[0:00] Welcome everyone. We'll call this
meeting to order. Logan County
[0:02] Commissioners uh begin our main with a
moment of silence, please.
[0:18] Thank you. Please join me to Ken State
for the pledge.
[0:23] I aliance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the republic
[0:28] for which it stands one nation
indivisible with liberty and justice for
[0:35] all.
[0:38] Just two times public comment on our
agenda. Do we have any request for
[0:43] public comment this morning?
>> None. We'll move along. I entertain a
[0:49] motion to to uh approve the minutes
meeting on January the 8th.
[0:57] » Second.
>> Motion to second. Questions or comments?
[1:01] Not. All in favor of the motion, please
say I.
[1:03] » I. The same sign. Those minutes are
approved. Thank you.
[1:08] [clears throat]
>> Miss Tobias, would you please introduce
[1:12] yourself for the record and then proceed
with your report?
[1:16] » Bias, acting treasurer.
We started with a cash balance of
[1:20] 1,176,74.96.
[1:25] We had receipts of $4,936.50,
[1:30] which brought our total cash to
$5,177,1146
[1:36] less our expenditures of $4,317,381.32
[1:41] [clears throat]
and less tax claim of $2,55.70.
[1:48] which brought our ending m cash balance
of $857,57444.
[1:56] » Also moved as presented.
>> Second.
[1:59] » Motion a second. Questions or comments?
>> I have a question, but it's not on this.
[2:04] » Okay.
Any other questions or comments
[2:08] regarding the motion? If not, all in
favor, please say I.
[2:10] » I. Sign.
>> Approve. Tina have [clears throat]
[2:14] something for Tina.
>> Yeah, for Tina. Tina, I noticed that the
[2:18] hotel tax is over $15,000.
>> Is that after we took out 10,000 last
[2:24] week?
>> Yeah, it was 25.
[2:26] » Yep.
>> Oh, cuz mine said 15 last week.
[2:29] » Well, we and we had we had an addition.
We had the next month's income.
[2:33] » Okay. But it wasn't 25 on my chart last
week. So, somebody could apply for money
[2:40] at this time.
>> We have $15,000 unaccounted for.
[2:43] » Okay. I just wanted to make sure that
that was an up-to-date figure.
[2:46] » Yes.
>> Okay.
[2:47] » Very up to date.
>> Unencumbered.
[2:50] » Unencumbered. Yes.
[2:54] » Thank you.
[2:57] » Let's clarify the use of that phrase.
[laughter]
[3:03] » Good morning. Would you introduce
yourself for the record and you may
[3:06] proceed?
>> Michelle Snaily, director of human
[3:08] resources. Under resignations and
terminations. Nelly Kaisy, part-time
[3:14] senior center manager and area agency on
aging resignation effective January 9th.
[3:19] Steven Zimmerman, casual corner
logistics technician, corner's office
[3:22] resignation effective December 7th with
the last working day being August 9th,
[3:28] 2024. Grant Veritzky, work release
director at the jail resignation
[3:34] effective January 13, 2026.
Make a motion to approve designations
[3:40] and terminations as presented.
>> Second the motion. Motion second.
[3:44] Questions, comments. All in favor of the
motion say I.
[3:48] » I.
>> The same sign are approved.
[3:52] » Moving on to leaves of absence. Reva
Nani in courts. Three-day or 3-w week
[3:59] two-day LOA effective January 5th, 2026.
Kathy Joe Long, building security up to
[4:06] 12week all unpaid LOA effective January
14th, 2026.
[4:11] Also move
>> second.
[4:14] Questions or comments? None. All in
favor, please say I.
[4:17] » I.
>> I. Same sign. Approved.
[4:21] » Sorry, I have a correction. Rebo was a
return on January 5th, 2026, not going
[4:26] out. Under changes of status, transfers
and promotions, handgrow promotion from
[4:31] case worker one and children and youth
to case worker two and children and
[4:34] youth at the rate of $1,766.661
bi-weekly effective January 18th. Austin
[4:41] Schaefer, promotion from full-time
correctional officer at the jail to
[4:44] corporal at the jail at the rate of $281
per hour effective January 18th. Emily
[4:50] Piol, change of status from office
support one at the jail to full-time
[4:53] correctional officer at the jail. The
rate of $22.71 per hour effective
[4:58] January 18th.
