OTTAWA — Franklin County and the city of Ottawa will have a budget open house tonight from 7 to 8 at the Ottawa High School’s Cyclone Room. Like last year’s open house, which was modeled on Kansas Department of Transportation open houses, city and county elected officials and department heads will have different tables, city manager Richard Nienstedt said. Citizens can talk to whomever they want and ask whatever they want. The exchanges are mutually useful, he said. Many of the citizens’ comments and suggestions from last year were incorporated into this year’s proposed budgets, Nienstedt said. The open house doesn’t take the place of the formal public budget hearings next month.
Wednesday, July 11, 4 p.m.