County approves Adobe licensing contract, inspection services standby contract and several hires

Washington County commissioners approved multiple procurement and hiring actions during the meeting, including an enterprise licensing arrangement for Adobe Acrobat, awards for construction inspection services, and two personnel hires.

Procurement Director Brandy Kentner and Josh O’Neal, the county’s chief technology officer, recommended a three‑year requirements contract for Adobe Acrobat Pro DC for teams to support county departments’ move toward paperless workflows. The meeting record lists the quote amount as $193,912.47 and states funding is available in departmental operating budgets. The board approved the award by voice vote.

Staff also recommended awarding a primary requirements contract for construction and building inspection services to Development Facilitators Inc. (DFI) with a standby contract to ECS Mid‑Atlantic. The procurement presentation included unit rates and estimated hours and noted three proposals were received; the meeting record contains the standby contractor figure for ECS ($225,250) but the transcript’s numeric read for DFI’s award is incomplete in the record. The board approved the awards by voice vote.

On personnel matters, human resources and department managers recommended extending an offer to Ralph Weaver for the chief site inspector position (position 1534) and to Brian Beal for the ECS quality assurance and training coordinator (position 1058). The record shows the Beal offer at $35.61 per hour on the stated grade/step; the chief site inspector’s hourly rate as read in the record is unclear. Commissioners approved both hiring recommendations by voice vote.

Clerks recorded motions, seconds and affirmative voice votes for each item. Staff said the Adobe contract and personnel offers are funded within existing departmental budgets or authorized pay grades.