By Cindy Schroeder
The Cincinnati Enquirer

INDEPENDENCE - Residents will have several chances to voice concerns about their county with a series of town hall meetings.

After a hiatus of three months, Kenton County Fiscal Court will resume the monthly meetings in February.

Kenton County's next town hall meeting of 2004 will be 7 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Crescent Springs city building, 739 Buttermilk Pike.

The meetings, started shortly after the current fiscal court took office in January 1999, are a chance for Kenton County residents and elected officials to share their thoughts and concerns about county issues with the fiscal court.

"We open it up for the citizens of those areas to bring up issues that affect them which are the responsibility of the county,'' said Joe Shriver, Kenton County's director of human resources. "We'll take a look and see how we can help resolve their concerns.''

All of the meetings are at 7 p.m.:

• March 16: Fort Wright and Park Hills, Fort Wright city building, 409 Kyles Lane.

• April 20: Fort Mitchell city building, Dixie Highway and Highland Avenue.

• May 18: Independence, Kenton County courthouse in Independence, 5272 Madison Pike, Independence.

• June 15: Crestview Hills and Edgewood, Atria Summitt Hills, 2625 Legends Way, Crestview Hills.

• Aug. 17: Ryland Heights city building.

• Sept. 21: Taylor Mill city building, 5225 Taylor Mill Road.

• Oct. 19: Villa Hills city building, 719 Rogers Road.

No town hall meetings are scheduled for July, November or December.

Kenton Fiscal Court has canceled its regularly scheduled meetings Tuesday and Feb. 3.

Normally, fiscal court will meet at 7 p.m. the first, third and fourth Tuesdays of the month and at 9 a.m. the second Tuesday at the Kenton County courthouse in Independence, 5272 Madison Pike. That schedule will change in some summer months because of vacations and in November and December because of the holidays.

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