WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.400 - well, welcome everyone. I would like to call tonight's meeting of the Minerva County Council to 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:13.060 - order for Tuesday, June the 10th. I want to note that for the record, we've got Council Members Fiddle, 00:00:13.060 --> 00:00:18.510 - Council Members Wilts, Council Member Deckard, Council Members Henry and Council Member Iverson 00:00:18.510 --> 00:00:20.000 - present in the room. 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:24.000 - Do we have Council Member Crossley online? 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:30.080 - Does that not look like it? Do we have Council? We do? All right. Thank you for joining us Council 00:00:30.080 --> 00:00:35.000 - Member Crossley and Council Member Hawk. Is Council Member Hawk online? 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:38.000 - Don't see her. 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:45.000 - All right, will you all please rise and join me in our Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:51.480 - I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it 00:00:51.480 --> 00:01:00.000 - stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.000 - Thank you all very much. 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:12.000 - I'll move on to the adoption of our agenda this evening. Does anyone wish to amend tonight's agenda? 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:15.000 - We have a couple of items here for us. 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:22.020 - We are going to be tabling the Health Department items. For those of you keeping score at home, 00:01:22.020 --> 00:01:25.000 - those are items 8E and 8F. 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:31.000 - Those will be tabled to the June 24th meeting to allow more time for information gathering. 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:37.000 - So 8E and 8F are tabled to June 24th. And we also want to add the following items. 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:42.000 - 10A, approval of an appointment to the Monroe County Public Library Board. 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:52.000 - And 10B, discussion and approval of resolution 2025-27, approving 2026 target fund balances. 00:01:52.000 --> 00:02:03.000 - Council, I think you do have a copy of that resolution on the desk here. 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:11.000 - All right. Any questions or comments? Mr. Chairman, please. 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:18.000 - My understanding, and this was a quick inference from staff, was that 10B was a request by Councilor 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:23.000 - Hawk for it to be on the agenda today for a full council discussion. 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:30.390 - And I'm wondering, and I'm looking towards Council, if Councilor Hawk is not here and the full 00:02:30.390 --> 00:02:34.000 - council is not here, do we need to do that? 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:39.880 - And I don't want to go contrary to what the leadership wants or anything, but I just am wondering 00:02:39.880 --> 00:02:44.000 - if we're fulfilling a purpose or taking up time. 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:52.350 - I think this resolution was presented at LTF and the committee wanted it to be presented to the 00:02:52.350 --> 00:02:57.150 - full council. As a caveat, I have not presented or provided FSG our advisors a copy of this, so 00:02:57.150 --> 00:03:00.000 - they haven't seen it yet. 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:06.010 - So if the item is added to the agenda, it could be a discussion item, and then I could provide it 00:03:06.010 --> 00:03:11.920 - to FSG for feedback and we can vote on it at a different meeting, or you could do discussion and 00:03:11.920 --> 00:03:13.000 - approval. 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:21.000 - I would withdraw my question and I would go ahead and move the chairs additions on if that helps. 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:24.000 - Right. Any other comments or questions. 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:32.000 - Seeing none, could we please have a roll call vote to approve tonight's agenda. 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:37.000 - Councilor Iverson. Yes, counselor Henry. Yes. 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:46.000 - Councilor Wilts. Yes. Councilor cross Lee. Yes. Councilor final. Yes. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:51.000 - Councilor Decker. Yes. Motion passes unanimous. 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:57.300 - Thank you so much. And just before we move on to public comment we do want to wish counselor cross 00:03:57.300 --> 00:04:03.000 - Lee health in this moment so we are eager for you to return to us. Thank you. 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:09.750 - This item on our agenda is public comments. If there is an item, not on the agenda that you would 00:04:09.750 --> 00:04:15.000 - like to speak, please come up to the podium, or raise your hand on teams as a reminder there will 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:18.000 - be a time limit of three minutes per speaker. 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:23.820 - And so we are going to start with a person at the podium and then we'll go online, and then we'll 00:04:23.820 --> 00:04:29.590 - go to another person to the podium, we'll go with that so please Mr mg, the floor is yours for 00:04:29.590 --> 00:04:31.000 - three minutes. 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.000 - Thank you. 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:35.000 - counselor Thank you. 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:40.000 - Council and and staff today this is Christopher mg from the greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce. 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:45.250 - I just want to give my support for the work done by the county's long term financial planning 00:04:45.250 --> 00:04:46.000 - committee. 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:51.640 - The county council is the fiscal body of county government and that two hours was a very sobering 00:04:51.640 --> 00:04:54.000 - two hours and a very unclear two hours. 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:59.890 - But it has major ramifications moving forward and that specifically with bonding for one, and 00:04:59.890 --> 00:05:07.200 - according to estimates I have in my notes, we're looking between 2026 and 29.66 million dollars 00:05:07.200 --> 00:05:14.130 - revenue loss, and the county did not have that cushion, it makes me very glad that your stewards of 00:05:14.130 --> 00:05:19.220 - our tax dollars with a nice rainy day fun, but that long term does not help us in matters when we're 00:05:19.220 --> 00:05:23.000 - looking at major capital improvement projects with the highway. 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:28.360 - The jail, the new justice center at North Park, I don't know how that's going to work, and just 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:33.580 - future economic efforts but I continue to have those, I continue to encourage to have those 00:05:33.580 --> 00:05:35.000 - conversations. 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:39.630 - Hopefully the more we look into this more we know I cannot begin to kind of give the details and 00:05:39.630 --> 00:05:44.190 - point my finger on what's what, but nothing of it looked like good news from the two hours on 00:05:44.190 --> 00:05:47.000 - Friday so just continue the work I appreciate it. 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:51.000 - And so do the residents here, Monroe County. Thanks. 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:59.540 - Thank you so much. Next we'll go online, I have a hand raised Mr muchler. Please go ahead you've 00:05:59.540 --> 00:06:05.000 - got the floor for three minutes. 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:21.000 - Good evening council, Seth muchler here, resident of Monroe County. I wanted to speak today also in 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:21.000 - response to the news from Friday's long term finance planning committee meeting, specifically the 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:21.000 - cap on debt allowance for local income tax revenue. 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:25.720 - I want to first acknowledge that SB one has had an impact on of course all county residents but it's 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:30.460 - also impacted your work and make your jobs those responsible for fiscal management significantly 00:06:30.460 --> 00:06:36.000 - harder so I sympathize with you as you navigate these unexpected challenges. 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:42.510 - I do think, however, this specific component of SB one has given us an opportunity to reconsider 00:06:42.510 --> 00:06:48.310 - our county's approach to incarceration, criminal legal system and the jail. As we are unable to 00:06:48.310 --> 00:06:49.000 - finance the proposed new jail. 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:54.620 - I hope that you will reconsider renovation of the existing facility as a legitimate option that 00:06:54.620 --> 00:07:00.300 - satisfies both the need for humane conditions in our jail, and the need for a solution that fits 00:07:00.300 --> 00:07:04.000 - within our new changing and rapidly changing fiscal needs. 