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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 2015
Page
5
USD 457 has withdrawn its request for emergency state aid after a August submission to the State Finance Council. Superintendent Steve Karlin cited the council’s 2 percent growth threshold and cost concerns of adding students, while a separate nearly 282000 repayment issue was tabled and later withdrawn for now.
Jeffrey Rigdon and Michael George Jr face felony murder and related counts after a July plea agreement with prosecutors to dismiss most charges was withdrawn. The case stems from the April 19 shooting that killed Karl ton Waechter at East Garden Village Mobile Home Park. George’s jury trial is slated for January in Frederick’s courtroom.
Kansas attorneys in the Gannon v Kansas case press the court to demand a constitutional funding remedy. Justices questioned why the state chose a low funding target and whether a financial plan should guide lawmakers. Advocates argue the 2015 switch to a block grant worsened inequities and urge a clear, stayable remedy to ensure adequate education funding while the 2016 Legislature convenes.
A Garden City United Way representative described this year as a struggle with goal uncertainty. Funds raised will be distributed in 2016 to 23 agencies including Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties, Catholic Social Service, Communications in Schools, Family Crisis Services, Garden City YMCA, Red Cross, Meals on Wheels, Boy Scouts of America, Salvation Army, CASA, United Cerebral Palsy, and Seeds of Hope jail ministry.
District leaders and superintendents from Holcomb USD 363 Hugoton USD 210 and USD 466 Scott County travel to Topeka for State Finance Council hearings on the extraordinary needs fund created after the school finance overhaul. They seek grants for declines in assessed valuation enrollment increases and other unforeseen budget impacts with sums ranging from about 492000 to 563606 and hopes of taxpayer relief. The council has already distributed over 6 million in August and leftover funds may roll into the state treasury if not allocated.
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