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Votes at a glance: Monroe County Commissioners — June 18, 2025
Summary
Summary of motions taken and approved by the Monroe County commissioners on June 18, 2025, including minutes, budget adjustments, vendor approvals, grant certifications and capital purchases.
The Monroe County Board of Commissioners voted on multiple routine and substantive items during its June 18 meeting. Key actions recorded in the meeting minutes include:
- Approval of minutes from the June 4, 2025 commissioners' meeting (motion carried). - Amendment (M 2025-115 dated 04/16/2025) decreasing grant expense and revenue totals by $364,997 (motion carried). - Ratification of travel requests for Adult Probation, Conservation District, Juvenile Probation and Veterans Affairs (motion carried). - Ratification of an internship agreement between the Area Agency on Aging and Penn State Scranton (term to expire 06/06/2030) (motion carried). - Approval of an adoption assistance agreement for Children and Youth Services (motion carried). - Approval of the County Budget Adjustment Report dated 06/18/2025 totaling $647,933 (motion carried); items included bulletproof vests, children and youth funding, CSBG allocations and other departmental adjustments. - Certification: approved chairman John DeChristi to sign certification documents for the FY2025 Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) application (see separate article). - Approval of an additional Homeless Assistance Program (HAP) supplemental allocation of $2,264 for FY24–25 to distribute $566 each to Pocono Area Transitional Housing, Family Promise of Monroe County, RHD and Salvation Army (motion carried). - Modification to RingCentral service for an increase of $35/month (35 additional local numbers), changing total monthly charge from $11,531 to $11,566 (motion carried). - Authorization for the fiscal director to sign a Local Share Account (LSA) contract of $35,000 for Fire Training Grounds burn building door/frame replacement (motion carried). - Ratification and approval of multiple capital and computer purchases (rolling shades, bulletproof vests, IT equipment, plotter maintenance), and the county capital purchase reports for $3,214 and $8,189.65, and computer purchases totaling $2,549.13 (motions carried). - Approval of fiscal year 2025–2026 budgets for Children and Youth, Area Agency on Aging, Grama Administration, State Food Purchase Program, Human Services Development Fund, Homeless Assistance, Emergency Solutions, MCTA, and CareerLink totaling $28,605,085; the county noted a possible increase of the county share of $306,113 contingent on other state funding (motion carried).
All motions above were presented during the meeting and recorded as carried where noted. Where votes were conducted, the chair called for 'aye' and announced 'motion carries.' Specific mover/second names were not always provided on the record.
