A review of the county's COVID-19 situation/mask mandate and city industrial revenue bonds are among the items on the Saline County Commission agenda for Tuesday.
Meeting via Zoom
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday via Zoom and the county's YouTube channel. This decision to revise the meeting format was made to align with the mass gathering limitations imposed by the Saline County Commission and Saline County Health Officer.
Meetings 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
If citizens wish to speak, either during the public forum or when the Chairman requests public comment on an item, they must raise their hand so that the meeting host can allow them to speak.
Citizens can also send comments or questions to County Commissioners via email by going to the website www.saline.org and clicking on the County Commissioner’s page under the Department tab. Please send any emails prior to the Sunday before the meeting when possible.
Agenda items
Commissioners are scheduled to review the county's COVID-19 situation to determine whether the county's mask mandate will remain in place for two more weeks.
They also are scheduled to consider consenting to the City of Salina issuing industrial revenue bonds (IRBs) for the Great Plains Manufacturing expansion to the Signify/Phillips Lighting plant south of town. Because the property currently is outside the city limits, the county commission must give its consent before the city can issue the IRBs, according to the meeting packet information.
"While the City intends to annex the property, the company's preference is for the bond paperwork to get completed prior to annexation," the meeting packet information noted.
Other items on the county commission agenda for Tuesday include the following.
●Consider a request for a copier replacement -- Brad Bowers, information technology director
●Consider a Mercer Liability Insurance Renewal for Health Department -- Jason Tiller, health department director
●Consider a request for a letter to the Kansas Department of Transportation asking that the county's new radio system be connected to the state's radio system core -- Hannah Stambaugh, deputy county administrator
●Hear County Administrator Phillip Smith-Hanes' update
To view the entire meeting packet (a 38-page pdf), click here.