Friday, June 18, 1999
Kenton Co. jail move gets dicey
BY JANE PRENDERGAST
The Cincinnati Enquirer
COVINGTON — With three days to go before the new Kenton County Justice Center opens, officials are scrambling to make sure everything's finished.
Circuit Judge Patricia Summe, who's helping coordinate the move as chief judge of the circuit bench, is missing some furniture. So are a few other offices.
The new prisoner transport vans — they had to be specially ordered because the old ones won't fit in the new courts building — still haven't arrived. That leaves jail and sheriff's representatives trying to figure out how to move inmates from the old jail to the new facility a block away.
Last-minute shaving of the ends of new courtroom benches saved the day in one respect. Until the ends were made smaller, the new benches wouldn't fit in the elevators.
Judge Summe spent Thursday going from one building to the other, checking on progress and trouble-shooting. None of the problems has been insurmountable, she said, calling them ordinary issues that come up in a major move.
“Everything's going to be fine,” she said.
She virtually banned everyone except construction workers from the new building after it was becoming clogged with rubber-neckers. Some argued that they hadn't seen it yet; she said they didn't need to until it was officially open.
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