REMINDER: COMPREHENSIVE COUNTY ZONING MAP PUBLIC HEARING MAY 31st.

REMINDER: COMPREHENSIVE  COUNTY ZONING MAP PUBLIC HEARING MAY 31st.

 Hello everyone!

 

As a reminder, as participants in our Zoning Update Workshops and / or as a survey respondent for Dearborn County’s efforts to update the County Zoning Ordinance text and Map, we would like to welcome you to our next scheduled Plan Commission meeting to review and discuss proposed updates to the Dearborn County Zoning Map, as they correlate to the draft text amendments to the Dearborn County Zoning Ordinance (specifically with respect to the text(s) of: Articles 9 and 10, regarding Agricultural and Residential Zoning Districts; Article 25, General Standards; and Article 27, Definitions).

 

The (rescheduled May) Dearborn County Plan Commission meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 at 7:00 P.M. in the Dearborn County Government Center, in the Henry Dearborn Meeting Room (on the first floor of the new building addition), Lawrenceburg, Indiana 47025.

 

As noted previously, this is your opportunity to indicate if you think your property should be zoned in a manner than it is currently shown on the DRAFT, UPDATED Zoning Map(s)!

 

Please keep in mind that to respect everyone’s chance to speak, the Plan Commission may follow its adopted Rules of Procedure, which would limit discussion to 3 minutes per affected property (total), if this provision isn’t waived by the board.

 

The updated, DRAFT text from the Plan Commission’s meeting this past Monday, April 24^th, 2022 is online at: https://www.dearborncounty.org/egov/documents/1651085954_69473.pdf

 

The Dearborn County – DRAFT, UPDATED (& Existing) Maps & Text can be found online at the new link: https://www.dearborncounty.org/egov/documents/1652384794_29278.pdf (<<<<PLEASE USE THIS LINK...THE LAST ONE DOESN’T WORK / WAS BROKEN.)

Mark McCormack

Director Dearborn County Planning and Zoning

Sensationalizing Tragedy by Leo Morris

 Sensationalizing Tragedy

by Leo Morris

Reprinted with permission of IPR

Vietnam was the first war brought to our living rooms by television, so I always thought it interesting that the movie about the war moving me most was a made-for-TV film.

“Friendly Fire” stars Carol Burnett and Ned Beatty in the true story of Iowa farm couple Peg and Gene Mullen trying to cope with their son’s death in the war. With the help of journalist C.D.B. Bryan, on whose book the movie is based, the couple learn that their son was killed not by enemy fire but by an accident of human error on his own side.

Until Bryan’s involvement, the Mullens had been frustrated and embittered by the indifferent and often misleading responses of an entrenched bureaucracy just doing its cold, efficient duty.

The journalist foolishly thought that learning the truth – there were no villains to hate, no gross incompetence to punish in the inevitable casualties of war – would give the couple peace and allow them to move on.

It did not. The Mullens were too consumed by grief and too angry to accept the truth. There was no happy ending.

It should be obvious as we move on from another Memorial Day celebration that the divisions in this country revealed in that war and depicted in that movie are still with us and more pronounced than ever. And the two sides do not talk to each other about their differences. They merely shout slogans across the great divide.

Those slogans are never louder, never less thoughtful, than when we are confronted with another horrific mass shooting like the one in Uvalde, Texas, that claimed the lives of 19 children and two adults. We look for villains to hate and gross incompetence to punish, but our anger and bitterness keep us from actually engaging with one another to find any real answers.

Just consider the inevitable “gun debate” that always follows a shooting. There is the usual forlorn hope that “moderates” can hammer out a “bipartisan” plan for “common sense” gun control measures. But such efforts always collapse under the weight of partisan rhetoric.

Each side has its script, and they stick to it, no matter what, reading the lines they have rehearsed so well.

