Board of County Commissioners - Regular Meeting
The Pratt County Board of Commissioners approved a sewage pump repair, handled routine budget and personnel items, and discussed hospital updates and the PRMC lease during multiple executive sessions.
About this meeting
- Government Body
- Board of County Commissioners
- Meeting Type
- Board Of County Commissioners
- Location
- Pratt County, KS
- Meeting Date
- September 28, 2026
Published excerpts
Only published remarks appear here. The full transcript is not published.
28 sections (from 29 segments)
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Yeah. It probably won't be cheaper. No. And after this week, lightning may get the other ones.
Happy Monday. Yeah. Yeah. The only reason I say that is because I was moving the system. And when did it rain last? Friday or Thursday. Thursday. something like that no actually it was last monday because it was after the meeting i went and said it because i was going to spray it tuesday and it was fried i don't know lightning hit real close to the house and i might irrigation systems like this i don't know if it got hit too that lightning was ferocious right ferocious there's been a lot of comments about lightning here in the last few storms i will
And they just told me five, uh, around 5,000 for take out a capital improvement to fix the Uber pump out there.
Very possible. It could go out next year. So, yeah.
I did get my seawood clean, though. I'm ready to initially dry weather.
Yeah, I did. Oh, okay. He already had his out.
I have one out here, but I don't even know where it is.
we'll call that now the next one yeah motion we're going to executive session for how long you think 30 30 minutes for uh non-elected personnel that's discussed for the three appraisals positions removed in second we go into executive session for non-elected personnel
Make a motion to pay uni landscapes. We ran into a little bit of trouble with the sheriff's office. I think they found the old foundation to the old jail house, whatever was there. Caused a problem. So there was a bill for $1,537.02.
Undo the vouchers if you can do it. That's what I was going to say. You probably do the vouchers.
Douglas County Criminal Justice Services for $3,000. That's for a juvenile, correct? I might have to look.
That's what I thought. I don't know for you. No, this is not.
Yeah, did you get your Oktoberfest on and get you a beer rock? That's right. Big crowd. I heard. I heard. Did they run out of beer twice?
Sometimes they kind of come and they go. The weather was a little sticky, but it was a gorgeous night. Yeah, it wasn't 110. It's a good time. It's always fun. There's old people like me. There's older people, younger people. Yeah, it's a funny event.
I'll make a motion to renew our membership to the national association of counties for $450.
yeah i mean wasn't a stone's throw by any means but yeah that day that hit me down there the wind come up because we never really had any wind at the house yeah what night was that thursday wasn't it thursday night in the tornado touchdown mansion council yeah Don't think we're going to get any of that. Just good old-fashioned fall rain, I hope.
I thought I moved for the last time, but it's getting green and growing. Yes.
8,562 actually the county he was talking about posted the wrong budget that i got to republish that oh i don't um i don't know i'm gonna have them gonna create some work for me yeah you know one of our entities is that what you were yeah yeah because i mean it's past the deadline so really it could kick them down to our
Let's just get into that since we got time to kill.
And I was like, huh, that's not going to work for me. Well, I got this one from Vantage. says your county county kansas partner of advantage stays secure and compliant you need to complete the following task by september 28th in order for your company to meet their security compliance commitments and i thought yeah never heard of you yeah if i don't recognize them i just delete it yep that's what i do too i get quite a few emails and say those get out yeah or i call mark and be like did you send this
How long do you think, 30 minutes? Oh, no. I think we probably need to. Now? Okay. I'll make a motion to go into the executive session for attorney and client privilege and put Jack Gawley in here and David Perron, our attorney, to discuss the PRMC lease.
We'll make a motion to come out of executive session. No action taken.
Yeah, gotcha. Is everything going up? Yes.
And I know it's been frustrating and trying to figure it out in there. I'm just glad you're in there. Yeah.
Do you have a question? Brent, I'm just going to say, I think I noticed you, I mean, there's people talk about there were some layoffs, but there's also hiring out there.
Yeah. Yeah. I'll make a motion to go back into executive session for attorney client privilege along with Jack Gawley and David Perron to discuss the PRMC lease for an hour.
think we're pretty close but waiting on response is anybody okay with it too yeah that she's already signed oh okay i'll make a motion to sign the second amendment to the contract for sale of real estate property which would be the old rest home to federally practice the years changes the closing date for that date uh yeah changes the closing date to november 30th 2026.
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