The same day that the Prairie Village City Council moved forward with financing for its $30 million municipal complex project, a city resident appealed a federal court’s Nov. 3 decision to dismiss his lawsuit trying to stop the project. On Monday, the city council voted 11-0 to approve three items that pushed the public financing for its $30 million municipal complex project forward, including issuing bonds. That same day, Fritz Edmunds, the attorney representing Prairie Village resident Marc Vianello, filed a notice of appeal in federal court regarding that court’s decision last month to dismiss the lawsuit for lack of standing. Edmunds did not respond to the Post’s request for comment for this story. Vianello filed the federal lawsuit in mid-July, seeking to block the city from taking out debt for the project without first bringing it to a public vote.
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