[0:04] Okay, we'll call the uh Stark County Commission meeting to order. Today is

[0:09] Tuesday, January 20th. It is 9:00 a.m. We'll start with the pledge.

[0:15] I >> pledge allegiance to the flag of the

[0:17] United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation

[0:22] under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[0:31] Okay, we will uh start with ratification of the agenda. Any additions, deletions,

[0:38] corrections?

[0:41] » Hearing none, I'd entertain a motion to approve the agenda as submitted.

[0:46] » So moved. >> Got by Commissioner Franchuk. Can you

[0:49] get a second? >> Second

[0:51] » by Commissioner ClariS. Any other discussion? Hearing none. All in favor

[0:54] say I. I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank

[0:57] you. [gasps] Uh, first item on the agenda, LEC camera

[1:02] project change order. Elena, [clears throat]

[1:06] good morning. Le Scott, emergency manager. So, this is to finish out the

[1:11] camera project at the LAC. They are finishing up with um a camera in the

[1:18] elevator, secure elevator, and then two on the back side that just require a

[1:22] little extra work. Um, these just got build to start counting. I think

[1:26] typically our projects they build to the the LACE and then Stark County reimbures

[1:30] but they sent I think they they usually work with Mike Deshock. Well, Mike's not

[1:34] here. So, there's just I need to clean up who they send this stuff to. So, this

[1:39] one just got build to us.

[1:55] I don't know who's talking, but I can't hear him.

[1:56] » Now we can. [laughter] >> Can you hear us, Bernie?

[1:59] » Thank you.

[2:02] » U Bernie, >> I can't hear you.

[2:10] » Hello. >> Can someone speak?

[2:12] » Bernie, can you hear us? >> I hear that. Oh, couldn't hear who was

[2:15] talking before voice. [laughter] [snorts]

[2:19] » Okay, 104. Okay, continue. >> Oh, that's all I have to say. Unless you

[2:24] guys have questions on the project. >> I hear that.

[2:28] » Is there two different bills? Because there's one for 513831 and then the

[2:32] other one on the bottom that says 5,6731.

[2:37] Which fees? >> No, it's one bill. I'm not sure why

[2:40] they're two different amounts to be honest. There there's a grand total and

[2:44] then a total. >> Yeah.

[2:46] » Which one do you want us to approve? The grand total.

[2:54] » The top of that.

[3:00] » Yeah. Grand total. It's got the shipping handling taxes.

[3:04] Yeah. >> It's the $71 difference there.

[3:07] » Okay. So, they didn't include the $71 on the total for some reason. I think when

[3:11] they broke it down, it they just didn't add in the the shipping onto that bottom

[3:16] [snorts] total. >> Uh, Mr. Chairman, I would make a motion

[3:20] to approve the grand total of 51 3831 to Forte to finish the camera project at

[3:27] the LEC. >> Okay. Motion by Commissioner Claris.

[3:31] » Okay. >> Sorry, I didn't hear. [laughter]

[3:35] » Mr. Chairman, I would move to approve the uh invoice from um Forte for 513831

[3:43] to finish the camera project at the LEC building.

[3:46] » Okay. Motion by Commissioner Claris. Can I get a second?

[3:49] » Second >> by Commissioner White. Any other

[3:51] discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote.

[3:54] Commissioner ClariS. I. >> Commissioner White. I.

[3:56] » Commissioner Franchuk. I. >> Commissioner Marsh.

[4:00] I. >> Chair votes I. Motion carried. Thank

[4:02] you.

[4:08] Okay. Um, 2026 public safety budget amendments.

[4:14] [snorts] Sheriff Lee,

[4:17] I'm assuming you're handling your own requests today.

[4:20] » Um, sure.

[4:25] So, there is the was the amendment for the road department taken care of

[4:30] already? >> Yes.

[4:31] » Okay. And then the amendment for the

[4:35] courthouse [snorts] uh deputies to go to 70,000.

[4:41] Was that taken care of or is that >> Well, the the motion was passed last

[4:45] meeting, but you um we we need to make several line item adjustments, I

[4:51] believe, to correct that. Should

[5:00] have brought my glasses. >> They comparing my drawer.

