The Marion County Commission Monday voted 3-0 to pay the City of Marion $80,000 for the acreage needed to build a new jail in Batt Industrial Park, with the city to install a connecting street and utilities.
The deal, as outlined in a letter from the Marion City Council to the commission, is contingent upon voters passing of bond proposal for the corrections center in the November election.
The city also offered the land free to the county if the county would install street and utilities instead.
Don Dahl said he decided to not to seek re-election as 70th District state representative because during the recent legislative session fellow lawmakers in Topeka seemed more interested in short-term political gains than the long-term economic well-being of the state.
“Finally, I just sort of said enough’s enough,” said Dahl, a Republican from Hillsboro who also had served as speaker pro tem during his last two terms.
Fellow Marion residents Roger Hannaford III and Bob Brookens bumped into each other in an unexpected place June 10: outside the office of the Kansas Secretary of State in Topeka.
“When I saw him getting out of his car,” Brookens said of Hannaford, ‘I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be something if he was here for the same reason I am.’”
Responding to citizen complaints, the Hillsboro Police Department announced last week it would be conducting “selective enforcement assignments” to reduce “J turns” in the downtown area.
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