Adair Trustees approved several purchases at their regular monthly meeting Monday.

A 16-foot utility trailer will be purchased for the municipal authority from Cowboy Rigs for $1,640. The trailer has ramps and is used mostly to haul the zero turning radius mower.

The town will also purchase a 12-foot utility bed from Cowboy Rigs. The cost is $1,600 plus $350 for installation. The town will install long tool boxes on the truck so hand tools may be transported and locked up on the truck.

The dump truck will be taken to Northeast Vo-Tech for an estimate on overhauling the motor. Students will do the work if the town purchases the parts.

Renewal of the dispatch agreement for the police department with Mayes County Sheriff’s Office was approved at $750 per month. The jail agreement was also approved with Mayes County for $20 per day. A jail agreement was also approved at Locust Grove for $18 per day. In the event Mayes County Jail is full or only accepting felony offenders, Adair can take prisoners to Locust Grove.

Trustees approved the purchase of two shotguns for the police department. Police Chief Brandon Yeager said the best price quote came from Green Country Gun and Pawn for Remingtons at $349.95 each.

Yeager told trustees the police department spent $2,451 on cell phones and air cards for the last nine months. In an effort to reduce that cost, trustees approved giving officers a flat phone allowance of $40 per month.

Verizon will provide air cards for $15 less per month than the current A T & T plan. The trustees approved changing to the Verizon cards at $45 a month. Air cards allow police officers to have computer access on the laptops in their cars.

Trustees approved sending Yeager to an Oklahoma Association of Narcotics Enforcers A-One class in Tulsa Aug. 4-7. The cost is $200.

The town will purchase one more load of asphalt for street repair at approximately $900. The county delivers the asphalt. This is the third load of asphalt the town has purchased to fix or resurface streets and the Town Hall complex parking lot.

Trustees approved purchase of blades, skids and a front clip to repair the town’s brushhog along with the necessary parts to get all the tractor lights working.

Upperspace provides Internet access to three locations for the town, at town hall, the fire department and the water plant. Town employee Shannon Newell told trustees the service is very slow and makes work difficult at city hall. Trustees voted to change the town hall Internet provider to TDS.

Utility Superintendent Scott Martin said the filters are being changed this week at the water plant.

“The new filters go in this week,” Martin said. “We’ll try to do one filter a day.”

Martin said there was a sewer problem July 3. “The sewer backed up from Main all the way back, but we got the jetter Friday and got it cleared,” he said.

The utility department is digging a water line to the Wisdom property. “We hit solid rock for about 100 years,” Martin said. “Then we go only go about one foot per hour. We’ve got 1,000 foot in the ground. It’s hard going. We threw the chain a few times.”

The town has a three-year contract for inspecting the water tanks and that was done recently. Both tanks were inspected and Martin said there was no problem with either, except the recommendation to paint one tank. The estimate to sand blast, power wash and paint the tank was $63,700. Trustees declined to paint the tank.

Bids to construct the new sewer plant will be opened Aug. 3 at 3 p.m.

After an executive session, trustees announced the town’s Reserve Officer program will be reinstated. Chris Carlson was approved as a reserve

officer.