[5:06] » Might need them today. Bernie

[5:15] clean.

[5:21] Are they me?

[5:28] [snorts] Yeah, Sergeant Hilton. Uh, that should be taken care of with the road

[5:33] department to remain on the sal uh sergeant salary.

[5:37] Uh, Ryan Fehee would go to the uh sergeant salary of

[5:46] 84 801. He was the one that was promoted to sergeant.

[5:52] Uh, Corporal Eldridge was promoted or excuse me, Deputy Eldridge was promoted

[5:58] to corporal. His line item would go from 77 979 to 79 934.

[6:06] And then the two courthouse deputies positions which obviously are notated as

[6:12] White and Wer, but we have those replaced. I guess if you guys I don't

[6:17] think you've done the approval to hire those new two new courthouse employees.

[6:21] If you could do that today as well, please.

[6:24] And we do have two gentlemen in background for those positions.

[6:28] » Well, we probably should have added the uh employment ratifications on the

[6:33] agenda, but uh let's do the motion to adjust your budget first.

[6:40] So, we're looking for a U motion to adjust the five line items 116,

[6:50] [snorts] 123, 129, 142, and 143 as noted.

[7:04] [snorts]

[7:06] So, I'll make the motion to approve them five line items.

[7:11] » We have a motion by commissioner White. >> I'll second that.

[7:15] » By Commissioner Marsh. Any other discussion, questions?

[7:22] » Hearing none. Roll call vote. Commissioner White.

[7:24] » I. >> Commissioner Franchuk.

[7:26] » I. Commissioner ClariS. I. >> Commissioner Marsh.

[7:31] » Chair votes I. Motion carries. Thank you.

[7:36] Okay. Um,

[7:40] » let's let's get on the agenda as written [clears throat] rather and then we'll do

[7:46] maybe look into the thing. So, the next one I need is 2026 contributions

[7:56] confirmation basically. Karen. >> Okay. So, I have for you commissioners,

[8:03] you'll see a list. Um, it says 2026 contributions. It was the same list you

[8:08] approved in our 2026 budget approval. Um, the ones that are in yellow are ones

[8:15] that we normally just send out since they've been approved, we send out for

[8:18] payment in January. I just wanted the commission the opportunity if they had

[8:22] any questions and basically approve us to go ahead and

[8:27] send these payments to these entities that you approved in the in the budget

[8:30] session. So the ones in yellow are some of the other ones I know we were like um

[8:37] the ambulance one I was told that we wanted to wait to get um see where it

[8:43] was at before we just send them a check. Um we get an invoice for the Bellfield

[8:48] ambulance. We haven't got that yet. Um, Dickinson Airport, there was some we

[8:53] were waiting for them to get approved for some of their building permits and

[8:56] so those I didn't include on here. These are just the ones that

[9:01] » Yeah. >> we would normally automatically send.

[9:03] » Yep. I think we could approve all those in yellow because the Bellefield

[9:07] ambulance, Digginson ambulance are ones almost like the LEC where they would

[9:11] invoice us based on actual uh financial conditions. And then the uh home on the

[9:18] r not excuse me not the home on the range but the airport

[9:23] uh we have put conditions on that and I think it would be prudent for us to once

[9:27] those conditions are met to actually formalize that contribution. So any

[9:32] other comments,

[9:38] discussion.

[9:51] » Make a motion to finalize those contributions

[9:56] » as noted. >> Yes.

[9:58] » Okay. Motion by Commissioner White. Do I have a second?

[10:01] » I'll second >> by Commissioner Franchuk. Any other

[10:03] discussion?

[10:06] » Hearing none. Roll call vote. Commissioner White

[10:09] » I. >> Commissioner Franchuk

[10:10] » I. >> Commissioner ClariS

[10:12] » I. >> Commissioner Marsh

[10:14] » I. >> Chair votes I. Motion approved.

[10:18] Thank you. Okay. Next item on the agenda. Um budget

[10:25] amendments. Karen. >> Okay.

