Despite out-shooting its opponent 21-7, Fort Hays State University fell, 2-1, to Colorado State-Pueblo on Sunday in Pueblo, Colo.
The Tigers drop to 2-3 on the season while CSU-Pueblo now sits at 3-0.
FHSU put nine of their 21 shots on goal, but just one was able to break through – Amanda Talbott’s goal at 71:59. Talbott netted a ball after receiving Sabrina Van Horn’s pass from inside the box.
Hailey Davey took four shots in the contest, putting three on goal, while Jordan Hester’s three shots put her second on the team. Hannah Jurgens, Dani Harris, Jamie Babyak, Van Horn and Margaret Meier each had two shots for the Tigers.
The two squads were scoreless through the first half and the first five minutes of the second, before Amanda Jorgenson’s took a rebound off a free shot past FHSU’s goalie, Kelsey Grey, at 50:47.
Just under seven minutes later, Megan Garcia made it 2-0 for the Thunderwolves, scoring an unassisted goal in the 58th minute.
FHSU will play next against Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Mo., on Thursday. Game time is set for 7 p.m. CT.
(AP) — Kansas lawmakers expect a lively debate next year on whether to revisit the state’s penalties for murder.
Senator Jeff King
Some are pushing for tougher prison sentences, while others are seeking to repeal capital punishment following an unsuccessful effort this past session.
The issue surfaced this month as legislators met briefly to fix a constitutional flaw in the Hard 50 sentencing procedure for offenders convicted of premeditated first-degree murder.
The state took the action following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said juries, not judges, must consider whether the facts in a case should prompt mandatory minimum sentences.
Senate Vice President Jeff King says the special session brought into focus the need for policymakers to re-examine whether the state’s murder sentences are adequate when compared to other crimes.
USD 489 BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 – 6:30 p.m. Watch it live on Eagle Channel 13
AGENDA
2. AUDIENCEPARTICIPATION:
The Board will hear comments from the public.
3. REPORT OF COMMITTEES:
The Board will hear reports from committees.
4. COMMUNICATIONS FROM OTHER ORGANIZATIONS:
The Board will review communications from other organizations, including minutes and agendas.
A. USD489Foundation
B. Connections
C. Hays Recreation Commission
5. REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT:
The Superintendent shall provide the Board with a report of district events, activities, accomplishments, occurrences and news.
6. CONSENTAGENDA:
Approval of Consent Agenda (Items to be approved by the Board in one motion, unless an item is removed).
A. August13,2013SpecialMeetingMinutes
B. August 16, 2013 Special Meeting Minutes
C. August 19, 2013 Board Meeting Minutes
D. August 26, 2013 Special Meeting Minutes
E. September 9, 2013 Work Session Minutes
F. Personnel Transactions
G. Approve bills in the amount of $ 3,193,930.74H.
Financial Reports
a. Clerk’s Report
b. InvestmentReport
c. Expenditure Summary Report
d. Condensed Expenditure Summary Report
e. PettyCash
I. Surplus Property
J. Authorization of Clayton-Holdings to make payment to Paul-Wertenberger in
the amount of $101.100.00
7. NEWBUSINESS
A. Approval and Authorization for BOE President to Sign the 2013-14
Agreement Between USD 489 and North Central Kansas Technical College
The Board must approve the contract and authorize the Board President to sign an agreement with NCK Technical College for 20 Auto Mechanics slots and 20 Allied Health slots at a cost of $34,020.00.
B. Approval of Bids for the HHS Roof Replacement
Terry Ault will be there to present information about the current roofing bids for the music room area and locker room area. Results will be available for the September 16th meeting.
C. KPERS Additional Signer
Authorize Victoria North, payroll employee, as KPERS additional signer.
D. Appointment of Alternative Nutrition Services Hearing Officer
The current Nutrition Services Hearing Officer was Richard Cain. Additionally, Richard Cain was designated to approve Free and Reduced Lunch applications for the Learning Center and KVC. The Administration recommends that the Board designate Dean Katt to fulfill this role.
