Category: Unified Government Commission

Today’s public meetings

Special school board meeting today

A special board meeting of the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, at the offices of McAnany, Van Cleave and Phillips law firm, 10 E. Cambridge Circle Drive, Suite 300, Kansas City, Kansas. It is open to the public.

The agenda includes the human resources report and recommendations; an executive closed session to discuss matters of nonelected personnel; and possible board discussion on legislative priorities, facilities committee and camera community forum. A review of the solicitation policy BBC is on the agenda. Also on the agenda is professional development for the board by Dr. Marcia Weseman.

UG Arts subcommittee to meet today

The Unified Government’s Public Arts and Placemaking Subcommittee is scheduled to meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, virtually and at the fifth floor conference room at City Hall, 701 N. 7th St., Kansas City, Kansas. Topics on the agenda include meeting expectations, determining their subcommittee’s work, evaluation, a toolbox inventory of what they need and next steps.

The public may watch in the conference room or virtually online at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89543655808?pwd=K05kV0IwdVgwTEdQNEtrbUI0ajc2dz09. The meeting ID is 895 4365 5808 and the passcode is 525881.

BPU to meet tonight

The Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Public Utilities is scheduled to meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16.

The work session at 5 p.m. will be followed by a regular meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Topics on the agenda for the 5 p.m. meeting include a board update, general manager update, the 2023 budget plan for capital improvements and a discussion of redistricting for the BPU in Wyandotte County.

Also, the regular session at 6 p.m. Wednesday will have several topics on the agenda:

Public comment time will be followed by general manager and staff reports. A risk management policy resolution, water operations benchmarking and miscellaneous comments are on the agenda, along with board comments.

The public may call in to listen to the BPU meetings on their telephones, or the public may access the internet and click on a Zoom meeting button.

To join the Zoom meeting on the internet, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84523139724.

Those listening by telephone may call toll-free 1-888-475-4499. The meeting ID number is 845 2313 9724.

The board meeting information packet is available to the public at this link:
https://www.bpu.com/Portals/0/pdf/board-information-packet-11-16-22.pdf.


To see a story about this meeting, visit https://wyandotteonline.com/bpu-scheduled-to-meet-wednesday-3/

Today’s public meetings

School board Finance Committee to meet today

The Finance Committee of the Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Education will meet at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, at the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools Central Office and Training Center, 2010 N. 59th St., in the East Room.

Community Health, Recreation and Wellness Task Force Committee to meet Tuesday afternoon

A task force on community health, recreation and wellness will be conducted at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, by the Unified Government in the fifth floor conference room, Suite 515, at City Hall, 701 N. 7th St., Kansas City, Kansas. The meeting will be on Zoom.

To watch the meeting, click on https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89174582148?pwd=Z2ZMRjNISUNjZGtKd1Bkd2xFOTFoUT09.

The meeting ID is 891 7458 2148.

The passcode is 208947.

More information is at https://www.wycokck.org/Departments/Clerks-Office/Agendas-Minutes.

Charter ordinance subcommittee scheduled to meet today

The Unified Government Charter Ordinance Subcommittee is scheduled to meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, in a hybrid format. The meeting can be viewed in person on the fifth floor conference room at City Hall, 701 N. 7th St., Kansas City, Kansas, or virtually via Zoom.

The Zoom meeting is at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84372898888?pwd=YzJxUVNhQ0lFNDlDK250WU9OS2RyQT09.

The meeting ID is 843 7289 8888. The passcode is 163819.

More information is at https://www.wycokck.org/Departments/Clerks-Office/Agendas-Minutes.

County Administrator Selection Task Force meeting

The Unified Government’s County Administrator Selection Taskforce meeting is scheduled in person at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, in the sixth floor conference room at City Hall, 701 N. 7th St, Kansas City, Kansas. A meeting with GovHR search service is scheduled.

This meeting has been scheduled at the same time as the above Charter Ordinance Subcommittee meeting.

More information is at https://www.wycokck.org/Departments/Clerks-Office/Agendas-Minutes.