[10:30] So, I kind of have both some budget amendments and then you could also call

[10:33] them journal adjustments [cough] on your sheet today. Um, this year I did

[10:40] go through and clean up some accounts that you probably really haven't seen

[10:47] much of. A lot of them are grant accounts and we went back many years.

[10:53] So, some had some negative balances that need to be cleaned up because maybe the

[10:58] reimbursement went into a different reimbursement account and not this grant

[11:02] count directly. We had one where the reimbursement went into another grant

[11:06] count grant account instead of the one that was named properly. But it's all

[11:11] kind of prior year. I mean, I I guess I went back to 2020 on these and some of

[11:17] these were h had some of these things before 2020. [snorts]

[11:21] So, um, what I'm looking for through the commission, and I did type up the

[11:26] motions if you approved of these transfers in and transfers out, because

[11:30] I know we did use the general fund. Um, the general fund is the easiest to kind

[11:35] of zero these out. The other big one that I reconciled, at first I thought

[11:42] that I had extra FEMA money. It is not FEMA money. It is actually CARES Act

[11:47] funding. And that's the money 746,12276

[11:54] that we're looking at moving into the general fund. Um we were going to see

[11:59] about paying directly one of the ambulances out of there, but we wouldn't

[12:03] look for that ambulance payment in future years out of that. We would be

[12:07] looking on its line. So, we decided um well, what my recommendation is just to

[12:13] keep it where it's at, move it to the general fund, make the ambulance payment

[12:17] out of its regular line to kind of keep it clean, but this is this is what I'm

[12:22] asking for. And I know there's a lot of transfers outs and a few transfers in. A

[12:27] couple of these accounts you'll see to the right will still have um negative

[12:31] balances. That's because I know that that's the dollar amount we're waiting

[12:35] for reimbursement. And then we have one account that says

[12:40] state reimbursement for 20487. Lana says she will come up with a

[12:45] balancing of that sometime this year. So we're just not worrying about that one

[12:49] account this year. >> Any questions,

[12:54] comments? My only question would be just that

[12:59] we're uh reaffirming that uh the CARES transfer meets all conditions of the

[13:04] CARE Act grant. You know, some of those there was timeline frames on, right? Not

[13:09] not CARES, but the uh ARPA and I just want to make sure we're in full

[13:14] compliance when we do this. >> Yep. So, we're having our last single

[13:16] audit for 2024 for ARPA this year. CARES Act funding was supposed to be um dumped

[13:22] into the general fund. It's not we're not reporting on it.

[13:26] » Okay. >> Yep.

[13:29] » Any other questions? Okay. So, I would ask for uh a motion

[13:34] regarding motion number one, the uh budget 2970 for the weed board.

[13:42] » Mr. Chairman, I would motion to amend the 2025 2970 line uh for weed control

[13:48] fund budget by an additional $37,128.58. Motion by Commissioner ClariS. Can I get

[13:54] a second? >> Second

[13:55] » by Commissioner Franchuk. Any other discussion?

[13:59] Hearing none. Roll call vote. Commissioner ClariS.

[14:03] » I. >> Commissioner Franchuk.

[14:05] » I. >> Commissioner White.

[14:06] » I. >> Commissioner Marsh.

[14:08] » I. >> Uh, chair votes I. Motion approved.

[14:11] Thank you. Um

[14:15] look for a motion on amendment number two for account number 6034

[14:21] 247 fund. >> Make the motion of the 247 fund budget

[14:25] by an additional 9855 >> by Commissioner White. Can I get a

[14:29] second? >> Second

[14:30] » by Commissioner Franchuk. >> Any discussion?

[14:36] » Hearing none. Roll call vote. Commissioner White. Hi.

[14:38] » Commissioner Franchuk. Hi. >> Commissioner ClariS. Hi. Commissioner

[14:41] Marsh >> I.

[14:43] » Chair votes I. Motion carries. Thank you. Okay. Look for a motion amendment

[14:49] on item number three for account 2230. County poor.

[14:56] » Actually, it's all general fund. >> It's all general transfers. I'm sorry.

[14:59] Yeah. Stand corrected. >> Excuse me.