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:08.960 - Now I know that we've heard time and time again the current jail is beyond repair, and I understand 00:07:08.960 --> 00:07:12.000 - that's been said but the facts and figures say otherwise. 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:17.740 - The 2020 criminal justice and incarceration study which colloquially referred to as the kin ray 00:07:17.740 --> 00:07:23.000 - study which the county commissioned estimated repair between 22 and $56 million. 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:29.880 - Now admittedly those are $20 21 and Dr Ray is not an architect, but in 2024, the county once again 00:07:29.880 --> 00:07:35.480 - commissioned to study this time by our QAW a professional firm, and the cost of renovation was 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:38.000 - given as 58 to $67 million. 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:44.080 - They even provided an estimate of the cost of moving inmates during renovation which adds only 16 00:07:44.080 --> 00:07:47.000 - me only but adds $16 million to that cost. 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:53.210 - Note that the bulk of these costs are for out of county housing at 258 inmates, if we reduced our 00:07:53.210 --> 00:07:56.000 - jail population that cost would go down. 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:00.720 - Now, I know we don't want to just do something because only it's the fiscally prudent move, we also 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:05.200 - need to make sure it's the right move, but I believe that it is, if we spend, if we renovate the 00:08:05.200 --> 00:08:08.000 - jail and spend the remainder of the lit funds 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:13.410 - which we would not need to take debt on and could disperse on an annual basis. I think it's the 00:08:13.410 --> 00:08:14.000 - right move. 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:19.490 - Looking back to that Kinray study the source for much of the belief that we need a newer and bigger 00:08:19.490 --> 00:08:26.000 - jail. In that report, they estimated that in 2025 we would need a jail with 370 beds. 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:32.940 - Well, according to the jails 2024 annual report, we only average 227 daily inmates last year, so 00:08:32.940 --> 00:08:39.000 - this demonstrates that we are not beholden to this idea of linear growth in our jail population. 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:44.720 - If we don't have to build just a bigger jail, we can reduce our jail population and reduce our reliance 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:51.000 - on the facility. I know that for social service organizations, those who have recidivism, half of 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:55.000 - the state average, funding is often the bottleneck for service expansion. 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:59.960 - So I hope that you will take all this into consideration as you navigate both serving the community 00:08:59.960 --> 00:09:04.000 - and also serving these unique fiscal needs that the state has handed to you. 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:07.000 - Thank you for your time and for your service. 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.000 - Thank you, Mr. Muchler you timed that perfectly. 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:16.000 - Right. Who would like to come to the podium next. 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:20.000 - You're welcome and next three minutes are all yours. 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:24.960 - Yes, thank you very much. My name is Stephen Clark I work for the US Small Business Administration 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:27.000 - Office of disaster recovery and resilience. 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:32.950 - And I will begin by saying that two years ago I was in Bloomington working on a tornado outbreak 00:09:32.950 --> 00:09:39.320 - and now two years later I am back in Bloomington because of the May 16th tornado outbreak and 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:45.490 - wanted to specifically address the availability of SBA disaster loans for homeowners renters 00:09:45.490 --> 00:09:50.000 - private nonprofits and small businesses in Monroe County. 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:57.880 - We have physical damage disaster loans for all four of those categories, which are available to 00:09:57.880 --> 00:10:02.000 - make repairs rebuild or to be used to relocate. 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:07.750 - In addition to our physical damage loan program we have an economic injury disaster loan program 00:10:07.750 --> 00:10:13.480 - available for private nonprofits and small businesses to be a working capital loan to make up for 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:19.000 - lost revenue due to disruptions which may have occurred due to the storms. 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:23.000 - Those are our basic programs. 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:29.470 - A couple of items I would like to highlight, we have what we call a disaster loan outreach center 00:10:29.470 --> 00:10:37.250 - currently at Ivy Tech 200 Daniels way. It is open Monday through Friday from 8am until 5pm Saturday, 00:10:37.250 --> 00:10:45.000 - 10 to two, and there you can get assistance applying for in person for these, these disaster loans. 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:50.470 - I am also a representative of the Indiana Department of Homeland Security and they have grant funds 00:10:50.470 --> 00:10:55.000 - available for disaster survivors as well. So both of those things would be available. 00:10:55.000 --> 00:11:01.710 - I will add that this center is scheduled to close on Wednesday, June 18 at 3pm permanently so it is 00:11:01.710 --> 00:11:08.000 - a resource which is available for in person assistance for a period of time but not forever. 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:14.060 - Beyond that, the other really important deadline I would like to highlight is that the physical 00:11:14.060 --> 00:11:18.000 - damage disaster loan application deadline is July 29th. 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:38.000 - I have sent all this information by email and feel free to share that information. If you do run 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:38.000 - into anyone who is in need of assistance, please have them give me a call on my cell phone or send 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:38.000 - me an email so I can try to point them in the right direction, whether it's answering questions 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:38.000 - myself or sending them to the Disaster Loan Outreach Center to get some in person assistance. 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:43.960 - We encourage people do not wait to receive an insurance settlement before applying for an SBA loan. 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:49.350 - We can fund you up to the extent of your uncompensated losses up to our loan limits, which for 00:11:49.350 --> 00:11:56.000 - homeowners are $500,000 for real estate, and for homeowners and renters that be an additional $100,000 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.000 - for personal property. 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:04.470 - This loan limits are generally $2 million. So the funds are available to get the SBA disaster loan 00:12:04.470 --> 00:12:10.360 - before receiving an insurance settlement, and then be able to begin and make repairs or the 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:16.070 - rebuilding or even relocation before you're able to, or before you have to get that so that may 00:12:16.070 --> 00:12:20.450 - open up a lot of possibilities for people to get things done more quickly than under their 00:12:20.450 --> 00:12:24.000 - insurance and I thank you very much for your time this evening. 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:30.130 - Thank you. Thank you, Mr Clark and if you would stay at the podium for just one second, I think, 00:12:30.130 --> 00:12:33.460 - because of severity of the storm and the impact on our community. I'm going to give a minute to our 00:12:33.460 --> 00:12:37.000 - my colleagues here to ask questions if you're okay with that. 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:42.000 - I'll answer questions all night long. All right. Who's our first taker here. 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:47.850 - I wanted some idea of how many you might have served already and what types of service you might 00:12:47.850 --> 00:12:50.000 - have been providing already. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:56.590 - Based on the data we had today, we've had, I believe, one business application and 14 homeowner or 00:12:56.590 --> 00:13:00.000 - renter, you know, the home loan applications. 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:05.850 - But, you know, we're only about a week into this this was only declared I believe on May 30, so 00:13:05.850 --> 00:13:11.420 - people have not had a lot of time really starting just last week that they were aware of it to make 00:13:11.420 --> 00:13:13.000 - the applications. 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:15.000 - Thank you. 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:22.020 - Let's go online. I just wanted to thank you for sending this information ahead via email and giving 00:13:22.020 --> 00:13:24.000 - us a chance to get it out. 