Elizabethtown City Council Votes Down Resolution To Reclassify The City

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The Elizabethtown, Kentucky city council voted 4-2 not to read a resolution requesting the Kentucky General assembly to reclassify the city of Elizabethtown to a 2nd class city (See the resolution after the page break). The motion to read the resolution was made by Steve Atcher and seconded by Ron Thomas. The motion was defeated 4-2 with Larry Ashlock, Marty Fulkerson, Kenny Lewis and Tim Walker voting against it.
THE KENTUCKY CONSTITUTION DEFINES A FOURTH CLASS CITY AS A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF 3,000-7,999.
THE KENTUCKY CONSTITUTION DEFINES A SECOND CLASS CITY AS A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF 20,000-99,999.
It appears Elizabethtown will retain it's fourth class city status that goes all the way back to 1916. The state constitution's prevailing classification system says a city of over 20,000 is a second class city. Elizabethtown has been that large or larger since 1997.
In 2007 the Elizabethtown city council voted to impose a fourth class city restaurant tax in a city with a 2nd class city population and by some estimates the restaurant tax takes in two million dollars a year from people eating in Elizabethtown restaurants and the money goes to an unelected Tourism Bureau that's going to use the tax for a multi million dollar tourist sport complex.
Councilman Steve Atcher had this to say: "I would rather lose defending the truth, than win clinging to deception."
Steve Atcher, like many Elizabethtown residents, feel the the City Council manipulated Elizabethtown's city classification status to impose a regressive tax on the citizens of Elizabethown, Kentucky.
I have a feeling his ain't over yet.

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• Larry Ashlock
• Marty Fulkerson
• Kenny Lewis
• Tim Walker
• Steve Atcher
• Ron Thomas

[MYFreeSpeach4U]

You also get Hotel, Motel Tax fees, State park fee's split, 50/50 maybe.

Maybe you should take it to the Atty General, and SOS,

[MYFreeSpeach4U]

Say this sounds like the Obama Gang at work!

Mr. Atcher, Get some support, Buy it, with 2nd class city money?? Hum

Yep it's Called "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest", only difference here it's real

So how long has the city been 4th class??