5 September 2025 Dearborn County Council Meeting Notes

 5 September 2025 Dearborn County Council Meeting Notes

Transcribed while watching livestream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sip19YVn00s

Present: Liz Morris, President, Dennis Kraus. Sr., Doug Baker, Tim Doll, Mark Dole, and Glenn Wright. 

ABSENT: Dan Lansing (work)

Also present: Connie Fromhold, Auditor

Title VI Statement read as legally required by Morris.

Budget Adoption-  No discussion -Approved with all Ayes

READI Grant Application- Mike Perleberg & Jordon Hoffman and Jim Deaton presented. This is to support the construction of a new road ( Moore Lane) to support their TIF area there. Deaton  said this is a $250,000 grant. Dole asked about when this was going in and the total coast was about $750,000. Discussion about the difficulty dealing with the RR there but Deaton said they were reasonable. Wright asked about extending this reTIF to 25 years there. Deaton said Baker Tilly will be there DCRC meeting to discuss next week.

Perleberg 1st parcel 2006, 2015 was 2nd parcel, and this is the 3rd parcel to start over at 25 year TIF hopefully. The base is also reset to 2025 for this 3rd area. This means it ends in 2050.Dole quizzed him regarding how much the county general loses on this for that many years.Perleberg went on about how DCRC is part of Dearborn County too. Dole said- But one part gets the money and the other part does not. They noted the Baker Tilley report will show about the county’s impacted. Which Perleberg said that Baker Tilley said is ZERO impact.

$25k to bright FD radios

$250,000 for Bright FD truck purchase Neither request had to come to your board.

TriTownship Water will be helped by DCRC

The highway ramp improvement out there by DCRC

Whitewater Processing parcels were abated for 10 years.

Wright - we also get more expenses- EMS and road infrastructure in the area. Can this be reTIF without Council approval. Baker said that the members thought that they should do this as a courtesy even though there is no debt on this so Council was not required to be notified on this one. Doll- MLGQ limits them to 4% a year. We are trying to support fire water sewer and all those things with this DCRC money [NOTE: DCRC-  TOOK DCRSD (sewer district) money via Council and have not replenished that amount]

Senate Bill 1-  hurt personal property… lots of back and forth on TIF money and how ist is used etc....

Listerman told Council that Moore Drive IS in the county system already for maintenance. This is an upgrade to an existing county Rd.

Perleberg- DCRC has option of returning some tax revenue to the county if they have too much. <Chuckles>

Council approved applying for READI grant. Two NAYs Wright and Kraus. Morris had to vote to pass this with 4 AYES. 

Aurora Interlocal Agreement Amendment- Nicole Daily- who was absent- so Sandy Whitehead presented. This was to add the MS4 coordinator to the enforcement to that at no cost. They may need to assess money from Aurora for this, but not now. There is a 3 year increase in the agreement- but it is not for MS4. House Bill 1037 affected them a lot this year. Doll -Surveyor is OK with this too. Approved  

Eric Hartman- Sprinkler system-$144,906 (1138 Cum Capital Development) Hartman-fire alarm system was replace as an emergency. Siemens will start next week to do this for Courthouse and the Jail. Johnson Controls has this building and they did not bid on this. Approved.

Todd Listerman County Engineer- transfer of funds. Not sure how Community Crossings was going at budget .  Now he knows it will be 20% match But only a million is allotted from the Crossings not $1.5 million as we had. 

He wants the $250,000 and put the rest of it back into bituminous so we can keep paving. This tries to maintain the $3million paving program.This years bids cam a little below what they estimated. If he lets the contracts then he can works this into next year. Bituminous has a million in it. One is for $600,000 already. I have to have it transferred so I can get bids. Cannot bid if I don’t have money in place. Liz- About $2.3 or so million of Riverboat goes to General each year. It’s going to be more competitive now that there is less money. That’s why we pick our through collector roads to qualify. Not bridges. They have to be finished in a year. Bridges get extended out. Council Approved the transfer.

Todd Listerman- he sends bridge and pavement asset management plans to LTAP at the state every year. They notice that we fund other projects ourselves, so they help us as we are doing better planning. They now we are attacking our problems. 

Part-time Wage Scale-  APPROVED below scales. 

Level 1-file clerk, custodian work, answer phones- $16.00 hr.

Level 2-Clerical,  Juvenile Center, Highway part-time-$18.00 hr.

Level 3- Special Skills, technical, Sheriff part-time (up to $20 Sheriff’s discretion) , Highway/CDL , Extensive Training-$19.00 -$23.00 hr.

AUDITOR- Connie Fromhold - Permission for A COMMUNITY BRIDGE GRANT ( Tamara Taylor’s fundraiser for JCAP) for $20,000 grant to go to JCAP- no county match.

Meeting adjourned at 9:56

Christine Brauer Mueller

Lawrenceburg Township