New County Commission Holds First Formal Meeting
KSAL Staff - Tue 11:32 AM 01/15/2013
(from left) John Price, Randy Duncan, and Jim Gile conducted their first formal meeting on Tuesday.
The new Saline County Commission is set for 2013.
At their weekly formal meeting on Tuesday, the commission reorganized. Commissioners selected Randy Duncan as commission chair, Jim Gile as vice-chair, and John Price as secretary.
Gile and Price were both participating in their first formal meeting, after having been elected this past November.
The new commission then heard updates from Chris Rost of the Tri Rivers Fair Board, Community Corrections Director Annie Grevas, and Planning & Zoning Director David Neal.
Rost had questions regarding the 2013 fair. He said that contracts need to be signed, and he needed to know if commissioners envisioned any changes. The commission indicated that at some point there would be changes as the county makes plans to vacate the current livestock and expo center, but at least for 2013 the plan is to maintain the status quo. The commission indicated that their top priority for the near-future is finding a permanent facility with the city to use for the Salina Saline County Health Department.
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renter
Tuesday 15 January 2013 13:00 Report this comment
I hold events at this facility.I was signing my contract the other day and was told they booked 5 new horse shows for this year one of those being a national show.Iwould hope commisioners keep this facility open as these kind of shows bring alot of revenue to saline county and salina
Iamgonnagetyou
Tuesday 15 January 2013 18:54 Report this comment
You better hope the city fixes the bridge on Greely. Those city commissioners never pulled a horse trailer so they are not aware how important that street is to everyone. Plus the address printed on evearything for both the fairgrounds and bi center is a greely street address.
Aurora.
Wednesday 16 January 2013 08:02 Report this comment
The city is only interested in art projects. Rumor has it they are thinking of purchasing a $750,000 piece of art to place where they closed the bridge to beautify that area for when they start on the river project that the taxpayers voted down. The rumor has it that Aaron, Barb, and Kay are all in a hurry to do this before they leave the commission.
sking
Wednesday 16 January 2013 12:48 Report this comment
Aurora if you did your homework, instead of trolling, you would know your facts above are wrong.
Iamgonnagetyou
Wednesday 16 January 2013 16:48 Report this comment
They may be wrong but I have heard the same things that was mentioned. Think about it why not fix a bridge on a street that is used so much? If they can spend 500k for art out south and 8.1 million on the bi-center they can afford to fix the bridge.
grnthums
Wednesday 16 January 2013 23:52 Report this comment
Hey John! When is the blue ribbon panel going to be appointed to investigate your corruption charges? http://www.salina.com/news/story/Price-story-10-16-12
Aurora.
Thursday 17 January 2013 00:50 Report this comment
grnthums probably after they finish investigating Reynolds and Fowler for what they did and are doing. One is impersenating a lawyer the other an engineer. Wonder how much in kickbacks they made?
equineman7
Thursday 17 January 2013 09:22 Report this comment
I used to also book horse shows and I for one know how important it is to having Greely opened to traffic. It is used widely by alot of people hauling livestock in. If it was not a well used road the city never would have put up traffic signals at Greely and Ohio streets. Now they want to take that entrance away from us and make us use an intersection without a traffic signal and further north of this street. Evidently none of these people ever towed a trailer if they had they would understand one cannot go zero to sixty in 3 seconds to enter or exit on Midway.