HAVEN, Kan. — The City of Haven has a new police officer. The Haven City Council approved the hiring of Christopher Cooper during Monday’s meeting. Cooper will be paid an annual salary of $38,500 increasing to $38,750 once he gets through training and certification.
The Council also got more unwelcome news when it comes to the Evergy substation project near Burrton. Haven and several other small communities get power from the power pool served by the substation. Last year Evergy announced they were increasing the distribution charge to those communities to help pay for the substation. The charge amounted to a nearly $1oo,000 hit to the Haven Budget. The City Council recently approved a new rate structure to help offset some of that increase.
On Monday Evergy announced that the project was delayed by one year so the new charges to the city won't start until 2022 instead of this year. But they also announced that the project was $500,000 over budget. That means the distribution charge will go even higher, from the original figure of $11,839 per month to around $12,100. That now brings the total charge to the Haven budget to around $145,000. At the moment, the yearly charge is about $48,000 per year.
And after a delay due to the weather and the canceled meeting in February, the council approved the $10,000 dollar grant to Jonell Harper for her new business Daisy Jo’s Ice Cream Parlor. The new business is expected to open this summer.
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