[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.