Founder-led services firm bundling Maysville municipal IT, single-district Mason County Schools facilities, the Housing Authority of Maysville HUD-24-CFR specialty, and the Buffalo Trace Area Development District five-county sub-contracting bench.

Municipal IT-MSP demand across the five-to-seven-portal stack. The Fiscal Court (CJIS-covered sheriff plus jailer), the City of Maysville (sub-tier specialty plus project-overlay against an in-house staff), the City of Dover, the fractional Germantown and Sardis principals, and the County Health Department plus Library each carry CJIS Security Policy compliance where the agency includes a police, sheriff, or jailer function; Kentucky Open Records Act (KRS 61.870-61.884) records-management plus fulfillment volume rising as media plus watchdog plus private requesters use the channel more aggressively; cyber-insurance underwriting carriers tightening through 2023-2025 requiring MFA, endpoint detection and response, immutable backups, security-operations-center monitoring, incident-response retainers, and security-awareness training. The small-density principal tier cannot staff a CJIS-qualified Local Agency Security Officer or a credentialed cybersecurity officer in-house; the managed-services-as-compliance-vendor pattern is the standard rural municipal answer.

Single-district Mason County Schools facilities and KDE district-cybersecurity-plan demand. The consolidated MCS district carries the Kentucky Department of Education district-cybersecurity-plan mandate at one consolidated district office rather than fragmented across two or three districts; Infinite Campus SIS plus a one-to-one device program plus network and firewall plus endpoint security across five-school facilities; KOHS State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program pass-through eligibility; KSBA cooperative-procurement access. The single-district structure means the founder firm interfaces with one Superintendent-of-record routing (Superintendent Ross under 2024 BOE contract renewal) and one district-IT-line budget rather than navigating two or three independent procurement cadences.

Housing Authority of Maysville HUD-CFR-24 specialty demand. HAM at 371 units carries the full HUD 24 CFR procurement and compliance regime — NSPIRE physical inspections (replacing REAC in 2023-2024 phased rollout), Public Housing Information Center plus Enterprise Income Verification access controls, voucher-administration record-keeping at the 111 Section 8 HCV portfolio, Capital Fund Program documentation across the 260 conventional public-housing units, environmental review under 24 CFR Part 58 for HUD-funded activities, Davis-Bacon prevailing-wage documentation for HUD construction work, Section 3 employment-and-procurement targeting, and 2 CFR 200 Uniform Guidance single-audit preparation where the agency crosses the $750K federal-expenditure threshold (the $10.67M / 67-award-line HUD-channel cadence places HAM well above that threshold). HAM is the single PHA in Mason County — there is no separately-incorporated PHA inside a satellite city.

Buffalo Trace ADD HQ-Maysville-resident sub-contracting bench demand. The BTADD head office sitting inside Maysville under Executive Director Kevin Cornette carries a five-county aging-services pass-through plus WIOA pass-through plus CDBG pass-through plus transportation-planning pass-through across the Bracken + Fleming + Lewis + Mason + Robertson catchment; the ADD sub-contracts technical-assistance plus IT-services plus 2 CFR 200 sub-recipient compliance-administration plus KRS 45A procurement-administration scope to founder-led firms at the catchment level rather than holding all such work in-house. Physical proximity to the BTADD office at 201 Government Street allows in-person engagement on every cycle of the ADD's five-county sub-contracting roster, which neither a Bracken-resident, Fleming-resident, Lewis-resident, nor Robertson-resident firm carries by default.

SLFRF closeout plus 2 CFR 200 single-audit-preparation plus KY KIDS Now tail. The State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund closeout reporting tail extends through 2027-2028 minimum across the Fiscal Court plus City of Maysville plus MCS principals; the Kentucky KIDS Now early-childhood pass-through carries an annual procurement-and-compliance cadence at MCS plus the small-city sub-recipient surface; the 2 CFR 200 single-audit-preparation cadence applies at every principal that crosses the $750K federal-expenditure threshold (Fiscal Court, City of Maysville, MCS, HAM, and BTADD itself all cross).

