The Cleveland County Board of County Commissioners met on May 26, 2026, at 1:00 PM in Norman, OK. The meeting included routine consent agenda approvals, a public hearing on a CDBG grant closeout, and a discussion on the purchase of sheriff's vehicles from out-of-state. The board also received an update on the sheriff appointment process.
Please. Thank you. Here. Here. Notice of the meeting was properly posted on May twenty first, twenty twenty-six. Item number one is approval of minutes, discussion possible action regarding the approval of the amendments of the remote a regular meeting of May eighteenth, twenty twenty-six. Motion from Commissioner Cleveland, second from Commissioner Gerson roll call. Yes. Cleveland. A public comment. Do we have anybody sign? Okay. Uh consent items. Um, one item, Commissioners, that we item number three was brought to my attention that we need to move that to actual items of business rather than under consent. Uh, do you uh you guys have anything else that you all want to um item sixteen? Item sixteen. Okay, item sixteen. So uh make a motion we pull item sixteen and item three and approve the rest of the consent uh docket. Second. Yes. I motion carrying okay. But due to this limited supply, we can now only use two of those Dodge Durangos and six uh twenty twenty-three. Sheriff's office requesting the approval and purchase of six uh twenty twenty-three instead of six twenty twenty-four Dodge Durangos. We're pretty much all together, there will be two twenty twenty-four Durangoes and six twenty twenty-three Durango's all vehicles will have the same features uh and less than fifty thousand miles. The cost per vehicle will be no more than forty-one thousand three twenty-five, which was previously approved. Um I since it's said that for May 18th, I just wanted to clarify um a couple things. One was best practices that the auditor had um had uh talked to me about that I had asked um on uh on since there's not an actual appointed or a elected sheriff that um that any major um purchases be pushed off until there isn't an appointment for the uh for the appointed sheriff to be able to um to make an assessment of the uh of the office and and what there is. Um these are this is pretty much a major a major uh um purchase. Um last week I know we did we did approve it um and everything. What I was the other thing would be is this replacing what we did last week or so how do we do we strike what we did last week or how this is? I know it's notated in it. The other thing is is where we purchase where we purchasing it from and is there a PO in place? So you have anything you want to be purchased from the Kansas Highway Patrol. So we were gonna originally get the 2024s aim. It's first come first served. So if they have the 24s up there and you put your name on, then you get so when we got them approved last week, we call up there and purchase them, and they basically said we only have two left, but we do have the remaining 2023 left, they're all the same amount as 49,500 on each one to say package for the cars and everything. So these are discounted items on the vehicles, they have 20 30,000 miles, they're not brand new vehicles. You guys are buying them from another law enforcement entity. Are they are they do they auction those off? No, they sell them to other law enforcement entities all over the country. So I mean we bought a bought them before for other recent things like that. So basically, they have a program where they take all their cars out of service at 495 replacement fleet and the vehicles under 49.5, they sell those to other governments. Well, not that we we have purchased before from Kansas, but there's a question as to whether they still have to be bid out, and they have to submit that because we can uh we can purchase from within the state in our local, you know, uh other other agencies and everything stuff governors, but if it's out of another state's uh governmental, I mean, is that is that a is that okay to buy? I I'll have to look at it. I know that we've done it before. There's been question as to whether or not, and and I know that sometimes that they do do auctions too, and and everything, and we just have to participate and they have to submit in the auctions. Correct. I I know that they have purchased from Kansas Highway Patrol previously. As far as your question, is that a bid exemption because they're buying from another local government entity? I would have to double check, it's not something I recall off the top of my head.