2015 CEDS - Cumberland Valley Area Development District

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CUMBERLAND VALLEY
AREA DEVELOPMENT
DISTRICT
Bell, Clay, Harlan, Jackson, Knox, Laurel,
Rockcastle and Whitley County, Kentucky
PROGRESS KENTUCKY
Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
2015 Update
Cumberland Valley Area Development District
342 Old Whitley Road
PO Box 1740
London, Kentucky 40741
Phone: 606-864-7391
Fax: 606-878-7361
cvadd@cvadd.org
“Shaping the
Economy
Now and for
the Future”
Progress Kentucky
Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
2015 Update
Table of Contents
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
Executive Summary
Economic Analysis and SWOT
A.
Economic Background of the Region
1.
Economy
2.
Industrial Parks
3.
Education
4.
Workforce Development
5.
Transportation
6.
Infrastructure
7.
Technology
8.
Environment
B.
Economic Cluster Analysis
C.
Other Plans and Strategies
Action Plan
Economic Resilience
Evaluation/Performance Measures
APPENDICES
Appendix A:
Appendix B:
Appendix C:
Appendix D:
Appendix E:
Appendix F:
Appendix G:
Appendix H:
Appendix I:
Appendix J:
Appendix K:
Regional and County Strategic Project Listing
Industrial Park Maps
Educational Facilities Maps
CVADD Major Transportation Networks/Projects
County Water and Sewer Maps
CVADD Public Lands Map
Internet Website Directory
CVADD Staff Roster
CVADD Committee
CVADD CEDS Strategy Committee
Adopting Resolution of the CVADD Board of Directors
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Chapter I
Executive Summary
The Cumberland Valley Area Development District (CVADD) is comprised of eight counties in Southeastern
Kentucky containing eighteen municipalities. The CVADD is a local planning district authorized by Kentucky
Revised Statute, chapters 147A.050 - 147A.140, which is governed by a board of directors. The board consists
of local elected officials from each local government and citizen members from throughout the region. There
are various other boards and committees that have been established to address specific issues or to meet
requirements of a particular program. These committees and boards exist and operate under the direction of the
overall board of directors. Each of these committees and boards are utilized to provide input to the strategic
planning process with respect to their assigned responsibility and areas of expertise. Through this process and
organization, the CVADD Board of Directors serves as the Comprehensive Economic Development Committee
for the region.
Kentucky Progress is a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) that is the result of a regional
planning process designed to guide strategic program/planning development within each county and area of the
Cumberland Valley Area Development District (CVADD). The Comprehensive Economic Development
Strategy (CEDS) builds upon past and current initiatives of the District, as well as other planning processes, and
is intended to impact program policy and administration as it is formed and implemented. This planning
document serves as a tool to assist all federal, state and local financial and policy decisions being focused at the
local grassroots level. The planning process forges a unified mission across a broad spectrum of resources for
the common good of a single county or city, the region and Kentucky.
The Kentucky 2001, a strategic area development plan, was initiated in 1992 by the Kentucky Area
Development Districts to provide strategic program development to serve throughout the State of Kentucky.
The process was intended to build upon the past and current planning efforts of the fifteen area development
districts, which become the basis for a statewide development strategy for Kentucky. This planning process, as
it was formed and implemented, positively impacted program policy and administration both at the local and
state levels.
In June of 1993, after months of plan development, public meetings, and reviews that involved local public
officials and citizens, the first Kentucky 2001 planning document was officially adopted and recognized. Then,
beginning in 1994 and each year thereafter until 2002, each of the ADDs, through local input and involvement,
have developed updates to the Kentucky 2001 planning document for their respective region.
Commencing in 2002, through coordination by and between the Kentucky Department for Local Government
and the Economic Development Administration (EDA) of the United States Department of Commerce, the
ADDs embarked upon a similar planning process entitled “Progress Kentucky.” The intended goals of Progress
Kentucky reflect the objectives set forth in the CEDS model planning document.
The importance of strategic planning, as outlined in the CEDS document, becomes vital if not critical as federal,
state and local funds become stretched and more difficult to obtain. Through utilization of a professional staff
at the Cumberland Valley Area Development District working directly with all the stakeholders, regional
planning and development will be more cost effective, result in better utilization of resources and tax dollars
and assure greater benefit to every citizen within the District.
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CVADD Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
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Beginning with the 2002 CEDS document and subsequent updates, a series of strategies are set forth that
describe the goals that the CVADD intends to achieve. The CVADD Progress Kentucky 2012 CEDS Re-write
began a new five-year cycle of planning. The CVADD Progress Kentucky 2015 Update compliments and
updates the basic and fundamental policies of the Board of Directors as set forth in the initial Progress Kentucky
2002 CEDS planning document.
342 Old Whitley Road
London, Kentucky 40743
Mission Statement: The purpose of the Area Development District (ADD) is to improve the quality of life in
the Cumberland Valley by promoting economic development; through efforts to provide basic facilities
essential to the stimulation of business, manufacturing, services, tourism and commercial activities; and through
efforts promoting human resource development through efforts to improve health, welfare and education
systems within the eight county area; and through efforts providing a forum for elected officials and citizens to
reach a consensus and establish local-state-federal partnership to seek a coordinated solution to problems.
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Chapter II
Economic Analysis & SWOT
A. Economic Background of the Region
Historically population in the CVADD region has remained steady overall with the exception of the dip in 1970
which recovered in 1980. However, this is not the case when looking at individual counties within the region.
Bell and Harlan has dramatically decreased since 1950 while Laurel seems to have gained in population
significantly. According to recent population projections, in the next ten years, population will continue to
remain steady in the CVADD. Harlan County will continue to decrease in population, which is believed to be
due to their historically heavy reliance on coal production that is declining. Furthermore, population projections
show a decline in population in Bell, Clay, and Whitley County, although not significant. Jackson and
Rockcastle County have been projected to remain steady with only Laurel expecting to show significant growth.
Historical and Projected Populations
State/ADD/
County
Census
1950
Kentucky
CVADD
Bell
Clay
Harlan
Jackson
Knox
Laurel
Rockcastle
Whitley
2,944,806
257,641
47,602
23,116
71,751
13,101
30,409
25,797
13,925
31,940
Census
1960
3,038,156
206,176
35,336
20,748
51,107
10,677
25,258
24,901
12,334
25,815
Census
1970
Census
1980
Census
1990
3,218,706
187,468
31,087
18,481
37,370
10,005
23,689
27,386
12,305
24,145
3,660,777
227,557
34,330
22,752
41,889
11,996
30,239
38,982
13,973
33,396
3,685,296
223,024
31,506
21,746
36,574
11,955
29,676
43,438
14,803
33,326
Census
2000
4,041,769
238,270
30,060
24,556
33,202
13,495
31,795
52,715
16,582
35,865
Census
2010
Projection
2020
4,339,367
236,618
28,691
21,730
29,278
13,494
31,883
58,849
17,056
35,637
4,672,754
237,501
27,648
20,289
26,099
13,771
32,132
64,713
17,593
35,256
Source: KY State Data Center
As shown in the following chart population in Bell, Clay, Harlan and Whitley has declined over the last 10
years while Knox, Jackson, and Knox County remain steady with Laurel County showing growth. Overall, the
CVADD's population has remained steady over the last 10 years.
Source: KY State Data Center
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In 2010, a majority of the population age was between 25 to 64 years old in the Cumberland Valley Area
Development District overall. The majority of preschool age children (0 to 4 years) and school age children (5
to 17 years) are in Laurel and Whitley counties. College age adults (18 to 24 years) are located in Laurel,
Whitley, and Knox counties. Laurel County has a significant number of young adults (25 to 44 years) with 15,
879 with Whitley, Knox, Bell, and Harlan having just half of that population. Older adults (45 to 64 years) are
also highly populated in Laurel County with 16,280 and half of that located in Bell, Harlan, Knox, and Whitley
counties. The population for those 65 years and older are concentrated in Laurel County, as well as Bell,
Harlan, Knox, and Whitley counties. The overall median age for the Cumberland Valley ADD was 39 years
old.
Source: American Factfinder
Delineated in the following program categories are the significant changes and note-worthy information relating
to the Kentucky Progress 2015 CEDS Update.
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1. Economy
The area’s economy is witnessing an unprecedented recession. Unemployment rates have been at an all time
high over the last several years. According to August 2015 data, the Cumberland Valley area has an
unemployment rate of 7.2% as compared to the state unemployment rate of 4.9%. Each county in the CVADD
continues to have above average unemployment rates with Harlan having the second highest rate in the state at
11.1% and Clay following close behind at 9.5%.
Source: Kentucky Labor Market Information
These unemployment issues are a direct result of the many closings of businesses in the area and the decline in
the mining industry, which has been a determinate in the health of the area since the turn of the twentieth
century. With the decline in employment opportunities, there has been much out-migration of population in
search of employment.
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In the Cumberland Valley Area Development District, the Median Household Income increased slightly from
$21,245 to $28,418. Individual counties increased between 28.49% and 52.71%. The largest increase occurred
in Harlan County. The lowest increase was surprisingly in the most populated county of Laurel County with
28.49%. Overall, the median income was over $25,000 for all counties.
Source: StatsAmerica.org, Counties in Profile, 2010 US Census
The CVADD has seen an increase overall in the percent of persons living in poverty. From 2000 to 2010, there
was an increase of over 6% in Harlan, Jackson, Knox, and Laurel County. Over 20% of the population in each
of the CVADD counties is considered in poverty. The following table shows the percent of poverty from 2000
to 2010 for each county in the CVADD region
Source: StatsAmerica.org, Counties in Profile, 2010 US Census
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Tourism groups continued to extensively focus on the promotion of the area’s national, state and local parks and
other recreational opportunities. Growth in tourism in the area has been encouraged by the promotion of such
attractions as the Lynch Demonstration Mine Tour, the Benham Coal Mine Museum, Kentucky Music Hall of
Fame and Museum at Renfro Valley, the Kentucky Splash Water Park in Williamsburg, the Barbourville Water
Park, the wild and scenic portions of the Rockcastle River and the Wasioto Winds State Golf Course at
Pineville, as well as many local festivals and fairs, and other recreational activities. There continues to be
extraordinary growth and support for ATV and other trail opportunities. The City of Livingston, City of
London and City of Manchester have received a "Trail Town" designation and continues to lead the way as
many other cities strive toward this goal. In addition, historic preservation has also been a focal point,
particularly as cities concentrate on the restoration of historic properties in order to revitalize the downtown
area.
There has been a major focus on the agriculture sector of the Kentucky economy, particularly in Eastern
Kentucky. This shift has been due to the tremendous loss of coal and coal related jobs throughout the region
over the last several years. Appalachia is noted to have extraordinary potential in agriculture, food production,
and agritourism.
These assets are being highlighted in the "Appalachian Proud"
http://www.appalachiaproudky.com/ and the "Kentucky Agriculture Development Information Center"
http://kadisonline.org/ initiatives.
Strengths
 Unity among the counties through the organization of regional industrial authorities
 Regional tourism efforts being conducted through SEKY organization
 Regional arena to host events and concerts
 Lower cost of living in region as compared to others in Kentucky
 Adventure Tourism provides a destination and economic development to those outside of the region
Weaknesses
 Lack of a research university
 Lack of broadband and wireless service in region
 Lack of public transportation
Opportunities
 Local elected officials have a greater regional mindset
 Forestry resources enable a secondary wood industry
 Local efforts to allow alcohol sales have helped tax revenue and jobs opportunities
 Alternative forms of energy are emerging
Threats
 Lack of communication and coordination among economic development
 Idea that development success is measured only in number of jobs produced
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2.
Industrial Parks
The Cumberland Valley region is served by numerous industrial parks, from individual county parks to superregional industrial parks that span several hundred acres. These industrial parks have allowed for the attraction
of many business and manufacturing firms that have spurred the region forward in economic growth. In
addition, local industrial authorities have implemented strategies to further spur economic development and
business location through continued industrial park development, including construction of a speculative
building.
There are four regional industrial parks that serve the Cumberland Valley region. The Southeast Kentucky
Regional Business Park, a 479.9 acre park owned by the Southeast Kentucky Regional Industrial Development
Authority, is located southeast of Corbin, in Knox County and is approximately 3 miles from Interstate 75. The
Park serves Bell, Clay, Knox, Laurel, McCreary and Whitley counties, and is governed by a board consisting of
members representing these counties. Elk Hill Regional Park is located in eastern Clay County, approximately
5 miles southeast of Manchester. The Park, owned by the Elk Hill Regional Industrial Authority, contains
313.3 acres. It is served by U.S. HWY 421/KY 80 and the Hal Rogers Parkway is approximately one mile
south. Primarily serving Harlan County, the Coal Fields Regional Industrial Park, is located 10.7 miles
northwest of Hazard via KY 15 in Perry County. The Park contains 235.9 acres. The Park is approximately 11
miles from the Hal Rogers Parkway and KY 80. The Park is owned by the Perry, Harlan, Leslie, Breathitt, and
Knott Regional Industrial Development Authority, and is governed by members representing those Counties.
Additionally, the Pine Mountain Regional Industrial Park, located off U.S. 119. The park, owned by the Pine
Mountain Regional Industrial Development Authority, will consist of 663.6 acres, with an additional 250 acres
available for an airport. The Park serves Bell, Harlan, Knox, Letcher and Whitley Counties, and is governed by
a five member board representing these counties.
Bell County is home to two industrial sites. Whitimer Industrial Park, is located within the city of
Middlesboro, just off KY-74 with railroad access. The Park, owned by the Bell County Industrial Foundation,
contains 22.4 acres. It is located less than one mile from U.S. 25E and approximately 48 miles from I-75. Bell
County Technology and Training Park, located in the city of Middlesboro just off KY-441 near Southeast
Community College. The park contains 13.0 acres.
Clay County is home to Elk Hill Regional Park, located approximately 5 miles southeast of Manchester. The
Park, owned by the Elk Hill Regional Industrial Authority, contains 313.3 acres. Hal Rogers Parkway is
approximately 8.4 miles northwest via US-421/KY-80 from the Park.
Jackson County is served by the Jackson County Regional Industrial Park located just off KY-30, northeast of
Annville. The park, owned by the Jackson County-McKee Industrial Authority, contains 41.0 acres. The park
is 25 miles from the I-75 interchange.
In addition to the Southeast Kentucky Regional Business Park, Knox County is home to two additional
industrial parks. The Barbourville Industrial Site 121-001 is located within the southern city limits of
Barbourville. The site, owned by the City of Barbourville and the Barbourville Utility Commission, contains
137.3 acres. The site is located approximately 1.0 mile from US 25E and 18.5 miles from the I-75 interchange.
Also available is the Corbin Tri-County Industrial Park, located approximately one mile east of Corbin. The
Park, owned by the Corbin Tri-County Joint Industrial Authority, contains 186.0 acres. The Park is
approximately 3.0 miles from the I-75 interchange.
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Laurel County contains three industrial sites. The London-Laurel County Industrial Park is located
approximately 3 miles west of London. The Park, owned by the London/Laurel County Industrial Development
Authority, contains 36.2 acres. The Park is accessible via KY 80, and is approximately 5 miles from the I-75
interchange. The Dennis Karr Airpark, owned by the London/Laurel Industrial Development Authority, is
located within the city limits of London and contains 24.1 acres. The site is adjacent to KY-1006 and US-25,
and approximately 3.6 miles from the I-75 interchange and Hal Rogers Parkway. The Fariston Industrial Park
is owned by the London/Laurel County Industrial Development Authority and contains 96.8 acres. The park is
located off US 25, approximately 6 miles from I-75.
Rockcastle County is served by Rockcastle Industrial Park South, which is located approximately 2,000 feet
southwest of Mount Vernon city limits. The Park, owned by the Rockcastle County Industrial Development
Authority, contains 90.4 acres. The Park is approximately 4.2 miles from the I-75 interchange.
Whitley County is served by the Corbin Tri-County Industrial Park, which is located approximately one mile
east of Corbin. The Park, owned by the Corbin Tri-County Joint Industrial Authority, contains 186.0 acres. The
Park is approximately 3.0 miles from the I-75 interchange.
See Appendix B for Industrial Park Maps.
www.thinkkentucky.com
Additional information on individual parks can be found at
Strengths
 Region has the lowest electrical rates in United States
 Abundant natural gas is available
 Industrial clusters
 Close proximity to major highway routes including I-75, Hal Rogers Parkway, Cumberland Parkway,
and US-25
Weaknesses
 Continue need for infrastructure in some areas
 Lack of broadband access and wireless service
Opportunities
 Secondary wood industry may be expanded
 Increase in manufacturing facilities in region
Threats
 Competition to market other areas of the state
 No funds to market available sites
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3.
Education
Education remains a primary focus in the area. There are 104 public/private elementary and high schools that
provide educational services to the youth in the area. With the No Child Left Behind Act, schools are striving
to implement goals and strategies to ensure accountability, attain proficiency and increase graduation rates. In
fact, of the high schools in the area, nearly all have significantly increased the rate of graduation and successful
transition after high school. As well, higher education facilities include six technical centers and nine
universities/colleges.
Source: StatsAmerica.org
The region has made great strides in the improvement of education attainment but still must continue to
improve. During 2010 it was reported that the population age 25 years and older, that there was 26,374 students
that have attained less than 9th grade education in the CVADD region. Over 59,000 students graduated from
high school or obtained an equivalent diploma, as well as, 24,962 students that obtained a college degree. See
Appendix C for Educational Facilities Maps.
Strengths
 Region has six technical centers and nine universities/colleges
 Region has improving rate of number of students with a college degree
Weaknesses
 High unemployment rates
 No research and development activities in region
 Below the state average in Bachelor Degrees
 Low high school graduation rate amongst the region
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Opportunities
 State educational goals encourage regional efforts
 Employment in healthcare increasing
 Education, economic development, and employers are working together in new ways
 Develop youth leadership programs to help in community development efforts
Threats
 Many employers do not require college degree in region
 Migrant workers are under-educated
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4.
Workforce Development
The Job Training Partnership Act continues to be actively administered in the Cumberland Valley area by the
Cumberland Service Area and Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program. These agencies support
the One-Stop Career Center concept which strategically places centers where services are more accessible to job
seekers and employers. This collaboration creates a seamless system of service delivery that improves longterm employment outcomes for individuals receiving assistance.
Kentucky Career Centers are staffed with full-time professional staff and offer customers with access to
computers and internet to assist them with their career search needs such as:
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Using Focus|Career™ customers may go online, create and post their resume for employers hiring.
https://kylmi.ky.gov/vosnet/Default.aspx access to labor market data for high demand, high wage
occupations within a specific geographic location.
Each Kentucky Career Center location also provides several career based workshops; aimed at preparing job
seekers with the skills they need to successfully secure gainful employment including:
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Resume Preparation
Job searching and networking
Referrals to partner services for career readiness preparation, GED, Basic Skills training
Career Readiness Assessments – Assessment based credentialing, based on ACT Work key’s that give
employers a measure of your basic workplace skills.
There is an opportunity for many different types of training including worker training, on-the-job training, work
experience, apprenticeships, and Individual Training Accounts. Training is usually offered through community
and technical colleges, universities, private for-profit organizations and businesses. Through a variety of
training programs, WIA helps eligible individuals find self-sustaining employment WIA eligibility standards
include age, income level, education and skills, and work circumstances. Some programs are designed
especially for youth who are between 14 and 21 and have very limited income. Other programs are designed for
adults 18 years of age and older.
The Career Center offers all employers the ability to be in control of their recruitment and hiring needs. By
simply clicking the link Focus|Talent™ employers may create their own free accounts, giving them access to
post their openings, view resumes of potential applicants, and take advantage of intelligent software that rates
the skills of potential applicants, further allowing you to select the best possible candidates for interview. Other
services employer will find with the Kentucky Career Centers are:
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Customized Job Fairs, both small and large
Screening and recruitment services
Labor market data that show hiring trends by occupation, wage and data, and education data
Trained Rapid Response Teams to assist businesses and their employees of what services are available
in the event of a business closure or shutdown
Dedicated business service representatives to help employers customize all their business needs
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Strengths
 Region has multiple technical centers and college systems
 Unity in community for job development
 Accessibility to work from home opportunities through Kentucky Teleworks
 Entrepreneurship has grown over the last few years
Weaknesses
 Low educational attainment of the workforce
 Lower median income in region to attract employees
 Lack of internet access
Opportunities
 Diversity in the workforce
 New companies are emerging in the region
 Large major freight users have emerged in region, providing new opportunities
 Support efforts to maximize economic benefits in heritage tourism, as well as craft industry in area.
 Training opportunities through universities and technical colleges to gain stronger workforce skills
Threats
 Loss of jobs in mining and manufacturing
 Construction jobs have decreased as housing market slowed down
 Global economy negatively impacting manufacturing jobs
5.
Transportation
The CVADD transportation system continues to improve and expand through the implementation of significant
transportation projects aimed at increasing the overall efficiency of the system and enhancing the safety of the
District’s transportation infrastructure. The vast array of projects currently ongoing in the CVADD include
improvements to federal, state and local facilities accommodating all modes of transportation. Upon successful
completion of these projects, the CVADD will be prepared to accommodate future growth and development to
ensure a viable economic future and dramatically improve the quality of life for residents of the region.
There is one significant roadway projects in the CVADD that are associated with the federal interstate system.
Construction of the expansion of Interstate 75 from Lexington to the Kentucky/Tennessee state line continues to
progress in Rockcastle and Whitley Counties.
Currently low cost safety improvements have been the focus for the region’s roadways providing a safer more
reliable means of transportation. Through the data collection process the Roadway Departure Safety
Improvement Plan has identified 4,500 sections of highways throughout Kentucky that are being considered for
the installation of safety countermeasures. Studies have shown that small safety improvements cannot only
reduce the number of crashes but provide an economic savings that are associated with accidents. Funding for
the identified projects is expected within the next five years.
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Kentucky’s 2014 Highway Plan was approved by the Kentucky General Assembly during the 2014 session.
The 2014 Highway Plan outlines scheduled project phases for FY 2014 through FY2020. The federal and state
highway projects throughout the CVADD that are scheduled for a particular phase of implementation in FY
2014 are located in Appendix D as well as CVADD Major Transportation Networks.
Strengths
 Regional transportation services by RTEC and Daniel Boone Council
 Improved safety for bridges and overpasses
 Regional transportation committee evaluates projects to be on state highway plan
 Five rail yards in region operating to carry freight
 Four airports currently serve the region
Weaknesses
 Several counties do not have direct access to Hal Rogers Parkway or I-75
 Several counties do not have airport
 Need for more pedestrian facilities (sidewalks) and multi-use paths
Opportunities
 Improved safety on rural roads
 I-75 widening project
 Boone Trace Project
 Assistance with Sign Retroreflectivity federal requirements
 Appalachian Development Highway System (ADHS) received funding and support at the federal level
with MAP-21 Federal Highway Bill.
Threats
 Timeline for road project completion
 Decrease in funding for transportation enhancements and Safe Routes to School
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6.
Infrastructure
Although the objectives, strategies and impediments concerning area infrastructure remain largely unchanged,
many of the sewer and water infrastructure projects identified during the CEDS process are becoming a reality.
Projects initiated through strategic planning by the District’s local leaders have continued to make great strides
in achieving the state’s goal of making safe and suitable drinking water available to every household in
Kentucky by the year 2020. Furthermore, the availability of municipal sewer systems is increasing due to
service extension to surrounding rural areas. However, with the emphasis being placed on planning by and
through the region’s water resource management council, identifying old lines and areas of undersized lines has
continued to be an important issue relating to drought management, loss of resource and overall quality of
service.
Several miles of water lines and sewer line extensions, as well as plant upgrades were completed in the District
during the past year. Overall, the results have increased the opportunities for rural residents to have a better
quality of life with improved quality of service for existing customers. On average, approximately 97% of the
residences have access to public water with approximately 33% connected to public sewage treatment facilities
as a result of continued rural service line extensions. See Appendix E for County Water and Sewer Maps.
