Raleigh County commissioners approve easement, personnel and routine finance actions

Raleigh County commissioners on Feb. 19 approved a set of routine but administratively significant items, including a permanent sanitary sewer easement for University Park, corrections to the county tax roll, payroll and accounts-payable and an employee action form to hire a volunteer firefighter.

The commission moved and seconded the grant of a permanent sanitary sewer easement involving David Chiesik and the University Park wastewater facility; the motion carried by voice vote. The board also moved and seconded approval of tax-roll corrections and approved payroll and accounts-payable in separate voice votes. A motion to approve minutes from the Feb. 12 commission meeting was moved, seconded and approved.

The commission approved a personnel action form to hire Michael Schumann as a volunteer firefighter for Fire District No. 1; that motion was moved, seconded and passed by voice. No detailed roll-call tallies were provided in the meeting record for these items; votes were recorded orally as “aye” during the meeting.

The board recessed into executive session under the attorney–client consultation exception of the Kansas Open Meetings Act to receive confidential legal advice on sanitary-code enforcement and returned to open session, where commissioners moved that the record reflect any action taken will be consistent with the consensus reached in executive session.

What happens next: the commission did not specify public details of any specific enforcement steps during open session, only that actions would be consistent with the executive-session consensus.