City Commission Set for Night Meeting on Budget and Bids
The Garden City city commission will meet at 1 pm Tuesday at the Administrative Center to review four bid packages for equipment and projects including two zoo utility vehicles, a water main relocation on Mary Street, Ninth Street reconstruction, and a golf course topdresser. Also on the agenda are the Lobmeyer Development sanitary sewer extension agreement and Howard Holmes loan repayment for MGM Enterprises Papa John's project. Sales tax revenue for January through April trails 2000 by about 40,000, while 2000 total city sales tax receipts exceed 4.3 million. The meeting follows the shutdown of ConAgra Beef Co due to a December fire.
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Rise of single father homes shows changing custody norms
The 2000 Census found 2.2 million U.S. households headed by single fathers, up 62 percent in a decade. Experts cite custody decisions, work choices, and societal shifts as drivers, while noting single fathers remain a small share of all families.
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Kansas Census Shows Shift Toward Nontraditional Families
Federal census data for Kansas show married couples still dominate 567,924 of 1,037,891 households in 1997, but nontraditional families rise. Children in single parent homes up 20.7 percent to 62,757. unmarried partners up 84.7 percent to 42,299. overall households rise to 2,606,468 while average sizes fall.
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Finney County shows rapid growth and youthful median age
Census data from 1980 to 1990 reveals Finney County's 38.8 percent population rise and a median age in the mid-twenties. Officials note early signs of service impact are minimal while highlighting a strong work ethic and a young working class tied to local packing plants.
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