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Commissioners approve multiple routine resolutions, contracts, purchases and appointments
Summary
At a single session, Roosevelt County commissioners approved resolutions on meetings and office hours, allowances and mileage, a safety consulting contract, a road trailer purchase, two fair board appointments, claims totaling $57,351.33 and several personnel actions.
Roosevelt County commissioners approved a package of routine administrative items in a single meeting, including resolutions setting meeting schedules and office hours, updates to allowances and mileage rates, a safety consulting contract, a road equipment purchase, fair board appointments, claims payment and personnel actions.
Early on, the commission approved Resolution 20 26‑8 to establish weekly meeting dates and public posting requirements and Resolution 20 26‑9 to set office hours and building access procedures. Commissioners also approved Resolution 20 26‑11, which specified public notice locations and addressed allowances and mileage; during discussion, meal per‑diem rates were cited as $10, $12 and $17 and the mileage reimbursement rate was described in the record as having increased from roughly 70.5 to 72.5 cents per mile.
The board approved Resolution 20 26‑12, keeping the incarceration credit rate at $50, which Speaker 3 said had been unchanged for a decade and reflected a sheriff recommendation.
The commission voted to sign a contract with Northern Plains Compliance Consulting (NPCC) for monthly safety consulting services; a speaker described NPCC as a contract safety consultant who visits monthly and provides safety programming for county staff.
On procurement, commissioners authorized the road department's purchase of a 2016 Trailmax tilt‑bed panel‑hitch trailer to improve equipment mobility across county shops; department staff explained the trailer would reduce trips and make backhoes more mobile. The transcript contains a discrepancy in the stated purchase price (the record lists both $1,900 and an unclear $19,000 figure in different lines); the county should confirm the final contract amount in procurement records.
Appointments were made to the 2026 Fair Board: Sabrina Labatt and Marilyn Olsen were appointed to fill two seats. Claims presented for Dec. 30 totaled $57,351.33 and were approved. Personnel actions approved included a pay raise for Diane Lambert (Aging Services), a new hire, Devlin Oates, to the detention center (to fill the 16th budgeted FTE), and an annual pay adjustment for detention staff referenced in the record.
All items were approved by voice vote during the meeting; the session recorded routine back‑and‑forth about implementation details and staffing needs but no major policy shifts.
The meeting adjourned after these administrative items.
