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Logan Co., OK

Tuesday – August 22, 2017 – 10:00 a.m.

SELLERS:Jennifer Jamison & Patsy Pollard, Co-Trustees of

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Auction Location: Crescent Community Center, 525 E. Van Buren, Crescent, OKWithin minutes of Crescent/home site potential. Farm #1 (40+/- ac.): 3.5 mi. W. of Crescent on Dover/Cres-cent Blacktop, 2 mi. N. on Council Rd, & ½ mi. W. on CR 710 * Approx. 37.22 ac. productive cropland * Legal: Lts 1 & 2 NW/4 NE/4 6-17-4 W.I.M. Farm #2 (80 +/- acres): 3 mi W. of Crescent on Dover/Crescent Blacktop * Currently Bermuda & impr. grass, scattered trees & pond * Perimeter fence * electricity, if desired. 75.26 ac. of cropland (currently in grass) * Legal: W/2 NE/4 17-17N-4 W.I.M. Minerals: Do not sell. Posses-sion: upon signing purchase contract & acceptance of escrow deposit. Order of Auction: individual only. Terms: 10% down, bal. due at closing. Announcements made the day of auction take precedence.

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ABSOLUTE AUCTION153 ACRES MAJOR COUNTY CROPLAND

RINGWOOD / AMES, OK AREA

WED., AUGUST 23, 2017 10 A.M.SALE LOCATION: 206 E. Broadway, Fairview, OK at the Fairview Community Center. From Main St. turn East on Broadway go 2 blocks East. Community Center is located South side of street. 153 ACRES +/- LOCATED: From Ringwood, OK at the Jiffy Trip, go 5 miles South on Black Top CR NS267. From Ames, OK go 3 miles North on Black Top CR N2705, 3.5 miles West on CR E510, 2 miles North on CR NS267. From Okeene, OK go 12 miles North on Hwy 8, 3.5 miles East on CR E500.LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SURFACE RIGHTS ONLY SE/4 Sec. 15-T21N-R10WIM, Major County, Oklahoma, containing approximately 153.39 acres more or less (Less a 6 +/- acre tract in the SE corner). This farm has 148.29 acres of cultivation, 124.5 acres wheat base, with a 25 bushel yield according to the FSA office. The farm will be burned down with a ground application and be ready to plant. There is Black Top frontage on the East side, with good five wire steel post fence on all sides. FOR PICTURES GO TO WWW.EVANSLANDAUCTIONS.COM

MINERAL RIGHTS: Selling surface rights only.TAXES: 2016 Taxes were $274.00. Taxes will be pro-rated as of closing date.POSSESSION: Immediately after closing. TERMS: 10% of the purchase price paid down day of auction, balance due at closing. Fairview Abstract & Title Co. (116 E. Broadway, Fairview, OK. 580-227-4524) will be the escrow and closing agent. WARRANTIES: Seller makes no warranties, selling as is, where is. Prospective buyers are encouraged to inspect the tract to satisfy themselves as to acreages, boundaries, oil field easements, electrical easements, pipeline easements, and condition of all improvements, if any, prior to sale. FINANCING: Financing on this farm is available by calling 580-256-5525 for approval prior to auction. AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: If you are looking for a great farm in a great location for expansion or investment, with excellent livestock opportunities, you will like this farm. There are several irrigation circles in close proximity to this farm. This is an Absolute auction. The farm will sell to the highest and best bidder.

anticipated negative growth in the next three to six months. The energy sector continued to bring strength to the index, while slight weakness in the manufac-turing sector lowered the overall rate.

July collectionsReceipts for July set gross

collections at $926.9 mil-lion, up $73.1 million, or 8.6 percent, from July 2016.

Gross income tax collec-tions, a combination of per-sonal and corporate income taxes, generated $273.3 million, an increase of $15.6 million, or 6 percent, from the previous July.

Personal income tax col-lections for the month are $258.6 million, up by $12.6 million, or 5.1 percent, from the prior year. Corpo-rate collections are $14.7 million, an increase of $3 million, or 25.5 percent.

Sales tax collections, including remittances on behalf of cities and counties, total $386.5 million in July. That is $31.1 million, or 8.7 percent, more than July 2016.