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:30.350 - Two weeks ago at our last meeting we had members of our community come and speak to us about the 00:13:30.350 --> 00:13:37.000 - damage to their property and their lives and their livelihoods and asking what could we do. 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:44.460 - And it's, it's tough to be in that position when you don't feel like there are a lot of options so 00:13:44.460 --> 00:13:52.000 - hearing from you that you're in our community and actively providing options is a comfort. 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:54.000 - Thank you. 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:59.600 - Sir, thank you so much for being here I had a question and you may be able to answer it or you may 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:04.000 - need to get back at whatever works. Thank you so much for taking these. 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:11.520 - If I have a constituent that I'm working with it has indicated that getting their property getting 00:14:11.520 --> 00:14:18.930 - their home back to normal means, finding revenue or assistance to get things off of the property 00:14:18.930 --> 00:14:21.000 - and they cannot do it. 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:35.000 - Yes, you can use funds for debris removal. 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:41.210 - Okay, so that is an option or demolition perhaps if things need to be rebuilt in that way that 00:14:41.210 --> 00:14:45.000 - those would both be authorized uses the loan funds. 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:52.120 - And beyond that you can get additional funds up to 20% greater than the amount of uncompensated 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:59.340 - losses for mitigation improvements to make your structure or landscaping or I guess just generally 00:14:59.340 --> 00:15:07.000 - the premises better suited to deal with potential storms or other hazards in the future. 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:12.770 - So I mean for tornadoes that that might include changes to maybe pruning trees or things back so 00:15:12.770 --> 00:15:16.000 - that you don't have limbs falling on buildings. 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:33.540 - It could involve anchoring buildings to foundations, but there also could be things just like 00:15:33.540 --> 00:15:39.650 - changes to drainage. If flooding was a concern that I mean that comes up a lot in places that I've 00:15:39.650 --> 00:15:40.000 - been. 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:44.680 - Anyone to me if they have additional questions because we want to get them pointed in the right 00:15:44.680 --> 00:15:47.000 - direction and get their applications in. 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:53.600 - I guess I should add you know our loans. There's no application fee and there's no obligation to 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:55.000 - take alone when you apply. 00:15:55.000 --> 00:16:02.000 - So I mean the downsides are will take a bit of time to get the information together. 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:08.490 - You know so that may be a few hours and we will run a hard credit check, but those are really the 00:16:08.490 --> 00:16:14.000 - only downsides. So otherwise we encourage anyone who thinks they might need this. 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:18.990 - Please you know put in your application, then you can find out what you're eligible to get from the 00:16:18.990 --> 00:16:22.000 - SBA, and then you can decide if you want to take it or not. 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:29.290 - Like I said, it's no obligation. So you know if you decide for whatever reason, it's not for you. 00:16:29.290 --> 00:16:32.000 - You don't want to take on the debt. You get the insurance money to take care of it. 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:37.730 - You decide you want to go some other direction. Those are all perfectly good and then at least you 00:16:37.730 --> 00:16:45.000 - will not be missing out by waiting too long past application deadlines or things like that. 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:49.510 - Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you for being here again I know your your trips to Bloomington 00:16:49.510 --> 00:16:54.000 - are always under these circumstances hopefully you can visit us under different conditions. 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:57.000 - I do appreciate SBA for being here. 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:01.500 - Given that you know we do know there's already some challenges with the state disaster relief 00:17:01.500 --> 00:17:05.910 - funding getting folks the resources they need here, and as well as you know we do not meet the 00:17:05.910 --> 00:17:10.000 - federal threshold for FEMA this is really the next stop and I'm glad the resources 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:14.650 - and hopefully folks are hearing you tonight and continue to use the resource I know there's quite a 00:17:14.650 --> 00:17:19.260 - few more parcels out there homes out there that were damaged that need to find their way to IV tech 00:17:19.260 --> 00:17:22.000 - so happy to share the information wherever we can. 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:27.120 - Yes, thank you and I know that the county emergency management agency has already shared our 00:17:27.120 --> 00:17:32.580 - information on on the county website and on their Facebook page and I think that's already received 00:17:32.580 --> 00:17:37.000 - some good views and help to get some people the information they need so thank you 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:44.000 - very much for helping us share our information, you know with your friends and neighbors. 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:48.980 - I have a question I was just going to point that out that if you go to co.monroe.in.us or Google 00:17:48.980 --> 00:17:54.080 - Monroe County, Indiana, an overview of the US Small Business Administration disaster assistance 00:17:54.080 --> 00:17:59.000 - sheets that you just talked about is right there so you know, head over there 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:04.220 - there's also other disaster resources available at that website so thank you for being here and 00:18:04.220 --> 00:18:07.000 - thank you for answering questions that we had. 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:09.000 - Yes, thank you very much. 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:15.000 - All right, do we have any more public comment I'm looking online and in the NatU Hill Room. 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:19.620 - Seeing none we're going to move on to department updates and tonight we're going to begin with the 00:18:19.620 --> 00:18:21.000 - Youth Services Bureau. 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:28.010 - First we have Vicki Thevenile for a department updates. You've got 10 minutes, should you need it. 00:18:28.010 --> 00:18:29.000 - I don't. 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:36.250 - Good afternoon, Vicki Thevenile, Youth Services Bureau. I'm here because Michelle instructed me 00:18:36.250 --> 00:18:42.000 - that our new protocol is to come to you in a department update for this particular issue. 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:46.800 - I have a counselor who's leaving and is full time they're moving to Chicago we wish them good luck 00:18:46.800 --> 00:18:48.000 - but we'll miss them. 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:53.670 - We have hired the replacement and we'd like a two week overlap for training these counselors work 00:18:53.670 --> 00:18:59.340 - with families and youth and it's really abrupt for someone to leave and not have an opportunity to 00:18:59.340 --> 00:19:05.000 - introduce the person that's replacing them in that kind of intimate setting and with our programs. 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:11.560 - So, we already have in our budget, a transitional temporary training position account line so that's 00:19:11.560 --> 00:19:17.720 - already established. I have the money to cover this already in my budget I'm not asking for money 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:22.000 - it's $2,888 and 60 cents for that two week overlap. 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:29.000 - And I think I am here just to ask for your blessing to move forward is that correct is correct. 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:36.000 - Well thank you for that do we need a motion for a blessing. 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:42.000 - Like I explained to miss them and all the line is already in the, in the budget. 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:47.740 - She is going to do an in house transfer. I said it would be a good idea to just give you a heads up 00:19:47.740 --> 00:19:52.000 - on what is going to be happening, and why that account lines being used again. 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:56.000 - Right, counsel do you have any questions or comments on this item. 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:58.000 - I think you have your blessing. 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:01.000 - Thank you so much. Have a good evening. Thank you. 