E. Authorization for the Board President to Sign State of Kansas Health Insurance 3-year Agreement for Health Insurance
The Board must authorize the President to sign the 3-year agreement with the State of Kansas Health Insurance. This must be done prior to Oct. 1 or our insurance lapses on Jan. 1, 2014. This is a change from their previous procedure – notified by Jeanne Kelly of KDHEKS on 8-21-13 of this change.
F. KASB Policy Updates – 1st Reading
Sections F, G, I, J, K (including Emergency Safety Restraint (ESI) Restraint Board Policy Adoption required by KSDE.
G. DJFA-Purchasing Contract – 2nd Reading
The Board will need to approve the second reading of Board Policy DJFA.
H. BBC – Standing Technology Committee – 2nd Reading
The Board will need to approve the second reading of the addition to Board Policy BBC ‘Standing Committees’ District Technology Committee. The Administration recommends that Bobbie Dinkel, elementary teacher, be appointed to serve on the district technology committee for the 2013-14 school year. At this time, Dean Katt will lead a discussion about changes to the appointments to the Technology Committee.
I. Approval of the Ratified Hays NEA Contract
The Administration recommends that the Board approve the terms of the ratified 2013-14 contract with the Hays NEA and authorize the Board President to sign the agreement.
J. Salary Increases for Classified and Administrative Employees (Not SEIU) The Administration recommends that the Board approve 1.85% Salary increase for all Classified and Administrative employees, not SEIU.
K. Review of Superintendent Search Firm Proposals a. PROACT
b. HYAExecutiveSearch
c. KASB
d. McPhersonandJacobson e. RayandAssociates
L. Discussion: Business Manager Position
Dean Katt will provide an update on the current status of this position.
M. Discussion: Technology Coordinator Position
Dean Katt will present information on the current plan to fill this position.
N. Discussion: Selection of Energy Consultant Firm
O. Discussion: Addition of Nurse / Counseling Position(s)
P. Authorization for Board President to Sign the Curriculum Director Contract The Board has appointed Shanna Dinkel as Curriculum Director for the 2013- 14 school year. The Administration recommends that the Board authorize the Board President to sign the contract. The terms will be presented at a later date.
Discussion by Board Members and agenda requests.
Executive Session
a. For matters relating to non-elected personnel
10. Adjournment
(AP) — Kansas engineers say federal highway statistics showing their state has more bridge problems than larger states like California don’t tell the whole story of an aging rural bridge system in which small, county-owned spans often can be closed without any major disruptions.
Kansas Association of Counties engineer Norm Bowers says many county-owned bridges are deteriorating because there isn’t enough money to fix them. He thinks half of the state’s rural bridges will be closed in the next 50 years.
Department of Transportation bridge engineer Calvin Reed says state-owned bridges such as the Lewis and Clark Viaduct and Fairfax Bridge, which carry traffic over the Missouri River between Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., are among the older bridges the state is watching for any signs of trouble.
(AP) — Officials in Wichita are weighing a company’s plan to drill for oil 4,000 feet below the downtown Century II convention center.
The company, Trek AEC, is offering the prospect that the city could reap at least 15 percent of the royalties from any oil it drills. The project has prompted opposition from businesses and restaurants in the nearby Delano district — and dismay among prominent developers.
Some City Council members initially favored the plan, citing the possible revenue from royalties. But the council and the planning commission have put the brakes on approval in light of the opposition.
One concern is that the drilling could derail a proposed $24 million apartment development in downtown, which the city is seeking to revitalize.
The 8th Annual U. S. 36 Highway Treasure Hunt is September 20, 21, & 22, 2013
An abundance of garage and yard sales, farmers’ markets, bake sales, vendors, etc. in towns across Kansas’s 13 northern tier counties! With nearly 400 miles and everything from household goods to antiques, collectibles, crafts, furniture and much more!
Remember: One person’s trash is another person’s Treasure!
Meet Kansas’s friendly people, enjoy delicious food and grab up some real bargains!
