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The Spencer County Fiscal Court took the first step to help with the cost of floodwall certification by unanimously approving the first reading of a lease ordinance designed to finance the project.
County Judge Executive Bill Karrer said he and Spencer County Flood Control and Drainage District No. 1 President Mike Driscoll went to the Kentucky Association of Counties to pitch the proposal to them. Karrer explained that KACO representatives suggested the lease option.

The Taylorsville City Commission approved a first reading of an ordinance to keep the salaries of the mayor and commissioners level and commissioner Ellen Redmon took issue with several current items facing the city during the commission’s regularly scheduled meeting April 1.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency will begin accepting requests for marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments for eligible 2014 commodities.  Notice of the authorization is published in the Federal Register.
 MALs and LDPs for the 2014 crop year become available to eligible producers beginning with harvest/shearing season and extending through a specific commodity’s final loan availability date.
Sugar commodity loans for 2014 crop will be available to sugar processors beginning Oct. 1, 2014.

Kentucky Press Service