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City turns downs NEK-CAP property request

By Greg Bebermeyer

08/12/2021

(KNZA)--The Hiawatha City Commission has turned down a request from NEK-CAP to use the old RV park site on South 1st Street for the re-location of their administration building and Head-Start Center.

A motion by Mayor Bill Collins to allow NEK-CAP to use the property failed on a 2-3 vote Monday evening. Collins made the motion without any discussion, saying NEK-CAP had waited long enough for an answer from the city.

Commissioner Evans Woehlecke joined Collins in voting in favor of the motion, while Commissioners David Middendorf, Becky Shamburg and Brian Shefferd voted “ no.”

Collins and Commissioners expressed a willingness to work with the non-profit organization to find another location in the city.

Middendorf felt city-owned property just west of the Ag Museum would be a better location for NEK-CAP.

NEK-CAP Executive Director Jeanette Collier said its critcal they find a location in Hiawatha for their Head-Start program because they just had to close their Sabetha center this week. She indicated they might look for other sites outside of Hiawatha for their administration building.

NEK-CAP had offered to pay for the cost of re-locating the skate park currently located on the 1st Street property.

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