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(As recorded by Local Weather Observer Steve Loftis in Kingfisher.)Date Hi Low Pr.Aug. 2 89 65 0.35Aug. 3 98 65 Aug. 4 87 65Aug. 5 103 69Aug. 6 88 69Aug. 7 83 70Aug. 8 84 68

RainfallJanuary 2017 rainfall .........1.85January 2016 rainfall .........0.55Feb. 2017 rainfall to date ...3.13February 2016 rainfall........0.88March 2016 rainfall ............1.23March 2017 rainfall ............4.77April 2017 rainfall .............13.94April 2016 rainfall ...............4.51May 2017 rainfall ...............2.35May 2016 rainfall ...............2.78June 2016 rainfall ..............3.60June 2017 rainfall ..............0.46

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Wheat Market Aug. 7

$3.84 7¢ from Aug. 3➔

Funeral services for Ste-phen Ellsworth Turner of Yukon will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the El Reno

Cemetery Pavilion with military honors.

U.S. Army chaplain will officiate. Interment will be in the El Reno Cemetery.

Services are under the direction of Wilson

Funeral Home.Stephen passed away on

Aug. 2, 2017, in Mercy Hos-pital in Oklahoma City. He was born Nov. 17, 1944, in El Reno.

Stephen was a graduate of El Reno High School and a lifetime Canadian County area resident.

He married Martha Fry on April 7, 1973, in Oklahoma City.

He was retired as a master sergeant from the U.S. Army National Guard after 39 years of service.

He was a member of the Episcopal church.

Stephen was preceded in death by his parents, Stacy and Edith Blanche (Sim-mons) Turner.

Survivors include his wife of the home; son Kenneth Belshe and wife Denise of San Augustine, Fla.; son Keith Belshe of Bethany; daughter LaShawn Kochenower and husband Gary of Kingfisher; daughter Tammie Furgeson and husband Michael of Yukon; daughter Debbie Wittrock and husband David of Okarche; brother Stacy Charles of El Reno; brother Phillip Wolfe and wife Bever-ly of Houston, Texas; grand-children Julie Merritt, Jaren Wittrock, Jenni Wittrock, Maci, Marti, Cloi Koche-nower, Morgan Furgeson, Logan Furgeson, Ava Belshe and Andrew Belshe; and great-grandchildren Emily Marti, Logan Marti, Kooper Allen, Gunner Allen and Spencer Merritt.

Memorials may be made to the Wounded Warriors Association.

Florence Ruth “Pinky” Adams, 78, of Crescent was born Sept. 16, 1938, in Chica-go, Ill., to Clarence and Loleta (Zawadzki) Jenson. She died Aug. 4, 2017, in Guthrie.

Survivors include her daughter Wanda Dodson and husband Robert of Crescent; son Greg Reichard and wife Niki of Punxsutawney, Pa.; six grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. She was pre-ceded in death by her parents, husband, Douglas Adams, and a son, Earl Reichard, Jr.

Memorial services were Sunday, Aug. 6 at the Cros-spointe Church with Pastor Mark LeMarr officiating.

OBITUARY

Stephen Turner

Florence AdamsAREA DEATH

Kingfisher Trails Inc. is going to have to wait at least another week to receive a plot of land from King-fisher Public Schools.

Kingfisher Board of Education members at their regular meeting Monday night were unable to act on an agenda item regarding the deeding of land to the local entity because the quit claim deed had not yet been completed by the Kingfish-er Trails attorney.

The land is located on the east boundary of the district’s trans-portation lot, which is located just north of the middle school.

The legal document is expected

to be finished this week and board members could act on it at a special meeting at 7 p.m. Monday Aug. 14.

That meeting was originally ne-cessitated to allow board members to approve a bid to repair the roof at Gilmour Elementary School.

Bids will be opened at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Board of Educa-tion Office.

That was part of a brief agenda for the August meeting in which three resignations and four hires were accepted.

Resignations came from Julie Vincent, a special education para-professional, Veronica Saucedo, a

custodian, and Claudia Green, a teacher’s assistant and cashier at Gilmour Elementary School.

Terri Layn, who was a special education paraprofessional at Gilmour, will now serve as a coun-selor’s assistant at the high school.

Santiago Mejia, a teacher’s assistant at Gilmour, now serves as an English language learners assistant.

The positions at Gilmour pre-viously held by Layn and Mejia will be filled, said Supt. Jason Sternberger.

Also hired were Hope Patterson and Kara Wallace, both as special

education paraprofessionals.In other items, the board ap-

proved a contract with CareerTech for secondary programs and three contracts with Big Five for food service, a building lease agreement and Local Education Agency Child Find agreement. All contracts remained the same as last year, Sternberger said.

