A $484 million annual budget. $45 million in annual capital improvements. Over $100 million in COVID relief funds. These are the dollars a Sedgwick County resident can influence by participating in Sedgwick County Commission meetings. Here’s how. Where to find Sedgwick County meeting times and locations The county posts meeting dates, times and locations up […]
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‘It wasn’t professional’: Leadership the No. 1 reason employees left Sedgwick County, survey finds
When Andrew Benson was promoted to a supervisor position at Sedgwick County Emergency Communications in 2017, it wasn’t a position he expected to leave after just two years. “I thought it could be a real career path for me,” Benson said. “Where I was doing good in the world.” As his colleagues took 911 calls […]
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How a statewide anti-masking group played into Sedgwick County’s mask mandate vote
a Wichita Beacon analysis of over 1,000 emails county commissioners received ahead of the vote on the mask mandate found that anti-mask emails outweighed pro-mask emails by nearly two to one.
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The number of seniors is growing. Can Sedgwick County keep up?
Diane Pope, 72, first ventured into Linwood Senior Center six years ago. Her husband had died years earlier, and Pope felt “just lonely, lonely, lonely.” As a shy and introverted person, she was skeptical whether she could find community there. But after stopping by Linwood for the first time, a staff member chased her down […]
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What a long-awaited expansion to the community crisis center would mean for Sedgwick County
For all 22 years of his life, Vicente Granados knew exactly what he wanted to be: a bullfighter. Even in grade school, he dressed up as a rodeo clown for the wax museum assignment, said his sister Esther Granados. That’s how she remembers him best — the passionate bullfighter, the committed brother nicknamed “Boy.” […]