Bundle logic and the credential moat. The muni-IT-MSP bundle (CJIS specialty plus KORA records) plus the single-district MCS facilities-and-IT layer plus the HAM HUD-CFR-24 specialty plus the BTADD HQ-resident five-county sub-contracting bench plus the SLFRF / 2 CFR 200 / KY KIDS Now tail sit inside a single founder firm at the smallest capital floor on the Mason slate. The five-leg bundle compresses scheduling friction across each principal's renewal cycles (cyber-insurance annual + CJIS audit cycle + NSPIRE inspection cycle + Capital Fund Program five-year cycle + KDE district-cybersecurity-plan annual + KORA-fulfillment monthly + BTADD sub-contracting cycle), offers one founder-interface across municipal + K-12 + PHA + ADD-pass-through procurement, and shares the same KRS 45A plus KRS 65 interlocal plus 2 CFR 200 procurement-procedure familiarity across the principal stack. The bundle does NOT pursue prime construction-management scope on any HAM Capital Fund rebuild or MCS bond-financed capex (those run through HUD-funded sub-recipient builder primes and KSFCC-managed school-construction primes); it serves the documentation, IT-security, NSPIRE-readiness, single-audit-preparation, KDE-cybersecurity-plan, and BTADD sub-contracting-administration sub-scope.

Muni-IT-MSP per-principal recurring retainer. Fiscal Court $2,000-$2,800/month; City of Maysville $2,200-$3,200/month sub-tier specialty (not full outsourcing); City of Dover $400-$800/month; Germantown and Sardis Mason-side fractional principals $200-$500/month each; County Health Department plus Library $600-$1,200/month each — $5,500-$11,000/month aggregate base across 5-7 principals on retainer at maturity.

CJIS specialty fractional-LASO engagement at $8,000-$22,000 per principal per year across 2-3 CJIS-covered principals at maturity. KORA records-management software-reseller-plus-services implementation at $4,000-$15,000 one-time per principal plus $400-$1,200/month ongoing fulfillment-as-a-service for principals without dedicated records officers.

MCS single-district facilities-IT sub-tier specialty at $2,500-$4,500/month plus KDE district-cybersecurity-plan annual filing and audit-evidence preparation $6,000-$18,000 per year plus KSBA cooperative-procurement coordination per cycle.

HAM HUD-CFR-24 annual specialty retainer at $30,000-$70,000 per year covering NSPIRE physical-inspection preparation plus PIC and EIV reporting plus voucher-administration audit support plus Capital Fund Program five-year action plan documentation plus Section 3 targeting documentation across the single HAM principal.

Buffalo Trace ADD HQ-resident sub-contracting engagement at $4,000-$22,000 per engagement cycle plus annual coordination retainer $6,000-$18,000 across the five-county catchment. SLFRF closeout reporting engagement at $2,500-$6,000 per quarter through 2027-2028 across the principals that crossed the SLFRF threshold. Single-audit preparation under 2 CFR 200 at $6,000-$20,000 per principal per audit cycle at principals crossing the $750K federal-expenditure threshold.

Year 1 (founder solo; 3-5 retainer principals plus 1 PHA specialty engagement plus 1-2 BTADD sub-contracting engagements): $220,000-$420,000 revenue base; founder take-home $40,000-$80,000. Year 2 (founder plus one technician or specialty associate; 5-7 retainer principals plus HAM specialty retainer plus 2-3 BTADD sub-contracting engagements plus MCS district-IT retainer): $400,000-$700,000 revenue base; founder take-home $70,000-$130,000. Year 3 onward (founder plus one IT-technician plus one HUD-CFR-24 specialty associate; 6-7 retainer principals plus HAM specialty retainer plus MCS district-IT retainer plus episodic BTADD sub-contracting plus SLFRF closeout plus single-audit-prep engagements): $600,000-$950,000 revenue base; sustained founder take-home $130,000-$220,000. Above $220,000 sustained take-home requires expansion into regional-MSP scale beyond the Mason five-to-seven-portal footprint or into the wider BTADD five-county catchment as a primary IT-MSP rather than as the BTADD's HQ-resident sub-contracting bench — outside this candidate's founder lane.

