Historic Trends and Geographic Patterns

By Timothy Collins, Ronald D Eller, and Glen Edward Taul

Maps by Eugene McCann and Stephen Hanna

With assistance from Sarah Dewees, Theresa Rajack, and Boyd Shearer

This study was developed by the University of Kentucky Appalachian Center under a contract with the Kentucky River Area Development District, with major funding from the Ford Foundation.

These tables present basic population counts, education levels, and business facts for Breathitt, Owsley, Wolfe and Lee Couties.

RC Tax Incentives Seminar: May 14th, 2002

This is most of a two hour seminar on RC tax incentives. The speaker is Linda Schakel, a leading authority on RC taxation. The seminar was directed to accountants and business people, but was attended by a broad range of resident from the Eastern Kentucky (BOWL) RC.

Download Part 1 first (about 5 minutes on a modem line), and then pull down the rest while you listen.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SECTION

• Signed CooperativeCommitment
• Goals and Actions
• Recognition of Past Efforts
• Timeline
• Performance Measures and Evaluation

• Attachment 1: Kentucky Title IV-A State TANF Plan
• Attachment 2: Jefferson Hotel Skills Center
• Attachment 3: Fund for Excellence
• Attachment 4: Regional Childcare Service Agents
• Attachment 5: Pine Ridge Regional Industrial Park
• Attachment 6: Panbown Lake Industrial Park
• Attachment 7: Lee County Industrial Park
• Attachment 8: Lone Oak Industrial Park
• Attachment 9: East Central Kentucky Workforce Report
• Attachment 10: Owsley County KREDA Proposal to Governor Paul Patton
• Attachment 11: Kentucky Business Incentives.
• Attachment 12: Local County LGEDF Spreadsheets.
• Attachment 13: Renewal Communities Project Surveys
• Attachment 14: Champion Communities Benchmark System Report.

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The BOWL RC: Eastern Kentucky Renewal Community

Picture yourself standing on a forested ridge top overlooking a narrow valley in the foothills of the largest deciduous forest on earth. As you look across the valley to the next ridge, carved out from under the canopy of trees you can see ten acres of cleared land upon which tobacco is growing. A small farmhouse and trailer are visible and clothes hanging on a line are next to what appears to be a small kitchen garden. Glancing down into the valley a river that once was clear but now is occluded by deposits of silt resulting from the mining of coal and timber slowly winds its way toward town. Still blessed with an abundance of fish, which pregnant women are discouraged from eating and in which swimming is frequently forbidden, a small boat trolls the waters edge. The silence of the woods is punctuated by a flowing brook which spills over the rock cliff wall, an occasional animal scurrying about and the noise of an ATV as it makes its way along a path toward the two-lane blacktop road which passes through three of the four RC Community counties of Breathitt, Owsley, Wolfe and Lee. The BOWL is an area of breathtaking beauty and severe economic disadvantage as well. It is rural Appalachia.

Welcome.
These four southeast Kentucky counties have come together to participate in the federal government’s Renewal Community program. Over the course of the next eight years they will attempt to expand their combined economic base by capturing tax dollars and using them to revitalize their communities. This site will keep you abreast of their efforts.