Lyon County commissioners will consider signing a resolution today that will give Lyon County Rural Water District No. 1 legal authority to apply for a grant that will improve the water district.
Commissioners talked about the grant with Bruce Boettcher and Donna Crawford during their study session on Wednesday. The grant is for a Community Development Block Grant for district improvements. In an earlier commission meeting, Boettcher said the water district was seeking Lyon County Commission sponsorship in the application, which is for $500,000 with a $751,000 match by the water district. The water district is seeking the funding for improvements to the district which include improvements to the booster station by the Kansas Turnpike and upgrading the Neosho River boar, new mixing unit in the tower in Americus and water line replacement in the City of Americus and a boar underneath the turnpike.
Crawford presented commissioners with two resolutions to sign, both of which pertain to the grant. One resolution gives the water district authority to apply for the grant and the other states that the water district will be responsible for matching funds.
“Anything the grant doesn’t pay for they will pick up to make sure the county isn’t injecting funds into the (project),” Crawford said.
In other matters:
F Doug Stueve of the Department on Aging talked about repairs to to a bus that was in a wreck recently. Stueve also talked about the bus shelters that will be built with stimulus money granted to the county. He said everything is still on stream and the project will still be completed, it’s just a matter of when and how quickly the project will be started.
F Robert Sullivan of Community Corrections spoke to commissioners about the FY 2009 Community Corrections Year-End Outcome Report. Sullivan said some of the outcomes were met and some weren’t. One of the items Sullivan pointed out was identifying barriers in those who are on community public corrections. He talked about transportation being one barrier for those in a correctional program to get to work or treatment. By providing bus passes, cab vouchers and bicycles, that barrier is taken away. “Once you’ve identified a barrier you attack that barrier,” Sullivan said.
F Chip Woods, Lyon County engineer, talked about the low bid of Express Tire for two Michelin tires for dump trucks at $525.25 each and discussed approving himself to attend a conference in St. Joseph, Mo., on Oct. 13 and 14 and the county pay the registration and related travel expenses.