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Board approves consent agenda including multiple warrants, contracts and grants
Summary
The Cass County Board unanimously approved a broad consent agenda on Jan. 20, 2026, covering audit warrants (including $1,202,046.73 dated Jan. 7, 2026 and $111,350.55 dated Dec. 31, 2025), personnel actions, licenses, ARPA and opioid settlement distributions, and several contracts and agreements; Commissioner Neal Gaalswyk registered an abstention on one item.
County Administrator Josh Stevenson presented a multi-item consent agenda that the Board moved to waive reading on and approve. Key financial items listed in the record include auditor warrants dated Dec. 31, 2025, for $111,350.55; a batch of manual warrants/voids for Dec. 2025 totaling $1,579,905.86; and auditor warrants dated Jan. 7, 2026, for $1,202,046.73. The consent package also showed HHVS-related warrants and approvals for contracts and personnel actions.
The consent agenda included program and contract approvals such as: ARPA funding for Advanced Correctional Health Care (Jail Mental Health) for $4,445.92; opioid settlement distributions including Nameless Coalition for the Homeless ($6,668.13); a Pitney Bowes lease for postage meters at $419.00 per month for 63 months; and agreements for mental health services and guardianship/conservatorship services. Commissioner Scott Bruns moved to approve the consent agenda, Commissioner Rick Haaland seconded; the record shows an abstention by Commissioner Neal Gaalswyk on the vote.
