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Pike County commissioners approve payroll, hire staff and authorize multiple vendor agreements
Summary
At its July 1 meeting, the Pike County Board of Commissioners approved routine agenda items including payroll and bills totaling $1,566,559.82, several personnel hires and promotions, awarded vehicle sale bids, and authorized multiple contracts for the county correctional facility.
The Pike County Board of Commissioners on July 1 approved routine business items including payment of general funds and county bills of $1,566,559.82 and several personnel actions and vendor agreements.
The board approved the July 1 agenda and prior meeting minutes, then voted to pay county bills of $1,566,559.82, a vehicle registration fund payment of $10,652.50 and an Act 8 fund payment of $8,820. The board acknowledged letters from the warden listing new full‑time correctional officers (Alicia Kerbo, Kayla Stokesberry and Kusa Gangalves) and from the coroner (Christopher P. Bright) appointing a deputy coroner named Kevin effective July 2, 2026.
As the salary board, commissioners set pay rates for listed employees, including $28.36 per hour for the new correctional officers and other annual salaries and rate adjustments for promoted or transferred staff. The salary board later adjourned and the commissioners reconvened.
The board awarded multiple county vehicles to bidders (examples read into the record: No. 69, a 2019 Dodge Grand Caravan, awarded to John Steven for $13,500; other awards were read for bidders David Pump and Matthew Zus and confirmed by motion). Commissioners also authorized advertising bids to purchase fruit‑flavored beverages for the correctional facility for Sept. 1, 2026–Aug. 31, 2027, and authorized the chairman to execute several vendor agreements recommended by the prison board, including a drinking water treatment plant agreement, a wastewater operation support proposal, and a global master services agreement from ABP.
The board approved an amendment No. 2 to the dirt, gravel and low‑volume road maintenance agreement with the Pike County Conservation District and approved a 2023 Community Development Block Grant payment voucher to Hailstone Economic for $4,249.15. The board also approved multiple human services payment vouchers (homeless assistance $3,376; human services development funding $10,948). One line item for the state food purchase program was transcribed unclearly in the record and therefore not specified.
All items presented for motion were moved, seconded and recorded as approved during the meeting.
The board announced local parade and community events for the county’s July 4 celebration and heard ceremonial remarks but took no separate vote on those items.