You can get more information about the Annual Treasure Hunt by going to www.ushwy36.com You’ll find Lodging, Restaurants, Fuel stops, contact information, and Treasure Hunt Town Maps with sale locations! Be sure to order your souvenir T-shirt & Decals! I survived 400 Miles!
March 21st 2013 marked the day that the U. S. 36 Highway Association celebrated its 100 year anniversary! We can thank a group of visionaries who understood the value of good roads and helped set the foundation for transportation across America! Today’s traveling public is not just blessed with a fine highway; there are many geographic and historic landmarks to visit along the route! It IS the shortest east-west route from Ohio to Colorado!
The Hays Convention and Visitors Bureau will be leading a free caravan tour in Ellis County this month. Historic Cemetery Tours will take place on Friday September 20th, and will include stops at four historically significant cemeteries in Ellis County.
Those that partake in the free tour will learn about Baby Alma, Clara & Martin Allen, Sheriff Alexander Ramsey, George Grant and other significant former residents of the area.
This free tour will be a caravan tour departing from the Hays Welcome Center (27th & Vine) at 8:15 am. The actual tour will go from 8:30-11:30 am. A caravan tour means patrons will drive convoy-style while following the HCVB vehicle to each destination.
Hays Convention & Visitors Bureau Tourism Marketing Manager Ruben Schuckman told Hays Post that interested parties need to contact his office on or before September 18th to register for the tour. A minimum required number of registrations are necessary to provide the tour. Schuckman stated that in the spring, they went on a similar tour with 5 people, and they probably wouldn’t go with less than that.
People can register by calling 800-569-4505 or emailing [email protected]. Additional information about the caravan tour will be provided when your registration is received.
(AP) — John Hubert ran for 118 yards, Kip Daily returned one of his two interceptions for a touchdown and Kansas State rolled to a 37-7 victory over Massachusetts
Kansas State running back John Hubert (33) runs for a touchdown after catching a pass during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Massachusetts in Manhattan, Kan., Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner
on Saturday night.
Jake Waters added 115 yards passing and two touchdowns for the Wildcats (2-1), who tuned up for the start of Big 12 play by pulling away from the Minutemen (0-3) before halftime.
After falling behind 7-6 at the end of the first quarter, Kansas State piled up 233 yards and scored three unanswered touchdowns in the second. Daniel Sams ran for the first score, Robert Rose ran 26 yards for the second, and Hubert’s 43-yard touchdown catch made it 27-7 at the half.
The Wildcats coasted from there, turning their attention toward next week’s game at Texas.
(AP) — Chris Boswell kicked a 56-yard, go-ahead field goal with eight minutes left in the fourth quarter and Charles Ross added an 8-yard touchdown run as Rice
Rice wide receiver Dennis Parks catches a pass but out of the end zone as Kansas cornerback Brandon Hollomon (26) defends during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013, in Houston. (AP Photo/Richard Carson)
beat Kansas 23-14 Saturday night.
The win evened Rice’s record at 1-1, and the loss did the same for Kansas (1-1).
Taylor McHargue completed 14 of 31 pass attempts for 168 yards and Ross carried the ball a career-high 27 times for 157 yards, to lead the Owls offense. But it was Rice’s Driphus Jackson who came off the bench to drive the Owls down the field in the fourth quarter, as they scored their only offensive touchdown of the contest.
James Sims led the Jayhawks with 109 yards rushing on 19 carries.
Rice took a 2-1 lead in the all-time series between the two schools.
Kansas’ Medicaid managed care initiative is going well and is on track to achieve its promised $1 billion in savings, Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer said this week.
Lt. Governor Colyer
Colyer, a former Hays resident, said the KanCare initiative will slow the projected growth in Medicaid spending by $1 billion over five years by better coordinating the care given to the approximately 380,000 Kansans enrolled in the program.
The state contracted with three private insurance companies in January to administer the KanCare program. Colyer said while some providers have complained about slow payments and an increased administrative burdens, the managed-care initiative was going better than he expected.
