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As winter bears down on Shawnee Mission, Lenexa has proposed regulations for homeless shelters within city limits. The need for such regulations came to light after Project 1020, a cold-weather shelter, requested approvals to operate out of a church last winter. At the time, Lenexa did not have homeless shelter regulations within its city code. After the city denied the request and the church sued the city in federal court, the city agreed to allow the shelter to operate temporarily while staff develops new code. Lenexa is now working through a months-long process to refine the city code, first introduced to councilors on Jan. 5. Under the proposed regulations, shelters could operate in the city as long as they met certain conditions.
Source: Prairie Village Post
Matthew Rehder figures it was his upbringing that led him to work in the public sector. “I had taken advantage of years of rec programs,” Rehder recalled. “As a kid, I played for city recreation programs, in city parks, all that kind of stuff.” It was a desire to give back to the community that first led Rehder, 42, to join AmeriCorps — the domestic version of the Peace Corps — then pursue a public administration degree in college. Those steps led Rehder to become Iola’s next city administrator.
Source: The Iola Register
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.
It’s the only place in Kansas’ most affluent county for homeless single adults without children to stay. And it’s temporary, only for the winter. There are no beds for such people the rest of the year in a time when advocates say the county’s homeless population is growing — and when evictions and job loss during the pandemic are expected to displace many more. But for the first time, some major cities in Johnson County are considering whether their laws should clearly allow shelters. Most of the cities lack any written rules stating when or where a shelter is permissible, which has led to heated battles, both between advocates and neighbors, and in court.
Source: KC Star Local News
Save Century II efforts now include asking lawmakers to force a binding vote on any moves to take down Century II. “Has some teeth to it,” says Celeste Racette with Save Century II. “Actually makes it binding and makes it where there has to be an election. Has to be put on the ballot.” Wichita city council member Brandon Johnson says council members have moved to have a public vote on the future of Century II. “So the future of Century II will be up to a public vote,” said Johnson this week. Still, Racette says her group is going after a new law to have a public vote on demolition of buildings more than 80-thousand square feet that have been named to a historic registry. Century II would be on that list.
Source: KSN-TV
A rise in community COVID-19 cases and staff shortages because of quarantine prompted the Wichita Board of Education to send its students home last month. Now the board may be asked at its Monday meeting to bring them back, according to an email sent to employees by Superintendent Alicia Thompson. The email says that the “administration is considering a recommendation” that would bring elementary school students back on Jan. 13, pre-K students back on Jan. 14 and then a blended model for middle and high school would start Jan. 25. The blended model would have different groups of students learning in person on different days. Middle and high schools have been remote since the start of the school year.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle
Workers injured on the job in Kansas can continue to be evaluated for impairment following medical guidelines that might reduce the amount of their workers’ compensation award, the state Supreme Court ruled. In a decision released Friday, justices reversed a ruling from the Kansas Court of Appeals that favored Howard Johnson, but also avoided the constitutional question Johnson posed. Johnson suffered a serious spinal cord injury while working as a delivery driver for U.S. Food Service. His workers’ compensation award was nearly $47,000 less than what he would have received if the injury had occurred a year earlier.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle
Chelsie Angleton is the new 911 director for Allen County after working at the critical response center for the past seven years. Before that, she served in practically every other role there, including: frontline dispatcher, certified training officer, quality assurance specialist and deputy director. As to what these different positions are responsible for, they involve everything from answering to analyzing calls, coaching dispatchers and mastering technologies. “It’s more than answering the phone and sending help,” Angleton remarked. “But as soon as I started and made it through training, I knew that this is where I wanted my career to go.” “I just found that dispatch was a perfect fit.”
Source: The Iola Register
Celeste Racette, the Wichita woman behind the grassroots Save Century II group, is lobbying local and state lawmakers for support on two pieces of legislation she’s proposing that back her cause. Racette said Friday she was confident her proposals, which have been sent to Wichita’s City Council and the South Central Kansas Legislative Delegation, would receive bipartisan support. “The bill that’s being presented is going to be sponsored by both parties,” she said. “It’s not one party or the other, it’s both parties. It’s everybody. It’s everybody who cares about a beloved building like Century II.”
Source: Wichita Business Journal
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