Lycoming County commissioners on Sept. 3 ratified accounts payable totaling $2,753,340.01 and approved a slate of budgeted contracts and conditional personnel offers. The board also voted to remove an agenda item relating to an NRCS reimbursement request after a public comment indicated it did not require formal approval.
The accounts-payable report presented to commissioners listed $2,753,340.01 in invoices to be paid, with the presenter stating approximately 87.26% charged to the general fund, 9.56% to ARPA and 3.18% to ARRA (as presented). Commissioners approved the payment report by motion.
The board approved a set of budgeted contracts and support renewals: an $11,000 agreement with M and M Asphalt to repair the driveway at a county-owned farmhouse (the presentation said sale proceeds of the farmhouse will be used to pay this cost); a $135 agreement with MES Service Company LLC for annual inspection of self-contained breathing apparatus at the prerelease center; and a $75,000 contract with AECOM to perform preliminary levy research (the item was presented as an approved, budgeted engineering engagement). The commissioners also approved a Stenograph support renewal for $2,880, purchase of 12 courthouse cameras from Bicon for $7,041.60 (budgeted), a PCD scanner support renewal for $747.47, and an amendment extending legal services from McCormick Law Firm through 2027 for the Planning Department and Planning Commission (budgeted).
Personnel actions were approved as conditional offers subject to background checks, including a legal assistant in the district attorney’s office and several correctional officers and a full-time soil conservation technician. Commissioners moved and seconded the personnel approvals and the motions carried. The meeting minutes and routine agenda approvals were also accepted.
Where motions were made and seconded the transcript records affirmative 'aye' votes; individual roll-call votes were not recorded in the transcript for most items. For the item to remove agenda item 5.1 (NRCS CW request number 1 for reimbursement), the board recorded a motion, a second and a vote in which at least one named commissioner, Paul Pierce, was recorded as voting "aye."