July 3, 2017

Kiowa County Commissioners Meeting

Courthouse Lower Level Conference Room

July 3, 2017

Bert Lowery, Ron Freeman, John Unruh, Kristi Cooper, Jay Schmidt, Kyler Ludwig, Jeff Blackburn and Matt Christenson attended the meeting.

Consent agenda included: Agenda and 6-30 minutes:

After the prayer was given by Jeff Blackburn, Bert opened the meeting.

John moved to approve the consent agenda and Ron seconded motion carried 3-0.

Kristi Cooper presented a payroll change for DJ McMurry. She explained that resolution 2017-13 that his salary wasn’t correct and asked to dissolve 2017-13 and adopt 2017-14 with the correction to his salary. Bert added that on the last resolution they only increased it by $2000 and that he would like to give him more, so Bert suggested to increase it to $5000 since he hasn’t had a raise for 8 years and that he doesn’t receive health benefits or PTO. After some discussion Bert moved to approve the change for DJ and Ron seconded, motion carried 3-0.

Jay Schmidt presented payroll changes for B Foster (noxious weed) and J Adolph (R&B) for yearly merit increases. Bert moved to approve the payroll changes and John seconded, motion carried 3-0. Jay didn’t have anything further to report since they just met on Friday.

Break was called at 9:08 and regular session began at 9:13.

Matt Christenson came to present a quote from Home Lumber with Konda Glass for $2888.24 to fix the windows at the fairgrounds. Matt explained that they would like to get the windows fixed before the fair that is scheduled July 15^th due to the brief time to get them installed before the fair. He also added he requested other bids but they wouldn’t be able to come out till Wednesday and this would delay the project being complete for the fair. John moved to approve the quote from home lumber with Konda Glass and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0.

Break 9:40 and regular session began at 9:55.

The Commissioners went through individual request and compared them to the individual department year end reports and made some budget adjustments. After going through all the requests, they asked the Clerk to forward the adjustments to the auditor for the budget workshop on July 12^th at 9:00 am with the auditors from Lewis, Hooper and Dick, LLC.

Meeting adjourned at 11:55.