Rockingham County commissioners completed a slate of formal votes at the Oct. 30 meeting, approving accounts payable, contract renewals, change orders and personnel actions. The following summarizes key formal actions recorded in the official meeting transcript.

Votes at a glance

- Accounts payable list approved: Motion to approve the Oct. 2025 accounts payable list for $3,190,697.67 (amount read at the meeting). Vote: unanimous yes from commissioners present.

- Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) amendment approved: Motion approved to extend the ROC Ramam Group Water Infrastructure Project completion date from Dec. 31, 2025 to June 30, 2026 and to authorize the chair to sign necessary documents. Vote: unanimous yes.

- Toshiba copier change order approved: Motion approved for a facilities change order related to a Toshiba copier in an amount not to exceed $4,290 as recommended by IT/Facilities. Vote: unanimous yes.

- Video master service agreement and service order approved: Motion approved for a 12-month service order to provide resident internet and guest Wi-Fi. Vote: unanimous yes.

- HR personnel and recruitment actions approved: Multiple HR items approved, including an exception to allow overlapping training (multiple employees filling one position temporarily), an internal-only job posting for a nursing manager, revised job descriptions and a title change for long-term care supply technicians. Vote: unanimous yes on recorded motions.

- Square 9 Softworks cloud subscription enrollment: Original motion to authorize signing was amended on the floor; the amended motion to authorize the chair to sign the Square 9 subscription enrollment form carried.

- Nonpublic session sealing: Of eight nonpublic items considered, the board voted to seal item number 3 indefinitely; the other seven nonpublic items were not sealed.

Each of the above motions was proposed, seconded, and recorded in the meeting minutes. Where individual mover/second names were not explicitly recorded in the verbal transcript, the board recorded unanimous approval via the commissioners' roll-call affirmations.

Ending: These votes were procedural and administrative in nature; staff will implement the approved contracts, personnel actions and the CDBG agreement extension as authorizations are executed.