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Commissioners approve disbursements, grants, contracts and staffing actions in Aug. 21 consent and business agenda
Summary
The St. Clair County Board of Commissioners approved a slate of disbursements, grant applications, contracts, equipment repairs and personnel reclassifications at its Aug. 21 meeting. Several items were roll-called and passed; one addition to the agenda failed for lack of a second.
At its Aug. 21 full-board meeting the St. Clair County Board of Commissioners approved multiple routine and business items, including county disbursements, grant applications, contracts and staffing changes. The board handled the consent agenda and then took separate roll-call votes on several new-business items.
Key votes and outcomes:
- Approved county disbursements for July 2025 in the amount of $14,316,322.80 (roll call recorded; outcome: approved).
- Approved a wildlife habitat grant application for $85,000 for Columbus County Park (motion carried).
- Approved the fiscal-year 2026 traffic enforcement grant application for $56,595 (motion carried).
- Approved the fiscal-year 2026 secondary road patrol agreement for $242,039 (motion carried).
- Approved an inter-county cost-sharing agreement related to the Fox class action lawsuit (motion carried; amount not specified in meeting record).
- Approved a contract addendum with Hunter Hospitality House Inc., increasing budget funds by $4,000 for a new not-to-exceed total (transcript phrasing); motion carried.
- Approved the local emergency management program work agreement for fiscal-year 2026 (motion carried).
- Approved addendum A with Combined Public Communications for inmate phone, video visitation and tablet services at the intervention center (motion carried).
- Approved an interlocal agreement with Macomb County for the Homeland Security grant program in the amount of $266,452 (motion carried).
- Approved the prosecuting attorney crime victim rights grant application for the 10/01/2025–09/30/2026 term in the amount of $169,073 (motion carried).
- Approved MGT Impact Solutions LLC contract for GRAMA billing services for Friend of the Court for a term with total $57,000 plus $2 per timesheet (motion carried).
- Approved a Tetra Tech proposal to complete a courthouse facility condition and needs assessment, hazardous-materials study, total $175,894 (motion carried).
- Approved reclassification of the circuit-court law clerk position on the wage scale as presented (motion carried; salary-scale details recorded in personnel packet).
- Approved salary increases for the sheriff (to $143,000) and undersheriff (to $127,183) after board discussion; motion passed (roll-call: one commissioner recorded a no vote on the item).
- Approved extension of the federal armored-transport contract expiration to Aug. 15, 2026 (motion carried).
- Approved a software purchase with SHI for thin clients, $54,714 (motion carried).
- Approved Thermodynamics repair for a courthouse chiller, $12,610.97 (motion carried).
- Approved Thermaletics repair for boiler #3 at the intervention and detention center, $11,280.35 (motion carried).
- Approved renewal of Michigan Association of Counties membership, $19,447.53 (motion carried).
- Approved opening a segregated investment account for opioid settlement funds (motion carried).
- Approved reclassification of a part-time senior millage administrator to a full-time senior millage board leader position (motion carried).
- Approved treasurer’s office staffing table revision: remove Account Clerk 3 and add Senior Account Property Specialist (motion carried).
- Approved circuit-court family-division staffing table revision (remove juvenile counselor, add juvenile intervention unit superintendent) (motion carried).
- Approved Honeywell software upgrade, $41,901.51 (motion carried).
Several other consent items were moved and approved together at the start of the meeting (consent agenda items a–f). An earlier motion to add a special meeting on health-department policy to the agenda failed for lack of a second; a later request to add discussion of the same topic was accepted and the board scheduled a Sept. 4 session.
Roll-call vote tallies were recorded for many items; where the transcript provided individual roll-call replies the clerk recorded those votes as “Yes” or “No” by commissioner name and the minutes show motions carried. The board did not take votes directing the county prosecutor about any pending criminal matters (see separate item on animal-control seizure and public comment).
