The Woods County commissioners approved purchasing some equipment for two county fire departments at their meeting Monday morning. Waynoka Fire Department will receive four sets of bunker gear and lights for a tanker totaling $11,393. Greenleaf Fire Department will get $4,119 worth of smoke respirators. Emergency Management Director Ethan Feidler presented the information and said both departments had enough money in their accounts.

On another agenda item, Feidler said the memorandum of understanding between Woods County Emergency Management and Grant County Emergency Management is the same as in the past. The commissioners approved the agreement for Swift 911 notification with Woods County answering Grant County calls.

Road crossing permits for Marsau Enterprises were approved. Two or three roads will be crossed with the City of Alva waterline replacement project south of Alva. Commissioner Randy McMurphy said the permit fee was waived.

A juvenile detention services agreement was signed with the Sax and Fox Nation in the amount of $23 per child.

The commissioners approved the Woods County temporary appropriations for FY 2021-2022 totaling $10,784,893.14 which is 80 percent of last year’s budget. The county health department estimate of needs in the amount of $795,000 was also approved. McMurphy said the health department is self-sufficient with a mill levy and carryover.

Jennifer Shafer hurried to join the meeting for bid openings. The commissioners directed her to open, tabulate, validate and categorize the six month bids. The commissioner will vote on them at a later meeting.

Likewise, they told Shafer to open and validate the annual ballot bids for printing election ballots. She is to go over them with Election Board Secretary Sandra Koehn before the commissioner take action on them.

A request by the Alva Chamber of Commerce to use the courthouse lawn July 15-17 for Crazy Bingo Game Night and Crazy Days was approved.

The commissioners voted to declare a computer and server from the treasurer’s office as surplus to be junked.

Treasurer David Manning presented his annual Resale Property Fund Financial Statement which he said is required by June 30. The commissioners approved it.

Monthly reports submitted by county department were approved. They included:

Assessor Collections $245.00

County Clerk Office Collections $14,162.11

Court Clerk Office Balance $140,002.48

Court Clerk RM&P Balance $5,842.77

Election Board Balance $3,827.14

Health Department Collections $0.00

Treasurer’s Office Balance $12,070.75

The commissioners approved a bridge invoice and report, warrants and claims, monthly appropriations and blanket purchase orders.