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The Elizabethtown City Council convened on September 28, 2026, for a special meeting and subsequent work session. The special meeting focused on the first reading of a general obligation bond ordinance to finance city office renovations. During the work session, the Council addressed schedule changes, community events, and heard reports from the Kentucky League of Cities conference, while the scheduled police department presentation was canceled due to an ongoing emergency.
Welcome everyone to Elizabethtown City Council special meeting for September twenty-eighth, two thousand and twenty-six. I will now call the meeting to order and ask Council Member Tony Bishop if he would please lead us in the invitation. May we pray. We ask that you be for our community. Uh, we've had a lot of folks that has passed away this past week, and Mr. Potter and the Potter family, and William Johnson or as we know as a mousey. Uh, but we ask you be with be with all of our families who are going through bereavement. We ask you to be with all of our sick and shut in. And right now we ask you to be with our law enforcement as we have some things going on in our in our area right now. Just comfort and lead them, goddammit strengthen them. And uh now that as we go into our meeting today, we ask that you do the same just to lead us, guide us and direct us in the way that you would have us to go. In your son's name we pray. Amen. If you please 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. And so that's why she couldn't be here today. But we totally understand and wish both E Town High School and Central Harden High School golf teams the best of luck in their endeavors in the state tournament. I will also say anyone wishing to speak during the public comments section of this meeting should please sign in now if you do wish to speak. If you will go over to the desk where Mrs. Inman and Mr. Pope and Mr. Daly are and sign in, and then once you come up to the podium, if you would say your name and address, and if you're not comfortable saying your address, if you would say whether or not you're a resident of the city, we would appreciate it. If I can get a motion and a second, please. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed. And Judge Howard, we're about to have the quickest city council meeting in your tenure. If you will read us first reading by motion of ordinance number 18, 2026, general bond obligation issuance for City Hall 2323 Ring Road. If I can get a motion and a second to read, please. Motion. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed. Judge Howard. This is a first reading by summary. This ordinance authorizes the issuance of not to exceed 17 million dollars of the city's general obligation bonds. This would be series 2026 to be issued for the purpose of financing the acquisition, renovation, and equipping of city offices. To assure the payment of the bonds, it is necessary. The city authorize a levy sufficient for that purpose, provided, however, it is now anticipated that revenues derived from the projects and other available city funds will be sufficient to meet the debt service requirements of the bonds without the collection of the bond tax. That by the adoption of the ordinance, the city covenants with the owners of the bonds that it shall, if necessary, collect each year a bond tax in a sufficient amount and appropriate in its and appropriate in its annual budget, together with other monies available to it, an amount sufficient to pay the debt charges of the bond as defined by Kentucky revised statute. That section 6C of the ordinance reads as follows that pursuant to section 157 of the Constitution of Kentucky and Section 66.11 of the bond act. There is hereby levied in the city here by covenants to collect each year that the bonds remain outstanding, the bond tax in an amount sufficient to provide for the full payment of the principal and interest requirements of said bonds, said bond tax to be collected only if other taxes or revenues of the city are not sufficient to pay the principal and interest requirements of the bonds as saying become due. The bonds are to be sold at a publicly advertised competitive sale. The bonds will mature over a term not to exceed 30 years.