From Bourbon County Public Works:
215th Street is closed between Grand Road and Hackberry Road for repair. It will reopen at approximately noon on Friday, November 22, 2024.
From
Becky Robertson
Bourbon County Public Works
Category Archives: Bourbon County
Christmas in the Park In Uniontown on Sunday, November 24
The 2nd Annual Christmas in the Park in downtown Uniontown is this Sunday, November 24 from 3 to 5 p.m.
Decorating the park and putting up lights starts at 1 p.m.
“The purpose of the event is to make the park beautiful for Christmas, bring the community together, and have some fun,” said Mary Pemberton, a spokesperson for the Uniontown Ruritian.
“Everyone is welcome,” she said. “Come help light up the park for Christmas!”
Christmas light donations are welcome and can be left at Bandera Stone, 103 Third Street, on the north side of the park, by Friday, November 22.
Christmas trees will be decorated, and a contest will be held. Everyone in the park at 5:30 p.m. will vote for their favorite.
The Baptist Church youth group will be caroling during the event, to add some Christmas cheer.
There will be a chili feed with dessert and drink for a free-will donation. The proceeds will help support Christmas in the Park.
The chili feed will be from 4-6 p.m. in the community building on the east side of the park.
A bingo game, with proceeds to the Old Settlers Day 2025, from 3-5 p.m.
A cornhole board will be available to play, as well as the pickleball court.
A special guest will be Santa Claus who will visit with children from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the gazebo in the middle of the park.
Jewel Endicott Wins SEK District Conservation Speech Competition
Submitted by Scott Sutton, Uniontown FFA Advisor.
“Jewel Endicott, FFA member and Junior at Uniontown High School, recently competed in the Southeast District Conservation Speech competition. Jewel won first place at the contest and qualified for the state competition held in late November. As part of the competition, Jewel was encouraged to share her speech with local news outlets to be published for the public to read in order to advocate for conservation practices.”
“One Water”
By Jewel Endicott
It’s a hot summer day and you come inside the house and reach for a cold glass of water.
While rehydrating the thought crosses your mind “where did this water originate from?”.
The truth is that water may have traveled through rivers, ponds, groundwater, or even rain clouds to reach the button of your glass.
If you’re like me, you probably see and notice all sorts of bodies of water as you drive up and down local roads and highways. But, how often have you stopped and thought about the purpose of those bodies of water you see?
The fact is, every pond that you see could be preventing floods from coming through neighborhoods or supplying public water to numerous homes. We take for granted the water that is in our hands that comes to us at the turn of a handle, but a lot of this water could be coming from watersheds.
You may be wondering, what is a watershed? Watersheds are essentially water structures that are designed for water that is shed during rainfall to gather in a specified area contained by a man-made dam.
Recreation is an added benefit of watersheds and provides yet another use for these bodies of water.
Without this added purpose watersheds may sit unused for months.
Landowners may add fish to their ponds and lakes for fishing purposes or use the water bodies to hunt on and utilize this habitat year-round for enjoyment.
Watersheds are first thought of as stopping floods but another important feature is they are designed to release extra water so it can continue its flow into natural rivers.
Watersheds were first put in place in the 1950’s with a main goal of slowing the income of water and preventing floods. They also are important in releasing water when it is necessary. After being used to regulate and prevent an excessive amount of water from running through neighborhoods they have been built in various places around the United States.
Today watersheds have grown by adding many more purposes. They filtrate water, create habitats, prevent droughts in rural areas and most importantly provide public drinking water.
Water from hundreds of different sources accumulates into ONE water.
In my local area of Bourbon County, there are two major rivers we get water from. The first being Mill Creek which was established in 1978. This river has 14 watersheds coming off of it. The Marmaton was started in 1984 following a major flood in the Fort Scott area with damage to local businesses and livestock. This river is slightly bigger with 30 completed watersheds.
