Kingfisher County commissioners scored nine requests for funding from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) at their weekly meeting.

The rigorous procedure requires reviewing each request against a federal government rating sheet to determine the necessity for funding.

Commission Chairman Heath Dobrovolny said scores of 10 to 15 are required to qualify for funding.

Commissioners Ray Alan Shimanek, District 2, and Jeff Moss, District 1, joined Dobrovolny in assessing each request.

The next step is submitting the rating sheets for each project to the state auditor and inspector’s office for affirmation.

Dobrovolny said that if a grant does not meet federal requirements, ARPA funding can be rescinded.

The county qualified for $3.06 million under ARPA.

Ratings applied to the county requests follow in the order they were considered with the scores listed in parentheses:

1. Purchase of new Personal Protective Equipment (PPE-Bunker) gear for Hennessey Fire Department. (10).

2. Purchase of new Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCB) for Hennessey Fire Department. (11).

3. Hennessey Fire Department expansion (adding 1,100 square feet (three rooms, including kitchen for preparation of emergency meals). (13).

4. Purchase of new ambulance for City of Kingfisher (to replace 2003 model ambulance). (10).

5. Purchase of PPE-Bunker gear for Loyal Fire Department (10). 6.Purchase of PPE ex

6.Purchase of PPE extractor to decontaminate bunker gear for Loyal Fire Department. (11).

7. Purchase of SCBA cascade filing system for Loyal Fire Department. (11). 8. Kingfisher Rural Wa

8. Kingfisher Rural Water District No. 3 replacement of 30-year-old line. (14).

9. Okarche RWD replacement of 40-year-old line. (14.)

Commissioners approved the purchase of three John Deere road graders from Cummins Equipment – one for $218,500, one for $236,000 and one for$207,500. The price varied on amount of usage. All three graders have warranties to 4,000 hours of usage.

Commissioners awarded a contract to Horn and Son to replace a bridge on East Bowman Avenue (by the Kingfisher Golf Course) in District 1 on the low bid of $29,000 plus $25 per foot for additional piling over 40 foot driving and welding. Other bids were received from Rick Dietz, $38,000 and $60 per foot over 40 foot driving and welding, and Railroad Yard, $43,900 plus $35 per foot for additional welding for piling over 40 foot – $250 per splice.

Commissioners declared as surplus a backhoe bucket for District 3, four items for District 1 including a 2015 Freightliner truck, a Gregory underground fuel tank, two Gasboy pumps and an Elkway water fountain and a Savin printer for the coun ty clerk’s office. Three right-of-way permits were approved for water lines – one in District 2 for a 10-inch line for produced water to be disposed of underground at a location four miles east of Dover, one for a three-inch fresh water line for Ovintiv three miles east and four miles south of Kingfisher and one for K&J Construction, a 12-inch line located at a point 10 miles east of the U.S. 81-Dover Crescent Road intersection and three miles south in District 1. Commissioners approved safety award bonuses for full-time county roadway employees (half that amount for part-time employees). County Clerk Jeannie Boevers announced that the county’s 2022 fiscal year budget was filed Wednesday, Nov. 10, with the state auditor’s office and has a 15- day protest period, ending Nov. 24. Boevers served as minute clerk. Also attending the meeting were County Engineer Nik Smith and Sheriff Dennis Banther. Dobrovolny reported a movie company had made a request to shoot footage at the county’s new county jail. Banther said he had no problem with the project.