18 June 2013 Dearborn
County Commissioners Meeting Notes
Present: Shane McHenry, President, Art Little, and Kevin
Lynch
Also present: Gayle Pennington, Auditor, Teresa Randall, County
Administrator, and Andy Baudendistel, Attorney.
OLD BUSINESS:
Region 9 Workforce
Board Representative- tabled again- as Randall hasn’t heard back from Kathy
Patterson at Chamber yet.
Township Advisory
Board Vacancies for Washington and Jackson Township – Baudendistel said
Lynn Deddins was willing to serve. McHenry will verify this for next meeting.
Commissioners fill these spots when the party doesn’t do it within the required
30 day limit per Baudendistel. McHenry to try to get a name for Washington
Township rep. Tabled.
Maximus Consultant
Contract- tabled as response from Maximus not received yet per Pennington.
NEW BUSINESS:
Animal Control report-
Marlene Underwood- tabled until next daytime meeting so she can be there.
Approval of EMA
Homeland Security Application- Baudendistel has reviewed. Applying for up
to $10,000 – McHenry said Bill Black wanted to have commissioners support.
Approved.
CMHC, Executive
Director- Tom Talbot- Introduction and presentation- they are a private
non-profit mental health center. There are 25 mental health centers in the
entire state. Required by Division of mental health and addictions to
provide a continuum of care. They also
provide support free during natural disasters. They have their own psychiatric
wing at Dearborn County Hospital. They also provide 120 beds in 5 counties for
homeless individuals who have mental health issues. They also share their federal dollars with
school programs too. They have 282 employees with a $19 million budget for the
region they serve. Served 4389 clients in 2009 and in the past year over 5800.
They do get some insurance revenue, Medicaid money, block grant money, 1 % of property tax dollars etc. Much of it is
used to match grants. Indianapolis doesn’t have to worry about match money
being exceeded. Rural counties like ours end up owing 33% back to state after
they exceed their match money. They came to the conclusion that they can’t continue
to give $1-2 million in care. They are seeking more funding sources. They are
basically the safety net for community- keeping people out of jails.
Kevin Lynch volunteers on their board and he says their
situation is more dire than it seems, at first blush. Revenue from service
providers is down in the last couple years. They end up taking on patients that
others won’t – as they cannot make money on them. Two Mental healt centers went
out of business and 8 have lost money in the last year. Kevin Lynch said he
cannot make motion to approach Council as he is on the board.
Talbot said in the past they approached Lawrenceburg and
have not heard back from them. Lane Siekman is their attorney and Baudendistel
said they should get together to talk about the public private partnership
statutes first. No decision.
IFSSA Grant Amendment
#4 – Prosecutor’s Office- Bryan Messmore presented. Approval and signature requested on Indiana family and Social Services
for Aging- commonly known as Adult Protective Services for the surrounding 4
counties and ourselves. $98,895 same as
we receive every year since 2010. It includes an additional $8,000 for
operational expenses we incur- which is good news for county general- per
Messmore. Approved and signed.
ADMINISTRATOR:
Teresa Randall- asked Brad Rullman to explain the parking issues.
Jail Updates- Rullman
-started jail project on Monday
and trying to get a parking lot set up- but in an effort to get things moving-
they will get a new lot up by the beginning of August. There are issues with
ADA parking spots. They will be stripping the site over the next couple days to
see what the subsoil issues might be.
Randall said they had to get creative on where they parked
the county vehicles that were in the EMA parking lot. When she got back after
being off last week she saw they took more spaces that she had anticipated. The
delays in the Votaw project has affected this parking issue. She said they
should continue to encourage employees to use the street parking so that
citizens don’t have to.
Two proposals for soil testing were $61 apart – Alt &
Witzig $47,400 and ATC was $47,461. Discussion on who to accept. Commissioners approved Alt and Witzig.
Concrete bids that were rebid to be sent in later this week.
They also requested that we agree not to disclose their financials. Baudendistel
said that the state law says this financial info is considered confidential
anyway. Dearborn County and Core Slab Contractors confidentiality contract
signed.
Lawrenceburg gave permission to use their property that CSX
used for staging and parking workers. They will agree to move if someone wants
to buy the land- that is owned by Lawrenceburg Redevelopment.
Bids for package 3 and 8 will be in this week.
Shumway/Votaw Update-
Bob Hrezo was present to answer questions. $141,943- for Dave O’Mara who is
the low bidder. They will bring contract to July 2 meeting. Then 45 days to get
job done. They need a notice to proceed to O’Mara. Baudendistel reviewed. Approved.
Contract with Hrezo
for a not to exceed $3290 to daily watch the work on Shumway/Votaw work.
Approved by Commissioners.
Randall wants to
contract with Alt & Witzig to test for soil testing for a not to exceed
$4250 for earthwork, concrete, and asphalt. They will check for compaction and
test concrete for slump etc. Acceptance agreement, construction testing was
approved.
Lynch and Randall met
with Lawrenceburg EMS and they are prepared to enter an interlocal agreement
with Lawrenceburg which was reviewed per Baudendistel. Approved in several
steps to allow authorization to enter into the interlocal agreement, then
approve the interlocal agreement itself. Then they approved the funding for 2
squads for $40,000. Randall had to search for those contracts to be approved
later in the meeting perhaps. They later motioned to allow McHenry to sign it
when they can find it aftedr the meeting sometime.
AUDITOR: Gayle
Pennington- Claims approved. Minutes approved for May 21 and May 28 special
meeting.
Pennington got a letter from new postmaster that said they
have to charge the county for sorting mail. Pennington said that she wants
street delivery and no fees for the taxpayers to foot the bill for. She talked
to judges and Humphrey said he thinks they can sort their own mail. Maintenance
crew used to pick up and sort this. She is anticipating some complaints.
Commissioners said no one should complain about sorting their own mail.
ATTORNEY: Andy
Baudendistel- has prepared some ordinances for planning and Zoning for the July
meeting.
COMMISSIONER COMMENTS-
Lynch wanted everyone to go out and enjoy the 4H fair this week.
McHenry asked for
a moment of silence for Terri Randall’s sister-in-law who passed this week.
Lynch also said that Congressman Messer
has been here 3 times since election. He is glad he is spending time here. Randall concurred.
LATE ARRIVAL
INFORMATION - none
PUBLIC COMMENT- none
Meeting adjourned at 6: 45 PM
Christine Brauer Mueller
Lawrenceburg Township
