By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
The Barren County Fiscal Court approved a contract with DECO Architects for design work on the Park City amphitheater project.
At the end of 2024, the seven county magistrates voted to seek proposals on the $2.5 million construction project that will occupy 15.28 acres on West Dixie Street in Park City. Barren County Judge-Executive Jamie Bewley Byrd explained the contract with DECO Architects, which also provided the rendering of the amphitheater, would be for the design at a cost of $271,200 with an initial payment of $54,240.
Byrd said the money for the contract was coming from the recently received $1 million set aside by the state for multi-county “professional services.”
“That’s all we can use this money for,” Byrd said. “This is where the money [is] coming from, so there’s no [county] money being used.”
Given the large amount of money, Byrd asked for a roll-call vote, which solicited unanimous approval.
On the Agriculture Exposition Center eyed for Cave City, Byrd said Sherman Carter Barnhart had been selected as the design architect, but they had not given the court the contract in time, and its approval would appear on the April 1 fiscal court agenda. The money for this is also coming from the $1 million, Byrd said.
Bobby Richardson, speaking and acting on behalf of the Kentucky Industrial Alliance, which bought a significant portion of newly annexed land in Cave City between Interstate 65 and the railroad tracks, asked the magistrates to approve an application to remove graves and cemeteries that had been abandoned and were in the area planned for what Richardson said was “a substantial employment opportunity for Cave City and Barren County.”
“On that property there are two abandoned cemeteries and [I’m] here today to ask [the court] for the authority to remove those and reinter the people in the Cave City cemetery,” Richardson said. “The statute provide that in the event of that a cemetery has been abandoned for 10 years that [the court] has the authority to do that.”
According to Richardson, once publicly advertised there is a 60-day “pending” period where the public could raise any objections.
The next Barren County Fiscal Court meeting is April 1.
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