Olathe News - May 12 '08
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City Undertakes Effort to Update Comprehensive Plan for Growth The City's existing Comprehensive Plan was adopted in 1997. Since then, the City has grown significantly, both in population and land area, and new demographic and land-use trends have emerged. Many of the goals, objectives, and implementation strategies in the existing Comprehensive Plan have become out-of-date or been accomplished. The update will also help align the Comprehensive Plan with the City's Strategic Plan goals and priorities. In December 2006, the City Council created the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee to provide direction and guidance on the update and revision of the Comprehensive Plan. In June 2007 the advisory committee recommended an update. Last week the City Council approved a contract a firm to assist the City in the update process, which is expected to take one year. The update will include an extensive visioning process with a high level of interaction and participation by the City Council, Planning Commission and public. The plan will build upon and integrate the work of existing plans and studies that are underway or have already been completed and address priorities that have emerged in the years since the current plan was adopted. The goal is to create an interactive and user-friendly Comprehensive Plan that will set the standard for public accessibility and usability. For more information about the Comprehensive Plan update process, contact Sr. Planner Thomas Morefield, (913)-971-8676.
Volunteers Needed for Americana Jubilee Event June 7 Volunteers are needed throughout the day, but particularly between 10:30a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Volunteer job descriptions and shifts can be found on the Americana Jubilee website, www.olatheks.org/ParksRec/Events/Jubilee/Volunteers. Volunteers will receive lunch and a volunteer t-shirt. This is a great opportunity for youth needing volunteer service hours. For more information, or to volunteer, contact Erin Vader at esvader@olatheks.org or (913) 971-6490.
Renovation of Oregon Trail Park Begun: Voter-Approved Park Sales Tax Project The project is primarily funded through voter-approved 1/8 cent sales tax for parks projects. The project also includes funding from Olathe Youth Baseball and Johnson County Stormwater Funds. This project will renovate the current park and will include the construction of four youth baseball fields, a concession/restroom facility, new playground and volleyball area, enlargement of the existing pond, construction and expansion of the parking lot as well as a concrete looped trail system that will connect to the Rolling Ridge Trail to the north. Weather permitting, work is expected to be complete by the end of this year. The project also includes an agreement with Johnson County Public Works to partner on a best management practice to improve stormwater runoff in the area. The project will include a parking lot constructed in part with porous concrete pavement which will filter the parking lot stormwater runoff prior to reaching the park's pond and the downstream Lake Olathe Watershed area.
City of Olathe and PDAB to Present Plaques to Accessible Community Award Recipients The award recipients are Johnson County Catch-A-Ride and Kansas Education Foundation. The entities will receive the award for meritorious service in the pursuit of cultural diversity and advocacy of human rights which benefit Olathe citizens. The award recipients were announced at the Fifth Annual Community Awards Program at Olathe City Hall on April 17, but representatives of the organizations were unable to attend. For more information about the award recipients, call the City of Olathe Office of Human Relations at (913) 971-6490.
Cultural Learning Links Series Concludes with Asian American Focus "Celebrating Diversity and Honoring Unity" is the theme of the series, which began in September 2007 with a discussion about multiculturalism. The Asian American panel discussion, free and open to the public, will meet from 1 - 3 p.m. May 22 at MidAmerica Nazarene University's Bell Cultural Events Center, 2030 E. College Way, Olathe. The Cultural Learning Links panelists, listed below, will each answer different questions about diversity and culture and then discuss their answers with each other. The audience will have an opportunity to write questions on note cards for the moderator to ask the panelists. The panelists:
The event moderator will be Paulette Markel, Managing Partner, Imua Associates LLC. MidAmerica Nazarene University President Edwin H. Robinson, Ph.D., will welcome panelists and the audience to the discussion. The event is sponsored by the City of Olathe, Americana Jubilee, MidAmerica Nazarene University, Olathe Public Library, and Ken Hinson's KHR radio.com. The meeting room is accessible. For additional accommodations or an interpreter, please call at least one week in advance of the meeting. For more information about Cultural Learning Links, contact the Office of Human Relations at (913) 971-6490 or go to http://www.olatheks.org/. |
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