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Votes at a glance: Portage County Board approves appointments, contracts and budget items
Summary
The board approved minutes, reappointments to boards, zoning and ordinance items, a snowmobile trail aid resolution, an inmate-healthcare contract with Southern Health Partners, Anthem as health plan administrator for 2026, an HR policy revision on insurance contributions, and a 2025 budget amendment and transfers; most items passed by voice vote.
At its meeting, the Portage County Board approved a string of routine and substantive items by motion and voice vote.
Highlights include reappointing Nancy Fock to the South Central Library System Board for a three‑year term and reappointing Supervisor Mike Splinter to the Housing Authority Board for a five‑year term (Splinter abstained from the item concerning himself). The board combined several zoning map amendments into single votes and approved date corrections for adoption on several items.
The board approved a resolution for snowmobile trail aids for 2026–2027 and authorized a contract with Southern Health Partners to provide inmate healthcare at the county jail. It also authorized Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield as the county's health plan administrator for 2026 and approved a revision to the county code on health insurance fringe benefits that keeps employer/employee contribution percentages at 2025 levels (PPO employer share at 84%; employee 16%; high‑deductible employer share at 93%; employee 7%).
A motion to authorize the 2025 budget amendment and transfers passed, and the board set its next meeting for Oct. 30 (committee of the whole in Annex Rooms 1 and 2) before adjourning.
Motions were moved and seconded as recorded in the minutes; most measures passed by unrecorded voice votes during the meeting.
