Interlocal agreement on tap at city meeting
Garden City Commission meets at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the City Administrative Center to discuss an interlocal agreement with Finney County for development services. The agenda includes lowering the residential electric monthly charge, reducing cash-reserve revenue, property tax valuation claim updates, a right of way contract for Kansas Avenue, capital improvement transfers, a budget hearing set for Dec 29, and a traffic stop-sign request at Sixth and Pine. A 11 a.m. pre-meeting covers housing updates including Rural Housing Incentive Districts.
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Sixth
Pine Streets
Garden City Schools Schedule Ten Free Music Concerts
Garden City Public Schools will host ten free music concerts over the coming week. Events include the Garden City High School Symphonic Orchestra with Steps Dance School at 3 p.m. today in Clifford Hope Auditorium and the GCHS Jazz Band at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the school commons, plus multiple performances at elementary and middle schools on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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N. Main
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Wilcox St
Horace J. Good
GCHS
Buffalo Way Blvd
Kenneth Henderson Middle School
Fleming St
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center
Belmont PI
Buffalo
Charles O. Stones Intermediate Center
Jennie Barker Rd
Victor Ornelas Elementary School
E. Spruce St
Fort Riley commander hails women in combat as big news
Maj. Gen. Wayne Grigsby Jr. of the 1st Infantry Division called Defense Secretary Ash Carter's plan to end gender-based restrictions on military service “great news.” He spoke at Fort Riley about the division’s five year Campaign Plan 2020 while noting the Army faces reduced force size and ongoing deployments.
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U.S
Quivira water rights clash tests junior use rules
Irrigators and officials met at St. John to debate how junior water rights on Rattlesnake Creek impair Quivira National Wildlife Refuge's senior right. The discussion framed as a policy matter with state officials proposing a compromise to reduce junior use and possibly augment supply, aiming for a Quivira remedy by 2017 and further comment extensions.
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Quivira National Wildlife Refuge
Kansas
Jackie McClaskey
McClaskey
Division of Water Resources
DWR
David Barfield
Rattlesnake Creek
Barton
Rush
Ness
Cheyenne
Barfield
AG backs court review of EPA runoff rules in Chesapeake Bay case
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt led 22 state AGs urging the U S Supreme Court to hear American Farm Bureau Federation v United States EPA The brief argues the EPA exceeded authority under the Clean Water Act by imposing detailed nutrient and sediment runoff limits and a total maximum daily load for the Chesapeake Bay region The states say the move would micromanage state land use and harm local economies with a ruling pending the high court's decision
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