District Two: Meetings to begin for Waterloo Road projects
Oklahoma County District 3 Commissioner Ray Vaughn and I will be meeting very soon to work out an agreement for Waterloo Road. What is proposed…
Board of County Commissioners
County departments share their estimate of needs for upcoming budget
The Board of County Commissioners and the Logan County Excise Board held a special joint meeting Wednesday morning to discuss estimate of needs for each…
District 1: “An average of around 200K per year, repeated over the past 7 years of non-compliance
It’s now official, with the latest release of the new county financial audit findings by the Oklahoma State Auditor, the last time Logan County produced…
Commissioner abstains from seven votes on county renewal contracts
The Board of County Commissioners met Monday morning with 32 agenda items to consider. District 1 Commissioner Marven Goodman abstained from seven votes dealing with…
District 1: Same political party and differ on fundamental principles of open government
This year’s state legislature robbed our local road and bridge funds to continue their out of control appetite for growing government. I got to listen…
District 2: Luther Road project is still in the works
FEMA has responded to our resolution proclaiming an emergency disaster due to heavy rainfall during the week of May 23-30. East Logan County escaped the…
District 1: Cleanup efforts begin; several roads closed in the district
This week we began cleanup effort from last May’s rains. Our road foreman and county emergency manager—along with FEMA assessment experts—conducted site surveys of our…
Commissioners begin budget process with special meeting
The Logan County commissioners began preparing for the upcoming budget with a special meeting held on June 3.
County to consider FEMA assistance following heavy rains
The Board of County Commissioners held one of their shortest meetings on Monday morning. The board approved a resolution in case emergency relief is needed from the…
District 2: Projects likely to be extended years into the future
A meeting with ODOT at the BoCC meeting Friday, May 15, will go over the county’s priorities on the CIRB 5-year plan. At this time…
Dist. 2 Update: Logan County’s population up 10.4 percent in the last five years
The Senate and House Appropriations Committees and representatives of the Governor are hammering out a budget as I write this (See Wednesday’s Special Update). What…
District 1: Relocating utility lines in support of expanded right-of-ways
Our road district has received excellent feedback from our residents on our upcoming road and bridge projects this week. The right of way utility relocation…
District 1: $30k set aside for the Save & Pave program
The response to our new citizen groups has been very encouraging. Our road planning committee has five new members and our traffic safety committee has three new members. We…
District Two: Pothole asphalt filling has accelerated
It has been a good week in District 2. But our rock hauling has slowed. Last month we broke our record for rock with over…
District One: Missing inventory items reported to Board of Commissioners
New citizen participation in local government. After our town hall meeting last week we had several folks sign up to be on our new finance, road…
Logan County receives first sales tax collection since voters approved tax in August
Logan County received the first payment from the Oklahoma Tax Commission after voters approved the three-fourths county sales tax in August 2014.
District Two: Three new home developments have started in District 2
Logan County District 2 has been working hard to repair the many roads heavily damaged by this winter’s soaking rains and snow. Today we will…
District One: Spring cleaning looking for volunteers
Last week I wrote about seeing a group of folks from the Seward Road Baptist Church out picking up trash along Broadway just south of…
District One: Town hall meeting set for Thursday evening
With St. Patrick’s Day come and gone the green of spring can only be just around the corner and so is spring cleaning. This week…
Video: Hamilton, Ladd appointed to Logan County boards
The Logan County Commissioners made appointments to the EMS Board of Trustees and the Logan County Excise/Equalization Board during their regular scheduled meeting on Friday morning…