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Leawood council adopts two code cleanups and accepts third-quarter financial report
Summary
The governing body unanimously adopted two code-cleanup ordinances — clarifying emergency-government triggers and presiding-officer rotation — and accepted the 2025 third-quarter financial report, which showed an $8.9 million general-fund surplus at quarter end and a preliminary projection that could approximate a $2 million year-end surplus absent major emergencies.
Leawood — The City Council unanimously adopted two municipal-code cleanups on Nov. 3 and accepted the city's third-quarter financial report, which showed strong year-to-date results but left final year-end projections subject to additional review.
Clerk Stephen Powell presented the first ordinance to amend the emergency-government section of the municipal code. The change replaces an unclear clause about a catastrophe in which “all or majority of the governing body are fatally injured” with a clearer trigger — when a majority of…
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