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Votes at a glance: Clare County board approves transit lease, appointments, grants, budgets and labor agreements
Summary
The Clare County Board approved a package of routine but consequential items: a lease with Clare County Transit Authority, appointment to a regional oversight board, multiple labor letters of understanding, a State Land Bank grant application, and several budget and schedule motions.
At its meeting, the Clare County Board of Commissioners took a series of formal actions on contracts, appointments, grants, budgets and labor agreements.
Key votes recorded in the meeting transcript included:
- Transit lease: The board approved a lease agreement between Clare County and the Clare County Transit Authority. The county described the lease as a nominal dollar‑per‑year arrangement (reported in the meeting as $1 per year) to satisfy funding documentation requirements for transit grants.
- Appointment to MSHN oversight board: The board appointed Joe Phillips as an alternate to the MSHN Substance Use Disorder Oversight Policy Board with a term ending August 2024.
- Labor letters of understanding: The board approved attached letters of understanding for four employee groups: Clare County Command Officers Association (command bargaining unit); Police Officers Association of Michigan — Non‑Supervisory Group; Police Officers Association of Michigan — 911 Central Dispatch Bargaining Unit; and Police Officers Association of Michigan — Corrections Bargaining Unit.
- State Land Bank grant: The board approved applying for a State Land Bank grant in the amount of $500,000 to support property remediation and related work.
- Budget and expenditures: The board approved November expenditures totaling $3,342,363.61, with general fund expenditures totaling $1,109,360.13; and approved a budget adjustment listed in the transcript as $95,384.46 and an additional $200,000 (the transcript identifies the adjustment numbers but not the precise line‑item breakdown). The transcript contains a roll call for these financial motions and the chair announced motions carried.
- Board schedules and administrative items: The board approved meeting dates through December 2024 (regular Board of Commissioners meeting dates consistent with the third Wednesday of the month unless otherwise posted), finance‑committee meeting dates, committee‑of‑the‑whole meeting dates and the county holiday schedule for 2024 as presented.
For several items the transcript records discussion but does not provide full dollar amounts, contract numbers or individual votes for every commissioner. Where roll calls occurred the transcript records commissioners answering “yes” and the chair announcing the motion carried.
Outcomes listed above reflect motions and roll‑call approvals recorded in the meeting transcript. The transcript does not provide detailed implementation timelines for many items; staff and the chair indicated follow‑up actions would be handled administratively.
