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THE

BROWNBACK PLAN

The governor is shaking up Kansas’ taxes. In an exclusive interview, he talks about the how and why of his sweeping strategy. P4

THE LIST

Public officials’ salaries. P14-15

2013

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SURGE INTO TECHNICAL COLLEGES’ COURSES. P11

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PROFILE: MARK HEIMAN. P18 INDEX ICTBizJournal

BUSINESS PULSE SURVEY .................2 LIST STORY ........................................ 13 COMPANY/PEOPLE INDEX ..................2 TECHFLASH ....................................... 16

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CEO QUESTION ....................................3 PEOPLE ON THE MOVE ..................... 17 REPORTER PAGES ..................... 7, 9-10 HAL BECKER COLUMN ...................... 19 FOCUS: EDUCATION ......................11-12 FOR THE RECORD........................20-22

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BILL ROY

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Editor

SURVEY Q: What is the biggest challenge facing your company?

Brownback interview first project with KCBJ Brian Kaberline, the editor-in-chief at the Kansas City Business Journal, called me last month and suggested we work together on a project. Our readers share an interest in the policies of the Gov. Sam Brownback administration and the Kansas Legislature. We decided we would try to get Brownback to sit down for an exclusive interview to talk about his plan for reviving the Kansas economy and changing the climate for doing business here. We figured if we made a joint request it would be easier for the governor to speak with us. If he had time during a visit to Wichita, the WBJ would do the interview. Same for KC. We worked with Eileen Hawley, the governor’s new communications director, and she found time on the schedule for a dis-

INDEXES COMPANIES INDEX A-I AEK LLC ................................................................................7 Arts Partners Inc. .............................................................3 Bank IV ..............................................................................18 Bank of America .............................................................18 Bank of Kansas................................................................ 17 BKD LLP.............................................................................. 17 Boatmen’s Bank...............................................................18 Boulevard State Bank ....................................................18 Bread & Circus ...................................................................7 Campus High School......................................................12 Conway Bank......................................................................7 Crate Tech Inc..................................................................10 Dodson Research Inc. .................................................... 17 Dunn Allen Design ............................................................9 Emprise Bank.....................................................................7 Exploration Place............................................................18 Fresh Horses ......................................................................9 Get Reel Productions.......................................................9 Google................................................................................16 Greater Wichita Economic Development Coaliton ...............................................................................3 Healing Waters Spa & Cosmetic Clinic...................... 17 Health Ministries Clinic ................................................ 17

cussion in Kansas City, Kan., after an appearance at the local community college. Kaberline would do the interview. We came up with a list of questions and decided how we in Wichita could contribute, and Managing Editor Nick Jungman put together much of the data for the package. He and Graphics Editor Shawn Houston put together the package you see on Pages 4-6. As you can see, we asked Brownback about a variety of issues, including measuring the success of his tax plan, efforts to attract businesses and residents, and funding for higher education. I’m very interested in that last one. I’m a year away from sending two to college. Aside from finding a way to pay for tuition, food and housing, I, like most other parents, want to know if the institutions

Howard & Helmer Architecture.....................................3 Hutchinson Community College .................................12 IMA Inc.................................................................................9 Intrust Bank Arena ......................................................... 17 J-S Joust Post Production ....................................................9 KAKE ................................................................................... 17 Kansas Board of Regents .......................................12, 13 Kansas Department of Commerce .........................9, 12 Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association ..........9 Kansas Masonic Home ....................................................9 Kansas State University................................................ 17 KC Creative Advertising ................................................ 17 KPTS.................................................................................... 17 Mental Health Association of South Central Kansas .................................................................................9 NationsBank.....................................................................18 Prudential Dinning-Beard Realtors ........................... 17 Realty Executives of Wichita .........................................3 Scholfield Honda ............................................................10 South Central Kansas MLS Inc. .....................................7 Star-Vu Drive-In ..............................................................10 Sullivan Higdon & Sink............................................ 16, 17 Sunflower Bank ...............................................................18 Sunlight Children’s Advocacy and Rights Foundation .........................................................................9 T-Z The Stables.........................................................................9 The State Bank of Conway Springs..............................7

we might choose have the resources they need to make it a rich learning experience. I suspect this won’t be the only time we work with the folks at the KCBJ on joint projects. I’m looking forward to the next one. If you have an idea for a project we can work on with the KC Business Journal, or for a story we can report in the WBJ, please let me know. A note on an upcoming event: The Women to Women panel discussion scheduled for Sept. 10 is filling up fast, and we expect it will sell out. We now have five panelists. We were able to get Cindy Carnahan from The Carnahan Group to join Noreen Carrocci, Marilyn Burrows, Marjorie Engle and Sheree Utash. Register at http://bizj.us/sevzn.

TriAd Marketing Resources............................................9 Union National Bank......................................................18 University of Kansas School of Medicine ............4, 17 USD 261 Haysville............................................................12 USD 262 Valley Center...................................................12 Valley State Bank............................................................ 17 Via Christi Health ........................................................... 17 Vintage Bank Kansas .......................................................7 Whole Foods Association ...............................................7 Whole Foods Market Inc. ................................................7 Wichita Area Technical College .............................11, 12 Wichita Children’s Home.................................................9 Wichita Nephrology Group ........................................... 17 Wichita State University ...............................9, 13, 17, 18 Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum ..........9 Wordsworth Inc. ................................................................9 Yingling Aviation ..............................................................3 Zernco Inc......................................................................... 17

PEOPLE INDEX A-G Adams, David .....................................................................7 Allen, Dave..........................................................................9 Ayres, Ted.................................................................... 13, 17 Baker, Geoff ........................................................................9 Bardo, John ......................................................................13 Bevan, Pamela ................................................................. 17 Bockman, Brittanie ........................................................ 17

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The local economy: 56 (35%) Regulations: 33 (20%) Health care coverage costs: 30 (19%) Other: 23 (14%) Staff costs: 12 (7%) Higher materials prices: 8 (5%) SOURCE: WBJ ONLINE POLL. AUG. 15 TO AUG. 22. SAMPLE SIZE: X162

Brown, Dave...................................................................... 17 Brown, John ......................................................................9 Brownback, Sam..................................................4, 5, 6, 11 Chase, Tim ..........................................................................3 Coffee, Brandon.................................................................9 Cortes, London ..................................................................9 De Niro, Robert................................................................ 17 Dodson, Lisa..................................................................... 17 Eck, P. John ........................................................................7 Espinoza, Judy ................................................................ 17 Friedman, Thomas .......................................................... 17 Gehlen, Sherry................................................................. 17 Gibson, Cory .....................................................................12 Gross, Curtis.......................................................................9 H-O Hartman, Wink ...................................................................7 Heiman, Carrie.................................................................18 Heiman, Mark...................................................................18 Herrin, Mary .....................................................................13 Hoyer, Daniel.................................................................... 17 Hunt, Jeri .......................................................................... 17 Hursh, Ryan ...................................................................... 17 Jayroe, Brodrick ...............................................................3 Kandt, James .....................................................................9 Kibler, Chris ...................................................................... 17 Kinkle, Tony .......................................................................11 Knorr, Ric ............................................................................7 Liebl, Travis ...................................................................... 17 Lynn, Katie ..........................................................................3 Marshall, Gregg .................................................................9

McDonald, Dan.................................................................10 McGinness, Liz ................................................................. 17 Mohr, Dave ........................................................................ 17 Morgan, Melissa .............................................................. 17 Moussa, Ronnie ............................................................... 17 Nichols, Lynn......................................................................3 Nollette, Joel .....................................................................9 Norton, Michael............................................................... 17 P-Z Page, Tom............................................................................7 Perry, Rick ..........................................................................4 Pham, Moon...................................................................... 17 Prater, Jay ........................................................................ 17 Salmeron, Monica ........................................................... 17 Schmidt, Matthew ........................................................... 17 Scholfield, Roger ............................................................10 Schutte, Clint ...................................................................12 Slane, Juvetta.................................................................. 17 Smith, Chad ......................................................................16 St. Jacques, Brian.............................................................9 Stafford, Deanna ............................................................. 17 Stoneman, Casey ............................................................ 17 Sykes, Patty...................................................................... 17 Tomblin, John ..................................................................13 Webb, Kathy...................................................................... 17 Werner, Paul .....................................................................13 Whiley, Debbie ................................................................. 17 White, Dave .........................................................................3 Willhaus, Max ................................................................... 17 Williams, Nathan ...............................................................9

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VOIC ES Q: How has Gov. Sam Brownback’s tax policy affected your organization?

WICHITA BUSINESS JOURNAL

“

We knew we needed a full-service accounting ﬁrm ... everything pointed to AGH.

Lynn Nichols,

–Chuck Perkins

Yingling Aviation

”

“Too soon to tell. It’s just hard to measure at this point in time.”

Nichols

Brodrick Jayroe,

Realty Executives of Wichita “Referring to future reductions in the mortgage interest deduction: “I haven’t heard agents or customers talking about it, but I think that’s because real estate in general is starting to move pretty well, which may be masking the impacts.”