A recent event of flooding occurred in April 2024 and in this case the county claimed there was 9 million dollars in damages. While this shows watersheds may have prevented some of the flooding that happened, if we had had more watersheds around the area it could have lessened the dollar amount of damage and the amount of water on roads. The heavy rains did bring much needed relief to local ponds by filling them up, but in the case of having added watersheds we could have collected and utilized more of this rainfall to prevent droughts going forward.
To understand watersheds it is important to look at them from different points of view. Some would argue they are against watersheds because you lose land that you could plant valuable crops on or that in their opinion we are harming the earth when we build these man made structures.
After looking closer you would see that not only do they end up helping the planet they can also support inhabitants downstream.
While it’s true that you could be losing the use of land by constructing a watershed, it’s also beneficial that the average watershed can hold up to 600 acres worth of water. This water can be used all around the farm and help the area continue to thrive making up for the loss of that land.
Many would agree we would not want to harm the earth we inhabit.
I believe we should preserve nature by placing as little harm as we can on its natural state, but I believe watersheds have an impact that is worth it.
At first people see them being built with machines and digging into the soil which I am sure causes some feelings of bitterness about the consequences of manipulating the land. But, after they are made and the equipment clears out is when they make the strongest influence on the ecosystem and we start to see the benefits they have on nature. Before being rebuilt that area did not have a constant source of water to rely on nor did it help prevent potential flooding in the area.
The creation of this savior is a multi-step process that begins when a skilled engineer comes to the expected watershed area and analyzes the land. After seeing if the site will collect enough water and benefit the area instead of harming it, plans are made for the construction of the unit.
To build this structure money must be collected.
Funding is accomplished by pooling money from the state and local level combined with the local land owners. The state conservation commission will supply the majority of the funding necessary equalling nearly 70%. The local watershed districts supply 25% through local taxes and the landowners supply the final 5%. A maintenance budget will also be established during this time to keep the watershed from breaking down over the years. If they are taken care of, an average watershed will last up to 50 years and hopefully longer.
Ranchers are fond of watersheds, especially in the winter because you can have a constant stream of water for cattle, which makes it much easier for them to keep livestock watered through the cold months. Additionally, watersheds generally maintain water through droughts and hot summer months keeping a consistent supply of water for livestock.
Many of us would agree no matter our opinion or views on topics, that water is essential to the planet. I am a strong advocate for preserving nature by not letting anyone impair it; however, I can see that water conservation is important to the success of our environment.
Watersheds serve the purpose of conserving one of our most precious resources….water.
Amended Agenda for Today’s Bourbon County Commission
Bourbon County Courthouse
210 S. National Ave Fort Scott, KS 66701 Phone: 620-223-3800
Fax: 620-223-5832
Bourbon County, Kansas
Brandon Whisenhunt
1st District Commissioner
Jim Harris, Chairman
2nd District Commissioner
Clifton Beth
3rd District Commissioner
Bourbon County Commission Agenda 210 S. National Ave.
Fort Scott, KS 66701
November 21, 2024 9:00 a.m.
- Call Meeting to Order
- Flag Salute
- Approval of Consent Agenda
- Approval of Minutes from 11/14/2024
- Approval of Accounts Payable Totaling $332,559.66
- Approval of Payroll Totaling $300,763.10
- Approval of October Financials
- Eric Bailey-Discussion of Rock Quarry at Elm Creek
- Approval of Budget Amendment Hearing 12/19/2024 9:00 a.m. Publication
- Justin Meeks-Cemetery Right-of-Way
- Commission Comments
- Adjourn Meeting
Executive Session Justifications:
KSA 75-4319 (b)(1) to discuss personnel matters of individual nonelected personnel to protect their privacy.
KSA 75-4319 (b)(2) for consultation with an attorney for the public body or agency which would be deemed privileged in the
attorney-client relationship.
KSA 75-4319 (b)(3) to discuss matters relating to employer/employee negotiations whether or not in consultation with the
representative(s) of the body or agency.
