Commission signs off on nearly $3.6 million in warrants and approves tax abatements
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Summary
The Uinta County Commission approved three warrant runs including a $1.33 million chip-and-seal payment and insurance premiums, and ratified 2025 tax abatements and circuit-breaker reimbursements totaling about $202,551.48 in reimbursable amounts and $484,005.19 in non-reimbursable abatements.
County finance staff presented and the commission approved multiple warrant runs and a package of 2025 tax abatements during the January meeting.
Mr. Wilkins summarized three warrant sets: a 12/19/2025 run for $474,803.29 that included a $10,000 payment to a care center, a $71,215 pass-through grant to the Lucky Acres subdivision, and a $17,200 payment to Von Lish Kennels; a 12/24/2025 check run of $1,852,484.39 that included a $1,331,879.93 payment to Holbrook for chip-and-seal work and $171,467.23 to Wheeler Machinery for a lowboy trailer; and a 01/02/2026 run for $1,289,720.82 that included a $78,840 payment to Green River Construction plus $752,036 for liability insurance and $137,303.44 for annual workers' compensation.
Mr. Wilkins also presented the county's 2025 abatements: a total circuit-breaker reimbursement to the county of $201,786.37 plus a mobile-home circuit-breaker of $765.11 (reimbursable total $202,551.48). Non-reimbursable abatements included blind exemptions (5 exemptions totaling $473.95), 207 indigent abatements totaling $4,189.02, and 263 veterans' exemptions totaling $389,391.89, yielding non-reimbursable abatements of $484,005.19.
An unidentified commissioner moved to approve the warrants and another moved to approve the abatements as presented; the commission recorded affirmative votes. No roll-call tallies were provided in the transcript.
Next steps: standard accounting and reconciliation for the warrant runs and processing of abatements per county policy.
