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The Elizabethtown City Council met for a special meeting Monday.

A public hearing was held on the city’s Municipal Road Aid funding.

“The city currently has $0 in carryover funds in its Municipal Road funds and will receive approximately $601,857.59 during the fiscal year 2027,” said Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory. “The LGEA fund has $0 in carryover funds and will receive approximately $0 during the fiscal year 2027.”

A zoning map amendment setting the zoning for the Woodland Corridor to Neighborhood Commercial (C-2) and Regional Commercial (C-3) was approved on its second reading. The council also approved a $12,848.98 Downtown Redevelopment Grant to Fourth Generation Properties LLC for 108 East Dixie Avenue, and the council approved the accepting of chemical bids for the city’s wastewater treatment plant.

“This will be from CITCO Water,” said City Attorney Ken Howard, reading from the municipal order. “Clorine, in the amount of $2,000 per ton, and sulfur dioxide, in the amount of $1,775 per ton, and there is no delivery charge for those products.”

Also meeting Monday was the Radcliff City Council for a called meeting and work session.

The council approved three zoning amendments on second reading. The first rezoned 253 Battle Training Road from Residential-2 to Residential-4. The second rezoned property on the south side of Battle Training Road between North Dixie Highway and Blair Hill Lane from Residential-2 to Residential-4. The third rezoned 3366 South Wilson Road from Residential-2 to Commercial. An ordinance which amended the city’s zoning regulations to align policies concerning qualified manufactured homes with state statutes was also approved on its second reading.

During the work session, Radcliff Police Chief Jeff Cross discussed updates to the RPD’s Code of Conduct, all of which are in line with Kentucky Association of Police Chiefs standards.

“Some policies have a complete standalone policy in itself that explains everything in detail, and then we have ‘rules and regulations’ that touches on basics and the dos and don’ts of work relationships within the facility and how we do things,” said Cross.

Both councils will be conducting budget meetings this week. The Radcliff City Council will next meet in a called meeting on May 18. The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet in a regular meeting on June 1.

Area nonprofits will be looking for extra support Tuesday as they participate in KY Gives Day.

“It is a chance for area nonprofits to showcase all the great work that they do throughout the year in giving back to the community, and it also makes it a very easy way for the community to give to them through the online portal,” said Central Kentucky Community Foundation Communications Coordinator Erin Hahn.

The online portal is open at www.kygives.org through midnight.

Multiple opportunities for matching donations and prize donations will be available throughout the day, meaning even a small donation can make a large impact.

“Throughout the last 11 years, these organizations regionally, so this is in our nine-county region that CKCF works with, we’ve raised over $1 million dollars,” Hahn said. “Just last year it was over $200,000, so those $10, $20, and $5, they do really add up, which is fantastic.”

Visit www.kygves.org to make a donation, or to see the nonprofit leaderboard and match or prize opportunities.

Dr. Shannon Holt, who with support from the Central Kentucky Community Foundation’s Heels Together Initiative spearheaded the creation of the PinkDot Project, says two in five women in the United States cannot afford their own period supplies, something that has become increasingly problematic as costs have risen.

“One in four students can’t afford their supplies, and these students and women, they’re missing school, they’re missing work, and when you can’t go to school and can’t get your education and when you can’t go to work and you can’t pay your bills, it is just kind of an increasingly problematic situation,” Holt says. “Add to that the fact that Kentucky is one of 18 states that still taxes period products as luxury items, and as such they are subject to sales tax.”

The PinkDot Project allows area residents to donate period products for women and girls who cannot afford them. With this week being National Period Poverty Awareness Week, now is a good time to support the project.

“We’re inviting everybody to fill the bins at our 17 drop locations all over the county,” says Beth Avey with the Heels Together Initiative. “We’re also having proclamation signings at Elizabethtown City Council, Radcliff City Council, and Hardin County Fiscal Court, and Vine Grove did it this week for us.”

Products collected in the bins are donated to area schools, churches, and organizations to support women and girls.

“You can drop products in any one of these bins,” Avey says. “You can go to our webpage on the Central Kentucky Community Foundation’s website, and you can shop the Amazon Wish List. You can make a cash donation, and we’ll go shopping for you, or you can host a drive yourself. We’d love to have you take a bin and encourage your customers or your employees to help end period poverty.”

Learn more by visiting the Heels Together Facebook page or www.ckcf4people.org.