City Budget Plans 3-Mill Increase With Service Redesign
Budget proposals show a 3 mill rise to support City Link with four full time routes and extended hours from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. starting Monday. Total 2007 2009 costs reach 507,051 dollars. 2009 mill value about 141,945.30 dollars. The commission approves a new pay plan costing 424,076.83 dollars in 2009, starts Nov. 1 2008, to retain staff.
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Hay Group
Kansas City
Crase
CityLink
Electric
General Fund
Planning and
Police Department
Electric Utility
Public Works
Sam Curran
Curran
Finney County Economic Development Corp
Rising cafeteria prices stretch Kansas districts
Growing food costs push several Kansas districts to keep breakfast at $1.25 and lunch mostly steady while facing fuel bills. Some boards avoid menu hikes, relying on reserves and reimbursements, yet others consider cuts, efficiency measures, and biodiesel options as districts like USD 210 and USD 466 report fuel up and meal cost tweaks.
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Johnson
AAA
Food Service
Holcomb
Robert O'Connor
Syracuse
Ulysses
Bill Hall
Joan Friend
Hugoton
Mark Crawford
Crawford
Don Wells
Scott City
Weather program aims for more rain and smaller hail
In western Kansas pilots test a cloud seeding program to reduce hail size. Scanner maps show storms moving across Finney, Kearny, Hamilton, Grant and Haskell counties while three cloud-base planes drop seeding agents below the clouds. Spencer flies a high altitude Piper Cheyenne II into the clouds delivering dry ice to nucleate ice crystals.
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Lakin
Kyle Spencer
Scott County
Spencer
Geiger
Kearny County
Kansas
Finney
Kearny
Hamilton
Grant
Haskell
Tyson
Holcomb
National Weather Service
Finney County
Ulysses
Dighton
Lane County
Stanton
Stevens
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Prive Merrell
Reef Cloaks
Boin
Taos
Val
New York
Radio City Music Hall
Sheraton Manhattan
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Times Square
Empire State Building
Rockefeller Center
Statue of Liberty
Deee
Southwest Kansans
Garden City Community College
Garden City Telegram
GCCC
Ryan Peterson
Ryan.peterson
Geccks
Garden City
Community College
Oni Telegram
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