 With forward pay from Appalachian Wireless, you'll avoid contracts and credit checks while taking advantage of some awesome perks like unlimited talk text and three gigs of data for just $44.99 or with five gigs for a mere $59.99. Forward pay, that's today's Appalachian Wireless. The Martin Community Center is on the chopping block again after years of neglect and a budget facing more reductions in coal-severe installers. During Friday's regular meeting of the Floyd Fiscal Court, Judge Executive Ben Hale made the motion to seek out potential buyers for the property, saying that the county simply can no longer cover the expense. We don't really have the money to go back in there and try to take care of repairs in the upkeep on this center. Now I've talked with the City of Martin, and the City of Martin does not want the community center, so they do not want that. And I know a couple years back, the Court at that time had looked at trying to sell the piece of property to private entrepreneurs that put private businesses in. I think probably at this time, we probably ought to entertain that idea again. The Martin Community Center received a renovation during the previous administration, but due to broken pipes and poor maintenance and repair, in just five short years the building is already unusable. It might have been because of who they had it, who was taking care of it at that time. So you have to look into it. That's the problem. When you lease something for a dollar a year, you don't have to take care of something very well if it's not going to cost you anything. So it's different if they was paying $15,000 to $20,000 a year in a lease. I guarantee it would have been taken care of a little bit better. So all these things, the pipes freezing and all the things that happened before and it caused basically run the floor that they had put down back four or five years ago. It's a shame, but that's what's happened. Judge Hale says he plans to meet with the county attorney to drop the best way to begin advertising for bids for the building and property. However, no decision will be final without the fiscal court's approval. And from Floyd County, for EKB News, I'm Jackson Ladder.