Senator Moran has scheduled town hall meetings for Ness County and Graham County in the upcoming year in January.
At 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 4, there will be a town hall meeting in Hill City at Red’s Family Restaurant, 222 N. Pomeroy Avenue, in conjunction with the Lions Club Meeting at the same date and time.
The following day at 10 a.m., there will be a town hall meeting in Ransom at the Grisell Memorial Hospital, 210 Vermont Avenue.
For a complete and up-to-date list of Moran’s listening tour, click here.
The Ellis County Emergency Responders Rehab Unit made Christmas extra special for a local family with a gift that will give their almost 3 year old son the ability to cope with a debilitating disease that often stops him from enjoying the normal life of a toddler.
Charlie Bergman, son of Ashley and Patrick Bergman, was born with Dravet syndrome – an epilepsy syndrome that is drug resistant – that causes temperatures over 75 degrees to trigger seizures. After hearing about cooling vests used by the unit Ashley approached Charlie Dorzweiler, about buying a vest in order to keep her son cool, especially during the summer.
“It’s a very expensive item and for a toddler, who is going to outgrow it pretty quickly,” Ashley said.
After that conversation the unit made a decision that may change Charlie Bergman’s life.
“We were told about Charlie needing a cooling vest to help keep him from having seizures,” Dorzweiler said. “They wanted to raise some money for it and I thought we just raised a bunch of money for Octoberfest.”
So the unit made the purchase, but kept it a secret from Ashley and Patrick, surprising them as Charlie went to see Santa at Big Creek Crossing last weekend.
“I had no clue,” Ashley said. “I am very surprised they kept it a secret for over a month,” as her mother-in-law and sister-in-law were both in on the surprise.
“Having a cool vest being able to regulate his temperature a little bit is going to be great,” Ashley said.
While the gift will certainly make a difference to young Charlie, giving back to the community is something the unit is more than familiar with, beginning with the unit’s formation.
“I sawa need for – when there have been some really hot fires – a setup or rehab system,” Dorzweiler said.
And so the Ellis County EMS began the process to purchase a mobile trailer to support local fire departments and law enforcement when the need arises.
“We raised money on our own to start a non-profit,” Dorzweiler said, in order to purchase the trailer.
The trailer features air conditioning, a bathroom, a freezer and a generator.
“That’s a project we’ve been working on for the last five years,” he said. “With that freezer we have cooling vests to help cool firefighter down,” the same system Ashley asked about for her son.
After taking out a loan for the trailer, the unit paid back the loan within a year and a half, but community support continues to come in through department fundraisers.
“Now we have extra money to give back to the community,” Dorzweiler said.
“The community gives to us, so it’s time for us to give back,” said Mike Fields, who also serves in the unit.
As for little Charlie, he is helping the community as well.
“Charlie is only two and a half and he is making such an impact on the community,” Ashley said. “It’s great to raise that awareness and let the community know what’s going on and have the community support us.”
As the Hays USD 489 Board of Education continues to discuss the upcoming bond measure slated for a spring election, the next step is securing funding, one that will put board representatives in front of the Hays City Commission at its Jan. 7 Commission work session.
The school board is hopeful a sales tax increase will offset the mill levy to help pay for the $94 million effort to update facilities throughout the district.
The board heard options for the sales tax from Dustin Avey, managing director at Piper Jaffray & Co., including a 0.25 percent general sales tax and a 0.5 percent special sales tax.
Ellis County currently uses the special sales tax to fund projects including the Ellis County Courthouse renovations and the new EMS building, but that tax is expected to expire in October 2018.
The county has no intention of renewing that tax at that time, according to Bill Jeter, board counsel.
Approaching the city to explore the tax could delay the bond election, something the significantly lower cost would justify.
“I think if we wait till May, it will be worth it to do that,” said Superintendent Dean Katt.
Both Katt and board President Lance Bickle will approach the city commission at the January meeting.
The board also discussed the potential that adding the tax question to the upcoming bond election might force the election to be a walk-in election, rather than the preferred mail-in election, due to limitations in state law on what can be included on a mail election.
“We’ll have to clarify that,” Katt said.
Either way, voters will have the option to vote for the sales taxes independently from the bond issue, but the sales tax would only be implemented if the bond measure is passed.
