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Tweet The Kansas Legislature managed to pass a budget and tax plan this year, but did them both with no support from northeast Johnson County legislators. Both of the final plans drew “no” votes from Sen. Kay Wolf and State Reps. Barbara Bollier, Melissa Rooker, Stephanie Clayton and Emily Perry. It could be branded the [...]
Tweet Roeland Park is facing some revenue shortfalls in its 2014 budget and it asked residents to help decide how they want to face the problem: by cutting services, raising revenues or both. Between 30 and 40 Roeland Park residents answered the city’s invitation to sit down and think through solutions to confront the financial [...]
Tweet It is budget season everywhere right now with cities facing an August deadline to submit their 2014 budgets. In Fairway, residents can provide input to the budget process in small group meetings organized by wards. On Tuesday, June 18, residents in wards three and four will meet at 6:30 p.m. at city hall. On [...]
Tweet Prairie Village residents who want to have a say in how the city spends its taxpayers’ money have a new tool this year. The city is for the first time using an online “budget simulator” to seek citizen input about where to concentrate resources: The City of Prairie Village wants your feedback on the [...]
Tweet The Johnson County Board of Commissioners on Thursday adopted a $815.1 million budget for the 2013 fiscal year, holding the property tax rate at 23.118 mills. The county’s mill levy — the tax rate assessed to property — has been steady since 2007. Commissioner Michael Ashcraft was the only commissioner to vote against approval of the [...]
Tweet With the increasing temperatures of July and August in the area often come increasing pressure on local governments to finalize their revenue and spending plans for the coming year. As the deadline nears for agreeing to a new budget for the county, the Johnson County Board of Commissioners last week set the ceiling on [...]
Tweet City Councilor Charles Clark feels strongly that it’s the duty of the city to protect and maintain the infrastructure built up in Prairie Village since the city was incorporated in 1951. And he’s warning his colleagues on the City Council that, unless they make changes to the city’s revenue and spending formula, the roads, [...]
Tweet Prairie Village city staff have unveiled a general outline for a proposed 2013 budget, and say they are working to keep existing service levels intact without raising property taxes. City Administrator Quinn Bennion told the City Council earlier this week his proposed budget would hold the city’s mill levy at 19.491 and the stormwater [...]
Tweet Financially speaking, the stormy skies so common over the past few years are starting to clear at Prairie Village City Hall. That was the gist of the presentation City Administrator Quinn Bennion gave to the City Council Monday in preparation for the annual budgeting process. “Overall, we’re in a relatively strong position heading into [...]
Tweet Better-than-expected revenues and across-the-board belt tightening left nearly $1.8 million more than budgeted in Prairie Village’s general fund at the end of 2011, according to a new financial report. Despite the fact that property tax and motor vehicle tax revenues declined in 2011, strong income from liquor and use taxes buoyed the city’s revenue [...]
Tweet (To the tune of Tupac Shakur’s “California Love”): Johnson County, knows how to budget. In the city (citayyyy), of PV. In the county (countayyy), county of Johnson. We’re budget talkin’. We’re budget talkin’… Which is the best way I could think of to spice up this post about Johnson County’s first-ever online citizen participation [...]
Tweet Prairie Village’s Public Works staff had all but closed the books on the fence and trail installation project along Brush Creek from Porter Park to 71st Street. Now, they’re going back to the drawing board. The City Council directed Public Works staff to develop a variety of options for removing the current fence and [...]
Tweet Moody’s Investor Services has reaccredited the city of Prairie Village with a Aaa bond rating, the highest issued by the company. Members of the city’s administration team had expressed concerns that the continuing struggle over the country’s debt could have an impact at the local level, leading Moody’s to downgrade the city’s status. “The [...]
Tweet Fairway will hold its final public hearing on its 2012 budget prior to its city council meeting tonight. The hearing begins at 7 p.m. at Fairway city hall. Fairway held a special forum on its budget process last month during which Finance Committee chair Melanie Hepperly laid out the city’s proposed budget and explained [...]
Tweet The wrangling on Wall Street over the United States’ mounting debt situation may have impacts reaching all the way to Prairie Village city hall. Prairie Village finance director Lisa Santa Maria told the City Council earlier this week that Moody’s was considering downgrading the country’s AAA bond rating – and that such a downgrade [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village city council on Monday passed its budget for 2012 — but not before holding an extensive discussion about the tensions between keeping spending lean and fulfilling the vision of the parks master plan. The new budget includes a .6 mill levy increase to pay for the addition of two new police [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council at its meeting Monday will hold a public hearing on this year’s proposed budget, which includes a .6 mill levy increase to fund the addition of two police officers to the city’s force. If approved, the city’s new tax rate would be 19.477 mills. Nearly three-fourths of the other [...]
Tweet It’s the dead of summer, and that usually means things heat up at city hall as local city councils work to put together a balanced budget to submit to the county. Both the Prairie Village and Fairway councils have been debating their budgets for the past couple months. Now, draft budgets have been published, [...]
Tweet Fairway residents compelled to participate in the city’s 2012 budget process seemed to have one overarching message for Mayor Jerry Wiley and members of the City Council Monday night: You’re on the right track — but don’t lose sight of the big picture. An open forum on the budget at Fairway City Hall brought [...]
Tweet It’s city budget time again, and at least in Fairway, the 2011 process looks to be considerably smoother than 2010. Facing a gaping $500,000 budget shortfall last year, the city’s governing body ultimately voted to raise the city’s mill levy by just under 45 percent, but not before facing throngs of less-than-pleased citizens. But [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village city council on Monday took steps toward the creation of a formal policy governing what and how much council and staff members can spend during conference travel. At Monday’s meeting, the council spent more than 40 minutes discussing what specific provisions should be included in a new policy. Assistant to the [...]
Tweet In the wake of yesterday’s announcement that Standard and Poor’s had downgraded its outlook on US debt, some relatively sunny financial news came out of the Prairie Village city council chambers. The process of making ends meet for the city of Prairie Village’s 2012 budget is likely to be much smoother than it was [...]
Tweet Shawnee Mission School District Superintendent Gene Johnson at Monday’s Board of Education meeting presented the results of the district’s survey on how to make ends meet amid huge financial strains. The district has already had to cut $20 million from its budget the past two years. Johnson said Monday the district expects to have [...]
Tweet Raucous cheers filled the SM North auditorium after the board of education pocketed the proposal to reassign Brookwood to the SM South attendance area. But the happiness of many parents in the audience must have been tempered by the stark assessment of the district’s financial situation echoed time and again Monday night. Committee for [...]
Tweet It might be an easy target in rough economic times — but don’t hang the pool out to dry. That was the message from an article on the front page of Fairway’s most recent quarterly newsletter, which came out last week. During the often contentious public hearings about Fairway’s proposed 2011 budget this summer, [...]
