21 May 2019 DEARBORN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING NOTES

21 May 2019 DEARBORN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING NOTES

Present: Jim Thatcher, President, Art Little

Also present:Andy Baudendistel, Attorney, and Sue Hayden, Administrator

ABSENT: Connie Fromhold, Auditor and Rick Probst, Commissioner- who listened over the speaker phone but did not vote.

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

Executive Session: 4:30 p.m.  IC § 5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(2)(B) For discussion of strategy with respect to…Initiation of litigation or litigation that is either pending or has been threatened specifically in writing.  As used in this clause, “litigation” includes any judicial action or administrative law proceeding under federal or state law.

MEMORANDUM FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION- Baudendistel - read the statement that nothing was discussed except what was advertised.

ACTION OF EXECUTIVE SESSION- Thatcher moved to accept the counter offers for the Stateline and the Bridge 5 properties on East Laughery. Little 2nd- approved the counter offers for both.

OLD BUSINESS

Radio Equipment Finance Agreement – Jared Teaney, 911 Director- Baudendistel read over the agreement and the Commissioners accepted the financing from KC State Bank ( sp?) Approved.

NEW BUSINESS

Redaction Service Agreement – Joyce Oles, Recorder- the four year agreement is switched to a one year agreement. The cost does not change. Baudendistel reviewed it. Commissioners approved and signed it. Thatcher praised Oles for being very thorough.

Ordinance Establishing Prosecutor’s Laboratory Services Fund- Lynn Deddens- presented by Baudendistel. In cases where the breathalyzer is refused and a blood draw warrant is granted, the prosecutor’s office pays for it. They are seeking to get refunds for this from the defendant in plea deals etc. When they get the money - they need a fund to have the money deposited. The fee gets assessed at sentencing. This is a special non-reverting fund for the prosecutor’s office. Approved. 

ADMINISTRATOR – Sue Hayden- nothing

AUDITOR –-Claims/Minutes- presented by Hayden for Connie Fromhold. Claims approved and the minutes from May 8 meeting approved. 

ATTORNEY – Andy Baudendistel- update on Wilker case. Set for hearing last Monday May 13. Wilkers have elected to sell the property through Todd Bischoff in Harrison. Any sales documents will have language in it to hold DC harmless for problems. Not known if there is insurance on it, Current property owner is Melissa Wilker. 

COMMISSIONER COMMENTS- Little- Coming up on Decoration Day and we should remember those who served this weekend. 

Thatcher- For Memorial Day- he read a statement and a short poem.on what we should remember for the price others paid for our freedom.

LATE ARRIVAL INFORMATION none

PUBLIC COMMENTnone 

ADJOURN- 5:19 PM

Christine Brauer Mueller

Lawrenceburg Township

AGENDA- May 21st DC Commissioners Meeting

AGENDA

DEARBORN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MEETING

May 21, 2019 

5:00 p.m. Henry Dearborn Room

Dearborn County Government Center

165 Mary Street, Lawrenceburg, Indiana

Executive Session: 4:30 p.m.  IC § 5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(2)(B) For discussion of strategy with respect to…Initiation of litigation or litigation that is either pending or has been threatened specifically in writing.  As used in this clause, “litigation” includes any judicial action or administrative law proceeding under federal or state law.

I. CALL TO ORDER

II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

III. TITLE VI STATEMENT FOR COMPLIANCE

IV. MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE SESSION

V. ACTION FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION

VI. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

1.  Radio Equipment Finance Agreement – Jared Teaney, 911 Director

VII. NEW BUSINESS

1.  Redaction Service Agreement – Joyce Oles, Recorder

2.  Ordinance Establishing Prosecutor’s Laboratory Services Fund

VIII. ADMINISTRATOR – Sue Hayden

IX. AUDITOR – Connie Fromhold

1.  Claims/Payroll/Minutes

X. ATTORNEY – Andy Baudendistel

XI. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS

XII. LATE ARRIVAL INFORMATION

XIII. PUBLIC COMMENT

XIV. ADJOURN

AGENDA May 28th County Council Meeting

AGENDA

DEARBORN COUNTY COUNCIL MEETING

Tuesday May 28, 2019 at 6:30 p.m.

