Thank you.
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I call the order of the January
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as well. We're delivered to you and you have access to the crawl.
Thank you.
Next on the agenda is the public form and it's a time where citizens can come and talk about items related to the county.
Usually limited to three minutes and not on the agenda this morning. Is there anybody that would like to come forward at this time?
Good morning.
Christine, a small slide area united way. I am here to share an update from our snap back against hunger event,
which you so generously supported with a $5,000 donation.
The event took place in November.
It took some time to compile the data.
We also experienced some illness at the office so I appreciate your patience and getting this information to you.
On the night of the event, 350 households received groceries.
Food that was either purchased by a slide area united way.
Thanks to supporters like you or food that was donated from our community.
Each household completed an intake form so that we could gather demographic information and better report on the populations we are serving.
Here's a few of the highlights.
32% of the primary participants reported having a disability.
33% of households were reporting two parent households with children.
21% were single parent households with children.
70% of households reported having an annual income of $30,000 or less.
32% of primary participants reported full time employment of those 38% held a college degree or certificate.
24% of primary participants reported being unemployed and of those 17% held a college degree or certificate.
At the conclusion of the event, remaining groceries were distributed to several community partners to ensure continued access beyond a single evening.
These partners included Kansas Impact Coalition.
They stocked their refrigerators and freezers around town with leftover cold goods, so eggs, milk and frozen pizza.
We also gave food to Salvation Army, Salina Grace, Salina Shares and Catholic Charities.
This approach allowed us to meet people where they are and remove the barrier of the event being a one night event.
Because of the support from the county and our generous donors, we were able to purchase and distribute more than 15,000 pounds of food in addition to a significant amount donated by the community.
So I wanted to thank you for your continued support and for showing up for the individuals and families in our community who needed it the most.
We are truly grateful for your partnership and then I have a thank you.
Thank you for your time coming.
Thank you.
Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, commissioners.
Thank you for allowing us to come here today and give you information.
Well, I was going to do that.
I would add them.
Linda Reynolds.
And we are the co-chairs of the human trafficking task force.
We are sponsored and under the umbrella of the Granny Brigade here in Salina.
Our story started with a couple speakers that came to two different Granny Brigade events.
And we left there knowing that we need to do something about getting information out to the community, surrounding communities, et cetera.
So we sat down and brainstormed and we have 14 members on our task force.
And we visit it. How can we get out to the community? What do we do?
So we have packets, which each of you have one.
And it has information in there that is sometimes shocking for people to read.
But it's all truth.
You want to tell them how we got started and to speak.
Well, we went. We're underneath the attorney general co-bock.
And we've gone it to pick a couple of times and done their statewide thing.
And it's just a horrifying situation.
And to pick a told us that we're on the crossroads of 70 and I-35.
And that's where they traffic and grab people.
And we don't necessarily hear about it, but it's happening.
It's not necessarily the person that goes to Walmart
and comes back out of their van and gets thrown in there.
A lot of it happens on those cell phones.
And the youngest age that they're really trying to nail is like nine to 12 years of age.
They put on false information.
Get into there whatever you know.
I'm your best buddy and whatever.
And I want to meet you to do whatever.
Something innocent and these kids do it.
And they're gone.
So I think a lot of times that the citizens stick their head in the sand
and think, oh, it doesn't happen here.
It's a nice quiet town, but it happens a lot.
And we want to make the children, the parents and the public aware of what you could do.
You don't need to call the national hotline.
You can call your local admin office number at the police department.
And they'll be right on it.
Because you can see somebody walking down the street.
We have hand signals that they utilize it.
I don't think a lot of people know if they're being traffic.
And they've got somebody with their arm around them and they don't know.
They've got signals they do.
But we just got to get out there and make sure that these people know about how dangerous it is
and it's getting worse and worse.
Absolutely.
And we began with our, we decided to go to churches and youth or groups where we have
targets that we've looked at that maybe the information will assimilate out faster
through those organizations as well and our civic organizations.
And we've been connected, gave our information.
I'm sorry, to diva.
Yes.
And getting out there like that, passing out our packets so that they can pass them to their people.
And the information in these packets start conversations between parents and youth.
And there's several things in here for the high school junior high students to read as well.
If someone, somebody, will come up to you and say, well, how do I do this?
I saw something strange where we have a card in here that tells you what to do if you suspect something.
And like Linda said on the back of our card is a number you can call here in Salina.
If you see something that seems strange to you, call that number.
Another thing, we have joined together and formed a Facebook page.
And we're still, it's being created, we're still adding things to it.
And it will go live here, hopefully in the next two weeks.
That's basically about all I have.
We just want you to be made aware of it.
Very helpful information.
And thank you for all your hard work on this.
Thanks for the packets.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Anyone else would like to come forward at this time?
If not, we'll move on to the consent agenda, which includes approval of tax roll adjustments,
approval of accounts payable, approval of a public form agenda, approval of payroll, approval of county commission
meeting.
It's minutes of January 6th, 2020, six work session, approval of county commission meeting,
minutes of January 6th, 2020, six, 2020, six.
2025, fourth quarter, treasurer's idle fund report.
St. Francis opiate settlement funding agreement.
2020, six hazardous material emergency preparedness grant.
Is there any commissioners that like to pull anything off the consent agenda?
Mr. Chairman, I move that the consent agenda be approved is written.
There's a motion and second, all those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Pass us four, zero.
Move on to e.
Action items.
Human trafficking awareness month proclamation with Jacqueline Lawrence with sexual assault advocate.
Good morning.
I just want to thank the lenders for bringing the human trafficking topic up to light.
I do apologize for my voice today.
I'm going to push through this the best I can.
So the human trafficking awareness month in the proclamation.
So whereas human trafficking is persuasive and a devastating crime that affects individuals, families and communities across the United States.
And whereas the most recently completed year 2024 and estimate 17,000 potential victims of human trafficking were identified nationwide.
Representing an only a fraction of those who suffer in silence.
And whereas human trafficking takes many forms with employers accounting for 43 percent of traffickers.
Family members representing 26 percent and intimate partners representing 22 percent.
