Mary Carpenter

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Mary Carpenter serves as the Executive Director of the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center (SKyPAC) in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She is also a partner with her husband in a public relations firm owned by the pair.

In 2006, the Board of Directors in charge of SKyPAC hired then volunteer Mary Carpenter to serve as the program director paying her $75,000 in salary plus benefits and travel. In the seven months following Carpenter was able to raise one donation of $1,000. The project expected to raise $5 million.[1]

[edit] Contributions to TIF District

Carpenter has been a strong advocate of developing the Bowling Green TIF District which would allocate $200 million taxpayer dollars over a 30 year period in order to fund the contruction of SKyPAC.

Currently the cost has increased to an estimated $50 million dollars for SKyPAC, though Carpenter contends that the project would cost $28 million after the city buys more of the land back. SKyPAC has also increased the money it was expecting from the TIF. On June 12, 2007 Rick Kelley said he had discussed the proposed use and sale of the Center Street properties with Mary Carpenter. She stated that the SKyPAC Board had not agreed to the sale of the Center Street properties at this time and that further discussions were needed with Kelley.[2]

Originally, it was expecting $12 million dollars with an immediate $6 million investment. However in February of 2008, the number had increased to $20 million.[3],[4]

Carpenter and her husband Howard have also participated in a public-opinion blitz to try and sway the city commissioners approval in their favor. The money to sponsor the ads came from other TIF District supporters such as Rick Kelley.[5]

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[edit] References

  1. ↑ Bowling Green Daily News, New taxes, old projects, June 16, 2007
  2. ↑ Bowling Green Special Commission Meeting Minutes, June 12, 2007
  3. ↑ Bowling Green Daily News, New taxes, old projects, June 16, 2007
  4. ↑ Bowling Green Daily News, Financing downtown redevelopment, February 3, 2008
  5. ↑ Bowling Green Daily News, Financing downtown redevelopment, February 3, 2008
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