Between the Knox County Board’s $760,000 investment from the sale of land to Love’s Travel Stop and the resolution to set aside $1 from every ton at the landfill, Knox County’s building fund has renewed strength.
The purpose of those moves was to give the building committee the funds to make the last series of repairs to the Knox County Courthouse.
Without the burden of wondering how to pay for such projects, Committee Co-Chair Greg “Chops” Bacon has asked Klinger and Associates Cody Basham to investigate the cost of repairing masonry in the courthouse steps.
Bacon suggested this winter would be a good time to start looking at electrical repairs inside the building.
“We did replace when we did the big refurbish outside–the sidewalks and everything,” Bacon told committee members. “We replaced the service from the pole to in the building–new breaker boxes, new everything that was ancient. We did that to get the power from the pole into the building, but now we’ve got to go the branch out of the building.”
The committee has also asked County Engineer Duane Ratermann to investigate cost and logistics of making a new road to the Knox County Nursing Home.
Bacon’s preliminary estimates indicate that the road would cost about $250,000.