Demonstrating the complex relationship and power dynamics that often trap victims and cycles of exploitation.
And whereas a domestic violence association of central Kansas, also known as DVAC,
provided direct services to six human trafficking survivors in 2024, including five individuals from Sling County and one from Sedgwit County.
And whereas five survivors were residents of Selina and one was from Wichita reflecting that human trafficking impacts rural and urban communities within our region.
And whereas DVAC remains committed to offering crisis intervention, advocacy, safety planning, housing support, trauma informed services to survivors of human trafficking.
While also partnering with the local state and national organizations to raise awareness and strengthen the community's response.
And whereas all community members play a vital role in preventing trafficking and supporting survivors,
including a safer environment where exploitation is not tolerated.
And now therefore, DVAC hereby recognizes January 2026 as human trafficking awareness month,
and encourages residents and service providers and community partners to increase awareness.
Support survivors and join DVAC in taking action to end human trafficking in all its forms.
Thank you very much. Do you have any activities planned?
Let's see. So I did, because it's towards the end of January, although January feels like a three month long month.
I did a global audience with our new Pilates studio.
And so that was kind of a vet.
It's more, there's more women that go to that Pilates studio.
I'm not saying that women are always the victim, but primarily they are.
So we worked with them and got them like stabby kitties, which I don't know if you all know what those are,
but it goes between your knuckles and when you're walking out to your car, it kind of has the like sharp points.
So if someone comes up and attacks you're able to attack them.
And then we just kind of like brought light to human trafficking with local Pilates and things like that.
We are doing a tabling over and evolve nutrition. I feel like there's a lot of different ages that go there.
It's a very popular store to try to get the word out.
And St. goes for stalking, kind of did the same thing for those events.
And then we're doing a lot of social media awareness because kids are on their phones glued to their phones every day.
So I figured that's probably the best way to get the word out.
And so that's kind of what we're doing this month of January.
Very good.
Before I present the proclamation, is there motion?
Mr. Chairman, make a motion that we approve the human trafficking for a month of January.
Second.
So motion.
Second.
Follow those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Passes 4-0.
Get your population.
And I know not to shake your hand to write this time.
Oh, we need a photo.
I'm sorry.
I don't have to shake, but you have to sit down there. I'll come around the next time.
No, I didn't know he had a phone with him.
And then I'm doing the stocking one, too.
Right. Action item number two.
Okay.
Stocking awareness month, proclamation.
Okay.
So, whereas stocking is a serious crime that's often a hidden crime that affects an estimate
of 0.5 million people in the United States each year, and whereas stocking is completely perpetrated by someone that the victim knows,
with 42% of victims being stocked by an acquaintance and 40% by a current or former intimate partner.
And whereas stocking behaviors frequently involve both digital and physical methods with 80% of victim stocked using technology and 67% stocked in person.
And whereas in 2024, the domestic violence association of central cancels also known as DVAC served 40 stocking victims, including survivors from cloud, Dickinson, Selene, and McPherson counties, as well as out-of-state clients.
And whereas the victims reside across the region, including Concordia, Harrington, Abelene, Selina, Newcambri, and Mount Ridge,
illustrating that stocking impacts both rural and urban communities, and whereas DVAC remains dedicated to providing safety-planning advocacy and trauma-informed services.
While working with community partners to raise awareness and prevent stocking in all its forms.
Now, therefore DVAC hereby recognizes January 26 as stocking awareness month encourages all residents to learn the signs of stocking,
support survivors, and work together to create a safer community.
And I'm assuming the same activities.
Same activity.
Yes, sir.
I think that's all on the top of my head to be honest, because I don't have my calendar in front of me,
and I'm just pushing along right now.
You're doing very well.
Thank you.
Is there a motion before?
Mr. Chairman, I move this commission proclaim January is stocking awareness month.
Second, the motion.
Motion in the second, all those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Passes 40.
I'll come around this time.
We could thank you.
You all have a great day.
Thank you.
Move on to item number three.
Bit of ward for the asphalt payment, milling, and aggregate shoulder.
I'm stealing your thunder a little bit.
Good morning commissioners.
Yes.
So my office did open bids for asphalt paving, milling, and aggregate shoulder construction on December 30.
We actually received two bids this year.
Typically we just have the one.
So you should have in your packet a copy of the bit tabulations as well as the project location map.
We plan on doing the overlay.
But I'll just list it out right now.
So we're going to do.
We want to well road from Ohio Street east to the Smoke Hill River Bridge.
We're going to do Minner Road from old 81 to Ohio Street.
And then we're going to do Burma Road.
We're going to continue going south on Burma Road where we stop.
So we're going to go from Thorstenburg, north, a mile and a half on Burma Road.
So our local asphalt contractor, APAC, Kansas, was a low bidder for this project.
All asphalt and shoulder work must be completed by October 1st of this year.
However, like we've always done in the past, we don't allow them to work during weed harvest activities.
Alternatives for action would be to one except the bid as indicated in the staff recommendation.
Or to reject bids and direct staff to the wishes of the board.
Staff recommends accepting the bid from APAC, Kansas, for the amount of estimated work to equal 1,146,800,
and 10 cents.
So funds for this project will be taken from a contractual asphalt work budget line item.
This line item has a current balance of 1.6 million dollars.
However, we do have other work that comes, you know, that must be paid out of this budgeted line item.
And so that's our chip seal, crack seal, and aggregate shoulder work.
So but in order to fully fund our 2026 asphalt maintenance program, which is our overlay chip seal, crack seal and shouldering,
I am requesting to use 1,200,000,000 dollars out of a special highway improvement fund.
So of this amount, 200 and two dollars is going to be coming from our federal fund exchange.
That's the money that's coming from from K dot where we, we exchange our federal funds for state funds.
And we've used that money in the past to pay for asphalt maintenance.
And then the remaining million dollars would just be coming from our savings account.
I'm out of that special highway account.
And this help offset the $1 million reduction to the contractual asphalt budgeted line item work for 2026.
In addition, I'm also requesting to use this year's allocation for our landfill impact fund.
