Kiowa County Commissioners Meeting

February 4, 2019

Bert Lowery, John Bertram, Ronald Freeman, Kristi Cooper, Chay Howard, DJ McMurry, Jeff Blackburn, Matt Christenson and Jay Schmidt attended the meeting.

Consent agenda included: Agenda, Payroll reports, AP reports and Commissioner minutes of 1/22.

After the prayer was given by Jeff Blackburn, Bert opened the meeting. Ron moved to approve the consent agenda as presented and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0.

Bert Lowery, John Bertram, Ronald Freeman, Kristi Cooper, Chay Howard, Kerri Ulrich, DJ McMurry, Chris Tedder, Richard McVey, Stacey Barnes, Jeff Blackburn, Matt Christenson and Jay Schmidt attended the meeting.

Consent agenda included: Agenda and Commissioner minutes of 1/31.

After the prayer was given by Jeff Blackburn, Bert opened the meeting. Ron moved to approve the consent agenda as presented and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0.

Jay Schmidt came to give updates for Public Works departments which included; payroll change J Williams (merit increase), cliché rock and Mac truck quotes. Ron moved to approve the payroll change as presented and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0.

Stacey Barnes came to introduce herself as she took on a new position as the Administrator for the City of Greensburg and expressed looking forward to working with them in the future.

Chay Howard presented Resolution 2019-3 requiring event liability insurance for usage of County buildings for private events. After some discussion, John moved to adopt the resolution 2019-3 and Ron seconded, motion carried 3-0.

Chris Tedder came to present a payroll change for S McCann (merit increase) for approval. After review Ron moved to approve the payroll change as presented and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0.

Break was called for 10 minutes at 9:48.

Matt Christenson came to present quotes on the renovations to the recently purchased building. They reviewed the options that were discussed at the beginning of the purchase of the building. He did advise them that they have funds in the oil and gas depletion fund that they could transfer to help with the costs like they did on the purchase of the building. Ron moved to move the Health department to the new location at 116 S Pine St in Greensburg and John seconded, motion carried 3-0. Next, they reviewed the quotes that Matt presented on the renovations from Brain Gumpenberger $62,750, AH Contracting $65,334, Sluss Construction $65,697.65 and Richard Hassiepen Construction $85,600. After review of the bids presented Bert moved to accept Brian Gumpenberger bid for $62,750 to be paid out of the building fund and funds will be transferred from the Oil and Gas depletion fund to cover the costs and Ron seconded, motion carried 3-0. Next, they continued the discussion of the fiber connection contract for the new Health Department building from Haviland Telephone Company in the amount of $14,500 and there would be a $100 per month service fee for the new line. John moved to approve the contract with Haviland Telephone Company and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0.

During Commissioner discussion Kristi informed them of the appointment they made at the last meeting for the hospital board that the recipient declined due to taking a position at the hospital and gave them a few names who would like to serve on the board. After some discussion, Ron moved to appoint Mitzi Hesser to the board and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0. Kristi will contact Mary Sweet on the appointment and send out a letter to Mitzi to inform her of the appointment. Chay Howard and Richard McVey came to discuss possibly using the part time position coming up for his office and the Community Service officer as one person for a full-time position and it was by consensus by the Commissioners to let them work the details out and they would report back later.

Meeting was adjourned at 10:56.