KRS 168.080: Employees.

Subject only to availability of funds from any source, the authority may employ and

prescribe the qualifications and duties of such persons as it may deem necessary to the

proper performance of its purposes and functions, including an executive director to serve

as the principal executive of the authority, and a chief engineer to supervise its

engineering staff. Compensation shall be such as may be fixed in accordance with the

standards established by the State secretary of the Personnel Cabinet, except tha t the

compensation for those officers and employees exempt from classified services as

provided in KRS 18A.115 shall be determined by the authority not to exceed the

maximum established by KRS 64.640(2).