Strengths
 Abundant water supply in region
 Abundant natural gas in region
 Local officials work to solve regional infrastructure problems
 Adequate infrastructure for job creation
Weaknesses
 Lack of funding for major projects
 User rates not keeping up with rising costs
Opportunities
 CVADD Water Management Council plans for future water and sewer needs for region
 Encourage planning, design, and construction practices that improve energy efficiency
 Merging systems for economy of scale and efficiency
Threats
 Reduced financial resources
 Rural population decline in some counties
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Technology
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
The CVADD Geographic Information Systems (GIS) department is currently working on mapping contracts
for, but not limited to: Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) and Kentucky Infrastructure Authority (KIA).
The GIS department maintains local Kentucky Infrastructure Authority (KIA) water, wastewater, recreational
and homeland security data. CVADD also GPS's and maintains road centerlines for the Kentucky
Transportation Cabinet (KYTC), CVADD helps counties with E911 address ranging in addition to its
involvement in numerous local development projects.
CVADD has partnered with the U.S. Economic Development Administration, Kentucky Department of
Agriculture, Governor’s Office of Agriculture Policy, and Kentucky Agricultural Council and the other 14
Kentucky’s Area Development Districts to launch the Kentucky Agricultural Development Information
System (KADIS). KADIS will become the state’s first interactive agricultural asset map, designed to identify
agricultural trends within the state, plan for disaster mitigation, and drive economic development efforts.
The GIS department recently assisted several counties within the district with reapportionment mapping based
on 2010 census population changes. The GIS department maintains a comprehensive list of GIS data to aid
cities and counties in strategic planning and design, and assist with updates to the region’s Hazard Mitigation
Plan.
In addition to current state and local contracts, CVADD GIS Department offers customized data collection
utilizing GPS as well as other mapping services for local entities including local governments, emergency
services, planning commissions, schools, utility companies, private industries and public services. The
department maintains an array of spatial databases including local, state, national and global statistics and
imagery. This information can be produced in the form of charts, graphs and maps (digital and hardcopy).
The GIS department can prepare, design and publish a host of maps, map books and brochures to assist
departments of tourism, planning and zoning, water, wastewater and transportation. The CVADD GIS
department provides ongoing GIS support and training to local governments within the CVADD region.
Broadband Access
Governor Steve Beshear established the Commonwealth Office of Broadband Outreach and Development in
October 2010 to identify areas underserved and unserved by affordable broadband services. Through SOAR's
initiative, a determination was reached that access to broadband services is a top priority for Eastern
Kentuckians. In August 2015, Governor Beshear and Congressman Hal Rogers announced that the Kentucky
Wired project, which will begin in Eastern Kentucky, is a statewide fiber optic network that will deliver robust,
reliable and affordable internet to communities across the state through broadband technology. The benefits of
broadband will break down geographic and financial barriers to education and economic development by
providing access to affordable, high-quality internet service to connect Kentuckians to the world. The
Kentucky broadband mapping viewer is available at http://www.bakerbb.com/kybroadbandmapping/
Strengths
 CVADD provides GIS services to prepare, design and publish a host of maps, map books and brochures
to assist departments of tourism, planning and zoning, water, wastewater and transportation.
 State government support of ConnectKentucky initiative
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Weaknesses
 Many still lack access to internet or wireless cell phone service
Opportunities
 Several cities providing free wireless internet to downtown residents and businesses
 Commonwealth Office of Broadband Outreach and Development KY Wired project
Threats
 Limited funding to expand the last mile of broadband access
 Lack of infrastructure
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8.
Environment
There has been an increasing focus on the environment and natural resources over the past year, particularly
relative to energy problems and the need to strengthen conservation of natural resources and the environment.
Increased energy demands continue to result in a substantial rise in prices for essential natural resources. As
reflective of national concern, there is growing emphasis on renewable energy and energy efficiency to secure
an environmentally sustainable energy future. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 have
spurred the movement to implement energy measures to promote energy efficiency. There is growing interest in
coal to liquid technologies, as well as clean coal electric generation and the Cumberland Valley area is a
contender for possible location of a clean coal electric generation facility due to abundance in coal resources.
As well, efforts to utilize areas that have undergone mountain top removal have resulted in a large population of
free-ranging elk in the area, as well as produced a thriving habitat for other wildlife.
Citizens in the area are increasingly conscious of the effects of open dumping, debris left from flooding and the
general need for universal collection of household waste. Public awareness of the need to utilize recycling
facilities is increasing. Voluntary recycling programs are thriving in many communities. The PRIDE (Personal
Responsibility in a Desirable Environment) program continues to promote within communities the residents
responsibility to protect the environment. Numerous open dumps have been removed and the areas restored,
and communities have been educated in order to break the cycle of pollution. See Appendix F for CVADD
Public Lands Map.
Strengths
 Abundant natural resources in region
 Active RC&D Council
 Region is home to several Kentucky State Parks, as well as Cumberland Gap National Park
 PRIDE program promotes environmental responsibility in region
Weaknesses
 Limited access to financial resources
 Mining method limitations
Opportunities
 Research in alternative energy methods
 Voluntary recycling efforts are increasing in region
 Promote initiatives that utilize walking, cycling, and outdoor recreational activities for economic benefit
 Encourage reclamation and redevelopment of mine impacted communities
Threats
 Local interests battle with regional efforts
 Mountain top removal continues to be done in mining regions
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B.
Economic Cluster Analysis
The economy of the Cumberland Valley Area Development District is being supported by growth in interrelated industries or clusters that have developed in some areas as local communities search for ways to
diversify the local economy. The industries that have developed have given the area a significant edge when it
comes to competitiveness in today’s economy. These clusters include a concentration of complementary firms
and industries that have or are becoming well established; each diffusing ideas, innovations and information that
has helped to achieve a competitive advantage and propel local communities forward in terms of success in the
marketplace. These clusters thrive in local communities due to supportive conditions that include a merging of
local entrepreneurial spirit and a knowledgeable and experienced workforce that is deeply rooted in the area.
Mining and Agriculture: Since the mid 1800’s, coal mining has been a driving force in the economy of the
Cumberland Valley region, playing a significant role in the development and growth of the area. However,
during the late 1980’s and the 1990’s, the downturn in the coal industry resulted in the loss of high-wage jobs
and economic distress in the counties with a strong mining presence. This trend continued well into 2000;
however, with the rise in oil prices, the coal mining industry is experienced a revival and the outlook for coal
remained strong for several years until just recently. Over the last two years, it is reported that Eastern
Kentucky has lost 5,700 coal and coal related jobs. Although the entire CVADD region is affected, Bell and
Harlan County continue to have record unemployment rates. Due to the uncertain future of coal in the region,
Eastern Kentucky has shifted their focus to the agriculture sector of the economy. Eastern Kentucky has some
of the greatest potential in agriculture and is expected to have tremendous growth over next several years.
Tourism: For those counties with strong mining presence, the decline in the mining industry impelled the need
for diversification of the local economy. With this came the development of the tourism cluster in Harlan
County. Local officials and others found that in order to diversify the local economy they could continue to rely
on the heritage of coal to development attractions that would bring tourism dollars into the county. The area
holds much history, culture and tradition that stems from the many years that coal was king in the county.
Therefore, the county has utilized this aspect of coal to build a thriving tourism base. The city of Benham is
home to the Kentucky Coal Mine Museum, which is housed in an original commissary building. Next door to
the Museum, is the Coal Miner’s Park. Also located in Benham is the School House Inn, an old school house
converted to a hotel, and the renovated Coal Miner’s Memorial Theatre. In nearby Lynch, Portal 31, an
exhibition mine tour, has been developed. As well, an original powerhouse, railroad depot, commissary, lamp
house, bath house, firehouse, and coal tipple complement the Portal 31 Mine. As well, tourism is promoted in
the area by Southeast Community College, located at Cumberland, Kentucky. SECC serves as a community
and cultural center for the Cumberland, Benham and Lynch area. As well, many annual festivals and
celebrations showcase the coal mining culture of the area, such as Coal Miners Day that is sponsored by Portal
31 and Kentucky Coal Mining Museum. In addition, Harlan County has established an enormous off-road/ATV
park on 7,000 acres of reclaimed coal mine lands that is based in Evarts. This park has already had an
astounding effect on tourism in Harlan County. Tourism is also growing or emerging in other counties in the
district, and the potential exists for continued growth. Rockcastle County embraces its rich music heritage to
boost tourism, being home to the Renfro Valley Entertainment Center and the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame
and Museum. In addition, the City of Livingston located in Rockcastle County has been designated a "Trail
Town" which markets adventure tourism for the City. Furthermore, projections show that the growth rate of
tourism in the Cumberland Valley region from 2012 to 2013 has increased 0.03% and continues to be a major
focus for the region.
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Data Collection/Call Center: There has been recent growth in information processing clusters in the
Cumberland Valley region. Data processing firms and call centers have grown in size and are continuing to
expand. Knox and Laurel County have the highest percentage of employment from this sector.
Healthcare: The healthcare industry continues to be one of the fastest growing economic clusters for the
Cumberland Valley region. This sector employs a large percentage of the region's population. Although every
counties employment in this sector is 25% and beyond the highest percentage is Knox at 45.2%, Rockcastle at
46.8%, and Whitley County at 48.2%. Healthcare and opportunities to obtain a health care related education,
within the region continues to rise.
Manufacturing: Although manufacturing related jobs have declined over the past several years within the
Cumberland Valley region, it continues to be a steady employment for several counties. Two of the eight
counties in the region employ the highest number of people in this sector, Jackson at 22.9% and Laurel at
19.1%.
Retail Trade: Retail trade within the region employs the greatest number of people however it has one of the
lowest average wages. These types of facilities are essential to the region and provide support and services to
other economic clusters.
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C.
Other Plans and Strategies
CVADD Relevant Planning Documents - presented here to supplement the CEDS planning process:
 Cumberland Valley Area Development District, Kentucky Progress, Comprehensive Economic
Development Strategy 2007
 Kentucky's Unbridled Future Strategic Economic Development Plan, January 2012
 Cumberland Valley Area Development Hazard Mitigation Plan
 Cumberland Valley Area Development District Regional Transportation Asset Inventory
 Cumberland Valley Area Development District, Water Supply/Management Plan
 Cumberland Valley Area Development District, Highway Six Year Plan
 Cumberland Valley Area Development District, County Solid Waste Management Plan
 Cumberland Valley Area Agency on Aging, Area Plan, updated annually
 Local Comprehensive Plans
 City Downtown Renaissance plans, selected cities in CVADD
 Wastewater facilities plan, municipal sewer systems, DOW
 Appalachian Proud: Mountains of Potential
 Shaping Our Appalachian Region Initiative
 Promise Zone Initiative
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Chapter III
Action Plan
There have not been any significant changes in the CVADD Action Plan. The CVADD continues to adhere to
the goals and objectives as presented in the Progress Kentucky 2012 rewrite. The actual measurable
performance in the district as related to the goals and objectives can be found in Chapter V.
This chapter describes the general course of action the Cumberland Valley Area Development District intends
to follow over the next ten years. The strategies set forth are intended to outline methods the Cumberland
Valley Area Development District and its member local governments intend to employ to meet their stated
goals and objectives.
The following strategies are listed in prioritized order. During the CEDS meetings, the strategy committee used
the commonwealth’s priorities and related strategies for economic development in the planning process. The
Commonwealth of Kentucky’s Economic Priorities and Related Strategies, which are not listed in order of
importance, are as follows:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
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Continue to Create a More Competitive Business Climate
1. Continue to Strengthen Partnerships
2. Assess/Improve Incentive Programs to Support Business/Industry Targets
3. Evaluate Competitiveness of Existing Taxes/Regulations
4. Embrace Regionalism
Attract, Develop, and Retain Business
1. Increase Global Direct Investment Efforts
2. Increase Human Capital by Recruiting/Developing the Workforce of the Future
3. Support Physical Capital by Determining Infrastructure /Site Needs
4. Develop/Implement Statewide Protocols for Supporting Existing Businesses
5. Support Corporate/Regional Headquarters Recruitment
6. Support Tourism Development and the Arts
7. Support the Military
Create and Market a Powerful Kentucky Brand
1. Define the Kentucky Advantage
2. Take the Lead in State Marketing Efforts
3. Develop a More Aggressive Marketing Campaign
Work Toward Sustainability
1. Develop a Sustainable Agenda for Kentucky
2. Support Renewable Portfolio Standards or Guidelines
3. Encourage Green Building Design/Construction
Foster Innovation and Technology Support
1. Improve Partnerships Between Research Universities and Business/Industry
2. Increase Access to Capital
3. Support R&D Activities
Create an Entrepreneurial Culture
1. Coordinate Entrepreneurial Resources
2. Support Local Entrepreneurial Activities
3. Increase Availability of Entrepreneurial Education
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Goals, Objectives, and Strategies
In developing the following goals, objectives and strategies, it is the Board of Directors desire to obtain a sound
and growing economic base while preserving and improving the living conditions and environment of the area.
One underlying purpose of the CVADD is to provide a general plan to guide development through the provision
of technical assistance and support to city and county governments. The District must have growth and
development, but it must occur without destroying our natural resources and environment. This is the challenge
that continues to guide the Board and Staff in the preparation of the following goals, objectives and strategies
for development.
Under each goal, following objectives and strategies, there is a summary list of the major projects necessary to
accomplish each goal. A complete list of projects on a county-by-county basis can be found in Appendix A.
ECONOMY
Goal #1:
Provide the availability of a job for every person seeking employment within the District.
Potential sources of funds include Economic Development Administration (EDA), Appalachian
Regional Commission (ARC), Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Local
Government Economic Assistance Funds (LGEAF), Area Development Funds (ADF), US Rural
Utility Service (RUS), Kentucky Development Finance Authority (KDFA), Small Business
Administration (SBA), Local Government Economic Development Fund (LGEDF) the CVADD
Revolving Loan Fund (RLF), the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority (KIA), and other public and
private sources. Kentucky Job Development and Rural Economic Developmental Authorities
(tax credits).
Objectives:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
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Enact a similar concept of the Kentucky Enterprise Zone with more flexibility and adapted to
each community.
Continue and expand efforts to attract new industrial jobs into the District.
Continue development and marketing of industrial parks and controlled industrial sites.
Improve assistance to existing businesses in developing export markets and increase the efforts
to market all industrial parks and sites throughout the District.
Increase efforts throughout the District to assist existing industries of all sizes in their efforts to
expand. Every county within the District has in place an active and ongoing program to work
daily with existing industry.
Escalate efforts to develop secondary wood utilization to its maximum potential, i.e.
woodworking, furniture making.
Provide greater assistance to retail and wholesale trade establishments within the District in their
efforts to expand their markets.
Continue and increase efforts to obtain greater use of coal and coal by-products both inside and
outside the District.
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Strategies:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
J.
K.
Assist local officials in working with prospects to locate in the Tri-County Industrial Park and
Southeast Kentucky Regional Industrial Park in Knox County as well as the existing industrial
parks located in Bell, Clay Laurel, Jackson, and Rockcastle Counties.
Assist in the preparation of applications to fund the development of new industrial parks needed
throughout the region.
Assist in the completion of applications to fund needed industrial parks and sites in any of the
District.
Promote funding for construction of additional spec buildings in the existing industrial parks in
the CVADD.
Promote and encourage funding for increased research for the use of coal and its by-products.
Promote an increase in the use of the CVADD Geographic Information System (GIS) as a means
of compiling, coordinating and disseminating information to achieve greater use in planning and
marketing for business and industry, and to promote the application of GIS to law enforcement,
emergency response and dispatching.
Promote and encourage the development of child care facilities within industrial parks or close
proximity to major industrial sites.
Encourage funding of additional RLF type and similar programs that are more flexible to
increase capital available to assist with job creation.
Encourage legislation to redesign Workers Compensation, Right to Work laws, etc. to make the
region and state more competitive in job creation opportunities.
Develop and conduct, on an annual or bi-annual basis, a business wage and benefit survey to
assist in the recruitment of new jobs to the District.
Enhance local revenue generating opportunities that will provide a consensus among the district.
Projects:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Goal #2:
Assist localities throughout the region in developing existing secondary wood industries and in
attracting new wood industries into the area.
Improve and increase staff assistance to industries and business throughout the region in an effort
to encourage new employment opportunities through exporting.
Seek financing to employ an Industrial Recruiter for the Region.
Provide staff assistance in applying for funds to develop additional industrial parks and sites
throughout the District.
Seek funding to employ a full time person to provide assistance on a daily basis to existing
industry within the District.
Escalate efforts to develop the tourism industry throughout the District.
Potential funding sources include ADF, EDA, LWCF, RUS, State Bond Issues, the KY
Department of Parks, the U.S. Department of Interior, and LGEDF grant program.
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Objectives:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Secure funding for tourism related staff support.
Continue and increase efforts to modernize, construct new, expand, and improve facilities at the
State and National parks within the area such as Levi Jackson State Park, Cumberland Falls State
Park (specifically a golf course), Pine Mt. State Park, Cumberland Gap National Historic Park,
Kingdom Come State Park, Martins Fork Lake, Little Shepherd Trail and numerous other
smaller publicly owned facilities.
Escalate efforts to provide assistance to private, municipal and non-profit tourist attractions
throughout the District; such as Renfro Valley, Coal Mine Museum at Benham, Chain Rock at
Pineville, Cudjo’s Cave, Lynch Portal 31 mine tour exhibition, and the Kentucky Communities
Crafts located in Knox County.
Expand and develop additional water based tourism attractions within the area, such as Bell,
Knox and Harlan counties, including facilities at our existing lakes, and to develop additional
lakes in Clay and Jackson Counties for water supply, recreation and tourism purposes.
Further develop the District’s national, state, and privately owned forest areas for tourism related
activities such as hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, and similar activities.
Develop an off-road vehicle use system compatible with the environment.
Strategies:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
Maintain and strengthen the CVADD’s Regional Tourism Development Committee and provide
staff support for their activities which would be contingent upon EDA or other appropriate
funding.
Continue assistance in promoting tourism projects such as, but not limited to, the "Kentucky
Music Hall of Fame" at Renfro Valley, the Coal Mine Museum at Benham, Portal 31 at Lynch,
Golf Course at Cumberland Falls State Park, the development of Williamsburg as a principal
entrance to the Big South Fork National Recreational Park, and the City of Livingston "Trail
Town" project.
Promote and encourage the development and expansion of all State and National Park facilities
within the District including state forest, national forest and existing and proposed reservoirs to
attract and accommodate a greater number of tourists.
Assist communities, as requested, in preparing applications for upgrading downtown areas and
historic buildings and sites to make them more attractive to tourists.
Establish interstate development groups from Cumberland Valley ADD, Lenowisco Planning
District and East Tennessee to promote the tourism potential of Cumberland Gap, Black
Mountain and other tourism facilities in the Tri-State area.
Provide assistance, as requested by communities in adopting the transient room tax, as well as
the restaurant tax to help finance the development of the tourism industry.
Provide assistance, as requested, for the development of tourism information centers in
Barbourville, Manchester, Mt. Vernon, Portal 31 at Lynch and at the Coal Mining Museum at
Benham as well as the City of Livingston's "Trail Town" project.
Assist local volunteer groups, clubs, county and city governments, state organizations, etc., in
obtaining relevant expertise in the development of an off-road recreation program, including
infrastructure.
Encourage local tourism organizations to be comprehensive in efforts to capitalize opportunities
in the area.
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Projects:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
Goal #3:
Apply for funds to finance a joint planning effort involving the CVADD, the U.S. Forest Service
and other state and federal agencies to prepare a plan for the maximum development of the
Daniel Boone National Forest for its tourism and recreational potential.
Apply for funds to finance the development of tourism and hospitality training throughout the
District.
Apply for funds to identify and describe those undeveloped and underdeveloped sites that have
potential for tourism and recreational development.
Apply for funds to employ a full time tourism developer to promote tourism throughout the
District.
Provide staff assistance for the development of lakes for water supply, recreation, and tourism in
Jackson, Clay and Harlan Counties.
Apply for funds to assist with the coordination, legal necessities, mapping, data compilation and
promotion of the development of an off-road vehicle recreational program in the District.
Escalate and improve upon efforts to fully develop the potential agribusiness within the District.
Potential funding sources RUS, EDA, ARC, ADF, KDFA, CDBG, the CVADD
tobacco settlement funds.
RLF, and
Objectives:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Increase activities to assist farmers in finding new cash crops in order to prevent further decrease
in numbers of farmers and to create new sources of employment.
Promote the development of a food based industry such as a cannery to employ area residence in
processing and canning food grown in the District.
Promote and encourage greenhouse production of vegetables, flowers and other products to
increase the profitability of farming and as a source of new jobs.
Seek additional sources of funding for agriculture and agribusiness.
Strategies:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
Establish a regional agriculture and agribusiness committee at the CVADD level with staff
assistance to promote the development of agriculture and agribusiness.
Seek ARC funding to investigate the feasibility of aqua-farming, green house production,
vineyards, and mushroom growing as viable agriculture alternatives.
Seek funding to investigate the feasibility of a food based industry such as a commercial
cannery. Such a facility could take advantage of the District's strategic location with respect to
highways and railroads, major population centers and the District’s labor force. This would
encourage a more intensive level of farming.
Assist other agencies such as the Soil Conservation Service, the County Extension Agents, the
Resource Conservation and Development Committee and Rural Development Committees to
promote agriculture and agribusiness.
Establish a portion of the CVADD Revolving Loan Fund to help finance agribusiness within the
District.
Promote and support the recently funded Southeastern Kentucky Farmers Co-op facility at
Corbin.
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Projects:
a.
b.
c.
d.
Request funds from the CVADD Revolving Loan Fund Program be utilized to help finance
agribusiness within the District.
Apply for funds to determine the feasibility of locating a major food industry such as a cannery.
This would encourage more intensive use of farmlands.
Apply for funding to research and promote additional agricultural enterprises such as aqua
farming, mushroom production, greenhouse production, nursery stock, fruit orchards, Christmas
tree production, etc.
Support groups applying for funds through the Tobacco Settlement Program Fund to support the
activities of agribusiness in the eight county area.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Goal: #1
Provide a better quality of life for citizens and promote a region of healthy communities by
increasing the availability and access to human services adapted to the changing demographics
of the region.
Potential Funding Sources:
Kentucky Cabinets of: Education, Commerce and Health and Family Services.
Objective:
Provide an array of community based services for elders in order to prevent
institutionalizing them.
Strategies:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Continue to develop/improve multi-purpose senior centers as focal points in communities for
service delivery.
Expand Homecare Services to eligible individuals.
Promote the health and wellness of seniors by funding educational and preventive activities.
Promote the expansion of respite services into each county.
Expand the home delivered meals program by funding “local paid” meals through churches and
private individuals/businesses.
Projects:
a.
Continue contracting with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for the operation of the
Area Agency on Aging.
b.
Continue contracting for the state funded Kentucky Homecare and Adult Day Programs.
c.
Continue to help plan and administer contracts with local government for construction projects
to build community facilities for the elderly and for the changing demographics of the region.
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Objective:
Assure that resident rights are upheld and promote quality care in long term care facilities.
Strategies:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
Receive and investigate all complaints and problems that are of issue to residents of nursing
homes.
Visit long term care facilities on a regular basis in order to make contact with residents.
Organize and implement an active volunteer program.
Provide training for nursing home staff on resident rights, abuse and neglect.
Educate the public regarding the existence of the long term care ombudsman program.
Provide a toll free number which residents may use to report complaints.
Projects:
a.
b.
c.
Continue to assist the Kentucky State Ombudsman Office in providing service to residents of
nursing homes.
Promote the expansion of the LTC Program by funding a full time ombudsman position.
Continue maintenance of a Long Term Care Advisory Council.
Objective:
Improve the health and well-being of caregivers of individuals over the age of sixty and
recognize the continually expanding role they play in the healthcare system.
Strategies:
Provide caregivers with a diverse range of services to meet their constantly changing needs.
Services that may be provided to caregivers include: information and assistance, respite,
caregiver training, support groups, counseling, and supplemental services.
