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Votes at a glance: NRP approved; consent items and project applications authorized
Summary
The Geary County commission approved the revised Neighborhood Revitalization Plan and a set of consent and capital project actions including a road-entrance petition, a landfill monitoring contract, bridge paperwork and authorization to apply for FLAP funds.
The Geary County Board of Commissioners took several formal actions during the meeting. Below are the motions, movers/seconds when recorded and the outcomes as reflected in the meeting transcript.
1) Neighborhood Revitalization Plan - Motion: "Approval of the new Neighborhood Revitalization Plan as presented." - Moved: Speaker recorded as moving the motion during discussion. - Second: Speaker recorded seconding the motion. - Outcome: Approved by voice vote. (See full NRP article for details on qualification and rebate calculation.)
2) Bunn Road petition (relocation of an existing entrance) - Motion: Approve requested petition to move a property entrance about 75 yards north, including filling the existing ditch and establishing a new access angle. - Moved: Public Works presented the petition and a commissioner moved approval; a second was recorded. - Outcome: Approved by voice vote.
3) Landfill monitoring well testing contract - Motion: Recommend approval for UES to conduct 2025 testing required by KDHE at the Gary County Closed Landfill; UES proposal cost $1,875; SCS Engineering proposal was $2,300. - Moved/Second: Motion moved and seconded during the meeting. - Outcome: Approved by voice vote; contract awarded to UES.
4) McNeil Bridge (13-O-2 form / KDOT off-system bridge program) - Motion: Accept and sign the 13-O-2 form for McNeil Bridge design and related preconstruction work; county share estimated at about $80,000 spread over 2026–27; total project figures were discussed (transcript referenced $841,610 as total project cost on paperwork). - Moved/Second: Motion moved and seconded. - Outcome: Approved by voice vote; county will proceed with acceptance and planned KDOT scheduling (construction anticipated in 2028).
5) Disposal of obsolete snow/ice spreaders - Motion: Approve disposal of 10 rusted flank spreaders as scrap iron. - Outcome: Approved by voice vote.
6) Boom mower repairs - Motion: Approve repairs to the boom mower tractor by Prairie Land ($10,337.10) and material purchase from Wichita Tractor Company ($8,181.23); county personnel to provide labor; total repair cost $18,518.33. - Outcome: Approved by voice vote.
7) Federal Funds Exchange (FFE) and courthouse reimbursement (informational) - Noted: County received $99,693.91 for the 2025 Federal Funds Exchange and received a Heritage Trust Fund reimbursement check for $77,615.96 deposited into the CIP fund. The commission was advised these funds were received; these were informational receipts rather than motions to approve new expenditures.
8) FLAP application for Old Highway 77 - Motion: Authorize Public Works to apply to the Federal Lands Access Program for paved shoulders, microsurfacing and restriping of Old Highway 77 (program reportedly does not require a match for selected projects). - Moved/Second: Motion moved and seconded. - Outcome: Approved by voice vote.
Votes were recorded on the record by voice; the meeting transcript logs ayes for the motions but does not list a roll-call tally of individual commissioner votes for each item in the published excerpt.
