18 SEPTEMBER 2018 DEARBORN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING NOTES

18 SEPTEMBER 2018 DEARBORN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING NOTES

Present:  Art Little, and Jim Thatcher, Acting Chairman

ABSENT: Shane McHenry and Connie Fromhold, Auditor

Also present: Connie Fromhold, Auditor Andy Baudendistel, Attorney, and Sue Hayden, Administrator

Commissioner candidate Rick Probst also attended.

TITLE VI STATEMENT FOR COMPLIANCE was read by Baudendistel as legally required.

OLD BUSINESS

NEW BUSINESS

Grant Application Request- Health Dept Leader- Mary Calhoun- This is related to drug awareness and response and campaign awareness and stigma reduction. No county match. Accepted and McHenry will sign the request tomorrow. 

Grant Application Requests- EMA Director Jason Sullivan:

Emergency Management Performance Grant EMPG- covers salary reimbursement. $39,053- for Jason and Sherry. Approved and McHenry will sign at a later date.

State Homeland Security Program Grant- SHSP- $3000 to attend a conference in Phoenix AZ. Approved and all the grants for McHenry will sign at a future date.

$25,000 grant also approved

Repeater for warning system- $8219 approved.

24 new radios for sheriff- $99,778.32 approved to go to council

Campus repeater system $41,250 approved

$14650- Drone to use for search and rescue approved

Hazmat preparedness program $2000 match and the grant is $10000 approved

Flooding in Aurora $4368 for the truck they had on site for 8 days- reimbursement. Approved. 

Mayor Donnie Hastings and Geneviere Emery presented a plaque and will be commissioned in Fort Canaveral for the USS Indiana in about a week. Plaque from a fallen walnut tree in Dearborn County. Taking it to Florida to present.   

Resolution Approving DC as a Vote Center County- Clerk of Courts- Gayle Pennington- positive recommendation from the diverse committee and the election board. Indiana Code allows county’s to adapt the vote center model. The Commissioners signed the resolution that becomes effective with the May 2019 election. Next steps will be town halls throughout the county. This gives her permission to move forward. Locations need to be large enough, convenient and spread out enough. Plus have enough voting machines and staffing. Good planning will eliminate many issues, they hope. 

Pennington got an email that they will get the grant in full to reimburse all their money spent to secure the voting machines. Video cameras keep the feed two years at sheriff’s dept.   

Vacation of Portions of Elm, Reardon(Main) and unnamed alley in Hardinsburgh aka Hardintown and Ordinance for the Vacation-  Mark McCormack- Planning Director. Owner was Nanz Properties. Surveyed by DA Kraus Land Survey Company. It involves 0.847 acres. Zoning is I-3- heavy industrial. He showed pictures and noted that there is an enforcement issue in court regarding part of the land that is coming to court soon. Greendale sent comments regarding utilities there. Two neighbors called and had no problem with the vacation itself. 

Steve Lampert wants to be sure Greendale’s utilities are protected per Baudendistel. 

Dennis Kraus Jr presented for Nanz Properties. They want to have an easement to be sure people know where the buried utilities are located. Page 3 of the survey has the 15 ft wide easements dedicated to the city of Greendale. Nana agrees to the easements but cannot grant them until he owns the property. Public Comment closed. 

Baudendistel read the ordinance for the vacation of these streets and alley. The Plan Commission voted with 8 in favor and one absent (Kraus Jr couldn’t vote on this due to conflict of interest) The ordinance stated the reasons this was a good idea. Commissioners approved the Vacation as recommended by the Plan Commission. 

Signature for Heart House Annual Certification of Local Approval- Sue Hayden presented it and Commissioners approved it with McHenry to sign at a later date. 

Appointment for DC Redevelopment Board - (Diane C Bender)- Due to the resignation of John Rahe, the position needed to be filled. Diane Bender was the only candidate brought up. Art Little said he knows her and she is intelligent and will be a good choice. Thatcher concurred. Approved.

ADMINISTRATOR – Sue Hayden-

2019 Employee Holiday Calendar- Approved all the holidays- about 16 of them.

2019 Board of Commissioners Schedule - Same as last year for times. 1st and 3rd Tuesdays Approved. 

AUDITOR – Sue Hayden covering for Connie Fromhold  -Claims and Sept 4th Minutes approved

ATTORNEY – Andy Baudendistel- nothing more

COMMISSIONER COMMENTS- 

McHenry had to take his son for X-rays after football practice- so absent tonight per Thatcher

LATE ARRIVAL INFORMATION- Mark Shaffeld, Dennie Mercurio, Rich Martin- all on Augusta Drive. Speed limit in HVL is 25mph because no sidewalks. Augusta Drive has no sidewalks. It’s not safe to have the speed limit at 30 mph. The golf course also has golf carts crossing the street in 2 places. Commissioners will discuss this with Todd Listerman, the highway engineer. They will see what he says and get back to them. 

Denise Klump- Presented more information and pictures regarding the home situation that has been in process for 3 plus years. She wants to know what progress has been made in permits being more stringent on who can get permits. Little said Indiana has what they call a LOG CABIN LAW. It allows a person to build his own house. Little said he understands. And he knows the law moves slow. She knows they are tired of hearing about it. She wants to protect anyone else who may end up enduring this type of thing. Baudendistel - Bill Shelton went up to look at it. There are driveway issues. They want Jennifer Hughes to go out again to talk to JD to let him know what has to happen by Dec1. 

She wants them to look at the building codes and see if they can sure they have the capability to do this type of work. 

PUBLIC COMMENT- none

ADJOURN- 6:05 PM

Christine Brauer Mueller

Lawrenceburg Township