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Petition to repeal Salina pit bull ban likely headed to City Commission in near future

2022-11-18T08:52:43-06:00November 18th, 2022|

A growing number of people in Salina are hoping the city will reconsider a ban on having pit bulls in the community as a petition is slowly gathering the signatures it needs to go before the City Commission. The group Salinans Against BSL, or breed specific legislation, led by Debrah Corrales and Tyler Sartain, has spent the past several months at various locations around Salina collecting signatures for a city ordinance which would repeal the 2004 ordinance enacted by the commission which bans specific breeds of dogs, pit bulls, from the city. "We've been thinking about an (official) petition for (awhile)," [...]

Salina bike sharing program focuses on user friendly experience

2022-11-18T08:52:08-06:00November 18th, 2022|

KANcycle, a bike sharing program through OCCK Transportation, has updated its system to be more user-friendly via a mobile app. The new offering enables riders to plan a multimodal trip and unlock a bike in just a few steps in the Transit app. As a worldwide service, the Transit app allows users to navigate public transit with accurate real-time predictions, trip planning, step-by-step navigation and convenient payments. Now, Salina’s local bike sharing program can be viewed and accessed through the app. Source: Salina Journal

Colby is getting a new hospital

2022-11-18T00:58:18-06:00November 18th, 2022|

The town of Colby is on its way to having a new hospital. On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture officially announced that it is lending more than $108 million to the project. Citizens Health says it wants to expand critical health care services. The new facility will incorporate operations of the current hospital, Citizens Medical Center, and Family Center for Health Care clinic under one roof. Work has already started. Crews broke ground for the new hospital two weeks ago. It is south of the existing hospital that was built in 1982. Source: KSN-TV

Farm-to-School initiative enters phase one in Pittsburg

2022-11-18T00:54:20-06:00November 18th, 2022|

Phase one of a $10 million "Farm-to-School" initiative program begins in Pittsburg. Community Green Farms is partnering with Leafy Green Farms to provide ten hydroponic farms to ten schools in southeast Kansas. Typically, food travels 1,500 miles from a farm to your plate. But, Leafy Green Farms is known as "hyper-organic," which means it can be grown locally and consumed within 100 miles. Food grown in the hydroponic farms will be used for school meals. "Leafy Green Farms was started with the idea of moving the nutritional needle here in southeast Kansas. We don't believe that income should dictate nutritional levels, [...]

With plans moving forward for a hotel-convention center in northwest Emporia, downtown may see hotel-only concept

2022-11-18T09:12:26-06:00November 18th, 2022|

Can Emporia have two convention centers in town? According to Emporia Main Street Director Casey Woods, the answer is yes — if they are placed in the right areas. Next question: will Emporia have two convention centers? That answer hinges on a potential hotel-convention center in northwest Emporia and longstanding plans for the so-called Breckenridge Hotel and Convention Center downtown, which may well be halted if the property sells and new ownership moves in a different direction. Source: KVOE Emporia Radio

Incentive-averse Shawnee approves unusual TIF district

2022-11-18T09:13:08-06:00November 18th, 2022|

After two hours of discussion, a public hearing and much angst over perceived threat of eminent domain, the Shawnee City Council this week approved a special taxing district in a largely undeveloped area on the western side of the city. In so doing, the council’s 6-2 vote gave a blessing to a novel use for tax increment financing, a tool most often used to the benefit of developers. The new Hickok-Zarah district, which encompasses 2.58 square miles between Monticello Road and Woodland Drive, is set up in a similar way to more traditional, developer-oriented TIFs. Source: Shawnee Mission Post

Douglas County invites community to discuss process to move to 5 commission districts

2022-11-18T00:46:12-06:00November 18th, 2022|

Douglas County leaders will hold a community meeting to discuss the process of moving to five commissioner districts. Voters in the Nov. 8 election voted roughly 61% to 39% to add two additional commissioner districts to the current three. During the meeting, “County Clerk Jamie Shew will provide an overview of the process for moving to five districts. There will be an opportunity for the public to weigh in on the districts during roundtable discussions at the meeting,” according to information from the county. “The Board of County Commissioners will adopt a resolution outlining the new districts before or on Jan. [...]

UG charter ordinance subcommittee review underway

2022-11-18T00:44:04-06:00November 18th, 2022|

The Unified Government’s Charter Ordinance Subcommittee on Tuesday went over the ordinance line by line to determine what areas committee members wanted to work on. Topics that came up during the review included who had the actual authority over employees and the administrator – the mayor, administrator or the commission, or all? Whether the administrator or interim administrator should be required to live in Wyandotte County? Also, how many commissioners are needed to make the decision to appoint or dismiss the administrator, what is the meaning of majority in this phrasing? These issues may be addressed at future meetings, according to [...]

Advisory board will be created for Sedgwick County Fire District 1

2022-11-18T00:41:34-06:00November 18th, 2022|

Sedgwick County Commissioners have voted to create a nine-member Steering Council for Fire District 1. The Council will function as an advisory board and it will have five members appointed by the district’s largest cities:  Bel Aire, Goddard, Maize, Haysville and Park City.  The Sedgwick County Association of Cities will appoint a member, two members will come from the unincorporated area, and one member will represent an aviation company with 5,000 or more employees that pays taxes in the fire district. Commissioner Jim Howell wants to establish the board to give smaller communities and unincorporated areas a voice in decisions affecting [...]

Dad sues Shawnee Mission district over ‘troubling pattern’ of closed-door meetings

2022-11-18T00:39:33-06:00November 18th, 2022|

A father is suing the Shawnee Mission school district, alleging that it violated Kansas open meetings law by excluding the public from work group sessions studying boundary changes for his child’s school. On Monday, the school board unanimously approved new attendance boundaries for Briarwood Elementary School, near 86th Street and Nall Avenue in Prairie Village, which officials say is over capacity. Source: Joco 913 News

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