Commissioners schedule budget work sessions, hold executive sessions on personnel and HHW contract

Commissioner Jim requested an executive session in July 2025 for 15 minutes under the non-elected personnel exception to discuss job performance with Tim Meikert. Later in the meeting a 20-minute attorney-client executive session was requested for legal advice related to a household hazardous waste (HHW) contract; the transcript records the attorney-client session topic and a 20-minute duration. The commission recessed for the attorney-client executive session and later returned to open session. The transcript shows the meeting resumed in order after the executive-session period. On scheduling, the commission announced a budget work session at 9 a.m. on the fifth (month context: July meeting announcing August schedule) and a budget hearing set for 10 a.m. on Aug. 22, 2025. The county auditor was scheduled to present the 2024 audit during the regular meeting on Aug. 15, 2025. The commission also announced it will not meet on the first (Aug. 1) and that one or more commissioners may attend a groundbreaking ceremony for the Sugar Creek childcare center on Aug. 4 at 10:30 a.m. The transcript records follow-up requests from commissioners about fuel-tax and road-tax fund balances and a note that the county must sign an official contract for tax settlement with the title company; commissioners said staff would follow up after the meeting. The transcript does not record final decisions about funding sources or the HHW contract terms because those matters were handled in executive session or deferred for later action in public sessions.