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Votes at a glance: Barry County committee recommends minutes, personnel changes, appointments and two funding-related actions
Summary
At its Jan. 21 meeting the Barry County committee approved a batch of procedural and administrative items and recommended publication of an opioid-settlement RFP and adoption of an Act 51 transit resolution to the full board.
The Barry County Board of Commissioners' committee of the whole acted on multiple routine and policy items on Jan. 21. The committee's recorded recommendations and approvals at the meeting included procedural minutes approval, personnel reclassifications, appointments and two funding-related administrative actions; all motions were forwarded to the full Board of Commissioners for final action where required.
Key committee actions (voice votes; counts not specified in the transcript):
- Approval of the Jan. 7, 2025 minutes: Motion by Commissioner Hatfield; support by Commissioner Toonison; outcome: approved.
- Recommend adoption of Resolution 25-05 (Act 51) to apply for state formula operating assistance for transit and to name Mary Bassett as the county's official representative for public-transportation matters: moved and supported; outcome: approved (committee recommendation to board).
- Recommend publishing and promoting the Barry County opioid-settlement funds RFP prepared by the steering committee (deadline/submittal correction requested in committee): Motion by Catherine Getty; support by Commissioner Hatfield; outcome: approved (committee recommendation to board).
- Personnel and classification actions recommended to the Board of Commissioners: deputy drain commissioner job-description revision and reclassification from grade level 7 to grade level 8 (reclassification committee recommended); reclassification of a drain maintenance position from grade 2 to grade 3; and increasing a drain maintenance technician position from 0.875 FTE to 1.0 FTE. Motions were made and supported at the committee; all were recommended to the Board of Commissioners for final action.
- Appointments and reappointments approved by the committee and recommended to the Board of Commissioners: removal of former treasurer Sue Vanekar from the Barry County Building Authority and appointment of Kelly Shumway (Barry County treasurer) to the Building Authority for a term that began Jan. 1, 2023 and runs through Dec. 31, 2025; reappointments to the Barry County Land Bank Authority of Cindy Busia, Chelsea Foster and Jeff Keesler for three-year terms beginning May 1, 2025 and ending April 30, 2028.
Most committee votes were taken by voice; specific roll-call tallies were not provided in the meeting transcript. Commissioners discussed details and asked staff clarifying questions on multiple items before forwarding recommendations to the full board for formal adoption or final action where needed.
