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Lycoming County commissioners approve multiple contracts, hires and operational items
Summary
At their March meeting commissioners ratified $2.27 million in invoices and approved several personnel hires and contracts, including a $312,408 small-bridge inspection contract, personnel hires for consolidated services and public safety, a prison GED contract (not to exceed $7,000), technology renewals, and building maintenance agreements.
Lycoming County commissioners approved a slate of routine administrative and operational items at their March public meeting, including ratification of invoices, personnel actions and multiple service contracts.
Finance staff presented invoices due through March 11, 2026, totaling $2,273,301.59; commissioners ratified payment by voice vote.
Personnel and hires approved included conditional offers described by county staff: Connie Harmon (consolidated services CF specialist/floater, full-time, pay grade 5, $17.0955/hour, anticipated start 03/09/2026), Forrest Rothschild (director of public safety, full-time, pay grade 13, $95,000 annually, anticipated start 03/23/2026) and Christopher Hodges (resource conservation/soil conservation technician, full-time, pay grade 9, $49,866.68 annually, anticipated start 03/15/2026). Commissioners welcomed the new staff and directed a press release on the new public safety director.
Contracts and amendments approved (voice votes) included: - A four-year small bridge inspection contract with Larson Design Group for $312,408.08 to inspect 94 small local bridges (plus up to 10 flood inspections as needed). - Ratification of items under the county's master health agreement related to stop-loss coverage, including an item described as a per-member-per-month rate with Able Health Partners and a secondary stop-loss item for gene therapy. - Approval of a contract with Derek Gare to serve as the prison GED coordinator/teacher at $28/hour, not to exceed $7,000, funded from the inmate commissary surplus account (revenues from the inmate commissary, not the county general fund). - An amendment to ACE Analytical Services clarifying pricing for required analytic items. - An amendment increasing the cap on per-compensation for mitigation specialist Jean Landis; the transcript records the new cap as "8¢," which appears to be a transcription error; the prior cap was stated as $50,000. - A COBRA Corporation agreement for 911/logging/recorder services in the amount of $18,827.92. - Renewal of an eImage Data Corp service agreement for $4,630 to support document scanners and a Tyler Technologies assessment agreement recorded at $136,873.53 (the presenter said this represented a lower price than an earlier quote). - A $4,400 agreement with Air Management Technologies to repair a glycol leak and replace equipment, and a $9,500 maintenance agreement with Port Elevator Inc. to cover four elevators coming out of warranty. - An extension/amendment to a contract with Jill (backup stenographer for the zoning hearing board) to continue services.
All motions recorded in the meeting transcript were approved by voice vote and noted as "Aye," with no roll-call tallies provided in the transcript.
What it means: The decisions maintain ongoing county operations and infrastructure upkeep; several approvals were budgeted or funded through specified accounts, while others used available funds outside the county general budget.
