Owensboro City Commission to vote Tuesday on Executive Inn purchase

The Owensboro City Commission will be meeting Tuesday to vote on whether to move ahead with the city’s plans to purchase the closed Executive Inn Rivermont property. 
Mayor Ron Payne announced Friday that the hotel’s owners, Marshall Investments, have accepted a $5 million offer for the property on the city’s riverfront. That offer is contingent upon [...]

City of Owensboro to buy Executive Inn property

Owensboro Mayor Ron Payne announced this morning that the city of Owensboro is prepared to purchase the closed Executive Inn Rivermont for $5 million and raze the property to make way for future development. 
Payne said during a press conference just outside the hotel’s front doors that the city is considering opening the Executive Inn’s convention [...]

Executive Inn – in Paducah – reportedly sold

Although Owensboro’s own Executive Inn Rivermont still sits on the riverfront vacant and on the market, Paducah’s Executive Inn has reportedly been sold. 
The Paducah Sun is reporting that the sale went through on Tuesday, with Paducah Riverfront Hospitality taking over. 
Here’s the Associated Press story - 
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) _ The head of a group buying the Executive Inn [...]

A closer look at the AG’s open meetings ruling

On Monday, the Messenger-Inquirer learned that Attorney General Jack Conway’s office had ruled that discussions held by the city and county that included the decision to submit an offer for the Executive Inn Rivermont were not in violation of the state open meetings law.
The newspaper filed a complaint with the city and the county after [...]

GO-EDC board pushes for city, county to buy Executive Inn Rivermont

The Greater Owensboro Economic Development Corp. board issued a position statement Wednesday morning in support of the city and county governments making a move to purchase the Executive Inn Rivermont property.
The statement comes after city and county officials put forth a bid for the property more than two weeks ago. That bid expired after Marshall [...]

City, county reject Messenger-Inquirer’s open meetings law complaint

The city and county have rejected a complaint by the Messenger-Inquirer filed last week accusing the two government bodies of breaking Kentucky’s open meetings law with their recent decision to try to buy the Executive Inn Rivermont.
The gist of the response from the city and county is that neither body took “final action” in agreeing [...]

Open records, closed meetings – What’s all the fuss?

In his foreword to the “Kentucky Open Meetings and Open Records Laws” handbook that sits on the desks of most reporters around the state, former Legislative Research Commission Director Vic Hellard Jr. explains that the state passed an Open Meetings law 34 years ago “to provide the people with greater access to government.”
The law gives [...]

City of Owensboro, Daviess Fiscal Court make hotel bid

The city of Owensboro and Daviess Fiscal Court have submitted a formal offer to Marshall Investments to purchase the Executive Inn Rivermont.
The offer was made last week by the two government bodies, but details of the offer including the proposed purchase price won’t be released, said Downtown Development Director Fred Reeves.
The announcement came after a [...]

City, county to hold closed session Friday on Executive Inn

Owensboro City Commission and Daviess Fiscal Court will be meeting in closed session on Friday to discuss how to handle the recent closure of the city’s largest hotel.
Mayor Tom Watson said Wednesday afternoon that officials will discuss the Executive Inn Rivermont, which closed last month, and what options local government might have for taking control [...]