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The Elizabethtown City Council met for their first meeting of the month Monday.
The council approved a bid from Dirt Works Unlimited for the outdoor music venue sewer extension project, with the bid coming in at $585,345. The council also approved a bid from BCD Inc. for the Freeman Lake Park north end restroom project. That bid came in at $428,100.
“It’s on the northern end of Freeman Lake Park, where we have a parking lot where the lake is split, we’re building stand-alone restrooms,” said Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregoy. “We’re glad for that because we’re trying to place strategically-located restrooms throughout our trail system and we’re starting with that one.”
In other meeting news, the council approved a resolution amending the city’s comprehensive plan which adopts the plan elements of the Envision Active Elizabethtown Bicycle/Pedestrian Master Plan commissioned by Greenspace into the Envision Elizabethtown 2040 Comprehensive Plan. The first readings were held on three zoning amendments for properties located at 320 Pear Orchard Road Northwest (from R-2 to R-4), 325 Helm Street (from R-4 to R-5), and 938 and 948 Nicholas Street (from R-3 to Planned Development District). All three of the zoning amendments were recommended for approval by the Elizabethtown Planning Commission.
Gregory said the city and Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland will be hosting a food giveaway at the Pritchard Community Center on Friday, November7. Gregory said enough food for 1,000 households will be available as the city looks to support families impacted by the government shutdown.
Council Member Julia Springsteen said more than 5,000 households in Hardin County are dependent on SNAP benefits.
“The announcement today was that they’ll only get partial funding for SNAP this month, so they’re already struggling,” Springsteen said. “They’re going to struggle a little bit more, in addition to the government workers who are going to pay, so hopefully this will help a few people in addition to the other efforts going on in the community.”
The food giveaway will begin at noon and continue until food runs out. Gregory said this will be the first of three such events hosted by the city.
The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet November 10.
Registration is open for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program fall subsidy. If you live in a Kentucky household and are responsible for your home’s cooling costs, you may be eligible for assistance through the LIHEAP program. The enrollment period runs now through December 12. According to the Central Kentucky Community Action Council, income eligibility for the program is up to and including 150 percent of the federal poverty guidelines. […]
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