Reflective Group, the Baldwin City cloud-based tech company that gave rise to RG Fiber, is going away as the CEO of both companies concentrates on managing the growth of the gigabit fiber company.

Mike Bosch said Reflective Group, which he started with partners Casey Morford and Josh Strohm in 2012, was winding down operations. His partners are pursuing other ventures, and he is dedicating his energy to RG Fiber, he said. Management of both Reflective Group and RG Fiber became too much, he said.

The company continues the work that started late last year of hooking up Baldwin City customers to the gigabit fiber network, Bosch said. RG Fiber brought gigabit fiber last year to the community via a route along Kansas Highway 10 from Eudora to Lawrence and then south to Baldwin City, providing service first to Baker University. The company now is working to expand service into Eudora.

Bosch and Eudora interim City Manager Barack Matite said the city and RG Fiber representatives met in June to clarify what was needed for the company to get a permit to install cable in city right of way. Matite said the city needed more detailed information on where cable would be installed than what RG Fiber had previously submitted, particularly in regard to how the company’s cable would hook into the Eudora school district’s conduit it will lease.

RG Fiber has an agreement to install gigabit fiber in the city, which requires it to start that process before July 27 or make a $1,250 payment to the city. Matite said Bosch would attend Monday’s Eudora City Commission meeting to ask that payment not be assessed.

Work should soon start on improvements at Baldwin City’s Santa Fe Depot after the Kansas Department of Transportation awarded a $226,000 construction contract last month to Killough Construction Inc. of Ottawa.

In July 2014, KDOT approved a $143,000 transportation alternatives grant for improvements to the grounds at the depot. The city and its local partners, the Santa Fe Trail Historical Association, Midland Railway and Kansas Belle Dinner Train, provided a local match for the rest of the funding.

Planned improvements included extending the brick train boarding platform and installing a platform shelter, upgraded exterior lighting, added ADA parking and grounds improvements.

The Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce will have its monthly membership meeting at noon Wednesday at The Lodge, 502 Ames St. Dave McFarlane, owner of McFarlane Aviation in Vinland, will talk about his company’s ongoing expansion and the new manufacturing process it will add.

The Eudora Parks and Recreation Department will sponsor a trip to watch “Beauty and the Beast” on July 18. The bus will leave Eudora at 6 p.m. from the Recreation Center, 1630 Elm St. Tickets are $20. For more information, call 542-3434 or email jkegin@cityofeudoraks.gov