Commissioners Approve $20,000 Purchase of Scheduling Software
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Kosciusko County Commissioners approved the $20,000 purchase of software for setting county employee schedules this morning. They approved the purchase at the recommendation of county auditor Marsha McSherry, who noted the county sheriff’s department has used the same software for a while. And in comparison the sheriff also paid much more, closer to $100,00, for consulting, installation and training, due to having a higher number of employees, she noted. “Right now it’s costing us the same amount of money to do it by hand,” Commissioner Ron Truex remarked ahead of the vote, also noting that the software will make it easier to answer questions about employee hours or scheduling. “We could spend this amount of money every year to not do it, or buy it once.” Commissioners also accepted a $48,000 District 2 grant for incident management team training, and a $9,268 grant to help the sheriff’s department maintain connectivity with squad car computers, both at the request of Emergency Management Director Ed Rock. Rock also said the state is still trying to get a presidential declaration after the November storms that spawned three tornadoes, and is urging anyone who hasn’t declared damages yet to do so through www.in.gov/dhs Also during the meeting, commissioners approved the 2014 contract with Miner and Lemon LLP and the inter-local agreements with the Kosciusko County Convention, Recreation and Visitors Commission and the Solid Waste District. Commissioners also approved appointments for 2014: Alcoholic Beverage Commission, Gordon Vanator; Area Plan director, Dan Richard; Area Plan Board, Bob Conley; Arrowhead RC&D, Stanley Moore; Board of Zoning Appeals, Lee Harman and Charlie Haffner; county administrator, Ron Robinson; county attorney, Mike Miner; KCCRVC, Kristy Plikerd; county highway superintendent, Scott Tilden; Drainage Board, Ron Truex, Don Goon and Bill Holder; GIS, Bill Holder; Homeland Security/LEP, Ed Rock; KEDCo, Ron Truex; Nappanee Library, Angela Pletcher Stillson; Syracuse Library, Cynthia Thornburg; OrthoWorx, Brad Jackson; PTABOA, Phil Beer, Gerald Bitner and Kristy Mayer; Public Defenders Board, John Hall, Alan Alderfer and Steve Harris; Redevelopment Commission, Max Courtney, Bruce Woodward and Henry DeJulia; St. Joe River Basin, John Roberts; system administrator, Bob Momeyer; Veteran Affairs officer, Rich Maron; wage committee, Brad Jackson; Weights and Measures, Larry Marner; Warsaw Community Development Corp., Bob Conley.
