Lycoming County commissioners ratify contracts, payroll and grant reports; approve recycling notice contract

Lycoming County commissioners on Jan. 9 approved a bundle of contracts, personnel actions and financial reports, ratified changes to employee health-plan stop-loss and administrative agreements and authorized several construction and professional-service contracts.

The approvals included ratification of a $7,089,311.72 accounts-payable invoice, acceptance of a credit-card purchase report of $6,911.33, adoption of the 2025 county salary schedule and multiple contract amendments and consultant agreements tied to infrastructure and public-health services.

The actions matter because they authorize county spending and extend or set terms for services many county operations depend on, from employee benefits to election reporting and public works design and oversight.

Major items approved at the meeting include: the ratification of large routine invoices and a credit-card report; salary-board approvals including the 2025 salary schedule; several stop-loss and administrative amendments to the county’s employee health programs; a three-year, $565-per-year (as stated in the contract summary) agreement with Webby Clay for monthly recycling-curbside-route notification to satisfy a Department of Environmental Protection requirement; a no-cost time extension for the Riverwalk Extension final design and permitting; procurement of on-site technical oversight for the Lehigh Cross Pipes rehabilitation; and a professional-services agreement with Geisinger Clinic to assist the district attorney’s office for fact and expert witness services not to exceed $25,000.

County staff presented the accounts-payable report and explained that a large portion of the $7.09 million is pass-through funding tied to grants; the controller’s office provided a percentage breakdown of those payments. Personnel and human-resources items were approved in the joint salary-board session, including conditional offers of employment subject to background checks.

Commissioners also approved required reporting tied to the Election Integrity Grant Program (Act 88 of 2022) documenting eligible post-election expenditures for the November 2024 election, as required by the program and to be filed with the Department of Community and Economic Development and the General Assembly.

Votes at a glance - Accounts payable ratification: $7,089,311.72 — approved (county staff presented breakdown: general fund 22.8%, grants 72.2%, RMS 4.15%, escrow 0.8%). - Credit-card purchases report: $6,911.33 — approved. - Salary board minutes (Dec. 19, 2024) and 2025 salary schedule — approved. - Personal/employment actions (conditional offers subject to background checks) including one part-time prerelease center hire — approved. - Companion Life stop‑loss rate ratification (transcript lists an employee rate shown as "$75.1" and family rate "$16.96" per month) — ratified. - AmWYN/AmWins gene-therapy solutions GTS‑15 policy at $4.75 per employee per month — ratified. - Amendment to Luminaire Health agreement updating administrative fees and stop-loss premiums — ratified (transcript did not specify final dollar amounts). - Agreement with Webby Clay for three years of monthly curbside recycling-route notification (stated rate: $565) — approved. - Election Integrity Grant (Act 88 of 2022) post‑election report for November 2024 — approved for filing with DCED and the General Assembly. - Amendment 10 with ATC Group Services d/b/a BCM Engineers: no-cost time extension through Dec. 31, 2025 for Riverwalk Extension final design and permitting — approved. - Agreement with Green and Peterson Inc. for on-site technical oversight of the Williamsport Lehigh cross pipes rehabilitation (amount in transcript: "$170,000" with an immediate adjacent line reading "$116.20"; transcript is inconsistent on the complete figure) — approved. - Agreement with Geisinger Clinic for professional services to assist the district attorney’s office for fact and expert witness services, not to exceed $25,000 — approved. - Resolution 2025‑1 updating authorization for county banking services (revision due to personnel transitions) — approved.

County staff did not provide roll-call vote counts in the public transcript for most items; motions were moved and seconded and recorded as approved by voice vote. Where dollar figures in the transcript were inconsistent or unclear (for example the Green and Peterson line showing "$170,000" and immediately after "$116.20"), the county record referenced during the meeting should be consulted for the precise contract amount.

The board recessed into a salary-board session to approve the salary schedule and returned to the commissioners’ meeting to continue contract and report approvals. Several staff members presented their respective items: Nikki presented accounts-payable details and the credit-card report; Mike presented personnel actions; Jason presented the recycling-notification agreement; Jenny presented the Riverwalk amendment; Shannon presented the cross‑pipes oversight contract; and Maya was noted as the county contact for finance and banking-authority updates.

Less central agenda items discussed at the meeting included routine administrative clarifications and procedural agenda corrections; one previously posted agenda item relating to a certificate of substantial completion for H&P Construction was removed from consideration.

The commissioners adjourned the meeting and scheduled the next public meeting for Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, at 10 a.m.