Board members also voted to de-clare several band items as surplus, opened an activity account for the Class of 2022 and closed accounts for the classes of 2016 and 2017 and the Kingfisher Junior Civic Club.

KPS deed to Trails has to wait a week

Gross production taxes on oil and natural gas gen-erated $41.9 million in July, an increase of $11.4 million, or 37.4 percent, from last July. Compared to June re-ports, gross production col-lections are up by $293,860, or 0.7 percent.

Motor vehicle taxes pro-duced $68 million, up by $7.5 million, or 12.5 per-cent, from the same month of last year.

Other collections, con-sisting of about 60 different sources including use taxes, along with taxes on fuel, to-bacco, horse race gambling and alcoholic beverages, produced $157.2 million during the month. That is $7.5 million, or 5 percent, more than last July.

Twelve-month collectionsGross revenue totals $11

billion from the past 12 months. That is $2.8 mil-lion, or 0.03 percent, less than collections from the previous 12 months.

Gross income taxes gen-erated $3.9 billion for the August 2016-July 2017 period, reflecting a decrease of $150.3 million, or 3.7 percent, from the August

2015-July 2016 period.Personal income tax col-

lections total $3.5 billion, down by $30 million, or 0.8 percent, from the prior 12 months. Corporate col-lections are $403.7 million for the period, a decrease of $120.3 million, or 23 percent, over the previous period.

Sales taxes for the period generated $4.2 billion, a decrease of $14.5 million, or 0.3 percent, from the prior year.

Oil and gas gross produc-tion tax collections brought in $454.1 million during the past 12 months, up by $98.1 million, or 27.5 percent, from the previous 12-month period.

Motor vehicle collec-tions total $761.1 million for the period. This is a drop of $11 million, or 1.5 percent, from the trailing period.

Other sources generated $1.6 billion, up by $53 mil-lion, or 3.4 percent, from the previous 12 months.About Gross Receipts to the

TreasurySince March 2011, the

Office of the State Treasur-

er has issued the monthly Gross Receipts to the Trea-sury report, which provides a timely and broad view of the state’s macro economy.

It is provided in conjunc-tion with the General Reve-nue Fund allocation report from the Office of Man-agement and Enterprise Services, which provides important information to

state agencies for budgetary planning purposes.

The General Revenue Fund receives less than half of the state’s gross receipts with the remainder paid in rebates and refunds, remit-ted to cities and counties, and placed into off-the-top earmarks to other state funds.

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July 2017 rain ....................0.59July 2016 rainfall................4.84August rainfall to date ........0.49August 2016 rainfall ...........2.37September 2015 rainfall ....3.91September 2016 rainfall ....7.04October 2015 rainfall .........1.51October 2016 rainfall .........0.50November 2015 rainfall .....5.92November 2016 rainfall .....0.67

December 2016 rainfall .....0.352015 rainfall total .............48.212016 rainfall total .............29.23Average annual rainfall ....35.232017 rainfall to date .........24.66

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Auctioneer’s Note: Due to passing of LeeRoy, Peggy is selling part of their estate. LeeRoy retired as an electrician from General Motors. As a side business, he repaired electric motors and well pumps. He had a love of vintage tractors and you will get see his 60+ year collection. If you are a tractor lover, you don’t want to miss this auction. All tractors, vehicles & equipment will need to be restored. We don’t know the make/model of most of the tractors. A lot of tractors not mentioned. There are no small items so you won’t want to be late. Auction will have 1 ring. Lots of pasture parking. Visit our website for pictures at www.chuppsauction.com or follow us on Facebook for updates. Additional items to be added up to auction day.

Directions: In Prague, OK, at the Jct of Hwy 99 & Main St/Hwy 62, Go West 1.7 miles. Auction is on the right. Look for auction signs.Terms: Cash – Credit Cards – Check with Proper ID – OK Sales Tax Applies unless exemption is shown. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS. ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS DAY OF SALE SUPERSEDES PREVIOUS ADVERTISING.

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Auctioneer’s Note: Due to passing of LeeRoy, Peggy is selling part of their estate. LeeRoy retired as an electrician from General Motors. As a side business, he repaired electric motors and well pumps. He had a love of vintage tractors and you will get see his 60+ year collection. If you are a tractor lover, you don’t want to miss this auction. All tractors, vehicles & equipment will need to be restored. We don’t know the make/model of most of the tractors. A lot of tractors not mentioned. There are no small items so you won’t want to be late. Auction will have 1 ring. Lots of pasture parking. Visit our website for pictures at www.chuppsauction.com or follow us on Facebook for updates. Additional items to be added up to auction day.Directions: In Prague, OK, at the Jct of Hwy 99 & Main St/Hwy 62, Go West 1.7 miles. Auction is on the right. Look for auction signs.Terms: Cash – Credit Cards – Check with Proper ID – OK Sales Tax Applies unless exemption is shown. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS. ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS DAY OF SALE SUPERSEDES PREVIOUS ADVERTISING.

