AARC Meeting Minutes
May 14, 2008
Present
John
Wilhoit, Skip Phillips, Dianne MacDonald, Lori Garkovich, Patti Wilson
Guests:
Judge Executive John Coyle, Carolyn Oldfield,
Update on Cost of Community Services
Study
Dr.
Freshwater sent an update:
The first
part of the paper on the basic issues of matching revenues and expenditures by
local government is finished. This looks at the major sources of funds for
local government and the use of general funds rather than the function of
specific accounts. It also identifies the relevance of income streams other
than the standard property tax, such as user fees, earmarked taxes and income
and sales taxes.
Review of
the AFT methodology and the results from prior COS studies is mostly complete.
Discussion
of how the
Tax data
from the PVA office is partially analyzed. The main missing bits are the
spatial boundaries for the urban services area, merging the value of the farm
household into the rural residential category, and applying appropriate mill
rates to the total assessed values to generate the amount of funds raised.
To be done
in May:
Interviews
with county officials to apportion major outlay categories across the land use
categories
Development
of expenditure data by land use category
Finish
constructing revenue by land use category
Finalize
the first draft
Discussion on the Woodford Rural
Land Board
Carolyn
Oldfield administrator for Thoroughbred Resource Conservation and Development
(of the USDA) explained how
The
Thoroughbred RC&D is a 501c(3) associated with USDA providing services to
The
Woodford Rural Land Board Ad Hoc Committee is to have the following
composition:
2 Farm
Bureau members
2 Local
business persons
2 Local
citizens
1 Person
in real estate or development
Have had
limited applications of volunteers for this committee so the decision is:
To request at the May Fiscal Court meeting that the Fiscal
Court re-advertise for volunteers for this committee
Write a letter to the Editor of the Woodford Sun explaining
the purpose of this committee and encouraging people to volunteer and directing
them to the Planning Commission web site for applications
The AARC will host another workshop on agricultural
conservation easements in July to acquaint local leaders and farm land owners
with this program. Will request that representatives of the
Place a list of interest for local landowners to sign at the
Woodford Conservation District. This list of interest indicates that the person
signing wants to know more about agricultural conservation easements. When this
was done in
Seek to
have submission of proposed ordinance to the
Update on Workshop on trail riding
and bed and breakfast businesses as opportunities for local land owners
Lori has
begun identifying participants and will continue to work on developing this
workshop
Other information
Lori noted
a report by Norm Luba of the Kentucky Quarter Horse Association on the changes
that have occurred as a result of the state breeders incentive fund which
allocates 7% of funds from sales/use tax on stallion service fees to nonracing
breeds
The goals
of the Kentucky Quarter Horse Association Breeders Incentive Fund are:
To increase the value of
Kentucky-bred quarter horses
To stimulate economic development
To increase the quality of
Kentucky-bred quarter horses
In
September, 2005 before the incentive fund was implemented, there were 50
Quarter Horse stallions standing in
As of
September 1, 2007 there were 600 Quarter Horse stallions standing in
In
September of 2006, the KY Quarter Horse Association received $308,000 in state
incentive funds based on the number of Quarter Horse stallions in
Summary of a research paper on
"Recreational demand for trail riding" by Dr. Melanie Blackwell
This is an
analysis of 189 surveys completed by trail riders at trails, club meetings and
on-line. All respondents had used a trail at least once to receive a survey
Trail
riding is an activity that requires transportation, feed, hay, water, equipment
and in
The
analytic model:
Dependent
variable
Number of
annual visits by trail rider to a particular system of trails
Independent
variables
Trip costs
estimated by:
The site as defined by the zip code
of the trail head
Starting zip code of the rider
One way
distance traveled
One way
trip time
Number of
single day trips per year
Number of
overnight trips per year
By type of lodging
Camping on site Camping nearby
Cabin Hotel
Site characteristics
(Index of % of available site characteristics)
Trail markers Back country camping
available
Trail length greater than 15 miles Full service camping available
Scenic overlook
Gender
Income
Education
Age of
rider
Willingness
to rent a horse to ride at trail head
Results
Variable Mean
No.
trips/year 10.8
Distance
traveled 66.36
miles
Time
traveled 83
minutes
If stayed
overnight, avg # of nights stayed 1.69
nights
Site
characteristics index average 69.81%
Gender 65%
female
Age 45.3
years
Education More
than high school
Income
(household) $65,000
For every 8
miles closer the trail to the trail rider, their visits to the trail will
increase by 1
By
enhancing existing trail attributes, you can increase the number of trail
riders
Locating
new trails near population centers will substantially increase usage
Design new
trails with as many of the desired characteristics as possible to maximize
attraction to riders
If horse
rentals are provided, you will attract riders who, in the absenceof rentals,
will use trails rarely