Richard Chesney has been chosen to serve as Interim City Manager for Arkansas City, starting January 4, after current City Manager Steve Archer's resignation becomes official.
Commissioners interviewed him and Jay Newton, another candidate, during an executive session, or non-public meeting, Thursday evening. After the interviews commissioners came to a consensus on hiring Chesney. They will vote and make it official at the regular meeting next Tuesday.
Chesney is to start Jan. 4. He will be paid $2,000 per week and will also receive use of a city car, or a car reimbursement. He will stay in Arkansas City during the week, Mayor Patrick McDonald said.
The city will then begin a search for a regular full time permanent City Manager.
Over the past few years the city has had two city managers over a relatively short period of time.
We are looking forward to experience of his kind. Our community will benefit from this. Welcome Richard Chesney. We need a new face and to have the benefit of your skills and resources.
ReplyDeleteIf you happen to miss it - there is an article online from Kansas.com -http://www.kansas.com/2010/12/17/1637871/a-random-assortment-of-new-local.html
ReplyDeleteTitled 14 new rankings from Kansas census data:
They list 14 categories and percentages for each town or city.
% Living in poverty
#1 St. Mary's is at 43.8%
2 Benton 40.4
11 Emporia 27.3
23 Coffeyville 22.0
39 Arkansas City 18.8
41 Burden 18.7
68 Wellington 15.8
73 Winfield 15.7
138 Derby 12.1
144 Augusta 11.4
174 Mulvane 9.6
254 Overland Park 4.6
255 Kechi 4.5
267 Andover 3.0
273 Rose Hill 2.5
282 Ozawkie 0.6
High school graduation percentages:
#1 Mission Hills 100.0%
206 Winfield 85.4
226 Arkansas City 84.0
Those are just random out of that list!
But I think it is more tha evident the percentage of poverty is tied to the private sector success rate of those communities and also the number of people who rely on State Federal programs!
If your interested see the rest of the article!
Btw: Median Home Values is the first of their
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#1 Mission Hills $833,000 (NO WONDER THEY
HAVE A 100%
GRADUATION RATE)
6 Derby 220,800
15 Andover 162,700
20 Kechi 156,300
39 Rose Hill 124,200
48 Mulvane 113,500
61 ElDorado 103,100
68 Augusta 98,600
122 Winfield 81,300
216 Arkansas City 54,800
273 Burden 36,500
286 Maple City 18,100
Some times numbers speak louder than words!
Numbers are words. Just a different language.
ReplyDelete@8:48 "Those are just random out of that list"
ReplyDeleteAre you sure you know what random means? You selected them, cut and pasted them, they are not random.
Also, if you mean to say "you are," then 'your' should be spelled "you're."
You are obviously one of the 16% dragging us down. If you move to St. Mary's they would probably write you in as mayor - given, of course, they can write.
Are you sure you know what random means? You selected them, cut and pasted them, they are not random.
ReplyDeleteDidn't cut or paste - they are progressive and pulled randomly out of that list! Did you bother to read it?
Some of them are to show the extremes and others are to show a picture locally!
I'm glad "you're" here to edit my posts - but, it's too bad that's all you have to contibute!
Btw: Did you look at the
ReplyDeletePercent of vacant homes
#1 Marion 46.4%
12 Burden 26.9
38 Ark City 20.0 (Isn't that 1 out of
every 5 homes?:)
51 Oxford 18.3
67 Belle Plaine 17.0
92 Coffeyville 14.6
96 Wellington 14.3
116 Winfield 13.2
181 Derby 8.8
228 Andover 5.3
243 Augusta 4.5
254 Mulvane 3.7
262 Rose Hill 3.1
281 Hoyt .07 Probably all
related:)