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Lycoming County commissioners approve invoices, personnel actions and multiple contracts
Summary
At the April 16 meeting the Lycoming County Board of Commissioners voted to ratify a $2.797 million invoice list, approve personnel actions and sign multiple agreements including public defender conflict counsel contracts and several service amendments; motions were recorded as approved by voice vote.
Lycoming County commissioners on April 16 ratified routine county financial and personnel actions and approved a set of contracts and contract amendments across departments.
The board ratified invoices due through April 16, 2025, totaling $2,797,143.01; commissioners also approved a credit card purchases report for Feb. 27–March 26, 2025, totaling $7,317.94. The actions were presented by Vicky and approved by voice vote with no recorded roll-call tally.
Personnel and classification items approved during the meeting included approval of salary board minutes from the April 3 salary-board meeting and multiple job reclassifications and hires presented by county personnel staff. The board approved: deleting the director of administration position (pay grade 15) and adding a director of management operations (pay grade 15) in the commissioners' office; reclassifying the director of resource management services from pay grade 15 to pay grade 30; and a set of court and prison personnel changes and hires presented as conditional offers subject to background checks.
The board approved several contract items and amendments across departments: - R & L Development: extensions and change orders related to landfill cell work (several items brought by Gary Staggert). One change order (number 7) includes a cost; the board approved it and noted it is related to closure and sealing in cell 2 to begin waste placement in the area. - Professional services for conflict counsel: agreements with Brian Ulmer, Tiffany Case and Tara Comernick for conflict representation at $90 per hour, each with totals not expected to exceed $9,999.99 (one item listed a lesser total for Ulmer; all were listed as budgeted items). - Public defender and prosecutorial services: a contract increase for a mitigation specialist (G & E Indus) from $20,000 to $50,000 for anticipated case needs. - Interlocal inmate housing: an agreement with Columbia County to house inmates at $80 per day (up from $75 previously). - Forensic exam and other vendor agreements: approval of a contract with 2 by 2 Solutions LLC for forensic examinations in an active case and amendments/extensions for urine-analysis services at the prison and pre-release center (Intrinsic Interventions) through April 30, 2026. - Several smaller agreements and separations: ratified professional services for psychological and behavioral health providers, approvals for soil-conservation appraisal services, and separation agreements with two employees.
Presenters noted that most of the contracts and personnel items were included in each department's 2025 approved budgets. Motions were made and seconded for each item and approved by voice vote; the transcript records commissioners saying "aye" on each item but does not supply a roll-call vote or counts.
The meeting concluded with brief commissioner remarks and a single public comment about predators of spongy moth caterpillars. The board adjourned and scheduled the next meeting for Thursday, April 17, 2025.
