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City of Salina terminates contract with Salina Media Connection
The city of Salina terminated its longstanding relationship with Salina Media Connection after their contract expired Wednesday. The followed a vote Monday by the city commission to allow the agreement to end.
This comes after the commission initially directed staff to bring the recording and casting of public meetings in-house on Apr. 26 and approved a resolution on May 24 to add a new position to manage the technical aspects of broadcasting on Cox channel 20.
Financial details
SMC representatives met with city staff Thursday, June 24, to discuss the future of channel 21, on which SMC broadcasts local community programming. After the meeting, SMC sent a letter requesting a short-term extension of the agreement or a long-term agreement to operate channel 21, asking for $243,207 to provide what they determined as optimum operation or $175,000 to operate at a reduced cost.
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After a 2-2 vote, the mask mandate for the City of Salina will continue.
As it was a topic that concerned many of the citizens who attended the Salina City Commission meeting Monday, the discussion on the mandate was moved up to the first action item of the agenda.
The commission heard an update about COVID-19, including infection rates and vaccination rates, from Saline County Health Officer and Health Department Director Jason Tiller.
Several people in attendance at the City-County Building and at the meeting online voiced their opposition to continuing the mandate while others attending online asked the commission to continue with the mandate.
The 2020 race had to be cancelled due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, as were all other major fundraising events for the hospice. Alma Small, managing director of Mandarin Stone, said: “Unfortunately we were not able to sponsor the race this year, as we have done since 2013, due to the understandable cancellation of this popular event.
Carl Ryan, of Mandarin Stone, with Kris Broome, of St David s Hospice Care. Picture: DBPR “This event is a very well-loved, local ‘day out’ each September and a critical fundraising event for St David’s Hospice Care. We understand the invaluable work that St David’s Hospice provides in our local community and so felt it important that we support them.”