Campbell County Issues
No accountability is costing the Campbell County taxpayers....again. Print E-mail
Written by Erik Hermes   
December 24, 2011

The Campbell County Tea Party is in favor of efficiently run libraries. When a governmental authority takes your hard earned money illegally, you should know about it.

For years, the Campbell County Library has been raising your taxes illegally.

KRS 173.790 requires that a:

duly certified petition requesting an increase or decrease in the tax rate of a specifically stated amount is signed by fifty-one percent (51%) of the number of duly qualified voters voting at the last general election in each county in the district - see the statute here: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/KRS/173-00/790.pdf

Okay, maybe the library board didn't realize that this law existed. A group of concerned citizens (including Tea Party members) along with attorney Brandon Voelker brought this to their attention at the monthly board meeting earlier this week. The reaction you'd expect from a responsible board is an apology and a commitment to give the money back they took illegally. OH SORRY, THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. Responsibility from a non-elected governmental board only happens somewhere over the rainbow. They are choosing to ignore this law and continue raising your taxes ILLEGALLY. Don't expect to get an apology, just more tax increases. What can we do about it? Unfortunately, very little. You see since we didn't elect them, we can't vote them out either. The board has no accountability. The taxpayer's only recourse is to file a law suit. Read the story here.

You will notice that at the end of story the library director is attempting to make attorney Voelker out as the bad guy by saying: "if Voelker decides to move forward with the lawsuit, the library would have to retain an attorney and defend themselves, which would cost the taxpayers money." Once again, no accountability on the part of the library. If the director is truly concerned about our taxes, he'd put a stop to the illegal increases.

Our next higher authority on this is issue is Judge Executive Steve Pendery.
Here is his contact info to let him know that you don't approve of the library illegally raising your taxes:

1098 Monmouth Street
P.O. Box 72340
Newport, KY 41072-0340

(Phone): 859-547-1803
(Fax): 859-292-3822
(Email): This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 
The Campbell County Library votes to spend money it doesn't have Print E-mail
Written by Erik Hermes   
November 28, 2011

The Campbell County Library Board voted to proceed with the new South library branch.
 
Mr. Steven Trumbo questioned the wisdom of signing contracts & scheduling a ground breaking in March before knowing they can get the tax increase approved.  However the other members Ms. Rebecca Kelm, Ms. Angela Siddall and Mr. Donald Grosenbach voted to proceed with the new $5 million branch anyway. 
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A New Library...Now? Print E-mail
Written by Jack D   
October 01, 2011

Are we able to afford the proposed new library at this time? The people of Campbell County are facing the same economic situation as other local governments.

Associated Press business writer Daniel Wagner reports: "More than half of U.S. cities have cut staff, canceled construction projects or raised fees this year, according to a report from the National League of Cities that catalogs the vast damage from shrunken property -- and income-tax revenue.
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P.T. Barnum was Right Print E-mail
Written by Erik Hermes   
October 01, 2011

I am truly amazed when I hear people talk about the jobs created by the $5 million dollar library in Southern Campbell. There is a sucker born every minute, and lately, most of those think a new library will help the Campbell County economy.

An economic system is easily compared to your household or a business:

In order to bring money into your household, one or more of the residents in the home goes off to work, and in turn gets a paycheck. Money comes from outside of the household and goes into the household.
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