Votes at a glance: Elizabethtown council adopts $47 million bond for music venue, approves annexations, bids and grants

Elizabethtown9s City Council at its April 7 regular meeting adopted an ordinance authorizing the issuance of up to $47,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance acquisition, construction and equipping of a new outdoor music venue.

The bond ordinance (Ordinance No. 6-20-25, second reading and adoption) passed after a motion to adopt and a roll-call vote in which all council members present voted yes. The ordinance authorizes a sinking fund and a bond tax to be levied only if other revenues are insufficient to meet debt service obligations, and contemplates a public competitive sale with a maturity not to exceed 30 years.

The council also approved multiple annexations and other agenda items during a meeting that included first readings of additional ordinances. Actions approved included annexations of property at 204 Jackie Street (Ordinance No. 7-20-25), 320 Pear Orchard Road Northwest (Ordinance No. 8-20-25) and 77019 South Wilson Road (Ordinance No. 9-20-25). Each annexation was presented as a second reading by summary with owner consent noted and the required 45-day notice to Hardin County reported; each was adopted without recorded opposition.

A second-reading ordinance repealing and replacing the…