South Central Kansas Medical Center’s staff can breathe easier now that a $1,313.005 debt to the city has been officially removed from the books.
Arkansas City Commissioners passed a resolution Tuesday canceling all the hospitals debt obligations to the city for funds it borrowed in the past few years to meet bond payments and other costs.
The resolution was put into place after the city acknowledged it had kept compensating use tax revenue instead of giving it to the hospital.
(Read more: The Arkansas City Traveler)