Resolutions were read at Tuesday’s Logan County Fiscal Court meeting, honoring two of Logan County’s fallen veterans.

Claude Eugene Thomas and Boyd Lawrence Brake were both killed during the Vietnam War. The both lived within miles of one another and both went into the Armed Forces within a year of one another.

Thomas went into the Army on Sept. 11, 1969 and was killed on Nov. 29, 1969 while serving his country. Brake went into the Marine Corps. on Sept. 19, 1968 and was killed March 5, 1969 while serving his country.

Many family members attended the commemoration Tuesday and a plaque was given to their families in honor of each man.

Magistrate Harold Prince unveiled a separate plaque that holds the names of the two brave soldiers that will hang on the Dot bridge which will now be renamed after the men.

An emotional Prince said this was a little something we can do for these men and their families and thanked them for their sacrifice.

• The court acknowledged the receipt of special district budgets for July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010 by a unanimous vote.

Librarian Linda Kompanik was in attendance to answer any questions the court had concerning the Library district. Although Fiscal Court has no authority on the district’s budgets, they do have the right to ask questions.

Magistrate Thomas Bouldin asked Kompanik way there was a $60,000 increase in salaries at the library. Bouldin said he was not questioning, just curious. Kompanik said they hired a custodian and raised salaries for the part time employees. The budget as a whole was down over $20,000 from last year, which Bouldin commended.

• The court held a second reading of the 2009-2010 budget. They passed several changes to the document and passed the budget with a six to one vote.

Magistrate Dickie Carter voted no saying he wanted to see more cuts.

• The court approved a change order for $4,000 to the animal shelter project. When the court accepted the bid from KT Construction to build the shelter addition, owner Ricky Thurston said the plans did not show three drains that the county wanted put in. Judge/Executive Logan Chick told the court Tuesday the structure needed four instead of three drains.

• Magistrates discussed the pay grade salary and job description of the newly created full-time position at the Logan County Archives. Magistrate Harold Prince wanted to know if the Archives would be open a half a day on Saturday. He said that is why he voted (in a previous meeting) for the part-time position to be made full-time so it could be open on Saturday.

Judge Executive Logan Chick said it would be beneficial to have the Archives open the same time the county clerks office is open due to records in both places. The Archives has been being run by a part-time person plus volunteers who are growing weary. Many of the county’s historic documents are kept at the Archives including death and marriage records, land records, and genealogical information.

Prince said he didn’t think anything was accomplished then besides spending more money if the Archives wasn’t open at least a half a day on Saturday. He said a lot of people don’t even get off work in time. Chick said the hours would be from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

It was mentioned that the full-time position could take off early one of the weekdays if someone needed to get into the Archives on Saturday. Magistrate Thomas Bouldin said the court needed to leave that up to the Archives and let them make that decision.

• The court authorized a check for $220,000 payable to the IDA for economic development purposes from line item 01-8099-348/economic development program support. This will go to help Caldwell Gasket remain in Auburn.

• The city of Lewisburg requested for county highway encroachment at the intersection of Kenner Road and the old Lewisburg-Jericho Road.

Magistrates discussed the project had the same engineer as a project that was done on Holland Road in Magistrate Curtis Watkin’s district a year ago. That road is still not repaired, according to Watkins.

Bouldin suggested not to grant the request until the problem on Holland Road was fixed. Bouldin said it has been over a year and you will be surprised at how fast this will now by resolved by not granting the request. The request by the city of Lewisburg died for lack of a motion.