Tag: Budget

When Iola City Council members gather tonight to continue discussions on the city’s 2020 budget, they’ll have a few more items to ponder. In the second night of a two-day budget workshop Thursday, Council members…

A $300,000 question lingered over budget talks for Iola City Council members Wednesday. Last fall, Iola voters overwhelmingly extended a half-cent sales tax, noting the proceeds have helped fund a number of major street projects…

Iola City Council members will discuss the city’s spending plans for 2020 when they gather tonight for a budget workshop. The meeting begins at 6 o’clock in the New Community Building at Iola’s Riverside Park,…

Nathan Fawson, executive director of the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center, went before Allen County Commissioners Tuesday morning asking for $153,588 for their 2020 budget. Fawson said that it was a slight increase from last…

MORAN — Property owners should expect to spend the same amount in taxes to support Moran’s city operations in 2020. City Council members on Monday scheduled an Aug. 5 budget hearing to discuss their spending…

Back by popular demand — as long as you’re talking with the right person — is regular mosquito spraying in Iola. City Council members voted, 4-2, Monday to reinstitute the twice-weekly mosquito spraying. The practice…

Big changes next year are expected to help the Bowlus Fine Arts Center connect to a wider audience. The center will add a new position to expand educational programs for students, with more events, a…

WASHINGTON — A meeting of top White House officials and congressional leaders broke up Wednesday without agreement on topline funding allocations for appropriators, raising fresh doubts over their ability to avert another fiscal crisis later…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ tax collections have beaten expectations nearly every month for the past two years and the state expects to end June with close to $1 billion in cash reserves, but the…

Allen County Court Clerk Dina Morrison and District Judge Daniel Creitz appeared before county commissioners Tuesday morning asking for an 8% budget increase for 2020. Morrison said the reason for the increase was a rising…