Kingfisher County Commissioners Monday called for bids on an Emergency Management mobile command center. The bid calls for the purchase of a trailer with necessary equipment to be taken to emergency sites to assist with emergency and relief efforts.

Bids will be received until 4 p.m. Aug. 1 at the office of County Clerk Emily Lee and will be opened at the regular meeting of the Kingfisher County Board of County Commissioners.

Specifications for the bid will be available at the purchasing agent in the county clerk’s office or online at Kingfisher. okcounties. org under the bids tab.

Commissioners took several actions related to fiscal year 2025 operations during the meeting including:

• Approval of resolutions regarding state reimbursements to the county clerk’s office and the district attorney’s office indicating how the funds are to be processed;

• Approval of a resolution dealing with the breakdown of the county’s one-half cent sales tax, i.e.

free fair, 6.0%; Emergency 911, 9.0%; county sheriff, 15.0%; county extension, 8.0%; capital improvements, 15.0%; libraries, 2% (1% to Kingfisher and 1% to Hennessey); county commissioners, 28% (dividing the funds equally between the three districts); museum, 4% and fire departments, 13% (divided equally among the county’s eight fire departments).

The BOCC also enacted the following agenda items: the minutes of the preceding week’s meeting, the agenda for this week’s meeting, purchase orders, warrants and payroll for July 7, monthly reports of the sheriff, county clerk, assessor, health department and court clerk, the resolution for the breakdown of the county halfcent sales tax, adoption of the cafeteria plan for county employees for fiscal year 2025-26, a renewal of a contract with Entero Services, LLC, of Enid (drug testing and screening) and monthly appropriations for the month of June.

Commission Chairman Anthony Schwarz, District 3, announced he would attend the county excise-equalization board, of which he is a member, at 9:45 a.m. Wednesday.

Attending the meeting, in addition to commissioners – Schwarz, District 3; Mike Sparks, District 2, and Jeff Moss, District 1 – were County Clerk Lee, as official minute clerk, County Engineer Nik Smith, Sheriff Aaron Pitts, Emergency Management Director Ryan Deatherage, Kevin Lane and citizen visitor Kelly Buck.