Jayroe

Aero-Mach CFO Jeff Carnley and president Chuck Perkins

AGH and Aero-Mach Labs:

Tim Chase,

Full-service proﬁt improvement

Greater Wichita Economic Development Coalition “Gov. Brownback’s efforts to reduce Kansas’ overall cost of doing business will greatly enhance our existing businesses’ ability to grow and arms us with a great message to Chase tell nationally and internationally.”

high that Aero-Mach Labs helps supply and

opportunities that hadn’t been taken before,”

maintain their aircraft instrumentation. Cessna,

says Perkins. “A full-service ﬁrm like AGH is up to

Hawker Beechcraft, Bombardier, Bell and

speed in all those areas. That was worth lots of

Dave White,

Gulfstream are among their customers around

money to Aero-Mach to get tax credits back.”

Howard & Helmer Architecture “The elimination of personal income tax on non-wage business income for all nonC-corp business entities has been a great help to Kansas companies and business owners.”

Name an aircraft manufacturer, and odds are

the world. But Aero-Mach didn’t have to look far

White

Katie Lynn,

“The biggest impact was tax beneﬁts – all the

Since then, Aero-Mach has also tapped AGH for

when seeking a CPA and advisory ﬁrm

401(k) services, payroll management

to deliver high-quality, full-service tax,

and technology assistance. Perkins

employee beneﬁts and other consulting

credits AGH with building trust through

services.

good client service.

Tax expertise delivers

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Aero-Mach Labs’ Chuck Perkins ﬁrst

Arts Partners Inc.

In Aero-Mach’s fast-paced and highly

turned to AGH when the company’s

“As far as tax policies, I don’t know that there has been a direct effect. ... With tax cuts, are people going to be more generous to nonprofits? That remains to be seen.”

competitive manufacturing environment,

strong growth required a new, larger

Perkins says he values the Don Glenn, tax services

facility for aircraft-instrument sales

Lynn

Publisher........................................................John Ek

and service. AGH’s state and local tax group worked with Perkins to secure a

convenience and breadth of a fullservice CPA and advisory ﬁrm and chose AGH for the variety of expertise

10-year tax abatement for the new facility. Later,

the ﬁrm offers. Allen, Gibbs & Houlik, L.C. is proud

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comprehensive tax planning that experience and

successful aircraft-instrument manufacturing, sales

other recommendations led them to AGH.

and service company ﬂying high and on-course.

Editor............................................................... Bill Roy Audience Development Director ...Stacy Guinn Business Manager ..................... Cherilyn Bratton

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‘JOB CREATION IS REALLY WHAT WE NEED’ So how will Kansas do it? Brownback says lowering income taxes is just one piece

Q& A

The Kansas City Business Journal and the Wichita Business Journal, in a joint project, are focusing on Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and his policies for economic development and taxation. KCBJ Editor Brian Kaberline and WBJ Editor Bill Roy agreed on a set of questions, and Kaberline interviewed Brownback after an event Aug. 12 at Kansas City Kansas Community College. An abridged transcript of that interview follows. Among the topics discussed: business taxes, competition with surrounding states, and recruiting businesses and residents to come to Kansas. The WBJ provided much of the data research for this project. Let’s start with the tax cuts for LLCs, sole proprietorships and S corporations. What will success of the cuts look like? This is about getting more jobs. Three-fourths of Kansans either work for themselves or for somebody with 10 or fewer employees. It’s small-business jobs that we need. That’s where you get your real growth in jobs. In the Kansas City area, I hear professionals talking about moving across the state line. What about the rest of the state? The highest concentration of population we have is along the Kansas and Missouri border, by far. So anything else across the state’s going to be less pronounced just because you just don’t have the population. But our new business filings in northwest Kansas were quite high. We haven’t dived into the data sufficiently to say why are we are high there. We had a record number of LLC, [Subchapter] S [corporation] filings at the secretary of state’s office. I think we were 2,000 over the past record. Then you get anecdotal stories. I was talking with a guy that was talking about buying a business in California, an LLC, and moving it to Kansas because it’s, you know, it’s an automatic tax cut. He goes from the high end — the rate out there is like 11 percent, I think — to zero, so you can automatically put that on your bottom line. It had to be a mobile type of business that you can do anywhere, but a lot of businesses, particularly service businesses, you can move anywhere. ... I used to complain about us losing people to Texas and Florida. But you know what? The Texans and Flo-

BROWNBACK ON ... ... HIGHER EDUCATION SPENDING You’ve said that you may want to try to go back and reverse some of the cuts that were made to higher education. What is your argument, and how much of this do you want to see reversed? Well the cut is 1 percent for the four-year institutions. I made a tour, and [legislators] were cutting 4 percent off of four-year and technical schools and jucos, some community colleges. They took off the 4 percent for everybody, they went to zero on tech ed and the community colleges, and now we’re at 1 percent on the four-year [colleges], so we’ve really defined the universe much narrower, much smaller on the cuts. I think [universities] are good investments, and

STATE INCOME TAX BURDENS, PER CAPITA, IN FISCAL 2011 State Individual tax Corporate tax Total Kansas...............................$950...............................$86 ............................ $1,036 Nebraska ..........................$937 ...............................$84 ............................. $1,021 Colorado ...........................$893............................... $75................................$968 Arkansas ...........................$775 .............................. $129 ...............................$904 Missouri ............................$755...............................$54 ...............................$809 Oklahoma .........................$632............................... $94 ............................... $726 SOURCE: TAXFOUNDATION.ORG

ridians didn’t seem to care I was complaining about this. It’s not until you get in the game and start fighting it that you have a story to tell to keep some of your people from Kansas from moving to Texas and Florida. Are you going to do radio commercials like Texas Gov. Rick Perr y? How do you get the word out? Well, I’ve traveled to Chicago, and we’re mailing and contacting people. We’ll feel our way through, but if there’s things we can do to advertise. ... I’ve encouraged a group to put billboards up in California — we’ll see if they do that — but tell them come to Kansas. We’ve got jobs, great place to raise a family. We are looking at that. We did that aggressively on the ROZs, the Rural Opportunity Zones. That was kind of our first effort to try to stop the decline because half of our counties were losing double-digit population, decade on decade. So we went zero income tax, if you moved in, for five years ... and we’ll help you pay your student loan off, which I think turned out to really be the sweet spot. We’ve had 800, close to 900 probably now, on that ROZ. ... While the number, overall, doesn’t sound that big, in an area that’s lost population, to get some talent moving back is a big deal. And we’re now getting some rural population; the school-age population is coming back, but we were declining on school enrollment. We’re now getting some kindergarten classes that are bigger. So that’s been good. How do you build it up? I’m sure you’re not satisfied with 800 or 900. Hasn’t there been difficulty with younger people leaving farming? Farms are getting much better because farm income’s

what I’d like to see us do is, let’s target on the areas that are really critically important to our future. So I was pushing to get the medical center here and the medical education building at KU built. That adds a class of 50 docs, and we need more medical doctors in Kansas. So I said, look, this is a really key place for us to do this. I think we need to have the veterinary medicine school at K-State stronger where we’re bringing in vet ed and putting a lot of state money on the line. To really harvest it, you need a very strong veterinary school. And the aviation space in Wichita is just critical to us. So I still think it’s a wise thing for us to do. Hopefully, we’ll come to some agreement with the legislative leadership on that piece and maybe on targeting more just what we do on higher education, that it makes investments that people across the state are willing to pay for.

been overall good. If you had a crop, it’s been quite good lately, so it’s starting to get a younger crop of people. ... It’s like the manufacturing jobs that are coming back to the U.S. We started up here in the numbers, but now we’re down here. [We’re] building back, but we’re not going to hit this number. You’re not going to have the number of farmers you had a generation ago, just because the scale of agriculture is so much bigger. And manufacturing is the same way. It’s gone so much more mechanized. ... But it’s coming. ... I mean those jobs are growing, and that’s part of what places like this [Kansas City Kansas Community College] are about. ... People criticize ... saying OK, this is just Kansas stealing jobs from Missouri. This is a Bureau of Labor of Statistics chart, and it’s about job creation or loss in the Kansas City metro area. You can see really the last ... seven months, there’s been solid growth on the Kansas side that there hasn’t been on the Missouri side. But we’re growing a lot more than Missouri is losing. Let’s talk about state revenue. Are you not cementing yourself in a low spot? Is this the opportune time to be making these cuts? I don’t know particularly when is the opportune time. I know a high-tax state generally underperforms lowertax states in that region. I don’t think you really can as effectively draw a picture ... on a global basis, but you can, in a region, draw an effective picture. ... As long as we were a high-tax state, we were losing people, and we have. We’ve lost net out-migration to all the surrounding states but Nebraska prior to this taking place. So the timing is, well, we should have done it 20 years ago. Is this a philosophical move, a by-the-numbers move or a little of both? It’s a by-the-numbers move. I’ve got 30 years of data showing the decline of population in Kansas, of net outmigration in the region. ... We could have stayed where we were, but we would continue to go where we were going if we stayed on that path. And I look at it and just go, “Why would we want to do that?” I think people either were scared of the change, or they didn’t want to embrace it or were just kind of satisfied with the status quo. We could have [remained the same], and as the economy recovered, our receipts would recover. But we’ll continue to recover at a lower level than we would if we get in a better position. The

... NEW FRICTION BETWEEN WICHITA AND KANSAS CITY It seems like there’s been more friction between the Kansas City area and the Wichita area the last couple of years, whether it be the tone that things took with the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. or tone that things took with the look at Kansas Bioscience Authority. Do you see a rift, and if so, what’s the reason? I don’t think there’s a particular rift. ... I think it’s just kind of normal pragmatism of what comes down to in state government where you’ve got an allocation of resources. ... We’ve had tight budgets. ... That’s where your rub normally comes in — the allocation of resources. But I don’t think it’s anything more than is either historical or natural for different geographic areas of a state.

