City of Concordia Newsletter

The City of Concordia is in the process of changing all of the water meters in town. There are three reasons for this work to be done. One, many of our meters are old; generally a meter slows down as it gets older. As a meter slows down it does not read accurately and some water that travels through it does not get recorded. Two, we hope to save time; the new meters have a radio read system built in. They send a signal that we are equipped to pick up as we drive by. This will allow the meter reader to read all of the meters in town in one day. Before any of the meters were changed one employee would walk and record a fourth of the town every week. Three, the new meters have a memory. Six months of information is retained in the meter for future viewing. By capturing this information we can print out a report which will allow the home owner to see when the water has been used. This tech-nology will be extremely useful in deter-mining where leaks are, or when water is used unexpectedly such as in a water sof-tener at night.

Jeremy Arnold has taken the lead on our meter replacement project. Gary Strait our crew foreman, along with Jeff Roberts, Andrew Allen, and Clint Fraser have also spent countless hours changing meters and making repairs to meter pits to get ready for the switch to the new system. Recently, the crew has passed the halfway point in our project. The City has 2,542 meters in town. The ability and willingness of our water crew to take on such a large project will save the City thousands of dol-lars. Please take a minute to thank our hard working employees for their dedicated ser-vice when you see one.

1. Which of the following is not effected by wind chill? A. Person B. Dog C. Car Radiator D. Bird

2. What is the coldest temperature ever recorded in Washington, DC? A.-100F B. -70F C. 00F D. -150F

3. True or False. If must be 320F or colder for it to snow?

4. True or False. It can snow from clear skies?

5. What is more hazardous to trees and power lines A.One inch of wet snow B.One inch of ice

6. What is the greatest one session snow fall in Kansas? A. 35 in. B. 30 in. C. 27 in. D. 42 in.

7. On the average, one inch of rain is equivalent to how many inches of snow? A. 10 in. B. 1 in. C. 5 in. D. a

foot FUN FACT Antarctica set the record for the worlds

coldest temperature at –1290F.

Winter Trivia

Radio Read Water Meters

HOLIDAYS

December

Christmas 25

January

New Years 1

Martin Luther King Day 17

Kansas Day 29

February

Valentines Day 14

March

St. Patrick's Day 17

CALENDAR

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W INTER 2011

December

Christmas Party

- Catered by Treat America 23

City Hall Closed 26-27

January

City Hall Closed 2

City Commission Meeting 4

City Hall Closed 17

City Commission Meeting 18

February

City Commission Meeting 1

City Commission Meeting 15

March

City Commission Meeting 7

City Commission Meeting 21

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“Fabulous 15” Toys R Us

1.Lego Ninja Lightning Dragon Battle

2. Moshi Monsters Moshling Mini-Figures

3. My Keepon Robot

4. Air Swimmers Ex-treme

5. Leapfrog LeapPad

6.Playskool Poppin’ Park Elefun Busy Ball Popper

7. Slylanders: Spyro’s Adventure

8. Fijit Friends

9. The Trash Pack Gar-bage Truck

10. Nerf Vortex Vigilon

11. Lalaloopsy Silly Hair Dolls

12. Air Hogs Hyper Ac-tives

13. Let’s Rock Elmo

14. Monster High Fear-leading Dolls

15. Power Wheels Dune Racer

Amber Farha and her husband Garrett are proud to announce the birth of their son, Baron Daniel. Baron was born Oc-tober 23rd at 11:50am, weighed 7 lbs 13 oz, and 20 in. long.

The largest snowflake recorded fell in Mon-tana and was 15 cm wide.

Ten inches of snow melts down to one inch of water.

World’s tallest snow-woman was in Bethel, Maine and stood 122ft 1in in 2008.

No two snowflakes are the same. It took 400,000 to prove it.

Billions of snowflakes fall during a storm, even a small storm.

All snowflakes have 6 sides

60% of the Earth’s fresh water is stored in the polar ice caps.

Average snowflake falls at 3.1 mph

Ice is a mineral.

