Butler County receives almost $1.2M to improve infrastructure

BUTLER COUNTY, Ky. – As prices go up, more rural counties are in need of assistance with things like improving infrastructure. Luckily for Butler County, they’ve recently received over $1 million to aid road resurfacing.

News 40 spoke to Butler County judge-executive Tim Flener, who told us that the much needed discretionary funds would go toward treating Gilbert Borders, Arnold Ridge and Youngs Ferry.

Flener also said they were able to secure funding in the fall of 2023 to begin designing a new bridge on Green River Road that would help to support the weight of the heavy agriculture that goes on in that area.

Flener thanked his magistrates, state representatives like Michael Meredith and Rebecca Raymer, as well as the Kentucky Association of Counties (KaCO), for all the hard work to make securing the funds possible.

According to the judge-executive, “flex funding” to the counties have been cut, where Butler was working with $250,000 dollars each year before.

This year comes in at only $190,000 dollars of that funding, which limits how much work the county can conduct. Flener said the price of blacktop has also gone up since he was first elected to office. Flener said the price for one ton of blacktop being around $70 dollars when he first came into his position, now being valued at $97 dollars a ton.