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Pratt County meeting roundup: minutes, hiring, budget guidance and executive sessions
Summary
Commissioners approved minutes and vouchers, hired Jim Koch as a part-time road employee at $17/hour, discussed reducing the proposed mill levy by two mills, and held multiple attorney-client executive sessions that concluded with no action.
In a series of routine actions, the Pratt County Commission approved minutes for a special canvass and a regular meeting, authorized payment of routine vouchers, and hired one part-time road department employee.
The commission moved and approved minutes for recent canvassing and a past regular meeting. Commissioners also voted to pay the day’s vouchers; the presiding official recorded '6 ayes' on the voucher motion.
On personnel, the commission voted to hire Jim Koch as a part‑time road department worker at $17 per hour. Commissioners also discussed upcoming budget hearings and provided staff guidance to prepare a budget scenario that reduces the proposed mill levy by two mills (bringing a cited number to 63.851) while noting general-fund carryover figures (reported as $753,450) used to assess reserves.
The meeting included several short attorney-client executive sessions: a 15-minute non-elected-personnel session, a 15-minute session about a radio-tower matter, and a 10-minute session on election policy; the commissioners reported returning from each with no action taken.
The presiding official read an email from Haviland Care Home praising BJ, the county emergency manager, for assisting a facility while traveling; the email said 'Pratt County is lucky to have him.' The meeting adjourned and the commission set the next meeting for Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. (stated verbally as September 3).
