The Manhattan-Ogden USD 383 school board will hold a public hearing on August 16th to consider an overall mill levy of 56.270 which would amount to an increase of .898 from last year. The hearing will also be used to answer questions regarding the proposed 2017-2018 budget. The motion for the hearing passed 5-2. Reasons for the push back were heard from multiple board members, more specifically from David Colburn and Leah Fliter in regards to extra money in the budget from property tax relief. Colburn was leery of a tax increase without some more thought and information. Fliter supported extending to…
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WICHITA — Police say two people were arrested and 284 illegal gambling machines were seized during raids in the Wichita area. Wichita Police Chief Gordon Ramsay said Tuesday that law enforcement served more than a dozen search warrants at various businesses in Wichita on Thursday. Ramsay said the raids were a joint operation with police, Sedgwick County officials and the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission. He says more than 500 machines have been seized in the city during the last year. The chief says crime generally goes up around businesses that offer the machines. And District Attorney Marc Bennett said…
WICHITA — A federal appeals court ruling will force Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to answer questions under oath about plans to change U.S. election law. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied the Kansas Republican’s request made Monday for an emergency stay of his deposition by the American Civil Liberties Union. Kobach’s office declined to comment on the decision. Judges in Kansas found Kobach misled the court about the contents of a document he took into a November meeting with then-President-elect Donald Trump and a separate draft amendment to the National Voter Registration Act. The lower…
TOPEKA — Kansas’ prisons chief says a staffing shortage constitutes an emergency at a maximum-security lockup that has seen several recent inmate disturbances, requiring mandatory overtime and shifts as long as 16 hours. The Wichita Eagle reports that Corrections Secretary Joe Norwood made that pronouncement in a Tuesday letter to an employee union in rejecting a grievance over long hours at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. Mandatory overtime and extended hours are allowed in emergencies under the department’s agreement with the Kansas Organization of State Employees, the union representing prison workers. The prison moved to 12-hour shifts in June and…
Today’s guests were USD 383 Superintendent Marvin Wade and school board member Pat Hudgins, Karen Hawes with the Ogden Bike Swap and K-State Chief of Staff and Director of Community Relations Jackie Hartman.
A public hearing brought commissioners to vote 4-1 to increase the mill levy .350% at the city commission meeting, Tuesday August 1, 2017. After five work sessions to discuss the proposed budget, the commissioners brought the 2018 budget to a vote. The mill levy had been presented by the city of Manhattan’s assistant director of finance, Hillary Badger, and director of finance, Bernie Hayen. After deliberation between two options, which was to have the mill levy locked in at an increase of .481 or .350, with no more than .5 increase. The 2017 mill levy was set at .480. Commissioner…
TOPEKA — Kansas says it collected $7.6 million more in taxes than anticipated in July during its first month under an income tax increase approved by legislators. The Department of Revenue reported Tuesday that the state collected $453.5 million in taxes. That’s 1.7 percent more than the official projection of almost $446 million. The surplus in July collections came after the state ended its 2017 fiscal year on June 30 with tax collections exceeding expectations by $72 million, or 1.3 percent. Total tax collections for fiscal 2017 surpassed $5.8 billion. Lawmakers enacted the income tax increase over Republican Gov. Sam…
Director of Athletics Gene Taylor announced today that head coach Bruce Weber has agreed to a two-year contract extension through the 2020-21 season to continue his leadership of the Kansas State men’s basketball program. According to a press release from K-State, compensation terms for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons will remain per an extension Weber signed in April 2013. The sixth-year head coach will be paid $2.15 million for the 2017-18 season, $2.25 million in 2018-19, $2.35 million in 2019-20 and $2.45 million in 2020-21. The remaining provisions of Weber’s original contract are unchanged for the next two years, while…
TOPEKA — The Kansas Highway Patrol says two people were killed when the plane in which they were in crashed near an airport in Topeka. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the victims of the crash shortly before 8:30 p.m. Monday were identified as 76-year-old pilot William Leeds of Mission and 55-year-old co-pilot James Bergman of Leawood. Both men died at the scene. The patrol says the 1965 Piper PA-30 fixed wing multi-engine airplane went down near Philip Billard Municipal Airport. Federal investigators were expected to help determine what caused the crash.
It was a busy day in Pottawatomie County District Tuesday, with scheduling in several prominent cases. Devon Davis, 28, of Manhattan, who faces an attempted second degree murder charge from an incident earlier this month was set for an August 18th preliminary hearing. Attorney Brenda Jordan is representing Davis. Also Tuesday, two men charged with aggravated battery after a victim was life-flighted to a Topeka hospital from Country Stampede this year, were in court for arraignment and indicated to the court they needed attorneys. Benjamin Rowe, 22, of Mound City indicated he would get his own counsel, with his next…