2025 KCHA Annual Conference & Expo and Golf Tournament - May 5-7, 2025 | Hilton Garden Inn & Convention Center, Hays, KS
The 2025 KCHA Annual Conference & Expo is set for Monday-Wednesday, May 5-7, 2025, at the Hilton Garden Inn & Convention Center, 221 West 43rd Street in Hays, KS. The golf tournament is scheduled for Monday morning, May 5, at the Fort Hays Municipal Golf Course, 1450 Golf Course Road, in Hays. Golf tournament check-in begins at 9:00 AM with a shotgun start at 10:00 AM. The golf fee of $150 per player includes a box lunch, beverages, cart, and range balls. Click here to complete your player registration for the golf outing. Online golf registration will close on Wednesday, April 16. This golf outing is a wonderful opportunity to have fun with your colleagues and vendors alike. If you are a single player in need of a team, or your team needs more players to complete a 4-person team, we can help place you on a team or find players to complete your 4-person team.
Registration for the 2025 KCHA Conference & Expo is now open! Click here to complete your online conference registration by 5 p.m. on Monday, April 29, 2025. The KCHA Executive Board is in the process of putting together a great program with interesting topics and speakers. A final agenda will be emailed out and posted on the KCHA website at a later date.
The 2025 expo features both indoor and outdoor vendor exhibits providing you with the opportunity to visit our vendors in-person and gather valuable information for your county. NEW for 2025! The outdoor exhibits will be displayed at an equipment expo and demo on Tuesday afternoon (May 6) at the Ellis County Public Works Facility, 1681 250th Avenue in Hays, KS. The transportation provided will shuttle conference attendees to and from the convention center to the outdoor exhibits and the equipment expo and demo. KCHA members are welcome to attend the equipment expo and demo even if they are not attending the conference.
The room block at the Hilton Garden Inn & Convention Center (Host Hotel) is now SOLD OUT. Please click here to view two additional hotel choices close in proximity to the Hilton Garden Inn.
KCHA will reimburse the conference registration fee and up to 2 nights of hotel stay (up to the predetermined block price) for KCHA members that have never attended a KCHA Spring Conference (first-time KCHA Spring Conference attendee), and are the County Department Head (Engineer, Public Works Director, Road and Bridge Director, Public Works Administrator, etc.). This is for 1 (one) KCHA member per county. Reimbursements will be made after the conference concludes upon confirmation of attendance. Complimentary reimbursement requests, along with copies of receipts must be emailed to Wayne Scritchfield at: scritchfieldw@salinecountyks.gov.
Once you attend a spring conference and network with your colleagues, sponsors, and vendors, you will undoubtably find your experience valuable and will return for many years to come. I encourage anyone new to KCHA to visit with their KCHA District Vice President representing their District or myself. Click here to learn who your county’s District Vice President is on the KCHA Executive Board. Click here to view the KDOT District Map to find the KCHA District Vice President who coincides with your county’s location on the map.
Darryl Lutz, P.E., Kansas Association of Counties Local Road Engineer, will present a New Road Supervisors Workshop on Monday, May 5. Registration for the New Road Supervisors workshop is separate from the conference. Online registration for this workshop will be handled solely by Kansas LTAP. Click here to register for the New Road Supervisors Workshop. While encouraged, KCHA conference registration is not mandatory for those wanting to attend the workshop.
The 2025 KCHA Annual Conference & Expo will only be a success if you, our KCHA Kansas County members, join us in Hays this May. Everything is coming together to provide an excellent conference for you, so all we need is for you to come join us at the conference and learn, network, and have some fun with your colleagues and our vendor partners.
To complete your 2025 KCHA Kansas County Membership, click here.
To complete your 2025 KCHA Conference & Expo registration, click here.
To complete player registration for the 4-person golf scramble, click here.
The 2025 MINK Annual Conference will be held September 24-25, 2025 in St. Joseph, MO.
2025 KCHA Kansas County Membership and Vendor Membership Registration Renewals NOW ONLINE!
The KCHA Executive Board voted to create an online membership application for 2025. The online application will be housed on the same platform that KCHA used for the 2023 Spring Conference registration. The membership fee for 2025 has remained at $100 per county. KCHA is once again charging a single membership fee for each county, and your county can add as many individual members as you wish. This online application also includes an optional NACE membership. KCHA will collect the NACE dues and forward the dues and county information onto NACE. You will not need to apply again on the NACE website.
To complete your Kansas County KCHA membership application, click here. You can choose to pay by credit card or by check.
Before your organization decides about KCHA membership, please note the benefits and opportunities a Vendor Membership provides for your organization:
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Vendor Membership shows that the success of the KCHA is important to your organization.
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Your organization name will be listed along with a hotlink to your website as a vendor member on KCHA’s website.
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You will receive special recognition at the Spring Conference.
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Upon request, each vendor member will receive a list of contact information for KCHA county members.
The KCHA has elected to keep Vendor Membership at $125 per vendor for 2025.
You can complete your 2025 KCHA Vendor Membership online here.
2024 KCHA Highway Official of the Year: Randy Blehm, Meade County Public Works Director
Randy Blehm, Meade County Public Words Director, was named 2024 KCHA Highway Official of the Year
at the 2024 KCHA Spring Conference on Tuesday, May 21, 2024.
Alvin Perez, KCHA KAC Representative (left) and Jim Brull, 2024 KCHA President (right) presented Randy Blehm,
Meade County Public Works Directory (center) with the 2024 Highway Official of the Year award plaque at the
2024 KCHA Spring Conference on Tuesday, May 21, 2024.
