Board of County Commissioners - Regular Meeting

Monday, October 5, 2026Official site

The Pratt County Commissioners approved a bid for Safety Center Lagoon modifications, awarded community corrections vehicle purchases, and discussed poor road conditions on Northeast 5th Road with local residents.

About this meeting

Government Body
Board of County Commissioners
Meeting Type
Board Of County Commissioners
Location
Pratt County, KS
Meeting Date
October 5, 2026

Published excerpts

Only published remarks appear here. The full transcript is not published.

47 sections (from 48 segments)

5:56•Rick Shriver

It's in the instructions, though, right?

6:56•Rick Shriver

I notice in here, and I don't know what to find out. Are you planning on taking out the fence? Putting the fence back?

7:39•Rick Shriver

Is there a way to do it without tearing the fence? I'm not 100% sure.

8:08•Rick Shriver

Well, I just don't see it listed here unless it's under something. Something else.

8:22 – 8:36•Rick Shriver

Yeah. On this deal, are we removing the fence and putting the fence back up? Is that in a group here or is that I know we talked about it or is that something you figured out you didn't need to do?

8:57•Rick Shriver

Okay. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. Thanks, Isaac.

11:20•Rick Shriver

It's not like nobody wasn't busy either.

14:25 – 15:04•Rick Shriver

When you're ready to... Yeah, I'd like to get those three girls in here first before we do a 4-2-30. Gotcha. I saw my motion to go into executive session for non-elected personnel to discuss appraiser position. I'll second the motion. I'm going to have Diana from the appraiser's office, Margo, What's the new ones? Tyrena. Tyrena. I can have those three in here for 15 minutes.

42:31 – 42:48•Rick Shriver

Make a motion. Go back into executive session for 15 minutes for non-elected personnel to discuss the appraiser position with, is Gayla out there? She's in the office with Gayla.

1:01:11•Rick Shriver

He'll agree on for 30 minutes to discuss the BRMC.

1:01:19•Rick Shriver

So I'll wait. Oh, OK. Well, I'll back that up.

1:04:11 – 1:04:35•Rick Shriver

You know, we had some dispatch equipment replaced, and we agreed that we were going to pay a third. 911 was going to pay a third, and the city was going to pay a third. Finally got that total. So I make a motion we pay this out of the 911 employee fund that we're not using.

1:09:13•Rick Shriver

I was just thinking, why is it like on the 9-1-1 fund?

1:10:56•Rick Shriver

I don't know how you not feel that and get up and celebrate and then realize your ankle's completely broke off.

1:11:13•Rick Shriver

Yeah, good game too. That guy had a good game too.

1:56:02 – 1:56:20•Rick Shriver

Yeah, that's what it's certainly like here, because I got two trailblazers, all-wheel drive. Katherine, will you remind me how many you're looking for?

1:57:17 – 1:57:42•Rick Shriver

i think that's okay so you're just trading in one vehicle yes yes okay because this one says there are four requirements for the bed and this one says there's three so and they all have to do with the 2011 for future i think they sent the same copy because we sent and dropped off two separate letters and one had that um where there was the

1:57:45 – 1:58:14•Rick Shriver

Yeah, this is what the trade-in. So they're probably the same, but this one has the trade-in and that one does not. That's why this one's $29,599 and that one's $32,239. Gotcha. I was trying to find the difference. I think that's the difference. Probably. Is the Pugin straighted in on F1C? Yeah. At $2,500. It's not on this one.

1:58:19•Rick Shriver

Yeah. But I don't know. Is that for two? 77 is both of them. 77 is both of them?

1:58:37 – 1:59:00•Rick Shriver

29 but i didn't look at courses of trading on one of those um i believe so it says 38 okay 779 with trading so these together or sixty one thousand nine hundred and ninety eight dollars so and you gotta go on like a beast too oh yeah

1:59:40•Rick Shriver

Yeah, it's just they are 1,500. One's got a. It's this one has the trade in, this one doesn't.

