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Business Locksmith has new location in Haysville Page 3 50 CENTS WWW.TSNEWS.COM - The online home for all TSN Publications PAGE 1 Thursday July 11, 2019 Volume 13, No. 28 Published by Times-Sentinel Newspapers LLC Sun-Times Haysville STAY IN TOUCH 316.540.0500 tsnews.com /HaysvilleSunTimes @SunTimesKS e second ever Little Free Library (LFL) in Hays- ville was funded by and has been installed at the Diver- sicare facility in Haysville. A ribbon cutting ceremo- ny on June 28 was attended by the Haysville Diversicare’s director, Arien Reeves, some of the Diversicare facility staff and residents, Zach McHatton from Haysville City Hall, Ken Bell from the Haysville Community Library, and Danielle Gabor and Dr. Michael Yeung from WSU Haysville. e Diversicare LFL is part of the WSU Haysville LFL Network initiated by Gabor, the assistant direc- tor at WSU Haysville, and will be registered under WSU with the Little Free Library Organization that registers LFLs worldwide. e Diversicare LFL has a unique design featuring a barn-like structure with a chicken figure at the top Second Little Free Library installed at Diversicare The first customer at the new Little Free Library reads one of the books available. Haysville’s second Little Free Library is located at Diversicare. Contributed photo See LIBRARY, Page 6 By Travis Mounts Haysville Sun-Times [email protected] Haysville City Council members got a first look at the 2020 budget at Mon- day night’s meeting. e city is looking at a mill levy decrease of .219 mills, thanks in part to a higher valuation for the city. e proposed de- crease is larger than the decrease that Haysville taxpayers saw in 2019. “Everything that’s in this proposed budget, we’re looking at decreasing the mill levy again,” said Will Black, Haysville’s chief ad- ministrative officer. “is is a bigger decrease than last year.” e proposed mill levy is 48.205 mills, which would give the city an overall budget of $2,989,713. at’s an increase in total spend- ing of roughly $117,000. e city’s general fund accounts for 38.743 mills. Other assessments include 5.25 mills for the Haysville Community Library, 1.49 mills for debt service, 2.0 mills for law enforcement, and .722 mills for special liabilities, which is used to pay for insurance. e city’s 1 percent sales tax is estimated to bring in $900,000 in 2020. e plan is for half of that to go toward street maintenance and repairs. Forty percent will be for the recreation department, and parks will receive 10 percent. Haysville also is looking to fully fund the position of deputy administrative officer. e position has been in the personnel manual for several years, but there has not been a person in that position since Black served in that role before being promot- ed to his current position. e city has several capi- tal expenditures it would like to take on, including a senior center expansion, which is in the design phase. Other projects in- clude repair and remodel of the police department, and the addition of a his- toric chapel to the historic district. e council is expected to approve publication of the notice of hearing at the next meeting on July 22. at notice will appear in the Haysville Sun-Times. e budget is expected to be approved on Aug. 12, the first regular city coun- cil meeting in August. Council members were presented with two major projects on Monday, one dealing with manholes and the other with a computer server. “In an ongoing effort to continue refurbishing the city’s sewer system, we have identified manholes which require rehab,” said public works director Tony Martinez. e city identified 19 manholes for rehabili- tation, which comes to 237 vertical feet. Coun- cil members approved spending up to $29,625 for the project, which was budgeted for. e work will be completed by the end of this year. e mo- tion passed unanimously. e manholes are located between Hemphill Street and Grand Avenue, along and near Marlen. City council members approved $14,778.23 for a new server from Con- cergent IT. Martinez told the council that the city’s current server is showing early signs of potential failure. He said the server also runs Windows Server 2008, which will not be supported by Microsoſt af- ter this year. e purchase was approved unanimous- ly. In other business: • e city approved a refuse haulers license for Allen & Sons Waste Services. • D and J Specialty Equipment, LLC., has applied for a business license. It is a home-based business. • Cox Communications sent a letter to the city announcing changes to its channel line-up. • Council members ap- proved spending $17,215 for a Grosshopper 900D lawnmower from Maxi- mum Outdoor Equipment. • Martinez updated council members on why there is no water in the City looks to lower mill levy See CITY, Page 6 Yard of the Month The Haysville Pride July Yard Of The Month is at 1315 Spring Circle in Ward III. To nominate your yard or another person’s yard, contact Penny Rosendale at 316- 524-4116. The goal is to have a yard from each of the city’s wards repre- sented over the course of the summer. PRIDE members are looking for the August Yard of the Month now. Cathy Hurley/Haysville Sun-Times Haysville celebrates the Fourth Paul Rhodes/Haysville Sun-Times Members of the Rockin’ H Drill Team carry the flags of the different branches of the United States military. They were part of the Independence Day parade, which kicked off a full slate of activities on July 4. Staff report Haysville Sun-Times On July 3, Sen. Jerry Moran, Rep. Ron Estes and members of the Wichita City Council and Sedgwick County Board of Com- missioners gathered for a ceremo- ny to mark the renaming of the Wichita-Valley Center Floodway. e public work will now be known as the M.S. “Mitch” Mitch- ell Floodway, aſter the engineer who designed it and supervised its construction in the 1950s. Collo- quially, it is usually referred to as the Big Ditch. e Wichita City Council and Floodway renamed for ‘Big Ditch Mitch’ See DITCH, Page 6 Sedgwick County/Contributed photos From left, Rep. Ron Estes, Sedgwick County Commission member David Dennis and Sen. Jerry Moran unveil a sign at the newly renamed M.S. “Mitch” Mitchell Floodway. Wichita Mayor Jeff Longwell was also pres- ent, and Pat Mitchell was on hand to represent her late husband. 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The second ever Little Free Library (LFL) in Hays-ville was funded by and has been installed at the Diver-sicare facility in Haysville.
