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'SiCKO' Press conference In Louisville, Kentucky June 29th 2007 Photos

Hillbilly Report
Glendale, Kentucky
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June 30, 2007
Since the theaters in Elizabethtown, Kentucky didn't see fit to show the movie 'SiCKO'€, I went to Louisville, Kentucky to see what was so bad about the movie and all I found was enthusiasm.
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The Citizens Committee for Better City Government Press Release

Hillbilly Report
Glendale, Kentucky
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June 15, 2007
Elizabethtown, Kentucky
The Citizens Committee for Better City Government has again petitioned Mayor David Willmoth, Jr. and city councilmen Bishop, Fulkerson, Lewis, Thomas, Walker, and Wood to reclassify Elizabethtown as a second-class city in accordance with its population, the Kentucky Constitution, and Kentucky Revised Statutes.

In a letter to the mayor and council members, Chairman Steve Atcher points out that Elizabethtown was first designated a fourth-class city 91 years ago.  Atcher goes on to note that Elizabethtown has had a population larger than the state constitution prescribes for a fourth-class city for 50 years (since 1957).

The letter also points out other local governments have changed with the times, citing Hardin County’s evolution from a magistrate form of government to a commissioner form of government, and neighboring Radcliff having reclassified as a second class city in accordance with its population in 1974.

Atcher says fourth-class cities in Kentucky have an average population of 5,170 (five-thousand one hundred and seventy), while Elizabethtown had a population of 22,542 in the 2000 Census, and has approximately 24,000 now, according to the City’s web site. Kentucky cities with populations of 20,000-99,999 are designated second-class cities by Section 156 of the state Constitution.

Atcher calls Elizabethtown’s claim of fourth class city status “grossly inaccurate”, and asks for councilmen with “courage, foresight, wisdom, leadership, and virtue” to “lead Elizabethtown into the 21st Century where it belongs”, by introducing a motion to reclassify Elizabethtown correctly as the “second-class city it has been now for ten years.”

Citizens Committee Questions Passage of Elizabethtown Restaurant Tax

Hillbilly Report
Glendale, Kentucky
June 2, 2007
A group of citizens entitled “The Citizens Committee for Better City Government” has petitioned Elizabethtown Mayor David Willmoth, Jr. and each member of the Elizabethtown City Council to “comply with KRS 81.032 by providing the city’s current population (22,542 in the 2000 Census) to the Kentucky General Assembly as a Second Class City, in accordance with Section 156 of the Kentucky Constitution.”
Section 156 of the Kentucky Constitution provided for the following class population limits:
Class                   Population
First                 100,000  or more
Second            20,000  to 99,999
Third                8,000   to 19,999
Fourth             3,000   to   7,999
Fifth                 1,000   to   2,999
Sixth                  999   or   less
Committee spokesman Steve Atcher noted that “Elizabethtown’s population has been that of a Second Class City since at least the U. S. Census taken in the year 2000.  The committee is only asking our Mayor and City Council to classify Elizabethtown properly, and in accordance with The Kentucky Constitution.  Elizabethtown’s city government website says Elizabethtown has a ‘population of approximately 24,000’. One must question why city government has clung to a city classification intended for a city one-third the size of Elizabethtown for the last seven years.  Elizabethtown has the distinction of being the largest city in Kentucky claiming to be a fourth-class city.”
Atcher noted that “KRS 81.032 says that ‘Prior to the reclassification of any incorporated area by the General Assembly, the legislative body of such area shall provide to the General Assembly by certified resolution the population data as required by subsections (2) and (3) of this section’.”
Atcher added that “Second class cities are not permitted to impose a restaurant tax.  KRS 91A.400 says, in part, ‘In addition to the three percent (3%) transient room tax authorized by KRS 91A.390, the city legislative body in cities of the fourth and fifth classes may levy an additional restaurant tax not to exceed three percent (3%) of the retail sales by all restaurants doing business in the city’.  Clearly, the restaurant tax, as envisioned by the Kentucky General Assembly, was intended for cities with populations of 1,000 to 7,999.  It was not intended for a city with a population exceeding 22,000 like Elizabethtown.”
Atcher says the committee contends that since the city is improperly classified as a fourth class city, “the restaurant tax recently passed by the city council is at the very least, improper. We encourage all Elizabethtown citizens to contact the mayor and each city councilman to request they take the required steps to:  (1) classify Elizabethtown properly, and (2) rescind the restaurant tax, since its passage was  based on an improper city classification.”

Sherry Kelley Elected Chair of Hardin County Democratic Executive Committee

Hillbilly Report
Glendale, Kentucky
June 1, 2007
Hardin County, KY – On Tuesday May 29, 2007 the Hardin County Democratic Executive Committee elected Sherry Kelley as their new chair. Ms. Kelley is ready to get to the business of leading the party; “I appreciate the hard work of my predecessor, Larry Ashlock. I am looking forward to serving as chair of this committee. We will continue to move forward with our plans to get Democrats elected – starting with Steve Beshear as our next governor.”