Hollerwood Park Meeting - 2017.02.15

Money, Money, Money, Money

Park Manager Tony Tipton sent out a letter to the Estill County Judge Executive and Fiscal Court regarding their late payment regarding the lease we have on the park. We hope this will be resolved upon the next meeting of the Estill County Fiscal Court, which will be on Monday, February 20th at 6:00.

Run, Forester, Run

Mr. Tipton is also working on getting Mitch Frisbee to the park to aid on property boundaries. Mr. Frisbee is a professional forester who has previously worked on boundary issues on this land in years past. His knowledge and experience will help expedite the process of defining this key piece in getting the park open in the Spring.

Trying to make it ours

We are still pursuing opportunities with the Kentucky Association of Counties (KACo) to try and acquire the funds to purchase the land out-right. This has been an issue with trying to secure grants for this project. Once we own the property, we should be able to accelerate our development plan... So let's hope this works out.

volunteers needed - trail day!

We are looking to hold a Hollerwood Park trail day. We plan on meeting on Saturday, March 4th, at the Sun Oil building (on KY Highway 1036) at 10 a.m. Activities we plan on accomplishing are:

• Trail clearing
• Hardening trails
• Flagging new trails
• Boundary identification work

Tools will be needed for various activities. Some tools needed are:

• Gloves
• Weed eaters (blades preferred)
• Loppers
• Chainsaws
• Gas-powered hedge trimmers
• Handheld GPS

If you need more information, please check out the event on Facebook or contact James Neukam at 502.609.6351.

Piece of the pie

Board member David Terrill brought up an idea of working something out with the property owners in order to get a deed to the building and some small piece of property to use as a foot-hold in our next round of grant applications. The idea is still in its early phases, so hopefully we'll have more information on it at our next meeting.

Next meeting

The turnout at this meeting was tremendous. It's always good to see the public's interest on this project on full display. If you want to know when we meet again, we manage our meetings via our Hollerwood Park Facebook page. Come join us at our next meeting.