COVINGTON — The Northern Kentucky Community Center received $36,000 in city grant funding Tuesday after center officials convinced City Commission they have corrected problems with the management structure.

        Commissioners distributed the money into three programs: $14,000 for youth development, $12,500 for a day-care program and $9,500 for homeless prevention.

        The center is in the former Lincoln Grant School at 824 Greenup St. It serves Northern Kentucky's largest African-American community, in East Covington.

        It has had some hard financial times this year.

        In May, the United Way announced it would no longer fund the center — thus cutting the center's budget nearly in half.

        United Way cited management concerns and an inability of the center to show what it had accomplished with United Way-funded programs.

        “We have put the safeguards in place relevant to the problems we've had in the past,” said Clifford Cooper, president of the center's board of directors.

        Mr. Cooper said the board has created a panel of accountants and attorneys to advise on financial matters and has developed a management plan that makes the executive director more accountable to the board.

        In other action, commissioners:

        • Passed a resolution to spend $50,000 on a development plan for the Covington riverfront from the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge to the Licking River. The Cincinnati architectural firm NBBJ-Roth will do the work.

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