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.
Wichita children are soon to be the beneficiaries of the generosity of Shaquille O’Neal. In his appearance at Koch Arena on Saturday night for a Wichita charity basketball game, the NBA legend and Hall of Famer promised to buy 1,000 laptops and 1,000 pairs of his new “Shaq Attaq” Reebok shoes for Storytime Village, a Wichita-based children’s literacy nonprofit organization, to distribute. The promise didn’t come without a stipulation, however. The catch? In his halftime sit-down interview, the Big Diesel, a children’s book author who made the stop in Wichita to help promote children’s literacy with the local charity, went off-script and challenged a Sedgwick County sheriff deputy to dunk in the second half of the charity basketball game to earn the donation. Sitting in his courtside seat on his team’s bench, Vince Folston couldn’t believe it when O’Neal called him out on the microphone in front of the crowd.
Source: Wichita Eagle
Police and fire departments in small towns such as Parsons face a multitude of problems recruiting and retaining officers and a big portion of that problem is pay. “I’ve got multiple positions open in the police department because I’ve been cherry-picked by private industry and the larger departments who can throw money at my officers,” Parsons Police Chief Robert Spinks. “Is that something new? No.” Spinks said it has been that way for 25 years under three different chiefs of police and various city managers and city commission members. The Parsons Police Department has gone through 100 staff members since 2009, Spinks said.
Source: Parsons Sun
Ellis residents Thursday voted in favor of a $4.5 million bond to improve district facilities. The issue passed with a vote of 440-98. Ellis Junior/Senior High School and Washington Grade School will get improvements through the bond. The junior and senior high facility improvements include a new secure entry, renovated science labs, new exterior doors and a partial roof replacement.
Source: KSN-TV
Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of Commerce David Toland announced a second round of Historic Economic Asset Lifeline (HEAL) grants intended for revitalizing downtown buildings in small communities across the state. The HEAL program, which is funded by the Department of Commerce and the Patterson Family Foundation, will invest $850,000 in projects in the Fall 2022 grant round. The HEAL program is designed to bring downtown buildings back into productive use as spaces for: New or expanding businesses; Housing; Arts and culture; Civic engagement; Childcare or
Entrepreneurship. … Information about the HEAL grant program and the online application can be viewed at www.kansascommerce.gov/healfall2022.
Source: 101.3 KFDI
Keeping Holton’s water supply and distribution system in excellent shape involves making sure that the city’s 142 fire hydrants are also in good shape, according to Holton Water and Wastewater Superintendent Dennis Ashcraft. Flushing the distribution system also allows Ashcraft’s crew to identify issues with fire hydrants that are in need of repair, such as the hydrant at the intersection of Second Street and Wisconsin Avenue that water employees P.J. Oldehoeft and Cory Miller were recently seen repairing.
Source: Holton Recorder
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller on Friday echoed recent sentiments from his colleagues, saying he expects a big interest rate increase later this month. He also said policymakers should stop trying to guess the future and instead stick to what the data is saying. “Looking ahead to our next meeting, I support another significant increase in the policy rate,” Waller said in remarks prepared for a speech in Vienna. “But, looking further out, I can’t tell you about the appropriate path of policy. The peak range and how fast we will move there will depend on data we will receive about the economy.” … Markets strongly expect the central bank to take up its benchmark borrowing rate by 0.75 percent point, which would be the third consecutive move of that magnitude and the fastest pace of monetary tightening since the Fed began using the benchmark funds rate as its chief policy tool in the early 1990s.
Source: CNBC
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.
Shawnee County maintains 60 miles of trails, with 31.64 miles being paved, said Mike McLaughlin, communications and public information supervisor for Shawnee County Parks and Recreation. While the county’s trails are used mostly for recreation, they’re increasingly becoming a transportation network in recent years, due largely to the creation of extensions that connect them with each other, said parks and recreation director Tim Laurent.
Source: CJonline
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.
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