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Tweet When David Morrison enters the Prairie Village City Council chambers Monday to hear his colleagues debate what disciplinary action to take against him for allowing a homeless man with a drug history to wander unattended through city hall, it won’t be the first time he’s found himself as odds with the governing body on [...]
Tweet Prairie Village’s new special event permit ordinance may have chilled Mike Babick’s plans to put on his annual display, but organizers of another of the city’s favorite Christmas traditions have received official approval to move ahead. Prairie Village police this week approved a special event permit for the Candy Cane Lane display that homeowners [...]
Tweet “This was not done for any benefit or gain. It was a humanitarian act.” That is how Prairie Village City Councilor David Morrison describes the incident which has led to ethics charges being lodged against him before the city council. Next Monday, Nov. 19, the council is scheduled to hold a hearing that [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council on Monday placed a temporary moratorium on all Special Use Permit applications in the city — a move that may at least temporarily hamper developers’ plans for the Mission Valley Middle School site. More than a dozen homeowners from the Mission Valley area filled the Council Chambers Monday as both [...]
Tweet Prairie Village City Attorney Catherine Logan on Monday brought a formal ethics complaint against Ward 5 Councilor David Morrison, alleging Morrison gave a homeless man with a history of drug use and a criminal record access to City Hall during non-business hours. According to the written complaint provided to Morrison’s fellow councilors, Morrison gave [...]
Tweet Mission City Administrator Mike Scanlon is leaving his job to become town manager in Basalt, Colo. Scanlon has guided Mission through some difficult issues in the last few years and is leaving just as the long-stalled Gateway project at Johnson Drive and Roe Avenue is about to be resolved. Scanlon today said he will [...]
Tweet Mike Babick would usually be out tinkering in his garage this time of year, cleaning off the animatronic elves and animals that light up Santa’s Workshop in his annual Christmas display. But this October, he’s refinishing some antiques out back instead. And he doesn’t have any plans to work on his Christmas display. Any [...]
Tweet Mission’s final action on the Gateway project at Shawnee Mission Parkway and Johnson Drive is expected to come at a meeting now scheduled for November 27. That is a move from the regular November council meeting that was scheduled for the night before Thanksgiving. The city is planning to finish a development agreement for [...]
Tweet A redistricting of the four city wards from which Mission’s city council members are elected may run into some turbulence at this week’s council meeting. The report of a redistricting committee recommending a change in the boundaries of the four wards moved out of the Finance and Administration Committee on a 2-2 vote and [...]
Tweet The Kansas Libertarian Party on Tuesday signaled its intent to challenge the constitutionality of Prairie Village’s ban on the open carry of firearms in public places. In a letter addressed to Mayor Ron Shaffer, member of the City Council, City Administrator Quinn Bennion and City Attorney Catherine Logan, Libertarian Party leaders assert that their [...]
Tweet Hear about the Overland Park city council’s move last month to explicitly allow the open carry of loaded hand guns in public places? Well, if you’re one of those people for whom the sight of a stranger on the street packing heat would be a comfort (and apparently those people exist…), we’ve got bad [...]
Tweet The Mission City Council Wednesday night moved forward on two fronts that could make a difference in city finances down the road. In the first, the council approved a resolution to continue working toward a purchase of street lights that it now leases from KCP&L. The utility owns 805 street lights in Mission that [...]
Tweet If you’re one of those people who wonders whether the plastic bottles you toss in the recycling bin ultimately just end up in the dumpster, this story isn’t going to help cure your inherent cynicism. A series of investigations over the past week has uncovered that Prairie Village Public Works staffers charged with removing [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council on Monday passed a measure that will require all residents operating “special events” — including popular holiday lighting displays — to get a permit from the city and pay any costs incurred by the city’s police to go “above and beyond” their normal duties to ensure public safety. By a vote [...]
Tweet Three Prairie Village city councilors on Monday may have let the cat out of the bag on a potential development at the Village Shops that LANE4 principal Owen Buckley hinted at during his presentation to the council earlier this month. Councilor Michael Kelly used the announcements portion of last night’s city council meeting to [...]
Tweet Groundbreaking on the project is at least 16 months away, but the public got its first look Monday at conceptual drawings for the major revamp of 75th Street from Mission Road to State Line Road in Prairie Village. Consultants George Butler and Associates presented the Prairie Village city council with an overview of the [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council on Monday tentatively approved a new city policy that will give homeowners along proposed new residential sidewalk routes the power to have such projects canceled. Under the new policy, if 75 percent of the homeowners along a proposed sidewalk route petition the city against installation, the city won’t move [...]
Tweet Just days after a vacant 62nd Terrace home played host to yet another yard sale of goods from a purchased storage unit, the Fairway City Council on Monday passed an ordinance intended to curb potential nuisances from garage and yard sales. Under the new ordinance, Fairway homeowners will be limited to holding two garage [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council on Monday halted plans for two sidewalks slated to be installed in conjunction with street resurfacing projects this summer — and made a move to formally reexamine the existing city policy that calls for sidewalks along all city streets. Before a packed house in the council chambers, the councilors approved [...]
Tweet Prairie Village City Administrator Quinn Bennion reported earlier this week that Sure West communications, a traditional cable company that offers high speed internet and home phone services as well, is considering whether to enter the Prairie Village market. The company recently completed infrastructure build outs to serve parts of northeast Johnson County, including Roeland [...]
Tweet Though most members of the city council acknowledge Prairie Village could face a roads maintenance crisis if it doesn’t find a way to fund recommended repairs in coming years, a sometimes heated debate Monday demonstrated the group doesn’t to have the will at present to raise property taxes — even if it could save taxpayers [...]
Tweet Prairie Village holiday lighting luminary Mike Babick may have a fight on his hands if he wants to keep operating his popular display in the same manner in which it’s been run the past several years. The Prairie Village City Council on Monday directed city staff to draft a new ordinance that would regulate [...]
Tweet Prairie Village City Councilor Charles Clark on Wednesday sent a letter to his peers on the City Council laying out his case for considering an increase to city property taxes as a way to stem what would be increasingly costly maintenance and repairs to city infrastructure in the coming years. He argues that while [...]
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 The Prairie Village City Council on Monday narrowly voted down a motion that would have put a referendum for a 3/8 percent sales tax increase to fund parks improvements and maintenance before city voters in November. The issue came before the council after the city’s finance committee and parks committee worked on options to [...]
