Miami County Attorney Kenton Harding encouraged the Louisburg USD 416 School Board to table its approval a week earlier of a 10-year, $4.8 million lease-purchase agreement for the construction of a high school baseball/softball complex over concerns that their action violated state law. Earlier in May, the board approved the lease purchase agreement, but Harding, who was alerted by an school patron, told the board they may be in violation of a Kansas statute that says that if a school district was entering into an acquisition of land or buildings that exceeds $100,000, they need to publish a resolution for two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the district.
According to the Sentinal, a public vote is what the school board was maneuvering to avoid, as it planned to fund the development from current revenue in its Capital Outlay Account, as opposed to its maintenance fund, which would have required a bond issue vote. They did agree to place a public notice in the Miami County Republic.
