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Local Government Committee, Kentucky General Assembly

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The Local Government Committee is an interim joint committee of the Kentucky General Assembly that no longer fell within Ballotpedia's coverage scope as of March 8, 2021.

Function

In 2021, the Kentucky General Assembly described the function of this committee as outlined below.

“ The Local Government Committee studies "[m]atters pertaining to the officers, organization, government, and financing of county and city governments; city and county imposed taxes and licenses; special purpose assessment and taxing districts within a city; financing of local government improvements; issuance of bonds for county, city, and special district projects; local government and special district indebtedness generally; compensation of county and city officers and employees; the imposition of duties and costs on local governments; interlocal government cooperation and consolidation of services; local government employees, civil service, and retirement; the powers, duties, and composition of fiscal courts and municipal legislative bodies; the offices of county judge/executive, magistrate, county attorney, sheriff, constable, jailer, coroner, surveyor, and county clerk; forms of local government; incorporation and classification of cities; housing projects; manufactured housing; urban renewal and redevelopment; planning and zoning; annexation of territory; public works; parks and playgrounds; police and fire departments and their retirement systems; county roads; city streets and sidewalks; local government utilities and waterworks; acquisition of waterworks and water districts by local governments; sewers; metropolitan sewer and sanitation districts; public road districts; water districts; fire protection districts; drainage districts and local flood control and water usage; local air pollution control districts; urban service districts; library districts; city and county libraries; and special districts not assigned to another committee."[1][2] ”

Membership

2015 legislative session

The following table describes committee membership for the 2015 legislative session.

Local Government Members, 2015
Democratic members (14)Republican members (15)
• Steven Riggs, Co-Chair• Joe Bowen, Co-Chair
• Denise Angel• Ronald Crimm
• Morgan McGarvey• Julie Adams
• Dorsey Ridley• Adam Koenig
• Thomas McKee• Stan Lee
• Jody Richards• Michael Meredith
• Arnold Simpson• Ralph Alvarado
• Kevin Sinnette• Damon Thayer
• Mike Denham• Stan Humphries
• Jim Wayne• Chris McDaniel
• Cluster Howard• Albert Robinson
• Russ Meyer• John Schickel
• Rita Smart• Dan Seum
• Susan Westrom• Brian Linder
• Jonathan Shell

2011-2012

The following table describes committee membership for the 2011 legislative session.

2009-2010

The following table describes committee membership for the 2009 legislative session.

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Kentucky General Assembly, "Interim Joint Committee Local Government," accessed March 4, 2021
  2. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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