May 03, 2020

Executive session concerning expo center on city agenda

Posted May 03, 2020 10:01 PM

An executive session regarding expo center negotiations with Saline County is among the items on a light agenda for Monday's Salina City Commission meeting.

The meeting is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Monday in room 107 of the City-County Building, 300 West Ash Street. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting will take place via telephone conference. Interested persons can watch the meeting via Salina Media Connection, either on Cox Cable channel 20 or online at www.salinatv.org or at the City of Salina YouTube channel.

Persons wishing to participate in the meeting will need to dial (785) 621-0800 and enter participant code 782956 followed by #. Persons who wish to speak, either during the public forum or when the mayor requests public comment on an item, must dial *9 on their phones. This will alert the moderator, who will open the line.

Commissioners are scheduled to meet in executive session to discuss with legal counsel "certain yet-to-be negotiated details regarding negotiations with Saline County arising from previously negotiated general terms of the anticipated long term leasing of the Expo Center by Saline County."

Other items on the city agenda for Monday include the following.

•Consider a request to authorize the city manager to sign a request from the Kansas Department of Transportation to exchange 2020 federal funds.

•Consider Resolution No. 20-7831 addressing city participation in the Kansas N95 respirator decontamination program, coordinating with Saline County regarding the Kansas N95 respirator decontamination program, and indemnification of Saline County relating to liabilities arising from city participation in the Kansas N95 respirator decontamination program.

To see the Salina City Commission meeting packet for Monday, click here.