For the gun rights side, any reform, however slight, is seen as a foot in the door. Give the zealots one little thing, then they’ll demand more and more, and the first thing you know, the Second Amendment will be abandoned, and there goes the country.

For the gun control side, there can never be enough laws, never mind that those who misuse guns don’t obey the thousands of laws we already have. Even if new regulations won’t work, there is some therapeutic value to “having done the right thing.”

And while we’re spinning our wheels on guns – until the furor dies down and we move on – there is so much more we aren’t talking about, such as:

How to harden school defenses without making students feel like they’re trying to learn in a war zone.

How to neutralize those whose mental illness is likely to turn violent without stigmatizing all those with mental illness.

How to stem the tide of fatherless families from which so much pathology is generated without demeaning the heroic efforts of single mothers.

How to stop sensationalizing tragedy without depriving the public of the information it needs to make informed decisions.

That last point, it should be noted, suggests there is a First Amendment issue at least as worthy of debate as our Second Amendment dilemma, whether media advocates are willing to admit it or not. Even something considered a fundamental constitutional right can be deployed to harm. That is the nature of freedom.

Like the Vietnam War, mass shootings are beamed into our living rooms in nearly real time. TV, now augmented by social media echo chambers, can show us the horror and feed our grief and anger.

Help us toward a solution? Not so much.

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.
 

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27 May 2022 SE Indiana Regional Port Authority Meeting

 27 May 2022 SE Indiana Regional Port Authority Meeting

ROLL CALL:

1. Aurora: Mark Drury, Benjamin Turner (Treasurer)(ABSENT), Derek Walker
2. Dearborn County: Jim Thatcher (Chairman), Tom Palmer (Secretary), Eric Kranz
3. Greendale: Alan Weiss (vice Chair), Al Abdon, Angie Walters(ABSENT)
4. Lawrenceburg: Kelly Mollaun( ABSENT), Lennie Fryman(ABSENT), Sarah Jordan

Also present: Andy Baudendistel, Legal Counsel

APPROVAL OF MINUTES: May 6th Meeting minutes approved

FINANCIAL REPORT/INVOICES- . CORBA Golf Outing reimbursement $440.00- Board approved to reimburse Tom Palmer who had paid the invoice. [NOTE: CORBA is the Central Ohio River Business Association. www.centralohioriverbusinessassociation.com While membership in this organization is a legitimate expense of SIRPA, it is not clear that Golf Outings would be under typical governmental financial rules. If the State Board of Accounts  sees it in their audit, they can determine that.]

NEW BUSINESS:

Planning Grant Submission- Libby Ogard - President of Prime Focus LLC listed her credentials on inland Marne certification and started her carrier on trains-railroad. She worked on intermodal networks. All kinds of experience and knows a lot about truck parking. Has done a lot of planning and realized she needed to write grants. Listed several large ones she has done across the country. Ww aant more public benefit than public dollars spent. She is now independent and separate of BLN. She is a standalone business and has all the insurances we need. 

Transportation Grant Submission- Prime Focus, LLC presentation

Rail Development ( in the fall)  and Americas Marine Hwy Project Grant. Loans , federal, and state are the 3 types of grants. FRA manages grants on the federal tree. 

Two possible site for trainload. Tanners Creek site could use container on barge with this site. It’s a much smaller footprint. The second site is near the intersection. Aurora site might be the better site with less issues to overcome.  

CRISI GRANTS- Planning- Project Permitting NEPS, initial design ,and construction 20% match and nearly 2 years to do. 

Issues are revolving around a source and store of revenue to match and fund this. Mission oaks and strategy were determined last year. But we have no real assets right now. We have some interesting recreation projects and the EV charging stations could provide revenue stream. 

GennesseeWyoming would have to be worked with to get a revenue stream for a grant perhaps. How to use a trainload as a gateway to extend my franchise? To build a switch into the industry you need to have enough loads per week to justify it. You need to know what the revenue is needed to have an anchor tenant for the property. Then attract more customers to the properties around the line.