In either scenario, property owners in Hays will not see the increase until after next year.
“When voters get their tax bill next January, it will reflect this project,” Avey said.
At the Hays USD 489 Board of Education meeting Monday night, the board unanimously rejected the sole bid for HVAC systems for Hays Middle School due to the bid coming in significantly higher than budgeted.
The district will now seek new bids with more open standards in order to find a bid that comes in under budget. The received bid totaled $1.74 million, however, the district only budgeted $1.3 million for the project.
Even with a bond issue election expected in the spring, the project needs to begin soon in order to be completed over the summer.
“Every building, every day, we are doing something with HVAC,” said Rusty Lindsay, director of buildings and grounds, during the Oct. 5 meeting in which the board approved the bidding process to begin.
With the bid coming in at $493,000 over budget, Lindsay proposed rejecting the bid and immediately rebidding the project with a broader scope of requirements.
“We can’t fund it. There is no way,” he said.
Broadening the scope of the requirements might lower the cost during the next bidding process as other manufactures produce different control systems, according to Lindsay, but the outcome would still allow for an off-site, online-based interface.
The new system, however, might not be compatible with the existing control systems, meaning two interfaces would be used to control the entire facility.
The system upgrade was requested as a cost-cutting measure as the current system is almost 20 years past its expected lifespan and replacing the old system would be cost prohibitive, especially if the original insulation – likely asbestos – were to be removed from the building.
The new system is also expected to add cooling to the facility’s gym and locker room, but with higher efficiency systems, the cost for expanding cooling would be offset by savings.
In another swing at the Ellis County Coalition for Economic Development, one Hays city commissioner accused the organization of being incompetent, or worse, intentionally hiding important information from the commission during Thursday night’s work session. However, the accusations were found to be unwarranted as neither claim was found to be the fault of the Coalition staff.
The accusations came on the heels of the commission selecting Vice Mayor Shaun Musil to assume the role Henry Schwaller had as the city’s representative on the ECCED Board of Directors. Schwaller told the commission, however, that he had a condition for that measure.
“I would absolutely support him representing and serving this body,” Schwaller said, if “he remains very firm with this group, plays the role of devil’s advocate and makes sure they stick to what they say they are doing.”
He further elaborated his concerns to the commission.
“I have two concerns,” Schwaller said. “We did not fund them unless they provided an update by the end of the year. … Where is that update?”
Later in the meeting, Hays City Manager Toby Dougherty explained the Coalition board — a board Schwaller served on — had called for the delay.
“We did have it scheduled for this month, an update on Coalition activities. We also had the economic policy revisions and the Coalition board wanted another chance to review those revisions before we brought it to you to make sure they were OK with them. … (Coalition Executive Director Aaron White) and I talked and moved both of those to the first work session in January,” Dougherty said.
Schwaller’s second concern centered around a company that operates in both Hays and Ellis.
“I learned today, actually last night, via another person, that the company that used to be called Wheelchairs of Kansas, also known as Sizewise, has relocated its headquarters to Johnson County and that is being trumpeted as a win by the by the Kansas Department of Commerce,” Schwaller said. “How is this a win and when did the Coalition know one of our major employers, home-grown in Ellis County, left?”
“It’s not good,” Musil said.
“So they had told us nothing — either they didn’t know, or they have been hiding the fact,” Schwaller said.
However, neither situation was true as the change has no impact on the Ellis/Hays operations, according to Sizewise. “We were in Kansas City, Mo., and we moved to Lenexa, Kan.,” John Blackburn, Sizewise marketing coordinator told Hays Post. “Nothing changed over there.”
“I want to consider ourselves having a split headquarters,” between Ellis/Hays and the Kansas City area, he said. “The (office) that moved was the Kansas City, Mo., to Lenexa (office).”
“Nobody from Ellis County did move, but a big portion of our operation is in the Kansas City area,” Blackburn said. “I don’t know if that affects Ellis County. It would probably be statewide.”
White declined to comment on last week’s statements.
While the Coalition is scheduled to appear before the Commission, it will miss the end of the year deadline set by the Commission and may be unrelated to the organizations funding.
“I’m concerned because, in order to receive funding for next year, the coalition was supposed to report to us…by the end of this month, otherwise they don’t get funding,” Schwaller said in a phone interview after the story posted online.
