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Calhoun County commissioners approve equalization report, proclamations, staffing allocations and contracts
Summary
The board approved the 2022 Equalization Report, two proclamations, multiple staffing requests including health and prosecutor offices, a culvert contract award, a supplemental senior millage funding amendment, and claims totaling $11.35 million on April 12, 2022.
At its April 12 Equalization Session the Calhoun County Board of Commissioners approved a package of routine and programmatic items including the 2022 Equalization Report, proclamations, staffing allocations, contracts and claims.
The board unanimously approved the 2022 Equalization Report presented by Equalization Director Matt Hansen and Deputy Director Tom Scott (Res.058-2021). Commissioners also adopted proclamations designating April as Limb Loss Awareness Month and National County Government Month (Res.059-2022; Res.060-2022).
The consent agenda approved several appointments and acknowledgements including Pamela Lasley's appointment to the Senior Millage Allocation Committee and the reappointment of Mark Crawford to the Calhoun County Board of Public Health (Res.061-2022). The board approved a contract amendment providing supplemental Senior Millage funding to Senior Services, Inc. for the Handy Helper program; the program helps older adults with short-term home maintenance and provides assistance up to $400 per recipient and had assisted 69 older adults earlier in the year (Res.062-2022).
Financial and staffing approvals included a PA2 Alcohol Tax budget amendment for prevention services reimbursed with state block grant funds (Res.063-2022; vote 6-0 with Commissioner Jake Smith recorded as abstaining), authorization for two Health Department positions to staff a mobile unit (Res.064-2022), approval to add two assistant prosecuting attorneys and fund a paralegal position in the Prosecutor's Office (Res.065-2022), and an IT Department reorganization and staffing allocation (Res.066-2022).
The board awarded a contract for the Union City culvert replacement under Union City Road in Burlington Township (Res.069-2022) and approved ballot language to renew a 0.10-mill Veteran's Affairs millage (Res.070-2022). Finally, the board approved claims payable totaling $11,352,102.90 (Res.072-2022).
Where the meeting record lists a vote or action, this article reports the outcome as recorded; where the record did not specify a dollar amount for a project or allocation, the article notes that the amount was not specified in the meeting transcript.