KSA 75-4319 (b)(4) to discuss data relating to financial affairs or trade secrets of corporations, partnerships, trust and individual proprietorships
KSA 75-4319 (b)(6) for the preliminary discussion of the acquisition of real property.
KSA 75-4319 (b)(12) to discuss matters relating to the security measures, if the discussion of such matters at an open meeting
would jeopardize such security measures.
Agenda for the Bourbon County Commission on November 21
Bourbon County Courthouse
210 S. National Ave Fort Scott, KS 66701 Phone: 620-223-3800
Fax: 620-223-5832
Bourbon County, Kansas
Brandon Whisenhunt
1st District Commissioner
Jim Harris, Chairman
2nd District Commissioner
Clifton Beth
3rd District Commissioner
Bourbon County Commission Agenda 210 S. National Ave.
Fort Scott, KS 66701
November 21, 2024 9:00 a.m.
- Call Meeting to Order
- Flag Salute
- Approval of Consent Agenda
- Approval of Minutes from 11/14/2024
- Approval of Accounts Payable Totaling $332,559.66
- Approval of Payroll Totaling $300,763.10
- Approval of October Financials
- Eric Bailey-Discussion of Rock Quarry at Elm Creek
- Justin Meeks-Cemetery Right-of-Way
- Commission Comments
- Adjourn Meeting
Executive Session Justifications:
KSA 75-4319 (b)(1) to discuss personnel matters of individual nonelected personnel to protect their privacy.
KSA 75-4319 (b)(2) for consultation with an attorney for the public body or agency which would be deemed privileged in the
attorney-client relationship.
KSA 75-4319 (b)(3) to discuss matters relating to employer/employee negotiations whether or not in consultation with the
representative(s) of the body or agency.
KSA 75-4319 (b)(4) to discuss data relating to financial affairs or trade secrets of corporations, partnerships, trust and individual proprietorships
KSA 75-4319 (b)(6) for the preliminary discussion of the acquisition of real property.
KSA 75-4319 (b)(12) to discuss matters relating to the security measures, if the discussion of such matters at an open meeting
would jeopardize such security measures.
Pioneer Kiwanis Chili Feed Fundraiser Is Today November 19: Supporting Community Children
The 36th annual Kiwanis Pioneers Chili Feed is today, November 19th at the First United Methodist Church at 301 South National in Fort Scott.
A meal of the Pioneer’s signature chili, (the same recipe prepared since the chili feed’s inception) with crackers and a homemade cinnamon roll will be served from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
A free-will donation (suggested minimum $8.00 donation per meal) will be collected at the door.
“All of the funds raised stay in Bourbon County,” stated
Kiwanis Pioneer President Kelley Collins. “The annual fundraiser will be drive-through only. Pick-ups will be available under the canopy of the First United Methodist Church on the National Avenue side of the church. Please take care not to block private driveways as you are waiting in line for service.”
Deliveries will be available for orders of ten or more by calling 620-224-0563 during serving hours.
This is the Kiwanis Pioneers major fundraiser for the year.
In keeping with the Kiwanis motto of Improving the world one child and one community at a time, the Pioneers support more than 40 community projects including college scholarships, Court Appointed Special Advocates (for children), the Backpack food program,
Fort Scott High School Key Club, Head Start, the Beacon, foster children, Feeding Families in His Name, Care to Share,
and school reading and arts programs.
About Pioneer Kiwanis
They are a service organization helping the children of Bourbon County.
Recently they completed a project for the local Head Start Program that involved Fort Scott Community College Construction Trades class members.
Head Start Fort Scott now has two new picnic tables for picnics and art classes at their site at 409 S. Judson.
Members of the Pioneer Kiwanis club, SEK-CAP representatives, students in Fort Scott High School’s construction trades program, and their instructor pose for a photo, above, during the presentation of the two picnic tables to the SEK-CAP Head Start program this month.
