The Kenton County Fiscal Court presented Bruno Giacomuzzi with the Pioneer Award at Tuesday’s regularly scheduled meeting. Originally from Chicago, Giacomuzzi moved to Northern Kentucky in 2015 to serve as the Chief Operating Officer of St. Elizabeth Ft. Thomas. He’s worked in healthcare leadership for 42 years. “I’m just really blessed to, first of all, […]
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Life Learning Center receives $600k for trade education services
The Kenton County Fiscal Court approved $600,000 worth of American Rescue Plan Act, known as ARPA, funding for the Life Learning Center at Tuesday’s meeting. In June, the Fiscal Court approved $3.5 million worth of ARPA funding for the Enzweiler Building Institute to create 13-week courses for trade education programs. The Life Learning Center is […]
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Fiscal Court honors Kenton County resident with Pioneer Award
The Kenton County Fiscal Court honored lifelong resident Tom Litzler with the pioneer award at Tuesday’s regularly scheduled meeting. Litzler served in the United States Army for six years, being honorably discharged as a Staff Sargent in 1966. He then went on to graduate from Thomas More College in 1969 with a degree in Business […]
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Kenton County’s annual budget to increase by $7 million
Kenton County passed its annual budget for the upcoming 2023-2024 Fiscal Year at the Fiscal Court meeting on June 13. The current fiscal year ends on June 30. The budget includes an increased amount of money in the overall General Fund, as well as increases to jail and dispatch funds. Kenton County’s All Funds Budget […]
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Covington’s Sims Building to undergo multimillion-dollar transformation
A previous version of this story reported that the Kenton County Fiscal Court approved giving $13 million to the Northern Kentucky Port Authority for the project. The Fiscal Court approved $3 million for the project. LINK nky regrets the error. Since Covington’s Sims Furniture permanently shut their doors last April, the historic department store building […]
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Brandstetter Carroll tapped to design new Independence Farmers Market pavilion
The Kenton County Fiscal court selected Cincinnati-based architecture firm Brandstetter Carroll to design the county’s farmers market pavilion at Tuesday night’s regularly scheduled meeting. In addition to design responsibilities, Brandstetter Carroll is expected to complete construction drawings and handle the project’s permitting process. Kenton County will be building a metal outdoor pavilion next to the […]
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Kenton County declares state of emergency on open burning during summer months
The Kenton County Fiscal Court unanimously approved an executive order allowing Judge/Executive Kris Knochelmann to declare a state of emergency banning open burning within the county from May 1 to September 30. The order is designed to protect people from ground-level ozone, a type of ozone that forms when pollutants in the atmosphere chemically react […]
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Kenton County adopts new wage scale; salaries for public employees increase
Kenton County police, public service and dispatch employees are getting raises thanks to the adoption of a new wage scale. At Tuesday night’s Kenton County Fiscal Court meeting, the court unanimously approved the adoption of a new wage scale that would keep those workers’ salaries on track with rising inflation and competitive rates. Some employees’ […]
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Kenton County increases one tax in an effort to decrease another
Kenton County voted last week to increase its occupational license tax to help decrease property taxes and better align with other counties in the state, such as Boone and Jefferson. Kenton County Treasurer Roy Cox said the county currently puts more of a burden on the property owners in the county by having a higher […]
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Final presentation made on options for New Kenton County Park
Plans for the future of Kenton County’s new park were presented to the fiscal court on Sept. 27. Human Nature, a Cincinnati-based planning and design firm, presented potential options for feedback for the New Kenton County Park in Independence. Gary Wolnitzek, the principal in charge of technical design at Human Nature, gave the third and final presentation […]