After shaving $6.7 million frm its 2010-11 budget, the Park Hill School District barely had time to catch its breath before learning that it might need to cut yet another $3 million from the 2011-12 school year budget.
Newly-elected Platte County officials were sworn into their positions during a ceremony at the county government complex on Thursday morning. Platte County Presiding Circuit Judge Owens Lee Hull officiated the new terms of recorder of deeds Gloria Boyer, presiding commissioner Jason Brown, county clerk Joan Harms, county auditor Kevin Robinson, prosecuting attorney Eric Zahnd and county collector Sheila Palmer.
At a meeting of the North Platte School Board, Jason Bishop of Universal Construction, the construction management firm overseeing the construction of an intermediate building for the district, told board members that subcontractor errors have set the project back a month.
A pump failure at the Prairie Creek Pump station located near Platte City on Sunday resulted in the release of an estimated 50,000 gallons of wastewater into Prairie Creek, according to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Staff of Timber Creek Sewer Co., which owns and operates the Prairie Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility contacted the department to report the pump situation.