Volunteers Needed For Serving/Delivering Senior Citizens Meals
Volunteers are needed in Fort Scott as meal servers and meal delivery drivers for the Southeast Kansas Agency on Aging 60+ nutrition program. The positions are open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Call Deb Stewart at 620-305-1539 for any questions.
Special Meeting of Uniontown City Council on November 19
Notice of City of Uniontown Special Meeting: Tuesday, 7:00PM, for the purpose of entering into executive session to discuss job vacancy of non-elected personnel.
CALL TO ORDER AT _________ by __________________________________________
ROLL CALL:
____ Jess Ervin ____ Danea Esslinger ____ Amber Kelly ____ Mary Pemberton ____ Bradley Stewart
Motion by _____________, Second by __________, Approved ______, to enter into executive session pursuant to non-elected personnel exception, KSA 75-4319(b)(1), in order to discuss a non-elected personnel position vacancy, the open meeting to resume at ____________.
What’s Happening at Christmas on The Bricks Dec. 5-8
To view all details: http://fortscott.com/christmas-on-the-bricks
Minutes of the Nov. 14 Bourbon County Commission Agenda
November 7, 2024 Thursday 9:00 a.m.
The Board of Bourbon County Commissioners met in open session with Commissioners Harris and Whisenhunt and the County Clerk present.
Clint Walker, Rachel Walker, Casey Brown with SEKCAP, Jamey M. Whitney with SEKCAP, Anne Dare, Jean Tucker, Marla Heckman, Jason Silvers, Brent Smith, Mike Wunderly, Tim Emerson, Mary Pemberton, Debbi Shepard, Deb Martin, Scott Christensen with SEKCAP, Samuel Tran, and Kay Tran were present for some or all of the meeting.
Jim opened the meeting and led the flag salute.
Brandon made a motion to approve the consent agenda which includes approval of minutes from 10/31/2024, approval of accounts payable totaling $442,955.86, and approval of payroll totaling $306,687.17. Jim seconded the motion and all approved.
Casey Brown, Community Engagement Coordinator with SEKCAP, distributed a handout to the Commissioners that outlined the transportation services they offer within Bourbon County. General public transportation services are offered in all towns throughout the entire county with riders in Fort Scott totaling 81% of the rides. Mr. Brown stated they are applying for a Kansas Department of Transportation grant and asked Bourbon County to submit a letter of support for their transportation services that they could submit with the grant application. Jim made a motion to approve the support letter for SEKCAP. Brandon seconded the motion and all approved. Mr. Brown stated Bourbon County previously contributed $3,000 to SEKCAP to help with the transportation costs and he asked that we match the City of Fort Scott’s $5,000 contribution. Brandon asked if the CFO should be consulted before we approve any type of contribution. Jim stated the Commissioners have $70,000 in a discretionary fund. Susan Walker, CFO, stated there are funds in the discretionary fund, however; she is concerned where we may end up at the end of the year. Mr. Brown said they only need a letter to submit to the state with the amount we would contribute next year, and do not need the cash in hand until their fiscal year of 7-1-2025 to 6-30-2026. Susan asked if they are associated with the Area Agency on Aging and suggested tabling the discussion until next week so they can determine who all they contribute to for transportation services. Brandon agreed to wait until next week to agree to a dollar amount for the SEKCAP transportation services.
Eric Bailey, Public Works Director, stated FEMA was here Tuesday to review roads that haven’t been completed and they will be back today to drive roads north of 54 Highway. Eric said that the core drilling at Elm Creek has been completed and he will have a representative from the company do a presentation next week. Eric asked for a 7-minute executive session for acquisition of real estate to include the Commissioners, Justin Meeks, and himself. Brandon made a motion to go into a 7-minute executive session under KSA 75-4319 (b)(6) for the preliminary discussion of the acquisition of real property to include both Commissioners, Justin Meeks, and Eric Bailey and will return at 9:16. Jim seconded the motion and all approved. Jim made a motion to resume normal session at 9:16 with action. Brandon stated a low water crossing at 60th Street and Grand Road needs to be replaced and he made a motion to allow Public Works to spend up to $2,200 to purchase land to complete the project. Jim seconded the motion and all approved.
