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Kaysen Wants Employee Raises July 1

Doug Randall — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:03:40 +0000

Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen says he still wants to include a 2.25 percent employee raise when the fiscal year 2014 budget takes effect on July 1.

The Cheyenne City Council Committee of the Whole voted earlier this week to place the money the mayor wants to use for raises in an escrow account until an employee investment study which is already underway can be completed

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Kaysen Says Sanitation Fees Help Fund City Programs

Doug Randall — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:35:10 +0000

Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen says that while he understands that some people don't like increasing sanitation fees in view of the fact that they raise money beyond what is neccesary to fund sanitation operations, the money generated helps pay for other areas of city government that can't generate their own funding

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Kaysen Proposing Raises For City Employees

Doug Randall — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:01:02 +0000

Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen is proposing employee pay raises of 2.25% in his budget proposals for fiscal year 2014.

The mayor says city employees have received only 2 raises in the last four years, and calls his proposed pay increases "modest"

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Kozak Says Dinneen's Worth $3-4 Million

Doug Randall — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:48:14 +0000

Cheyenne Police Chief Brian Kozak says experts he has spoken with put the total value of the former Dinneen's Car Dealership, which the city is considering purchasing for a new public safety building, at close to $4 million

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Committee Of The Whole Votes Against Dineen's Purchase

Doug Randall — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:46:59 +0000

The Cheyenne City Council Committee of the Whole voted 4-2 Wednesday night against recommending a purchase of the former Dinneen's Car Dealership as a site for the city's new Public Safety Building

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Kozak Urges Reconsideration Of Dinneen's Purchase

Doug Randall — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:31:02 +0000

Cheyenne Police Chief Brian Kozak is urging the Cheyenne City Council to reconsider it's recent decision not to purchase the former Dinneen's Car Dealership.

The Chief says a construction engineer has told him the appraiser hired by the city didn't attach enough value to the building on the property, leading to an artificially low estimate of the true value

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Would A New Fence Fix 'The Hole'?

Doug Randall — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:38:28 +0000

Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen says that while talks continue between the city and a Kansas company about a possible purchase by the city of the 2/3 of the property it doesn't currently own, officials are looking to mitigate the visual impact of the empty property with a new, more decorative fence

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DDA Wants Downtown Public Safety Building

Doug Randall — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:02:01 +0000

The Cheyenne Downtown Development Authority has written a letter to city officials urging the location of a new Public Safety Building in downtown Cheyenne.

The Cheyenne City Council on Monday rejected a proposal to purchase the former Dinneen Car Dealership at 18th and Pioneer as a location for the building on a 5-5 tie vote

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Kaysen Says Council May Revisit Dinneen's Purchase

Doug Randall — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:16:06 +0000

Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen says the city is looking at a number of possible sites for a new Public Safety Building.

He says that could include further consideration of a purchase of the former Dinneen's Car Dealership in downtown Cheyenne

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Back to Square One On Public Safety Building

Doug Randall — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:29:59 +0000

Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen says Monday's decision by the Cheyenne City Council not to purchase the former Dineen Car Dealership in downtown Cheyenne for a new Public Safety Building means the city will have to go back to the drawing board in finding a location for the facility

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Dineen's Purchase Rejected By City Council

Doug Randall — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:56:47 +0000

The Cheyenne City Council in a split vote Monday night rejected a proposal to purchase the former Dineen Car Dealership at 18th Street and Pioneer Avenue for a new Public Safety Building to house the Cheyenne Police Department and Fire and Rescue Administration and emergency responders

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Mayor, Council Working On Budget

Doug Randall — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:22:38 +0000

Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen says he and the city council have already completed the first round of work on a budget for fiscal year 2014, which gets underway July 1 of this year.

Kaysen says the city got good news when the legislature recently approved $20 million in funding for city and county governments across Wyoming

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Local Officials Sworn In

Doug Randall — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:09:08 +0000

Newly elected members of the Cheyenne City Council and Laramie County Commission were officially sworn into office on Monday in seperate ceremonies.

Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen was sworn into office for a second term Monday afternoon at the Cheyenne Civic Center by Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Micheal Davis

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Chamber Members Oppose Fee Increase

Doug Randall — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:20:44 +0000

A survey of Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce members shows 75 percent oppose increasing the franchise fees for Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power customers, according to chamber President and C-E-O Dale Steenbergen

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Council Bans Waterfowl Feeding

Doug Randall — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:38:59 +0000

The Cheyenne City Council voted 8-2 Monday night to ban the feeding of ducks and geese on city owned property.

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Waterfowl Feeding Ban Moves Forward

Doug Randall — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:27:50 +0000

The Cheyenne City Council Public Services Committee on Tuesday gave it's approval to a proposal to ban the feeding of ducks and geese in city parks and recreational areas.

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Chamber to Hold Candidate Forum

Doug Randall — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:04:44 +0000

The Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce has scheduled a candidate forum for Cheyenne City Council candidates Wednesday morning at 7 at the Plains Hotel, according to chamber President and C-E-O Dale Steenbergen.

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Kaysen Says Wind Project Wouldn't Affect Belvoir Leaseholders

Doug Randall — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:29:19 +0000

Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen says a proposed wind energy project that the Morely Company wants to locate on part of the city-owned Belvoir Ranch wouldn't affect people who currently hold grazing leases on the property or other existing plans for that area.

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Finance Committee Approves Belvoir Lease

Doug Randall — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:01:15 +0000

The Cheyenne City Council Finance Committee on Monday approved the lease of part of the Belvoir Ranch for a hybrid wind/natural gas electric generation facility that the developer says would be the first of it's kind anywhere in the world.

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Ash Cites Little Council Support for UDC Repeal

Doug Randall — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:40:20 +0000

Cheyenne City Councilwoman Amber Ash says even though she's heard a fair amount of criticism of the city's new Unified Development Code from businesses and developers who say it increases their costs, other council members apparently haven't--and as a result, there is little support on the council to repeal the code, which took effect in April.

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