Scott City USD 466 LOB Question Narrowly Passes by One Vote
The USD 466 local option budget measure narrowly passed by one vote after a protracted process starting with a May mail ballot. A recount by the county canvassing board kept the yes lead by a single ballot, prompting potential legal challenges but likely none. The district plans a public budget hearing on August 16 to discuss increases and a $14.75 million renovation project at Scott Community High School including classrooms gym lunchroom auditorium and arts center.
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Scott City
Pam Faurot
Faurot
Gary Eggleston
Eggleston
Katt
Scott Community High School
Finney County votes on highway tax and city-county consolidation
Finney County plans a 50 cent tax to voters for a highway project with construction bids possible in 2007 and funding secured by late 2005 to avoid delays. County leaders discussed law enforcement consolidation logistics, staffing, and cooperation while railroading transient tax hikes and shared drainage and road projects around Garden City and Liberal.
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County Commission
Jerry Davis
Hutchinson
Finney County
Garden City
Garden City Community College
James Tangeman
Seward County Community College
SCCC
James Grote
Tangeman
Olson
Cliff Mayo
Riley County
Irv Stephens
Jeff Whitham
Lee Richardson Zoo
Davis
Alan Fankhauser
Finney County Convention and Tourism Bureau
Dodge City
Fairgrounds
Ninth Street
Lake Avenue
Jennie Barker
Schulman Avenue
U.S. 50
KDOT
Taylor Avenue
Mary Street
U.S. 83
Bob Halloran
Pipeline workers settle in on the road with families
Gas industry mobile families, led by Elizabeth Cox and Jerry, settle near Scott City and trailer parks like Prairie Wind and East Garden Village. Campers from Florida to Arkansas bring wind chimes and signs as workers tour sites with spouses and children, sharing stories of mobility, schooling choices, and long pipelines.
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Elizabeth Cox
Mount Pleasant
Texas
Cox
Evanston
Wyo
Jerry
Scott City
King
Prairie Wind
East Garden Village
E. US
Florida
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Kansas
Pennsylvania
Arkansas
East Garden
Abby Burchfield
Bald Knob
City panel mulls FCEDC role before joint meeting
Garden City officials push to define the economic development corporation. Since 1999 Reynaldo Mesa has not met with other electeds to discuss development aims. They seek clarity on funding use, goal setting, and joining the FCEDC planning process to curb duplication and measure results.
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FCEDC
Garden City
Reynaldo Mesa
Olson
Cliff Mayo
Meyer
Whitham
Economic Development Corporation
Education plays on language and identity in campus plays
Actors describe bilingual education as essential for comprehension and literacy while recounting the challenge of speaking one's language in a foreign land. The two short plays, developed by K State students led by Dawn Terry, aim to raise cultural diversity issues and push professors to better address classroom diversity.
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Luiz
Kstate
Krashen
Dawn Terry
University of
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