>> Make a motion to approve the changes of
[5:02] status transfers and premotions as
presented.
[5:05] » Second motion. Motion second. Questions,
comments? None. All in favor, please say
[5:10] I.
>> I. Both same sign. Those are approved.
[5:14] » Moving on to other transactions.
Children and youth would like to hire
[5:18] Annabelle Derardo as caseworker one at
the rate of $1,629.56
[5:24] by weekly effective January 20th.
Children and youth would like to hire
[5:28] Oscar Kuransza as a caseworker one at
the rate of $1,629.56
[5:35] by weekly effective February 2nd.
Children and youth would like to rehire
[5:39] Fitzroy Lewis as a casework supervisor 1
at the rate of $1,964.80
[5:44] 80 cents by weekly effective February
2nd. President Judge Tillwalk would like
[5:49] to hire Timothy Fair as a jury attendant
at the rate of $13.25 per hour effective
[5:55] January 23rd. And the Lebanon County
Correctional Facility would like to hire
[5:59] the following four full-time
correctional officers, all at the rate
[6:02] of $22.71 per hour, all effective
January 20th. and that is Javiar Santos
[6:08] Estrellos, Elijah Hadock, Tyrie Burus,
and Daniel.
[6:15] The Lebanon County Correctional Facility
would like to hire the following two
[6:18] casual part-time correctional officers,
both at the rate of $2363 per hour
[6:22] effective January 20th, and that is
Joshua Stout and Amber Mayberry, who is
[6:28] a rehire.
President Judge Towalk would like to
[6:31] hire Gregory Under Coffler as an office
support to probation services at the
[6:36] rate of $1646 per hour effective
February 2nd.
[6:41] » I move to approve those uh personnel
transactions as presented.
[6:45] » Second.
>> Second. Questions, comments? All in
[6:49] favor? Please say I.
>> I. On the same side approved. Moving on
[6:54] to salary board motion uh to if there
are no questions regarding the
[6:59] transactions motion to adopt these
transactions on the salary board.
[7:03] » Second motion a second. Questions
comments hear none. All in favor of the
[7:08] motion please say I have the same sign.
>> Thank you. Anything else
[7:22] » Mr. Doubt? I believe you are next. So,
please introduce yourself for the record
[7:27] and uh you may proceed.
[7:31] » Good morning. I am Bob Dao, director of
the Department of Emergency Services.
[7:38] I'm here this morning asking the board
to approve a change order with L3 Harris
[7:42] in the amount of $13,62.50.
[7:47] This change order is to re-engineer
mostly to re-engineer the microwave path
[7:51] now that we have finally gotten through
the phase of determining exactly where
[7:55] all the towers are going to be which
allows us to move forward with
[7:58] installing radio system. Uh this will
result in another change order once we
[8:03] determine what hardware changes are
necessary from this reinary but this is
[8:07] the first piece. This is going to come
out of the contingency that we budgeted
[8:12] for the radio system.
I'll move that we approve this change
[8:16] order and
>> I'll second the motion.
[8:19] » Motion and second. Uh any questions,
comments?
[8:23] » Hearing none. All in favor of the
motion, please say I.
[8:26] » I. At the same time,
truth. Thank you, Bob.
[8:36] » Welcome. Floor is yours.
[8:46] start with uh got two items related to
renovations here at the treehouse. The
[8:52] first being for uh not the phase we're
in right now in phase one, but for the
[8:57] following phases. Um recommending the
hiring of a construction management
[9:02] firm. Uh this firm comes at the
recommendation of Beers Hoffman, our
[9:06] architect. Um the first phase that we're
in right now is in the newest part of
[9:10] the building and wasn't too complicated
for construction, but I think as
[9:14] everyone knows we get into the uh
existing building part or the older part
[9:18] of the building, it will be and probably
dealing with more subs potentially more
[9:23] contractors and all along we had hoped
we would be able to get someone on board
[9:27] to uh conduct the orchestra so to speak.
