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Hardin County supervisors elect chair, set 2025 schedule and approve multiple resolutions
Summary
At its first regular meeting of 2025 the Hardin County Board of Supervisors elected a chair and vice chair, set the regular meeting schedule, confirmed dozens of appointments, and adopted several resolutions including designating depositories and temporary road closures.
The Hardin County Board of Supervisors elected Lance as the 2025 board chair and appointed Renee McClellan as vice chair, then approved the board's regular 2025 meeting schedule and a slate of appointments to county boards and commissions.
The board moved quickly through routine organizational business in a single session that included formal approval of the agenda, designation of legal newspapers for official notices, and confirmations for dozens of commission and township trustee vacancies. Supervisors approved a slate of county-representation appointments—covering emergency management, solid-waste, EMS counsel, workforce and planning boards, juvenile detention representation and several regional bodies—after nominees were read into the record and motions were seconded and carried by voice vote.
Financial and administrative items were adopted without substantive debate. The board approved resolution 25-01 naming county depositories, adopted the county investment policy as presented, and approved the 2025 construction evaluation resolution (resolution 2025-02). The board also approved resolution 25-03 and resolution 25-04, the latter authorizing temporary road closures for county needs.
On personnel and contracts, supervisors approved a medical examiner agreement with Dr. Curtis O'Loughlin (effective Jan. 1, 2025 through Jan. 1, 2026) at $300 per case plus mileage and approved medical examiner/investigator services agreements for Marla Williams, Eric Eugenio and Thomas Creighton at $335 per case plus mileage. The board accepted the resignation of Elena Rupke, a part-time correctional officer, effective Dec. 27, 2024.
The meeting also set the board's regular session time—Wednesdays at 9 a.m. in the large conference room of the Hardin County Courthouse—and approved county holidays for 2025, adopting an amendment to observe the day after Christmas (Dec. 26) as the county holiday in that calendar week.
Votes and procedural actions reported in the transcript were consistently recorded as motions moved, seconded and carried by voice or roll-call vote; where a roll call was read into the record, those votes were recorded in the minutes. The board adjourned after hearing no public comments.
What happens next: many appointments take effect immediately as noted, and the adopted policies and resolutions will be implemented by county staff according to the county's administrative procedures.
