5 December 2017 Dearborn County Commissioners Meeting Notes

5 December 2017 Dearborn County Commissioners Meeting Notes

Present: Shane McHenry, President, and Art Little

Also present: Gayle Pennington, Auditor, Andy Baudendistel, Attorney

ABSENT: Kevin Lynch and Sue Hayden, Administrator

Title VI statement read by Baudendistel

OLD BUSINESS:

NEW BUSINESS:

Change Orders- Chris Grabosky, Maxwell Construction- not present- called McHenry and will come to do this in January.

HIGHWAY DEPT. Todd, Listerman, County Engineer:

Bid awards- all bids accepted so that those closest to projects can be used as needed.

Laughery Valley Ag COOP only bid on fuels. Rohe and O’Mara on hot and cold mix asphalt. Aggregates were bids by Harrison Sand and Gravel, Newpoint Stone Napoleon, Hanson Versailles Dry Fork, and Watson Gravel in Cleves.

Local Roads and Matching Grant Agreement- O’Mara only bid and below estimates-  $1,688,937.55. Approved for the contract. 

$840,967.00- INDOT’ s share - INDOT and County paving contract.signed.

Supplement #1 for Contract to replace Bridge #5 East Laughery Creek Road- $ 937,600.00 is the max allowed in federal funds for this project. 80/20 share on this project. This project has been moved back to 2019 for environmental studies. Approved. Signed. 

Contract for Bridge #76 over Little Jamison Creek Replacement- FPBH, Inc for $70,800.00. All bids were above estimate so they designed an alternative to give an option to bid to get it in budget. This will be a cast in place alternative versus the original precast version. It will take more time and the road will have to be close to do this. Approved. Signed. 

ADMINISTRATOR- Sue Hayden- absent on vacation.

AUDITOR- Gayle Pennington- request for grant application for guardian ad litem program. They are requesting the cash in advance as usually done- $938.24 approved. 

Claims and minutes from Nov 21st meeting approved.

ATTORNEY- Andy Baudendistel- Unsafe building hearing on Seldom Seen and has been under construction over 2 years. Demolition needed. Shawn Viel contractor retained by owners. Owner represented by Matt McDaniel. Requesting a building permit for 90 days for exterior only. If this doesn’t happen they will need another hearing and demolition will be required. The agreement for this needs to be signed by Commissioners and has already been signed by the owners and contractor. Neighbors were OK with trying this as it will put things in a much better position with a judge showing attempts have been made to resolve the issue. The contractor knows this 90 days is a winter time window. Commissioners approved the agreement between Building Dept (Bill Shelton) and owners, contractor and attorney representing them. 

Agreement made that vicious dog was returned to owner with neighbors agreeing to allow that- thus no vicious dog hearing.

COMMISSIONER COMMENTS- Little- cheering for the EC underdogs going to state. Look out for elderly etc at Christmas

McHenry- EC played ell, played smart. Keep Lynch in our prayers as he is not feeling well this morning. 

PUBLIC COMMENT- none

LATE ARRIVAL- none 

Meeting Adjourned at 9:00 AM

Christine Brauer Mueller

Lawrenceburg Township