Municipal News & Jobs

The interest rate table above illustrates recent changes in a sample of AA rated bond trades reported to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s EMMA® system. Every issuer’s credit is different, and other financing sources may be available. To obtain comprehensive Financial Advisory services for your local government, contact your Ranson Financial Municipal Advisor, Larry Kleeman, or Henry Schmidt.

As the 150th anniversary of Pittsburg’s founding approaches, community leaders and private citizens are planning birthday celebrations throughout 2026. The executive committee, which is made up of the heads of the subcommittees, met on Wednesday to compare notes. While still in the planning stages, Pittsburg 150 is exploring several options across several categories to celebrate the auspicious occasion.
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The Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board plans to urge Lawrence city commissioners to adopt an environmentally friendly ordinance that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions while saving renters money. The policy would require owners and landlords of certain covered properties to submit energy consumption data to the city annually, a process known as energy benchmarking. Then, the data would be available in the public record to increase transparency for tenants about a building’s energy efficiency.
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The City of Winfield is proposing a ban on mini-bikes in the city limits, with an ordinance doing just that on the City Commission agenda Tuesday. City Manager Taggart Wall explained that mini-bikes are best described as miniature motorcycles, low to the ground and often difficult for other motorists to see.
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Several weeks ago, Girard Police Chief Jesse Snider approached the Girard City Council, notifying council members of a potential project in which the police department donates bicycles in their custody, so new homes can be found for them. “Under our code 10-203, and many cities have this, if we have property that the police department takes custody of, however they take custody, at some point we can dispose of it after 90 days,” said city attorney Steve Angermayer at the meeting on Aug. 11. “… Code says if they are less than 100 bucks, they can be disposed of in a manner which benefits the public as approved by a majority of the council.” Snider provided further details on the bike initiative. “We have 33 bicycles, some from 2001,” said Snider. “… We got ahold of Brian Jackson through the Girard Chamber. He works to restore; they fix up bicycles and hand them out to kids. He’s accepted to come over and pick them up and go fix them and hand them out.”
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The interest rate table above illustrates recent changes in a sample of AA rated bond trades reported to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s EMMA® system. Every issuer’s credit is different, and other financing sources may be available. To obtain comprehensive Financial Advisory services for your local government, contact your Ranson Financial Municipal Advisor, Larry Kleeman, or Henry Schmidt.

Both City Commissioner Alaina Cunnigham and Mayor Sandy Jacobs used a portion of their Commissioner Comment time on August 14th to ask the public to watch out for kids on scooters as school begins. And on August 18, 2025, an Ellis resident asked the Ellis City Council to address the same problem, kids on scooters darting out between cars, before someone gets hurt.
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The Kansas attorney general’s office issued a $250 fine to the Haysville City Council for violating the Kansas Open Records Act, officials said Wednesday. City employees declined without explanation to release copies of photographs requested under the state government transparency law. The photographs should have been released under KORA. The photographs were subsequently presented in court during a jury trial and led to the examination of whether the city committed a KORA violation.
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Many streets north of Waterman downtown soon will have paid parking meters installed. The city will begin to place meters after Labor Day on many of the north-south streets downtown, as well as the remainder of Douglas Avenue and other east-west streets. “Installation is expected to take several weeks,” a city news release said. This phase of parking will include some 15-minute parking spots that are free for visitors. Some of those spots will be on South Topeka near the Kansas Leadership Center and the Hilton Garden Inn Wichita Downtown.
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In part of east Wichita, a gun crime was 9.4 times more likely to happen at or within 300 feet of a gas station. It was 5.2 times more likely within 300 feet of a bar and 3.6 times more likely within 300 feet of a phone store. That’s what Wichita police learned from one of the department’s latest strategies to curb gun violence, the risk terrain modeling program. Risk terrain modeling software, from a company called Simsi, looks at the underlying factors of an area that might lead people to go there to commit crime. Wichita police are focusing on gun crime now.
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The dream of turning the old tennis courts at Wilson Park in Arkansas City into pickleball courts scored a big victory last week with the city announcing it had been awarded a $115,840 grant from the National Park Service.
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The interest rate table above illustrates recent changes in a sample of AA rated bond trades reported to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s EMMA® system. Every issuer’s credit is different, and other financing sources may be available. To obtain comprehensive Financial Advisory services for your local government, contact your Ranson Financial Municipal Advisor, Larry Kleeman, or Henry Schmidt.

