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By Sept. 1, Karla Nichols advised the Reno County Commission, it’s on track to eclipse 250.
Nichols on Tuesday presented the county commission with modified “alert levels” she is proposing the county adopt, based on modified guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
While containing no mask mandates, the guidelines would recommend limits to gathering sizes and reductions in attendance at large venues based on the 14-day positive case rate and incidence numbers.
The Commission balked at the recommendations, however, eventually deciding it would draft its own.
More than case counts?
Commissioner Daniel Friesen suggested the numbers determining alerts should include hospitalization rates and data on whether any of the people hospitalized for the virus had been vaccinated.
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County sets revenue neutral budget goal
Two of the three Reno County Commissioners agreed during budget discussions earlier this week to consider cutting County Commission salaries next year by a third.
The proposed cut from $18,000 a year to $12,000 would pay for a fourth county commission seat should the expansion of the board be placed on the November ballot and be approved by voters.
However, it doesn’t go far toward achieving a goal also agreed to early on in the budget talks, cutting last year’s mill levy rate by at least 5%.
To do that will require cutting more than $400,000 from proposed property tax receipts.