And this year that amount should be 293,264 dollars and 21 cents.
So some balances from some of those funds for a special highway improvement.
Right now we're about 3,000,000,000 dollars.
And so we'll be reducing that account down by about a million dollars.
And a landfill impact fund has a balance of $603,655.
That balance should remain because we're just going to be using this year's allocation.
And so we'd not be pulling any more out of that fund.
Any questions?
One question is nice to see two bids.
We're as shilling out of.
They're out of a junction city area.
And I have no idea why they decided to bid this year.
You know, they've had, usually it's when a contractor has a larger like a K dot project that's in the area.
They'll bid, but I know for a fact that Shilling has had those projects in the past and is not decided to bid.
So I'm not sure why they bid this year.
They bid this year.
We are bidding earlier this year.
So maybe that has something to do with it.
You know, usually we're, you know, advertising these projects, you know, in March and April.
You know, advertising it earlier.
And business out earlier might have something to do with it.
And I plan to continue putting this out earlier.
Okay.
Thank you.
Is there any public comment?
Bring it back to the commission for further questions or.
I'll make a motion.
We approve RFA 2026-10 is presented.
Second motion.
Sorry.
Go ahead.
It's in a second.
Motion in the second.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Passes four zero.
Thank you very much.
All right.
Jamie, I won't steal your thunder this time.
Action item number four.
It's a bit of word for a fire street construction project.
Which is a meter county engineer.
Okay.
So my office opened bids for this project on January 6th at 11 AM.
And we did receive three bids and your packet.
You should have those bid tabs.
So this project begins at the bridge near the intersection of Ohio Street and Minner.
And extends two miles north to Waterwell Road.
The scope of their project will replace all the drainage pipes.
That's both cross road pipes and entrance pipes.
We will elevate Ohio Street approximately 18 inches.
We're going to incorporate three inches of aggregate surfacing into the base with a chemical stabilizer.
All work will take place within the existing road right of way.
The project will be closed through traffic.
You know, however, there are several homes.
You know, along this project.
But we'll we're making sure that the project will be phased to where we can maintain access to all the properties.
The results of the project will significantly improve the drainage along this corridor.
We're going to improve the level of service by reducing the frequency of storm water overtopping.
We're going to increase the roadway structural capacity.
Reduced dust caused by the traffic and significantly reduced maintenance in the foreseeable future.
Construction must be completed by November 13th of this year.
However, once construction started the contractor has 125 working days to get the work completed.
Alternatives for action would be to accept the bid from.
Accept the bid indicated staff recommendation.
Accept the bid from a different contractor or reject all bids and direct staff to the wishes of the board.
Staff recommends accepting the low bid from mom construction company for an estimated amount of work equal to 801,807 dollars and 30 cents.
Funds for this project will be taken from our special road construction fund, which is the one the one mail, but it's funded at a half a mail currently.
This fund has a current balance of 2,561,592 dollars in three cents.
Very good questions.
Public comment.
Bring it back to the commission for action.
Mr. Chair, I move that we approve our FAA 2026-13 as presented.
Second.
It's motion in the second. All those of papers say aye.
Aye. Pass us four zero.
Thank you very much.
See you in the second.
Yes.
Action item number five.
Alcohol funds allocation for 2026 with Phil Smith.
He's county administrator.
Good morning commissioners.
So counties and larger cities receive revenues from the state that is derived from the gross receipts tax on alcohol.
Per state law that revenue then gets divided up between the general fund and two special funds, a special alcohol fund.
The proceeds of which must be used to support services or programs whose principal purposes alcoholism and drug abuse prevention and education.
Alcohol and drug detoxification.
Intervention and alcohol and drug abuse or treatment of persons who are alcoholics or drug abusers or are in danger of becoming alcoholics or drug abusers.
And a special parks and recreation fund.
The proceeds of which must be used to support purchase establishment maintenance or expansion of park and recreational services programs and facilities.
So it has been the process.
The practice in sling county over the years to solicit applications from community organizations providing these services every other year.
Make funding awards and then continue funding at the same rate for the succeeding year.
For the 2026-2027 years applications were accepted between September 9th and November 21st of 2025.
Five organizations applied for special parks and rec funding and five others for the special alcohol fund awards.
The total was $30,000 and requested special park and rec funding and 48,600 in requested special alcohol funds.
The funds are budgeted this year at 12,000 for special park and rec and 15,500 for the special alcohol fund.
So not enough money to fully fund the applications received.
Commissioners, hey and we volunteered to review the applications after consideration of the applications and the availability and need for funding.
The commissioners are recommending the following awards.
From the special parks and rec fund award.
$2,000 to the forage council.
$4,500 to the arc.
$3,500 to a theory youth in 2000 to the city of Brookville.
In addition, it is recommended that the forage council be awarded up to $8,000 and hurting to the future be awarded $10,000 from the county farm fund.
These would be considered one time awards and funding for the forage council would be re-evaluated in 2027 based on available funding in both the special parks and rec fund and the farm fund.
The awards to the arc a theory youth in Brookville would continue in 2027 if funding is available.
And the organization submit annual reports in the timely manner.
The recommended funding from the special alcohol fund is $6,536 to the dare and great program of the sheriff's office.
$5,229 to Kansas Wesleyan for their training of drug and alcohol counselors.
And $3,735 to CKF addiction treatment services.
It is recommended that the applicants for this funding be informed that 2026 will be the final year of awards from this funding source.
And that all funding be directed to community corrections beginning in 2027 based on anticipated funding reductions from the state.
So your alternatives are to approve the awards is recommended by the two commissioners and direct staff to inform the applicants or directed different award funds.
These awards would fully expend the adopted 2026 budgets for both of these funds and I'd be happy to answer any questions as I'm sure would commissioners.
Please.
Questions of staff?
Quick question here because I've in regards to this.
Where it says that the funding directed to the community corrections beginning in 2027.
Is that mean all funding for all of this?
For the special outcome, not the special park and record continue, but for the special alcohol yes that whatever we are able to budget for 2027 would just automatically go to community corrections rather than being distributed to community organizations.
