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Commissioners approve $4.01 million in bills, payroll and routine county business
Summary
Mountrail County commissioners approved bills totaling $4,009,963.14 and payroll for July 6–19 totaling $640,656.83, and moved several routine contracts, lease and personnel items forward during the Aug. 5 meeting in Stanley.
The Mountrail County Board of Commissioners voted Aug. 5 to approve bills totaling $4,009,963.14 and payroll for July 6–19 totaling $640,656.83, according to the meeting minutes. The motion passed on a roll-call vote with Commissioners Trudy Ruland, Wayne Olson, Jason Rice, John DeGroot and Joan Hollekim recorded as voting yes.
The approved vendor list included several large line items: Martin Construction, Inc. was paid $1,526,982.86 for road-and-bridge work; multiple entries for RDO Equipment Co. appeared (including payments and credit adjustments with large line amounts reported); Ducks Unlimited received $153,660.00; and a series of ENVIROTECH SERVICES, INC. payments appear across the road-and-bridge fund. The minutes say a complete list of bills is posted on the Mountrail County website and is available in the Auditor’s Office for review.
Beyond vendor payments, the board approved routine administrative items: an updated Plaza Complex lease, a $1,550 maintenance agreement with Cummins for the South Complex generator, a stop payment and reissue of Check #109278 for $25.34 to Jim Turbiville, and the approval of several fee and payroll items earlier in the meeting. "Upon roll call, Hollekim, Ruland, DeGroot, Rice and Olson voted yes," the minutes record.
The board also approved a salary increase for Karen Brown in the Tax Department to $29.33 per hour (annualized at $61,000) after successful completion of a six-month probationary period. The auditor’s office posted the full vendor register alongside the minutes.
The approvals close out the county’s presented claims for this period; the minutes indicate the auditor will continue to make the vendor list available online and in the Auditor’s Office.