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Auctioneer’s Note: Due to passing of LeeRoy, Peggy is selling part of their estate. LeeRoy retired as an electrician from General Motors. As a side business, he repaired electric motors and well pumps. He had a love of vintage tractors and you will get see his 60+ year collection. If you are a tractor lover, you don’t want to miss this auction. All tractors, vehicles & equipment will need to be restored. We don’t know the make/model of most of the tractors. A lot of tractors not mentioned. There are no small items so you won’t want to be late. Auction will have 1 ring. Lots of pasture parking. Visit our website for pictures at www.chuppsauction.com or follow us on Facebook for updates. Additional items to be added up to auction day.

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rural firefighting equipment, the majority of its fleet, which is dedicated to countywide service.

The fire department offi-cials said that failure to contin-ue receiving the sales tax wold force them to go backward in the service they can provide communities.

All the fire department rep-resentatives expressed support for the proposed jail construc-tion tax, but not as a replace-ment for the quarter-cent tax for fire departments.

Chairman Ray Shimanek of the board of county com-missioners recalled that when the tax for fire departments was requested citizens were pledged that the tax “would be in effect for 10 years and then it would go away.”

The goal was to allow de-partments to improve equip-ment, training and facilities to the point they could provide improved service and operate without the funding after the original tax expired.

Jerry Copeland, a member of the jail committee, said in proposing the quarter-cent tax for the jail, replacing the tax that currently goes to fire departments, the hope was that fire departments would be adequately financed with proceeds from the current tax so that they could operate for a few years without need of additional funding.

Dover Assistant Fire Chief Jeff Johnson pointed out that community ISO ratings – and the property insurance premiums based on them – have been reduced due to the improvements made with tax revenue.

But Johnson added that fire departments would lose ground without continued funds to maintain and replace equipment as necessary.

Dover is in pretty good shape regarding equipment maintenance because the de-partment has so many farmers who have large equipment re-pair experience, Johnson said.

He added that Dover has been conservative with its funds but it will be forced to purchase an expensive piece of equipment soon or start going backward.

All the firefighters ex-pressed appreciation for the tax support they have received.

Loyal Fire Chief Richard Meyer pointed to potential fu-ture problems due to increased oilfield activity, which con-tinues to expand the number and types of structures within each rural fire district that fire departments are charged with protecting.

Meyer also suggested a portion of a half-cent sales tax could go to the county 911 emergency calling system, which is underfunded.

couldn’t have done what we did.”

The huge jump in gross production allowed the district to overcome state cuts totaling more than $600,000.

On top of that, the district purchased $120,000 worth of textbooks for 2017-18, completed numerous projects within buildings and class-rooms and surprised teachers and staff with a one-time sti-pend just before the Christmas break.

Even after money spent on improvements and stipends, the increased revenue allowed Kingfisher to increase its car-ryover to $1.6 million heading into this fiscal year.

“All that means we’re just less dependent on state aid, which is a good thing” Stern-berger told his board in the last meeting of the 16-17 fiscal year.

Kingfisher Isn’t AloneEvery school district in the

county saw significant increas-es in their gross production revenues from 2015-16 to 2016-17. In fact, they all more than doubled.

Percentage-wise, Lomega saw the biggest bump as gross production increased from just under $125,000 to more than $303,000 (143 percent).

Okarche was up 134 per-cent to nearly $408,000. Cash-ion jumped 127 percent to just shy of $600,000 and Hen-nessey 125 percent to nearly $1.06 million.

Dover had the smallest in-crease, but was still up 114 per-cent to just under $200,000.

That number, however, should only increase this year as a district that was in finan-cial despair four years ago

appears to be on the rebound.“We are going to see a pretty

significant revenue bump this year as long as gross produc-tion collections don’t take a nosedive,” said Supt. Shannon Grimes.

That’s not likely as drilling activity remains strong in Do-ver’s district.

On top of that, Dover’s net assessed valuation, another big factor in school finances, should also trend upwards.

