KTEC still standing

mcginn,carolynFormer Gov. Kathleen Sebelius wanted to shut down the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp., a public-private partnership that supports technology-based economic development, and merge some of its programs into the Kansas Department of Commerce. A critical audit report and legislative and media scrutiny led KTEC’s president and CEO Tracy Taylor to resign in June. But a House-Senate special committee concluded last week that KTEC should continue as a stand-alone operation, the Lawrence Journal-World reported. State Sen. Carolyn McGinn (in photo), R-Sedgwick, who recently was appointed to the KTEC board, said that KTEC has “made some good changes” and that it would get lost if it were brought under the Commerce Department.