Kingfisher County received a rebate of $23,325.64 from its worker’s compensation insurance, an item on the county commissioners’ meeting agenda Monday related.

Chairman Heath Dobrovolny said the rebate came because of zero worker’s compensation claims for the 2017-18 policy year.

Dobrovolny, who sits on the Association of County Commissioners (ACCO) workers’ comp insurance board called the rebate satisfying because it not only saved the county money but it showed county employees were safe in their working environment.

He said a majority of counties recorded similar results with only the top 10 in claims failing to receive rebates.

County commissioners approved purchases of computer-related systems for two county offices during the meeting.

One was an Information Technology (IT) service agreement as needed for the county assessor’s Landmark Operating System through Oklahoma State University’s Center for Local Government Technology.

The other was a scanning system for the county engineer’s office.

Dobrovolny said the system would be used to scan and digitalize the county engineer’s office aging maps and other documents, preserving them.

City-County Emergency Manager Steve Loftis reported an increase of five in the county’s coronavirus cases as of Monday — to 73 from 68 last week and listed the following cases by community: Cashion nine, Dover three, Hennessey 15, Kingfisher 37, Loyal three and Okarche six. Omega had none.

He reported also that the state released a corrected list of covid cases this week showing Kingfisher County with 39 deaths.

The year-to-date totals for Kingfisher County included 2,134 total cases with 2,061 recovered.

Commissioners approved election board and district attorney reimbursement forms for February and March, monthly reports for the court clerk preservation fund and election board, and office appropriations for March.

Three pipeline road crossing permits received approval:

• K&J Construction Co. for a 12-inch frac line located three miles south and three miles east of Hennessey, District 2, and,

• Ovintiv — permits for four eight-inch carbon steel lines all located in the same vicinity — four miles east and two miles south of Loyal, District 3.

Several county meetings were scheduled for the week, including a wind farm meeting with Canadian County, a county excise board meeting Wednesday and an ACCO health plan committee meeting Thursday.

Present besides Commissioners Dobrovolny, District 3, Ray Alan Shimanek, District 2, and Jeff Moss, District 1, were County Clerk Jeannie Boevers as minute clerk, Loftis and County Engineer Nik Smith.