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Commission adopts downtown master-plan concepts directing multi-year changes to jail, health department and building authority
Summary
The Board approved RFA 2025-40 to adopt master-plan concepts that direct staff to pursue phased demolition of the old jail, relocation options for the health department, consolidation of judicial functions, and cooperative changes with the City of Salina over timelines spanning 6 to 18 years.
The Saline County Board of Commissioners on March 25 adopted a set of master-plan concepts directing staff to pursue a multi-track path for downtown county facilities, including phased demolition of the county's old jail and multi-year relocation and consolidation steps in cooperation with the City of Salina and the County-City Building Authority.
County Administrator Philip Haines presented the plan and said he was not recommending adoption of the full master plan verbatim because many recommendations require cooperation from the city or the building authority. Instead, Haines asked the commission to endorse six specific directional items as staff…
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