The Junction City Commission elected not to move forward with the next needed step for any future annexations into the city.

Dave Yearout, City Planning and Zoning Director approached the Commission Tuesday night for direction on whether or not to move forward with a study needed for any future annexations.

The study would provide the city with needed information required by the state before any annexation could occur. Yearout explained that they would need to hire an outside firm at a cost of approximately $8,000 to conduct the study because his department did not have the staff time available to do it.

The study would not require the city to annex any of the land identified within it.

“It’s simply to prepare the plan that looks at everything that could be touched. This Commission is the one that’s got to decide whether, A; you want to do anything at all, B; whether you want to do just part of it, or C; if you want to look at in phases or do it all,” Yearout told the Commission.

Mayor Mike Ryan was not in favor of moving forward.

“I have serious problems with going forward and spending $8,000 to $10,000, or maybe twice that, to get information that right now I’m thinking, I may not want to use anyway,” Ryan said. “Some of it we may use, a few pieces, but going down Spring Valley Road and grabbing the other side or going back in Glenn Dean Avenue, I have issues with that.”

Commissioner Mick McCallister moved to not move forward with the study. Commissioner Cecil Aska seconded that motion. Those two along with Mayor Ryan voted for the motion. Commissioner Pat Landes opposed and Commissioner Jim Sands abstained.