Jennifer Hawkins, County Clerk, presented a form for KWORCC to nominate a voting delegate for the upcoming Kansas Association of Counties conference. Jim made a motion to nominate Jennifer Hawkins as Bourbon County’s voting delegate for KWORCC. Brandon seconded the motion and all approved. Jennifer said they had a total of 6508 voters during the General Election which equals a 51.04% turnout. Jennifer stated they have 163 provisional ballots that were cast. Jennifer said they have had questions about the election results reports where invalid is listed by write-in. Jennifer explained that for federal, state, and county offices an affidavit of write-in candidacy had to be filed in order for the write-in votes to count, so anybody who did not file an affidavit is listed under the invalid section. Jim said he would like Eric to be his canvassing delegate.
Susan handed out a report to the Commission for next week that she said was emailed that shows if every department spends all their budget the contingency will not be available.
Brandon said he has a statement that he would like to make and to not be interrupted until he is finished saying what he has to say. Brandon said he “is extremely concerned with the behavior of the two of you and County Counselor Meeks. Last week’s meeting is an embarrassment to the democratic process. When you do not allow the citizens of our county to participate and actually listened to during important decisions like what you pass last week with solar agreements, without discussion I might add, makes many people question your motives. It is very clear that you moved the meetings to a day and time to make it difficult for me to participate. I was outnumbered in the vote so I’m stuck with this until January. I do not buy it that Harris and Meeks had conflicts on Monday evenings and Meeks does not need to attend the meetings anyway. If we have legal questions, we can call him or get answers for the next meeting time. I spoke with the County Clerk and we have always had the meetings in the Commission room during early voting week. Moving the meeting to the commons area was an attempt to not have the meeting recorded. The County Clerk and I were set up to fail last week. Mr. Meeks you are to blame. Counselor Meeks the lack of professionalism and courtesy to alert us with a phone call about the addition to the agenda is par for the course with you. A call would have been an appropriate gesture knowing I work evenings and Jennifer was in the middle of an election. I find it interesting that we receive agreements hours before our meeting on Thursday, but the schools agreed to donation agreements at their meetings before ours and the representatives from Advance Power had booked flights 10 days prior to our meeting. Leaves me to believe this was all part of the plan, the underhanded tactics you use to literally screw the taxpayers of our county, and not as you stated Mr. Harris in the paper that you are looking out for all taxpayers. You were only looking out for those families that will benefit millions of dollars each year. Commissioner Beth, Harris, and Counselor Meeks obviously had all met prior to this meeting as they discussed nothing during the Commission meeting and had no questions about the agreements. This is why you were voted out in August and it is clear since the two of you lost in the primary you are making sure those who follow are left to clean up the mess of poor decisions you have made over the past three to four years.” Jim said he was going to respond to everything Brandon said. Jim said “I don’t know who told you what I do on Monday nights but it’s really none of your business if I don’t want to be there on Monday nights. I did have a conflict of interest, I met with Counselor Meeks and it was in his best interest also on Thursday mornings. I don’t know what you do on Monday night, I don’t care what you do on Monday nights, it’s none of my business what you do on your personal time so to insult me like this is ridiculous you have no idea what I do on Monday nights with my family. I really take offense to your comments what I do in my personal time. You can tell it pissed me off I haven’t been pissed off here before this year but you just pissed me off. Furthermore before moving the meeting my understanding the County Clerk asked us if she could use this room and we can move it to the foyer, she asked us that and you can check the minutes and I said yes and everybody else said yes so that is why it was moved. I’m hiding nothing I sent the updates to the agenda to the County Clerk at 3:40 and she said she had some personal things going on nothing in hiding. Me and Commissioner Beth had no meetings I talked to Justin Meeks, Counselor, and the counselor for the solar panel people several times that week trying to get better agreements for the