City of Dodge City
DODGE CITY, Ks. The City of Dodge City is excited to host the newly re-structured Engage Dodge program open to the entire community. Engage Dodge is an interactive educational opportunity designed to introduce citizens to city services, programs, and the employees who serve the Dodge City community.
“Previously, the program was a partnership between the City’s Cultural Relations Advisory Board and the Dodge City Community College Adult Learning Center,” said Human Resources Officer Tara Schraeder. “The last time the program was hosted was in 2018, and with the increased transparency efforts, we decided to take a look at the program and redesign it to allow the community to gain more in-depth knowledge about our departments.”
Dodge City Daily Globe
At the Dodge City Commission meeting on Monday, city commissioners approved a compensation increase for the mayor and commissioners. The last time that the city commissioners compensation was reviewed was in 2001, said city finance director Nicole May. So over the last 20 years as you all know that the time commitment and such required being a city commissioner has significantly increased due to the growth of the community and the number of projects that the city has undertaken.
May said she made the suggestion that the biweekly pay for commissioners increase to $400 and the compensation for mayor increase to $600. Both commissioners and the mayor had been receiving $200 biweekly.
Print article The emails and voice mails to Dodge City, Kan., Mayor Joyce Warshaw began pouring in last month, after the city commission voted to require everyone in town to wear masks indoors. Some anonymous messages told her that she was restricting civil liberties, Warshaw told The Washington Post. Others said she should go to jail over her vote. But after the western Kansas city’s uphill battle against the coronavirus pandemic was featured in a USA Today feature on Friday, the messages grew more frequent and more aggressive: Burn in hell. Get murdered. One person simply wrote, “We’re coming for you.”
DODGE CITY, Kan.
A mayor in western Kansas has resigned because of threats she received after publicly supporting a mask mandate.
Dodge City Mayor Joyce Warshaw said Tuesday she was concerned about her safety after encountering aggression, including threats via phone and email, after she was quoted in a USA Today article Friday supporting a mask mandate, the Dodge City Globe reported.
“I understand people are under a lot of pressure from various things that are happening around society like the pandemic, the politics, the economy, so on and so forth, but I also believe that during these times people are acting not as they normally would,” Warshaw said.
The Dodge City Commission voted on Nov. 16 to implement a mandatory mask ordinance to help slow the spread of COVID-19. The city itself sits within Ford County, one of the Kansas counties with a higher rate of virus transmission.
The Dodge City Daily Globe notes that Warshaw’s resignation was catalyzed by backlash following her comments in a recent article in USA Today. Warshaw reportedly said, regarding the mask mandate, that, we just felt like we had to do something so everybody was aware of how important it was for everybody to be responsible for each other’s health and well-being.”