The Elizabethtown City Council met for their first meeting of the month Monday afternoon.
The council approved three ordinances on their second readings that annexed 154 acres at 1750 Gaither Station Road, .482 acre at 2031 Bardstown Road, and 68 acres at 1001 Ring Road/Patriot Parkway from unincorporated Hardin County. The Gaither Station Road property will be zoned Regional Industrial while the other two will be zoned Regional Commercial.
The council also approved a municipal order amending a contract with construction firm Congleton-Hacker for the next phase of the Commerce Drive outdoor music venue project.
“The amendment to the contract will include tree clearing and site work for an amount not to exceed $10 million,” said Elizabethtown City Attorney Ken Howard, reading from the municipal order.
Congleton-Hacker was previously contracted for pre-construction services on the project.
Elizabethtown Director of Public Works Don Hill provided statistics on the city’s snow removal efforts. Hill said city workers put in 1,900 man hours to plow and treat 1,000 miles of city roadways as they tackled nine inches of snow and 3/10 an inch of ice over the week.
“This week’s focus, we’re going to be working on getting the equipment ready, making repairs, getting that ready, restocking our salt storage, working on removing obstructions from drainage facilities because as the snow melts off we have to get it off the streets, and then also we’re doing street inspections and assessments to look for potholes and deficiencies that may have been caused by the operation last week,” Hill said.
The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet January 21.
