Evergy Kansas Center has acquired a building at 203 East Ash Street for a proposed new service center and storage of utility poles. City Manager Allen Dinkel said the company will now have a crew there.
The site, which will have to be rezoned, matches the zoning of a nearby substation. "What it's going to mean is I think is Evergy will have crews stationed here now so when there's outages on the Evergy side of electricity in our community I think service will be a lot faster, which will be good for everybody." Utility poles and transformers can also be stored there.
The City Commission has given approval.