Henry Dearborn Room

Dearborn County Government Center

165 Mary Street, Lawrenceburg, Indiana

CALL TO ORDER: 

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

TITLE VI STATEMENT FOR COMPLIANCE- 

CIRCUIT COURT- Judge Humphrey

Pauper Attorney- $50,000 

Other Pauper Attorney- $20,000 

CLERK- Gayle Pennington

Voting machines- $25,000

Wage increase retro to 1^st pay in January- $2,258 

*includes FICA & PERF*

MAINTENANCE- Eric Hartman- Assist Maintenance Supervisor

SURVEYOR- Dennis Kraus 

Increase and Job description change GIS Technician/1^st Deputy. Pay increase of $9,438 additional responsibilities no additional, just a transfer money is already in the budget for 2019. The pay increase is from $31,062 to $40,500.

PARK BOARD- Jim RedElk

Building Demolition & Earthwork- $30,000 

Mowing Supplement-$7,038 

Utility Trailer- $2,200

SOIL & WATER – Jennifer Hughes, MS4 program update.

BUILDING DEPARTMENT-Bill Shelton

Requesting $32,000 for Weights and Measures fuel prover.

Requesting $30,000 for demolition costs.

Transfer $25,000 Part-time to 300 account for contract work for Weights & Measures

COMMISSIONERS- Jim Thatcher requesting $50,000 to be transferred from Workers Comp to:

$10,000Professional Expert Fees 

$40,000 to Furnishings/Other Improvements.

HIGHWAY- Todd Listerman

Requesting $400,000 for Community Crossings matching grant fund.

Requesting $1,500,000 for Road Resurfacing and Pavement/Bridge Preservation.

JUVENILE CENTER- Traci Agner

Overtime money- $17,828  

Holiday pay- $11,885 

Youth Attendant IV- $3,672 existing budgeted amount (increase)

Additional Youth Attendant-$40,019 includes taxes & PERF 

HEALTH DEPT- Connie Fromhold presenting for Mary Calhoun.

Grant- $91,483.48 for vaccinations (HPV & Influenza)

            $ 80,087.26 Tobacco Quitline Trainings & Presentations.

PLANNING & ZONING- Leah Bailey presenting for Mark McCormack.

Printing and advertising-$800

Contract employment- $5,184 (Aurora funds rolled over from last year)

Part-Time- $2,293 (Aurora funds rolled over from 2018)

Part-Time- $2,206 (Dillsboro funds rolled over from 2018)

Clothing with Planning and Zoning seal ($400 Dillsboro funds rolled over from 2018

Greendale Mayor- Alan Weiss- Wants to tell County what a good job Solid Waste is doing.

AUDITOR – Connie Fromhold

Minutes from Feb 26, 2019

Redevelopment report submitted to DLGF on March 28, 2019, due on or before April 15, 2019.

Just making it part of the record.

Salary Ordinance

LIT money reduction and additional.

PUBLIC COMMENT

ADJOURN

Special Meeting for DC Redevelopment Commission for May 23

PUBLIC NOTICE

Dearborn County Redevelopment Special Meeting

The Dearborn County Redevelopment Commission 

has called a special meeting to be held

Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 9 a.m.

This meeting will take place at the

Lawrenceburg Public Library – North Dearborn Branch

25969 Dole Road

West Harrison, IN 47060

The purpose of the meeting is to review property appraisals in the West Harrison economic development area and action related to disposition of property in that same TIF district.  Other housekeeping items may be addressed.

Holcomb Doesn't Need to Beg Us to Stay in Indiana

Holcomb Doesn't Need to Beg Us to Stay in Indiana

by Leo Morris

It’s amazing how so-called professional journalists can report the bare facts and somehow miss the bigger story right in front of them.

Here is the news report from KOB-4 out of Albuquerque, N.M.:

Two girls in Roswell had a plan to get a message to their grandparents in Heaven. Shayla and Haylie Chaves wrote a letter, put it in a sealed bag and tied it to a balloon. The letter eventually landed in a woman’s garden in Indiana.

The woman who received the letter wrote the girls. Now, they plan to pay it forward. "It's very heart-touching that she would actually take the time to send us a letter back, and we plan to do something special for her in return,” said the girls’ mother, Sheri Chaves.

Can you begin to fathom the astonishing but unacknowledged aspect of that story?

