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10 hours ago · Four candidates for Pawhuska City Council seats answered questions Jan. 30 at the Community Center, in a forum organized by the Pawhuska Merchant Society.

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Oct 29, 2024 · Pawhuska's city manager says improved expense control has been driving better financial numbers for the early months of the 2024-25 fiscal year, but financial uncertainties remain because the city has not yet had an audit for the two previous fiscal years, 2022-23 and 2023-24. City Manager Jerry Eubanks provided the City Council with figures showing that first quarter expenditures for the ...

Dec 20, 2024 · Pawhuska city councilors received a briefing Dec. 17 from their attorney about the status of an election system lawsuit that dates back to Aug. 18, 2023. Pawhuska lawyer and former city councilor Steve Holcombe filed a challenge to the form of ward system the city uses to elect Council members. A judge of the Osage County District Court dismissed the suit, but a 2-1 majority of a three-judge ...

Dec 31, 2024 · For residents of the Pawhuska area, 2024 brought both change and surprises. Here are the stories that caught resident's attention in 2024. Scandal in Pawhuska Police Department results in termination of chief, officer The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation opened an investigation in September into the Pawhuska Police Department following the termination of the city's police chief and ...

Jun 17, 2024 · It was the turn of the citizenry to talk Thursday, June 13, about the proposed 2024-25 Pawhuska city budget and anxiety was pervasive in the Community Center meeting room. More than 50 people, numerous city employees among them, attended the public hearing and 13 signed up to speak. City government gave each speaker 3 minutes rather than the 2 minutes that had originally been announced ...

Sep 19, 2024 · Since at least July and possibly earlier, Pawhuska's city manager and Police Department have been at odds.

Oct 21, 2024 · The city's ongoing failure to obtain financial audit services left the Pawhuska City Council paralyzed Oct. 15 in the face of a downtown merchant's request for assistance. The Council voted, 4-0, to table a request to spend economic development tax dollars to create a shuttle service to cushion the impact of downtown road and sidewalk construction on retail businesses that play an important ...