Reports, Jail Trust Authority discussion headline commission meeting
Feb. 2—Emergency Management Director
"You've probably heard, the outlook on the fire season looks pretty rough," Lehenbauer said. "We're monitoring that. As far as time frame, it'll be late March, early April."
Lehenbauer also said more funding has come in for the 34 Complex wildfire and a couple of
COVID numbers in the area are generally improving, though there has been one recent death.
"The hospital surge has really dropped off too," Lehenbauer said. "Things are doing better generally over all. We're hoping we're seeing the herd immunity possibly start to take affect."
"Everybody was really happy," Poer said. "We had folks from
The board held a county officers meeting to discuss the policy handbook. Commissioners voted to implement a 30 day wait for insurance coverage for newly hired employees, effective immediately.
According to First Deputy Clerk
A discussion was held in possibly forming a
"I think there's great potential,"
Sheriff
"I've talked to other sheriffs that have a Trust," Mitchell said. "And it relieves some of their day to day pains. I'm not against going to (a)
According to District Attorney
"Our funding for the jail, that's concerning for me. Because we currently have tax going to the jail that has been voted on by the people in this county," Boring said. "The Sheriff's entrusted to take care of the jail facility and take care of the people inside the facility. And it's a tough job, he's got responsibility for that."
Making sure there are good people on the Trust Authority board would be a concern, according to Boring. The responsibility would be different that other trusts the county is involved with.
"The jail comes with a whole lot of liability," Mitchell said. "I meet with my jail administrator every day, several times every day."
According to
"Here and in many other counties, it's just grown into this monster of time and funding,"
"I think it's worth moving forward and visiting with looking at,"
According to Boring, while there are a few cons, there are also a lot of pros to having a Trust.
"The people that have put their jails in Trusts are happy with it," Boring said. "But I will say those places that do have a Trust, they have... trustees that are very involved, very dedicated to making their community better and making the jail better and a lot of that stuff. They've got some passionate people that are on their Trust Authority."
No action was taken on the
A transfer in appropriations out of county improvement for road and bridges fund into personal services for all three districts was approved.
"This is the additional money the legislature has allied highway districts,"
Commissioners approved to publish a notice of public hearing for two weeks regarding a reclassification of zoning from agricultural to industrial for the purpose of growing Medical Marijuana. The request was made by Adam and
A materials request form from
The monthly
The board approved a resolution for a project agreement for bridge and approach over an unnamed creek in
Commissioners discussed County Fair board election filings.
In new or unforeseen business, Boring let the board know McDonald's will be donating proceeds from breakfast on Thursday from
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