Morgan County Commission approves facilities hire, wellness center manager; closing set for mid‑March

The Morgan County Commission approved hiring actions and discussed timing for the county wellness center at its March 5 meeting.

A commissioner moved to set the hiring for a full‑time facilities maintenance employee; the motion was carried by voice vote. In the same discussion the commission approved hiring a full‑time wellness center manager, with the manager’s start tied to a planned closing. The transcript records the closing is set for March 17 and that funds are not released until March 19.

Meeting remarks included a staff presentation of the hire motions and a commissioner’s comment that the closing occurs March 17 but funds are released on March 19, meaning the county would not “earn it” until the 19th as recorded in the transcript. The record shows commissioners responded “Aye” when votes were called, but the transcript does not provide individual roll‑call tallies.

The portions of the transcript supplied include a stated compensation figure for the facilities maintenance position rendered in the audio as “$31,050 an hour of expenses.” The amount, as spoken in the meeting, appears garbled; the commission record provided here does not clarify whether that figure is an annual salary, hourly rate, or a transcription error. The commission did not provide more itemized hiring terms in the recorded segments.