At a Jan. 8, 2026 meeting in the Nat U Hill Room, the Monroe County Board of Commissioners approved an accounts payable claims docket totaling $6,181,460.27 and two payroll dockets that staff reported at $2,632,330.83 (Dec. 23, 2025) and $2,309,499.83 (Jan. 9, 2026). The board’s action was approved unanimously and the presiding official said it will be ratified at the board’s Jan. 15 meeting because one commissioner participated remotely.

An unidentified county staff member presented the figures during the meeting: “The accounts payable claims docket for 01/08/2026 totals $6,181,460.27,” and described the Dec. 23 payroll as having component amounts that produced a grand total of $2,632,330.83. During the public-comment period the same staff member also raised an additional payroll docket for 01/09/2026 and reported it as $2,309,499.83, saying it included $1,606,141.79 in direct costs and $692,357.94 in indirect costs.

The presiding official moved to approve the claims and the Dec. 23 payroll, asked for a second, and later amended the motion to include the Jan. 9 payroll after staff presented that docket. Miss Turner King was asked to call the roll. The roll-call responses in the transcript are recorded as “Commissioner Madera” (Aye) and “Commissioner Thomas” (Yes). The presiding speaker announced, “Motion passes unanimously.”

The presiding official explained that because one commissioner was physically present in the room and another participated by Teams, the board’s action taken today will be ratified at the commissioners’ next meeting on Jan. 15 at 10 a.m., as recorded in the meeting. The meeting then was adjourned.

No members of the public spoke on these items during the public comment period, according to the transcript.

Notes on transcript wording: the transcript contains inconsistent spellings of a commissioner’s name (appearing as “Madeira,” “Madir,” and “Madera” in different places) and a duplicated word in staff remarks (“indirect indirect cost”); this article reports vote names and numbers exactly as they appear in the record and reproduces the payroll component figures as stated by staff.