Present: Shane McHenry, President, Art Little, and Kevin
Lynch
Also present: Gayle Pennington, Auditor, Teresa Randall, County
Administrator, and Andy Baudendistel, Attorney.
OLD BUSINESS:
NEW BUSINESS:
Children’s Advocacy Center of SE Indiana- Sarah Brichto-
Community Focus- sub-recipient report time again. As of now we are at our
projected number of kids at 364 and will exceed that in the 5 years. Having
another fundraiser with a Mardi Gras ball in Feb that Karen Ernst is helping
with. This is in addition to Guns and hoses Fund raiser. They are trying to
remain self sufficient. Commissioners were sent the report and the numbers for
the facility and they hired another interviewer. They do this report every 6
months until 5 years are up in 2016. Commissioners
voted to allow McHenry to sign. They are also up for another funding award
thru OCRA and hope that goes through.
Lifetime Housing
Group- Paul Murphy and Carla Burkhart –Carla said they are a sister company
to Lifetime resources. They help homeowners do repairs with grants. They need
support and funding from the county to pursue this grant. She had previously
sent this info to commissioners by mail. The grant is for 14 homes- 8 in
Dearborn County. The total is for $280,000. The deadline is Aug 29th for $14,310.32
from the county and $160,000 is the county share of the $280,000. The rest is
in Ripley County. It amounts to $1,788 + per home fro the county share. There
are 5 homes in the county that are not in the cities or towns so 5 x $1788.To
get a grant they have to be 55 or older or have a disability and 80% of poverty
income level. They have completed 30-40 homes. They will also have to go to
Council for this money. Baudendistel had no issue with this. Commissioners allowed her to approach
Council for a match of $8943.95 for the 5 homes in the county.
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT:
Todd Listerman, Highway Engineer:
Change order- $0 change order on Collier Ridge Bridge
because of the 2nd bidder having to be selected. This changes the
intermediate completion date for contract for Oct 17-Nov 14, 2014 as new
completion date for Force Construction. Signed.
LPA Consulting Contract for County Bridge Inspections- for
2015 and 2017. The federal funds were awarded and this is a mandated
inspection. $231,000 for United Consulting Engineers and the county. Approved and signed the contracts.
Bridge #5 INDOT LPA Agreement- $900,000 awarded to
reconstruct the East Laughery Creek Bridge #5 near Gregory Road. Scheduled to
be let FY 2018. Commissioners approved
this contract for LPA Comsulting. The bridge will last to 2018 unless a
catastrophe happens.
Award of Line Striping for 2014- 1000 vpd or more. Indiana
Sign and Barricade is the low bidder at $73299.35. Signed.
INDOT is getting
ready to close SR46 over I-74 by East Central HS. Additional traffic will also
use some state roads. Not everyone will use the official detour. The UNOFFICIAL
detour is Schuman and Trojan Rds. They will run a camera over it now and any
additional repairs needed after the construction will be done by the county and
then charged to INDOT for reimbursement. Listerman will contact the sheriff to
patrol the school area for speeders etc at Commissioner McHenry’s request.
Signed the agreement with INDOT.
Central Pier pilings
and foundation support poured on Collier Ridge. Three more bridges in the
county are finishing up and 3 more started after that.
Tim Grieve, Highway Superintendent:
Award of Road Paving Project- $1,049,059 from Rohe and low
bidder was O’Mara at $1,031,024.25. O’Mara
was awarded the contract.
ADMINISTRATOR:
Teresa Randall- Jail Project Update- Brad Rullman will be here next meeting.
They are running tight on that budget. The kitchen will relocate in the next
few weeks. This is one of the largest construction projects in the county. She
asked If they would like to have the new addition area open to the public to
tour soon. Public will not be able to get into secure areas. August 15 for
county employees to tour. August 16 –
Saturday- 10:30-11 and 11:-noon for Public to tour. Commissioners approved the open tour. Art Little when the old jail was
completed Meyer and Hoffmeier got locked into the secure area inadvertently and
had to wait for someone else to get out.
She introduced Oren
Turner- applied for and was selected to the grant position to do the Economic
Development Research Technician work and reports to the 3 mayors. He will be
visiting back and forth with the Redevelopment groups. His office is in
Lawrenceburg. He has a degree Economics and political Science and is working on
an IT degree from Cinti State. For more background on Turner : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/oren-turner/61/1/8b
AUDITOR: Gayle
Pennington- Claims and July 15th minutes with a revision on
adjournment motion submitted by Art Little were approved
ATTORNEY: Andy
Baudendistel-They got out of the agreement with BI that they previously
discussed. $39,806.86 is paid on this of the $144,000 that was previously owed.
The funds used to pay for this are user fees- not tax funds per Randall. SERCC
and BI agreement to get out of the agreement was signed by commissioners.
Attorneys Watson, Ewan, Votaw, and Stratman received
interlocal agreement on Animal Control Ordinance. Butler has not received it
yet for Greendale as they may opt out. He will report responses when he gets
it.
COMMISSIONER COMMENTS-
Lynch reported Messer and others like Work Force 1 will be at IVY Tech with
74 employers for a work fair there on Thursday August 7th at 1 PM. First hour
for veterans and 2-4:30 for the general public.
Lynch also recommended that everyone take advantage of the
jail tours. Terrific job keeping budget in line.
Art little went to Messer’s picnic at Verastau to get his
viewpoints. McHenry concurred that he always is attentive to the public. Lynch
said his staff is very responsive. They are always thinking of us. Donnelly’s
office as well is attentive,. We have done a good job of interacting with them
and building those relationships.
McHenry said the Bright festival was a great success and
thanks to them.
LATE ARRIVAL
INFORMATION- McHenry -Sat Sept 26- 8:45-10:30 for Jack’s Forever Run is planned
and they needed approval for the road closures along the route during that
time. This brings awareness of distracted driving and funds for programs at
schools for that. This is for Jack Carpenter- age 3 killed in 2010. Approved
the request
PUBLIC COMMENT- none
Meeting adjourned at 9:30 AM
Christine Brauer Mueller
Lawrenceburg Township
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