And the rationale for that is that community corrections is expected to receive funding cuts from the state of over a hundred thousand dollars starting in.
State fiscal year 28 which.
We begin July 1st of 2027. And so because of those cuts, it is anticipated that those cuts would first affect their counseling services that they provide, which are drug and alcohol related. So that is the rationale for directing all those funds to them beginning in 2027.
Thank you.
For the questions.
Public comment.
Normal round of slime. Just in the last week, papers.
New report. People are drinking less alcohol. They're going to more non-alcoholic drinks.
It was in the paper. So your fund is going to go down.
Well, be some any drinks on the road.
It's good.
No. We've got to have traffic.
The newspaper has also reported it has more people moving out of the Kansas than there are moving in here.
Just in this last week's paper.
So the population is going down.
So there goes your business.
Bring back to the Commission for Action.
Mr. Chairman, make a motion. We approve RF-a-2026-11 as presented.
Second, the motion.
So motion in the second. All those in favor say aye.
Aye. Aye. Passes 4-0.
Action item 6.
2026, can any commission recommended board appointments?
Well, I'll go ahead and just start this.
This is kind of something that we've done on over the last few years.
We've kind of talked about it instead of just had the chair.
Make the appointments. And so I'd like some input from everybody.
And then anybody in any of these that we don't want to attend.
We'll just a point Commissioner Grievous too.
So let's start with the chamber is always the chair.
So money shadow will take that.
The mental health board has been well represented by Commissioner Sparks.
And you will be chair this year, right?
Again.
Yes.
And you're okay with being on that again.
Yes. Okay.
So that takes care of those too.
I think we had a little discussion earlier about the building authority,
where there are three of us.
And Commissioner Wies Commissioner Hay and Commissioner Shadwick.
I think we'll take those three.
All right. So we've got those.
The health board temporarily has been disbanded because we are the health board.
Well, it would be reorganized I should say.
Yeah, you'll be discussing that in February.
It has not officially been disbanded yet.
Thank you.
But we did not need to point anybody to that today.
All right.
Commissioner Hay, which ones did you say?
Think that you wanted to be on the EDO.
You can not be development and the Fairboard.
What is your role on the Fairboard?
Really?
It's a non voting role.
I don't attend every single one of them.
I've been showing up at probably every other one to give them just a little bit.
You know, they want to report about, you know,
how things going into county and if there's anything that affects them.
It's really not a being a non voting position.
You're just, you're just our ears there.
Yeah.
And you know, I get, I get information on, you know, what's, what's happened with the,
what's happened with the, what's happened with the different things going on with the
Sly County Fair and everything, so.
All right.
Um.
The Senior Center.
We are voting member on the Senior Center, correct?
No, that's not correct.
That is not correct.
Thank you for.
Yeah.
We don't vote.
Okay.
And have you been on it in the past?
I've been on it for the past since the, since I've been a commissioner.
Yes.
Is it commissioner grief.
Is this time?
Well, that I'm not sure.
I have a, I have a real strong desire to see the Senior Service be successful.
I hope that my time there has been served well.
That depends on commission of grievances.
She has a wanting to desire to put herself dive into the Senior Service Committee and, and be a part of it.
Whoever is there, because we are so integrated into the funding and it is part of this.
Absolutely.
Out of this commission.
So it, it's, it's very important that we do whatever we can to make it successful.
I think to work is, you've, you've done a great job on that.
And, and I did not, I, I think you ought to do it one more time.
This, this being your last year.
I have not heard anything from Commissioner Grievous that that's something that she necessarily wants to do.
But I would be, I'll serve the pleasure of the chair.
And that I'd be happy to, happy to serve one last year with the Senior Services and go out that way.
Okay.
Yeah.
You bet.
All right.
Therefore, I will put Commissioner Grievous on as the airport.
If that's okay with everybody.
Again, you've been on that before Commissioner Wees.
Explain that a little bit.
I have.
Is that frustrating?
It, it, I don't know if it's the best time spent.
What they do is very important.
But we, there again, we're not, we are, we are guests.
We just listen to their meeting and you're not a voting member.
We're not a voting member.
And what is good about the airport authority is they're very, very good at getting their information out on a monthly basis where
every one of us knows exactly what that one person was made aware of with, with their press releases and such.
So I don't know if it's, I guess we should approach them to find out, or what is our benefit to your organization just to be there.
Yeah, it's interesting.
I, I didn't, I haven't been on it in a long time.
So I, maybe, forgot that we weren't a voting member, but we do help fund them.
And so you would think that to this, maybe should be a more of a conversation at our retreat.
You know, what our role should be there.
I mean, maybe we ought to ask about the non-boding part of it, especially since we fund them.
Help fund them.
Is that correct?
Yeah, but there again, I think the city also is, even a larger funder of the,
There are guests also.
And they're also non-boding.
Okay.
Very helpful.
Yeah.
Very helpful.
So I think it's a discussion that maybe the chair and the administrator and the airport authority,
would have to say, are, are we serving you a purpose because they turn around and do exactly what's expected of me,
and get that information out to you, and, and a lot better and, and a definite manner.
Okay.
Mr. Sparks, is there any other?
No.
The community corrections, have you been on that?
I've been on community corrections, and I would be more than happy to continue serving that role there.
Get that.
Okay.
I mean.
The cyber committee will put grievance on that also.
Mr.
Phil, is there anything that I'm missing in on these?
No central Kansas.
I'm on the North Central Kansas, but I think, I'm just on that as an individual.
Am I on that as an individual or a commissioner?
You're in a pointy of the commission, but it doesn't.
That's, there's nothing special about that being a commissioner.
Okay.
We have two appointees that she's at hand.
Okay.
So is that part of this motion, do you think, or is that just?
I would say no.
It's a separate item.
I did not bring my list, but I think I did everything.
Do you know, can we talk about you?
No.
Thank you for bringing that out.
You go, you have thoughts on that?
The juvenile?
Commissioner Grievous has done that in the past.
We've had a conversation with community corrections director Michelle Calum, and she would
be willing to serve, I'm nod.
