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But Sebelius placed a call Friday morning to the office of Boeing chief executive officer Harry Stonecipher just in case.
“I’m hoping we can get the assurance that there is no intention at all of moving jobs out of Kansas,” the Democratic governor told reporters during her weekly news conference.
Her apparent concern — although she tried to downplay it — is part of a larger state response to the official news that Boeing was looking for buyers for its commercial aircraft operations in Wichita and Oklahoma.
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Sebelius said two officials in the Kansas Department of Commerce have been appointed to track the possible sale, the possible buyers and the possible relocation of any jobs.
About 8,300 of the more than 12,000 workers at the Wichita facility build parts for commercial aircraft. Most of the remaining employees work in the plant’s military operation.
Only the commercial plant faces a potential sale.
Boeing is a key player in the state’s large aircraft industry — often touted by state commerce officials as one of the three major legs of the Kansas economy, next to agriculture and oil and natural gas.
In a memo to Boeing’s Wichita employees, the company said its Wichita and Tulsa operations would remain key components of the company’s operation. The company has said it simply is gauging market interest in the Wichita plant, which Sebelius said is likely always to supply aircraft parts to Boeing.
“We’re not talking about closing a plant,” Sebelius said. “We’re talking about selling work out of a plant.”
Bernie Koch, lobbyist for the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce, described talk in Wichita as “concern — but I don’t see panic.”