On a cold, clear Tuesday night, just after Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Trigg County Fiscal Court met in special session — bringing forth a pair of important conversations to the table.
The first: a concern by Magistrate Barry Littlejohn, in which constituents of his district are still curious about the fiber internet buildout coming from Pennyrile Electric and Hopkinsville Electric Systems.
Judge-Executive Stan Humphries noted that while the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment, or BEAD, Program has recently brought more cash to the state of Kentucky, but those allotments and funding angles have yet to be clarified, nor delivered.
Currently, lobbying is the phase in which Trigg County sits.
The second: the up-and-coming March 29 two-year anniversary of the two HH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crash.
Set to meet again at 6 PM February 11 in the fiscal court’s chambers, Humphries confirmed the Veterans Memorial Committee still has strong plans in place for a day-of reveal of the project’s first phase, and stones have been ordered.
The tough part right now, he said, has been awful weather — as wet, rainy conditions have since been followed with frigid, cold temperatures, thus delaying some needed groundskeeping.
However, everything still remains on schedule.
In other court news:
— Humphries also noted that the county’s road department has been “very busy” since the start of the new year, and advised magistrates to not be surprised with large overtime costs due to weather.
— Trigg County’s Building & Grounds Committee is once again seeking bids for the Trigg County Recreation Complex concession stand remodel and rebuild. Advertisements have gone out, and will run the next two weeks, before any returns are handled by President’s Day in mid-February.
