The interest rate table above illustrates recent changes in a sample of MBIS “investment grade” yields. Every issuer’s credit is different. For rates that may be applicable to your municipality, contact our Municipal Bond Advisors, Larry Kleeman and Beth Warren.
Stormwater experts in Johnson County will soon be using new tools to study flooding along Indian Creek. On Thursday the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) approved a $875,200 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for floodplain mapping. Sarah Smith, project manager for Johnson County Stormwater Management, said funds from the FEMA grant will go toward creating a 2-D floodplain model and map project for Indian Creek. “Our existing one dimensional modeling has been and continues to serve as a great planning tool. However they are based on data that is now 20 years old,” Smith said.
Source: fox4kc.com | FOX 4 – WDAF
U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids applauded the Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement that Kansas will receive $79,430,000 from the bipartisan infrastructure law to address drinking water and wastewater systems. This 2022 allocation is the first of five years of dedicated State Revolving Fund water funding that Kansas will receive through the Davids-backed bipartisan infrastructure law. This announcement marks the first official round of funding for Kansas from the bipartisan infrastructure law and will be used to create jobs, upgrade aging water infrastructure, and deliver safe, lead-free drinking water across the state, according to Rep. Davids.
Source: Wyandotte Daily
City employees in Clearwater will soon have an additional option for saving for their retirement. The Clearwater City Council approved a contract for a new Kansas Public Employees Retirement System option that will allow employees to save additional retirement funds. Employees already set aside funds under the standard mandatory KPERS option. The additional option, KPERS 457 (b), will be voluntary.
Source: Times-Sentinel Newspapers » Feed
The American Library Association (ALA) has named Sam Jack to its 2022 class of Emerging Leaders. Jack, who serves as Newton Public Library’s adult services librarian, is one of 49 librarians from across the U.S. and Canada chosen to participate. Jack lives in the Goddard area. The Emerging Leaders program is designed to enable librarians to participate in planning, network with peers, and have an early-career opportunity to serve the library profession in a leadership capacity.
Source: Times-Sentinel Newspapers » Feed
In accordance with Executive Order 20-30, and in coordination with the proclamation signed by President Joe Biden, Governor Laura Kelly has ordered flags throughout the State of Kansas to be flown at half-staff starting immediately until sunset on December 9, 2021 in honor of the passing of Senator Bob Dole.
The road that led incoming mayor Courtney Shipley to local politics was quite literally a road. Shipley, who lives on Kasold Drive, said she first started going to public input meetings hosted by the city in 2015 amid the debate over the redesign of a section of Kasold Drive that runs directly in front of her house. The public meetings and debate about the road project went on for more than a year and led her to a City Commission meeting, where she would become a regular attendee. “I got interested in other stuff they were discussing,” Shipley said, adding that commission discussions can sometimes span multiple meetings. “And so that’s why I started just coming every week.”
Source: LJWorld.com
The interest rate table above illustrates recent changes in a sample of MBIS “investment grade” yields. Every issuer’s credit is different. For rates that may be applicable to your municipality, contact our Municipal Bond Advisors, Larry Kleeman and Beth Warren.
For the first time in 30 years, the Kellogg highway isn’t under construction. “You’re welcome,” joked Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple, the morning after the city tweeted that there are no current construction projects on the busy highway from its western edge at 119th Street to the K-96 interchange on the east side. … Tom Hein of the Kansas Department of Transportation characterized it as a pause in an ongoing improvement process, rather than a mission accomplished. “This is a respite, yes,” he said. “There’s always going to be a little bit of maintenance going on, but as far as big projects and what we’ve been experiencing the last three or four years with the east Kellogg stuff, we don’t have anything right now in the near future.”
Source: Wichita Eagle
The Kansas Supreme Court sought to bring clarity to prosecution of driving-under-the-influence offenses Friday by unanimously granting district courts authority to view prior DUI convictions in Missouri as comparable to the Kansas law. The court examined the Kansas Legislature’s modification of state law in 2018 aimed at accounting for DUIs from other states. The justices said lawmakers sought to eliminate an “identical-to-or-narrower-than” test used in Kansas to determine whether alleged DUI offenders should be charged with a misdemeanor or felony. The court determined Kansas legislators wanted prosecutors in this state to include out-of-state violations of laws broader than Kansas’ infractions, specifically Missouri’s driving-while-intoxicated statute.
Source: The Lawrence Times
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