District weighs tweaks to absence policy
USD 457 trustees discuss dropping unexcused absences from the attendance roll and limiting pre arranged absences to 10 days unless illness or other extenuating circumstances occur. Truancy rules require notes or affidavits after seven unexcused days. The board plans Dec. 15 discussion before any potential second semester change.
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Lentz
Connie Stucky
Bernadine Sitts
Charles O. Stones
Abe Hubert
Kenneth Henderson
Stucky
Harold Perkins
Whitley outlines district budget development plan and PAT
Whitley explained the 2004 2005 district budget process with 18 committees of six to 10 members each. Each program committee will draft budgets at 100 98 and 95 percent of prior funding. The meeting covered walking fitness projects at Jennie Barker Elementary and expanding reading programs, plus a 13 year PAT program and concerns about dropping absent students from rolls for AYP reporting.
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Kathleen Whitley
Board of Education
Whitley
Gail Dunford
Melinda Stewart
Jennie Barker
Stewart
Dani Hooper
Nancy Hodson
Garden City
Lentz
County Commission weighs nuisance abatement reforms and dairy bonds
County officials discussed relaxing nuisance abatement rules to allow the county to clean and bill property owners, dropping the two-signature requirement to trigger inspections. The plan would exempt agricultural land used for farming and may alter city-county inspection contracts. Commissioners approved two industrial revenue bonds for Plymell Dairy, and details show plans to expand cattle operations and employment.
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Halbur
Jim Neblett
Neblett
Pete
Olson
Plymell Dairy
U.S. Highway 83
Plymell Road
Garden City
Dick Strandmark
Strandmark
MTBE Cleanup Costs Hit Kansas Water Systems
Kansas towns Ellis Hays Manhattan Manter Park City and Salina face MTBE cleanup costs. Safer areas report low levels while LaCrosse shows the highest at 389 ppb. Garden City wells tested positive but within safe limits, leading to partial closures and water treatment adjustments.
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Ellis
Hays
Manhattan
Manter
Park City
Salina
LaCrosse
Bill Reetz
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Public
Gary Graham
Graham
Garden City
Seventh
Chestnut Streets
11Th
Santa Fe
David Glenn
Glenn
Wheatland Electric Co-op
Chestnut Street
Reetz
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Holcomb Fire Station
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Hilton
Hilton Wichita Airport
Executive Conference Center
Airport Road
Wichita
Gwen Tietgen
St. Catherine Hospital
Jan David
NTT Roma
the Garden City Telegram
Candy Selegram
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