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Votes at a glance: Lee County Fiscal Court approves leases, grants and personnel moves
Summary
The court approved a set of routine items including a county resolution on side-by-sides (separately covered), minutes, road funding recommendations, lease agreements, equipment grants and personnel actions; most items passed on voice votes with little debate.
At the Lee County Fiscal Court meeting the body took votes on multiple routine and administrative items. Many passed on voice votes with brief discussion; the court recorded “Aye” for each of the items listed below.
Votes recorded at this meeting (selected items):
- Resolution authorizing operation of street-legal side-by-side vehicles (Senate Bill 63): approved by voice vote (see separate article).
- Approve minutes from the March 13, 2025 fiscal court meeting: approved by voice vote.
- Approve state recommendations for secondary road funding (2016/2026 packet referenced): approved by voice vote.
- Approve a $1,000 donation request for a senior group trip: motion carried by voice vote.
- Accept and approve application by the county sheriff for LEPP grant funds to purchase 12 tasers and cartridges (law-enforcement equipment application): approved by voice vote (application to be submitted; local match or obligations not fully detailed in the meeting record).
- Ordinance 2025-001, second reading, approving financing for an emergency/indigent pump necessity (text in packet): second reading approved by voice vote.
- Approve Mack Trucks auction agreement (sale scheduled June 12, 2025): approved by voice vote.
- Approve rental/lease agreements noted in the packet, including a one-year lease for office space occupied by the 911 center at Happy Top Community Center for $570 a month (county to receive $500 plus $70 to cover internet): approved by voice vote.
- Approve personnel actions: transfer of Kenneth Lewis to certified 911 dispatch operator (effective 03/27/2025); hourly pay increase for control officer Henry Crawford to $14 per hour; motions carried by voice vote.
- Approve Lee County Search and Rescue application for a USDA grant for a UTV rescue vehicle (1% local match obligation discussed): motion carried by voice vote.
Where the meeting transcript did not record detailed roll-call tallies or the full ordinance/resolution text, the item here is described with the detail provided in the record. The court did not record any failed motions on the items listed above during this meeting.
