Budget Board, Commissioners slate Monday morning meetings

Both the LeFlore County Budget Board and the LeFlore County Commissioners will have meetings Monday morning at the LeFlore County Court House.

In the 8:30 a.m. Budget Board meeting, the board will look to take action on the request from LeFlore County Assessor Gaylon E. Freeman to raise per diem rate for LeFlore County employee travel from the current $35 daily limit to $40, and the board also will look to approve any appropriation(s) and/ or transfer(s) of funds.

In the 9 a.m. County Commissioners meeting, the board may approve declaring a burn ban. At Tuesday’s meeting, LeFlore County Emergency Management Director Dennis Yochum told the board that LeFlore County likely will meet the qualifications for a burn ban to be issued next week.

The Commissioners also will look, after having a public hearing, to approve vacating/closing all of what is called “Buck Creek Road Cut Through” road, to approve the engagement letter between Wells, Wann and Company to prepare the county budgets, to approve LeFlore County Treasurer April Caughern’s monthly report of officers for June, to approve a contract between LeFlore County and Western Plains Youth and Family Services for Northwest Oklahoma regional Juvenile Detention Services, to review the official certificate of votes from the June 28 primary elections as submitted by the LeFlore County Election Board, to approve a resolution to change the signer of the credit card held at Central National Bank from Dan Carter to David Mitch Sutter, to approve changing the receiving officer from Karen Nolen to Lacrisha Southerland and the requisitioning officer from Sherrie Smith to Kellie Christenberry for the benefit of Caughern and to approve the fiscal year 2022-23 Emergency Management operations plan.

The board likely will approve purchase orders, payroll, bonds, monthly fee reports, transfer of appropriations, blanket purchase orders, contract labor/service agreements and the two ongoing bridge construction projects — one a mile east Shady Point over the Poteau River and the other on Brazil Creek Road south of Oklahoma State Highway 31 and west of Shady Point.

If there is any old or new business and/or any pay estimates due Robinson Construction for its work on the final phase of the Conser Road Project, the board likely will take care of these matters.