Finance and Budget Committee approves $570,513.12 in expenditures; members probe $6,850 camera subscription

The Finance and Budget Committee approved an expenditure list totaling $570,513.12 at its Sept. 17, 2025, meeting and discussed details of a $6,850 subscription listed for law-enforcement vehicle cameras.

Committee members said the clarification mattered because the claim would pay for an ongoing subscription rather than a one-time purchase. Commissioner O'Neil asked specifically about claim number 2050 on page 22, saying, "It's like $6,850. So what does it mean by subscription? Do you know?"

A staff member responded that the county no longer purchases software as a one-time product. "Commissioner O'Neil, they do not, we don't purchase software anymore. It's all, called subscription as a service. And so, it's a subscription that allows us to when they take their either from their body cams or from their cameras in their vehicle and it uploads it to, like, storage on the cloud. And so they hold that, information for us. We don't store any of that ourselves, and it's just all by subscription," the staff member said.

After that exchange, a commissioner moved to approve the expenditure list for Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, naming the total amount of $570,513.12. The motion was seconded and passed unanimously by the commissioners present.

The committee also noted a budget transfer in the amount of $1,114 from the Health Department that decreased operating supplies and increased printing, dues and subscriptions, and training. The transfer was described in the meeting as covering the cost of printing and duplicating for plan-print materials, renewal of a subscription (described in the transcript as a renewal of an "up to date" subscription), and training. The transcript language around the subscription and the training item was unclear; the committee record describes the transfer purpose as printing, dues/subscriptions and training totaling $1,114.

With no further questions or comments, the committee adjourned.