info2025-01-27T09:31:37-06:00January 27th, 2025|
The Kansas Senate Tax Committee cleared the first hurdle for major property tax reform in the state by approving a proposed constitutional amendment limiting yearly increases in property valuations to 3%. If approved in both the Senate and House by 2/3 majorities, Kansas voters would go to the polls in November to decide the fate of SCR 1603. Source: The Sentinel
info2025-01-26T15:39:37-06:00January 26th, 2025|
Soldier Township’s fire station is about 50 years old, but the laws governing how it could issue bonds for a new station are even older, and are preventing the community from even considering putting a question to its voters to fund a new station. ...current laws on townships cap how much they can bond for. Source: CJonline
info2025-01-24T11:01:56-06:00January 24th, 2025|
...solar energy projects use piers coated with zinc to support their solar panels. The new rule states that wells will have to be dug upstream and downstream of future solar projects and samples will have to be taken to see if zinc has gotten into the groundwater from those piers. Source: LJWorld
info2025-01-24T10:59:00-06:00January 24th, 2025|
Under the ordinance, solar farms could only be located on properties that are zoned industrial. And a six-foot fence would be required around the entire development, among other requirements. Source: Ark Valley News
info2025-01-24T10:36:38-06:00January 24th, 2025|
A Swiss-based manufacturer of railroad track technology will move its U.S. operations to Winfield, it was announced Tuesday. ... The company expects to initially hire 15 employees for its Winfield location..., with an additional 10 employees added per year over the next five years. Source: Cowley CourierTraveler
info2025-01-24T10:35:00-06:00January 24th, 2025|
With only one law office left in the county, and that being a half-day satellite office of a McPherson County office, Marion County’s 11,690 residents are seriously underserved.... Newly installed county attorney Michelle Brown has ideas to recruit lawyers to the county. Source: Marion County RECORD
info2025-01-24T10:34:09-06:00January 24th, 2025|
Kansas, especially in rural areas, faces a shortage of nurses that is expected to become worse, a recent Kansas Nursing Workforce Center report shows. ... [Marion hospital] chief executive Alex Haines ... explained that the hospital’s efforts to recruit and retain nurses is to involve them in decision making, ensure their pay is fair market value, and waive staff members’ patient responsibility for care they get at the hospital. Source: Marion County RECORD
info2025-01-24T10:31:18-06:00January 24th, 2025|
An effort to get Marion’s downtown designated as a historic district — opening the door to tax credits to pay for building improvements — will continue after a five-year hiatus touched off by 2020’s COVID-19 pandemic. Source: Marion County RECORD
info2025-01-24T10:29:31-06:00January 24th, 2025|
Marysville’s iconic Koester Block rust-brick buildings, which date to the town’s early days of the 19th century, stand to see new life once housing is added to their upper stories. Source: The Marysville Advocate
info2025-01-24T10:18:35-06:00January 24th, 2025|
The City recently received an offer for an estimated $3 million from the State of Kansas to help extend the Sand Creek trail by 1.2 miles and connect its two pieces. The City has had plans and estimates for the project, but until now, no funding existed, and solving the exact details was not something to spend staff time on. Source: Harvey County Now
