By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post
Closing on the sale of the former Ellis County Public Works Building was Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the Ellis County Commission approved a resolution allowing County Commission Chairman Michael Berges to sign the closing documents.
The county sold the building at 1195 280th to Midwestern Pipeworks for $605,000.
In December, the county celebrated the ribbon cutting of its new $6 million public works building, which is on the east side of the landfill on 250th Avenue. The building also houses the Noxious Weed Department.
Cathedral Avenue award
The Kansas Ready Mix Concrete Association honored Ellis County with a Municipal Concrete Award for its reconstruction work on Cathedral Avenue in Victoria.
The county was recognized at the association's annual awards ceremony on Jan. 9 in Olathe. Six other projects from across the state were also honored.
This was the second phase of the Cathedral Avenue reconstruction project, funded by local funds and the Kansas Department of Transportation Cost Share Grant Program.
Other business
In other business, the commission approved a noxious weed contract with the Kansas Department of Transportation, approved a reduced fee for Special Olympics to use the Unrein Building, and heard reports from the Cottonwood Extention District and DSNWK.