A district’s net assessed val-uation, or “NAV,” is the taxable portion of the total fair market value of real and personal prop-erty within the district.

In Kingfisher County, that taxable ratio ranges from 11 percent for most property to 22.85 percent for certain pub-lic service properties, such as pipelines.

Dover saw its NAV dip from about $13 million in 2015-16 to $11.2 million last year.

That won’t be the case in 2017-18.

Kingfisher Midstream, a natural gas gathering and processing plant which began operation in 2016, will count toward’s Dover’s next NAV.

Early estimates, according to Grimes, have that figure at $31 million for the current tax year.

Furthermore, Kingfisher Midstream is doubling its plant size and the Red Dirt Wind Energy project is expected to bring 39 wind turbines inside the district’s borders.

“Hopefully those projects will be finished by Dec. 31,” Grimes said. “If so, they will go on next year’s valuation.”

The wind turbines alone are projected to bump Dover’s

NAV another $6 to $10 million.And that’s tremendous

news for taxpayers as higher NAVs mean lower property taxes.

Effect on Tax CollectionsHigher net assessed valua-

tions also mean more money in school coffers, based upon the millage rates assigned to each particular fund.

Every $1 million in NAV equates to about $5,000 in tax revenue for a district’s building fund and $35,000 for its gen-eral fund.

Locally-generated general fund revenues are chargeable against state aid – meaning every additional dollar in gross production or property taxes brought into a school’s general fund in one year are subtracted from the school’s state aid check the following year.

But increases in building fund revenues are not charge-able against state aid.

“In simplest terms, it’s free money,” Sternberger said.

Grimes is beginning his fourth year as Dover’s super-intendent.

The year before he took over, Dover had just $17 in its building fund. When Grimes was hired, the number was up to $8,000, but still a paltry amount.

Building funds are used to make repairs to school fa-cilities, pay utilities, property insurance, purchase property and pay the salaries of mainte-nance and custodial staffs.

“When you have $8,000, it doesn’t allow you to do much of anything and you’re praying nothing breaks down,” Grimes said.

Dover starts this fiscal year with $50,000 in its building fund, a figure that doesn’t include the insurance money deposited into the account to pay for the new high school currently under construction.

Dover was in similar shape with its general fund carryover as well. Once down to $70,000, the number is almost $400,000 entering this year.

“We anticipate it going higher while being able to spend more,” Grimes said.Bond Issues More Palatable

Further to the north, Hen-nessey voters passed a $15.49 million bond issue in April to help build, among other things, a new gymnasium that will double as a safe room.

The district’s net assessed valuation increased just over $1 million to $41.5 million over the previous year, but that number is expected to climb with the aforemen-tioned wind energy project. Hennessey gross production collections also increased more than $587,000.

“The ability to keep proper-ty taxes fairly level and a recog-nizable need for the project were the primary reasons for the bond passage,” said Supt. Mike Woods.

Cashion is completing con-struction on a new wing to its elementary, improvements to the high school, a new football field house and new dugouts at the softball field, complete with dressing rooms and coaches’ offices.

Cashion’s gross production grew more than $330,000 while its net assessed valuation was up more than $16.5 mil-lion. Last year’s total of $63.8

million is expected to grow even more (half of Cashion’s NAV came from Kingfisher County and the other half from Logan County).

“It’s simple,” said Cashion Supt. Sammy Jackson. “Our financial situation is good because of oil and gas, just like everyone else around here.”

Okarche voters were asked to carry a massive $26 million bond issue last year and did so with a resounding “yes.”

The bond will help build a new elementary, gymnasium, a performing arts building and a new agriculture and techni-cal education building.

Helping pass that through was the fact Okarche’s NAV grew from about $39 million the previous year to $78.8 million. Wind turbines and oil and gas pipelines were the primary factors in that jump.

“When the valuation moved that much, it made the tax increase minimal for what we’re getting,” said Supt. Rob Friesen. “That’s a lot of projects to do in one shot and without the increased valua-tion, I don’t think we’d be able to talk people into that big of a bond issue.

“And rightfully so. Nobody wants to offer to pay a bunch more in taxes. I know I don’t.”

Okarche’s ad valorem rev-enues were up more than $500,000 and the gross pro-duction numbers grew by $233,000.

Like Dover, Kingfisher, Lomega, Cashion and Hen-nessey, Okarche is able to use the bump in dollars to benefit students.

The district split its kinder-garten and first grade into two classes, which wasn’t done last year. It’s also adding a teaching

aide for every elementary grade.

