The Elizabethtown City Council met for a work session Monday afternoon.
Elizabethtown Parks and Recreation Director Seth Breitner gave an update on his department. Breitner said during summer 2025, 280 campers participated in the Parks and Rec Summer Camp over the course of 10 weeks, and the American Legion Park Pool saw more than 31,500 daily admissions. Breitner said the department is looking ahead towards several capital improvement projects including facility upgrades at American Legion and University Drive parks, bridge replacements on the city’s Greenspace trails, and improvements at Trooper Lake including mountain bike trails and a pump track.
“We have been awarded a $670,000 grant by the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund to move forward with this project,” Breitner said. “The city owns 74 acres currently at Trooper Lake. We’re in the process of adding an additional 40 acres to that and maybe even more depending on how this all works out.”
Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory said the city wanted to create a dedicated mountain biking space after Buffalo Lake was chosen for the outdoor music venue project.
City Attorney Ken Howard discussed the ethics ordinance set to be approved by the city council along with other area governments. The new ordinance is an update to the original ethics ordinance passed in 1994. Howard, who was part of the team that drafted the 1994 ordinance, said the process began with the city reviewing an updated model ordinance created by the Kentucky League of Cities.
“Then I started meeting with the city attorney for Radcliff, Vine Grove, and the county attorney to try to get consistency within all of those ordinances so that the goal was so that we could continue to have one joint Board of Ethics for the entire county,” Howard said.
Under the ordinance, the Hardin County Clerk’s Office would be the custodian of records for the ethics board and would receive ethics complaints.
The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet August 4.
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