Medina County commissioners approve 2025 organizational rules, multiple contracts, budget adjustments and labor agreements

The Medina County Board of Commissioners voted Dec. 31, 2024, to adopt organizational rules and meeting dates for 2025, elect a board president and vice president, and approve a slate of resolutions that included infrastructure contracts, grant agreements, personnel actions and year-end finance adjustments. The measures passed by roll call during the board’s final meeting of the year.

The board elected Aaron Harrison president of the board for 2025 and named Commissioner Colleen Swedeck vice president; Harrison was not present at the meeting. The organizational resolution also set rules related to meeting conduct and notice and fixed session dates for 2025. Commissioners then approved appointments of commissioners to committee assignments and authorized the county administrator to act with limited authority in some circumstances (for example, during holidays or emergencies).

The county engineer, Dan Becker, presented two items the board approved: acceptance and award for the 2024 replacement of bridge No. 22 on Kennard Road in Westfield Township, and a determination that certain county engineer equipment is excess and may be disposed of. Becker introduced the items to the board for consideration.

Barb Bolton, solid waste district director, asked the board to authorize district-sponsored meeting expenditures and to enter into an agreement with GT Environmental for assistance preparing the five-year solid waste management plan update; the board approved both resolutions after the district’s waste policy committee reviewed and modified the contract.

Denise Testa, planning services director, presented a resolution authorizing signature on the Program Year 2024 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) agreement; the board approved that resolution.

Human resources director Holly Murren presented five personnel-related resolutions, which the board approved. Those included a package of rate increases and personnel changes across multiple departments and four three-year collective bargaining agreements and wage increases: with Service Employees International Union…