Month: September 2018

KCKCC Board of Trustees changes board meeting times

by Kelly Rogge, KCKCC

The Kansas City Kansas Community College Board of Trustees recently approved a change to its monthly board meetings, allowing even more community members to attend and be a part of the process.

Beginning this month, Board of Trustees meetings will be at 5 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month in Upper Jewell on the KCKCC Main Campus, 7250 State Ave. The public is invited to attend the monthly meetings.

The two exceptions are the October meeting, to be held at the Pioneer Career Center (PCC) in Leavenworth and the April meeting, to be held at the Dr. Thomas R. Burke Technical Education Center. These will be held at 9 a.m. to give students greater opportunity to attend.

A list of KCKCC Board of Trustees meeting dates for the 2018-2019 academic year (all meetings are at 5 p.m. in Upper Jewell Building at 7250 State Ave. unless otherwise noted):

• Sept. 18
• Oct. 16 – 9 a.m. at PCC
• Nov. 13 (moved up one week because of Thanksgiving break)
• Dec. 18
• Jan. 15
• Feb. 19
• March 19
• April 16 – 9 a.m. at KCKCC-TEC
• May 21
• June 18

Members of the KCKCC Board of Trustees discussed over the summer the possibility of moving the time of monthly meetings to allow those in the Wyandotte and Leavenworth county communities greater access to attend.

Recognizing that many citizens work and are unable to take time away to attend meetings in the morning, the board ultimately decided to move meetings to the end of the day to make it easier for community members to attend.

Drive-by shooting, car burglaries, attempted arson reported

Among the incidents reported recently in Kansas City, Kansas, was a drive-by shooting in the 1900 block of North Allis on Sept. 15, according to police.

A house was struck three times around 10:50 p.m. It was the third time the house was hit in two weeks, police said.

• In a separate incident, attempted aggravated arson was reported Sept. 15 at a Kansas City, Kansas, fire station at 4th and Kansas Avenue. The Fire Department is investigating.

• A third incident concerns multiple car burglaries in the Piper area on Saturday night.

According to a police spokesman, officers were called about 2 a.m. to the area near 122nd Terrace and Pine Valley Drive, where 31 cars were entered and various items stolen. The cars were unlocked.