Newly incorporated city, The Highlands, gets good news from Revenue

The Kansas Department of Revenue’s phone call gave the city of The Highlands an unexpected message.

“We had super good news this week,” The Highlands City Councilmember Bonnie Teel told the council at its Thursday night meeting, conducted at Nickerson City Hall. It soon will see a deposit of $853.60 in the city’s account, income from the Reno County sales tax.

Officials for the city launched last year thought The Highlands would not receive its share of Reno County sales tax proceeds until later in 2019 after the city had a state-certified population. Under state law, incorporated cities get a portion of a county’s general sales tax revenues based on a formula using city population and the local mill levy.

(Read more: Local – The Hutchinson News)