Crawford County commissioners approve routine payments, contract amendments and proclaim January as Human Trafficking Prevention Month

Crawford County commissioners on Jan. 8 approved a series of routine payments and contract amendments across county departments and adopted a proclamation naming January 2025 Human Trafficking Prevention Month in Crawford County.

The commissioners certified $5,000 and then approved a payment of $5,000 plus $4,500 in administrative funds to the Crawford County Ag Land Preservation Board, a county staff representative said, noting these items were budgeted. The board also approved the payment of bills totaling $2,596,830.62 for the period ending Jan. 7, 2025.

Why it matters: The approvals cover multiple county programs and routine operations, from road-fund engineering payments to housing-rehab invoices and human services contract amendments. Collectively they maintain county services and disburse grant- or program-funded money.

Among the routine items the board approved: - A domestic-relations travel authorization for two staff to attend the Eastern Regional Intergovernmental Child Support Training Conference in Virginia Beach, May 18–22; the transcript records a county cost of "$11,101,147 dollars, after reimbursement" as stated by the requester. That motion passed on a 2–1 roll call (Commissioner Scott T. Schell and Commissioner Christopher R. Seeley voted yes; Commissioner Eric S. Henry voted no). - An assessment refund of $980.40 to Stevie Lehi Hargenrader for a parcel in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, described as the result of an application processing error. - Several maintenance and capital-related payments: engineering fees for the Mercer Street parking deck rehab ($12,589.86, paid from liquid fuels money), an Eads Group invoice for parking-deck renovation engineering ($520), Rave Environmental Systems service calls at the courthouse ($1,295), and Scobell Company annual maintenance on courthouse boilers ($1,756.30). - Human services contract amendments: approval of an F-1 amendment to the FY 2024–25 CYS contract with Child First Family Services for supervised visitation; and approval of a C-2 amendment to the FY 2024–25 mental-health contract with Grapevine Center to increase the maximum earnings for Carillon-funded CFST (consumer-family satisfaction team) surveys without changing the per-survey rate. - County planning and housing payments from the whole-home repair program: reimbursement to Vogue Heating & Cooling for training wages ($880); final invoice to QRS Construction for a completed home rehab ($23,999.99); reimbursement to the City of Titusville for code-enforcement wages ($6,134.08) billed to the city's 2020–21 CDBG program; and payment to Sturdy Boots Construction for homeowner rehab work ($23,956.04). - Finance approvals including an invoice to PComp for the county's 2025 workers' compensation insurance totaling $264,126 and an invoice to Community Health Services for a driver-retention item (amount not specified in the record presented).

The board unanimously adopted a proclamation recognizing the Crawford County Human Trafficking Task Force and declaring January 2025 Human Trafficking Prevention Month in the county. The proclamation text cited the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act and included findings about the scope of trafficking and local commitments to prevention and services; it was signed under the board's names by Eric S. Henry, Scott T. Schell and Christopher R. Seeley.

The votes were taken by roll call on each item; most routine payments passed unanimously. The domestic-relations travel request was the only listed item on which a commissioner recorded a dissenting vote.

Looking ahead, the commissioners noted the next work session will be Jan. 15 and the next full session Jan. 22.