Uh the recommendation is with Pedabia um
[9:33] of lit. They are a well-known firm. They
again come recommended by Beers Hoffman
[9:38] in the packet that was provided to you.
Um there are a number of references and
[9:45] so on but they've done a number of
projects in Lebanon County including
[9:49] Lebanon school district formal Lebanon
school district uh South Leendary
[9:53] Township, North Leon school district
etc. So their proposal for the uh
[10:00] term of the renovations would be uh for
an hourly
[10:05] hourly rates as they included in their
uh proposal are listed however not to
[10:10] exceed $83,000. So they'll bill by the
hour but not to exceed
[10:15] I'd like to ask for your approval on
that.
[10:18] » Make a motion to approve uh this
management consulting firm Fedia.
[10:24] Fedavia
>> Fidavia uh to manage the renovations of
[10:28] the courthouse.
>> Forgot one thing. Would you include the
[10:31] motion? Uh well, subject to subject to
the review of the solicitors.
[10:36] » Subject to the She He didn't get to look
at it yet. Okay.
[10:39] » Solicitor's review.
>> Second that motion.
[10:43] » Motion is second. Are there any
questions or comments?
[10:47] » Hearing none. All in favor of the
motion, please say I. I.
[10:50] » The same sign that approval.
>> Okay. Okay. Then regarding the phase
[10:54] that we're currently in, I have a change
order uh to propose to you. This is for
[10:58] the extension of the hallway divider
wall on the first floor at assessment
[11:04] and public defender to extend it from
the wall height up to the uh floor deck
[11:10] at the next uh up to the bottom of the
second floor. Um this is something that
[11:14] as they took it apart and as they're
going to replace the whole ceiling um
[11:19] additional fire rating is needed for
what they're going to put back. So, this
[11:22] wall had to be built for the length of
that uh hallway and the uh the cost of
[11:27] that is $18,644.95.
[11:32] » I move to approve that change order.
>> Second.
[11:35] » Motion a second. Are there any questions
or comments? Not. All in favor of the
[11:40] motion, please say I.
>> I. Seems signed approval.
[11:44] » Okay. Next, I have conflict
criminal attorney contracts. uh these
[11:50] are occasions where the there is a
conflict with the public defenders
[11:54] office and the court must appoint uh
outside attorneys. We have two contracts
[11:58] currently in place. This is the simply
the renewal of both of those. Uh same
[12:03] price, same terms. Uh the first being
with Buzz and Davis Law Offices for four
[12:08] criminal appointments per month at
$4,000 per month and then with Jacobson
[12:14] Julius and Harshburgger Law Offices for
seven appointments per month at $7,000
[12:20] per month. Um I'm not I don't have data
on the the second one, but with Buzzing
[12:24] Davis, we contracted for 48 four per
month. We did 48 and they uh that turned
[12:30] out to be a pretty good estimate. They
did 46 in 2024 2025, sorry.
[12:35] » And their fee again was
>> $4,000.
[12:38] » 4,000.
>> Yeah.
[12:41] » Now, the 4,000 per month is whether they
get the per month or not.
[12:45] » Well, they get the 4,000 per month, but
it it it
[12:48] » came in pretty close.
>> Yeah.
[12:49] » Yeah.
>> So, I recommend your approval on both of
[12:52] them.
>> I'll make a motion to approve the um
[12:56] solicitor
assistance. I don't know.
[12:59] » Conflict attorney. conflict attorneys as
presented.
[13:03] » Second motion and second for questions
or comments. None. [clears throat] All
[13:07] in favor motion please say I.
>> Im
[13:25] certification buttons. I have it here.
Uh okay. Annually,
[13:33] the county is required to certify
uh to the Pennsylvania Department of
[13:37] Agriculture the funds available for
farmland preservation.