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:06.000 - Next we have Jen Pearl with the Bloomington Economic Development Corporation and guests. 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:11.000 - So welcome to the podium the next 10 minutes is yours. 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:15.440 - Good evening my name is Jen Pearl and I'm president of the Bloomington Economic Development 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:20.000 - Corporation we're a nonprofit that serves all of Monroe County in helping to attract and grow 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:22.000 - quality jobs for the community. 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:28.430 - I just wanted to come and share with you some great news that a new company called all boy has 00:20:28.430 --> 00:20:32.000 - selected Monroe County for its us expansion. 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:40.000 - And for that I have Monica, who's with us here from all boy to share more details. Thanks. 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:47.210 - Welcome. Thank you. Hi Council, Monica think with envoy, we just really wanted to come and say 00:20:47.210 --> 00:20:52.000 - thank you to Bloomington and to all the partners that have helped us. 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:56.780 - You know, launch our operations here we're a Canada based company who found the need to kind of 00:20:56.780 --> 00:21:00.000 - land in the US as our customers are really pulling us here. 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:05.140 - We're a steel manufacturer in the telecom industry so the easiest way to think about it is these 00:21:05.140 --> 00:21:08.000 - devices require networks to make those happen. 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:13.770 - We manufacture all of the structures and the mounts and some of the other parts that put those 00:21:13.770 --> 00:21:19.810 - networks up right so it's not an industry that off that's often thought about until those devices 00:21:19.810 --> 00:21:23.000 - don't don't work right so. 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:28.760 - But, but we chose Bloomington because number one it's, you know, geographically located for all of 00:21:28.760 --> 00:21:33.000 - our customer base, we have a heavy customer base here in the Midwest. 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:37.980 - We also have some great partners in Indianapolis and Louisville so Bloomington is like pleasantly 00:21:37.980 --> 00:21:42.360 - right in the middle of all of that so we're really thrilled for that, but really from the 00:21:42.360 --> 00:21:45.000 - standpoint of just workforce development. 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:50.360 - With the universities here, we have an engineering side to our business that is really important to 00:21:50.360 --> 00:21:52.000 - the steel manufacturing. 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:58.440 - So, with Indiana University Purdue, you know closely located on that's a great pull from the 00:21:58.440 --> 00:22:04.980 - engineering side and then also with Ivy Tech on the trade side I think that's a great resource for 00:22:04.980 --> 00:22:11.000 - us as well so we've we found a home in kind of a under the live space and 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:15.500 - the Phoenix packaging facility they've been gracious to open that up for us and it's a great fit 00:22:15.500 --> 00:22:20.000 - for our operations so we're really looking forward to kind of getting up and going there. 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:26.220 - We're anticipating between 50 and 100 jobs over the next couple years and and really telecom if you 00:22:26.220 --> 00:22:32.150 - look at those projections the infrastructure and the funding right now from this administration has 00:22:32.150 --> 00:22:33.000 - been great. 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:37.990 - Brendan car chairman the FCC is a great supporter of this industry so we're seeing a lot of 00:22:37.990 --> 00:22:43.880 - positives in terms of the growth over the next five to 10 years within telecom so lots of positives, 00:22:43.880 --> 00:22:47.000 - you know, in light of all of that so we're really looking forward 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:52.920 - to that excited to be here in Bloomington. We just love this community. So thank you just wanted to 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:56.000 - give a quick introduction to to envoy. 00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:02.400 - Thank you. Please. So I wanted to add that some of your past decisions as counsel is actually 00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:09.030 - bearing fruit here. So they're locating in the former Otis elevator facility, and that has been 00:23:09.030 --> 00:23:14.000 - redeveloped beautifully in recent years by Phoenix, with the support 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:19.470 - Council in investing in Phoenix to be able to do that so that is something that has born fruit in 00:23:19.470 --> 00:23:24.990 - other ways and we love being able to redevelop old properties to bring that investment into our 00:23:24.990 --> 00:23:28.000 - community so thank you for that as well. 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:33.440 - Well, thank you. Would you stick around for questions from Council, they haven't I'll start with my 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:34.000 - right. 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:38.300 - I mean it's not so much questions but comments. Welcome. First of all, it's wonderful I do live on 00:23:38.300 --> 00:23:42.410 - the west side of the county and anytime we can really work on the redevelopment of Curry Pike where 00:23:42.410 --> 00:23:45.000 - our industrial heart is we tend to think of college and Walnut 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:49.460 - is you know the downtown of Livingston but that's the other downtown when it comes to our light 00:23:49.460 --> 00:23:54.110 - industrial and economic core there and welcome, this is just a great opportunities exactly the 00:23:54.110 --> 00:23:58.000 - stuff we should be doing and smartly developing our community 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:06.000 - and way to track jobs and, and folks I'm glad we can be home where are you located in Canada. 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:11.370 - We're in Toronto, Canada. Yep. So, very good. Hopefully we can do some exchange there through the 00:24:11.370 --> 00:24:15.420 - beast you see I haven't been to that side of Lake Erie in a long time like Ontario but I'm welcome 00:24:15.420 --> 00:24:16.000 - welcome. 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:21.050 - Thank you. Thank you. And I do want to commend just the Council I'm sure you've had a heavy hand in 00:24:21.050 --> 00:24:26.410 - this we found a ton of opportunity with partners to you know play veterans we have programs with 00:24:26.410 --> 00:24:27.000 - that. 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:31.700 - We have a program that helps you know employee previously incarcerated so there's some programs 00:24:31.700 --> 00:24:36.610 - here within the community, and we just really appreciative because you don't always find that, and 00:24:36.610 --> 00:24:42.000 - really Bloomington is opened up their arms so we're very grateful. 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:52.180 - So I have a personal history with that building my husband was in that building for 40 years so 00:24:52.180 --> 00:24:57.610 - welcome welcome to the club. Thank you. But I also wanted to know how many employees you have here 00:24:57.610 --> 00:24:59.000 - now that you currently employ so we just got the keys to the 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:04.250 - building. We actually I was sharing with Jen earlier we just opened Rex on we're looking at about 00:25:04.250 --> 00:25:09.640 - 10 to 15 applications that we just opened up to help get our operations we have machinery and 00:25:09.640 --> 00:25:13.000 - equipment still very much in the process of moving in, but 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:19.070 - we are anticipating 50 to 100 over the next couple years so that's going to taper out over the next 00:25:19.070 --> 00:25:24.520 - few months. And like I said we just got started so this is we're still very much in our living in 00:25:24.520 --> 00:25:28.000 - the building from Curry Pike there which, where are you at in the 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:32.000 - so we're on the side with the with the license branch the yes. 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:37.130 - So yep we're on the south side right there. Great. Yep. And how much area do you will your 00:25:37.130 --> 00:25:42.830 - operation take on we were that whole back. Yes, so and we'll fill that space pretty quickly is what 00:25:42.830 --> 00:25:44.000 - it's looking like. 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:48.000 - Great. Thank you. Thank you. 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:51.000 - All right, I'm going to go to the floating head above you. 00:25:51.000 --> 00:25:58.000 - Councilmember Crossley has her hand raised. Hi, can y'all hear me. 00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:00.000 - Yes. 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:06.000 - Okay. All right. Thank you so much and I'm apologize for not being there in person. 