Discussion over sanitation code and fee structures will be one of the topics on Wednesday’s Lyon County commission meeting.
County commissioners will hear from Lougene Marsh, Flint Hills Community Health Center executive director, about the sanitation code fees. In 2006, the Department of Environmental Health did 53 real estate transfers at $150 for a total of $7,950; 16 new system inspections at $395 for a total of $6,320; 27 reconstructions at $393 each for a total of $10, 665; and two reconstructions due to cycle inspections totaling $790.
Lyon County commissioners voted to do away with fees relating to real estate transfers and reconstructions. Based on the 2006 figures, this will cost the Department of Environmental health more than $18,000 this year. That equals nearly 10 percent of the department’s budget, which is $196,000.
This is what Marsh hopes to get across to commissioners on Wednesday.
“It does create a hole. That’s what I want to talk to commissioners about,” Marsh said in an earlier interview with The Gazette.
In other business, commissioners will discuss:
• Review low bid for CCA treated sign posts from Welbourn Sales Inc. for $4,872.
• Review low bid for complete signs, sign faces and street sign hardware from National Sign Co. for $14,083.90.
• Discuss purchase of approximately 700 feet of used 16 inch steel casing at $20 a foot for an estimated total of $14,000 from Frank Black Pipe & Supply Co.
• Review annual noxious weed eradication progress report for 2006.
• Emporia’s 150th birthday proclamation.
• Commissioners will discuss the task force schedule.
• Mark McKenna and Chris Wilkinson, of the facilities department, will discuss budget considerations for facilities and discuss furniture purchase for the Department of Aging.
• Dan Slater, county controller, will discuss the audio system in the jury assembly room at the Lyon County Courthouse.