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• Approval of minutes (05/19/2025)
Motion/Outcome: A commissioner moved to approve the minutes of the May 19, 2025 meeting; motion seconded and recorded as approved (“All in favor”). The transcript did not record a roll‑call vote or list individual yea/nay votes.

• Transfer of $402,607.67 from capital improvements to the jail project (agenda recommendation)
Motion/Outcome: Commissioners approved a recommendation to transfer $402,607.67 from capital improvements for the jail project. County finance staff said the transfer was within the previously budgeted plan and would avoid cashing a certificate of deposit. The motion was made and seconded; the record states “All in favor.” The transcript did not include a roll‑call tally by name.

• Airport air‑conditioning compressor replacement
Motion/Outcome: Commissioners approved replacing the compressor on the airport air‑conditioning unit. Discussion in the transcript named a county maintenance person (Chris) who said the compressor could be replaced rather than replacing the entire unit. During the discussion, one speaker said the cost would be “around $2,500”; later in the same exchange a different numeric figure was mentioned (“$202,500”), which contradicts the earlier estimate. The transcript does not resolve that discrepancy. The commission voted after a motion and second and the record states “All in favor.”

• Adjournment
Motion/Outcome: The meeting was adjourned after a motion and second; the record states “All in favor.”

Notes on the record: Several motions were approved by voice vote with “All in favor” announced; the transcript did not include roll‑call tallies or named vote records for any of the items above. Where dollar amounts were read aloud in the meeting, this report quotes the spoken amounts; where the transcript contains contradictory spoken figures (see airport compressor discussion), the article flags the discrepancy and lists both spoken values rather than selecting one.

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A county finance official said the transfer is part of the original financing plan and is intended to cover most, but not all, remaining construction bills. “It’s not quite all of the construction. There’s going to be some residual bills come through, but it’s, at the end. And if this is within our budget, we have budgeted to cash out one of our CDs. … Instead of cashing out a CD, just pull it out of capital improvement,” the official said.

Why it matters: The transfer moves existing budgeted money to pay construction costs without an unplanned cash‑out of a certificate of deposit, the official said. Commissioners voted after a motion and second and recorded “all in favor.” No vote tally by name was read into the record.

Open house announcement: County leaders invited residents to tour the new jail before the transition from the old facility. The sheriff and commissioners planned an open house on a Sunday afternoon with the time given in the meeting as 2 to 4 p.m.; the transcript did not specify a calendar date. The county said the facility transition would start in the coming weeks.

Participants and attributions: The transfer was explained by county finance staff and approved by the commission; the open house invitation was announced by a commissioner noting the sheriff’s and commissioners’ plan.

Ending: County staff said they expect some residual bills as the project wraps up and that the transfer was provided from within existing capital improvement funds.

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Jamie said such intrusions often do not cause immediate outages and therefore can go unnoticed for months or years. “Most of the cyber attacks you hear about today are the ones that make the news because it was obvious,” he said. He said the larger worry is attackers who “sit on their hands and they wait” until they can use the access to disrupt critical services.

The presentation cited recent incidents that affected 911 operations and municipal communications, and described one commonly used piece of CCTV-management software (identified by Jamie as “NVMS 5000”) that, he said, contained code that “phoned home” once a month and could act as a backdoor if weaponized. Jamie said federal agencies including the FBI and CISA contacted him after the discovery because the software was widely used across both local and federal systems.

Why it matters: Jamie said small counties are attractive targets because they often have limited cybersecurity visibility and legacy systems. He recommended starting with a service to provide network visibility, then adding targeted protections based on what the county’s asset inventory shows.

What commissioners and staff asked: Commissioners and staff discussed specific local risks, including whether utility partners and equipment with over‑the‑air updates (for example, agriculture and construction equipment) could be leveraged by attackers. Jamie said approaches differ by manufacturer and recommended first gaining visibility of what devices and services are communicating on county networks.

Service details and costs Jamie provided: He described a core monitoring service his firm calls Vanguard and said pricing varies by size: “Tier 4 is the smallest, and that would be by your neighbors…that could be anywhere from 15,000 a year to 20,000 a year,” he said. He added that endpoint agents are an add‑on (he cited a figure of about $5 per device per month) and that email filtering and monitoring is a separate add‑on to detect phishing and malicious mail.

Jamie said training and simulated phishing tests are also available from his firm; he described a service that reports who clicked simulated phishing emails so the county can target training. He cautioned that there is no single “silver bullet” and that improving security is an ongoing, multi‑layered effort.

Participants and attribution: The presentation was led by Jamie of OTM Cyber and included questions from county commissioners and staff. Commissioners thanked Jamie for the briefing and asked county staff to follow up about creating a package for further review.

Ending: Commissioners agreed to continue the discussion with county staff to evaluate options and costs. Jamie offered to follow up with county staff to assemble a proposal.

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A county staff member said the city will likely “chalk a car and see how long it's been there” during a trial period and that initial enforcement may include warnings to allow people to become accustomed to the change.

Commissioners and staff raised questions about the geographic scope of the enforcement — whether it applies only to the courthouse square or both sides of the street where law offices sit — and noted the county does not own the streets or sidewalks in downtown Hamilton. “When somebody gets a ticket, they will come to the county and say…we have nothing to do with that. That's all city stuff,” a county official said.

Longer‑term solutions discussed included finding land for employee parking or building a parking deck near the courthouse to free street spaces for downtown commerce. One commissioner noted a prior conversation with the mayor about acquiring property for a deck; no county action or funding decision on that idea was taken at the meeting.

Ending: County staff will monitor the trial enforcement and its effects on courthouse employees and visitors; no formal county vote on parking regulation was taken because the streets are city jurisdiction.

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Votes at a glance: minutes, jail transfer, airport AC repair and adjournment

Commission approves $402,607.67 transfer for jail project; open house scheduled

County hears warning about stealthy cyberattacks, advised to improve visibility

Hamilton to trial 30‑minute courthouse parking; county clarifies streets are city‑controlled