Playgrounds at the Elkton City-County Park will likely look very different soon after the Elkton City Council voted unanimously Thursday evening to award a $134,772 bid to Miracle KY & TN out of Leitchfield, KY for the purchase and installation of new playground equipment at the park.
The contract will include equipment at 2 separate locations within the park. New equipment at the site of the current playground will be suitable for younger children and equipment for older children will be installed on the opposite side of the park, across from the senior citizens center.
The nearly $135,000 price tag will come from monies received from a park improvement grant previously awarded to the city. Lighting upgrades are also underway as part of the grant.
Elkton Mayor Arthur Green told the council he expects the playground to be complete by the spring.
Public Works Director Chris Orr told the council that the city’s utility workers will soon begin an inventory of all customer water service lines on both the city and customer side.
The inventory, required as part of the EPA’s Lead and Copper bill, aims at determining the type of material of which the city’s water lines are made.
Residents may see utility workers at or near the meter boxes. Workers may also be required to look under residences and take photos as proof of material composition.
Houses built after 1987 are exempt from the survey.
The council voted unanimously for the city to enter into an Interlocal Cooperation Agreement with the Todd County Fiscal Court and the Trenton and Guthrie City Councils.
The establishment of a joint city-county planning commission comes after unprecedented residential, business, and commercial growth in the county. According to City Attorney Jeff Traughber, the agreement is the next step in the creation of the commission whose immediate goal will be to prepare, review, and adopt a comprehensive plan for the county.
Traughber also stated that any of the parties who elect to participate in the commission can withdraw their agreement at any time.
The council approved the first reading of an ordinance to rezone a 10.783-acre tract of land located on the west side of Elk Fork Road.
The ordinance is the recommendation of the Elkton Planning Commission and will rezone the property from General Industry to Medium Density Residential and Multi-Family Residential.
A second reading of the ordinance and a vote of approval is required before single-family or multi-family residential homes can be built on the property.
The council also voted unanimously to pass a resolution pledging its support for the creation of a School of Veterinary Medicine at Murray State University.
