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Forest County commissioners approve routine purchases, tax distributions and service agreements
Summary
At their Nov. 19, 2025 meeting, the Forest County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved departmental purchases, multiple tax-sale distributions, payroll and bills across funds, travel for election training and two service agreements including COBRA administration.
Forest County commissioners met Nov. 19, 2025, and unanimously approved a series of routine financial and administrative actions, including departmental purchases, tax-sale disbursements and two service agreements.
The board — Commissioners Mark S. Kingston, Robert J. Snyder Jr. and Patrick F. Kline — voted to approve line-item purchases such as office supplies ($103.10), folding tables and chairs ($259.76), cleaning supplies ($86.72) and transmission fluid for county vans ($430.79). The board also approved payroll and bills across funds, including General Fund payroll totaling $63,228.98 and Transportation bills of $235,442.71.
In a set of motions carried unanimously, the board authorized tax-sale distributions and related payouts. The Tax Claim Director was directed to make 2025 tax-sale distributions of $7,304.97 to Forest County, $8,272.04 to Forest Area School District and $520.81 to municipalities; an October 2025 distribution of $8,526.03 to Forest County, $13,121.50 to the Forest Area School District and $2,497.01 to municipalities; and a 2022 tax-sale distribution of $3,940.24 to Forest County, $10,411.96 to the Forest Area School District and $225.87 to municipalities.
The board approved several account payments and transfers: checks from the 911 account to Hyer Electric ($200.00) for German Hill Tower generator maintenance and to Windstream ($52.20), Visitor Center account payments to UGI ($51.46) and Armstrong ($69.95), opioid-account reimbursements to the General Fund ($396.41 and $108.00) and $150.00 to Lake Erie Youth ROAD Crew for prevention education, and Operating Reserve payments including Kafferlin Strategies ($12,100.20), HRG ($360.00) and Hyer Electric ($699.98). Commissioners also authorized transferring $655.95 from the Veterans’ Transportation account to the Forest County Transportation account for October 2025 fares and approved a $156.99 Emergency Food and Shelter account payment to Second Harvest Food Bank for July–September assistance.
On personnel and services, the board approved an individual consulting agreement with Jean Ann Hitchcock for election and payroll services at $40 per hour, effective Dec. 8, 2025–Dec. 31, 2026. The board also approved a COBRA Administration Agreement with The Benecon Group, LLC, providing continued healthcare access for separated employees with the full expense to be paid by the employee plus a 2% administrative fee to Benecon. (COBRA refers to the federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, which permits continuation of group health coverage for qualifying separated employees.)
All motions on the agenda were seconded and recorded as carried unanimously. The commissioners adjourned at 10:09 a.m.
