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Votes at a glance: commissioners approve payables, contracts, grants and project awards; multiple measures pass unanimously
Summary
At the Lackawanna County commissioners meeting in Musick, the board approved a slate of resolutions including payables, a LERTA tax exemption for a Scranton affordable housing project, contracts for software and security systems, grants and capital project awards; vote tallies were not individually recorded in the public roll call.
Lackawanna County commissioners approved multiple resolutions at their meeting in Musick, covering current payables, tax-exemption participation, grant submissions, IT and facilities contracts, and capital project awards. Commissioners voted to approve each resolution as introduced; the meeting record shows unanimous "ayes" on each motion but does not list individual vote tallies.
Key actions approved or ratified at the meeting included:
- Resolution 25-0190: Approval of current payables (listed in claims numbers 389011 through 389590) and electronic fund transfers. The transcript read an aggregate total and an electronic transfers subtotal of $6,427,058.07; the recorded total for payables in the meeting audio was garbled in the transcript and is marked below as not specified.
- Resolution 25-0189: County participation in a Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance (LERTA) exemption for a Scranton project at 900 Saginaw Street (approx. 24.6 acres). The county agreed to a 10-year, 100% exemption schedule for eligible assessment increases attributable to newly constructed improvements; the resolution designates the parcel (PIN 16718-030-009) as eligible so long as program prerequisites are met.
- Resolution 25-0185: Approval to submit the District Attorney's grant applications to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) for Victim and Witness Rights and Services and Victims of Juvenile Offenders grants; requested amounts were $126,907 and $23,553, respectively.
- Resolution 25-0186: Acceptance of a one-year proposal from Granicus (Legistar agenda management) for $39,509.33 to manage public agendas, minutes and posted legislation online.
- Resolution 25-0187: Award of a three-year Active Directory login (BioBadge multifactor) solution to Imprivata Enterprise for $182,372 to provide multifactor authentication (badge + fingerprint) for secure system access, notably within the county prison where cell phones cannot be used as authentication devices.
- Resolution 25-0188: Acceptance of a quote from CDW for Adobe Acrobat Pro and Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions at $40,369.38.
- Resolution 25-0191: Acceptance of a proposal from Eaton for service and maintenance of the Eaton UPS system at the 911 Emergency Services Center for $94,914.60; county staff said the work will extend serviceable life to at least Jan. 1, 2035 and that the item is eligible for approximately 83% reimbursement through PEMA.
- Resolution 25-0192: Award of payroll services for the Workforce Development Board's TANF youth program to Educational Data Systems, Inc., for program year 07/01/2025–06/30/2026; the vendor's fee is 5% of participant wages and fringe and will be paid from grant funds (no county general-fund cost reported).
- Resolution 25-0193: Request to the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) for an extension of the federal fiscal year 2021 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) contract to Oct. 31, 2026, to accommodate construction-season and environmental delays.
- Resolution 25-0194: Approval of CDBG budget reallocations for Dickson City Borough and Clarks Summit Borough that move funds between park, housing rehabilitation and accessibility projects as described in the resolution.
- Resolution 25-0195: Ratification and acceptance of a Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RCAP) award in the amount of $930,000 for the Tech Ridge expansion project (SLIPCO/Scranton Chamber); the county accepted the award and will administer the project and receive a 1% administrative fee for RCAP administration.
- Resolution 25-0196: Agreement with the Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority for routine maintenance of the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail for 04/01/2025–03/31/2026, with the authority remitting $25,000 to the county.
- Resolution 25-0199: Service agreement with Beach Lake Sprinkler Fire Protection Services for a fire suppression/specialty system in the county IT computer room at a cost of $9,652.
- Resolution 25-0197: Appointment of Gerard Garrity of Scranton to the Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority, term through 12/31/2028.
- Resolution 25-0201: Reappointment of Chet Murley of Peckville to the Lackawanna County Planning Commission, term through 12/31/2028.
- Capital award: Commissioners awarded the prison stair replacement project to T. Brennan Heavy Equipment (lowest responsive bidder) at $226,000; staff said the project is budgeted in current capital improvement funds.
Meeting minutes record motions and seconds on each resolution and a verbal "ayes have it" outcome; the transcript does not include roll-call vote counts or recorded dissent for these items. Where available, the meeting record includes the contract term or dollar amount stated orally by presenters.
Several presenters explained programmatic details during introduction but no individual commission roll-call votes were read in the audio record provided.
