Kingfisher County Commissioners accepted the low bid of $39,200 from American Fence Co. to remove and replace fencing at the Chisholm Trail Museum at their weekly meeting Monday.

Museum Curator Jason Harris recommended the action after studying the three bids which were read at the meeting. A fourth bid was declined and went unread because it did not contain the required non-collusion affidavit.

Other bids submitted included: $45,650 from Cook Fence and Iron and $47,756.71 from Platinum Fence and Supply.

Commissioners discussed but took no action on a right-of-way matter brought to the meeting as a discussion item by Pinnacle Consulting Management Group related to adding shoulders to S.H. 33 east of Kingfisher.

Chairman Heath Dobrovolny said that he had visited with Ashlee Simmons of Pinnacle last week. He said Simmons reported two tracts of property in the Big 4 area will have to be purchased for the highway program to be completed, one owned by Big 4 Fire Department and the other by Kingfisher County.

Dobrovolny said he had contacted Fire Chief Joey Maschino about the project and the rightof- way offer made for the county tract was the amount the county had paid for the tract.

The paving work is expected to start in six to 12 months.

Also under the discussion part of the meeting, Jasper Merritt of Kingfisher discussed a plan that he said would tie all county phones in one package and save the county money.

Dobrovolny said an accurate phone count would have to be collected before Merritt could prepare an accurate quote for the proposed project.

Commissioners approved a resolution accepting a shale donation from Bryan Best and approved changes to the 911 program due to the resignation of Sheriff Dennis Banther as director of the emergency calling plan.

Banther, Undersheriff Barry Reilly and Deputy Brad Logan were removed as requisition officers and Tresa Jones as receiving officer.

Named to succeed them were chairman of the board of county commissioners and Ryan Deathas requisitioning officers and Emily Lee as receiving officer.

Right-of-way allowance for several projects in District 1 received unanimous approval.

These included: Public Access Drive for Canvas Energy four miles west of the intersection of County Road NS 2900 and EW County Road 790.

And two permits for pipeline crossings as follow:

• Select Energy Services – one located seven miles south and six miles east of Kingfisher, and.

• K&J Construction – two crossings, one located seven miles east and five miles south of Kingfisher, and a second located five miles east of Kingfi sher. District 2 Commissioner Ray Alan Shimanek and District 1 first deputy Dennis Holmes also were present for the meeting. Holmes represented District 1 Commissioner Jeff Moss who is completing convalescence following open heart surgery.

Also attending were County Clerk Jeannie Boevers as official minute clerk, County Engineer Nik Smith, Sheriff Dennis Banther and attorney Paul Schulte, who met with commissioners following the meeting to discuss an annual audit of the Kingfisher County Educational Facility Authority.

Dobrovolny serves as chairman of the authority.

Commissioners approved an agreement to hold the audit.