info2024-09-27T10:27:07-05:00September 27th, 2024|
Manhattan city commissioners on Tuesday split over the possible adoption of a common consumption area ordinance, which would allow a person to possess and consume an alcoholic beverage within a specified area not licensed to serve alcohol at a specified time. That potentially could include city property, sidewalks and streets. Source: 1350 KMAN
info2024-09-27T10:26:10-05:00September 27th, 2024|
According to the Ark Valley News, the Valley Center City Council requested more information and research from city staff regarding a cemetery fee policy that came under scrutiny recently. Hearing from Steve Hipps, the council learned he was charged an additional $800 to bury his father (a non-resident) in the city though his cemetery plot was purchased in 2011 – 11 years before Valley Center passed an ordinance requiring additional burial fees for non-city residents. A full refund was requested by Hipps, while council directed staff to look into the policy and get answers to potentially remediate the situation. Source: Derby [...]
info2024-09-27T10:25:14-05:00September 27th, 2024|
In anticipation of a potential bond vote next spring, the Haysville school district is currently hosting a series of community meetings to gain input. The last such meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 8 at Campus High School. No official action has been taken, but a decision is anticipated in December. District staff noted the bond would not look to add any new school buildings, but construction of a career and tech center could be a potential bond item. Primarily, the bond would look to address upkeep and maintenance at district facilities (HVAC, roof repairs, athletic turf replacement, etc.) Source: [...]
info2024-09-27T10:24:26-05:00September 27th, 2024|
The Leavenworth Unified School District’s website officially has a new feature to help report tips, ask questions or raise concerns. Community members can use the new feature to alert the district if they feel like there’s a threat. The button on the website’s home page features four words, ‘See Something, Say Something.’ FOX4 spoke with District Superintendent Dr. Kellen Adams and Republican County Attorney Todd Thompson on Wednesday, September 25. Thompson claims there’s a difference between a disruption to a school day and a threat, and what happened at the high school earlier in the month was more of a threat [...]
info2024-09-27T10:22:41-05:00September 27th, 2024|
The Jackson County Commissioners will host a special meeting at 6 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 30, at the first floor meeting room at the Jackson County Courthouse to discuss the possibility of increasing the county sales tax by one percent, from 1.4 percent to 2.4 percent, it was reported. Members of the public are encouraged to attend to share their feedback. During the county public hearing last month to exceed the revenue neutral rate, some residents in attendance voiced their support for raising the county sales tax in order to help reduce the county mill levy. Jackson County currently has a [...]
info2024-09-27T10:21:36-05:00September 27th, 2024|
Although “the sky isn’t falling,” as Holton Community Hospital CEO Carrie Lutz told members of the Holton City Commission and Jackson County Commission at their meetings on Monday, the hospital is facing some financial issues with Medicare reimbursement and pandemic-related problems that have hospital leaders asking city and county officials to consider a subsidy, possibly in the form of a sales tax. “You are elected officials, and our county, state and federal officials need to know that decisions you make can impact us,” Lutz told county commissioners. Lutz met with county commissioners on Monday afternoon and with city commissioners that evening [...]
info2024-09-27T10:20:36-05:00September 27th, 2024|
Despite a short-lived spike in wastewater data for northeast Johnson County last month, the overall trend of COVID-19 infections in the county and statewide has been on the decline, according to data from the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment. As the next cold and flu season approaches, the county’s website shows that while sewage monitoring systems show Kansas with “very high” levels of COVID virus, the overall trend is likely downward. Activity for flu and respiratory syncytial virus in wastewater also is minimal statewide, according to the site. Source: Johnson County Post
info2024-09-27T10:19:49-05:00September 27th, 2024|
Overland Park intends to try out a road diet on a chunk of Santa Fe Drive next year. On Wednesday, the Overland Park City Council Public Works Committee unanimously recommended approval of the infrastructure maintenance program plan for 2025. That plan identifies Santa Fe for street preservation work, and when that’s complete, the city will repaint the pavement markers to match the new traffic pattern. Director of Public Works Lorraine Basalo said the road diet would narrow Santa Fe Drive from four lanes to two lanes between Antioch Road and Robinson Street, about where the road already narrows as it moves [...]
info2024-09-27T10:18:44-05:00September 27th, 2024|
Just over half of all demolitions in Wichita and Sedgwick County in the last decade were of single-family homes. Of those, nearly a quarter occurred in ZIP code 67214. The area had the most single-family demolitions of any other ZIP code over the last decade. The population there is majority Black and majority Hispanic. Parts of all six ZIP codes in Wichita’s urban core, including much of 67214, touch areas that were formerly redlined. “Redlining” refers to a practice adopted by the Homeowners Loan Corp., a government-sponsored corporation born out of the Great Depression. Almost a century ago, the practice was [...]
info2024-09-27T10:17:08-05:00September 27th, 2024|
The U.S. Environment Protection Agency is set to present a $690,000 ceremonial check to the Iola Unified School District. The check is part of the EPA's Clean School Bus Program. The program funds electric buses, which produce zero-tailpipe emissions, as well as propane and compressed natural gas buses, which produce lower tailpipe emissions compared to existing school buses. According to the EPA, the school district will use the funds to purchase two electric school buses and install charging infrastructure. The presentation is set for Thursday, September 26 at 11 a.m. at the Iola Elementary School. Source: KOAM News
