By SALINA POST
Multiple updates and grant application requests 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
Among the many items on the county agenda is a presentation by Lauren Driscoll, City of Salina director of development services. Driscoll is scheduled to provide a City of Salina housing update.
Commissioners also are scheduled to hear an update from Jason Tiller, Saline County Health Department director.
Tiller noted in his report in the commission meeting packet that an omicron-fueled COVID surge resulted in more than 3,400 cases and 11 deaths in January.
"We have also begun to take steps to move from pandemic to endemic with the ending of contact tracing in mid-January. On February 1, we, along with about 60% of the other counties began to transition case investigation to KDHE," Tiller noted in is written report.
While monitoring of the county's COVID situation will continue, Tiller reported that the department plans to continue demobilizing the county's COVID response. Such demobilization would include:
●Continue to transition COVID case investigations to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
●Close out open records and documentation.
●Scale back the COVID reporting and dashboard.
Tiller also is scheduled to discuss budget, WIC, childcare licensing, and home health items.
Other items on the county commission agenda for Tuesday include the following.
●Consider a request from community corrections for a remodel of the pre-trial area.
●Consider a request from emergency management to submit four applications for the Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness Grant for 2022.
●Consider a request from the road and bridge department to replace an excavator that burned late last year.
●Consider a request for a change order for the Livestock and Expo Center to account for $3,410 in additional charges for electrical work in Ag Hall and Barn 1, should those proposed changes be deemed necessary.
●Hear a county appraiser update
●Hear a Livestock and Expo Center project update
●Hear a jail project update
At the conclusion of the meeting, commissioners are scheduled to meet in a study session to review Department of Senior Services and 28th Judicial District Nominating Commission expression of interest forms.
To see the entire Saline County Commission meeting packet (86-page pdf), click here.