Commissioners agree to send letter supporting community hospital demonstration program to congressional offices

Geary County commissioners discussed and agreed to send a letter supporting a community hospital demonstration program to federal elected officials’ offices, and asked staff to distribute copies to local district offices as well as Washington offices.

During the meeting commissioners referred to a letter supporting the "community hospital demonstration program" and discussed whether to send it to the county’s U.S. representative and U.S. senators. One commissioner recommended sending the letter to the county’s representative for sure and offered to extend distribution to other Kansas representatives. Another commissioner said sending copies both to a member’s Washington, D.C., office and to the representative’s nearest Kansas office (for example, Salina or Manhattan) would reduce the chance the correspondence is missed.

Commissioners asked staff to send the letter to the local offices nearest Junction City rather than to more distant district offices (for example, Dodge City), and agreed to send copies broadly to Kansas representatives because of statewide rural‑hospital relevance. They did not identify a final list of recipients in the meeting transcript but directed staff to send the letter to the offices the commission specified.

No formal vote was recorded; the discussion resulted in staff direction to transmit the letter to selected congressional offices and local district offices, with copies to be sent to both local and Washington offices where appropriate.