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Votes at a glance: Montcalm County Board of Commissioners, March 24, 2025
Summary
Summary of formal actions the board voted on March 24, including minutes and agenda approvals, variance, contract awards, purchases, appointments and budget/warrant actions.
The Montcalm County Board of Commissioners recorded the following formal actions during its March 24, 2025 regular meeting.
- Agenda approval: Board moved and supported approval of the meeting agenda as presented. Vote: unanimous; motion carried.
- Minutes approval: Motion to approve minutes from the March 10, 2025 regular meeting. Vote: unanimous; motion carried.
- Variance (Crystal Lake): Motion to grant the construction-ordinance variance for the Kenyons on Crystal Lake, contingent on obtaining all required permits from the building department. Mover: Commissioner Johnston. Vote: unanimous; motion carried.
- Jail countertops: Motion to accept the bid of Leonardo’s to replace quartz countertops in the jail intake and control rooms, not to exceed $22,021. Mover: Commissioner Truman. Vote: unanimous; motion carried.
- COA flooring: Motion to accept Millard Furniture’s low bid to replace most COA carpet with vinyl plank and carpet squares, not to exceed $23,565.25. Vote: unanimous; motion carried. Funding: capital improvements.
- Area Agency on Aging (AAoA) continuation funding request: Motion to approve signature on the fiscal-year 2026 continuation-of-funding request for the Area Agency on Aging of West Michigan (flat funding requested). Vote: unanimous; motion carried.
- EMS ventilators: Motion to authorize EMS to purchase 14 Hamilton ventilators using fund balance as necessary. Vote: unanimous; motion carried.
- Brownfield appointment: Motion to reappoint Mark Gordon, Village of Edmore Manager, to the Montcalm County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority with a term to expire 12/31/2027. Vote: unanimous; motion carried.
- Community spay-and-neuter grant: Motion to approve the community spay- and-neuter grant agreement as presented (grantor requested to remain anonymous in packet). Vote: unanimous; motion carried.
- Budget adjustments: Motion to approve fiscal-year 2025 budget adjustments as presented, noting net zero change to overall budget. Vote: unanimous; motion carried.
- Warrants: Motion to approve three warrant reports totaling $2,029,939.56 (warrant numbers 03132025, 03202025, 03242025). Vote: unanimous; motion carried.
- Consent agenda items (Brownfield minutes, Dodge report, COA report, medical examiner): Motion to place items 8–11 on file. Vote: unanimous; motion carried.
- Committee minutes and policy adoption: Motion to place director-hiring work session minutes on file with attendance amendment; motion carried. Motion to adopt the committee’s hiring policy for appointed department directors as presented; motion carried.
All roll-call counts and verbal confirmations were recorded on the meeting record; where a specific second was not named in the transcript the clerk recorded “support” and recorded the vote as announced by the chair.