... WHETHER HE’LL RUN AGAIN FOR PRESIDENT You haven’t officially said that you’re running for governor of Kansas again, but would you like to take another swing at the presidential race? Being governor is one of the great jobs in American politics and in American policymaking. Jeb Bush said that to me when ... I was a senator running for governor. ... I am very happy being governor, and I enjoy it. It has been tough; it’s been tougher than I thought it would be. Our problems have been bigger than, not bigger than I thought, but we had to kind of take them on all at once. ... Now we have, and things are moving right. Our pension system’s moving in the right direction, our revenue is moving in the right direction, taxes are moving in the right direction, growth is moving in the right direction. ... So by the numbers you can look at these things, and it’s substantially improving.

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other thing that will be interesting to watch is our sales tax receipts, which are trending higher than were projected. Otherwise, we’re spot on, on the rest of our tax receipts. Philosophically, would you rather have no income tax and a higher sales tax? I’d rather have no income tax and keep sales tax where we are, if we could make that work. The problem in Kansas is, you’ve got a heavy dependence on income taxes, historically. So that makes it harder, but I really think our growth formula is to get that income tax off. If you have no taxes, or ver y low taxes, you don’t have as much room for tax incentives to tr y to induce someone to come somewhere or do something. What sweeteners do you use? We still have the [Promoting Employment Across Kansas] program and all the specific programs. We didn’t do anything on the corporate tax side of things. So we still have the full set of those that are available. [But] there are a substantial number of economic studies saying that those things are not particularly successful. Which things? The PEAK-type program, the targeted one. Again, what it is, it’s government picking, saying “I’ll do this one; I’m not going to do that one,” and that generally has been less effective ... than just creating a better atmosphere. And that’s what we’re trying to do, create a better atmosphere. ... All tax cuts are not created equal. You can see places that have cut other taxes that have not seen growth happening in other types of taxes. But the income tax, you can show this has created growth. And job creation is really what we need. You’re going to see at large how this works out, and you’ve got a number of blue states that are raising taxes now ... and some other, more conservative, states either keeping their taxes where they are or cutting taxes. So you’re going to get a chance to see whose model works. Is it Illinois and California, or is it a state like Kansas? Is it Maryland or Kansas — because Maryland raised taxes on the same day we cut taxes. Now they’re in a nice, urban, very concentrated area. We don’t have as much urban. ... The consistent data has been that the higher your taxes are, the less likely you’re going to have ... substantial growth over time. You’ve got to measure these over some time windows, but it’s playing out now. I think it’ll be a good model, too, for the federal government to look at.

PHOTOS BY DAVE KAUP / KCBJ

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CHANGING TAXES IN KANSAS

Brownback sees examples for state in New Hampshire and South Dakota

Q& A

Gov. Sam Brownback cites New Hampshire and South Dakota as states that have restructured their tax systems and made them work. Here is his response to a question about other states’ success with a tax approach similar to what Kansas is doing: Some point to other states that have tried this and say it hasn’t worked. Or that Florida has tourism and Texas has oil and gas, so they’re different animals. In which comparable areas is this working? New Hampshire. The beautiful thing about being involved nationally, politically, and running for president is I was a political tourist in a lot of states. So I was in New Hampshire quite a bit. Now, why on earth is New Hampshire growing and the rest of New England declining? ... Is it that they’ve voted Republican historically? I don’t think so. I think it’s their taxes, and people act economically rational over time. They may not do it in Year 1, but over time they act economically rational, and they say, you know what, there are a lot less taxes over here. South Dakota is a good one to look at. I was in South Dakota and Iowa, and you can compare Sioux Falls, S.D., to Sioux City, Iowa, and look where the growth has happened. ... So I think those are better places to look at. A lot of people will compare Tennessee and Missouri over where they were. The other one that’s a really interesting comparison is to look at those states that went from zero income taxes to an income tax and see what happened to them when they went that route because that has generally been an unprosperous move.

BEFORE BROWNBACK REFORMS

AFTER 2012 LEGISLATION

AFTER 2013 LEGISLATION

INDIVIDUAL STATE INCOME TAX BRACKETS

INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX BRACKETS

INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX RATES

3.5%

2.3%

for income to $15,000 ($30,000 if married filing jointly)

for income to $15,000 ($30,000 if married filing jointly), phased in gradually by 2018

6.25%-6.45%

4.9%

3.9%

for income more than $15,000 ($30,000 if married filing jointly)

for income more than $15,000 ($30,000 if married filing jointly), phased in gradually by 2018

STANDARD DEDUCTIONS

$3,000

for single taxpayer

for single taxpayer (unchanged)

$4,500

$9,000

$5,500

for head of household

$6,000

$9,000

$7,500

for couple filing jointly

STATUS OF BUSINESS TAXPAYERS

•

4% for income to $50,000. 7% for income more than $50,000. (Taxes for companies that pass through income to owners/members (e.g., LLCs, S corporations, partnerships) are paid on those owner/members’ returns at individual tax rates.)

•

Corporate tax rates unchanged. Income paid to owners/members of pass-through companies is no longer subject to tax.

•

Unchanged.

SOURCE: WICHITA BUSINESS JOURNAL RESEARCH

2005

2011

-1,180

-1,392

Net population loss by KS to NE.

2005

-481 Net population loss by KS to CO.

2011

+1,312

-454

Net total 2005

Net population gain by KS from CO.

2011

-672

+1,465

This is the net population effect in Kansas from migration to and from its neighbors.

Net population loss by KS to MO.

2011

+1,149 Net population gain by KS from MO.

NET MIGRATION Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback says the state’s new personal and corporate income tax policies will help the state become a net gainer of population compared with Kansas’ surrounding states. These statistics compare Kansas’ net migration in 2005 and 2011, the most recent date for which information is available, though it predates the policies’ taking effect.

2005

2011

+1,443

+396

Net population gain by KS from OK.

SOURCE: BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

STATE-BY-STATE TAX COMPARISON STATE

INDIVIDUAL

CORPORATE

Kansas (now)

3-4.9%

4-7%

Business income not taxed on individual returns, making “pass-through” companies essentially tax-exempt. New individual rates phase into place in preceding years.

Kansas (2018)

2.3-3.9%

4-7%

Missouri (now)

1.5-6%

6.25%

Missouri* (future)

1.5-5.5%

3.25%

Colorado

4.63%

Nebraska

2.46-6.84%

5.58-7.81%

Oklahoma

0.5-5.25%

EXPLANATION

Rates phase in, including a 50% deduction of “pass-through” business income on individual returns. *If tax-cut veto is overridden in September veto session.

Increases, but doesn’t double, tax bracket widths for married taxpayers, further lowering effective rates. SOURCE: TAXFOUNDATION.ORG, KCLEGISLATURE.ORG, HOUSE.MO.GOV

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Surprising fact: Local banks are shrinking themselves BY THE NUMBERS New and existing home sales in the Wichita metro area through July:

5,000

5,140

4,912 4,606 4,274

4,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 0 2010 SHAWN HOUSTON / WBJ

2011

2012

2013

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To pore over detailed performance data for every bank in metro Wichita, check out our database online at bit.ly/Q2bankdata. Local banks’ assets have shrunk again. That’s one thing that stood out last week when we did our quarterly crunching of bank numbers. For two quarters now, assets for the group of 35 banks based in the Wichita metro area have shrunk. In the first quarter, it was by about 1 percent on average, and in the recent quarter it accelerated to about 2.5 percent. The shrinking also happened at most of the out-of-market banks with branches in the metro. You might think that’s another sign of a soft economy, but Emprise Bank President Tom Page tells me it may have more to do with banks’ response to new, stricter Basel III capital requirements. If capital needs to be a higher percentage of bank assets, Page says, it’s easier today to trim assets than raise new capital. That doesn’t mean curtailing loans, which are a big chunk of bank assets. Banks want to make loans, Page says, and that’s borne out by rising portfolio values. “What [banks] don’t have room for is a bunch of assets and loans that don’t make sense, that don’t have any margin in them,” Page says. “If you look at the reduction in assets, you find that the reductions are far more in the categories of cash and securities than they are in the categories of loans.”

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The State Bank of Conway Springs, not to be confused with Conway Bank, has agreed to be acquired by Vintage Bank Kansas, an enterprise of Wichita businessman Wink Hartman (above). Terms weren’t disclosed. The deal is expected to close before the end of the year. After that, look for the Vintage name and new services at the bank’s single location in Conway Springs, but expect the same employees and a continued focus on community banking, Hartman says. Vintage Bank, he says, continues to look for other possible acquisitions.

