Category: Communities

Rosedale annual meeting to be Thursday

The Rosedale Development Association will hold its annual meeting at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 10, at the Rainbow Mennonite Church, 1444 Southwest Blvd., Kansas City, Kansas.

The annual meeting was rescheduled from last year, and will be a come-and-go, open house-style meeting.

The RDA staff will have several booths that describe their successes and highlights of 2021, telling about their volunteers, inviting visitors to a community building game and asking residents to share their stories about Rosedale.

The event also will include some community partners with booths.

Local artist Elizabeth Johnston has designed coloring sheets for the event, and they will be placed at tables where people may sit and visit.

For more information, see https://rosedale.org/events/annual-meeting-2021/.

Grinter Jamboree to be March 9

The Grinter Jamboree will be from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 9, at the Grinter Place barn, 1400 S. 78th, Kansas City, Kansas.

There will be music and dancing, with the MP3 Band playing country favorites.

It will have a St. Patrick’s theme, with refreshments including green sherbet. The event is sponsored by the Grinter Place Friends.

Admission is $6 per person. Concessions will be available.

UG plans to reallocate Park Drive improvement funds to repair domestic shelter roof

A plan to reallocate $400,000 from the Park Drive Neighborhood Revitalization project to the Friends of Yates Domestic Violence shelter repair moved ahead at Monday night’s Unified Government Administration and Human Services Committee meeting.

Wilba Miller, director of Community Development, said $570,000 had been set aside last year for the Park Drive revitalization effort.

However, she said she received word from the domestic violence shelter that they needed a roof badly. It is the only domestic violence shelter located in Kansas City, Kansas, according to the UG authorities.

Miller recommended reallocating the Park Drive funding to the life-saving services of the domestic violence shelter emergency repair project. Currently, the UG is the only funding source for the roof repair, according to Miller.

The remaining $170,000 left in the fund would go to the Neighborhood Revitalization project to install a new disc golf course at City Park, she said.

A public hearing may be held March 31, with a 30-day comment period, she said.

If approved, this change in the plans for the funding would have to be submitted to the Housing and Urban Development Department for approval, she said. The category for funding would be the same, a public facility improvement, she said.

If the roof repair did not require the entire $400,000, the leftover funds would be redirected back to the City Park project, according to Miller.

The motion passed the UG Committee unanimously and will go to the full UG Commission for approval.