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Kiowa County Commissioners Meeting

September 20, 2021

John Bertram, David White, Bert Lowery, Kristi Cooper, Chay Howard, Kerri Ulrich, Jay Schmidt, Morgan Allison, Eric Buck, Rosa Hettinger, Kendal Lothman, Theron McKinney and Matt Christenson attended the meeting.

Consent agenda included: Agenda, Payroll reports, Accounts Payable reports and Commissioner minutes of 08/07/21.

After the pledge of allegiance, John Bertram opened the meeting at 9:00. Bert moved to approve the consent agenda as presented and David seconded, motion passed unanimously.

John adjourned the regular meeting and called the Board of health(BOH) meeting to session. Kerri Ulrich came to give updates for Public Health which included back to school vision and hearing screenings has begun, health fair billing contract corrected and paid, flu clinic schedule, parking lot discussion purchase of property 50’x140’, new medical director, hired a new registered dietician for the coalition, COVID-19 total cases increasing, grants approved for the position of the RN, USD 474 school nursing contract, payroll change N Zadina. John adjourned the BOH and called the regular meeting to order. They discussed purchasing of the property with County Council. Bert moved to approve the nursing contract with USD 474 and David seconded, motion passed unanimously. Payroll change presented for N Zadina (wage adjustment) for approval. Bert moved to approve the payroll change and David seconded, motion passed unanimously.

Jay Schmidt came to give updates for the Public Works department which included M20 returned, discuss options on applications for State funding projects for bridges and road with John Riggins with Kirkham and Michael, road maintenance on Mullinville blacktop north between D5 and E St and continued the discussion regarding the open range from the prior meeting with Chay.

Morgan Allison came to introduce the new ambulance director Eric Buck to the Commissioners.

Rosa Hettinger came to give updates on the new purchase of the 2021 Osage Ambulance Transit van and included a breakdown of the funds being used to purchase the vehicle and also informed them of her last day being October 4 as well she informed them of some personnel updates regarding other resignations.

Break called till 9:49

Kristi Cooper presented 1 bid from Pueblo Concrete for approval which includes 45 sidewalk sections, 25 sections of curb and guttering and the west steps. After review of the bid John moved to approve the bid in the amount of $72,780 and David seconded, motion passed unanimously(Bert sustained).

Kendal Lothman requested a 5-minute executive session to discuss personal matters. Bert moved to go into executive session for 5 minutes at 10:05 for personal relations for non-elected personal and John seconded, motion passed unanimously. Regular session began at 10:11 with no action taken.

Theron McKinney and Chay Howard presented Resolution 2021-7 for organization structure for the County Fire department. Bert moved to adopt resolution as presented and John seconded, motion passed unanimously. Bert moved to approve the appointments as Bill Langley as the captain for Haviland home station, Luke McFadden as the captain for Mullinville home station and Jeremy Butler as the captain for Greensburg home station and Jeremey butler as the county deputy fire chief and John seconded, motion passed unanimously.

During Commissioner Discussion they revisited the discussion regarding quarantine with the County health officer. After some discussion they asked Chay to draw up a resolution with the changes as discussed. Chay presented the resolution for approval. After review Bert moved to adopt the resolution 2021-8 and John seconded, motion passed unanimously. Next Bert moved to approve any employee who is currently quarantined prior to today meeting will receive Covid pay for their quarantine and that it will not go against the total of 90 hours that was approved in the resolution and David seconded, motion passed unanimously.

Meeting adjourned at 11:42

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Kiowa County Commissioners Meeting
September 7, 2021

John Bertram, David White, Bert Lowery, Kristi Cooper, Chay Howard, Jay Schmidt, Kendal Lothman, Theron McKinney and Matt Christenson attended the meeting.

Consent agenda included: Agenda, Payroll reports, Accounts Payable reports and Commissioner minutes of 08/02/2021 & 08/14/21.

After the prayer given by Tony Factor, John opened the meeting at 9:00. Bert moved to approve the consent agenda as presented and David seconded, motion passed unanimously.

