Welcome to the City of Eastborough
Mayor: Thom Rosenberg
Chief of Police: Daniel Bardezbain
Firstly, I would like to wish everyone a healthy and happy new year. It has been my pleasure to serve as your mayor for the past 3 years. The City of Eastborough remains strong with our relationships with the City of Wichita and the County of Sedgwick. Fiscally, we remain in good shape with respect to our budget. Our revenues for 2008 amounted to $1,164,771 and our expenditures were $1,006.641 accounting for an excess of $158,130. Our unencumbered cash/investments are $869,018 as compared to $691,128 a year ago.
Your city council continues to work on your behalf. Their devotiveness is sincerely appreciated. The Eastborough Police Department under the direction of Chief Bridgewater continues to demonstrate excellence in keeping us safe in exercising their duties responsively. Our assistant city clerk, Barbara Kratzer serves our city in an excellent manner. She has been very responsive to the needs of our citizens. And when Barbara needs assistance, Kay Brada, our city clerk, is an immense help. Our court clerk, Cindy Burkemper continues to work well with Judge Larry Hollis and our new city prosecutor, Becky Mann is handling our traffic court needs. Norman Farha was recently appointed as our new treasurer and has taken to his duties in a professional manner. Our city attorney, Jerry Bogle continues to advise the city council on legal issues that may arise and is a stabilizing force as well.
As we enter this new year of 2009, we must exercise extreme caution as we see local, state and federal governments cutting back on their allotments. And with people spending less, our proportionate share of income from taxes will certainly be reduced. I have received notice from the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), that they will be suspending most construction lettings for the next several months. As you know, we have a 10 year street renovation project in the works and this latest news from KDOT may find us a bit wanting. We will just see how this plays out.
It is my responsibility to keep us fiscally responsible. We will need to be conservative as to our expenses for the next 3-6 months. However, we will continue to do what's necessary to keep our residents safe, to keep our parks clean and useful and to keep our streets in the best repair as is possible.
I again want to encourage or citizens to attend our city council meetings which start at 5:30 on the 4th Tuesday of every month. As we enter into the new year I wish our citizens well as we continue to strive to make the City of Eastborough a wonderful place in which to live.
Respectfully,