Commissioner Minutes
November 30, 2018
Kiowa County Commissioners Meeting
November 30, 2018
Ronald Freeman, Bert Lowery, John Unruh, Kristi Cooper, Jay Schmidt and Jeff Blackburn attended the meeting.
Consent agenda included: Agenda, Payroll reports, AP reports and Commissioner minutes of 11/19.
After the prayer was given by Jeff Blackburn, Ron opened the meeting. Bert moved to approve the consent agenda and John seconded, motion carried 3-0.
Jay Schmidt came to give updates for the public works departments which Bobcat lease, payroll changes, job description change and road maintenance. Jay presented payroll changes for M Allsbury (merit increase) and C Erikson (new hire) for an approval. After review of the payroll changes Bert moved to approve them as presented and John seconded, motion carried 3-0. Next, he presented a job description for equipment operator for the landfill. He explained that the department only had two job descriptions and that one was for recycle technician and solid waste foreman. He mentioned they no longer have a need for the recycle tech and that he changed it equipment operator and made changes to fit the new position. After review of the changes to the job description Bert moved to approve the new job description and John seconded, motion carried 3-0. The clerk requested an executive session for non-elected personnel to discuss employee relations for 5 minutes. Bert moved to go into executive session at 9:20 to discuss employee relations with Jay and Kristi, John seconded, motion carried 3-0. Regular session began at 9:25 with no action taken.
Break for 5 minutes till 9:30.
Kristi Cooper presented payroll changes for approval for S Butler(merit), T Neil(merit) and S Powell(separation). Bert moved to approve the payroll changes and John seconded, motion carried 3-0. Next, she presented tax corrections for approval and Bert moved to approve the tax corrections and John seconded, motion carried 3-0
During Commissioner discussion they discussed the public hearing that was held last meeting in the Keller subdivision with John since he wasn’t present.
Meeting was adjourned at 10:35
Kiowa County Commission:
Ronald Freeman, Chairman Attest:
Bert Lowery, Vice-Chairman Kristi Cooper, County Clerk
John Unruh, Commissioner
Commissioner Minutes
November 13, 2018 Election Canvass
Kiowa County Election Canvassers Meeting
Courthouse Lower Level Conference Room
November 13, 2018
Ronald Freeman, Bert Lowery, John Unruh, Shelly Tuttle and Kristi Cooper attended the election canvas meeting.
Ron called the meeting to order for the canvas of the November General at 10:00 am with the County Clerk, Kristi Cooper presented the unofficial results in an abstract form. She explained that she had 5 advance ballots and 25 provisional ballots for the canvass. She explained that the 3 of the advance ballots would not count due to no return post mark was on the envelope and that she talked with the Kansas Secretary of State’s office and confirmed those would not count and why. She also explained that 10 of provisional ballots would not count and gave the K.S.A for those and the reason they would not be counted as well. She opened the 15 provisionals and 2 advance ballots and read the races aloud for each ballot. After checking that all totals agreed, Bert moved to approve the abstract as presented and verified and John seconded, motion carried 3-0 to certify the results by the Kiowa County Board of Canvassers.