THIRD PATIO HOME DEVELOPMENT Patio homes must be in demand in Wichita. Three new patio-home developments have been announced in recent months. The latest one would put about 55 patio homes at the northeast corner of 143rd Street East and Central. The developers are Ric Knorr, David Adams and P. John Eck, doing business together as AEK LLC. The architect and contractor haven’t yet been selected.

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“Honey, can you stop at Bread & Circus for (fill in the blank) on your way home?” I’m not sure it rolls off the tongue yet, but Bread & Circus is the name Whole Foods Market Inc. is giving its new Wichita store, underway at 13th and Webb Road. An alternative name was necessary to avoid a conflict with the local Whole Foods Association, which has operated health-food stores in Wichita under the Whole Foods name for decades. There’s history to the Bread & Circus name, and Whole Foods Market is paying tribute to it. Bread & Circus was the Northeast’s largest natural foods retailer when it was acquired by Whole Foods Market in 1992, the company says. The first Bread & Circus, in Brookline, Mass., sold both natural foods and wooden toys, hence the name’s unusual pairing, Whole Foods says. Word of the name for Wichita’s store drew a few cheeky

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‘Drill angry’? WSU coach puts message in context for oil producers Gregg Marshall says he’s taken some heat for the phrase “play angry,” the battle cry of the Wichita State University men’s basketball team during its march to the NCAA Final Four this year. So the Shocker coach put the phrase in context during his comments Monday during a luncheon at the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association’s 76th annual convention in Wichita. “Anger itself cannot stand on its own, but anger attached to a passion can have a profound purpose,” said Marshall, offering a few observations from this season’s experience that could be lessons for business. Among the other lessons from Marshall’s remarks: • Coachable and cohesive units can achieve great things. • Dream big and surround yourself with success-driven people. • If you strive for perfection, you can achieve excellence. • Don’t be satisﬁed. • Don’t be afraid to take a shot. Interestingly, these are a little different from the lessons some local observers took away from the Shockers’ success. My colleague Daniel McCoy wrote about those in a May cover story for the WBJ.

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services tailored to their needs, including video production, web design, branding and media buying. “Rather than pitching and attracting business by ourselves, we can combine our portfolios and client bases,” says partner James Kandt, of TriAd Marketing Resources. The consortium’s other partners are: Dave Allen, Dunn Allen Design. John Brown, Wordsworth Inc. London Cortes, Joust Post Production. Curtis Gross, Joust Post Production. Joel Nollette, Get Reel Productions. Nathan Williams, Baseline Creative.

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TAX CREDITS AWARDED The Kansas Department of Commerce announced last week that 28 nonproﬁt organizations will share $4.13 million in tax credits they can offer to donors under the Kansas Community Service Tax Credit program. Five Wichita-area nonproﬁts were among them: • Wichita Children’s Home, Wichita, $205,000. • Sunlight Children’s Advocacy and Rights Foundation, El Dorado, $195,000. • Kansas Masonic Home, Wichita, $75,000. • Mental Health Association of South Central Kansas, Wichita, $90,000. • Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum, Wichita, $80,000.

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Wichita auto dealer Roger Scholfield hopes a promotion from Honda will help the Star-Vu Drive-In in El Dorado upgrade to digital projection. The Honda contest will give away five digital projectors to five drive-in theaters across the country. The Star-Vu has been closed this season because it hasn’t been able to afford to make the switch. Winning “would mean everything for the Star-Vu,” says Amanda Baker, who leads a community group trying to save the theater. To help, visit www.projectdrivein.com to vote for the Star-Vu, or text VOTE36 to 444999. You can vote twice a day, once online and once via text. Voting ends Sept. 9.

Dan McDonald, vice president of Crate Tech Inc. in Wichita, says things in his line of work are moving faster than ever before. His company builds wooden and metal shipping containers for the aerospace industry. Continued growth in commercial aviation is fueling continued growth for Crate Tech too. But McDonald wants to do more than keep up. He wants to speed it up. Crate Tech this week celebrated the completion of a new 28,000-square-foot addition to its southeast Wichita facility. And, McDonald told me this week, he is adding new equipment — including new computerized routers — that pushes the project’s value to about $2 million. He hopes to add 20 workers to his 55-person local staff in the next six months. McDonald’s goal is to improve customer service by improving turnaround time. A rush delivery of a needed packaging container could now be a matter of just hours, but McDonald said he wants to get down to minutes. “With our core business being aviation, turnaround time is critical,” McDonald said. “That’s really the reason for the expansion.”

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A state program that allows high school students to earn college credit through technical training programs is taking off faster than some expected, and Wichita Area Technical College is among those reaping the benefits. Last summer, Gov. Sam Brownback signed Senate Bill 155 in a ceremony at WATC, creating a program that offers free tuition to high school students taking technical courses. Not only does the state foot the bill, but students get college credit for the technical courses they pass. One goal is to make more high school students ready

for the work force right away. That’s important to students who aren’t college-bound and who’ll immediately need a job when they graduate, says WATC President Tony Kinkle. The training also helps students get valuable industry certifications more quickly. WATC has seen a substantial increase in the number of students who enroll while they are still in high school. Three years ago, WATC had 50 high school students enrolled in its programs. Now, Kinkle says, that number is expected to surpass 900 this fall. Continued on PAGE 12

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Many more high school students are taking advantage of opportunities to earn college credit and work toward industry certification, now that the state of Kansas will foot the bill for their courses at technical colleges. Health care courses are among the most popular. These high school students are studying to become certified nursing assistants at Wichita Area Technical College’s campus on East 47th Street South. Here they’re learning how to use a mechanical sling to move a patient. The classes incorporate a mix of lab and classroom work.

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Continued from PAGE 11 The state has earmarked $8.7 million for the 2013-2014 academic year to cover those students’ tuition. That money will be allocated by the Kansas Board of Regents. WATC isn’t the only institution in Kansas seeing greater numbers of high school students. Across the state, 5,800 high school students are expected to enroll in collegelevel technical courses this fall, according to the Kansas Department of Commerce. That’s up from 3,870 last year.

INTEREST FROM AREA SCHOOL DISTRICTS INCREASING WATC is benefiting from increased student counts and tuition revenue, but area school districts are benefiting, too. Under Senate Bill 155, the state is paying school districts $1,000 for each of their students that receives industry certification through the program. And area school districts say they’d like give their students more opportunities to get a jump-start on an industry certificate or an associate degree. USD 261 Haysville is providing transportation for students to WATC’s National Center for Aviation Training facility on North Webb Road. Clint Schutte, Haysville’s assistant superintendent for business and finance, says the district also is looking for ways to help WATC offer classes at the district’s Campus High School, possibly starting in the spring. “It’s going to come down to interest,” Schutte says. “Students make the course.” Cory Gibson, superintendent of USD 262 Valley Center, says Senate Bill 155 was a welcome change from the state funding cuts that school districts have had to endure in recent years. Gibson “I think it’s one of the most positive pieces of legislation for education that we’ve seen in several

INCREASING INTEREST More students are taking technical-training courses while they are in high school and earning college credit at the same time. Here’s a look at the recent increases in the headcount of students receiving dual credit and the number of credit hours they are receiving: Headcount 2011 — 3,475. 2012 — 3,870. 2013 — *5,800.

College credit hours 2011 — 28,000. 2012 — 28,161. 2013 — 43,312.

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years,” Gibson says. “The labor market is moving toward a highly skilled work force, and this bill helps that.” The Valley Center district, like Haysville, is looking for ways to expand students’ technical-training opportunities. Gibson says student interest is highest in programs related to health, residential carpentry, aviation, manufacturing and design. The district, Gibson says, already works with Hutchinson Community College to allow high school students to take welding classes at the college’s Newton campus. Valley Center had 259 students participating in dual-credit programs last spring, earning a combined 1,050 college credit hours. Gibson says that equates to $160,000 in tuition paid by the state. Other area school districts, including Renwick, Goddard, Maize and Wichita, are also working to expand technical training opportunities. The state’s program appears to be achieving its goals, but school leaders say they are concerned about long-term funding. They say that as more students choose to pursue technical education, and as the demand for a technically trained work force rises, the need for funding will also rise. “Funding is the biggest concern,” Gibson says. jheck@bizjournals.com | 266-6172

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Many Wichita State University administrators and faculty members are seeing larger paychecks this year, thanks to widespread salary increases. The raises came even as state funding was being reduced. “It’s a real privilege and a pleasure to be in a position to even consider salary raises because the past few years they have been few and far between,” says Ted Ayres, WSU vice president and general counsel. Of the 20 people on this year’s Wichita Business Journal list of highly paid Wichita State officials, 13 are making more than they did in the 2012 list — 3 percent to 4.5 percent more, in most cases. WSU also awarded raises to dozens of faculty members, Ayres says. The university reallocated funding and combined that with money generated from an 8 percent tuition increase this year to create a $2.5 million pool for merit pay increases, says WSU Budget Director Paul Werner. He says in previous years other state universities issued raises but WSU did not. At 4.5 percent, President John Bardo received one of the biggest raises at the university this year. His base salary increased to $345,000, up from $330,000 a year ago. Bardo’s raise was part of a plan the Kansas Board of Regents approved for the leaders of the six universities it governs, a move meant to align their compensation with that of leaders at peer institutions. Those salary increases were enabled through private funds. Bardo’s raise wasn’t the biggest at WSU. John Tomblin, director of the National Institute for Aviation Research and interim director of the university’s new technology-transfer office, received a 21 percent raise, and Mary Herrin, vice president for administration and finance, saw her salary increase 13 percent. Wichita State may have offered widespread raises this year, but other state universities largely did not. AIR CONDITIONING Residential and Commercial

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Top 5 Sedgwick County public officials’ salaries in 2012. Name and title Salary 1. Dr. Rex Lear, Chief clinical director .................$205,859 2. Dr. David Hon, Clinical director ........................$192,994 3. Dr. Jaime Oeberst, Coroner/medical examiner ....$179,305 4. William Buchanan, County manager................$178,597 5. Dr. Sabina Braithwaite, EMSS medical director....$173,500 SOURCE: The Wichita Business Journal’s 2012 Book of Lists.

