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Votes at a glance: Cumberland County commissioners approve routine consent items, contracts and one MOA; township contract tabled
Summary
At the meeting commissioners approved multiple routine consent and contract items — including a $1,000 donation to the Drug and Alcohol Commission, a three-year MAXIMUS extension and an MOA with Harrisburg Comprehensive Treatment Center — and tabled a Hopewell Township liquid-fuels contract for cost clarifications.
Here are the formal actions recorded at the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners meeting.
What passed
- Nomination and election of Dean Foster as vice chairman of the Salary Board. Motion moved, seconded and approved by voice vote.
- Approval of Salary Board minutes and Salary Board actions as presented; approval of the 2025 salary book as presented by Human Resources. Motions moved, seconded and approved by voice votes.
- Consent agenda (agenda items 4–10) approved as presented.
- Donation: The Drug and Alcohol Commission Community Advisory Board was approved to receive a $1,000 donation from the Big Spring Area Community Chest for local prevention services. Motion moved, seconded and approved.
- MAXIMUS contract addendum: Commissioners approved a three-year extension for MAXIMUS to prepare the county’s annual indirect cost plan, for a total of $31,500 ($10,500 per year). Motion moved, seconded and approved.
- Harrisburg Comprehensive Treatment Center MOA: Commissioners approved a memorandum of agreement allowing the Harrisburg Comprehensive Treatment Center to transport medications and use county prison space to continue medication-assisted treatment; PrimeCare will administer the medicines. County staff said there is no cost to the county for this MOA and that it supersedes a January 2024 MOA because the Mechanicsburg office is closing and operations move to Harrisburg. Motion moved, seconded and approved.
What was tabled
- Hopewell Township liquid fuels contract for road project financing was tabled at the request of the county engineer (Kirk Stender) after project cost estimates changed and the township-signed contract required cost refinements. Motion to table was moved, seconded and approved.
Votes and procedure
The meeting record uses voice votes for all motions. Commissioners answered “Aye” for approval on the listed motions; the transcript recorded unanimous voice approvals where shown and did not provide a roll-call breakdown by name for most items.
Notes
- The MAXIMUS addendum was described by county finance staff as necessary to prepare an indirect cost plan used to maximize federal and state funding recovered by departments.
- The Harrisburg MOA was described by Morton Chang as having no county cost and as superseding an earlier MOA because of a site move from Mechanicsburg to Harrisburg.
- The Hopewell Township item will return to the board after staff reconcile project costs with township officials.
