Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 109 - DEPARTMENT FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT › Chapter 10 - Policy and Management › Section 109 KAR 10:010 - Local Government Economic Assistance Fund grants

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS 42.450-42.495
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: As directed by KRS 42.455(5) the Department of Local Government, by this administrative
				regulation, establishes requirements relating to implementation of a system of
				grants from the Local Government Economic Assistance Fund ("fund") and, in
				addition, sets forth procedures for reporting with respect to fund grants to
				the Department of Local Government as required by statute.
Section 1. "Local government," "local
			 government unit," "recipient government" means the fiscal courts of
			 coal-producing, coal-impact and mineral-producing counties, and the governing
			 bodies of incorporated cities within such counties who may be eligible for fund
			 grants.
Section 2. Budget Hearings.
			 Each fiscal year, any recipient local government that proposes to expend money
			 from the fund in any fiscal year shall hold at least one (1) public hearing on
			 specific proposed projects the government intends to fund (hereafter referred
			 to as the budget hearing).
(1) At the budget
			 hearing, all citizens of the recipient local government shall have a reasonable
			 opportunity to provide written and oral comments, and to ask questions
			 concerning the allocation of local government assistance funds.
(2) At least seven (7) days prior to the
			 budget hearing the recipient local government shall make available for public
			 inspection during normal business hours, at the principal office of the local
			 government, a summary of the proposed expenditures from the fund. This summary
			 shall be submitted as a part of the county's annual budget to the Department of
			 Local Government. This summary shall identify each expenditure according to
			 eligible categories and the amount of money to be allocated to each
			 category.
(3) A notice of the
			 budget hearing shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation serving
			 the geographic area of the recipient local government no later than seven (7)
			 but not more than twenty-one (21) days prior to the scheduled date of the
			 hearing. The notice shall contain the following: date, place and time of the
			 public budget hearing; a statement of the amount anticipated from the fund for
			 the fiscal year; the amount of such funds to be expended in each eligible
			 category; a statement advising when and where a summary of projects and a
			 summary of the entire budget for all income and expenditures of the recipient
			 government is available for public inspection; a statement that citizens
			 attending the public budget hearing have the right to provide written and/or
			 oral comments and ask questions concerning the allocation of local government
			 assistance funds.
(4) The public
			 budget hearing may be held concurrently with budget hearings of the recipient
			 local government provided the notice specifically identifies the fund and
			 includes all information required by subsection (3) of this section.