The City Commission will meet at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 17th, 2020 at Buck Run Community Center. It is anticipated the City Commission will recess into Executive Session for 1 ½ hours to meet with Osenbaugh Associates to discuss the search for a City Manager.
The regular City Commission meeting will begin at 6:00 p.m. at Buck Run Community Center.
Eight fifth-graders from Eugene Ware Elementary were nominated for the Southeast Kansas Music Educators Association Elementary Honor Choir: Emilea Barrett, Sophie Durrossette, Megan Parada, Joshua Porter, Lily Saldivar, London Turner, Jaiden Watkins, and Ainsley Wheeler.
This honor choir typically takes place in January and is made up of singers in 5th and 6th grade throughout Southeast Kansas.
Due to the pandemic, students will not have the opportunity to sing together face to face. These students continue to keep choral music alive by singing at home and through Eugene Ware Youth Choir: Virtual Edition.
Contact: MJ Harper, 620-719-6633, [email protected]
Chris Maycumber. owner of Mayco Ace Hardware, 205 Scott, is the recipient of a Community Development Block Grant to repair his building. The grant was for $225,000, with Maycumber matching with $75,000.
According to the website: https://www.kansascommerce.gov/program/community-programs :
“The Small Cities Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program allows the Department of Commerce to distribute federal funds to Kansas cities and counties looking to improve their community.
CDBG awards are given in four primary categories:
- Annual Competitive Grants
- Water and Sewer
- Housing Rehabilitation
- Community Facilities
- Economic Development Grants
- Commercial Rehabilitation Grants
- Urgent Need Grants”
“It’s to fix up the appearance of the building exterior,” he said. “The roof, windows, doors, and anything that will get the building up to city code.”
The CDBG process began in 2018, he said.
“After a few snafu’s and the COVID-19 pandemic, it put us behind,” Maycumber said.
When the state does a CDB Grant, the project is put into a state-wide website, where contractors can bid on the specifications.
Although he can’t determine the contractors for the project, Maycumber said he hopes to use local businesses.
Currently, Agricultural Engineering Associates, Uniontown, is providing the building specs, he said.
“The state hasn’t put their money up yet, then we do, then the process to bid begins,” Maycumber said.
Thirty days after the project has let bids, they will know who the contractors are.
“Hopefully, by the end of November,” he said. “Then they will have so many days to finish the project.
The storefront at 203 State, north of the hardware store is the focus of the grant.
The last store in that building was Dollar General Store, who left in 2015, he said.
The 203 and 205 State building is owned by Maycumber with his mother, Joyce Maycumber.
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“Don Tucker Chairman of the men’s Kiwanis club stated that the club is really encouraged by the volunteers who are making major improvements in the park and we want to do our share,” said member Ralph Carlson.
NEWS RELEASE
Monday, November 9, 2020
Members of the USD 234 Board of Education met at the Fort Scott Middle School Commons on Monday, November 9, for their regular monthly meeting.
President David Stewart opened the meeting. The board approved the official agenda. The board also approved the consent agenda as follows:
A. Minutes
B. Bills and Claims
C. Payroll – October 20, 2020 – $1,414,951.80
D. Financial Report
E. Activity Fund Accounts
F. Parent/Teacher Conference Attendance
G. Fundraisers
One patron spoke during the public forum. Ella Beth presented a report on the
Fort Scott High School Courtyard project.
Board members heard reports from the following:
· Brenda Hill, KNEA President
· Michelle Stevenson, Early Childhood Program
· All building principals
· Dalaina Smith, Director of Academics
· Ted Hessong, Superintendent
· Gina Shelton, Business Manager/Board Clerk
The board went into executive session to discuss employer-employee negotiations. The board returned to open session.
Superintendent Hessong gave a Return-to-School update. Board members approved the following changes to the Return-to-School Plan:
· Classroom contact of an individual with lab-confirmed COVID-19 is not considered a close contact requiring quarantine if mitigation strategies are in place.
o High-risk contacts are defined as those individuals with unmitigated exposure such as unmasked lunch exposure, social exposure, extracurricular activities including sports, home exposure, or other exposure outside of school setting, and as determined by a health officer or designated official.
o Low-risk exposure is defined as mitigated classroom exposure (mask-in-place, appropriate hand washing/sanitation) and casual contact, as determined by the health officer or designated official, with mitigation standards in place.
· Remote learners are eligible for extracurricular activities with mitigation strategies in place.
The board approved Blue Cross/Blue Shield for the district health insurance for 2021.
Board members shared comments and then went into executive session to discuss personnel matters for nonelected personnel and returned to open meeting
The board approved the following employment matters:
A. Resignation of Heather Geiger, high school paraprofessional
B. Resignation of Brenda Hathaway, high school cook
C. Employment of Whitley Chesney as middle school/high school choir teacher for the 2020-21 spring semester
D. Employment of Elizabeth Rose as a middle school paraprofessional for the 2020-21 school year
E. Resignation of Sarah Bahr, high school assistant debate and forensics coach
F. Resignation of Angie Kemmerer as middle school head volleyball coach, effective at the end of the 2020 season
G. Transfer of Joie Moore, high school 6.5-hour cook, to a high school 6.5-hour ticket clerk for the 2020-21 school year
H. Employment of Glenda Cooper as a high school 6.5-hour cook for the 2020-21 school year
I. Resignation of Jacy Walker as high school head volleyball coach
J. Employment of Mark Bergmann as high school assistant debate and forensics coach for the 2020-21 school year
The board adjourned.
The Street Advisory Board will meet on Thursday, November 12th, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. at the City Commission Meeting Room at 123 S. Main Street. This meeting is open to the public.
This meeting will be made available via the City’s you tube channel at City of Fort Scott.
Laurence Lyons (Larry Lyons) will be the Grand Marshall for the 3rd Annual Veterans Day Parade Saturday at 3 PM.
Laurence Lyons served in the U.S. Air Force from 1959-1979.
He joined the United States Air Force in 1959 entering Pilot Training at Spence AFB, GA, completed at Vance AFB, OK graduating in the Class of ’61 Delta
Lyons was awarded the honor to enter B-52 training.
He attended Nuclear Weapons Deliver School, Wichita, Air Force Survival School, Reno, NV, Transitioned at Castle AFB, CA
Lyons was assigned to Columbus AFB, MS as the youngest ever Combat Ready B-52 pilot.
In October ‘62, he flew the first B-52 Airborne Mission during the Cuban Mistle Crisis carrying nuclear weapons.
In 1964, Lyons married Miss Pat.
He was assigned to Griffiths AFB, NY flying the B-52, then assigned to Naha AFB, Okinawa flying C-130 combat missions over Laos.
Lyons was assigned Headquarters NORAD, Colorado Springs as Senior Director at the Space Defense Center, Cheyenne Mountain 1971-1974.
“A memorable experience was to have the honor of tracking Santa Claus on his trip around the globe reporting to local news outlets,” he said.
He was assigned unaccompanied to Johnson Island in the mid-Pacific as Commander of Space Track Stations.
His family relocated to Fort Scott for the year.
Lyons was back to the cockpit at Dover AFB, DE flying the C-5 Transport.
“A particularly memorable mission was to transport a full field hospital to Guatemala after the 1968 earthquake,” he said. ” We were honored on landing to be met by the President of Guatemala and General Staff who came onboard to personally thank our crew.”
He was assigned to Denver, CO serving at Buckley Field as Operations Officer at the Space Track Site for classified satellite missions and Senior Director of Space Defense Center.
Lyons retired from the United States Air Force in 1979and ” settled in Fort Scott to live happily ever after.”
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