Christian Fiscal Court voted to keep its flex funds for county road improvements during its first meeting of April, which was the final meeting for a woman involved in nearly every major grant-funded project in the area over the last decade.
Ashley Johnson has spent the last 10 years with the Pennyrile Area Development District as a community development specialist and recently accepted a sales representative position at Lake Barkley State Resort Park.
She says it’s been an honor to serve the communities of the nine-county Pennyrile region.
Johnson has been instrumental in making proposals become reality on dozens of projects in the region by guiding local governments through the grant application process and she says it’s been rewarding.
Meanwhile, magistrates chose not to allow the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to keep the county’s $217,000 in discretionary flex funds. The cabinet had suggested it could use that money to resurface an additional 2.4 miles of KY 117. State crews will use about $386,000 in Transportation Cabinet funds to resurface 4.4 miles of KY 117 from near Fort Campbell Boulevard to Palmyra Road.
In other action, Christian Fiscal Court approved recommendations from the E911 Advisory Board to go ahead with maintenance projects on the emergency communications systems.