Committee approves retroactive amendment to Prime Management IT staffing contract

Wayne County commissioners on Feb. 1 approved a retroactive amendment to a staffing contract with Prime Management to continue providing temporary IT personnel for the sheriff’s office.

County staff said the amendment increases the one-year contract from $137,862 to $275,724 and covers one desktop IT analyst serving the jail area; the agreement is retroactive to August and will run through September 2026. Miss Bonita Terry described delays in processing the contractor paperwork and Oracle systems that led to the retroactive request. "It is retroactive. We did start on this in August...but between the timing with the contractor getting their paperwork that was needed from the state of Michigan and our processes here... it is retro, unfortunately," Terry said.

Commissioner Peterson Mayberry and others asked whether the increase reflected a scope change; Miss Terry said the scope remains essentially the same and that the hourly rate is $66.28. Policy analyst Joe Slazak explained that an earlier IT contractor (ACRO) initially did not come before the commission because its contract was below the procurement ordinance threshold; once spending exceeded the threshold, the matter was brought to the commission.

Miss Terry said the county is working with central IT to staff a permanent desktop analyst position and will consider direct hire at contract renewal. The committee approved the amendment on a motion by Commissioner Dobbs, seconded by Commissioner Klemente; the transcript records the vote as "motion carried."