8 May 2019 DEARBORN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING NOTES

8 May 2019 DEARBORN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING NOTES

Present: Jim Thatcher, President, Art Little, and Rick Probst

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

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

OLD BUSINESS

NEW BUSINESS

Election Update- Gayle Pennington, Clerk of Courts- presented by Wendy from Clerk’s office- voter turnout- 19.37% 8952 registered voters. 1734 voted. 1040 Republican

 594 Democrat. Voting process went well with the new process. Nothing is connected to anything online for the machines. Security protects the ballot. There is a tie and one recount. Tie gets decided by caucus or county chairman in a primary. Bills from county get out to the cities for election costs. 

Request to Approach Council for Road and Bridge Work- Todd Listerman Highway Engineer- two requests $400,000 for community crossing grants to get the maximum money of $1mil grant. 2nd request will be for $1.5 million for road and bridge projects. State with Community Crossings wants more maintenance to preserve the roads- like chip and fog seal for example. This makes the road last longer between re-paving. Bridges get a thin epoxy overlay to seal cracks in bridges to extend life of bridge decks. Commissioners gave permission to go to Council to ask for this funding.  

MS4 District Update- Jennifer Hughes Stormwater Coordinator DCSWCD (Soil and Water Conservation District)- MS4 is southern Indiana is an unfunded mandate through EPA. The 3 cities in the county will also be pulled into the program as well as the county. This is to try to control non- point sources of pollution on our properties. The letter they will get goes them 90 days to respond to how they will do the program. Municipal separate storm sewer system is what MS4 stands for. Hidden Valley gets pulled in also. Financial impact small now as first year is mostly writing. HVL spends about $20,000/year because of their employee.  

Property at 125 Conwell Street-Guinevere Emery, Aurora City Mgr- Resolution Assigning Tax State Certificate to City of Aurora. This would be approved at Aurora’s council meeting on Monday. They have other properties on Conwell demolished and in this program for blight elimination. This is being coordinated thru One- Dearborn in their housing plan. This increases housing opportunities in a blighted area. Commissioners approved and signed the resolution presented by Baudendistel. 

Purchase Agreement for Radio Equipment Purchase - Jared Teaney 911 Director- This is already appropriated. Existing equipment is about 15 years old. Windows XP on the computers. Update is necessary. Completion by Fall 2019. Bidding process is done through the state. $414,060.34 cost. $85,835.96 annual costs after that. Council had this appropriated at Budget. Commissioners approved the purchase agreement. 

Modification of Midwest Data, Inc. Agreement- Language added to the agreement for federal regulations that IT services provider has to be aware of. Midwest Data is OK with this. This will also be added to Judge Humphrey’s agreement also. This has to do with the IV-D Child support setup. This was based on Prosecutor’s Office audit. Approved.  

ADMINISTRATOR – Sue Hayden-JAVS - Justice AV Solutions Maintenance and Support Agreement- they do recording systems for county and all the courts and jail. Approved.

AUDITOR – Connie Fromhold  -Claims and April 16th Meeting Minutes and special meeting for semi truck issues on April 23rd approved. 

ATTORNEY – Andy Baudendistel- said there was 30 days to bill elections to cities.

COMMISSIONER COMMENTS- Probst will be missing for next meeting. 

Little said that there are orange barrels from here to Myrtle Beach and got to visit Jeff Hughes.

Thatcher appreciates highway dept work on slips and paving coming.

LATE ARRIVAL INFORMATION- none

PUBLIC COMMENT- none

ADJOURN-  9:44 AM

Christine Brauer Mueller

Lawrenceburg Township