The county is moving forward with the purchase of a building that will serve as the new home of the Kingfisher County Health Department, but possibly at a renegotiated price.

Kingfisher County commissioners on Monday unanimously approved the inspection of the building, which is located at 421 W. Bowman Ave. in Kingfisher, during their regular weekly meeting.

The inspection was performed last Wednesday by A to Z Commercial Inspections of Oklahoma City, which listed seven areas that needed to be repaired or evaluated before closing.

Those areas included the exterior, roof and attic, appliances, plumbing, electrical, HVAC and interior.

“I think we need to go over this as a group and see what is necessary and what is cosmetic,” said Commission Chairman Heath Dobrovolny in discussion prior to the action item to approve the inspection.

“I think a lot of this is cosmetic.”

Commissioners agreed the primary concerns were the issues raised with the roof, electrical, plumbing and HVAC.

In all, the inspection estimated repairs to cost between $13,800 and $20,575.

The primary concerns account for $5,550 to $8,150 of that.

Dobrovolny said the interior will be reconfigured and the building’s current appliances won’t be put to use, so those areas weren’t concerning.

Some of the exterior issues, such as repairing cracks in concrete, also weren’t major concerns, according to commissioners.

“Some of those things would be more concerning if we were talking about a brand-new building, but we’re not,” Commissioner Ray Alan Shimanek added.

The building was constructed in 1988.

The inspection report said the building’s structure was sound.

Kyle Slagell of Davis Properties LLC, a real estate agency out of Weatherford, is brokering the sale and was present at Monday’s meeting.

Slagell asked commissioners if they would be agreeable to a reduction in price that would cover the estimated costs if the seller also agreed to that as opposed to the seller making the repairs.

Commissioners all said that was a viable option.

The commission voted last week to approve the purchase of the 5,000 square-foot building, located just west of the former Kingfisher Regional Hospital location, for $250,000.

The building will be paid for entirely from health department budget savings which have been set aside solely for this purpose for the last 20 years, Dobrovolny said.

Health department personnel appeared at a recent meeting to request new quarters for the office due to structural problems in the courthouse annex, where the department is currently located.

The closing date for the new building is Oct. 29, but commissioners told Slagell they’d be willing to move up the date if possible.

In other action Monday, commissioners approved:

• A pair of annual service agreements to provide temporary juvenile detention services. One was with Western Plains Youth and Family Services, which would provide services at Northwest Oklahoma Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Woodward. The other was with ROCMND Area Youth Services for use of the facility at Craig County Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Vinita;

• A resolution to vacate about one mile of County Road NS2960 between EW710 and EW720. Notice of the commissioners’ intentions ran in a legal publication in three previous editions of the Times & Free Press;

• A request from the Dover Fire Department to request bids to convert a 1995 Freightliner into a tanker truck apparatus. The bids will be accepted until 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 13, and opened at the commission’s regular meeting on Aug. 16;

• A Kingfisher County Emergency Management performance grant request form in the amount of $5,000 for the third quarter. Emergency Management Director Steve Loftis, who attended the meeting, said the form was necessary in order for his department to receive the third quarter payment.