Projects:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
Provide information regarding the Family Caregiver Support Program to appropriate Community
Service Agencies as well as caregivers.
Distribute information regarding the Family Caregiver Support Program to locations or activities
in which caregivers shall be targeted.
Coordinate a list of potential caregivers that are willing to provide services for pay to individuals
and their caregivers within the Cumberland Valley ADD.
Provide telephone as well as in-home assistance to caregivers requesting information and
assistance regarding available services.
Provide counseling as well as video and written materials that will assist caregivers in expressing
their feelings toward their caregiving duties.
Provide information regarding available support groups to caregivers upon request.
Provide an array of educational opportunities for caregivers to meet their diverse needs,
including in-home training, public training, and video, visual, and written materials.
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h.
i.
Provide appropriate caregivers with respite vouchers to assist with the payment of respite
services.
Provide caregivers with supplemental services vouchers to allow them the flexibility to access
services as needed.
Objective:
Assist in providing an environment that supports the disabled individual in sustaining
independent living and the right to choose his/her personal degree of independence.
Strategies:
A.
B.
C.
Advocate for system changes that reflect the needs of people with disabilities.
Coordinate activities and service delivery to clients with other providers of disability network.
Help identify individuals who need and are eligible for personal care attendant services.
Projects:
a.
Continue to contract with the Center for Accessible Living to provide coordination activities and
hire attendants to work in client’s homes.
Objective:
Improve educational and training opportunities which will enable all citizens to
competitive and productive members of today’s global society.
become
Strategies:
A.
B.
Partnership with primary and secondary schools, post-secondary institutions, and other
educational institutions to coordinate and leverage local resources to improve service delivery to
all students of the CVADD area.
Continue coordination with Family Resource Centers and Site-Based Councils in implementing
the programs to ensure quality education among all schools in the region.
C.
Develop linkages with Cumberlands Service Delivery Area and Eastern Kentucky Concentrated
Employment Program in the delivery of the Workforce Investment Act.
D.
Promote education, skill training, and other job training activities of the Cumberlands Service
Delivery Area and Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program Service Delivery
Area.
Further assist the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in the implementation of the Welfare
Reform Act.
E.
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Projects:
a.
b.
Continue contracting with the Cumberlands Service Delivery Area in the development and
administration of programs funded by the Workforce Development Act.
Continue to assist school districts in contracting with the Cabinet for Education in providing all
students in the district with career development and career awareness opportunities through the
School-to-Careers Program.
Objective:
Promote the reduction of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use through comprehensive, researchbased state and county strategies.
Strategies:
A.
Assist the Kentucky Agency for Substance Abuse Policy in establishing county or multi-county
committees for the purpose of planning the particular strategies to be utilized considering the
county resources, needs, and activities.
B.
Design a system for planning, funding, and evaluating prevention efforts that coordinate the
work of all state agencies and organizations involved in prevention.
C.
Encourage widespread involvement in prevention activities through the use of local resources
such as schools, health departments, mental health programs, law enforcement, the court system,
and any private support efforts in the county.
D.
Follow through funding and implementation efforts with monitoring, evaluation, and technical
assistance to the local programs.
Projects:
a.
b.
Provide monitoring and technical assistance to county or multi-county programs that have been
funded for substance prevention activities.
Assist local groups, communities or others in the efforts to construct alternate facilities to house
and help rehabilitate substance abuse victims.
HOUSING
Goal #1:
Ensure each family and individual within the District has the opportunity to live in a decent, safe
and sanitary dwelling unit.
Potential funding sources include CDBG, RUS (RD), FHA, HUD and Kentucky Housing
Corporation (KHC).
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Objectives:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Develop affordable and suitable sites for new housing.
Develop affordable and acceptable housing units for low and moderate income families that meet
all structural, safety and sanitation requirements.
Renovate substandard housing to minimum property standards where economically feasible.
Demolish substandard housing units where unfeasible to rehabilitate to provide sites for new
units.
Solicit and support the development of essential housing projects and programs to house low and
moderate income families, especially the elderly and handicapped who currently live in
dilapidated and substandard units, and to take full advantage of existing assisted housing
programs for low and moderate income families.
Provide home ownership opportunities to qualified low income families.
Strategies:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
Expand staff assistance in the packaging of applications for the development of subsidized
housing sites as well as housing for low and moderate income families.
Continue and expand staff assistance in packaging applications to fund emergency shelter
housing and housing for the homeless.
Promote the establishment of "Habitat for Humanity" programs throughout the counties of the
District.
Encourage and assist each city and county to adopt and enforce the Kentucky Building Code in
order to obtain housing that is structurally sound.
Promote codes enforcement as a means of eliminating vacant substandard structures unfeasible
to rehabilitate and as a tool to require the rehabilitation of those units that are feasible to be
rehabilitated.
Promote the partnership opportunities with the USDA RD.
Projects:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
Apply for funds for development of temporary homeless shelters.
Develop a regional program to rehabilitate existing housing stock for low income, elderly and
handicapped persons.
Apply for funds to construct additional low income rental housing, including funding for
additional Section 8 units.
Develop a regional program to make the homes of disabled or handicapped citizens more
accessible for transportation and for home care delivery.
Assist in the packaging of funding proposals for the development of assisted housing sites as
needed.
Assist local governments and nonprofit agencies as requested in utilizing codes enforcement as a
tool for housing rehabilitation as well as provide assistance in seeking funds for substandard
housing rehabilitation.
Provide assistance to cities and counties in utilizing code enforcement as a means of
accomplishing the demolition of unoccupied substandard housing that is unfeasible to
rehabilitate.
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h.
i.
j.
Assist District cities and counties in obtaining and utilizing funds through the Community
Development Block Grant program as well as other sources to acquire substandard units
unfeasible to rehabilitate and relocate families into housing units meeting minimum property
standards.
Develop a system for disseminating information to the public, especially low and moderate
income families, concerning programs that are available to assist families in obtaining decent,
safe and sanitary housing.
Support nonprofit Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDOs) in their efforts to
apply for and implement home development activity through the Kentucky Housing Corporation.
INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES
Goal #1:
Develop an infrastructure system capable of meeting the future needs of the Districts population.
Potential funding sources include ARC, ADF, CDBG, EDA, RUS (RD), KIA and others.
Objectives:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Develop public water distribution systems capable of supplying water for domestic, industrial
and institutional uses as well as line sizes that are of sufficient size to accommodate fire hydrants
and future line expansions.
Develop adequate sewage collection and sewage treatment facilities capable of serving the
growth areas.
Encourage the development of regional water and sewer systems that can serve residents of two
or more cities or counties throughout the District and East Kentucky and operate in a more cost
effective manner, particularly during drought or alternative means.
Promote the development and maintenance of a network of transportation facilities capable of
meeting the growing needs and demands of the District, including roads and highways, railroads,
airports, bicycle and walking trails, and sidewalks.
Promote the development of a telecommunication system, including Internet serves and fiber
optic utilization that can meet the District's growing needs in the most cost effective manner.
Promote the continued improvement and development of fire departments, rescue squads,
ambulance services and other emergency services within the District.
Promote and encourage continued improvement of solid waste management techniques.
Develop the Geographical Information System (GIS) to assist in orderly implementation of
projects and assimilation of data, including 911, for the various utility systems, cities and
counties in the District.
Develop Broadband capable of providing service to industry, commercial entities and
institutional users as well as the general public.
Strategies:
A.
B.
C.
Implement the Water Supply Plan for the District as developed by the Water Supply Planning
Council.
Continue and increase assistance to cities, counties, water districts and water associations, as
well as other groups in an effort to obtain financial assistance for provision of public water to as
many residents as possible.
Provide assistance to counties, fire departments, and other groups interested in providing fire
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D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
J.
K.
L.
hydrants and other forms of fire protection to their areas.
Continue to provide assistance to cities in their efforts to provide sewer service to their residents
and surrounding growth areas and assist them in meeting their sewage discharge limitation
requirements.
Promote the development of interconnections between water distribution systems within and
between counties to help eliminate pressure and volume problems as well as provide an alternate
supply of water in emergency situations.
Continue to seek funding for updating the Regional Water and Sewer Plan.
Assist city, county, and state officials to eliminate package treatment plants where possible
through extension of public sewer service.
Promote and encourage the consolidation of water districts, water associations and other water
suppliers and distributors in an effort to reduce duplication of services and increase efficiency.
Promote and encourage competition in communications and modes of transportation as a method
of maintaining reasonable costs.
Continue to provide assistance in applying for funds such as the Area Development Fund to help
improve the services of fire departments, rescue squads, ambulance services and other
emergency services.
Continue to investigate and disseminate information on alternate methods and techniques of solid
waste collection and disposal and plan for the most cost effective and environmentally safe
method of disposal.
Promote and encourage the concept of making Broadband available throughout the state.
Projects:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
Apply for funds to update and implement the CVADD Water and Sewer Plan for the District.
Continue the water supply planning program being conducted for the District.
Seek funding to expand sewer treatment and collection systems in the area to reduce water
contamination, as well as to benefit other communities.
Provide assistance in locating funding for the interconnection of water lines between independent
systems to improve volume and pressure problems and to provide backup sources of supply in
case of emergency.
Apply for funds to assist localities, water districts, water associations, etc., to study the feasibility
of consolidating districts in an effort to avoid duplication of services and provide more efficient
management.
Provide assistance to counties such as Jackson and Clay counties in their efforts to develop lakes
for water supply and recreational purposes.
Continue to provide assistance to Cumberland, Benham and Lynch in the development of a
combined regional water and sewer system or interconnections, as well as any other areas where
feasible.
Continue and increase staff assistance to the Regional Transportation Committee with their
efforts in the development of the Unscheduled Projects List and the prioritization of these
projects for the District.
Continue to provide staff assistance to the Environmental Committee with their efforts to
monitor and keep pace with new techniques in solid waste management as well as other
environmental issues.
Develop county-wide sewer feasibility studies for each county in the District.
Promote and assist in the development for publicly treated sewer service in rural areas.
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m.
n.
o.
Assist in securing funding of new storm water drainage facilities and improving storm drainage
in existing urban areas to enhance environmental quality of discharge.
Assist existing wastewater treatment and collection system in rehabilitation, expansion and
upgrades to eliminate inflow and infiltration and capacity issues as well as combined sewer
issues.
Develop a plan to ensure that future storm water facilities are properly sized to accommodate
drainage.
Assist in securing funding of Broadband infrastructure and related facilities.
TRANSPORTATION
Goal #1:
Develop and maintain transportation facilities and services to adequately provide for the
movement of people and products.
Potential funding sources include ARC, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal
State Departments of Transportation and the State Department of Aeronautics.
and
Objectives:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Update/Improve the ARC Corridor Highway System throughout the District.
Promote and encourage the establishment of passenger train service through the area, with at
least one stop in the District.
Expand and upgrade air transportation capability throughout the district.
Solicit improved common carrier services throughout the District.
Continue to encourage improvements to existing roadways which will pass through the
Cumberland Valley Area Development District and develop access roads from every community.
Continue to promote the development of a low cost public transportation system capable of
meeting the needs of the entire District.
Strategies:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
Continue to work through the Regional Transportation Committee to promote completion of the
ARC System through the Kentucky Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Authority
and the Appalachian Regional Commission.
Assist Jackson County in obtaining funds for the development of an airport.
Prepare applications, as requested, to the Federal Aviation Administration and other sources for
necessary improvements at the London-Corbin, Harlan and Middlesboro Airports.
Update the list of common carriers serving the District and promote the feasibility of locating
additional terminals.
Continue to seek funds for the development/improvements of bridges along our county roads.
Continue to update county mapping and inventories in order for the county fiscal courts to have
the base data to better plan their road maintenance program.
Assist the Kentucky Department of Transportation in providing information on cost reducing
construction techniques, such as, concrete pre-castings for bridges and blacktop recycling.
Assist the District’s secondary and rural road departments and fiscal courts in seeking innovative
financial methods for upgrading local roads.
Assist counties and cities in jointly advertising for supplies and equipment in order to secure
lower prices and to purchase under the State Price Contract where feasible.
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J.
K.
Continue to promote the funding and improvement of public transportation throughout the
District to achieve a scheduled regional mass transit program.
Encourage waste tire recycling to asphalt and other uses to provide a means of utilizing this
resource as well as eliminating an environmental hazard.
Projects:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
Address congestion and safety issues on US-25 between KY-1006 in London to US-25E
intersection in Corbin.
Improve congestion, freight movement, and safety on US-119 in Harlan County
Improve congestion and safety issues on KY-30 in Laurel and Jackson County
Major widening to address safety, capacity, and access management on US-25E from
Knox/Laurel County line to KY-770/I-75 interchange
Improve safety and roadway geometrics on US-421 north of KY-89 near McKee in Jackson
County
New Construction of a new corridor that will extend the Corbin Bypass to I-75 at KY-552
Major widening to improve freight movements on I-75 from Rockcastle/Madison County line to
Kentucky/Tennessee state line
Reconstruction of KY-11 in Knox County from north of Girdler to Mills Cemetery
Address congestion and safety issues on US-25 and KY-229 in Laurel County between Russell
Dyche Cemetery to KY-1006/Levi Jackson State Park.
Industrial access turn lanes on US-150 in Rockcastle County.
NATURAL RESOURCES AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
Goal #1:
Preserve and improve the physical environment of the District as a place to live, work and enjoy
life.
Potential funding sources include ARC, ADF, CDBG, EDA, EPA, RUS (RD), KIA and RC&D.
Objectives:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Develop safe and adequate water supplies capable of meeting the existing and future needs of
residents, businesses and industry.
Install adequate sewage collection and treatment facilities to accommodate the needs of the
growth areas and capable of protecting our rivers and streams from pollution.
Continue and accelerate assistance to local officials in their efforts to implement and enforce
solid waste management plans.
Improve land use practices to better control erosion from areas of strip mining, agriculture, cut
over forest lands, road and highway construction and prevent pollution and sedimentation of our
rivers and lakes.
Encourage and assist local governments in establishing planning commissions and to adopt and
enforce adequate regulatory measures to protect the environment and natural resources.
Promote and encourage the development of additional reservoirs and lakes in the area for water
supply, recreation and flood control.
Undertake activities designed to discourage the filling in of flood plain areas and undertake flood
mitigation activities and projects to reduce flood damages.
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8.
9.
10.
Develop a working relationship among the ADD, the District’s mining operators, the University
of Kentucky Agriculture Extension Agency and other governmental agencies to encourage better
post mining land use.
Encourage the revitalization and rehabilitation of blighted areas, including areas of historical
significance.
Develop closer relationships with foresters, wildlife experts, conservationists, rural development
specialists and others in an effort to improve the use of forest lands without adversely effecting
natural resources.
Strategies:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
J.
Continue to provide staff assistance to cities, counties, water districts, water associations, and
others in their efforts to provide adequate water supplies and distribution systems to meet the
needs of residents, businesses and industry.
Continue to provide staff assistance to cities and other groups in their efforts to obtain public
sewer systems capable of meeting the future needs.
Continue efforts to find funding to update the CVADD Regional Water and Sewer plan.
Develop a working relationship between the CVADD, coal operators and governmental agencies
to encourage improved post mine usage and to find better ways of utilizing post mined land.
Promote and encourage improved efforts to enforce solid waste management plans at the county
level and promote legislation making the state a more active partner.
Continue to promote and provide staff assistance in flood mitigation activities and projects,
including mapping in an effort to reduce future flood damage hazards, as well as other natural or
man-made disasters or hazards.
Continue to promote and assist local governments in establishing planning commissions and in
the adoption and enforcement of land use planning regulations.
Increase the Cumberland Valley ADD's working relationship with other state and federal
agencies such as the Soil Conservation Service, the County Extension Service, the Division of
Forestry, Rural Development Associations, the Kentucky Department of Transportation and
others in an effort to further reduce erosion from our hill lands, forest lands, farm lands,
roadways, and strip mines and reduce pollution and sedimentation in our streams and rivers.
Assist and support local officials in their efforts to develop additional reservoirs and lakes for
water supply, recreation, and flood control, especially in the drought prone counties of Clay,
Harlan and Jackson.
Continue to provide assistance to cities, counties and other groups interested in revitalization and
rehabilitation of blighted areas, including areas of historical significance.
Projects:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
See suggested water and sewer projects outlined under Area Infrastructure.
Continue and expand staff assistance to the Environmental Committee to monitor and improve
upon solid waste management techniques and methods.
Apply for funds to employ a planner to work with other state and federal agencies in an effort to
designate major areas of erosion and prioritize those now needing treatment and prepare a
financial plan for implementation.
Assist Clay, Harlan, and Jackson Counties in developing lakes for flood control, water supply
and recreation.
Apply for funds for the development of a regional educational program on the importance of the
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g.
h.
environment to make young people more aware of the critical nature of this issue.
Apply for funds to develop a regional educational program on solid waste emphasizing the cost
of uncontrolled littering and illegal dumping. Also, the program will seek ways of obtaining
greater enforcement of existing laws against illegal dumping.
Assist members of the Kentucky State Legislature in an effort to provide financial assistance to
people on welfare to pay for solid waste pick up and disposal.
Continue to apply for funding through EPA's Brownfield grant program in order to assist
counties in their efforts to identify and clean up buildings for reuse/repurpose.
PUBLIC PROTECTION
Goal #1:
Develop adequate drug and law enforcement staffs and facilities to provide for the security of all
citizens within the area and to strive for the reduction in crime rates.
Potential funding sources include Corrections Cabinets, Justice and Public Protection and
Regulation, and Homeland Security.
Objectives:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Improve the level of training and education for all law enforcement officials.
Improve and upgrade communication equipment to better accommodate officers' needs.
Develop better relationship between the Kentucky State Police, county sheriff's department, and
city police departments.
Develop more programs to assist victims of criminal abuse.
Promote and encourage the development of a regional Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force.
Promote Drug Abuse Resistance Education Programs (DARE) for all school systems in the
District, with computer monitoring of the enrollees to evaluate the long range success of the
program.
Develop additional programs to eliminate child abuse.
Promote and encourage stricter enforcement of existing child abuse and child custody laws.
Develop facilities throughout the District such as jails, prisons, and detention centers capable of
meeting future needs.
Include the use of GIS to assist and augment law enforcement, emergency response and
dispatching.
Strategies:
A.
B.
C.
D.
Continue and increase staff assistance to cities, counties and local police departments in an effort
to increase educational requirements at the entrance level to police work and for continued
training and evaluation on an annual basis.
Increase staff assistance to cities and counties in an effort to assist in locating and applying for
funds for up-to-date communications equipment.
Sponsor one or more seminars involving the Kentucky State Police, the county sheriffs’
departments and city police departments designed to improve relationships as well as interjurisdictional improvements in communications.
Promote and support the development of an effective statewide program to assist victims of
criminal abuse.
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E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
Assist local and state police in the establishment of a regional multi-jurisdictional drug task
force.
Continue efforts with local police agencies to expand the DARE program into every school.
Promote and encourage the development of new programs designed to reduce child abuse, and to
encourage and demand stricter enforcement in matters of child abuse and child custody laws.
Promote and encourage additional facilities to incarcerate convicted persons and promote the
development of these facilities on a regional basis.
Promote the development of improved law enforcement, emergency response and dispatching
services.
Projects:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
Assist the Department of Human Resources in developing improved programs eliminating drug
abuse and child abduction and abuse.
Assist the sheriffs’ offices, fiscal courts, and the Kentucky State Legislature to develop programs
in providing the sheriffs’ departments with the same training as their urban counterparts.
Develop a program to staff and fund a pre-trial division for non-violent offenses.
Develop current program that integrates federal, state, and local officials in urban areas to work
in rural areas.
Initiate planning efforts in the immediate future to secure Enhanced 911 (E-911) systems in each
of the eight District counties.
Apply for funds to establish programs through the senior citizens centers to deal with elderly
victims of criminal abuse.
Expand programs, such as the existing Spouse Abuse Program under organizations such as the
Christian Appalachian Center, to eliminate some of the spouse and child abuse problems.
Apply for funds to improve and upgrade equipment and training for law enforcement, emergency
response and dispatch services.
Assist the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security in preparedness of citizens with coordination
and participation in local entity training for the National Incident Management System (NIMS).
AREA ORGANIZATIONS AND GOVERNANCE
Goal #1:
Expand and improve upon the capability of area organizations, including the CVADD and local
governments to deliver the maximum service in the most efficient manner to the District
population.
Potential sources of funding include Governor’s Office for Local Development, Finance Cabinet
and Revenue Cabinet.
Objectives:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Train local officials in financial management, personnel administration and general management.
Provide administrative and technical assistance to local governments, including police and fire
departments, jails, rescue squads, chambers of commerce, industrial foundations, utility
commissions, housing agencies and other similar governmental bodies.
Encourage local officials and regional entities to promote Kentucky’s education efforts.
Train local officials in computer literacy and applications.
Coordinate local and CVADD activities with KY Long Term Policy Research Center.
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Strategies:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
Provide technical assistance in developing and improving personnel systems for the local
governments.
Provide and attend relevant educational workshop seminars to enhance the capacity of the Area
Development District Public Administration Specialist to perform a full range of management
assistance functions.
Determine the most significant management/educational needs of local government officials and
personnel.
Assist local governments in the appropriate procedures for procurement of goods and services.
Promote the use of appropriate fiscal systems by local governments through direct technical
assistance.
Improve county fee official accounting and financial reporting.
Improve, through educational programs, the capacity of local governments and personnel to
more effectively perform their responsibilities.
Promote Kentucky’s slogan “Unbridled Spirit” with respect to promoting the state and area.
Provide assistance and guidance in preparation of codes as needed and requested.
Projects:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
Provide administrative and technical assistance to agencies as needed.
Provide grantsmanship assistance to agencies as needed for improvement of operations and
facilities.
Conduct ongoing self-evaluation of local governmental agencies and organizations as well as
regional state and federal agencies providing service within the District to assure that the service
provided is delivered in the most cost effective manner and is responsive to local needs.
Provide training for local officials and regional entities, including the CVADD, and recruit
individuals with educational backgrounds that commensurate with job requirements. This is cost
effective and a must for improved and sustained quality local governance.
Provide training for local officials and personnel on an as needed basis.
Provide computer literate training for local officials.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Goal #1:
Preserve historic buildings, sites, and districts which are significant to the District.
Potential funding sources include Federal Historic Preservation Fund (FHPF), Historic
Preservation Tax Credit Program, Kentucky Heritage Council (KHC), Governor’s Office for
Local Development and acts of the Kentucky Legislature.
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Objectives:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Redevelop historic downtown areas by applying the historic preservation based Main Street
Program approach.
Protect and support the revitalization of historic neighborhoods.
Develop and market historic assets of the community through a heritage tourism approach.
Educate communities about historic resources and use historic resources to educate the
communities about their past.
Develop local programs and funding approaches which preserve historic properties.
Document, register and protect the historic resources of the community.
Preserve the character of rural neighborhoods and communities by protecting historic and scenic
areas and corridors.
Strategies:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Prepare a survey and documentation of the number and significance of historic properties and
sites.
Continue and increase staff assistance to cities, counties, historic and tourism groups in their
efforts to initiate development of historic downtown areas and historic sites.
Provide staff assistance to local planning commissions in an effort to establish historic areas and
better regulate development within those areas.
Support and encourage the formation of historic preservation groups throughout the District.
Assist the local communities in searching for innovative new methods of financing historic
preservation projects.
Projects:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Apply for funds to assist cities in their downtown revitalization and historic preservation, as
requested, in an effort to revive downtown areas and preserve historical properties.
Submit an application for funds to prepare and inventory historical buildings and sites and to
evaluate their historic and cultural significance to the area.
Provide staff assistance, as requested, to local planning commissions in their efforts to establish
historic areas and develop regulations to guide development within those areas.
Provide staff assistance, as requested, to assist in establishing Historic Preservation groups
throughout the District.
Apply for funding to maintain access and preserve cemeteries.
