KY State Fair Board President Retiring

{Louisville, Kentucky}...The Kentucky State Fair Board, which manages the KFC Yum Center which opened in 2010, expects about $500,000 in net income from operations in 2011. That's less than half of the $1.2 million that officials budgeted for and a far cry from the $3.7 million predicted when the project was financed in 2008. Harold Workman, whose job status as president of the Kentucky Fair Board has been involved in controversies recently over the firing of the general manager of the KFC Yum Center, announced Thursday he is retiring at the end of the year, after more than 42 years in state government. Workman made his announcement during a meeting of the fair board, which voted to extend his contract six months to December 31st. Workman, fair board president and CEO since 1993, makes $249,260 a year.