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Votes at a glance: Stevens County board approves routine warrants, IT licensing and vendor payments; accepts contract termination
Summary
The Stevens County Board approved routine financial warrants and vendor payments, an IT licensing purchase and several administrative items including a quitclaim deed and advertising county land for rent, and accepted notice of a neighboring county’s termination of an emergency-management contract.
The Stevens County Board of Commissioners approved a series of routine financial and administrative items during the meeting. The board’s recorded actions included approval of warrants, IT licensing, vendor payments, a quitclaim deed, advertisement of county land for rent and acceptance of a contract termination.
Key votes and outcomes (motions carried unless noted):
- Approve agenda and prior meeting minutes — motion carried.
- Auditor/Commissioner warrants — approved (general warrants and commissioner warrants were presented and approved by motion). The meeting packet included an auditor warrant listing and a commissioner warrant on page 13; no individual dissent was recorded.
- Human Services warrants — approved. Human Services warrants presented totaled $167,766.92; the board voted to approve them.
- VMware licensing quote — approved. The board approved a one-year VMware licensing quote for $13,693.68 to maintain support for the county’s virtual-server environment; staff noted licensing market disruptions after VMware’s acquisition by Broadcom.
- Final vendor payments for road and maintenance work — approved. The board approved final payment to Morris SealCo and Trucking for $13,407.21 and final payment to Lot Pros for $6,428.94 for chip seal/road work and mass expanding projects.
- Quitclaim deed for parcel 05-9010-000 — approved. The board approved a quitclaim deed to reconvey a parcel to Paul and Larry Mosher consistent with title research and prior probate history.
- County land rental advertisement — approved. For a roughly 5-acre county parcel in Framingness Township, the board directed staff to advertise the parcel for sealed-bid rental (taxes to be paid by the successful bidder); lease terms and final negotiation were to follow the sealed-bid process.
- Big Stone County emergency management contract termination — accepted. The board accepted notice from Big Stone County that it will not renew the two-year contract for Stevens County to provide emergency-management services; Big Stone plans to move to its own arrangement effective Jan. 1, 2026.
- On-call pay augmentation for Human Services — approved. The board approved an augmentation for a social services on-call rotation at $143.59 per pay period effective with the new hire.
Procedural notes: Nearly all motions were approved by voice vote with the chair calling, “All those in favor signify by saying aye,” and no recorded roll-call tallies for individual commissioners were entered into the meeting minutes A number of items were procedural approvals of warrants and final invoices; the board did not vote on the fairboard capital project request during the meeting.
