charm Lane, Harper Road, Bill Pedigo road, Clarence Harper Road and Earl Shives Road; adopted a resolution authorizing execution of a Federal Emergency Management Act Hazard Mitigation Grant in the amount of $8,500 for purchase of hazardous weather radios for all occupied structures in the county and to apply for a $500,000 grant to fund the construction of 10 tornado rooms with the county matching 13 percent of grant; approved first reading of an ordinance pertaining to disaster and emergency service and creating the Metcalfe County Office of Emergency Management; approved an order establishing an expenditure line item for DES fund for gasoline separate from travel expenditures; approved a $205,094 budget transfer for workers compensation; approved the monthly and quarterly financial statements; approved first reading of an ordinance adopting Story Road into the county road maintenance system; and approved claims.

ITEMS TABLED: Magistrates tabled the second reading of an ordinance adopting Horseshoe Bend Road into the county road maintenance system.

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