Shawnee changes charter ordinance to allow debt financing for purchase of streetlights

Shawnee leaders have agreed to add a provision to the city’s charter ordinances that will allow the city to borrow money to purchase the city’s streetlights.

The charter ordinance change permits the city to debt finance the acquisition of streetlights from Every Metro Inc. (formerly KCP&L) through the issuance of general obligation bonds.
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Mayor Michelle Distler said the city’s charter ordinances had authorized the city to issue general obligation bonds to pay for streetlights in 1955, but that authority was taken out in 1987.

(Read more: Prairie Village Post)