The Board of Nemaha County Commissioners met in regular session on Monday, Dec. 1, in the Commissioner’s Room of the Nemaha County Courthouse. The meeting was called to order with Chairman Jason Koch leading the flag salute. Present also were Commissioners Ben Glace and Joe Dalinghaus, County Counselor/County Administrator Austin Parker, and County Clerk Mary Kay Schultejans recording the minutes. Koch led those present in an opening prayer to begin the meeting this morning.

The board set and approved the agenda for the meeting.

Chairman Koch called for Open Public Forum to begin at 9:18 a.m. Darin Georg came before the board to speak during the forum. Chairman Koch ended public forum at 9:34 a.m.

Department Reports

Road and Bridge/Solid Waste Supervisor Adam Kuckelman advised the board that:

• He received a right of way easement request from Rural Water District No. 3 to bore at the location of 120th Road between H Road and I Road. The board approved the right of way easement request from Rural Water District No. 3.

• The guys have been rocking 24th Road from A Road to E Road.

• The guys have been working on Bridge K-23.

• They recently used the shoulder disk to bring up the shoulders on Old Highway 9 and the Onaga Road.

• The Big Iron sale will be completed on Dec. 23.

• A letter needed to be sent to KDHE letting them know that the county has the money necessary to close the landfill in case it is ever decided to do this. The commissioners asked Parker to draft a letter to this effect to send to KDHE.

• The Harrison Township officials have spoken to him about helping to rock a portion of 88th Road due to extra traffic on this road because of the construction of Bridge O-14.

• Kuckelman would like the board to approve the contract for the micro-surfacing of Old Highway 9. Parker stated that he needs to make changes to the contract before it is approved.

Rich Vernon, Amy Lierz and Shawn Weldin with the Sheriff’s office came before the board to speak to the commissioners about the IT needs for the Sheriff’s office. The Sheriff’s office would like to contract with IP Pathways to provide Microsoft 365 licenses and support and to provide support for major IT issues. The board agreed to allow the Sheriff’s office to utilize IP Pathways for these services at this time.

The commissioners agreed to allow the Sheriff’s office to make payment for a car/deer hit out of the Capital Outlay Fund up to $11,000 with reimbursement from EMC Insurance.

Also at the meeting:

The board reviewed and approved the minutes from the Nov. 17 meeting.

The board also reviewed and approved the minutes from the Nov. 25 special meeting.

The commissioners reviewed vouchers submitted by the different departments to be paid. The board approved the AP warrants to be paid on Dec. 2 as presented.

The board reviewed a payroll report for the October/November 2025 payroll period. The board approved the October/November 2025 payroll in the amount of $570,835.05 with benefits included. The commissioners signed the payroll report as presented.

The commissioners approved the letter provided by Parker to KDHE for the landfill.

The next regularly scheduled meeting was held on Monday, Dec. 8. These minutes were not available at The Herald’s press time.