County makes offer to purchase Department of Human Services building
District 2 Commissioner and Chairman Steve Hendrix said during the commissioners' Monday meeting that the county has made an offer to buy the parcel that contains the building, located at 2020 Holly Road. Hendrix said he could not say how much the county is offering or what the timeline on a possible deal would be.
"Should we be able to close that deal and purchase that property, the plan at this time is to incorporate that facility into the [county's] general remodeling and expansion plans," Hendrix said.
According to county land records, the 1.49 acres are zoned urban commercial. H&P Construction, Inc. owns the land.
Hendrix said the Oklahoma Department of Human Services occupied the building for years. The department vacated the Holly Road building and moved into a new facility on Blue Starr Drive last July.
Also at Monday's meeting, the commissioners:
— Received 30 bid offers for the Rogers County maintenance building expansion project
Rogers County purchased a former auto repair shop at 327 S. Cherokee Ave. last year to accommodate the Rogers County Maintenance Department. This department and two others will vacate the Rogers County Courthouse in the next year or so as the county performs renovations to the courthouse.
In January, the commissioners chose Lyle Building Group as construction manager for the renovation project. The 30 bids the commissioners received Monday encompassed dirt work, masonry and other tasks needed to retrofit the building for the maintenance department's purposes.
The commissioners voted to award the bid for this project at their next Monday meeting.
— Chose Brazeal Masonry, Inc. to replace a door at the Rogers County jail
A door is rotting at the Amos G. Ward Detention Center, and the Rogers County Sheriff's Office has been seeking a contractor to perform masonry and painting work for this project since last November. The sheriff's office had already hired contractors to demolish the door, replace it and install electric infrastructure.
Jay Yoder, the sheriff's office's maintenance director, provided the commissioners documentation for three masonry bids he'd received over the phone; he said he hadn't obtained three painting bids yet.
Brazeal Masonry, based in Tulsa, offered the low bid of $9,050.
— Purchased right-of-way for two parcels needed to remedy low water crossing
The commissioners approved the two purchases, which total $63,951.80, through a right-of-way company GAMA Adventures, LLC.
This allows crews to replace utilities that run by the low water crossing, located on the Rogers-Craig county line just north of the intersection of South 4310 and East 330 roads. The county plans to replace this crossing with a 140-foot bridge, funded jointly by the federal government and Oklahoma's County Improvement for Roads and Bridges fund.
"We've only got three to buy," said District 1 Commissioner Dan DeLozier. "We've got two on [the agenda], and we still have one we're working on."
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation will begin replacing the bridge this summer.
— Reimbursed General Fund District 1 Cemetery Part Time Salaries fund for storm damage
DeLozier said this reimbursement of $3,162 is the first of a series the county will make in coming months as the Federal Emergency Management Agency reimburses the county for its expenses related to the May tornado.
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