Okay.
Yeah.
She would be willing to serve on that because that agency is directly related to the work of her department.
Thank you.
Very much.
Yes.
And any thanks, you too, I think.
I will applaud any of her work this past year.
She really dug into it and saved the county some funds.
Absolutely.
That's a good point.
Okay.
All right.
I will just go down through there and then I'll take a motion, but I'll read what I have from
my notes, and that's the senior center.
And I will be Commissioner Wease.
The chamber will be Commissioner Shadwick.
The airport authority will be Commissioner Grievous.
The building authority will be Shadwick Wease and Hey.
Mental health will be Commissioner Sparks.
Cyber committee will be Commissioner Grievous.
Eco-Devo will be Commissioner Hayes.
Community corrections will be Commissioner Sparks.
The fair board will be Commissioner Hey.
And the juvenile be Michelle Calum.
Do I have a motion?
Make a motion.
We accept the appointments I have.
It's done.
Second motion.
The motion in the second is there any public comment.
Now it's 2026.
Nobody wants to volunteer.
Nobody wants to do anything anymore.
I think we did pretty good.
They don't.
They don't care.
They don't want to show up.
So.
I think you're changing.
All right.
Is there a motion in a second?
Did I get one?
Did I get a second?
Okay.
I apologize.
All those of favor say aye.
All right.
Passes 4-0.
We'll move on to.
Yeah.
Information items.
Morning again.
Good morning.
Morning.
So yeah.
So this is my update for things that's happened since October.
So I'll just jump in with our accomplishments.
That we had.
So start off with our 2025.
As well.
It really patched in on Burma Road.
That was completed by eight pack Kansas for a total construction cost of 1,056,890
dollars in 96 cents.
And that was from small and road to.
I think it was a half a mile south of Fallon Road.
So I'm fairly pleased with the work that was completed there.
Our 2020 white crack seal project is about 90% complete.
Payment pros has completed about 27,700 dollars worth of work.
I believe they're on Magnolia Road right now.
And their intention is to be finished up before it gets ridiculously cold at the end of this week.
So they should be done by Wednesday Thursday time frame.
Our 2026 asphalt overlay patching.
I was hoping that it was going to be a word eight pack Kansas because I.
I update that it was going to.
So I was thanks for a awarding that project today.
So just to reiterate.
A pack Kansas was a little bit and was awarded the contract for 1,146,801 dollars in 10 cents.
Our 2026 chip seal aggregates.
The aggregates which included a hauling was awarded the night trucking and night land LLC.
It was awarded $40.50 per ton and that is just to supply the aggregates for the chip seal.
The chip seal contract will be put out for bid and awarded around the March timeframe.
Next we've got our 2026 aggregate and aggregate hauling.
So this year what we did is we talked to the producers and the haulers for the with a 2025.
And everybody agreed to extend their 2025 prices through 2026.
And so we didn't put those bids out and maintenance was was happy with the services and the rock that they were being provided.
Our project on shipal road and really the intersection of shipal and Simpson road.
So on Simpson our shipal road we had a reinforced concrete box project and Simpson road.
We made improvements from shipal north to Campbell road.
Rest construction completed that project for a total of 303,600 three dollars and 20 cents.
Again the it was awarded earlier today.
So but it's the Ohio Street construction project from Minter to Waterwell.
Mom construction was awarded a contract for a 101,800 seven dollars and 30 cents.
And then finally Selink County was awarded $475,000 through Kate Otskoshir program to reconstruct the asphalt payment on a serious road from old 81 through the city of Assyria.
So next I'll move on to the projects that we're going to be working on here in the future.
So we currently have a contract with RMA engineering to construct six reinforced concrete bridge projects.
The the bid for this project was 643,414 dollars and 22 cents.
And the anticip...
Pay to this construction to start in March, and it's going to take a most of this year to complete all six sites.
The we have a bridge replacement project at the intersection at Cloud Street and gypsum valley road.
This is a 180 foot reinforce concrete hot slab project. The design is pretty much complete. I'm still working on one landowner to get a temporary construction easement.
I do intend. I do plan on on that coming in here sometime soon. So I would like to get that project out for advertising to bid by the end of the month.
And this has got to anticipate a construction time of probably the next winter. This is when I think it will probably start off.
Our 2025 pipe lining projects. So we've got six locations. You got the map. This is our the 2026 proposed road bridge program up on the screen.
The pipe lining, they're the green, the green circles on the map. And so we've got a contract with Mayor specialty services for those 16 pipe locations.
The award was for 276,582 dollars and they're actually out there working on those now. They've been working on them for last couple weeks. The first thing they do is they get to go through and clean out all the pipes.
And I believe today they're starting to pull the liner through on the first cross road pipes. So those will be getting lined.
So we do have our, you know, this year we'll be doing for our asphalt maintenance. You know, we've the for a hot mix overlay will be doing water well road mineral and Burma road. We talked about that earlier is that contract was awarded our chip seal. That's a blue line on our map.
This project will be going out in March for advertisement. We're doing a little smaller program typically we're doing about 40 to 45 miles of road. This year we're going to be doing 31 about 31 and a half miles.
Our crack seal that's usually a red line on the map, but we're going to hold off and wait until a little later in the year to determine what roads need those crack seals are all looking pretty good right now.
So I don't really have much to go on and so we'll see we'll see what roads kind of start to deteriorate on that and usually it's in that.
So I'd see there early early or late fall, you know, when you have a lot of that free stall and actually kind of what we're going through right now too is you know when when it really starts to deteriorate to asphalt. Those cracks really start to show up. So.
So we're doing that a little bit later. Same thing where their aggregate shouldering will pick some roads in the fall for our shouldering contracts.
Next is our whole Ohio Street improvement project, which was awarded today so I won't talk a little bit of much about that. A mom construction does plan on starting that work here this spring.
The Assyria road payment reconstruction project. This is a project where we got to $475,000 through the Keta Koshir project.
I've got my staff out there now do in the survey and processing it so we'll be going through that design of that this year and I'm anticipating a spring of 2027 construction on that.
