Carroll County Commissioners on Jan. 17, 2025 approved a bundle of routine administrative actions, including contracts for assessing and statistical services, payment manifests, an audit engagement, updates to badge access at county facilities, a roofing change order and a memorandum allowing the sheriff to remain on the county’s health insurance plan.

Board actions included:

- Approval of an agreement for assessing services and a statistical update contract with Whitney Consulting (motion, second, voice vote recorded).
- Approval of the Jan. 10, 2025 meeting minutes (motion, second, voice vote recorded).
- Approval of the accounts payable manifest for Jan. 16, 2025 in the amount of $821,649.27 and the payroll manifest for Jan. 17, 2025 in the amount of $226,732.54 (motions, seconds, voice vote recorded).
- Approval of an audit engagement letter from a long‑time auditor (hourly engagement; chair authorized to sign the engagement letter).
- Reappointments to the New Hampshire Association of Counties executive committee (HR director, jail superintendent and nursing home administrator were reappointed; one existing seat held by Commissioner McCarthy remains unresolved and the board deferred filling one vacant seat).
- Approval of recommended changes to facility badge access (board voted to accept staff recommendations; the board asked that access be reviewed periodically and noted CJIS certification is required for vault access).
- Approval of a roofing change order to add missed snow guards at the jail; the contractor provided an itemized proposal and a credit; the board accepted the change order as presented.
- Approval of a memorandum of understanding to allow the sheriff to remain on the county health insurance carrier as previously authorized by the delegation (board recorded a motion and vote to approve the MOU).
- The board entered and exited a nonpublic session under RSA 91‑A to review nonpublic minutes and chose to release (unseal) the Nov. 21 public minutes.
- The board agreed to reinstate public comment at both the beginning and the end of future meetings; commissioners voted to allow up to five minutes for end‑of‑meeting public comment going forward.

Several items were described as procedural or formality. For example, staff said the MOU for the sheriff was “effectively a formality” to maintain existing insurance coverage previously authorized by the delegation. The board also directed staff to provide additional clarification next week about policy language concerning purchase of county‑produced goods.

Votes at a glance (motions recorded in the meeting):
- Approve Whitney Consulting assessing/statistical contracts — outcome: approved (motion and second recorded; vote by voice).
- Approve Jan. 10, 2025 minutes — outcome: approved (motion and second recorded; vote by voice).
- Approve accounts payable $821,649.27 and payroll $226,732.54 — outcome: approved (motions and seconds recorded; vote by voice).
- Authorize chair to sign audit engagement letter — outcome: approved (motion and second recorded; vote by voice).
- Reappoint three seats to NH Association of Counties executive committee — outcome: approved (motion and second recorded; vote by voice).
- Approve facility badge access changes (including CJIS requirement for vault access) — outcome: approved (motion and second recorded; vote by voice).
- Approve roofing change order to add missed snow guards at the jail — outcome: approved (motion and second recorded; vote by voice).
- Approve MOU to continue sheriff’s health insurance coverage — outcome: approved (motion and second recorded; vote by voice).
- Release (unseal) Nov. 21 nonpublic minutes — outcome: approved (motion and second recorded; roll‑call recorded according to RSA 91‑A).

Where the transcript did not provide named roll‑call tallies, the minutes reflect voice votes recorded in the meeting and the meeting recorder captured motions and seconds for each listed action.

Ending: Commissioners recessed the meeting and set the next regular meeting date; they also agreed to move future meetings to Mondays at 9:30 a.m. and to allow public comment at both the start and end of meetings.