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Tweet A losing candidate in April’s Roeland Park mayoral election has asked the council to censure one of its own members, Megan England, over a campaign flyer circulated last month. Linda Mau lost the mayor’s race in April to Joel Marquardt by a wide margin. Her focus Monday night, though, was on England, whom she [...]
Tweet Prairie Village residents can expect for major renovations at the Village Shops to rev up very soon. After lengthy debate Monday, the City Council approved the final plat for the redevelopment of Mission Lane and the replacement building for Waid’s, clearing the way for major construction to begin. The sticking point with the plat [...]
Tweet Westwood has a new city council member. Lisa Cummins will replace Jace McClasky for the one year remaining on his term. Cummins was nominated by Mayor John Ye and approved by the council. She was born and raised in Johnson County, is the mother of two grown children and two grandchildren. She has worked [...]
Tweet There isn’t any love lost these days between Ward V’s David Morrison and his peers on the Prairie Village City Council. That much was evident on Monday when several of the council members publicly chided Morrison as he made a move to leave the council chambers … in the middle of a role call [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village city council on Monday unanimously voted to appoint Ward I councilor Dale Warman as its next president. As council president, Warman will serve as the governing body’s parliamentarian, directing council discussions and managing motions and votes. He replaces Charles Clark, who reluctantly accepted the role in December after the council voted [...]
Tweet With a unanimous vote Monday, the Prairie Village City Council ended speculation about whether residents could expect construction of a huge natatorium and community center on the municipal grounds anytime soon. A consultant’s report had identified a $45 million structure with a competitive swimming facility as the option that would best differentiate a Prairie [...]
Tweet This year’s snow season may be behind us (knock on wood), but if and when the white stuff returns next year, Prairie Village may be prepared to take tougher action against residents who don’t shovel their sidewalks. The Prairie Village City Council on Monday gave permission to city staff to explore creating a fee [...]
Tweet Three years of planning work and $36,000 of city taxpayer money spent in consulting fees ended with a thud Monday as the Prairie Village City Council voted unanimously not to actively pursue a proposal for a new community center and natatorium on the municipal grounds. A feasibility study by ThreeSixty Architecture delivered to the [...]
Tweet David Morrison has yet to appear in court to fight motions seeking his ouster from the Prairie Village City Council, but his other legal struggle with the city appears to be at an end. The Kansas Supreme Court last week refused to take up Morrison’s appeal of a lower court’s decision in a case [...]
Tweet The Mission City Council will act on the final proposals for the Gateway Community Improvement Districts this month after their approval by committee Wednesday. The committees also started the process for the replacement of the Mission pool, which gets a boost from a sales tax increase approved by voters last fall. The finance and [...]
Tweet Mission Mayor Laura McConwell and Prairie Village City Councilor are among the recipients of Kansas City Business Magazine’s 2013 Kansas City Influential Women Awards. McConwell earned the recognition based on her leadership accomplishments, career achievements and a dedication to bettering the Kansas City community. McConwell was nominated by Mission Councilor Debbie Kring. “I am [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village JazzFest planning committee is sure to be singing a happier tune after receiving permission from the City Council last week to engage a professional to raise funds for the event, which is heading into its fourth year. JazzFest organizer Jack Shearer initially approached the City Council in early January about securing [...]
Tweet Bruce McNabb’s exit as head of the Prairie Village Public Works Department last week has prompted a change to the city’s residency requirements for staff — a change City Administrator Quinn Bennion hopes will attract a talented pool of applicants for the open position. Prior to last night, city statute required that the city’s [...]
Tweet Prairie Villagers: You now have the right to protest. With a unanimous vote Tuesday, the Prairie Village City Council approved a new ordinance that gives people who live near the site of proposed developments requiring Special Use Permits the right to formally file protest petitions. Under the new law, if property owners representing 20 [...]
Tweet Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe on Thursday announced that his office will seek to have Prairie Village City Council David Morrison ousted from office. The move comes after Morrison’s council peers voted unanimously in November to seek his removal from office following a bizarre incident in which he granted a homeless friend with [...]
Tweet Prairie Village city councilor Ruth Hopkins has been honored by the Mid-America Regional Council for her work on waste management issues. At Friday’s MARC Solid Waste Management District annual meeting, Hopkins received the Elected Official Award in recognition of her dedication to waste reduction and recycling. Hopkins, a city councilor in Prairie Village since [...]
Tweet Between the renewed debate over federal gun control and Prairie Village’s decision to defend its ban of openly carried firearms, PV city hall has been fielding a bevy of questions about what, exactly, is legal and illegal when it comes to firearms in the city. On Monday, Prairie Village police tried to answer them. [...]
Tweet Prairie Village city councilor Michael Kelly sent us the following commentary on the threatened lawsuit that would challenge Prairie Village’s ban on openly carrying firearms. Earl McIntosh of the Kansas Libertarian Party told PVPost.com this morning that the group planned on filing the suit “by the end of the day.” Lawyers, guns and money [...]
Tweet Redistricting the Mission City Council wards will go back to committee after the majority of council members voted to table the recommended new ward map rather than set it for public hearings. The new map, designed to balance the population more evenly in each ward based on the last census, came under fire for [...]
Tweet Prairie Village City Councilor Ruth Hopkins’ role with the National League of Cities again this week earned her the opportunity to participate in discussions with White House officials about the intersection of local and federal governments. And this time, Vice President Joe Biden was the one doing the talking for the White House. Hopkins [...]
Tweet The already strange saga of David Morrison’s possible removal from the Prairie Village city council took yet another odd turn Monday night when Morrison — who is for the time being still an active councilmember — voted to have Charles Clark replace him as council president. Morrison was serving as council president when news broke [...]
Tweet Johnson County District Attorney Stephen Howe on Monday confirmed his office has received the formal request letter for the ouster of Prairie Village City Councilor David Morrison, and said he was in the process of determining next steps. “It’s our job to review the grounds for ouster and see if the facts of the [...]
Tweet A day after watching all 11 of his fellow city councilors vote to have him ousted from Prairie Village’s governing body, David Morrison isn’t quite sure what to make of the situation — or of what he’ll do next. “I think I need to take a day or two to step back and assess the [...]
Tweet The lawyer representing owners of the Mission Valley site aired a host of grievances before the Prairie Village City Council Monday — and in the process, provided the first look at the group’s plans for the space. Polsinelli Shughart PC attorney John Petersen spoke at length during the public forum portion of the meeting [...]
Tweet David Morrison’s tumultuous tenure on the Prairie Village City Council appears to be coming to an end. With an 11-0 vote Monday, Morrison’s council peers voted to oust him from the governing body for violating the city’s ethics code. In late October, Morrison gave Kelley Malone, a homeless man with a drug history and [...]
