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Limestone County Commission approves $355,000 land purchase for animal shelter, accepts grants and authorizes staffing changes
Summary
At its July 6 meeting, the Limestone County Commission approved purchasing land on South Jefferson Street for a future animal shelter, authorized applications and acceptance of grants for the sheriff's office, approved multiple contracts and personnel changes in senior services, and heard an engineer's update on paving and a subdivision replat.
At its July 6 meeting, the Limestone County Commission approved a series of administrative actions including purchase of property for an animal shelter, acceptance of public-safety grants and several staffing changes.
The commission voted by unanimous consent after public discussion to approve buying a parcel on South Jefferson Street from the City of Athens for $355,000 to site an animal shelter. Chair said the purchase was "a long time coming" and clarified the agenda language to indicate a purchase of real property; Drew suggested removing the words "purchase and sale" from the agenda wording for accuracy.
Commissioners also agreed to apply for a U.S. Department of Justice COPS grant to fund a mental-health and wellness program for officers and their families at the Limestone County Sheriff's Office; Chair said there is no county match required for that application. The commission accepted award of a separate homeland-security grant (transcript: "Leah Homeland Security") to purchase two biometric workstations, mobile booking equipment and fingerprint scanners for the sheriff's office in the amount of $99,799, also with no county match.
On procurement, the commission authorized joining a national purchasing cooperative (Buy Board) and approved a 12-month $28,800 contract with Wolfco for county media services effective July 1. Two vehicle bid awards were presented to Lynn Leighton Chevrolet and Woody Anderson Ford for fleet purchases.
On budget and assets, the commission approved three small budget revisions (including a lawn mower purchase and landfill asset purchase), approved removing damaged inventory items and a baler from stock, authorized transfer of an Expedition vehicle to engineering, and moved to sell an old coroner's vehicle on GovDeals.
Personnel actions approved included three new hires (Katina Duke, Jacoby Moore and Pearson Caldwell), amendment of the staffing plan to create separate council and senior-activities departments, creation of job descriptions for several senior-services positions, promotion of Alex Boyd to senior activities supervisor and transfer of Heidi Stinnett to senior services supervisor as part of the restructuring.
Engineer Mark reported on Creekside Park Subdivision Phase 4, a replat affecting one lot in District 3, and gave a paving update: crews expect to finish work on Davis Road in District 3 this week and then move to District 4; Mark said the county is behind schedule but "making some headway" and is dependent on the contractor's timing.
Chair opened the meeting with presentation of claims totaling $3,990,786.51 and asked for conflicts of interest; none were recorded. The agenda also included adoption of a non-governmental-entity applications policy to standardize requests for outside appropriations.
The meeting recessed for 15 minutes and was scheduled to resume at 9:30 a.m.
