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Votes at a glance: Fall River County commissioners approve agenda additions, personnel and small purchases
Summary
At its recent meeting the board approved routine agenda items including a wage increase, meeting dates for the Board of Equalization, travel and training requests, several vendor awards and small IT purchases.
The Fall River County Board of Commissioners passed a series of routine motions and awards at the meeting, voting on travel and training requests, contracts and small equipment purchases.
Why it matters: these votes set dates and authorize operating expenditures and travel that affect county operations across departments including highways, administration, public safety and facilities maintenance.
Key votes and outcomes - Agenda change: board added an item to purchase a laptop for the highway office; motion carried by voice vote. - Payroll/Personnel: the commissioners approved a wage increase for Chris Porter from $17.25 to $18.50 per hour (motion carried by voice vote). - Consolidated Board of Equalization (tax protest) dates: board set hearings/meetings for April 17 (afternoon) and, if needed, April 18 (all day); motion carried. - County tablet for FEMA reporting: the board approved buying a tablet for the county's FEMA reporting software (chair directed staff to proceed; motion carried). - Travel and training: the board approved travel and registration for deputies to attend narcotics and sheriffs/chiefs conferences in Deadwood (motions carried by voice votes). - Fuel bid: board awarded the county gas/fuel bid to the submitted vendor; motion carried. - Parking-lot striping and crack-seal bids: the board approved proceeding with bids for restriping and crack sealing of multiple county lots and directed staff to obtain three quotes for road crack-seal projects (motions carried; staff to return with quotes where required). - Credit-card limit: the board increased a county credit-card limit for certain purchases to $2,500 to accommodate higher parts and service payments; motion carried by voice vote. - SonicWall upgrade: a $3,476.77 upgrade and three-year service plan for the highway shop firewall was approved to avoid a costlier one-year renewal next year; motion carried. - Propane bid: the board awarded a bid for 7,200 gallons of propane to Hideaway at $1.85 per gallon; motion carried. - Laptop for highway/payroll: commissioners approved buying a laptop for payroll/timekeeping use in the highway office (motion carried). - Occupy right-of-way request: board approved a right-of-way occupation permit for a substation project; motion carried. - County courthouse steps: commissioners approved sending an engineer to inspect failing concrete steps on the courthouse entrance and to gather cost estimates; motion carried.
All of the above motions were routine and carried by voice votes unless a roll-call-style result was recorded for a specific item; several items were conditional on staff returning with required specifications, quotes or legal checks.
Next steps: staff will bring required specifications, formal quotes or procurement notices back to the board for items that need advertising or formal bidding, and will confirm scheduling and travel arrangements for approved conferences.
