Centennial Road improvements and the quarterly budget update are among the items on the Saline County Commission agenda for Tuesday.
About the meeting
Salina County has provided the following information concerning viewing the meeting remotely.
Saline County continues to work cooperatively with others to restore meeting broadcasts on local cable television. We believe that Tuesday’s meeting will be broadcast. If you cannot access it on television, remember that County meetings can be viewed via Zoom or YouTube.
Meetings can be viewed on Saline County's YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwwZp_cTSJ3Nepp_5rOGevA
For Zoom, you can use the following link and put in the Meeting ID and passcode:
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Meeting ID: 968 3581 9901
Passcode: 144636
Citizens can also send comments or questions to County Commissioners via email by going to the website www.saline.org and clicking on the County Commissioner's page under the Department tab.
For further information, contact the County Commission's Office at 785-309-5825.
The meeting
Commissioners are being asked to consider spending $200,000 toward the City of Salina's improvements to Centennial Road.
According to information from Justin Mader, county engineer, the city is to receive $2.1 million through the Kansas Department of Transportation's Economic Development Program to reconstruct 0.5 of a mile of Centennial Road from Water Well Road north to the current urban street section.
The project includes a $400,000 local match in order for the city to receive the funds. The city is asking the county to split the local match, with each government entity providing $200,000.
Mader noted that in the past all maintenance costs for this section of Centennial Road have been shared on a 50-percent split as the Salina city limit follows the center line of Centennial Road.
Other items on the Saline County Commission agenda for Tuesday include the following.
●Consider a request for an SUV bid award - Michelle Callam, intensive supervision officer III, community corrections
●Consider a CIC maintenance renewal request - Brad Bowers, information technology director
●Consider a legislative platform request from the Kansas Association of Counties - County Administrator Phillip Smith-Hanes
●Hear the county engineer's update - Mader
●Hear the idle fund report - Jim DuBois, county treasurer
●Hear the idle bond proceeds report, DuBois
●Hear from the American Rescue Plan Act consultants
●Hear the quarterly budget update - Smith-Hanes
●Hear Smith-Hanes' update
To see the full Saline County Commission meeting packet for Tuesday (34-page pdf), click here.