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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 2008
Page
1
Local volunteer fire departments face ongoing recruitment challenges as districts report shortages of personnel. Officials cite aging volunteers, demanding training, and competition from paid departments, prompting effort to attract residents, expand outreach, and offer incentives to bolster staffing levels.
Jimmie and Agustin Rodriguez ride bikes with their uncle Jose along Panama City coast. Photo by Itze Rodriguez Garden City. Royals hold off Red Sox in a recent game.
USD 457 board hears preliminary cost for a 2000-student high school and renovations at Garfield Elementary as part of a long-range facility plan. If approved and issued over 25 years, the $97.4 million bond would add about 8.42 mills, raising a $100,000 home by about $96.83 yearly.
Finney County commissioners move forward with the proposed Capital Improvement Program creating an advisory panel chaired by Commissioner Larry Jones. The panel includes Randy Partington John Ellermann Sheriff Kevin Bascue and Treasurer Raylene Dick to review department requests for 2009 through 2015 funding. A quarter cent sales tax is discussed as a long term funding source to support road repairs and building maintenance, with a push for a spring public vote if many projects shift to 2010 2011.
The Kansas wind industry hopes a Texas oil magnate T Boone Pickens publicity tour will boost public enthusiasm among residents investors and policymakers. Kansas, third in wind potential, ranked 12th nationwide in installed capacity last December per The Wind Coalition. Kerry Rosenhagen of Kingman County leads landowners pursuing a wind farm project with outreach to developers.
Finney County Public Works Director John Ellermann announced the county will handle its own bridge inspections after the Kansas Local Bridge Task Force found some inspections were not being done correctly. Ellermann served on the task force created after the I 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis last August.
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