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Chase County commissioners approve warrants, licenses, change orders and an appropriation tied to CornerHouse–Crosswinds merger
Summary
At their Dec. 9 meeting, the Chase County Commissioners approved routine warrants and minutes, granted a cereal malt beverage license to Cottonwood Falls Country Club, approved two change orders and agreed to an appropriation for Crosswinds as part of a merger with CornerHouse; an extended presentation on a local reentry housing program also was given.
The Chase County Commissioners met Dec. 9 and approved routine administrative items, several change orders and an appropriation tied to a requested merger of CornerHouse into Crosswinds.
Chair (identified only in the transcript as Speaker 1) opened the meeting and moved to approve the county warrants for Dec. 9, 2024: "I'll make a motion to approve the warrants for 12/09/2024." The motion was seconded and approved by voice vote. The board then approved minutes from the Nov. 27 meeting in a separate voice vote.
The board approved a cereal malt beverage license for the Cottonwood Falls Country Club and signed the license as part of routine licensing business.
Commissioners approved two change orders discussed at the meeting. The chair described change order 2024-2 (noted as relating to a truck sale) and moved to approve it; the motion was seconded and carried by voice. Following that, the board approved change order 2024-5, described at the meeting as a property split change order.
The board discussed but did not raise the county Visa credit-card limit at this meeting; commissioners directed staff to notify department heads to use checks where possible for items that can be paid by check rather than by credit card.
The commissioners moved into a brief executive session for five minutes to discuss non-elected personnel; the motion was seconded and approved by voice. The transcript records only the motion and the board's agreement to the executive session; no substantive actions stemming from the executive session were recorded in the public portion of the meeting.
On a separate agenda item, the board considered a request related to CornerHouse and Crosswinds. Chair moved "that we, go with the request from for CornerHouse and Crosswinds as a merger," and directed that the county's appropriation for the program be routed to Crosswinds. The motion was seconded and carried by voice. Commissioners noted the county intends to split the appropriation roughly in half, with part to be disbursed in January and the remainder in July 2025.
No detailed roll-call vote tallies were recorded in the transcript; outcomes are reported as voice votes (ayes) in the meeting audio/transcript. The meeting adjourned after the final motion to close the session.
What happens next: several items—most notably the second full-time EMS position discussed by commissioners and the finalized job description for the noxious weed director—were left for a subsequent meeting so staff and interested commissioners could be present.
