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Votes at a glance: Franklin County approves consent agenda, courthouse cameras and other routine items
Summary
At its March 5 meeting, the Franklin County Commissioners approved the consent agenda and a series of routine items including a grant‑funded courthouse camera purchase, a proclamation for Red Cross Month, a moving/equipment bid and a controller‑office job description revision.
The Franklin County Commissioners on March 5 approved the consent agenda and several routine motions during a regularly scheduled meeting.
The board approved a consent agenda and separate items on the regular agenda by voice vote. A grants‑funded purchase to add three CCTV cameras around the judicial center complex was approved; county staff said the purchase is 100% grant‑funded for the first year, with a small annual licensing cost thereafter. "This expenditure is grant funded and is to add 3 CCTV cameras…to areas that we would like to have increased coverage around our Judicial Center complex," Sheriff Ben Sites said during the discussion of the camera purchase.
Other approved items included the board’s proclamation designating March as American Red Cross Month; a bid award to Zodi's Moving and Storage Inc. to provide delivery and pickup of election equipment (estimated $10,000–$12,000 depending on hours and vans used); and a revision to a job description in the controller’s office for the second deputy/director of auditing position. Each motion passed on voice votes during the meeting; individual roll‑call tallies were not recorded in the meeting transcript.
The cameras purchase was described as fully covered by an AOPC security grant for the first year, with continuing licensing costs “a few hundred dollars each year” as described in the meeting. The election equipment contract was recommended by Director of Elections Susan Christopel after a responsive single bid; the contract rate is $136.50 per hour for two men and a van plus a daily gas surcharge per van.
Ending: Commissioners recessed briefly during the meeting to sign documents and completed the remaining agenda items, then adjourned at the close of business.