[13:43] Hopefully, you had a chance to look over
the the total or the accumulation of
[13:47] funds that are available
which can then be matched with uh state
[13:53] funds depending on how much they
allocate. It could be a dollar to a
[13:56] dollar. could be up to $6 for a dollar.
Um, but uh they won't know that until
[14:01] they see what each county certifies and
and and can work with the total. Um so
[14:08] this year 2026 the certification of
funds available would be for $385,16
[14:16] and that includes allocations from
various match funds and county revenues
[14:21] uh interest on clean and green as um as
well as roll back tax penalties. Well
[14:28] same thing I'm sorry in the clean and
green. So the 275,785
[14:33] total from revenues 109,321
from clean and green. So a total of
[14:39] 385,106.
[14:42] » I'll move to approve.
>> Second.
[14:45] » Motion a second. Any questions or
comments?
[14:49] None. All in favor of the motion, please
say I. I.
[14:52] » On the same side have got that approved.
[clears throat]
[14:58] have an application for loss prevention
grant from the Pennsylvania county risk
[15:01] pool. [clears throat]
Recommendation from the county safety
[15:05] committee for the purchase of two fully
automatic automated external
[15:09] defibrillator AED devices uh to be
replaced at probation. Uh the cost of
[15:16] those are $3,21.80
[15:20] and submit that.
>> I'll make a motion to purchase the
[15:24] defibrillators as presented. Second
motion a second. Questions, comments?
[15:30] None. All in favor, please say I.
>> I.
[15:34] If you
next, I have
[15:39] farm leases for uh the lease of county
owned property
[15:45] um to two local farmers. the the 1B uh
property along 422 east in South London
[15:51] Township which is 12.3 acres uh behind
and around the uh Pendot driver center
[15:58] and this would be to the Kenneth J. Rice
Farm of Fox Road Lebanon for $1,200 per
[16:04] year.
>> I'll move to approve that was
[16:08] » second.
>> Motion second questions, comments
[16:13] none. All in favor please say I. Hi.
>> Hi. Hi. At the same time, we have that
[16:17] approval.
>> And the second one being with Lauren
[16:21] Horning of Fontana Avenue, Lebanon. Uh,
this is simply one acre that the county
[16:26] owns along with adjacent to a a
structure that the county already owns
[16:32] right along 934 in South Anvil Township.
Uh, it's one acre because it's it's a
[16:38] part of the property, but it completes
his field. It's kind of the corner of
[16:42] the field that he that he already fills.
So, for $150 a year, we have been
[16:47] renting that to him.
>> I'll move to approve the $150
[16:52] um lease with uh Lauren Horning.
>> I'll second the motion.
[16:57] » Motion second. Questions, comments?
Hearing none. All in favor of the
[17:00] motion, please say I.
>> Same sign. We have that approved.
[17:05] » Right. And I have two disabled veteran
exemption from real estate requests
[17:10] meeting the requirements of the program
are Manuel Hernandez Valz of North 6th
[17:15] Street Lebanon and Henry Shiri of Mosaic
Drive Lebanon.
[17:21] » So move
>> second.
[17:23] Questions, comments? Favor of the motion
please say I. I signed and that
[17:28] approval. And lastly, I have a hotel tax
um grant fund request
[17:36] for the making a difference of Lebanon,
PA. They will be they plan to hold two
[17:42] events uh a Coleman Park 5K and breast
cancer 5K both being at Coleman Memorial
[17:48] Park. $3,500 of total project cost.
They're requesting $800 from the fund.
[17:56] and they have attend attached a letter
of request and and a budget for a chance
[18:01] to look over.
>> I'll make a motion to approve $800 from
[18:04] the hotel tax for making a difference.
>> Second motion.
[18:09] » Motion and second. Questions, comments?
>> None. All in favor? Motion, please say
[18:14] I. I. Any time you have that approval?
>> I think I have.
[18:21] » All right. Is there anything else for
the good of the order this morning?
[18:27] We'll entertain a motion to adjurnn.