By SALINA POST
Rural Fire District appointments and jail project changes 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 appointing the following people to the Boards of Trustees for the county's rural fire districts.
Commissioners also are scheduled to consider two change requests for the jail project.
The first is a request to "move funds from the furniture, fixtures and equipment 'bucket' into Turner’s contract to allow the construction manager to procure various equipment necessary for jail operations. These items include library bookshelves, laundry tables and bins, medical tables and beds, shelving for the evidence room, body scanners, TVs and mounting hardware, breakroom appliances, property expander, fingerprint station, fitness equipment, janitorial carts, firearm evidence system, pharmacy refrigerator, and computer backbone equipment," staff noted in the request for action.
The move is necessary as the items cannot be acquired by the county's furniture vendor.
"Staff recommends using Turner to procure these items in order to take advantage of Turner’s relationships with suppliers," the request for action noted.
The second change would be to approve the construction of a pre-engineered metal building annex on the southwestern part of the jail property to provide additional storage for evidence and equipment.
"Moving forward with the Annex building will provide adequate space for storage of Sheriff’s equipment and evidence that is currently housed in multiple locations," staff noted.
The changes do not impact the county's operating budget as they are "funded from proceeds of bonds which are repaid from the sales tax increment approved by voters in 2020," according to information in the request for action.
Other items on the county agenda for Tuesday include the following.
●Recognition of Nancy Bassett and Kathleen Malone Crouch from the county's administrative resource center.
●Consider approving the purchase of the Capital Improvement Program software.
To see the full Saline County Commission agenda for Tuesday, click here and then click on the Dec. 20 link.