The Kiowa County Commissioner’s Regular meeting was called to order on February 8, 2018 at 09:00 a.m. by Chairman, Richard Scott who opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance and prayer. Those in attendance were:

Richard Scott, Chairman

Cindy McLoud, Commissioner

Donald Oswald, Commissioner

Delisa Weeks, County Clerk

Tina Adamson, County Administrator

Oswald moved and McLoud seconded the motion to approve the minutes as presented. Motion carried.

The Internal Revenue Service is reminding farmers and fishers about the March 1 deadline to take advantage of special rules that can allow them to forgo making quarterly estimated tax payments.

Anyone with income from a farming or fishing business may be able to avoid making any estimated tax payments by filing their 2017 return and paying the entire tax due on or before March 1, 2018. This rule generally applies if farming or fishing income was at least two-thirds of the total gross income in either 2017 or the preceding tax year.

Signs are being installed along roadways across Colorado to honor State Patrol members who have died in the line of duty.

Two were recently unveiled along US Highway 40/287 in Lincoln County south of Hugo in memory of Patrolman Melvin E. Phillips and Patrolman Floyd E. Gresham. Both were killed during a traffic stop February 2, 1956.

KIOWA COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT

BOARD OF DIRECTORS SPECIAL MEETING

February 5, 2018 at 7:00 pm

Jay Specht called the meeting to order at 6:58 pm. Those present at the meeting were: Jay Specht, President, Teresa Witte, Treasurer Terry Riley, Director Delton Eikenberg, Director Karen Jones, Secretary

Also attending were Kirbi Stum and Matt Mosher who joined the meeting at 8:00 pm.

Conditions Report - Statewide

Rivers and Creeks

The Internal Revenue Service today advised taxpayers that in many cases they can continue to deduct interest paid on home equity loans.

The congregation of Kit Carson Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church hosted the Installation ceremony of Rev. Thomas Barton February 18, 2018.  The ceremony was followed by a pot luck meal in the Fellowship Room.

COLORADO

The number of cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in Colorado feedlots with a capacity of 1,000 head or larger was estimated at 960,000 head as of February 1, 2018. The latest inventory was down 1 percent from January 1, 2018, but up 7 percent from February 1, 2017. Cattle feeders with 1,000 head or larger capacity marketed an estimated 185,000 head

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has ordered flags lowered to half-staff on all public buildings from sunrise to sunset Friday, March 2, to honor the internment of the late Billy Graham, and as proclaimed by President Donald Trump.

The full text of the president’s proclamation:

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 21, 2018
 

DEATH OF BILLY GRAHAM

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION