House budget contains lots of school, water-sewer projects

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March 10, 2010

By RONNIE ELLIS The Glasgow Daily Times Wed Mar 10, 2010, 07:04 PM CST

FRANKFORT — Greg Stumbo says it’s a “jobs creation bill,” an economic stimulus which could employ up to 25,000 Kentuckians. The Democratic House Speaker from Prestonsburg in Floyd County says with interest rates low, material costs down and construction companies and workers hungry for work, now is the time to improve Kentucky’s infrastructure.

Even if the state incurs “historically high” debt ratio and faces a $1.4 billion revenue shortfall in a recession which many economic experts say will be historically slow to recover. For the second time in a year, Stumbo has proposed a major spending plan to replace dozens of older public school buildings and address water and sewer needs in rural Kentucky.

Below is a partial list of some of those projects contained in the House budget which passed Wednesday and now goes to the Republican controlled Senate where it’s likely to face significant alteration. In total, the budget contains $2.2 billion in borrowing for schools, water and sewer projects and highways. About $600,000 of that is for the school projects. Most of the schools are classified as category five – those in worst condition – or category four buildings. But not all category five schools were funded, especially in districts represented by Republicans who voted against tax changes to fund the budget.

In the end, conferees from both chambers will gather to cobble together some sort of compromise budget.

SCHOOLS

Boyd County High School, $4.75 million

Caverna School (Barren County), $1 million

Elliott County High School/Lakeside, $2.1 million

Clark County Schools, $12.1 million

Floyd County Elementary re-organization, $14 million

Floyd County Vocational Education Building, $4 million

Wheelwright Gymnasium (Floyd County), $1.2 million

Glasgow High School, $5.8 million

Hart County High School, $23.1 million

Louisa West Elementary, $4 million

Madison County Model Laboratory School, $30 million

Knox County – Dewitt Elementary, $11 million

Worthington Elementary (Raceland, Greenup County), $2.3 million

Robertson County – Deming Elementary-High School, $2.3 million

Russell High School (Greenup County), $8.4 million

Russell Middle School, $8.3 million

MISCELLANEOUS PROJECTS

Western Kentucky University, Science Complex Phase III, $9 million

Licking Valley Campus-Maysville Community College, $5 million

WATER/SEWER

BARREN COUNTY

Caveland Environmental Authority, Cave City water lines, $600,000

Glasgow, waste water treatment plant improvements, $1.5 million

BOYD COUNTY

Cannonsburg Water District, line improvements, extension, $500,000

Ashland, Roberts Drive pump station, $2 million

CARTER COUNTY

Grayson Keyhole water line extension to Greenup County, $110,000

ELLIOT COUNTY

Sandy Hook Water District, system improvement, line extension, $450,000

ESTILL COUNTY

Irvine Municipal Utilities, waste water plant, $500,000

FLOYD COUNTY

7 projects totaling more than $2.3 million

GREENUP COUNTY

Flatwoods, line upgrades, $400,000

Flatwoods, Indian Road water tank, $585,000

Raceland, Cherokee Road sewer extension, $102,000

Raceland, Rogers Avenue upgrade, $20,000

Russell, water tank, $350,000

Russell, filter backwash project, $25,000

Russell, Russell Heights sewer, $600,000

Worthington, water treatment plant upgrade, $150,000

Wurtland, sewer upgrades, $150,000

KNOX COUNTY

Fiscal Court, water system extension at Stinking Creek, $2 million

LAWRENCE COUNTY

Louisa water storage tank, $300,000

Lawrence County Fiscal Court, sewer improvements, $500,000

MADISON COUNTY

North Madison Co. Sanitation District, Ft. Boonesboro, $1.3 million

South Madison Co. Sanitation District, Scaffold Lane extension, $3 million

MARTIN COUNTY

Warfield sewer project, $800,000

ROBERTSON COUNTY

Mt. Olivet Water Tank, $300,000

ROWAN COUNTY

Water system improvement, line extension, $500,000

RONNIE ELLIS writes for CNHI News Service and is based in Frankfort. Reach him at rellis@cnhi.com. Follow CNHI News Service stories on Twitter at www.twitter.com/cnhifrankfort.

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