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Votes at a glance: Pike County commissioners approve routine hires, contracts, vouchers and appointments
Summary
At their Aug. 20 meeting, Pike County commissioners approved a slate of routine personnel actions, contracts, vendor awards and vouchers, including hires, the Foster & Foster actuarial contract, an audit contract extension, and multiple purchase-of-service agreements for children's services.
Pike County commissioners on Aug. 20 approved a number of routine personnel actions, contracts, vendor awards and vouchers as part of their regular meeting.
Key actions recorded on the agenda and approved by the board included:
- Approved payment from the general fund accounting bills: $652,530.68. - Approved payment from the Jitsi North Fund: $37,852 (amount read as "37852 Dollars"). - Motion to hire Janine Featens Kelso as an administrative clerk at Casa of Pike County, 37.5 hours/week, effective Aug. 27, 2025; salary set by the salary board at $17 per hour. - Acknowledged receipt of a letter from Coroner Christopher Brayton appointing Krista (spelled in transcript as Krista/Crystal) Estella as deputy coroner effective Aug. 22, 2025; salary/rate set per-call at $150. - Approved refunds of contributions for six employees no longer with the county (names not read into the record at the meeting). - Approved two retirements (two people listed; names not specified in agenda remarks). - Approved Foster & Foster contract for actuarial services. - Authorized the chairman to execute Queue Rule No. 6 from Knight Bell Road for the Pike County Jail Complex well number 3 drilling and development project. - Awarded the 2025-26 annual beverage bid for the correctional facility to Bernard Food Industries in the amount of $5,572.80. - Authorized execution of an audit contract extension with ZNA LLC. - Reappointed Fred Newstep to the Pompano County workforce development area board for a three-year term ending 06/30/2028. - Appointed Jill Dunn to the Pike County Road Task Force to fill an unexpired term ending 12/31/2026. - Executed fiscal year 24-25 certification and budget amendment pages on behalf of Children & Youth Services and a Family First Transition Act invoice claim. - Approved multiple purchase-of-service agreements on behalf of Children & Youth Services with vendors read into the record, including Voltona's Living Solutions, Balpha Village, Valeria Counseling Associates, Pennsylvania Treatment and Healing, SFN Memorial Homes Incorporated (specific contract amounts were not specified in the meeting remarks). - Approved Community Development Block Grant program payment voucher to Halstone Economics for $885 and a Pike County HOME Program payment voucher to Frank The Etch for $2,100. - Authorized the chairman to execute the Delaware Water Gap NRA special-use permit application (see separate item on Milford Star restoration). - Approved a contract with Eric Hamill to serve as acting chief public defender.
Board motions were presented, seconded and carried with affirmative votes (recorded in the transcript as "All in favor? Aye."). The meeting record in the transcript did not include recorded roll-call vote-by-name tallies for these routine items; the clerk announced motions, seconds and unanimous approval in each instance.
Several items were handled by the salary board during the meeting, including setting hourly and per-call rates for new hires and appointees as noted above. The salary board convened and adjourned during the same meeting session.
Where the transcript did not specify names or dollar amounts for particular items (for example, the six contribution refunds, two retirements, and several purchase-of-service contracts), this article notes those details as not specified.
