28 November 2017 Dearborn County Council Meeting Notes

28 November 2017 Dearborn County Council Meeting Notes

Present: Liz Morris, President, Dennis Kraus. Sr., Dan Lansing, Charlie Keyes, Ryan Brandt, Alan Goodman, and Bill Ullrich. 

Also present: Gayle Pennington, Auditor and Sue Hayden, County Administrator

Title VI statement was read as legally required by Morris

SUPERIOR COURT II – Judge McLaughlin- presented by Pennington- Judge McLaughlin found the money she needed in her budget- so this is not needed for Court forms.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT – Mary Calhoun 

Ordinance to Establish Vital Record Fees- $5 for additional birth certificates is the only change. Approved. 

COMMISSIONERS – Sue Hayden

Lawsuits/Settlement fund – transfer of funds - from a dormant account of $16,863.15 in that account. This cleans up the dormant fund and the unused amount goes back to county general fund. Approved for $16,863.15

Commissioners bench – transfer of funds- The current bench cannot be moved without destroying it. Trinity AKA Bedinghaus can do it for $21,009. Dormant account for Workers Comp has $22,908 and they ask to use that for this purchase. Approved. Kraus noted that this was in addition to the amount budgeted for the annex.  

SHERIFF/JAIL – Sheriff Kreinhop- advised Council that we have more than $30,000 from Ohio County for housing their prisoners. He thinks we will receive a substantial amount from them. They have had a total of 35 prisoners in less than 2 months. $35/day is the pay for them. They are thinking of raising that amount to $55 a day. Also holding one inmate from Decatur County at $45/day. 

Gasoline- $20,000 needed  to get to yer’s end- The sheriff’s dept. uses 53% of the gas. The rest goes to other departments. $15,868.70 was reimbursed by other depts. Averages a little over $2/gal. Approved.  

Inmate meals- $100,000 to cover until the end of the year. Approved. 

Police Pension Modification- withdrawn request per Kreinhop

PARK BOARD – Jim Red Elk

Bright Meadows tree removal- $2,500 from non-reverting capital fund to get dead trees off the walking path area. Safety requires this. Some are ash trees. Approved.

They are also looking at the other parks to handle the ones along the trails there too. They are trying to get waiver for others to come out and the the wood. 

SERCC – Steve Kelly

Monitoring- $5,000 out of juvenile user funds for the GPS equipment (for ankle bracelets) Approved. 

Kelly offered to send them the costs for incarceration in local jails in Indiana. He has those figures. 

REGIONAL SEWER DEVELOPMENT – Steve Renihan

Mt Tabor Upgrade- Upgrades needed on the extension approved about 1.5 years ago. This is to improve  the flow in the line. $31,500 was the cost. 32 customers on that. 57 could be potentially on it eventually. If more customers were on it- then the upgrades would’t be necessary. The 25 that are not hooked up have not been compelled to hook up per the DCRSD policy. Approved. There was discussion with Mike Hankins about requiring failed system to be forced onto the lines.

AUDITOR – Gayle Pennington

Minutes -  approved Oct 4th and Oct 18th.

Maintenance – Janitorial Supplies for the new annex building from several different funds. Approved. 

DC Retired Teachers Association asked for donation per Liz Morris. Pennington will write them to let them know Council can’t do that. 

Pennington- Council Benevolent Fund- Safe Passage got $5,000 for 2018 budget- and they got their contract agreement. 

Sarah Brichto has left the Child Advocacy Center per Pennington. Just to let Council know. 

Guardian ad-litem program is funded by the state- so they needed a sign off on that grant.Approved the pass through grant.

$58,000 grant for the interdiction unit for Special Crimes unit. This adds a state police officer to that unit. Approved. Brandt and Keyes abstained.  Special Crimes officers from Lawrenceburg, County, and State police. Other towns can assist. Rising Sun has an officer on it also per Brandt.

SERPC- Kraus reappointed to serve on that. Approved. 

Salary budget increase was 3% for all except grant or state employees. Approved and signed the salary ordinance.

Council meetings will continue to be on the 4th Tuesday at 6:30 PM.  

Lansing asked whether or not the employees could be on a 401k instead of PERF. Council was pretty sure it was statute to be PERF. 

Brandt asked about a concrete road up north that was all messed up.(Pine Ridge) and Bocock ( sp?) Rd in Dillsboro was another road. He said with Community Crossings grant they could maybe use the county dollars for upgrading some less traveled roads that are in need. The county has to have a plan for the grant money. Council said the case needs to be made to the commissioners. Brandt said everyone deserves the same consideration. Pennington will pass this info on to Listerman. 

Meeting adjourned at 7:47 PM 

Christine Brauer Mueller

Lawrenceburg Township