Insurance premium tax may go up by 2% in city
County would lose about $60,000 in revenue if increase passes
By Donna Carman
Editor
Liberty may soon be raising its insurance premium tax, but it won't cost city residents a dime.
In a surprise move at its first meeting of the new year on Wednesday, the Liberty City Council proposed to increase the insurance premium tax from 4 percent to 6 percent.
Prior to the surprise motion to increase the tax, Mayor Steve Sweeney and the council had been discussing funding for a new city fire truck, the ever-increasing costs to the garbage department, and other services provided by the city.
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General contractors scheduled
for interviews on new hospital
By Donna Carman
Editor
Prospective general contractors for the new Casey County Hospital were scheduled to be interviewed yesterday as plans for the hospital proceed.
Jack Lowe, senior program manager with Parsons, the management firm hired by the hospital's board of trustees to coordinate the project, brought the board up-to-date at its Jan. 9 meeting.
"We've come a good ways in the project, but still have a ways to go," Lowe said.
EDA buys industrial site on E. KY 70
By Brittany Johnson
Staff Writer
A giant step in Casey County's road to industrial development is under way.
The Economic Development Authority of Liberty/Casey County has purchased 35 acres on which to build an industrial park. The new industrial site is located on KY 70 East and cost the authority $300,000.
But the amount is a small price to pay to bring industrial employment opportunities to the community, the authority says.
The authority purchased the land around the end of 2006, after months of discussion, Mayor Steve Sweeney said.
Trashy Issue
City's dumpsters being overrun with county's garbage
By Donna Carman
Editor
County residents who use city dumpsters are causing a lot of problems for Liberty.
Mayor Steve Sweeney told city council members on Wednesday night that the city has seen a $6,000 increase in tipping fees in the last five months due to the ever-increasing amount of garbage it hauls to the Tri K Landfill in Stanford. And that can be attributed directly to the number of county residents who bring their trash into Liberty and dispose of it in the city's dumpters.
Magistrates meet behind closed doors with 2 employees
City's dumpsters being overrun with county's garbage
By Donna Carman
Editor
Personnel issues behind closed doors took up the majority of the Casey County Fiscal Court meeting Monday night, but in the end, no action was taken.
Judge-Executive Ronald Wright, the four magistrates, and County Attorney Tom Weddle met in executive session for one hour and 20 minutes regarding personnel. Joining them, at times, were two employees whose salaries had been cut by the court on Jan. 1.
