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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 2007
Page
1
Photo credit: Marty Petersen of Garden City accompanies a feature on the Basketball Plus Education team highlighting its members and community ties.
Committee received proposals from seven district programs on how bigger budgets could raise student achievement and ease overworked staff. Board of Education budget planning will weigh these ideas along with seven adopted goals including communication safety facilities technology and personnel to guide this summer's budget.
In Topeka hundreds of immigrant adults wait for English classes as higher education officials seek 500000 in new funding to reduce the backlog. Community colleges host most ESL courses for about 4000 immigrants studying at night weekends or between jobs.
A city compensation committee presented Garden City with a package of recommendations to attract and retain workers over several years. The plan proposes a $1,200 base pay raise for all employees and additional increases tied to tenure, reflecting a broader approach beyond base wages. The committee includes Mayor Reynaldo Mesa and city officials.
In Garden City at the Finney County Spring Job Fair, 57 area firms connected with job seekers to fill service oriented roles. Mosaic's Annette Brungardt notes the challenge of finding suitable workers while Kansas firms added 30,500 jobs February 2006 to February 2007, led by educational and health services adding 6,400 jobs.
Garden City swears in two new commissioners John Doll and Nancy Harness to replace former mayors Gary Fuller and Janie Perkins. Incumbent J R Behan and Reynaldo Mesa are sworn in as mayor and Crase as vice mayor. Harness and Behan win four year terms, Doll two years.
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