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City of Leavenworth may enter into agreement with Department of Corrections for signs

info2019-03-28T06:33:22-05:00March 28th, 2019|

The city of Leavenworth may contract with a Kansas Department of Corrections agency to create new street signs. City commissioners voted Tuesday to authorize City Manager Paul Kramer to enter into a sign fabrication agreement with KDOC. If the agreement is approved, the city would rely on Kansas Correctional Industries to produce signs that identify street names. KCI provides inmate-produced goods and services to state and local government entities and other qualified organizations, according to the agency’s website. Leavenworth Public Works Director Mike McDonald said the city government would not cease its in-house sign-making operations. But he said contracting with KDOC [...]

City of Hutchinson has new human relations officer, planning director

info2019-03-28T06:30:46-05:00March 28th, 2019|

The City of Hutchinson has filled two vacant positions. City Manager John Deardoff announced today Datjaeda Moore has been selected as the city’s new human relations officer. Under the supervision of the city manager, Moore will be responsible for administering the Human Relations Ordinance pertaining to anti-discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations in cooperation with the Human Relations Commission. The city also has a new planning director. Expected to start in May, Ryan Hvitlok comes to the city with more than 10 years of municipal and regional planning experience, most recently as city planner for Fergus Falls, Minn. He holds [...]

Derby Planning Commission approves school’s site plan

info2019-03-28T06:28:59-05:00March 28th, 2019|

he plan for the city’s newest school received a green light to proceed from the Derby Planning Commission. After a review, the governing body approved Stone Creek Elementary School’s site plan at its March 21 meeting. Stacy Christie, architect with Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey Architecture, which designed the school, was pleased with the way the design turned out. Stone Creek has an innovative approach and has two wings – one for kindergarten through second grade and one for third through fifth grade – as well as learning hubs, breakout spaces and resource classrooms, among other features allowing teachers to educate in [...]

Project Wichita takes next step with high-profile advancement team

info2019-03-28T06:25:32-05:00March 28th, 2019|

Project Wichita this week announced a group of recognizable local leaders who will act as its advancement team to help drive progress on the issues identified by the new initiative. That team will include two of Project Wichita’s co-chairs, Aaron Bastian, president of Fidelity Bank, and Juston White, executive director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of South Central Kansas. Joining them will be Jeff Fluhr, president of Greater Wichita Partnership; Susie Santo, president and CEO of Visit Wichita; Ronn McMahon, president and CEO of the Greater Wichita YMCA; and Shelly Prichard, president of the Wichita Community Foundation. The Greater Wichita [...]

Andover modifies pit bull ban for annexed residents

info2019-03-28T06:24:45-05:00March 28th, 2019|

The Andover City Council says people who are annexed into the city can be pit bull owners, but keeping the pets comes with compliance regarding the city's laws. Last month, Eyewitness News told you about some of those rules. Requirements annexed pit bull owners must meet include paying a $50 fee, microchipping the dog and muzzling the pit bulls when they're off of their owners' property. The owner must also have a minimum of $100,000 in liability insurance and must put up a sign indicating that a "dangerous" dog is on their property. Pit bulls have been banned in Andover since [...]

Pretty Prairie voters say yes to city sales tax

info2019-03-28T11:35:32-05:00March 28th, 2019|

Voters in Pretty Prairie passed a proposed one-percent city sales tax for maintenance of streets, related utilities, and the infrastructure under the streets, in a special election Tuesday. The unofficial tally was: Yes 76; No 23. ... Pretty Prairie, with a population of about 654 residents, does not have a local sales tax. The one-percent tax, to start this year, will be in addition to the state’s 6.5 percent sales tax and Reno County’s 1.5 percent sales tax, making the new overall sales tax rate 9 percent. The city sales tax will sunset after ten years. (Read more: News - The [...]

Finalists for Lawrence’s next city manager to be announced this week; community meeting to follow

info2019-03-27T08:36:58-05:00March 27th, 2019|

Final candidates for the position of city manager will be announced this week, and an event to allow residents to weigh in on the finalists will occur soon. The Lawrence City Commission conducted the first round of in-person interviews for city manager with a pool of six candidates in closed session Saturday. Mayor Lisa Larsen said at the commission’s most recent meeting that the commission planned to select two or three finalists from the interview pool who will be publicly announced Wednesday. Larsen said the finalists would be invited back to participate in additional in-person interviews and meetings with the community. [...]

Crawford County Commission looks for ways to reduce unexpected Highway 69 costs

info2019-03-27T06:52:44-05:00March 27th, 2019|

After hearing last week from the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) that Crawford County could have to quickly come up with roughly $1 million to facilitate construction on the Highway 69 project in the Franklin area, the Crawford County Commission discussed the issue further at its March 26 meeting. Commissioner Jeremy Johnson said he had talked to Rep. Monica Murnan (D-Pittsburg), the Kansas Dept. of Commerce, and the office of Lt. Governor Lynn Rogers about getting outside funding to cover the cost, but so far had heard of “no definite action” to assist the county in paying the expense. There might [...]

Will developers make big bucks replacing Century II? School board member wants answers

info2019-03-27T06:50:21-05:00March 27th, 2019|

A Wichita school board member on Tuesday took on the head of a committee that wants to replace Century II, asking if developers are the ones who stand to gain the most if the city goes forward with building a new performing arts center. “There’s a lot of emotion in the city right now of distrust,” said school board member Ernestine Krehbiel. “Who is this for? Is there some developer that’s going to make a big buck on this?” She said the prospect of replacing the iconic blue-roofed building “almost feels like a double-cross” because the city hasn’t kept up its [...]

Sabetha officials ask for portion of Brown County sales tax

info2019-03-27T06:43:52-05:00March 27th, 2019|

Officials from Sabetha Community Hospital and the City of Sabetha were on hand at the Brown County Commission meeting Monday morning, March 25, to ask that the commissioners amend a resolution calling the question for a 10-year, 1/2 percent sales tax question to support healthcare services in Brown County. Lora Key, Sabetha Community Hospital’s CEO, presented a formal request to commissioners, asking that they amend the resolution to include Sabetha’s hospital. “As the CEO of a critical access provider in a small community, I want to see Hiawatha and Horton [hospitals] be successful,” Key said. “It is my desire and the [...]