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:22.000 - So, I wanted to ask a quick question. How many jobs, did you say that you would be bringing or 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:22.000 - proposed, so we're projecting between 50 and 100 over the next couple of years. 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:24.000 - I'm sorry, say that one more time. 00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:31.400 - 50 to 100 over the next couple of years to 100. Okay, and those are and then did I. Sorry, I'm 00:26:31.400 --> 00:26:37.000 - going to primarily on you know like manufacturing, you know, trade type jobs. 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:40.000 - And then a handful of engineers as well. 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:46.150 - And then, did I also hear you say that you also work with incarcerated formerly incarcerated people 00:26:46.150 --> 00:26:52.330 - to. Yes, we do have a program where we like to partner with some formerly incarcerated to help with 00:26:52.330 --> 00:26:56.000 - their rehabilitation and get them back into the community 00:26:56.000 --> 00:27:01.320 - and provide a path to that so that is part of our hiring practices and we found a lot of success 00:27:01.320 --> 00:27:04.000 - with that and some of our other locations. 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:09.000 - So that's a program we do have intention to kind of launch here as well. 00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:16.120 - I appreciate hearing that, and I'd appreciate you know, jobs and things like that and opportunities 00:27:16.120 --> 00:27:19.000 - to continue to come to Monroe County. 00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:24.600 - I also would be remiss if I didn't say I wish we could, you know, the jobs and opportunities that 00:27:24.600 --> 00:27:29.850 - we can bring, we can attain those by the housing that we would be able to have here in Monroe 00:27:29.850 --> 00:27:31.000 - County as well. 00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:38.040 - So it's a I appreciate you know you all come in here and start in here and fresh, but we definitely 00:27:38.040 --> 00:27:43.000 - want to make sure that as we are getting the jobs vital and important. 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:49.340 - Due to a lot of the restraints that SB one will put on us that we continue to have our dollars here 00:27:49.340 --> 00:27:55.360 - too so there's a way that we can all work together to make that work I know that's a wish and a 00:27:55.360 --> 00:27:57.000 - prayer right now. 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:02.000 - That's something else but I just wanted to take the time to say thank you so I appreciate that. 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:05.000 - Thank you so much. 00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:09.990 - Thank you so much for being here and thank you this is great news that really sings our love 00:28:09.990 --> 00:28:17.120 - language here in this county. Anytime I hear about reuse of a facility that was a loss facility 00:28:17.120 --> 00:28:22.000 - turning into something that is putting people back to work. 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:28.980 - Veterans recently incarcerated. This is, these are our values, and I'll say as the child of a 00:28:28.980 --> 00:28:36.000 - person that lost their job when some of those industries left this community in the 90s. 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:42.000 - I am always apprehensive Lee thinking about who do we need to bring in and get in the conversation. 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:50.200 - And so, this is making my heart swell. I also want to say thank you to the BDC for beating this 00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:51.000 - drum. 00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:56.220 - Thank you also to the chamber for also beating these drums on other issues. And these are important 00:28:56.220 --> 00:29:01.000 - conversations that we need to have my encouragement to use you work in this community. 00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:07.230 - As you see things that we need to be doing on our end to keep you and to get more like you, or to 00:29:07.230 --> 00:29:14.050 - think through those things and some of these issues that counselor cross these talking about around 00:29:14.050 --> 00:29:17.000 - housing, and what things look like. 00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:22.790 - Do not be afraid to tell us, because that is the only way our jobs truly work and while we try to 00:29:22.790 --> 00:29:29.000 - get as many places as we can. Sometimes it's those candid conversations like Miss Pearl has. 00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:33.420 - And sometimes she hears me kind of go off a little bit like oh we can't fix all these things, but 00:29:33.420 --> 00:29:37.900 - we've got to be here in those things so please bring those to us keep bringing those to us, and we 00:29:37.900 --> 00:29:40.000 - appreciate our partners very much. 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:45.830 - Good to hear this. Thank you. We appreciate it and I do have to commend the BBC they've been 00:29:45.830 --> 00:29:51.940 - fantastic to help us through this whole process and really were kind of one of the last check marks 00:29:51.940 --> 00:29:55.000 - of why we choose Bloomington is just having partners 00:29:55.000 --> 00:30:00.400 - available to us like that so we absolutely appreciate it and part of our philosophy and our culture 00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:05.180 - is to be good stewards and partners in our community so we do intend to have these types of 00:30:05.180 --> 00:30:09.000 - interactions and engagements and will provide that feedback so thank you for that 00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:11.000 - I appreciate it. 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:15.810 - Let me conclude by not repeating anything my esteemed colleagues have said, other than to say, when 00:30:15.810 --> 00:30:19.980 - you finally get set up and you got everything exactly where you need it and you've got everything 00:30:19.980 --> 00:30:21.000 - humming around. 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:25.650 - Let us know we'd love to come and tour and like see how things are going particularly as you're 00:30:25.650 --> 00:30:30.370 - coming to us in this introductory stage. We like to do that follow up so we'd appreciate that 00:30:30.370 --> 00:30:32.000 - invitation if you, if you would. 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:37.810 - Absolutely. Wonderful. Great you actually be making things there. We will. Yeah, cool. It is a 00:30:37.810 --> 00:30:43.000 - production facility so we will be welding steel and doing all kinds of really cool things. 00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:44.000 - Very nice. 00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:48.000 - Monica thank you so much for being here. Thank you, Jen. 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:53.020 - All right, before we move on to item number six on our agenda. Do we have any other departments 00:30:53.020 --> 00:30:57.580 - with an update looking on teams and in the net you hill I don't see any we'll move on to item 00:30:57.580 --> 00:31:03.590 - number six on our consent agenda items we don't have any, which means that we'll move on to item 00:31:03.590 --> 00:31:04.000 - number seven ongoing 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:09.090 - business we don't have any there. So that means that we'll go on to new business and it looks like 00:31:09.090 --> 00:31:11.000 - we have something from parks and rec. 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:18.970 - Council I moved to approve the parks request and fun 1178 0000 parks, non reverting capital for an 00:31:18.970 --> 00:31:25.000 - additional preparation of $80,000 in the services category second. 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:31.720 - All right, this seems like a very interesting item as Kelly Whitmer comes to the podium, would you 00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:38.000 - mind telling us a little bit about what's happening here in your non reverting capital fund. 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:41.000 - Excellent, thank you. 00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:45.650 - We have a big project that cars farm part you probably know about it. We're putting in synthetic 00:31:45.650 --> 00:31:51.300 - fields and improving drainage and irrigation and athletic lights. Well during this time, oh I don't 00:31:51.300 --> 00:31:55.000 - know a few months back we had a few big storms. 00:31:55.000 --> 00:32:01.740 - And we actually have a railroad track right next to these fields, and on the other side of the 00:32:01.740 --> 00:32:08.840 - railroad tracks is a farm field owned by the Monroe County Airport, and they were in the middle of 00:32:08.840 --> 00:32:13.000 - doing an erosion control project, but it was not completed 00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:20.880 - until it really started in all the water came under the culverts under the railroad and hit our 00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:22.000 - project. 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:28.370 - Unfortunately, but fortunately, with all the engineers decided that we needed to upgrade how we 00:32:28.370 --> 00:32:33.000 - move water how we move sediment and putting in a sediment basin pond. 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:38.000 - I won't say pond it's a little thing of mud. 