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Votes at a glance: commissioners approve multiple routine renewals and appointments
Summary
The Van Buren County Board of Commissioners approved several contract renewals, appointments and routine financial items, including MSU Extension MOA, board-of-canvassers appointments, the resource-recovery agreement and budget/claims approvals.
At its Sept. 8 meeting the Van Buren County Board of Commissioners approved a series of consent and action items with little debate.
- MSU Extension memorandum-of-agreement renewal: The board approved a one-year MOA renewal for services that fund 1.0 FTE 4‑H program coordination and 0.85 FTE agriculture/agribusiness staff, with a requested county contribution of $212,800 (a 3% increase). The extension office said Dr. Leslie Judd will join October 6 as a new consumer horticulturist.
- Board of Canvassers appointments: The board appointed Judy Janssen (Republican) and Michael Seymour (Democrat) to two-year canvasser terms, following party submissions; the appointment was made by ballot as required by election law and approved in the meeting.
- Van Buren Conservation District Resource Recovery Services agreement renewal: The board approved renewal of the county’s resource-recovery services agreement; changes include modifying electronics collection to include at least two rotating drop-off opportunities and continued year-round tire drop-off at transfer stations.
- NSU/MSU extension / other renewals: The board approved additional routine renewals presented at the meeting (MOAs and service agreements), including renewal of the victim-services agreement and routine out-of-state travel requests submitted for the prosecutor’s office.
- Financial items: Commissioners approved claims for August totaling $5,645,635.26 and approved budget adjustments intended to align revenue and expenses across funds for the remainder of the fiscal year.
Most of the items were approved by motion and voice vote; individual roll-call tallies were not recorded in the transcript for these consent items.
