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Mills County supervisors approve road contract, election software, opioid-fund purchase and routine items
Summary
The Mills County Board of Supervisors approved a series of routine contracts and allocations, including a seven-mile seal-coat contract, election-management software budgeted for next fiscal year, opioid-settlement funding for a sheriff mobile app, tourism brochure funding and personnel pay adjustments.
The Mills County Board of Supervisors approved a set of routine contracts and funding allocations at its meeting, including a road seal-coating contract, purchase of election-management software to be implemented next fiscal year, a $7,052.50 allocation from opioid-settlement funds for a sheriff mobile app, $2,500 for county tourism brochures and pay adjustments for employees completing six-month probation periods.
The actions streamline road maintenance and county operations ahead of summer work. County staff presented a contract with StateBuilt Construction for seal coating seven miles of county road at a total amount discussed in the meeting as $251,451.18, which the board approved. Election deputy Katie Dodge described a modular election-management and workflow system from Modus (parent company InTech) that would replace manual Excel tracking; the board approved the contract to be paid from next year’s budget so it will be available before the general election but not for the upcoming primary.
The board also voted to use $7,052.50 from opioid-settlement funds to continue operating the sheriff’s mobile app, a request the sheriff’s office had made for ongoing maintenance. Separately, board members discussed whether opioid funds could be applied to purchase policy-management services (Lexipol) to speed updates to law-enforcement policy; the board said it would revisit details and proration after the vote.
Personnel actions approved included six-month probation completions and pay increases to $27.50 per hour for employees whose names were discussed during the meeting. The board authorized $2,500 to print 5,000 updated Mills County tourism brochures and signed a participation and release form related to a multi-defendant settlement; a board member in discussion quoted a combined settlement figure in the meeting record, but the county’s specific share was not specified in the transcript. The board also accepted and authorized a 28E agreement to continue participation in the regional juvenile detention program and authorized the county representative to sign the agreement.
The meeting closed after routine administrative items and a motion to adjourn at 08:55.
