info2018-10-08T08:57:19-05:00October 8th, 2018|
The City of Pittsburg receives more than $600,000 in grants to improve the infrastructure at the Atkinson Municipal Airport. The City will pay for a portion of the projects, with grants coming from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT). (Read more: KOAM - Local News)
info2018-10-08T07:01:38-05:00October 8th, 2018|
Edgerton City Council approved a recommendation to renew an agreement with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department for the law enforcement services for fiscal year 2019. The agreement calls for the city to pay the sheriff’s department $310,459. a five percent increase from the $295,677 the city paid this year. The agreement, outlined during the Sept. 27 council meeting, states that the sheriff’s department will provide services at the same level as those provided for the unincorporated area of the county. A fully manned patrol car will be available for the city and additional cars and personnel shall be available as needed. [...]
info2018-10-08T06:56:42-05:00October 8th, 2018|
In the span of just a few weeks last summer, torrential rains sent Brush Creek pouring over its banks in Prairie Village twice, threatening motorists on Mission Road and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to homes and property in the vicinity of the Village Shops and Village Presbyterian Church. Now, the city of Prairie Village thinks it has a solution to the problem. Keith Bredehoeft, the city’s public works manager, told the city council this week that engineers believed they had devised a plan to mitigate the threat of such catastrophic flooding damage in the future. While he [...]
info2018-10-07T14:06:18-05:00October 7th, 2018|
Synopsis: Asset forfeiture funds credited to a special prosecutor's trust fund pursuant to K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 60-4117(c)(3)(A) may be used to pay for salaries only if the county or district attorney or other governmental agency's attorney determines the expenditure is for an appropriate and additional law enforcement and prosecutorial purpose, and the expenditure is supplemental to, but does not supplant, normal operating expenses. However, if such salary subsequently becomes a "normal operating expenditure," then such salary shall not be paid from the special prosecutor's trust fund. Cited herein: K.S.A. 60-4102; K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 60-4107; 60-4117; K.S.A. 1993 Supp. 65-4173. (Read more: [...]
info2018-10-07T14:05:36-05:00October 7th, 2018|
There are people who skip court on purpose. Sometimes repeatedly. Then there are people who miss court because they forgot, or wrote down the wrong day or time. Lawrence Municipal Court is going to try something new in hopes of reducing no-shows, at least in the latter category: phone call reminders of upcoming court dates. The failure-to-appear rate at Lawrence Municipal Court isn’t good, and it’s been getting progressively worse in recent years, Lawrence Municipal Court Judge Scott Miller said. Read more: LJworld.com.
info2018-10-05T08:21:30-05:00October 5th, 2018|
Lawrence’s city leaders resolved Tuesday to do further research into a unified city-county government, but a day later, Douglas County commissioners restated that they were not interested in the idea of unification. The Lawrence City Commission, whose members had first brought up the topic with county commissioners at a Sept. 19 joint meeting of local governing bodies, discussed the issue again during its meeting Tuesday night and decided further research was needed. Per a suggestion from City Manager Tom Markus, city staff will be asking the University of Kansas School of Public Affairs & Administration to study what it would take [...]
info2018-10-05T08:17:05-05:00October 5th, 2018|
City leaders decided that they will not require Airbnb and other short-term rental operators to carry insurance. When the Lawrence City Commission voted Sept. 19 to require permits and licenses for short-term rentals, some said they were unsure about a $1 million insurance requirement and would like to to discuss it further. At its meeting Tuesday, the commission voted 4-1, with Commissioner Leslie Soden against, to strike that requirement from the regulations. Read more: LJworld.com.
info2018-10-05T08:35:32-05:00October 5th, 2018|
Douglas County Undersheriff Gary Bunting will provide county commissioners on Wednesday with information on the cost of installing portable, modular cell units at the county jail and will discuss the pros and cons of their use in addressing overcrowding. Last month, Bunting shared with commissioners an Aug. 2 snapshot of the county’s inmate population that revealed that it had 244 people incarcerated on that one day, or 58 more people than the jail’s 186-bed capacity. The number was very similar to a Feb. 2 snapshot that counted 246 inmates. The earlier snapshot was released during the campaign for Proposition 1, which [...]
info2018-10-04T22:56:11-05:00October 4th, 2018|
A former zinc-smelting property deemed unsafe and unusable for decades, is being put back into productive use thanks to a coordinated effort between the City of Pittsburg and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). Cleanup efforts began this week at the previous Weir City Zinc Works site, located west of North Broadway Street in Pittsburg. A coal-mining town fewer than 50 miles from the richest zinc mines in the United States, Pittsburg was once an ideal location for zinc smelting industries in the late 1800s. Although little is left of the zinc industry today, high levels of metal contamination [...]
info2018-10-04T22:55:20-05:00October 4th, 2018|
An Olathe man has filed a lawsuit claiming he was unfairly fired by the city for belonging to a motorcycle club. Larry Brown’s lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Johnson County District Court and seeks unspecified damages for his termination in October 2016. The lawsuit names as defendants the city, Mayor Michael Copeland, Police Chief Steven Menke, City Manager J. Michael Wilkes and then-chief information officer Shawn Whitcomb. City officials said they had not yet seen the lawsuit and had no comment. “Mr. Brown alleges that he was terminated from his position with the City of Olathe not because of his failure [...]
