Commission Vice Chairman Bill Shriver called the Butler County Board of Commissioners to order at 10:00 AM. Present were Commissioner Phil Anderson, Commissioner Randy Doll, Commissioner Mike Wheeler, Administrator Will Johnson Jr., and County Clerk Ron Roberts. Commission Chairman, Will Carpenter was absent.

Commissioners Anderson, Shriver and Doll met as the County Board of Canvassers at 9:15 AM to canvass the City of El Dorado Sales Tax Ballots.

Commissioner Anderson motioned to approve the minutes of Tuesday September 2, 2003 as presented. Commissioner Doll seconded the motion. Motion carried 4-0.

Commissioner Wheeler motioned to approve the September 8, 2003 vouchers in the amount of $237,964.70. Commissioner Anderson seconded the motion. Motion carried 4-0.

KDHE has completed the review of the recently updated Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan for Butler County. KDHE has submitted a letter requesting some additions and revisions to the plan. One request was to modify the Solid Waste Committee membership representation for the cities to bring it into compliance with statutory requirements. KDHE wants the formal membership structure for city representation to follow the requirement of the statute, that is 3 members representing all cities of the second class and 1 member representing all cities of the third class. The recommendation of County Engineer Darryl Lutz was to cut the cities of the second class back to one official representative each and still let each third class city appoint one representative but then designate one of the 10 to be the official member of the third class cities and make the others members general public members with voting privileges. Like wise allow the second-class cities to appoint one general public member each also with voting privileges. Then make one of the two members from the unincorporated areas a county department representative. This would keep the overall membership the same but structure the Committee to meet the statute’s requirements. Commissioners agreed to let Mr. Lutz work on this type of structure for the Committee.

County Engineer Darryl Lutz came before the Board to discuss the possibility of finding other methods of financing our road improvement projects.

Administrator Johnson went through the list of long and short-term goals and discussed the status of each project with the Commissioners.

Administrator Johnson asked to add the transport agreement with the Federal Marshals to the Tuesday Sept 9th meeting agenda.

Jail population is 148 total with 94 billable.

Darryl Lutz asked to have a boring contract approval added to the Sept. 9th meeting agenda.

Administrator Johnson said he was going to recommend Verizon as the county cell phone provider.

Commissioners Wheeler and Shriver questioned the number of new hires at the jail.

Commissioner Anderson reminded Commissioners of Douglass Frontier Days this weekend and that they were invited to be in the parade.

Commissioner Doll motioned to adjourn the meeting of the Board at 11:45 AM.

Commissioner Anderson seconded the motion. Motion carried 4-0.