City weighs flat monthly utility fee to spur housing
City officials consider a Neighborhood Development Incentive Program to fund new utility infrastructure. Planning Director Kaleb Kentner and Utilities Director Mike Muirhead proposed charging developers a flat monthly fee for electricity water and sewer on new lots to attract builders in Garden City.
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Garden City
Kaleb Kentner
Public Utilities
Mike Muirhead
City Commission
Kansas lawmakers hear Medicaid reform plan details
Lt Gov Jeff Colyer told the Health Policy Oversight Committee in Topeka that a Kansas Medicaid reform proposal will be flexible and cost conscious while aiming to improve residents' health. The plan restructures three agencies and shifts to a managed care system. He described the change as real people and real lives.
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Topeka
Jeff Colyer
Kansas
Colyer
Annual bison roundup at Sandsage range draws volunteers
About 25 volunteers helped secure a chute and head gate as workers culled a 96 head herd at Sandsage Bison Range and Wildlife Area. Calves and older animals were prepared for auction while three young animals were sent to Topeka for the governor and then to three Native American tribes in northeast Kansas.
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Sandsage Bison Range and Wildlife Area
Topeka
Sam Brownback
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
Norman
Knight
Riggs flexible in approach to teaching students
Dawn Riggs of Buffalo Jones Elementary is a reading interventionist and ESL head, finalist for the Crystal Apple Award. The profile notes her adaptive methods for diverse ages and abilities, her family background in education, and a career spent helping at risk readers reach grade level.
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Riggs
Dawn Riggs
Buffalo Jones Elementary School
Buffalo Jones
Finney County
C.A.R.E. Task Force
Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce
C.A.R.E
Rob Fabin
Kenneth Henderson
Kerri Steelman
Amanda Hawkins
Charles O. Stones
Summer Miller
Garden City High School
Shanna Vox
Abe Hubert
Larry Fowler
Garden
Brett
Evan
Sage
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Shajia Ahmad Sahmad
Gcteiegram
Gctelegram.com
Sandsage Bison Range
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Bison Range
Omy
Bill Knight
Tom Norman
Public Land
Lee Bison
Charlie Swank
Kansas Wildlife and Parks
Cheyenne Bottoms
Rachael Gray Rgray
Laurie Sisk
Annie
Schwieterman Inc
Chicago
Garden City Co-op
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