EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Vintage Plaza Community Improvement District board has a new member. Scott Craven’s appointment received City Council approval Oct. 7. Craven, who succeeds Brian Yarbrough, will serve a two-year term, City Manager Molly McGovern stated in a Sept. 30 memo to city leaders. The approval joined a handful of items the council covered, including passing an ordinance modifying the city’s “wellness agreement” covering community center memberships for hospital and school district personnel. Per the agreement, the city receives monthly payments of $3,000 and $4,667 from the hospital and school district, respectively, to cover memberships. The council also approved Gilmore and Bell to provide “bond counsel.” “The work of bond counsel is to provide legal aspects of proposed financing and work with multiple advisors, paying agents, bond underwriters and their counsel relating to planning, structuring and...