Todd Fiscal Court accepted a bid Friday morning to purchase new voting machines and approved final reading of an ordinance keeping the property tax rate the same.
They will pay Harp Enterprises $169,000 for new machines at all 13 precincts in nine voting locations and the state will reimburse the county for a portion of those costs—though the exact amount of that reimbursement isn’t yet known.
The Todd County Board of Elections had considered making all nine locations universal voting hubs where any Todd County resident could vote at any precinct, but County Clerk Cindy O’Bryan says they ultimately decided to maintain the traditional structure for elections to reduce confusion and opportunities for error.
Magistrates accepted the bid and the new machines with exclusively paper ballots should be ready for the 2022 primary election. It’s expected they’ll be in use for 10 to 15 years.
Todd County has received grant money to install a new tornado siren on the south side of Elkton near the high school and it’s applying for an additional grant to install new sirens near the two elementary schools and possibly near Novelis.
Todd County Emergency Management is getting a hand-me-down 2012 Dodge Ram pickup that Kentucky Emergency Management is no longer using and Director Daniel Smith says it comes at no cost and will be purposed as a Haz Mat cleanup automobile.
Judge-Executive Todd Mansfield says several county employees have become ill with COVID-19 over the last few weeks and encouraged everyone in the community to get vaccinated—noting there’s no denying the data shows the shots are effective.
Magistrates unanimously voted to keep the rate on real property where it’s been the last several years—at 9.9 cents per $100 of assessed value.