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Lincoln County names 2025 committee assignments; adds transportation and legislative standing committees
Summary
At its Jan. 21 meeting the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners finalized committee assignments for 2025, agreed to rename a prairie-dog focused committee to a pest-and-predator committee, and agreed to form a standing transportation committee and a standing legislative committee.
The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 21 finalized its 2025 committee assignments, agreed to rename its Black-tailed Prairie Dog Management Committee to reflect a broader remit and signaled creation of standing transportation and legislative committees.
The board reviewed a list of committee assignments for each commissioner and recorded changes for 2025. Commissioners agreed to add an Inland Port Committee to one commissioner’s assignments. After discussion the group agreed the prairie-dog committee’s name would become the Lincoln County Pest and Predator Control Committee to reflect work addressing multiple pests and property damage rather than only prairie dogs.
Commissioners discussed making a Transportation standing committee a permanent part of the assignments after transportation topics tied to a federal RAISE grant prompted recurring work last year; the board agreed two commissioners should serve on the new transportation committee. Commissioners also agreed to create a standing Legislative Committee to monitor legislation and help coordinate fiscal-note submissions and legislative priorities during sessions. Commissioner Bruns volunteered to serve on the legislative committee and indicated a two-person assignment would be appropriate.
The board debated whether the county’s ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) committee should remain a standing committee or become an ad hoc committee. One commissioner suggested removing ADA from the permanent list because the committee has not been active but others noted upcoming grant-related ADA compliance work and the presence of institutional knowledge on the current committee; the board decided to retain ADA as a standing committee and keep the current commissioner assignment for continuity.
The board also discussed a longtime informal practice called “Mugs in the Morning,” a Tuesday radio spot to summarize county business; commissioners agreed to rotate appearances and to invite department heads or partners as guests on occasion.
No formal roll-call motions to adopt each specific appointment are recorded in the transcript excerpt; board members expressed consensus on the changes and asked staff to update the official committee list and ad hoc committee rosters.
