June 20, 2013 Volume 3 • Issue 32 75 cents Send community news to gladstonenews@npgco.com
Hauptman common training ground for Northland police chiefs Gladstone’s Mike Hasty among 4 graduates leading public safety departments north of the river By Danny Wood
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Pleasant Valley Mayor David Slater provides feedback on the Clay County Constitution Commission’s proposal for a new county constitution during a public hearing June 13 in Gladstone. The commission held two of four planned public hearings last week in Kearney and Gladstone. Commissioners will use the hearings to receive public input to help finalize their proposal.
Public input shapes constitution proposal Hearings provide commissioners with clearer direction on remaining issues By Ryne Dittmer
residents were able to share their thoughts and ask the commisWith two public hearings complet- sion questions about its proposal. ed and two more to come, the Clay Commissioners hoped to use the County Constitution Commission comments to help decide some is beginning to finalize its concept of the proposal’s lingering issues, for a new, home-rule government for including whether county offices should be elected in a partisan or the county. During hearings held in Kearney non-partisan fashion in the new and Gladstone last week, county constitution.
“We have worked out most issues by consensus, but a few we have left to decide, and we’re using the feedback from these hearings,� Commission Co-Chair Carol Suter said. “These hearings are so helpful in letting us hear from the public.� The response that came from the
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In the Northland, a graduate degree designed by a Polish former World War II resistance fighter seems to be the qualification of choice for police chiefs. Gladstone Director of Public S a f e t y Mike Hasty is among four curr e n t Northland p o l i c e Mike Hasty heads — including those in Liberty, North Kansas City and Riverside — with a Masters in Public Affairs from Park University. When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, Jerzy Hauptman worked for the water department in the capital, Warsaw. He escaped into the city’s familiar water and sewer system and joined the Polish resistance. After migrating to the United States after the war, Hauptmann became an internationally recognized scholar in political science and public administration. He taught at Park for
more than half a century. In 1982, Hauptmann created the MPA program, and Hasty studied under him during the late 1990s. The head of Gladstone’s police and fire departments fondly remembers the WWII veteran. “He had a very interesting background, and he shared a lot of these experiences that shaped his philosophy,� he said. “He was a very dynamic person and very engaging.� Liberty Chief of Police James Simpson said Hauptman looked like Albert Einstein, had a grandfatherly manner and was one of the sharpest people he has ever med. The current dean of the Hauptmann School of Public Affairs, professor Laurie N. DiPadova-Stocks, said the degree Hauptman created has four areas of concentration: public management, nonprofit and community services management, disaster and emergency management, and business, government and global society. She said it attracts students who
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