Peabody, KS

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Peabody’s public health and safety officer, Denise Jantz, says police, public works employees, a private contractor and she have overlapping code-enforcement duties, but she cannot determine what work others completed. “Who’s going to do code enforcement? Who’s in charge?” she asked city council members Monday. Jantz’s one-year, $1,800-a-month contract assigns her to inspect properties, send notices, and manage cases. [FULL STORY at http://marionrecord.com]

Public comment returned to Peabody City Council meetings Monday as the body worked to make meetings more orderly. Residents will have three minutes for general comments and may address individual new-business items after officials present them. Randy Dalke took the first opportunity to ask to improve visibility at 2nd and Vine Sts., where parked vehicles obscure traffic. [FULL STORY at http://marionrecord.com]

Peabody’s public health and safety officer, Denise Jantz, says police, public works employees, a private contractor and she have overlapping code-enforcement duties, but she cannot determine what work others completed. “Who’s going to do code enforcement? Who’s in charge?” she asked city council members Monday. Jantz’s one-year, $1,800-a-month contract assigns her to inspect properties, send notices, and manage cases. [FULL STORY at http://marionrecord.com]

A little more than three months after joining Peabody City Council, member Rodney Hague was discovered dead in his home Tuesday morning. He was in his 70s. An ambulance was dispatched to the block of 600 W. Division St. at 10:19 a.m. and arrived at 10:39. Ambulance personnel reached Hague about a minute later and found him dead. A coroner was called. [FULL STORY at http://marionrecord.com]

Peabody police are investigating theft at Dollar General and expect charges to be filed. Officer Charles Walker declined to identify a suspect, say what had been stolen, or provide other details while the investigation continues. “There’s an active theft, and I’m not going to point directions on who, what, when, where, why,” Walker said. [FULL STORY at http://marionrecord.com]

For months in 2003, Morgan Marler had a problem. A blue-green algae bloom had taken over Marion Reservoir, unlike anything the lake had seen before. Hillsboro’s water treatment plant, which gets its water from the reservoir and also supplies water to Peabody, was shut down for nearly a month. [FULL STORY at http://marionrecord.com]

A proposed Peabody ambulance station remains in limbo as county commissioners wrestle with how to pay for and staff it. County administrator Tina Spencer reduced her recommendation for 2027 spending on ambulance personnel because the county is unlikely to have the Peabody station operating next year. Building and staffing a station, along with providing costly Police and Fire retirement benefits, all would have to be funded, Spencer said Tuesday. [FULL STORY at http://marionrecord.com]

Peabody city council members may have violated the Kansas Open Meetings Act while receiving a lesson on how to comply with it. Council members Linda Martinez, Rodney Hague, Trevor Hamm, and Jennifer Bush; Mayor Bailey Penner; city administrator Paul Leeker; and city attorney Tim Hodge emerged together from a closed room immediately before Monday’s council meeting. Council members had asked Hodge for a “brief crash course” on the Kansas Open Meetings Act, Kansas Open Records Act, and Rob

Andy Rosine was absent from the Monday’s Peabody city council meeting. He resigned Aug. 7, but says his resignation was unrelated to two sheriff’s office calls involving him Aug. 4 and 5. “I am putting my time and efforts into some other projects that will take me away from efforts the council deserves, so out of respect for the position, I am stepping down,” Rosine said. “I stand behind any actions regarding those calls.” A sheriff’s deputy responded Aug. 4 to Eyestone Automoti