2005, SIXTy Third MEETING




CRAWFORD COUNTY COURTHOUSE, COMMISSIONERS’ BOARD ROOM
Girard, KS. Tuesday August 16, 2005, 10:00 AM

The Crawford County Board of Commissioners met pursuant to Kansas Statutes Annotated Chapter 19, Article 2, Section 18 in due and regular session with open doors. Commissioner Anthony Pichler served as the presiding officer.

Commissioner Bob Kmiec was present.

Don Pyle, Deputy County Clerk and County Counselor Jim Emerson were present and seated with the Board.

Chairman Pichler led the Pledge of Allegiance.

UNDER THE HEADING BUSINESS FROM A PREVIOUS MEETING
CONSENT AGENDA
On motion (05-249) of Commissioner Pichler and the second of Commissioner Kmiec that the consent agenda be approved including:
1. Approval of the August 12, 2005 minutes of the Board of Commissioners’ meeting.
Yeas: Commissioners Kmiec and Pichler
Nays:
Present but not voting:
Absent or not voting: Commissioner Moody
The motion prevailed and the consent agenda was approved.

SIGNING OF MOTIONS
The County Clerk presented the following motions for Commissioners’ signatures.


Motion 05 -246 That the consent agenda be approved including: Approval of the August 9, 2005 minutes.
Motion 05 -247 To approve an Easement for Public Wholesale Water Supply District #11, subject to the approval of Community National Bank, and authorize the chairman to sign.
Motion 05 -248 To approve the hiring of John Kovacic to prepare the budget in 2006 for fiscal year 2007.



UNDER THE HEADING NEW BUSINESS
OPENING OF SEALED BIDS
MESSAGES FROM ELECTED OFFICIALS
MESSAGES FROM APPOINTED OFFICIALS

Item One: Mr. John Gagliardo, County 911 Services Director, presenting a letter asking to update the 911 equipment at the Sheriff’s Office. Mr. Gagliardo mentioned that Crawford county has obtained a $24,000 grant from the Kansas 9-1-1 Wireless Fund that will pay for upgrades to a mapping system currently used by Pittsburg Police Dept. and will replace the system currently used by Crawford County Sheriff’s Dept. for locating 9-1-1 cell phone calls. Mr. Gagliardo stated that the current backbone of the equipment at the Sheriff’s Dept. needs to be replaced because the call traffic is heavier than it used to be and that their equipment is starting to have some technical problems and that this equipment should be updated in the near future. Mr. Gagliardo explained that this is causing some problems with getting correct addresses to the emergency personnel on calls to them and that some of this is caused by getting the flow of information between SW Bell and Craw-Kan telephone systems. Mr. Gagliardo estimated that it would cost approximately $80,000 to replace the equipment that needs to be upgraded. Mr. Pichler was answered that the grant was paying about $24,000 per year. Mr. Pichler asked if this equipment would allow them to use a GPS system and was answered that this would have that option in the future. Mr. Gagliardo explained that on cell phone calls an X Y coordinate is received that must be entered on another computer to determine the address of the call and even that was not available for older analog cell phones. Mr. Gagliardo explained that this equipment would allow the county to get information on these cell phones much faster. Mr. Pichler was answered that the annual payment would be close to the same amount as for the old equipment that is just paying off and that they have been doing this on 5-year lease purchases. Mr. Pichler and Mr. Kmiec agreed that this is something that should be done. Mr. Gagliardo explained that the equipment is purchased through Craw-Kan and that they would need lease purchase rates and they could order the equipment and it could be installed in 30 to 45 days. Mr. Emerson stated that no motion was need at this time, but that when they came back with a lease purchase agreement a motion would be needed to approve it.


MESSAGES FROM OTHER GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES
MESSAGES FROM THE PUBLIC
PROCLAMATIONS AND ORDERS OF THE BOARD
NEW BUSINESS

Item One: Mr. Pichler stated that with increasing gas prices the road & bridge dept. needs to look at making some changes in the operation of the dept. in order to keep it on budget. Mr. Pichler and Mr. Kmiec agreed to meet with Mr. Moody on Friday, August 19, to discuss any changes in operations.

UNDER THE HEADING OLD BUSINESS
OLD BUSINESS
Item One: Mr. Pichler stated that the grant for RWD #7 project needs to be monitored and readied for it to close out. Mr. Pichler mentioned that the Dept. of Commerce will be sending out a representative for monitoring purposes soon and that we need to be close to completion on this project so that we can apply for another grant for next year. Mr. Pichler mentioned that several things need to be completed before the public hearing and other items can be completed so that we can close this project out. Mr. Pichler mentioned that Tom Ragonese is to check on the status of this project with Steve Robb.

Item Two: Mr. Pichler mentioned that the Fire Chiefs for Fire District #2 and #4 had requested that the burn ban be lifted after the rainfall that we received in the last few days. Mr. Kmiec agreed that we had received plenty of rainfall.

On motion (05-250) of Commissioner Pichler and the second of Commissioner Kmiec to approve lifting the burn ban for Fire District #2 and Fire District #4.
Yeas: Commissioners Kmiec, Moody and Pichler.
Nays:
Present but not voting:
Absent or not voting: Commissioner Moody
The motion prevailed.


Item Three: Mr. Pichler stated that he had contacted on of our local legislators and that the county needed to come up with a presentation to the legislature for prisoner health care issues. Mr. Emerson mentioned that he had discussed this with Sheriff Horton and that he was going to research the statutes in Wyoming and Missouri which are both states that we have heard have laws that allow the counties not to pay medical expenses for inmates for preexisting medical conditions. Mr. Pichler thought that a work session with our legislators on this issue could be productive and Mr. Emerson mentioned that he would like to have something to present to them at this work session.

Item Four: Mr. Kmiec asked if anyone had any contacts from anyone regarding the work session on installing disconnects for emergency generators. Mr. Emerson mentioned that he had not had any contacts. Mr. Pyle mentioned that he had received an email from one of the school districts in the county and that a couple of people had contacted the Sheriff’s Dept.


UNDER THE HEADING FUTURE BUSINESS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
FUTURE BUSINESS
Item One:

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Item One: August 18, 2005 -- 7:00 PM The Planning and Zoning Board, with David Yearout as consultant, will meet at the courthouse in the zoning office to discuss the future of zoning regulations in Crawford County. There will be a FEMA representative there to discuss how to read flood maps. The public is welcome to attend.

Item Two: August 26, 2005 – 9:00 A.M. The Crawford County commission will hold a work session with leaders from Crawford County cities, water and sewer districts on installing disconnects in buildings that could use emergency generators for power.

UNDER THE HEADING MOTION TO ADJOURN
MOTION TO ADJOURN
Item One: Adjournment
On the motion of Commissioner Pichler and the second of Commissioner Kmiec to adjourn the August 15, 2005 meeting at 10:28 AM.
Yeas: Commissioners Kmiec and Pichler
Nays:
Present but not voting:
Absent or not voting: Commissioner Moody
The motion prevailed.


Witness my hand in the taking of these minutes and my submission of the same for the approval of the Board of Crawford County Commissioners:




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Don Pyle
= Seal = Deputy County Clerk


Taken DPP 8/16/05 10:28 AM, Amended DPP 3:15 PM