The Board of Carroll County Commissioners will meet for a weekly county business meeting Thursday. Among the items on the agenda are several purchase approvals, a grant application request and a public hearing on awarding a contract for service at Carroll Community College.
The first item on the commissioners’ agenda is from the county’s Bureau of Aging and Disabilities, which is part of the Department of Citizen Services. Department Director Celene Steckel will ask commissioners Thursday for their approval for a grant application that county staff hopes to use to help fund a part-time position in the bureau to enhance care for people with dementia.
According to the agenda, the county’s Bureau of Aging & Disabilities recently participated in a work group with the Maryland Department of Aging to develop a program to enhance programming to provide new services to individuals with symptoms of dementia that interfere with daily living activities, as well as to their caregivers. The department plans to apply for a fiscal 2025 Long-Term Care and Dementia Navigation Grant in the amount of $26,732 for the program.
Commissioners will also oversee a public hearing on a $32,901.14 contract award for removal and replacement of carpet at Carroll Community College’s P Building. The P Building opened in 2002 and includes 15 faculty and staff offices, four classrooms, a gym, fitness center and locker rooms, according to the agenda. The building’s hallway is “a major corridor from the C Building to the K Building,” and therefore gets a lot of foot traffic, the agenda states, and the age of the carpet creates trip hazards and also makes removal of stains difficult or impossible.
The Office of Procurement will ask commissioners to approve the contract for removal and installation of carpet to Shaw Integrated Solutions.
The office is also asking for the commissioners’ approval on the following purchases or contracts:
- $732,897.04 to Motorola Solutions, Inc., for the purchase of portable radios and accessories for the Department of Public Safety at the Public Safety Training Center and at the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office Training Academy.
- $53,900 to Motorola Solutions, Inc., for the purchase of live streaming services that integrate with body worn and in-car cameras for the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office. The office was awarded a grant to cover funding of related equipment.
- $50,950 to Marathon Technology Services, LLC, for the purchase of replacement cameras for the county’s Detention Center.
The commissioners’ meeting is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., Thursday, in Room 311 of the County Office Building, 225 N. Center St., in Westminster. The meeting will be livestreamed at https://www.youtube.com/@CarrollCountyGov.
Anyone can make public comment at the meeting, in person or online. Those wishing to attend online should call 872-240-3212 and enter access code 317-923-893 to join the meeting.
