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Walton council approves first reading of 2025 tax rates and adopts truck ban at Towne Center Drive entrance
Summary
At a Sept. 16 special meeting, the Walton Common Council approved the first reading of Ordinance 2025-17, setting the city's 2025 tax-rate ordinance (rates not specified in the record), and approved the second reading of Ordinance 2025-16 to prohibit heavy-truck traffic at the west entrance of Towne Center Drive; both measures passed unanimously.
The Common Council of the City of Walton met in special session on Sept. 16, 2025, and approved two ordinances by unanimous roll-call votes. Council member Dan Martin moved and Council member Sherry Gaskill seconded approval of the first reading of Ordinance 2025-17, which fixes the city's 2025 tax rates on real property, tangible personal property, motor vehicles and watercraft; the council voted "yes": Dan Martin, Caleb Flege, Amy Long, Sherry Gaskill and Rose Beach.
On the same agenda the council approved the second reading of Ordinance 2025-16, amending Chapter 74 (Traffic Schedules) to create Schedule IV prohibiting heavy-truck traffic from entering and exiting the west entrance of Towne Center Drive at its intersection with Mary Grubbs Highway. Dan Martin moved the measure, Sherry Gaskill seconded, and the five present council members voted unanimously in favor.
The meeting was called under KRS 83A.130(11) and KRS 61.823. Mayor Terri Courtney presided; council member Sherry Gaskill led the invocation and Mayor Courtney led the pledge of allegiance. The attendance record shows Dan Martin, Amy Long, Rose Beach, Sherry Gaskill and Caleb Flege present; Matt Brown was recorded as absent. Rebecca S. McClure is listed as city clerk on the meeting record.
The transcript and minutes provided the ordinance numbers and motions but did not include specific dollar amounts or the exact tax-rate figures for Ordinance 2025-17; those figures are "not specified" in the record. The truck-restriction ordinance identifies the geographic scope (the west entrance of Towne Center Drive at Mary Grubbs Highway) but the minutes do not show debate, public comment, or conditions attached to the ordinance in the supplied record.
Council member Dan Martin moved to adjourn at 6:08 p.m.; Council member Amy Long seconded, and the council voted unanimously to adjourn.
