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Hopkinsville City Council approves AFG match, CED grant match and $25,000 travel transfer
Summary
The Hopkinsville City Council on March 4 approved three municipal orders: a 20% match for a FEMA Assistance to Firefighters Grant for a Class 5 brush truck, a local-match authorization tied to a $7 million Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development grant for Commerce Park Phase 2, and a $25,000 interfund transfer to send city staff to a retail recruitment summit.
The Hopkinsville City Council on March 4 approved three municipal orders that the council read and passed during the meeting.
The council approved authorization to provide a 20% local matching share for an Assistance to Firefighters Grant (a FEMA program) for the purchase of a Class 5 brush truck. The municipal order states the total project cost is estimated at $309,750 and authorizes matching funds up to $61,950 and authorizes the mayor to sign grant documents, memoranda of agreement and related documents. The municipal order was moved and approved by voice vote with no nays recorded.
The council also approved a municipal order related to a Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development (CED) grant that the city said awarded $7,000,000 toward design and construction of the roadway system for Commerce Park Phase 2. The order recited a total project cost of $10,996,007.34 and referenced prior municipal orders that had authorized portions of the required local match. During the reading, the municipal order text included an amount read as "$204,204,130.34" for local matching funds. That figure is inconsistent with the project cost stated earlier in the order and the council did not clarify or amend the figure during the meeting; the council approved the municipal order by voice vote with no nays recorded.
Finally, the council authorized an interfund transfer of $25,000 to support retail recruitment attendance at the International Council of Shopping Centers recruitment summit. The transfer allocates $8,000 to advertising and marketing (account 1010.1050.5205), $6,000 to professional fees (1010.1050.5210), and $11,000 to travel and lodging (1010.1050.5225). Council members said up to five people from Hopkinsville may attend (the mayor, mayor's assistant, two economic recruitment staff from the chamber and another staff member). The transcript includes discussion that the mayor may spend up to $7,500 from his internal fund without council approval and that amounts above that require council authorization; the council approved the transfer by voice vote.
Motions and seconds recorded in the transcript included a motion by Amy Craig and a second by Council member Marsh at multiple points during the meeting; votes were taken by voice and the meeting record does not show a roll-call tally. The council had a quorum at the start of the meeting.
The three municipal orders were approved during the meeting; the council did not attach further conditions on these approvals in the transcript provided.
