City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome everyone to Elizabeth Town City Council special meeting for May 11th, 2026. I'll officially call this meeting to order and ask Council Member Tony Bishop if he'd lead us in the invocation, please. and if you would join me in the pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madame clerk, if you would please call roll. Yes, sir. Council member Bishop, present. Bulkerson, present. Jones, present. Springsteen here. Tyler here. You have a quorum. Mayor,

well, we can see how this meeting's starting. I need a motion and a second for approval of minutes from May 4th, 2026. I have a first and a second. All in favor? I

opposed. Seeing none, motion carries. And at this time, I will open up the municipal road aid hearing. The city currently has 0 carryover funds in its municipal road funds and will receive approximately $61,857596 during the fiscal year 2027. The LGA fund has zero car zero carryover funds and will receive approximately $0 during the fiscal year 2027. Any comments or discussion? And Don's here if you have any questions. Seeing none, I will close the municipal road aid hearing. Up next, I have some great friends here today. We have some great friends here today, Dr. Shannon Holt and Beth Ay. and they are going to come up and speak quickly about period poverty awareness week.

Hello. Um, thank you for allowing us to come and and discuss this and help us promote period poverty awareness week. What is period poverty? It's um actually not a third world country problem. It's a problem here in the United States. It's a problem here in Harden County. Two in five women in the United States at this time can't afford period supplies. One in four of our students. These women don't go to school. They don't go to work. They don't leave their house. They try to make do with washcloths, socks, newspapers, whatever they can find. Um, so we just wanted to help and to make them more readily available. They are not covered by federal programs such as WICK or SNAP and there's really no assistance to help women find the these products which are so essential that nobody even thinks about them. Kucky's one of 18 remaining states in the United States that taxes them as luxury items and considers them to be non-essential. So, Heels Together has taken on the Pink Dot project and without them none of this would have come to fruition. And we collect products at multiple drives. We have some permanent locations for donations and we have been dispensing products for the last three months to 22 different nonprofit organizations and we're averaging about we think seven to 8,000 per distribution. So, that's period poverty in Harden County.

Any questions or comments? I can kind of add just one second because I have had um the opportunity to make some of those deliveries and we have made some of those deliveries to um our EPD and and for Anisha to use with her services there as well as some of the others. So, thank you all for what you're doing and um appreciate you all moving forward with that idea. Anyone else? We have a small donation um behind Micah if y'all want to grab it. Thank you.

And because Councilwoman Folk or Tyler wore pink. Sorry, I almost got you. We're going to let her read the proclamation. Okay. the city of Elizabeth Town, Kentucky from the mayor from the office of the mayor, period poverty awareness week proclamation. Whereas national period poverty week is May 11th through 17th and two in five women struggle to afford period products. And whereas on average one in four girls miss school because they don't have the access to menstrual supplies. And whereas the average woman will spend as much as 22,000 on period products in their lifetime with safety net benefits such as wick and snap not to be used to purchase these products. And whereas Elizabeth Town's own Shannon Dr. Shannon Hol discovered many of her patients were struggling with period poverty right here in our community. And whereas Dr. Holt sought the support of Central Kentucky Community Foundation Hills Together Women's Fund to launch the Pink Dot Project. And whereas the Pink Dot Project aims to end period poverty in Harden County through a coordinated effort with public and private partnerships to ensure no woman or girl should have to go without these essential products. Now, therefore, Mayor Jeffrey H. Gregory do does hereby proclaim May 11th through 17th, 2026 as period poverty awareness week as an expression of support of the work of Pink Dot to end period poverty in Elizabeth Town in Harden County. Sign the 11th day of May in the year of the Lord 20 2026 in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, city of Elizabeth Town. Signed, Mayor Gregory.

Thank you all for what you do. We appreciate it. We appreciate Hills Together. We appreciate the programs that you provide and more importantly I see all of you do many things in the community and it's much appreciated. It's uh it takes all of us working together to have a great place to live and so you all contribute mightily. We appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah. Get in here.

You hard ankles. I think Lamar should come because he's pretty much Thank you. Okay, we'll continue with second reading by motion of ordinance number 9 2026 zoning map amendment for Woodland Corridor. If I can get a motion in a second to read, please.

Motion. Second. All in favor? Opposed? says Howard.

