Providing
new job growth.
Expanding
existing employment opportunities.
Enhancing
workforce education and skills.
Crittenden County Economic
Development Corporation
200 Industrial Drive, Marion, KY 42064
Our Economic Future
Roads/Transportation
Development
Technology
Development (Ed-Tech Training Center)
Workforce
Training/Post Secondary Education
Industrial
Recruitment
General
Services & Business Expansion
Key Projects and Future Goals
Ed-Tech
Training Center (Madisonville Community College Partnership)
Upgrading
US Hwy. 641 to a Four Lane Highway
Five County Industrial Mega-Park
Marion/Crittenden
County Airport Improvements
Trail
of Tears Tourism Development
Industrial Park North
Board of Directors
Gareth Hardin,Chairman Charlie Hicklin, Vice Chairman Terry Bunnell, Treasurer Stan Hoover,Secretary Dwight Sherer
Chris Sutton
Mayor Mickey Alexander
Judge Executive Fred Brown
Alan Stout
Glenn Underdown
Joe Myers
Jim Christensen
Staff
Dr.
Stan Hoover, a Crittenden County native, began
his tenure as Executive Director on January
2, 2007. He is a committed life-long learner,
and has been actively pursuing his graduate education
since 1985. He holds graduate degrees from Murray
State University, Patriot University, and Andersonville
Theological Seminary. He is a retired IRS agent
and has extensive experience in accounting, corporate
and business planning, personnel management, and
many years of on the job training in state and
federal regulations. He also has over thirteen
years of college and university teaching experience
as an adjunct instructor in accounting, taxation,
mathematics, and business classes. He has been
a Certified Public Accountant since 1979. Dr.
Hoover's deep roots and commitment to the community
also include two terms as a member of the Crittenden
County Board of Education, and a term as a City
of Marion councilman.
He
is very emphatic when he states, "The most
important attribute that I bring to the job is
a love and affection for Crittenden County and
a strong desire to see it grow and prosper."
Dulcie
Hardin, a graduate of Murray State University,
served thirty years in the Crittenden County School
District as school librarian, instructional supervisor,
and district technology coordinator. After retiring
from the school district, she started working part-time
for the West Kentucky Education Cooperative as a
vocational project director.
As
Education Director, Mrs. Hardin is responsible
for bringing post-secondary courses to the community.
The CCEDC partners with Madisonville Community College
and Murray State University in this venture. Business
and industry training is a component of the job
and focuses on specific needs of a business or generalized
training. Community education schedules are released
three times a year and focus on computer skills,
leisure-time activities and topics of special interest
to members of the business community.
Dorothy
Winn, a native of Crittenden County, is a
graduate of Draughon's Business College. Mrs.
Winn was the office manager for David Wiggington
State Farm Agent for ten years prior to taking
time off to raise her daughter. She returned to
work as secretary/treasurer of the Marion United
Methodist Church and joined our staff as Administrative
Assistant in December 2008.
Along
with being administrative assistant, Mrs. Winn
also serves as web liaison with the CCEDC web
developer, publishes a newsletter, designs office
publications, and handles bookkeeping for the
organization.
