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Votes at a glance: Trumbull County commissioners approve 30 routine items, grants, appointments and contracts
Summary
On Jan. 12 the board approved 30 agenda items including grant signature authorizations, contracts, personnel transfers, appointments to boards, permits and construction project actions. Most votes were passed unanimously; the meeting concluded with public comment and several elected officials introducing themselves.
The Trumbull County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 12 approved a package of 30 routine and substantive agenda items, including grant authorizations, facility contracts, appointments to county boards and purchase orders for county equipment and repairs. Most motions passed by unanimous roll call (Commissioners Bernard, Malloy and Rick Hernandez voting yes), and meeting business concluded with public comment and brief introductions by newly elected officials.
Key approved items included:
- Dispensed with reading and approved minutes of the Dec. 18, 2024 regular meeting and the Jan. 6, 2025 reorganizational meeting (Items 1–2). Votes: unanimous.
- Approved payment of bills (Item 3). Vote: unanimous.
- Authorized four letters of support for remediation and abatement grant applications prepared by the Trumbull County Land Reutilization Corporation for four former industrial/commercial sites (former Trumbull Family Fitness, former U.S. Steel, former Wellman Theater and former Delphi Administration Building) (Item 5). Vote: unanimous.
- Authorized execution of Ohio Department of Development security role assignment forms and an authorized signature card for CDBG programs administered through the Trumbull County Planning Commission; authorized the president of the board to sign required documents (Items 6–9). Votes: unanimous.
- Awarded a contract to Straight Line Interiors in the amount of $19,220 for a ceiling renovation at the Trumbull County Planning Commission office on East Market Street (Item 10). Vote: unanimous.
- Approved a professional services agreement for the Trumbull County Prosecutor's Office to serve as law director for Holland Township for 2025 at $42,000 annually (Item 11). Vote: unanimous. The transcript records the annual amount but the monthly payment figure read into the record was unclear.
- Received and placed on file an October–November 2024 financial report for the Trumbull County Tourism Bureau (Item 12). Vote: unanimous.
- Approved multiple personnel actions, including employment transfers and promotions for county staff (Items 13–14, 24). Votes: unanimous.
- Adopted the 2024 annual county highway system mileage certification per Ohio Revised Code Section 4501.04 (Item 15). Vote: unanimous. The verified mileage was recorded in the meeting as 456.6696 miles (as read into the record).
- Concurred with the county engineer on multiple hauling and permit requests from private carriers and utilities (Items 16–20, 18–20, 19). Votes: unanimous.
- Approved an agreement allowing the City of Cortland to store its vac truck inside a county engineer facility per a storage agreement; county officials said the arrangement is covered by the city’s insurance and carries no cost to the county (Item following 20). Vote: unanimous.
- Awarded purchase/proposals for two new generators for the Trumbull County Children’s Service building and Belmont Pines building to Power Systems Division (Ohio CAT) in the amount of $238,157 (Item 22). Vote: unanimous.
- Appointed or reappointed members to the Trumbull County Board of Developmental Disabilities and Trumbull County Children’s Service Board; reappointments and appointments were approved (Items 23, 26–28). Vote: unanimous.
- Adopted a resolution endorsing America 250 Ohio, the state commission for the U.S. semiquincentennial (Item 29). Vote: unanimous.
- Authorized change order No. 1 with GPD Group for additional professional engineering services for the Emmanuel Community Care Center masonry and window improvement project in the net amount of $10,000, revising the contract total as stated (Item 30). Vote: unanimous.
During the public‑comment period, the board accepted a request from the Warren‑Trumbull County Public Library to reappoint James Duff to a seven‑year term through Dec. 31, 2031 and to appoint Daryl Rogers to fill a remaining three‑year term; a motion from the floor to make those appointments was made and approved during the meeting without a separate agenda item being required. The board also heard brief introductions from newly elected county officials and department leaders.
A full roll call for each approved item appears below in the structured actions summary. The board adjourned after confirming an invited post‑meeting reception for elected officials and the public.
