Aside from budget matters, Lyon County Commissioners also took action on health and infrastructure items during their regular action meeting Thursday morning.
As part of their agenda, commissioners received the latest quarterly update from CareArc leadership including CEO Renee Hively. Following the presentation, Hively and Lyon County Public Health Officer Dr. Ladun Oyenuga requested that the health department opt out of school sanitary inspections.
According to Hively, the health department’s decision to opt out of the inspections follows Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s signing of House Bill 2754 in April authorizing counties to use home rule powers to exempt from conducting school sanitary inspections. According to Hively, the inspections are a somewhat redundant process as school districts already have several inspections they must go through annually.
Hively says the health department’s services will still be available to the school district following approval of the opt-out.
In other business Thursday morning, commissioners also received and approved requests from the Lyon County Highway Department. This included vendor notices for structural steel beam bids and structural steel H-piling bids and granting official authority to “award contract commitment of county finds” for Lyon County’s High-Risk Rural Roads project on Road F between Americus and US Highway 56.
Lyon County Commissioners will reconvene for their regular action meeting at 9 am Thursday inside of the Lyon County Courthouse Commission Chambers.
