Nelson Fiscal Court gives final OK for distillery industrial revenue bonds
From left, magistrates Jerry Hahn, Jeff Lear, Bernard Ice, Sam Hutchins and Keith Metcalfe and Judge Executive Dean Watts.
By JIM BROOKS
Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015, 1:45 p.m. — Nelson Fiscal Court met in a special meeting today and gave final approval of industrial revenue bonds for the Bardstown Bourbon Co. and Jim Beam’s Booker Noe distillery at Boston.
From left, magistrates Sam Hutchins and Keith Metcalfe and Judge Executive Dean Watts discuss possible placement for stop signs in the Woodlawn Springs neighborhood at its meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015.
The bonds will be used for an expansion project at the Beam plant in Boston, and for the ongoing construction of the new Bardstown Bourbon Co. in the county-owned industrial park.
TAX MORATORIUM REQUEST. The court approved a five-year tax moratorium request from KAT Properties LLC, the new owners of the former Mammy’s Kitchen store location at 114. North Third St. The property was purchased for $135,000 and the new owner expects to spend up to $75,000 in renovations and repairs.
The moratorium means that the property’s tax assessment will not change for a five-year-period.
RECORD RUNS FOR EMS. EMS Director Joe Prewitt told the court the county-owned ambulance service had 631 runs in October, a record number of calls.
Nelson County EMS had 124 more runs in October 2015 than it did in October 2014.There were an average of about 20 calls per day. As of Oct. 31, EMS had handled 2,317 calls for service this year.
In other business, the court
— appointed Bryant Wickliffe to the Nelson County Recreation Board.
— discussed the placement of stop signs in Woodlawn Springs subdivision to slow speeding drivers.
— approved a bid of $46,737 from Whayne Supply for a used Caterpillar backhoe. The county road department has rented the backhoe for the past five months, and Whayne Supply will apply the rent payments to the purchase price.
The backhoe the county replaced was sold at auction Oct. 30 and was purchased by Cox’s Creek resident Donnie Clark for $7,033.
— approved a modified resolution regarding a Kentucky Office of Homeland Security grant for weather siren funding. Joe Prewitt, the county’s emergency management director, told the court that the resolution the court approved earlier was missing some needed language to qualify for the grant.
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