Schwaller was also concerned that the information about Sizewise was not presented to the Commission in a timely fashion, another in a trend of situations not reported to the Commission.
“The point is this is one of four things, we have either read about on the Hays Post or have heard second hand, when Aaron should contact the commission first.”
In the spirit of the holiday season, strangers and community members have come together to help Hays resident, Cody Baker, raise money for a service dog.
Baker has battled cancer for a decade. He and his doctors believe a service dog would significantly improve Baker’s quality of life.
One such stranger, Hays native Daniel Moritz, took initiative to help Baker accomplish his goal.
“I actually don’t know Cody,” Moritz said, “I just happened to be scrolling through Facebook and saw a post about him … by Hays Post.”
Many people in the comments section were asking if there was a GoFundMe page setup for donations, Moritz said. GoFundMe is a crowdfunding website designed to raise money for personal goals and life events.
“After a day or two, no one had replied about there being one (GoFundMe page), so I messaged Cody and asked him if it would be OK if I helped out and started one and he was OK with that,” Moritz said, “From there on, he and I have been sharing it in hopes that others will see it and share it and donate if possible.”
As of Monday morning, just more than $3,000 has been raised via the site.
For anyone who would like to donate, they can visit the GoFundMe page.
We’re now thinking that there are almost two dozen Kansas House Republicans and eight GOP senators who are wondering as Christmas approaches whether there’s going to be a hole in their stockings in next year’s elections when voters drop their votes into the ballot box.
The question? It’s simply whether the top of the ballot is going to have an effect on their race and their chance to return to the Statehouse after the election.
Those House and Senate Republicans? They are the ones who won election but represent districts that Republican Gov. Sam Brownback lost to Democratic challenger Rep. Paul Davis, D-Lawrence.
For legislative candidates, there’s nothing quite as nice as voters making their party affiliation clear at the top of the ballot, or at least near the top where state office candidates are listed, and then figuring, well, if we like the governor, we probably ought to send some friends of his to work with him in the Legislature.
Except for those 23 Republican House and eight Senate members who won their election in districts where the majority of their voters checked the Paul Davis box.
Makes it look like there maybe isn’t that top of the ballot and down party solidarity that most party members like.
Sure, there are those voters who like to view themselves as pretty cosmopolitan, not being stuck with just one party. And, there are those voters who maybe were startled by the governor’s motorcycle roaring beside them and decided that mufflers are almost as important as school finance technicalities.
Now there are, of course, those House and Senate members who got elected before Brownback was first elected in 2010, and who spend the time and effort to get to know their constituents. Those lucky few are multi-term regulars, they haven’t done anything offensive to their districts and maybe have been lucky enough to get their constituents things they want, whether it’s a highway off-ramp or keeping the state offices open in the district.
So, we’re probably going to see a new style of campaigning this year on the legislative level, where almost everything that Brownback has gotten accomplished in the past five sessions—six by the time the voters head to the polls next year—becomes a potential campaign issue.
Do you want to stand next to Brownback for a photograph that will be distributed in a district that voted in the majority against him? Do you want to take credit for supporting him on an issue or two that have some local interest, or do you want to take credit for voting against issues that the guy who lost the vote among your constituents tried to get passed?
With the governor not standing for re-election and essentially getting to cruise through the rest of his term, where do Republicans go?
Is there the chance that legislators who saw Davis win in their districts find something that they can challenge the governor on? Like maybe those tax cuts that the governor championed. Or do they stick with Brownback and figure that voters know that he’s going to be there for a couple more years and it is in their constituents’ best interests to stay on his good side?
Frankly, there aren’t many in the Statehouse who are certain which is the best tack.
Did Republicans who won in districts that Davis carried show independence from the governor, or did they just get lucky because they tossed candy to the right children and grandchildren in the summer parades? Did Democratic candidates in those districts just not link tightly enough with Davis to ride his victory in the district to the Statehouse? Or were those Davis votes merely “acting out” by Republicans—and the figures are that many Republicans crossed their party line to vote for Davis.
And, there is always the chance that Kansans are seeing the governor’s office as a distinct level of government not directly tied to the Legislature. The governor proposes, the Legislature disposes. Sorta that “separation of powers” business, isn’t it?