Container on barge 36 loads/48 empties 

American Marine HWY- born in 2009- first called short sea shipping along the I-95 corridor. To take the trucks off that corridor. Now have 27 routes. Have to be on designated corridor. Need a project designation - M-70 corridor in 2018 and Robin at OKI had this set up. This was set to connect Nucor Steel in Gallatin KY with Cincinnati. $39,819,000 is available and due by June 17th and a 20% match required. SIRPA must register with SAM.gov and grants.gov  to submit. 

They will need to know what questions to ask. Average planning study is $315,916. You have to have site control- but you do not need site control to get a planning grant. 

You can have a rail transload in 12 months. The planning grants take much longer. You also need to know that KY is doing this port work too. You need to work with each other to not spend time outcompeting each other. There is a better way to do this. Tonnage throughput, hours and miles get looked at for these grants. 10% moves on waterways in USA versus 40% in Europe. 

Step 1- $15,000 for a grant application- to do a planning study  and it can also be thrown back into the master plan. As a Port Authority you are already into the 3rd level. Rail trainload may provide additional freight. Ohio River is a way to get chemicals around the country. The larger planning grant  for $350,000 needs a $70,000 match. Libby would then follow up and proceed with the planning. 

Port Board approved $15,000 for a grant to be written by Libby Ogard and $70,000 to match for the $350,000 planning grant. 

They will have to do several things right away so they get their electronic handshake set up and Libby will work with Benny Turner to get this info as he is the treasurer . 

BLN - Beam Longest and Neff - Contract Discussion- BLN has been purchased and John DeDimasio has left them. Thatcher wishes to terminate that contract at this point. Board approved terminating BLN contract.

OLD BUSINESS: none

PUBLIC COMMENT none

CONFIRMATION OF NEXT MEETING Scheduled for July 15 , 2022 at 10 AM. They may see if G&W will meet then to see if they can work together up in the northern part of the county.

ADJOURNMENT - 1:45 PM

Christine Brauer Mueller

Lawrenceburg Township

AGENDA- 27 MAY - SE INDIANA REGIONAL PORT AUTHORITY MEETING

 MEETING AGENDA

Friday, May 27, 2022

Dearborn County Government Center

Henry Dearborn Meeting Room

165 Mary Street

Lawrenceburg, IN 47025

1. CALL TO ORDER

1. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

1. ROLL CALL:
1. Aurora: Mark Drury, Benjamin Turner (Treasurer), Derek Walker
2. Dearborn County: Jim Thatcher (Chairman), Tom Palmer (Secretary), Eric Kranz
3. Greendale: Alan Weiss (vice Chair), Al Abdon, Angie Walters
4. Lawrenceburg: Kelly Mollaun, Lennie Fryman, Sarah Jordan

1. ANNOUNCEMENTS 

1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: May 6th Meeting

1. FINANCIAL REPORT/INVOICES:

          i. Corba Golf Outing reimbursement $440.00

1. GUEST SPEAKERS:

1. NEW BUSINESS:

i. Planning Grant Submission

ii. Transportation Grant Submission

iii. BLN Contract discussion

1. OLD BUSINESS: 

1. PUBLIC COMMENT

1. CONFIRMATION OF NEXT MEETING (Tentatively scheduled for June , 2022)

1. ADJOURNMENT

24 May 2022 Dearborn County Council Meeting Notes

 24 May 2022 Dearborn County Council Meeting Notes

This was a 2.5 hour meeting

Present: Liz Morris, President, Dennis Kraus. Sr., Dan Lansing, Kevin Turner, Tim Doll, Alan Goodman, and Glenn Wright. 

Also present: Connie Fromhold, Auditor and Leah Bailey, Comptroller and Jim Thatcher,  Commissioner

Title VI Statement read as legally required.

