Commissioners approve sports-complex payments, ARPA summary and IT purchase orders

The Atchison County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved multiple vendor payments for sports complex repairs, accepted an annual American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) expenditure summary and authorized two information-technology purchase orders.

The board approved payment requests charged to the county’s sports-complex funds (quarter-cent sales tax fund): Wheatland Contracting for a repaired leaking water line at the Effingham site, $597.89; Brooks Electric for lighting coil replacement at the Effingham site, $2,743; and an Atchison site electric bill for wiring at a new bathroom, $1,950. Each motion passed by voice vote, “Aye,” and was recorded as passing 3 to 0.

The finance director also presented the county’s ARPA expenditure-tracking summary. The director said the county had expended its ARPA allocation and submitted an annual report to the U.S. government; the board voted 3 to 0 to accept the ARPA summary.

IT purchases: Scott Howard, the county’s information-technology director, asked the board to approve two budgeted 2025 expenses. The first was a one-year website hosting and support fee to CivicPlus for $8,824.69; the second was a Cisco VPN configuration with multi-factor authentication provided by ConvergeOne for $6,181. Both purchase orders were approved 3 to 0.

All approvals were recorded as unanimous (3–0). Commissioners also received an update on remaining sports-complex allocations: Effingham has roughly $68,700 remaining of its $100,000 allocation and Atchison had roughly $84,300 remaining of its $400,000 allocation after the approved payments.

Ending: The board’s approvals were routine, according to staff, and will be reflected in the county’s accounts payable and budget records.