By COLE REIF
Great Bend Post
The City of Great Bend contracted out the city attorney and prosecutor
positions in November 2021 after Bob Suelter retired from the position.
Allen Glendening, with local law firm Watkins Calcara, spent almost a year as the
contracted city attorney on a part-time basis. Last November, Glendenning was
named Great Bend’s full-time attorney and prosecutor as he wanted to transition
away from his current practice.
Being full-time with the city for three months now, Glendenning has been able
to make an efficient change with the municipal court’s operations by
digitalizing documents.
"I talked to the clerk, the judge, police department records people and the legal assistant at the city building," said Glendenning. "They jumped onboard with it and came up some great ideas. We figured out a way that we're now processing a lot of that digitally."
When Glendenning first came on, all the paper police reports were being walked
over to the city prosecutor’s office. Materials from the court were walked over
in paper form. If the city prosecutor needed video or police body camera tape
it was burned to a DVD and sent to his office.
Glendenning said now that information is now shared digitally which saves him
time and the city on paper expense.
Listen below to the entire interview with Glendenning on the City Edition show that aired on 1590 KVGB & 95.5 FM.