Left to right: Commissioners Mike Burgess, and Angelo Scavo, Mayor Larry Poteet and Park City Clerk Karen Briggs (Photo by Gage Wilson/Glasgow News 1)
By GAGE WILSON
Glasgow News 1
Confidence was the theme of the Park City Commissioner meeting Monday, July 3. The council met at 6 p.m. at Park City Hall, with Donna Scavo being the only absence.
The meeting was also attended by Matt Pedigo, community development specialist with the Barren River Area Development District. Pedigo has been assigned to assist Park City in writing grants to further it’s social programs and to further it’s already successful senior feeding program that began in early May, with this most recent week bringing in around 35 seniors according to Park City Clerk Karen Briggs.
The meeting was also attended by Karin Baldwin-Carroll, owner of the Grand Victorian Hotel, who is making efforts to bring back the Highland Games event to Barren County. With confidence in her volunteers who would staff the event, she came before the council to ask for assistances in the form of $1,200 to be spent on an attorney to appropriately file the necessary paperwork to be recognized as a 501(c)(3) or non-profit.
Mayor Larry Poteet made the motion to sponsor the funds to help the Highland games come to Park City, Commissioner Angelo Scavo was the second for the motion.
Other matters on the agenda consisted of construction and funding for an amphitheater, discussion focused on Kentucky League of Cities Bonds that are distributed to cities that apply for various projects. Mayor Poteet invites the public to meet with the KLC representatives slated to be in Park City July 17.
Mayor Poteet ended the meeting by praising his commissioners, “I can come up with the ideas, but without you, I could never make them happen.”
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