Government

New faces and old business were the order of the day at Tuesday night's regular City Council meeting.

It marked the first Council meeting for new Mayor Tony Young and new Council members Vicki Mullins and Greg Rice.

Young's first order of business was to re-appoint Cary Noe as City Clerk, a move the Council gave unanimous approval. Young then recommended John C. Miller as City Attorney, which the Council also unanimously approved. Previous City Attorney John Bertram began his duties as County Attorney on Monday.

The County's expenses are falling well within the state's 65/35 rule.

State law requires that at the beginning of a new political term, which begins Jan. 3, County officials must have at least 65 percent of the budget remaining to operate.

Taylor Fiscal Court's Budgets, Audits and Personnel Committee met last Monday to discuss the status of the budget.

Staff Report

State Auditor Crit Luallen recently released the annual audit of the financial statements of the Taylor Fiscal Court for the year ended June 30, 2009. State law requires annual audits of county fiscal courts.

The audit found the county's financial statements to fairly represent the county's assets, liabilities and equity arising from cash transactions and revenues received and expenditures paid in conformity with the modified cash basis of accounting.

While customers won't notice a change, work will begin soon on a project to make purification of Campbellsville's water supply safer.
By February, a new system is expected to be in place at the Campbellsville Water Co. that will use liquid chlorine in the purification process rather than the chlorine gas used now. Chlorine is used as a disinfectant to curb bacteria growth.
"The City has for several years looked at a safer disinfection method," said David Bowles of Monarch Engineering, the Lawrenceburg-based company that engineered the project.