Meeting adjourned at 11:22
Kiowa County Commission:
Ronald Freeman, Chairman of Election Board Attest:
Bert Lowery, Canvass Board member Kristi Cooper, County Clerk
John Unruh, Canvass Board member
Election Results
Unofficial Results for November 6 2018 General Election
Abstract of Votes Cast at the General Election in Kiowa County, State of KS, On the 6th day of November, 2018 | ||||||||||||
Center I | Center II | Haviland | Belvidere | Mullinville | Early Voters | Hand Count C2 | Total | |||||
US House of | ||||||||||||
Representatives | ||||||||||||
D | James A Thompson | 28 | 29 | 35 | 0 | 22 | 20 | 1 | 135 | |||
R | Ron Estes | 175 | 123 | 243 | 20 | 136 | 81 | 0 | 778 | |||
Write-In | Dennis McKinney | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Governor/Lt. Governor | ||||||||||||
I | Rick Kloos/Nathaniel Kloos | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | |||
R | Kris Kobach/Wink Hartman | 135 | 86 | 196 | 17 | 106 | 69 | 0 | 609 | |||
I | Greg Orman/John Doll | 22 | 21 | 23 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 90 | |||
L | Jeff Caldwell/Mary Gerlt | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||
D | Laura Kelly/Lynn Rogers | 47 | 48 | 58 | 3 | 30 | 24 | 1 | 211 | |||
Secrtary of State | ||||||||||||
D | Brian “BAM” McClendon | 34 | 30 | 50 | 2 | 32 | 19 | 0 | 167 | |||
R | Scott Schwab | 161 | 110 | 214 | 16 | 117 | 79 | 0 | 697 | |||
L | Rob Hodgkinson | 6 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 33 | |||
Write-In | He-Man | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Attorney General | ||||||||||||
D | Sarah G. Swain | 22 | 27 | 31 | 1 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 115 | |||
R | Derek Schmidt | 178 | 122 | 239 | 18 | 137 | 85 | 1 | 780 | |||
State Treasurer | ||||||||||||
R | Jake LaTurner | 172 | 120 | 236 | 18 | 135 | 84 | 1 | 766 | |||
D | Marci Francisco | 26 | 26 | 34 | 0 | 17 | 16 | 0 | 119 | |||
Commissioner of Insurance | ||||||||||||
R | Vicki Schmidt | 183 | 129 | 234 | 18 | 143 | 86 | 0 | 793 | |||
D | Nathaniel McLaughlin | 14 | 17 | 24 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 77 | |||
Write-In | Jason Leslie | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
State Representative | ||||||||||||
117th District | ||||||||||||
R | Leonard A Mastroni | 180 | 130 | 243 | 18 | 134 | 82 | 787 | ||||
Write-In | Dennis McKinney | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
Write-In | James Moffit | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Thomas Durstein | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Marty Long | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Abstract of Votes Cast at the General Election in Kiowa County, State of KS, On the 6th day of November, 2018 | ||||||||||||
Center I | Center II | Haviland | Belvidere | Mullinville | Early Voters | Hand Count C2 | Total | |||||
State Board of Education | ||||||||||||
5th District | ||||||||||||
R | Jean Clifford | 175 | 126 | 232 | 17 | 132 | 78 | 1 | 761 | |||
Write-In | Bob Dixon | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | James Moffit | 1 | ||||||||||
Write-In | Anne Dixon | 1 | ||||||||||
Write-In | JC | 1 | ||||||||||
District Court Judge | ||||||||||||
District 16 Division 1 | ||||||||||||
R | Sidney R Thomas | 171 | 123 | 233 | 16 | 136 | 78 | 1 | 758 | |||
Write-In | Ann Dixon | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Danial Love | 1 | ||||||||||
District 1 Commissioner | ||||||||||||
R | John Bertram | 252 | 19 | 16 | 287 | |||||||
Write-In | John Unruh | 4 | 4 | |||||||||
Write-In | Aaron Stokes | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Kiowa County Attorney | ||||||||||||
R | Chay Howard | 176 | 126 | 251 | 18 | 135 | 90 | 1 | 797 | |||
Write-In | Sally Shalluck | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Mickey Mouse | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Brian Moore | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Kiowa County Hospital Board | ||||||||||||
Gene McFall | 147 | 107 | 196 | 13 | 120 | 74 | 1 | 658 | ||||
Ellen Peters | 170 | 127 | 208 | 13 | 133 | 89 | 0 | 740 | ||||
DJ McMurry | 150 | 114 | 199 | 15 | 123 | 80 | 0 | 681 | ||||
Write-In | Jan West | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Bud Bolen | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Chad Pore | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
Write-In | Carilin Irvin | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Bob Dixon | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Felecia Minyard | 6 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 23 | |||||
Write-In | Stacy Barnes | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Max D Liggett | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Kyla McDonald | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Gina Friesen | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Jason West | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Sue McVey | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Janice Haney | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Julie Keeton | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
