LYON COUNTY COMMISSION MINUTES
JANUARY 18, 2024
The Board of Lyon County Commissioners met in Action Session at 9:00 a.m. in the Commission Chambers with the following people in attendance:
Rollie Martin, Chairman Doug Peck, Vice Chairman
Ken Duft, Commissioner Tammy Vopat, County Clerk
Ashley McGee, County Counselor Asst. Dan Williams, County Controller
Vici Smith, Public Relations
Others attending the meeting:
Shayla Gaulding, Gazette Reporter Chip Woods, County Engineer
Josh Stevenson, Road & Bridge Jean Barnett, I.T. Director
Jamie Williams, I.T. Department
Call to Order / Pledge of Allegiance
Motion: To Approve the Agenda as presented. Martin/Duft 3-0
Motion: To Approve the Minutes of the 1-11-2024 meeting. Duft/Peck 3-0
Motion: To Approve Warrants Payable 1-19-2024 in the amount of $1,000,048.69. Peck/Duft 3-0
Motion: To Approve Payroll Payable 1-19-2024 in the amount of $359,132.56. Martin/Duft 3-0
Motion: To Approve Payroll Withholdings Payable 1-19-2024 in the amount of $522,793,85. Martin/Peck 3-0
Appointments: no action taken.
Motion: To Approve the 2023 Annual Report of Elmendaro Township. Duft/Martin 3-0
Personnel changes: no action taken.
Permits: no action taken.
Controller Williams presented Commissioners with a request to consider the invoice from KCAMP for the Annual Liability Insurance Premium and to transfer funds to another account. This invoice represents a 26% increase over last year’s premium.
Motion: To Approve the invoice from KCAMP for the Annual Liability Insurance Premium in the amount of $466,290.00
to be paid from Fund 053-00-7233. Peck/Duft 3-0
Motion: To Approve transferring $71,000.00 from the General Fund 010-00-9900 to the Tort Liability Fund
053-00-5901. Martin/Peck 3-0
Engineer Woods and Josh Stevenson presented Commissioners with a request to consider approving a quote for a 2024 dump truck with a dump body, sander, and snowplow to replace the unit that was wrecked last week during the snowstorm. Insurance will be reimbursed as allowed.
Motion: To Approve the quote from Nextran Truck Center for a 2024 Mack Granite (GR64F) Dump Truck with a dump
body, sander, and snowplow in the amount of $254,545.00 to be paid from Fund 017-00-9026. Peck/Duft 3-0
Clerk Vopat presented Commissioners with a request to replenish the business reply mail account at the post office.
Motion: To Approve depositing $5,000.00 into the Business Reply Mail account at the United States Postal Service
to be paid from Fund 010-21-7100. Duft/Peck 3-0
Public comment: no one present.
Recess from 9:45 a.m. until 10:00 a.m.
Reports
Commissioner Martin:
- Road conditions are improving thanks to the Road & Bridge Department.
- February 7th is the JEDAC meeting and the Joint City/Council meeting.
- I will attend the Soil Conservation meeting on February 5th.
- I will attend the Founder’s Day Ceremony at ESU.
Commissioner Peck:
- On Tuesday I attended the Road & Bridge project meeting.
- I will attend the RDA Special meeting later today.
- I attended the LEPC meeting.
Commissioner Duft:
- Fair Board meeting is February 12th.
- I attended the LEPC meeting last Thursday.
- I will attend the ESU Cyber Security meeting.
- Pipeline Conference coming up.
- Attended the Ignite Advisory meeting.
Clerk Vopat:
- There is a new political party in Kansas, the No Labels Kansas Party.
- We will have a Presidential Preference Primary on March 19th. Only Democrat and Republican Presidential Candidates will be on the ballot. Voter registration will close on February 20th which is also the deadline to request a mail ballot for this election.
- Deputy Jackson will record the minutes next week.
Counselor McGee:
- No report.
Controller Williams:
- Attended the Ignite Advisory meeting.
- Attended the Road & Bridge meeting.
I.T. Director Jean Barnett and Jamie Williams presented Commissioners with a request to consider a quote to replace a fiber switch and another quote for 2 switches, a firewall with licenses, 2 battery backups and 12 hard drives for the Road & Bridge project for a back-up for the system.
Motion: To Approve the quote from CDW-G for a fiber switch in the amount of $15,332.87 to be paid from Fund
017-00-9001. Martin/Duft 3-0
Motion: To Approve the quote from CDW-G for 2 switches, one firewall with licenses, 2 battery backups, and 12 12TB
hard drives for the new Road & Bridge Improvement Project buildings for networking computers and a new
hard device for Synology NAS device in the amount of $11,831.05 to be paid from Fund 044-00-9026.
Peck/Duft 3-0
Motion: To move to Legal Executive Session with Commissioners and Counselor McGee, Controller Williams, and Vici
Smith, for confidential data exchange, to return at 10:45 a.m. Martin/Duft 3-0
Meeting reconvened at 10:45 a.m.
Motion: To Adjourn. Martin/Duft 3-0
There being no further business before the Board, the next Action Session will take place on January 25, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. in the Commission Chambers.
Attest: Affirm:
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Tammy Vopat Rollie Martin, Chairman
Lyon County Master Clerk Lyon County Commission