Jay Schmidt came and presented updates for the Public Works Department which included payroll changes for Duane Maas(merit) and Wayne Burnham(merit), changing T St to an open range road from 55th Ave through 57th Ave, cleaning culverts at J St. and 45th Ave, grader maintenance cause road maintenance delays and N St. has been bladed and material hauled in since Mr. Dirks came in at the last meeting. Bert moved to approve the payroll changes as presented and John seconded, motion passed unanimously.

Kendal Lothman came to presented payroll changes for K Amaro, S Kost and Michael Tedder(merit) for approval. After review Bert moved to approve them as presented and John seconded, motion passed unanimously. Next he requested a 5 minute executive session regarding personnel matters. John moved to go into executive at 9:21 to discuss personnel matters for non-elected personnel for 5 minutes and Bert seconded, motion passed unanimously. Regular session began at 9:26 with no action taken.

Theron McKinney came to discuss setting chain of command for the fire department countywide and informed them that he will be holding a fire meeting this evening and explained how he is planning on setting officers.

Matt Christenson came to discuss the courthouse capital outlay fund which he will be using to purchase a test server platform. After some discussion it was by consensus to allow him to have authority to spend $5000 on a new test server platform.

Break called till 9:55

During Commissioner discussion Dave spoke about what they could do to help reduce any impact on insurance premiums increasing due to COVID-19. They discussed cash incentives, the federal approach, paid time off due to employees being quarantined, or don’t make any changes. After much discussion Bert moved to allow paid administrative COVID pay if an employee is required to be quarantined from COVID-19 who is unable to work remotely and those who can work remotely will receive regular pay during work hours and John seconded, motion passed unanimously.

Meeting adjourned at 10:38

Kiowa County Commissioners Meeting

August 31, 2021

John Bertram, David White, Bert Lowery, Kristi Cooper, Chay Howard, Morgan Allison, Jonathan Clayton, Kendal Lothman, Theron McKinney, Jeff Blackburn and Matt Christenson attended the meeting.

Consent agenda included: Agenda, Payroll reports, Accounts Payable reports and Commissioner minutes of 08/16/2021.

After the prayer given by Tony Factor, John Bertram opened the meeting at 9:00. Bert moved to approve the consent agenda as presented with additions to the agenda and David seconded, motion passed unanimously.

Jonathan Clayton came to discuss the USDA Emergency Health Care Grant and explained the grant and what he could help with rural health care systems (Kiowa County Memorial Hospital, Kiowa County Health Department and Kiowa County Senior Citizen Center) which we are eligible to receive 35% of the costs associated with this grant program. He explained that he will work with the boards of those entities and come back for the final approval of the application before the deadline in October. David moved to pursue the USDA grant application and John seconded, motion passed unanimously

Mark Dirks came to visit with the commissioners regarding M. St from 183 Hwy west to the Mennonite Church and see if they could get the road in a better shape since it goes to the cemetery as well. Bert mentioned that he has talked with Jay and he is working on this project.

Matt Christenson came to give an update on the expenditures for the ARPA funds for the first round of reporting and informed them that he will move forward with meeting with those who will be part of the process and report back.

Theron McKinney came to have an executive session for non-elected personnel regarding fire department personnel for 15 minutes. Bert moved to go into an executive session at 9:24 and John seconded, motion passed unanimously. Regular session began at 9:39 with no action taken.

Kristi Cooper presented payroll changes for C McElroy(new hire) and L Thronesbery(merit) for approval in the absence of Kendal and Jay. After reviewing the payroll changes David moved to approve them as presented and Bert seconded, motion passed unanimously. Next, she presented a bid from Pueblo concrete and explained the other bid withdrew their bid after the tabled them at the last meeting and after some discussion on receiving more bids John moved to strike the bid from Pueblo concrete and rebid the project again and David seconded, motion passed 2-0 (Bert sustained). Next, she gave a few maintenance updates.

Break called till 10:01.

During Commissioner discussion they continued to discuss the Dairy farm and included the housing and daycare needs and Julie Lyon, County Economic Development director was included in the discussion.

Meeting adjourned at 10:44

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