A work session of Meade County Fiscal Court Tuesday (8/2) night drew heated debate but yet rendered some common ground between county leaders and the concerned citizens on the issue of ordinances related to abandoned property and nuisance property.
Currently, the county has no such ordinances in place after a vote by Fiscal court to remove the second previous ordinance from the books three months ago. Tuesday night’s meeting was moderated by Doctor Lori Garkovich, a professor of Community and Leadership Development from the University of Kentucky. She led the two hour discussion, which at times became heated as the public comments blurred and meshed the two different topics into one issue. Garkovich near the end of the meeting asked the approximately sixty citizens to write down their individual suggestions to solve the ongoing issue. She took notes as the conversation evolved and will take the written suggestions and integrate the information into a composite form and provide a beginning frame work of the process to achieve common ground for both sides of the issue.
County leaders hope to have a update of the information before next week’s 7 pm regular meeting of Fiscal Court on Tuesday (8/9), where another work session is expected to be scheduled.
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