18 FEBRUARY 2025 DEARBORN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING NOTES

  

18 FEBRUARY 2025 DEARBORN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING NOTES

Present: Jim Thatcher, President, Duane Bischoff, and Kevin Turner

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

Also present: Marc Emral, Register Publications and Tamara Taylor, The Beacon

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

PUBLIC HEARING:- PROPOSED LEASE AGREEMENT FOR HEALTH DEPT.

ACTION ON LEASE AGREEMENT FOR HEALTH DEPT.

No public spoke. 

Dr Eliason from Health Dept- They are renting the lower floor of the former building of Dr Swanson on SR 48 across from hospital. Rest and Relax Rentals is the Leasing Company. 

Baudendistel - this lease agreement is- $21/sq ft and 3% per year increases. For 10 years . 

This has been going on for a long time as it solved the problem of people going to health dept now don’t have to go thru all the security here. Patients have more privacy. They are maintaining a couple rooms here at the county building for staff. Commissioners signed off on the lease. Health Dept does have sustainability for funding too. They will be announcing this from the Facebook page for the county and the Health Dept Facebook page. Open house some time also. Lease term is: Feb 19, 2025 to Dec 31, 2034. Health Dept is relieved to have this new site. 

Memorandum of Agreement with Dept of Health - Amy Rose, Administrator/Health Educator- this is for them to review until March and then sign. They also were invited to Belterra for a training exercise for big emergencies to see how that works. TABLED until Commissioners can review the memorandum. 

NEW BUSINESS:

Ordinance 2025-001 Regarding the DC Dept of Redevelopment and the DCRC- Baudendistel found the ordinance from 1995. (This was when the Redevelopment code came out and the Commissioners set it up in Dearborn County) Bischoff saw the law that allows the DCRC to be a 5 or 7 member board. This ordinance now moves the DCRC to a 7 member board from the current 5 member board. Approved and signed. 

 

OLD BUSINESS:

Citizen Boards:

Cemetery Board- 5 year term open position-- Per Sue Hayden There were some people interested in this but want to see what the duties are. They will get the particulars from Denny Kraus, Jr. They will know which cemeteries fall under County maintenance- most are under township trustees. More info is needed before next meeting. [NOTE: Originally there were members of the historical society involved with the cemeteries also. Art Wenzel did a lot of work and some volunteers were posting some of the data on Ancestry sites including findagrave.com]   Continued TABLED until March 4

Redevelopment Board Members- 1 year terms - Current - Jim Deaton , Jim.Mansfield, Tom Tepe/ Recommended Trevor Bischoff and Non-voting School Board Member (2 year term) Daryl Cutter.- Approved all the above to DCRC for the 4 Commissioner appointments plus the school board rep. 

ADMINISTRATOR – Sue Hayden- nothing more

AUDITOR – Connie Fromhold  -Claims/Payroll and February 4th Minutes- Approved

ATTORNEY – Andy Baudendistel- you are well aware Plan Commission has an item that you will see later. Andy will be out of town. He has Anthony Smart covering for him at PC. Andy sought Luke Britts help again to be sure that Commissioner Bischoff could attend the PC as Thatcher serves on the board and will be there also. Britt said they could. Britt is leaving office as Public Access Counselor. Andy praised all the help he has received over the years from him.[NOTE: Luke Britt served our county activists well over the years too.He was an equal access PAC.] 

COMMISSIONER COMMENTS- Turner- reached out to Moores Hill and Dillsboro Towns Board to recommend one person for 911 Board.

Thatcher- finally getting some relief out of EMS with the Attorney General looking into this filing a case against that, - we will retain the assets that are out there and they will be put into a position where they can be utilized. Once we get a decision on where the assets will go- which will either be the town or the Dillsboro Fire Dept, When that all happens. We have already started some preliminary discussions as to how we can get this thing up and running in a few months. Happy we are where we are. 

LATE ARRIVAL INFORMATION- Jeff Larson from United Consulting - needs signatures on the plan design for Lower Dillsboro Rd. Approved. 

PUBLIC COMMENT- none

ADJOURN- 6:25 PM

Christine Brauer Mueller

Lawrenceburg Township