Environmental Sustainability and Green Energy Task Force meeting scheduled Tuesday

The Environmental Sustainability and Green Energy Task Force will meet from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, at City Hall, 701 N. 7th St., Kansas City, Kansas, or via Zoom.

At the meeting, the public may hear sustainability initiatives used by area regional communities. Ways to improve sustainability in Wyandotte County may be discussed.

More information is at https://www.wycokck.org/Departments/Clerks-Office/Agendas-Minutes.

Facebook marks a listing of UG government meeting times in Wyandotte Daily as ‘sexual solicitation’

A funny thing happened on the way to the virtual office

Opinion column

by Mary Rupert, Editor

Facebook last night marked the listing of UG government meeting times on the Wyandotte Daily page Monday as “sexual solicitation” and commented to the Wyandotte Daily that the meeting notice was a violation of their standards.

There was nothing sexual in the content, however, according to Wyandotte Daily Editor Mary Rupert. Facebook on Monday night did not let residents here see the link to the times and topics of the upcoming meetings, but they are on the Wyandotte Daily page at www.wyandottedaily.com.

The meetings were already started or over with at the time Facebook pulled the link to the story, except the Planning Commission meeting was still going on at 9 p.m. when Rupert checked the link to see what they were doing. The audio for this planning commission Zoom meeting didn’t work on the Rupert computer, so we won’t know for a while, until it comes out on YouTube, exactly what they said at that meeting. The bad technology prevented us from covering the meeting right away.

Rupert saw a Facebook note on Tuesday with this misclassification of violating their rules and filled out a form saying she disagreed with their decision that it was a violation. Although they said there was an opportunity for us to tell them why it wasn’t, they also said there was no one available to discuss this decision. There was no phone number given to call and no email to send to.

Within an hour or so of the disagreement with their determination, Facebook came back with an answer that it had changed its mind and now was restoring the post on Facebook.

Here is the text of Monday’s story whose link was deleted temporarily by Facebook. “Tonight” in this story refers to Monday’s meetings:

UG committees to meet tonight
Two Unified Government committees plan to meet tonight. In addition, the Board of Zoning Appeals and City Planning Commission will meet tonight.
The meetings are available to watch on YouTube, Zoom, UGTV cable channels and in person at City Hall.
The Public Works and Safety meeting at 5 p.m. Monday will be followed by the Administration and Human Services Committee meeting.

UG Public Works Committee

Agenda includes active assailant training drills; winter weather operations updates; and five-year capital maintenance and improvement program.

UG Administration and Human Services Committee

Resolution of support for increasing the base salary of sworn sheriff’s office employees; grant for reconnecting communities planning.

Planning Commission
Planning Commission information is at http://public.wycokck.org/sites/planning-agendas-minutes-staffreports/Agendas/November%202022%20CPC%20Agenda.pdf.

Rupert watched the UG standing committee meetings and said, believe me, they were nothing like “sexual solicitation.” She is not asking the UG to change anything or their style of those meetings.

Rupert asked readers not to rely solely on Facebook to see anything new that it posted in Wyandotte Daily, but also to check the Wyandotte Daily website at www.wyandottedaily.com for new information.

Facebook has been a great help to link our readers to new content, but we want to warn our readers that Facebook may remove that link on its own site, affecting your ability to follow the news. That’s why you should keep going to www.wyandottedaily.com to check the website. Facebook does not have any control over our WyandotteDaily.com website — we have our own editor. We have been monitoring our content for more years than they have, since we have been in existence longer, and we never printed sexual solicitations.

When we had technological issues in the past with our website, we were able to post on Facebook some of the content we couldn’t post yet on our own website, and that will probably continue. It was wonderful that we could do that as a stopgap. However, just letting you know that there could be stories posted on our website that are not linked on Facebook, for these above reasons. Facebook has no editorial control over the content on our Wyandotte Daily website.

If you disagree with something you see on the Wyandotte Daily website, you may send an email to Rupert at [email protected].

Another topic, thanks to Tony Warden

Thanks, Tony Warden, for your kind words in noticing when I am out for illness. Yes, I missed a few days of editing recently when I had to visit the hospital to work on cancer issues. Bonner people are very observant.

To reach Mary Rupert, editor, email [email protected].