DEARBORN COUNTY EMS ALLIANCE- Funding- Kevin Havlin ( sp?) President of EMS Alliance and from Manchester. He wants to give a state of EMS in the County. Some counties have 2-3 units covering their county . We have so many different units covering the county. Used to get training via the hospital and then with IVY Tech. County wide response totals have been increasing. In 2020 served 5,600 calls. 2021 had 6,500. This year thru April have had 2,048 plus 317 in May so far. Funding for EMS is $ 2000 per unit. For the smaller depts there is a huge difference in number of runs. They survive on soft billing insurance companies for some of this shortfall. Manchester $57,000 in and $87,000 out. Trying to get shift work. 

Tom Craig- Greendale EMS. Private organization with and annual contract with Greendale. They get $26-27,000  with a $1 on the utility bill. Hard ti find EMT’s and turnover is high 

$21,000 comes in from billing. They write off $75,000. Hospital is moving to Greendale so the trip charges will be less then. They have more population they cover as there are many people who work in their city beyond the residents. Their ambulance from 2001 needs to be replaced. They have 2 units in Greendale. They have missed runs due to staffing issues.   

Dennis ??? Last name -  EMS from Bright- have 14 EMT basics and 5 paramedics. 1300 requests in 2021. Weekends staff is only 60%. Only 2 of them do not have full time jobs. The rest all have full time jobs. $11hr- EMTs and $17hr paramedics. $287,900 $273,900 payroll and $60,000 payroll; taxes etc. Citizen assist has been going on for people who need to be lifted.  They do not get paid for this. They need EMT education ins this county.He wants the county to use their influence to get this education via the hospital or IVY tech again. Decreasing trend in new EMS certifications in the past 10 years in the state. $245,000 to replace a squad . EMTs have not had a pay increase in his memory. 2008 is when the squad payment went to $20,000 per year. Per unit. 

Kevin Havlin- summarized- 160 hrs of classroom time and then more contact time etc, to get about 200 hours to  become an EMT. We need ideas and funding. Supplies and fuel billing are all in their budget. They do get clean sheet linens from the hospital . 

Commissioner Jim Thatcher- appreciates all they do and what they have to go through. In regards to EMS training. St. E’s will be bringing EMS training back to the county soon. He thinks we need to start addressing these problems now. In 5 years we may not be seeing these guys if we don’t help. It’s not all financial - other things to consider. 

Council took this all under advisement. 

CLERK- Voter Registration Officer per diem $10,765 (1001)- Gayle Pennington wanted to discuss the stipend. The statute should word this differently. This is an all year thing to do- not just at the elections. They have reports to the state and feds etc. She does all the legwork for the election board. It’s just a lot of planning and coordination. This is at the discretion of the council. This can go back retroactively per statute. She also gave them all the info from the other counties. Morris said they could adjust to for 2022 and put it in the budget for 2023. Morris did not want to go retroactively to the 2020 election. Thought it would be a bad precedent. Turner agreed with Morris. Dennis said there was precedent when they did not with the former county administrator in the past. Turner motioned for the $10,765 all the way back to 2018- failed Motion. Doll motioned to approve $2000 and the change in FICA for 2022 and with an adjustment to the salary ordinance for 2022 at the next meeting and also to go into 2023 budget Goodman and Wright were nays. Morris voted Aye. Motion Passed.  

Glenn Wright brought up an election poll worker issue in the last election with giving wrong info to a voter. 

