Cadiz City Council unanimously accepted an economic incentive request Tuesday night, granting Courtney Campbell of 4C’s Custom Creations & More a 50/50 grant valued at a $2,500 reimbursement for $5,000 spent.
Located at 28 Main Street, the decision comes after Campbell wrote a letter to City Administrative Officer Jack Lingenfelter, and then followed with comments to council members.
In the letter, Campbell said she has created a Facebook page for the business, and that customers can direct message her there or call the store for purchases.
In other city council news:
+ Council members approved the first reading of a new restaurant tax ordinance declaring all Trigg County Country Ham Festival food vendors exempt of the 3%, but both Susan Bryant and Susie Hendricks affirmed they would like to hear what the new raised food booth rates will be before codifying the measure into law next month.
During the January Trigg County Country Ham Festival Committee meeting, multiple members all but affirmed that food booth rental prices would increase, but the level was not determined. However, the group does meet again before the April Cadiz City Council meeting.
+ On an $8,000 bid, Watson was unanimously approved for the demolition of 67 Madison Street, as well as the existing and dilapidated Renaissance Stage. Lingenfelter said that bid came in significantly lower than Stump Man, Western KY Excavating and Taylor Contracting Services because they own a landfill, and that the demolition of the Renaissance Stage would be “rather quick.”
+ Cadiz Police Chief Tyler Thomas said his department recently received ballistics-grade helmets for all officers, courtesy of the Kentucky Attorney General’s office. This is alongside ballistics-grade vests and shields that have also been received in the last 12-to-14 months.
+ City Council also spent a considerable amount of time reviewing, and then offering a first reading of, the Cadiz Ethics Ordinance, which hasn’t been updated since 1994. Subjects that needed adjusting included conflicts of interest, receipts of gifts, required meeting attendance, deadlines for filed and amended statements, financial interests, creation of the ethics board, required annual meetings and required annual reports. The Code of Ethics Handbook must be approved, Lingenfelter said, before the new Employee Handbook can be completed.
+ Bryant suggested that a conversation could be had with the Army Corps of Engineers, about possibly adding on to the West Cadiz Park.
Furthermore, Hendricks asked when the bathrooms there were going to open, and Mayor Todd King confirmed again that the bathroom calendar is controlled not by the city, but by the Corps. Loralee Smith said they would open either at the end of March, or the first of April.
+ King also affirmed that sincere contact has been to property owners of the unsightly location across from the Dollar General Store on Jefferson Street, and that Code Enforcement will soon be meeting to discuss the wayward location.
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