All Ellsworth County employees, from departments heads down, will be issued identification badges at the direction of the county commission.

At Monday’s meeting of the commission, Emergency Management Director Keith Haberer recommended all county employees have them so they can be quickly identified in case of an emergency and are needed to work inside a disaster area.

“It probably wouldn’t hurt,” Commission Chairman Greg Bender said.

In other business:

• Approval was given to the EMS to use the department’s memorial fund monies to cover general expenses as needed.

• EMS Director Nathan Florian said his department plans an open house and spaghetti feed fundraiser for a free-will donation at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9, at the EMS headquarters building, Ellsworth.

• Sheriff Murray Marston said he has raised the fee to temporarily house Kansas Department of Corrections inmates from $40 per day to $50 per day.