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Chapter IV
Economic Resilience
It has become increasingly apparent that economic prosperity is linked to a region’s ability to prevent,
withstand, and quickly recover from major disruptions to its underlying economic base. Many definitions of
economic resilience limit its focus on the ability to quickly recover from disruption. However, in the context of
economic development, economic resilience becomes inclusive of three primary attributes: the ability to recover
quickly from a shock, the ability to withstand a shock, and the ability to avoid the shock altogether.
Establishing economic resilience in a local or regional economy requires the ability to anticipate risk, evaluate
how that risk can impact key economic base of an area or region are manifested in 3 ways:



Downturns or other significant events in the national or international economy which impact demand for
locally produced goods and consumer spending;
Downturns in particular industries that constitute a critical component of the region's economic activity;
and/or
Other external shocks (a natural or man-made disaster, closure of a military base, exit of a major
employer, the impacts of a climate change, etc.
Identified Possible Disruptions
Currently the CVADD, particularly Harlan County, is witnessing an economic downturn in the coal industry
that has been the driving force in economic development and growth of the area since the 1800's. According to
Kentucky Coal Facts, in 2013 Kentucky ranked as the third highest coal producer and having the second highest
coal mine employment in the United States. Because the region has been so reliant on this industry, the
decrease in coal production has lead to some of the highest unemployment rates in not only the state but across
the country. Without the coalmine industry and availability of supporting industry jobs many residents and
businesses have been forced to leave the area to find employment, contributing to a further shortage of
resources. Because of this downturn several initiatives are taking place to diversify and revive the region to
prevent this from happening again. The following are ongoing and the CVADD will continue to identify and
develop goals to strengthen economic resilience:
Shaping Our Appalachian Region (SOAR)
Developed working groups and committees that cover an array of issues to reassess current challenges and
prompt discussions of ideas and innovations already underway which could be leveraged or aligned to capture
emergent regional development opportunities through public engagement.
The Kentucky Promise Zone
The first rural promise zone consisting of eight counties in which five of those eight, Bell, Clay Harlan, Knox,
and a portion of Whitley County are in the CVADD region. The initiative is engaging these counties in a
collaborative, comprehensive process aimed at improving the overall quality of life while concentrating
resources and partnerships between local, state and federal governments and the private sector.
Kentucky Work Ready
Many counties throughout the region have begun the discussions necessary to become a Kentucky Work Ready
Community.
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Workforce Trainings
County representatives continue to attend workforce trainings where private industries discuss career
opportunities that would be beneficial for retraining coalmine workers.
The CVADD's Mitigation Plan identified goals and objectives that were established by the County Workgroup
Subcommittees on a regional basis. Below is a listing of mitigation measures that planned projects would
subsequently address. The list is subdivided into the relevant (and previously identified) hazards that such
measures would mitigate for the Cumberland Valley region. The mitigation measures apply to ALL counties in
the Cumberland Valley region and under the jurisdiction of the CVADD as it had been decided that all counties
within the region are susceptible to any of the hazards that have been identified throughout the plan. The full
CVADD Regional Mitigation Plan can be accessed at:
http://cvadd.org/hazard_mitigation.html
Severe Storm/Hailstorm/Tornado Mitigation Measures
 The placement of alert radios in schools, nursing homes, hospitals, county resident homes, etc.
 The placement of alert radios in county residents’ homes
 The devising of a house identification system in order to expedite the arrival of emergency personnel in
times of hazard
 The development of an information campaign that would inform the public about what to do in the event
of a tornado (e.g., Leave all mobile homes; go to the center room or to the lowest level of your home;
etc.)
 The ensuring that the Emergency Operations Center of a county is adequately staffed and that personnel
can respond after a tornado or other severe storm in the County in order to carry out proper response
actions.
 The evaluation of the number of designated recovery shelters throughout all counties within the
CVADD’s region in order to serve the public in the aftermath of a tornado or severe storm.
 The evaluation of the comprehensive storm siren plan for all of the counties within the CVADD’s region
and the ensuring that all sirens are in proper working order.
 The seeking of funds for the installation of new storm sirens in the cities where needed.
 The continuance with the progress of the early warning notification systems (e.g., SkyWarn, City
Watch, Reverse 911, et al.) in order to give residents an even earlier warning of dangerous storm
approaches.
 The encouragement of builders to utilize truss straps and other construction techniques that would
presumably lessen the amount of destruction and flying debris in the event of a tornado or of high winds.
 The development of ordinances to require tornado shelters for new mobile home concentrations.
 The establishment of potential recovery shelters in order to mitigate loss of life and injury after the
hazard occurs.
 The seeking of a solution to the problem lack of radio signal(s) throughout the county in order to ensure
that emergency response and recovery personnel are able to communicate with each other in the event of
a tornado or of other severe storms.
 The advertisement of the availability, proximity, and routes to tornado shelters throughout a county.
 The evaluation of the number of shelters currently in place and the subsequent looking to establish more
throughout a county
 The ensuring that shelters will be open to the public when needed.
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Winter Storms
 The encouragement of better trimming of right-of-way
times of hazard
 The continuance and/or development of a public information campaign (i.e., printing brochures,
pamphlets, booklets) in all counties within the CVADD’s region that would inform denizens of the
counties of the dangers and risks associated with severe winter storms
 The encouragement of the burying of residential utility service(s)
 The planning to identify a way to assist special-needs populations during winter storm events
 The seeking of funding to equip emergency response personnel in order to keep critical transportation
routes passable.
 The acquisition of vehicles to be used for road-clearing and maintenance during winter storms in order
to mitigate the number of accidents and injuries on the roadways
Floods
times of hazard
 The promotion of the comprehensive updating of Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) floodplain maps
throughout the counties of the CVADD region
 The continuance of looking at the possibility of a flood control project in a county or city within the
CVADD’s region
 The encouragement for the improvement of drainage and retention areas in counties and cities
throughout the CVADD’s region
 The continuance to monitor conditions in order to ensure that culverts throughout a county within
CVADD’s region are free of debris or other restrictions that stifled flow
 The establishment of a vegetative management program in non-vegetative areas along waterways
 The monitoring of erosion problems and the active pursuance of a project to maintain the creek banks
 The development and implementation of a localized evacuation planning and management program in
order to ensure that a county’s residents can safely seek higher ground in the case of flash flooding
 The seeking of funding to acquire homes in identified flood-prone areas of a county within the
CVADD’s region
 The identification of a county and city’s most at-risk critical facilities and the evaluation of the potential
mitigation techniques for protecting each facility to the maximum extent feasible
 The conducting of storm sewer and storm drain surveys to determine future needs and upgrades
 Subsequent upgrading of storm sewer and storm drainage system
 The continuance to encourage the placement, the usage of, and the purchase of flood gauges for a
Cumberland Valley city/county’s waterways
 The establishment and/or enforcement of county/city ordinances that restrict the construction of homes
and businesses in the floodplain
 The development of an information strategy to educate the public about the flood-prone areas in a
Cumberland Valley county, thus informing it of the regulation in place related to flooding and the
importance of not constructing homes and other facilities in the floodplain
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Landslides
 The ensuring that county roadwork crews have the necessary personnel and equipment to respond to
county landslides on roadways
 The beginning/continuing to educate the public through an information campaign about the dangers of
unstable land and constructing homes and businesses on landslide-prone areas
 The continuance to ensure that areas susceptible to landslides/rock-slides in a city or county within the
CVADD region are properly maintained in order to prevent loss of life and property in the event of a
landslide
 The encouragement of the proper management of timbered areas throughout a county within the
CVADD region in order to prevent the improper deforestation of these lands, which leads to topsoil
erosion and land sliding
 The seeking of funding and the development of strategies to address landslides that affect county roads
 The seeking of funds to repair, replace, or relocate structures affected by landslides
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Chapter V
Evaluation and Performance Measures
The stimulation of economic growth is reflected through the efforts of local leaders working together. Local
leaders involve not only local elected officials, but officers and members of such entities as industrial
development authorities, chambers of commerce, financial institutions, industry, citizens groups and individual
citizens. It is through this process that the strengths and diversities of these individuals and groups are realized
and used to enhance existing partnerships and develop new ones. Involvement of these leaders in the strategic
planning process provides a much better understanding of their individual communities and how federal, state,
and local resources can and may be used to enhance economic growth both locally and regionally.
Understanding this dynamic and using it to strengthen a region is as important as evaluating and measuring
performance outcomes to ensure progress.
The overall economic and social conditions in the Cumberland Valley region continue to improve, even though
budget limitations at all levels are stretched and job growth is relatively flat. Below is a brief discussion with
illustrations showing specific improvements and overall comparisons of data specific to the region and state.
This information can be considered as a testament that the economic strategies noted in the CVADD CEDS plan
are working, granted greater emphasis should be taken not only at the local level, but also at the State and
Federal level in order for the overall vision within the Cumberland Valley region to be realized.
Economy:
Although the Cumberland Valley region’s unemployment remains above the State and National level,
unemployment has improved dramatically over the last year since its peaking at 12.3% in 2010.
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Although the CVADD falls below the state median household income all the counties in the region continue to
remain steady despite the historic unemployment rates according to the estimated mean household income
2009-2013.
Source - U. S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 5-Year Estimates
Tourism:
Tourism in the region has shown significant growth in recent years. This particular sector of the economy has
always been considered an opportunity the region should focus its resources, as the potential advantages far
outweigh the negatives in the effort to improve the overall economy.
Source: Kentucky Tourism
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Crime:
Crime in Kentucky and the eight counties has increased overall from 2005. However, this can be contributed to
the fact that enforcement agencies at all levels are becoming more effective due to greater cooperation and
resources, both financially and through training. One specific initiative that has shown to be of major
importance to the region is the Unlawful Narcotics Investigations, Treatment and Education initiative or
Operation UNITE, which encompasses the 42 counties in the Fifth Congressional District. UNITE efforts are
focused on the illegal drug and prescription drug abuse problems. It is a cooperative effort between the local,
state and federal agencies armed at curbing the drug trade in the region. Over time, it is expected that the
reduction goal of overall drug abuse will be realized, as well as the crimes in the region will be lessened.
Source: Kentucky State Police Crime in Kentucky Report for 2014
Infrastructure:
The CVADD Water Management Council meets on a regular basis to discuss and determine immediate and
forecasted water/wastewater needs for the region. Overall, the CVADD counties have made significant
progress in the availability of treated water to the majority of the residents particularly in the rural areas. Sewer
treatment by public entities still remains available in and immediately adjacent to the cities.
Transportation:
CVADD transportation staff continues to work with local officials and the Regional Transportation Committee
to gain public input into the statewide transportation planning process by identifying new projects for submittal
to the KYTC for consideration of addition to the Unscheduled Needs List (UNL).
A significant number of high profile transportation projects are ongoing throughout the District. Recently, KY30 improvements were completed in Jackson County to provide better safety and access from Hal Rogers
Parkway in London to Tyner. Planning efforts are underway to extend KY-30 improvements through Jackson
County into Owsley County so that it will tie into the Mountain Parkway.
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Planning has been working on several different ways to address congestion and safety issues on US-25 from
London to Corbin, as well as US-25E from I-75 to the Knox County line in Corbin. Other planning efforts
include safety and congestion issues of KY-192 in London, US-119 in Bell and Harlan County, KY-11 in Knox
County, US-421 in Jackson and Clay, and US-150 in Rockcastle County.
There is also an ongoing major widening project of I-75 from Rockcastle County to the Kentucky-Tennessee
state line.
Efforts are also being made in working with local communities for transportation alternatives, such as bicycle
and pedestrian facilities, to work in implementing bicycle lanes, multi-use paths, and visible crosswalks and
sidewalks.
Natural Resources and Physical Environment:
Every county has a designated Solid Waste Coordinator and Solid Waste Management Plan. Over the past
several years, residential collection percentages continue to rise and recycling efforts are increasing. Open dump
clean-ups have been increased with the advent of PRIDE and Commonwealth Clean-up and Tire Amnesty
programs, which have resulted in a significant number of open-dumps disappearing. The goal of total
elimination is very much a reality, particularly in regards to the larger, potentially greatest environmental/
aesthetically problem dumps.
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APPENDIX A
REGIONAL & COUNTY STRATEGIC
PROJECT LISTING
Regional Project List
Development of the three "super regional" industrial parks in Clay, Knox and Bell Counties.
These parks are represented by an industrial board comprised of local county and city leaders
from five to six counties.
Construction of a "spec" building at the existing industrial parks and sites to help attract potential
industries.
Support and encourage the entrepreneurial spirit for the creation of new job opportunities within
the eight counties.
Encourage the growth of the Cumberland Valley ADD Revolving Loan Fund Program in order
to promote job creation opportunities to benefit the local community and region.
Encourage the development of alternative fuels production with emphasis on coal for coal to
liquid facilities throughout district.
Promote the construction of clean coal and or natural gas electric generation plants to utilize the
abundance of coal in the region and help "coal" create jobs locally throughout district.
Encouragement of the expansion and development of technology-based businesses throughout
the region.
Construction and/or renovation of local government buildings, with emphasis on new
technology/green buildings and sustainability to better serve the citizens of the region.
Support and encourage local governments and public entities to utilize more energy efficient
vehicles and equipment to better serve citizens of the region.
Construction of adequate feeder routes to connect I-66 and other major roadways.
Development of Enhanced 911 services with updated technologies, including Global Positioning
Systems (GPS).
Support efforts for the reuse of the old Marymount Hospital property to benefit not only the local
economy, but also regionally.
Preparation and implementation of the regional hazard mitigation plan to assure the eight
counties are adequately prepared for all types of disasters.
Encourage local governments to be proactive in addressing hazard mitigation measures including
but not limited to flood control in urban development as well as preparedness during tornadoes
and other natural disasters.
Increased emphasis on reduction of illegal drug traffic, drug addiction, and abuse of prescription
and non-prescription drugs.
Development of regional drug/crime rehabilitation centers to relieve the overcrowding of state,
local and federal prisons, as well as bring the individuals back into the mainstream of society.
Encourage the implementation of the regional water line interconnection study between existing
water systems.
Development of an Inter-model Park for major industrial locations with access to rail and
interstate shipping capabilities.
Encourage construction of new facilities, both public and private to incorporate "LEEDS"
certification process in design for more cost effective energy efficiencies.
Development of a major tourism attraction/amenity in all counties to potentially include, but not
be limited to, RV/campgrounds, lodge, ATV and off-road park and trails, horse trails, theme
park, water park, Rail to Trails and recreational trails projects including hiking and walking
trails, playgrounds, etc.
Encourage the wise use of resources to reduce the consumption and conserve energy through
various initiatives to make the region more competitive and affordable, such as rail and mass
transit.
Implementation of projects that promote energy efficiency and increased use of renewable
energy sources.
Promote the identification, cleanup and reuse of brownfield sites in the county.
Continue support for the development of Civil War battlefields and technology to link similar
attractions throughout the district, including Knox County’s Battle of Barbourville.
Development of interactive tourism to promote regional tourist attractions.
Development of tourist attractions throughout the region comparable to smaller amusement
parks, such as Ohio’s Old Coney Island.
Encouragement of the increase of investment capital and other financing vehicles to support
private investment and job creation opportunities with emphasis on entrepreneurial growth.
Conduct broadband studies throughout the region and implement broadband access throughout
the region.
Preservation of historic sites and buildings to be maintained as multi-functional facilities housing
such entities as welcome centers, historical museums, Chamber of Commerce offices, etc.
Support efforts to develop financial incentives that allow for historic and cultural preservation
efforts to be cost effective.
Develop facilities to increase tourism, specifically related to agriculture and other exposition
activities.
Promote and encourage in the region environmentally friendly adventure tourism developments,
including but not limited to ATV opportunities, and the adventure tourism Kentucky initiative.
Support the cities and counties efforts to develop coordinated and cohesive adventure tourism
opportunities linking all eight counties.
Develop boat ramp access along rivers throughout the Cumberland Valley for fishing and scenic
boat travel.
Construct new sewer plants and/or extend sewer within each county to enable rural and outlying
areas to connect to public sewage treatment facilities.
Construct new and/or replace existing sidewalks throughout cities.
Encourage business development at or near the region's airports to enhance job creation and
greater utilization of the airport facilities.
Promote, develop, and fund projects and initiatives that cities and counties can share
cooperatively to reduce cost and create self sufficiency
Promote and assist programs such as Harlan County Challenge Academy in all eight counties.
Develop light rail network to connect all eight counties for passenger travel to reduce vehicle
traffic.
Support various "Trail Town" initiatives throughout the district.
Encourage educational institutes to develop specialty educational programs that would be
beneficial to the region.
Support efforts to attract facilities that benefit military veterans such as cemeteries, assisted
living, hospitals, etc. throughout the district.
Develop quality assisted living and retirement communities throughout the district.
Develop and assist in implementing downtown revitalization and historic preservation within all
cities of the region.
Encourage private development in recreation/tourism facilities.
BELL COUNTY
PROPOSED PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES
ECONOMY
▪
Promote and encourage a clean coal electric generation power plant at the Pine Mountain
Regional
Industrial Development Authority industrial site.
▪
Promote Coal-to Liquid industry to utilize coal resources of the area.
▪
Promote and encourage the potential for various developments in the Fern Lake and
Cannon Creek areas.
▪
Promote and encourage development of the secondary wood industry.
▪
Promote fruit orchard, Christmas tree and nursery stock farming.
▪
Promote and develop agri-businesses and cottage industries.
▪
Promote and encourage improvements at Pine Mountain State Park, including the
following;
(1)additional lodging, (2) additional parking, (3) recreational vehicle parking
center at bottom of mountain, (4) improvement of electrical service to the Laurel Cove area,
and (5) additional condo-type
lodging.
▪
Support efforts to build a hotel/motel/conference facility in the Pineville area.
▪
Attract a Manufacturers Outlet Mall to the Bell County area.
▪
Develop and promote a food cannery for co-op use.
▪
Promote and encourage the development of a retirement village.
▪
Promote and encourage regional recruitment of industry within the area.
▪
Promote entrepreneurial endeavors for local job creation.
▪
Continue development efforts on the three industrial sites: Pine Mountain Regional
Business Park,
Bell County Technology and Training Park and Whitmer Industrial Park.
▪
Promote the development of a RV park as well as an ATV park.
▪
Promote and support elk viewing tours in the county.
▪
Continue efforts to develop tourist attractions and market current attractions, including
improvement to walking trails throughout the county and development of ATV trails and
appurtenances.
▪
Encourage workforce development, through training and expansion, within existing
industries.
▪
Investigate and identify industrial sites for wood industry.
▪
Recruit tenants to the Bell Co. Technology and Training Park and the Whittmer Industrial
Park.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Education
▪
Continue to promote and develop the Southeast Community College in Bell County into
a four year
program.
▪
job
Encourage schools to enhance "work ethic" values in students to better prepare them for
opportunities.
▪
Continue to pursue a program to improve school attendance throughout the county school
systems.
▪
Strengthen and improve vocational programs for students unable to pursue secondary
education and emphasize high tech courses.
▪
Integrate vocational classes into area high schools.
▪
Promote curriculum that prepares students for post secondary education and ready
students for the work force.
▪
Continue to expand and improve pre-school educational opportunities.
Health and Family Services
▪
Support and establish a drug rehabilitation center as well as efforts such as UNITE and/or
other educational programs to break the cycle of drug dependency.
▪
Promote and develop a Veterans Nursing Home and Veterans Cemetery.
▪
Encourage the establishment of an after hour extended care facility.
▪
Improve health education programs for all public school systems.
▪
Increase emphasis on preventive health maintenance activities with an effort toward
efficient use of
public health dollars.
▪
life
Encourage development of community centers that promote health, fitness and quality of
improvements.
▪
Promote and encourage public health agencies to offer evening service/personnel to
accommodate emergency situations.
▪
Continue efforts to expand and improve educational, early diagnostic and preventive
health care
programs.
▪
Continue efforts to provide and improve ambulance and other emergency transportation
services at the lowest possible cost.
▪
Support local health department in expanding facilities to better serve residents.
Housing
▪
Develop incentives to encourage private investment in retirement/assisted living type
villages.
▪
Develop a program to rehabilitate existing housing stock for low income, elderly and
handicapped people.
▪
Develop a program to make the homes of disabled or handicapped citizens more
accessible
for transportation and for home care.
▪
Provide funding sources for Habitat for Humanity housing program.
▪
Encourage Bell-Whitley Community Action Agency with Repair Affair and other
housing programs.
▪
Assist local governments and nonprofit agencies in utilizing codes enforcement as a tool
for housing rehabilitation.
▪
Encourage housing agencies to construct/rehabilitate housing stock to be energy efficient.
▪
Utilize codes enforcement as a means of accomplishing the demolition of unoccupied
substandard housing that is not feasible to rehabilitate.
▪
Utilize funds through the Community Development Block Grant program, as well as
other sources, to
acquire substandard units unfeasible to rehabilitate or located in disaster
prone areas, and relocate
families into housing units meeting minimum property standards.
▪
Develop a system for disseminating information and programs that are available to assist
families in
obtaining decent, safe and sanitary housing, especially to low and moderate
income families.
Recreation
▪
Encourage comprehensive programs to keep existing school and church indoor facilities
open after
regular business hours.
▪
Form a project to develop a center for indoor recreation.
▪
Support efforts to create/enhance parks in all areas of the county with sports equipment
for the youth.
▪
Support Pine Mountain State Park’s efforts to establish walking trails within the park.
▪
Promote efforts to develop a water park and/or other water based amenities in Bell
County.
▪
Develop recreational areas with shelters, walking trails, playground equipment, picnic
areas, etc.
▪
Promote development of boys and girls community center with several annexes
throughout the county.
▪
Enhance opportunities for development of adventure tourism, including ATV trails, etc.
▪
Promote overnight lodging and other facilities at national and state parks in the area.
AREA INFRASTRUCTURE
Public Water
▪
Provide incentives to local water systems to develop water systems for maximum fire
protection through
the installation of fire hydrants.
▪
Rehabilitate existing water lines and appurtenances to assure sufficient and quality water
to existing
customers.
▪
Extend public water into the currently unserved areas of Bell County.
▪
Provide regional interconnections between Bell, Harlan, Knox and Whitley Counties
where feasible and
practical.
▪
Target isolated or pocket areas not being served with public water for alternative means
of safe, sanitary
water supplies.
Sewer
▪
Continue efforts to eliminate inflow and infiltration of water into the sewer systems of
Middlesboro and
Pineville.
▪
Extend public sewer service to cover all areas of Middlesboro and Pineville, plus any
growth areas in
close proximity to the cities.
▪
Extend public sewer service to Pine Mountain Industrial Park, Bell County Technology
and Training Park and Whitmer Industrial site.
▪
Promote innovative wastewater collection and treatment systems for rural areas and
extend lines where
feasible from existing systems.
▪
Assist existing sewer systems in efforts to comply with the Clean Water and Safe
Drinking Water Act
Storm Water Drainage
▪
Establish procedures whereby drainage tiles and culverts are reviewed and approved for
size by
qualified city and county employees before installation.
▪
Assist in the funding of new storm water systems where needed in urban areas.
▪
Clean ditches along rural roads to facilitate drainage of roadways.
TRANSPORTATION
▪
Reconstruct US-119 from Pineville to Whitesburg.
▪
Construct a new route from KY-441 to US25E in Middlesboro.
▪
Blacktop the remaining county maintained gravel roads.
▪
Secure funding to hire additional employees to maintain all secondary roads as well as
main highways.
▪
Utilize the county’s equipment and manpower to reduce the total cost of any project in
Bell County.
▪
Upgrade HWY 2011, HWY 190 and Page Cut-off.
ENVIRONMENT/NATURAL RESOURCES
▪
Continue efforts to work with the USDA and Extension office relative to forestry and
wildlife programs
designed to assist landowners in reforestation, wildlife and recreational
resources.
▪
Continue and accelerate programs to eliminate erosion on farms, roadsides, school sites
and other areas
where erosion is a problem.
▪
Continue Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet efforts to reclaim abandoned mine
sites located in
the Bell County area.
▪
Continue efforts to develop a County Wide Comprehensive Plan.
▪
Continue efforts to obtain a flood control lake on Wiser Branch and Greasy Creek.
