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Gardner council adopts municipal-court housekeeping ordinance and authorizes condemnation for Lone Star Prairie sewer
Summary
The Gardner City Council approved ordinance changes to municipal-court fees and dockets and voted to begin condemnation proceedings and an accompanying ordinance to secure easements for a 12-inch sewer main needed by the Lone Star Prairie development.
GARDNER, Kan. — The Gardner City Council on Oct. 24 adopted a municipal-court housekeeping ordinance and approved steps to acquire easements for a sewer needed by the Lone Star Prairie residential development.
City staff told the council the municipal-court amendment (Ordinance 2,812) updates Chapter 2.5 of the Gardner Municipal Code to allow the municipal judge to assess all fees permitted by statute — examples staff cited included crime-lab, witness and housing fees — and to formally add established traffic court dockets to the code. "We decided that it was probably time that we actually officially add those traffic dockets as part of this amendment," a city staff presenter said, asking council to adopt the…
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