In the shadow of 2024’s General Election, the Trigg County Fiscal Court made several quick measures in favor of the Trigg County Clerk’s Office Monday night — setting things in order for the next business calendar.
Among them, and at the request of County Clerk Carmen Finley, were:
+ A $6.46 million budget for 2025
+ $300,000 salaries and wages for assistants and clerk deputies
+ And $14,000 for costs toward election poll workers and their locations
Per Finley, this was an identical ask in comparison to last year’s budget, meaning there was an unchanged ledger from year to year.
Finley called Trigg County’s early voting turnout “remarkable,” but six expected poll workers had to drop out at the last minute.
Furthermore, later this week, Trigg County will join the other 119 clerk’s offices as part of a hand-to-eye count and audit of a voting machine — part of new legislation from the Kentucky General Assembly and in accordance with Secretary of State Michael Adams. As part of a checks-and-balances system, Finley noted theirs will occur at 9 AM Thursday morning in the Fiscal Court chambers.
The public is allowed to attend, and the effort will be recorded on camera.
In other court news:
— Magistrates unanimously approved the purchase of a 2024 Freightliner Grapple Truck, to be used not just in perpetuity, but also with continued debris cleanup following the Memorial Day Weekend storms. Judge-Executive Stan Humphries said the court’s transportation committee decided that eventual reimbursements from FEMA would best be served on a new vehicle, as opposed to the purchase of a used one, and that they could receive a new vehicle faster than previously anticipated, and at a good contract price near $200,000.
— Humphries confirmed that 24 county roads have been submitted to the state level for “flex funding” approval, and magistrates approved a flex agreement for rural secondary funding valued just above $381,000.
— Humphries also confirmed that both the Trigg County Recreation Complex concession stand, as well as the Trigg County Rescue Building, remain as major projects for the court, and that fittingly, a major emergency training and first responder session took place late Monday night at the old Cee Bee parking lot and West Cadiz Park.
