Weld County commissioners approve routine contracts, road closure and a replacement surety for a solar project

Weld County commissioners on Monday approved a set of routine administrative actions, including an agreement to allow secure electronic exchange of employee benefit enrollment data, a three-year vendor contract for online tax-lien auctions and local road and right-of-way transactions.

Human Resources director Jill Scott told commissioners that with Anthem now the county—s medical carrier, the county needs an electronic transactions trading partner agreement to establish an electronic data interchange connection so employee benefits enrollment data, including protected health information, can be transmitted securely. "There is no cost to the County, and this is a standard requirement," Scott said. Commissioners moved, seconded and approved final authorization for the agreement.

Treasurer Bridgette Grama and Deputy Treasurer Sonia Colegraff presented a three-year agreement with Real Auction to hold tax-lien auctions online. Grama said state statute allows auctions to be held online and that Weld County now conducts its tax-lien, tax-deed and foreclosure auctions online for reasons of cost, conveyance and safety. She told the board the auction carries a pass-through cost of…