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Votes at a glance: Ben Hill County Commission adopts personnel policy, insurance change, road equipment purchases and hospital board nomination
Summary
On June 3 the Ben Hill County Commission voted to adopt a personnel policy, approve an employee medical insurance renewal and plan change, authorize road equipment purchases, and nominate April McDuffie to the Hospital Authority Board; most motions passed unanimously except the Solid Waste contract (3-2) and the road equipment purchase vote recorded four yes votes.
At its June 3 regular meeting the Ben Hill County Board of Commissioners recorded several formal actions affecting county operations and staffing.
Personnel policy: Vice-Chair Hope Harmon moved to adopt the Personnel Policy; Commissioner John Mooney seconded. The motion passed with all five commissioners voting in favor.
Employee medical insurance: Vice-Chair Hope Harmon moved to adopt a plan change that disallows spouses from county employee coverage and to accept the renewal with Angle Medical; Commissioner John Mooney seconded. The motion passed with Vice-Chair Hope Harmon, Commissioner John Mooney, Commissioner Daniel Cowan, Commissioner Bennie Calloway and Chairman Hal Wiley all recorded as voting in favor.
Road equipment purchases: Commissioner John Mooney moved to approve purchasing a 309 excavator with grinder head and a motor grader for the Road Department; Vice-Chair Hope Harmon seconded. The minutes record four commissioners voting yes (Daniel Cowan, Bennie Calloway, John Mooney and Hal Wiley). The clerk's minutes do not list a vote for every commissioner in this item.
Hospital Authority nomination: Commissioner John Mooney nominated April McDuffie to the Hospital Authority Board; Vice-Chair Hope Harmon seconded and the motion passed with all five commissioners voting in favor.
Other procedural actions included approval of the meeting agenda and acceptance of the May 6, 2025 meeting minutes by recorded motion and unanimous votes.
The minutes do not specify funding sources or contract figures for several items (equipment financing, insurance premium amounts, or detailed fiscal analysis for the insurance and personnel policy changes). Where the minutes record vote tallies, those tallies are included above; when the minutes omit an explicit vote record for an item the minutes are noted as not specifying.