▪
Implement flood mitigation projects as outlined in the regional mitigation plan for the
entirety of Bell
County.
Solid Waste
▪
Develop an ongoing public educational program to inform the public of the dangers of
uncontrolled littering and illegal dumping.
▪
Construct and operate a regional composting operation for household and yard waste.
▪
Develop a program to supplement solid waste pickup rates for very low income
households.
▪
Continue and expand recycling efforts in the county to reduce the landfill area need,
transfers cost and to promote a cleaner environment.
▪
Support funding through such programs as PRIDE to help clean up Bell County.
▪
Encourage and participate in the state’s Clean County Program.
PUBLIC PROTECTION
▪
Provide up-to-date equipment and upgrade educational levels for all law enforcement
officials.
▪
Promote the use of vacant buildings for housing non-violent criminals.
▪
Continue to upgrade technology to ensure proper operation of the enhanced 911 system
to provide better
emergency services to residents of Bell County.
▪
Continue efforts to properly equip and train first responders, such as VFDs, police,
emergency medical, etc.
▪
Continue efforts to improve communications between local and state police officials.
▪
Increase emphasis on programs to eliminate drug and child abuse, including child
abduction.
▪
Continue to support the Police Officers Professional Standards (POPS) and its
applicability to the
Sheriff’s Department and participation in the Kentucky Law Enforcement
Foundation Program Fund (KLEFPF) for the employees.
▪
Further investigate the feasibility of home incarceration as a means of reducing jail
expense and related problems.
▪
Encourage and support implementation of drug courts in Bell County.
▪
Promote projects and efforts to address issues relating to Homeland Security and
emergency services.
▪
Develop a program for the education of city and county employees in the knowledge and
use
of computers and other office equipment.
▪
Construct a Disaster and Emergency Services facility for Bell County.
▪
Continue efforts to improve local official’s ability to successfully administer funds,
personnel, and
records.
▪
Promote and encourage leadership training for all major elected officials.
▪
Implement use of GIS/GPS technologies to assist in the orderly growth of the county.
▪
Implement a GIS mapping system which is comprehensive to enable enhanced 911,
existing road mileages and conditions, location of public buildings and facilities etc.
▪
Promote the improvements to public facilities and infrastructure.
▪
Implement telecommunication technologies for all local governmental functions (city,
county, VFD, police, rescue, hazard response, health care, and other entities).
CLAY COUNTY
ECONOMY
▪
Continue to develop the Elk Hill Industrial Park and construction of the access road off
the Hal Rogers Parkway.
▪
Promote and encourage the development of the secondary wood industry.
▪
Promote the development of fruit and cottage industries to diversify the economy.
▪
Seek funding for the construction of a consolidated farmers market facility.
▪
Promote and develop a Community Supported Agriculture Program.
▪
Develop a major park within the Daniel Boone National Forest and other lands to
promote recreation, ATV, camping and scenic drives.
▪
Engage archaeological experts in the study of ancient markings recently discovered
within Clay County. These markings possibly date to the B.C. (Before Christ) period and
have significant tourism potential.
▪
Continue to develop the 10-15 acres of land set aside for parks and recreational use at Elk
Hill Industrial Park.
▪
Promote and encourage the development of aqua-culture in the county.
▪
Promote and encourage the development of coal, gas and oil resources.
▪
Encourage entrepreneurship for creation of local based jobs.
▪
Promote and encourage the development of tourism in the county.
▪
Support the development of a new Clay County Recreational Center.
▪
Promote the development of wildlife viewing stations on Elk Hill.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Education
▪
Vigorously pursue a program emphasizing the reduction of the dropout rate throughout
the school systems of Clay County.
▪
job opportunities.
▪
Develop programs for improving secondary education opportunities.
▪
Strengthen and improve the availability of vocational programs for students unable to
pursue secondary education.
▪
Expand and improve upon pre-school educational programs.
▪
Promote curriculum that prepares students for post-secondary education and ready
▪
Promote improvements of Eastern Kentucky University Center through expanded course
curriculum, etc.
▪
Continue to support the incorporation of programs to reduce the dropout rate.
▪
Establish a long-term care facility in Clay County.
▪
Conduct a feasibility study of the need for an assisted living facility in Clay County.
▪
Continue endeavors to improve ambulance and other emergency services.
▪
Provide a site for a new ambulance garage and office facilities in Clay County.
▪
Develop and equip the former Big Creek/Hal Rogers toll station as an emergency
substation.
▪
Expand basic primary health care for the citizens of Clay County targeting uninsured and
low income persons with no medical coverage.
▪
Continue to work with UNITE in combating the drug problems within the county.
▪
Support the Chad’s Hope Drug Rehabilitation Center in Clay County.
▪
Seek funding to acquire the necessary equipment to comply with FEMA/Homeland
Security initiatives.
▪
Continue efforts to expand and improve educational, early diagnostic and preventive
health care.
▪
Continue to support the initiative to provide curriculum in the public school systems to
correct lifestyle health issues, such as obesity and diabetes.
▪
Support the development of a recovery/rehabilitation center for women.
Housing
▪
Establish housing developments in the rural parts of the county.
▪
Assist local governments and nonprofit agencies in utilizing code enforcement as a tool
▪
Utilize funds through the Community Development Block Grant program as well as other
sources to acquire and demolish substandard units unfeasible to rehabilitate and relocate
families into housing units meeting minimum property standards per the HUD
programs.
▪
Expand a system for disseminating information and programs that are available to assist
families in obtaining decent, safe and sanitary housing, especially low and moderate
income families.
▪
▪
Encourage the development of section 8 and public housing for low and moderate income
families.
Recreation
▪
Promote incremental development of tourism as identified in local plan.
▪
Develop public walking tracks and other recreational facilities on high school grounds.
▪
Construct an arena in the Industrial Park to be used for public meetings and recreational
activities.
▪
Develop recreational areas with shelters, toilets, ball fields; horseshoe pits, picnic
facilities, loop trails and conservatory trails.
▪
Promote development of facilities for motor homes and other campers.
▪
Promote development of facilities for ATVs, Horseback riding, hiking/walking trails as
well as other adventure tourism.
▪
Promote availability of fine Smallmouth Bass and Muskie fishing.
▪
▪
Continue to support the Health Department's program "Achieve" for further development
of a walking track.
▪
Continue to develop the 10-15 acres of land set aside for parks and recreational use at Elk
Hill Industrial Park.
▪
Continue to support the development of the Bert T. Combs Scenic Trail for horseback
riding, walking, hiking, etc.
▪
Continue support for the development of a lake for water based activities.
AREA INFRASTRUCTURE
Public Water
▪
Improve fire protection by installing fire hydrants wherever feasible throughout the
county.
▪
Install water line extensions to every household in the county not currently served.
▪
Study the feasibility of replacing water and sewer lines within the city of Manchester.
▪
Study the feasibility of locating a regional water treatment facility on the South Fork.
Sewer
▪
Conduct a county wide sewer system feasibility study for Clay County.
▪
Promote sewer line extension throughout the county.
▪
Promote innovative approaches to sewer collection and treatment.
▪
Drinking Water Act
▪
size before installation by qualified city or county employees.
▪
Assist in the funding of new storm water systems as needed.
▪
Continue to construct proper ditching along rural roads to facilitate the proper runoff off
water.
TRANSPORTATION
▪
Construct a by-pass highway around Manchester with access to the Hal Rogers Parkway.
▪
Increase funding to better maintain secondary roads, as well as main highways.
▪
Promote the construction of additional access along Hal Rogers Parkway.
▪
Seek funding for the county road fund in order to obtain more blacktop roads for the rural
areas of the county.
▪
Continue to build the access road to Hal Rogers Parkway from the existing Elk Hill
Industrial Park that will encourage future industrial sites.
▪
Support the establishment of Highway 421 from Richmond to Manchester into the
Appalachia Regional Corridor System.
▪
Continue to promote the PRIDE project involving volunteers to clean-up along rivers and
streams.
▪
Construct a series of water reservoirs to supply water and to provide recreation, such as
camping, fishing and other water activities.
▪
Work with CSX Railroad to utilize the existing railhead to move material more
economically.
Solid Waste
▪
Develop an educational information program concerning solid waste management.
▪
Increase the development and promotion of a Clay County Recycling Program.
▪
Encourage stricter law enforcement concerning illegal dumping.
▪
Work to establish a fee on goods sold in the county to cover solid waste collection and
disposal in the county.
▪
Continue to support the development of a landfill and/or transfer station.
PUBLIC PROTECTION
▪
Develop a program for improving educational levels for law enforcement officials.
▪
▪
Implement Enhanced 911 services to provide better emergency services to residents of
Clay County.
▪
Continue working with UNITE to eliminate drug abuse within the county.
▪
Promote projects and efforts to address issues relating to homeland security and
emergency services.
▪
Continue efforts to improve the local officials’ ability to successfully administer funds
and personnel and to maintain records.
▪
Provide funding to employ a grant writer for city, county, and school system.
▪
Establish a pay classification plan for all county employees.
▪
Seek funding for greater use of GIS/GPS technologies to assist in the orderly growth of
the county.
▪
▪
▪
Encourage the development of additional cell phone towers to provide better service
throughout the
county.
HARLAN COUNTY
ECONOMY
▪
Develop canoeing as a tourist attraction within Harlan County.
▪
Support new and existing fruit and cottage industries to diversify the economy.
▪
Promote the development of aqua-farming.
▪
Recruit, promote and support wood industry businesses.
▪
Develop an industrial park or controlled industrial sites with sewer and water in Harlan
County to supplement Pine Mt. Regional Industrial Park.
▪
Promote and further develop existing businesses and industries.
▪
Prepare "spec" building plans to help attract industries.
▪
▪
Develop new motel facilities, cottages and bed and breakfast facilities.
▪
Promote upgrades of existing motel and hotels.
▪
Develop upholstery, slipcover, drapery and furniture refinishing and other decor
industries.
▪
Promote tourism industry through crafts, antiques, bed and breakfast facilities, and tour
guides to scenic areas, such as Little Shepard Trial, Blanton Forest and Black Mountain.
▪
Promote and develop initiatives that will make the county more attractive to retirees.
▪
Develop secondary and post-secondary programs targeted to high-tech industry.
▪
Improve broad-band capabilities and educate industries on the advantages of marketing
their products via Internet.
▪
Promote establishment of Poly-Gen industries.
▪
Investigate potential for alternative energy production.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Education
▪
Develop vocational training programs conductive to the needs of local industry.
▪
Provide more training opportunities for students who wish to obtain a skill rather than
continue their education in a post-secondary institution.
▪
job opportunities.
▪
▪
Renovate and develop additions to the public educational facilities at elementary and high
schools.
▪
Initiate tourism/hospitality training in high schools, vocational schools and community
colleges.
▪
Develop programs in area high schools, vocational schools and community college for
the telecommunications industry.
▪
Support the Harlan County "Challenge Program".
▪
▪
Promote and expand youth entrepreneurial programs within the school systems.
▪
Support after hour urgent treatment facilities.
▪
Expand educational, early diagnostic, and preventative health care.
▪
Provide incentives to increase the number of high school students entering the medical
professions.
▪
Promote legislation, which encourages medical students to enter practice in rural areas.
▪
Support the newly developed drug rehabilitation center.
▪
Support and encourage efforts of the UNITE program.
▪
Support and encourage any proposed legislation that will provide additional community
based services and medical support for senior citizens.
▪
Assist in the development of medical surveys for clusters of cancers, diabetes and cardiac
related diseases to determine patterns of diseases.
▪
Support the establishment of a public emergency transportation system.
▪
Assist the medical community in the improvement of the air emergency transport.
▪
Engage in community planning to prepare for the “Baby Boomers".
▪
▪
Develop health enhancing facilities, such as wellness and aquatic centers.
Housing
▪
area.
Promote and develop retirement villages to attract residents that want to come back to the
▪
Support community and faith based organizations that provide housing for low income,
elderly and handicapped people.
▪
Develop programs to make the homes of disabled citizens more handicapped accessible.
▪
▪
Utilize code enforcement as a means of accomplishing the demolition of unoccupied
substandard housing that is unfeasible to rehabilitate.
▪
other sources, to acquire and demolish substandard units unfeasible to rehabilitate and
assist in the relocation of families into housing units meeting minimum property
standards.
▪
Develop a system for disseminating information on programs that are available to assist
income families.
▪
▪
Expand housing options for the elderly to include assisted living.
▪
Provide funding to assist all existing and potential housing programs.
▪
Support an area code enforcement official for housing inspection.
▪
Investigate the potential for development of a gated community.
Recreation
▪
Promote activities for middle aged and elderly citizens.
▪
Develop additional ATV and other recreation trails and increase number of recreational
vehicle facilities.
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Develop hunting and camping in wildlife areas.
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Develop comprehensive plan for keeping school and church indoor facilities open after
normal operating hours.
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Develop and support funding for twenty-five miles of the Rails to Trails program.
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Construct multipurpose recreation centers with facilities.
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Develop recreational areas with shelters, walking, hiking, and biking trails, playground
equipment, picnic areas, etc.
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Promote overnight lodging and other facilities at Kingdom Come Park and other state
parks in the area.
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Develop the Blanton Forest in the Watts Creek area for recreation and tourism attraction.
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Promote further development of Little Shepard Trail, Kingdom Come Park and Upper
Martin's Fork area as a tourist attraction, including improved road accessibility.
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Encourage and promote the development of Blanton Forest, Pine Mountain Settlement
School, Pioneer
Village and Little Shepard Trail.
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Establish a Hall of Fame, located inside the Harlan County Courthouse, recognizing
Harlan Countians.
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Establish a museum showcasing the use of wood.
AREA INFRASTRUCTURE
Public Water
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Promote the regional approach of water systems where practical and feasible.
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Develop one or more public water interconnections, including adjacent counties for
backup water supply.
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Develop water systems to provide for maximum fire protection, including installation of
fire hydrants
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Rehabilitate existing systems to improve service and attain the threshold of less than 15%
line loss in all systems throughout the county.
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Merge existing systems, where practical, to improve service.
Sewer
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Promote the development of a regional approach of wastewater systems where practical
and feasible.
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Study the development sewer facilities capable of providing service to the greater part of
Harlan county.
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Address infiltration and inflow issues in wastewater collection systems where cost
effective.
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Promote innovative wastewater infiltration collection and treatment systems for rural
areas.
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Drinking Water Act
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size by qualified city or county employees before installation.
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Assist in the funding of new storm water systems in existing urban areas.
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Study feasibility concerning storm water drainage.
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Develop a storm water system to facilitate drainage problems within the cities of Harlan,
Benham and Loyall.
TRANSPORTATION
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Develop 3.8 miles of US 421 from the Cranks Creek to the Virginia state line. Encourage
Virginia to complete to US 58.
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Improve US 119 from Bell/Harlan line to Low Water Drive.
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Improve HWY 160 to the Virginia line.
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Coordinate lobbying activities in support of the Six Year Road Plan.
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Improve HWY 179 (Slope Hollow between Cumberland and Evarts).
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Improve US 421 from Harlan to the Hal Rogers Parkway.
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Develop 5 mile section of KY 72 from Ligget to Blackstar.
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Promote reforestation or other improved land uses on former strip mine sites.
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Conduct local workshops to promote improved forest practices on public and private land
to enhance forest production.
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Develop practices to eliminate erosion and reduce sedimentation in ditches and stream
beds.
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Develop additional reservoirs and lakes for water supply, recreation and flood control.
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Promote stricter laws affecting strip mining to control acid run off and sedimentation of
streams and rivers.
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Develop program for planting trees in the downtown areas, shopping centers and malls,
such as the "Main Street” and “Renaissance Programs".
Solid Waste
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Develop improved markets for recycled materials.
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Develop an educational program on solid waste management to inform school children
and the public of the dangers of uncontrolled littering and illegal dumping.
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Coordinate and assist Kentucky Legislature in identifying garbage service as a utility, and
make illegal dumping of solid waste a felony.
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Establish methods to ensure guaranteed pickup services which will reduce risk of
environmental contamination from illegal dumping and littering.
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Install "anti-littering" and "penalty for illegal dumping" signs throughout the county.
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Promote the county wide cleanup campaign through the PRIDE and Commonwealth
Cleanup Program.
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Promote making illegal dumping of solid waste on private, state and federal lands a
felony.
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Promote the establishment, by the Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet, of a
field monitoring system with trained personnel to collect evidence and protect citizens
from the long-term ecological damage resulting from the illegal dumping of solid waste.
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Demand state legislature close loopholes that prevent convictions of offenders.
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Utilize the services of the Long-Range Policy Research Center to:
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1.
Initiate research to develop new products from recyclable solid waste.
2.
Initiate research to find better markets for recyclables.
Develop a public use C&D landfill in the county.
PUBLIC PROTECTION
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Provide an incentive for all the incarcerated, who may by illiterate, to participate in a
learning to read program.
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Require that all court determined mentally capable incarcerated persons, if not obtained,
pursue a GED certificate.
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Increase educational opportunities for law enforcement officials.
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Provide up-to-date equipment for law enforcement agencies.
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Improve programs to reduce drug abuse.
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Improve programs to eliminate spouse abuse, child abuse and child abduction.
Encourage county attorneys to enforce statutes concerning payment of back taxes.
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Broaden the services of the Youth and Family Resource Centers to include services
coordinated with district and circuit courts.
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Promote the establishment of a Family Court and the designation of a Family Court Judge
to handle domestic and family related court matters.
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Emergency Management Services, to include a county-wide warning system.
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personnel and records.
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Assist in the orderly growth of the county by seeking funding for GIS/GPS technologies.
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Encourage programs to educate school personnel on the structure of local, state and
federal government agencies.
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Provide programs to teach the present mechanisms through which all citizens can
participate in community, state and national decision making.
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Provide training on civic responsibilities to out-of-school adults through the media, civic
organizations, chambers of commerce, social educational and religious groups.
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Study the creation of a metro-county government.
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Provide technical assistance to the Tri-Cities for cooperative undertakings, such as
interconnection of water and sewer services, and merging of city services, and seek
funding to assist in the effort.
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JACKSON COUNTY
ECONOMY
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Promote and encourage the development of secondary wood industries.
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Develop and expand agri-businesses and cottage industries to diversify the economy.
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Encourage development of local fruit orchard farms.
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Develop remaining acreage in the Jackson County/McKee Regional Park and the recent
purchase of the old Mid-South Plant No. 1 site for additional industry.
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Develop a strategic plan for the re-structuring of the Jackson County/McKee Regional
Industrial Park.
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Promote homemade crafts produced by the citizens of Jackson County.
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Promote and develop initiatives that will make the county more attractive to retirees who
wish to return to the county.
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Build or create new markets for businesses and agricultural products, especially those
related to tourism, farms, wood manufacturing and culture.
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Promote and support existing businesses and industries.
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Support the new farmers market facility and assist in its expansion.
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Continue to support the Jackson County Big Hill Welcome Center that will host a local
craft store and introduce visitors to the County.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Education
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Develop programs to encourage a higher percentage of high school graduates to pursue
secondary education.
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job opportunities.
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Support Kentucky mandates in reducing the school drop-out rate.
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Improve vocational school opportunities for students unable to pursue secondary
education.
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Identify and vocational training opportunities at the vocational school that would fulfill
needs within Jackson County, such as, electricians, plumbing, computer training, etc.
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Continue to expand and improve pre-school educational programs.
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students for the work force beginning as early as middle school.
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Develop vocational high-tech training programs to support local industry needs.
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Develop and/or expand Head start facilities in Sand Gap, McKee and Annville.
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Support the Lord’s Gym of Jackson County Community Activity Center in efforts to
provide community education classes and activities to area youth.
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Continue to improve and expand upon Midway College's extension classes offered at the
vocational school.
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Continue process to develop a program to consolidate health services and improve
ambulance and other emergency services.
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Increase funding for programs that provide for the nutritional needs of low income
families and individuals especially the elderly and physically/mentally disabled.
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Expand educational, early diagnostic, and preventative health care programs.
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Establish an after hour extended health care facility within one of the three clinics located
in Jackson County.
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Provide for better and more affordable long term care for elderly.
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Improve health education programs in public school systems.
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Provide support to the neighboring county drug rehabilitation center.
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Support local health department in expanding/improving facilities to better serve
residents as well as exploring funding options.
Housing
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relocate families into housing units meeting minimum property standards.
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Develop a system for disseminating information concerning programs that are available
to assist families in obtaining decent, safe and sanitary housing, especially low and
moderate income families.
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Recreation
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Support the development of walking trails, horse trails, campsites and off road vehicular
opportunities.
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Form a committee of county and city officials, as well as others, interested in the
coordination of forestry resources.
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Seek funding to provide additional improvements to Gray Hawk Park, Sand Gap Park,
Worthington Park, McKee Park and other recreation facilities.
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area.
Develop recreational facilities and trails at the Flatlick Falls Scenic and Recreational
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Develop an indoor recreation center.
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Continue the progress toward development of one or more lakes for tourism development
and recreation.
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Promote existing Hoot ‘n Holler Recreational Facility and Federal designated Scenic
Highway 89 as tourist attractions
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Support the development of county golf courses.
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Promote activities for middle aged and elderly citizens.
AREA INFRASTRUCTURE
Public Water
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Maintain current status with water supply plan to meet present and future water needs
with potential environmental hazards identified and eliminated.
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Develop a water system to provide maximum fire protection through the installation of
fire hydrants.
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Construct raw water source and line to supplement current and future growth.
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Build more water storage tanks and upgrade pump stations to correct low pressure areas
throughout the Jackson County Water Association System and the McKee Water System.
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Plan for development of water system to keep water plants and lines upgraded ten to
fifteen years ahead of population growth.
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Support the development of a county-wide fire hydrant system versus the flush valve
system to better protect and lower insurance rates of county residents.
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Encourage the two water systems in the county to work together for the benefit of
maintaining
feasible rates.
Sewer
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Continue to seek funds for a new sewer system for the City of McKee.
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Develop a sanitary sewer system for the Annville community and conduct a feasibility
study on the advantages of a grinder station or pump system.
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Secure funding assistance to conduct a county wide sewer feasibility study and
implement rural sewer lines extensions.
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Drinking Water Act.
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Establish procedures whereby storm drainage facilities are reviewed and approved for
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Seek funds for new storm water systems in urban areas.
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Ensure the storm water capacity of pipes, ditches and creeks of new projects (roads,
industrial and housing developments) are sized to accommodate future flow.
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Maintain an on-going program to clean ditches along rural roads to facilitate drainage of
roadways and mitigate flood damage.
TRANSPORTATION
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Relocate KY-30 from Welchburg Road to US -421 near Tyner.
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Continue reconstruction of Highway 421 from Richmond to Manchester.
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Support spot improvements to US 421.
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Promote improved forest practices on public and private lands to improve forest
production.
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Develop a practical program to eliminate erosion and prevent siltation of ditch lines and
stream beds.
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Continue to support and promote the US Forest Service and KY Forest Service in
assisting private individuals relative to wood industry.
Solid Waste
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Develop an educational program on solid waste management to inform school children
and the public on the dangers of uncontrolled littering and illegal dumping.
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Provide incentives for people to keep environment clean.
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Promote county wide cleanup campaigns through PRIDE and the Commonwealth
Cleanup Program.
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Develop stronger penalties for solid waste offenders with the emphasis on apprehension
and prosecution.
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Increase integration of environmental education into the county school curriculum.
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Continue to promote and encourage community recycling as well as develop a residential
recycling pick up program.
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Increase storage capacity for the recycling center.
PUBLIC PROTECTION
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Promote better communications between city, county and state police officials.
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Continue to support the Enhanced 911 services to provide better emergency services to
residents of Jackson County.
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Increase educational upgrade requirements for local law enforcement officials.
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Continue efforts to seek funding to properly equip and train first responders, such as
VFDs, police, emergency medical, etc.
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Develop stronger prosecution strategies for law enforcement with the emphasis on
stronger penalties for those repeatedly convicted of the same crime.
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Provide a more centralized juvenile correctional facility to be located within the
CVADD.
