Kingfisher County commissioners Monday approved a bid from Circle C Paving of Goddard, Kan., to provide county oil and chip work this year.

Circle C submitted the secondlowbid of $24,394.23 per mile as tabulated by County Clerk Jeannie Boevers.

Commissioners opened the bids a week earlier but tabled action to allow time for the bids to be tabulated from lowest to highest related to the cost per mile.

District 1 Commissioner Jeff Moss made the motion to accept the Circle C bid and District 2 Commissioner Ray Alan Shimanek seconded.

District 3 Commissioner Heath Dobrovolny, chairman, joined them in making the motion unanimous.

The oil and chip blacktopping work is normally done during the warmer weather months, possibly starting as early as May.

“We went a different direction this year,” Dobrovolny said, displaying photographs of oil and chip work the 2019 winning bidder, Vance Brothers of Mt. Vernon, Mo., had done.

Commissioners had indicated displeasure with that work and did not award a contract a year ago after the company offered to re-do portions of the work at no additional cost to the county.

Vance was the low bidder this year, also, with a total bid of $21,038.41 per mile for a one application surface.

A third bidder, Blevins, submitted a bid of $25,555.86.

Zyzor of Kingfisher did not submit a bid on the one-application level.

County Emergency Manager Steve Loftis reported that coronavirus cases dropped by two this week from the preceding Monday report at 62.

Cases by community included: Cashion 10, Dover three, Hennessey 13, Kingfisher 27, Loyal three and Okarche six.

He said the countyhad recorded 2,107 COVID-19 cases thus far with 26 deaths.

Commissioners approved a road crossing permit for Western Farmers Electric Cooperative beginning south of Cashion in District 1.

The permit called for the permitted crossing to start in the SW SW Sec. 35-15-5 and end in NE SW Sec. 11-15-8.

Ovintiv received a permit for a three-inch water line in District 3 beginning two miles east and three miles south of Loyal.

In discussion following the meeting, Dobrovolny said a federal program, the American Rescue Plan, has been enacted that could provide as much as $3 million for the county.

Explanation is scheduled at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Circuit Engineering District office at Alva. Shimanek agreed to attend. Dobrovolny said he would try to attend, also, if his meeting of the Wheatheart Nutrition progam board in Blackwell adjourns in time.

Also present for the meeting were County Engineer Nik Smith, County Pipeline Inspector Cody Murray and Sheriff Dennis Banther.