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Simpson County Fiscal Court rejects resolution to pursue grant for Brown property expansion
Summary
The court voted down Resolution No. 2024-01-16EDF to pursue a Kentucky Economic Development Cabinet grant for acquisition and site improvements on the 66.5-acre Brown property to expand Henderson Industrial Park; the motion failed after three magistrates voted no.
Simpson County Fiscal Court voted against joining a grant process to acquire and prepare the 66.5-acre Brown property for expansion of Henderson Industrial Park.
Magistrate Marty Chandler moved, and County Judge Executive Mason Bames seconded, to adopt Resolution No. 2024-01-16EDF authorizing participation in an economic development application to the Kentucky Economic Development Cabinet. The motion did not pass after Magistrates Jeffrey Burr, Scott Poston and Myron Thurman voted "no." Chandler and Judge Executive Bames voted in favor.
The proposed resolution would have enabled the county to pursue property acquisition and site improvements on the Brown tract to expand the industrial park. The court’s action leaves the county without authorization to participate in that particular grant process; no alternative plan or next step was recorded on the record at the meeting.
The resolution and the vote were presented during the meeting’s routine agenda review. No sworn testimony or outside expert presentations accompanied the resolution at the meeting record. The motion and the vote were recorded in the court minutes and the clerk’s office will include the final disposition in county records.
The resolution was identified in the clerk’s agenda as Resolution No. 2024-01-16EDF and referenced the Kentucky Economic Development Cabinet; specific details of the proposed local match, projected costs for acquisition or site work, and any timeline for reintroducing the measure were not specified during the meeting.
Next procedural steps: because the resolution failed on the floor, any future county participation in that grant process would require a new motion or a reintroduction of substantially similar authorization at a subsequent fiscal court meeting.
