By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Board of County Commissioners voted 2-1 to table the proposed wind farm regulations again. Chairman Ron Hirst voted against the motion by commissioner Daniel Friesen to table the regulations indefinitely.
"To put this on indefinitely, just to wait for somebody's opinion of where they want to go and what they want us to do is not, I consider, in the best interests of Reno County," Hirst said. "We will come to that. I don't mean to sound harsh on this at all and please don't take it that way."
Hirst seems to think that the other commissioners are waiting for NextEra to tell them what they will accept, but Daniel Friesen's comments earlier in the meeting to Hirst seemed to imply that he was waiting on Hirst to move on the issue.
"Mr. Chairman, I don't know why you're bringing it up when you know we're still too far apart," Friesen said. "Commissioner Sellers, I hear what you're saying. We need to make some progress on this, but we still need to get closer together and I don't feel like we're there today."
Sellers ultimately supported Friesen's tabling motion which did not have a specific date attached, but he did try to make clear that he wants this to go forward sooner than later.
"At some point in time in the near future, we may need to make a decision on this issue," Sellers said. "If another thirty days helps you refine your vote on this, then I will approve the motion, but I think that if all we're doing is putting this off forever, I think that's an improper thing to do."
It's worth noting that the Board of County Commissioners will have three meetings in June on the 8th, 22nd and 29th, so there is that additional meeting if they want to devote some of that time to the discussion.
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