Abstract of Votes Cast at the General Election in Kiowa County, State of KS, On the 6th day of November, 2018 | ||||||||||||
Center I | Center II | Haviland | Belvidere | Mullinville | Early Voters | Hand Count C2 | Total | |||||
Kiowa County Hospital Board Cont. | ||||||||||||
Write-In | Donald Duck | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Sonia J Kuhns | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Debra Cesmat | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Kim McMurry | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Kathy Dermot | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Wayne Keeton | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Brett Kavanaugh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | MT Liggett | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Richard Senst | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Marilyn Brown | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Carolyn Irvin | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Daniel Shaffer | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | John Unruh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Sean Barber | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Kami Ballard | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Lisa Halverstadt | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Write-In | Oscar Ebert | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Court of Appeals for Judge | ||||||||||||
Stephen D Hill | ||||||||||||
Yes | 126 | 91 | 185 | 9 | 90 | 70 | 0 | 571 | ||||
No | 35 | 25 | 37 | 6 | 38 | 12 | 1 | 154 | ||||
Kim R Schroeder | ||||||||||||
Yes | 133 | 107 | 195 | 11 | 104 | 71 | 1 | 622 | ||||
No | 28 | 13 | 27 | 4 | 28 | 11 | 0 | 111 | ||||
Henry W Green Jr. | ||||||||||||
Yes | 127 | 89 | 182 | 9 | 93 | 71 | 0 | 571 | ||||
No | 32 | 25 | 35 | 5 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 140 | ||||
Anthony J Powell | ||||||||||||
Yes | 128 | 95 | 182 | 11 | 96 | 67 | 1 | 580 | ||||
No | 32 | 21 | 34 | 4 | 30 | 15 | 0 | 136 | ||||
Tom Malone | ||||||||||||
Yes | 124 | 97 | 180 | 11 | 102 | 70 | 0 | 584 | ||||
No | 34 | 21 | 35 | 4 | 25 | 11 | 1 | 131 | ||||
Michael B Buser | ||||||||||||
Yes | 114 | 76 | 124 | 10 | 79 | 50 | 0 | 453 | ||||
No | 45 | 40 | 88 | 5 | 46 | 32 | 1 | 257 | ||||
Abstract of Votes Cast at the General Election in Kiowa County, State of KS, On the 6th day of November, 2018 | ||||||||||||
Center I | Center II | Haviland | Belvidere | Mullinville | Early Voters | Hand Count C2 | Total | |||||
Court of Appeals for Judge Cont. | ||||||||||||
Melissa Taylor Standridge | ||||||||||||
Yes | 110 | 78 | 129 | 9 | 79 | 50 | 1 | 456 | ||||
No | 44 | 38 | 86 | 7 | 46 | 32 | 0 | 253 | ||||
Kristi Cooper | ||||||||||||
County Election Officer. |
Commissioner Minutes
November 5, 2018
Kiowa County Commissioners Meeting
Courthouse Lower Level Conference Room
November 5, 2018
Ronald Freeman, Bert Lowery, John Unruh, Kristi Cooper, Chay Howard, Jay Schmidt, Matt Christenson, John Bertram and Ellen Peters attended the meeting.
Consent agenda included: Agenda and Commissioner minutes of 10/31.
After the prayer was given by Ellen Peters, Ron opened the meeting. Bert moved to approve the consent agenda and John seconded, motion carried 3-0.
Jay Schmidt came forward to give updates for the public works departments. He informed them they finished the overlay north of Mullinville and will work on building up the ledges with rock and cliché. Also, will be taking out a culvert at Northern Natural and replacing it and they will be invoiced for labor and materials. Ron gave him an invoice from Heft and Sons brought in an invoice in the amount of $474,640 and explained the invoice is $10,000 higher than the original contract price due to 250 tons of extra material used per Steve Heft. John moved to approve the overage on the contract price and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0. They discussed other concerns on roads that they would like Jay to address.
Break was called till 9:30.
Matt Christenson came to talk about upgrading memory in the primary courthouse server due to them running on an old version. He presented 4 quotes for the upgrading of the memory which are as following: SHI $1536.00, SCW $1674.56, Connection $1840.00 and NMGI $2335.68. After some discussion on the quotes Bert moved to approve the bid from SHI in the amount of $1536.00 and John seconded, motion carried 3-0.
Commissioner Discussion the Keller subdivision and vacating roads were discussed with Chay Howard. He explained that no resolution, documentation filed in the ROD, or notation in the minutes could be found effectuating the vacation the roads in the Keller Subdivision.
Meeting was adjourned at 9:55
Kiowa County Commission:
Ronald Freeman, Chairman Attest:
Bert Lowery, Vice-Chairman Kristi Cooper, County Clerk
John Unruh, Commissioner
Commissioner Minutes
October 31, 2018
Kiowa County Commissioners Meeting
Courthouse Lower Level Conference Room
October 31, 2018
Ronald Freeman, Bert Lowery, John Unruh, Kristi Cooper, Jay Schmidt, Matt Christenson and Ellen Peters attended the meeting.