And then a couple other myths, miscellaneous items are on call survey services, wishwob eat and it's going well.
I do have staff working on our next round of reinforced concrete box projects.
And then we've got bridge inspections. They're not due for another year and these are the structures that are the federal definition of a bridge.
So it's anything that's 20 feet of a span or longer. Those were required to do bring inspections every two years. Typically we do those in house and that's when we had.
My previous assist, the Wayne Screensfield, he did those but FHWA, the federal highway administration came out with new specifications and new requirements for bring inspections.
There's a significant amount of extra data that needs to be collected on each of these bridges.
Of course this data probably isn't really going to provide us much valuable information but we're required to collect it.
And this is going to be very labor intensive to collect this.
And so one thing that I would like to do is this is going to be probably summer maybe.
I would like to put a contract together to hire a consultant to do this work.
So we've got two or an 18 bridges. We're looking at a cost between four and 500,000 or sorry.
Four and five hundred dollars per bridge. And so that's going to be about an 87,000 to a hundred and nine thousand dollar project.
Budget update. So for our 2025 contractual asphalt work.
I was working off of a budget of about three million fifty two thousand dollars. So that included two point six from our budget line item.
Two hundred two thousand for our federal funds and two hundred fifty from our landfill impact fund.
Our total cost for our asphalt mates was two million five hundred seventy two thousand dollars in some change.
So that's leaving you know about five hundred thousand dollars and you know, so that'll be we always try to leave about three hundred thousand dollars for a cash carry over.
You know, and then the rest of it will go into our 127 account.
And then so for this year for 2026 I've got about the same budget a little bit more because of the landfill impact fund.
But I'm looking at working with a budget about three million ninety five thousand dollars.
And so right now I've got an estimated construction cost of about two point five million is kind of what I'm anticipating.
Our a couple other balances that I'm working with is for a one twenty four special road construction or one mil funded at a half a mil.
As a current balance of two million five hundred sixty one thousand dollars and some change are one twenty five account, which is our special bridge construction or two mil.
And that has a balance of around one million seven hundred sixty six thousand or one twenty seven has a current balance of that's a special highway improvement.
Has a balance of three million thirty nine thousand dollars.
And that's where a million of that is going to go towards this year's asphalt maintenance program.
And then our landfill tipping fee has a balance of six hundred three thousand six hundred fifty five dollars.
That's it. Very good.
Any questions comments?
Wow. I do have one comments or a question.
The railroad tracks on country club. We have some interest in that so tell me where we are or what what have you done. You've contacted the school there.
Yes, I've contacted school and talked about it. They weren't really excited about spending more money on that.
But it is, you know, so there's three tracks through there to I believe two of them are theirs and one of them is the U.P.'s responsibility.
But schooler did contact a contractor out of DePica.
And that contractor did come to my office.
I think it was last week and kind of want to know, you know, what our requirements are for them to do work so they can put put a bid together for for schooler.
And so I talked with them. I did mention that, you know, we do want to be part of the solution of this and so I did offer up traffic control services.
You know, we would be closing the road, but it's so we'd be out putting up some barricades.
And that was a big help from them.
You know, so I've not heard how, you know, if they got a cost to schooler and of schoolers, you know, going to move forward with that.
I remember nothing's going to happen right now. I mean, right now, you need in order to do the work. You need an asphalt plant. That's operational.
You know, and so it's it's not going to happen now, but it is moving forward at least. So I didn't.
Well, this is something that we've worked on for 12 years. I think Commissioner Gile when I first got on there, you know, he just a little past it and it's it's got to be frustrating for you. I mean, do you have any conversations with the railroad or is it all just with schooler?
I'm just working through schooler. It's really not that big of a project. You know, so really the the problem that they had is.
You know, when they were doing the initial improvements in that area, you know, so they fill in, you know, so they put in new concrete pads and then there's asphalt that's got to go in between those concrete crossings.
And it's hot mix and so they brought out the hot mix and it was in the wintertime and they weren't ready for the hot mix. And so they just pile it up on the road and so that hot mix asphalt was fairly cold when they installed it.
And it worked for a while, but over time, you know, you just don't get the compaction you need when that asphalt's cold and over time just traffic has impacted it.
You know, so really all that needs to be done now is just mill down a little bit, you know, you need to take it down to where you've got two to three inches of depth there and put, you know, a couple tons of hot mix back.
And that company doesn't work for us. No, they're hired and paid correct from schooler.
Yes. Okay. Yes. But we do have a lucky set. We have some role. I mean, do we have an oversee role or is it just traffic count? I mean, no, I mean, we have a right away that's going over there property.
Correct. That's a lot of people don't understand that. Right. And you know, the we don't really have jurisdiction.
And it's, it's always so goofy because there's, you know, we don't really have jurisdiction of the crossing itself, you know, but there's a railroad right away is wider than, you know, then to road.
And so the railroad doesn't think we have any jurisdiction in the right away, but they want us to do all the work and the right away except for the crossing.
So, but we'll be down there and, you know, and watch him inspecting him and make sure, you know, think, me the traffic control is, is what I'm mostly concerned about.
And it sounds like it's really being a good partner in this at this point. I mean, they're, they're not excited about it. They're not excited about spending more money on it, but again, it's still their responsibility.
You know, so it's, it's I hope we can continue being a good partners and and can get this crossing where it really needs to be good.
Any other questions of Justin.
All right. Thank you for your time. Appreciate it. Thank you.
Good report. You information a lot of them number two.
Senior service or senior center quarter update with Rosie Walter, senior services director.
Morning, Rosie. Good morning. Good morning.
This is my quarterly update for interval period October through December of 2025.
Oh, all right.
On the CDBG facilities grant and current statuses that we're still in the environmental review.
I just did a rate on test. I'm hoping that's hopefully nearing the end of the environmental review.
As soon as that part's done, we will go into the bid process. So just a reminder, we applied for 934,000, 460 with a match, including the match of 225 from the county and 712, 460 from the CDBG facilities.
And this is to replace the parking lot. Replace the uneven sidewalks and stall lighting around the building or replace the roof.