This is a second reading. By summary, this ordinance amends the official zoning classification for the property located in the Woodland Corridor District. Two, neighborhood commercial, which is known as C2, and regional commercial, known as C3, to comply with the city's comprehensive plan, Envision Elizabeth Town 2040. The change was approved by the Lisbontown City Council as it was found to be in agreement with the city's comprehensive plan. The full text of this ordinance can be found by contacting the city clerk's office. And as a second reading, it is now available for your consideration.

Any discussion? Seeing none, I need a motion and a second to adopt. Please. Motion. Second. Madame clerk, would you please call roll? Yes, sir. Council member Springsteen, yes. Council member Tyler, yes. Bishop, yes. Bulkerson, yes. Jones, yes. Motion passed. Mayor, thank you all. Up next, municipal order number 342026, accepting chemical bids for the wastewater treatment plant. If I can get a motion and a second to read, please.

Motion. Second. First and a second. All in favor? I opposed. Seeing none, Judge Howard.

At a special meeting of the city council held on the date set out below after first being read, a motion to adopt the following municipal order was duly made. seconded and approved. Whereas the city prepared bid documents and received public bids on May 6 of 2026 for wastewater chemical supplies. Now be it ordered by the city accept the following bids for wastewater chemical supplies. This will be from Sitco water. Chlorine in the amount of $2,000 per ton and sulfur dioxide in the amount of $1,775 per ton. and there is no delivery charge for those products. Be it further ordered that the mayor and/or his designate is hereby authorized and directed to take all steps necessary to perfect this order, including but not limited to signing all contracts and obtaining the necessary permits. RED adopted and approved this 11th day of May.

Any questions or discussion? We have Mr. Bond in the back who's all healed up without the cane now. Seeing none, I need a motion and a second to adopt, please. So moved. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Seeing none, motion carries. Thank you all. And then that brings us to municipal order number 352026 approving downtown redevelopment grant for 108 East Dixie Avenue. If I can get a motion and a second to read, please. Motion. Second. the first and the second. All in favor? I opposed. Judge Howard.

At a special meeting of the city council helen, the date set out below. After first being read, a motion to adopt the following municipal order was duly made, seconded, and approved. Whereas the city desires to promote and support the redevelopment of downtown. And whereas the city has developed a downtown redevelopment grant program to encourage property owners to redevelop their properties. Now be it ordered the city approve the agreement with Fourth Generation Properties LLC for a downtown redevelopment grant for 108 East Dixie Avenue in an amount not to exceed $12,848.98. Be it further ordered, the mayor andor his designate is authorized and directed to take all steps necessary to perfect this order, including executing a grant agreement contract. Read adopted and approve the 11th day of May.

Any discussion? Seeing none, I need a motion and a second to adopt. Please, I'll make a motion. Second. All in favor? I I

opposed. Seeing none, motion carries, which brings us to public comments. Anybody on the floor with public comments? We'll go to council, city council information items. I do want to talk a little bit about the winefest on Saturday. Once again, our event staff did a outstanding job. Ended up selling uh roughly 1323 tickets. Uh they think about 1,500 were in attendance with 16 Kentucky wineries from all over the state. Three different craft breweries and 30 craft and commercial vendors and as Beth Pile says, a whole lot of fun. So it was a great day. The weather couldn't have been better. It was laid out well. Of course, our event staff did a wonderful job. Our parks and recck staff, as always, did a wonderful job. And uh it just seems to be getting better every year. So, we're real proud of the event staff and what they do for our city and we're real proud of the success that we've had with the uh Winefest. Also, I will tell you budget meetings will take place starting tomorrow, May 12th through the 15th. Uh the May 18th and the 26 city council meetings will be cancelled. The next meeting will be held on June 1st, 2026. And construction will start on Monday, May 18th for Veterans Way. and the speed limit will change to 25 mph. And that's all I have. Y'all have anything you want to add?

Looking forward to budget week. Okay. And we will go close meeting pursuant to KRS 61.810 810 section 1 to conduct deliberation on future acquisition or sale of real property by the city to discuss personnel which might lead to the appointment discipline or dismissal of an individual employee member or student and to discuss specific economic development proposals if I can get a motion in a second please. So moved second. All in favor? I opposed. Seeing none. Motion carries. We'll be in close session and Mr. Mr. Chiron, we will not have any business coming out.