The Elizabethtown City Council held its regular meeting on September 21, 2026, at approximately 8:18 PM. The council unanimously adopted tax rate ordinances for 2026, authorized professional service contracts for road design and safety improvements, accepted a $1 million donation for the Steel Grove Amphitheater, approved a lease with Warm Blessings, and heard public comments from two citizens.
Welcome everyone to Elizabethtown City Council regular meeting for September twenty first to twenty-first, two thousand twenty-six. I will now call the meeting to order and ask that you bow your head for the invocation, please. Heavenly Father, we appreciate all the blessings that you constantly bless this community with. We thank you for all of our teammates in the city. We thank you for our citizens, and most importantly, we thank you for everything that you provide for us to have a wonderful place to live. We ask that you be with this honorable body as they make decisions to continue to keep this a great place to live and to improve our wonderful city. We also ask that you be with those that are sick, those that are needy, the shut ins, and those that aren't living the kind of life that they wish to live right now. We ask that they look towards you to make things better in their situation. And to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Judge Howard. This is a second reading of ordinance number 14 of 2026. Be it ordained by the city of Elizabeth Town that from and after passage, approval, and publication of this ordinance as follows. That an advalorium tax of 11.6 cents on each 100 of assessed valuation of all motor vehicles and watercrafts taxable for municipal purposes in the city be in the same as hereby levied as of January 1st, 2026 for the purpose of raising revenue to pay salaries of officers and employees of the city, to pay for repairs and maintenance of streets and public ways, the public and other property of the city to pay for lighting the streets, the maintenance and operation of the fire and police departments, and all other proper and legal demands against the city. This tax shall be collected by the Harden County Clerk. This ordinance shall be effective on or after its adoption, publication, and posting as provided by law. Be it further ordained that the mayor and or is designate is authorized and directed to take all steps necessary to perfect this ordinance. This is a second reading and is now available for your consideration. Any discussion. Seeing none, I need a motion and a second to adopt, please. I'll make a motion. First and a second, Ms. Graham, if you would call the vote. Yes, sir. Councilmember Bishop. Yes. Fulkerson? Yes. Isaacs. Yes. Jones? Yes. Springsteen. Yes. Tyler. Yes. Motion pass. Thank you, ma'am. That brings us to ordinance number 15, 2026, setting 2026 franchise tax rate. If I can get a motion and a second to read, please. Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Judge Howard. This is a second reading of ordinance number 15 of 2026. Be it ordained by the City of Elizabeth Town that from and after the passage, approval, and publication of this ordinance as follows. One, there is hereby imposed on all financial institutions as defined by KRS Chapter 136 located within the city for the 2026 tax year, a franchise tax at the rate of 0.025% on all eligible deposits as defined by KRS Chapter 136, maintained by such financial institutions. Two, that all taxes hereby levied shall become due and payable as provided by law, together with special levies heretofore made for street improvements.