Votes and actions: minutes, contracts, grants and tower agreements approved or moved in block

The Ontario County Public Safety Committee recorded several formal actions and block motions during its meeting.

The committee moved to accept previously circulated minutes and proceeded to consider multiple resolutions in block. A presenter asked for approval to renew a $9,000 annual contract with the New York State Defenders Association for the county case management system; staff said the contract is 100% funded by the Office of Indigent Legal Services grant. The chair and members then moved and approved a block of resolutions covering a Hunt Hollow communications tower lease amendment and an intermunicipal agreement with Steuben County, and a Seneca County hillside 700 MHz project contract extension.

Grant acceptances were also on the agenda: the committee considered both the FY25 State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) and the FY25 Emergency Management Preparedness Grant (EMPG); members questioned a county match line in one grant (noted as $40,001.53) and staff clarified the county meets match with existing staff time rather than creating new grant-funded positions. The committee also moved to amend a contract with Crawford Associates to develop a Mass Fatality Plan annex, a family assistance plan and to conduct a tabletop exercise using FY25 grant funds.

Several sheriff's office items were presented and moved: renewal of incarcerated individual supplies procurement and finalization of an agreement regarding core security. Recorded roll-call vote details were not provided in the transcript for every item; the chair called for voices of assent and members responded.