During the meeting, Unidentified Speaker 1 raised concerns about capital outlay spending and the county's handling of a $150,000 SAFE grant. Speaker 1 said the SAFE grant 'was supposed to be used for overtime' last year and that the list of items the recipient applied for this year was not provided to the clerk; Speaker 1 objected to using SAFE funds for personal services now because the clerk had not seen the 2025 application list.

Speaker 1 said staff proposed creating separate accounts to segregate regular payroll and overtime: regular payroll would be paid from the department's cash or county general account and overtime would be claimed against a separate payroll account funded by the grant. Speaker 1 said one of the accounts would be for $20,000 (overtime) and another for $150,000. Speaker 2 confirmed some of the grant paperwork but did not provide a full list in the transcript.

The transcript records disagreement about whether the SAFE grant was intended to cover personal services this year; Speaker 1 said that "is not what we agreed to last year," and that they had not seen the list of what was applied for this year. The meeting record does not include the full SAFE grant application or the grant agreement text, nor does it include a vote or directive adopting a change of allowable expenditures; staff were discussing accounting steps to track payroll if the grant administrator allows personal services.

The county will need to verify the SAFE grant award terms and the applicant's submitted list before allowing personal services to be charged to the capital outlay/grant account, based on the concerns raised during the meeting.