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Kiowa County Commissioners Meeting

Courthouse Lower Level Conference Room

October 7, 2019

Bert Lowery, John Bertram, Ronald Freeman, Kristi Cooper, Matt Christenson and Jay Schmidt attended the meeting.

Consent agenda included: Agenda and Commissioner minutes of 09/30.
After the prayer was given by Tony Factor, Bert opened the meeting. Bert 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 W Williams (merit) and M Harrell (merit), employee updates, culvert clean outs finished, Noxious Weed chemical charges and grader repairs. Bruce Foster came to discuss charging R&B for use of chemicals for the year. He suggested that they use to have a special line in their budget for that back in 2006 and that they have charged them since. She informed them all that she would collect the information and report back at the next meeting. Next, Ron moved to approve the payroll changes as presented and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0.

Break till 9:49

Matt Christenson came to present a quote from Haviland Telephone Company for fiber line connection to the Sheriff office for the video visitation/video chat for visitors in the amount of $4500 installation fee and a monthly fee of $89.95 for 5 years. After discussion Ron moved to approve the contract and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0. Payroll change presented for L Gwin (merit raise payout). John moved to approve the payroll change as presented and Ron seconded, motion carried 3-0.

Kristi Cooper presented payroll changes K Amaro (salary adjustment) for approval. After review Bert moved to the payroll change as presented and John seconded, motion carried 3-0. Kristi continued with presenting the payroll changes for T Butler(merit) and (salary increase) for approval. After review Bert moved to approve the payroll changes as presented and John seconded, motion carried 3-0.

During Commissioner Discussion there were no topics for discussion.Meeting adjourned at 11:22

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