20 JUNE 2023 DEARBORN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING NOTES
The following notes were taken from the recording of this meeting as I was unable to attend. CBM
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- none
NEW BUSINESS
Poll Workers Salaries - Gayle Pennington, Clerk of Courts- and Secretary of the Election Board. Coming to them to get their recommendation for salary increase. No raises since 2016-17. Totally electronic since then. They are trained. A lot are read to pass the baton to the next generation. Need to attract new worker. $150-200 per election in other counties. Inspectors get $150. We do $100 now. Wants it to be $150/election for the workers. $20 for training and $15 for meals is also in the budget currently. They work from 5 am to 6:30- 6:45 pm usually.We used to have 225 poll workers when there were more polling places. We have about 100 workers now per Rick Probst. The judges also get $150 and $200 for inspectors in this new 2024 budget request. The absentee ballot workers and traveling ones will be $100. Approved to go to Council for these amounts at budget request time.
Bid Award for 2023 Line Striping- County Engineer, Todd Listerman- had 2 bids - Ogelsby Construction from Norwalk OH was lowest bid. They also do state highways in WV. $172,876.50 is the bid amount-which is 9 1/2 cents per linear foot. We do 86 miles of our roads get striped. 1.8 million linear feet of line striping. Some of the roads last year were paved and the striping was included in the paving bid. It’s a little over $20,000 increase from last year. Approved.
Bridge 33 at bottom of Union Hill Rd. - Todd Listerman presented -Have to relocate REMC utilities for $38,861.07 is max amount. This is an 80/20 project. Our cost is just under $8,000. The purchase price is a separate agreement. Approved.
Zone Map Amendment- Director of Planning and Zoning, Nicole Daily
Ag to B-1 Local Business- Property on the Corner of SR1 and address is 7140 Hyland Rd- On May 22, 2023 PC met and passed a favorable recommendation with conditions- 1. Property owner puts landscaping on western and northern property lines within our buffer yard standards. 2.the property lights that exist or are added meet the current standards so it is not trespassing on other properties. Sewer is available. The local fire dept requested they remove the barriers in the parking lot to prevent semi turn arounds. Property owner is here this evening. He met with owners regarding the lighting. Mixed use with commercial and industrial is the future land use options there. They have a 20 ft wide buffer line. She read the height and width of shrub and tree examples he can use. Photometric light measurements will be done for lighting if needed. .8 is the measurement along any property line. They may have to a adjust the LED lighting. Steve Naltner purchased the property. He said he called his neighbor who has knowledge of lighting to help with the lighting adjustment. He said they have done some changes to have the lighting facing the parking lot more and will do more if the neighbors think it is needed. Commissioners approved the Zone change to B-1.
Ordinance to Change the Zoning Classification of the above property if approved. Commissioners signed the zone change ordinance also.
Review of Interlocal Agreements for Dispatch Services- Baudendistel presented. They have not been adjusted since 2016-7 and the costs have increased. They met with Jared Teaney to get real number costs for the towns and cities. They are sending a letter to the towns and cities to not automatically renew. County has 37% of phone calls and 86% of budget costs now. There is a letter to be sent to get them to meet with us to discuss the new interlocal agreements and costs. $800,000 in new equipment is NOT included in these new costs for the cities and towns.This include 2 new people to be hired. They still take off the 911 costs. The money the county gets is taken off first before they figured the shared costs. Commissioners approved the letter to be sent so the automatic renewal will not happen. These fees are discussed. Letters will go out certified.
ADMINISTRATOR – Sue Hayden
AUDITOR – Connie Fromhold -Claims/Payroll and June 6th Minutes- Approved
Legal Rep for Tax Sales- $15/parcel and now $25 / parcel. Buchanan and Brugganschmidt retained for legal services. Approved.
ATTORNEY – Andy Baudendistel- In process with house on Union Ridge being demolished. Judge Negangad approved the emergency process. They have to get a bid package for this. Opening the bids July 18th at the Commissioners meeting. All 5 respondents were served.The company that owns the property has been served thru their agent. This bid package has about 60 pages. When all is done then is goes to sheriff sale. We are more than likely not going to get the money back.
COMMISSIONER COMMENTS- Probst- Tuesday is July 4 - meeting is Wednesday. Have a safe celebration.
Little Have a great July 4 celebration. There is a house on Stateline House that is falling down too. It’s on the list for Bill Shelton coming in on July 5th meeting per Baudendistel.
LATE ARRIVAL INFORMATION- none
PUBLIC COMMENT- Ryan Johnson- person in long term recovery and former First Responder and President of One Voice and in Choices and wants to say that 20-25 beds of recovery housing are no longer available. He wants to know how the Opioid Settlement money we get is being appropriated and used in this state. Thatcher said they don’t have much say but Council has info. There is a committee with Judge McLaughlin and probation. He will stop in to see Auditor so Connie Fromhold can show him how it is being appropriated. And he can attend the committees public meetings.
ADJOURN- NEXT MEETING IS JULY 5 at 9AM.
Christine Brauer Mueller
Lawrenceburg Township
