Published by
Dick Schaefer, Contributing Writer and Part-time Investigative Reporter
I get a little bored waiting around to cover the weekly Gasconade County Commission Meetings. It's a long time from one Thursday to the next Thursday.
This week the County Commission Meeting will he held at the Owensville City Hall. I hope a lot of our readers will make the short drive down to Owensville to attend the meeting.
This week's meeting promises to be a real blast! Northern District Associate Commissioner
Matt Penning is poised to unveil his new county tire and tire services bid specifications.
Penning is excited about the opportunity to present his proposal to Presiding Commissioner
Ron Jost and Southern District Associate Commissioner
Jerry Lairmore.
Penning's wife,
Cindy, tells me that ol'
Matt has been rehearsing his presentation in front of the bathroom mirror for more than a week now. He was ready to deliver his presentation at last week's Commission Meeting, but Commissioners
Jost and
Lairmore suggested that he should first run it by the boys out at the County Road Department.
A word of caution to those of you who plan to make the trip to Owensville this Thursday ..... the possibility exists that Commissioner
Penning will still NOT be allowed to make his presentation on tires. Other more pressing matters could come before the Commission. You see, the Presiding Commissioner and County Clerk won't be posting the official meetng agenda until Wednesday morning. The possibility exists that the discussion about the tire bid specification may have to be further postponed to an indefinite date in the future. The tire bid specification discussion might even need to be postponed for a very long while, perhaps until after the primary elections on August 3rd.
But don't let me discourage those of you who are planning to make the trip down to Owensville to hear about the new tire bid specifications. If I were a betting man, however, I'd bet that ol'
Ron and
Jerry will have some real good reason to postpone discussion of the county tire bid specifications. How do I know? I can just feel these kind of things in my gut!
As I say though, don't let that discourage your attendance at the meeting. Lots of times Commissioner
Lairmore will invite
Harvey Kahle to come in to speak at the meeting and remind everyone that through the great cooperative efforts of
Jerry and
Harvey, the
Kahle property near Swiss is still available to Gasconade County for use as a future site for the
Randy Esphorst Memorial Gasconade County Jail, or the
Jerry and Kyle Lairmore Memorial Alternative Energy Industrial Park, or the
Ron Jost Used Tire Reclamation Facility. Now if ol' Harvey doesn't show up,
Kyle Lairmore, son of
Jerry Lairmore and Owensville's reigning 'Man Of The Year' can be counted upon to fire a few prepared questions at Northern District Associate Commissioner
Penning.
Kyle's questions are always really cool!
And if both
Dave Marner of the Gasconade Republican and
Jeff Noedel of County News LIVE show up at the meeting with their expensive photographic gear in tow, you can just bet your bottom dollar Comissioner
Lairmore has tipped them off and it's gonna be a real exciting meeting that
Jerry wants well-covered!
See y'all at the meeting!
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