With the Garnett City Commission appointing Ike Burns and Casey Smith to the Garnett Housing Authority last week, they opened the door for people living outside the City Limits to serve on the Board. It requires the City to adopt a Charter Ordinance which will provide a legal framework for non-city residents to serve on the Board.
That Ordinance adoption has been completed and is subject to an upcoming Protest Period and Public Hearing, after being published for public review. Commissioner Jody Cole formalized a Direction on Housing in her January 2020 Initiatives Plan, which she introduced to commissioners after which the commission, by consensus, began to discuss a Housing Study as a necessary first step toward that initiative. The County’s Economic Development Committee was granted $10,000 by the Throckmorton-Riser Foundation to pay for the Community Housing Study.
