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Dispatches tied to one of the 77 — agendas, records, budgets.
Tuesday's agenda voids Resolution 27-16 and adopts 27-19 for the same CIRB money under a revised project number, weighs extending the burn ban enacted Aug. 24, and takes quotes to turn a Conex building into the 911 center.
The Sept. 8 agenda carries a lease-purchase through Welch State Bank for a 2026 Ferrara pumper-rescue with $200,000 down, a week after the board considered a countywide burn ban and booked $29,138.63 in solar-farm road money.
The Sept. 8 agenda lists two closed sessions with counsel, one on the landowners' zoning case over the NextEra solar-and-battery site north of Enid and one on a federal wrongful-death suit against the sheriff, before six appointments to the Fairgrounds Trust Authority.
The Sept. 8 agenda opens with the ban, then a $40,085 state grant for a District 2 dump trailer, eight pipeline-crossing permits, a jail population report and a closed session on seven county jobs.
The Sept. 8 agenda lists a policy for third-party record holders and fees, a REAP application for District 2 and a new-hire registration rule; the Aug. 31 burn ban came as 85 percent of the county entered severe drought.