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The USD 480 school board will be asked to approve multiple items at its next meeting Monday evening. Monday’s meeting will be in Room C107 of the Liberal High School East Campus.
Up first for discussion will be the HVAC Connected Controls service agreement renewal.
At a time when heavy winds have been kicking up across Southwest Kansas, with gusts in excess of 60 miles an hour, Seward County officials are again visiting the possibility of bringing wind energy to the county.
Monday, county commissioners hosted a special meeting to address concerns from the board and local landowners and to hear from officials with Invenergy, the Denver-based company heading up the potential project.
Before that, though, Administrator April Warden gave a brief review of the history of wind energy discussions in Seward County.
After Administrator April Warden reviewed what had taken place concerning wind discussions prior to Monday’s meeting, officials with Invenergy took the mic and talked about where things go from here.
Renewable Development Manager Jana Matthews said the project also has a conditional use permit approved in 2015.
“With that permit came a suite of agreements similar to this,” she said. “A lot has changed in the last 15 years. Our project boundary has been updated. We’re really trying to focus on the northeast part of Seward County right now.”
As Seward County commissioners continued to question how a wind energy project would benefit the county, an attorney with the law firm representing Invenergy was brought into the picture at Monday’s special meeting.
Alan Anderson with the Polsinelli Law Firm said with 24 years of project history, much is now known about how wind energy works.
Following presentations from Invenergy and attorney Alan Anderson, landowners addressed some of their concerns about potential wind energy projects at Monday’s special meeting of the Seward County Commission.
County resident Steve Merz said one of his concerns was the concrete blocks on which turbines are built affecting the percolation of rainwater farmers rely on for their crops.
“It’s going to create a dam, and that’s not going to be good for the land up above it,” he said. “That land will suffer.”
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