Riley County commissioners approve contracts and licenses, hear staff updates on communications, WIC move and purchasing policies

The Riley County Board of County Commissioners on Oct. 23 approved a series of contracts, a liquor-license-type permit for a coffee shop and a coroner-services contract amendment, and received staff briefings on communications, the WIC clinic move to Fort Riley and proposed revisions to the county's purchasing and gift-card policies.

The decisions came during a regular meeting in which commissioners also approved routine personnel actions and meeting minutes and recessed briefly to convene as the Board of County Health and the Board of County Insurance.

County public works supervisor Ron Ellerman presented a design proposal from Baker McMillan for remodeling county IT/GIS space vacated when emergency management and fire relocated. Ellerman told commissioners the staff proposal referenced a design fee figure of about $78,008.50 and said, if approved, staff would return with a standard contract for signature. During the motion to approve the proposal commissioners referred to amounts of $78,077 and $78,850 at different times in the meeting record; the commission approved the item as presented and staff said they would prepare the formal contract for signature.

The board also approved a contract agreement for repairs at the county transfer station (tipping floor and chute repair) and approved change order No. 2 for the elevator modernization project, an increase of $11,485.64 to the elevator contract attributed in the record to rising material costs.

On administrative items, commissioners approved a cereal malt beverage license for Snagull Coffee Club and approved employee action forms submitted at the meeting. They also moved and approved the…