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The Webb City Council on Monday approved a resolution establishing the Mayor’s Leadership Scholarship.
The first recipients, recent Webb City High School graduates Andrew Woodmansee and Andrew Young, attended the meeting and read the essays they submitted with their applications for the scholarships.
Among their accomplishments, Woodmansee was president of the Student Council and Young was the first football team captain initially selected as a junior.
Mayor Lynn Ragsdale presented each of them with a $1,000 check. He said he came up with the idea for the scholarship “to recognize that leadership in government is important.”
Two WCHS graduating seniors will continue each year to receive the scholarships based on their demonstration of “leadership traits and qualities by faithfully serving with distinction in the student body government.”
Natasha Gossett, the city’s new finance director, and Kong Lee, the first director of the recreation center (The W Club), were introduced to the council.
Gossett is replacing Tracy Craig, who will be retiring soon. She’s coming to Webb City from Greenfield, where she has been the office manager for the Dade County Sheriff’s Office. She earned her bachelor’s degree in recreation administration and business administration from Pittsburg State University, and her master’s in accountancy from the University of Phoenix.
Although The W Club isn’t open yet, Lee is already on the job lining up activities and events. He was most recently the assistant director of student activities for the Kansas City University College of Medicine in Joplin.
He earned his bachelors degree in health and wellness from Missouri Southern State University. At the same time he was going to school, he was MSSU’s recreation center supervisor.
• For this year only, since July 4 falls on a Friday, the council passes a resolution extending the normal period that you can buy and set off fireworks until midnight Saturday, July 5.
• The purchase of a backup pump motor for the city’s three Smith & Loveless brand lift stations from was approved at a cost of $8,877.
• The purchase of a hydro chlorine Analyzer for Well No. 11 from Watkins Water Treatment Group, of Garnett, Kan., was approved at a cost of $5,800.
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