Carroll David Hancock

Carroll David Hancock

The race for Fiscal Court's District 4 seat is between two candidates who are from opposite ends of the district -- one rural, one urban -- but who share concerns about growth, traffic congestion and road safety.

Democrat Carroll David Hancock, an insurance salesman and 12-year veteran of the Oldham County Board of Education, is from La Grange.Republican Steven Greenwell is a farm manager and political newcomer who lives southeast of Ballardsville.
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Hancock, vice chairman of the Oldham County Board of Education, said he decided it's time to turn his attention to county government issues."I've always, since I was 18, been associated in the community in some fashion.I'm the type of person who believes in term limits, and I feel I've done everything I possibly could do in my capacity with the school board, and it's time for a change."

Hancock is stressing his school board experience."I know what it takes to get things approved," he said."I'd just be going at it from a different capacity.

Managing growth is the biggest issue confronting the county, he said."When it comes to infrastructure, we have to be more proactive than reactive.We need to upgrade roads and utilities as well.That's why we have the turmoil now.We grow and grow and grow and do not do anything additionally to the roads.Some of these roads out here are scary to drive on."

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Hancock said he supports capacity planning, an approach to managing growth included in the county's new comprehensive plan that says development should occur in areas where utilities, roads and schools can handle it.New subdivisions should be built in phases, he said, to give the school system time to build facilities and avoid crowding.

Concerned about what he considers the lack of parkland in the southeast area of the county, Hancock said he wants to reopen discussions between Fiscal Court and the school district on developing a park on 17 acres on the 151-acre school campus planned on Ky. 22.

Fiscal Court pulled out of the project last spring, citing concerns about higher-than-expected development costs and the county's tight budget.

The county is "not too communityfriendly with parks in our quarter of the county.Our main parks are in the central part," Hancock said.

Hancock's opponent is a political newcomer, but he's been active in agricultural and soil-conservation organizations.

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Competing on the Democratic ticket in the May 28 primary are Carroll David Hancock of La Grange, an insurance salesman and vice chairman of the Oldham County Board of Education, and Kim Rash, who lives in the Crestwood area.
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Hancock also is concerned about development and traffic congestion on Ky. 53 and said developers should help pay a greater portion of needed road improvements."Developers want to come in and make their money and then they move out, say bye, now you deal with the problem," Hancock said.

He also said the county needs another large park like Wendell Moore Park in Buckner."It's not really community-friendly when you have it only in one area of the county," he said.He would like to reopen discussions on a joint effort by the schools and county government to develop a park on Ky. 22.Fiscal Court recently decided to back out of the project, citing tight finances.

Hancock also favors pushing to change the state law that limits increases in county tax revenue to 4 percent without it being subject to voter recall."Either lift it or find some other formula so you don't get penalized when you have a growth rate of 12 to 15 percent a year."

Vice Chairperson; Members, Carroll Hancock, Jerry Bom, Linda Theiss