Lewis County officials this month rectified a cumbersome process that had been in place for years regarding enacting routine contracts. For example, the Lewis County Board of Legislators each year had to vote to allocate $147 for an annual fire extinguisher inspection. To streamline the process, board members recently passed a resolution to limit such voting requirements to contracts of at least $5,000. âWeâre running a $50 million operation with a $80 million hospital and a combined employment of over 1,000 people, Weâve got 27,000 people in a community that continues to lose ...