No, not the part about mysterious objects in the sky around Roswell, N.M., although that deserves at least a look from the conspiracy theorists, and there’s probably a cable movie in there somewhere. I mean the part about the balloon starting out for Heaven and ending up in Indiana. Come on! Heaven? Indiana? Certainly, the balloon could have gone horribly off course. But what if it ended up exactly where it was supposed to be?

Please don’t go into stone-the-blasphemer mode. I’m speaking metaphorically, as in “heaven on earth,” you know, the kind of place where nice old ladies in gardens will stop whatever they do in gardens long enough to write a letter to two young strangers halfway across the country.

Unfortunately, not everyone thinks so highly of Indiana. Sometimes, I wonder if even Gov. Eric Holcomb likes the state he leads.

He gave the commencement address at Ball State University recently and implored students to stay in Indiana. He told the graduates a Ball State diploma gives them "a fantastic head start" on their careers but added, "Don't run too far because Indiana needs you and Indiana wants every single one of you," including teachers, architects, nurses, artists, entrepreneurs and broadcasters.

If you think you live in a nice place, it seems to me, you won’t feel as if you have to beg people to stay there. Oh, you might remind them of what a good place the state is, in case it slipped their minds, but you wouldn’t automatically assume they are heading for the border before the ink dries on their diplomas.

Some of our communities go further than begging, offering college students everything from money to mortgage help if they commit to staying a certain amount of time here after graduation. What kind of positive contribution to a state will be made by people who had to be bribed just to live there?

Fort Wayne a few years ago even succumbed to the preachings of “urban economist” Richard Florida, who claimed that, to thrive, communities had to attract the “creative class,” those refined types who, unlike plumbers, janitors and construction workers, could take the city to a more rarefied plane. What we were supposed to do was provide trendy restaurants, music hot spots and other diversions with which our saviors could amuse themselves in their idle hours.

Not even enough to keep the right sort of people here. We must also attract the right sort. How drearily cosmopolitan.

I was tempted, briefly, to throw the governor an encouraging shout-out: “Here I am, sir! I am a Ball State graduate, and I will gladly stay here and help out my state.”

But I fear I am not the right sort. As a retired geezer long past his use-by date, I’m sure I don’t contribute to what the governor might define as a vibrant economy. And I wouldn’t set foot in a trendy restaurant on a bet.

The state has even codified its disdain for me. Did you know that the recently passed hate-crimes law does not include age as a protected class that it is wrong to treat with bias?

“Sexual orientation” and “gender identity” for some reason have gotten all the press. Four Notre Dame seniors recently wrote an op-ed for the Indianapolis Star declaring the state unfit to live in because failing to specifically list those two groups as potential “biased-crime” victims violates the principle that “all people should feel safe in their own identify.”

Not a whit of concern, not even a crocodile tear shed, for those of us with identities no less fragile for having been so long in the making, especially those of us who occasionally feel like 16 and wish to be treated accordingly. If I think I’m a teenager, who has the right to say differently?

Perhaps we old fogies should join with others the state wants neither to keep nor attract, a “not the right sort” coalition to remind everybody else that before attractive states can lure people, people have to create attractive states. We could start our own Twitter account and Facebook page.

In the meantime, you might find us out in the garden, looking for balloons sent to Heaven and prepared to respond in a nice way. We might feel neglected from time to time, but we try not to hold a grudge.

 Leo Morris, columnist for The Indiana Policy Review, is winner of the Hoosier Press Association’s award for Best Editorial Writer. Morris, as opinion editor of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, was named a finalist in editorial writing by the Pulitzer Prize committee. Contact him at leoedits@yahoo.com.

AGENDA and Packet for May 20th Dearborn County Plan Commission Meeting

Agenda and Packet for May 20th County Plan Commission Meeting

https://www.dearborncounty.org/egov/documents/1557436223_02028.pdf

8 May 2019 DEARBORN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING NOTES

8 May 2019 DEARBORN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING NOTES

Present: Jim Thatcher, President, Art Little, 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.

OLD BUSINESS

NEW BUSINESS

Election Update- Gayle Pennington, Clerk of Courts- presented by Wendy from Clerk’s office- voter turnout- 19.37% 8952 registered voters. 1734 voted. 1040 Republican

 594 Democrat. Voting process went well with the new process. Nothing is connected to anything online for the machines. Security protects the ballot. There is a tie and one recount. Tie gets decided by caucus or county chairman in a primary. Bills from county get out to the cities for election costs. 

