KRS 76.060: Officers and employees -- Legal services -- Effect of compact.

(1) The board shall, in July of each year, elect from its members a chairman and a vice

chairman, who shall be of different political party affiliation. It shall employ a

secretary-treasurer and a chief engineer, neither of whom is a member of the board.

The s ecretary-treasurer and the chief engineer may be removed by the board for

cause, after hearing by it and after at least ten (10) days' notice in writing has been

given to the secretary -treasurer or chief engineer, as the case may be, which notice

shall embrace the charges preferred against him or her. At the hearing he or she may

be represented by counsel. The finding of the board is final. The secretary -treasurer

and the chief engineer shall each devote his or her entire time and attention

exclusively to t he services of the board. The board may employ, and remove at

pleasure, professional and technical advisers, experts, and other employees, skilled

or unskilled, as it deems requisite for the performance of its duties.

(2) The board shall require the secret ary-treasurer and the chief engineer each to

execute a bond and may exact from such of its other officers and employees bonds

as it deems expedient. All bonds shall be payable to the district in the sums as the

board may fix, with approved corporate surety, and premiums therefor shall be paid

by the district. The bonds shall obligate the makers thereof to faithfully perform the

duties of their respective offices and positions and to fully account for and pay over

all money, property, or other thing of value of the district, which may come to their

hands, respectively. The board shall fix the salaries and compensation of the

officers and employees it engages, which salaries and compensation, however, shall

be in line with that paid by the city and county for similar services.

(3) Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, when a city of the first class and a

county containing such city have in effect a compact under KRS 79.310 to 79.330,

the executive director, secretary -treasurer, and chief engineer sh all be appointed by

and serve at the joint pleasure of the mayor, and the county judge/executive with the

approval of the fiscal court pursuant to KRS 67.040. Upon the establishment of a

consolidated local government in a county where a city of the first c lass and a

county containing such city have had in effect a cooperative compact pursuant to

KRS 79.310 to 79.330, the executive director, secretary -treasurer, and chief

engineer shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the mayor.