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:42.830 - We talked to the airport, and we've also talked to Monroe County stormwater, and they're involved 00:32:42.830 --> 00:32:51.230 - in the project too. So, the airport is doing what stormwater once we are doing what stormwater once, 00:32:51.230 --> 00:32:55.000 - but it costs money to do both sides and we, I believe 00:32:55.000 --> 00:33:01.320 - there's things that will take care of everything on our side of the tracks, and they will take care 00:33:01.320 --> 00:33:07.550 - of everything on their side of the tracks, and it will prevent water and mud coming on to the brand 00:33:07.550 --> 00:33:09.000 - new turf fields. 00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:16.140 - Fast forward, the park board. They did approve they want to spend our money out of non reverting. 00:33:16.140 --> 00:33:23.790 - So I'm asking for additional 80,000 to spend out of our non reverting accounts I'm not asking you 00:33:23.790 --> 00:33:25.000 - for a penny. 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:31.070 - This permission to spend the money that we already have. We have 20,000 appropriated right now on 00:33:31.070 --> 00:33:38.600 - contractual plus 80 equals $100,000. This project is actually going to be 114,000 but we'll, we'll 00:33:38.600 --> 00:33:41.000 - find it from other means to pay for it. 00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:46.000 - So, any questions about water or mud. 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:51.810 - All right, with that enticing prompt I'm looking look to my left, Mr. Deckard is that a quick one 00:33:51.810 --> 00:33:57.830 - related but unrelated. So we're on the synthetic fields, when can we expect to see those just, I'm 00:33:57.830 --> 00:33:59.000 - very curious. 00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:05.010 - Currently, we're hoping to be done in October of this year, weather permitting, there's been a lot 00:34:05.010 --> 00:34:10.020 - of rain in the last seven days so every time it rains it pushes us back one or two days why 00:34:10.020 --> 00:34:12.000 - everything's drying out. 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:18.000 - I mean, best case scenario, October 1, maybe November 1. 00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:23.080 - But we're not rushing things to just rush and we want to make sure everything's done properly 00:34:23.080 --> 00:34:32.940 - correctly. The first time, so the other fields six and seven should be ready to play in spring or 00:34:32.940 --> 00:34:34.000 - summer. 00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:44.620 - And we use largely ARPA dollars to do those, am I right on that? Correct. Most of the money is ARPA. 00:34:44.620 --> 00:34:50.000 - Some bond and the park board is chucked in almost a half million dollars, give or take. 00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:53.000 - Thank you, Mr. Decker. Further questions? Yes. 00:34:53.000 --> 00:35:04.000 - So you answered the only question I was going to have, which is, have you been working with stormwater? 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:11.000 - And I knew, I knew you were, but it's just really, it's gratifying to hear something, I think, 00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:19.000 - presented as, wow, we had this big problem happen, but hang tight, we've got a solution and we're 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:19.000 - figuring it out. 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:23.350 - And so I really appreciate that, especially cooperating with the other departments and having them 00:35:23.350 --> 00:35:29.000 - involved. So, I don't, I think this is a no-brainer. 00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:32.000 - All right. 00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:37.450 - All right, Ms. Crossley, do you have any comments or questions? All right, I don't either. I agree 00:35:37.450 --> 00:35:46.000 - this is a no-brainer. So let's have any public comments on this mud and water agenda item. 00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:50.000 - Seeing none, may we please have a roll call vote. 00:35:50.000 --> 00:36:00.420 - Councillor Decker. Yes. Councillor Iverson. Yes. Councillor Henry. Yes. Councillor Fiddle. Yes. 00:36:00.420 --> 00:36:10.290 - Councillor Crossley. Yes. And then Councillor Wilts. Motion passes unanimous. Thank you. You're 00:36:10.290 --> 00:36:11.000 - very welcome. 00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:18.390 - Next, we have Emergency Management. Council, I move to approve the Emergency Management's request 00:36:18.390 --> 00:36:26.990 - and fund 49389625 Emergency Management Duke Grant for the creation of a new account line 44220 00:36:26.990 --> 00:36:35.170 - Emergency Response Equipment and simultaneously approve an additional appropriation of $5,500 in 00:36:35.170 --> 00:36:37.000 - the capital category. 00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:43.000 - Second. All right, we have Mr. Justin Baker from Emergency Management joining us online. 00:36:43.000 --> 00:37:09.110 - Good evening, Council. Yes, the department is pleased to announce that the county has been awarded 00:37:09.110 --> 00:37:09.260 - a grant with the Duke Energy Foundation. This grant will help purchase a multi-purpose 00:37:09.260 --> 00:37:09.430 - communication and command and public outreach trailer. That will be used to enhance the department's 00:37:09.430 --> 00:37:09.590 - ability to coordinate incidents throughout the county as well as provide effective education and 00:37:09.590 --> 00:37:10.000 - outreach to the community. 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:15.640 - This trailer will be used through a partnership with the Indiana University Emergency Management 00:37:15.640 --> 00:37:23.000 - Team and we have MOU with the IU drafted and it was sent to the legal department. 00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:28.310 - All right. Thank you so much for that explanation. I'll look to my right and online. Any comments 00:37:28.310 --> 00:37:30.000 - or questions? 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:36.010 - All right. Look to my left. Any comments or questions? Seeing none, I don't have any either. Let's 00:37:36.010 --> 00:37:44.620 - go to the public to see if they have any comments and/or questions. Seeing none, let's go back to 00:37:44.620 --> 00:37:45.000 - Mr. Henry. 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:52.390 - Thank you. I just got a little, I was thinking there, Justin. Thanks. Aside from the prompts, can 00:37:52.390 --> 00:37:59.370 - you maybe walk through how you're thinking about using the fund and the preparedness phase with IUM 00:37:59.370 --> 00:38:00.000 - EMC? I mean, I know, do you have something like a project in mind that's forthcoming? 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:07.470 - So it'll be for public outreach, like going to like some of the festivals and stuff in the area, in 00:38:07.470 --> 00:38:12.000 - the county, and help coordinate events and disasters. 00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:16.380 - So that's, and when you say go to events, you mean like help plan around the safety around those 00:38:16.380 --> 00:38:23.000 - public events in the county? Yes, like any kind of fairness events, yes. 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:26.000 - Very good, thank you. 00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:31.180 - All right, I just want to make sure that didn't jog any additional questions, my colleagues here. 00:38:31.180 --> 00:38:34.000 - Did it jog additional questions for those in the public? 00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:38.000 - All right, seeing none, may we please have a roll call vote. 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:46.320 - Councilor Iverson? Yes. Councilor Henry? Yes. Councilor Feidl? Yes. Councilor Wilts? Yes. Councilor 00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:50.000 - Crossley? Yes. 00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:55.000 - Councilor Decker? Yes. Motion passes unanimous. 00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:57.000 - Thank you so much Mr. Baker. 00:38:57.000 --> 00:38:59.000 - Thank you. 00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:10.000 - All right, next we have courts. Council, I move to approve the courts request in Fund 1213-0000-GL-CASA 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:16.000 - for an additional appropriation of $50 in the services category. 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:18.000 - Second. Second. 00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:23.820 - All right, we were going to have Lisa Abraham come and talk to us about it, but Kate Wilts, I think 00:39:23.820 --> 00:39:26.000 - you have the ability to handle this. 00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:37.550 - I do. I talked with Lisa and since this is just really a housekeeping issue and getting things 00:39:37.550 --> 00:39:46.250 - aligned with what council had already expressed an intent, I relieved her of the obligation for 00:39:46.250 --> 00:39:52.000 - appearing and said that I would move this one forward to you all. 00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:58.480 - So it's really if you look at the explanation, it was something that we voted on previously and 00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:02.000 - just had a math error, so we seem to correct it. 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:08.790 - All right, colleagues my left any questions or comments colleagues my right and online any comments 00:40:08.790 --> 00:40:10.000 - or questions. 