We’re not going to know for 11 months, but that schism for Republicans in districts carried by Davis may show up on the floor of the House and Senate next session, and look for party-line voting in each chamber (with, of course, the moderate Republican but not-quite-Democrat contingent) to thin a bit. This may be the election when for many candidates it makes political sense to frustrate the governor—even of their own party—if it will draw support from voters who will likely never see the name Brownback on another ballot.
And look also for the top-top of the ballot presidential race to shift some votes but it generally isn’t tactically clever to link a House or Senate race to a president who will spend more time flying across Kansas than actually standing in the state.
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BOLIVAR, Mo. – Rob Davis scored a career-high 29 points and Dom Samac added 20 to lead the Fort Hays State Tigers to n 83-66 win over Southwest Baptist Saturday afternoon at the Meyer Sports Center. The Tigers close out the 2015 portion on a four-game win streak and are now 9-2 overall and 3-2 in the MIAA. The Bearcats drop to 6-4 and 2-3 in the conference.
Mark Johnson Postgame Interview
Game Highlights
The Tigers fell behind 6-0 to start the game but close the first half on a 12-2 run to lead 40-31 at halftime. They would push the lead as high as 22 in the second half before settling for the 17-point victory.
The Tigers shot 60-percent from the floor, hitting 9-of-21 from beyond the arc. Davis was 10-of-15 from the floor, grabbed six rebounds and dished out five assists with no turnovers in 33 minutes.
Hays Mayor Eber Phelps and Vice-Mayor Shaun Musil agree the state’s declining revenue problem has trickled down to local governing bodies.
By BECKY KISER Hays Post
Hays city commissioners gave their full support to fellow commissioner Henry Schwaller’s proposal Thursday night to develop an alliance with Ellis County and Hays USD 489 to share resources and cut costs.
“I think it’s a great idea,” said Vice-Mayor Shaun Musil. “When we all get elected, whether it’s city, county or school board, our first interest is our communities.
“It’s almost scary what’s going on in the economy. We don’t really know what’s going to happen.” Musil acknowledged the financial struggle of the Hays school district “because of state issues. The city has done a great job managing our finances very well because we can control most of it,” he added.
Noted economists have predicted current financial trends, such as low oil prices and declining state revenues, may continue for the next 18 to 24 months, according to Schwaller.
The declining state revenues are a particular affront to Mayor Eber Phelps, a former longtime Democratic state representative for Hays in the 111th District.
“We are, in my opinion, forced into this situation,” Phelps said. “We’ve got to figure something out.”
“The state eliminated one-third of its revenue stream. They keep struggling in Topeka, taking money from the Kansas Department of Transportation, etc.”
Phelps said he checked Wednesday with the Kansas Revisor of Statutes office and was told “we’d have $1 billion in the state coffers if the third leg of the revenue stool had not been eliminated by removal of the income tax for LLCs and proprietorships and so forth.”
He described the revenue shortage as “self-inflicted” and added “it’s trickled down to school districts especially, and even to county and city governments.
“The other thing is in trying to recover all this, the state has increased sales tax not once, but twice, and they’ve increased fees all over the place. That was a nice little tool for local governments. I know our school district is talking about a sales tax increase (to finance building improvements) but the fact of the matter there’s already been two recent state sales tax increases and there is a third increase in another area.
“That elimination of the income tax has just been the most detrimental thing that I’ve seen in many, many years here in our state,” Phelps concluded.
Commissioners directed Hays City Manager Toby Dougherty to contact the county and school board to schedule an initial joint alliance meeting early in January.
During the Hays City Commission work session on December 17th, Hays City Commissioner Henry Schwaller called for a special meeting of the Ellis County Commission, Hays City Commission and Board of Education of USD 489 to discuss development of an alliance to share resources and cut costs.
“It is critical that all elected officials in Ellis County work together. We face difficult financial challenges – both locally and statewide – and we must identify areas where all local units of government can collaborate and share assets, ideas and resources. In today’s environment, no successful organization operates as it has in the past. We must begin building partnerships among local governments that benefit all Ellis County residents.”
Schwaller also noted that current financial and economic trends, such as low oil prices and declining state revenues, may continue for next 18 to 24 months.
“Current global events have a dramatic effect impact on our local economy, and most economists do not expect to see any changes soon. That said, I believe that if we act now, we can weather this storm. Ellis County has faced challenging times in the past. But our history tells us that when we work together, we can overcome any adversity.”
