Delta County administrator reports WIC downtime, FAA exercise and address updates; board approves $810,116.80 in claims

County administration reported Oct. 7 that the state WIC system will be offline from 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17 through Sunday, Oct. 19, during which time WIC-authorized purchases for food or formula will not be available; the county directed residents to michigan.gov/wic for details.

Staff also briefed the board on a Sept. 25 FAA-required full-scale emergency exercise at the Delta County airport. Administration thanked participants and credited Paul Geyer and Ashley Young for organizing the training; staff said the exercise met the FAA’s three-year requirement and provided lessons for improving first-response coordination.

Administrators said the county is in the new fiscal year, is wrapping up accounts for fiscal year 2025, and is collecting materials for the county audit scheduled to begin in February or March of next year. Staff told the board the state’s fiscal year 2026 budget as presented does not include a reduction in county revenue sharing.

Administration also reported that fire-sign updating and address-correction work is underway; roughly half of townships have completed updates and their supervisors have been notified to order signs to comply with county ordinance requirements.

The board approved payment of claims totaling $810,116.80. During the roll call vote, Commissioners Johnson, Williams and Jensen and Anne Milner recorded affirmative votes; the board chair called the bills paid on that basis. The transcript records smaller line-item amounts (for example a jury expense figure) in a format that was not clear in the public audio and were not recorded as clean dollar figures in the transcript.

Provenance: Administrator report items appear in the meeting’s administrative report segment; bill payment is recorded under new business and passed by roll call.