$6K fireworks item sparks Monroe County council talk about convention center expansion

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$6K fireworks item sparks Monroe County council talk about convention center expansion

A $6,000 appropriation from food and beverage tax receipts, to pay for a Harrodsburg Heritage Festival fireworks display, was approved on Tuesday night by Monroe County’s council. The vote was not unanimous. Dissenting was Geoff McKim, who said he knew it would amount to a symbolic gesture. Still, McKim wanted to establish that he would not support uses of the food and beverage tax for purposes other than the convention center expansion—until it…