TOPEKA — A state-run program charged with treating sexual predators will likely “exceed its physical capacity” in four to five years, according to a legislative audit
Rep. Marvin Kleeb, R-Overland Park
report released today.
“We don’t have a lot of individuals coming out on the back end of the program, and 18, on average, are coming in on the front end,” each year, said Dan Bryan, an auditor with the Legislative Division of Post Audit. “So the program is going to grow.”
Bryan said it was reasonable to assume that the state’s Sexual Predator Treatment Program, which is housed on the campus of Larned State Hospital, would be full by either 2017 or 2018.
Since the treatment program’s inception in 1994, only three of its 251 residents have graduated and been released. Twenty-two have died while still in it.
Most of the treatment program’s residents are at least 40 years old and have been at the facility for at least five years. Roughly 80 percent have been diagnosed as pedophiles. Other diagnoses include schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression, according to the auditors.
Appearing before the joint Legislative Post Audit Committee, Bryan said that while the treatment program appeared to be safe and secure, it also was significantly understaffed.
In April, he said, 30 percent of the program’s 178 direct-care positions were vacant. At times, Bryan said, the program failed to meet minimal staffing levels.
Because so many positions are unfilled, the workers often are required to work overtime, he said. In 2012, treatment program employees logged more than 38,000 hours of overtime, almost a six-fold increase over the 6,700 hours logged in 2010.
Bryan attributed the vacancies to the fact that many people do not want to work with sexual predators or live in a “rural location,” or don’t want to put in “a significant amount of overtime.”
Wages were another factor, he said. The hospital’s entry-level workers are paid $12.04 an hour. Their counterparts at the nearby prison and juvenile detention facility start at $13.65 an hour.
Twenty-two percent of the treatment program’s employees who responded to a Legislative Post Audit survey said they did not feel safe “while working.”
Larned State Hospital officials did not dispute most of the findings.
“Overtime is a significant issue at our facility,” hospital Supt. Tom Kinlen told KHI News Service. “We make no bones about that. That’s why we’re working so hard to reduce it.”
Kinlen told committee members that hospital officials recently had launched several initiatives aimed at boosting employee morale.
He also said he had enacted policies meant to prevent cell phones from being smuggled into the facility. Cell phones can be used by the program’s residents to download and share pornography.
“We take all the post audit’s recommendations seriously,” said Lea Stueve, policy director at the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, which administers both the state hospital and the treatment program.
Stueve said the hospital’s overtime troubles had declined in recent months.
“It’s still a serious issue, but the trend is going down,” she said.
The audit did not address concerns raised by mental health advocates that the treatment program is being run like a prison and that the services are both punitive and ineffective.
Bryan said those concerns would be addressed in a KDADS task force report due for release in two to three weeks.
“The message I took away from today was, ‘Hey, folks, we got a problem. We got 18 people coming in every year, and nobody’s leaving,’” said Rick Cagan, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness-Kansas. “We really didn’t get into the bigger issues that come with either coming up with a way that allows people to move through the program or having to spend millions on additional dollars on expanding the place.”
Eldon Dillingham, whose son has been in the treatment program for about five years, attended the hearing.
“I’m disappointed,” he said. “I really thought some attention was going to paid to why nobody leaves the program, why nobody gets out. It’s not a treatment program, it’s a prison. It’s run like a warehouse.”
Dillingham said he and other residents’ family members were organizing.
“We’re coming together,” he said. “We’ll work with the hospital and we’ll work with our elected officials. But if things don’t change, we’re prepared to take other actions as well.”
Those “actions,” he said, may include taking legal action against the treatment program.
Rep. Marvin Kleeb, a Republican from Overland Park, and a member of the post-audit committee, said legislators should consider moving the treatment program to an urban area and a larger pool of potential employees.
“If they’re having so much trouble getting people to work there, why is that we keep insisting on the program being located in a town of 4,000 people?” Kleeb said. “It’s almost like this is some kind of economic development thing” for Larned.
