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ARMA —
The Arma City Council swore in a new council member at its Monday night meeting.
The council voted unanimously to appoint Arma resident Richard Kerley, a Kansas Gas Service employee who relocated to Arma from Fort Scott several years ago, to take over the position vacated by former council member Chris Pommier, who stepped down in November to teach full-time and coach at St. Mary’s Colgan High School. Kerley has had a long career in KGS, and will oversee the city’s water and sewer departments.
“I think my experience with working with the public could help the city,” Kerley said. “And I really like the town and its values.”
Arma residents Bill Sollner and Bob Banks also applied for the city. Mayor Buddy Bualle said he thought long and hard about the applicants and read their letters of application many times over.
“I think all three of you are highly qualified and would do a good job,” Bualle said.
The council also visited with members of Crawford County Rural Water Districts No. 2 and CCRWD No. 7 (Franklin) about the possibility of selling water to Franklin. Franklin currently purchases water from Dist. No. 2, and previously had a contract to purchase water from Arma, but ended it after negotiations to acquire the district had stalled. The city had entered a contract with Franklin in which the city would pay for the cost of installing the water line if Franklin purchased the materials. But Franklin never paid Arma the $11,000 the city says it owes for the construction.
District No. 7 board president Rick Elnicky said the district wants to purchase water from the city, but that the board doesn’t feel that it should have to pay Arma the $11,000 since it voided the contract. Bualle said the council sees things differently, and that if Franklin wants to purchase water, it has to pay the $11,000, either all at once or under some sort of payment agreement.
The Arma City Council is planning to attend the meeting between Districts No. 2 and No. 7 at 7 p.m. Thursday night at the Franklin Community Center.
The council also discussed several dangerous structures in town. Two of them, one at the corner of First and Palmer Streets and the other at the corner of Fourth and Main Streets, are abandoned and had received complaints about varmints living under them. Bualle asked Arma Police Chief Al Combs to have an officer take pictures of the residences so the council could review them at a later meeting.
The council examined three additional structures, to which city officials had issued notices to clean up. Of those, two of the owners had or are cleaning their properties.
The Arma City Council swore in a new council member at its Monday night meeting.
The council voted unanimously to appoint Arma resident Richard Kerley, a Kansas Gas Service employee who relocated to Arma from Fort Scott several years ago, to take over the position vacated by former council member Chris Pommier, who stepped down in November to teach full-time and coach at St. Mary’s Colgan High School. Kerley has had a long career in KGS, and will oversee the city’s water and sewer departments.
“I think my experience with working with the public could help the city,” Kerley said. “And I really like the town and its values.”
Arma residents Bill Sollner and Bob Banks also applied for the city. Mayor Buddy Bualle said he thought long and hard about the applicants and read their letters of application many times over.
“I think all three of you are highly qualified and would do a good job,” Bualle said.
The council also visited with members of Crawford County Rural Water Districts No. 2 and CCRWD No. 7 (Franklin) about the possibility of selling water to Franklin. Franklin currently purchases water from Dist. No. 2, and previously had a contract to purchase water from Arma, but ended it after negotiations to acquire the district had stalled. The city had entered a contract with Franklin in which the city would pay for the cost of installing the water line if Franklin purchased the materials. But Franklin never paid Arma the $11,000 the city says it owes for the construction.
District No. 7 board president Rick Elnicky said the district wants to purchase water from the city, but that the board doesn’t feel that it should have to pay Arma the $11,000 since it voided the contract. Bualle said the council sees things differently, and that if Franklin wants to purchase water, it has to pay the $11,000, either all at once or under some sort of payment agreement.
The Arma City Council is planning to attend the meeting between Districts No. 2 and No. 7 at 7 p.m. Thursday night at the Franklin Community Center.
The council also discussed several dangerous structures in town. Two of them, one at the corner of First and Palmer Streets and the other at the corner of Fourth and Main Streets, are abandoned and had received complaints about varmints living under them. Bualle asked Arma Police Chief Al Combs to have an officer take pictures of the residences so the council could review them at a later meeting.
The council examined three additional structures, to which city officials had issued notices to clean up. Of those, two of the owners had or are cleaning their properties.
