County Adopts Fuel Card Use Policy for Employees

January 25, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

After it came to light last fall that a former solid waste employee had used a county issued fuel card for his own benefit, officials realized a policy was needed to guard against any abuses by county employees in the future.

During Monday night’s regular monthly meeting, the county commission adopted a DeKalb County Fuel Card use policy

County Mayor Matt Adcock issued the following statement on the new policy.

“This fuel card policy is to keep the fuel cards safe from theft and hold employees accountable for their assigned fuel card”.

“In the past we had an incident with an employee who took a fuel card home and purchased fuel for his personal vehicle.”

“This policy covers areas like storing the fuel cards in safe and secure locations, that they should remain in that position and never be taken home, that every employee has their own PIN number that can’t be shared with any other employee, and each vehicle fuel card is assigned to a vehicle and cannot be used with an unassigned vehicle”.

“We also made miscellaneous fuel cards for portable gas tanks, chainsaws, or etc”

“This policy requires lots of documentation like a department vehicle fuel log with vehicle mileage, the amount and type of fuel used, and the name of the operator doing the transaction. This information documented should match what we receive back from the fuel card action report at the end of the month”.

“This is a countywide policy that will be implemented for every department that uses a county vehicle and operates off of a fuel card,” said County Mayor Adcock.

January 25, 2023
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13-year-old Noah Goebel, Grand Champion Fiddler at the 51st Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree and Crafts Festival will be playing Saturday, January 28, 2023 at the Ryman Auditorium.

The Elkton, Kentucky resident, who also won the Junior Fiddling contest here, beat out the Senior Fiddling Champion Heather Brown Currie of Springfield in the showdown for the Berry C. Williams Memorial Award. Currie claimed the Grand Champion Fiddling Title in 1999 and 2001.

As the 2022 Grand Fiddle Off Champion, Goebel will be playing both shows- 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm on Saturday – a ‘fiddle tune’ for the Opry square dancers LIVE performance. Darrin Vincent suggested this date to Dan Rogers. It is a Bluegrass Night with Dailey & Vincent also performing.

“Noah is one very impressive young man. He is very talented, and the Jamboree Committee is so proud that he is representing us at the Ryman – The Mother Church of Country Music” , said Jamboree President Kim Luton.

In 2021, Goebel competed as a child in the James G. “Bobo” Driver Fiddlers Jamboree’s National Championship for Country Musician Beginners and won the Beginners Fiddling Title.

Noah stated “I’m honored to be playing the Opry at the Ryman this weekend. I am so grateful for the Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree, Darrin Vincent, Dan Rogers and all who made this possible. ”

For more information, visit smithvillejamboree.com or ryman.com.

January 25, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

White County proved to be too much for the DCHS Tigers and Lady Tigers to handle Tuesday night in Sparta.

The Lady Tigers lost to the Warriorettes 72 to 51 and the Tigers were handed an 84 to 45 defeat.

For the ladies, DeKalb County trailed 18 to 9 after the 1st period, 33 to 25 at halftime, 47 to 37 after the 3rd period before falling 72 to 51.

Ella VanVranken scored 26 followed by Avery Agee with 12, Madison Martin 8, and Chloe VanVranken 5.

The Tigers were behind 17 to 10 after the 1st period, 48 to 22 at halftime, and 77 to 41 after the 3rd period before suffering an 84 to 45 defeat.

Elishah Ramos scored 16, Conner Close 7, Stetson Agee 6, Alex Antoniak and Ean Jones each with 4, and Zack Birmingham, Robert Wheeler, Kaleb Spears, and Owens Snipes each with 2.

The Tigers drop to 10-11 on the season (2-6 in the district) as the Lady Tigers are now 11-11 (3-7 in district play).

DeKalb County will host Livingston Academy on Friday night, January 27. The Livingston Academy girls are 20-3, 7-0. The Wildcats (boys) are 20-2, 6-1.

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