2026-11-12 Committee Meetings

Oceana County committee meetings, November 13, 2026, included Courts & Public Safety and Finance & Administration discussions. Mid Michigan Medical Examiner Group presented its 2025 update and discussed increasing per-case investigation rates, including a facility-fee approach intended to avoid dispatching an investigator when a hospital physician can provide the needed records. Commissioners described the increase as reasonable, but no vote approving the rates is captured. Hart and Pentwater fire departments have signed an agreement to merge into the West Michigan Fire and Rescue Authority, with plans to hire two full-time firefighters; the Sheriff’s Office also reported that a body-worn camera grant application remains pending and was not included in the proposed 2027 budget. A committee is reviewing opioid-related RFPs for later presentation to the board.

Finance and Administration discussed moving $200,000 from the general fund to the MIDC fund, with interest and dividends returned to the county’s general fund, and a revised apportionment report following a township millage. The county also discussed a previously approved firearms purchase of about $49,000; the vendor name in the transcript is unclear. For the dam, members discussed estimates of under $1 million for work, potentially another $250,000 or more for contaminated-soil disposal, and agreed to send available information to EGLE for feedback before deciding next steps. Members supported auctioning unused transfer-station equipment and requested a financial comparison of the transfer station arrangement. Resolution 26-14, concerning utility-line expansion and use of existing corridors, was discussed, but no vote is captured. No other procurement vote is clearly recorded in the transcript.