Phillips County Review
PHILLIPSBURG — Topeka will be shy one politician next Tuesday, as Lt. Gov. Lynn Rogers will host a Town Hall Listening Tour public meeting in Phillipsburg at 5:30 p.m. at the Huck Boyd Center, 860 Park.
The tour is designed to serve as an outreach to rural Kansans and to provide the opportunity for residents to voice their concerns.
Regarding this outreach to north-central Kansas Lt. Gov. Rogers said, “It’s time for elected leaders to be sincere about listening to people in rural communities who’ve been overlooked and taken for granted far too long. We can and will do better.”
In support of the visit to Phillipsburg, Governor Laura Kelly said “Rural Kansas has been overlooked and unheard for far too long. Our towns have been neglected. Today we’re taking an important step toward changing this serious problem.”
As part of their effort to seek out rural Kansans “who’ve been overlooked and taken for granted for too long,” Phillipsburg is one of four western Kansas communities that is a scheduled stop in this round of the Listening Tour and is the one closest in vicinity to Hays.
Both the governor and lieutenant governor state the following will be priorities of the listening tour:
• Developing Rural Housing
• Supporting Rural Hospitals
• Revitalizing Main Street Corridors
• Investing in Rural Infrastructure
• Incentivizing Active Tourism
• Making State Government Work For Rural Kansas
• Supporting Agribusiness