For more than six hours Wednesday morning and afternoon, Christian County’s Fiscal Court and its tangential leaders collaborated inside the warm second floor of the historic Alhambra Theatre — fully dead-set on breaking down a comprehensive questionnaire asking residents to elaborate on local civics.
It took six hours because, in the end, more than 590 questionnaires — and more than 40 pages of written responses — were returned by constituents, detailing every aspect of life and its quality in southwestern Kentucky.
Jerry Gilliam, Christian County’s magistrate turned judge-executive, was seeking 200 or so responses in order to get an adequate read on public perception and community needs.
Gilliam said he received that, and so much more.
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