UPDATE: The story has been updated as a proclamation request has been added to the agenda.
A purchase request from the fire department, two executive sessions, and an organizational meeting are on the Salina City Commission agenda for Monday.
About city meetings
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, city study sessions and commission meetings will take place via Zoom until further notice. You can view the meetings at the City of Salina YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/cityofSalinaKansas.
To participate in the meetings, citizens will need to use the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89275984587
If citizens wish to speak, either during the public forum or when the mayor requests public comment on an item, citizens must raise their hand so that the meeting host can allow them to speak.
Citizens can also send written comments or questions to commissioners via email at [email protected]. The city requests that in order for commissioners to have an opportunity to review comments in advance of the meeting, citizens should email their comments or questions by 5 p.m. the Sunday prior to the Monday meeting.
Regular meeting
The regular commission meeting is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. A time for public comment is scheduled near the beginning of the meeting.
Commissioners are scheduled to consider authorizing the Salina Fire Department to purchase a new ambulance chassis and one Stryker Power cot and to have the patient module of an existing ambulance refurbished and remounted. The cost would be $183,600, according to commission meeting packet information.
The fire department tries to replace ambulances once they reach 100,000 miles and has an established replacement schedule for its ambulance fleet, the meeting packet information noted.
The request before the commission "involves removing the patient module from the rear of an existing ambulance, completely refurbishing it and then remounting it on a new chassis. This can be done at approximately 35-40% less than a new ambulance will cost," according to the meeting packet information.
Additionally, commissioners are being asked to proclaim Jan. 18 as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Day in the City of Salina. Ramona Malone, New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church minister of music, is scheduled to read the proclamation.
The agenda also calls for comments from Mayor Mike Hoppock at the end of his mayoral term, after which, the regular meeting will be recessed and an organizational meeting will be conducted. During the organizational meeting, commissioners will vote on a new mayor and vice mayor.
Once the organizational meeting is complete, the regular meeting is scheduled to resume so that commissioners can move into the following two executive sessions.
●To discuss the subject of the status of a personnel matter under the city manager's purview, with possible action to follow.
●To discuss the city manager's performance evaluation, with possible action to follow.
To see the entire Salina City Commission meeting packet for Monday (18 pages), click here.