“We’re trying to put our-selves in the best situation for our students and take stress off our teachers,” Friesen said. “I don’t know how many schools right now have this luxury that we do.”

How Long Will It Last?Nobody has the answer, but

everyone agrees that schools must be prepared. Oil booms have come before and they’re inevitably followed by a bust.

“We’ve seen it before,” Sternberger said. “When the oil companies leave, they leave overnight.”

With the lost production go the local revenue streams.

“The key for us right now is to not tie everything up in reoccurring expenditures,” Sternberger said.

Instead, Kingfisher is mak-ing several one-time improve-ments while trying to continue to add to its carryover. Stern-berger said he prefers to get it to the $2.2 million range to give the school a “cushion.”

As stated previously, cer-tain “chargeables” that dis-tricts bring in the year before are subtracted from the cur-rent year’s state aid.

In years when gross pro-duction taxes fall off, the dis-trict loses that revenue stream while still receiving less state aid due to the previous year’s chargeables.

“When you start losing those other revenues, you take a double hit for a while,” Sternberger said. “You have to be prepared for that and that’s why we’re doing what we can to get our carryover up there to allow us to take that hit and not have to make those kinds of cuts again.”

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Hennessey Fire Chief Bert Gritz pointed to the aging of even newer equipment, which has been purchased using sales tax revenue.

He cited two critical units at Hennessey purchased with sales tax money that are now 12 years old.

“It is going to be difficult to replace them (without a renewal of the sales tax),” he said.

Okarche Fire Chief Steve Liebl also commented on the continuing problem of having to replace equipment.

Kingfisher Fire Chief Tony Stewart said the core of the is-sue will be keeping department equipment up to standards to keep ISO ratings down.

Kingfisher City Manager Dave Slezickey proposed a .45-cent allocated at one-third each to jail construction and fire departments, approximately 28 percent to public safety needs to be determined by commissioners (initially going to the jail and then reverting to fire departments when the jail is paid for). The remaining slice – about 5 percent – would go to 911 and the emergency management office, under Slezickey’s proposal.

He said such a proposal would keep all municipal sales tax rates (including the state 4.5 percent tax) in the county at below 10 percent, except for the north half of Okarche, which would total 10.25 percent.

The sales tax rate in other municipalities under such a formula would be Cashion, 9.75 percent; Dover 9.75 per-cent; Hennessey, 9.25 percent; Loyal 7.75 percent and King-fisher 9.085 percent.

Slezickey said the City of Kingfisher is the only munici-pal contributor to the 911 call-ing center ($80,000 per year) although he has been advised Okarche is starting to pay $300

per month.“The 911 (center) has been

underfunded since conception yet serves a critical service countywide,” Slezickey said. “Providing adequate funding for the 911 center can stabilize the center financially and pro-vide sustainability.”

Discussion also covered the potential for changes in the sales tax picture. While the disbursement for July set new high records, those attending said the situation could change quickly with vac-illating economic factors (oil and other commodity prices, for instance).

Slezickey noted that the Kingfisher city sales tax will drop from 3.5 percent to 3.35 percent in October, somewhat alleviating the effect of a .45 percent sales tax increase.

“The posture of the city is that with a split disbursement sales tax including the 911 cen-ter, the decrease in revenues on the fire side will be offset by the savings on the 911 center.

“In case you are wondering why the city is so interested in the current sales tax issue, it’s that it directly affects our oper-ations and available funding. If the fire tax ceases the city will need to increase funding and the budget for the fire depart-ment, either through a utility rate increase or a sales tax or reduce operational services for fire protection outside of town.”

In a news release, Slezickey said he was presenting his thoughts without expectation of acceptance or rejection but simply as informational.

He also speculated that if two measures for sales tax increases are submitted to voters (one-fourth cent for fire departments and one-fourth cent for the new jail) voting trends indicate one will be approved and one rejected or both would fail. Approval of

both will be the least likely scenario, Slezickey said.

Kingfisher County Sheriff Dennis Banther said the plan is for a 100-bed county jail.

He noted that Canadian County’s newer jail would have been already overcrowd-ed under state requirements the minute it was completed, so Canadian County would not be an option as a likely place for county prisoners to go if the Kingfisher jail were forced to close.

Copeland said the jail trust committee also must think of how to handle closure of the current jail.

