Welcome to a new week, Shawnee Mission!
⛈ Today’s forecast: A thunderstorm watch is in effect until 12 p.m. Mostly cloudy. High: 95. Low: 79.
🚨 One thing to know today
The Johnson County Department of Health and Environment is asking for 15 minutes of residents’ time to take a community health survey.
The data gleaned from the survey will be part of a broader “community health assessment” that will be used to craft a new countywide Community Health Improvement Plan by 2025.
Johnson County residents can take the survey online here.
If participants provide their email address, they will be entered to win a $100 gift card.
The survey asks residents to say how strongly the agree or disagree with statements related to a number of quality-of-life factors in Johnson County, including how walkable their neighborhoods are, how much chronic stress they feel and how fairly they believe resources are distributed among different communities.
The survey is open until the end of August.
🗓 Public meetings Monday
- Roeland Park City Council, 6 p.m. [View agenda]
- Shawnee Mission school board, 6 p.m. [View agenda]
- Shawnee City Council, 6 p.m. [View agenda]
- Merriam City Council, 7 p.m. [View agenda]
- Mission Planning Commission, 7 p.m. [View agenda]
🚀 Post’s top stories since Friday
- Overland Park tiny food pantry looks to relocate after complaints
- 🌳 5 to try: Post readers share tree service go-tos around Johnson County
- Johnson County early voting for Aug. 1 primary starts Saturday
- Shawnee building fire contained, no injuries reported
- Discourse Brewing targets September opening in Overland Park strip mall
📰 Other local news
- Woman who accused Jackson Mahomes of assault speaks out. The owner of an Overland Park lounge and restaurant says she has been the target of threats and lost up to 75% of her business since she came forward with accusations Mahomes sexually assaulted her in February. [Fox 4]
- Outside auditors approve Johnson County books. For the 35th straight year, the county received the Government Finance Officers Association’s highest certificate of achievement for financial reporting, which helps maintain the county’s Triple A bond rating. [JoCoGov.org]
- AMC drops tiered price seating plan. The Leawood-based theater chain says a pilot program to test differently priced movie seating failed to change audience behaviors or provide a revenue boost. [Kansas City Business Journal]
📸 A thousand words
Artist Tyler Kimball installed more than 200 multi-colored glass spires atop a 16-foot tall stainless steel sculpture outside the Olathe Library last week. The work, done in collaboration with Paul Dorrell, is a tribute to former Olathe Mayor Michael Copeland, who died in 2020. Photo courtesy Paul Dorrell.