SOLID WASTE- Sandy Whitehead, annual report.She gave a power point presentation so that they would know what the county is funding under Solid Waste. 28 years as Solid Waste. Only place that takes TVs and Household Hazardous Waste.They have a lot of building space and lots of programs. Creation Station. Hazardous materials. Material storage until ready to shop. Costume swap. Re- prom. 15 drop off recycling areas. 3 extra cardboard containers and 3 extra plastic only trailers. Drive thru has document shredding, cooking oil, paint scrap metal etc. Tires, TV and refrigerators have a fee to recycle. Commercial recycle trucks go around the county got go to businesses and schools. Seeing over 500 people per month at recycle center in 2021. They do take scrap metals there but do not pay for it. Latex paint gets donated to Matthew 25 ministries. They also have other things they source to them. Rumple and Bestway are the county’s 2 haulers. 8% is our diversion rate. The national rate is 32%. Diversion rate is how much we keep out of the landfill. 1,391 students were seen last year. They did a shred day in St. Leon and Computer recycling in Bright. Booth at the 4H fair. 503 donations to Creation Station in 2021. 819 customers for costume swap. 435 Re- prom customers and $1,638 in donations. Holiday giveaway- 555 customers and 31 Xmas trees given away. Lending station for event supplies etc. There is a catalog on the website about these 400 plus items to borrow. Received grants for use in supplies and more recycle trailers. Many employees have been there 11 years  and on down. There is not a lot of turnover now. Glad they stuck around- it makes her job easier. $892,000 was their total last year. 6 full time and the rest part time. Tim Doll and Jim Thatcher sit on their board. 

ADDITIONALS:

CORONER- Part-time wages $10,765 (1001)- needed for the coming months - this should last till October. Approved. Finally got their new truck in after 6 months of waiting, They will have to go to Elkhart IN to get the cot for the truck. 

PARK BOARD- Park Website $2,500 (1001) & Clear Trails $5,000 (1179) Presented by Leah Bailey, Comptroller- Approved

HIGHWAY- Johnson Fork Rd-$624,840 (1001/4915) Tim Greive- passed out pictures. This is really close to Franklin County. Applied for NRCS Grant. We get 75% of the money back. They use “nails” with concrete over them. Project should be about 2 months. They took the money out of Growth and Development- Approved. They also just completed the Wilson Creek bank by Greystone Farm. The nails on Wilson Creek are in 7 feet. 

They looked at Lower Dillsboro Rd by Henry’s Place at Thatcher’s request. All 3 slips is $1.4 million to do all 3 slips- it has 47 cars a day. Turner noted that the number of cars is not the issue- it’s dangerous for emergency vehicles etc. School busses refuse to drive on it. They have a smaller bus to go get the students. This is from Chesterville to US 50 on Lower Dillsboro Rd. Stateline Rd slip is a 400 ft slip. These don’t qualify for NRCS grants. Scheich Rd at the bottom of Jamison is bad too. Salt Fork  near Jackson Ridge also- and so on . There are a lot of SLIPS. Listerman wants to fix slips before they do paving.  

COUNTY ENGINEER- Todd Listerman

Transfers from 7303.41500 Transportation Infrastructure-( has $2.8 million)

$100,000 Lower Dillsboro Rd (East Slide) - this is different from Grieve’s issues on the other end. This is federal aid 80/20. Projected to be $1.4 million.This is for the inspection contract. Approved. 

$700,000 Bridge # 108 Harrison-Brookville Rd- Projected to be $3.2million. This $700,000 is for the design costs. This is 80/20 project. Approved.

The numbers for these above projects are what INDOT thinks these will be. 

Other projects: In order of priorities due to the ratings on the bridges etc. These have to be followed for Community Crossings money too. 

$1,400,000 Bridge # 29 Red Bridge Rd (1001/4916)- Approved with Wright as a NAY.

$650,000 Small Structure 111 &112 Station Hollow Rd (1001/4916)- Approved as these are  related to the looming issues on Lower Dillsboro Rd.

The following 3 designs are in anticipation of funding: all 3 approved $180,000 out of 4916. 