After the first joint meeting in early 2016, Schwaller envisions the group expanding to include Ellis and Victoria and holding regularly scheduled meetings at least four times a year.
At only 21 years old, Alex Munsch has went from body builder to model to entrepreneur. His newest venture, a million-dollar fitness facility – Munsch Fitness, 1104 E. 22nd – is set to open soon, promising to be the most technologically advanced fitness facility in Kansas.
“I just wanted to carry my passion to Hays. I love Hays,” Munsch said. “I wanted to give the people a good place to work out.”
After considering his options, Munsch began looking for a place to build in Hays, working with a wide spectrum of local businesses to build the facility.
“I had been looking for land for a long time to build one, and I just couldn’t get anything around Hays,” Munsch said.
That all changed when David Randa, owner of Reliable Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning, began building an almost 13,000-square-foot facility just off of Vine on 22nd streets.
“I just stumbled across this building. He was putting it up, and I saw a for-rent sign in front,” Munsch said. “It was all build-to-suit, and it turned out really good.”
Munsch is renting the building for now, with plans to purchase later, but in the meantime has designed the facility to perfectly suit his needs.
“I designed the whole building myself, and it turned out awesome, just how I envisioned it,” he said.
While the building is impressive in its own right, the equipment that is being brought into the facility will set it apart from anything else in the area, Munsch said.
“We have everything from cardiovascular machines, sectionalized equipment, free weights, you name it,” he said.
His experience has given him the vast knowledge to pick the best equipment for the gym.
“I’ve been all around the world, worked out on all the best equipment,” Munsch said. “I know what works, I know what’s good for you joints, I know what’s good for the natural motions of your body, so we’re going to have all the best in here,”
Along with the best fitness equipment, Munsch will also offer related features to make a fully integrated facility, including a coffee bar, tanning beds and a detox sauna.
“I only want the best,” Munsch said. “We have one stand-up (tanning bed) and three lay-downs. … They’re really, really good tanning beds.”
The coffee/smoothie bar will add a place to relax in the facility with a fireplace, TV and tables for members to gather. The bar will be run by another local business owner from Hays.
“It’s going to be pretty cool,” Munsch said.
State-of-the-art technology will also help keep the facility clean with an Air Knight system installed in the building.
“It goes in the ductwork and, every night, it coats all the equipment with peroxide,” Munsch said. “You can actually bring anthrax in this building, and it will kill it.”
Originally, the building was set to open Jan. 1, but equipment delays have hampered that time frame.
“All the equipment is Cybex. It’s all brand new,” Munsch said. “They’re building our equipment from scratch, so it’s actually taking a little longer than we thought, so our equipment is actually getting delivered Jan. 11, so we will be open no later than the 13th or 14th.”
Despite the delay, Munsch said it will be worth the wait to ensure Hays has access to the best equipment available.
“The amount of technology going into this place is nuts,” he said. “Kansas does not have a place this technologically advanced, as far as gyms go.”
For Munsch, building this facility in Hays was only the next step in a blossoming career in fitness, starting as a body builder in high school, turning into an in-demand fitness model.
“I’m only 21 right now, I actually started doing competitions and getting into weight lifting when I was in middle school,” Munsch said. “I take a lot of pride in it.”
Now that desire for fitness has turned Munsch into a big name in the fitness modeling world, having recently signed with Silver Model Management.
“As I progressed in competitions, I kept getting noticed by known photographers and starting taking some photo shoots here and there,” he said. “My name exploded overnight, I got really well known. I fly all over the world to do photo shoots.”
Even with his success, Munsch felt staying local and giving back to the area was important.
“This is bigger than just myself, it’s for the community,” he said. “I really want to bring everybody together, I want to help people help themselves.”
For Munsch, giving people a better life begins with proper fitness.
“I feel like if you work out, you stay healthy you’re going to have a better life. … I really want to help people do that,” he said.
With the center, he hopes to accomplish the goal of helping people become more fit.
“This is the next step in the building the better you. … This is the best place you can build yourself up, because we have so many encouraging people here, we’re going to have a great atmosphere,” he said. “This is what I love to do, this is my job, so I really know what I’m talking about when it comes to this.”
