7-17-13 — County employees will receive a cost-of-living pay increase, following action taken by fiscal court during their meeting on Thursday, July 11.

Magistrates approved a 21 cents per hour pay increase for all county employees.

The raise, which was included in the county's budget for the next fiscal year, will take effect with the next pay period.

Also during the meeting, magistrates were informed by Wayne County EMS Director Bubby Corder that the ambulance service has been awarded a $41,524 hazard mitigation grant.

The grant will be used to purchase a 100KW generator for use at the EMS building.

In other action, the court:

• Approved the adoption of a 2,300 foot extension of the Bates Cemetery Road into the county road system.

• Approved transferring $20,000 from the homeland security fund to the general fund, the transfer of $50,000 from the general fund to the jail fund, and the transfer of $6,000 from the general fund to the LGEA fund.

• Heard a monthly report from Wayne County Jailer Ray Upchurch who noted that the current population at the detention center totals 127 inmates.

The county has billed a total of $86,185 for housing inmates during the month of June.



• Heard a monthly report from Solid Waste Coordinator Tim Bell, who noted that white goods had been collected at 65 households during the month of June, bringing the total for the year to 415.

Recycling sales for the month totaled $5,175.61.

• Heard a monthly report from Corder who noted that the ambulance service answered a total of 311 calls in the month of June, bringing the total for the year to 1,895.

Corder also stated that the ambulance service was inspected by the Kentucky Board of EMS on June 25 and the service passed with zero deficiencies.