Garden City educators balk at final salary offer
The Garden City Educator's Association faces an impasse as USC 457 administration sticks with a 3.5 percent raise plus a 404 base salary increase and 50 health insurance bump. Teachers like Dawn Lunzmann and Linda Sander critique the offer as insufficient to match state levels and inflation. The Board of Education held a closed session but did not move from the initial position, prompting concern from district staff.
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Board of Education
Linda Sander
Garden City High School
Sander
Dawni Lunzmann
Kenneth Henderson
Garden City Area
Garden City to hold 5 PM city commission meeting
Garden City will hold a 5 p.m. city commission meeting at the Garden City Administrative Center with a 5:30 p.m. public hearing on special assessments and a 7 p.m. public comment period on the municipal pool. The session covers street paving, sidewalk work, sewer mains and pool future plans.
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Garden City City Commission
Bob Halloran
Kansas Avenue
Wal-Mart
Long Boulevard
Labrador Ridge
Benefit District
Garden City man sent back to prison
Michael Perez, 33, is headed back to prison for nearly eight years after pleading guilty to aggravated indecent liberties with a minor. The原ized charge was reduced from two counts of rape and two counts of contributing to the misconduct of a child in a plea deal described as acceptable by District Judge Tom Richardson. He had been released less than a year earlier and confessed sexual intercourse with a girl he said was 15.
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Michael Perez
Garden City
Perez
Tom Richardson
Richardson
Secretary moves to counter delay in senior drug aid program
Secretary Connie Hubbell seeks to dispel the perception of a delay in Kansas senior prescription drug relief. The plan targets Kansans 67 plus earning at most 150 percent of poverty, with benefits up to 1200 dollars per person, serving about 900. Payments are slated to begin in December despite earlier budget uncertainties.
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Topeka
Connie Hubbell
Department On Aging
Lawrence Journal-World
Lawmakers raise speeding fines in state roads plan
Kansas lawmakers vote near end of session to triple fines for speeding and other infractions effective July 1, aiming to raise about 16 million dollars. Rep. Eber Phelps opposes the measure saying motorists will feel the sticker shock when cited and construction zones already impose higher fines. The bill faced a close House vote as revenue for next year’s budget is debated.
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Topeka
Eber Phelps
D-Hays
Phelps
Associated Press
Kansas Highway Patrol
Colorado
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
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Garden City Educator’s Association
Dawn Lunzmann
Widdle School
USC 457
Dle School
Lunzmann
City Commission
Diane Lewis
Garden City Administrative Center
Eighth St
Graham K. Johnson
Telegram
Kimberly Bogner
Jeffery Bogner
Jaclyn O’malley
Borsick
Hubbell
Ann Landers
Donohue
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