20 December 2012
Dearborn County Council Meeting Notes
Present: Dennis Kraus. Sr., President, Dan Lansing, Liz Morris, Maynard Barrett, Bryan Messmore,
and Bill Ullrich.
Councilman Jim Hughes
passed away Dec 9th.
Also present: Gayle Pennington, Auditor and Teresa Randall,
County Administrator
Charlie Keyes and Randy Lyness were present also (
councilmen-elect)
Everyone stood for a moment of silence for Jim Hughes.
REDEVELOPMENT
COMMISSION- Land Acquisition- Mike Rozow
introduced Paul Kunkle who requested money to buy almost 42 acres in West
Harrison TIF. $850,000 left out of $1.5 million they had been allocated. They
want $550,000 which will be matched by City of Lawrenceburg. Economic
development will own it and once a piece is sold they will turn it over to
Redevelopment Commission. Survey was done for $1900 by Becker Bayer who had
done multiple surveys on this area. They want to do it this year because of
capital gains issues. Company interested in 15 acres and we will have 23 left.
Original 72 acres in Tom Stone property. 8 acres went to Hirlinger. Paying
under $40,000 an acre. This land is in the 500 year flood plain and out of the
100 year flood plain. They plan to close on Dec 27 at 1 PM. Ullrich motioned and Morris 2nded to transfer the $550,000 for the
purchase of this land. Passed.
Commissioners- Terri
Randall:
High Street
Demolition- Mike Hrezo and Bob Hrezo of Hrezo Engineering was present as
they requested the money to take down both buildings to finish it off and get
the parking set up for 40- 60 spaces if we take down both Shumway and Votaw
Building. $244,310 total cost. $110,407 is left of the Lawrenceburg money.
$133,903.50 more is needed- but they requested $135,000. They will not ask for
any more money for this. Randall said they need to spend the money from
Lawrenceburg. You never know when that will go away. Lansing motioned and 2nd
by Morris to approve the request for the money to demolish these two
properties.
Salary Transfer-
$6,970 to cover Randall’s paycheck for the rest of the year as they had
calculated it incorrectly. They had money that was extra in insurance funds
that they will transfer for this. Approved.
Jail
Expansion/renovation- Terri Randall-introduced Brad Rullman from Maxwell
and Mark Van Allen from Rosser inc and Jeff Lyness from Maxwell who were
present as Randall gave the presentation the same as was given to Commissioners.
She also commented on Jim Hughes who showed great character on the Jail
Committee even though he was against the project. Randall said that Integrus
study on this was independent because even though he was consulting with
Maxwell on the project this fee was extra beyond that fee and his fee with
Maxwell was the same no matter how big
the jail was.
Lansing asked about the cost of home incarceration versus
the cost of jail. Morris said that per some conversation she heard and that she
knows this is unscientific- but that some of the people on home incarceration
should probably be in the jail. We have more felons than we used to and they
get longer stays. We will average 347 inmates in the next 10 years per the data
projections.
100-125 per year were arrested due to the boat per Kreinhop
(using numbers from when he was there 5 years ago.) He does not know what those
numbers are currently. Lansing noted that the casino has 24% less patrons this
Nov compared to last. That might translate to less arrests – particularly with
the Cincinnati casino.
Morris noted that RQAW had projected 390 inmates for 2020.
Kraus asked why there is no one smart enough to stop the revolving door with
the rearrests due to alcohol etc. Randall said the 12% growth rate was the
realistic estimate.
Mark Van Allen gave his spiel on the new things in this jail
project. This was the same as what he told Commissioners. (see notes from that
meeting)
Morris asked about the JCAP program. Answer from Van Allen
was that JCAP has 16 beds for men and 16 for women in the intensive program and
then 8 each on another floor for those continuing to serve their sentence as a
graduate program- like a step down program.
Jeff Lyness went over the budget for each option:
$77,238 cost per bed for the 120 beds for $9.3 million
$48,000 cost per bed to go to 144 beds for $11.4 million
208 beds for $11,800 each for the additional $800,000 beyond
the $11.4 million.
Brad Rullman gave the allocations to date.
Kraus asked about building it out all the way- and then they
would have no reason to watch how fast they are filling it up. Randall said
that the commissioners asked them to do these alternates. Lyness said that the
construction market is making it more economical to do this.
Morris spoke out to go to the 144 beds and at least bid out
the 208.
Lansing talked about how fast it will fill up and then we
will have the operational costs out of savings. Kraus agreed that there would
be increased personnel. They can use inmates to help clean floors etc. They saw
this on some tours of other facilities per Randall. Video visitation and automated
commissary might save some money. Morris said that people in the judiciary
anguish over who to let loose to put someone more dangerous in jail. This is
what we have to do to keep the community safe.
Kraus said once you build the 208 bed there is no incentive
to have any other solutions to the problem.
Messmore has been part of this for a long time. I don’t
think any of us want to build a jail- but we have taken this washrag and wrung
it until it’s dry. I think it’s wise to get the bid for the 208. He thinks it
will be better to build it out rather than take these costs to a later date.
Chris Mueller spoke requesting more data to be gathered from
here on out to show what we are accomplishing with JCAP and also for the rate
of incarceration. For more detail this was essentially the same request made to
the commissioners to get all parties involved in seeing what policies and
procedures could help alleviate jail overcrowding. (bonds, continuances etc)
Lansing said 70 % longer stays in Dearborn County than jails
across the state. Not sure if that was from RQAW data.
If JCAP were to be changed to something else it would be
difficult to change because it’s all built of very stout materials.
Messmore motioned to
accept the Commissioner’s request for 144 bed version for $11.4 million with
Barrott 2nding. 4 ayes and 1 nay form Lansing, Chair did not vote though he had
previously stated he was in favor of this version. Passed.
Kraus asked Randall to check on the JCAP data and see if
Commissioners would request it. She said she would dialogue with them on this.
Jail Additional—nothing
said about this.
Gayle Pennington-needed
more for Wanda Treadway for $440 so that Sue Hayden can take her 10 days
vacation. Passed.
Salary Ordinance-
The salary ordinance- reflected all the things they had passed at budget time.
Passed.
Park Board was
removed from the agenda and they will have to re start the discussion for next
year.Messmore motioned to do this Lansing 2nd. Passed. Park Board was not on this agenda – but they
had been tabled in November. This was about fencing for Gladys Russell Park.
Meeting adjourned at 8:25 PM
Christine Brauer Mueller
Lawrenceburg Township
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