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Votes at a glance: Geary County commission approves budgets, grants and tax-sale redemption fee
Summary
At Monday's Geary County commission meeting the board approved the community corrections adult and juvenile budgets, a two-year reinvestment grant allocation, signatures on three local health grants, a $400 tax-sale redemption fee and several routine items including change orders and minutes.
The Geary County Board of Commissioners recorded several formal approvals during the meeting. Below are the items the board approved, plus available mover/second notations and the recorded outcome.
1) Motion: Approve the adult community corrections total budget (fiscal year request submitted to state) — Moved: not specified; Seconded: not specified. Outcome: Approved. Notes: Finance and behavior-health amounts listed; county director warned state-level reductions could change final grant amounts.
2) Motion: Approve the juvenile community corrections total budget — Moved: not specified; Seconded: not specified. Outcome: Approved.
3) Motion: Approve juvenile reinvestment budget (two-year grant, year amount $125,951) — Moved: not specified; Seconded: not specified. Outcome: Approved.
4) Motion: Authorize signatures on three health-department grants (public health emergency preparedness, immunizations action plan, state-formula environmental/public-health funds) — Moved: (Commissioner) ; Seconded: (Commissioner). Outcome: Approved.
5) Motion: Set redemption fee for tax-sale redemptions at $400 per parcel — Moved: (Commissioner); Seconded: (Commissioner). Outcome: Approved. Notes: County counselor advised fees are intended to cover publication, mailing and title-search costs; number of affected parcels estimated at roughly 44.
6) Motion: Approve change orders (unspecified projects) — Moved/Seconded: recorded. Outcome: Approved.
7) Motion: Approve meeting minutes (with clerk to incorporate final edits) — Moved/Seconded: recorded. Outcome: Approved.
Procedure notes: most motions were taken with a voice vote; the minutes and many procedural approvals were recorded with unanimous "aye" responses and without roll-call tallies. Where a named mover/second was not captured in the transcript, the action is shown with those fields left unspecified. Commissioners did not take immediate formal votes on the jail medical contract, per-diem change or I-70 property offer; those remained under discussion for future meetings.
