QUESTION (for challengers): What qualifications do you want to highlight that will make people vote for you?

Ed Kuehne: I have served and volunteered in Kentucky for 50 years, including Boone County Water Rescue (23 years – current); Tank Board (12 years – current); EMT instructor (23 years – current); Kenton County Zoning Compliance (6 years); Board of Adjustments in Taylor Mill (current); Chief of Florence Rescue volunteer in my early years; Volunteer Fire Dept in Richmond, Ky. after graduation from Eastern Kentucky University; and I was on Taylor Mill Commission when the Trifecta and Pride Parkway were constructed.

Candidates for Taylor Mill city commission answer questions - LINK nky

Ed Keeney Kuehne graduated from Eastern Kentucky University. He has volunteered in Kentucky for 50 years, including with Boone County Water Rescue, as an EMT instructor, and on Taylor Mill's Board of Adjustments.

Taylor Mill approves construction bid for new $3.8 million fire station

Ed Keeney Kuehne graduated from Eastern Kentucky University.

Ed Kuehne was first elected to the Taylor Mill City Commission in 2009. Since then, he’s served nonconsecutive terms. He was reelected to the commission in 2022.

Kuehne has been a Taylor Mill citizen since 1988. Professionally, he worked as an electrical equipment procurement specialist for General Electric for 12 years. After that, he left to create Power Distribution Services – a Power service company. The company was sold 17 years later and CE Power Solutions was created. It, too, was eventually sold.

Taylor Mill City Commission: Who are the candidates and what are their goals? - LINK nky

QUESTION (for challengers): What qualifications do you want to highlight that will make people vote for you?

Ed Kuehne: I have had much success in my years of business, which will help in knowing how to recruit businesses to come to Taylor Mill. I am recently retired, giving me the time required to get out and communicate with the community and potential businesses.

Ed Keeney Kuehne recently retired. He previously worked as an electrical equipment procurement specialist for General Electric and created Power Distribution Services, a power service company that was later sold.

Ed Kuehne was first elected to the Taylor Mill City Commission in 2009. Since then, he’s served nonconsecutive terms. He was reelected to the commission in 2022.

Kuehne has been a Taylor Mill citizen since 1988.

Ed was first elected to the Taylor Mill City Commission in 2009 and was reelected in 2022, serving nonconsecutive terms.

2026 Kentucky General Election

As of September 15, 2026, Ed Keeney Kuehne did not have a website or any information online.

Energy & the Environment

Housing & Urban Development

Public Safety

Public Services

Transportation & Infrastructure

Ed Keeney Kuehne

Proposes a Citizen Park Committee to recommend city park needs.

Proposes a Citizen Review Board to organize property owners' concerns before commission meetings.

Calls for improving the city's process for identifying and applying for local, state, and federal grants.

As of September 15, 2026, Ed Keeney Kuehne’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Isaac Brickman

Buket Urgen

Ed Kuehne and Ed Kreimborg both thought the city wasted the $53,000 spent to get the facility assessment.

“We need a firehouse!” Kuehne stated. “But we need to have it rebuilt!”

Taylor Mill still uncertain on what to do about troubled firehouse - LINK nky

QUESTION (for challengers): What do you want to change if you are elected?

Ed Kuehne: Taylor Mill needs to have more citizen involvement in the decision-making. An example would be to establish a Citizen Park Committee that would have recommendations regarding the city park’s needs to properly serve the people who utilize it. Another example is to establish a Citizen Review Board where one can come and openly express their thoughts, concerns and opinions.

QUESTION (for challengers): What do you want to change if you are elected?

Ed Kuehne: Taylor Mill needs to have more citizen involvement in the decision-making. An example would be to establish a Citizen Park Committee that would have recommendations regarding the city park’s needs to properly serve the people who utilize it. Another example is to establish a Citizen Review Board where one can come and openly express their thoughts, concerns and opinions. That board would then organize the concerns of property owners before the commission meeting. Taylor Mill needs more citizen community involvement.

QUESTION (for challengers): Is there something specific you would like to change in the city?

Ed Kuehne: The grants procurement process. I believe the city is lacking when it comes to identifying, applying for and receiving local, state and federal grants. There are more out there that we are missing. This needs to be addressed and changed.

Jim Bertram

Mark Kreimborg

Rose Merritt

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