Budget Board approves fund transfer, Court Clerk’s new filing system
The LeFlore County Budget Board made two major approvals during its Monday morning meeting at the LeFlore County Court House. The Budget Board approved a $1,219.13 transfer from the Emergency Management fund to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) fund for repair done on a tailgate of a LeFlore County Emergency Management vehicle.
The other big approval by the board was to approve LeFlore County Court Clerk Melba Hall to install a new filing system on the first floor of the LeFlore County Annex Building. Hall told the board that she is running out of space for files in her second-floor office. She said that, while some files that could be destroyed have been, there are other files which cannot be destroyed. Hall said that her revolving fund would pay for the installation.
The Budget approved Hall to send out bids for the installation of new counters with face shields in her office. Both Board Chairman Craig Olive and LeFlore County Deputy Clerk and Board Secretary Jedd Kirby said that should a bid be approved that the cost could likely be paid from the either the county’s remaining Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act funds or American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds.
The board also approved the end-ofthe month appropriations.
In the last of Monday morning’s tripleheader of meetings, the LeFlore County Commissioners approved a construction project for Merle Branch Road and approved the fiscal year 2022-23 contract between LeFlore County and the Tulsa County Juvenile Detention Center Home.
The County Commissioners also approved purchase orders, payroll, bonds, monthly fee reports, transfer of appropriations, blanket purchase orders and the two ongoing bridge construction projects — one a mile east of Shady Point over the Poteau River and the other on Brazil Creek Road south of Oklahoma State Highway 31 and west of Shady Point.
The middle meeting of Monday morning’s tripleheader of meetings was the LeFlore County Building Authority, in which the board took no action on any item.