It was a quick meeting of Hopkinsville City Council Tuesday, as they approved several ordinances and heard the annual policemen’s and firemen’s pension fund report.
Retiring Chief Financial Officer Robert Martin presented the report on the pension fund, saying there are eleven public safety former employees, or their spouses, still in that fund and the City continues to make annual payments into it.
Several ordinances were approved, including the establishment of a Small Business Commission, which City Clerk Crissy Fletcher read will have 13 voting members comprised of current small business owners within the City of Hopkinsville.
Ordinances that will put all-way stop signs on Donna Drive at the intersections with Mark Drive and Sheila Drive, and then on Sivley Road at the intersections with Sheridan Circle and South Sheridan Circle were approved, along with placing stop signs at Sheridan Circle and Early Drive.
In other action, a municipal order establishing a Downtown Development Incentive District on real property owned by MDM MED-Properties was approved that authorizes the retention of 80 percent of any increase in ad valorum taxes due to the City for the next 15 years. MDM MED-Properties plans to develop property located at 202 and 204 East Seventh Street—formerly 602 South Virginia Street—investing $425,000 into the development.