00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:15.000 - Okay, does the public have any comments or questions about this $50 item. 00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:21.000 - Seeing none, may we please have a roll call vote. 00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:23.000 - Councilor welts. 00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:27.000 - Yes, Councilor cross Lee. 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:34.330 - Yeah, count for Decker. Yes, Councilor Henry. Yes, Councilor Iverson. Yes, Councilor vital. Yes, 00:40:34.330 --> 00:40:36.000 - motion passes unanimous. 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:43.000 - All right, thank you so much, Councilor for what's next we have the public defender. 00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:54.270 - Council, I moved to approve the public defenders request and fund 9160000 system navigator grant, 00:40:54.270 --> 00:41:04.170 - the creation of two account lines 18001 full time self insurance and 30006 contractual and 00:41:04.170 --> 00:41:12.000 - simultaneously approve an additional appropriation of $86,953 in the personnel category 00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:21.000 - and $9000 in the services category for total appropriation of $95,953. 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:29.180 - Second. All right, we have a request for creation of a new account line. Tell us what's going on 00:41:29.180 --> 00:41:30.000 - here. 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:39.020 - Can you pull the mic close to your mouth please. We had a, we had a contractual account line in 00:41:39.020 --> 00:41:45.000 - this fund for a data component data collection component. 00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:53.740 - And when we drained that at the end of 2024 there wasn't an extra dollar in there to keep that line 00:41:53.740 --> 00:41:59.000 - open so that the 9000 that I'm asking to go into that. 00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:02.000 - I have to have a line for it to go into. 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:09.000 - All right, pretty simple explanation. Let me start to my right and online any questions or comments. 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:12.000 - Seeing none, just go to the left here. 00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:15.000 - Any questions. 00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:17.000 - All right, pretty straightforward. 00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:28.000 - Let's go online to see if we have any public comments or here in the net you hill room. 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:33.000 - Seeing none, may we please have a roll call vote. 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:36.000 - Counselor cross Lee. 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:37.000 - Yes. 00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:39.000 - Counselor Henry. 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:40.000 - Yes, counselor final. 00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:42.000 - Yes counselor Iverson. 00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:43.000 - Yes. 00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:44.000 - Counselor Decker. 00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:45.000 - Yes. 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:47.000 - Motion passes unanimous. 00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:49.000 - All right. Thank you so much. 00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:51.000 - I have and we need to move to the next. 00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:54.000 - Yes, please. 00:42:54.000 --> 00:43:01.000 - I think the motion read was to be the creation of new account lines and for the appropriation. 00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:03.000 - I did a big motion. I thought I got it all. 00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:04.000 - Yes. 00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:05.000 - I think we're good. 00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:06.000 - You're good. Perfect. 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:07.000 - How's that for efficiency. 00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:10.000 - Good. Thank you very much. Thank you. 00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:11.000 - Enjoy your evening. 00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:12.000 - You too. 00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:14.000 - All right. Items E and F were tabled. 00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:18.000 - Next move on to presentations and discussions. 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:19.000 - Seeing none. 00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:34.000 - Let's move on to item number A boards and commission appointment. 00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:40.350 - Yes, sorry. Council. I moved to approve the appointment of Jennifer Whitley to the Monroe County 00:43:40.350 --> 00:43:45.830 - Public Library Board of Trustees, completing the remainder of a four year term, which expires on 00:43:45.830 --> 00:43:49.000 - January 31st, 2026. 00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:51.000 - Second. 00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:56.680 - All right, I'm going to present this item, the Monroe County Public Library had an opening on their 00:43:56.680 --> 00:44:02.000 - board and they asked us for assistance and making a recommendation to fill that board. 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:09.200 - I had the honor and privilege of talking to all three candidates and win consultation with folks 00:44:09.200 --> 00:44:16.490 - over there at the public library I feel very confidently in moving forward with Jennifer Whitley 00:44:16.490 --> 00:44:25.110 - for completion of the remainder of a four year term that term would expire on January 31st, 2026 on 00:44:25.110 --> 00:44:28.000 - that county public library board. 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:36.020 - Jennifer Whitley has extensive work with in this in library sciences, and has worked at numerous 00:44:36.020 --> 00:44:41.000 - libraries, as well as on multiple boards here locally. 00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:48.740 - So, I think, at this point, I can open it up to counsel for any comments or questions that you have 00:44:48.740 --> 00:44:51.000 - about this appointment. 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:57.000 - And I believe the resume was sent virtually and it looks like one's being passed around as well. 00:44:57.000 --> 00:45:03.000 - I appreciate anyone that is stepping forward for any board and Commission, particularly this one. 00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:11.620 - One of the reasons I say that is our library is such a strong, strong resource in all of its 00:45:11.620 --> 00:45:13.000 - branches. 00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:21.390 - And to illustrate that, just if you indulge me for two seconds, I remember a few years back when 00:45:21.390 --> 00:45:25.000 - the co-workspace craze kind of took off. 00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:29.680 - People were saying this is like a new invention that we've got here, a place where people can 00:45:29.680 --> 00:45:35.000 - gather, have Internet access, share resources, get information, share information, et cetera. 00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:40.950 - And that is true about co-workspaces, but libraries were the original co-workspace doing all those 00:45:40.950 --> 00:45:43.000 - things for many, many decades. 00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:49.320 - And I appreciate very much the leadership of our library, which has made such a huge influence on 00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:51.000 - all sides of this county. 00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:59.000 - So I appreciate Miss Whitley offering her service to this. 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:04.000 - Any other comments or questions online or down here at the table? 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:09.000 - Could the director also support this appointment to the board? 00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:16.550 - The director and I have been in pretty regular communication and he appreciated our decision making 00:46:16.550 --> 00:46:17.000 - on this. 00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:24.000 - And the three people that were given to us to fill this role were all exceptionally well qualified. 00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:32.430 - And this is an incredibly difficult decision to make, but I think given Miss Whitley's resume, she'll 00:46:32.430 --> 00:46:37.000 - do a fantastic job for my kiddos who use the library all the time. 00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:39.000 - Thank you. Yeah. 00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:44.000 - All right. Is there, do we take public comment on, I don't think we do. 00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:50.000 - All right. Can we please have a roll call vote. 00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:58.130 - Councilor Fiddle. Yes. Councilor Henry. Yes. Councilor Deckard. Yes. Councilor Iverson. Yes. 00:46:58.130 --> 00:47:04.000 - Councilor Crossley. Yes. Councilor Wills. Yes. Motion passes unanimous. 