Legal woes for the Town of Oilton have delayed property tax statements for Creek County property owners, as brought up during Monday, November 14th’s Board of County Commissioners meeting. According to Creek County Treasurer Don Engle, the town has a $40,000 judgment rendered against it resulting in a six-mill levy assessed on Oilton property owners…
“If [this] goes past the second week in December, we are going to have a big problem”
A local construction company went before the County Commissioners last week to get a permit—for a project that they had already started, and evidently, had done incorrectly.
The County is looking to index roughly 438,000 records—some of which are over 100 years old.
Here’s what happened at county meetings during the week of October 31st – November 4th.
The rain (with more on the way) looks to have been enough to extinguish the burn ban—for now.
The southern part of Creek County is categorized as an “extreme” drought condition, and the rest of the county is in a “severe” drought condition.
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Johnson and Johnson tentatively agreed earlier this year to a $26 billion settlement in response to lawsuits from 3,000 state and local governments. The bulk of the monies received is to be used for addiction research and treatment.
Subscriber Exclusive—Updates from Count Commissioners, Board of Education and Kellyville Town Hall are included in this week’s County Notebook!
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