Among those attending the special meeting were Cope-land of Kingfisher and James Matousek of Hennessey of the Kingfisher County Criminal Justice Trust Authority, and fire department represen-tatives: Stewart, Kingfisher chief; Johnson, Dover assis-tant chief; Gritz, Hennessey chief; Liebl, Okarche chief, and Meyer, Loyal chief; Greg Terrell of the Dover Fire De-partment; Debbie Meyer of the Loyal Fire Department; Banther; CPA John Storm, and Slezickey.

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To All Our New Kingfisher Faculty MembersWe Are Proud To Welcome These Teachers And

Administrator To The Kingfisher Community As They Begin A New Year At Kingfisher Public Schools!

STEPHANIE HARPER

We Are Proud Of Our Kingfisher Area Teachers!Highway 81 North

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SHANE HOOD BETH IRELAND MARANDA JANZ

CARLA MARSHALL JULIA MASON AMANDA MATTHEWS DEREK PATTERSON

MADDISON SIEBERT MICHELLE STONE STARLA WITTROCK KAYTLYN WOODS

Stephanie Harper will be one of the new third grade teachers at Heritage

School. An Enid High School graduate, Harper has spent her entire 20-year

teaching career at Okarche. A majority of that time was spent teaching second grade, but she also taught kindergarten

and fourth grades. Harper earned a bachelor’s degree in early childhood

education from the University of Central Oklahoma and a master’s in educational administration from the

University of Oklahoma. She and her husband, Wes, a longtime Pioneer

employee, have one daughter, River, who graduated this past spring from KHS and will be studying nursing this

fall at Northern Oklahoma College-Enid.

Shane Hood was approved in April to become the new principal at Kingfisher Heritage School. A Watonga

native, Hood has spent the last two years as a fourth grade teacher at Cross Timbers Elementary School in the Edmond district. Hood graduated from Watonga in 1998 and attended Southwestern Oklahoma State University where he met his wife, Janet. They married

in 2000 and he became a youth pastor in Piedmont prior to earning his bachelor’s in elementary education form the University of Central Oklahoma in 2003. Hood

served as a minister for 13 years before getting into the education field. He recently earned his master’s

degree in educational leadership from UCO. The Hoods have two daughters: 11-year-old Kylie and

7-year-old Addison. “Leadership has always been a calling for me,” Hood said. “I’m really looking forward to this journey. My wife and I feel there’s nothing like

being in a small town.”

Beth Ireland will be the new family and consumer science teacher at Kingfisher High School. A Kansas native, Ireland

recently joined her fiancé, Jason Seifried, in Okeene. She was most recently a FACS

teacher for seven years at Eureka, Kan. Prior to that, she was an extension educator

for FACS and 4-H youth development in Kansas. Ireland grew up on a ranch in Yates

Center, Kan., and earned a bachelor’s degree in FACS education from Kansas

State University. She later earned a master’s in career and technical education

from Pittsburg State in Kansas. “I’m just excited to become a part of this school and community and do what I can to help the

students of Kingfisher,” Ireland said.

Maranda Janz will be teaching seventh grade geography at Kingfisher Middle School as well as coaching three sports. She will be the head coach

for junior high softball, seventh grade girls basketball and junior high girls track and an assistant for the eighth grade girls basketball team. The 2013 Erick High School graduate earned a bachelor’s degree from Southwestern Christian University in 2017. Her father Justin was her high school basketball coach when Erick defeated Lomega for the 2013 Class B state championship. “My dad and mom

(Amy) have been great influences in my life through coaching and teaching and if I can be half the coach and teachers they are, I’m hoping I can be a great one too,” she said. “I’m excited to be at Kingfisher

and ready to meet all the students and get the year started.” Head JH SB, Head 7th Girls BB, Head

8th Girls BB, Head JH Girls Track

Carla Marshall will teach kindergarten at Gilmour Elementary School after spending all of her

previous 18 years teaching in Clinton. During her time in Clinton, she spent one year as a

paraprofessional, two as a first grade teacher, four years in second grade and 12 as a kindergarten teacher. She was also a junior high tennis coach for three years. Marshall grew up and graduated

from Anadarko High School before earning a degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State

University. She’s certified to teach early childhood, elementary, language arts and physical education.

Her husband of 20 years, Justin, works for Oklahoma Natural Gas. Their daughter, Cassidi, will be a sophomore at KHS and their twin boys, Cayson and Cannon, will be seventh graders. “I am so excited about this new chapter,” she said. “We love Kingfisher and especially the people.”