Right now, I'm working on another Dane Hansen Foundation grant to fill in the gaps that we did not realize that we would have to do with the CDBG and that includes like all the shrubs that now have to go around the parking lot.
Part of the city codes, you have to have shrubs around the parking lot. All of it's added up to quite a bit, so I need to apply for additional funding to cover all of that.
I did get a Earl Bane Foundation grant of 20,000 to help with the yard sign, but the sign costs quite a bit more than that, so I'll include that.
And then the trash, you can see I now have to have an enclosure that goes around all of that. So the recycling building and then the grease trap and then the trash all will have a gate around it.
Have you not had lunch at this point?
I've never noticed that.
Well, I would have never thought of it either, or needed it, but whenever you put in new concrete, new, now I have to have it.
So, and then in the dining room, you can see that I have the where the tray slide across by the cash register.
I've been having quite a few accidents in between that and the drink station, so I'm going to apply for additional cabinets with the service they can just slide your tray all the way through.
I think it could be easier for our seniors, and then the kitchen floor has just gone to pie.
It was in epoxy, but yeah, it's just not held up, so I'm going to apply for a grant to replace that as well.
So tell me about the epoxy not holding up, because we're actually thinking about doing that at our point.
It doesn't mean work.
No, I'm going to say that had high hopes, but I didn't know anything about flooring, but I definitely would not do that again.
It's about 25,000 to replace this with that tile that is going to last forever, that's non-slip, it's like a terracotta tile if you see that in kitchen.
So it'll outlast me.
Okay.
So on this last quarter, the different events that we have had, the Veterans Day event we had on November 7th.
It was from 9 until 11, where we honored all of our vets.
We have tons of flags put out by King Cocker and Adonets, and we had quite a few vendors there that gave prizes to all of our veterans, so it was a good day.
Thanksgiving.
First I would like to say thank you to everyone that helped out.
Truly.
As you see, I mean it was a crazy day.
We served a total of 693 meals that day.
It was in-house, and then 315 meals on wheels. If you don't recognize the one in the middle, that's
Rodgers' soul, Sheriffs' soul. And then Commissioner Reeves Serb and Pah. And then here's
just more staff and everybody, just the dining room was so full of different, I mean,
between the patrons and the volunteers. And we had to set up two different stations for
pie and the check out for to go meals. But yeah, it was, it was crazy. It's a fun day, though.
We also did our meals on wheels, gift Christmas bags for our home-bound seniors. So we did get an
Earl Bane Foundation grant of $5,000 that helped us put in five shelf-stable meals for all of
our meals and wheels patrons. And the reason we did that is because last year we had snow and there
was five days that we weren't able to deliver because of it. So we wanted to provide a lot more
nutritious meals in this this time and then what we have in the past, we've done chilly and all
sorts of different things but actual meals that had green beans and fruit and chili. So yeah,
they got five days of that and then we had tons of different volunteers, vendors that came in and each
one of them brought something to the bags. So like the silver needle, silver needles, quilting
guild, they made ornaments for them and every vendor that showed up brought like a Christmas street.
In the middle picture, that's Tesket Bane, all their staff came over and helped stuff the bags.
And here's just a picture of everyone's stuff in the bags and then we did a group shot on the stairs.
Here is the sheriff's office delivering all of the meals. So yeah, they were shocked to see us.
And then here are a few thank-you notes and then I've listed everybody that helped out during
that day or brought something to it. I was going to read one of these thank-you notes because it's
it's pretty funny. It says Dear Rosie Kathy, food deliveries and those good looking men with the guns
on their hips, they helped deliver. At the middle of that middle one it just says that we were
so shocked to see sheriff's officer on our front porch. But yeah, but in the end they were happy.
And we did to receive tons of phone calls too. So yeah, it was very nice.
And then last month I came in front of you guys and asked if you would approve me to use
donor dollars to hire two part-time staff. I just wanted to tell you that we did hire them.
Yeah, we have two people. I had like 11 applicants. I was amazed. I'm very happy.
Meals serve. For this quarter we served a total of 31,385 meals and I've broken that out so you can see
with the dining room and the meals on wheels is. So for the total year you'll see that we served 125,854
meals. And of that total, 97% of them are all subsidized. And then I've given you a comparison from
24 and 23 just so you could see what those totals are. A big jump between 23 and 24 and still in
increase although smaller to 25. So upcoming plans for this next quarter is actually today we have
the ARPA safe driving at the building. It's a drive safely, drive safer class that helps senior
patrons get discounts on their insurance. So I think we have nine people attending that class today
from nine to two or ten to two. And then we have the Greater Slime Community Foundation Match
Madness. There are annual fundraiser over the Slime of Field House and we will be there all day and I
would invite anybody that wants to come to come over and set with us or help raise funds. And then
Slime a tech. We just actually partnered with them and they're going to start coming over. They have
a nursing program and they're going to educate our seniors on different topics like diabetes or blood pressure
or any other thing that they may be interested in. And then we've been talking to United Way,
the Vita and they are actually going to do all the taxes at the senior center this year. So they have
10 tax preparers and we have the office face upstairs and they're going to sit in there and do all the
taxes. And then lastly is our budget for 2025 and you'll see that we have the budget in here
since the county took it over in 2018. So going to the end you'll see that in 2025 on the top is the revenue
and then all the different sources of revenue that we bring in for a total of 788,456.
And then below it is the expenditures and it includes everything that we've expended from CIP to donation
expenses to the actual budget. So that total is $1,885,85, and $158,158.
So taking those two and subtracting them, we cost the county, the total operations of 296,702.
I want to applaud you for how you've worked on this over the past couple years. It's very readable,
very understandable. So thank you for saying so. Phil helped me and helped me.
And that's it and I'll take any questions that you may have.
You know Rosie, I can't say it enough times. I really, I really am happy with the the way that
you're staff and the people over to senior center. It's a big, big, big help to our community and a big
help to the seniors over there. And there's a lot of appreciation over there. You can tell when you walk in
the family atmosphere and everything. So I think Celine County should be proud to have a senior center
like we've got. And again, thank you very much for all that that you do, especially the grants and stuff.