Founder-side capital $80,000-$220,000 — the smallest capital floor on the Mason slate. Microsoft 365 GCC tenant reseller status plus firewall plus endpoint plus remote-monitoring tooling stack $25,000-$45,000 Year 1. One service vehicle plus small Maysville workshop or office lease $20,000-$40,000 Year 1. Cyber-insurance plus errors-and-omissions plus general liability $8,000-$18,000 per year. Founder credential refresh — CJIS LASO training plus HUD-certified Public Housing Manager plus NAHRO Specialist of Housing Programs plus 24 CFR Part 58 Environmental Review Record certification plus Certified Grants Management Specialist plus NIGP Certified Procurement Professional plus 2 CFR 200 Uniform Guidance familiarity plus KDE district-cybersecurity-plan procedure familiarity $8,000-$22,000 Year 1. CJIS personnel screening plus FBI fingerprint channel $2,000-$5,000 Year 1. KORA software-reseller plus document-management subscriptions $4,000-$12,000 Year 1. 12-18 month working-capital reserve plus first-six-months payroll buffer (founder solo Year 1; one FTE technician or one HUD-CFR-24 specialty associate hire Year 2-3) $20,000-$60,000 initial reserve.

• City of Maysville

  Home-rule city under KRS 83A — county seat ~8,800 population (primate share ~51 percent)

  Active in market

  216 Bridge Street. Mayor Debra L. Cotterill, per public record. In-house IT staff present; the addressable surface is sub-tier specialty and project-overlay work.
• Mason County Fiscal Court

  County government

  Active in market

  27 W Second Street Maysville. Judge-Executive Owen McNeill (2021-incumbent); May 19, 2026 Republican primary referenced procedurally only with no characterization and no claim on outcome. CJIS-covered Sheriff plus Jailer.
• City of Dover

  Home-rule city — Mason-resident Ohio River small town ~270 population

  Active in market

  Tucker Street Dover. Mayor incumbency not yet confirmed. Small-city procurement portal at City Hall.
• Germantown (Mason-side partial) + Sardis (Mason-side partial)

  Separately-incorporated KRS 83A home-rule cities — fractional Mason-resident footprint

  Institution

  Germantown larger footprint in Bracken County; Sardis larger footprint in Robertson County. Minimum-viable-stacking principals.
• Mason County Schools (MCS)

  Single county-wide K-12 district since 1990 consolidation

  Active in market

  34 East Second Street Maysville. Superintendent Rick L. Ross since July 1, 2013; 2024 BOE contract renewal. 5 schools / ~2,616 students. KDE district-cybersecurity-plan mandate; KSBA cooperative-procurement access.
• Housing Authority of Maysville (HAM)

  Public housing authority — 371 units (260 conventional + 111 Section 8 HCV)

  Active in market

  600 Clark Street Maysville. Executive Director Peter Jones. $10.67M / 67 HUD award-lines over captured window; HUD standard-performer status per most recent public capture. NSPIRE + PIC + EIV + Capital Fund Program + 24 CFR Part 58 + Davis-Bacon + Section 3 + 2 CFR 200 compliance surface.
• Buffalo Trace Area Development District (BTADD)

  Regional planning + economic-development + WIOA + CDBG + aging-services pass-through — Maysville-HQ-resident, five-county catchment

  Institution

  201 Government Street Suite 300 Maysville. Executive Director Kevin Cornette returned November 1, 2024 (replacing retiring Amy Kennedy). Bracken + Fleming + Lewis + Mason + Robertson. ARC LDD designation. HQ-resident five-county sub-contracting bench.
• Maysville-Mason County Industrial Development Authority (IDA)

  Local industrial-development authority — tenant recruitment and chamber coordination

  Institution

  Director Tyler McHugh, per local reporting. The $1B Big Pond Pike data center is referenced as procedural context only, with no claim on tenant identity, hearing outcome, or zoning-text-amendment status; unapproved as of May 2026 and not carried as a current-cycle anchor in this candidate's frame.
• Mason County Health Department + Mason County Public Library + Maysville Fire Department + volunteer fire departments

  Special-district principals — small-density-stack supplementary surface

  Active in market

  Procedural special-district principals at small per-principal scale.
• Maysville Community & Technical College (MCTC; KCTCS)

  Two-year KCTCS member — institutional principal outside local-government-only count

  Active in market

  1755 US-68 Maysville. Carries its own IT-services procurement surface; cross-sell channel.
• Kentucky League of Cities (KLC) Buying Network + KLC Insurance Services

