Kingfisher County commissioners accepted the low bid of $20,370 from Byrum Electric to replace LED lighting at the Kingfisher County Fairgrounds.

Kingfisher County Extension Director-Agricultural Educator Bryan Kennedy recommended accepting the low bid on the project after ascertaining it met specifications.

Nine companies submitted bids on the work. Bids were opened a week earlier.

Commissioners also approved delaying implementing Haskell Lemon asphalt overlay contracts until next spring due to the approach of colder weather, which is not conducive to best asphalt application.

Circuit Engineering District 8 Engineer Donnie Head, who attended the meeting, said the action met legal guidelines.

Commissioners discussed doing at least one of the larger projects this fall if a period of open weather occurs.

Commissioners opened bids on several projects in all three commissioner districts earlier in the year.

Commission Chairman Jeff Moss noted that the change orders would be advantageous to county commissioners, who have been heavily involved in flood repairs on county roads.

Moss said he was replacing bridges on three county roads north of the Cimarron River this week that had been destroyed by flooding earlier in the year.

He said railroad box cars that had both ends removed were being used as the basic structure to replace two of the lost bridges. A third will involve standard construction procedures.

“As we replace damaged structures, we’re concentrating on improving our county roads and bridges in preparation for future flood events,” Moss said.

A bid of $189,000 from F.G. Wilson Truck and Supply in Central Point, Oregon., on a 6 by 6 All Wheel Drive Tanker Tender for the Big 4 Fire Department was opened during the meeting. A second bid that did not contain the required non-collusion agreement was not announced.

District 3 Commissioner Heath Dobrovolny moved to table action on the contract to allow Big 4 Fire officials to review it to see that it met specifications.

Pamela Mork was appointed to the Cashion 522 Ambulance board, succeeding Julie Davis. Mork is a registered nurse who lives in the Cashion EMS district.

September reports for the offices of sheriff, treasurer, county clerk, assessor, court clerk, election board and health department received approval as did a list of surplus equipment for District 2, which Commissioner Ray Alan Shimanek said would be junked or auctioned if still serviceable.

The following companies received approval for county road pipeline crossings:

• Petro Land Services South – nine eight-inch water lines, three of them in District 1 located as follow: three miles south of Kingfisher, three miles south and one mile east of Kingfisher and four miles south and one mile east of Kingfisher, and six in District 3 located as follow: one mile west of Kingfisher, one mile west and two miles south of Kingfisher, one mile west and one-half mile south of Kingfisher, and two located two miles west and two miles south of Kingfisher.

• McDonald Land Services – 12-inch water line two miles west of Loyal, District 3.

• Encana – three-inch water line five miles north and two miles west of Okarche, three inch water line three miles north and two miles west of Okarche, and 12-inch water line located four miles north and one mile west of Omega, all in District 3.

•Howard Drilling Enterprises – 12-inch water line one mile south of Dover, District 2.

• Select Energy Services – three-inch water line four miles south and five miles east of Hennessey, District 2.

• Markwest Energy – two four-inch steel lines in District 3, one four miles north of Omega and one four miles north and one-half mile west of Omega.