Harrison County commissioners approve routine bills, transfers and permits; clerk, finance and land-use items pass 5-0

Harrison County Commissioners Court on Feb. 25 approved a series of routine financial, procurement and land-use items, including payment of regular bills, a $200,000 transfer to cover group health insurance claims, and approvals for a preliminary subdivision plat and multiple utility applications.

County financial staff reported an outstanding invoice for jail control systems of $461,952.36 and said the county had received partial payments; the staff also said ARPA accounting showed the U.S. Treasury had deobligated $105 of the county's $12,927,034.87 in ARPA funds. "We deobligated $105 of the $12,927,034.87. So that's the ARPA funds, and we did not spend $105 of it," county financial staff said during the meeting.

On the consent and action docket the court unanimously: - Approved payment of regular bills. - Ratified a $200,000 transfer into the group health insurance fund to cover medical claims; staff said the transfer should keep the claims account solvent for about a month. - Approved three utility applications from Sabine Oil and Gas for…