Lycoming County commissioners on Feb. 12 approved a slate of contracts, grant acceptances, equipment purchases and personnel actions, and ratified a $4,311,129 construction contract for the Phase 2 Williamsburg cross pipe rehabilitation project.

The actions covered routine county business including approval of accounts payable and credit card reports; contract renewals and amendments for facilities maintenance, security systems and elevators; professional-service agreements for legal representation and broadband consulting; equipment purchases for the county farm; and several information-technology renewals.

Why it matters: the approvals fund ongoing county operations, advance a major infrastructure project and allocate federal and state grant dollars the county will manage. The approvals included vendor contracts and budgeted purchases that county staff said are necessary for courthouse operations, prison services and county IT security.

Highlights and supporting details

- Ratified construction contract: The commissioners ratified the previously awarded contract to Shiloh Paving and Excavating for the Williamsburg cross pipe rehabilitation, phase 2, at $4,311,129. The item was presented as a ratification of an award already made by county staff.

- Grants and state funding: The board accepted a Lycoming County Chesapeake Bay Countywide Action Plan Implementation Grant in the amount of $592,437 to support county implementation tasks tied to the Chesapeake Bay plan.

- Legal and public-safety contracts: The board approved increases and new agreements for indigent-defense representation, including an amendment raising an agreement with William Neely from $20,000 to $70,000 related to the Troy Bailey murder case, and an agreement with Bruce Levy and DCPE for public-defender services; both were described as within the 2025 approved public-defender budget.

- Facilities and security: The commissioners approved a five-year security/monitoring/maintenance agreement with Onetronics International for the District Justice building in Jersey Shore, and two elevator-related service agreements with Port Elevator for required five-year testing and life-cycle inspections (noted as state- and insurance-required).

- County farm and equipment: The board approved professional services for a county farm crop specialist and purchased a tractor and wagon (bill of sale) from a private seller for $14,500, citing fair-market value.

- IT and telecommunications: The board approved a $98,900 broadband-consulting agreement with DTC Technologies (funded $50,000 by an ARC Power grant with remainder from other county funds), a one-year spam-filter renewal ($20,852), a five-year firewall refresh ($123,849.20) and an annual firewall software renewal ($5,131.51). A $150 pager replacement for juvenile probation was approved.

- Routine financial items: Commissioners ratified accounts payable of $4,359,790.32 and approved a credit-card purchases report totaling $6,693.41.

- Personnel and salary-board items: The commissioners approved multiple conditional offers of employment across the pre-release center, prison and adult probation. During the salary-board session the board approved routine personnel actions and tabled a separate victim-witness position request for further discussion (see separate article).

Quotes from the meeting

Commissioner Paul Pierce, during roll call on an earlier vote, recorded his vote as "Aye." (Transcript roll call.)

Staff presenters described the broadband-consulting contract as funded in part by an ARC Power grant: "This is funded $50,000 by the ARC Power grant," (staff member Kelsey).

Ending

The board completed the meeting after public business and recessed to a salary-board session earlier in the agenda; the group set the next regular meeting date and closed after finishing the listed items. Several minor procurements and routine renewals approved at the meeting are expected to be implemented by the county departments that requested them.