Kingfisher County commissioners opened six bids Monday on a project to build an addition to the District 1 shop and tabled action until next week’s meeting to allow time to study them.

Bids ranged in cost for the basic structure from $249,860 to $518,000.

Bids in the order they were opened included:

• RPC Operations, $249,860;

• Henson Construction, $257,000; • Calm Construction, $262,777;

• Box Construction, $265,994;

• Rick Scott, $288,373, and,

• Terra Construction, $518,000.

Commissioners called for bids to purchase a 2020 or newer six-wheel drive motor grader for District 3. Bid specifications are available at the county clerk’s office in the courthouse and will be received until 4 p.m. Oct. 4 and opened at the commission’s regular meeting Oct. 7.

Commissioners voted to retain the services of Andrew Karim, who has left the firm of Harrison and Mecklenburg and opened his own law office in Oklahoma City, as the county’s attorney on oil and gas matters.

District 3 Commissioner Ray Alan Shimanek moved for the action and the board voted unanimously to retain Karim.

In other action, the board approved removing Greg Smith as requisitioning officer for Cashion Fire Department and adding Walker Piat in that position, adding Reece Christian as receiving officer for Cashion Fire Department and adding Taylor Winter as requisitioning officer for the District 3 Commissioner District, approved monthly activity reports from the sheriff, county clerk, assessor and health department and okayed the following right-of-way permits for four county road actions in District 1:

• Howard Drilling – 12inch lay flat pipeline located four miles north and one mile east of Kingfisher;

• K&J Construction – 12-inch and three inch pipelines located four miles north and four miles east of Kingfisher;

• BCE -Mach III Midstream Holdings, LLC – 1-inch poly line located seven miles east and one mile south of Kingfisher, and,

• Cox Communications – line located one mile south of Cashion.

All commissioners were present – Jeff Moss, District 1, chairman; Shimanek, District 2, vice-chairman, and Anthony Schwarz, District 3 – as well as County Clerk Jeannie Boevers, minute clerk; County Engineer Nik Smith and guests, Haskell Henson of Henson Construction, Heather Hendricks of Box Construction and Tanner Richards of RPC Operations.