Wednesday, January 02, 2019

2 Jan 2019 Commissioner Meeting Notes


2 JANUARY 2019 DEARBORN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING NOTES

Present: Art Little, acting president, Jim Thatcher, and Rick Probst

Also present: Connie Fromhold, Auditor, Andy Baudendistel, Attorney, and Sue Hayden, Administrator

TITLE VI STATEMENT FOR COMPLIANCE was read by Baudendistel as legally required.

Art Little congratulated and thanked Rick Probst for serving on the Board of Commissioners.

REORGANIZATION OF BOARD- Election of Board President- Commissioners elected Jim Thatcher as President.

Re-appointments of Department Heads- all retained as below.
Administrator – Sue Hayden
Animal Control Director – Marlene Underwood
Attorney – Andy Baudendistel
Building Inspector – Bill Shelton
Emergency Management Director – Jason Sullivan
Engineer – Todd Listerman
Highway Superintendent – Tim Greive
Maintenance Director – Eric Hartman
911 Director – Jared Teaney

Boards Commissioners Serve (All serve on Solid Waste & Drainage Board) Approved as below.
Emergency Management - Rick Probst
Juvenile Board -Art Little
OKI - Rick Probst
Personnel Advisory -Jim Thatcher
Plan Commission -Jim Thatcher
Region 9 Workforce- Art Little
Southeastern Indiana Regional Plan Commission - SIRPC Art Little
Southeastern Indiana Regional Port Authority – SIRPA -Jim Thatcher

Citizen Boards – Appointments accepted as below with exception of cemetery board which is tabled.
Alcohol Beverage Board – Jim Dole
Aurora Public Library District – Sue Manford & Angela Burkhardt
Cemetery Board – Milt Masing- TABLED until Sue hears back from Art Wenzel to see if Milt is coming back.
Convention & Visitor’s Bureau – Stephanie York, Marilyn Bower, Tim Dole, Charlotte Hastings
Health Board - Cheryl Peebles
Planning Commission – Michael Lynch reappointed 
Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals (PTABOA) – Mark Hardebeck & Mark Neff
Regional Sewer District – Steve Renihan

Other Appointment: ADA Coordinator – Sue Hayden approved again.
The scope is for county owned facilities and sidewalks monitored by the highway engineer. 

OLD BUSINESS- none

NEW BUSINESS
Permission to Approach Council / Purchase of Fuel Prover – Building Commissioner, Bill Shelton- tabled until next meeting as Shelton is ill and will come to the next meeting.

Highway Engineer, Todd Listerman:
HWC Engineering Memorandum of Agreement- This relates to transportation assessment that is part of Community Crossings program. This covers pavements and HWC does this as an unbiased assessment for the county. They evaluate 50% of the roads each year. They will update the pavement management plan for $15,000. This was $30,000 initially. Now they are cheaper as they are re-evaluating.  Approved and signed.

USI Consultants On-Call Professional Services for Consulting Engineer- sometimes there are engineering design work for the highway dept. for spot projects. This is a good company out of Indy. They recently hired Doug Graf who will be in an office on Yorkridge Road. This is for on-call work.They will discuss the scope and costs individually on projects. This is useful for washouts and small projects that infrequently occur. Maximum of $25,000 is the limit per code. Approved. 

Bridge #76, Jamison Road Construction Inspection Contract- last paperwork for this for Rohe Paving and also the inspection contract itself for FPBH for $32,125. Both approved.

Baudendistel brought this up while Listerman is present- Bentle’s properties are being acquired but they are not in agreement on the appraisal from the county. Richard Butler, their lawyer, said they are getting their own appraisals. So the county is getting their condemnation files in order. They need this by Jan 11. They will proceed with condemnation filed on Jan 11- but they can still negotiate after that.  This is for Stateline project. They court will appoint 3 appraisers and they will proceed from there. This is a federal aid project so this is needed. The county got an appraisal and then had a review appraisal of that one. 

ADMINISTRATOR – Sue Hayden- thanked for reappointment.

AUDITOR – Connie Fromhold  -Claims/Minutes from Dec 18th approved. Probst abstained form the minutes approval as he was not in office then. 

ATTORNEY – Andy Baudendistel- thanked for reappointment. Wilker case- the court ordered a receiver be appointed. Stop work order until the receiver is appointed. Each side gets chance to nominate 2 receivers. Shelton will get two to go into the property and get list and costs. Wilker’s attorneys withdrew from the case after the court order and the court approved that. He is currently without representation. Humphrey is the judge on this case. There is a small claims judgment for $6000 for drainage issues. That judgement is almost paid off. No the aliens on property. 

COMMISSIONER COMMENTS- Art Little- looking forward to working with them in new year.
Rick Probst- glad to be here-I obviously don’t know what Im doing yet-  the more I learn the more I find there is to learn. Pleased with how a complaint on Gutzwiller Rd and he saw how it worked out, even though he was not commissioner then.
Jim Thatcher- First rule of Commissioner, Rick- don’t sat you don’t know what you are doig! Laughter- Also thanked the board and staff and looking forward to working with them. 

LATE ARRIVAL INFORMATION- none

PUBLIC COMMENT- none

ADJOURN- 9:42 AM

Christine Brauer Mueller
Lawrenceburg Township

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