Multiple ordinances and municipal orders were approved and passed at Tuesday’s meeting of the Hopkinsville City Council.
Among that list were second-reading of an ordinance that closes portions East 5th Street, East 6th Street, East 11th Street, and East 12th Street at the railroad crossings, as part of the ongoing CSX project to close some crossings in the city limits and renovate other existing crossings.
There were several municipal orders passed, including one that transfers the deed of the L&N Depot on East Ninth Street to the Christian County-Hopkinsville Development Corporation. There is still approximately $130,000 ear-marked in the city’s budget, and Mayor Wendell Lynch says that money must go towards that facility, it can’t be reabsorbed back into the general fund, but the Corporation has the expertise to really develop that property.
A resolution designating Mayor Lynch as having the authority to perform actions as needed in relation to a $410,234 grant from Delta Regional Authority to go towards a water and sewer project providing EZ Access with services. Mayor Lynch says the Hopkinsville Water Environment Authority will handle the bulk of the project.
In other action, council approved a municipal order that establishes a Future Fire Station Reserve Fund, putting a starting amount of $300,000 in it—the hope is to have a feasibility study done to see if a new fire station is needed in Hopkinsville, and if so, where it might be built.
In the event those funds are not fully expended for the feasibility study, remaining funds can be used for the cost of construction, payment of debt service for the construction of a new fire station, or for the cost of equipping that station, subject to the approval. City Council may at any time move any of the funds to the general fund, to be used for any other purpose.