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With spring comes weeds, and the Grant County Commissioners approved a bid to have the weeds and sand burrs sprayed. Lawn Pro of Hugoton was awarded the bid for $1,200.
“Where they’re really the worst is out by that old horseshoe pit,” said civic center director Mari Honstead.
County Commissioner John Martin said the civic center crew has done a nice job with the park and maybe the county should think about putting some new equipment there.
“Because that’s about the only park on that north end of town,” Martin said.
Honstead said Lawn Pro said they could put down Bermuda grass in the park for $11,000.
Martin said if they’re going to spend that much money they should bid it out, but Honstead said the one caveat to putting that grass down, people need to stay off of it for 10-14 days, which she said would be impossible.
In other business:
νSam Meeks with Road and Bridge reported tires being dumped in ditches has been a problem. And it’s not just a Grant County issue.
“A lot of the times over there in the southeast side, I think a lot of that’s Haskell County people bringing them over and dumping them,” Meeks said.
Staff meeting notes:
•Tax collector Terri Trotman said March was a good month and people have been paying off their delinquent notices. She also said Real ID for driver’s licenses go into effect May 7, and the majority of license holders in Grant County already have it, but if they don’t, they can go to the tax office and switch it.
“You do need it if you’re going to fly and don’t have a passport in the United States,” Trotman said. “If you don’t have it, you’ll probably get pulled aside, it’ll just take a longer process to board a plane if you don’t have it after May 7.”
•Denise James said there are two resolved cases of measles in Grant County and one pending, but she said the majority of those tested have been negative.
“We’re 95 percent covered in our county, which is a lot better than the counties surrounding us,” James added.
The Health department applied for and received a $15,000 to go towards the family planning program.
•Fire chief John Crosby said the department has been busy with fires, with 16 runs in March 12 in the last two weeks of the month.
The Historia Lane fire March 27 was 800 acres, with 440 more acres to the north.
“That fire came in a few minutes after we hit Historia Lane,” Crosby said. “We had Kearney County, Haskell County come in, plus Stevens County, Garden City even sent one truck. We had 23 fire trucks in total on the fire, five command vehicles and 45 firefighters. Stanton, Haskell, Stevens everybody around us came.”
Many of the surrounding departments were monitoring the radio and showed up because the fire was so close to Ulysses.
As soon as the fires were under control, Grant County department was dispatched to the Cactus Feeders mill fire where it used the new ladder truck.
The next day the department put out spot fires, then responded to a hay fire and another near the previous day’s fire, which Crosby deemed suspicious.
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