Votes at a glance: Bonner County commissioners’ actions on April 28, 2026

At their April 28 meeting the Bonner County Board of Commissioners took the following formal actions (motions and roll-call outcomes as recorded in the meeting transcript):

• Agenda and order: Motion to amend the agenda to remove a District 2 commissioner discussion and then to adopt the agenda as amended — both motions passed by roll call.

• Consent agenda: Approved consent agenda including a sheriff’s invoice for bulletproof vests totaling $20,216.89 — motion passed.

• Parade permit: Approved a letter granting the Coolin Civic Organization permission to hold the Priest Lake Spring Festival parade May 20–21 — motion passed; staff will verify a suspicious $7,900 invoice reported by organizers.

• Facilities contract: Approved a three‑year elevator maintenance contract with Schindler Elevator Corporation at $13,831.20 per year for courthouse and county complex elevators — motion passed.

• Emergency management: Approved a resolution terminating the local disaster declaration for flooding (resolution number referenced as 25-90) — motion passed.

• Parks closure: Approved closure of the Bonner Park West parking lot and boat launch on Saturday, July 25, 2026, for Timber Days — motion passed.

• Airports: Motion to reject the bids received for a snow removal equipment storage building at Priest River Airport and to rebid the project — motion passed.

• Financial approvals: Approved FY26 claims batch #30 totaling $358,623.90 and FY26 demands batch #30 totaling $1,087,125.57 (including an $894,000 USDA loan payment for solid waste) — motions passed.

• Prosecutor’s items: Approved closing the Children at Risk (CAR) account and transferring remaining funds (~$342.79) to the state CAC grant account; approved opening the budget to distribute $1,550 in donations for the Lily Brook kids fair — motions passed.

• Sheriff’s items: Allocated $13,593 from the justice fund contingency to replace a jail touchscreen computer and approved payment of $226,971 to complete the jail programmable logic controller replacement — motions passed.

• Appointments: Appointed Vicky Woodward to fill a vacancy on the Bonner County Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council through Jan. 1, 2027 — motion passed.

Where recorded in the transcript, motions were moved and seconded and passed by roll call; detailed mover/second and vote tallies (by name) are not consistently recorded verbatim in the transcript and are summarized here as passed by roll call where the transcript indicates consent.