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Lycoming County commissioners approved an audit engagement letter with Baker Tilly for the 2024 audit and single audit in the amount of $105,300, plus administrative costs, as presented by county Controller Nicki Gottschall.
This is not a budgeted item, however, Gottschall acknowledged speaking to Mya Toon, county Director of Financial Management, regarding contingency funds for that item.
"Your goal is to have that completed by the end of the year?" Commissioner and Chairman Scott Metzger said. "Yes it is," Gottschall replied. "Okay, great," Metzger said.
"Things are progressing nicely with your office and financial and everybody has been working together very, very hard to get things caught up," he said, thanking everybody in those departments.
Jamie Shrawder, program manager, Community Development, SEDA-Council of Governments (SEDA-COG), requested and received approval as the designating county Human Resources Director Michael Hagen as the Section 504 Compliance Officer because the county receives federal funds through the Community Development Block Grant program and is a statutory requirement. Shrawder also asked for the CDBG Home Procurement Policy to be readopted because of new provisions.
Commissioners also approved:
Subrecipient agreement amendment (of a termination date) with Hughesville Borough Authority in the amount of $583,956 regarding American Rescue Plan approved budget item, as presented by Kristin McLaughlin, project manager, SEDA-COG. "There is no change in the amount of the projects being funded, she noted.
Subrecipient agreement amendment (of a termination date) with Greater Habitat for Humanity in the amount of $100,000 regarding a 2025 ARPA approved budgeted item. Again, there is no change in the amount, McLaughlin said.
Subrecipient agreement amendment with Lycoming County Water and Sewer Authority in the amount of $984,654.76 (a 2025 ARPA approved budgeted item). One of the components is a change in termination date and the other to reallocate about $2,500 from the Beaver Lake sewer system grinder pump replacement project. That will be changed from $40,000 to $37,498.55. Those funds will be moved to their School House Road critical needs project and the budget will be changed to $201,238.17. There is no increase in the amount of funding overall.
Approved the purchase from Clear Ballot for a quote in the amount of $650 that required approval and a signature from the commissioners to purchase external storage drives, a component of the voting system as presented by Forrest Lehman, county Director of Elections. "Even something as simple as an external hard drive has to be a specific model that is certified at the federal level and the state level that we are allowed to use in conjunction with the system. They are just to store our election data so we have a backup, Upon a question by Metzger asking how is the new storage area on the first floor? "It's going really well," Lehman said. "It was ready in time for the primary in May and that whole process went very smoothly," he said. "We've got enough space now for all the voted ballots that come back," he said. "When all the counties in the state had to update their voting systems six or seven years ago, one of the new parts of that is that we are all using paper ballots," he said. "That adds a physical dimension that everybody had to deal with because you are printing these ballots so now what do you do with them at every step along the way? You've got to bag them up, send them out, they are coming back, they're getting stored, so we had to deal with that and that storage space is already working out very well and maintenance did a fantastic job on it." Lehman gave kudos to the county sheriff deputies who, during the election cycle, provide security for the election night operation, and they may be asked for providing security when the office is doing a recount and precanvassing mail ballots. In the run up to the presidential election last year, when there were 100 people lined up in the hallway almost every day, getting mail ballots, the deputies were keeping an eye on all of that. "They've always been there for us on the election cycle and it is much appreciated," he said.
Approved the renewed purchase of sublease agreement with Clinton County 911 for use of Lycoming County's pump station radio tower.
Approved a transfer station permit bonding paperwork, state Department of Environmental Protection requirement.
Tabled the three-year agreement with Comcast for the coroner's building.
Approved agreement with Mountain Environmental & Radon Services for $1,200.
Approved demo units from Fortinet for a phone system.
Approved the cooperative agreement with McIntyre Township for gravel bar removal for county maintenance at $70,000.
Approved agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for budget modification for the Brownfield revolving loan fund. Also, a subrecipient agreement with BRS grant funds of $14,102 for contract services for the duration of the Brownfield program.
Approved agreement with Frank Dattilo, for the public defender's office for forensic psychology.
Approved agreement with Edward M. Moss, also public defender's office in neuropsychology as it related to an alleged homicide case.
Approved application for standby letter of credit with Citizens and Northern Bank. Toon said the county did a letter of credit for Resource Management Services in the amount of $40 million. "We are just revising the letter of credit to $33,355,517. "As you recall, we were going to use the other money for other projects related to RMS," she said. Commissioners amended the item to be legal and correct on recommendation by Chris Kenyon, county solicitor.
Approved extending a municipal assistance grant and rescinded the agreement with Larson Design Group for professional survey services in the amount of $7,850.