Cole County Commission met Dec. 10, 2025 for a multi-hour budget discussion that covered a $29,000 courthouse elevator repair, health-department staffing and a decision to lower the employee clinic copay to $20, a proposed change to a VOCA-funded prosecutor position, a new lieutenant in the sheriffs patrol funded partly from opioid settlement money, and capital-improvement priorities including jail HVAC and a public-works shop expansion.