Kingfisher County commissioners named Haskell Lemon Construction to supply asphalt overlays on county roads in Districts 1 and 3 Tuesday at their weekly meeting.

District 3 Commissioner Anthony Schwarz made the motion to award the contract to Haskell Lemon and District 1 Commissioner seconded the motion. Commission Chairman Michael Sparks, District 2, joined them in the vote to make the action unanimous.

Sparks explained that although the Haskell Lemon bid was not the lowest, he was dissatisfied with “dry” asphalt in an earlier contract and considered the Haskell Lemon bid the “best” bid.

Haskell Lemon submitted a bid of $1,570,080.53 for the District 1 projects and $2,211,841.84 for the District 3 work, a total of $3,781,922.37.

Bids on the projects were opened at the preceding week’s meeting, then tabled action to allow additional study.

Four bids were higher than Haskell Lemon’s. The entire list of bidders and their bids appeared on Page 2 of the Wednesday, Jan. 14, edition of the Times and Free Press.

Shawna Rupp, executive irector of the Kingfisher Chamber of Commerce, asked for the county commissioners’ assistance in a project under way involving the chamber and Chisholm Trail Technology Center to provide a database of names on the courthouse centennial wall.

Work has already begun to develop a complete list of names on the wall, of which there were no previous records, she said, and then provide an accessible search site through the chamber, city and county websites. (See a separate article in an upcoming edition.)

In other action, commissioners approved the following:

• Payment of a $295.81 invoice from Circuit Engineering District No. 8 for bridge inspections in all three commissioner districts, • A letter of intent for all districts to purchase six tractors through a state contract;

• The annual financial report from the sheriff’s office on the county jail’s commissary services showing a beginning balance of $29,874.41. Payments from commissary operations of $10,833.17, disbursements of $37,445.90 and an ending balance of $3,261.68 and zero net profit;

• Declaration of surplus of older equipment belonging to District 1, including a 2007 Chevrolet half-ton truck, a 2011 Chevrolet half-ton truck and a 1992 GMC dump truck and the following items belonging to District 3, two 2015 half-ton Dodge trucks, a 2020 Amorlite belly dump trailer, Verminator gopher machine and a Landpride rotary cutter. The items will be placed in the CED #8 auction sale in the spring.

• Declaration as surplus of 16 items belonging to the Dover Fire Department. (County Clerk Emily Lee said the list was described as an inventory clean-up effort.);

• A request for a public access drive for Chris and Halie Slaugh, including a 24-inch culvert along SE/4 8-16-5 east of Kingfisher in District 1;

• Minutes and purchase orders, warrants and payroll for Jan. 20;

• Purchase card payment of $42.94 for the month of December 2025, and

• Removing Schwarz and adding Sparks to various financial accounts related to the annual transfer of chairmanship of the board of county commissioners.

Sparks reported that he would attend the CED #8 board meeting in Alva Wednesday.

All commissioners were in attendance along with Lee as official minute clerk, County Engineer Nik Smith, Sheriff Aaron Pitts, Emergency Management Director Randy Poindexter, Blake Barnes and Roy Counts with Haskell Lemon, Rupp and Kingfisher citizen-visitor Kelly Buck.