Tuesday, November 20, 2012

20 November 2012 Dearborn County Commissioners Meeting Notes


20 November 2012 Dearborn County Commissioners Meeting Notes

Present: Jeff Hughes, President, Tom Orschell, and Shane McHenry
Also present: Gayle Pennington, Auditor.
ABSENT: Teresa Randall, County Administrator (on vacation) and Andy Baudendistel, Attorney ( on vacation)

OLD BUSINESS:
none
NEW BUSINESS:
Food bid awards- Sheriff Mike Kreinhop- Ellenbee Leggett,  Gordon Food (GFC), and US Food Service bids were all accepted. All the items are individually listed with prices. A copy of these listed prices will be placed with the minutes.  There was no overall contract list price on these. They can then select the cheapest price for each item from any of the three companies.

HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT: Todd Listerman, Highway Engineer- North Dearborn realignment – will be paving next week and open by early December hopefully. They will stay open all winter and finish in the spring when they reclose it again.
Striping will done on North Dearborn and Weisburg still this year.
On North Dearborn project: Two change orders- $4741.00 80/20 split is due to additional traffic maintenance on Hiltz Rd for detour for the North Dearborn project was approved.  Second change order was for chemical stabilization of sub- base and they found high sulfate contact there. So they couldn’t do that. Instead they used stone so change order was $196,971.95 80/20 split for the stone. It is still under budget costs. Stone is actually better for strength for the base. Commissioners approved the change order.
Asking Council tonight to encumber the funds for Bridge 102 on North Dearborn for Creekside. They will do this after the first of the year and start it in May and reopen in August. This minimizes the school bus impacts.
Listerman to get a timeline for Stateline project for Hughes.

Tim Grieve, Highway Superintendent-Highway worker – Aaron Watson new employee of about a year and a half- was seriously injured by falling 30 ft out of a tree stand while deer hunting. Grieve wanted everyone to keep the family in their thoughts thru the holidays. Commissioners will send  a Get Well card.
Asking for money for the tractor they approved. Paving is finishing up. Some of the highway workers are driving trucks home in anticipation of bad weather. They have been training the new guys. They will have the 2nd tandem snow truck ready in December also.

ADMINISTRATOR: Teresa Randall on vacation- presented by Todd Listerman:
Votaw and Shumway updates needs an additional $135,000 to take down both buildings and bring them up thru paving the lots. Commissioners approved them going to Council to seek this on December 11th. Commissioners wanted to keep with original goals to expand the campus as the county was land –locked. McHenry said he understood this was the original thinking and thought it would be counter productive to keep looking at other uses when we needed the space.

AUDITOR: Gayle Pennington- Commissioners ratified Hughes signatures for additional borings by Alt and Witzig Engineering from Carmel, IN to see what the soil is like under the proposed jail expansion.
Commissioners ratified Hughes signature for $4700 for American Structurepoint for work on the jail so far. [NOTE: No reason was given for these needing signatures or payment prior to the regularly scheduled meeting approvals.]
Claims approved.
ATTORNEY: Andy Baudendistel- was absent.

COMMISSIONER COMMENTS- no comments
LATE ARRIVAL INFORMATION- none
PUBLIC COMMENT- none

Meeting adjourned at 9:35 AM

Christine Brauer Mueller
Lawrenceburg Township

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