LEAWOOD — AMC Theatres announced on Wednesday that it has completed its $172 million acquisition of Starplex Cinemas, according to a corporate media release.
Starplex Cinemas operate three theaters in Kansas, with locations in Hays, Salina and Pittsburg. The Hays Starplex is located inside Big Creek Crossing, 2918 Vine.
Starplex owns 33 theatres with 346 screens in 12 states, primarily in small and mid-size markets. Included among the circuit are 90 recliner-reseated screens, with AMC planning to convert an additional 80 screens to recliner seating over the next several years.
“We are very pleased to welcome the Starplex Cinemas theatres into the AMC family, as we expand our guest experience strategy into new markets,” said AMC interim CEO Craig Ramsey.
“We welcome our new Starplex colleagues to AMC. We are excited to add their talents and are proud of their shared commitment with our AMC associates to delivering a unique and high-quality guest experience.”
AMC indicates that ticket prices will not change as they take ownership of Starplex. Through early to mid-January, tickets can still be purchased on the Starplex website, StarplexCinemas.com.
In later January, AMC expects to re-direct all Starplex online ticket purchases to their website, AMCTheatres.com, where each location will have its own page.
AMC said they will honor the value of any previously purchased Starplex tickets and gift cards. Anyone who has already purchased Starplex tickets and gift cards will be able to use them as usual over the next few weeks at any Starplex theatre.
In early January, all Starplex gift cards will be converted into an AMC gift card or ticket.
Starplex’s Star Rewards program will be replaced by the AMC Stub program effective January 8th.
AMC has set up a special section on their website designed to answer all questions pertaining to AMC’s purchase of Starplex. It can be found by clicking here.
With the acquisition of Starplex Cinemas, AMC now operates 379 locations and 5,261 screens located primarily in the United States.
The need to find qualified workers in the restaurant industry is a pervasive problem, especially in northwest Kansas, but Philip Kuhn, chairman of the culinary arts program at NCK Tech, hopes to change that with a recent move and expansion of the program in Hays.
“The program actually has been in Beloit for years now,” Kuhn said. “Last year, they contacted me looking to move it to Hays.”
The program had been working in the kitchen facilities in the Rose Garden Banquet Hall, 2530 E. Eighth, but a consolidation of that business from a separate facility in the Hadley Center, 205 E. Seventh, by the Rose Garden owners opened kitchen space in the Hadley Center – giving the NCK program opportunities for expansion.
“We kind of swapped kitchens this year,” Kuhn said. “When it was all said and done, we needed a bigger kitchen.”
The move was precipitated by an increase in students in the program.
“I started out with a class of seven students last year,” he said.
This year, the program has 16 students and Kuhn wants to see the program grow even bigger.
“I’m hoping to even go up to 24 students next year,” he said.
While the move didn’t happen overnight, the addition of signage to the Hadley Building signified the completion of the move into the space.
“Three weeks ago, we got most of the signage changed out, so we’re all moved in and I’m teaching out of there this year,” Kuhn said.
The program will allow more students to enroll and work toward a career in food service.
“What we’re trying to do (is) educate the students into the idea of food service, whether it be quick cooking, line cooking, there’s a lot of different aspects to the food service industry that people don’t realize,” Kuhn said. “With that education … comes a higher quality of product.”
Kuhn is hopeful that expanded education in the field will bolster food service in the area.
“I’m hoping that within a few years you can see that expand into restaurants and you’ll see a higher quality product come out in some of these restaurants,” he said.
The program offerings are not be related to a specific area of food service, giving students flexibility and incorporating many areas of the restaurant industry.
“I always ask students when they first come in, ‘What do you want to do with this?’ ” Kuhn said, a question he repeats halfway through the semester to ensure students are getting from the program what they need.
“The possibilities are really endless,” he said. “There’s nutrition, there’s line cooking, there’s banquet cooking, you can go on and manage a restaurant.”
Students could also work as a food distributor or in the hospitality industry in a hotel, casino or on a cruise ship.
Students from the program also leave Serv-Safe certified, a nationally recognized food safety handling certification.
“That alone gets some of the students in to the door a lot easier,” Kuhn said. “It’s a neat program, and it’s fairly new to this community. Hopefully, we just keep working and get the education out there and see more and more success in our restaurant industry here.”
