Monroe County commissioners conducted the following business this month:

• Proclaimed October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in the county.

Lauren Peterson, executive director of Safe Monroe, formerly known as Women’s Resources, was on hand to receive the Domestic Violence Awareness Month certificate and said, “We are truly a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week (agency). We don’t take holidays. Domestic violence doesn’t take a holiday. We have the 24-hour hotline, and it really is. You will get a live person. It’s not an answering machine.”

Paterson said that community support is crucial. “It really does require all of us to stand together, too. Abuse, it’s not going to be tolerated here. We are going to believe survivors. We are going to support survivors, and we are going to hold abusers accountable.”

• Presented certificates to Christopher Shelly for receiving the 2025 A. Mitchell Palmer Award, Monroe Career & Technical Institute for its new addition grand opening, and to President Judge Arthur Zulick on his retirement.

Vice Chairman David Parker said Zulick was honored at a dinner and a portrait of him will be unveiled in November in the courtroom.

• Parker commented on Monroe County Technical Institute’s new addition and said, “It’s a great new facility and we’re going to be able to help educate a lot more children in the trades, which is great.”