The Greene County Board of Commissioners on May 22 approved multiple grants and procurement steps for county public-safety and detention operations.

Why it matters: the approvals fund sheriff's office equipment/reimbursement, task force programming for substance-use response, and furnish a new jail and administration office using the project FF&E budget and existing state term contracts.

Grant approvals and procurement details

- Sheriff’s office BWC subgrant: the board authorized the commission president to sign a Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) subgrant award for $44,623.75; the minutes record a motion and roll-call approval.

- Recovery Ohio grant (ACE task force): the board authorized the commission president to sign the pre-award document for a $50,000 Recovery Ohio grant to the ACE task force.

- Jail furniture (RJE Business Interiors): the board approved the RJE Business Interiors proposal and authorized the county administrator to sign; staff said this procurement covers tables, lockers, workstations, interview-room chairs, locker-room furnishings and ancillary items from the FF&E budget and uses the state term contract (no additional funds required).

- Release of performance bond for Hillside Farm sanitary extension: the board approved a percentage release of the performance bond for the Hillside Farm sanitary extension (administrative action recorded in the minutes).

Actions and votes

- BWC subgrant ($44,623.75): motion to authorize president to sign; recorded roll-call approval (Gould — Aye; Kuzler — Aye; May — Aye).

- Recovery Ohio pre-award ($50,000): motion to authorize president to sign; recorded roll-call approval (Gould — Aye; Spielberg — Aye; May — Aye).

- RJE Business Interiors proposal: motion to approve and authorize county administrator to sign; recorded roll-call approval (Poole — Aye; Kubo — Aye; May — Aye).

- Hillside Farm performance bond release: motion to release percentage of performance bond for sanitary extension; recorded roll-call approval (Gould — Aye; Coogler — Aye; Hussain — Aye).

Discussion vs. decisions

Meeting discussion was limited; staff advised the procurements use existing budgets and state term contracts and that the grants require the president’s signature for execution. The board approved the requested signatory authorizations and the furniture procurement; no additional appropriations were requested at the meeting.

Implementation and next steps

County administration and the sheriff’s office will execute the subgrant documents; the jail project team will schedule delivery and installation of FF&E items under the state term contract; bond-release processing will proceed through the county’s recordkeeping.