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The summer can be a great time to catch up on different work, and students throughout USD 480’s secondary schools spent some time making progress on their academics through summer school.
As the coordinators tell it, much progress was indeed made by the program’s participants.
The adoption of a budget for the county encompasses the single most important responsibility for Seward County’s commissioners.
That from Administrator April Warden, who said at the commission’s most recent town hall meeting in Liberal, the board likewise holds the ultimate authority to approve and adopt a county budget.
“The commissioners have always allowed the department heads to be active in the budget work sessions and to hear from them what resources they need to run their department,” she said. “The department heads have always had an active role in that.”
Residents received their required Revenue Neutral Rate letters this past week, and some experienced sticker shock.
Between a “worst case scenario” report from Seward County coupled with a request for a half-cent sales tax, property tax and sales tax combined to be a revenue increase of 92.8 percent for Seward County alone.
A Liberal home suffered extensive damage as the result of a structure fire Tuesday afternoon.
Emergency personnel were called to the scene shortly before 3 p.m. Tuesday.
Students throughout USD 480 spent some extra time in the classroom this summer, and as the coordinators for the elementary school programs told it at the most recent USD 480 board meeting, there was much success seen.
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