Owners of side-by-sides, golf carts, and other non-highway vehicles in Knox County will be able to drive them on rural county roads starting in February. The Knox County Board Wednesday night approved an ordinance that would allow for these vehicles on county roads, with the exception of County 10 Highway. The ordinance originated in the Sheriff's Department oversight committee. "The plan is for this ordinance to take effect beginning February 1, 2023," said board member Jeff Link, who chair's the Sheriff's Committee. "This gives [County Clerk Scott Erickson's] office time to permits and to get everything in order. It's for all County roads except County 10. No State Highways except you can cross state routes and County 10." Vehicle owners would have to have a $100 permit with the county. A self-inspection would need to be done that includes five photos. "You're required to take four photographs as, kind of, a self-inspection,"
The Knox County Board Wednesday night will consider approving several more grant requests for federal money from the American Rescue Plan Act. Board documents show that the recipients being considered include the Galesburg Christian School for health-related improvements to the facility and to the National Railroad Hall of Fame for the construction of a new tourist facility. Money could also go to the Stearman Foundation to recoup lost revenue and to help cover the addition to their facility, the Galesburg Civic Art Center for start-up local arts-related periodical, or the Galesburg Tourism and Visitors Bureau for a mural project, on the condition that murals funded be located outside of the City of Galesburg. In total, county board members will consider disbursing $545,000 from the Community Grant Program and an additional $25,000 from the Health and Human Services Grant Program for the Volunteer Network on Aging (VNA) for home-delivered meals. Board members could approve using ARPA m
Nearly $1.2 Million in American Rescue Plan Act-funded grants were approved by the Knox County Board Wednesday night. A large portion of the money was part of a $1.5 Million fund that had been established by the county last year for community grants part of a much bigger $4.5 Million chunk the county received from ARPA. A task force was set up last year that was made up of community members and members of the county board to determine how to spend the money says David Amor Vice-Chair of the county's Finance Committee. "Among the early decisions we made was that we wanted some of these dollars to be put into community grants. The board set up a community advisory task force that was made up of both board members and members of the community to advise the [county] board on both community events and other expenditures from the ARPA funds." Amor told the board that the task force met for several months to go through all the applications and documentation. "We received