Elsewhere in Kentucky, county governments are run by fiscal courts. Other boards and commissions have more power and bigger budgets. The city owns Rupp Arena, home of the Kentucky Wildcats, and the attached civic center and mall. Lexington Center Corp., which is appointed by the council, runs the complex. The Lexington Public Library gets its funding from a property tax passed through the city government.
Work is under way on the fourth new public library branch in Lexington in a dozen years.
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