By SALINA POST
Several bid awards, a proposed land purchase, and the county's website are among the items on the Saline County Commission agenda for Tuesday.
About the meeting
Saline County Commission is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday in room 107 of the City-County Building, 300 W. Ash Street. The meetings also can be viewed on Saline County’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwwZp_cTSJ3Nepp_5rOGevA.
To participate in the meetings, citizens will need to use the Zoom link. Use the following link and put in the Meeting ID and passcode:
https://zoom.us/j/96835819901?pwd=bUEvaExUb2ppMEFaUnd6cUd6MmNMUT09
Meeting ID: 968 3581 9901
Passcode: 144636
For further information, contact the County Commission’s Office at (785) 309-5825.
Agenda items
Commissioners are scheduled to consider a request from the county's web committee to enter contract negotiations with GovBuilt for the design and construction of a new county website.
"GovBuilt's proposal was very thorough and showed that they had experience designing, building and hosting local government websites," according to information from the commission meeting packet.
Money for the design and building of a new county website was included in the 2022 budget that the commission approved last week.
Commissioners also will consider a request from the road and bridge department to purchase land in Falun on which to store a county motor grader used in that area. Currently, the motor grader is parked on land owned by the grader operator, who plans to retire at the end of September. Additionally, he plans to sell the land on which he currently parks the grader, the commission meeting packet information noted.
"We have identified a parcel of land to purchase for $2,000.00 This also extends the long range planning this department has been working on for several years, which is to get Saline County motor graders parked on Saline County property," Darren Fishel, road and bridge administrator, wrote in the proposal to the commissioners.
Other items on the county agenda for Tuesday include the following.
●Consider proclaiming September 2021 as National Recovery month in Saline County – Valerie Hicks, CKF recovery coach
●Consider a request to upgrade S. Niles Road - Fishel
●Consider a bid award for Brookville Road Pipe Lining Project – Justin Mader, county engineer
●Consider a bid award for aggregate shoulder reconstruction – Mader
●Consider a bid award for Ag Hall improvements – Hannah Stambaugh, deputy county administrator
●Consider a framework for expenditure of County American Rescue Plan Act funds – County Administrator Phillip Smith-Hanes
●Consider what to do about the City of Salina public hearing for the South View Estates Rural Housing Incentive District – Smith-Hanes
●Consider acceptance of the Overdose Data to Action Grant –Jason Tiller, Health Department Director
●Hear a health department update from Tiller
●Consider a petition requesting attachment of lands to Rural Water District No. 4 - Jamie Doss, county clerk
●Hear Smith-Hanes weekly update
●Meet in a study session to discuss with Michelle Barkley, emergency management director, an emergency operations plan
To see the full Saline County Commission packet for Tuesday (79-page pdf), click here.