Douglas County commissioners reviewed a slate of grants, contracts and administrative items at their Jan. 5 work session, including awards for accountability-court monitoring, screening tools, vendor contracts for road materials and service agreements for children and family programs.

Staff asked the board to accept a $24,180 enhanced innovation award (AW-ACFP-26-454-125) with a $4,267 match to provide GPS and transdermal alcohol monitoring devices for participants in the county’s accountability courts, and Teresa Gordy said the devices will serve superior, state and juvenile accountability courts. Gordy also presented an additional $108,550 award that raises a previously approved screening-tool grant to $158,550 to fund a case manager, project coordinator, two laptops and data entry through September 2027.

Other items included a $98,200 contract request with Never Alone Clubhouse Inc. to provide certified peer support and weekend drug screening for family treatment court and Chance Court programs, and several on-demand materials contracts: a unit-price concrete contract with Short Load Ready Mix (doing business as Quick Mix Concrete), a gravel contract with Martin Marietta, and an asphalt materials contract with Baldwin Paving Company. Staff said price increases for materials averaged 3–10% and that the amounts fit within the county’s maintenance budgets.

The board also heard routine administrative items: a name change on a car allowance agreement, annual service-contract renewals for children, youth and family services, a pension contribution request (the required defined benefit payment of $9,648,443, with an approximate countywide shortfall of $2,000,000 compared with budget), an agreement to allow Verizon’s consultant to conduct due diligence for a lease on a county radio tower, an extension of on-call transportation consultant contracts, and a short extension for Connect Douglas’ third-party operator contract while an RFP is reissued.

The clerk asked to add two items to the agenda — an engagement agreement for tax-assessor attorneys with Turner Ross Germain LLC and a resolution appointing Judge Caldwell as senior magistrate court judge — and the board approved adding those items by a recorded 5-0 vote. Toward the meeting’s end, the board moved, seconded and voted unanimously, 5-0, to enter executive session for litigation, personnel, real estate and cybersecurity.

No public votes on the individual contracts and grants are recorded in the public portion of this transcript; several items were described as routine and slated for the consent agenda. Where staff or a commissioner asked questions, presenters clarified funding sources, contract scopes and fiscal-year timing.

What happens next: Items not resolved in the public session were slated for the consent agenda or further legal review; the board entered executive session to discuss matters including litigation and personnel behind closed doors.