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Continue to seek funding and available resources to increase the number of police
officers to upgrade the amount of protection and enforcement available.
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Continue development of programs to eliminate drug and child abuse, including child
abduction.
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Develop neighborhood crime-watch groups throughout the county.
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Provide a channel on local radio to inform the public of proposed projects and to
disseminate information concerning development plans and activities of local interest.
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emergency services.
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Continue to support and seek funding for the identification and restoration of abandoned
cemeteries.
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Continue efforts to improve the ability of local officials to successfully administer funds,
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Construct an improved Disaster and Emergency Services facilities.
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Seek funding programs to provide fire departments with needed equipment and training
facilities.
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Renovate buildings in downtown McKee.
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Provide for the education of city and county employees in the use of computers and other
office equipment.
the county.
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Continue to seek funding through the US EPA Brownfield Grant Program in order to
clean up/restore buildings for use.
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Continue to seek funding through the US EPA Brownfield Grant Program in order to
clean up/restore buildings for use.
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Seek funding for the City of McKee for updated technology and computer training
programs.
KNOX COUNTY
ECONOMY
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Attract technology businesses to the Barbourville industrial site through the construction
of speculative technology facilities.
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Develop the infrastructure for the effective marketing of the industrial site in
Barbourville, including access from US 25E.
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Promote, market and improve existing buildings for economic growth.
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Promote and develop agri-businesses and cottage industries.
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Develop a hotel or motel with meeting room to accommodate up to 100 people.
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Develop additional "spec" buildings and promote vacant buildings for industries to locate
within the Southeast Kentucky Regional Business Park and other industrial areas.
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Promote the development of a local farmers market.
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Continue to pool local, state and federal resources to promote and encourage the regional
recruitment of industry.
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Develop a cannery for co-op use within Knox County.
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Promote and encourage development of a retirement community in Knox County.
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Propose an electrical power plant to connect to the national grid, via transmission mains
in the county, utilizing coal and other resources from the region.
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Promote Downtown Revitalization.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Education
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Pursue other funding streams to improve school attendance and lower the dropout rate
throughout the Knox County School system.
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job opportunities.
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Strengthen and improve vocational program opportunities for students unable to pursue
college educations, emphasizing heavy equipment operation.
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Expand and improve pre-school educational programs.
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Provide adult education, i.e. GED, WIA, and vocational education as a key to industrial
development.
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Expand technology education.
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Develop a drug rehabilitation facility.
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Continue efforts to improve ambulance and other emergency management services.
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Provide a transportation program for elderly, disabled, and low income families for the
purpose of visiting the doctor.
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Augment local hospital to improve existing building and services.
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Enhance and expand services of local health departments in order to provide better health
care for the region’s citizens.
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Continue to improve and expand services at the Wellness Center in Barbourville to serve
the citizens of Knox County and the surrounding region.
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Continue expansion of health education in public school systems.
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Encourage stationing an Air Ambulance at the Knox Co. Hospital.
Housing
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Develop a program to rehabilitate existing housing stock for low income, elderly and
handicapped people.
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Develop a regional program to make the homes of disabled or handicapped citizens more
accessible to home care and transportation.
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Assist local governments in utilizing code enforcement as a tool for housing
rehabilitation.
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Apply for funds through the Community Development Block Grant program, as well as
other sources, to acquire and demolish substandard units unfeasible to rehabilitate and to
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Develop a system for disseminating information concerning programs that are available
to assist families in obtaining decent, safe and sanitary housing, especially low and
▪
Provide housing counseling and funding assistance for new construction or rehabilitation
of housing for low and moderate income families.
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Provide funding to establish a Habitat for Humanity program.
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Continue to expand and improve services at the homeless shelter/transition housing.
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Expand and improve Housing programs for the elderly, particularly a gated retirement
community.
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Investigate innovative approaches to developing affordable (private) housing using nontypical sites, such as hillsides and slope, in the absence of more suitable flat terrain.
Recreation
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Landscape state and county roadsides for erosion control and scenic attraction.
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Develop recreational facilities and activities, such as, field days, hunting and fishing,
camping and boating.
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Site.
Encourage the expansion of facilities and activities at Dr. Thomas Walker State Historic
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Develop a program for keeping existing school/church indoor facilities open after regular
business hours.
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Continue to improve and expand services of the Wellness Center with the following: (1)
senior citizens center, (2) basketball court, (3) racquetball courts, (4) meeting rooms, (5)
weight rooms, (6) cardiovascular room, (7) soccer fields, and (8) tennis courts.
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Encourage development of hiking trails, ATV trails and facilities, bike trails, etc.,
through the RTP and other programs.
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Develop an Elk Viewing Station.
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Expand the Barbourville Water Park.
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AREA INFRASTRUCTURE
Public Water
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Identify and eliminate potential environmental hazards.
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Develop water resource planning for present and future water needs.
▪
Develop one or more public water interconnections with adjacent cities/counties for
backup water supply.
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Seek funding to extend water lines and construct water storage tanks in rural parts of
Knox County to provide reliable water service to outlying areas.
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Develop existing water lines of adequate size to support fire hydrants.
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Promote the development of water reservoirs as alternate sources of water.
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Continue to support and seek funding for raw water line and pump upgrades.
Sewer
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Prepare a county wide sewer plant feasibility study for Knox County.
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Continue to promote and extend lines where feasible and necessary.
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Promote innovative approaches to sewer collection and treatment.
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Drinking Water Act.
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size, before installation, by qualified city or county officials taking into account future
needs.
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Construct "dry ponds" for flash flood control throughout Knox County.
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Clean ditches along rural roads to improve rapid storm water runoff.
TRANSPORTATION
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Seek increase in county road funds to improve maintenance on all county roads.
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Improve access to downtown Barbourville for traffic from U.S. 25E.
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Seek funds to blacktop the gravel roads maintained as county roads.
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Improve bridges and critical road drainage structures.
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Continue to develop adequate downtown parking facilities to enhance the local and
regional economy.
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Encourage development of sidewalks and provide sidewalks on all new road
construction.
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Continue to encourage construction of bike trails.
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Reconstruct/correct flooding and safety issues along KY-11 throughout Knox County.
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Construct new access road from US25E to West Knox Annex Building.
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Construct new access routes from railroad to building sites in business park.
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Promote reforestation or other improved land uses on former strip mine sites and heavily
harvested areas that have not regenerated naturally.
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Develop additional reservoirs and lakes in the area for water supply, recreation and flood
control.
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Promote proper forest management and fire control on a county wide basis.
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Encourage a county Best Management Practices Manual (BMP) for forestry practices.
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Encourage forest fire prevention programs at the fourth and fifth grade school levels.
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Seed and landscape roadsides and other areas for erosion control and scenic attraction.
PUBLIC PROTECTION
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Upgrade educational levels for law enforcement officials, and provide up-to-date
equipment for their use.
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Develop 911 program to provide better emergency services to residents.
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Continue and expand programs to eliminate drug use, child abuse and child abduction.
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Develop additional fire stations throughout the county.
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Emergency Management Services.
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Seek a Mobile Crime Lab to serve the area.
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Seek funding to construct a temporary storm shelter for communities across the county.
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Preserve Barbourville’s historic Owens House to be maintained as a multi-functional
facility housing a welcome center, an historic museum and Chamber of Commerce
offices.
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Develop and implement the Battle of Barbourville historic civil war battlefield site as part
of a regional civil war preservation effort.
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Provide workshops for the education of city and county employees in the use of
computers and other office equipment.
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the county.
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Construct an Emergency Management Services facility.
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Construct a Central Operations Facility to house several different county departments in
one central location.
LAUREL COUNTY
ECONOMY
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Pursue with great emphasis through incentives the attraction of higher wage scale, higher
skills and benefit laden job development.
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Promote and encourage expansion of existing industries, including wood industries, and
identify needed services. Use these needs for promotion of prospective new businesses.
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Emphasize attractive climate for entrepreneurship and small business job creators.
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Continue development of Laurel County Industrial Park #2 and develop industrial
business/industrial sites, with or without existing buildings in areas conductive to
supporting industrial growth.
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Develop a strategy targeting service industries including medical services to locate in
Laurel County.
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Development of wood industries, with emphasis on secondary wood utilization and
manufacturing of finished products.
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Research and development of agri-businesses, especially fish farming and cottage
industries.
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Research and promote the use of the old Marymount Hospital property to serve the
county and region to the best use possible.
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Encourage large wholesale distributors to locate in Laurel County.
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Seek funding to develop "spec" buildings to help attract industry into the Laurel County
Industrial Parks.
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Assist in marketing the former Thermo-O-Disc building for business development
growth.
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Promote the local farmers market and agri-business opportunities.
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Seek replacement crop alternatives for tobacco farmers.
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Encourage Laurel County to do, on an annual or semi-annual basis, a business wage and
benefit survey to assist in the recruitment of new jobs.
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Continue Downtown Revitalization with encouragement of various activities.
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Develop acreage adjoining the London-Corbin Airport for an Airpark for business
locations requiring ready airport access and support industry relocations and expansions
with the Revolving Loan Fund.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Education
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Encourage the higher education role at the KCTCS Campus at London.
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Continue to strengthen and improve vocational program opportunities for students unable
to pursue secondary education.
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Continue to strive through existing programs and development of new initiatives, to
attain a higher skilled/trained workforce.
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Continue to encourage schools to enhance "work ethic" values in students to better
prepare them for job opportunities.
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Promote new methods/ideas for improving middle school age children education
attainment for greater success in secondary education.
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Continue to promote curriculum that prepares students for post-secondary education and
ready students for the work force.
▪
Expand and improve efforts to reach welfare population through adult and community
education.
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Continue to strengthen child and adult literacy programs.
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Continue to improve head start and early child education programs.
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Provide alternative programs for obtaining GED such as night classes, assistance with
childcare, etc.
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Continue to obtain up-to-date equipment and a central location to improve ambulance and
other emergency services.
▪
Develop a workable and affordable long-term care for citizens who are ineligible for
Medicare/Medicaid.
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Seek funding for additional nursing home beds.
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Expand in-home health care activities for elderly.
▪
Continue program to expand educational, early diagnostic and particularly preventive
health care.
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Continue to maintain the County Health Department with modern equipment and services
to continue its mission.
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Improve health education programs for public school systems.
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Develop a substance abuse rehabilitation facility.
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Encourage and/or develop retirement community facilities and assisted living facilities.
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Assist in the promotion and availability of the old Marymount Hospital property.
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Construct a major Allied Health Services building and support its programs and needs.
Housing
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Promote and support the existing housing rehabilitation programs.
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Continue to develop quality assisted living facilities in the county.
▪
Continue to rehabilitate existing housing stock for low income, elderly and handicapped
people.
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Promote the programs that are available to make the homes of disabled or handicapped
citizens more accessible for transportation and for home care.
▪
Assist local governments in adopting and utilizing code enforcement as a tool for housing
rehabilitation.
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other resources, to acquire and demolish substandard units unfeasible to rehabilitate, and
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Develop mixed use housing subdivisions with the use of CDBG Housing RLF programs.
▪
Develop a system for disseminating information about programs that are available to
assist families in obtaining decent, safe and sanitary housing, especially low and
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Improve property owner’s rights by speeding up the eviction process.
▪
Provide housing assistance program to assist first-time home buyers in securing home
loans.
Recreation/Tourism
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Construct a regional entertainment center including an indoor gym, theater, literary
center, and other similar uses.
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Develop additional outdoor playing fields including baseball, soccer, football, basketball
and other sports.
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Encourage and promote further development of Camp Wildcat.
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Develop outdoor amphitheater for summer productions.
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Develop picnic areas and children's play areas in the county, including at the fairground.
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Enhance opportunities for development of adventure tourism, including ATV trails, etc.
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Develop weekend activities for downtown area, such as mini festivals and concerts.
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Develop program to obtain maximum use of school/church indoor recreational facilities.
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Encourage the further development and expansion of facilities at Levi Jackson State Park
including a lodge.
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Support efforts of the London/Laurel County Tourism commission in their efforts to
increase tourism in the area, specifically the Kentucky Heritage Theme Park.
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Continue to develop recreational areas with shelters, walking, hiking, and biking trails,
playground equipment, picnic areas, etc.
AREA INFRASTRUCTURE
Public Water
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Identify and eliminate potential environmental hazards at Laurel Lake, Woods Creek
Lake, and Lake Dorthae, such as run off, watershed control, septic system control, zebra
mussels, and other possible problems.
▪
Continue water resource planning to meet present and future water needs from all
existing utilities.
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Install larger lines through heart of county to accommodate future growth.
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Support water treatment/distribution expansion projects for Woods Creek and Laurel #2.
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Explore interconnection of water infrastructure with surrounding cities.
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Install larger lines to East Laurel area of county.
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Install larger lines to West Laurel to facilitate interconnections to better serve Whitley
County and existing areas.
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Construct a new storage tank, and a larger line to the city of London for better
interconnections.
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Increase lines for fire protection.
Sewer
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Seek funds for county wide sewer systems for Laurel County through line extensions and
small community sewer treatment facilities.
▪
Support Wood Creek and other County Water District's efforts to provide sewer
treatment facilities throughout the county.
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Extend sewer service for all of the watershed area of Woods Creek.
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Provide sewer service to remainder of areas contiguous to London and Corbin service
area and other feasible areas of Laurel County.
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Drinking Water Act
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Establish procedures whereby storm drainage tiles and culverts are sized by qualified city
or county employee before installation.
▪
Seek funding for adequate storm water systems in urban areas.
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Seek funds to clean ditches along rural roads to facilitate drainage of roadways.
TRANSPORTATION
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Seek additional road funds to better maintain county roads.
▪
Encourage and promote I-66 corridor through Laurel County.
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Continue construction to widen I-75.
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Encourage and promote improvements to US 25.
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Widen 5th Street from KY-192 to Main Street.
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Address intersection of Hal Rogers Parkway and new KY-30 as well as address capacity
issues from KY-30 to KY-192 on the Hal Rogers Parkway.
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Encourage funding road safety projects throughout the county to eliminate dangerous
road hazards.
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Seek funding to expand/improve London-Corbin Airport.
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Promote and encourage passenger rail service through the Laurel County area and into all
CVADD counties and major metropolitan areas.
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Encourage the designation of Scenic By-ways and the development of bike paths.
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Develop connection with Livingston's Trail Town to expand to Laurel/London for
designation as a Trail Town.
▪
Promote a community cleanup/beautification program for Laurel County.
▪
Promote reforestation or other practical land uses on former strip mine sites.
▪
Promote improved forest practices on public and private land to improve forest
production.
▪
Continue efforts to eliminate erosion and prevent sedimentation of the county's streams
and lakes.
▪
Promote and encourage the strict enforcement of laws to control pollution of Laurel
County's environment.
Solid Waste
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Encourage weekly garbage collection to include 100% of Laurel County households.
▪
Work with federal and state legislators to obtain greater assistance in decreasing excess
packaging and passage of bottle and/or litter bills.
▪
Seek legislation to help low income families pay for garbage service.
▪
Seek better enforcement of laws dealing with removal of junk cars and/or screening of
junk cars from visibility along roads and highways.
▪
Develop a public education program on solid waste to inform the public of the dangers of
uncontrolled littering and illegal dumping.
▪
Develop community program to help educate public on the importance of recycling and
solidwaste reduction.
▪
Initiate door-to-door pick up of recyclables in Laurel County.
▪
Continue to support and develop the regional recycling center.
PUBLIC PROTECTION
▪
Upgrade educational levels for law enforcement officials and provide officers with up-todate equipment.
▪
▪
Seek the establishment of a regional drug rehabilitation center in Laurel County.
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emergency services.
▪
▪
Promote improved communication between city, county and state police officials,
prosecutors, judges, and court workers (UNITE).
▪
Expand DARE programs and programs to eliminate child abuse and child abduction.
▪
Staff and fund a pre-trial division and an alternative dispute resolution system for nonviolent offenses.
▪
Promote stronger enforcement of existing child custody and child abuse laws.
▪
Seek funding to construct a temporary storm shelter for communities across the county.
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personnel, and records.
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the county.
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Use area assets in planning for community development.
▪
Continue to improve fire insurance ratings through improvements in fire protection.
▪
Support local charitable organizations in their needs to assist needy persons and families.
▪
Continue to develop/expand emergency housing for homeless and stranded travelers.
▪
Provide for the education of city and county employees in the use of computers.
▪
Expand D.E.S. with county funds on yearly basis for materials to be stockpiled in the
event of an emergency.
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Adopt and enforce the Kentucky Building Code and a substandard housing code for
Laurel County.
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ROCKCASTLE COUNTY
ECONOMY
▪
▪
Develop and promote agri-businesses and cottage industries, particularly ginseng and
mushrooms.
▪
Promote and assist existing authorities and development agencies in their developmental
efforts.
▪
Continue to initiate programs to provide training in preparation of business plans,
financing and marketing.
▪
Seek funding to provide natural gas to residents and industry.
▪
Continue to encourage entrepreneurship for creation of local based jobs.
▪
Promote the development of publicly owned industrial sites throughout the county.
▪
Construct a "spec" building within the Rockcastle County Industrial Park #2.
▪
Develop tourism opportunities in the Livingston area, with emphasis on a bridge to
provide a link to Wildcat Mountain.
▪
Develop new tourist attractions similar to Wildcat Mountain and Levi Jackson State Park.
▪
Continue to encourage private investment in speculative construction within publicly
owned sites and industrial parks.
▪
Promote and develop a cannery or winery to encourage more intensive utilization of farm
lands and to help develop an alternate crop to tobacco.
▪
Promote securing funding through available sources for the Mt. Vernon Main Street
Program as well as within the city limits.
▪
Develop plans and secure funding for the beautification of Brodhead, Livingston and Mt.
Vernon, such as extension of street lamps from Renfro Valley to downtown, and
burying
of overhead wires.
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Restore and preserve historic sites and structures of interest.
▪
Promote and encourage expansion of Renfro Valley and to include other attractions for
families with children.
▪
Create a “brand” for Rockcastle to encourage a uniform identity for promotional
purposes.
▪
Promote the development of a tourism welcome center off I-75.
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Develop/create available acreage for development along I-75.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Education
▪
Assist educational groups and local industry to improve vocational program opportunities
for students unable to pursue secondary education.
▪
Continue to expand and improve pre-school educational programs.
▪
Enhance procedures for greater involvement of parents within dropout prevention
program.
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job opportunities.
▪
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Enhance foster parents training program for eligible couples in Rockcastle County.
▪
Encourage the creation of a post-secondary learning center in the county.
▪
Develop a Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Center.
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Continue efforts to improve ambulance and other emergency/paramedic services.
▪
Encourage the development of an after hour medical care and/or clinical facility.
▪
Develop program to expand education, early diagnostic and preventive health care.
▪
Expand health education programs for public school systems.
▪
▪
Support local programs/organizations in expanding fitness opportunities for residents.
Housing
▪
Seek funding sources for Habitat for Humanity housing.
▪
Continue support of the Daniel Boone Community Action Council’s established program
rehabilitating existing housing stock for low income, elderly and handicapped people.
▪
Initiate program to make homes of disabled and handicapped citizens more accessible for
transportation and for home care.
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rehabilitation.
▪
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▪
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Continue support for the County Housing Board to oversee low income public rental
housing.
▪
Promote regional code enforcement through an interlocal agreement process.
Recreation
▪
Seek funds for land acquisition to develop a community park with a center for indoor
recreation in Rockcastle County.
▪
Develop a park within or near the City of Mt. Vernon containing one T-ball field, three
baseball fields, one running track, playground equipment area, one picnic area, a
swimming pool, and a concession stand with public restrooms.
▪
Encourage development of recreational areas with shelters, walking trails, playground
equipment, picnic areas, etc.
▪
Develop a program for keeping existing school/church recreational facilities available to
the general public.
▪
Encourage and promote development of the Salt Peter Cave as a Civil War attraction and
recreation area.
▪
Encourage Rails-to-Trails development on abandoned railroad beds.
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Develop a large scale comprehensive recreation complex.
▪
Encourage and promote the development of adventure tourism, such as ATV, hiking,
horse trails, etc.
AREA INFRASTRUCTURE
Public Water
▪
Complete the Regional Water Supply Plan which will identify and recommend solutions
for potential environmental hazards throughout the county.
▪
Maintain public interconnections with adjacent systems as backup water supply.
▪
Develop water systems to provide maximum fire protection capabilities.
▪
Extend water service to all areas of the county.
Brodhead
▪
Develop interconnections with West Rockcastle, Lincoln and Pulaski Counties.
▪
Develop an alternative source of water supply such as the Cedar Creek Reservoir.
▪
Replace obsolete and undersized water lines such as along Boone Fork Road.
Mt. Vernon
▪
Continue to improve storage and treatment capabilities.
Livingston
▪
Continue to rehabilitate existing water system.
Sewer
▪
Provide sewer service to the areas not serviced in the cities of Brodhead, Livingston and
Mt. Vernon.
▪
Drinking Water Act
▪
Investigate possibility of county wide sewer plant feasibility study for Rockcastle
County.
Brodhead
▪
Extend and upgrade sewer system to cover entire city.
▪
Repair leaks in existing system to reduce cost of sewage treatment and improve quality of
effluent entering the river.
Mt. Vernon
▪
Continue to upgrade system to provide the most cost effective sewer service.
▪
Eliminate I&I and expand or construct a new sewer treatment plant.
▪
Repair Main street sewer system.
Livingston
▪
Repair or replace existing system and extend sewer system to cover entire community.
▪
▪
Seek funding for new storm water systems where needed in urban areas.
TRANSPORTATION
▪
Seek funding assistance to help finance up-to-date capital equipment.
▪
Continue to widen I-75 through Rockcastle County.
▪
Seek funds to provide the local match for funding of public transit acquisition and
rehabilitation of old equipment.
▪
Continue to seek alternative sources of funding for more equipment and manpower to
complete road projects including repair and maintenance of rural roads.
▪
Enhance the marketability of sites within the industrial parks by extending existing rail
spurs and constructing new spurs as necessary.
▪
Enhance entrance to Mt. Vernon with the extension of decorative street lamps from
Renfro Valley.
▪
Continue improvements to US150 from KY-461 to US-25 in Mt. Vernon.
▪
Promote reforestation or other improved land uses on former strip mine sites.
▪
Promote improved forest practices on public and private land to improve forest
production.
▪
Continue programs to eliminate erosion and reduce sedimentation of the county's streams
and rivers.
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control.
▪
Develop additional utilization of forest products through the secondary wood
manufacturing industry.
▪
Assist local farmers with animal waste systems through buffer zones or comparable
project in an effort to reduce pollution of water supplies.
▪
Encourage the development of alternative fuels and energy sources.
Solid Waste
▪
Continue support for the county wide program for the collection of recyclables.
▪
Continue support for the used oil recycling center.
▪
Develop a county wide composting facility for lawn clippings, tree limbs and other items
that can be composted.
PUBLIC PROTECTION
▪
▪
▪
Provide local law enforcement with up-to-date equipment.
▪
▪
Expand programs to eliminate drug abuse, and child abuse and abduction.
▪
Develop improved communication services for law enforcement, emergency services,
etc.
▪
Seek funding for improvements to emergency services, such as additional manpower,
equipment and education.
▪
Continue to promote projects and efforts to address issues relating to Homeland Security
and Emergency Management Services.
▪
Continue to support the development of a new 911 facility.
▪
▪
▪
Employ additional staff at state and area development district levels to assist counties in
preparing budgets and conducting seminars on numerous issues and concerns of local
government officials.
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the county.
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WHITLEY COUNTY
ECONOMY
▪
Continue efforts to expand the Williamsburg/Whitley County Airport in the
Williamsburg area.
▪
Promote and recruit prospects for the Southeastern Kentucky Regional Industrial Park at
Corbin.
▪
Develop and support industrial parks or controlled industrial sites in the southern
Whitley County area.
▪
Encourage the development of the wood industry, with greater emphasis on secondary
wood products.
▪
Develop and promote agri-businesses, in particular the multi-county vegetable marketing
center and farmers market in the Corbin area.