Consent agenda included: Agenda, Payroll reports, AP reports and Commissioner minutes of 10/15.
After the prayer was given by Ellen Peters, Ron opened the meeting. Bert moved to approve the consent agenda and John seconded, motion carried 3-0.
Jay Schmidt came forward to discuss public works departments. He presented payroll changes for W Williams (merit), M Harrell (merit), J Price (merit), J West (probation period) for approval. After review of the pay changes Bert moved to approve them and John seconded, motion carried 3-0. Agreement of a local road safety plans in the amount of $5043. John moved to approve the contract with the Secretary of Transportation of KDOT and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0. Agreement for engineering services biennial bridge inventory and appraisal for bridge inspections with Kirkham & Michael. After review John moved to approve the agreement and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0. Next, he gave updates on projects they are working on.
Matt Christenson came to discuss repairing the electrical distribution panels at the commons and presented a bid from Sagebrush Electric in the amount of $2142.26 to be paid out of Commons building fund. Bert moved to approve the quote and John seconded, motion carried 3-0. Next, he presented payroll changes for L Gwin (merit) and T Libby (probation period) and John moved to approve the changes and Ron seconded, motion carried 3-0.
Break was called for 5 minutes.
Kristi Cooper presented payroll changes for C Cantrall (merit) and T Butler (merit) for approval. After review of the changes Bert moved to approve them and Ron seconded, motion carried 3-0.
During Commissioner Discussion the Keller subdivision and vacating roads was discussed briefly.
Meeting was adjourned at 10:00.
Kiowa County Commission:
Ronald Freeman, Chairman Attest:
Bert Lowery, Vice-Chairman Kristi Cooper, County Clerk
John Unruh, Commissioner
Commissioner Minutes
October 15, 2018
Kiowa County Commissioners Meeting
Courthouse Lower Level Conference Room
October 15, 2018
Ronald Freeman, Bert Lowery, John Unruh, Kristi Cooper, Chay Howard, Jay Schmidt, Kerri Ulrich, DJ McMurry, Matt Christenson and Jeff Blackburn attended the meeting.
Consent agenda included: Agenda, Payroll reports, AP reports and Commissioner minutes of 10/01.
After the prayer was given by Jeff Blackburn, Ron opened the meeting. Bert moved to approve the consent agenda with the addition to the agenda and John seconded, motion carried 3-0.
Kerri Ulrich came for the Board of Health meeting (BOH). Ron adjourned the regular meeting and called the BOH meeting to order. Kerri gave updates which included school nursing hearing/vision testing, flu shots, turn out on the Emergency Preparedness exercise on October 5th, end of year reporting has started and shingle vaccinations. Ron adjourned the BOH and called the regular meeting to order.
Jay Schmidt came to give updates for public works departments which included Grant St overlay almost complete, landfill inspections passed and possible purchase of a backhoe for R&B.
DJ McMurry came early to talk about making a change on the pay plan for the deputies at a grade 13 and would like to move them up due to his employee has hit the max but this would affect other deputies. Ron asked him to see what Pratt County uses. Matt explained how the pay plan was created and how they came up with the wages and job descriptions. DJ will report back on his findings. Next, he talked about GIS and explained they are making changes for mapping through the State. The cost would be around $4000 to get started and it was by consensus to allow this new mapping system which will aide in multiple areas throughout the County. He explained the benefits for Kiowa County compared to Pratt County. There will be other costs associated with this new system but will talk to other entities who could use this new system.
Matt Christenson came to give IT update plans for next year which included email server change this week, Microsoft support change, moving to Windows 10 and replace 25 computers to the new operating systems, bulk order of computers for multiple departments, server refresh is needed for all our servers, replacement of a backup server next year. John asked if he had any information on quotes for the plans of the new building and he is still working on it. He hopes it will be ready for one of the 2 first meetings in November.
Kristi Cooper presented payroll changes for M Brown (merit), G Koehn (separation), R Walker (Part-time new hire), M Murski (part-time new hire), C Hacker (full-time new hire), S Powell (full-time new hire) for approval. After review of the changes Bert moved to approve them and John seconded, motion carried 3-0. Next, she presented a tax correction for removal of street assessment per tax sale for approval. After review Bert moved to approve the tax correction and John seconded, motion carried 3-0.
Break was called at 10:25 for 10 minutes.