A look back ... Top 5 City of Wichita public officials’ salaries in 2012. Name and title Salary 1. Robert L. Layton, City manager.........................$189,625 2. Gary E. Rebenstorf, Director of law and city attorney .....................................................$160,015 3. Norman D. Williams, Police chief .....................$152,807 4. John L. Schlegel, Director of planning ............$150,167 5. Victor D. White, Director of airports ..............$143,940 SOURCE: The Wichita Business Journal’s 2012 Book of Lists.

Sedgwick County salaries 2013 Rank

2012 Rank

Employee name

1 1 Dr. Rex Lear 2 2 Dr. David Hon 3 3 Dr. Jaime Oeberst 4 4 William Buchanan 5 5 Dr. Sabina Braithwaite 6 6 Dr. Lin Xu 7 7 Dr. Andrew Lauronilla 8 8 Dr. DeAnn Jenkins 9 NL Dr. Kathrine Girrens 10 11 Dr. Timothy Rohrig 11 10 Dr. German Gonzalez 12 12 Dr. Scott Kipper 13 13 Mark Reed 14 NL Dr. Timothy Gorrill 15 NL Marc Bennett 16 16 Ronald Holt 17 15 Chris Chronis 18 17(t) Richard Euson (T) 17(t) David Spears 20 NL Thomas Stolz USD 259 salaries 2013 2012 Rank Rank Employee name

City of Wichita salaries 2013 salary

Job title

$211,129

Chief clinical director

$197,935

Clinical director

$183,913

Coroner/medical examiner

$183,062

County manager

$177,838

EMSS medical director

$173,207

Clinical director

$168,078

Clinical director

$168,018

Clinical director

$155,000

Clinical director

$154,819

Director forensic science center

$154,606

Clinical director

$148,727

Deputy coroner

$145,377

Zoo director

$145,000

Deputy coroner

$139,313

District attorney

$132,464

Assistant county manager

$132,291

Chief financial officer

$130,602

County counselor

$130,602

County engineer

$122,000

Director building and construction

2013 Rank

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

2012 Rank Employee name

2013 salary

Job title

Robert L. Layton

$204,795

City manager

Gary E. Rebenstorf

$164,015

Director of law and city attorney

Norman D. Williams

$156,627

Police chief

John L. Schlegel

$153,922

Director of planning

Victor D. White

$147,539

Director of airports

Catherine A. Holdeman

$143,155

Assistant city manager

Ronald D. Blackwell

$137,766

Fire chief

Alan D. King

$136,581

Director of public works and utilities

Kelly A. Carpenter

$134,372

Director of finance

Steve K. Spade

$134,275

Director of transit

James L. Armour

$133,057

City engineer

Douglas R. Kupper

$125,741

Director of parks and recreation

Donte L. Martin

$121,817

Municipal court administrator

Shawn S. Henning

$121,500

Director of finance

Brian K. McLeod

$119,401

Senior attorney

Cynthia K. Harris

$118,249

Director of libraries

Mary K. Vaughn

$117,290

Director of housing and community service

Joseph T. Pajor

$115,931

Assistant director of public works

Terri S. Moses

$113,298

Deputy police chief

Carl A. Bell III

$110,628

Urban development director

Wichita State University salaries 2012-13 salary

Job title

2013 Rank

2012 Rank

Employee name

FY2014 salary

Job title

John Allison

$224,910

Superintendent

John Bardo

$345,000

President

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Thomas Powell

$147,388

General counsel

John Tomblin

$280,000

Interim vice president for research and technology transfer, and professor

Top 5 WSU public officials’ salaries in 2012.

Denise Seguine

$137,473

Chief academic officer

Ravindra Pendse

$272,000

Vice president for information technologies, executive director ANRI, and professor

Catherine Barbieri

$136,593

Chief information officer

Anthony Vizzini

$270,000

Vice president for academic affairs, and professor

James Freeman

$126,086

Chief financial officer

9(t)

Mary Herrin

$215,000

Vice president for administration and finance

6(t) William Faflick

$124,177

Assistant superintendent

Ted Ayres

$203,600

Vice president and general counsel

$124,177

Chief human resources officer

Jody Adams

$194,012

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Name and title FY2013 Salary 1. John W. Bardo, President ................................. $330,000 2. Donald L. Beggs, Consultant to president.........$282,150 3. Douglas Hensler, Dean and professor............$256,250 4. Ravindra Pendse, Chief information officer .....$234,740 5. John S. Tomblin, Executive director NIAR ........$231,712 SOURCE: The Wichita Business Journal’s 2012 Book of Lists.

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Source: Surveyed organizations.

(T)

6(t) Alicia Thompson

$124,177

Assistant superintendent

Vincentia Claycomb

$190,000

Interim dean of the Barton School of Business, and professor

10(t) Neil Guthrie

$121,679

Division director

Eric Sexton

$187,000

Director of athletics

(T)

10(t) Julie Hedrick

$121,679

Division director plant facilities

Paul Harrison

$181,311

(T)

10(t) Wendy Johnson

$121,679

Division director marketing and communications

Steven Farmer

$179,690

(T)

10(t) Darren Muci

$121,679

Division director operations

Gerardo Olivares

$178,880

Senior research scientist, director

(T)

10(t) Susanne Smith

$121,679

Division director

Wade Robinson

$175,900

Vice president for campus life and university relations

15(t) Bruce Deterding

$110,081

Principal

Peter Cohen

$173,936

Professor and director of the WSU Leadership Academy

(T)

15(t) Joel Hudson

$110,081

Principal

Ronald Matson

$171,600

Interim dean of Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and associate professor

(T)

19(t) Sherman Padgett

$110,081

Principal

Dexter Woods

$166,281

Director of AEGD and senior clinical educator

(T)

19(t) Alfred Parks

$110,081

Principal

Abu Masud

$164,682

Interim dean of the graduate school, and professor

(T)

15(t) Karen Pickert

$110,081

Principal

Gaylen Chandler

$164,674

(T)

15(t) Kenneth Thiessen

$110,081

Principal

Richard LeCompte

$164,357

$108,052

Principal

Lois Tatro

$160,100

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2012 Rank Employee name

Kansas Board of Regents university salaries, except WSU

2012-13 Salary

School district

Job title

2013 Rank

2012 Rank

Employee name

FY2014 salary

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USD 266 Maize

Superintendent

Doug A. Girod

$687,000

$157,454

USD 385 Andover

Superintendent

3(t)

Sheahon Zenger

$600,000

Bernadette GrayLittle

$492,650

Douglas Powers

Mark Evans

Dr. John Burke

$144,941

USD 261 Haysville

Superintendent

Craig Wilford

$142,608

USD 260 Derby

Superintendent

3(t)

John A. Currie

$475,000

Justin Henry

$141,174

USD 265 Goddard

Superintendent

Kirk H. Schulz

$460,050

Dr. Deborah Hamm

$130,000

USD 373 Newton

Superintendent

Buddhadeb Dawn

$408,153

Cory Gibson

$129,900

USD 262 Valley Center

Superintendent

Steven W. Stites

$402,480

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Brad Rahe

$120,768

USD 263 Mulvane

Superintendent of schools, director of grounds

Garold O. Minns

$400,000

Top 10 suburban USD public officials’ salaries in 2011-12.

Sue Givens

$120,121

USD 490 El Dorado

Superintendent

Jeffrey S. Vitter

$376,000

15(t) Mike Roth

$118,500

USD 264 Clearwater

Superintendent

John Everett Sutphin Jr.

$360,060

Jill Lachenmeyer

$116,508

USD 385 Andover

Assistant superintendent

Neelima M. Bendapudi

$360,000

Brett White

$115,412

USD 385 Andover

Assistant superintendent

Gregory K. Unruh

$358,680

Bob Baier

$114,099

USD 385 Andover

High school principal

April C. Mason

$355,000

15(t) Teresa SanMartin

$112,530

USD 265 Goddard

Assistant superintendent

Terance T. Tsue

$354,735

15(t) John Black

$112,365

USD 402 Augusta

Superintendent

Alan Shiu Leun Yu

$342,924

Unified school district (USD) 2012-13 salaries in Sedgwick, Butler, Harvey and Sumner counties, excluding USD 259 Wichita. Fiscal year (FY) 2014 salaries at universities governed by the Kansas Board of Regents, excluding Wichita State University.

