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Crawford County approves liquor license and tax-software bill, schedules personnel executive session and HHW cleanup review
Summary
The commission conditionally approved a Pete's cereal-malt beverage license, authorized payment of a $31,385 CIC tax-software invoice, approved a 15-minute executive session on non-elected personnel, and scheduled a Dec. 2 meeting to review household hazardous waste facility cleanup and closure planning.
The Crawford County Commission approved several routine administrative items and scheduled follow-ups during the meeting.
Licensing: Commissioners approved a 2026 cereal-malt beverage license for a Pete's store on Highway 400 after staff said the location has been handled in prior years. The license raised questions because commissioners initially were unsure whether the physical location lay in neighboring Cherokee County; staff said the property appears in Taxing Unit 100 and would pull annexation paperwork for verification before final administrative records are completed. A commissioner moved to approve the license and a second followed; the motion carried by voice approval (no roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript).
CIC software invoice: County staff presented an annual invoice from CIC for tax software totaling $31,385 (up from $30,001.90 the prior year). Commissioners discussed the difficulty counties encounter when replacing tax-software systems and said they were satisfied with CIC. A motion to pay the invoice was moved and seconded and the payment was approved by voice vote.
Personnel: Commissioners moved, seconded and approved going into executive session for 15 minutes under the non-elected-personnel exception to discuss individual employees; the session was to include three commissioners, counsel and the county appraisal appraiser.
Solar farm taxation inquiry: Commissioners also discussed a local solar installation near Greenbush. Meeting speakers identified Today's Power Inc. (TPI), based in Little Rock, Arkansas, as the owner of the equipment and said Heartland/Hartland (the transcript uses both spellings) may own the ground and buy back the power. The transcript records one participant saying the installation was described as roughly 1 megawatt on six acres and that there are eight inverters; commissioners asked staff to research whether the county is receiving property or personal-property tax and whether any permit or abatement applies.
HHW closure meeting: Commissioner Zaida announced a tentative Dec. 2, 2:30 p.m. meeting with Triad and county staff to review cleanup and closure of the household hazardous waste facility; commissioners noted that notification of KDHE and a 90-day timeline would follow issuance of notices to KAC.
No roll-call vote counts were recorded in the transcript for the approved motions; approvals appear to have been by voice vote. Staff was directed to pull annexation and taxing-unit paperwork, research taxation for the solar installation, and prepare follow-up materials for upcoming meetings.
