The Cannon County Commissioners through an 8-1-1 vote elected to appoint Tim Powers as the new school board member for district 2 replacing Frank Walkup who passed away in November. Powers ran for election back in November 2014 and lost to Walkup. Others who had turned in a resume to be considered for the school board position were Corey Davenport and John Basinger. Powers will serve in the position until the County General Election in November of 2016. Powers stated that he does intend to run for the position in that election. Davenport had just wanted to serve out the rest of Walkup’s term. Basinger did not attend the meeting. The appointment came during the regular monthly meeting of the Cannon County Commissioners. In other items on the agenda, Penny Daniels, director of the veterans services office in Cannon County approached the commission about the hiring of a part time employee to help with the workload. Daniels who works 20 hours a week stated with the implementation of a new computer program that she needs the help to get the veterans on file into that system and that the paper information needs to be purged and shredded. The Commission agreed to make it a priority to look into it next budget year but at this time with funds low they could not make a commitment to funding the salary of the part time worker.
The Commission approved Charlie Bowman, Eva Woodlee, Fred Adams and Sandra Vickers as new agricultural committee members. They will replace Orville Lewis, Pat Simpson, Martin Daniel and Peggy Miller on the committee as their terms have expired.
The Commission gave permission for the Fire Departments to apply for a community development block grant for the purchase of a fire tanker. No money has been appropriated yet just the opportunity to see if the Fire Departments can get the grant first. If the grant is awarded to the County, then the Commission will tackle the issue of appropriating money.
The Commission also approved to remove Mason Road from the County Road list. Tony and Mary Mason own all the property on that short road. Permission to remove the road had been granted by the Cannon County Planning Commission and the Highway Department.
