By Davi Stuhlsatz

MULVANE – A building committee consisting of city staff and two city council members is preparing to contact architects with requests for qualifications to build a new EMS substation.

“We want a small, functional EMS substation,” said Kent Hixson, city administrator. “Our $1.8 million budget for the project includes buying fire equipment, too. We just want something modest and reasonable.”

Once the committee interviews architects, it will rank them and make a recommendation to the city council.

One of the sites to be considered is a two-acre tract off of US-81 that Kansas Star Casino will lease to the city for $100 for 99 years.

“Going through the design process, there may be other factors to consider that may lead us to build at another site,” said Hixson. “The building committee’s real work begins once the council approves an architect, to determine the right size, the right features and the right location.”