2:01:17 – 2:01:31•Rick Shriver

It's a nice difference that you're pricing Jeeps versus . But it looks like they all fit what you're looking for. It's all wheel drive.

2:01:40•Rick Shriver

It's where we see from Doug Gray and what's it?

2:02:38 – 2:02:49•Rick Shriver

I'll make a motion to approve the bid from Doug Ray for two 2026 Chevrolet Trailblazers all-wheel drive for $61,998.

2:14:12•Rick Shriver

It's Fifth Street's what they call it. Northeast Fifth Street.

2:18:31•Rick Shriver

If you have limestone, once it sets up, it's like... That's really the problem.

2:27:30•Rick Shriver

Yeah, I can see. I can tell when I'm coming back from Wichita. I can tell when somebody's on there. Oh, yeah. Sure, sure. Yeah.

2:29:36•Rick Shriver

We'd have to do a road study. An engineer would have to come in there and do a road study.

2:30:27•Rick Shriver

True. It's like a lot of the Barber County roads, they use that jet rock down there. Going around the counter and it's just an army of rocks this big.

2:33:03•Rick Shriver

It's just, I don't know. Yeah. And it was a state project, so you don't know.

2:33:23 – 2:33:39•Rick Shriver

Yeah, because once your faces, you know, they cut them off from getting to the highway. And if we have a lot of rain, there are floods and they can't even get out of the house. This is Webster over there. Yeah. So talk to them and they basically told you to go pack sands.

2:34:18•Rick Shriver

They were probably doing asphalt. Pulling guys off.

2:35:16•Rick Shriver

Some of it. Some of it. Two years before, we lost $13 million one year.

2:35:45•Rick Shriver

They give tax exemptions every year. So you're losing every year.

2:41:28•Rick Shriver

Do you know any of your buddies over there in eastern Kansas or Ellis County where all the roads are lined with that lime studs? Let's see if they got an answer.

2:42:30•Rick Shriver

I don't think they work on the road. We know somebody who does.

2:44:19 – 2:44:42•Rick Shriver

it will you got a guy here says lots of asphalt millings around burke camps near cheney area has a large pile there's a pile from summer road work well the state has a pile of pert sylvia i think that belongs to the construction company i think it does that's what i understood

2:46:35 – 2:47:01•Rick Shriver

I will just have to take a look at it. Probably have to get an engineer for sure. See what our collection options are. If we could get the dust down, that would help. It'd rain normally. That would help too. Yeah, but it only helps for a day.

2:47:22 – 2:47:39•Rick Shriver

I mean, part of the problem is budget's already done for next year, for one. And I'm pretty sure he wasn't expecting $6 fuel. So we're all pinching pennies here with this.

2:47:54 – 2:48:15•Rick Shriver

I mean, just his fuel bill alone, what was it? $60,000, $70,000. Mm-hmm. For a month? For a month. Yeah. We can look and see what we can do. I don't know what the answer is.

2:48:21•Rick Shriver

An engineer might have something, but it may be out of our price range, too. It's something we'll look into.

2:49:24 – 2:50:01•Rick Shriver

I mean, legally, we'd have to get an engineer in first. I mean, the engineer's going to be involved either way. Yeah. I mean, that's a big change too. Even if you do something, you're paying the guy to sit out there all day to make sure he's done. Oh, yeah. I don't know. Yeah, we can go with engineers and hedge talks. Maybe they got an idea. I don't know.

2:50:14•Rick Shriver

If there's anything on that, like fixing up a... Like getting a grant or whatever from the state. I'm afraid they're going to come out here and do a road study.

2:50:28•Rick Shriver

They can bounce check with the best of them.

2:52:12•Rick Shriver

Loose gravel in them. Yeah. Well, thank you guys. We'll look into it pretty much.

2:52:25•Rick Shriver

It takes a week for you to clear it all. I can't remember what time.

3:20:36•Rick Shriver

Make a motion we go back into the executive session to discuss non-elected personnel, the appraiser's position for another ten minutes.

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