The County will be accepting bids to act, as a standby if the company they use to pick up bodies and take them to the coroner isn’t available. Emergency Manager, Rick Whitson conveyed to the County Commissioners in their regular meeting this morning that the local funeral homes had been doing it as a favor if the company the county contracted with was not available. So the board instructed Whitson to ask for bids to make sure somebody came to do the job in a timely fashion.

The Montgomery County Commissioners also met with the County Appraiser, Melody Kikkert, and asked if she could use the Ford Escape that the Health Department had and wasn’t using as a backup for her department. She agreed to that, so the board asked that they re-title the Ford with the Appraisers Office. In other business, the board voted to purchase a mobile refueling tank and accepted the low bid to paint the Cherryvale and Liberty Fire Stations.