▪
Continue to promote and encourage the growth and expansion of existing industries.
▪
▪
Promote and develop natural gas as a primary fuel and as a resource to attract new
industry.
▪
Develop and promote a factory outlet mall.
▪
Promote and encourage "green technology" companies to locate in the county.
▪
Further develop the potential for additional motels and restaurants.
▪
Continue to construct regional "spec" buildings as needed, particularly, technology
facilities to help attract prospective industries throughout the county.
▪
Encourage and assist the existing industrial authorities in the promotion of Whitley
County as an area to locate new industry.
▪
Encourage and assist existing industrial authorities to promote Whitley County and to
recruit new industry throughout the county.
▪
Utilize new technologies, such as GIS and the Internet for recruitment and new jobs
development.
▪
Promote Coal-to-Liquid industries and other clean coal technologies.
▪
Promote and support the Southeast Kentucky Agricultural and Exposition Center.
▪
Continue to promote and support the economic development efforts with Kentucky
Highlands Investment Corporation.
▪
Continue to develop and promote the 100 acre site in Savoy.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Education
▪
Continue efforts to reduce the dropout rate in the school systems of the county.
▪
job opportunities.
▪
▪
Continue to strengthen and improve vocational programs for students unable to pursue
secondary education, particularly at the Corbin Area Vocational Technical School
through the Junior Achievement Program sponsored by the KY Southern Chamber.
▪
Encourage the location of a technical school in mid or southern Whitley County.
▪
▪
Develop a job skills center for individuals who are exiting out of rehabilitation/drug
court.
▪
Develop a substance abuse rehabilitation facility.
▪
Continue efforts to improve ambulance and other emergency services.
▪
Encourage the expansion of health care facilities for the handicapped and elderly.
▪
Increase education and support Healthy Start, early diagnostic, and preventative health
care programs at the Whitley County Health Department.
▪
Improve health education programs for all public school systems.
Housing
▪
Continue support of the Mountain Outreach housing program at Cumberland College and
other organizations throughout the county.
▪
Continue support of the Bell-Whitley Community Action Agency rehabilitation of
existing housing stock for low income, elderly and handicapped persons.
▪
Support programs to make the homes of disabled or handicapped citizens more accessible
for transportation and for home care via Bell-Whitley CAA and Whitley County Health
Department and other entities.
▪
rehabilitation.
▪
Utilize code enforcement where applicable as a means of accomplishing the demolition
of unoccupied substandard housing that is not feasible to rehabilitate or is located in a
hazard area.
▪
Utilize funds through the Community Development Block grant program, as well as other
sources, to acquire and demolish substandard units unfeasible to rehabilitate, and relocate
families into housing units meeting minimum property standards.
▪
Develop a system for disseminating information about programs available to assist
income families.
▪
Continue support of Kentucky Highlands effort in constructing energy efficient housing
for residents as well as low income families.
▪
Continue to increase the number of section 8 and public housing for low income families.
Recreation
▪
Establish tour routes to best show areas of historical significance as well as areas of
scenic and natural beauty.
▪
Promote the Kentucky Splash Water Park at Williamsburg and Cumberland Falls State
Park as tourist destinations.
▪
Conduct and sustain cleanup programs along waterways and highways.
▪
Continue development of fishing and wildlife management programs.
▪
Develop Whitley County as a "Gateway" to surrounding tourism attractions.
▪
Develop program to better utilize existing school and church indoor recreational
facilities.
▪
Develop center for indoor recreation, especially for teens.
▪
Develop recreational areas with shelters, walking trails, playground equipment, picnic
areas, etc.
▪
Develop an 18-hole championship public golf course, with ample infrastructure and
access, in the vicinity of Cumberland Falls State Park.
▪
Promote and encourage the enhancement and development of existing and new tourist
attractions in the county.
▪
▪
Develop a regionally cooperative tourism effort in order to link the entire region’s tourist
industry.
▪
Develop boat levees and ramps along streams to promote a "Stream Trail System".
▪
Develop ATV, horseback riding, hiking, and biking trails as well as RV parks and other
adventure tourism initiatives.
AREA INFRASTRUCTURE
Public Water
▪
Identify and eliminate potential environmental hazards to ground water and surface water
supplies.
▪
Develop water systems to provide maximum fire protection.
▪
Continue efforts to extend water lines to communities throughout Whitley County.
▪
Continue efforts to extend water lines along Keswick Road and Mud Creek area and
improve
existing facilities.
▪
Extend water lines into Cumberland Falls area and improve existing facilities.
▪
Strengthen water service delivery to all residents by encouraging system consolidation
where feasible and practical.
▪
Promote and develop increased production capacity at the Williamsburg and Corbin
Utilities water plants and encourage new treatment development by the existing entities.
▪
Enhance GIS/GPS technology for more efficient management of existing and/or new
water systems in the county.
Sewer
▪
Provide sewer service for the following communities in the City of Corbin Service Area:
(1) Oak Grove Community, (2) Barton Area, and (3) Woodbine Community.
▪
Provide sewer service for the following communities in the City of Williamsburg Service
Area: (1) Kentucky 92E for approximately three miles, (2) Savoy/In-an/Pleasant View–
US 25 South area, (3) Exit 15 area on both sides of Interstate 75 (Goldbug community),
and (4) North along highway 26 to the Wofford area.
▪
Develop method to increase proper sewage treatment to rural areas of the county.
▪
Enhance GIS/GPS technology for more efficient management of existing and/or new
wastewater systems in the county.
▪
Utilize new technologies for providing sanitary waste water treatment access to
individual homes and/or clusters of communities.
▪
Support and encourage existing water districts and municipal water/sewer systems to
expand sewerage into rural areas.
▪
Develop and implement sewer treatment options for Cumberland Falls State Park and
areas in that section of the county.
▪
Drinking Water Act
▪
Establish procedure whereby drainage tiles and culverts are reviewed and approved for
▪
Seek funding for new storm water systems in the county's urban areas.
TRANSPORTATION
▪
Continue development of the Williamsburg/Whitley County Airport, including the
development of industrial acreage to complement the airport.
▪
Initiate county wide program to conduct and sustain cleanup of trash along county roads
and streams.
▪
Seek additional road funds to provide better maintenance for county roads.
▪
Promote and further develop programs to use welfare recipients and prisoners for
cleaning up litter and illegal dumps along roadways.
▪
Seek increased funding for continuing the blacktop road program in the county.
▪
Continue to seek improvements of US 25 throughout the County.
▪
Continue to improve I-75 throughout Whitley County.
▪
Improve access to Savoy site
▪
Promote reforestation, particularly those areas affected by the Southern Pine Beetle, as
well as other improved land uses on former strip mine sites.
▪
Promote improved forest practices on public and private land to increase forest
production.
▪
Continue efforts to eliminate erosion and reduce sedimentation of the county's rivers and
streams.
▪
control.
▪
Continue to develop educational programs to make people more aware of the impact of
society upon the environment.
Solid Waste
▪
Develop a public information program to inform the public of the dangers of uncontrolled
littering and illegal dumping and other problems relating to solid waste management.
▪
Promote and implement the county's Solid Waste Management Plan.
▪
Promote greater efficiency of waste disposal and/or collection systems by encouraging
regional cooperation.
PUBLIC PROTECTION
▪
Develop programs to eliminate child abuse and child abduction.
▪
▪
Continue to develop programs to improve the working relationship among state and local
officials in rural areas.
▪
Continue to develop task force on drug enforcement that will work with city and county
school systems on education and enforcement of current laws.
▪
Promote neighborhood watch group organizations to strengthen local enforcement of
public protection laws.
▪
Increase First Response Agencies’ tools, equipment, and training to assure effective
Homeland Security initiatives.
▪
Construct a Disaster and Emergency Management Services facility.
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Seek to interconnect, via the Internet, Whitley County government to other county, state
and federal agencies through training and provision of computer equipment.
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the county.
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Regional Priority Projects
Bell County
▪
Infrastructure and access road to Pine Mountain Regional Industrial Park
▪
Promote the Pine Mountain Regional Industrial Park for job creation opportunities,
especially a coal to liquid or other clean coal industries location
▪
Speculative building construction
▪
Public water availability
▪
Public Sewer availability
▪
Cannon Creek Lake development initiative
▪
Upgrade Highway 2011, Highway 190 and Page cut-off
▪
Develop ATV and other trail activities, including RV park
▪
Develop enhanced communication technology, such as Broadband, for local
communities, especially
first responders
▪
Support efforts to build a hotel/motel/conference facility in the Pineville area.
Clay County
▪
Implement more ecotourism activities
▪
Speculative building construction
▪
Additional access roads to Hal Rogers Parkway
▪
Construction of five miles of four lane on US 421
▪
Development of additional industrial property for job creation opportunities
▪
Develop enhanced communication technology, such as Broadband and additional cell
phone, for local communities, especially first responders
Harlan County
▪
Enhance tourism opportunities, including ATV trails, Blanton Forest, etc.
▪
Public water availability and system interconnection
▪
Develop 3.8 miles of US 421 from Hal Rogers Parkway to US 58 in Lee County, Virginia
▪
Strive to enhance the creation of job opportunities
▪
Encourage the tri-cities to cooperate and seek ways to interconnect services and
operations
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communities, especially first responders
Jackson County
▪
Assist the local industrial development authority in the development of vacant acreage at
regional industrial park for job creation
▪
Fund ATV, horseback riding, hiking/walking, and biking trail opportunities
▪
Reconstruction of US 421 from Madison County to Clay County
▪
Construct retirement villages to attract retires to the county
▪
Construct a heliport to facilitate improved emergency medical transportation
▪
Continue to develop Flatlick Falls as a major tourism and recreation area
▪
▪
Continue to support and seek funding for the identification and restoration of abandoned
cemeteries.
Knox County
▪
Develop infrastructure and access from US 25E to Barbourville Industrial Park
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Park
Construct speculative buildings on Barbourville Industrial Park and Regional Industrial
▪
Encourage the expansion of services at the Knox County Hospital
▪
Develop a hotel/motel with meeting room to accommodate up to 100 people
▪
▪
Construct adequate parking facility in downtown Barbourville and Corbin
Continue to support further development of the Wellness Center
▪
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Improve access to downtown Barbourville
Laurel County
▪
Construct speculative buildings for attraction of air transportation crucial businesses at
the London-Corbin Airport
▪
Market Therm-O-Disc building to attract technology based companies
▪
Reconstruct/Improvements to US25 from KY-192 to US25E.
▪
Widen and improve 5th Street from KY192 to Main Street
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Construction of southern by-pass from US 25 to Hal Rogers Parkway
▪
Develop retirement community, including Assisted Living facility
▪
Encourage the development of large public recreation opportunities
▪
Develop major tourism opportunities
▪
Rockcastle County
▪
Continue improvements to US-150 from KY-461 to US25 in Mt. Vernon.
▪
Promote Mt. Vernon downtown revitalization, as well as Brodhead and Livingston
beautification
▪
Develop publicly owned industrial parks and spec buildings
▪
Encourage expansion at Renfro Valley to establish a major regional tourism and facility
▪
Construction of new sewer plant at Mt. Vernon
▪
Secure funding to improve all three cities' sewer systems
▪
phone towers, for local communities, especially first responders
▪
Continue the expansion of potable water lines to unserved areas
Whitley County
▪
Develop industrial park or sites in southern Whitley County and promote Agri-Business
▪
Construct regional cannery contiguous to the Regional Farmers Market
▪
Assist Corbin and Williamsburg in necessary sewer system improvements
▪
Continue development of the Williamsburg-Whitley County Airport including industrial
acreage
▪
Reconstruct Highway 92 from Pineville to Williamsburg
▪
Promote the Southeast Kentucky Agricultural and Exposition Center
▪
phone towers, for local communities, especially first responders
APPENDIX B
INDUSTRIAL PARK MAPS
APPENDIX C
HIGHER EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES MAP
APPENDIX D
CVADD MAJOR TRANSPORTATION NETWORK MAP
County
BELL
2014 – 2020 Highway Plan
Route
Description
CONSTRUCT NEW ROUTE FROM KY 441 TO US 25E IN
KY-441
MIDDLESBORO
BELL
US-119
BELL
KY-66
IMPROVE CONGESTION AND FREIGHT MOVEMENT BY
CONSTRUCTING A TWO WAY LEFT TURN LANE.
RECONSTRUCT KY-66 FROM 500' S OF NCL PINEVILLE TO
KY-221
KY-2011
REPLACE BRIDGE ON KY-2011 (MP 8.498) OVER RED BIRD
CREEK; .55 MI SOUTH OF JCT KY 66
CR-1327
REPLACE BRIDGE ON CR-1327 (MP 0.014) OVER LEFT FORK
STRAIGHT CREEK
CR-1184
US-119
REPLACE BRIDGE ON DAVIS OXENDINE RD (CR 1184) OVER
HANCES CREEK AT JCT WITH KY 1344
PAGE SCHOOL TURN LANE.
BELL
BELL
BELL
BELL
BELL
US-119
BELL
US-119
PROVIDE A PASSING BAY ON US 119 IN THE VICINITY OF MP
15 IN BELL COUNTY.
CONSTRUCT LEFT AND RIGHT TURN LANES ONTO THE BELL
COUNTY GARAGE/VETERANS PARK ENTRANCE FROM US
119.
CLAY
US-421
WEST BYPASS OF MANCHESTER (GRADE, DRAIN &
INCIDENTAL SURFACING)
CLAY
CLAY
CLAY
CR1113A
US-421
CR-1004
CLAY
CR-1154
CLAY
CLAY
CR-1160
KY-66
REPLACE BRIDGE AND APPROACHES ON CR-1113A OVER
BIG CREEK
REPLACE BRIDGE ON US 421 OVER ISLAND CREEK
REPLACE BRIDGE ON BEECH CREEK RD
REPLACE BRIDGE ON MILL CREEK ROAD OVER GOOSE
CREEK
REPLACE BRIDGE OVER OTTER CREEK ON OTTER CREEK
ROAD
CORRECT ROCKFALL HAZARD
KY-2432
US-421
RECONSTRUCTION KY-2432 FROM 2ND STREET IN EAST
MANCHESTER NORTH TO THE LEFT FORK OF COAL
HOLLOW ROAD
WIDEN US-421/KY-80 TO THREE LANES
US-421
CR-1263
CR-1172B
KY-66
CONSTRUCT NEW ENTRANCE TO THE GREEN PARK FROM
US-421 TO END NEAR CEMETERY
REPLACE BRIDGE OVER CURRY BRANCH ROAD
REPLACE BRIDGE OVER GOOSE CREEK
RECONSTRUCT EXISTING S-CURVE
CLAY
CLAY
CLAY
CLAY
CLAY
CLAY
CLAY
CLAY
HARLAN
HARLAN
HARLAN
HARLAN
HARLAN
HARLAN
HARLAN
KY-638
IMPROVE SAFETY AND SIGHT DISTANCE ALONG KY-638
AND ITS INTERSECTION WITH KY-3476
CR-1286
KY-1926
IMPROVE GEOMETRICS ALONG URBAN CREEK ROAD AND
INCLUDING INTERSECTIONS AT HAL ROGERS PARKWAY
AND KY-687
KINGDOM COME STATE PARK ACCESS ROAD
US-421
HARLAN-VA STATE LINE - RESCOPE US-421 FROM BARN
BRANCH TO VA STATE LINE
US-421
KY-413
SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS ON US-421 FROM VA STATE LINE
TO NORTH OF LITTLE SHEPHERD TRAIL
REPLACE BRIDGE OVER CUMBERLAND RIVER
CR-1125
REPLACE BRIDGE & APPROACHES ON CR-1125 OVER
CLOVER FORK OF CUMBERLAND RIVER
KY-72
KY-219
REPLACE BRIDGE ON KY-72 OVER CATRON CREEK AT
INTERSECTION OF KY-72 & SMITH LANE
REPLACE BRIDGE OVER WALLINS CREEK ON KY-219
HARLAN
HARLAN
HARLAN
HARLAN
HARLAN
US-119
US-119
KY-38
US-119
US-119
JACKSON
KY-30
WIDEN US-119 TO PROVIDE RIGHT LANE TURN AT US119/KY-840 INTERSECTION
POVIDE PASSING BAY ON US-119 FROM MP 1.2 TO 2.2
IMPROVE SAFETY ON DEAD MAN'S CURVE NEAR MP 10.1
CONSTRUCT TURN LANES ONTO KY-840 FROM US-119
CONSTRUCT LEFT TURN LANE FROM US-119 ONTO KY-3152
RECONSTRUCT KY-30 FROM US-421 TO OWSLEY COUNTY
LINE
JACKSON
KNOX
US-421
KY-11
REPLACE BRIDGE ON US-421 OVER PIGEON ROOST CREEK
AT INTERSECTION WITH WATER STREET E
WIDEN KY-11 RAILROAD BRIDGE AT US-25E
KNOX
US-25E
MAJOR WIDENING ON US-25E FROM CORBIN BYPASS TO
KNOX/LAUREL COUNTY LINE
KNOX
KY-2418
REPLACE BRIDGE AND APPROACHES ON KY-2418 OVER
LITTLE RICHLAND CREEK
KNOX
KY-3437
REPLACE BRIDGE ON KY-3437 OVER EAST FORK BIG INDIAN
CREEK
KNOX
KY-1487
KNOX
KNOX
KNOX
KY-223
KY-459
KY-459
CONSTRUCT TURN LANES, SIDEWALKS, CURVE
IMPROVEMENTS ALONG KY-1487 AT UNION COLLEGE
REPLACE STINKING CREEK ROAD BROWNS BRANCH
BRIDGE
RAISE KY-459 ABOVE FLOOD PLAIN FROM MP 4 TO MP 5
RAISE KY-459 ABOVE FLOOD PLAIN FROM MP 3 TO MP 4
KNOX
KNOX
CR-1168L
KY-1629
INSTALL RAILROAD CROSSING GATES AT THE SCHOOL
STREET CROSSING IN ARTEMUS
IMPROVEMENTS TO KY-1629
KNOX
KNOX
US-25E
KY-11
KNOX
LAUREL
KY-3439
US-25
CONSTRUCT RIGHT TURN LANE AT CANADA BROTHERS
AUTO SOUTH BOUND; LEFT TURN LANE AT COUNTYWIDE
AUTO SOUTHBOUND; RIGHT TURN LANE AT SAM PARKER
ROAD NORTH BOUND
FLASHING BEACON AT KY-11 / KY-1304 INTERSECTION
IMPROVE SAFETY NEAR INTERSECTION OF US-25E AND KY3439
US-25 CONGESTION RELIEF
US-25
CONSTRUCT BACK ENTRANCE TO SLHS WITH CONNECTION
TO KY-192 AND KY-363
LAUREL
LAUREL
LAUREL
LAUREL
LAUREL
US-25E
KY-192
KY-363
KY-578
LAUREL
I-75
MAJOR WIDENING ON US-25E FROM KNOX/LAUREL
COUNTY LINE TO KY-770
MAJOR WIDENING FROM KY-1006 TO US-25 IN LONDON
CONSTRUCT ROUNDABOUT ON KY-363 AT KY-1006
REPLACE BRIDGE ON KY-578 OVER RACCOON CREEK
REPLACE NORTHBOUND BRIDGE ON I-75 OVER LAUREL
RIVER
LAUREL
LAUREL
CR-1862
KY-312
LAUREL
US-25
REPLACE BRIDGE ON DOG BRANCH MAIL ROAD OVER
SINKING CREEK
REPLACE BRIDGE OVER CRAIG CREEK ON KY-312
INCREASE CAPACITY OF THE ROBINSON CREEK BRIDGE ON
US-25
LAUREL
KY-80
CONSTRUCTION OF FRONTAGE ROAD ALONG I-75 BETWEEN
EXIT 38 & 41
LAUREL
LAUREL
LAUREL
KY-80
CR1233A9
CR-1221
LAUREL
KY-80
PROVIDE FRONTAGE ROADS ON BOTH SIDES OF KY-80 JUST
WEST OF I-75 EXIT 41.
KY-354
I-75
KY-1505
KY-1787
CR-1071
PROVIDE LEFT AND RIGHT TURN LANES FOR KY-354 WHILE
LOWERING EXISTING VERTICAL GRADE TO IMPROVE
ALIGNMENT WITH KY-30
MAJOR WIDENING I-75
REPLACE BRIDGE ON KY-1505 OVER DIX RIVER
REPLACE BRIDGE ON KY-1787 OVER DAVIS BRANCH
REPLACE BRIDGE ON WILDIE ROAD OVER CLEAR CREEK
LAUREL
ROCKCASTLE
ROCKCASTLE
ROCKCASTLE
ROCKCASTLE
CONSTRUCTION OF I-75 FRONTAGE ROAD FROM KY-3432 TO
5TH STREET
REPLACE WOODEN TRESSEL BRIDGE AT FARISTON
REPLACE BRIDGE LOCATED ON LILY ROAD
ROCKCASTLE
ROCKCASTLE
ROCKCASTLE
WHITLEY
WHITLEY
WHITLEY
WHITLEY
WHITLEY
CR-1140
KY-1329
REPLACE BRIDGE OVER MULLINS SPRING ON MULLINS
STATION ROAD
LANDSLIDE REPAIR ON KY-1329 FROM LUNER ROAD
I-75
MAKE I-75 THREE LANES IN EACH DIRECTION FROM EXIT 55
TO EXIT 69
KY-92
RECONSTRUCT KY-92 FROM 500 FT WEST OF
WHITLEY/MCCREARY COUNTY LINE TO 1200 FT EAST OF
OLD JELLICO CREEK ROAD
US-25W
MAJOR WIDENING, ADDRESS CONGESTION, FREIGHT
MOVEMENT, AND ACCESS ALONG US-25
KY-204
CR-1184
INSTALL GUARDRAIL ALONG KY-204 FROM 1.67 MILES
FROM KY-296 TO SOUTH OF US 25
REPLACE BRIDGE ON CR-1184 OVER PATTERSON CREEK
KY-2386
RECONSTRUCT KY-2386 SOUTH OF BAILEY'S CURVE TO THE
ITNERECTION SOUTH 2ND STREET
APPENDIX E
COUNTY WATER AND SEWER MAPS
Bell County Water Lines
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MIDDLESBORO
BELL COUNTY FORESTRY CAMP
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988
BLACK MOUNTAIN UTILITY - DAYHOIT
FONDE WATER SYSTEM
Water Treatment Plant
KNOX COUNTY UTILITY COMMISSION
State Roads
PINEVILLE UTILITY COMMISSION
US Roads
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535
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186
0
WATER SERVICE CORPORATION OF KENTUCKY
0.75
1.5
3
4.5
6
Miles
N
Bell County Sewer Lines
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535
MIDDLESBORO
STP
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988
FERNDALE APARTMENTS INC
STP
State Roads
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186
LONE JACK SCHOOL CENTER
BRITTHAVEN OF PINEVILLE
US Roads
FRAKES SCHOOL CENTER
0
KCC BELL COUNTY FOREST CAMP
0.75
1.5
3
4.5
MIDDLESBORO STP
PAGE SCHOOL CENTER
PINEVILLE STP
RIGHT FORK SCHOOL CENTER
6
Miles
N
Clay County Water Lines
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MANCHESTER
9006
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80
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3469
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66
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2467
Parkways
State Roads
US Roads
EAST LAUREL WATER DISTRICT
MANCHESTER WATER WORKS
NORTH MANCHESTER WATER ASSOCIATION INC
0
1
2
4
6
N
8
Miles
Clay County Sewer Lines
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MANCHESTER
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1850
State Roads
Parkways
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2467
US Roads
BIG CREEK ELEM SCHOOL
BURNING SPRINGS ELEM SCHOOL
CHADS HOPE CENTER
CLAY CO AREA TECH CENTER
GOOSE ROCK ELEM SCHOOL
HACKER ELEM SCHOOL
LAUREL CREEK HEALTH CARE CENTER
MANCHESTER RECREATIONAL CENTER
MANCHESTER STP
ONEDA BAPTIST INSTITUTE
REDBIRD MISSION HIGH & ELEMENTARY
REDBIRD MISSION INC.
