Board approves multiple policy updates, contracts and benefits changes; votes at a glance
Summary
On June 23 the Black Hawk County Board approved a package of policy revisions (autopsy transport, change-order threshold, tax-sale property process, roadside ditch, vacating ROW, security information, dishonored check), awarded contracts to Splunk LLC and Communications Engineering Company, approved a Navatus specialty-design addendum, and approved personnel-related benefit alignment.
At its June 23 meeting the Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors approved a series of resolutions and contract awards. The board recorded roll-call votes for each resolution. Key actions the board approved included:
- IT security platform: Approved a three-year subscription agreement with Splunk LLC for a security information and event management platform to centralize logging and security-event analysis; staff said the county budgeted for the system to meet compliance needs.
- Autopsy transportation fees: Updated the county policy to align reimbursement with Iowa Code section 331.82 and removed the countycap inconsistent with the statute.
- Change-order policy: Revised the county change-order policy to recognize autonomous boards, federal-funding thresholds, and raised the board-approval threshold from $100 to $25,000 to align with bidding rules.
- Miscellaneous policy updates: Approved revisions to the tax-sale acquired properties policy (title updates), roadside ditch disposal language (changed a mandatory phrase to discretionary), vacating/selling right-of-way policy updates, an updated security-information policy that corrects code references, and reaffirmed the dishonored-check policy (no substantive change).
- Solid waste policy rescission: Rescinded the solid-waste-funds allocation policy as the county has not been receiving allocations for roughly 15 years.
- Management-staff benefits: Approved updates to bring certain supervisory non-bargaining comp-time accrual rules in line with similar union-covered positions (raising the accrual cap referenced to align with language observed in bargaining-unit practice).
- AV upgrade: Awarded the lowest responsible bid to Communications Engineering Company to upgrade basement conference-room audiovisual systems (additional monitor and camera; multi-week completion window noted in bid documents).
- Specialty pharmacy program: Approved an addendum with Navatus (county PBM) to capture manufacturer coupon savings for specialty medications; staff said the program costs the county nothing to join and does not change member co-pays, but asked Navatus for reporting on realized savings.
Each item was presented by staff and approved by roll-call vote; the meeting transcript records the roll-call 'yes' votes for the resolutions and contract awards.
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