people. Where you’re wrong Brandon is my job and your job, that you seem to forget, you haven’t protected all property rights of the people that’s taken those solar panels have just as many rights as the people that don’t like them and you’ve forgot that. You said I didn’t represent all the people and I do represent all the people and that’s why I got in trouble because I represent all the people every one of these people have rights by the Constitution and you have failed to notice that. What did you do to help protect the people that’s getting the solar panels? Nothing.” Brandon said he has talked to them several times and that he got cut out of the entire conversation. Jim said that Brandon has talked to the solar companies on the phone because they told him they did and that you had supper with them. Brandon said ”I he did I didn’t hide that fact to anybody but all of a sudden we’re voting on it without discussion on the council, we didn’t even have an executive session about it, Jim, you guys decided to pass these damn things and let these things come in without a discussion with the Commissioners.” Jim said, “that is right, we discussed it a little bit that morning, and we’ve been talking about it for a year how much longer do we need to talk about it?” Brandon said, “you just cut the county out.” Jim said, “that was interesting for the donation agreements, I don’t know what you mean, but God bless us for not helping the kids in Bourbon County.” Brandon said, “no, I’m not mad that the schools are getting some money but yet they’re getting all of it you could have helped the entire county out. We could have got that money and lowered property taxes the next two or three years and still gave the school money.” Jim said, “it would have been dangerous to lower very much because in 10 years you’d have a problem because the depreciation might come in at zero and the Commissioners in 10 years might have to raise it up.” Brandon said, “maybe we couldn’t have lowered property taxes but we could have maybe taken care of some business.” Jim said, “I appreciate your comments, that’s why we’re here today. I disagree with 99% of what you said and again what I do on Monday nights is nobody’s business in this room including yours so keep that in mind if you stick your nose in Jim Harris’ business cause it ain’t none of your business what I do and you need to remember that.” Brandon said, “ I don’t care what you do Jim on your spare time.” Jim said, “you brought it up, you said you knew what I did I had no reason not to come to any meetings. How in the world do you know my personal business?” Brandon said, “I just think it’s funny that we had these meetings on Monday night at 5:30 for four years now.” Jim said, “No, we changed it we had I think Monday morning for a long, long time and we decided we’d open it up to evenings for public comments and we didn’t get many comments we just kept getting the same people. The public didn’t really attend. I’ve got like four more meetings and I can’t resign because if you want to know my business is because my life insurance won’t carry over if I leave early so that’s everybody else’s business.” Brandon said, “that’s fine.” Jim said, “well you stuck your nose in my business let’s just go all the way here.” Brandon said, “I didn’t ask you to resign, did I ask you to resign in what I read?” Jim said, “no, I want to let you know why I’m not but you stuck your nose in my business when you said I have no right to change my meeting on Monday to Thursday. That’s my business. I made the motion and it was seconded. When you’re sitting here the next guy can make what motions you want but until then you keep your nose of out of my person business and furthermore, my turn if you’re done. We need to remove the burn ban someone said last week it didn’t have any validity in it anyway as far as the Sheriff couldn’t do anything so I’ll make a motion to remove the burn ban.” Brandon seconded the motion and all approved. Jim said all the hospital equipment has had the repairs needed and are up and running and that Freeman is very happy. Freeman said they’ll be putting up some nice signs hopefully this week saying welcome to Bourbon County and I think they posted some jobs for the Fort Scott facility.
Jim made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 9:29. Brandon seconded the motion and all approved.
THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
OF BOURBON COUNTY, KANSAS
___________________, Chairman
___________________,Commissioner
ATTEST: ___________________,Commissioner
Jennifer Hawkins, Bourbon County Clerk
11-14-2024 Approved Date
Grief Share Offers Encouragement Through the Holidays, Starting Dec. 3
Mary Queen of Angels Catholic Church is once again hosting a non-denominational event to help those grieving the loss of a loved one this holiday season.
