MUNFORDVILLE — MEETING: Hart County Fiscal Court
DATE: Dec. 3, 2009
ACTION: Magistrates took the following actions: Agreed to grant County Court Clerk Lisa Hensley $600 each for Conroy Harris and Sherman Vance for their services on the county election committee; agreed to amend the county’s 2009-10 budget by $3,500 to advertise for delinquent taxes because the duty of property tax collection has transferred from the sheriff to the county court clerk; accepted $47,656.75 from Jailer Keith Riordan for county inmates; acknowledged receipt of sheriff and fiscal court audits; approved on second reading an ordinance amending the county’s budgets by $269,000 to cover the cost to pave county roads; approved a bank transfer of $975 from grant account to the road department: approved payment of claims; awarded an entertainment license application for Angela Miller for a karaoke business on Jackson Highway in the Canmer community; accepted the resignation of Greg Cox from the road department; approved on second reading an ordinance removing River Bottom Road from the county road system; approved on first reading an ordinance extending Timberleaf Lane by 0.34 of a mile; agreed to apply for a spay and neuter grant; agreed to pay filing fee on behalf of the jail to recover $6,690 from a prisoner; agreed to apply for an energy efficiency and conservation grant for the courthouse; approved minutes of Nov. 16 meeting; and approved magistrates’ request for road work.
DISCUSSION: Magistrates discussed dead animal removal service and U.S. Census Bureau jobs.
REPORTS: Magistrates heard the following reports: Road, jail and solid waste.
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