Merging county and city parks and recreation.A merger between Shawnee County and the city of Topeka in Kansas will be voted on by residents toward the end of this year. All city and county departments will be merged except for the city and county park and recreation departments. These two departments have specifically been left out of the merger proposal due to indecision Indecision Buridan’s ass unable to decide between two haystacks, he would starve to death. [Fr. Philos.: Brewer Dictionary, 154] Cooke, Ebenezer his irresolution usually leads to catatonia. [Am. Lit. by both city and county officials over the costs associated with such a merger. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. reports from the Topeka Capitol-Journal, the preliminary merger plan that was released in June would dissolve A Web site design technique borrowed from the film and video industry in which the transition between two Web pages is represented visually by one page fading into another. Also known as a "soft cut," the result is achieved in the HTML coding of the images to gradual pre-determined the city council and county commission to be replaced by a unified governing body Noun 1. governing body - the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he . This governing body would be prohibited pro·hib·it tr.v. pro·hib·it·ed, pro·hib·it·ing, pro·hib·its 1. To forbid by authority: Smoking is prohibited in most theaters. See Synonyms at forbid. 2. from raising property tax levies for anyone more than I mill, or $11.50 on a $100,000 house within the first five years after the merger. If the two park and recreation departments are merged, it would mean a tax increase of about $71 for a $100,000 home outside the city limits and a decrease of about $32 on a $100,000 home inside the city. The final consolidation plan will go to voters in a mail ballot election toward the end of the year. If the park and recreation merger is not attached to the plan, the newly established governing body could then decide whether to merge the two municipal departments. |
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