Budget talks in Kansas inch toward progress
Kansas lawmakers, after days of stalemate, resume budget talks aimed at a 14 billion plan to close a near 500 million shortfall. Education funding and spending cuts split House and Senate views as negotiators push toward a Friday target, with protests over school aid levels and potential layoffs looming for 289 districts.
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Topeka
Kansas
House
Senate
Mike O’neal
Hutchinson
John Wratil
Leawood
O’neal
Paul Davis
Lawrence
Sam Brownback
GOP
Chamber
House Appropriations Committee
Gene Suellentrop
Ways and Means Committee
Carolyn McGinn
Sedgwick
McGinn
Marc Rhoades
Newton
Pastor Carl Elder Led Western Kansas Ministry Legacy
The Rev. Carl Elder, age 70, founded Apostolic Faith Tabernacle in Hutchinson and built missions across western Kansas including Pratt Garden City Great Bend Colby Concordia and Ulysses while serving on the United Pentecostal Church district board and the World Wide Pentecostal Fellowship council. He drowned at Marion Reservoir after a boat accident during rough water with two others rescued and a large multi-agency search following. Elder, an outdoorsman and dedicated pastor, aided broken lives through extensive international missions in Vietnam Cambodia Thailand and the Philippines and planned further trips before his death.
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Carl Elder
Apostolic Faith Tabernacle
Paul
Elder
Marion Reservoir
Marion County Sheriffs Department
Paul Elder
Terre Haute
Ind
Kansas
Fort Riley
World Wide Pentecostal Fellowship
United Pentecostal Church
Hutchinson
Sandra
Pratt
Garden City
Great Bend
Colby
Concordia
Ulysses
Pueblo
Colo
Cambodia
Thailand
Philippines
Senator seeks review of KPERS benefits for legislators
State Senator Marci Francisco pushes a study of how retirement benefits are calculated for lawmakers. She notes she cannot join KPERS due to unclassified KU staff status and explains the 372 day year boosts legislative retirement figures to about 85 thousand dollars a year. Francisco plans to meet with LAS Director Jeff Russell as the wrap-up session continues and KPERS funding bills move forward.
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Marci Francisco
Lawrence
Kansas
Francisco
Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
University of Kansas
Regents’ University
KPERS
Kansas Board of Regents
Legislative Administrative Services
Jeff Russell
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