Riley County Commissioners approve 13 CIP funded requests to improve county buildings and offices

Riley County commissioners gave their approval for 13 department requests to be funded by the Capital Improvement Fund.

The commission continued their 2019 first quarter CIP session from last week. The original estimate for all requests was $4.9 million out of the $5.3 million budget authority, but was reduced to $3.7 million. The total cost of the 13 requests is $990,700.

Most of the requests come from public works and are facility maintenance for county buildings and offices . A last minute request was made by Public Works Director Leon Hobson for a new truck. This was due to one of their fleet trucks being damaged from a rollover accident on Wednesday. This request was approved.

The list of the 13 approved requests includes:

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