Request to Approach Council for Road and Bridge Work- Todd Listerman Highway Engineer- two requests $400,000 for community crossing grants to get the maximum money of $1mil grant. 2nd request will be for $1.5 million for road and bridge projects. State with Community Crossings wants more maintenance to preserve the roads- like chip and fog seal for example. This makes the road last longer between re-paving. Bridges get a thin epoxy overlay to seal cracks in bridges to extend life of bridge decks. Commissioners gave permission to go to Council to ask for this funding.  

MS4 District Update- Jennifer Hughes Stormwater Coordinator DCSWCD (Soil and Water Conservation District)- MS4 is southern Indiana is an unfunded mandate through EPA. The 3 cities in the county will also be pulled into the program as well as the county. This is to try to control non- point sources of pollution on our properties. The letter they will get goes them 90 days to respond to how they will do the program. Municipal separate storm sewer system is what MS4 stands for. Hidden Valley gets pulled in also. Financial impact small now as first year is mostly writing. HVL spends about $20,000/year because of their employee.  

Property at 125 Conwell Street-Guinevere Emery, Aurora City Mgr- Resolution Assigning Tax State Certificate to City of Aurora. This would be approved at Aurora’s council meeting on Monday. They have other properties on Conwell demolished and in this program for blight elimination. This is being coordinated thru One- Dearborn in their housing plan. This increases housing opportunities in a blighted area. Commissioners approved and signed the resolution presented by Baudendistel. 

Purchase Agreement for Radio Equipment Purchase - Jared Teaney 911 Director- This is already appropriated. Existing equipment is about 15 years old. Windows XP on the computers. Update is necessary. Completion by Fall 2019. Bidding process is done through the state. $414,060.34 cost. $85,835.96 annual costs after that. Council had this appropriated at Budget. Commissioners approved the purchase agreement. 

Modification of Midwest Data, Inc. Agreement- Language added to the agreement for federal regulations that IT services provider has to be aware of. Midwest Data is OK with this. This will also be added to Judge Humphrey’s agreement also. This has to do with the IV-D Child support setup. This was based on Prosecutor’s Office audit. Approved.  

ADMINISTRATOR – Sue Hayden-JAVS - Justice AV Solutions Maintenance and Support Agreement- they do recording systems for county and all the courts and jail. Approved.

AUDITOR – Connie Fromhold  -Claims and April 16th Meeting Minutes and special meeting for semi truck issues on April 23rd approved. 

ATTORNEY – Andy Baudendistel- said there was 30 days to bill elections to cities.

COMMISSIONER COMMENTS- Probst will be missing for next meeting. 

Little said that there are orange barrels from here to Myrtle Beach and got to visit Jeff Hughes.

Thatcher appreciates highway dept work on slips and paving coming.

LATE ARRIVAL INFORMATION- none

PUBLIC COMMENT- none

ADJOURN-  9:44 AM

Christine Brauer Mueller

Lawrenceburg Township

AGENDA May 8 DC Commissioners Morning Meeting

AGENDA

DEARBORN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MEETING

May 8, 2019 – WEDNESDAY MEETING

9:00 a.m. Henry Dearborn Room

Dearborn County Government Center

165 Mary Street, Lawrenceburg, Indiana

I. CALL TO ORDER

II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

III. TITLE VI STATEMENT FOR COMPLIANCE

IV. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

V. NEW BUSINESS

1.  Election Update - Gayle Pennington, Clerk of Courts

2.  Request to Approach Council, Road/Bridge Work – Todd Listerman, Hwy Engineer

3.  MS4 District Update - Jennifer Hughes, Stormwater Coordinator DCSWCD

4.  Property @ 125 Conwell Street – Guinevere Emery, Aurora City Manager

1. Resolution Assigning Tax Sale Certificate to City of Aurora

5.  Lease Agreement for Radio Equipment Purchase – Jared Teaney, 911 Director

6.  Modification of Agreement w/Midwest Data, Inc.

VI. ADMINISTRATOR – Sue Hayden

1.  JAVS (Justice AV Solutions) Maintenance and Support Agreement

VII. AUDITOR – Connie Fromhold

1.  Claims/Payroll/Minutes

VIII. ATTORNEY – Andy Baudendistel

IX. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS

X. LATE ARRIVAL INFORMATION

XI. PUBLIC COMMENT

XII. ADJOURN