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Commissioners adopt proclamations, approve vehicle auction, contracts and support letters
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Summary
At the April meeting the board adopted proclamations for 811 Safe Digging Month and 9-1-1 Dispatcher's Week, approved a contract to sell 31 county vehicles at Central Pennsylvania Auto Auction, advanced human-services contract items to the consent agenda and approved letters of support for three local grant applications.
Centre County commissioners adopted two proclamations, approved a vehicle-auction contract, advanced multiple human-services items to the consent agenda and approved letters of support for three separate grant applications during their public meeting.
The board unanimously adopted proclamation 16, naming April 2026 as Pennsylvania 811 Safe Digging Month in Centre County, after hearing Blair Pro, Pennsylvania 811 damage-prevention liaison, explain that excavators and homeowners should call 811 three business days before mechanized digging so facility owners can mark underground lines. “It helps to prevent injuries, inconvenient outages ... and definitely property damage,” Blair Pro said.
Commissioners also adopted proclamation 17 recognizing April 12–18 as 9-1-1 Dispatcher's Week. Norm, a 9-1-1 center representative, described dispatcher training and duties and provided call-volume figures for 2025: over 38,000 911 calls and roughly 97,000 nonemergency calls, which commissioners praised.
Dave, transportation staff, briefed the board on an advertised sale of 31 county vehicles at Central Pennsylvania Auto Auction on May 21, 2026, saying county costs to prepare and transport vehicles would not exceed $11,025. The board voted to approve the contract and the advertisement.
Julia, a human-services staffer, described a contract addendum with Oasis Lifecare LLC to expand psychiatric and psychotherapy services; the board moved to add that addendum and four children-and-youth contract renewals (including guardian ad litem and foster/residential services) to next week’s consent agenda and later approved the consent agenda.
Natalie Corman, from the commissioners’ office, presented three letters of support: a $443,688.70 Greenways, Trails and Recreation preliminary request from Center Care to build therapeutic and staff gardens; a request from the Bellefonte Area Public Transit Task Force to fund a Nittany Valley Regional Transit Study through the Centre County MPO; and a DCNR partnership grant application from the Lumber Heritage Region seeking funds to restore the Bellefonte Train Station. The board voted to approve all three letters of support.
The board approved the check run dated April 10 (highlighting a payment to the Children’s Advocacy Center of Centre County) and heard the county administrator summarize Resolution 1 of 2026, which allows the administrator to execute purchase orders and reimbursements up to $33,500 for budgeted items, contingency expenditures up to $33,050 and emergency expenditures up to $100,000 subject to later ratification; the administrator said 40 authorizations in 2026 totaled $251,043.82.
Commissioner Concepcion reported 102,113 registered voters in Centre County (up 48 from the prior week) and named Precinct 37 (Better South) as precinct of the week; later the board discussed correctional facility upgrade options (estimates ranging from tens of thousands per pod to multi-million-dollar overhauls) and a Benner Pike corridor study conducted by the Centre County MPO to plan for growth through 2055.
The meeting concluded with a motion to adjourn at 10:57 a.m.
