The Kenton County Fiscal Court went into executive session last night at the regular fiscal court meeting to accept the resignation of Dan Evans as the Director of the Animal Shelter.
Evans has been director for over ten years, and details were not available as to why he left his position. An executive order was passed appointing Elizabeth Cochran as the interim Director, effective as of February 25. In similar business, Ira Brockman was appointed as part time shelter technician, effective March 10.
Bill Schneider, a farm owner from southern Kenton County, came to speak at the meeting.
“I appreciate all the support,” he said to the court. “I want to say that we are planning the new farm tour which will be May 9, so mark your calendars.”
The commissioners passed a resolution for the 2014-Â2015 budget amendments, allowing more money for the storm water and sewer system, and also for more meals for the senior citizens program.
Another resolution allowed the county to retain the flex funds established by the rural secondary program for the fiscal year 2015Â-2016.
“The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has two sets of routes, one for the major routes like interstates and the double A and such,” said Nick Hendrix in Public Works. “The other is for rural secondary routes. On January 27 they came to our meeting and gave a presentation on what roads they could work on. Back in 2008 Governor Beshear created flex funds, where counties can use the money they receive as they want to for their roads. The resolution lets Kenton county retain all funds.”
There was a second reading on an ordinance relating to the amendment of the official zoning ordinance of unincorporated Kenton County, updating all sections that refer to physically restricted development areas, urban and nonÂ-urban service area, Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission and floodplain regulations.
Another ordinance received a second reading and was related to the adoption of a personal information security procedures and practices. This is to reduce the risk of disclosing personal information, and sets guidelines for effectively responding to security incidents.
More executive orders included accepting the resignation of William Mark as NARC Director, as well as the resignation of Robert Martin from the Golf Course maintenance department, both effective in late February.
The Kenton County Police offered radios as surplus property, and the Public Works Department set a Caterpillar 977H as surplus and the commissioners approved them.
The heads of departments gave their reports, but the commissioners had no reports.
Rick Buster was welcomed back as a crew leader for the Parks Department. Several people from Latonia Lakes came to see about the progress of maintenance plans for their streets. Hendrix said that there are probably 3.1 miles of streets or 27,000 square yards of streets.
“We are still in the process of preliminary design, and we are analyzing whether we can do full depth reclamation as opposed to full rehabilitation of the streets,” explained Hendrix. “The office of the KYTC has committed to a grant of $150,000 for the final project.”
He said he hopes to have the final design plans by early summer, but says the project will be a two to three season effort.
Story & photos by Patricia A. Scheyer, RCN contributor