Kingfisher County commissioners opened bids on two items Tuesday, accepting the low bid on printing election ballots from Midwest Printing Co.of Sapulpa and tabling action on bids for a radio tower for the sheriff’s department.

The second bid for ballots came from Royal Printing of Oklahoma City.

The bids included separate submissions for varying sizes of ballots.

County Election Board Secretary Shawna Butts sent word to commissioners to accept the low bid on the ballots.

Commission Chairman Ray Alan Shimanek commented that the bids were very close.

That was not the case for the radio tower bids.

Chickasaw Communications submitted a bid of $30,494 while two other bidders – PGGT All-State (bid of $57,708) and Bell Communications (bid of $57,196) – were substantially higher and much closer.

Sheriff Dennis Banther asked that action on the bids be tabled to allow him time to study them to make sure the bids met specifi cations.

The quotation called for a 100-foot radio tower for the sheriff’s offi ce.

In other actions, commissioners approved Circuit Engineering District 8 auction policies (for sale of surplus equipment from counties which are members of the district) – an annual action, approved a solicitation of bids for a 2015 or newer diesel motor grader with 900 hours or less for District 3, changes in the requesting and receiving officers for the Cash-ion Fire Department as well as activating a purchase order system for the department, annual update in the County Emergency Management hazard mitigation plan and reappointment of Trena Gardner of Dover to the 522 ambulance board.

Patti Lickliter of the Northern Oklahoma Development Authority and Kingfisher City -County Emergency Management Director Steve Loftis attended the meeting, providing background for the hazard mitigation county plan update, which involves a $15,004 county in-kind contribution to the total $60,017 cost of the program, or approximately $3.99 per person living in the county.

The plan covers municipalities, county facilities and all schools.

Loftis said that after the program grant is received, the county emergency management office will hold a series of meetings to which all towns and first responders will receive invitations. All citizens of the county also are invited to attend.

Loftis said local participation in the meetings will count toward the county’s in-kind match for the grant.

Changes to the Cashion Fire Department requisition-receiving officers’ list included naming Casey Billen and Clayton Morse as receiving offi cers and C.J. Hill and Greg Smith as requisition offi cers.

A message from the town of Cashion reported that Greg Smith is the current fi re chief and that Tim Townsend has resigned.

A change also was made for Commissioner District 1, removing Amberlee Green as receiving officer and adding David Curry and Marvin Savage.

District 3 Commissioner Heath Dobrovolny and District 1 Commissioner Jeff Moss joined Shimanek in making all actions unanimous.

Commissioners approved 25 permits for county road pipeline crossings, all in District 3, as follow:

•Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co.– four permits all in an area three miles north and one mile west of Okarche. The permits had been tabled at the preceding week’s meeting awaiting additional details.

• Encana – 15 water lines, all of them temporary except for two permits for permanent 16- inch and 12-inch lines at one location six miles east of Omega; the other 12-inch temporary water line permits were for the following locations: seven miles west and two miles south of Kingfi sher, fi ve miles west and two miles south of Kingfi sher, five miles east and one mile north of Omega, six miles west and one mile south of Kingfisher, four miles east of Loyal, five miles east and four miles south of Loyal, seven miles west and one mile south of Kingfisher, four miles east and four miles south of Omega, four miles east and three miles south of Omega, seven miles west and two miles south of Kingfi sher, five miles west and two miles north of Kingfi sher, three miles east and one mile north of Loyal, and two located five miles east and one mile north of Omega.

• Petro Land Services – two permits for eight-inch water lines located two miles west and three miles south of Kingfisher and three miles west and two miles south of Kingfi sher.

• McDonald Land Services – two 12-inch water lines located seven miles west and one mile south of Kingfi sher.

• Aberdeen Land Services – two four-inch gas lines located seven miles south of Omega.

Additionally, Targa NGL Pipeline Co. received permits for public access driveways in District 3, one located nine miles west of U.S. 81 on EW Road 840 and then .4 mile south on NS 2750 Road on east side and one located .41 mile south of EW 840 Road on NS 2750 Road nine miles west of U.S. 81.

Other attendees at the meeting included County Engineer Nik Smith, Pipeline Inspector Cody Murray, Alex Wilson of Bearcom (water service) and Brooks Pollard of Targa Pipeline.