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On Monday the Woods County commissioners welcomed three visitors asking for permission to use county property for upcoming events. Joe Phillips said the Big Cruise and Car Show is scheduled for Sept. 18-20. He requested use of the courthouse lawn and parking lot as in past years. This will be the 20th year for the event.

Charla Parker asked the commissioners for use of the courthouse lawn and the courthouse lobby for the Nescatunga Arts Festival on June 6.

On behalf of the Alva Goldbug Education Foundation, Lisabeth Richey asked for the use of the courthouse lawn on July 4 for the Alva all-school reunion. She said the last reunion for all graduates was held in 2000. Plans are for a parade with a lunch on the square that includes food trucks. She said they’d plan to set up tables and chairs the afternoon before.

The commissioners approved all three requests.

A road crossing permit for OG&E was approved. The commissioners approved adding Brooke Meyer as a Free Fair Board requisitioning officer in addition to Kevin Pingelton.

The county received one bid for a 1994 International truck. The commissioners accepted the $345.67 bid by Gary Perks.

The commissioners approved declaring a Savin copier for District 2 as surplus. It will be traded in on a newer model. A computer from the OSU Extension Office was declared surplus and will be junked. A radio repeater antenna and five radios were also declared as surplus. The repeater had been on an ODOT tower in the southern part of the county. It is being replaced by a new unit on a different tower.

The commissioners spent some time going over a right of way entrance agreement for District 3. Commissioner John Smiley wanted to make some changes because not all approaches needed the same size and material for culverts. The agreement was amended to allow the commissioner to approve what materials are to be used in each location.

All property rights have been obtained for the Green Leaf Creek Project. The commissioner approved the ODOT claim form in the amount of $1,900 assigned to Pinnacle Consulting Management Group, Inc. on that project.

To correct a previous action, the commissioners voted to rescind the Bobcat quote approved last week. Instead they approved the state contract quote to purchase the Bobcat compact track loader through a REAP grant for wildfire mitigation equipment for the Woods County Conservation District. The change was needed to take out the $11,000 trade-in amount which is being used as matching funds for the grant.

Commissioner Randy McMurphy explained that a request for records from the offices of Janye Jarnigan Robertson, P.C. involves a lawsuit against the Redgates and their Major County land. The records request is for any records from 2005 to date involving Woods County mining or removing of gyp rock from that Major County location. McMurphy showed Smiley and David Hamil his reply letter stating that Woods County has no records of receiving any gyp rock from that location. The commissioners approved that response.

The commissioners approved and signed payroll, warrants, claims and blanket purchase orders.