Sunday, January 31, 1999
Ft. Mitchell cleanliness on agenda
Leaders gather to hash issues
BY KRISTINA GOETZ
The Cincinnati Enquirer
FORT MITCHELL — City council members met Saturday to discuss municipal goals. Topics included ways to keep Fort Mitchell cleaner and questions about when it will be equipped with a storm warning system.
No official action was taken during the special planning session at the Holiday Inn South.
“It's sort of a blue-sky session,” said City Administrator Bill Goetz. “We try to get council members together and see what their views are on various topics.”
The city has had money budgeted for storm warning systems for about five years, but when officials realized that Kenton County was looking to have a system for the entire county, they held back.
“It looks like we are going to be covered once that process is completed,” Mr. Goetz said. “We may want to go ahead and keep it in the budget, though, and work with the county.”
Mayor Tom Holocher also asked council members to brainstorm ideas that would help keep Fort Mitchell cleaner.
“I've tried from time to time to get various organizations to clean up around the expressways,” he said. “It's real hard to get people to do it.”
Several members suggested the city sponsor a cleanup day that would involve the whole community, especially schools where students are required to complete community service hours.
Police Chief Steve Hensley introduced to council members a new senior assistance program that the department will soon sponsor.
People will be able to register their elderly parents for the program and an officer will check on them once a week.
The program will also help the mentally ill.
If these people are registered, the department will have their photograph on file along with a contact number, the chief said.
“If we find them wandering somewhere, we can take them home,” he said.
Chief Hensley also said the department will reassess the DARE program to see whether officials are headed in the right direction.
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