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Since the last report in August, the leader of the Leavenworth County Development Corporation said more jobs have been added to a new office located on the Eisenhower Veterans Affairs Medcal Center campus in Leavenworth.
Steve Jack, executive director of the Leavenworth County Development Corporation, said the Consolidated Patient Account Center, located on the VA campus in Leavenworth and officially opened last year, had brought with it about 400 new jobs. Of those positions that as of August had been filled, 138 lived in Leavenworth, 36 in Lansing, eight in Basehor, six in Tognanoxie and three each in Easton and Fort Leavenworth.
Jack said those numbers climbed again between August and November, the most recent report on hiring at the center from its site manager, David Isaacks. That report listed 146 of the 400 jobs reportedly went to Leavenworth city residents, 43 have gone to those in Lansing, nine to Basehor residents, seven to Tonganoxie and still three each to those who live on post and in Easton. About 55 or more of the employees of CPAC have moved into the county from other places.
The LCPA, Leavenworth and the county offered in 2009 a 10-year incentive package including payments each year of $150,000 to land the center. Before making that decision, Jack said those entities calculated how many of the jobs would have to go to county residents for the incentive to be considered justifiable. Although time will ultimately be the judge of whether the project met those expectations, Jack said the initial indications are positive.
“We sure got a good sense that this is going the way we hoped it would go,” he said of the recent reports.
Jack said other cities that have residents who took a job at CPAC include 19 residents of Kansas City, 15 in Lawrence and 12 residents of Atchison, Kan.
It was unclear exactly how many of the 400 jobs have yet been filled to date — Jack said he was awaiting those numbers from Isaacks. However, he did say that he understands that the number of employees that will eventually be hired could be greater than 400. The center has a March deadline to hire all of its needed employees, Jack said.
Of those hired so far, he said the proportion of those living in the county seems to match borader statistics that about 60 percent of Leavenworth County residents work here. Though not all of the CPAC jobs, with their average salary of $60,000, have gone to county residents, Jack said there have been and will likely continue to be benefits to the county in terms of opening up other jobs, sales tax revenue, home sales and the estimated $20 million in new payroll.
“All that money that is coming into the county, in terms of payroll, is new to the community,” he said. “Let’s just watch that spin off to the community.”
Since the last report in August, the leader of the Leavenworth County Development Corporation said more jobs have been added to a new office located on the Eisenhower Veterans Affairs Medcal Center campus in Leavenworth.
Steve Jack, executive director of the Leavenworth County Development Corporation, said the Consolidated Patient Account Center, located on the VA campus in Leavenworth and officially opened last year, had brought with it about 400 new jobs. Of those positions that as of August had been filled, 138 lived in Leavenworth, 36 in Lansing, eight in Basehor, six in Tognanoxie and three each in Easton and Fort Leavenworth.
Jack said those numbers climbed again between August and November, the most recent report on hiring at the center from its site manager, David Isaacks. That report listed 146 of the 400 jobs reportedly went to Leavenworth city residents, 43 have gone to those in Lansing, nine to Basehor residents, seven to Tonganoxie and still three each to those who live on post and in Easton. About 55 or more of the employees of CPAC have moved into the county from other places.
The LCPA, Leavenworth and the county offered in 2009 a 10-year incentive package including payments each year of $150,000 to land the center. Before making that decision, Jack said those entities calculated how many of the jobs would have to go to county residents for the incentive to be considered justifiable. Although time will ultimately be the judge of whether the project met those expectations, Jack said the initial indications are positive.
“We sure got a good sense that this is going the way we hoped it would go,” he said of the recent reports.
Jack said other cities that have residents who took a job at CPAC include 19 residents of Kansas City, 15 in Lawrence and 12 residents of Atchison, Kan.
It was unclear exactly how many of the 400 jobs have yet been filled to date — Jack said he was awaiting those numbers from Isaacks. However, he did say that he understands that the number of employees that will eventually be hired could be greater than 400. The center has a March deadline to hire all of its needed employees, Jack said.
Of those hired so far, he said the proportion of those living in the county seems to match borader statistics that about 60 percent of Leavenworth County residents work here. Though not all of the CPAC jobs, with their average salary of $60,000, have gone to county residents, Jack said there have been and will likely continue to be benefits to the county in terms of opening up other jobs, sales tax revenue, home sales and the estimated $20 million in new payroll.
“All that money that is coming into the county, in terms of payroll, is new to the community,” he said. “Let’s just watch that spin off to the community.”
