Kingfisher County commissioners opened bids from potential contractors to provide blacktop work on county roads Monday.

Such projects don’t begin until temperatures reach 70 degrees and rising – late spring and summer.

The county is using a new system this year, buying the oil and rock itself and then hiring a contractor to apply the materials.

Last year the county received no bids on its solicitation to provide a total package job.

Zyzer LLC of Kingfisher submitted the low bid on the application work – 18.2 cents per square yard to provide a prime coat in all three districts, 51.2 cents per square yard for an application of CRS-2S oil and a single coat of rock and a bid of 90.5 cents per square yard for a double application of CRS-2S oil and three-fourths inch and five-eighths inch rock.

Circle C Paving of Kansas submitted higher bids on each portion of the work, including 39 cents per square yard for a prime coat, 79 cents per square yard for one coat of CRS-2S oil and one coat of threefourth or five-eighth inch rock or $1.58 per square yard for application of CRS-2S oil and application of both five-eighth and three-fourth inch rock.

Coastal Energy Corporation submitted a bid of $2.94 per gallon for 35 miles of CRS-2S oil and $2.38 per gallon for 54,912 gallons of Prime Coat for 13 miles of new blacktop this year.

The prime coat integrates into the roads’ base facilitating oil and chip work on the road surface.

Vance Brothers submitted the second low bids of $3.11 per gallon for CRS-2S oil and $2.96 per gallon for Prime Coat-AEP.

Commission Chairman Heath Dobrovolny said the prime coat oil is required for presentlydirtorrocktopped roads commissioners are planning to blacktop this year.

This will be the first year the county has contracted with Zyzer for the work.

Dobrovolny told Zyzer representative Andrew Martin that commissioners would contact Zyzer soon to coordinate the work schedule.

All three county commissioner districts are currently receiving and stockpiling rock for the paving work.

Commissioners also proclaimed Farm Bureau Week in Kingfisher County Feb. 20-24, next Monday through Friday.

County Farm Bureau directors Mike McGee of Hennessey, Tom Edgar of Kingfisher and Kyle Glazier of Loyal joined County Commissioners Dobrovolny, District 3; Ray Alan Shimanek, District 2, and Jeff Moss, District 1, and Douglas Hauser, Farm Bureau Agent in Kingfisher, for the proclamation signing.

Commissioners also approved • A county health insurance group option for the fiscal year 2023-24 at a cost of $775.96 a month, a 5% increase over last year,

• Publication of county salaries for the year,

• A resolution disposing of a wall modem for the office of County Clerk Jeannie Boevers and disposal of the security box emergency notification system for all county offices, disposal of two tractors for each commissioner district as trade-ins for new tractors with full warranty (made vital by federal emission standards on tractors),

• Two right-of-way permits for pipelines crossing county roads, one in District 2 and one in District 1,

• An executive discussion (closed to the public) for communications with attorneys regarding a federal court lawsuit CIV22-320-JD in the western district of Oklahoma filed by Melissa Stanford related to a traffic accident against Kingfisher County,

• The appointment of Trevor Rogers to the 522 Emergency Management Service Board of Crescent, succeeding Gary Duncan, who resigned, and,

• A $1,934 payment to Circuit Engineering District 8 for bridge inspections in all county districts.

Shimanek reported he would be attending a CED #8 board meeting, representing the county, and Dobrovolny said he would be attending two Association of County Commissioners of Oklahoma (ACCO) meetings on Thursday.

Boevers served as official minute clerk and County Engineer Nik Smith assisted with the bid openings.