“I also found myself wondering why no one ever leaves the program even though they’ve paid their debt to society. That seems like a conflict,” he said. “I’m all for protecting society, but I don’t know that that means no one there can ever be rehabilitated.”
Stueve and Kinlen said KDADS was not considering moving the treatment program.
Thirty-one students from Kansas, South Korea and China have been accepted for the fifth class of the Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science on the Fort Hays State University campus. The class began its two-year curriculum on Aug. 19.
KAMS provides a unique residential learning experience for select high school juniors and seniors. Prospective students must have completed at least two years of high school with distinction in mathematics or science. However, outstanding academic achievement is not the only criterion for acceptance. KAMS selects students based on drive, interest, maturity, stability, and personal and family commitment.
These exceptional students, who represent urban, suburban and rural communities from across the state, will earn a high school diploma from their sending school and 68 hours of college credit from FHSU.
This class also includes nine international students, three from South Korea and six from China.
New students are listed alphabetically by hometown with their sending high school:
Anshun, China: Shan “Katherine” Zhong, daughter of ZeGang Zhong and ChuiLan Kong. Beijing, China: Xiao Wang, son of Jianwen Wang and Chenjie Tian.
Xining Li, son of Xiaocen Li and Xia Zhu.
Zhong “Steven” Yang, son of Wenhao Yang and Li Yang.
Daejeon, South Korea: Yeong Su Han, daughter of Wansuck Han and Namyun Kim. Derby: Cooper Cummings, Derby High School, son of John and Tracy Cummings. Emporia: Tayler Kriss, Emporia High School, son of Thomas and Michelle Kriss. Guangzhou, China: WenKai “Kevin” Shu, son of Changchun Shu and Jing Zhao.
Xiaoying “Sharon” Lin, daughter of Lin TongFu and Jiao Jian. Haysville: Adison Townsley, Clearwater High School, son of Michael and Michelle Townsley. Horton: Victoria Kist, Horton High School, daughter of Brian Kist, Horton, and Kathryn Downing, Olathe. Hoyt: MaRyka Smith, Royal Valley High School, daughter of Kevin and Lisa Smith. Junction City: Jonithan Bennett, Junction City High School, son of Jeff and Sahra Bennet. Liberal: Adan Rosales, Liberal High School, son of Adan Rosales and Reyna Salazor-Rosales.
Tuan Le, Liberal High School, son of Hoang Le and Nga Ngo. Lyndon: Alyssa Brecheisen, Lyndon High School, daughter of Rex Brecheisen. Lyons: Evan Shanelec, Lyons High School, son of Daniel and Catherine Shanelec. Paxico: Cheyenne Carlson, Wabaunsee High School, daughter of Roger and Tonia Carlson. Protection: Payton Jellison, South Central High School, daughter of Chris and Jeanette Jellison. Russell: Tammy Nguyen, Russell High School, daughter of Tom and Van Nguyen. Seneca: Kayce Feldkamp, Nemaha Valley High School, daughter of Stanley and Dawn Feldkamp. Seoul, South Korea: MinSoo Choi, son of JaeWon Choi and SooJin Joo. Topeka: Adele Coultis, Topeka High School, daughter of Andy and April Coultis.
Gregory Kenyon, Seaman High School, son of Greg and Maryann Kenyon.
Kaitlyn Emerson, Shawnee Heights High School, daughter of Tony and Allison Emerson.
Lucas Barnes, Washburn Rural High School, son of Kent and Naoma Barnes.
Patrick Duensing, Shawnee Heights High School, son of Edward and Amy Duensing.
Tanner Reece, Washburn Rural High School, son of Michael Reece and Ginger Oroke. Ulysses: Logan Heinrichs, Ulysses High School, son of Kendall Heinrichs, Ulysses, and Val Dietrich, Ulysses. Wichita: Noah Stapleton, Maize South High School, son of David and Patricia Stapleton. Yongin, South Korea: SeonYeong Ha, son of Keol Ha and Miryung Kim.
