Commission approves minutes, surpluses and municipal pollbook agreement in consent items

The Jackson County Commission approved routine consent and administrative items including adoption of past meeting minutes, the surplus of a 2018 garbage truck and a memorandum of agreement to provide electronic poll books and machine custodians to municipalities conducting elections tomorrow.

The commission adopted the minutes from the July meeting and work session by motion and voice vote.

At the request of county staff, the commission approved surplusing a 2018 garbage truck used by the Solid Waste Department. Director Caleb Skipper had provided information in the meeting packet regarding the vehicle.

The commission also approved a memorandum of agreement to provide two electronic poll books and to make machine custodians available to municipalities that requested assistance for municipal elections. County staff noted the county has historically provided the county's poll books to municipalities at no charge; municipalities are responsible for loading and maintaining voter lists and reimburse the county for machine-custodian pay through county payroll. The meeting referenced Scottsboro as a frequent user of the county poll books and specifically named Stevenson and Bridgeport as municipalities involved in the current requests; some municipality names in the transcript were garbled and are listed as not specified where unclear.

All consent items were approved by motion and voice vote; the meeting record does not show individual roll-call tallies for these items.