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09.02.2025 Tues PM BOCC
Meeting Highlights:
Executive session with HR director for potential litigation
Bullet-proof windows costing $12,446 going up in district court and clerk’soffices
Maintenance department reports on perforations in one of the injection wells,presumably at the jail, but temperature staying “nice and cool”; company notresponding to calls
Commissioner Hover interested in moving sheriff’s office to RinghofferBuilding and public defense into the Grainger Building.
Planning director reports progress with software system, Aspect, GISemployees outline what it can provide, water restriction amounts for differentwatersheds discussed
Broken water lines at fairgrounds, used bleacher purchase envisioned,commissioners push for automatic sprinklers, LED lights now in beef barn,commissioners recruited for the dunk tank
Commissioner Neal concerned about possible closures among country’s ruralschools
Tonasket Forest ranger seeks agreement with county for emergency-typeroad work, foresees holding workshop to add more private contractors to purchase agreement list; comments coming in for 3,000-acre Buckhorn logging project to be signed in December;
Executive session with HR director to discuss union negotiation tactics
County pretty much out of money but not in the hole yet.
Meeting adjourned at 3:55