Votes at a glance: Clearfield County Commissioners meeting, May 13, 2025
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Summary
A summary of motions and votes recorded at the Clearfield County Commissioners meeting on May 13, 2025, including personnel approvals, contracts, appointments and procurement decisions.
The Clearfield County Commissioners recorded the following actions during their May 13, 2025 meeting. Where the meeting transcript recorded only a unanimous "Aye," tallies below assume the three-member commission voted in the affirmative; each item lists the motion text or the action described on the record.
1) Salary board minutes approval (salary board): Motion to approve minutes from the 04/08/2025 salary board meeting. Outcome: approved.
2) Summer intern/law clerk position (courts): Request from Judges Amberman and Cherry to create a summer intern/law clerk position to work 05/28/2025–08/31/2025 with pay described as an annualized $3,000 (approx. $1,000/month for the summer). Motion to approve the salary as presented. Outcome: approved.
3) Assistant District Attorney salary: Request to set the salary for an Assistant District Attorney at $57,500 per year effective 04/14/2025. Motion to approve. Outcome: approved.
4) Administrator, Children & Youth Services salary: Commissioners requested setting the starting salary for the CYS administrator at $75,000 per year. Motion to approve. Outcome: approved.
5) Warden starting salary (jail): Motion to set the starting salary of the county jail warden at $71,000 per year. Outcome: approved.
6) Approve minutes of previous commissioners meeting: Motion to approve minutes of the 04/22/2025 meeting. Outcome: approved.
7) Approval of bills: Controller reported bills across funds with a grand total of $6,170,412.26. Motion to approve the bills as presented. Outcome: approved.
8) Personnel changes: Motion to approve personnel changes presented on 05/13/2025, including new hires, transfers, separations and FMLA leaves. Outcome: approved.
9) Proclamation: Motion to approve the proclamation designating May 2025 as Mental Health and Stigma Awareness Month in Clearfield County. Outcome: approved.
10) ARC pre-application for Penn State DuBois LaunchBox: Motion to proceed with the ARC pre-application with the county as applicant and grant administrator. Outcome: approved.
11) Teamsters contract (corrections officers): Motion to approve the contract extension with the Teamsters covering corrections officers, including wage increases and shift changes to a 12-hour schedule; mandatory reopener set for 05/07/2026. Outcome: approved.
12) Service agreement with Viking Water Technology Inc.: Motion to enter into an annual service agreement for the county steam boiler system with no increase in cost from the prior term. Outcome: approved.
13) Appointment to Community Action Board: Motion to appoint April Covello to the Community Action Board. Outcome: approved.
14) Amendment to asset purchase agreement with Sinclair Child Services: Motion to approve an amendment allowing Sinclair to purchase an additional vehicle under terms tied to a CYS grant. Outcome: approved.
15) Purchase of service agreement with People Are Us Community Residential Services: Motion to approve a purchase-of-service agreement for specialized services to CYS for the prior fiscal year; the county reported it is no longer actively using the facility. Outcome: approved.
16) Electronic poll books (ES&S): Motion to approve the purchase of ES&S electronic poll books pending solicitor review; the vendor quote reported was $166,002.57 and staff recommended omitting optional thermal printers to save roughly $15,000–$16,000. Outcome: approved pending solicitor review.
17) Adjournment: Motion to adjourn meeting. Outcome: approved.
Where a motion's mover or seconder was spoken but not named in the transcript, mover/second are listed as not specified below. Vote records were recorded on the public transcript as "Aye" for each item.