  Cooperative-procurement plus cyber-insurance channel — KRS 65 multi-jurisdiction

  Out-of-county

  Covers City of Maysville plus City of Dover plus Germantown plus Sardis fractional principals.
• Kentucky School Boards Association (KSBA) cooperative procurement

  K-12 group-purchasing channel

  Out-of-county

  Group-purchasing channel for MCS.
• Kentucky Office of Homeland Security (KOHS) — State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program

  Pass-through SLCGP cybersecurity-project funding channel

  Out-of-county

  Project-overlay pipeline for muni-IT plus MCS principals.
• HUD Region IV Office of Public and Indian Housing (Atlanta)

  NSPIRE inspection plus PIC plus EIV administration plus Capital Fund Program oversight — HAM oversight channel

  Out-of-county

  HUD-CFR-24 third-party contractor-access posture at HAM pending verification.
• Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)

  Local Development District oversight for BTADD plus pass-through funding cadence

  Out-of-county

  BTADD ARC LDD designation oversight channel.
• Commonwealth Office for Technology (COT) KIT master-agreement

  State-IT subcontract-path channel for small-jurisdiction projects routed through COT

  Out-of-county

  Boundary verification on operational-IT-services scope expansion not yet confirmed.
• NIGP Kentucky Chapter, NAHRO Kentucky Chapter, APCO / NENA Kentucky

  Procurement-officer plus housing-program plus public-safety-communications credentialing channels

  Out-of-county

  Fractional-LASO plus HUD-CFR-24 specialty credentialing channels.
• Kentucky Heritage Council (State Historic Preservation Office)

  Section 106 NHPA consultation channel — pre-1972 housing-stock and Old Washington Section 106 surface

  Out-of-county

  Section 106 consultation channel for any HAM Capital Fund Program rebuild touching pre-1972 stock or Old Washington-adjacent parcels.

The founder profile is mid-career with either (a) municipal-IT-MSP foreman or county-government IT-director background plus CJIS Local Agency Security Officer familiarity plus willingness to add HUD-CFR-24 specialty through a credentialed sub-tier associate, or (b) NAHRO-credentialed PHA-operations background plus willingness to add the IT-MSP leg through a credentialed sub-tier associate, or (c) Certified Grants Management Specialist background with single-audit-preparation experience plus 2 CFR 200 Uniform Guidance familiarity plus BTADD sub-recipient-administration exposure, adding both the IT-MSP and HUD-CFR-24 legs through credentialed sub-tier associates. Mason plus Bracken plus Fleming plus Lewis plus Robertson labor-shed residence plus a recruiting reach into MCTC Maysville plus Morehead State University in Rowan County materially lowers the customer-trust friction inside the principal stack, particularly at the BTADD sub-contracting bench where in-person engagement at 201 Government Street is the structural moat.

Relationship-portfolio target at launch: Fiscal Court Judge-Executive office plus procurement-officer plus Sheriff plus Jailer plus Emergency Managements; City of Maysville Mayor's office plus City Hall procurement-officer plus Maysville PDs; City of Dover Mayor's office; Germantown plus Sardis Mason-side procurement-officer routing; Mason County Schools Superintendent's office plus district IT director plus KSBA AgencyID routing; HAM Executive Director Peter Jones plus HAM procurement office plus HUD Region IV PIH; BTADD Executive Director Kevin Cornette plus BTADD aging-services plus WIOA plus CDBG plus transportation-planning coordinators; Maysville-Mason County IDA Director Tyler McHugh; MCTC institutional-IT procurement; KLC Buying Network plus KSBA cooperative-procurement plus KOHS SLCGP plus KDE district-cybersecurity-plan plus COT KIT master-agreement plus NIGP plus NAHRO plus APCO and NENA Kentucky channels. Twelve to twenty named contacts minimum by end of Year 1.

