The Junction City Community Image and Affairs Committee met Monday and voted to make changes to it’s proposed landscape ordinance.

Tom Weigand, Junction City Chamber of Commerce CEO, explained that originally the ordinance would have required any business, new or current, that is remodeling or building new to submit a landscape plan.

“We suggest the city adopt the ordinance but put in there that this is only subject to the new construction that uses tax incentives, whether that’s NRP, tax increment financing or those types of things,” Weigand said.

The committee also continued discussion on the idea of a county and city wide free dump day,” Letting people dispose of things that they normally would hesitate to take to a land fill or want to pay the expense to get rid of, the old couch on the porch or the old mattress in the backyard. Some things that they just need to get rid of to bring our community up to the standards that we would like to have here.”

The committee plans to hold meetings with both the city and county along with trash companies to try and organize the free dump day.

During the meeting they also discussed the start of a new program that would focus on training front line employees in the community such as bank tellers, convenience store employees and front desk clerks,”If somebody says ‘Hey whats going on in the community why do you live here, what’s there to do,’ They know. They have an answer, they know where Milford Lake is, they know where the buffalo soldier is, they know where the convention center is and they know whats going on at the opera house,” Weigand explained.

The program will be called the V.I.P program, visitor information program, and will be done in cooperation with the Geary County CVB along with the chambers activities commission.