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Residents urge a separate public health board and oppose battery/battery farms at county meeting
Summary
During citizens input, Ken Ritz urged forming a dedicated public health board and described donating a homemade air purifier; another resident, Norman Malaslawney, urged the county to oppose wind, solar and battery farms and cited other counties' actions.
Several members of the public addressed the commission during the citizens input portion. Ken Ritz of Salina said the county should consider establishing a separate public health board to coordinate with the health department and to provide sustained focus on public-health matters. He described bringing homemade air-purifier prototypes (a cardboard-box unit with thicker filters) to county facilities and said he left items in county staff areas and with the health department; staff acknowledged they would forward the information to the health department for follow-up.
Ritz also expressed skeptical views about pandemic policy and vaccine information during his remarks, and said the core mitigation message could be summarized as "Don't share air." He offered to assist and demonstrate his devices to county staff.
Separately, Norman Malaslawney of Kansas told the commission that McPherson County recently passed a resolution banning wind and solar farms and urged Saline County to consider a similar resolution, adding "We don't want that battery farm."
What happens next: Staff said they would forward Rafael's (sic) ideas to the health department for vetting and that the planning staff will present battery energy storage regulations to the commission on a schedule discussed elsewhere in the meeting.
