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Commissioners approve routine payments, contracts and grant applications; public raises interchange cost concerns and data-center moratorium request

St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners · February 4, 2026
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Summary

The St. Joseph County Board approved an accounts-payable docket, three county-council-passed ordinances, an appointment to the Bridal Control Commission, a security-services contract renewal, and authorized applications for an American Heart Association grant ($1,500) and a two-year VOCA victims-services grant; public comment criticized a proposed interchange design and requested a data-center moratorium.

St. Joseph County commissioners on Feb. 3 approved a slate of routine items — including payments, ordinances, a personnel appointment and multiple contract and grant actions — and heard public comment on a proposed diverging-diamond interchange and a requested moratorium on data-center development.

Items approved by motion and vote included: the accounts-payable docket; three ordinances previously passed by the County Council (ordinance numbers 1-26, 2-23 and 3-26); the appointment of James Greenfield to the Bridal Control Commission (the appointment requires canine experience per the chair); renewal of a security-services agreement with Per Mar for burglary and fire-alarm monitoring at county locations; authorization for the Health Department to apply for an American Heart Association "Meeting People Where They…

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