The Geary County Commission has approved a lease agreement for the Konza Prairie Community Health Center on Grant Avenue in Junction City.

Chairman Ben Bennett said three employees will be located there to handle the WIC program.  “Women, Infant and Children program that we get a grant that we get a grant from KDHE each year to fund and operate that. It’s a nutrition program. There was a location on Fort Riley. Riley County Health Department had operated that, and they’re no longer going to do that.  They decided to move it into town.”

Bennett added most of the clients that need the WIC service come from the north side of Junction City, and off of Fort Riley.

The cost of the rent is $1,551 per month, with the funding from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment grant.