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Platte County Commission approves $19,800 ARPA change order for courthouse technology upgrade
Summary
At a Oct. 6 special meeting the Platte County Commission approved Change Order No. 1 under resolution 2025RES014, authorizing roughly $19,800 to Electronic Office Systems for courthouse courtroom technology upgrades funded by ARPA.
Platte County Commission on Oct. 6 approved a change order under resolution 2025RES014 using American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to pay approximately $19,800 to Electronic Office Systems for upgrades to courthouse courtroom technology, County Administrator Wes Minder said at a special meeting.
The change order covers additional equipment for the county's courthouse modernization project. County Administrator Wes Minder told commissioners the upgrades aim to improve remote hearing capabilities and other courtroom technology to “reduce our jail population” by enabling remote processing; he said orders for divisions 2 and 6 are complete and work has been done in divisions 1 and 5. Minder said divisions 2 and 6 are likely to be substantially complete in about four weeks and staff hopes to have all courtrooms established and operational before Thanksgiving.
The commission considered a single business item, described in staff paperwork as 2025RES014 (ARPA) — change order number 1 with Electronic Office Systems. A motion to approve the change order was made and seconded; the roll-call vote recorded three yes votes and no no votes, and the motion passed 3-0. The roll-call recorded votes by Commissioner Vandiver (yes), Commissioner Brecker (yes), and a third commissioner (name not specified in the transcript) (yes).
County staff framed the work as part of a courthouse-wide technology upgrade; the equipment now in use in a temporary courtroom will be replaced as part of the project. The change order was described in the meeting as the first change order for the project. No further public comment or amendments were recorded on the item, and the meeting adjourned following the vote.
The action authorizes county staff to proceed with the specified change order; the transcript did not include a detailed line-item breakdown of the $19,800 figure or a contract number beyond the resolution identifier. Funding for the project was identified as ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) dollars.
