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Commissioners approve routine business: minutes, payroll, claims, appointments and contract adjustments
Summary
At the Jan. 27 meeting commissioners approved minutes, payroll, multiple grants and reimbursements, appointed Grant Reeves as county attorney, approved a reduced monthly fee for MalCon and authorized a $25,000 preparedness grant; votes were by voice and carried.
Rush County commissioners approved a series of routine administrative actions and appointments during their Jan. 27 meeting.
Speaker 2 moved and the board approved the regular session minutes from Jan. 13, accounts payable claims totaling $779,465.37 (which included $200,000 for purchase of the senior citizens center) and payroll for January 2025 totaling $216,946.31. Commissioners also approved a fourth-quarter transit grant reimbursement request of $43,406 and the Board of Finance minutes for Jan. 13 after recessing to open the board.
Daniel Vaughn, president of MalCon, asked the board to lower his organization's monthly fee for Title 40 services from $750 to $650; Vaughn told commissioners the work has returned roughly $900,000 to the county general fund since 2019 and the fees are paid from incentive funds rather than the general fund. The board voted to approve the fee reduction. Later, Speaker 2 moved to appoint Grant Reeves as county attorney; the motion was seconded and approved by voice vote.
The board authorized proceeding with year two of a five-year preparedness grant for $25,000 (about $15,000 to salary, remainder for emergency preparedness at the health department) and discussed revisions to the county salary ordinance, which the HR director said had been simplified to reduce monthly council actions.
Other administrative items addressed included motions to approve data-sharing or GI statute agreements and various board appointments; motions were moved, seconded and approved by voice votes as recorded in the meeting.
