The Reno County Commission on Tuesday approved a licensing agreement with the city of South Hutchinson that will allow placement of two Reno County Area Transit bus shelters in that city.
The board also approved the transfer of a van that will allow the Department of Aging to set up a grocery delivery service for the elderly, OK’d disposing of two aging RCAT buses on an auction site, and heard a report on bus driver wages.
Both shelters will go on Main Street in South Hutchinson where there are existing concrete pads that city previously set up with benches, Reno County Transportation Director Barbara Lilyhorn advised the commission.
That is if the sites – at 8 N. Main and 309 S. Main – are approved as ADA compliant.
One other caveat on approval was that the agreement drafted by the city requires the county “meet the maximum liability under state and federal law.” The two shelters are among 16 to be constructed along RCAT routes in 2019 using a $76,600 state grant. The project has been in the works since early this year, but it was delayed by a state requirement all the sites had to be individually engineered.
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