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Smith County commissioners approve administrative resolutions, make officer appointments

Smith County Board of Commissioners · January 5, 2026

Summary

The board approved four county resolutions (GAAP cash-basis reporting, Open Records fees, Rural Opportunity Zone, transfer resolution), appointed board officers and designated official newspaper, banks, county engineer and surveyors.

At the Jan. 5 meeting, the Smith County Commissioners approved four administrative resolutions: Resolution 26-01 (GAAP resolution affirming county financial reports will be prepared on a cash-basis), Resolution 26-02 (Open Records Fees), Resolution 26-03 (Rural Opportunity Zone), and Resolution 26-04 (Transfer resolution). Each resolution carried unanimously on motions recorded in the minutes.

The board also made routine annual appointments and designations. Commissioners appointed Kurt Ifland as Board Chairman and James Gwennap as Vice-Chairman, left representative assignments unchanged (Gwennap to Northwest Kansas Planning & Development, Communications Board and Local Emergency Planning Committee; Ifland to Smith County Drug & Alcohol Council; Peterson to High Plains Mental Health), and designated the Smith County Pioneer as the official county newspaper. The commissioners designated FDIC/FSLIC-insured institutions with a physical presence in Smith County as official banks, named Penco Engineering as the official county engineer and designated all certified surveyors as official surveyors.

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