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Votes at a glance: Stevens County Board approves 2025 schedule, committees, budgets and routine resolutions
Summary
At its organizational meeting the Stevens County Board of Commissioners approved a slate of administrative and routine items including the 2025 meeting schedule, committee appointments, a standing work-session schedule, victim-witness grant budget detail, several auditor treasury authorizations, and the county's official newspaper designation.
The Stevens County Board of Commissioners voted Wednesday on a series of administrative and routine items as part of its organizational meeting. Most motions were adopted by voice vote with no recorded roll call.
What the board approved (motions summarized):
- Adopted the 2025 meeting schedule: first and third meetings of each month at 9 a.m.; motion carried.
- Approved the 2025 Association of Minnesota Counties (AMC) committee appointments and the county committee list as presented; motions carried.
- Set a recurring board work session: second Tuesday of each month, 8–9 a.m.; motion carried.
- Approved the county’s mileage and related FYI items (staff noted the IRS mileage rate moves to $0.70 per mile effective Jan. 1, 2025); FYI — no formal policy change recorded beyond following federal guidance.
- Approved entry of detailed victim‑witness grant budget lines into the county financial system (IFS). Staff said the grant award increased by $10,154, bringing the total to $80,154; motion carried.
- Authorized a consent purchase motion to permit procurement of budgeted goods and services between board meetings when delaying purchase would affect price (example discussed: fuel purchases); motion carried.
- Passed a resolution authorizing the Auditor‑Treasurer to pay certain claims on Wednesday warrants; motion carried.
- Passed a resolution authorizing the Auditor‑Treasurer to execute electronic funds transfers (EFTs); motion carried.
- Adopted a resolution naming fiduciary designees for 2025 (the resolution listed Rachel Peterson and Jerry Bacon as deputy auditor‑treasurers for fiduciary duties); motion carried.
- Designated the Stevens County Times as the county’s official newspaper for the 2025–2027 period under the applicable statute; motion carried.
- Approved a local license application submitted for 2025 by an applicant identified as Kramer (applicant and license type were provided in the packet; the board voted to approve the application); motion carried.
- Approved routine consent minutes, the agenda and adjourned at the end of the session; motions carried.
Where votes were not recorded individually, the meeting minutes report voice votes with ‘‘aye’’ for approval and ‘‘motion carries’’ language. The board did not record roll‑call tallies for the motions cited above in the portion of the transcript reviewed; outcomes above reflect the board’s stated results.
