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Johnson County Government

Wrangling between the county commission and Sheriff Calvin Hayden over preservation of Johnson County election ballots from years past is not over, even though the ballots have already been destroyed. State law requires the destruction of old ballots, but Attorney General...
Homes and businesses up and down Interstate 35, the Gardner-Edgerton area and western Olathe suffered more from the heat and humidity last summer than other parts of Johnson County, according to the results of a heat mapping study done...
The Johnson County commission approved a sheriff's office request for nearly $5 million to buy new Tasers, body cameras and other technology but only after some final haggling over how to pay for it. Ultimately, a divided commission at its...
County commissioners have taken the first step toward compliance with a state law that requires the destruction of ballots from past elections by voting to allow Chairman Mike Kelly to appoint two bipartisan observers to the process. The decision approved...
A plan to make Kansas Highway 10 safer and less congested — with options for road widening, an added express toll lane and overpasses or interchanges at Clare and Lone Elm roads —  was presented to county commissioners last...
Thirty years ago, the old Kuhlman Diecasting plant just south of 159th Street and Mission Road was abandoned, gradually becoming a toxic eyesore and a danger to the school children who made it their forbidden playground. Now, after years of...
Riders of three Johnson County bus routes serving Olathe, Gardner and Overland Park will have seven weeks to make other arrangements, as Johnson County commissioners look for ways to cut costs in the transit system. Commissioners voted unanimously Thursday to...
New county advisory committees on diversity and sustainability now have their initial twenty-eight members, after a little under an hour of debate and sometimes raised voices at the Johnson County Commission Thursday. Commissioners approved the members for the two new...
The employment contract for County Manager Penny Postoak Ferguson was unanimously extended Thursday, but county commissioners split in favor of her pay and bonus. After a 40-minute executive session, commissioners voted 4-3 to give Postoak Ferguson a 3% merit increase,...
Johnson County commissioners didn’t all agree on exactly what was discussed in a June 29 closed session, but a majority voted that it was legally appropriate to call it. In a letter to the Kansas Attorney General, a split commission...
Johnson County commissioners navigated some last-minute proposals to reduce the property taxing rate but eventually stuck with the $1.791 billion budget presented to the public at hearing last week. The 2024 county budget includes $528.6 million in reserves for unexpected...
An open meetings complaint to the Kansas Attorney General had Johnson County commissioners searching their memories last week as they sought to provide answers about a June 29 executive session on county employee pay tables. By last Friday, commissioners were...