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Radcliff City Council holds first reading of budget ordinance

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The Radcliff City Council met for their first meeting of the month and a work session Monday evening.

The first reading was held on the city’s budget ordinance for fiscal year 2025-2026. As read by City Attorney Mike Pike, the budget includes anticipated revenues of $18,361,000 under the general fund, $500,000 under Road/LGEA, and $1,887,300 under the Stormwater Utility Fund. Those are the same amounts listed for total appropriations.

During the work session, Radcliff Chief Financial Officer Chance Fox discussed proposed updates to the salary scale for city police and fire personnel. Fox said the increases keep the city’s police and fire departments competitive with other area departments.

“We recommended a 4 percent increase on starting pay for both police and fire, above and beyond what’s currently in the plan for their entry salary, which is what we had discussed, and then secondary to that there was also discussion about what the annual step increase amount should be,” Fox said.

Members of the council expressed support for the increases so long as they do not stretch the budget too thin.

The council also received information on a zoning map amendment for three parcels of property on the south side of Chandler Avenue between Jones and Waterfield streets from R-7 and R-4 to just R-4, and a zoning map amendment for 699 Blackjack Road from Residential Holding and R-2 to just R-2.

The Radcliff City Council will next meet June 17.

E-Town kicks off Lawn Party at the Lake concert series Wednesday night

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The City of Elizabethtown Events staff kicks off the 2025 Lawn Party at the Lake concert series Wednesday night.

The headliner for the show at the Freeman Lake Park bandstand is 94.3 The Wolf’s own Kevin Jaggers.

“The band, I don’t get to bring them around E-Town as much as I’d like to, so this is going to be one of those shows that we’re rocking full force, and we’re really excited about that,” Jaggers said. “We’re going to do a lot of the covers that get people up dancing, moving, shaking, all the good things, and then we’re going to do some originals as well.”

Priscilla Scarborough with the city’s events staff says all are welcome to come out for the free show.

“He’ll be taking the stage at 6:30 with his band over at Freeman Lake Park at the bandstand,” Scarborough said. “We’re going to have food trucks and some lawn games. Come and hang out. It’s just going to be a great time.”

Elizabethtown Events Manager Beth Pyles says parking at Freeman Lake Park will open at 5:30.

“Come in the Blue Heron Way entrance to Freeman Lake Park,” Pyles said. “The folks there will direct you where to park. Bring your lawn chair. It is festival-style seating. We will have some picnic tables, but there’s never enough for everybody. We do ask that you don’t bring coolers.”

Visit www.etownevents.com for more information on the Lawn Party at the Lake series.

Elizabethtown City Council hosts work session

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The Elizabethtown City Council met for a work session Monday.

Elizabethtown/Hardin County Industrial Foundation President Andy Games gave an update to the council. He said there are two lots left in the T.J. Patterson Industrial Park, and the foundation has been working on developing a new industrial park at Ring Road and the Western Kentucky Parkway.

“That park is officially named the Gil Nicely Sr. Industrial Park, so that is where we are working towards, and we’ve applied for a PDI grant,” Games said. “We were unsuccessful the first time, but we’re getting ready to go through that process again.”

Games said the grant would help pay for infrastructure improvements at the industrial park site.

City Clerk and ABC Administrator Jessica Graham gave an update on the city’s available quota retail package licenses based on population increase in the city.

“We’re at 13, and that’s where we’ve been at for quite some time, and with our new number it would take us to 15 licenses, and if the state allows us and if you all want me to do this (to go to 1 to 2000), it would take us up to 17 licenses, so four additional licenses,” Graham said.

Graham said the city could theoretically request changes to allow for more licenses, but the city does not want to expand things too much.

City Planning and Development Director Joe Reverman gave an update on proposed residential zoning text amendments along with new policies on short-term rentals and signage. Reverman said the proposed changes are in line with the city’s comprehensive plan but create more options to help increase the city’s housing supply.

“What we really wanted to do here was not to discourage the new types of residential developments in our community that the market is asking for, and we also want to provide flexibility for these developments, so we don’t want to hem developers into certain types of developments,” Reverman said. “We want to give them some flexibility, within reason, to develop and be creative.”

The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet June 16.

Crusade for Children receives strong support from Elizabethtown and Hardin County

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WHAS in Louisville says the 72nd annual Crusade for Children was one of the most successful, with the fundraising effort for children with special needs in Kentucky and southern Indiana raising $5.89 million over the weekend, beating last year’s total by more than $189,000.

Efforts in Elizabethtown raised more than $154,000, and efforts elsewhere in Hardin County raised just under $146,000. WHAS says the Crusade for Children works to “advance opportunities for all children with identified needs to reach their full potential.”

“It’s just one of the very few charities in this entire country that 100 percent of everything that you give, your gift goes to the special needs children in that community, and there’s not many charities out there like that,” said 94.3 The Wolf radio personality and longtime Crusade volunteer Bobby Jack Murphy. 

Murphy said he has seen the deep roots of Crusade for Children firsthand.

“I grew up with the Crusade in Lebanon, Kentucky, when I was about six or seven years old,” Murphy said. “We used to get excited every year because the fire trucks would come down the street and the firemen would have their boots and were taking money up, and you got to see the fire trucks and the lights and everything else, and then when I went to work in Louisville at WHAS Radio, you just kind of fell into it.”

Learn more at www.whascrusade.org.