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Campbell County Fiscal Court approves personnel moves, contract renewals and budget transfers; hears first readings on zoning, speed-limit and snow-parking ordn
Summary
The court unanimously approved multiple resolutions and personnel actions — including a pauper-burial contract, promotion to housing program coordinator, renewal of fuel and road-salt agreements and budget transfers — and held first readings on three ordinances (rezoning, traffic/speed-limit procedure, and snow-emergency parking prohibition).
The Campbell County Fiscal Court moved through a packed agenda of personnel actions, contract renewals and routine finance items and heard the first readings of three ordinances.
On motions and adopted resolutions, the court unanimously approved Resolution R33-25 to execute a pauper-burial/cremation contract with Ferris Bridal Funeral Homes (existing provider, no price or arrangement changes) and Resolution R34-25 acknowledging an annual review and amendments to the Campbell County Administrative Code. The court also approved Resolution R35-25 to promote housing specialist Brandy Fritchey to housing program coordinator in lieu of filling a vacant deputy director position; staff defended the promotion as a cost-saving measure in light of uncertain HUD funding.
The court accepted the resignation of Captain Thomas Nitschke from the Campbell County Police Department, effective July 31, 2025, and approved the appointment of Matthew Spradlin as a full-time maintenance technician effective June 8, 2025. It also authorized staff to recruit for a full-time park technician, and appointed two seasonal park attendants (Molly Twihues and Connor Perry) at $15 per hour. The court accepted the resignation of housing inspector Benjamin Spieth (effective June 2, 2025) and authorized hiring to fill that vacancy.
Finance Director Laura Lewis presented several finance items the court approved by voice vote. The court adopted Resolution R36-25 certifying (quietus) that Sheriff Mike Jansen paid the county’s 2024 tax collections into the county treasury. The court approved R37-25, authorizing Coroner Dr. Mark Schweitzer to deputize one additional deputy coroner under Kentucky Revised Statute 64.185(6), and was told the deputy position is expected to be on-call only and not increase regular payroll costs.
The court renewed a fuel-delivery agreement with Valor Oil for fiscal 2026 at current pricing and renewed a road-salt agreement with Compass Minerals for fiscal 2026 with a 2 percent price increase. Lewis said recent road-salt spending rose from about $63,000 in fiscal 2024 to roughly $296,000 in fiscal 2025 and that fiscal-26 estimates would be weather-dependent (a high-volume year could approach $300,000). The court also approved budget transfers and interfund transfers dated May 31, 2025, and approved claims for standing orders and employee-benefit claims; one participant (Speaker 9) recused themselves from benefit-related claims due to an employer relationship with vendors.
Several agenda items were introduced as first readings and require later action: Ordinance 006-25 (rezoning ~6.2 acres from Agriculture 1 to Rural Commercial; planning commission approved unanimously), Ordinance 007-25 (amendments to traffic code and a cleaner way to set speed limits by adding speeds to the county road list), and Ordinance 008-25 (prohibiting parking on county-maintained roads during declared snow emergencies to ease road treatment operations). Court members emphasized these were first readings and that no changes to existing posted speed limits were intended under the traffic ordinance cleanup.
Most votes were carried by voice vote with no roll-call tallies recorded in the meeting transcript. Court leadership closed the meeting after a motion to adjourn.
Actions approved at this meeting are administrative or operational; no new county-wide taxes or major capital appropriations were enacted during the session.
