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Chris Weiner tapped to replace Dennis Pyle
Longtime Kansas City-area leader Chris Weiner has been selected to replace Monett City Administrator Dennis Pyle, who is set to retire on July 2.
The city of Monett began a lengthy recruitment process to replace Pyle in December 2020, when it hired the firm Strategic Government Resources to help screen candidates.
By late April, the city narrowed the field to three viable candidates, with in-person interviews conducted May 14.
All of the final candidates had the pre-requisite ability to be a good city administrator, Mayor Mike Brownsberger said. It came down to the interviews, and it came down to who was the best fit for our community and our department heads.
One of Monett's hometown heroes, Captain Thomas Wolfe, who was reported Missing in Action in Laos on June 28, 1966, is being honored as the community dedicates a section of Business Highway 60 east.
Legislature business aid bills draw county attention
The Kansan
The Kansas Legislature recently passed a pair of bills for business relief for COVID-19 concerns both of which will involve counties providing funds to businesses who were, in the words of the Legislature, harmed by health orders.
How those bills will ultimately affect county governments is unclear and if the bills will be come law is also unclear. We have lots of questions about this bill. First we need to wait and see if the governor vetoes this bill or not, said Anthony Swartzendruber, county administrator for Harvey County.
Both bills require counties to set aside funds for reimbursements, whether that be from general fund or from federal COVID-19 funds allocated to each county. It is unclear if the legslative action is in compliance with guidance from the U.S. treasury concerning those federal funds.
Democrats cautioned they were heading back to the atrophied years of tax cuts that defined the era when Sam Brownback was governor.
“I worry that we always seem to flirt with the same problem that we had with the last recession in 2008 when we came back and gave tax cuts,” Sen. Tom Hawk, a Manhattan Democrat said, “ and then our state did not recover as rapidly as those around us.”
But Caryn Tyson, the Republican chair of the tax committee, said that was just “gloom and doom.”
“That’s money that’s going to come back into the Kansas economy,” Tyson said, “not be used to grow government.”