The Washington County Commission approved a notice of award of $694,926 to the Washington County Health Department to aid in renovations to a new building durin
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The Washington County Board of Commissioners met Tuesday morning in special session to finish some 2020 business.
The only agenda items were five appropriations and six fund transfers.
Commission Clerk Ben Cowdery said the special meeting was held to “bump the timing forward to get these paid.” He said most of the fund transfers were from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
“Five of which are the sheriff’s new health insurance payment that they somehow figured out they needed paid on (Dec.) 31,” Cowdery told the commission.
In late November, the sheriff’s office signed a new contract to switch from the county’s CEBCO insurance to insurance provided by the Teamsters union. At the same meeting, the sheriff’s office moved from the Fraternal Order of Police to the Teamsters union.