Local News – Friday, September 14th, 2018
The Dent County Commissioners met for their regular meeting at the courthouse Thursday morning. Dent County Treasurer Denita Williams gave the report on the sales tax collections in the month of September. Williams reported the General Revenue Fund received $112,218.61 in December which is up $20,868.80 from the 2017 amount collected in September. Year-to-date, the General Revenue Fund is up $135,609.90 which comes to about 21.33%. A similar amount was collected in the Law Enforcement Sales Tax Fund for September. Williams said the Road and Bridge Fund received $53,432.33 and that is up from the $42,246.54 collected in September 2017. The increase year-to-date in that fund is $56,578.27 and that increase is 19.14% over last year. Williams reported each jail fund raised $106,210.51 in September. In the road report, District 1 Commissioner Dennis Purcell stated grading would be done on Dent County Roads 6500, 5630 and 5650 while ditch work and a crossover pipe for a low water crossing is being installed on county road 5130. District 2 Commissioner Gary Larson said materials would be added and grading done on county roads 2070 and 2110 while only grading would be done on Dent County Road 5260. Larson said the low water crossing on county road 2070 is now open to traffic. Dent County Presiding Commissioner Darrell Skiles said he and the other commissioners attended the Community Betterment Judges visit to Salem on Monday. He also said he attended the MRPC External Relations and board meeting Thursday night. Dent County Clerk Angie Curley said she balanced with the collector and assessor on all abatements, collections and add-ons for August. She also said people need to be registered to vote for the November General Election by October 10th. She said the state will be sending out postcards next week to citizens who would be eligible to vote but are not currently registered in an effort to get people registered in time for the November election. If you receive one of these postcards and you are already a registered voter, please disregard it. The commissioners approved the bid from Dent County Glass and Door to make the west doors to the courthouse handicapped accessible using a push button system to open the doors automatically for entry or exit as well as all applicable hardware for $4,280. The commission agreed to revise the ordinance for getting an ATV/UTV permit from a lifetime permit to an annual permit. They will sign the revised ordinance once the annual stickers arrive and the ordinance will then be in effect from that date forward. The Board opened new grader bids at 10:00 from Erb Equipment Company and Fabick. After a long discussion and comparison of the options and features of each machine, the board elected to purchase two new Fabick Cat graders with the steering wheel option. These machines feature a five year/5,000 hour warranty and have a buy back after five years of $110,000. These graders will be delivered sometime in late January or February. The next meeting of the commission will be Monday morning at 9:00 and the meeting is open to the public.
An ABATE Fundraiser for the South Central Missouri Chapter will be held this Sunday as they will hold a Poker Run that will begin with registration at 10:00 at the Whispering Pines Campground on Route ZZ in Jadwin. The run begins at 11:00 as the ride will go to Akers Ferry, Double O in Eminence, JB Malones in Salem and back to Whispering Pine. Drivers must have a drivers/motorcycle license and everyone signs a waiver at the time of registration. The cost is $10 for the first hand and $5.00 for each additional hand. The best hand wins $50. For more information, contact Dale Williams at 573-453-0000.