At Monday night’s Clarkson City Commission meeting, Commissioners agreed to allow the Grayson County Junior Pro football program (second through sixth grades) to play its games at the Clarkson City Park.
Junior Pro director Wes Carwile told Commissioners that the league is currently playing games on the Grayson County Middle School football field, but that it’s prone to being unusable after steady rains, causing an inordinate amount of cancellations and or postponements.
Carwile also told Commissioners that he has no place to store the program’s costly equipment other than in coach’s garages, and he would like to place his personal storage building on the property to serve as a permanent storage building.
Commissioners agreed to both requests, with Carwile and Clarkson Parks Director Kevin Johnston to meet in the near future to hammer out the many logistical details of the move. Both Carwile and Johnston will offer a report on their meeting at a special called City Commission meeting on Monday.
The league, which runs from August to November, currently has 163 participants.
Daniel’s Free Library
Daniel Ratley, a fourth grader at Wilkey Elementary School, presented Clarkson Commissioners with a Red Hawk-red outdoor cabinet filled with his books as part of a “Daniel’s Free Library” initiative the nine-year-old is spearheading.
The “Take a book, leave a book” spin-off comes as Daniel was encouraged through the Gifted and Talented program to become involved in the community.
“I love to read and I wanted to share some of my books with other people,” Daniel said in his presentation to Commissioners. “My little library is pretty neat,” Daniel continued, “because you can take a book and leave a book for someone else.”
Commissioners enthusiastically accepted Daniel’s gift, and will place the cabinet filled with books near the entrance to the Clarkson City Hall and Community Center.
Daniel, though, is not finished supplying the area with “Daniel’s Free Library” cabinets, as he said he would like to add several more in public areas in the near future.
Resolution supporting separating state retirement accounts
Commissioners, joing dozens of other Kentucky cities, passed a symbolic resolution supporting the Kentucky League of Cities (KLC) efforts to split the County Employment Retirement System (CERS) from the troubled Kentucky Retirement System (KRS).
KRS, which is only 16 percent funded, and boasting a shortfall in the billions of dollars, is facing difficult legislative decisions determining its future, necessitating KLC requesting the General Assembly to sever the two entities so CERS is not negatively impacted going forward.
