Kootenai County commissioners approve vendor contracts, airport leases, change orders and collection policy

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — The Kootenai County Board of Commissioners on Aug. 12 approved a series of routine agreements, lease changes, construction change orders and a new policy to collect unpaid parks fees, county officials said during a roughly 20‑minute business session.

The board voted unanimously to: sign a contract to add accessibility tools to county websites; approve multiple airport lease actions and lease assignments; authorize change orders on building HVAC and jail pod work; adopt a parks fee collection resolution and a collection services agreement; and approve the Hayden Area Regional Sewer Board FY‑26 publication budget with requested addendum language.

Those items were presented by county staff and outside lessees and passed without substantive public debate. The board approved all motions by recorded voice votes of three ayes and no noes.

The county’s information‑technology director, James Martin, described an agreement with CivicPlus and AudioEye to add software intended to improve compliance with website accessibility standards. Martin said funding is in place and, if signed, the county would begin installation in November so the sites would be ready to meet the new guidelines by April 24, 2026. “If you're gracious enough to sign the agreement today, we would get started with the software installed in November, which would be in time for us to be compliant with the new guidelines by 04/24/2026,” Martin said.

At the airport, Kim Stevenson said FUJ Aviation LLC sought additional hangar square footage that would bring its leased total to “a little over 61,000 square feet” and increase…