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Greene County commissioners approve 2025 budgets, millage unchanged and contracts for bridges and services
Summary
At the Dec. 17 commissioners' meeting, the board placed a package of 2025 administrative items on the agenda and approved them on consent, including 2025 budgets, unchanged millage rates, a PennDOT supplement for bridges, a $1.84 million bridge construction bid pending PennDOT approval, multiple service contracts and event agreements; no public comment was recorded.
Greene County commissioners on Dec. 17 moved to place and then approve a broad consent agenda of administrative and fiscal items for 2025, including the county's budgets, meeting schedule, and several contracts and service agreements.
County staff asked to place supplement number 4 for PennDOT project 495 (bridges 73 and 75) on the agenda to cover construction consultation costs of $77,605.12 to be paid from PennDOT grant funds; the board approved the placement and the motion carried. The record also lists a construction contract entry for the same bridges with a vendor shown in the meeting record as 'Frank Gatwick and Sons Inc.' (transcription contains spelling variants); the stated bid amount was $1,841,008.48. The board approved placing that contract on the agenda, noting it will be pending PennDOT and solicitor approval and that construction is expected in 2025, although staff said the contractor's sequencing (whether both bridges are done concurrently) was not yet known.
The board placed on the agenda and approved the 2025 faithful performance of duty insurance binder required under Act 106 of 2011, which staff said replaces individual bonds with insurance coverage for elected officials. Commissioners also moved to place the 2025 meeting dates and times on the agenda and advised the chief clerk to advertise; staff indicated the calendar will mirror 2024.
On the county’s finances, the board placed and approved adoption of the 2025 county budgets — including the general fund, liquid fuels fund, 9-1-1 fund, tourism fund and domestic relations fund — and noted the Act 13 allocation received in 2024 is listed on the budget cover. Separately, commissioners placed the 2025 property tax millage on the agenda and approved rates stated in the record as unchanged from 2024: general fund 8.543 mills (stated as 85.4¢ per $100 assessed valuation), debt service 0.409 mills (40.9¢) and library fund 0.083 mills (8¢).
A series of contracts and service agreements moved on consent: an FY23–24 contract with Meraki Human Services for ACT services (not to exceed $116,576); a contract with Townsend Associates LLC for a prevention needs assessment project (10/01/2024–06/30/2025) not to exceed $34,800; and a 2025 maintenance and service agreement between the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Institute and Greene County that was stated to cost the county nothing. The board also approved placement of FY24–25 purchase-of-service agreements for Children & Youth Services with the Beier/Bayer Foundation of Pennsylvania and with the George Junior Republic in Pennsylvania; the meeting record lists rate ranges for each. Commissioners approved placing on the agenda a contract to hold drag-racing events at the Greene County Airport on specified dates between May and September 2025.
Under veterans affairs, the board approved placing an allocation of $75 per burial for listed veterans and $100 for a headstone for a Marine Corps service person. Commissioners also approved placing appointments of Bridget Denison and Bridget Valencia to the Human Services Advisory Board on the agenda.
The meeting included several transportation and conservation items placed on consent: concurrence with the conservation board on dirt/gravel and low-volume road projects (requests and in-kind service amounts were listed in the record for Creek Road in Green Township and Groach Road in Cumberland Township) and a closeout resolution for the Wise Carver Connector Trail grant.
The public comment period yielded no speakers. The commissioners adjourned and the assessment board then convened, approved minutes, noted seven pending common pleas assessment appeals and certified totals for tax year 2025.
Quotes from the record include the PennDOT supplement amount: "The amount of $77,605.12" and the construction bid: "The amount of the bid was $1,841,008.48." The record contains a small number of inconsistent spellings in vendor and program names (transcription variants noted) that the county solicitor and staff are expected to clarify in subsequent documentation.
The board did not take an extended public hearing on any single item during this meeting; several items were placed on the agenda for future detailed review or require external approvals (PennDOT, solicitor) before contract execution.
