Christian Fiscal Court voted to keep its mostly self-insured health insurance program at its first meeting of May and heard an update on the county’s budget-making process.
Judge-Executive Jerry Gilliam says he’ll give a budget address separate from a fiscal court meeting at 10 a.m. Monday, May 22 at the courthouse.
The reapportionment of magisterial districts has been delayed because of the pandemic, but Judge Gilliam says he’ll be appointing commissioners to serve and work with Community Development Services in the next few months to look over the data and make any changes that are needed.
Mack Major of Higgins Insurance is the county’s insurance agent and says after reviewing all of the information, he and the insurance committee decided it remains much more affordable to maintain the county’s self-insured structure for health coverage and to retain Anthem as its plan administrator.
Magistrates accepted the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet recommendations for repaving of rural and secondary roads in the coming year. They include resurfacing about three miles of Bainbridge Road extending south from Dawson Springs Road and resurfacing just over two miles of Buffalo Road eastward from the intersection with KY 1026.
In other action, court approved designating about $22,000 to the Ambulance Board for the Hopkinsville Fire Department to use toward purchasing equipment for each ambulance that allows them to be tracked by ECC, no matter where in the county they may be.