Minutes, September 6, 2005

ELLSWORTH COUNTY COMMISSION MEETING

MINUTES

SEPTEMBER 6, 2005

The Board of Ellsworth County Commissioners convened this 6^th day of September 2005 at the Ellsworth County Courthouse.

Members Present:

Lavel Heitschmidt, 1^st District Commissioner

Kermit Rush, 2^nd District Commissioner

Terry L. Kueser, 3^rd District Commissioner

1. OPENING BUSINESS:

Chairman Rush called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m.

Commissioner Kueser moved to approve the Agenda as printed.

Commissioner Heitschmidt seconded the motion. Motion carried 3-0.

Commissioner Kueser moved to approve the Minutes of August 29, 2005.

Commissioner Heitschmidt seconded the motion. Motion carried 3-0.

No one was present for the Public Forum.

2. APPOINTMENTS:

Roger Pearson, ECMC Administrator, and David Brownback, President of Citizens State Bank, met with the Commissioners on the proposed hospital revenue bond. Bond counsel, Kevin Cowan, was unable to attend. Mr. Brownback explained that he had been contacted by Gold Capital Management, Inc. of Wichita wanting to underwrite the issue. Rather than going for a public offering, competitive private placement proposals were sent out to four financial institutions. Two responded and Gold Capital had the best offer and Mr. Cowan and Mr. Brownback recommended using Gold Capital as the underwriter. However, due the fact that Mr. Pearson had to have confirmation from his board on the amended payment plan, the Commissioners felt they could not pass the resolution for issuance of the bonds until that approval was forthcoming. Mr. Pearson will schedule a meeting with his board and the Commissioner’s will recess until September 8^th and reconsider the resolution at that time. Mr. Pearson presented the financial report for July showing a loss of $125,291.

Patti Booher, Ellsworth City Clerk, introduced the new Ellsworth City Administrator, Jonathan Mitchell, to the Commissioners.

Dave Smith, Ellsworth Police Chief, invited the Commissioner toa meeting September 13^th at 7:00 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center to set up a committee to help a family from the disaster area of Louisana relocate to Ellsworth County. He will be working with Alan Byerley and the meeting will be exploratory one to see when and how this can come about.

Ronda Kasiska, Health Supervisor, and John Bowden, Morton Buildings, presented plans for a building to be erected on the north side of the Health building to serve as a garage and storage area. The building will be 30 x 38 and the cost of the building alone would be $19,440. There would need to be subs for the concrete flooring, electrical and dirt work. With all of that added in, the cost of the building would be approximately $28,000. Commissioner Kueser questioned the expenditure of that amount for storage when space would be available at the building the hospital is purchasing and if the car needed to be housed in a garage. After much discussion, Commissioner Heitschmidt moved to enter into a contract with Morton Buildings, Inc. for a 30 x 38 building with a partitioned storage area for the Health Department. Commissioner Rush seconded the motion. Motion carried 2-1.

3. OLD BUSINESS:

There were no old business items.

4. NEW BUSINESS:

Commissioner Kueser moved to approve accounts payable for August in the amount of $328,955.70. Commissioner Heitschmidt seconded the motion. Motion carried 3-0.

5. ADJOURNMENT:

Chairman Rush recessed the meeting to Thursday, September 8^th at 8:00 a.m.

 

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Janet L. Andrews, Ellsworth County Clerk