Hot water freezes faster than cold water.

The wind chill factor measures heat loss from exposed skin.

Icicles form most often on the south side of buildings

Kansas Day

January 29th

1803 Kansas was purchased

from France in the Louisiana

Purchase.

Ad astra per aspera

(To the stars through

difficulties)

Winter Fun Facts

Most Wanted Presents

Congratulations!

Concordia’s Snowflakes

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Newsletter

Tim Stangel– 10 Years with the Fire Dept

Jim Wilson– 25 Years with the Fire Dept.

Devin Anderson– 10 Years with the Police

Dept.

Roger Woodford– 10 Years with the Street Dept.

Mike Copple– 25 Years with the Police Dept.

Chris Jackson

Operator

Chris started on July 5, 2011. His duties include

digging cemetery graves, trimming trees,

& mowing.

Employee Recognition

New Employees

Flower Gallery

125 W. 6th

New Sign

Flower Shop

Broadway St. Brewing Co.

614 Broadway St.

Brewery/Restaurant

Luxe Leopard

208 W. 6th

New Business

Chic Boutique

New Businesses & New Signs

Management Team

Larry Uri- City Manager

Stacey Crum– City Clerk

Amber Farha– Finance Director

Chad Buckley– Utilities Director

Ron Copple– Public Works Director

Bruno Rehbein– Building Inspector

Larry Eubanks– Fire Chief

Chris Edin– Police Chief

City Commissioners

Marsha Wentz-Mayor

Lyle Pounds

Charles Johnson

Tim Parker

Gary Fraser

Thea McMillan

Accounts Payable Clerk

Thea started on October 24, 2011. Her duties include assisting the city clerk and accounts pay-able.

Don’t Forget Your Dog Tags!

Every dog that is in city limits and at least 5 months of age will need to be licensed by the City of Concordia. Start-ing on January 1st until March 31st, male and spayed female dogs are $5 and unspayed female dogs are $8. After March 31st, male and spayed female dogs are $7.50 and unsprayed female dogs are $12. At the time of purchasing a license, an up-to-date rabies vaccina-tion must be shown.

City Hall 701 Washington

P.O. Box 603 Concordia, KS 66901

Phone: (785)243-2670 Fax: (785)243-3328

Jason Grogan– Feb. 22nd

Derek Champlin– Feb. 26th

Dawn Novak– Feb. 27th

Gary Strait– Jan. 1st

James Buller– Jan. 8th

James Menard– Jan. 10th

Rick Voelker – Jan. 13th

Tom Gennette– Jan. 16th

Megan Murdock– Jan. 27th

Tim Stangel– Jan. 28th

Thea McMillan– Jan. 29th

Stacey Crum– March 11th

Raymond Mendenhall– March 14th

Jim Wilson– March 14th

Roger Woodford– March 17th

Chad Buckley– March 19th

James Belden– March 22nd

Happy Birthday!

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2012 Dog Tags 2012 Voting At the 2012 voting elections everyone must show a gov-ernment photo ID card to place their vote. Most govern-ment issued photo ID’s are either a driver’s license, a military photo ID card, a Alien photo ID card, or a passport.

Winter Trivia Answers

1. C. Car Radiator

2. D. –150F

3. False

4. True

5. B. One Inch of Ice

6. A. 35 Inches

7. A. 10 Inches

Kansas Day Facts

At one time it was against the law to serve ice cream on cherry pie.

Helium was dis-covered in 1905 at the University of Kansas.

Every type of prairie habitat can be found in Kansas.

Wichita is one of the nation’s top plane manufacturing cities

Kansas was the first state to rat-ify the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Consti-tution.

Amelia Earhart was the first woman granted a pilot’s and first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean was from Atchison, KS.

Almon Stowger of El Dorado, KS invented the dial telephone in 1889.

The Geodetic Center of North America is about 40 miles south of Lebanon at Meade’s Ranch.

Dodge City is the windiest city in the United States, with an average wind speed of 14 miles per hour.