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Commissioners approve bids, renewals and multiple budget amendments; award, renewals and routine purchases advance
Summary
The court approved a package of purchasing and auditor items including invitations for bids, a janitorial services renewal, a hydrated lime term contract award recommendation, a gray limestone extension, several budget amendments and transfers, and routine county expenditures.
Jefferson County commissioners on Oct. 22 approved a slate of purchasing and auditor items ranging from invitations for bids to budget amendments and routine expenditures.
Under purchasing, the court considered invitations for bids for a mosquito-control airplane and for Popeye Home Park concrete walkway renovations; a rebid and award recommendation for a hydrated lime term contract naming BAK Global LLC; a one-year renewal for janitorial services with Southeast Texas Building Services; and a 60-day extension for a gray-limestone term contract with Gulf Coast to CRH Company, with price increases tied to manufacturing and CPI. An amendment to add trash and biomedical waste service at Jack Brooks Hangar 7 (pickup once weekly at a stated rate) was also listed and approved as part of the purchasing items loaded to the agenda.
Under auditor items, the court approved multiple transfers and amendments including a $1,000 courtroom-equipment transfer for the 176th District Court, a $2,000 transfer for Mesquite Point Park electric costs, an auditor amendment for district-court mental-examination and attorney fees (amount in transcript partially garbled), and an intergovernmental transfer payment of $316,182.21 to the state comptroller for the Local Provider Participation Fund for Graduate Medical Education retroactive payment.
The court also approved administrative items including a county jail water-service agreement with the City of Beaumont; a notary bond payment for Heather Salazar ($71); voter-registration postage ($748.73); Road & Bridge electronic components and small equipment purchases; window tinting for a constable’s vehicle ($245); and regular county bills, which were presented by check numbers.
Motions on these items were moved and seconded (transcript records indicate Commissioners Alfred and Senegal moved and seconded auditor items) and approved by voice vote. A commissioner raised an accounting concern about an invoice that should be applied to the prior fiscal year; the court agreed that, once vendor documentation is received, a journal entry would move the charge into the appropriate year.
