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Lancaster County boards approve election printer move, $1.2M Motorola purchase and fleet replacement
Summary
At its Oct. 21 meetings the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners approved a lease-assumption for the election commission’s high-speed printer, authorized a $1.2 million notice to proceed for Motorola radios and body cameras, and approved a $320,434 order for seven police vehicles; the Board of Equalization approved several tax-exemption and valuation items.
Lancaster County officials on Oct. 21 approved a series of routine contracts and procurement actions intended to support elections, public safety and reentry programming.
The Board of Commissioners approved an agreement with the Food Bank of Lincoln to provide "Getting Ahead While Getting Out" reentry workshops to inmates at county corrections. County staff said the contract carries no cost to Lancaster County and will be part of the county’s reentry programming.
Todd Wilton, Lancaster County election commissioner, explained a lease-assumption agreement that will move a specialized, high-speed printer used for election poll books from Information Services space into an area dedicated to election operations. "Before each election, we have to print the poll books, which is 21,000 pages," Wilton said, adding the new printer prints about 90 pages per minute versus roughly 30 for the current unit. The board approved the lease-assumption and the printing arrangement will be paid from the election commission’s budget.
The board also approved a notice to proceed to purchase radio…
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