Kingfisher County commissioners approved the bid of Circle C Paving of Lawton to apply chips and oil on roads in all three districts Monday at their regular weekly meeting.

Commission Chairman Anthony Schwarz said he figured the cost for all county districts and determined that the Circle C bid would save the county $600,000 overall.

The oil and chip coats are typically applied during the warmer months.

County staff tabulated the bids figuring cost for rock and oil type per mile, the totals by category for which were included in the official meeting agenda.

Those tabulations will appear in the legal publication in the Kingfisher Times and Free Press.

District 2 Commissioner Mike Sparks reported during the meeting that the Hennessey town board had scheduled a meeting this week to consider the transfer of a tract of land adjacent to the county shop to be made available to District 2 to expand the shop.

Sparks said he planned to add chips to the property to expand the county’s equipment parking area.

“It’s a win-win deal for everyone,” Sparks commented.

Schwarz announced that the county extension staff has moved into its new quarters at the county fairgrounds in Kingfisher and the trailers which had been used for temporary offices were being moved off the property this week.

Commissioners also approved the annual contract with Oklahoma State University to supply education services to county residents.

Under the contract, OSU provides the staff and salaries and the county provides the offices.

It also was announced that City-County Emergency Management Director Ryan Deatherage has been named “manager of the year” by the Northwest Oklahoma OEM organization.

Other actions during the meeting included the following:

• Approval of continuing the maintenance agreement with Morrison Lawn Services for the courthouse area at an annual cost of $16,800;

• Approval of the monthly reports of the offices of county clerk, assessor, treasurer, sheriff department, health department, election board and court clerk;

• Approval of a resolution declaring as surplus a 2011 executive chair for the court clerk;

• Approvalofa$2,705.50 bridge inspection invoice from Circuit Engineering District 8;

• Approval of an Oklahoma Department of Transportation grant application for three county bridges for the ODOT competitive highway bridge program for assistance in building three county bridges;

• Approval of a rightof way permit for Ovintiv to install a three-inch poly pipe across a county road at a point six miles east and three miles north of Okarche in District 1, and,

• Approval of appropriations and transfers for the month of February 2025.

Present for the meeting were all county commissioners – Schwarz, District 3; Jeff Moss, District 1, vice chairman, and Sparks, District 2 – County Clerk Emily Lee, official minute clerk,County Engineer Nik Smith, Deatherage, Sheriff Aaron Pitts and citizen visitor Kelly Buck.