But if you have not received your 2019 tax refund by the end of December, you will need to update your address in order to receive it timely. The IRS expects to issue all tax year 2019 refunds for individual returns that do not have errors (or other issues that would delay processing) by direct deposit and paper checks in calendar year 2020. Have you moved since you filed your 2019 tax return? If so, make sure you update your address with the IRS now. įind the rest of the story on page 1A of this week’s issue of the Harrodsburg Herald or click here to subscribe. Homeowners can get a look at the addresses that will be affected on an interactive map prepared by Bluegrass ADD. “It’s not a fun process, but if it saves one live it’s worth it.” “I just want to get the word out there,” he said. The most important thing now is to inform homeowners, Dedman said. Public comments will be heard when the ordinances are given a second reading. It will have to be given first readings by both the Harrodsburg City Commission and the Mercer County Fiscal Court. Now that officials have the information, the next step is to enact an ordinance making the changes official. “It’s going to be an inconvenience for some people, but the most important thing is safety and it’s worth a little bit of inconvenience if it saves one life,” he said. Judge Dedman said he knew how much trouble it could be to change an address, but he thought the process was worth it. “We keep putting numbers in there that don’t fit and we end up in the same situation,” she said. She said her department has made changes along the way to try to rectify the problem.
However, with so much turnover-in dispatchers, in first responders, in property owners-finding the right address has grown more complicated over the years. Everyone knew each other and knew where everyone lived. This hasn’t been an issue in the past because of institutional memory. And delays in finding proper locations can be fatal. Napier said her dispatchers have to make decisions on the fly about which first responder gets sent to which location. “We literally have to narrow it down until we find that address.”ĭriving back and forth endangers lives, said Gail Napier, the director of the 911 call center. “You might have a gravel driveway with four homes on it,” Kelty said. When the issue was first brought before the Mercer County Fiscal Court in 2017, Sheriff Ernie Kelty said his deputies are often forced to triangulate locations by pinpointing other addresses on the same street. However, as many as 982 addresses in Mercer County don’t. “We’ve been lobbied by the first responders and our dispatchers at 911 to do this because there are areas where they have trouble finding homes,” Dedman said.Īn address number is supposed to correspond-at least roughly-to a property’s location on a given street. Judge-Executive Milward Dedman said the reason behind the change was to better serve public safety. Bluegrass ADD has sent local officials a 63-page Excel spreadsheet listing the addresses that will need to be changed. Herald a thousand Mercer County homeowners may soon get new street addresses.Īfter two years, the Bluegrass Area Development District has completed their study of 911 addresses. “It’s not a fun process, but if it saves one live it’s worth it,” said Judge-Executive Milward Dedman. Officials say public safety is the reason nearly a thousand residences in Mercer County will be assigned a new 911 addresses.
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