There’s a certain comfort that communities take in being able to pick up the phone, dial 911 and get help on possibly the worst day of their lives. Elijah Robinson of Newton is one of those people at the other end of the call who rush to help, and he’s doing that as an EMT with Hesston Fire/EMS.
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Girard Events, gearing up for its annual Fall Festival celebration, visited the Girard City Council Monday evening to discuss common consumption at its annual event. Scheduled to take place Friday, Oct. 17 through Saturday, Oct. 18, the annual Girard Homecoming and Fall Festival is a longstanding tradition, offering a parade, live music, kids’ games, and much more. During Monday’s meeting, Girard Events/Chamber Board member Kylie Smith and Girard Chamber Director Greg Scott visited city hall to seek approval from councilmembers. The council and Smith first talked about the city’s common consumption ordinance. Read more: – Latest Stories

At Tuesday morning’s county commission meeting, the commissioners discussed establishing a Reinvestment Housing Incentive District (RHID) somewhere in the county. According to the Kansas Department of Commerce, RHID is a program designed to aid developers in building housing within communities by assisting in the financing of public infrastructure improvements. RHID captures the incremental increase in real property taxes created by a housing development project for up to 25 years. The revenue can be used for reimbursement for incurred costs or to pay debt service on bonds.
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Friday’s booming rally turned into Monday’s reality check as investors weighed just how aggressive the Federal Reserve will be on lowering interest rates and how the moves might impact the broader business and economic climate. Chair Jerome Powell, in his annual address at the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, symposium, gave Wall Street hope of easier days ahead when he said conditions “may warrant adjusting our policy stance,” which is generally seen as “Fedspeak” for cutting rates.
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As a regional librarian for the Johnson County Library, it’s Chris Koppenhaver’s job to be around books inside. As a dad of two boys, it’s been Koppenhaver’s joy to be around books outside. Koppenhaver and his sons have been among the countless patrons of the library system’s Walk and Read — a program that takes storytelling outside a library building. Walk and Read posts pages from children’s books on a series of real estate signs placed along walkways. This fall, Walk and Reads will be offered in seven parks and the Johnson County Arts and Heritage Center.
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Iola City Council members discussed Monday a proposal to handle requests if someone wishes to have a person’s remains moved from either of the city’s two cemeteries. Iola will likely soon have an ordinance in place to follow in case the city receives a request to have a person’s remains removed from either Highland or Iola Cemetery. The discussion is both proactive and reactive, Parks and Cemetery Superintendent Robby Droessler said at Monday’s City Council meeting. He relayed a discussion he had with an individual in June who had inquired about having a relative’s urn removed from a cemetery plot in Iola.
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The COVID-19 pandemic boosted the microschool movement across the country, as families sought alternatives during shutdowns and remote schooling. The trend has continued post-pandemic, as part of a broader desire for educational choice. Last summer, the district reached out to several families who had planned to pull their kids out of Wichita schools. Some were headed to private or religious schools, others to homeschool. They changed their minds and instead enrolled at Creative Minds Academy.
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A grant that was initially meant to establish one more free Narcan vending machine will now support eight machines around Lawrence, and the first three were installed this week. Lawrence’s Homeless Solutions Division received $200,000 in grant funding from Kansas Fights Addiction to set up one Narcan vending machine. A partnership with Schmidt Vending allowed the city to repurpose used machines rather than purchasing brand new, meaning the money will stretch to cover eight machines. Narcan or naloxone, the FDA-approved, over-the-counter nasal treatment, blocks the effects of opiates on the brain and restores breathing. It’s effective against all opiates and opioids — heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone, and similar prescription and street drugs — although some overdoses may take multiple doses to reverse.
Read more: The Lawrence Times