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BCR Recorder
January 14, 2010
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No raises for Boone County clerk’s workers By Paul McKibben pmckibben@nky.com
Workers in the Boone County clerk’s office won’t receive raises this year along with some other county workers. Clerk Rena Ping said her employees didn’t get raises in 2009 but received costof-living raises in 2008. Ping said the Boone County Fiscal Court would not allow officials to give raises for clerk’s office employees this year. This will be the second consecutive year clerk’s PAUL MCKIBBEN/STAFF office workers didn’t get pay Bev Mack, a deputy clerk in the Boone County clerk’s office, stands in an area that was renovated in the clerk’s Burlington increases. She said she office inside the Boone County Administration Building. doesn’t agree with it. “And this said. “But it’s office ... too soon to meets and Judge-Executive Gary Moore said the Fiscal Court tell.” greets so approved what Ping recommended to them and that Ping said many of our didn’t include any raises for her employees. Fiscal she made citizens that I cuts in Court employees didn’t get raises in its current budget. think that money for they need renovations some kind of mended to them and that and office supplies. She said compensation for that and if didn’t include any raises for her office doesn’t have too Arens-Murr that means a raise then her employees. Fiscal Court many places to cut. that’s what they should be employees didn’t get raises Renovations over the getting,” she said. in its current budget. Moore years to the Boone County Unlike the Fiscal Court, said it’s way too soon to be Administration Building in the clerk’s and sheriff’s able to determine if there Burlington have included department have calendar will be raises in the Fiscal moving the property valuayears for their budgets. The Court’s next budget. tion administrator’s office Fiscal Court’s budget runs “We’ve always said that on the main floor of the from July 1 to June 30. it’ll be a level playing field building to directly across Sheriff’s department work- that if the other Fiscal Court from the clerk’s office. The ers aren’t getting raises in employees are given raises, clerk’s office was expanded 2010 either. then the sheriff and the into the old PVA office. Judge-Executive Gary county clerk’s employees Assistant County Admin- James Murr & Stefanie Arens Moore said the Fiscal Court will be treated the same,” he istrator Robin Curry said the Mike and Lisa Arens of Hebron, KY approved what Ping recom-
Kentucky vendors have reached record-level compliance with a state law preventing tobacco sales to minors, according to a recently released survey from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. The 2009 Annual Synar Buying Survey of retail tobacco outlets showed that 96.5 percent of retailers complied with the law barring tobacco sales to anyone under the age of 18. The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control conducted the survey during the summer to measure the rate of illegal sales of tobacco to Kentucky youth.
“Reducing the prevalence of tobacco sales to minors is a crucial piece of our work to prevent youth smoking and tobacco use,” said CHFS Department for Public Health Commissioner William Hacker, M.D. “The results of this survey indicate we’re moving in the right direction,” he said. “Fewer people are dependent on tobacco products – which is the mission of our substance abuse program, the Alcoholic Beverage Commission (ABC), the Department of Agriculture and the Office of Drug Control Policy (ODCP).”
In addition to vendor compliance checks, Kentucky is engaged in numerous efforts to reduce the prevalence of smoking. Gov. Steve Beshear recently announced a partnership with the Legacy Foundation to promote the “Become an Ex” campaign – a mass marketing campaign to encourage people to stop smoking – across the state. Similarly, Kentucky legislators voted during the 2009 legislative session to increase the state excise tax on cigarettes by 30 cents, bringing the state tax to 60 cents per pack. The state tax increase took effect April 1.
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