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An unidentified victim who was taken to a hospital on Aug. 10 and later died has been identified as a man who was reported missing recently.
A Kansas City, Kansas, police spokesman stated today that the Kansas City, Kansas, Fire Department answered a call and found an unresponsive male at 7th and State Avenue, who was taken to a hospital and died of natural causes.
The victim was John Hoytal, 74, Kansas City, Kansas, who was later reported missing, according to police.
by Kelly Rogge, KCKCC
Kansas City Kansas Community College will hold its fourth annual Women’s Equality Day luncheon and program, honoring a familiar face at KCKCC – Dr. Jacqueline Vietti.
The event is noon to 1:30 p.m. Aug. 24 in the Upper Jewell building on the KCKCC Main Campus, 7250 State Ave. It is free and open to the public.
Women’s Equality Day commemorates the granting of women the right to vote in the United States. First proposed in 1878, women known as suffragettes worked for more than 40 years to gain equal voting rights. Some would try to pass suffrage acts in individual states. Others organized parades, vigils or even hunger strikes.
After President Woodrow Wilson changed his position and started supporting a woman’s right to vote, other politicians soon followed his lead. On Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was certified as law, and since 1972, every president has issued a proclamation for Women’s Equality Day.
“It’s important that we recognize the hard work it took to win the right to vote and continue to work diligently on the issues and inequities that women still face today,” said Jennifer Gieschen, coordinator of Women and Gender Advocacy at KCKCC.
Vietti, who served as acting president at KCKCC from July 2017 until June 2018, is a lifelong Kansas resident, born and raised in Eureka Kansas. She graduated cum laude from Kansas State University with a Bachelor of Science in biological sciences in 1971. She later graduated with honors from Pittsburg State University with a Master of Science in Community College Teaching and received her doctorate in Adult and Occupational Education from Kansas State. She also participated in the National Institute for Leadership Development with the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges.
Vietti served as president of Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kansas, for 17 years before retiring in 2012. She then served as interim president of Emporia State University for six months in 2015 and as a consultant and facilitator for the Kansas Community College Leadership Institute. Past positions include coordinator of instructional projects, associate dean, dean of instruction and interim president at Labette Community College in Parsons, Kansas, and dean of arts and science/instruction at Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri.
KCKCC’s Women’s Equality Day event is co-hosted by Women and Gender Advocacy Services of the Counseling and Advocacy Center, the American Association of University Women and the Intercultural Center.
For more information or to RSVP, contact Laquita English at lenglish@kckcc.edu or by phone at 913-288-7640 or Jennifer Gieschen atgieschen@kckcc.edu or 913-288-7193.
A downtown Kansas City, Kansas, grocery store is on the agenda for tonight’s Unified Government Economic Development and Finance Committee meeting. The meeting will follow a 5 p.m. meeting in the fifth floor conference room at City Hall.
The committee agenda includes a proposed management agreement for the UG and Community Mercantile , the proposed manager of the store. If the agreement and resolutions are approved by the committee, they would move forward to the full UG Commission meeting at 7 p.m. Aug. 30.
The grocery store is proposed for 5th and Minnesota, in the northeast corner of a parking lot across from the Reardon Convention Center and also across from the former EPA building.
It will be a 12,000 to 14,000-square-foot full-service grocery store, according to the agreement. The store may have a café, and an outdoor farmer’s market may be located nearby.
The proposed agreement calls for the UG to reimburse the manager up to $150,000 in expenses during a period from 60 days before the store’s grand opening and the first two quarterly accounting periods.
Under the proposed agreement, the UG would establish a stabilization fund reserve account of $540,000. The UG would be authorized to draw upon the stabilization fund reserve account if the quarterly sales stabilization benchmark has not been achieved during the first three years of the term. The manager could withdraw funds from the reserve account that would total a percentage of the revenue shortfall, in amounts that are established in a table in the agreement. The proposed agreement calls for the grocery store manager to pay a fee to the UG each quarter of 3.5 percent of gross revenues exceeding the quarterly sales.
The manager of the store would be responsible to pay the UG taxes and payments in lieu of taxes, under the proposed agreement. The manager also would pay for any store improvements and for utilities.
Tax-increment bonds could be issued for the financing of the Downtown Grocery Redevelopment District, according to the proposed resolution.
A proposed resolution would authorize the UG administrator to enter into contracts of up to $6 million for the planning, design, construction and stabilization reserve fund for a downtown grocery store.
The project would follow a development plan, where the UG would work together with the manager on the plans.
A public hearing on the Downtown Grocery Redevelopment District is proposed for 7 p.m. Oct. 11 at City Hall, Commission Chambers.
The EDF Committee meeting follows the Neighborhood and Community Development Committee meeting at 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 20, in the fifth floor conference room, City Hall, 701 N. 7th St., Kansas City, Kansas.