Elections

Shane Suttor has kept his focus on the future during his three terms on Shelbyville’s City Council.

Serving on the budget and multiuse path committees and working on the 7th Street Corridor project, Suttor, a Democrat, said some of the ideas they begin won’t be seen for a long time.

“I think preparing for the future is very important,” he said. “Some of these projects, we won’t see anything for years down the road, but when development does occur, it will enhance the city.”

Mike Zoeller wants the people of Shelbyville to know that the council is still hard at work and looking for ways to help fund the city’s services and future plans.

“Up to just a few years ago we applied for and received state and federal grants to help improve and maintain some areas of the city,” he said. “Most of those grants are now gone, so we are working on new ways to obtain monies, for example a TIF (Tax Increment Financing) program that can help us greatly.”

Citing uncertainty about whether he met the residency requirements to run for the Pleasureville City Commission, Howard Roberts announced Wednesday that he was withdrawing from what had been a 6-person field.

Roberts, a former Eminence city council member, had moved to Pleasureville last in 2011. He was the last to file to run on Nov. 6.

“But I got to thinking about it, and I couldn’t say for absolute certainty that I had established my residency in Pleasureville by November 6th [which was the deadline],” Roberts said.

Victor Harrod, a former Pleasureville City Commissioner, is running again after sitting out for a term.

Harrod, 73, is a retired from the Ford Motor Company in Jefferson County, where he worked for 30 years.

He is originally from Franklin County but has lived in Pleasureville for at least 20 years, he said.

He now does some cattle and tobacco farming.

Harrod said he decided to run for commissioner again because he thinks he could contribute to the overall well being of that body.