Chay Howard discussed the Keller’s subdivision and the property and explained that it all needs to be vacated except for Oak street and that he could not find where any of those have been vacated properly in 1993. John wanted clarification on who would maintain that street and Chay explained that the County would be responsible for the upkeep. We will do a publication notice, notice to all residents that reside on that road, public hearing and record properly. They discussed holding the public hearing for November 19th to vacate Oak street. John moved to begin the notification process for vacating roads located in the Keller’s subdivision excluding Oak St and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0. Next, he presented the information for the open records request from Great Plains. They complied with our request per Chay. He will have them look over the information that he has given them and will see if they have any further open records request at the next meeting.
During Commissioner John asked if we had received the settlement check from Pratt Wells lawsuit and Chay reported that he has received the first month settlement check and has been given to the Treasurers office.
The meeting was adjourned at 11:25.
Kiowa County Commission:
Ronald Freeman, Chairman Attest:
Bert Lowery, Vice-Chairman Kristi Cooper, County Clerk
John Unruh, Commissioner
Commissioner Minutes
October 1, 2018
Kiowa County Commissioners Meeting
Courthouse Lower Level Conference Room
October 1, 2018
Ronald Freeman, Bert Lowery, John Unruh, Kristi Cooper, Chay Howard, Jay Schmidt, Matt Christenson and Jeff Blackburn attended the meeting.
Consent agenda included: Agenda and Commissioner minutes of 09/28.
After the pledge of allegiance, Ron opened the meeting. John moved to approve the consent agenda and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0.
Jay Schmidt came to give updates for public works departments which included the county dumpster located in the City of Haviland and Ron brought up the road next to Pratt County and asked if they had any agreement on fixing the roads due to high truck traffic due to the new wind farm going in. Jay will contact them.
Matt Christenson came to give present a bid from Pueblo Concrete, LLC to seal the North wall in the amount of $2,300 for approval. Ron moved to accept the bid from Pueblo Concrete and John seconded, motion carried 2-0. Bert abstained from the discussion. They also touched on the subject of the new building.
Break for 5 minutes
Kristi Cooper presented a payroll changes S Tuttle (merit increase) After review of the change Bert moved to approve and John seconded, motion carried 3-0.
There was no topics for the Commissioner’s discussion and the meeting was adjourned at 10:00.
Kiowa County Commission:
Ronald Freeman, Chairman Attest:
Bert Lowery, Vice-Chairman Kristi Cooper, County Clerk
John Unruh, Commissioner
Commissioner Minutes
September 28, 2018
Kiowa County Commissioners Meeting
Courthouse Lower Level Conference Room
September 28, 2018
Ronald Freeman, Bert Lowery, John Unruh (absent), Shelly Tuttle, Chay Howard, Jay Schmidt, Matt Christenson, Chris Tedder and Jeff Blackburn attended the meeting.
Consent agenda included: Agenda, payroll reports, account payable reports and Commissioner minutes of 09/17.
After prayer was given by Jeff Blackburn, Ron opened the meeting. Bert moved to approve the consent agenda and Ron seconded, motion carried 2-0.
Jay Schmidt came to give updates for public works which included; an update on Grant street and the patching North of Mullinville. Jay told the Commissioners that he and Jason will be attending a Solid Waste Conference next Wednesday and Thursday. Jay also asked about hiring Charity Beall part-time as a seasonal mower person for Road and Bridge. After some discussion, Bert moved to hire Charity and Ron seconded, motion carried 2-0.
Chay Howard spoke with the Commissioners regarding Oak street and possibly rededicating it. Chay is going to work on the Public Notices and they discussed holding the Public Hearing on November 5, 2018 at 10:00am.
Shelly Tuttle presented tax corrections for demolition charges on the properties from the tax sale. Ron moved to approve the tax corrections as presented and Bert seconded, motion carried 2-0. Next, Shelly asked them if they were interested in attending the Client Appreciation Dinner for Kirkham Michael, and both Commissioners at the meeting are unable to attend the dinner.
Matt Christenson came to discuss a leak at the Commons Building in the Library. He told the Commissioners that he feels if we seal the 2nd story wall like we have previously sealed at the Commons, it should fix the problem. He presented a bid from Pueblo Concrete to do the sealing, but it was tabled until Monday, when John will be back. Matt also gave an update on the email host switch. Next week he will make the purchases for the switch and is planning to start it on October 12th.
