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Riley County reviews CIP: ambulance equipment, furniture requests, playground repairs and aging jail generator
Summary
At a CIP work session, the county finance officer presented cash balances and project requests; commissioners questioned a high furniture quote, directed $25,000 be used to replace an unsafe playground piece (while maintaining a $75,000 standing request), and heard that oil tests on the jail generator showed evidence of bearing wear, prompting an estimated $350,000 replacement planning figure and a recommendation to consider ordering ahead to avoid outages.
Britney Phillips, Riley County budget and finance officer (speaker 16), opened the first CIP work session for 2026 with a summary of beginning cash, reserves, project expenditures and remaining budget authority. Phillips said updated EMS equipment estimates (Stryker power cots) raised the EMS line to $419,627 and that the remaining 2026 budget authority as of February was about $14.2 million.
Commissioners questioned an apparent $600-per-chair quote for replacing office and lobby furniture; staff said the quote included upholstered models and that the full furniture package could total roughly…
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