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Dunn County committee reviews February vouchers; committee approves payments including equipment reimbursements and outsourced autopsies
Summary
The Committee on the Department of Administration approved vouchers for Feb. 1–28 after staff highlighted several notable line items including a reimbursement to the sheriff for a sonar purchase, outsourced autopsy fees to Ramsey County and venison testing.
The Dunn County Committee on the Department of Administration reviewed and approved vouchers covering Feb. 1–28, 2025, after staff walked the committee through several notable payments and answered supervisors' questions.
The committee unanimously approved the vouchers in a voice vote after a brief discussion of specific line items. Jenna, the county's chief financial officer, stayed to answer questions and pointed committee members to department-level printouts.
Staff highlighted several items for the committee's attention: a collision involving a squad car and a deer; Experian credit-reporting charges posted to the Child Support Agency; a $50 director's-dialogue training charge; and two American Tower Corporation payments that were for different months and not duplicates. Jenna also explained a reimbursement to the sheriff of about $2,183 for a solar high-definition sonar unit the sheriff purchased on a personal card to capture a vendor discount; staff said the purchase saved the county money but required county reimbursement.
Medical examiner costs were discussed: staff confirmed autopsies are outsourced to Ramsey County and the charges on the voucher reflect those external autopsy fees. Land and Water department charges included venison-meat testing for donated deer processing; the line for well decommissioning (paid to a vendor recorded as Halti Gail on the voucher) was $1,696.
Committee members asked about health-insurance-related items. Jenna explained that lines labeled "claims/medical Rx" are weekly claims payments and that the county processes several such payments in a month; she noted the stop-loss premium (the county's insurance to limit catastrophic claims exposure) is listed as a separate line. Staff identified a near-site clinic membership fee to Reform Medicine on the voucher.
After the line-item review, a motion to approve the vouchers was moved and seconded and the committee voted unanimously to pass them.
The committee did not change any voucher amounts at the meeting; staff said some invoices reflect timing issues or carry-forward charges from prior years when bills arrived late.
