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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 2004
Page
1
Brayden Wilson and cousin Xavier Gifford pose on their grandmother's sofa in Lakin, Montville Connecticut. The scene is photographed by Pam Katz of Garden City and captures a family moment in a rural setting.
A week long Kansas series by Harris Group newspapers including The Garden City Telegram examines government consolidation. It covers population impacts, law enforcement pace, county and city mergers, rural judges’ concerns, job fears, school unification paths, regional cooperation in health and environment, and ongoing talks in Finney County Garden City. The series frames consolidation as a political hot potato with broad opportunities and slow progress.
Karah Williams, age 20, credits East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corp with providing housing for her family. ECKAN serves more than 3,000 low income Kansans in nine counties with a $5.5 million annual budget funded largely by federal, state, and local grants. The agency began with the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and offers housing weatherization and preschool programs as part of a broader network of Community Action Agencies.
Garden City and Finney County discuss pooling services in planning, zoning, building inspections, Geographic Information Systems, economic development, road funding, law enforcement, jail and dispatch, and animal control. City Manager Bob Halloran notes steady cooperation since the 1970s EMS tie in and county library merger as early steps.
President Bush signed the 563 page overhaul creating a federal counterterrorism center and a new national intelligence director to unify U S intelligence. The measure tightens borders and aviation security while expanding budget authority for the director, amid a thorny congressional path and debate over powers.
Sharon Watson of KDHE notes a close, flexible partnership between the health and environment divisions. The joint work helps address health issues with environmental components, while collaborating with cities, counties, and sometimes federal agencies. Local departments remain under county supervision, not KDHE, in the absence of a specific statute.
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