Trigg County Fiscal Court members heard an update from Trigg County Hospital during their meeting Tuesday evening.
Hospital CEO John Sumner described the $1.5 million holdbacks in 2017 and the $1.5 million payback in 2018 from Medicare. He says they are looking into what could occur this year.
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When asked by community member Sue Eggleston how much money the hospital has received from the $1.5 million generated by the tax increase approved last year. Sumner says they have received $800,000, with another $250,000 expected soon.
In other business, court members heard a rural secondary road recommendation from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Michael Oliver says the county will receive over $1.3 million dollars to repave roads within the county.
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The first recommendation made by Oliver is the maintenance of over 100 miles of county roads.
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Several road improvement recommendations were made, these roads would see total repaving. Those sections of roads include Highway 272 from Kings Chapel Road to the Christian County line, Highway 164 from Linton-County Road to Rock Front Loop, and Highway 164 from Old Dover Road to Highway 139.Oliver adds road recommendations made by the department last year, will get paved before June 30 this year. Those include three sections of road on Highway 525, two sections of Highway 274, and Highway 126 from Church Street to Highway 124.
Three bridges in the county will see a bridge deck retrofit waterproofing done on them this year. Those include a bridge on Highway 164, Highway 778, and Highway 126. Oliver says the bridge on Highway 139 just south of the Highway 272 intersection will see a major renovation in mid-March.
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The Highway 139 bridge project will take up to 60 days to complete, during that time the roadway near the bridge will be closed to allow for the renovation. Two other bridges could see total renovations with the program later this fall. Those would include bridges on Hall Cemetery Road and County Road 1196. Three bridges will see the same renovations in the next few years, those include one on Ed Mitchell Road, Highway 807 over Donaldson Creek, and Buffalo Road over Stillhouse Branch Creek.
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