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Votes at a glance: Franklin County commissioners approve mileage report, grants, purchases and annexation actions
Summary
At its April 1 meeting the Franklin County Board of Commissioners adopted a package of resolutions including the county highway mileage certification (252.687 miles), an ESG amendment with Community Shelter Board ($298,090.05 total), multiple annexation/detachment approvals, and several procurement resolutions; one commissioner recorded an abstention on a purchases item.
The Franklin County Board of Commissioners voted on a series of resolutions during its April 1 session. Key actions adopted by the board included certification of the county highway mileage, contract and purchase approvals, a homeless-services grant amendment, and approval of petitions to detach acreage from the city of Columbus back to townships.
Highlights of the votes:
- Resolution 24025 — County highway mileage report. The engineer reported Franklin County's 2024 road mileage as 252.687 miles; the board adopted the certification required for ODOT distribution of vehicle-registration fees.
- Resolution 24125 — Village of Lockbourne motor vehicle license fee allocation. The board approved $20,734.15 in county motor-vehicle license funds for improvements to a portion of Row Road in Lockbourne.
- Resolution 24225 — Contract modification with Granicus LLC. The board approved a $19,283.03 modification (revising the contract to $662,459.03) to support customer-experience services for the new county website.
- Resolution 24325 — Intelenetics document migration. The board approved a $3,887 contract to migrate the FCE MHS IntelliCloud data to an on-premises environment.
- Resolution 24425 — Emergency Solutions Grant amendment. The board authorized an amendment to the funding agreement with the Community Shelter Board, extending the term to Dec. 31, 2025, and adding $117,116.05 in general revenue funds for a total not to exceed $298,090.05 to support homeless and housing programs.
- Resolutions 24525 and 24625 — Detachments from Columbus to Prairie and Purdy townships. The board approved petitions to return approximately 50.251 acres to Prairie Township (parcels on Ash Park Drive) and approximately 119.153 acres to Purdy Township (multiple parcels on West Broad Street and other locations), with staff noting the petitions meet statutory requirements under Ohio Revised Code Sec. 709.038.
- Resolution 24725 — MOU with Franklin County Children Services and CASA. The board approved a renewal MOU (term 04/01/2025–06/30/2029) to outline collaboration protocols between Court Appointed Special Advocates and Franklin County Children Services.
- Resolutions 24825 and 24925 — Purchase approvals. The board approved $2,542,418.25 in purchase orders across 100 items (Resolution 24825) and an additional $10,205,790.50 in purchase orders (Resolution 24925); Commissioner Boyce was recorded as abstaining on Resolution 24925.
- Resolution 25025 — Designation of representative for County Commissioners Association of Ohio meeting. The board designated Commissioner Bridal C. Crawley as the official representative and Commissioner John O'Grady as alternate.
- Resolution 25125 — Executive session convening. The board voted to convene into executive session to consider personnel matters.
Most resolutions were moved, seconded and adopted by roll call. Where tallies were recorded in the transcript, votes were recorded as "yes" by the commissioners present; one abstention was noted on Resolution 24925.