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66
Harlan County Water Lines
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CUMBERLAND
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510
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2006
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2010
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522
2010
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421
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3460
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US Roads
BENHAM WATER PLANT
990
3001
BLACK MOUNTAIN UTILITY - COXTON
1137
3015
3001
991
3099
72
3458
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3152
3451
WALLINS CREEK
EVARTS
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LYNCH
BENHAM
987
BLACK MOUNTAIN UTILITY - DAYHOIT
BLACK MOUNTAIN UTILITY - KENVIR
¬
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568
BLACK MOUNTAIN UTILITY - LOUELLEN
BLACK MOUNTAIN UTILITY - ROSSPOINT
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3462
BLACK MOUNTAIN UTILITY - SUKEY RIDGE
BLACK MOUNTAIN UTILITY - WALLINS
CAWOOD WATER DISTRICT
1138
CAWOOD WATER DISTRICT - PATHFORK
3463
COAP, INC.
CUMBERLAND MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS
EVARTS MUNICIPAL WATER PLANT
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2005
GREEN HILLS WATER DISTRICT
HARLAN MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS
KINGDOM COME STATE PARK
LYNCH WATER WORKS
0
1
2
4
6
8
Miles
N
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BENHAM
987
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568
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3462
1138
3463
BENHAM STP
HOLIDAY MHP
CAWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LOYALL STP
DOSS FUELCO INC
SIDS MHP
GREEN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
VALLEY VIEW LODGE
BLACK MOUNTAIN UTILITY DISTRICT - CLOSPLINT STP
KINGDOM COME STATE PARK
CUMBERLAND STP
LYNCH STP
EVARTS STP
TURNER TRAILER PARK
HARLAN CO HIGH SCHOOL
WALLINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HARLAN STP
0
1
2
4
STP
6
State Roads
US Roads
8
Miles
N
Jackson County Water Lines
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EASTERN ROCKCASTLE COUNTY WATER ASSOCIATION
JACKSON COUNTY WATER ASSOCIATION INC
MCKEE WATER WORKS
NORTH MANCHESTER WATER ASSOCIATION INC
WOOD CREEK WATER DISTRICT
0 0.75 1.5
3
4.5
6
Miles
N
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US Roads
ANNVILLE INSTITUTE
JACKSON CO REGIONAL IND PARK
JACKSON MANOR
0 0.75 1.5
3
4.5
6
Miles
MCKEE STP
TYNER ELEM SCHOOL
N
Knox County Water Lines
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BARBOURVILLE UTILITY COMMISSION
CORBIN UTILITIES COMMISSION
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225
State Roads
DR. THOMAS WALKER STATE HISTORIC SITE
US Roads
LAUREL WATER DISTRICT #2
WHITLEY COUNTY WATER DISTRICT #1
0 0.75 1.5
3
4.5
6
Miles
N
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BOSTON ELEM SCHOOL
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CORBIN STP
Parkways
FLAT LICK ELEM SCHOOL
State Roads
GIRDLER ELEM SCHOOL
US Roads
0 0.75 1.5
3
4.5
DEWITT ELEM SCHOOL
JACKSON MANCHINE SALES INC
6
Miles
N
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BARBOURVILLE UTILITY COMMISSION
LIVINGSTON MUNICPAL WATER WORKS
Interstates
MANCHESTER WATER WORKS
Parkways
State Roads
US Roads
N
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0
1
2
LAUREL WATER DISTRICT #2
4
6
LEVI JACKSON WILDERNESS STATE PARK
8
Miles
LONDON UTILITY COMMISSION
WEST LAUREL WATER ASSOCIATION
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CORBIN STP
CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
JOHNSON ELEM SCHOOL
KEAVY ELEMENTARY
Parkways
LEVI JACKSON WILDERNESS STATE PARK
Interstates
State Roads
US Roads
N
0
1
2
4
6
8
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LONDON STP
USDA FOREST SERVICE HOLLY BAY
Rockcastle County Water Lines
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Interstates
LIVINGSTON MUNICPAL WATER WORKS
State Roads
MOUNT VERNON WATER WORKS
WESTERN ROCKCASTLE WATER ASSOCIATION
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N
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6
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Interstates
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State Roads
CUMBERLAND FALLS HIGHWAY WATER DISTRICT
US Roads
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WHITLEY COUNTY WATER DISTRICT
4
6
8
Miles
WILLIAMSBURG MUNICIPAL WTP
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PLEASANT VIEW ELEM SCHOOL
Interstates
CUMBERLAND FALLS STATE PARK
WHITLEY NORTH ELEM SCHOOL
State Roads
OAK GROVE ELEM SCHOOL
US Roads
0
1
2
4
CORBIN STP
6
8
Miles
USDA FOREST SERVICE GROVE CPDG
WILLIAMSBURG STP
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APPENDIX F
PUBLIC LANDS MAP
APPENDIX G
INTERNET WEBSITE DIRECTORY
Internet Website Resource Directory
Appalachian Regional Commission
Center for Rural Development
Commonwealth of Kentucky Official Homepage
Economic Development Administration
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal Highway Administration
Governor's Office
Governor's Office of Agricultural Policy
Kentucky Agricultural Statistics Service
Kentucky Arts Council
Kentucky Association of Counties
Kentucky Attorney General
Kentucky Auditor's Office
Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development
Kentucky Cabinet for Families and Children
Kentucky Cabinet for Health Services
Kentucky Cabinet for Workforce Development
Kentucky Chamber of Commerce
Kentucky Chapter of American Planning Association
Kentucky Council of Area Development Districts
Kentucky Department for Employment Services
Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection
Kentucky Department for Local Government
Kentucky Department of Agriculture
Kentucky Department of Corrections
Kentucky Department of Education
Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions
Kentucky Division of Forestry
Kentucky Division of Waste Management
Kentucky Division of Water
Kentucky Emergency Management
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources
Kentucky Highlands Investment Corporation
Kentucky Historical Society
Kentucky Hospital Association
Kentucky Housing Corporation
Kentucky Humanities Council
Kentucky Infrastructure Authority
Kentucky Justice Cabinet
Kentucky Labor Market Information
Kentucky League of Cities
Kentucky Legislature
Kentucky Office of Geographic Information
Kentucky Pollution Prevention Center
Kentucky Public Service Commission
Kentucky Resources Council
Kentucky Rural Development State Office
Kentucky Rural Water Association
Kentucky Secretary of State
http://www.arc.gov/
http://www.centertech.com/
http://www.kentucky.gov/
http://www.cvadd.org/
http://www.doc.gov/eda/
http://www.fema.gov/
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/
http://www.gov.state.ky.us/
http://www.kytobaccotrust.state.ky.us/
http://www.nass.usda.gov/ky/
http://www.kyarts.org/
http://www.kaco.org/
http://www.law.state.ky.us/
http://www.kyauditor.net/Public/Home.asp
http://www.thinkkentucky.com/
http://www.cfc.state.ky.us/
http://www.chs.ky.gov
http://www.kycwd.org/
http://www.kychamber.com
http://www.kapa.org/
http://www.kycadd.org/
http://www.desky.org/
http://www.kyenvironment.org/
http://www.kylocalgov.com/
http://www.kyagr.com/
http://www.cor.state.ky.us/
http://www.kde.state.ky.us/
http://www.dfi.state.ky.us/
http://www.forestry.ky.gov/index.html
http://www.waste.ky.gov/
http://www.water.nr.state.ky.us/dow/dwhome.htm
http://www.kyem.dma.state.ky.us/
http://www.kdfwr.state.ky.us/
http://www.khic.org/
http://www.kyhistory.org/
http://www.kyha.com/
http://www.kyhousing.org/
http://www.kyhumanities.org/
http://www.wris.state.ky.us/kia/
http://www.jus.state.ky.us/
http://www.desky.org/lmi/lmi.htm
http://www.klc.org/
http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/home.htm
http://www.ogis.state.ky.us/
http://www.kppc.org/
http://www.psc.ky.gov/pschome.htm
http://www.kyrc.org/
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/ky/
http://www.krwa.org/
http://www.sos.state.ky.us/
Kentucky Small Business Development Centers
Kentucky State Data Center
Kentucky State Historic Preservation Office
Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission
Kentucky State Parks
Kentucky State Police
Kentucky State Treasury
Kentucky Supreme Court
Kentucky Tourism Development Cabinet
Kentucky Tourism Council
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Kentucky Transportation Center
Kentucky Water Resource Information System
Kentucky Youth Advocates
Kentucky's Rails to Trails Council
Mountain Association for Community Economic Dev.
National Association of Development Org.
Natural Resources and Env. Protection Cabinet
PRIDE Program
Southern Kentucky Economic Development Corp.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture - Rural Development
U.S. Department of Commerce
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Dev.
U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Department of Transportation
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Stats America
http://www.ksbdc.org/
http://www.ksdc.louisville.edu/
http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/khc/khchome.htm
http://www.kynaturepreserves.org/
http://www.kystateparks.com/
http://www.kentuckystatepolice.org/
http://www.kytreasury.com/
http://www.kycourts.net/Supreme/SC_Main.shtm
http://www.tourism.ky.gov/
http://www.tourky.com/
http://www.kytc.state.ky.us/
http://www.ktc.uky.edu/ktctmb.html
http://www.wris.state.ky.us/wris/default.htm
http://www.kyyouth.org/
http://www.kyrailtrail.org/
http://www.maced.org/
http://www.nado.org/
http://www.nr.state.ky.us/
http://www.kypride.org/
http://www.southernkentucky.com
http://www.usace.army.mil/
http://www.bea.doc.gov/
http://www.bls.gov/
http://www.census.gov/
http://www.usda.gov/
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/
http://www.commerce.gov/
http://www.hud.gov/
http://www.dol.gov/
http://www.dot.gov/
http://www.epa.gov/
http://www.fws.gov/
http://statsamerica.org/
APPENDIX H
CVADD STAFF ROSTER
Staff
Mike Patrick
Executive Director
Birkholz, Sandra
Blankenship, Jessica
Caddell, Joey
Chesnut, Whitney
Creech, Zach
Gibson, Arlene
Gill, Lesli
Goodin, Mitch
Hacker, Vicky
Harris, Ann
Hawkins, Jason
Henson, Candice
James, Kenny
Jones, Marilyn
McRight, Wendy
Mills, Sarah
Miniard, Sara
Minton, Karen
Montgomery, Regina
Mullins, Dan
Powell, Leigh
Price, Rebekah
Roberts, Hannah
Robbins, Kay
Schwendeman, Timothy
Smith, Judith
Swafford, Kyle
Walker, Ashley
Williams, Nora
Wilson, Lisa
Wright, Dreama
WIA Case Manager
Transportation Planner
CDO
Public Administration Specialist
Water Management Coordinator
Long-Term Care Ombudsman
Development Specialist
SHIP Counselor
Aging Case Manager Coordinator
GIS Assistant
GIS Coordinator
Nutrition Coordinator
CDO
Assistant Bookkeeper
Aging Case Manager
Caregiver Program/Backup Ombudsman
CDO
Aging Case Manager
Aging Bookkeeper
GIS
Area Agency on Aging Director
Title V
CDO
Aging Case Manager
Assistant Director for Economic Development
Finance Officer
PCAP Coordinator/Grandparent Program
CDO
WIA Case Manager
Receptionist
Secretary/Highway Safety
APPENDIX I
CVADD COMMITTEES
CUMBERLAND VALLEY AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
COMMITTEES
Personnel Committee
Finance Committee
Gatilff Craig (Chair)
Mayor Williard McBurney
John Ed Pennington (Chair)
Homer Lee Jackson
Judge/Executive J. M. Hall
Mayor John Thompkins
Jennifer Jones
Gary Barton
Judge/Executive Pat White
Robert Wilson
Mike Hamm
Judge/Executive William O. Smith
Ralph Souleyret
Penny Robinson
(CVADD Chair)
Reecie Stagnolia
Ed Harris
Mayor Troy Rudder
Mayor J.C. Griffin
Penny Robinson
Gatliff Craig
John Ed Pennington
Legislative Research CommissionCVADD Members of the Special
Advisory Commission of Senior
Citizens
Faye Hensley
Phillip Martin
Jean C. Phelps
Ed Flanagan
Ralph Soulyret
LTC Ombudsman Advisory Council
Ed Flanagan (Chair)
Jean Phelps (Co-Chair)
Betty Jordan
Teena Sergent
Ethel Martin
Faye Hensley
Doris Clark
Opal Blackard
Priority Committee
Judge/Executive Joe Grieshop (Chair)
Judge Executive David Westerfield
Mayor Sherwin Rader
Mayor John Dodd
Mayor John Tompkins
Mike Hamm
Mayor David Thompson
Mayor Roddy Harrison
Gatliff Craig
Mayor George Saylor
Mayor Willard McBurney
Judge/Executive Albey Brock
Judge/Executive Joe Asher
Judge/Executive George Carloftis
Judge Executive J. M. Hall
Recreation Committee
Robert Wilson (Chair)
Homer Lee Jackson
Mayor George Saylor
Judge/Executive Joe Grieshop
Alvin Sharpe
Mayor Troy Rudder
Mayor Mike Bryant
Judge/Executive David Westerfield
Mayor Sherwin Rader
Revolving Loan Fund Review
updated 2012
COMMITTEES
Committee
Review-Out-of-Cycle Committee
Baylor Fulton
Maureen “Cookie” Henson (Chair)
Roger Roper
Mayor Bill Kelley
Kendall Norris
Mayor Burl Fee
Lawrence Kuhl
Henry Smith
Danny McKinney
Paul Dole
Becky Myers
Mayor Troy Rudder
Wayne Roberts
Gatliff Craig
Transportation Commmittee
Judge/Executive William O.
Smith(Vice-Chair)
Mike Buckles
Bill Ed Cannon
Bruce Carpenter
Jeff Culver
Shirley Cummins
Don Disney
Mayor John Dodd
James Ed Garrison
Dane Gilpin
Jim Hays
Homer Lee Jackson
Edward Johnson
Kathy Jones
Randy Melton
Carson Mullins
Mayor George Saylor
Matt Scott
Ralph Souleyret
Sam Stallsworth
Linda Truett
Mike White
Denny Peyman
Community
Services/Intergovernmental
Congressional Legislative Committee
Bryan Mills (Co-Chair)
Donna McClure (Co-Chair)
Chris Girdler (Co-Chair)
Henry Smith
Econmic Development Committee
Mike Hamm (Co-Chair)
Mr. Ed Harris (Co-Chair)
Penny Robinson
Henry Smith
Gatliff Craig
Jennifer Jones
Mayor John Dodd
Wayne Roberts
Mayor George Saylor
Judge/Executive J. M. Hall
Employment and Training Committee
Jennifer Jones Co-Chair
Gatliff Craig (Co-Chair)
updated 2012
COMMITTEES
Peggy Capps
Sally Jackson-Thayer
Paul Dole
Andrea Burns
Ralph Soulyret
Kathy Fields
Lavonne Renfro
Craig Morgan
Larry Hammond
Shirley Roaden
Mike Buckles
Teena Sewell
Robert Burns
Penny Whitaker
Environmental Committee
Joyce Harvey
Mary E. Nicholson (Co- Chair)
Lela Hughes
Phyllis Bullock
Susan Williams
Judge/Executive J.M. Hall
Gail Temerio
Bobbie Davenport
Penny Robinson
Cheryl Martin
Suzanne Fenton
Mayor Bill Kelley
Mayor Burl Fee
Area Agency on Aging Advisory
Mayor Daniel Howard
Council
Mayor Darlene Monhollen
Jean Phelps (Chair)
Mayor David Thompson
Ed Flannagan (Vice-Chair)
Doris Clark
Mayor George Saylor
Mayor John Dodd
Cathy Howell
Lee Richardson
Mayor Walter Cash
Mayor J. C. Griffin
Faye Hensley
Mayor Mike Bryant
Ethel Martin
Mayor Troy Rudder
Zayda Flanery
Mayor Carl Hatfield
Patricia Bingham
Mayor Sherwin Rader
Sherry Moore
Mayor Clarence Longworth
Wayne Wilson
Richard Foley
Marilyn Brock
Mayor Mike Bryant
Mayor John Tompkins
Health Committee
John Bruner (Co-Chair)
Kathy Jones
Elizabeth Golden
R.C &D. Natural Resources
Committee – (10 County Area)
Ernest Smith (President)
Angie Muncy (Vice-President
Joyce Kiogora (Secretary-Treasurer)
updated 2012
COMMITTEES
Kenneth Robbins
Mayor Burl Fee
Mayor Sherwin Rader
Rick Cornett
Tourism Committee
JoAnn Corum
Alvin Sharpe (Co-Chair)
Eugene Stagnolia (Co-Chair)
Mayor George Saylor
Betty Cole
Jack Stickney
Lynn Tatum
Wallace Taylor
Bobbie Gabbard
Ernest Farmer
Ken Harvey
Lisa Estes
Kim Collier
David Howard
Share Myers
Penny Robinson
Mayor Daniel Howard
Darrell Combs
Brenda Truitt
Tri-County N.A.A.C.P. Committee
Mayor John Thompkins
Billy Holcomb
Omega Carson
Lloyd Buckanan
Chet Riley
Judge/Executive J.M. Hall
Larry Riley
Betty Cole
Maureen “Cookie” Henson
Brian Hacker
Evadene Williams
*Functional Committee chairs and co-chairs are
board members per the CVADD By-Laws
excluding Aging Advisory Committee and RC & D.
Mayor Troy Rudder
Only the President of RC & D and Chairman of
Jimmy Sizemore
Aging Advisory Committee are members of the
CVADD Board of Directors.
Lonnie Hendrix
Connie Sizemore
Zack Whitaker
Judge/Executive George “Buzz”
Carloftis
Mayor Mike Bryant
Warden Alexander
Katrenia Caddell
Lee Bryant
State Legislative Committee
Reecie Stagnolia (Co-Chair)
Jean Phelps
Mayor George Saylor
Judge Executive William O. Smith
updated 2012
APPENDIX J
CVADD CEDS STRATEGY COMMITTEE
CEDS 2012 UPDATE
PROGRESS KENTUCKY
COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Name
County
Brock, Judge Albey
P. O. Box 339
Pineville, KY 40977
Bell
Public Official
Rader, Ms. Sherwin
P. O. Box 688
Pineville, KY 40977
Bell
Public Official
Jones, Ms. Jennifer
145 Horseshoe Drive
Pineville, KY 40977
Bell
Citizen
Wilson, Mr. Robert
P.O. Box 161
Pineville, KY 40977
Bell
Community Action Agency
Asher, Judge Joe
102 Richmond Road, Suite 201
Manchester, KY 40962
Clay
Public Official
Saylor, Mr. George
123 Town Square
Clay
Public Official
Pennington, Mr. John E.
347 Railroad Avenue
Clay
Minority Rep./Transportation
Robinson, Ms. Maretta
106 T Street
Clay
Education
Henson, Ms. Maureen
115 Colony Rd.
Clay
Education
Name
County
Casada, Mr. Jeff
P.O. Box 421
Clay
Community Leader
Hacker, Ms. Kelly
358 Wayne Street.
Clay
Chamber of Commerce
Buckles, Mr. Mike
Daniel Boone Development
1535 Shamrock Drive
Clay
Workforce Development Rep.
Owens, Mr. Earl
102 Richmond Rd. Suite 201
Clay
Community Leader
Nicholson, Ms. Mary
7944 Hwy 638
Clay
Education
Grieshop, Judge Joseph
P. O. Box 956
Harlan, KY 40831
Harlan
Public Official
Coleman, Mr. Benny Dale
P.O. Box 70
Evarts, KY 40828
Harlan
Citizen
Dodd, Mr. John
P.O. Box E
Benham, KY 40807
Harlan
Public Official
Howard, Mr. Daniel
P. O. Box 783
Harlan, KY 40831
Harlan
Medical
Harris, Mr. Ed
P.O. Box 523
Loyall, KY 40831
Harlan
Economic Development
Jones, Ms. Kathy
105 North Main Street
Harlan, KY 40831
Harlan
Business Owner
Miller, Mr. Leo
Leo Miller & Associates
P.O. Box 488
Harlan, KY 40831
Harlan
Engineer
Name
County
Stagnolia, Mr. Reecie
1304 Fairfield Street
Cumberland, KY 40823
Harlan
Education/Banking
Souleyret, Mr. Ralph
150 Highway 2425
Harlan, KY 40831
Harlan
Workforce Development Rep.
Smith, Judge William
P. O. Box 175
McKee, KY 40447
Jackson
Public Official
Thompkins, Mr. Johnnie
P. O. Box 455
McKee, KY 40447
Jackson
Public Official
Smith, Mr. Henry
132 Harry Smith Lane
Annville, KY 40402
Jackson
Labor Group
Chrisman, Mr. Rodney
P.O. Box 280
McKee, KY 40447
Jackson
Jackson Energy/IDA
Gabbard, Mr. Larry
P.O. Box 485
McKee, KY 40447
Jackson
Financial/Economic Development
Ball, Mr. Mitchell
P.O. Box 280
McKee, KY 40447
Jackson
IDA
Hall, Judge J.M.
P. O. Box 173
Barbourville, KY 40906
Knox
Public Official
Thompson, Mr. David
P.O. Box 1300
Knox
Public Official
Dole, Mr. Paul
P.O. Box 490
Knox
Community Action Agency
Jackson, Mr. Homer Lee
P.O. Box 1584
Knox
Citizen
Buchanan, Mr. Charles
207 Sycamore Drive
Knox
Insurance
Name
County
Tye, Mr. Jim
P.O. Box 173
Knox
Community Leader
Cole, Ms. Betty
KCEOC
P.O. Box 490
Knox
Tourism
Young, Randall
139 Rosehill Drive
Heidrick, KY 40949
Knox
Barbourville Water and Electric
Westerfield, Judge David
101 South Main Street
London, KY 40741
Laurel
Public Official
Rudder, Mr. Troy
London, KY 40741
Laurel
Public Official
Phelps, Ms. Jean
1010 Old Whitley Rd.
London, KY 40744
Laurel
Citizen
Hamm, Mr. Michael
P. O. Box 58
London, KY 40743
Laurel
Business Owner
House, Ms. Donna
236 Substation St.
London, KY 40741
Laurel
Education
Cass, Mr. Jim
1325 County Farm Road
London, KY 40741
Laurel
Citizen
Bruner, Mr. John
133 Mahan Ave.
London, KY 40741
Laurel
Citizen
Carloftis, Judge George “Buzz”
P.O. Box 755
Mt. Vernon, KY 40456
Rockcastle
Public Official
Bryant, Mayor. Mike
P. O. Box 1465
Rockcastle
Public Official
Name
County
Craig, Mr. Gatliff
1311 Kentucky 3245
Brodhead, KY 40409
Rockcastle
Citizen
Hopkins, Ms. Donna
140 Eddie Drive
Rockcastle
Education
Coffey, Mr. Henry
P.O. Box 282
Rockcastle
Medical
White, Judge Pat
P.O. Box 237
Williamsburg, KY 40769
Whitley
Public Official
Harrison, Mr. Roddy
P. O. Box 119
Whitley
Public Official
Sharpe, Mr. Alvin
P. O. Box 2
Whitley
Higher Education/Tourism
McBurney, Mr. Willard
Corbin, KY 40701
Whitley
Public Official
Carpenter, Mr. Bruce
101 North Depot Street
Corbin, KY 40701
Whitley
Economic Development
Foley, Mr. Richard
1035 Main St.
Whitley
Citizen/Housing
Herd, Mr. Ron
Corbin, KY 40701
Whitley
Corbin Utilities Commission
Meadors, Mr. Andy
3609 Ryans Creek Rd.
Whitley
Citizen
Myers, Mr. David
1738 Cumberland Falls Hwy
Corbin, KY 40701
Whitley
Business Owner
Smith, Ms. Ashley
153 Cobblestone Way
Corbin, KY 40701
Whitley
Business Owner
APPENDIX K
ADOPTING RESOLUTION

2015 CEDS - Cumberland Valley Area Development District

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