[15:04] I make a motion to approve 2025 general fund transfers to account 2230 for

[15:09] $4,784.76

[15:12] to account 611 for $275.74

[15:18] account 614 for $2,239.90

[15:24] and account 66601616

[15:29] for $1,7810. 10 cents. The account 618 for $45,000.

[15:37] The account 626 for $20,9.36

[15:44] and account 635 for $23,32065

[15:51] and for transfer total transfer out of 98,229.51.

[15:59] Motion by Commissioner Franchuk. Can I get a second?

[16:03] » I'll second that. >> By Commissioner ClariS. Any other

[16:05] discussion, questions? Hearing none. Roll call vote.

[16:10] Commissioner Franchuk. >> I.

[16:12] » Commissioner ClariS. >> Hi.

[16:13] » Commissioner White. >> I.

[16:14] » Commissioner Marsh. >> I.

[16:16] » Chair votes I. Motion carries. Thank you. Item number four.

[16:21] [clears throat]

[16:26] Motion to approve 2025 general fund transfers from account 613 for $1,85520.

[16:36] Account 6022 for $265.19.

[16:41] an account 6044 for746,1227.76

[16:49] for a total transfer in of 748,243.15

[16:58] motion by Commissioner Franchuk. Can I get a second?

[17:01] » I'll second that. >> By Commissioner uh ClariS. Any

[17:05] discussion?

[17:09] Hearing none. Roll call vote. Commissioner Franchuk

[17:11] » I. >> Commissioner ClariS

[17:13] » I. >> Commissioner White

[17:14] » I. >> Commissioner Marsh

[17:16] » I. >> Chair votes I. Motion passes. Thank you.

[17:22] Um

[17:27] uh Amanda, can we take up the sheriff's request for

[17:32] uh his hires? >> Is this a special meeting?

[17:37] » No. um add it to the agenda then you should be

[17:41] fine. >> Okay. So we'll have to add it to the

[17:44] agenda. Okay. So is it two positions? Sure.

[17:50] » Correct. So Lynn uh through the process promote well the hiring process was

[17:57] elevated to [snorts] patrol deputy and then Chandler uh remind you guys is

[18:02] going to Dun County. So we hired two additional Okay. Not additional, but two

[18:09] replacement staff for those positions. >> Okay. So, I'd request two motions,

[18:13] separate motions. One would be to the amend the

[18:17] uh agenda to address the requests for position hires and then we'll take a

[18:24] second uh amendment to confirm those hires if

[18:28] that's okay with everybody. Let me make amendment to adjust the

[18:33] agenda. >> Okay.

[18:34] » Or amend the agenda. uh by Commissioner Franchuk.

[18:41] » I'll second >> by Commissioner Marsh. Any [snorts]

[18:44] other discussion? >> Hearing none. All in favor of the motion

[18:48] signify by saying I. >> I post same oppose. Same sign. Motion

[18:53] carries. Thank you. Now entertain a motion to confirm the recommended hires

[18:59] as per Sheriff Le. Just want to add to a discussion. We're

[19:05] amending an agenda still, right? Or adding to the agenda.

[19:08] » Well, we just added it and now we are discussing. So, we're open for

[19:12] discussion. >> Okay.

[19:16] » But we would need if we're going to confirm this, we need to uh make a

[19:20] motion to confirm the uh hires.

[19:29] Mr. Mr. Chairman, I'll move to approve the replacement

[19:34] or the hiring of the additional replacements for the courthouse staff.

[19:38] » Motion by Commissioner U. Claris. Do I have a second? No second by Commissioner

[19:46] Franchuk. Just quick question. So those positions are being filled at the rate

[19:51] on the uh that we just amended. >> 70

[19:56] » 6992. Yes. >> Great. Okay. Thank you.

[20:00] Okay. Do we need roll call on that one or can we just approve that? I think we

[20:05] can do that. Uh so all in favor of the motion signify by saying I

[20:10] » I post same sign. >> Opposed same sign. Motion carries. Thank

[20:14] you. Any other comments come before the board this morning? Public comments. No

[20:20] cards. Okay. I would entertain a motion to adjurnn

[20:25] » by Commissioner White. Second by Commissioner Franch. All in favor

[20:30] signify by saying I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank

[20:33] you. Meeting adjourned.

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