The Surviving the Holidays Grief Share event is Tuesday, December 3 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the church at 705 S. Holbrook St.
A book is provided, as well as lunch for each one attending. There is no cost.
Laura Meeks is the facilitator.
“What I have experienced through GriefShare is the comfort of a journey with others,” she said. “The root meaning of comfort is to call alongside, to speak tenderly, to speak to the heart, to give encouragement. This program is a blessing to us.”
“The purpose of attending the December 5, two-hour Surviving the Holidays is to connect with a small group of others who are grieving the loss of a loved one, who may be facing this holiday season feeling hurt and sad,” Meeks said. “They face social gatherings, holiday cheer, and traditions enjoyed with their loved ones. This loss may be recent or years ago, but the holiday season is a painful reminder that a loved one is missing.”
“GriefShare Surviving the Holidays is a professionally developed path to help provide a comforting place with others who are also on this path of grieving during Thanksgiving and Christmas,” she said. “This nationally recognized program contains three components including a 35-minute video, small group discussion, and a personal reflection guided through a workbook.”
GriefShare is facilitated by area leaders who follow structured training to help bring reassurance, practical advice from national professionals, and guidance to find a way forward through the season. Information about content is easily found through griefshare.org
Past participants in GriefShare ‘s 13 sessions are also encouraged to attend this focused session.
“My involvement began two years ago when I was encouraged to receive training by Father Yancey Burgess who had GriefShare at his former Kansas parish,” Meeks said. “His suggestion was to host a non-denominational group. Since then, our community has hosted GriefShare with two of the offerings being held at Mary Queen of Angels. One last year was a 13-week session on Tuesday mornings and the other session is being held now as a 13-week program over this year meeting the last Monday of each month.”
“The one evening each month Grief Share is going well now with twelve participants,” she said.
On January 7, 2025, the third 13-week session at Mary Queen of Angels will be held each Tuesday morning from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Amended Agenda For The Bourbon County Commission Nov. 14
Bourbon County Courthouse
210 S. National Ave Fort Scott, KS 66701 Phone: 620-223-3800
Fax: 620-223-5832
Bourbon County, Kansas
Brandon Whisenhunt
1st District Commissioner
Jim Harris, Chairman
2nd District Commissioner
Clifton Beth
3rd District Commissioner
Bourbon County Commission Agenda 210 S. National Ave.
Fort Scott, KS 66701
November 14, 2024 9:00 a.m.
- Call Meeting to Order
- Flag Salute
- Approval of Consent Agenda
- Approval of Minutes from 11/7/2024
- Casey Brown-SEKCAP Transportation Funding Request
- 9:15-James Krstolich-Ideatek Broadband Letter of Support
- 9:30-Tara Albin-Cox Broadband Letter of Support
- Department Updates
- Public Works
- Eric Bailey-Discussion of Rock Quarry at Elm Creek
- Jennifer Hawkins-Holiday Dinner
- Justin Meeks-Executive Session KSA 75-4319 (b)(1)
- Justin Meeks-Executive Session KSA 75-4319 (b)(2)
- Commission Comments
- Adjourn Meeting
Executive Session Justifications:
KSA 75-4319 (b)(1) to discuss personnel matters of individual nonelected personnel to protect their privacy.
KSA 75-4319 (b)(2) for consultation with an attorney for the public body or agency which would be deemed privileged in the
attorney-client relationship.
KSA 75-4319 (b)(3) to discuss matters relating to employer/employee negotiations whether or not in consultation with the
representative(s) of the body or agency.
KSA 75-4319 (b)(4) to discuss data relating to financial affairs or trade secrets of corporations, partnerships, trust and individual proprietorships
KSA 75-4319 (b)(6) for the preliminary discussion of the acquisition of real property.
KSA 75-4319 (b)(12) to discuss matters relating to the security measures, if the discussion of such matters at an open meeting
would jeopardize such security measures.