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The Chieftain (Bonner Springs, KS)
January 3, 2007
Mayors List Big Challenges for 2007
Author: Jesse Truesdale
If local leaders are right, 2007 will hold more of the same for Edwardsville and Bonner Springs:
continued growth and economic development.
In Edwardsville, construction has begun on a 150-door distribution hub for Old Dominion
Freight Lines on 98th Street between Kansas Highway 32 and Woodend Road, and earth is being
moved in preparation for new office headquarters for Saco Petroleum on the south side of Kaw
Drive just before the Bonner Springs city limit. Also coming to Edwardsville is a travel center,
which will feature a Dairy Queen, a multi-pump fuel station and a hotel, at the intersection of
Interstate 435 and Woodend Road. Spangler said the center should be finished this month. Also
coming to Woodend Road are a tree-care business and a lawn-care business, Spangler said. "We
plan to make a major expansion of Woodend Road to accommodate traffic," Spangler said. Also,
Spangler said, the channel on Fourth Street just north of Kansas Highway 32 is "99.9 percent
done."
Edwardsville Mayor Stephanie Eickhoff said there were other signs of the town's growth to look
for in the coming year. "I'm looking forward to the continued expansion of our sewer line, north
of (Kansas Highway) 32," Eickhoff said. Also, she said, "An increase in retail/commercial
development is always welcome ... of course trying to lower taxes while still increasing
services."
In Bonner Springs, both City Administrator John Helin and Mayor Clausie Smith cited the
library planned for the former site of Sacred Heart School, 201 Nettleton, at the corner of Insley
and Nettleton. Smith said there would continue to be a big push in the coming year for
economic development in Bonner Springs, and that the city's streets program would continue to
improve the roads. Smith said he'd like to see the newly unveiled skate park expand beyond the
three modules that make it up now. "The kids like it," Smith said. Smith said the city would
continue to work on its water and wastewater treatment plants to upgrade them.
Helin said the biggest undertakings for the city in 2007 will be getting the design and
construction contracts for the new library worked out, and the second season of operation for the
Bonner Springs Aquatic Center. Helin also cited continuing improvement of the city's streets
through milling and overlaying. Helin said this will be the third year Bonner Springs receives
funds from Wyandotte County through the Countywide Initiative for Funding Infrastructure.
Included improvements Helin said he hoped could begin in the spring are the widening of Kump
Avenue from Nettleton Avenue to 138th Street.
The prioritizing for the city's mill and overlay program should be decided in the next two
months, Helin said, and the design contract with GLPM Architects of Lawrence will come
before the City Council to be approved this month.
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