Name, district 2011-12 salary 1. Douglas Powers, USD 266 Maize ........................$172,071 2. Mark A. Evans, USD 385 Andover .....................$154,065 3. Dr. John Burke, USD 261 Haysville ...................$143,223 4. Craig Wilford, USD 260 Derby ...........................$138,682 5. Justin Henry, USD 265 Goddard ......................$138,000 6. Gary Jantz, USD 373 Newton............................. $130,216 7. Cory Gibson, USD 262 Valley Center ................$129,900 8. George Tignor, USD 265 Goddard ......................$118,484 9. Sue Givens, USD 490 El Dorado ...........................$117,911 10. Dr. Andy Koenigs, USD 385 Andover ...............$116,679 SOURCE: The Wichita Business Journal’s 2012 Book of Lists.

A look back ... Top 10 university public officials’ salaries in 2012. Name, university FY2013 salary 1. Steven Stites, University of Kansas ...............$480,000 2. Kapil Narain Bhalla, University of Kansas.....$461,000 3. John A. Currie, Kansas State University ......$450,000 4. Sheahon J. Zenger, University of Kansas .....$450,000 5. Doug A. Girod, University of Kansas...............$435,305 6. Bernadette Gray-Little, University of Kansas..$432,650 7. Buddhadeb Dawn, University of Kansas .........$408,153 8. Kirk H. Schulz, Kansas State University .......$400,050 9. Garold Minns, University of Kansas...............$400,000 10. Carl Philip Weiner, University of Kansas......$384,383 SOURCE: The Wichita Business Journal’s 2012 Book of Lists. Source: Surveyed organizations. Footnotes: 1 Mark Evans left the Andover district at the end of the 2012-13 school year. He was replaced by Greg Rasmussen. Notes: The Wichita area includes Sedgwick, Butler, Harvey and Sumner counties. Ranking ties are listed alphabetically. Key: T - Tie NL - Not listed Researched by Stephanie Bloyd; sbloyd@bizjournals.com Reprints: Details about commemorative plaques, reprints of the list or Web permissions can be obtained from American City Business Journals at http://bit.ly/ reprintservices. No other companies offering similar services are affiliated with American City Business Journals.

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Greg Buster

$111,077

USD 490 El Dorado

Director of special education

Parvesh Kumar

$342,513

Jeff Hersh

$110,000

USD 265 Goddard

Assistant superintendent

Chet D. Johnson

$341,729

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Rick Weiss

$110,000

USD 353 Wellington

Superintendent

Ali R. Malekzadeh

$337,698

Charlene Laramore

$109,870

USD 260 Derby

Assistant superintendent, curriculum

Karen L. Miller

$335,202

Cheryl Hochhalter

$109,646

USD 385 Andover

High school principal

Roy A. Jensen

$330,930

Marsha Beard

$109,456

USD 266 Maize

Associate superintendent

Matthew Stuart Mayo

$330,636

$108,756

USD 440 Halstead

Superintendent

Jeffrey Charles Reene

$329,664

32(t) Thomas J. Alstrom

Don Adkisson

$108,579

USD 260 Derby

Director of budget and finance

Raymond Pedro Perez

$325,000

William Kelley

$107,316

USD 265 Goddard

High school principal

Paul F. Terranova

$320,737

Myron Regier

$107,261

USD 261 Haysville

High school principal

John D. Floros

$278,962

Randal Chickadonz

$106,310

USD 394 Rose Hill

Superintendent

Ralph C. Richardson

$266,901

$104,831

USD 260 Derby

Principal

Edward Hammond

$266,450

39(t) Tim Hamblin

Dr. Michael Clagg

$104,236

USD 261 Haysville

Assistant superintendent

Jim E. Riviere

$262,600

Rebecca Cezar

$103,940

USD 261 Haysville

Director of special education

Jerry Farley

$259,611

Steven Williams

$103,629

USD 266 Maize

Director of finance

Kenneth R. Stafford

$258,813

Jim Freeman

$102,923

USD 385 Andover

Business manager

Steven A. Scott

$254,378

Jerold Longabaugh

$102,887

USD 265 Goddard

Middle school principal

Peter K.Dorhout

$253,712

James Regier

$102,822

USD 206 RemingtonWhitewater

Superintendent

Thomas Romig

$252,343

Norman Wilks

$102,271

USD 490 El Dorado

Michael Shonrock

$251,250

Heather Bohaty

$102,114

USD 260 Derby

Director of fiscal and support services Assistant superintendent, human resources

Roger B. Fingland

$240,526

Clay Murphy

$102,010

Superintendent

Brian S. Spooner

$235,385

32(t) Mike Bonner

$102,000

Assistant superintendent

Ruth A. Dyer

$232,931

USD 356 Conway Springs USD 262 Valley Center

Dr. Rose Kane

$101,990

USD 357 Belle Plaine

Superintendent

Stephen Higgs

$221,328

Gary Lewis

$101,117

USD 266 Maize

Director of educational outreach

Verna M. Fitzsimmons

$218,362

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Ramon Mosate

$101,117

USD 266 Maize

Director of technology

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$216,440

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Wichitan builds apps to fax, research, buy domains using Google Glass BY EMILY BEHLMANN

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Chad Smith is a developer for Sullivan Higdon & Sink in Wichita. His Google Glass apps are personal projects, but SHS is studying Glass’ usefulness.

Chad Smith has a tiny computer he wears on an eyeglasses frame with all kinds of high-tech capabilities, and one thing he’s been using it for is to ... fax. Smith says he saw humor in developing an app for Google Glass, the wearable computer from Google, to carry out the older style of communication, though he’s created several other apps for the device, too. Smith is a mobile and Web developer for the Wichita ad agency Sullivan Higdon &

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He says that, at first, the capabilities of Google Glass seemed limited. He saw the device as mostly a “high-dollar camera.” His main motivation for developing Glass apps was to make the device more useful, he says. He doesn’t fax so often, though he says he has a virtual fax number where he was able to receive a document from his doctor’s office. He can read it page-by-page on Google Glass, or take a picture with Glass and send it off to another fax number. Smith says he’s finding himself using other apps he’s developed more often. They include: • Google Analytics — Glass users can quickly check the tiny screen for key statistics related to their website traffic, such as number of visitors and page views. Smith says he often needs to pull up data about clients’ sites while sitting in meetings. • Google AdSense — Users can check in on their income from Google AdSense, which lets website owners earn money when people click on ads on their site. • Whois lookup — In meetings, SHS staff sometimes wonder whether they can use a certain domain name for a client or project website. This Glass app will check whether a domain name is available, and if it is, Smith can buy it right away. Smith says he’s also working on an app to do his banking, so he can get alerts when checks are deposited and easily check on how much he has available to spend. He says he’s been making his apps opensource so fellow developers can adapt them. Providing his code to others also helps others see that the apps are safe to install, he says. It does take some technical knowledge to start using the apps. He’s been posting code on GitHub, a software collaboration website. Smith uses his apps on the job, but he says Sullivan Higdon & Sink is still trying to determine whether it makes sense to do any Google Glass work for clients. At this stage, so few people have the device that any Glass project likely would have a limited impact, he says. Google hasn’t said when Google Glass will be available to the public. Smith says Google has been updating its software regularly, and he expects the public version of Glass will look different than his device.

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KC Creative Advertising has added Juvetta Slane to oversee new business development.

Via Christi Health has named Judy Espinoza as chief human resources officer. It has promoted Dave Mohr to administrator for payer relations and decision support.

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Prudential Dinning Beard Realtors has added Deanna Stafford as a sales associate at its west location and Daniel Hoyer and Patty Sykes as sales associates at its east location. Dave Brown has received the Fine Home Specialist certification.

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What was your first job? I worked as a waiter in a nursing home in California. How long have you lived in Wichita and what are your impressions of the city? I lived here the last five out of seven years. I thinks it’s the best city in the world and the perfect place to raise a child. What area of town do you live in? The east side. Who is the person you would most like to meet? Robert De Niro. What was the last book you read? “The World is Flat,” by Thomas Friedman. What is your favorite Wichita restaurant and why? Wasabi. I have a thing for Sushi. What is your favorite vacation spot? St. Lucia in the Caribbean. What are your favorite movies? Any clever comedy would do.

