NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Reno County Administrator Randy Partington said that the Board of County Commissioners has scheduled a work session for Tuesday morning. They are going to talk about two main topics.
"One topic is the shooting range that the Sheriff's Office has been working on for the past couple of years at the landfill," Partington said. "They'll kind of give an overview of what the project looks like. The county commission had contracted with Hutton Construction last year to develop some plans and get some ideas. We've worked with Hutton. Now we have some preliminary plans of what we could do out there. This meeting is to kind of go over all those details, have the Sheriff's Office kind of explain all the partners and how this would be a benefit to, not only Reno County but the region for training and kind of get a feel for how much more the commission wants us to go on this project. Is it going to be tabled, or are they going to work on it and how comfortable they are, before we bring it to a commission meeting to kind of set the budget and move forward."
Another topic is the Yoder and HABIT sewer districts project. That's been in the works for a while, as well.
"Since, I believe 2018 or 2019, there has been some issues at those two districts for their sewer systems," Partington said. "We've been working on a plan. Of course, there was a change in staffing at the County Administrator position and the Public Works Director position. It took Don Brittain and I a little bit of time to get everything put together again. We're going to explain that process to the commissioners. The three new ones have not seen this yet. We need to give them a plan. Here's what we need to do. Two years ago, it was a $3 million project. We haven't paid an engineer's company to reevaluate the numbers. We don't know, is it going to be $5 million, $4 million. This is only for about 101 users. We kind of want to go over this and keep the commission informed of what the project is and kind of get some general consensus of the direction they want to go."
The work session will follow the regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners. The open meeting will start Tuesday at 9 a.m. at the Reno County Annex.
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