I would like to address Gail Moore’s campaign announcement for district 1 in Harlingen. The announcement alludes to her experience as an elected official as an asset she would bring to the Harlingen City commission. The write up looks good, but let us take a closer look.
Parkway Village, Kentucky, is a Sixth Class city. Kentucky has six classes of cities based on population. A Sixth Class city must have a population of at least 300 to incorporate and may not exceed 999. By statute Fifth and Sixth Class cities are limited in scope and authority compared to larger cities.
Parkway Village is a very small suburb of Louisville, KY. It is about 1,000 feet wide, 1,600 feet long and is a little less than 1/10 of a square mile. Within the city are fourteen businesses. It has a current population of about 770, plus or minus a few. The few are minorities. Recent census figures show there are three Blacks, two Hispanics, two Asians and three persons reporting mixed racial heritage, the rest are white - mostly of German and Irish heritage.
Parkway Village does not have its own police department and relies on a fire department made up of mostly volunteers from a neighboring community. It does not have its own water or sewer service, or sanitation department. Most of these services come from either the greater metro area or are contracted out. The city has a public park, but it is maintained by a contractor. Last year’s general fund budget was a little over $94,000. Parkway Village receives separate funding from the State of Kentucky to maintain its streets and sidewalks but contracts out the actual work - which includes snow removal from its 5,000 linier feet of streets and deicing its few intersections. The Commissioners Board of Parkway Village meets once a month on the fourth Thursday. For several years it met in neighboring Audubon Park’s City Hall.
From reading the Parkway Village’s web page, and the commission minutes going back several years, it appears the principal services offered are, a quarterly newsletter, banners at the entrances to the city, and a Citation Officer. The Citation officer’s duties include making sure residents properly trim trees on their property that overhang the right of way, see that they keep their trash cans properly covered and taken back in after the once a week collection by the contractor, and insure people are not improperly parking on the street and are not parking on the grass in their own yards.
Basically, Parkway Village is a neighborhood association with the authority to levy property, business and insurance premium taxes. So when Moore claims she brings her “experience as commissioner of taxes, public works, parks and police” while serving the City of Parkway Village she is being less than honest about her actual experiences and qualifications.
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I would like to address Gail Moore’s campaign announcement for district 1 in Harlingen. The announcement alludes to her experience as an elected official as an asset she would bring to the Harlingen City commission. The write up looks good, but let us take a closer look.
Parkway Village, Kentucky, is a Sixth Class city. Kentucky has six classes of cities based on population. A Sixth Class city must have a population of at least 300 to incorporate and may not exceed 999. By statute Fifth and Sixth Class cities are limited in scope and authority compared to larger cities.
Parkway Village is a very small suburb of Louisville, KY. It is about 1,000 feet wide, 1,600 feet long and is a little less than 1/10 of a square mile. Within the city are fourteen businesses. It has a current population of about 770, plus or minus a few. The few are minorities. Recent census figures show there are three Blacks, two Hispanics, two Asians and three persons reporting mixed racial heritage, the rest are white - mostly of German and Irish heritage.
Parkway Village does not have its own police department and relies on a fire department made up of mostly volunteers from a neighboring community. It does not have its own water or sewer service, or sanitation department. Most of these services come from either the greater metro area or are contracted out. The city has a public park, but it is maintained by a contractor. Last year’s general fund budget was a little over $94,000. Parkway Village receives separate funding from the State of Kentucky to maintain its streets and sidewalks but contracts out the actual work - which includes snow removal from its 5,000 linier feet of streets and deicing its few intersections. The Commissioners Board of Parkway Village meets once a month on the fourth Thursday. For several years it met in neighboring Audubon Park’s City Hall.
From reading the Parkway Village’s web page, and the commission minutes going back several years, it appears the principal services offered are, a quarterly newsletter, banners at the entrances to the city, and a Citation Officer. The Citation officer’s duties include making sure residents properly trim trees on their property that overhang the right of way, see that they keep their trash cans properly covered and taken back in after the once a week collection by the contractor, and insure people are not improperly parking on the street and are not parking on the grass in their own yards.
Basically, Parkway Village is a neighborhood association with the authority to levy property, business and insurance premium taxes. So when Moore claims she brings her “experience as commissioner of taxes, public works, parks and police” while serving the City of Parkway Village she is being less than honest about her actual experiences and qualifications.
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