A ribbon cutting ceremo-ny on June 28 was attended by the Haysville Diversicare’s director, Arien Reeves, some of the Diversicare facility staff and residents, Zach McHatton from Haysville City Hall, Ken Bell from the Haysville Community Library, and Danielle Gabor and Dr. Michael Yeung from
WSU Haysville. The Diversicare LFL is
part of the WSU Haysville LFL Network initiated by Gabor, the assistant direc-tor at WSU Haysville, and will be registered under WSU with the Little Free Library Organization that registers LFLs worldwide.
The Diversicare LFL has a unique design featuring a barn-like structure with a chicken figure at the top
Second Little Free Library installed at DiversicareThe first customer at the new Little Free Library reads one of the books available. Haysville’s second Little Free Library is located at Diversicare.
Contributed photo
See LIBRARY, Page 6
By Travis Mounts Haysville [email protected]
Haysville City Council members got a first look at the 2020 budget at Mon-day night’s meeting.
The city is looking at a mill levy decrease of .219 mills, thanks in part to a higher valuation for the city. The proposed de-crease is larger than the decrease that Haysville taxpayers saw in 2019.
“Everything that’s in this proposed budget, we’re looking at decreasing the mill levy again,” said Will Black, Haysville’s chief ad-ministrative officer. “This is a bigger decrease than last year.”
The proposed mill levy is 48.205 mills, which would give the city an overall budget of $2,989,713. That’s an increase in total spend-ing of roughly $117,000. The city’s general fund accounts for 38.743 mills. Other assessments include 5.25 mills for the Haysville Community Library, 1.49 mills for debt service, 2.0 mills for law enforcement, and .722 mills for special liabilities, which is used to pay for insurance.
The city’s 1 percent sales tax is estimated to bring in $900,000 in 2020. The plan is for half of that to go toward street maintenance and repairs. Forty percent will be for the recreation department, and parks will receive 10 percent.
Haysville also is looking to fully fund the position of deputy administrative officer. The position has been in the personnel manual for several years, but there has not been a person in that position since Black served in that role before being promot-ed to his current position.
The city has several capi-tal expenditures it would like to take on, including a senior center expansion, which is in the design phase. Other projects in-clude repair and remodel of the police department, and the addition of a his-toric chapel to the historic district.
The council is expected to approve publication of
the notice of hearing at the next meeting on July 22. That notice will appear in the Haysville Sun-Times. The budget is expected to be approved on Aug. 12, the first regular city coun-cil meeting in August.
Council members were presented with two major projects on Monday, one dealing with manholes and the other with a computer server.
“In an ongoing effort to continue refurbishing the city’s sewer system, we have identified manholes which require rehab,” said public works director Tony Martinez.
The city identified 19 manholes for rehabili-tation, which comes to 237 vertical feet. Coun-cil members approved spending up to $29,625 for the project, which was budgeted for. The work will be completed by the end of this year. The mo-tion passed unanimously. The manholes are located between Hemphill Street and Grand Avenue, along and near Marlen.
City council members approved $14,778.23 for a new server from Con-cergent IT. Martinez told the council that the city’s current server is showing early signs of potential failure. He said the server also runs Windows Server 2008, which will not be supported by Microsoft af-ter this year. The purchase was approved unanimous-ly.
In other business:• The city approved
a refuse haulers license for Allen & Sons Waste Services.
• D and J Specialty Equipment, LLC., has applied for a business license. It is a home-based business.
• Cox Communications sent a letter to the city announcing changes to its channel line-up.
• Council members ap-proved spending $17,215 for a Grosshopper 900D lawnmower from Maxi-mum Outdoor Equipment.
• Martinez updated council members on why there is no water in the
City looks to lower mill levy
See CITY, Page 6
Yard of the MonthThe Haysville Pride July Yard Of The Month is at 1315 Spring Circle in Ward III. To nominate your yard or another person’s yard, contact Penny Rosendale at 316-524-4116. The goal is to have a yard from each of the city’s wards repre-sented over the course of the summer. PRIDE members are looking for the August Yard of the Month now.
Cathy Hurley/Haysville Sun-Times
Haysville celebrates the Fourth
Paul Rhodes/Haysville Sun-Times
Members of the Rockin’ H Drill Team carry the flags of the different branches of the United States military. They were part of the Independence Day parade, which kicked off a full slate of activities on July 4.
Staff report Haysville Sun-Times
On July 3, Sen. Jerry Moran, Rep. Ron Estes and members of the Wichita City Council and Sedgwick County Board of Com-missioners gathered for a ceremo-ny to mark the renaming of the Wichita-Valley Center Floodway.
The public work will now be known as the M.S. “Mitch” Mitch-ell Floodway, after the engineer who designed it and supervised its construction in the 1950s. Collo-quially, it is usually referred to as the Big Ditch.
The Wichita City Council and
Floodway renamed for ‘Big Ditch Mitch’
See DITCH, Page 6
Sedgwick County/Contributed photos
From left, Rep. Ron Estes, Sedgwick County Commission member David Dennis and Sen. Jerry Moran unveil a sign at the newly renamed M.S. “Mitch” Mitchell Floodway. Wichita Mayor Jeff Longwell was also pres-ent, and Pat Mitchell was on hand to represent her late husband.
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