UPDATE: The City of Salina sent out a notification early this afternoon that the agenda for today's Salina City Commission meeting has been updated.
Now included on the agenda is a request for the commission to proclaim June 19, 2020, as a day to celebrate Juneteenth in Salina. Tiana Marion, Salina South debate team member is scheduled to read the proclamation.
Additionally, we have added the bid information for the agricultural land at the Salina landfill. It is within the story below.
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Consideration of an agriculture lease and an executive session are on the Salina City Commission agenda for Monday.
The meeting is scheduled for 4 p.m. Monday in room 107 of the City-County Building, 300 West Ash Street. A time for public comment is scheduled near the beginning of the meeting.
According to the city commission agenda, the room will be arranged to accommodate 50 people, with overflow seating and a video monitor available in room 107B.
Additionally, the meeting will be telecast by Salina Media Connection on Cox Cable channel 20 or online at www.salinatv.org or at the City of Salina YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/cityofSalinaKansas.
Commissioners are scheduled to consider a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a four and one-half (4.5) year agricultural lease agreement with Lance Nelson for the agricultural portion of the Salina Municipal Solid Waste Landfill property southwest of Salina.
According to background information in the commission meeting packet, the city has leased the cultivated and pasture portions of the property not used for landfill purposes. The current lease agreement, with Dennis and Galen Swenson, is set to expire once wheat and other crops are harvested this summer, according to the meeting packet information.
Bids for the lease agreement to be considered at Monday's meeting were opened on June 4 and are as follows.
City staff is recommending that the commissioners enter into an agricultural lease agreement with Nelson.
Commissioners also are scheduled to meet in executive session to discuss the subject of the city’s claim arising from the detection, isolation, and cleanup of asbestos materials in the basement and basement stairwell of Fire Station No. 2 with special legal counsel, Ilene Munk, via telephone, and the city’s legal counsel," according to the commission meeting packet.
To view the entire meeting packet (12 pages, click here.