9/26/2009

The agenda for Monday’s Salina City Commission meeting includes a proposed resolution on the resubmission for a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean up properties contaminated by petroleum or hazardous substances.

In 2008, the city partnered with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the North Central Kansas Rural Development Council to apply for an EPA Coalition Assessment Grant, but no grant was awarded. The partners would like to resubmit an application for the grant, which could provide coalition members with up to $1 million over a three-year period to cover the cost of assessing, testing and cleaning up contaminated sites. Grants are to be awarded in spring 2010.

Monday’s commission meeting is slated to start at 4 p.m. in Room 107 of the City-County Building, 300 W. Ash. A full agenda can be viewed at www.salina-ks.gov.

City commissioners are also to consider a request by Salina Regional Health Center representatives to allow the installation of a fiberoptic cable along South Fifth Street. The cable will serve to connect a building the hospital has purchased at 217 S. Santa Fe to the hospital’s data network. The building, which formerly housed Sunflower Insurance, is where the hospital is relocating some of its financial services operations.

Commissioners are also scheduled to consider a request from the Saline County Commission to annex a segment of South Ninth Street from the southern boundary of the Riffel Addition south to Water Well Road.

South Ninth Street has been annexed in sections as commercial development along the corridor has moved south. The request would follow similar annexations in 1992 and 1998.

For their 2:30 p.m. study session Monday the commissioners are scheduled to take a tour of the construction of the Kenwood Cove Aquatic Park.