Votes at a glance: Shawnee County commissioners approve contracts, licenses and purchases

The Shawnee County Board of County Commissioners on June 2 voted unanimously on a series of consent and new-business items, approving vouchers, contracts, licenses and capital purchases.

Major actions approved included voucher reports, a temporary cereal malt beverage license, awarding a bridge construction contract, approving a road design contract, several county department contracts and purchase authorizations for the Stormont Vail Event Center. Each motion recorded in the meeting passed on a recorded voice vote of 3 to 0 unless otherwise noted.

Votes at a glance (motion text summarized from agenda/meeting record): - Consent agenda: approved (motion passed 3 to 0). - Voucher approvals: two voucher reports (through 05/23/2025 for $2,868,032.72 and through 05/30/2025 for $1,586,225.91) approved (motion passed 3 to 0). - Correction orders: approved (motion passed 3 to 0). - Resolution 2025-39: temporary cereal malt beverage license for Jared Beam at Sunrise Optimist Club for Seaman High School Viking Reunion (06/14/2025) — approved (motion passed 3 to 0). - Contract C198-2025: award to King Construction Company for bridge replacement on Southwest Jordan Road — approved (motion passed 3 to 0). - Contract C199-2025: agreement with Bartlett & West, Inc. for design services on Rochester Road reconstruction (three-mile project) — approved (motion passed 3 to 0). - Contract C204-2025: internship agreement with University of Northern Colorado for WIC program — approved (motion passed 3 to 0). - Contract amendment C205-2025: KDHE amendment 3 for outreach, prevention and early intervention services ($437,734 with matching funds from the Early Childhood Block Grant) — approved (motion passed 3 to 0). - FY26 behavioral health services funding grant application under HB2021 for the juvenile detention center ($233,392.74) — commission authorized filing (motion passed 3 to 0). - Resolution 2025-38: appointment of Shawnee County Appraiser Steve Bauman to a four-year term — approved (motion passed 3 to 0). - 2025 fireworks-stand permits (sale period June 20–July 7, 2025) — approved (motion passed 3 to 0). - Parks & Recreation MOU C213-2025 with Cumulus Media (in-kind promotion > $10,000) and MOU C214-2025 with Topeka Pickleball Association (three-year agreement) — approved (motions passed 3 to 0). - Stormont Vail Event Center capital purchases: Zamboni from R & R Specialties ($49,300) and six self-dumping forklift trash hoppers from Granger ($13,502.92) — approved (motions passed 3 to 0).

Recorded vote tallies in the meeting were uniformly announced as "motion passes 3 to 0." Where individual motions were introduced, the record shows a commissioner moved, another seconded, and the chair called for voice votes.

The commission did not hold an executive session and adjourned after administrative communications.