(KLZA)_-- Richardson County Commissioners voted to approve a recommendation from the Veterans Service Committee to appoint Odis Fields as the Veterans Service Officer in Richardson County when they met April 2.
Fields has served as the Assistant Veterans Service Officer and will replace Mona Godemann who retired earlier this year.
Field will be paid $25.58 per hour. His appointment was effective as of April 2.
Commissioners also approved the recommendation of James Kirkendall to serve as Assistant Veterans Service Officer at $20.07 per hour.
In other business the Board approved a quote from Airstream Heating and Cooling to replace the existing ERV system at the Law Enforcement Center at a price of $54,026.
Sheriff Rick Hardesty reported that Electric Contracting Company is working on the final phase of the electrical improvement project at the Law Enforcement Center. While this portion of the project is underway, inmates will need to be housed at other facilities for a short period of time. As of last Wednesday there were 23 inmates in the Richardson County Jail. Four of them being from other counties.
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