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County staff finalize legislative platform drafts, add election date language and senior-care funding requests
Summary
Staff briefed commissioners on edits to the Sedgwick County legislative platform ahead of a scheduled commission vote, including appropriations requests for senior services, new election-date language for special-question ballots, and notes about appraiser and election-office funding.
Tanya, a county legislative staff member, briefed commissioners on updates to Sedgwick County’s legislative platform and the changes staff plans to present at the commission meeting scheduled for formal adoption.
The platform changes highlighted funding requests from the county’s aging services partners: staff added language to "support" a request to increase base funding for the state Senior Care Act and to add funding for nutrition services for older adults. Tanya said the platform text currently lists a $5,000,000 request to the Senior Care Act base funding and $3,000,000 to nutrition services for older adults as items the county would support on appropriation grounds.
Tanya also…
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