7 January 2013
Dearborn County Council Meeting Notes
Present: Dennis Kraus. Sr., President, Dan Lansing, Liz
Morris, Randy Lyness, Charlie Keyes, Maynard Barrett, and Bill Ullrich.
Also present: Gayle Pennington, Auditor and Teresa Randall,
County Administrator
Kevin Lynch- Commissioner also present.
Moment of silence for Mrs. Skidmore who passed away this
morning.
REORGANIZATION
Dennis Kraus Sr was
re-elected again as President.
Maynard Barrett was
re-elected again as Vice President.
Two voting appointments
to Redevelopment Commission- Council is keeping Maynard Barrett and Dave
Deddens who is already on it will be their other voting member.
SIRPC SE Indiana
regional Planning Commission- Dennis Kraus, Sr. (Wade Kimmon will be the
alternate if he can’t attend)
PTABOA- Mary
Booker
PLANNING Commission-
Dan Lansing
Juvenile Advisory- Liz
Morris
Emergency Management-
Bill Ullrich
Convention Visitors
and Tourism Bureau- Maynard Barrett
Solid Waste- Randy
Lyness
Community
Corrections- Liz Morris
Personnel Advisory-Dennis
Kraus, Sr and Maynard Barrett
OKI- Mark
McCormack
Citizen appointments:
Regional Sewer Board-
Jeff Stenger- but is not up for reappointment this year.
Alcohol Beverage
Board- Ray Shaffer who has served for 35 years, even though he has had a
stroke and is recovering.
Park Board- Jim
Red Elk
CMHC-Community Mental
Health- Charlie Keyes
Jail and Courthouse
committees- Liz Morris and Dennis Kraus, Sr.
Commissioners - Terri
Randall- Architect and geotech analysis- they are at the interviewing stage
and 4 architect firms are being interviewed Friday. Liz Morris will be there
for interviews Friday. They are trying to see if it is feasible. The best place
to put it is between these two buildings and it would then be adjoined. Maxwell
is assisting with this process. Only one public access so security savings.
They have no price yet. They need a conceptual drawing to get an estimate.
Maxwell determined we were short 20,000 sq ft. to conduct business. They would
have the architect go thru and validate that number. They want to put the funds
up for the entire architect project with an out clause at each stage of eth
process. There are fees associated with Maxwell managing this. There are also
geotech fees. Asking for $250,000 up front and is hoping not to use all of
this. This is a several month process. This is data you would have for all
time. Randall thinks this would be a good investment to know what the costs are
further out.
Morris said she noted that the RQAW numbers pretty much match Maxwell’s. She wants to
know if we can take the funds out of capital improvement section of the
Riverboat fund. Ullrich is impressed with how every one involved with the
building has had input. Lansing said that if he had to vote to fund that now he
would have to vote no. He wanted to know why we would have bought Hoosier
Square if we were going to have an annex. Barrett said we could unload Hoosier
Square anytime we wanted to and make a profit. Lansing said- there are 10 less
people working in the courthouse than before. Morris agreed with Barrett that
when landlocked it is a good idea to buy property when available. Ullrich said
the state has a lot of security things that need to be incorporated in
courthouses. Lansing likes some of the alternatives now that we have all that
invested in the jail. If we get the study- then we are going to do it. Bond or
how to pay for it- Lansing asked. Kraus Sr. said pay for it or it costs twice
as much. If we lose our $5million riverboat revenue we lose 1/3 of our work
force. Lansing worried about all the other gambling competition. Lynch agreed
that we will be seeing decreases. We need to utilize the funds we have now to
build for the future. Because we may not have that money in the future. Lansing
says he doesn’t like being hit up for it all in two years. Kraus, Sr. said why borrow when we had to
move our savings out of Dearborn County and still only get 1-2%. A loan would
be 4% or more. Morris said that we are not looking to build an empire we are
addressing a problem. We have made progress and appropriate capital
improvements for the county. Morris
moved and Ullrich 2nd to approve a NTE $250,000 for architect and
geotech. Randy Lyness agrees with Denny that he doesn’t want to borrow. He
wanted to know what is in capital improvement. About 50% of money is disbursed
for the jail per Randall. Economic development from TIFs will not be available
for 20 year per Denny. Glen Wright told them about an option the private sector
had when they borrow from themselves and pay 1% to the bank that is holding
their cash but paying no interest on it as savings. Pennington didn’t think
gov’t could do that. Randall said she would let the council know exactly what
it would cost when they know. They want to get a couple of good firms competing
for this. Randall said she does not want to be doing this many projects either.
They don’t want to get the reputation for spending money. They are being
prudent in their processes. The feedback is to address this. I have been very
close to the issues over there and it is an embarrassment how we operate over
there with overcrowding etc. Commissioners are all worried also about what will
happen with revenue projections. Lansing still says costs are going to go up. Motion passed 5-2 with Lansing and Keyes as
Nays.
Legal services-
$20,000 approved out of riverboat.
Surveyor- Dennis
Kraus. Jr. – Plotter- withdrawing
his request- he has decided to lease the plotter as it will save money.
Auditor- Gayle
Pennington:
December 10th minutes were approved.
Salary Ordinance Amendment-
Pennington said there were minor changes in jail as not enough in corporals but
too much in sergeants and so they flipped some there. A few more items like
that. And a 10 cent error in one highway worker salary.
Budget Amendment- Rolling
part time money into a full time salary for auditor deputy. $17,000 in part
time money for Sharon Probst. She was working a full 40 hours being shared with
two other departments. This changes her budget by $10,000 more to include
benefits and PERF. Probst also works in HR and Treasurers office. Auditor lost
3 full times and replaced 1. These cuts were from 2010 and 2011. They will
still share her work. Council approved all ordinance and budget amendments.
County Redevelopment request will be moved to another meeting,
Prosecutor and Listerman for highway also want to be on February agenda.
Charlie Keyes questioned the sheriff’s contract employee
salary being higher than Pennington had said it was. Discussion. And he was not
entitled to the 2%. They can table the budget amendment until Pennington gets
it explained with Mike Kreinhop.
Meeting schedule for the year for Council are:
February 18
. May 20th. Budget is set for
week after Labor Day Sept 8-12. Nov 18.All
at 6:30 PM
Listerman wants to
come back for Stateline project $2.2million and advertize out of growth and
development funds and infrastructure funds just in case they want to split it
up. Want to get it constructed this year.
IDEM is making hwy do stream mitigation from North Dearborn in
Guilford Park. He also told them Collier Ridge will be built this year.
Meeting adjourned at 8: 15 PM
Christine Brauer Mueller
Lawrenceburg Township
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