Residents in Garden City passed a new sales tax to fund airport terminal and park improvements. The vote was 76% to 24%. The .15% tax … would generate an estimated $1 million annually. The terminal project is expected to cost $30 million; $22 million would be funded by federal and state funds. The remaining $8 million is bonded as the city’s local obligation.
Source: KSN-TV
Sedgwick’s newest part-time police officer, Clint Cartwright, brings a wide variety of experiences to town. He started as an officer in 2005, patrolling the same neighborhood he grew up in south Wichita for four years. He served in Haysville for seven years, working as a detective in sex crimes for much of that time. For the last three years, he’s taught at WSU Tech in the police science program. When Cartwright was contacted about teaching in 2018, he said his wife was all for the switch and he was ready for a change of pace. He has three children and his job caused him to miss a lot of birthdays and holidays with his family.
Source: Harvey County Now
After complaints of bullets flying through a Derby neighborhood, Sedgwick County has approved a crackdown on recreational shooting in unincorporated areas. On a 4-1 vote, the County Commission approved a measure that will still allow shooters to shoot in their back yard target ranges, but sets a penalty of $500 if bullets stray off the shooters’ property. The issue came to the commission after complaints from residents of the Northbrook Addition, a fairly new development that is part of the city of Derby, off Woodlawn south of 55th Street South.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle
The Moundridge Chamber of Commerce kicked in $2,000 of seed money for a mural project for the community. “It’s become a very popular thing in communities around the state, and it’s a good way to add more color to your community and to tell the story of your community,” said Murray McGee, Moundridge city administrator and chamber board member. McGee said the chamber and city had been talking about commissioning murals for several years. The Kansas Sampler Foundation in Inman sponsored a Mural Do-Alogue in Wamego, and similar movements have gained momentum in other cities like Clay Center, Hays and Salina. He said Moundridge was in the early stages of trying to raise funds. An average mural costs between $4,000 and $5,000.
Source: McPherson Weekly News » Feed
… Derby has some natural benefits that make growth easier here than in other communities. It just feels like Derby is the right community in Kansas, in the right location, at the right time in history. But to have successful growth, it takes people with the ability to manage it so the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages. One of the people who has been involved with that management is Kathy Sexton. Sexton, Derby’s current city manager, will be leaving her post next month on Dec. 10. And no matter what you might think of her performance, Kathy Sexton has made things happen for Derby.
Source: Derby Informer | News
Lyon County voters had a penny for their thoughts Tuesday. They decided to keep it. The 1% county sales tax won a 15-year renewal by a 67.6 % majority. Final unofficial returns showed 3,438 for it, while 1,650 were against. “Those things are pretty popular among our voters,” Tyler Curtis, treasurer of Vote Yes Lyon County, concluded Tuesday night. Curtis says since the county sales tax took effect in 2009, it’s produced more than $50 million for Lyon County. He doesn’t expect much will change now.
Source: Emporia Gazette
Nearly four tons of unused drugs and medicines were disposed of in last month’s National Drug Take-Back Day, the Kansas attorney general announced Wednesday. Derek Schmidt said medicine was collected at 69 locations across the state during the Oct. 23 event. The disposal effort saw a total of 7,742 pounds of unused drugs handed over, according to a federal Drug Enforcement Administration report…. Local law enforcement locations and a limited number of other places collect unused medicine year-round.
Source: KSNT News
When a 36-hour boil advisory wreaked havoc in Wichita on Oct. 7 and 8, Alan King, the city’s public works director, wanted to make one thing clear. “This was a failure of the distribution system,” he said. In other words, the boil advisory came about as the result of a water main break in the pipes that carry drinking water to more than half a million people in Wichita and eight surrounding municipalities — not because of the city’s 80-year-old water treatment plant.
Source: Derby Informer | Area
Voters in Great Bend approved three retail sales tax additions Tuesday. A sales tax was also approved in Ellinwood. Collection of the new taxes will commence on April 1, 2022. … The City of Great Bend sought a total 0.45% retail sales tax increase, divided into three propositions. This raises the city sale tax to 1.2%. Added to the state sales tax of 6.5% and the Barton County sales tax of 1.0%, the total after April 1, 2022 will be 8.7%. Proposition 1 (Yes: 1,067 – No: 884) will impose a permanent 0.15% city-wide sales tax “to pay the costs of quality of life purposes, improvements, and initiatives throughout the city, including the payment of financing costs related thereto, and to provide property tax relief.” Proposition 2 (Yes: 1,382 – No: 573) imposes a 0.10% city-wide sales tax for 20 years, “to finance the costs of police station improvements,” including plans for a new building to house the Great Bend Police Department and the Municipal Court. … Proposition 3 (Yes: 1,365 – No: 604) will impose a permanent 0.20% city-wide sales tax “for the purposes of financing the operations of the city’s police and fire departments.” This includes the funding of pension plans for first responders.
Source: Great Bend Tribune
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