In an effort to be transparent about how taxpayer dollars are being spent, the Lycoming County commissioners included a chart showing the quarterly draw downs of county funding by libraries in the county library system.

The chart details what is allotted to each of the six libraries in the system which divide up the $1 million grant the system receives. The libraries included and their yearly allotments are: Hughesville, $47,124; Montgomery,$47,216; Jersey Shore, $50,940; Muncy, $60,053; Konkle (in Montoursville), $61,944; and the James V. Brown Library, $732,723.

Speaking as president of the Lycoming County System Library Board of Trustees, Ben Brigandi told the commission that the funds ensure survival for the libraries, particularly the five smaller ones in the county.

“As you can see from the numbers…they may not be requesting a lot, but those funds mean a lot to those libraries in those communities,” Brigandi said.

“And of course, the James V. Brown being the biggest one, the largest library in the county, also does serve more people, many more people, and it is every bit as important to those in the immediate area to the building,” he added.

Several attachments to the agenda gave a detailed picture of how the funds are being spent at each library. Those attachments to this week’s commissioners meeting agenda are also available online at: lycomingcountypa.gov.

The commissioners approved one personnel item this week-Rebecca Evans as a full-time domestic relations officer, a union position, at $42,653 annually.

Six agenda items approved by the commissioners related to the county’s landfill.They included approval of the following: participation in the Pick-Up Pennsylvania initiative, which is a community effort to pick up trash along the highways with the PA Department of Environmental Protection to waive fees for the month of April; the repair costs from Highway Equipment and Supply in the amount of $21,316 to replace upper and lower tool bushing of the Hammer 04, which helps mine stone and shale; the repair costs from capital account in the amount of $10,341 to repair Compactor 15; repair costs from the capital account in the amount of $10,433 to repair Compactor 16; repair costs from the capital account in the amount of $23,383 to repair the dozer 23 and the purchase of a D4 undercarriage from the capital fund in the amount of $45,287. RMS personnel will do some of the work which lowers the cost to $30,643.

Other agenda items approved were: an agreement with Gillian Blair, PHD, LLM for psychological trauma services for the Public Defender’s Office; the electronic monitoring service agreement with GEO Reentry Services; an agreement with Carl H. Frels, CD for certified deaf interpretive services for the Public Defender’s Office with approximately 30 percent of the costs reimbursed by Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC); an agreement with Rogers Uniforms to provide uniforms to the Pre-Release Center, not too exceed &9,500 annually an agreement with Hunter & Lomison, Inc. in the amount of $4,675 for preventive maintenance of generators at the tower sites; an agreement with Hunter & Lomison, Inc. in the amount of $5,115 for generator monitoring services which will be able to be done from the 911 Call Center instead of onsite at the generator,; the support renewal with Marco for print management software in the amount of $667; and a two-year agreement with Comcast for the adult probation GEO building.

The next commissioners’ meeting will be at 10 a.m., March 19, at the Commissioners’ Board Room, 3rd floor Third Street Plaza, 33 West Third St.