$60,000 Bridge #14 Bells Branch Rd (DESIGN ) (1001/4916)

$60,000 Bridge #47 Konradi Rd (DESIGN) (1001/4916)

$60,000 Bridge #166 Lawrenceville Rd  north of Gutapfel (DESIGN) (1001/7303/4916)

These last 3 have ROW purchased and ready to be let: 

$350,000 Small Structure #628 Whites Hill Rd (1001/7303)-to be built this year Approved from 7303

$450,000 Small Structure #148 Hueseman Rd (1001/7303)- to be bid in the fall and built next year- TABLED until budget

$850,000 Bridge #72 St Peters Rd (1001/7303)- to be bid fall and built next year- TABLED until budget

Listerman said the HWY crew is down 14 employees from when he started 17 years ago.  They were discussing ditching the roadsides, etc. They need to ask Tim Grieve about that schedule. This does help keep road paving longer. Listerman said they are supposed to get federal aid- but we don’t know what the rules will be for getting at that money. Federal dollar projects cost more because of the requirements- like identifying bat guano to be sure they are meeting federal aid requirements. 

AUDITOR- 

April 22nd Minutes- Approved.

Ordinance for Rainy Day Fund- Per Baudendistel - since 2008. It has to be established by ordinance and not resolution so this fixes that. This will include the 6 amendments that have been added since that. Discussion as to what the purpose of the fund should be as Baudendistel included some of the language that enables spending o computers, communications etc. Approved and signed. 

MOHR CAPITAL- Tax Abatement- THIS WAS NOT ADDRESSED

ORDINANCE FOR INSPECTION FEES-Health Department-  THIS WAS NOT ADDRESSED

LATE ARRIVAL-  none

PUBLIC COMMENT- none

Meeting adjourned at 7:30 PM

Christine Brauer Mueller

Lawrenceburg Township

AGENDA May 24th Dearborn County Council Meeting

                                                                         AGENDA

DEARBORN COUNTY COUNCIL

TUESDAY, MAY 24^TH, 2022 @ 5:00PM

HENRY DEARBORN ROOM

DEARBORN COUNTY GOVERNMENT CENTER

165 MARY ST, LAWRENCEBURG, INDIANA 

CALL TO ORDER-

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

TITLE VI STATEMENT FOR COMPLIANCE- 

MOHR CAPITAL- Tax Abatement

ORDINANCE FOR INSPECTION FEES-Health Department

SOLID WASTE- Sandy Whitehead, annual report.

ADDITIONALS:

CLERK- Voter Registration Officer per diem $10,765 (1001)

CORONER- Part-time wages $10,765 (1001)

PARK BOARD- Park Website $2,500 (1001) & Clear Trails $5,000 (1179)

HIGHWAY- Johnson Fork Rd-$624,840 (1001/4915) Tim Greive

COUNTY ENGINEER- Todd Listerman

$1,400,000 Bridge # 29 Red Bridge Rd (1001/4916)

$650,000 Small Structure 111 &112 Station Hollow Rd (1001/4916)

$60,000 Bridge #14 Bells Branch Rd (1001/4916)

$60,000 Bridge #47 Konradi Rd (DESIGN) (1001/4916)

$60,000 Bridge #616 Lawrenceville Rd (DESIGN) (1001/7303/4916)

$350,000 Small Structure #668 Whites Hill Rd (1001/7303)

$450,000 Small Structure #148 Hueseman Rd (1001/7303)

$850,000 Bridge #72 St Peters Rd (1001/7303)

Transfers from 7303.41500 Transportation Infrastructure

$100,000 Lower Dillsboro Rd (East Slide) 

$700,000 Bridge # 108 Harrison-Brookville Rd

DEARBORN COUNTY EMS ALLIANCE- Funding

AUDITOR- 

Minutes- 

Ordinance for Rainy Day Fund

LATE ARRIVAL

PUBLIC COMMENT- 

ADJOURMENT- 

17 MAY 2022 DEARBORN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING NOTES

 17 MAY 2022 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- none

NEW BUSINESS

Access Road at Jenny Lynn Drive- Jim and Rose Kinker residents -Jim seeking on behalf of his mother Rose. “From the documentation I have - the road needs a 60 ft right of way as required in 2007 when they approved this access.” (This subdivision was approved originally in 1999.) Drainage issues that have to be addressed that have things dumped into his mother’s yard. Public 

Baudendistel said  Todd Listerman told Tuckers not to connect the road to Jenny Lynn until they have a conversation down here with the commissioners. They also are doing some digging on their own to see what to do here. 

