The L&N Depot recently caught regional attention, but the cost to fix it continues to climb. During Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, City Administrative Officer Troy Body gave a brief update, promising more once a structural engineer had finished an assessment.
click to download audioBody says the building was closed in 2019 and at the time Bell Engineering estimated the cost of fixes.
click to download audioSince that time there has been a fire in the building and the structure has sat empty. Body says CDS and the Local Development Corporation, LDC, have been working since last year to figure out how to fund fixes.
click to download audioBody says two million dollars could be used to do numerous things in the city, so they want to be good stewards of taxpayer funds. They expect a Structural Engineer to have more information to them by the end of the month. Meanwhile, Chief Financial Officer Robert Martin says payroll tax collection is above budgeted numbers for the first six months of the fiscal year.
click to download audioIn other business, Tony Meacham was appointed to the Code of Ordinance Enforcement Board, and Brooke Jung and Calvin Givens were appointed to the Hopkinsville-Christian County Conference Center Corporation Board.