Entity and credentialing posture. Kentucky LLC or S-corp registration plus Microsoft 365 GCC tenant reseller status plus firewall plus endpoint plus remote-monitoring tooling stack plus CJIS LASO training plus FBI fingerprint channel plus HUD-certified Public Housing Manager plus NAHRO Specialist of Housing Programs plus 24 CFR Part 58 Environmental Review Record certification plus Certified Grants Management Specialist plus NIGP Certified Procurement Professional plus 2 CFR 200 Uniform Guidance familiarity plus KDE district-cybersecurity-plan procedure familiarity plus EPA Lead RRP plus Davis-Bacon and Section 3 administrative literacy plus LCPtracker or eMars certified-payroll software plus cyber-insurance plus E&O plus general liability stack at the small-MSP plus housing-program specialty band.

The practice operates as an owner-operator services firm with no real-estate capital, no construction-prime scope, no equipment-rental float, and a staff built through recurring local hire plus credentialed sub-tier associate recruit-and-onboard rather than through acquisition. The lane is explicitly not an acquisition of an existing MSP book and not an advanced-acquirer scope; the bundle's distinctive structural shape is the single-interface five-leg integration plus BTADD-HQ-resident proximity, which national MSPs and out-of-region housing-program firms cannot replicate without the same time investment in the principal-stack relationship portfolio.

• — Mason County Judge-Executive May 19, 2026 Republican primary outcome — procedural electoral fact only; routing-continuity reference only for procurement-officer-of-record post-primary.
• — City of Dover Mayor plus Germantown (Mason-side) plus Sardis (Mason-side) Mayor current incumbencies — small-city procurement-officer-of-record routing.
• — Mason County Schools current enrollment, employee count, district-IT-line budget, and any active bond-financed capex pipeline — MCS facilities-IT plus KDE-cybersecurity-plan engagement sizing.
• — Housing Authority of Maysville 371-unit portfolio composition reconciliation — confirm 260 conventional plus 111 Section 8 HCV split is current; reconcile against $10.67M / 67 HUD-award-line cadence.
• — HAM Executive Director Peter Jones current incumbency plus any 2026 leadership-transition signal — single-PHA concentration risk gate.
• — HAM Capital Fund Program five-year action plan current cycle — HUD-CFR-24 specialty engagement scope.
• — HUD NSPIRE plus PIC plus EIV third-party contractor-access posture at HAM — gate on the HUD-CFR-24 specialty leg sub-recipient or contractor model.
• — Buffalo Trace ADD Executive Director Kevin Cornette 2026 sub-contracting policy across the five-county catchment — IT-services plus technical-assistance plus compliance-administration sub-recipient access policy.
• — BTADD 2026 aging-services plus WIOA plus CDBG plus transportation-planning pass-through schedule across Bracken plus Fleming plus Lewis plus Mason plus Robertson.
• — Maysville-Mason County IDA Director Tyler McHugh current incumbency; no claim on the $1B Big Pond Pike data center substance beyond public-record citation.
• — December 2025 JPC zoning-text-amendment hearings public-record status on the $1B data center — procedural public-record citation only.
• — MCTC Maysville campus institutional IT-services procurement surface — cross-sell scope sizing.
• — City of Maysville Mayor Debra L. Cotterill current incumbency plus 2026 ballot status (if any).
• — CJIS Security Policy v6.0 transition current FBI CJIS Division guidance — version-refresh documentation work surge sizing 2026-2027.
• — KOHS FY26-FY27 SLCGP Mason-principal allocation — project-overlay pipeline sizing.
• — KDE district-cybersecurity-plan current filing status for MCS.
• — Kentucky General Assembly 2025-2027 KORA amendment bills active status — KORA-fulfillment leg sizing.
• — Commonwealth Office for Technology KIT master-agreement current vendor roster plus subcontractor-path structure for small-jurisdiction operational-IT-services scope.
• — Each principal's adopted FY26-FY27 IT-line budget across the five-to-seven portals plus KRS 45A sole-source threshold and competitive-bid threshold.
• — Incumbent muni-IT-MSP roster across City of Maysville, Fiscal Court, City of Dover, fractional Germantown plus Sardis, MCS, HAM, and BTADD — open versus closed posture per principal.
• — Mason County HUBZone-eligibility census-tract designation against current SBA HUBZone map.
• — MELCO HVAC US retrofit corporate-IT-prime status — whether a captive enterprise prime steps into the municipal-government surface at the City of Maysville plus Fiscal Court plus MCS level as a corporate-community-investment vendor.

Tonight, this week, this month — in that order. Each step produces a yes/no or a number, not a deeper understanding.