By Jeff Shultz

Publisher

Morgan Minyard, daughter of former Maysville Police Chief Randy Minyard, was chosen last week by the Maysville Town Board as the town’s new librarian.

The move came during the board’s regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, January 17.

Minyard, 20, was hired at $8 per hour with her start date being Wednesday, January 19. She has previously worked for the Norman and Purcell library systems.

“I want to be a librarian as a career and this is a good start for me. My plans are to eventually go to school at OU and get a degree in Library Sciences,” Minyard told the News Star.

Minyard said she would like to get the children of Maysville heavily involved in a variety of programs.

“We’ll be having summer reading programs and some special activities for the kids throughout the year,” she added.

Minyard replaces former Maysville Librarian Crystal Parks who resigned from the position to have more time with her family.

In other business, Town Board members approved a measure to create a Cemetery Capital Improvement Account for maintenance and improvements at the cemetery.

The account will be funded from sales of cemetery plots, with 12.5 percent of the money from the lot sale going into the fund.

Board members also approved changing the current Cemetery Fund Account to a Cemetery Operating Fund Account.

Other items the board took action on include:

•The purchase of new radio programming software to update the police and fire radios. The equipment is being purchased from ICOM at a cost to the city of $257.90 and will be paid from the Emergency Services Account.

•Board members also accepted the bid of $550 from Clint Dobson for the purchase of the old animal control truck.

In the Maysville Municipal Authority meeting, MMA Trustees accepted a quote from Seth Wadley Ford in the amount of $23,534 for a new truck for the water department.

Trustees will now contact the two local banks for a possible loan to purchase the truck.

While they accepted the possible purchase of a new water department truck, Trustees also got rid of an old vehicle that was being used by the water department by accepting a bid from Donna Helling in the amount of $527.22 so she can purchase an used Crown Victoria previously used by the water department.