City of Roeland Park

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Municipal Court Judge – Request for Qualifications

The City of Roeland Park is seeking Qualifications for a Municipal Court Judge.  All persons appointed as Municipal Court Judge must meet the following qualifications: be an attorney admitted to the practice of law in the state of Kansas, be a citizen of the United States and a resident of Johnson County during their term of office, and possess a minimum of five (5) years’ experience in the active practice of law as a lawyer, judge of a court of record or any court of the State or as a full-time teacher of law in any accredited U.S. law school or any combination thereof.

View the full application. Applications are due to the City Clerk no later than 10:00 a.m. on July 16, 2013. Submit to: Debbie Mootz, MMC; City Clerk, 4600 West 51st Street, Roeland Park, KS 66205

Roeland Park Fireworks Display July 3 at Bishop Miege High School

The City of Roeland Park in partnership with the Cities of Fairway and Westwood, and along with financial assistance from the Cities of Westwood Hills and Mission Woods, is proud to announce the 2013 fireworks display.  With Independence Day falling in the middle of the week, the event is scheduled for Wednesday, July 3, at approximately 9:30 p.m.

This is one of many efforts with our neighboring cities to bring our communities together, and in this instance benefit from shared costs.

The event will take place at Bishop Miege High School, 5041 Reinhardt Drive, Roeland Park, Kansas.  Parking is available at Bishop Miege and St. Agnes Parish.

Mass Notification System Combines Efforts To Reach Residents during Emergencies and Provide Notification of Important Meetings

Those who live or work in Johnson County can now sign up to receive important information about locations they care about in the City of Roeland Park and Johnson County through NotifyJoCo, a free public notification system which will communicate emergency information through phone, text and email messages to members of the community.

Using contact information provided by users, NotifyJoCo allows the City of Roeland Park and utilities to notify the public about issues affecting locations they identify.  Emergency notifications will be sent in cases needing an immediate response, such as tornado warnings, evacuation notices and public health alerts.  NotifyJoCo replaces a similar system, Blackboard Connect, which was used by the City in 2012-13.

To use the system, residents should go to www.NotifyJoCo.org to register their personal contact preferences. They will be asked to provide their contact information. Users can then identify multiple locations they care about (home, work, or their child’s school, for example), and choose which messages they would like to receive. Residents who do not have internet access may call 913.826.5555 to register their information. All information provided will be kept confidential and only used to contact citizens about emergencies and topics in which they have expressed interest.

The system, which is free to the public, is an unprecedented effort between Johnson County, Water One, and the cities of Roeland Park, Lenexa, Mission Hills, Olathe, Overland Park, Prairie Village and Shawnee. The entities are working with Everbridge, Inc., a leading firm in emergency and incident alert systems, to implement NotifyJoCo.

Information will be available through County and participating municipal offices and online at www.roelandpark.org