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Grant County Commissioners met in regular session March 4, and heard a final report from Morgan Tillotson of Stanfield Roofing, which evaluated many of the roofs of county-owned buildings a month ago. The good news – with one exception – most of the roofs are in good shape.
The idea was for Stanfield Roofing to evaluate the roofs in the hopes the county would enter into Roof Top Maintenance agreement to have Stanfield evaluate the roofs twice a year.
Tillotson presented the commissioners with a report on the life expectancy on each roof if properly maintained.
“Obviously that doesn’t take into account storms or things like that,” he said. “But from an overall perspective, you guys didn’t have anything that jumped out at me that says ‘Hey, this needs fixed right now.’”
Tillotson said the maintenance coordinator was working on a price based on what buildings the commissioners wanted to include, and the commissioners will decide whether to enter into an agreement at a later date.
In other business:
The Commissioners tabled accepting bids on new flooring for the South Room of the Grant County Civic Center. The commission received four bids but two weeks ago but tabled the item at that time when civic center administrator Mari Honstead and commission chairman John Martin differed on the best contractor for the job. Honstead said she would accept whichever contractor the commission chose, but the commission chose to table the item. The item was on the March 4 agenda but was tabled again when a Zoom call regarding insurance was expected to run long and Honstead was pushed to a later time and could not return.
It's expected to be considered again March 18.
νThe commission heard from Kayla Janko with Cimarron Basin Community Corrections, which supervises the convicted felons that come out of the 26th Judicial District.
“What we do is prepare a grant application for KDOC (Kansas Department of Corrections) every year, and then we come back every six months and have a review to see what our progress is,” Janko said. “We monitor all the felonies that come through the court, we either monitor them once a week or once a month.”
Funds are strictly from the Department of Corrections and is determined by levels of supervision and caseloads coming out of each of the six counties served.
Janko said they monitor 284 individuals with four officers for Grant County, Morton County, Stanton County, Seward County, Stevens County and Haskell County. She said there are maybe six individuals in Grant County.
“We’re actually an adult babysitter,” Janko said. “If they do not follow the conditions that the judge ordered, like do a drug and alcohol treatment or employment or make sure they don’t get new charges, we monitor that and then if they’re not behaving we do an affidavit and take them back to court and ask them to go serve their sentence in prison instead of the community.”
νSenior Center Director Nancy Borthwick discussed repairs to a bus the center uses to take seniors to doctor’s appointments and different activities. She said the vehicle’s motherboard is “going out” and needs to be taken to Wichita to be replaced. The commission authorized her to take the bus to Wichita for repairs. The motherboard costs $2,153.93, plus the wiring harness is bad and will also be checked in Wichita.
Borthwick said the center will utilize the two smaller vans to move everybody around while the bus is out for repairs.
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