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Appraiser
The Appraiser’s office is responsible for locating, identifying, and appraising all property within Riley County.
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County Clerk & Elections
The Riley County Clerk’s Office handles many of the administrative functions of the county including Elections, Budgets, Human Resources, Payroll, and Taxes.
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County Counselor and Administrative Services
The Administrative Services office consists of the County Counselor’s office. It provides legal counsel to the Board of Commissioners and County Department Heads.
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Emergency Management
Riley County Emergency Management is the designated disaster agency for the county with the responsibility for coordinating the mitigation of, preparedness for, response to, and recovery from disasters.
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EMS - Emergency Medical Services
Riley County EMS is a Type 1 EMS service in Northeast Kansas. Based out of Manhattan, we are dedicated to serving the residents and visitors of the city of Manhattan, as well as those in the Riley and Pottawatomie County areas.
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Environmental Health
Environmental Health is a division of Planning & Development and is responsible for supporting and enforcing the Riley County Sanitary Code through education, evaluation, permits, and inspections.
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Fire District #1
Riley County Fire District #1 provides fire services to all unincorporated areas of Riley County and provides first responder level medical services in cooperation with Riley County EMS.
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Health Department
The Riley County Health Department provides a wide variety of services that keeps our primary client, the community, healthy. Our mission is to assure that everyone in a community has optimal health regardless where they live, work, learn, play, and pray. Health starts long before illness, even before we are born. Our services are provided to anyone over the life course: before birth through senior years. The Health Department cherishes the collaboration and partnerships with other community organizations and providers to keep people healthy.
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Historical Museum
The Riley County Historical Museum preserves and presents the history of Riley County through exhibits, publications, educational programs, and its archives and library.
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Household Hazardous Waste
Riley County Household Hazardous Waste works to keep a safe environment by providing a place to safely dispose of unwanted hazardous materials.
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IT/GIS
The Riley County Information Technology Department is responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance of all county information systems and technology related hardware and software. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) works to facilitate, enhance, support, and enable the 'decision making processes' within the Riley County infrastructure through the use of electronic geographic based data.
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Noxious Weed
The Riley County Noxious Weed Department provides cost-share herbicides for noxious weed control and total vegetation management for Riley County residents.
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Planning & Development
Coordinates the design, adoption and implementation of comprehensive planning; guides the development of land through Zoning and Subdivision Regulations; and furthers environmental health by education and the regulation of water and wastewater systems through the Sanitary Code to ensure that all resources of the County are preserved, developed and managed in a manner that promotes the highest quality of life for present and future citizens.
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Public Works
The Public Works Department is dedicated to planning, developing and maintaining the County's infrastructure, solid waste program, facilities, benefit districts and other services in a manner which provides safe travel for the general public and enhances the quality of life in Riley County.
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Register of Deeds
The Register of Deeds office is required to record all documents submitted by the public which are qualified to be recorded, maintain an up-to-date and accurate set of indices which show the correct ownership of land in the entire county, and perform all functions of a clerical and technical nature to accomplish that objective.
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Treasurer & Motor Vehicle
The major functions for County Treasurer’s Office are: Collecting Taxes for all Riley County entities, Titling and Registering Motor Vehicles, Renewing Kansas Driver’s license and ID cards, Investing all County Funds and Distributing Tax Dollars to the various taxing entities. We also collect delinquent taxes, maintain the active checking account for the county, maintain property tax payment records, administer the credit card payment process for all departments and maintain the postage machine and accounts for all departments.