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09.16.2025 Tues PM BOCC
Meeting Highlights:
Commissioners want to discuss Noxious Weed manager’s announcement to promote an employee, citing rules that subject higher pay grade posts to approval by their board; discussion about departments with their own boards but financed by the county; Forest Service and DNR looking to de-list weeds including scotch thistle, NT approves, talks about “naturalization”
State auditors announce clean financial and grant spending audit results; price tag: $37,000; discussion of requirement to calculate liability of compensated absences
Juvenile Services Director reports on program for inmate health care to facilitate re-entry, two positions that will be “bumped up” to implement it will be financed in part by grant money, some of it already received
Health Department lease agreement discussed
Veterinary bill for sheriff department dog’s seizure discussed
NT upset about discrepancies in SRS (Secure Rural Schools) spending, has written to Newhouse
County rules don’t allow paying for employee’s boots, only reimbursement
Budget meetings to start next week instead of in November, given the state of county finances