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Pike County Commissioners approve routine payroll, hires, contracts and resolutions
Summary
At their June 18, 2025 meeting the Pike County Commissioners approved a series of routine motions including minutes and payments, several hires and hourly rates, contracts and grants, and adopted Resolution 25-21 recognizing World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.
Pike County Commissioners on June 18 approved a package of routine administrative motions, personnel actions, payments and contracts and adopted Resolution No. 25-21 declaring June 15, 2025, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day in Pike County.
The actions approved included minutes and conference minutes; payment of county bills; transfers from the bridge fund and health insurance fund; exonerations presented by Gina Rios, tax claim bureau director; multiple personnel hires (including temporary and grant-funded positions); and several contracts and funding agreements. Several items were identified as grant-funded or reimbursed by outside sources in the meeting record.
Key approved items (motions passed unless otherwise noted):
- Approval of the June 18, 2025 agenda (motion approved).
- Approval of meeting minutes (06/04/2025 and 06/11/2025 conference minutes; motions approved; one abstention recorded on the conference minutes).
- Payment approvals: General fund county bills in the amount of $497,834.47; bridge fund payment of $3,654.12; Pike County Employees Health Insurance Fund payment of $84,644.77 (motions approved).
- Exonerations presented by Gina Rios for eight properties sold into GSL sales (motion approved).
- Personnel hires and rate settings: hiring Robert Santiago as youth programs assistant for the summer youth employment and training program (15 hours/week for eight weeks) to be fully reimbursed through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA); setting Santiago's hourly rate at $17.50; hiring Courtney Kelly as a part-time temporary clerical clerk for the Strengthening Connections project (grant funded) at $14/hour retroactive to 06/11/2025; hiring Melissa Alobio Heller as an unpaid intern for CASA under the Temple University student affiliation agreement (motions approved).
- Human services vouchers: approval of payment vouchers for the Office of Human Services (Homeless Assistance Program and state food purchase program) and related amounts as listed in the record (motion approved).
- Contracts and agreements: authorization for the chair to execute a contract for professional services for youth services research; authorization to execute a funding agreement described in the meeting record between a Pennsylvania commission and the County of Pike for a mission-related investment (names and full titles of the external commission as spoken in the meeting record were not specified); and execution of a one-year conflicts-counsel contract with Steven Benedict for the public defender's office, effective 07/01/2025 (motions approved).
- Adoption of Resolution No. 25-21, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (06/15/2025), as read into the record (motion approved).
Meeting remarks and presentations accompanied several items but did not change the formal outcomes recorded at the meeting. When the meeting recorded vote calls, the transcript reports approval by voice (“Aye”) for the motions; the meeting did record one abstention on the conference minutes but did not include a roll-call tally of named yes/no votes for most motions.
Votes and related formal actions listed above were recorded as motions, seconds, and voice approvals in the meeting transcript; no motions in the record failed or were tabled.
Ending: Several routine items remain subject to external funding or reimbursement (for example WIOA reimbursement and grant-funded positions). The record shows the commissioners continuing to process routine administrative and human services business at the June 18 meeting.
