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Votes at a glance: Bonner County commissioners’ actions on April 28, 2026
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Summary
Summary of motions and roll-call votes from the Bonner County Board of Commissioners meeting on April 28, including permit approvals, contract awards, appropriation moves and appointment to the EMS advisory council.
At their April 28 meeting the Bonner County Board of Commissioners took the following formal actions (motions and roll-call outcomes as recorded in the meeting transcript):
• Agenda and order: Motion to amend the agenda to remove a District 2 commissioner discussion and then to adopt the agenda as amended — both motions passed by roll call.
• Consent agenda: Approved consent agenda including a sheriff’s invoice for bulletproof vests totaling $20,216.89 — motion passed.
• Parade permit: Approved a letter granting the Coolin Civic Organization permission to hold the Priest Lake Spring Festival parade May 20–21 — motion passed; staff will verify a suspicious $7,900 invoice reported by organizers.
• Facilities contract: Approved a three‑year elevator maintenance contract with Schindler Elevator Corporation at $13,831.20 per year for courthouse and county complex elevators — motion passed.
• Emergency management: Approved a resolution terminating the local disaster declaration for flooding (resolution number referenced as 25-90) — motion passed.
• Parks closure: Approved closure of the Bonner Park West parking lot and boat launch on Saturday, July 25, 2026, for Timber Days — motion passed.
• Airports: Motion to reject the bids received for a snow removal equipment storage building at Priest River Airport and to rebid the project — motion passed.
• Financial approvals: Approved FY26 claims batch #30 totaling $358,623.90 and FY26 demands batch #30 totaling $1,087,125.57 (including an $894,000 USDA loan payment for solid waste) — motions passed.
• Prosecutor’s items: Approved closing the Children at Risk (CAR) account and transferring remaining funds (~$342.79) to the state CAC grant account; approved opening the budget to distribute $1,550 in donations for the Lily Brook kids fair — motions passed.
• Sheriff’s items: Allocated $13,593 from the justice fund contingency to replace a jail touchscreen computer and approved payment of $226,971 to complete the jail programmable logic controller replacement — motions passed.
• Appointments: Appointed Vicky Woodward to fill a vacancy on the Bonner County Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council through Jan. 1, 2027 — motion passed.
Where recorded in the transcript, motions were moved and seconded and passed by roll call; detailed mover/second and vote tallies (by name) are not consistently recorded verbatim in the transcript and are summarized here as passed by roll call where the transcript indicates consent.
