Kingfisher County commissioners Monday approved a resolution requesting reimbursement for personnel costs related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The reimbursement would come from the CARES Act and the coronavirus relief fund.

City-County Emergency Management Director Steve Loftis, who attended the meeting to make a report on the pandemic numbers for the county, said he did not know at this point how much the request would be.

He quoted a Kingfisher Times and Free Press report that four county persons had died from the disease. He said the official death toll by the state health department would be released at midnight Monday.

Kingfisher County has had 312 cases since the pandemic began with 272 recovered. Of the 40 active cases in the county as of Monday morning, Hennessey has 13, Kingfisher 20, Dover four and Okarche three.

In other action commissioners approved reimbursement claims to the state for the election board ($2,958.19) and District Attorney ($2,884.05), two fiber optic cable road crossing permits for Pioneer Telephone Cooperative on County line Road east of Okarche, one east and one west of the intersection of County Road 2840 and Sheppard Avenue (Districts 1 and 3), a road crossing permit for Ovintiv energy company for a 12-inch water line located six miles west and one mile south of Kingfisher, and announcements by commissioners on meetings they will attend this week.

All commissioners (District 2 Ray Alan Shimanek, chairman; District 1, Jeff Moss, member, and District 3 Heath Dobrovolny, vice chairman) were present along with County Clerk Jeannie Boevers, minute clerk, Loftis, County Engineer Nik Smith and Sheriff Dennis Banther.