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For about an hour at their Monday meeting, the Butler County Commissioners discussed community sheriff contracts with representatives from the Sheriff’s Department and the cities of Douglass, Towanda, Potwin and Whitewater.
Douglass, Potwin and Whitewater have existing contracts with the Butler County Sheriff’s Department for the provision of law enforcement and Towanda’s contract will go into effect on June 1.
The discussion centered on which costs the county should recoup and which costs it should absorb. Although no action was taken, a tentative agreement was reached to have the cities pay 100 percent of the salary costs for the officers they have and 70 percent of their benefits costs.
The cities would pay 70 percent of the benefits since, on average, officers spend 70 percent of their time within the city limits and 30 percent outside the city.
Under their present contracts, Douglass, Potwin and Whitewater don’t pay for any of their officers’ benefits.
The commissioners plan to recoup the benefit costs over a four-year period, and have decided not to try to recoup additional costs, such as officer training and vehicles, from the cities.
This arrangement will go into effect for the 2010 contracts with Douglass, Towanda, Potwin and Whitewater.
In other business, the commission:
• accepted the low bid for a new 2009 Type III Ambulance from K & L Safety for an Osage Ambulance in the amount of $138,365.
• gave its approval to the EMS Department to go to bid for Medical Bio Hazard waste pickup and disposal.
• received a report on the current projects in the Public Works Department.
• received a report on right-of-way acquisition for the SW 210th Street project.
• adopted resolutions allowing regulatory traffic control devices to be installed on township roads. The locations and traffic control devices are: a new 30 mph speed limit sign on 180th Street, which will begin at the city limit on the west side of Rose Hill and continue to the county line, and stop signs at the intersections of Shumway and 70th Street, Hopkins Switch and 70th Street and 150th Street and Ohio.
• approved purchase and acceptance of right-of-way dedications related to the SW 210th Street reconstruction project west of Douglass.
• approved a request from the City of Augusta to submit an application for grant funds, on their behalf, in the amount of $450,000 to the USDA Rural Business Enterprise Grant Program for the paving of Indianola Road south of U.S. Highway 400.
• discussed the collection of delinquent EMS fees for transportation of patients from the hospital in Andover to Wichita.
For about an hour at their Monday meeting, the Butler County Commissioners discussed community sheriff contracts with representatives from the Sheriff’s Department and the cities of Douglass, Towanda, Potwin and Whitewater.
Douglass, Potwin and Whitewater have existing contracts with the Butler County Sheriff’s Department for the provision of law enforcement and Towanda’s contract will go into effect on June 1.
The discussion centered on which costs the county should recoup and which costs it should absorb. Although no action was taken, a tentative agreement was reached to have the cities pay 100 percent of the salary costs for the officers they have and 70 percent of their benefits costs.
The cities would pay 70 percent of the benefits since, on average, officers spend 70 percent of their time within the city limits and 30 percent outside the city.
Under their present contracts, Douglass, Potwin and Whitewater don’t pay for any of their officers’ benefits.
The commissioners plan to recoup the benefit costs over a four-year period, and have decided not to try to recoup additional costs, such as officer training and vehicles, from the cities.
This arrangement will go into effect for the 2010 contracts with Douglass, Towanda, Potwin and Whitewater.
In other business, the commission:
• accepted the low bid for a new 2009 Type III Ambulance from K & L Safety for an Osage Ambulance in the amount of $138,365.
• gave its approval to the EMS Department to go to bid for Medical Bio Hazard waste pickup and disposal.
• received a report on the current projects in the Public Works Department.
• received a report on right-of-way acquisition for the SW 210th Street project.
• adopted resolutions allowing regulatory traffic control devices to be installed on township roads. The locations and traffic control devices are: a new 30 mph speed limit sign on 180th Street, which will begin at the city limit on the west side of Rose Hill and continue to the county line, and stop signs at the intersections of Shumway and 70th Street, Hopkins Switch and 70th Street and 150th Street and Ohio.
• approved purchase and acceptance of right-of-way dedications related to the SW 210th Street reconstruction project west of Douglass.
• approved a request from the City of Augusta to submit an application for grant funds, on their behalf, in the amount of $450,000 to the USDA Rural Business Enterprise Grant Program for the paving of Indianola Road south of U.S. Highway 400.
• discussed the collection of delinquent EMS fees for transportation of patients from the hospital in Andover to Wichita.
