Alva Review-Courier -

Nate Ross, Mike Roach and Garret Johnson – Alfalfa County's Board of Commissioners – met Monday morning to tackle a short agenda. They first handled routine items like the approval of minutes, blanket purchase orders and M&O warrants for payment.

The three men then signed a resolution stating the county had determined a need for an employee personnel policy handbook to be uniformly applied to all employees and that it would significantly improve communications between the county and its workers.

In addition, the resolution stated the handbook promoted fairness in employment and assisted in the prevention of discrimination of employment of any nature. The resolution comes as officials recently changed vacation and sick leave verbiage on page 31 of the employee handbook.

Effective Feb. 21, 2023, employees who have already reached their eight-year anniversary shall be granted the extra week of vacation immediately. The handbook lays out the details with an added sentence: This is at the discretion of the elected official/supervisor.

Next, the commissioners signed a bid auction notice for a 2006 International 7600 Semi (Inv. no. D3 302-316, Serial no. 1HSWYAHR46J390400) for Sturgeon's Truck and Tractor Sales in Meno. The auction will be held on April 3 at 9 a.m.

After that, they approved County Clerk Laneta Schwerdtfeger (who was joined at the table by Lacey Roquemore) to go out on a bid for a new or used fire truck for Helena Responders. The last few agenda items only took a few minutes – they approved a private property access easement for the NW¼ of 16-25-9 to clean out a waterway and then a payment of reimbursement request no. 2 for the Amorita REAP grant (no. AL23-1), using REAP funds and Amorita funds.

Commissioners removed a project from the CIRB 5-year plan for District 1 (JP no. 35415) STP/BR Low Water Crossing, NS 252 EW3.4. Then they accepted a project as complete, signing the affidavit for completion form for Amorita REAP grant no. AL23-1.