Pike County commissioners approve routine hires, contracts, bids and payment vouchers

The Pike County Board of Commissioners on Oct. 1 approved a series of routine motions that the board said would keep county operations and programs funded and staffed.

The board voted, by voice, to approve the meeting agenda, prior meeting minutes and several fund payments, and to acknowledge letters from correctional-facility management reporting recent hires and personnel changes. Commissioners acknowledged full-time hires effective Oct. 6, 2025, for correctional officers Isiram Miller, Frank Cianella, Wilbert Hernandez, Corey Downs and D'Angelo Nicolopoulos; and the hiring of Alexander Ramirez Melendez as a full-time food production supervisor, also effective Oct. 6, 2025. The board also acknowledged a lateral transfer (Allison DeGrupp) and a promotion (Thomas Schwartz to staff training development officer) as described in letters from facility leadership.

The commissioners recessed the meeting to convene the salary board and approved the September 2025 salary-board minutes. The salary board set the hourly rate for the newly hired correctional officers at $27.01 per hour for a 40-hour work week, with benefits after 90 days, and set the hourly rate for the food production supervisor at $20 per hour.

The board awarded winter road maintenance services for 2025–26 to Griner Excavating Inc.; the contract lists per-application prices for plowing and sanding or sanding-only on specified county roads (for example, $900 per application for plowing and sanding on Brook Road; $400 per application for plowing and sanding at another listed location). The board also approved the tri-annual groceries and frozen food bids for the correctional facility for Nov. 1, 2025–Feb. 28, 2026, awarding line items to vendors listed in the bid tabulation: Villa Food ($86,973.75), Driscoll ($45,551.95), Cisco ($12,873.36), Bernard ($13,458.02), Food to War ($69,534.01) and PA Paper ($6,817.60) for a total of $235,208.69.

Commissioners authorized the chair to execute (1) the application for renewal of the certificate of registration for radiation-producing machines, (2) a private-attorney contract naming Sarah Wilson, Esq., and Jennifer Onofrey, Esq., to provide services for the county’s domestic relations section, and (3) a board-of-commissioners mutual-aid agreement on behalf of the correctional facility. The board also authorized a contract for professional services between the county and Hailstone Economic LLC on behalf of the Office of Human Services.

Several payment vouchers and housing-related actions were approved: payment vouchers from the human-services development fund ($1,500 and $2,775.88), a Pike County home program payment voucher of $2,890.78 payable to Fifth Third Bank, 34 affordable-housing fund payment vouchers each for $63.75 (payee text in the record: “Pike County of Global Gee’s office”), authorization to execute 34 satisfactions of mortgages on behalf of the Office of Human Services, an affordable-housing fund payment to Delaware and Associates for $34,786, and approval of a Sept. 2025 “share housing fair” grant request for $2,254.27 on behalf of the Area Agency on Aging. The board also approved the 2026 Pike County schedule of holiday closings.

Votes at a glance: the record shows each item moved, seconded and approved by voice (the transcript records “All in favor? Aye” for each motion); no recorded roll-call tallies or recorded dissents appear in the provided transcript.

Chair and staff comments during the meeting were procedural and limited to presenting and moving items; the record contains no extended debate or conditions attached to the approvals.