Kootenai County commissioners approve routine business, contracts and grants in March 25 meeting

Kootenai County commissioners met March 25 and approved a series of routine and project-specific items, including acceptance of an amended agenda to allow a late grant application, the receipt of construction bids for a jail generator, selection of a contractor for airport air-traffic control services, approval of a hangar ground lease, termination of a transit contract, approval of the fiscal-year 2026 transit program of projects and related public notice, a juvenile substance-abuse grant application, and several payments and agreements.

The meeting began with the board approving an amended agenda so a juvenile diversion grant application with the Idaho Office of Drug Policy could be accepted late. The board then approved meeting minutes, a consent calendar, and payables totaling $473,275.26.

Votes at a glance (motions, show of recorded votes where available): - Amended agenda to change item 20 to Idaho Office of Drug Policy and reorder items 18 and 19: approved (Ayes: Commissioner Eberlein; Commissioner Duncan; Chair Matari). - Approval of minutes (items 1–7): approved (Ayes: Eberlein; Duncan; Matari). - Consent calendar (items 8–12): approved (Ayes: Eberlein; Duncan; Matari). - Payables for March 17–20, 2025 in the amount of $473,275.26: approved (Ayes: Eberlein; Duncan; Matari). - Receipt/acknowledgment of bids for jail generator and alternate transfer switch (public safety building and sheriff's office): motion to receive bids approved (Ayes: Eberlein; Duncan; Matari). - Award of air traffic control tower services to Advanced ATC Inc.; contract to follow: approved (Ayes: Eberlein; Duncan; Matari). - Approval of development and ground lease AAL-2025-400 for hangar development with TFA LLC (70,000 sq ft; annual revenue stated in staff report): approved (Ayes: Eberlein; Duncan; Matari). - Approval of termination agreement with KBooks Financial Services, effective March 31, 2025: approved (Ayes: Eberlein; Duncan; Matari). - Approval of Kootenai County Public Transportation proposed FY 2026 program of projects (required FTA submittal / apportionment allocation): approved (Vote recorded during discussion: Commissioner Eberlein — Nay; Commissioner Duncan — Aye; Chair Matari — Aye; motion carries). - Approval to publish the FY 2026 program of projects public notice and hold a public hearing on April 28: approved (Vote recorded: Commissioner Eberlein — Nay; Commissioner Duncan — Aye; Chair Matari — Aye). - Approval to submit FY 2026 Substance Abuse Block Grant application to the Idaho Office of Drug Policy in the amount of $6,644 (no match): approved (Ayes: Eberlein; Duncan; Matari). - Approval of a hold-harmless agreement between Kootenai County and Lakes Highway District for the Bayview public launch dock system: approved (Ayes: Eberlein; Duncan; Matari). - Approval to pay $18,500 to the City of Coeur d'Alene Parks and Recreation Department to purchase a mower for Highway 95 trail maintenance (funds from Hwy 95 trail maintenance account): approved (Ayes: Eberlein; Duncan; Matari). - Approval of final payment for the transport van (final invoice $197,022): approved (Ayes: Eberlein; Duncan; Matari).

Several items will return to the board for contract execution or further documentation (notably the air-traffic control contract and the airport hangar lease). Where the transcript recorded roll-call votes, the names above match recorded aye/nay votes. Where motions were made without an explicit recorded mover/second in the transcript, the board recorded outcomes by voice vote.

Documentation/provenance: transcript excerpts for each action are available in the official meeting record. Example excerpts used to verify these motions include the amended-agenda exchange with Douglas Hall (discussion of deadline, March 25, 2025), the bid receipt read by Jeff Fuller (Legacy Power Systems and Valley Electric bids), the airport presentation recommending Advanced ATC (Kim Stevenson), the transit presentations and vote on the FY 2026 program (Chad Engel), the juvenile diversion grant discussion (Douglas Hall), the hold-harmless and mower payment items (Nick Snyder), and the transport van final payment (Capt. Jeremy Heil, Grant Kinsey).