Bevin administration sued for withholding $867,000 for development districts

FRANKFORT -- Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin's administration violated the law by withholding funds from Kentucky's Area Development Districts that lawmakers had earmarked for the agencies, claims a lawsuit filed in Franklin Circuit Court

In a 15-page lawsuit filed June 28, seven of the 15 ADDs in the state claim the state Department for Local Government used $867,000 that the 2016 General Assembly had designated for ADDS to make up a shortfall in its own budget after Bevin issued a budget reduction order for most state agencies in December 2017.

"By doing this, DLG balanced its bureaucratic budget by taking funds designated for the people of Kentucky," said the lawsuit.

The lawsuit said the ADDs do not know how the state ultimately used the money.

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