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Berrien County commissioners approve consent calendar including grants, contracts and Pine Rest EAP renewal
Summary
The Board approved a routine consent calendar by roll call (11 yeas, 0 nays, 1 absent), covering monthly per diems, payables, grant applications, a Buchanan Township police services agreement, a New Buffalo clinic lease and a renewed Pine Rest employee assistance program contract among other items.
Commissioner Teri Sue Freehling moved, and Commissioner David Vollrath seconded, to approve the day’s Consent Calendar, a bundled set of routine resolutions that included monthly per diems, weekly payables, requisitions and purchase order changes, a prosecutor grant application, approval of a police services agreement with Buchanan Township, a clinic lease in New Buffalo, multiple grant acceptances (including United Way bridge grant and tobacco-education mini grant), and renewal of the Pine Rest Employee Assistance Program contract.
The Clerk called the roll and the motion carried with 11 yeas and no nays; Commissioner Chokwe Pitchford was recorded as absent. The minutes list the formal motion and vote but do not include substantive debate on any single consent item. Several items on the consent list relate to public health and human services funding and routine procurement; any item requiring separate discussion can be pulled from the consent calendar for later consideration.
The consent calendar also includes authority to apply for grants and to accept funding where specified; when additional documentation or contracts are required the relevant department will pursue standard procurement and contracting steps recorded in future minutes or committee packets.
