Commissioners approve contracts, take highway bids under advisement and lift county burn ban

Kosciusko County Commissioners on Nov. 5 approved a series of contracts across county departments, authorized staff to take the county highway 2025 supply bids under advisement, approved an unofficial detour route for a state road project and removed the county burn ban.

The votes came in a series of motions during the meeting. Commissioners unanimously approved three agreements presented by County Recorder Deb Wright with Computer Systems Inc. (CSI) — a hardware maintenance agreement, a microfilm-creation agreement and a disaster recovery services agreement — and directed payment from the recorder’s perpetuation fund. The board also approved a county-funded therapy program for inmates described as costing $26,000 per year.

The county prosecutor’s office asked the commissioners to approve two contracts: a revenue-sharing collection agreement with Eagle Accounting Group (which incurs no direct county cost because the vendor takes a percentage of collections) and a cloud migration and paperless-software contract with Applied Innovations. The Applied Innovations package was described as $30,000 for the…