CATLETTSBURG —
Need to get your driver’s license renewed? Monday won’t be the day for it.
The Kentucky Judicial Branch will be shut down then for the first of three furlough days scheduled for this year.
All court services will be unavailable as the judicial system takes a day off to help balance its budget. According to the Judicial Branch, all non-elected court personnel will be off work without pay on Monday.
In addition to the courts, other services that will be unavailable will include driver’s licensing, pretrial services, bond processing and release orders. However, existing after-hours protocol will be followed for processing domestic violence orders and emergency protective orders.
The furloughs do not affect county offices, such as those of the sheriff, property valuation administrator, judge-executive and county clerk.
In Boyd County, the courthouse, which houses county offices, will be open on Monday, but the C. David Hagerman Judicial Center, which houses the county’s court functions, will be closed for the day.
Sabrina Clark, a deputy in the Boyd Circuit Clerk’s office, said Monday that she and her co-workers weren’t thrilled about having to take an unpaid day off. But, she said there were worse alternatives.
“I’d rather have the furlough days than layoffs,” she said.
Clark said she considered herself more fortunate than some of her fellow deputies because her husband works at Marathon’s Catlettsburg refinery. However, she said several of her co-workers were single mothers who would feel the impact of losing a day’s pay more than her.
“There are people this is going to hurt more than others,” she said.
The circuit clerk’s office employs a total of 17 deputies, including one in the Ashland branch office in the Camayo Arcade.
Clark said any proceedings in district and circuit court that were originally scheduled for Monday were rescheduled as soon as the furloughs were announced.
The other furlough days for the court system are Sept. 4 and Oct. 15.
This marks the first time since Kentucky’s modern court system was formed in 1976 that the Judicial Branch must close courthouse doors to balance its budget. The judiciary's 2013 budget, which covers the year ending next June 30, saw a reduction of $25.2 million.
KENNETH HART can be reached at khart@dailyindependent.com or
(606) 326-2654.
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