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Kiowa County Commissioners Meeting

Bert Lowery, John Bertram, Ronald Freeman, Kristi Cooper, Chay Howard, Kerri Ulrich, Chris Tedder, Jeff Blackburn and Jay Schmidt attended the meeting.

Consent agenda included: Agenda and Commissioner minutes of 2/28.
After the prayer was given by Jeff Blackburn, Bert opened the meeting. Ron moved to approve the consent agenda as presented and John seconded, motion carried 3-0.

Jay Schmidt came to give updates for Public Works departments which included; payroll changes (merit increases), several guys worked the past weekend due to weather they had got over the weekend and grader lease warranty. Jay presented payroll changes for L Thronesbery (probation merit increase) and K Koehn (merit increase). After review of the payroll changes Bert moved to approve them as presented and Ron seconded, motion carried 3-0.

Break was called for 5 minutes at 9:19.

Kerri Ulrich came to present the yearly grants for signatures for the Health department.

Kristi Cooper read a letter from the Senior Citizen director, Kari Kyle regarding appointment for their board. Kari requests them to appoint Duane Larsh to the board. John moved to appoint Duane Larsh to the senior board and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0. Kristi will send a letter to Kari and Duane informing them of the appointment.

Chay Howard wanted to inform them that the information that was provided from Great Plains per their open records request was sufficient to their request. He also informed them that he is still working on hiring a part time employee for his office and that will be shared for the Correctional officer.

Chris Tedder came to give updates on the purchase of the land and building.

Meeting was adjourned at 11:30

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