The the Office of Municipal Administration, which is led by the City Administrator, is responsible for the general administration of the City of Horton, including maintaining accounts payables and receivables, payroll, and other financial accounting, regulatory permitting, capital improvement planning, economic development and municipal goods and services procurement.   The position of the City Administrator was first created in 19__ by Ordinance No. ____.  The primary duties of the City Administrator include serving as (i) chief liaison to the Board of the Horton City Commission; (ii) chief economic development officer; (iii) chief procurement and contracting officer (iv) chief human resources officer; and (v) chief financial officer, which includes financial and operational executive oversight of one dozen municipal funds, including a fully generational municipal electric utility, water utility, and wastewater utility. 

This page has been made available for review by the public and to ease access to important documents and information necessary for the informed public decision necessary in a participatory democracy, such as municipal government.  For easy access, the items made available in the navigation folders herein are:

• City Administrator's Commission Meeting Communications
• Recent Financial Data
  
• Applicable & Relevant City Codes and Ordinances (available after 2008 recodification of Horton City Code)
• Zoning & Subdivision Regulations
• Proposed Ordinances

The current City Administrator, Levi Henry, has served in that capacity since November 2005.  Mr. Henry is a 1998 graduate of Holton High School, which is 25-miles south of Horton, holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Kansas State University (2001), and holds a  Juris Doctor from the Washburn University School of Law (2004, Dean's Honors), in Topeka, Kansas.  Mr. Henry early in undergraduate college took an interest in environmental policy and law, working in the Asbestos Monitoring Bureau, Kansas State University Division of Environmental Health and Safety, in order to obtain more hands-on experience with potentially and known hazardous substances.  While at Washburn, Mr Henry also accelerated in natural resources law at Washburn Law, obtaining a special certification--the Certificate of

Natural Resources Law.  This special curriculum focused natural resource students on a wide variety of courses and subject-matter, including Environmental Law, Water Law, Tribal Law, Water Resources Law, Advanced Oil and Gas Law, Hazardous Wastes, and Energy Marketing, Economics and Law. 

Also while at Washburn, Mr. Henry served as both Representative (one-year term) and Vice-President (one-year term) of the Washburn Student Bar Association, the primary governing body representing nearly 600 students and Washburn Law.  In addition to participating in various student activist groups, Mr. Henry also worked as paid staff to the Democratic Caucus of the Kansas House of Representatives and continued to work for numerous political action committees and advocacy groups appearing before the Kansas Legislature. 

Mr. Henry owns a home in Horton, and is married to Mrs. Hilary B. Wanke, also a Washburn University School of Law graduate (2007).  He enjoys carpentry, kayaking, canoeing, hiking, biking, hunting and relaxing with his wife and large and local family.  If you wish to contact Mr. Henry, please feel free to drop him a note at his e-mail address (levi.henry@hortonkansas.net).