Atchison County Commissioners on Nov. 10 approved a set of finance items including a Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) Division of Adult Services first-quarter budget adjustment and multiple purchase orders presented by Finance Director Mark Seltner.

The commission authorized the KDOC budget adjustment for $195,300; the item had been signed by the corrections advisory board chair and was approved by a 3-0 vote. "It is in the amount of a $195,300, and it has already been signed off by our corrections advisory board chair as well," the chair said when introducing the item.

Seltner also asked the commission to approve a $15,000 purchase order to Schwab Eaton for grading and drainage work at the road and bridge facility, to be paid from Senior Village proceeds. Seltner confirmed the work had been contracted and completed under an agreement "not to exceed $15,000," and commissioners approved the purchase order by voice vote.

The finance director presented an outstanding invoice to DG Consultants for approximately $4,904 as part of the professional engineering work related to the grading and bid preparation. Commissioners also approved a purchase order for abstracting services from O'Keefe Wilson for the 2026 tax sale covering 95 parcels; the finance director presented an amount around $11,000 for that work (transcript contains inconsistent figures; see clarifying details).

Finally, Seltner described an unplanned midyear upgrade to the county’s Microsoft environment for enhanced security after a prior incident. He characterized the vendor charge as an "uplift" — an interim upgrade cost — and the county approved payment from the IT budget for the partial 2025 charge of approximately $6,001.47 to ConvergeOne to improve security and reduce risk ahead of the full 2026 renewal.

All finance items presented in this meeting — the KDOC adjustment, the Schwab Eaton purchase order and the ConvergeOne invoice — were approved unanimously (vote recorded 3 to 0). The commission discussed where remaining funds for the still-maturing CD investment should be placed and directed staff to bring options for investing or reallocating funds when the CD matures Nov. 26.