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Tweet In the wake of revelations this past fall that Prairie Village Public Works had been trashing the contents of city park recycling bins, Public Works employees last week went through a training event put on by the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment. Twenty employees went through the training session with Johnson County [...]
Tweet The nearly new asphalt trail at Prairie Village’s Franklin Park is already showing significant signs of deterioration, prompting the city to seek restitution in the form of repairs. The only problem: The company the installed the trail in 2010 is now out of business. As a result, Prairie Village Public Works is sorting through [...]
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 Village Public Works Director Bruce McNabb has resigned and will have his last day with the city Tuesday, Jan. 22, says City Administrator Quinn Bennion. During McNabb’s relatively short tenure in the position, the Public Works department was the subject of two significant controversies: the installation of a chain link fence along Brush [...]
Tweet The Great Thundersnow of 2012 did more than just give us all the opportunity to use the term “thundersnow” — for which I, at least, am eternally grateful. It also gave Prairie Village’s Public Works Department a chance to try out a new street salt product it hopes will save the city money and reduce [...]
Tweet A year after implementing a series of changes to traffic signals along 75th Street in an effort to improve traffic flow and minimize environmental impact, the city has some heartening numbers to report. By better coordinating traffic signals from Lamar Ave. to Mission Road, the Mid-American Regional Council’s Operation Greenlight estimates a total savings [...]
Tweet After further investigation into the incident near Corinth Elementary School Wednesday, local police have determined that the initial “person of interest” they contacted was not the man who asked three local boys if they wanted a ride in his maroon Corvette. “After looking into the incident and talking with the man we IDed as [...]
Tweet (Assuming the weather ever returns to some semblance of normalcy and it would actually be comfortable enough to want to go for a walk in the park) residents of the neighborhoods around Prairie Village’s Windsor Park are in for a treat, as the city is preparing to start work to revamp the park’s decaying [...]
Tweet Prairie Village Public Works crews on Wednesday removed the two signs they’d put up two weeks earlier warning residents that the Oxford Road fountain was not for playing. Initially, Public Works said the signs were necessary to protect the city from liability should a child get sick from playing in the fountain, which does [...]
Tweet A new set of signage near a fountain that serves as a gathering place for the families who live near Oxford Road and 69th Street is raising eyebrows from some Prairie Village residents. Prairie Village Public Works last week installed two signs next to the fountain reading “WARNING NON TREATED FOUNTAIN NOT FOR PLAYING.” [...]
Tweet We got an email from PVPost.com reader Joe Houston late last week that we thought might merit a li’l bit of community discussion. Houston wrote in inquiring about the status of the Carroll Plaza fountain at the northwest corner of 75th Street and Mission Road. The fountain was out of commission all last year, [...]
Tweet The marked difference between this year’s excessively mild winter and last year’s three-months-long blizzard has had a marked effect on Prairie Village’s bottom line. Total snow removal costs for the 2011-2012 season were just $28,000, according to Public Works Director Bruce McNabb — $89,000 less than $117,000 the city had to spend during the [...]
Tweet Upgrades to the pool aren’t the only improvements Fairway residents are likely to see around town over the coming months. The city recently received word that it had received a grant to replace all of the city’s existing streetlights — traditional high pressure sodium models — with more energy efficient LED streetlights. Fairway had initially received [...]
Tweet A reader sent us a question about the new eight-foot paved trail along Brush Creek on Tomahawk Road from Porter Park to 71st Street that we’re guessing several Villagers are wondering about: “Do you know why the sidewalk does not continue one block more so it would be a perfect stroll from the park [...]
Tweet After a couple of days of high winds, it’s getting pretty hard to ignore the leaf pile up in our front yard. So if you’re like us and planning to tackle that charming fall chore of raking this weekend, here’s a quick reminder about Prairie Village’s yard waste rules. During November, Prairie Village residents [...]
Tweet Crews this week will begin trimming trees on the east side of Prairie Village, part of the city’s tree maintenance program. The crews will only trim those trees in the city’s right-of-way, and cannot trim trees on private property. They will: Remove dead wood on branches 2 inches in diameter or larger Remove broken [...]
Tweet Speaking of walking paths… You’re likely to see construction crews working along Tomahawk Road between Porter Park and the Village Shops in the coming weeks as they install a new eight-foot wide paved trail. Similar trails were installed between Corinth Square and Franklin Park earlier this year. The trails are part of Prairie Village’s [...]
Tweet Speaking of crazy storms… The city of Prairie Village has added up the totals from its clean up efforts following the storms the weekend of August 18. Crews ended up collecting more than 650 cubic yards of debris from trees damaged in the storms. The clean up effort took more than 1,000 man hours [...]
Tweet Construction crews are in the process of doing away with the last of a series of decorative crosswalks along Mission Road that became a persistent source of headaches for the city of Prairie Village after they were first installed in 2004. The city put in the decorative brick crosswalks at four intersections along Mission [...]
Tweet Facing the prospect of steep future costs if the city doesn’t address some aging infrastructure issues soon, the Prairie Village City Council is grappling with how much money should be allocated to to Capital Improvement Projects in its 2012 budget. The council on Monday heard an overview of projected publics works costs Director Bruce [...]
Tweet There’s a good chance you’ll notice brighter nighttime lights on Prairie Village streets in the coming months. After beginning a trial program late last year, the city will be permanently replacing many of its current streetlights with brighter, more energy efficient models. As part of Smart Lights for Smart Cities, a Mid-America Regional Council-administered [...]
Tweet The good news: pretty soon, an aging section of Somerset Drive will be completely reworked, with new asphalt on the road and an eight-foot wide sidewalk to increase pedestrian friendliness. The bad news: construction on the project starts today, and drivers can expect daily closures along the stretch between Franklin Park and Corinth Square. [...]
Tweet A recent analysis by Prairie Village Public Works projects it will cost $49.6 million over the next 10 years to keep city infrastructure — roads, drainage systems, parks and city buildings — in good condition. The problem? At current funding levels, the city would allocate $4.5 million less than recommended for infrastructure maintenance every [...]
Tweet The word we’ve heard around town is that most people have been pleasantly surprised by how quickly Prairie Village Public Works was able to get the streets in drivable condition after Tuesday’s snowstorm. Count Mayor Ron Shaffer among those who were impressed. “I’ve talked with a number of the members of the council and [...]
Tweet Now that the pilot LED streetlight program KCP&L initiated along 79th Street has been up for a couple of months, the city and KCP&L are asking residents what they think of the new lights. Three different kinds of LED streetlights were installed along 79th Street this fall. KCP&L replaced 44 traditional high-pressure sodium streetlights [...]