Julia Mason will be a special education teacher at Heritage School. She’ll also

be an assistant coach for the high school softball team as well as ninth

grade and varsity girls basketball teams and high school track. A Fairview High School graduate, Mason carried over an All-State basketball career to the

University of Central Oklahoma, where she was a team captain for the 2015-16 season. She earned a bachelor’s

degree in kinesiology - exercise/fitness management in May 2016. Mason spent last year as a special education teachers’

assistant at Edmond Memorial High School and was also an assistant coach

on the EMHS girls basketball team.

Amanda Matthews will be joining the Kingfisher Middle School staff as a fifth grade English teacher. The 2006 KHS

graduate has spent the last three years as a counselor at Dover Public School. She earned a bachelor’s in elementary education in 2012 and soon earned her first position as a fourth grade teacher at Dover. After two years in the classroom,

Matthews earned a master’s degree for counseling in 2014. She and her

husband, Dakotah, have been married seven years. They have three children: Addy, Mylah and Jonah. “We love the

community of Kingfisher and I am super excited to be going back to the classroom

full time,” she said.

Derek Patterson returns to Kingfisher and he’ll be a part of the middle school staff as a seventh grade geography teacher. He’ll also coach junior

high boys basketball and track and will be an assistant coach on the varsity and junior high football teams. Patterson graduated from KHS

in 2011 as he earned OCA All-State honors as a football player and helped guide the Jackets to state championship football games in 2009 and 2010. He earned a scholarship to play football

at Tulsa University and earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise and sports science from there

in 2015. Patterson spent the last two years at Tuttle where he taught Algebra I and geometry

and also coached football and basketball. “I had a great experience growing up and going to school here and I look forward to trying to help this next

generation to have that same experience,” he said.

Maddison Siebert will be teaching first grade at Gilmour Elementary

School. Siebert grew up in Washington (Okla.) where she graduated high school in 2013.

She then attended Southwestern Oklahoma State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in elementary education in May 2017. Siebert

married her high school sweetheart, Ryan Siebert, on July 30, 2017. Ryan also graduated SWOSU in

May, but with a bachelor’s degree in instrumental education and accepted the band/music position at Okarche Public Schools. “I’m excited to begin my teaching career and get involved

in the community,” she said.

Michelle Stone will be joining the Gilmour Elementary staff as a first grade teacher. Stone was raised in small-town Carney and later earned

a bachelor’s degree in education at Oklahoma Baptist University

while also playing basketball. She and her husband, Jason, have two sons: Mitchell will be a freshman at Oklahoma State University this fall and Matthew will be a freshman at

KHS. “I am so excited about teaching first grade at Gilmour Elementary and

becoming a part of the Kingfisher community,” Stone said. “Teaching has

been a calling on my life for over 20 years and I am looking forward to a

great school year.”

Starla Wittrock will be a part-time speech-language pathologist at Kingfisher Middle School and also

carry several coaching duties. Those include seventh grade girls basketball head coach and an assistant for junior high softball and eighth grade girls basketball.

Wittrock earned a bachelor’s degree in recreation management from Oklahoma State University in 2004

and a master’s in speech-language pathology from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2009. She

has Certification of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP) and Oklahoma State Licensure of Speech-Language Pathology

and Audiology. Wittrock has worked through Mercy Hospital Kingfisher as a speech-language pathologist

for school-aged children and also through Valir Rehabilitation Hospital, serving several local facilities

through each. She and her husband, Brad, a KHS graduate, have one son, 5-year-old Teegan, and one

daughter, 3-year-old Braylee.

A familiar face in Kingfisher, Kaytlyn Woods will be a third grade teacher this

year at Heritage School. Woods graduated Kingfisher High School in 2010. She went on to OSU-OKC and earned a certificate in retail floral in 2013 and an associate’s

degree in enterprise development in 2014. From there, Woods attended Oklahoma State University and earned a bachelor’s in university studies in education in May

2016. All the while, Woods has been active in Kingfisher Public Schools. She worked at KMS from 2010-13 through the Americorps

program and was a paraprofessional at Heritage in 2016-17. “I’m excited to be

teaching in the school I grew up in along with some of the best teachers,” Woods said. “Once a Jacket always a Jacket!”

12A Wednesday, August 9, 2017 Kingfisher (Okla.) Times & Free Press

E.P. & Rilla Johnson Opened For Business In Cashion In 1927.

Cloise & Don, Sons of E.P. & Rilla, Sit Upon One Of The Family Tractors For Sale At Cashion.

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