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County Commission reaction to the lack of merger for Geary Community Hospital and Salina Regional Health Center

info2018-11-28T06:33:51-06:00November 28th, 2018|

There will be no merger between Geary Community Hospital in Junction City and Salina Regional Health Center. That information was announced by GCH officials last week. It leaves officials considering other future possible talks with other healthcare facilities. Geary Community Hospital, like many other healthcare facilities, has been dealing with financial challenges. On Monday the chairman of the Geary County Commission, Charles Stimatze, commented on the subject. “Disappointing, disappointing, but have not gotten all the full details from Dr. Stratton ( GCH CEO Dr. Joe Stratton ). So we have got to get with him to see what the next steps [...]

Sedgwick County 911 to hire more call takers as call volume increases

info2018-11-28T06:32:36-06:00November 28th, 2018|

A crash near Kellogg and Meridian sent five people, including four teenagers, to the hospital Monday afternoon. The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office says the car was reported stolen. The driver ran a red light causing the crash. This is just one of the thousands of phone calls 911 dispatchers take and relay to first responders. This year the county is on pace of receiving 40,0000 more 911 calls than last year. With that increase, they are looking to hire six new call takers over the next few weeks that will eventually become dispatchers. "You always have to be prepared and do [...]

Douglas County Commission to consider contract for interim county administrator

info2018-11-28T07:11:09-06:00November 28th, 2018|

The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday will consider appointing Assistant County Administrator Sarah Plinsky as interim county administrator while commissioners conduct a search to replace retiring County Administrator Craig Weinaug. With approval of the contract, Plinsky, who has served as assistant county administrator for eight years, will assume duties as county administrator on Dec. 15, the day after Weinaug retires. County Commissioner Chair Nancy Thellman said no decisions on a county administrator search would be made until Patrick Kelly replaced Commissioner Mike Gaughan on the County Commission on Jan. 2. Kelly, a Democrat, was elected Nov. 6 to the commission. Gaughan, [...]

Belleville’s 150th anniversary celebration is just over nine months away

info2018-11-27T18:54:20-06:00November 27th, 2018|

The City of Belleville's 150th anniversary celebration is just over nine months away. And PRIDE committee chairperson Deanna Morris says what seems like a long way away really isn't. “We just had a meeting last week and realized there is so much to do and honestly so little time to do it in," she told the Telescope. Morris and fellow PRIDE members Sheila White and Waylon Scheetz appeared before members of the Belleville city council on Monday to give an update on the project as it stands. Morris said the biggest thing the group needs right now is...help. "This is an [...]

Tiny homes restricted to RV, mobile home parks in Junction City

info2018-11-27T09:06:56-06:00November 27th, 2018|

Junction City residents wishing to live in tiny homes will be required to reside in recreational vehicle or mobile home parks. Officials discussed bulk regulations in residential zoning districts during Tuesday night’s city commissioners meeting. Troy Livingston — the director of the city’s Planning and Zoning Department — said planning and zoning staff have discussed tiny homes frequently over the past year due to their growing popularity. The city’s current zoning regulations do not address those types of structures, but the state classifies them as RVs because they are on a chassis. “The (vehicle identification number) even starts with an RV,” [...]

Mission proposes creating community improvement district to pay for caved-in parking lot repair

info2018-11-27T08:52:34-06:00November 27th, 2018|

Mission city leaders are considering creating a community improvement district to repair a cave-in of the Roeland Court parking lot. Community improvement districts (CIDs) in the Shawnee Mission area are normally used to create a sales tax for funding new development projects or rehabilitating old infrastructure. In this case, activating a CID would allow property owners living at Roeland Court to have a longer period of time, as much as 22 years, to repay repair costs to their parking lot. The 7- to 8-foot-deep subsidence of the parking lot at Roeland Court, at West 60th Terrace and Roeland Drive, was likely [...]

Three car-tag offices will close and a new one will open in Sedgwick County

info2018-11-27T08:50:28-06:00November 27th, 2018|

Two weeks from now, you’ll have a new place to get car tags, renewals and title work done. The Sedgwick County Treasurer’s Office will shut down its three current satellite tag offices and move the staffs and equipment to a new and larger location in east Wichita. The new tag office, at 5620 E. Kellogg, will open at noon on Dec. 10, County Treasurer Linda Kizzire said. When that’s done, Wichita will have two large tag offices — the new office and the main office in a former Dillons store at Meridian and Douglas. The stations to be closed are in [...]

Funding OK’d to make water more palatable, clear way for swimming at Lake Shawnee Adventure Cove

info2018-11-27T08:48:43-06:00November 27th, 2018|

The Shawnee County Commission approved a project budget totaling $386,250 Monday to make the water more palatable and clear the way for swimming at the Lake Shawnee Adventure Cove. Commissioners Kevin Cook, Shelly Buhler and Bob Archer voted 3-0 to adopt that budget to use excess reserve money to cover costs to replace the recirculation pump that formerly created a continual movement of water in that cove. Patrons cited a reduction in water quality as the main reason for no longer going to the Lake Shawnee Swim Beach formerly located at the Adventure Cove’s current site, parks and recreation director John [...]

Sumner County Commissioners table VNA zoning change request until April

info2018-11-27T08:47:26-06:00November 27th, 2018|

The Sumner County Commissioners tabled a request by VNA Corporation to rezone a parcel of property west of the Ninnescah River from rural to heavy industrial until the April 8 meeting this morning at the Raymond Frye Complex. The Commissioners also accepted the withdrawal of a conditional use permit by VNA. The meeting lasted less than five minutes. A room was filled to capacity for this very short proceeding. Previously, on Nov. 7, the Sumner County Planning Commission voted to deny both the zoning request and the Conditional Use permit. As far as zoning is concerned, the recommendation was sent to [...]

Lenexa approves 1% community improvement district sales tax for City Center office, restaurant project

info2018-11-27T06:59:40-06:00November 27th, 2018|

The Lenexa City Council unanimously approved a community improvement district (CID) for roughly 2.7 acres of City Center at the southwest corner of the future Scarborough Street and Renner Boulevard for a new, 20,000-square-foot mixed-used building, private streets, parking facilities and other related improvements. The council approved the CID at its meeting last week and approved a development agreement with AC Lenexa City Center LLC after a required public hearing, at which no one spoke. AC Lenexa and CCL 2 LLC are the property’s owners, according to a memo to the council from Assistant City Attorney Sean McLaughlin. Copaken Brooks Commercial [...]

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