FLORENCE —Kenton County's judge-executive says there doesn't need to be changes in the composition of the board that oversees the region's largest airport.
Steve Arlinghaus sent a letter to the Northern Kentucky Legislative Caucus this week, asking lawmakers to resist a call by the state's auditor to change the airport's board to 11 members, only three of which would be appointed by Kenton County.
In the letter, Arlinghaus said that Auditor Adam Edelen says that the county doesn't claim the airport among its assets, which Arlinghaus says isn't true.
Read: Arlinghaus' letter
He points to an "oversight" by a previous administration that left the airport off the county's list and notes that the majority of the airport's land is owned by the county or the airport board and has been for decades.
Arlinghaus also takes issue with Edelen's claim that no other single agency appoints all the members of the airport board, noting that Lexington's mayor appoints all 10 members of Lexington's board, and that Louisville's board members are appointed by only two people.
The judge-executive also states that anger over travel, food and drink used by members was caused by an "overzealous" reporter who failed to state that taxpayer dollars weren't being spent on those items.
The letter also refers to the "tremendous anger of Cincinnatians from the very beginning days of Kentucky getting the airport instead of Ohio."
Arlinghaus states that Kenton County gets no money from owning CVG, as opposed to the $1.5 million that Boone County gets annually in payroll taxes, "yet they provide little to no services." He states that he offered to sell a stake in the airport to Boone County and Hamilton County, but was rebuffed.
"Should you decide to follow the misguided recommendation of the State Auditor and pressure from outside jurisdictions or others who agree with him, purely for political reasons, you will be doing a grave injustice to the taxpayer's (sic) of Kenton County; the rightful and only owners of CVG," Arlinghaus concluded.
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