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Mark Heiman Wichita market president, Sunflower Bank

THE MARK HEIMAN FILE Age: 51. Experience: Boulevard State Bank, Wichita, 1984-1987; Union National Bank, Wichita, 1987-1992; Bank IV, Boatmen’s Bank, NationsBank and Bank of America, 1992-2013, lastly as senior vice president and private relationship manager; Sunflower Bank, Wichita market president, July 9-present. Education: Bachelor’s in business administration, Wichita State University, 1984; MBA, WSU, 1987. Family: Wife, Carrie, volunteer coordinator at Exploration Place. Six children: Erick Heiman, 21; Carlin Greene and Blake Heiman, both 18; Samantha Greene and Grant Heiman, both 15; and Ralitsa Greene, 12. Hobbies: Golf, home repair. BY JOHN STEARNS

Mark Heiman has worked for seven banks in Wichita over the past 29 years, but he only initiated two of those job changes. “I tell people I never had to change jobs because the job changed around me,” says Heiman, who became Wichita market president for Salina-based Sunflower Bank last month. That was the second change he sought. His first voluntary job change was leaving Union National Bank for Bank IV in 1992, which became Boatmen’s Bank in 1996, then NationsBank, then Bank of America, where he stayed until joining Sunflower. What’s behind your big jump from Bank of America, one of the biggest banks in the countr y, to a community bank? I decided I wanted to get back to a size of institution that I felt was what I call kind of the right size — big enough to meet almost all the needs of most of the commercial customers in Wichita, Kansas, given the size market that we are, yet still small enough to deliver those products and services well. To me, that’s not the mega-banks’ forte, and that’s OK. But it fit how I wanted to end my career. ... I felt like I could come over here and have some fun and get back into commercial banking. I spent the last four years of my experience at Bank of America in their private banking group. It was good. I learned a lot ... and liked working with that customer base, but at the end of the day, I like commercial business. I like doing deals. I like working with business owners. It’s just a little more rewarding. Even though you’re the market president for Sunflower Bank, there’s still a lot of handson opportunity for those commercial relationships? It’s not just overseeing this operation? That’s exactly right. It’s primarily leading the

commercial team here. ... I have market responsibilities, but I don’t have day-to-day responsibility for the retail functions in the market. My day-to-day responsibilities are for the commercial functions in the market. What’s your take on the Wichita commercial lending environment right now? Cautiously optimistic. There are things happening. I know all the banks are kind of reawakening and looking for good business. We are doing that, and we’ve got a good customer base, good customers that we work with. I think there’s some opportunity out there, and if there is, we’re going to find it. How do you think Sunflower in Wichita will be different under you? I think we’ll be a more active participant in looking for good business and good customers and growing our business. You have six kids, enough to run a whole branch yourself. That’s right. My late wife [Missy Heiman, who died of breast cancer in 2005] and I had three boys, and then I remarried four years ago to a lady that had three girls. So we now say grace over six, and it’s the Brady Bunch, so that’s the most common reference. So three in college and three at home? I told everybody that both the bedroom count and the wallet is a lot lighter. jstearns@bizjournals.com | 316-266-6176

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Matt Peters Construction LLC, single-family residence at 13716 E. Ayesbury, Hawthorne Lot 48 Block 1, $249,181.

Evan Spicer, 200 S. Meridian Ave., Valley Center 67147, $22,110, (CIVP), Book/Page 2939/5539, 08/12/13.

Mullin Inc., single-family residence at 13206 W. Hunters View, Crystal Gardens Lot 17 Block A, $165,338.

BLA Enterprises/Corporate Caterers Of Wichita, 2949 N. Rock Road Suite 100, Wichita 67226, $5,509, (941), Book/Page 2939/5541, 08/12/13.

Nies Homes Inc./Nies Construction Inc., single-family residence at 15714 E. Camden Chase, Monarch Landing Lot 5 Block 3, $188,543.

Fornelli Feet PA, 7224 E. Bainbridge Court, Wichita 67226, $16,255, (941), Book/Page 2939/5542, 08/12/13.

Perfection Builders LLC, single-family residence at 9681 W. Village, Watercress Village Lot 38 Block 1, $240,000.

Buzz Building Maintenance Inc., 3112 N. 124th St. W., Wichita 67223, $11,763, (941), Book/Page 2939/5543, 08/12/13.

HITT Contracting Inc., commercial alteration at 2132 N. Rock, (remodel), $250,000.

Victoria Homes, single-family residence at 12620 E. Cherry Creek, Tara Creek Lot 17 Block 1, $146,355.

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Key Construction Inc., commercial alteration at 3985 E. Harry, Starwood Call Center (interior demolition), $100,000.

Zimbelman Construction LLC, single-family residence at 2525 S. Maize, Southern Ridge Lot 3 Block C, $128,426.

Conco Inc., commercial construction at 8201 E. 34th N. Circle No. 1500, Northrock Business Park, $700,000.

McGinnis Construction, commercial alteration at 9747 E. 21st N., Dean’s Grill (renovation), $100,000. Meridian Construction, commercial construction at 4929 E. 13th N. St., (mini-storage), $74,000. Nabholz Construction, commercial alteration at 154 N. Broadway, (fuel tank installation), $2,200,000. S&J Construction Service, commercial construction at 2923 N. Tyler Road, (shell), $400,000. Sauerwein Construction Co. Inc., commercial alteration at 500 E. Waterman, Intrust Bank Arena Guitar Bar, $118,319. Sauerwein Construction Co. Inc., commercial construction at 10111 E. 21st N. St. Building 500, (shell), $979,200. Residential Wichita/Sedgwick Bob Cook Homes LLC, single-family residence at 12612 E. Killarney, Country Club Court Lot 46 Block 1, $227,416. Clint Miller Construction, single-family residence at 10513 E. Fawn Grove, Fawn Grove at Sunset Lakes Lot 19 Block 3, $113,191.

COURT JUDGMENTS Judgments filed with the district clerk. Civil judgments filed against businesses are published in the following order: plaintiff name, defendant name, defendant address (if available), amount of judgment, prevailing party, case number, recording date. Sedgwick County Journal Broadcast Group Inc. v. Cannefax Painting and Remodeling Inc./Jane Cannefax, (address not shown), $6,680, plaintiff, document #13LM07253, 07/26/13.

FEDERAL TAX LIENS These are recently filed by the Internal Revenue Service against assets of a business for unpaid income or payroll taxes. They are recorded with the register of deeds. The data appears in the following order: taxpayer’s name, address, amount of lien, type of lien (if available), document number and recording date. Sedgwick County Benjamin Weaver, 14551 E. Sport Of Kings Court, Wichita 67230, $99,533, (CIVP), Book/ Page 2939/5537, 08/12/13.

Sedgwick County Friendship Child Development Center, 2209 E. Pawnee St., Wichita 67211, $5,400, (990), Book/Page 2939/5550, 08/12/13. Sailhug/Scotch And Soda, 3827 W. 13th St. N., Wichita 67203, $61,213, (941), Book/Page 2939/5551, 08/12/13.

State of Kansas Jet Stream Systems Inc., Shawn Spaeny, 535 S. Emporia St. No. 104, Wichita 67202.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Building Permits ................................................. 20 Court Judgments................................................. 20 Federal Tax Liens ................................................ 20 Federal Tax Liens Released.................................... 20 Mechanics’ Liens ................................................. 20 New Corporations ................................................ 20 New Lawsuits ................................................. 20-21 Real Estate Transactions ...................................21-22 State Tax Liens ................................................... 22 State Tax Liens Released ...................................... 22 State Tax Warrants .............................................. 22

Value Place Atlanta GA Northeast - Chamblee LLC, Harvey Sorensen, 8621 E. 21st St. N. Suite 250, Wichita 67206.

RZD Enterprises LLC, Paul Good, 300 W. Douglas Ave. Suite 500, Wichita 67202.

Value Place Cleveland OH Southwest - Airport LLC, Harvey Sorensen, 8621 E. 21st St. N. Suite 250, Wichita 67206.

Auto Plaza Body Shop LLC, Adi Sumeir, 704 E. Douglas Ave. Apt. 21, Wichita 67202.

DDW LLC, Jack McInteer, 8301 E. 21st St. N. Suite 450, Wichita 67206.

Auto Plaza LLC, Adi Sumeir, 704 E. Douglas Ave. Apt. 21, Wichita 67202.

Value Place Dayton Oh South LLC, Harvey Sorensen, 8621 E. 21st St. N. Suite 250, Wichita 67206.

Lopmar Construction Co. Inc., Sergio Lopez, 1910 N. Woodland St., Wichita 67203. Maxtrax America Distributors LLC, Melissa Steiner, 1443 N. Perry Ave., Wichita 67203. Maxtrax America LLC, Melissa Steiner, 1443 N. Perry Ave., Wichita 67203. Above Average Outdoors LLC, Alan Marlow, 1941 Jeanette, Wichita 67203. Auto Maintenance Experts Inc., Carol AbouFaissal, 1959 N. Sedgwick, Wichita 67203.

Value Place Ft. Lauderdale FL West - Davie LLC, Harvey Sorensen, 8621 E. 21st St. N. Suite 250, Wichita 67206. Veritrend LLC, 1813 S. Herrington St., Wichita 67207. Jordan & Rasha Bani LLC, 321 N. Woodlawn St., Wichita 67208. Teamup-KS Inc., Kevin Gehrer, 138 N. Parkwood, Wichita 67208.

EZE LLC, 6455 N. Hoover, Wichita 67204.

ZH Investments LLC, Derrek Ziesch, 1404 S. Bebe, Wichita 67209.

Custom Drywall Services LLC, 6210 N. Sullivan Road, Wichita 67204.

Ruffin Development Acquisitions LLC, 1522 S. Florence, Wichita 67209.

Event Elements LLC, 2825 N. Wild Rose, Wichita 67205.

The Rock Island Group LLC, Ralph Hebert, 11612 W. Sheriac St., Wichita 67209.

