BUTLER COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Monday, April 16, 2001
The Butler County Board of Commissioners was called to order by Commission Chairman, Bill Shriver. Present were Commissioners Randy Doll and Will Carpenter along with County Administrator, Jay Newton and Clerk’s Secretary, Tindel Jennison.
Commissioner Carpenter moved to approve County Vouchers totaling $229,576.74 dated April 16, 2001. Commissioner Doll seconded the motion that carried 3-0.
Commissioner Carpenter moved to approve Abates totaling $357.78 and Ads totaling $23.00 per approval #2047. Commissioner Doll seconded the motion that carried 3-0.
Commissioner Doll moved to approve the Minutes of Monday, April 9 and Tuesday, April 10, 2001. Commissioner Carpenter seconded the motion that carried 3-0.
County Engineer, Darryl Lutz stated that Diane Rollins, Solid Waste Coordinator was in the process of visiting with Butler County Cities regarding the County Landfill Green Waste Ban (tentatively January 1, 2002). He stated that very positive feedback had been received.
The Solid Waste Planning Committee will report to the Commission with activities and timelines.
Solid Waste goals for 2002: (1) Aggressive Composting Education Campaign
(2) Site at Landfill to pile Green waste
Cities will either have a drop site or their own compost site. Andover, Augusta and El Dorado already have compost sites.
(3) Update Solid Waste Regulations (16 years old). These will include a statement regarding penalties for loads of trash that contain green waste (such as from private carriers like BFI) or penalties for those who attempt to cheat the system. Random trash load checks are currently performed for hazardous materials and checking for green waste could be easily implemented. Requiring a load of trash to be dumped and visually inspected does this. The green waste is not separated, just penalty assessment.
The Commission requested Mr. Lutz to provide a specific figure for the number of years that would be added to the life of the landfill when Green Waste is eliminated.
Emergency Management Director, Jim Schmidt stated that the final request for payment has been sent to FEMA. Approximately $25,000 has been paid to Key Construction for house demolition.
The project started with 20 homes (voluntary program) with an August 1, 2000 participation deadline. Five homes did not participate and chose to remain in Bridlewood. $281,798.91 was the County’s final cost.
The five homeowners remaining are fully aware of the flood risk and flood mitigation area they live in and had to sign-off accordingly. The Federal Government may charge full actuarial cost and may deny Federal flood insurance.
FEMA looks at a 100-year time frame to determine how much buyout money is available.
Todd Tiahart was very instrumental in obtaining the funding for Bridlewood and will be visiting Butler County April 17, 2001.
The 60-acre (approximate) buyout property that now belongs to Butler County cannot be conveyed to private citizens but can be conveyed (title transfer) to other government entities or leased to private non-private organizations (501-C-3); a possible recoup of this expense may come if the county-owned area is leased out.
Grant Helferich presented an EMS departmental review to the Board. Regarding billing, he stated that three billing notices are given over a 90-day period. If the bill remains unpaid after 90 days, a collection agency is contacted.
Budget: 75% of the EMS budget comes from revenues, non-tax dollars:
Medicare 41%
General Insurance 34%
12%
Medicare, etc. 12.5%
Staff: El Dorado 18
Rose Hill 9 (Volunteer)
Potwin 4 “
Douglass 7 “
Smaller population areas (Beaumont, Cassoday, Latham, Leon, etc) have first responders on the volunteer fire departments.
Augusta 28% 886 calls
Andover 25% 502 calls
Towanda 60
Prison 29
El Dorado Lake 21
Calls to the prison are generally to the infirmary. If in the general population area (suicide attempts), a “lock-down” takes place.
Saturday, April 14, 2001 there were three times where the county reached a Status Zero (all EMS ambulances out on call and not available for new calls), Options available to alleviate this are: mutual aid from Winfield or Sedgwick county or call in volunteers.
Is required
Bonnevile 1
School Bus 1 Used for Rehabilitation program
(Fires: Command Post, water for fireman, blood pressure and oxygen monitoring, cool-down & warm-up)
The EMS budget requires two mils of county budget currently.
ADJOURNMENT
Commissioner Doll moved to adjourn. Commissioner Shriver seconded the motion that carried 3-0.