By HEATHER PYLES, CJ Staff Writer
The Lake Cumberland Regional Airport is one step closer to receiving a new fuel tank after the county agreed to match a grant for a little over a thousand dollars to go toward the new addition.
During Tuesday’s Pulaski County Fiscal Court meeting, airport manager Ron Swartz asked Pulaski County Judge-executive Barty Bullock and the magistrates to match a $1,734 federal grant.
That number is part of a total $72,803 grant presented to the airport from the Federal Aviation Association, which hands down a grant to the airport annually.
“Usually, this grant goes toward any small project,” Swartz said. “This is specifically for a jet fuel tank.”
The court approved matching the grant.
An amendment to the scattered site housing bill was also passed Tuesday as part of a program to allow the reconstruction and rehabilitation of homes for lower-income families and individuals in the county. The amendment comes in the contract for professional services between Kriss Lowery & Associates, Inc., which has assisted the county in receiving the funds.
The county received $240,000 in supplemental funding in October 2008, which came through the Kentucky Housing Corporation’s 2008-2009 GAP Financing Pool, after it received the initial $1 million grant for the project. The amendment states that the county will agree to pay five percent of the approved GAP Financing Pool funds per house for the administration of the funds.
That language was not present at first in the contract, which was created before the county received those supplemental funds.
A scattered site housing project is voluntary in nature, and only people who have owned their home for at least half a year are able to apply for the homeowner rehabilitation.
In other fiscal court business:
• The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department announced it would begin the process for bidding for an Avionics radio system again after a bid for the system did not go through due to time constraints.
• The court approved reappointing Kathy Price and appointing Marlene Haney to the Pulaski County Extension Board for three-year terms.
• The fiscal court also opened bids on a Class A pumper for the Nancy Fire Department.
Windfire Equipment, LLC offered a bid of $210,360 for the pumper.
Emergency Vehicle Solutions offered a bid of $275,728 for a CAT 1,500 or $214,106 for an M2TDPM.
The bidding will be awarded at the next meeting.
• The county’s bill list was presented by County Treasurer Arlene Young and was approved.
• The county finance report for January 2009 was presented by Young and approved.
• The court approved a funding transfer of $515,000 from the county’s general fund into three other funding areas. $350,000 was approved to be transferred to the county road fund, $100,000 was approved to be moved to the county fire fund and $65,000 was approved to be transferred to the county LGEA fund.
• Bullock said he received several calls about a bridge in need of replacement on Lower Line Creek Road in far northeastern Pulaski County. Bullock said the low-water bridge has become a danger to drivers, especially in flood conditions, and he said he knew of one recent incident in which one vehicle was swept off the roadway and into the creek.
The bridge replacement will cost an estimated $76,788.65, and the court agreed to look into emergency state funding for the bridge.
• The court approved a rock request of 1,000 tons from the county road department.
• Third-District Magistrate Tommy Barnett asked that the court seek an estimate for oil costs should the county wish to chip and seal all county gravel roads. A cost estimate will be presented at the next meeting.
