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Butler County commissioners approve budget transfers, major contracts and appointments
Summary
The board approved finance transfers including an ARPA transfer for paving, awarded construction and engineering contracts, accepted purchase requisitions totaling $16.51 million, approved collective bargaining for building and zoning, and confirmed multiple service and social‑service contracts and appointments.
The Butler County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 19 approved a package of finance transfers, contract awards and personnel actions covering road projects, water and sewer work, social‑service placements and county system upgrades.
Dave McCormick, the county finance director, said the board considered three finance items, including cash transfers and budget appropriations. He told the commissioners the requisitions over $25,000 that morning totaled $16,510,625, and that about $13,768,000 (83 percent) of the total were requests from the Water and Sewer Department. “These requisitions have gone through the review and approval process of the departments and agencies,” McCormick said, and he recommended approval.
Among the actions recorded in the meeting minutes:
- An ARPA fund transfer of $1,006,374.39 from fund 1406 to fund the engineer's office for paving and road improvements. - Approval of purchase requisitions over $25,000 totaling $16,510,625, with the majority for Water and Sewer projects. - Award of the Milliken Road at LeSordsville Westchester Road roundabout bid to W. G. Stang LLC for not to exceed $1,364,735.47. - A sanitary sewer replacement contract to Rackenbauer Excavating Co. not to exceed $683,604. - A supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) master plan contract to GRW Engineers Inc. not to exceed $184,590. - Approval of a contract award for the recorder’s new Land Records Management System to Gov OS Inc. for $359,722.20. - Approval of an amendment and additional placements for UMCH Family Services, including an increase of $547,500 reflected on the consent agenda. - Approval of a three‑year tentative collective bargaining agreement between Butler County Building & Zoning and IBEW Local 648 effective Jan. 1, 2025, through Dec. 31, 2027. - Reappointments to the Planning Commission of Bruce Jones, Lonnie Lewis and Brian Price for terms from March 1, 2025, through Feb. 29, 2028.
Other approved items included contracts for airport services, mental health and substance-abuse services (Modern Psychiatry and Wellness LLC, Butler Behavioral Health Services), document imaging services for the recorder, and multiple training and travel authorizations across county departments. The meeting record shows the commissioners approved the finance resolutions and the commissioners-department resolutions by voice vote; Commissioner Carpenter and Commissioner Dixon voted yes on the motions recorded in the transcript.
The transcript does not include detailed discussion of construction schedules, specific funding sources beyond the ARPA transfer, or line‑by‑line contract scopes; several items were on the consent agenda and were approved with limited discussion. County staff indicated some contracts and capital projects are effective upon satisfactory completion and acceptance by the county, and some actions (for example, certain contract dates or program details) were listed on the meeting agenda but not read in full into the transcript.
