Emotions ran high at Monday's Alfalfa County commissioners meeting as longtime county employee Vernon Sanders addressed Marvin Woodall, Jay Hague, and Mike Roach about the upcoming change to his employment status. Besides Sanders, Alfalfa County Sheriff Rick Wallace was in the gallery. Sanders, the jail administrator, took the floor after the commissioners signed the routine paperwork of previous meeting minutes, maintenance and operation payment warrants, monthly officer reports, and blanket purchase orders.

"I would like to start out by saying thank you to the county commissioners for puttin...