Grants, a disaster declaration, senior services, and 2021 budget requests are among the items on the Saline County Commission agenda for Tuesday.
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday in room 107 of the City-County Building. A time for public comment is scheduled near the beginning of the meeting.
Saline County noted on the agenda for the meeting that as it transitions back to regular operations while maintaining social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19, there will be limited public seating for the meeting. Up to five members of the public will be accommodated on a first-come, first-seated basis in the commission meeting room and up to two speakers at a time will be permitted to line up to provide comment to the commission. Overflow seating will be provided in an adjacent room if necessary.
You also can view county commission meetings on Salina Media Connection, either via Cox Cable Channel 20 or online at www.salinatv.org.
In addition, interested persons can provide public comment by dialing (785) 621-0800, entering participant code 782956 followed by #, and then dialing *9 to alert the moderator that they wish to comment. Although commissioners will be able to hear comments, the public may have difficulty hearing commission business through the telephone bridge.
Commissioners are scheduled to conduct a public hearing as a part of its consideration of a county application for special Kansas Department of Commerce Community Development Block Grant funds for coronavirus response. The grant, if awarded, would provide funding for the county to grant or loan to for-profit businesses in order to help the businesses retain employees, according to information from the commission meeting packet.
Additionally, commissioners are scheduled to consider a resolution for a declaration of a state of local public health emergency for the county due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The declaration would be in place for 60 days unless terminated earlier or renewed by the county commission.
Other items on the Saline County Commission agenda for Tuesday include the following.
•Consider a request to amend the senior center food service contract -- Rosie Walter, senior services director
•Consider COVID-19 grants for senior services -- Walter
•Hear the Department of Senior Services update -- Walter
•Hear North Central-Flint Hills Area Agency on Aging's 2021 budget request -- Julie Govert Walter, executive director
•Hear Salina Media Connection's 2021 budget request -- Greg Stephens, board member
•Hear Saline County Conservation District's 2021 budget request -- Diana Harden, district manager
•Hear Salina Area Chamber of Commerce and Military Affairs' 2021 budget request -- Eric Brown, president/CEO
•Hear Salina Community Economic Development Organization, lnc.'s 2O21 budget request -- Mitch Robinson, executive director
•Hear County Administrator Phillip Smith-Hanes' weekly update
To see the entire Saline County Commission meeting packet (a 47-page pdf, click here.