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Votes at a glance: Lake County commissioners approve multiple resolutions on grants, procurement, and appropriations

October 10, 2025 | Lake County, Ohio


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Votes at a glance: Lake County commissioners approve multiple resolutions on grants, procurement, and appropriations
The Lake County Board of Commissioners approved multiple resolutions and administrative items in a single set of roll-call votes. Items included appropriations, procurement approvals, grant execution and program reappointments. Key actions recorded by the clerk included:

- Sewer project appropriation: Resolution increasing appropriations for the Lake County Department of Utilities sewer project fund (04/2025). Motion approved by roll call.

- Landfill gas well field expansion: Resolution approving plans, specifications, and estimates of cost in the amount of $1,271,000 for the landfill gas well field system expansion (project number 498L2025) and advertising for bids with opening on 11/05/2025. Motion approved by roll call.

- Job and Family Services MOU: Resolution approving a memorandum of understanding between the Lake County Department of Job and Family Services and community partners delineating roles for referring, reporting, investigating and prosecuting child abuse and neglect cases as required by Revised Code 2151.4225 (cited in the meeting as "revised code 21 51.4225"). The MOU will be executed by the JFS director, county prosecutor, juvenile court judge, and county police chiefs and must be renewed every two years.

- Community Corrections grant addendum: Resolution accepting an addendum to the fiscal year 02/2027 Community Corrections Act grantee agreement and authorizing execution of the grant agreement between the Lake County Board of Commissioners (on behalf of the Adult Probation Department) and the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Motion approved by roll call.

- Reappointment: Resolution reappointing Michael Murphy to the Northeast Ohio Community Alternative Program Facility Governing Board for a three-year term expiring 11/09/2028. Motion approved by roll call.

- Vendor selections for payment processing: Resolutions accepting proposals from multiple vendors following an RFP process administered by the County Treasurer for electronic payment services (named in the meeting as Auto Agent, Point and Pay, and Tyler Technologies Inc.). Motions approved by roll call.

- Financial approvals: Resolution approving payment of bills as listed on the commissioner's approval journal in the amount of $4,857,686.51; and resolution approving purchase orders totaling $1,071,122.33. Motions approved by roll call.

- Appropriation transfers and increases: Resolutions increasing appropriations for various non-general funds and transferring appropriations within general and non-general funds. Motions approved by roll call.

Departmental reports and administrative notes recorded during the meeting included a utilities report noting a recent bid opening for a sanitary force main near Grand River with several bidders around the engineer's estimate, and the county auditor reporting a clean state audit for fiscal year 2024 and that House Bill 309 had advanced out of the Ohio House Ways and Means Committee and the House floor with strong bipartisan support; the auditor said HB 309 (the Budget Commission reform bill) now goes to the Senate.

The clerk recorded aye/yes votes for the motions as read by the clerk for each item; individual roll-call lines appear in the meeting record for each resolution. No motions were recorded as defeated or tabled during this sequence.

Provenance: Each item was read as a resolution or departmental report and approved in roll-call sequence during the meeting.

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