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Residents press Bourbon County on solar projects and allege improper hospital donation during public comment
Summary
Public commenters urged the commission to study tax and safety implications of large solar projects and Mary Pemberton alleged that county officials improperly donated a hospital property and adjacent land to a newly formed Legacy Healthcare Foundation, asking the commission to demand rescission and to notify the building’s lessee.
During the Sept. 16 public-comment period, residents pressed Bourbon County commissioners on two distinct but related concerns: the tax and public-safety implications of proposed solar projects, and an allegation that county leaders improperly donated a hospital building and roughly 40 acres to a new nonprofit.
Vance Eden, a resident who said he had prepared written calculations, asked the commission to work with solar developers to quantify how large-scale solar development could change the tax base and county levy in the long term. Eden presented numbers prepared for commissioners that, he said, showed possible reductions in county taxable value under several development…
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