The South Summit Council of Governments (SSCOG) held its regular meeting on Friday, June 26, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. at the City of Green Central Administration Building. President Rocco Yeargin (Green) and Vice President Steve Rector (New Franklin) presided. The board unanimously approved minutes from the March 19, 2026 regular meeting and the April 17, 2026 special meeting. Five resolutions were adopted, all with unanimous votes, covering legal representation, amended by‑laws, updated dispatch cost allocations, an unclaimed monies fund, and a cybersecurity policy. The dispatch manager and treasurer reported on operational and financial updates, including a new positive pay bank control and an approved overage on a consultant invoice.
Calling to order the uh South Summit Council of Governments meeting for Friday, June 26, 2026. If you could please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance. Richard Sands, one nation under God, indivisible authority and justice for all. The Secretary would call the roll, please. Yes. Mayor Jurgen. Here. Mayor Rector? Here. Next item is the approval of minutes. If we could have a motion for the approval of the regular meeting minutes for March 19, 2026. So moved. I'm going to second it. Wonderful. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. And if I could get a motion to approve the special meeting minutes from April 17, 2026. So moved. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Moving to the topics of discussion. The first resolution is resolution 2026. To provide general legal representation for the COG. It's necessary as a government entity to have counsel on hand to help us with general legal questions, procedural matters, and just relative and general legal issues that come up. So it's absolutely necessary to have a relationship with an attorney. And that has particular value because a lawyer who understands the legal issues, how they're litigated, is good when it look when it comes to looking back and saying preventatively how you avoid legal problems, right? Because they he's familiar with how they play out. And I'll say as a generally good human being. Good. Good. So if uh let me move to approve the resolution. I can pull it back up here. Authorizing the South Summit Council of Governments to enter into an agreement with the Cowda Pitchford and Yoder to provide general legal representation. I'll note that the um agreement for legal services is attached to an exhibit to this resolution. Um the fees are uh reasonable given this nature the nature of this work, uh, and I've already spoken to the qualifications of the candidate. So I would like to move to adopt 2026 03. Second. The clerk would call the roll. Mayor Jurgen. Yes. Mayor Rector. Yes. Motion is carried. Uh the next resolution is 2026. A resolution amending the bylaws of the South Summit Council of Governments and adapting the bylaws as amended. Uh we had a full meeting back on April 17th that was specifically geared towards talking about amending our bylaws. What we did is we went through the entire bylaws to make sure that uh it reflected recent changes in the organization, a definition of roles, new hires such as our assistant and our um treasurer uh to uh make sure that it ref accurately reflected what the organization was doing.