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Votes at a glance: commission approves salary increase request, ARPA equipment purchase, discretionary spending and routine items
Summary
At its meeting the Cleburne County Commission approved an amendment requesting a local act to increase certain elected-official base pay, voted to use ARPA revenue-replacement funds to buy road equipment, approved a $17,000 discretionary spending item for a parking lot, and carried routine consent-agenda motions by voice vote.
The Cleburne County Commission carried several motions by voice vote during its meeting, including a request for local legislation to raise base pay for certain elected officials, an ARPA-funded equipment purchase, and a discretionary $17,000 spending item.
On the proposed amendment to Resolution No. 5467, the commission approved language requesting the local legislative delegation introduce a bill to set the base pay for certain elected officials at $70,000 annually. As read into the record: "Section 1, the commission requests its local legislative ... to introduce and support local legislation ... to raise base pay ... to $70,000 annually." The commission voted on the amendment by voice and recorded the motion as carried.
The commission also approved a resolution to use American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) revenue-replacement funds to purchase road-construction and maintenance equipment. The resolution names a tractor and three bushhogs (described in the meeting as "tractor" and "3 bushhogs"), identified vendor Huddleston Equipment, and cited procurement methods consistent with state and federal requirements. Costs were cited in the staff reading: a tractor at approximately $42,003 and three bushhogs at approximately $41,018.45. The resolution includes a restriction that ARPA revenue replacement funds not be used for pension deposits, servicing debt, replenishing grant funds, or to satisfy settlements, and notes funds must be obligated by December 31 (year not specified). The motion to approve the ARPA equipment purchase carried by voice vote; the meeting record included multiple "ayes" and a clerk note that four ayes were recorded.
Separately, the commission approved adding a motion to spend $17,000 from a discretionary account to pay the chamber parking lot; that motion was added to the agenda and carried by voice vote.
Routine procedural motions and the consent agenda were moved, seconded and approved by voice vote. No public comment or roll-call vote totals identifying individual commissioners were recorded in the transcript for these items.
