TUESDAY, Dec. 21 — Members of the Kansas Army National Guard’s 226th Engineering Company, which includes a unit formerly of Cherryvale, is back in the United States after a one-year deployment to Afghanistan.  Welcome home ceremony being planned. More details later.  Guard members arrived this morning in Wisconsin.

BY ANDY TAYLOR

COFFEYVILLE — City commissioners Monday sparred over an emergency measure — which was approved on a 4-1 vote — that would decrease the commission’s quorum number from four to three.

Mayor Alec Hendryx made the suggested change in the commission’s quorum after a situation on Dec. 14 in which two of the five city commissioners did not attend a regularly scheduled meeting. Hendryx could not attend the Dec. 14 meeting because of a previous work commitment, and commissioner Jim Taylor, Sr., said he would skip any commission meeting whereby any other commission member was not attendance.

By having two of the five members of the commission not in attendance at the Dec. 14 meeting, the commission was unable to reach a quorum, and the meeting had to be postponed until Monday night when all five commission members could be present.

By decreasing the quorum from four to three, the commission will be able to still conduct business if two commissioners could not be in attendance, the mayor said.

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