Tag: Budget
Welcome to 2020 and join in offering Kansas lawmakers New Years Resolutions to guide their work in the upcoming legislative session. Focus on Problem Solving Many state lawmakers run for office in order to…
The cost of doing business in an increasingly paperless society may get a bit more expensive for Iolans. Starting Friday, customers who use credit or debit cards will be assessed a 3% processing fee on…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas prisons have exceeded their operating capacity and it will cost the state millions of dollars to send hundreds of prisoners to a privately owned and operated prison in Arizona. The…
After discussing matters for the last few weeks about how to best pay the coroners office, Allen County commissioners took the coroners budget away from Sheriff Bryan Murphy and will now pay the offices budget…
Though ACC is the largest community college in southeast Kansas, it is making ends meet on less money than its counterparts, president John Masterson told trustees at their meeting last week. In 2018, the school…
Jerry Daniels did his best to make everyone feel uncomfortable on Tuesday morning at a meeting of Allen County commissioners. He was not pleased and he wanted everyone to know about it. The commissioner started…
Despite red flags raised by Sheriff Bryan Murphy, Allen County commissioners passed a 2020 budget Tuesday. Murphys biggest concern is that the jail has 17 employees for whom commissioners have ordered Murphy give 3% cost…
Although Allen County Regional Hospital continues to keep fewer inpatients overnight it is mostly able to offset those losses in other areas, hospital trustees heard Tuesday night from Larry Peterson, chief financial officer and interim…
The management of Emergency Medical Services is breaking Iolas budget and management is top-heavy, an outside expert told Iola Council members Monday night. Overtime, especially, is a budget-buster, with more than 75% of that charged…
Isolationists and ultra-conservatives thought they had scored a victory last week when President Trump initially agreed to cut U.S. foreign aid. Though the proposed $4 billion is less than one-tenth of one percent of the…
