CATLETTSBURG The Boyd County Fiscal Court nearly doubled its budget for the next year, thanks to infusions from the coronavirus aid package passed by Congress.
CATLETTSBURG The Boyd County Fiscal Court unanimously passed a multi-million dollar bond to be used for parks improvement, the farmerâs market, the convention center, the animal shelter and a mysterious economic development project the Judge-Executive touted as a game changer.
While the exact figure on the bond is still being âdialed-in,â Judge-Executive Eric Chaney said it is somewhere in the neighborhood of $11 million.
At the beginning of the year, the fiscal proposals during a work session to improve Armco Park, construct a building for the farmerâs market and move the animal shelter up by the dog park â the bond, which is a refinancing of a preexisting bond, will go towards those proposals, Chaney said.
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The court took up a litany of issues, from animal control to alcohol licensing to surplus items.
Curiously, the bond refinancing â which was first read at last monthâs meeting â was left off the agenda. Boyd County Judge-Executive Eric Chaney told Commissioner Larry Brown the bond issue will be taken up for second reading on June 8.
 A second reading on the transient room tax ordinance that goes into refinancing a bond was also pushed off to the same date.
The Boyd County Fiscal Court took up the following actions Tuesday:
• Approved the sale of surplus items from the county roads department, including an excavator, some trailers, two dump trucks and a tractor. Chaney said they’ve been run hard over the years the tractor has between 2,500 to 3,000 work hours on it and will probably need a major overhaul. One trailer, which has a broken tongue, will be scrapped. Chaney said the equipment should be up for sale on govdeals.com, an online government equipment
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