All
Commissioners present, Boyd presiding.
The Riley
County Police Department reported on plans to deal with game day traffic. For the most part things will be handled as
before. The game on September18 will
present unique problems, however, since it will be played on a Thursday
evening. Students could still be in
classes when traffic begins to get heavy.
Much depends upon the start time for the game.
Purple Power
Play will be held Thursday August 28 and Friday August 29. Once again the event will be held in City Park
beginning at 6:00 p.m. In addition to
planned entertainment, the Riley County Historical Society’s City Park Pioneer
Log Cabin will be open. The building of
the Cabin was the first effort of the Society which will be celebrating its 100th
anniversary this year.
Anne Smith,
aTa Director, announced that, for the third year in a row, our local aTa was
presented an award for the largest increase in ridership among similar size agencies
in Kansas.
Cindy
Volanti, Human Resource manager/Deputy Clerk, presented a proposal to
restructure the hiring of temporary election staff. Each year the County budget provides funds to
hire eight temporary election staff. She
pointed out that needs have changed as technical advances have been introduced
into the voting process such as use of I-Pads provided precinct workers this
past election. Volanti asked for
permission to use money budgeted for some of the temporary workers to fund two
as needed clerical assistants able to provide technical information support and
process complex data. The permission was
granted.
Leon Hobsen,
County Engineer, reviewed projects underway or in the planning process. Of particular interest to the Commissioners
was the proposal from Pottawatomie County regarding the building of a bridge across
from Marlatt Road in Riley County. It
appears the Kansas Department of Transportation is prioritizing the
project. Commissioners stressed the
importance of Riley County needing to plan for any transportation needs that
might arise for Riley following completion of the project.
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