Barren County creates boards for opioid funds, ag expo center
Judge/Executive Jamie Byrd said she plans to bring nominations for the boards at an upcoming meeting.
GLASGOW, Ky. — Barren County officials on Tuesday established two new boards, one focused on distributing opioid settlement money and another tasked with overseeing a future agriculture exposition center in Cave City.
The Barren Fiscal Court on Tuesday approved ordinances establishing the Barren County Opioid Committee and the Barren County Agriculture Exposition Board.
The opioid committee will be responsible for making recommendations on how the county spends money it receives through opioid settlement funds. The committee will include the county judge/executive, sheriff, jailer, county attorney, two magistrates and one citizen-at-large.
Allyson Dix
Judge/Executive Jamie Byrd said she plans to bring nominations for the magistrate and citizen positions to the fiscal court at its June 16 meeting.
“We’ll hopefully be able to do some really good things with that,” Byrd said.
Byrd said the committee is expected to review requests and distribute funding once each year. An application will be included in the process, she said.
Brennan Crain
The fiscal court also established the Barren County Agriculture Exposition Board, a nonprofit organization that will oversee operations of the planned regional agriculture exposition center in Cave City.
The facility is being developed adjacent to the Cave Area Conference Center.
According to Byrd, the board will hire a director to manage the facility's day-to-day operations and report directly to the board.
The board will consist of three representatives appointed by the Barren Fiscal Court, one representative from the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service in Barren County, two representatives from Cave City and one representative appointed by the Hart County Fiscal Court.
