The Lycoming County commissioners on Dec. 3 approved a slate of routine administrative items including large invoice ratifications, personnel hires and several vendor agreements.

Finance staff presented two invoice batches for ratification: invoices due through Dec. 3, 2025 totaling $4,532,034.03, and invoices due through Dec. 10, 2025 totaling $3,183,906.89. Commissioners moved, seconded and approved both ratifications by voice vote.

Personnel items approved included promotions and conditional offers: Erica Gardner was promoted to senior court reporter (effective Jan. 5, 2026) and multiple hires across domestic relations, prerelease, corrections and EMS were authorized pending background checks. The board recessed for the salary board and later returned to approve the listed personnel actions.

The board also approved several professional-services and maintenance agreements requested by elected offices and departments: a $100,000 agreement for expert consultation with Cybergenetics (district attorney), a Patricia Shipman contract not to exceed $60,000 to support enforcement of support orders (domestic relations; the item was described as 66% reimbursable by state Title IV-D funds), an amendment expanding digital-forensics hours for Cornerstone & Discovery for the public defender, and a $25,000 Geisinger Clinic agreement for DA consultation.

Public-safety and IT renewals were approved, including two contracts with Keystone Communications — a $38,783 microwave-maintenance renewal and a $46,848 agreement for 24/7 coverage of simulcast control and dispatch systems — and a prison intercom system budgeted at $41,531.84 with department staff noting they plan to perform much of the installation in-house to save approximately $23,000.

Several smaller operational and capital purchases were also approved: maintenance for voter-services envelope equipment, a replacement prison data-storage unit for video evidence (BNA, $4,545.87 cited in the presentation), an ALS Group USA Corp invoice for third-party groundwater testing (department reported results were clear), and routine janitorial and facility contracts for remote sites.

Commissioners discussed contingency and reimbursement processes for a change order at the Porterville lighting project and tabled reappointments to the conservation district until additional nominees could be considered.

The meeting record shows motions carried by voice vote with commissioners saying “aye”; the transcript does not include a detailed roll-call tally for these items.