If it wasn't for the grants, I mean, we may be looking set near saying, I'm sorry, we're going to shut
this thing down. Yeah, I wouldn't like that. And so, you know, like I said, the the grants, you know,
you've taken the time doing those and the people helping you with those, it helps a lot. So thank you very much.
Thank you. And also it's important to continue what you're doing and getting, getting the word out to get the message out
about senior center, some of the donations, some things that grow and make it. It's one part of
an operation that can continue to improve and you get more and more. We're working on next year's right now.
And just I just have a quick question here, because the psyche you mentioned a new roof and everything is like,
can you help us out on what's happening with the solar panels? Well, um, they're actually meeting me over
at the office here at 10 o'clock. Okay. Five minutes ago. Yeah. You're late. That's all right. They knew I was here. So
okay. So we're going to talk about it a little bit and then I'll find out, you know, they'll have to coordinate
with the roof people who ever gets that bid. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry to keep you. You better get out of here.
Thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah. Information ladems number three. County administrator update with Phil Smith Haynes County
administrator. Morning, again, commissioner. So I just wanted to briefly provide a legislative update
to the Kansas Legislature went back into session last week. So KC had their first call Friday legislative
call on Friday. Listen to that with Sean Robertson. The basic message was that there's a lot
of tax bills and election bills this year. Go figure. And I alerted the commissioners to the fact that
the Slain area chamber did some at their requests. I'm giving you all a copy of that. The other thing
I just wanted to let you know briefly is representative how introduced a bill house bill 2410
regarding the relationship between regional library systems and local library systems and if the
county chooses to pull out of a regional system, how all that happens and in particular it addresses
finding that the state library has to make under current law. And so I think it's in our interest
to support that, but I'm waiting to bring a support letter in front of you to determine whether that
bill is going to actually get a hearing or not. Maybe just a pretty generic support letter or if
if that bill ends up getting a hearing, we may want to do actual testimony. So that is what I had
for today. Questions? Move on to information item number four. Commissioner comments and I'll just
start with I was remiss at the very beginning to a thanking commissioner sparks for his leadership
in his chairmanship last year. So I apologize for that, but thank you very much. I think that you did and I just
want to comment on that. Is that it's like thank you the whole county commission made it a very
comfortable and adapt easy to adapt to until you're last meeting. It was easy. No, I want to thank
all of you. You're welcome here. I just got one thing that I want to add, you know what the decision
of this commission to deny the CUP for the better energy storage system here a couple of weeks ago.
You know, I don't think this is the last we're going to hear from any of those people on the better
energy storage or the data centers. And I'd like to see this commission impose a moratorium for all
best and data centers for the following of actually following Harvey County and the
Cedric County who both have proposed moratoriums, you know, with the question of safety, with the question
of the public safety, with the question of water and everything. I still think that this commission
and our planning commission needs time to research and really dig down and figure out what are the
nuts and bolts of either, you know, the the battery energy storage system or the data center.
So, you know, with the support of the commission, I would like to see a moratorium in Selene County on
best and data centers to the end of 2028 and we give time for, you know, for us to take a really good
look at it and drill down into it and and go from here.
Well, I mean, the conversation has to happen before we can say anything. I mean, you're not looking for
direction right now. I know. I'd like to have a conversation on this. I'd like to, you know,
is this something you'd like to have us do at a retreat or I think it'd be a good time to do it. I mean,
you know, we're all together there at that time. We can take a look at it. That way there, we can give direction to
the to the administrator on, you know, how we feel. I mean, it's something to digest and something to look at.
Like I said, I don't think this is going to be the last time we see any of this stuff coming towards us
and I just think because of the the outpour of the public and the outpour of the support to deny right now.
I still think there's a lot of stuff. I think this is all still in the embassy and I still don't think we really
realize on what at all is involved in this. So yes, I mean, if possible, we can get that put on that agenda for
that that part I'd appreciate. Well, I'm happy to talk about it during our retreat. I'm not
sure where I stand on that issue being such a short timer. I don't know whether that'd be something for
the two new commissioners to be part of, but but happy to always always happy to discuss. So, okay. Thank you.
In regards to that CUP, I would like to again, thank our planning planning and zoning board for their work.
And we we I appreciate the aid of them, the hard work. I know they were focused on this item. They researched it.
A lot more than what any one of us commissioners ever could spend the time doing. So,
thank you for your work. No, that you are appreciated. Well said. Anything else?
Information item number five?
Announcements. You've got one. I do have one announcement. So, if you live in the incorporated
city limits of Slina, there is a pit bull repeal ordinance election that will be happening on February 24th.
The next date to be aware of is make sure you're registered to vote.
By January 26 to automatically get a ballot in the mail, you can go to our elections page. There is a link that you can get on and view that. Or if you are unable to have view it online, you can call us and we can let you know what your registration says at this time and if you need to get it up to date.
I sat in this chair when we passed that ordinance. It was very fun times. That was one of the most interesting ones that there's no doubt about it.
So yeah, that's coming up. All right. Anything else announcements? All right.
Move on to informational item G. Executive session.
As staff would request that the Commission recessed to executive session under the non-elected personnel exception to the Kansas Open Meetings Act to discuss appointment for the position of county administrator for 10 minutes and reconvene in this room at 1023 AM.
So moved. Second motion in the second to go into the executive session for 10 minutes. All those in favor say aye. Aye.
We are an executive session.
Thank you.
. . . .
Do I have a question?
We are out of executive session and back in regular session and I think we have a motion.
Mr. Chairman, I move that the commission authorised Mr. Smith aims to devote disclosed
the event of the commission's selected candidate for the position of county administrator
once the person and the county counselor have early agreed to the terms of a contract for
employment and that we direct Mr. Smith aims to place that contract on the next available commission
agenda for consideration and formal appointment.
Second, the motion. There is a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye.
Aye. Aye. Aye. That passes five zero. Is there anything else for the good of the
commission? Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. We are adjourned.
Thank you for everybody's time today.