Preliminary planning on two District 1 bridges received action Monday at Kingfisher County commissioners weekly meeting.

Payment of legal fees of $430.23 to the law firm of Durbin, Larimore and Bialick of Oklahoma City received approval for condemnation of 1.07 acres for Uncle John Creek bridge on East Robberts Avenue at the east edge of Kingfisher.

guidelines, according to a letter to District 1 Commissioner Jeff Moss regarding the project. Pinnacle will provide ODOT and the county with copies of all necessary paper work as the project progresses. Projection of the cost for the right-of-way acquisition, including title investigation, easement preparation, staking, including a management fee of $5,000 is $32,000. Commissioners approved accepting county election board and district attorney state reimbursement fees for the months of June and July. Additionally, permits for pipeline road-crossing projects were approved as follow: • BWM VI, LLC – two eight-inch poly lines in District 1 located one mile north and two and three miles east of Kingfisher. • Marathon Oil Co. – 12-inch lay flat line located one mile east and three miles south of Omega, and eight-inch poly line located one mile east and four miles south of Omega, District 3. • Iofina Resources – three-inch poly line located seven miles west and three miles south of Kingfisher, District 3. • BCE-Mach III Midstream Holdings –two 10 Commissioners approved Pinnacle Consulting Management Group for work on the Phillips Bridge over Kingfisher Creek on East 760 Road, northeast of Kingfisher.

Commissioners utilized the help of ODOT in selecting Pinnacle for the Kingfi sher Creek Bridge project, which will be constructed largely using CIRB (County Improvements for Roads and Bridges) funds.

This state funded program through ODOT provides funding for construction or reconstruction of county roads or bridges on the county highway system that are of the highest priority as defined by the Transportation Commission. The program consists of state apportionments from the Motor Vehicle Collection Tax of 120 million dollars per state fiscal year. The monthly apportionments are divided in equal amounts between the eight ODOT Transportation Commission Districts.

A five-year construction work plan, updated annually, is cooperatively developed and maintained by the Circuit Engineering Districts and the Local Government Division at ODOT.The acquisition of the necessary right-of-way for the project will be acquired under the ODOT Local Public Agency (LPA) inch ploy lines, one located one mile north and five miles east of Kingfisher and one located one mile north and six miles east of Kingfi sher, District 1.

• Enlink Midstream – three four-inch flex steel gas lines located as follow in District 3: five miles south of Omega, four miles south of Omega and two miles east and four miles south of Omega.

Present for the meeting in addition to commissioners Moss, District 1, Ray Alan Shimanek, District 2, and Heath Dobrovolny, District 3, were County Clerk, Jeannie Boevers , minute clerk, County Engineer Nik Smith, who reminded that a pre-construction meeting on the courthouse parking lot project would be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, and 9-1-1 coordinator Ryan Deatherage who said he would be attending meetings Tuesday in Weatherford and Wednesday in Watonga.