Kingfisher County commissioners Monday accepted the low bid of $1,059,000 submitted by Calm Construction Co. of Yukon to build a new county OSU Extension Center office on the county fairgrounds.

Bids on the project were opened a week earlier.

Kingfisher County Extension director Bryan Kennedy said Monday he hoped work could begin on the new office this week.

He said he had reviewed the bid documents and investigated the low bidder and was satisfied on all counts.

Commissioners tabled action on the bids after opening them at the preceding week’s meeting so that they could be inspected more fully.

Commission Chairman Heath Dobrovolny said he would advise Calm Construction of its selection as contractor and would ascertain a starting date on the building at that time.

Calm Construction indicated on its bid document that construction would be completed in 36 weeks after start.

Ten companies submitted bids on the project. The highest was $1,536,260.

The project will not go on county tax rolls as the extension service has been saving money over a period of years to pay for it.

The former extension office in the Courthouse Annex was abandoned after plumbing problems occurred there and has been operating out of a temporary facility on the fairgrounds.

Commissioners declared Feb. 19-23 as Farm Bureau Week in the county with representatives of the county Farm Bureau board on hand for a photograph with the board of county commissioners.

The proclamation cited Farm Bureau’s efforts to support agricultural producers and build the county’s economy.

See the proclamation in an advertisement elsewhere in this edition.

In other action commissioners approved monthly reports of the election board, court clerk and court clerk preservation fund, declarations of surplus, mostly radio equipment for the offices of the Kingfisher Fire Department and Kingfisher County Sheriff’s Department in preparation for a new communication system for the county, declaration as surplus of a 1999 Peterbilt truck for the Cashion Fire Department and a 1993 Mack Luverne pumper- tanker for the Omega Fire Department and the following right-of-way permits for pipeline crossings of county roads: • Howard Drilling En- terprises – 10-inch lay flat line four miles north and three miles west of Kingfi sher, District 1.

• BCE-Mach III Mid- stream – a 12-inch lay flat line and a 10-inch poly line located three miles south and five miles east of Hennessey and a 10-inch poly line located three miles south and four miles east of Hennessey, all in District 2.

• MPLXIF – two four- inch gas lines, one located one mile west and three miles north of Okarche and the second three miles north and three miles west of Okarche, both in District 3 All commissioners were present for the meeting – Dobrovolny, District 3, Ray Alan Shimanek, District 2, and Jeff Moss, District 1 –along with County Clerk Jeannie Boevers as official minute clerk and Farm Bureau Representatives Rachel Bryant, Tom Edgar, Mike McGee, Randall Newton and Rusty Nail.