The Atchison County Commission met Thursday, March 14, 2024.  Present were: Presiding Commissioner Curtis Livengood, South District Commissioner Richard Burke, North District Commissioner Jim Quimby, and Susette Taylor, Clerk of the Commission.

Presiding Commissioner Livengood called the meeting to order.

Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.

Bills were reviewed and approved for payment.

Month-end department reports were reviewed and approved.

Collector Diane Livengood presented her annual settlement of taxes collected.

The commission opened bids for an IP based 9-1-1 service delivery with backup call handling stations which will connect Atchison County 911 Public Safety Answering Point to the MO911 statewide ESInet and will become interoperable with all surrounding agencies either via legacy gateways or newly deployed Next Generation IP based networks. The MO911 ESInet is a fully compliant Next Generation 911 ESInet with data centers operational in Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri. Emergency Management/E-9-1-1 Director Rhonda Wiley and Assistant Director Mark Manchester were present for the bid opening.

One bid was received and it was presented by Jonathan Skeens, 911 Systems Engineer with INdigital serving Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. The bid from Indigital would include 24/7/365 Network Service Operations Center (NSOC), call center, ticketing, Network monitoring, support, and web based MSAG and ALI management through www.mo911.net. Emergency voice call routing (via LDB/ECRF/ESRP, etc.), location services (ANI/ALI), and the independent backup system for 9-1-1 and administrative telephone trunks that are all delivered via diverse, redundant, private, secure managed IP networks and integrate with a CAD/mapping interface. In addition, it included text to and from 911 with a CAD/mapping interface. The bid for first year cost was $14,765.00 with an annual per year cost for years 2-5 of $13,671.30. The cost for text to and from 9-1-1 was an additional $1,200 annually. Labor, setup, and onsite equipment was a one-time fee of $7,800.

Mr. Skeens stated that moving to this technology would reduce many of the line charges the county currently has with 9-1-1 and allow multiple layers of redundancy to 9-1-1 in Atchison County helping to alleviate many outages that have occurred. The commission thanked Mr. Skeen for his presentation and bid and tabled the bid for review.

The office holders and department heads met to discuss the details of County Government Day, which will be held on Wednesday, March 20.

The commission met with Nate Long and Dennis Bennett from the Willow Creek Nebraska Trail Riders Association. They stated that 85 families own 278.3 acres of recreational property in Atchison County and since 2014 have spent approximately $30,000 on rock for 292nd Street, for which they provided records to substantiate. Road and Bridge Supervisor Kamron Woodring was also present for the meeting and provided additional documentation of rock purchased using the county bid. They were inquiring to see if there was anything the county could do to assist with getting the road into better shape. The road does have a county easement, but it is so steep and washed that it would require an additional easement to allow work to be done and the current landowner is not willing to provide that. The commission stated they were willing to allow them to purchase rock using the county bid through Road and Bridge Department and requested that Supervisor Woodring evaluate the road and report back with his recommendations.

Monica Bailey, ACDC Director, and Adam Summers, Northwest Missouri Enterprise Facilition facilitator, met with the commission to invite them to attend the annual Northwest Missouri Facilitation dinner which will be held at Mozingo.

The commission met with members of the Nishnabotna and Mill Creek Drainage Districts at 11:00 a.m. Present were Road and Bridge Supervisor Kamron Woodring, Troy LaHue, Phil Graves, Bill Heitman, and Marvin Cooper. Mr. Graves stated that they now have a verbal commitment of funding from Congressman Graves’ office to finish the drainage ditch upgrades on Ditch #5 that are needed since the corps built the new levee following the flood of 2019. The group was seeking county approval on how to move forward with replacement of two tubes running under Atchison-Holt Road adjacent to the drainage ditch. Supervisor Woodring provided specs and details for placing the tubes under the road and bringing the road up to a 2 ½ to 1 slope with a 22-foot road surface. Backfill would be placed around the tubes to prevent washing. This would allow the drainage districts to use the tubes they already purchased by just adding 12-gauge steel galvanized twin headwalls and angle iron bracing. The district members asked if Supervisor Woodring would be willing to get an up-to-date quote on adding the necessary changes to the tubes. He agreed to do so. Once the district has final written confirmation of the grant award, an agreement can be made before moving ahead. The spec drawing for the project is on file in the road and bridge office.

Kamron Woodring presented the agreement between Constellation and the county for the use of the laydown site along L Avenue and Highway 136. They will use it as a staging area for the repowering of the Farmer City Wind Farm. After reviewing, the commissioners voted to approve the agreement.

Supervisor Woodring then presented the intergovernmental agreement between the county and Tarkio Special Road District for their allocated share of rock funding. It was signed by the commission.

The commission reopened the discussion for IP Based 9-1-1 Service Delivery. After confirming that figures are in the 9-1-1 budget, the commissioners voted to accept the bid as presented from INdigital.

There being no further business, the commission adjourned.