County Takes Cemetery Mowing Bids
The Glasscock County Commissioners’ Court on Sept. 9 (Michael Hoch absent) reviewed two bids for the job of mowing and cleaning the Garden City Cemetery. One was from Pete Talamantes, Jr. for $378 per job; the other was from Keith Burnett and Chase O’Brien for $350 per job. Burnett and O’Brien also submitted a bid of $250 per job for trimming at the courthouse and around highway trees, etc., as needed. [The court was to officially have accepted one of the bids at its meeting Oct. 10, but the item was not on the agenda, so action was postponed.]
Burnett and O’Brien recently cleaned the Garden City Cemetery, and the court decided to pay them the advertised amount of two times the regular agreed-upon rate for a first cleaning, which amounted to $700, based on their’ bid. Burnett said it took them 48 working hours to mow and completely trim the cemetery that time, since it was in such bad shape.
The court declined to support Midland’s Safe Place, a shelter for battered women and their children. County Judge Wilburn Bednar said he thought the county’s support of the Victim’s Rights group in Big Spring was a similar, better choice.
Fire Truck Needs Guardrails
Bednar again made clear his desire that a Garden City fire department water truck be fitted with guardrails so it is serviceable for fighting range fires.
Commissioners decided to put one of two used county cars up for bids, and to keep the other until next year. A 1999 Ford Crown Victoria will be sold, and County FCS Agent Charlene Belew will drive a 2000 Crown Victoria until next October, when Sheriff Pruit’s pickup will be in line to be replaced in the county’s four-year vehicle rotation. Belew will then get Pruitt’s pickup.
Bids for the car should be turned in to Bednar’s office or the clerk’s office no later than Nov. 11 and will be opened at the commissioners’ court meeting Nov.14.
Commissioners were told that a particular person is highly interested in the county’s job as extension agent for agriculture. He has background in Ira, is married with three kids and apparently wants to settle here. State paperwork, which is necessary prior to hiring an agent, has not been completed.