26 February 2019 DC County Meeting Notes

26 February 2019 Dearborn County Council Meeting Notes

Present: Liz Morris, President, Dennis Kraus. Sr., Dan Lansing, Kevin Turner, Tim Doll, Alan Goodman, and Bill Ullrich. 

Also present: Connie Fromhold, Auditor and Leah Bailey, Comptroller

TITLE VI STATEMENT FOR COMPLIANCE read by Liz Morris as legally required

FEBRUARY 26 MEETING WILL TAKE THE PLACE OF THE APRIL 2^ND MEETING UNLESS NEEDED FOR OTHER BUSINESS.

Morris welcomed new member Tim Doll who replaced Charlie Keyes.

COUNCIL APPOINTMENTS

Ullrich to CVTB board. 

Doll to Solid Waste Board

CIRCUIT COURT – Judge Humphrey

Additional funds for major trials in 2019- not going to happen until later this year. Some costs will go to 2020 also. Part time employee assists 2 days a week. transferred funds and salary savings helped pay for this. Transcription costs used to come out of part time wages- now cannot do that. Request was reduced to $7500 instead of the $25,000 requested. 

Transcript preparation- will need $20,000. One major trail takes 2.5-3 weeks. This will be expensive. There are 4-5 other trials they expect tis year. Petit jurors and their meals also needed. 5 day trial costs about $10,000. If there is a change of venue- the county is still responsible for the costs. Approved from Riverboat Revenue.  

COMMISSIONERS – Jim Thatcher

Transfer $3,000.00 from acct. 13600 (workers comp) to acct. 36113 (human resources consultant)-  to begin work on the employee handbook and update it. Approved. 

CORONER – Leah Bailey presenting

Transfer from Coroner services to Part-time- to payroll account to cover part timer wages. Approved.

CLERK – Gayle Pennington- Clerk of Courts

Voting Machine- Needs the money set aside for the machines as the bill for $462,000 came in January. She requested less than this- so she is using savings in other accounts  $42,000) to cover the difference. The cities and towns elections this year will use 4 vote stations counting the one at the courthouse for absentees. Only ballots bought were for absentees. She’s going to take the machine to nursing homes. Approved the $420,000 that was advertised and planned for this. 

911 – Jared Teaney

Grant- federal government issues Next Gen 911 grant - Indiana received $2.8 million - want to apply for grant to update 911 CAD and GIS data. They will need a 40% match later. Plans are to take 40% match out of 911 funds. Grant applied for $113,736.58 Match is $45,294.63. Approved to move forward with the grant application. Ullrich complimented Jared Teaney on the state of the art work he’s done. Teaney said he has a good team.

Park Board – Doug Berger presented

Grant – Bright Meadow Park $100,000  from Dearborn Community Foundation to replace the old playground at the park and the equipment cannot be repaired. No county match.

Grant – REMC- asking for $1000 from their rounding up program funds. This is to help remove trees from the storm damages and ash trees. No match. Approved. 

AUDITOR – Connie Fromhold

Minutes from Jan 2 approved.

Salary ordinance needed to be updated for 2 employees as a housekeeping item. Approved. 

Lawrenceburg Economic Development Board Appointment- Council decided to not appoint someone and allow Lawrenceburg to fill that position. 

Couldn’t get answer from the assessors office. Hensley showed up later to tell him that they hire the assessment out. 

Morris explained that 25% of the properties in the county are assessed on a rolling basis every 4 years. She said they don’t single out areas. But it is done across 4 years. She said hers went up too. He said he had gone before the review board. He had a barn that is ready to fall down and can’t be insured so it shouldn’t be worth that much. 

Jim Thatcher- let him know that he was reassessed in HVL also. 

Meeting adjourned at 7:16 PM.

Christine Brauer Mueller

Lawrenceburg Township