Jim Kinker still has all the plat plans. He went over the drainage and traffic issues. There was some talk in the past about taking 35 ft of his mom’s property. 140 lots in that subdivision. So traffic moved to Jenny Lynn is a problem There have been bad wrecks there. 

Thatcher said they plan to improve there and plan caution light there. Five accidents there in 10 years. Jenny Lyn is not wide and in poor shape. Kinker was especially interested in drainage issues that dump right into a swale, that  goes directly into Rose Kinker’s back yard. That is probably planning and zoning that have to address that. 

Thatcher said that when Tucker comes to them it will be on the agenda so they can be here for that discussion.  

 

ADMINISTRATOR – Sue Hayden- there was an energy guaranteed contract  with Johnson Mellow that they entered into and they were going to the HVAC and windows on the campus here. The bids were opened and these were the results:

Mech and Electrical they had 3/4 bids returned. 

EDI $246,739.03. 

DeBra Kuempel  225,584.51 

Driekast $196,288 

Adams Cooling Tower Inc- no bid

Controls:

EDI  $25,566

Boilers: 2/3 bids returned

Lochinvar S15, Inc  $66.906

Aerco  Fink and Co  $143,770

Fulton Boiler AB Young- no bid

Chillers: 3/3 bids returned

Dalkin Indiana Thermal Solutions $138,765

Carrier $84,350

Trane  $ 141,500

Windows - 3/9 returned. Gilkey bid but then couldn’t meet the specs for the historical windows. 

Gilkey- no bid 

Hoosier Glass- no bid

Spoon and Associates- no bid

NuVue Products- no bid

Windows Direct USA no bid

Window Worx- no bid

Sunco  Construction $764,718

Andy;’s Mirror $592,025

McAndrews Glass $579,900

Thatcher said the HVAC chillers are over 30 years old. They need to be replaced.

The energy audit - and Eric Hartman both had the same responses essentially. 

$ 1.6 million in Cum Cap Development can be used for this. So we have funds to cover that. 

$277,000 for Juvenile Center- can also be covered with this fund and some funds that are coming into that fund - approx $377,000 more coming in.  

Windows are 10 ft tall. Gilkeys quote couldn’t meet the specs on those windows. Historical specs have been met per Thatcher as he is consulting with the Historical Group. He said their contracted people talked to them. Investments will be recouped over time due to the energy efficiency.  

At the county’s request there is a traditional bid opening. He county wanted a more traditional process on this. They will go to Council for approval at their May meeting next week.  

AUDITOR – Connie Fromhold  -Claims/Payroll and  May 4th Minutes- approved

ATTORNEY – Andy Baudendistel- Huffman Quiet Title was approved and resolved. This was for the hospital property. Still takes 6 month’s for state to approve their part on the Quit Claim. 

COMMISSIONER COMMENTS:

Little-  Good weather- get out and enjoy it.

Probst- Dillsboro homecoming this weekend. Aurora Park also has a dedication this weekend. 

Thatcher Cancer Center with St. E’s  will be a big plus for the county. There were a lot of people who stepped up and donated through the Foundation to get this done. 

LATE ARRIVAL INFORMATION - none

PUBLIC COMMENT: Rebecca Knipp-past present of the National Mid level Science Teachers of North America and a Master teacher here. Thanked them for saying the pledge of allegiance at this meeting. Thatcher said most government meetings do- and they are planning to encourage it to happen at all the county meetings. 

ADJOURN- 5:32 AM

Christine Brauer Mueller

Lawrenceburg Township