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Crawford County Board schedules May 19 budget work session; clerk presents truck-restriction resolution for signature
Summary
At its May 5 meeting in Girard, the Crawford County Board of Commissioners approved the consent agenda, scheduled a May 19 budget work session to review departmental carryover, and the county clerk presented Motion 26-219 to adopt Resolution #2026-019 (a truck prohibition on part of 250th Street) for signature; several executive sessions were held with no action recorded.
The Crawford County Board of Commissioners met May 5, 2026, in the commissioners’ board room at the Crawford County Courthouse in Girard. Commissioner Carl Wood presided.
County Clerk Lisa Lusker told the board she had set a tentative budget work session for May 19 at 9:00 a.m. so commissioners could review departmental budget requests and carryover amounts. Commissioners Carl Wood and Tom Moody agreed to the date; specific carryover figures were discussed by County Counselor Jim Emerson in the meeting but are not specified in the minutes.
The board approved the consent agenda on a motion by Commissioner Tom Moody with a second by Commissioner Carl Wood (motion 26-223). The minutes record Yeas: Commissioners Moody and Wood; Commissioner Blair was absent; the consent agenda included approval of the May 1, 2026 minutes.
During a signing-of-motions segment, the county clerk presented several motions for record and signature, including Motion 26-219 "To adopt Resolution #2026-019, a Resolution prohibiting the operation of trucks and commercial vehicles on a portion of 250th Street, Crawford County, Kansas." The minutes list the motion for signature but do not record a separate roll call on the resolution within the open-session text.
The minutes record that the board recessed for multiple executive sessions during the meeting on personnel and legal matters, including health-department and 911 matters; the sessions were conducted under the attorney–client and non-elected personnel exceptions to the Kansas Open Meetings Act and the board reconvened with no action taken that is noted in the minutes.
County Counselor Jim Emerson also relayed an invitation from Ms. Sarah Runyon of Explore Crawford County for a Chamber Coffee at Miner’s Hall Museum in Franklin on May 7 in observance of National Travel and Tourism Week. The minutes included additional announcements of local events and noted one or more commissioners may attend.
The meeting adjourned at 11:42 a.m. on a motion by Commissioner Moody with a second by Commissioner Wood. The board is scheduled to meet next at its regularly posted time, and the May 19 budget work session is set for 9:00 a.m.
