Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Covington Mayor Denny Bowman campaigned with promises to shake up City Hall and he apparently has done just that. Two city commissioners complain that he has spent his first six months in office telling people what to do and has undermined the city manager's authority.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Supporters call Fossett a "big thinker" who doesn't merely worry about the potholes in the streets, but also seeks to improve overall problems that drag cities down. Critics - including Mayor Denny Bowman during last year's campaign - have derided Covington City Hall in recent years under Fossett as cold-hearted.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
... preservationists; and Kenton County, which may build a new county administration in the area.Mayor Denny Bowman after Tuesday's vote suggested city administrators ask developers, property owners and the county to help finance the study that will lead to the plan, because they will benefit from it.Meanwhile, commissioners also voted 5-0 to seek federal stimulus money to help build...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
... they had the planning commission hearing, that Covington didn't have a plan for the area," Mayor Denny Bowman said. "So that's when I requested we develop a plan for the area, which we're going to do."(2 of 2)Commissioner Sherry Carran proposed the six-month moratorium for the meantime, and that can be extended by another six months, possibly more, while the city decides what should...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
COVINGTON – Jay Fossett will be leaving his role as city manager after he and the City Commission came to an agreement Tuesday night.Fossett has been criticized since last year's election campaigns by Mayor Denny Bowman and Commissioner Shawn Masters.Fossett said last week that Bowman and Masters wanted to fire him, and questioned whether he wanted to continue in city government."I...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
City Hall decisions aren't made as democratically as City Commissioner Sherry Carran hoped they would be when Mayor Denny Bowman took office. He holds his cards "close to his vest."
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
COVINGTON -- Tuesday's City Commission meeting could be both eventful and a marathon, especially for elected officials, who have scheduled an unusual two-hour session behind closed doors prior to the regular gathering.One topic to be discussed in private is City Manager Jay Fossett, who has been criticized since last year's election campaigns by Mayor Denny Bowman and Commissioner Shawn...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
- The future of Covington's emergency 911 dispatching will be on City Commission's agenda Tuesday.The dispatching matter might create sparks, because Commissioners Sherry Carran and Jerry Stricker were heated about the topic Friday.Mayor Denny Bowman has placed on the commission's agenda a resolution stating, "It is the present will of the Board of Commissioners to maintain and expend...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... take away."Some residents and business owners remained skeptical after Boyer's presentation. Mayor Denny Bowman said he wants to get various sides together and hash out issues while the city continues to study whether to hire another professional festival manager, as Newport does. No meeting date has been set.MSVA's former executive director, Jerry Bamberger, and board member Craig...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
... area that developers hope to reshape."Let's design a development plan for this corridor," Mayor Denny Bowman said, explaining Covington's rationale for the moratorium. "We want to design the whole area and have a plan."That plan may involve parks, he said.The moratorium will bar developers from tearing "anything down," Bowman said. "They can't tear nothing down just to make...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
... gray area, said Paul Alley, a lawyer for The Enquirer.With tension increasing lately between Mayor Denny Bowman and City Manager Jay Fossett, Fossett last Wednesday sent an e-mail to Bowman and the other four commissioners complaining about Bowman’s statements that appeared in the May 31 Enquirer accusing Fossett and former elected city officials of mismanagement. Fossett...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 05/31/2009
COVINGTON - City Commissioners last week hired two women to work as emergency 911 dispatchers, even though city government has been fighting in court for the ability to get rid of emergency dispatching.The hires are appropriate, Mayor Denny Bowman said, predicting Covington won't be getting rid of dispatching anytime soon.Bowman noted a new city commission majority - he and commissioners...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 05/31/2009
COVINGTON - Even with Jerry Bamberger's retirement as executive director of the MainStrasse Village Association, city officials still want to study having somebody else run Oktoberfest and other festivals.Mayor Denny Bowman wants City Hall to take a close look at whether city government or a professional festival operator should take over the events, which draw hundreds of thousands of...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 05/30/2009
... property is owned by Fort Wright, it's within Covington's borders."The road's in our city," Mayor Denny Bowman said. "What's being repaired is in our city - it's in Covington, it's Covington's responsibility."Bowman said he wished Kenton County still were responsible for that stretch of roadway. Until about five years ago, the county did maintain it, until County Attorney Garry...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
By the time this warm-weather festival season ends, Mayor Denny Bowman wants Covington to be prepared to take over festivals that now are operated by the MainStrasse Village Association, he said Tuesday.
