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Votes at a glance: Bay County Board approves multiple routine items including pool bond notice publication and sheriff fee change
Summary
At its Sept. 9, 2025 meeting the Bay County Board of Commissioners approved a range of routine and administrative items, including a motion to publish notice of intent to issue bonds for a county pool project, a change to the sheriff's fee schedule to add live‑scan electronic fingerprints, purchase approvals and several received reports.
The Bay County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 9, 2025 voted on a series of agenda and consent items. Most motions passed by voice vote; where recorded the board approved agenda changes, several purchase and contract approvals, and multiple received reports.
Key votes (summary):
- Agenda amendments: The board approved two agenda changes at the start of the meeting — a revised resolution from Environmental Affairs/Community Development to authorize applying for a materials‑management planning grant, and the addition of a presentation by the Bay County Road Commission. (Motion to amend agenda: moved, supported, voice vote — approved.)
- Receive Road Commission presentation: The board voted to receive the Bay County Road Commission report after the presentation. (Motion to receive: moved, supported — approved.)
- Resolution: publication of notice of intent to issue bonds for the Bay County pool project. (Motion: move to approve publication; moved, supported — approved.)
- Bay County Sheriff: change to fee schedule to add live‑scan electronic fingerprints. (Motion: approve change to fee schedule; moved, supported — approved.)
- Purchase approvals: The board approved the purchase of a jail transport van for the Bay County Sheriff's Office and approved purchase and trade‑in of golf carts for the Bay County Golf Course. (Motions moved, supported — approved.)
- Grants and agreements: The board approved an environmental affairs/community development revised resolution to authorize application for and acceptance of a materials‑management planning grant and approved a health department agreement with McLaren Bay Region for rabies vaccine purchases. The board also approved agreements with print and broadcast advertising vendors for clinical promotion. (Motions moved, supported — approved.)
- Personnel and labor: The board ratified multiple 2025 collective bargaining agreements (one remaining union ratification to be presented next week). (Motion moved, supported — approved.)
- Information systems and facilities: The board approved an information systems service/maintenance contract for a Veritiv cooling unit with Access Michigan. (Motion moved, supported — approved.)
- Finance and administrative items: The board received the finance analysis of general fund equity for 2025, received an update on executive directive 2007‑11, approved payables and received the Office of Assigned Counsel July 2025 report. (All motions moved, supported — approved or received.)
Each action listed above was recorded in the meeting transcript as moved, supported and passed by voice vote; the transcript did not record detailed individual votes for each item.
Formal actions and next steps: The board's approvals authorize staff to implement the purchases and agreements and to proceed with grant application steps where applicable. Several items (notably the materials management planning grant and any future actions to finance capital projects) will return with further documentation or financing details for future board consideration.