Mechanics’ liens are filed with the district clerk. The data appears in the following order: claimant, contractor, amount of lien, owner of property, property address, document number and date recorded.

4S Enterprise LLC, Donald Sayler, 2423 Bellwood, Wichita 67205.

TNT Diner LLC, Tammy Cruse, 6929 El Standra Circle, Wichita 67209.

Quiltin4Fun LLC, Jolene Guderjahn, 3126 N. Red Fox St., Wichita 67205.

Emerge Spa & Salon LLC, Levina Duncan, 8703 E. Wassall St., Wichita 67210.

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Trojan Mechanical LLC, 11820 W. Ryan Place, Wichita 67205.

Motivated By You Corp., Marcus Collins, 7300 W. 110th St., Overland Park 67210.

Value Place Kansas City MO East - Royals Stadium LLC, Harvey Sorensen, 8621 E. 21st St. N. Suite 250, Wichita 67206.

Affordable Beef LLC, Michael Carselowey, 9801 E. Bradford Lane, Wichita 67210.

Eck Monument Co. Inc., 19864 W. Kellogg Drive, Goddard 67052, $2,568, (941), Book/ Page 2939/5552, 08/12/13.

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Claimant: Hilton Plaster Co. Inc., Contractor: Bobby Knoblach dba Wheatland Drywall Inc., $12,330, Owner: Sutherland Building Material Co. LP, on property at 2350 N. Maize Road, document #13 SL 0669 ML, 08/12/13.

NEW CORPORATIONS New corporations are filed with the state of Kansas. They are listed in ZIP code order and include the following information: business name, resident agent, address, ZIP code.

Little Two-Bit LC, Edward Lincoln, 7309 E. 21 St. N. Suite 120, Wichita 67206. Champps Operating Corp., 1551 N. Waterfront Parkway Suite 310, Wichita 67206. Comanche Investments LLC, Charles Steincamp, 8301 E. 21st St. N. Suite 450, Wichita 67206.

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Julie Miller Corp., 945 N. Brownthrush Lane, Wichita 67212. Breathe Salt Spa LLC, Martha Underwood, 1317 N. Maize Road Suite 101, Wichita 67212. Campbell Finance LLC, 8404 W. 13th St. Suite 120, Wichita 67212. Paragon Properties LLC, Brock Elliott, 1015 S. West St., Wichita 67213.

Wichita Pflag Inc., Brian Sutton, 2930 E. First, Wichita 67214. Innovative Holdings LLC, Pattie Malone, 236 N. Pennsylvania, Wichita 67214. Jabara Investment Group LLC, Yule Jabara, 601 Pawnee St., Wichita 67215. Basic Chemicals Co. LLC, 6200 S. Ridge Road, Wichita 67215. The Hot Box LLC, Luke MacKinnon, 2421 S. Yellowstone Unit 2103, Wichita 67215. Epic Gymnastics Center LLC, Kyle Filiatreault, 3411 E. Skinner St., Wichita 67218. Assembly Required LLC, 2334 N. Green, Wichita 67219. Santonil Consulting Services LLC, John Santonil, 2639 E. Cambridge, Park City 67219. Frank Willie Heating & Air LLC, 4965 N. Woodlawn, Wichita 67220. Jandwa Transportation LLC, Lamek Jandwa, 4813 Arlene St., Wichita 67220. Longfellow Homes LLC, Carol Sherman, 8031 E. Windwood St., Wichita 67226. MW Finnigan Properties LLC, Michael Finnigan, 9409 E. Lakepoint, Wichita 67226. Called To Compassion Ltd., Melissa Fluhr, 2507 N. Lindberg St., Wichita 67226. Doodah Dandy LLC, John Potochnik, 6927 Woodbury Court, Wichita 67226.

NEW LAWSUITS New litigation filed against businesses with the district clerk; includes plaintiff, defendant, case number and date filed. Sedgwick County Matthew D. Weimer/Adam JC Weimer v. Frontera Produce Ltd./Dillon Companies Inc. et al., case #2013 CV 002417, 08/13/13. Jim Lewis v. Ryan Baker/Service Auto Pro, case #2013 CV 002425, 08/14/13. Maddox Irrigation Inc. v. Complete Landscaping LLC, case #2013 CV 002427, 08/14/13.

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AUGUST 23, 2013 | wichitabusinessjournal.com Continued from PAGE 20 Ben Gray v. Extreme Roofing LLC, case #2013 CV 002446, 08/15/13. Jayne Sanders v. Hewitt’s Antiques Inc./ Grant R. Hewitt, case #2013 CV 002453, 08/16/13. Bryce D. Johnson/Kara L. Johnson v. Koch Industries Inc./Koch Nitrogen Co. LLC/Cust-O-Fab Specialty Services LLC/ Furmanite American Inc., case #2013 CV 002456, 08/16/13. Agrium Advanced Technologies Inc. v. Complete Landscaping Systems Inc., case #2013 LM 012119, 08/12/13. Edward J. Nazar v. Power Plus Technology’s Land Systems LLC, case #2013 LM 012146, 08/13/13. MSI Services Inc. v. Cricket Communications Inc./Service Force USA LLC, case #2013 LM 012405, 08/15/13. 3040 Broadway LLC v. Budget Auto Sales Inc., case #2013 LM 012420, 08/16/13. Jason Forrishell/Gina Forrishell v. Bank of America, small claims, case #2013 SC 000498, 08/13/13. Jim Morgan Pest Control v. Ryan Deffernbaugh Construction, small claims, case #2013 SC 000499, 08/13/13. Ryan Hart v. Solid Construction/Curtis Peterson, small claims, case #2013 SC 000506, 08/15/13. Ricardo Gamboa dba RAAM Properties LLC v. Hector Hernandez/Tacos El Jalapeno, small claims, case #2013 SC 000509, 08/16/13.

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS Real estate transactions are recorded with the register of deeds. Following are commercial transfers including: seller, buyer, buyer’s address, property address and subdivision (if available), book/page number and date recorded. Sedgwick County Biehler Properties LLC to Barakeh Property LLC, (no address shown), Lot 1 Wilson and Brown Second Addition/Lots 2/3 D.W. Lambert Addition/Lot 1 Slaughter Addition all in Wichita, Book/Page 2939/5113, 08/09/13. Cerena Ebbesen to CalKan Holdings LLC, (no address shown), Lot 6 in Block D in Community Addition to Wichita, Book/Page 2939/5141, 08/09/13. Bertha Mae Linton to MA Investment LLC, (no address shown), Lot 36 Block 8 in Schrader Bros. Third Addition to Wichita, Book/Page 2939/5144, 08/09/13. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. to A and H Rentals LLC, P.O. Box 75611, Wichita 67275, Lot 3 Block 3 Second Addition to Southwest Village Wichita, Book/Page 2939/5167, 08/09/13. Titanium Management Inc. to Ayres Management LLC, (no address shown), The N. 5 feet of Lot 421 all of Lots 422/423 and the S. 10 feet of Lot 424 Fairfax Addition to Wichita, Book/Page 2939/5277, 08/09/13. James L. Snodgrass sole successor in interest to SSS Development Co./Constance L. Snodgrass to DSI Realty #1 LLC, (no address shown), Sec. 29 27 01, Book/Page 2939/5469, 08/12/13. Russell Capital Management LLC to Red Foxx Rentals LLC, P.O. Box 75337, Wichita 67275, Lot 82 Block A Meadowlake Beach Addition Wichita, Book/Page 2939/5480, 08/12/13.

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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development of Washington D.C. to Apple Investments LLC, 215 S. Maize Road Suite 101, Wichita 67209, Lot 16 Block K Comotara First Addition to Wichita, Book/Page 2939/5574, 08/12/13. James M. Cheney/Daniel R. Cheney/Loree L. Cheney to Chatsworth Properties LLC, (no address shown), Lot 32 except the N. 66 feet and except the S. 9 feet of the E. 180 feet Van View, Book/Page 2939/5596, 08/12/13. Larry A. Breshears/Mona M. Breshears to Mennonite Housing Rehabilitation Services Inc., (no address shown), Lot 1 Block 2 Ridgecrest Second Addition Wichita, Book/ Page 2939/5719, 08/13/13. Howard W. McDonald/Mary J. McDonald to Baker Investments Inc., (no address shown), The E. half of the S. 44.3 feet of Lot 12 Topeka Ave. Turleys Addition to Wichita, Book/Page 2939/5792, 08/13/13. West Wichita Development Inc. to Brand Investments LLC, (no address shown), Lot 1 Auburn Hills Seventh Addition Wichita, Book/ Page 2939/5793, 08/13/13. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development of Washington D.C. to Mennonite Housing Rehabilitation Services Inc., 2145 N. Topeka, Wichita 67214, Lot 4 Block 10 E.J. Zongkers First Addition to, Book/Page 2939/5946, 08/13/13. Donna K. Baker aka Donna Baker Garcia to OMG Properties LLC, (no address shown), Lot 7 Block 1 Bonnie Brae Addition to Wichita, Book/Page 2939/5987, 08/13/13. EED LLC to Don Klausmeyer Construction LLC, (no address shown), Lot 37 Block 2 Equestrian Estates an Addition to Wichita Kansas, Book/Page 2939/5988, 08/13/13.

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