Commissioners approve routine accounts payable and authorize $580,000 transfer to Road & Bridge sales-tax account

In consent items, commissioners approved accounts payable for the period (totaling $160,295.55) after brief review of the vendor categories and a question about the budget line to which a given lawyer’s fee would be charged.

Later in the meeting the board approved a motion allowing the county treasurer to transfer $580,000 from the county tax account into the Road & Bridge hard‑surface sales‑tax account. Staff said the transfer would fund operations and asphalting/maintenance work for the remainder of the year; commissioners and staff discussed that the county’s sales‑tax draw practice might be revised in future years to provide a regular quarterly draw to road operations.

The transfer motion passed with the treasurer to carry out the transfer per the clerk’s and budget officer’s coordination. Commissioners asked staff to report on the sales‑tax balance in advance of future transfers and requested a proposed quarterly draw process for road operations be prepared for consideration.