Christian County Fiscal Court unanimously approved the recommended 2023-24 Kentucky Transportation Cabinet rural and secondary road plan Tuesday morning — which this year includes two imperative updates.
Charlotte Cotton, KYTC section engineer for Christian and Caldwell counties, listed the two sought projects as follows:
— KY 398 from the junction of KY 1348 to KY 109, which goes along the Pennyrile Forest State Park. Cotton said it spans a little more than three miles, and will cost a little more than $380,000.
— And then there’s KY 1663, from KY 1026 to KY 1349. It’s a little over two miles, at a cost of more than $225,000.
Cotton also delivered a key option for rural/secondary flex funds, which this year come to more than $380,000.
It’s KYTC’s estimation and observation that KY 1296, better known as Empire Road, needs work. Three miles of it, from KY 109 to mile-point 3, would run just above $370,000.
With so many new faces on the fiscal court, Cotton took time explaining just how flex funds operate.
District 8 Magistrate John Bruce noted those flex funds might be more beneficial for Antioch Church Road, but Cotton affirmed the needed repairs there have to come from a different allotment — since it’s officially a supplemental roadway.
As a provision to the motion, magistrates agreed to table the flex funding until appropriate road committees could review Christian County’s needs prior to the July 1 activation of the new fiscal year.