Break until 9:36
Chris Tedder came to give reports for his departments which included presenting a payroll change for R. Martin (merit increase). After review of the change Ron moved to approve the payroll change and Bert seconded, motion carried 2-0. He also told the Commissioners about purchasing 5 new portable radios as the radios we currently have keep breaking and the 10 used ones that we are to be getting has been delayed for an undermined amount of time. He then gave some staffing updates.
There was no topics for the Commissioner’s discussion and the meeting was adjourned at 10:00.
Kiowa County Commission:
Ronald Freeman, Chairman Attest:
Bert Lowery, Vice-Chairman Shelly Tuttle, Deputy County Clerk
John Unruh, Commissioner
Commissioner Minutes
September 17, 2018
Kiowa County Commissioners Meeting
Courthouse Lower Level Conference Room
September 17, 2018
Ronald Freeman, John Unruh, Bert Lowery, Kristi Cooper, Chay Howard, Jay Schmidt, Kerri Ulrich, Tony Factor, Chris Tedder, Jeff Blackburn and Matt Christenson attended the meeting.
Consent agenda included: Agenda, payroll reports, account payable reports and Commissioner minutes of 09/04, 09/06.
After prayer was given by Tony Factor, Ron opened the meeting. Bert moved to approve the consent agenda and John seconded, motion carried 3-0.
Kerri Ulrich came for the Board of Health meeting (BOH). Ron adjourned the regular meeting and called the BOH meeting to order. Kerri gave updates which included August patient service totals, end of year reporting and finalizing financial reports and school nursing contract. The Health Dept. staff will be in and out of the due to flu clinics, school nursing & upcoming conferences. Ron adjourned the BOH and called the regular meeting to order. Kerri presented nursing contract for Haviland Schools. Bert moved to approve the contract and John seconded, motion carried 3-0. Kerri presented the sample declaration for the Emergency Preparedness exercise. John moved to sign the sample local declaration for October 5th and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0.
Jay Schmidt came to give updates for public works which included; fixing washouts from the rain last week, additional employee for the landfill and moving the recycling container in Haviland. He did report they used around 1000 square cubic yards of product to fix the washouts. Also he informed them that he had a report people jumping in the cardboard recycle bin at Haviland and that the property owner has concerns of liability and so Jay asked if they would like to have it moved by the shop over in Haviland and John suggested talking with the City first. Last they discussed the ditch east of Grant and Olive intersection. Chay provided the easements on the property and there were still concerns of the trees on the West side Olive St and Grant St.
Break called till 9:45
Matt Christenson came to discuss the Building Controls and Services (BCS) control software quote for the County facilities. The cost of the new control software will be $20,880.00 and an annual subscription cost of $1470.00. John moved to approve the software agreement with BCS and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0. They also discussed the new building and Matt reported that Travis has been cleaning around the outside of the building and doing a few things inside as well. He did report that he is working with the department supervisors and determine the best use of the building. And gave a few ideas that he has been working with of some of the departments.
Chris Tedder came to give reports for his departments which included; leasing 8 tasers around $20,000 for 5 years, 8 radars with instant on remote for the patrol cars in the amount of $25,000 and purchasing some PBT (Preliminary Breath Test) which cost $300 each. Clerk gave payroll changes to be presented for W Renfrow (separation), C Parkin (merit increase) and J Parkin (merit increase) for approval. After review of the changes John moved to approve them and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0.
Break till 10:36
Kristi Cooper presented CIC annual support agreement for renewal in the amount of $24,040. After review John moved to approve of the agreement and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0. Next, she presented tax corrections for mowing charges on the properties from the tax sale. Bert moved to approve the tax corrections as presented and John seconded, motion carried 3-0.
There was no topics for the Commissioner’s discussion and the meeting was adjourned at 11:26.
Kiowa County Commission:
Ronald Freeman, Chairman Attest:
Bert Lowery, Vice-Chairman Kristi Cooper, County Clerk
John Unruh, Commissioner
Election Notices
Equipment test date
PUBLIC NOTICE
Pursuant to K.S.A. 25-4411(b), K.S.A. 25-4601(b), voting equipment testing will be held on November 1, 2018 at 2:00 pm, in the Commissioners room at the Courthouse at 211 E. Florida, Greensburg, KS.
Kristi Cooper
Kiowa County Clerk/Election Officer