00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:08.000 - All right. Thank you so much. And I guess in terms of follow up. 00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:12.490 - Will council office be communicating with the public library or is that something that I should be 00:47:12.490 --> 00:47:13.000 - doing. 00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:17.000 - We will take care of we have a signature page that we forward on to them. 00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:21.000 - All right. Michelle you are always professional. Thank you so much. 00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:25.000 - All right. Next we have an item from the legal department. 00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:32.320 - Council I move to open for discussion and approval resolution 2025-27 approving the 2026 target 00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:33.000 - fund balances. 00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:38.790 - Second. All right. I believe that our legal counsel Molly Turner King is going to be tackling this 00:47:38.790 --> 00:47:39.000 - one. 00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:45.490 - So this resolution is similar to the one that was passed in the last year at the direction and 00:47:45.490 --> 00:47:51.000 - advice of financial solutions group. 00:47:51.000 --> 00:48:10.220 - Our advisors the text of the resolution and I'm trying to display it changed slightly because last 00:48:10.220 --> 00:48:13.000 - year we had a minimum cash balance column and a target fund balance column. 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:21.670 - This resolution now only has a minimum balance column. And so like I said oh that's super tiny now 00:48:21.670 --> 00:48:24.000 - that I look at it on the screen. 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:34.080 - The financial solutions group recommended establishing minimum cash balances for certain funds 00:48:34.080 --> 00:48:41.000 - which help our bond rating for helps us receive a favorable bond rating. 00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:48.560 - So like I said the language is the same. The main thing that changed was the numbers and I'm 00:48:48.560 --> 00:48:54.000 - displaying them if Miss Gregory would like to speak to them. 00:48:54.000 --> 00:49:12.690 - Sure. One moment. So we made a couple changes from what you saw last year as far as the minimum 00:49:12.690 --> 00:49:13.000 - recommendation. 00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:25.600 - The general fund last year we had a 10 million dollar minimum balance. My comfort level is raising 00:49:25.600 --> 00:49:29.000 - that up to 15 which it's it's always higher than that amount but I don't think we should dip below 00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:32.000 - that number and I think that's easy for us to achieve. 00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:46.650 - Moving on down. These are, again, just kind of like guidelines thresholds that we do not want to 00:49:46.650 --> 00:49:49.830 - dip below in order to, you know, to keep the county in great financial shape so election fund, we 00:49:49.830 --> 00:49:52.000 - like to, you know, keep that around a million dollars. 00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:58.880 - We raise it slightly as we have elections happen. CCD we would like to maintain about community 00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:05.510 - cumulative capital development we'd like to maintain about a million dollars and traditionally it, 00:50:05.510 --> 00:50:08.000 - it's exceeds that self insurance. 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:17.430 - We've discussed in depth lately, we would like to keep a minimum of 1.5 million, and we're hoping 00:50:17.430 --> 00:50:25.000 - to achieve that between this year next lit edit we exceed that the million dollars. 00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:32.040 - Right now I mean as we spend that down with future projects, you know, we'll have to revisit this 00:50:32.040 --> 00:50:40.220 - 400,000 for reassessment rainy day we've all discussed that we'd like to keep that comfort level 00:50:40.220 --> 00:50:42.000 - that $10 million. 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:47.790 - So just again, the rest of these are around a million as well with the exception of aviation fund 00:50:47.790 --> 00:50:54.280 - where we'd like to keep that at least 250,000 so any specifics, or we'd like to dive in and see 00:50:54.280 --> 00:50:58.000 - something from now like current balances. 00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:03.170 - I'm happy to do that. And again, financial solutions group has yet to review this so we would like 00:51:03.170 --> 00:51:08.000 - their consideration as well. However, this is where we are now. 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:15.990 - All right, I'm going to look to members of LTF for initial comments so Councilmember cross Lee, if 00:51:15.990 --> 00:51:23.620 - you would like to say anything about this or customers are vital, if you'd like to say anything 00:51:23.620 --> 00:51:25.000 - about this. 00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:32.000 - Oh, I believe that we brought it to the council because we didn't want to have it just be. 00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:39.410 - I think supporting what SG was interested in having happen is, is exactly where I'm at with this I 00:51:39.410 --> 00:51:44.000 - think that it's. I mean, I think we have these consultants for a reason. 00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:50.000 - And I think that they should be relied upon to give us the advice that we're paying them for. 00:51:50.000 --> 00:52:05.000 - Councilmember cross Lee do you have anything to add to that. 00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:12.830 - She basically said everything that I can say more. And that's again why we are bringing this to the 00:52:12.830 --> 00:52:19.000 - full council so that we can make sure that we are on target with what we have. 00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:24.660 - Thank you, Madam President, Mr. Deckard I saw your hand first. Yeah, so help me out with just the 00:52:24.660 --> 00:52:27.000 - process for just a second. 00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:33.810 - So the auditor for this. So we see these recommended amounts on these cash balances, is that FSC 00:52:33.810 --> 00:52:40.450 - recommended balances or kind of a mix of FSC and your recommended balances, and then we will get 00:52:40.450 --> 00:52:46.000 - comments from FSC on those amounts might saying this right. 00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:54.300 - Sure. So, yes, these, these numbers didn't fluctuate much with the exception of the, we added 00:52:54.300 --> 00:53:01.000 - cumulative capital development I don't, I don't think we had that one last year. 00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:07.000 - Just because there are salaries in that fund we think that it's appropriate to maintain a minimum. 00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:14.760 - The general funds I, I increased from the minimum last year. However, we do want FSC is review and 00:53:14.760 --> 00:53:20.000 - recommendation but yes we have collaborated on these numbers. 00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:30.000 - I guess my follow up question is FSC is helping us to understand what will help with bonding. 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:36.460 - The recommendation also helping us to understand what will help with the state. And here's what I 00:53:36.460 --> 00:53:40.000 - mean by that we are two narratives out there, right. 00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:46.840 - And I'm not trying to be argumentative but I am as an elected official with this community's job 00:53:46.840 --> 00:53:52.000 - given to me. I'm trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do, because I hear two different things. 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:59.590 - Number one, I hear a narrative counties. You have too much money coming in from taxpayers and we 00:53:59.590 --> 00:54:02.000 - need you to stop doing that. 00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:07.830 - And then I hear a second narrative counties, you need to have a lot of reserves. And when you think 00:54:07.830 --> 00:54:13.520 - you have a lot of reserves that far outpace what a human walking around this community as for their 00:54:13.520 --> 00:54:19.420 - personal reserves, and I say this is a person that just recently looked at a medical bill that came 00:54:19.420 --> 00:54:25.000 - in the mailbox and thought well there goes the reserves. 00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:30.130 - You, such as you got to have the reserves but you're taking in too much you have the reserves. I'm 00:54:30.130 --> 00:54:35.420 - just looking somewhere in this and maybe it's F SG. Maybe it's at one of our conferences, maybe it's 00:54:35.420 --> 00:54:36.000 - somewhere. 00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:41.970 - I'd like to hear a consistent narrative on some of this, because we clearly with the fact that we 00:54:41.970 --> 00:54:47.640 - have a balance not every county I think can speak to that or sing to that, but the fact that we 00:54:47.640 --> 00:54:52.000 - have a balance tells a story about the county and how we got through the pandemic, 00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:57.700 - and how we'll figure out the next big headaches that are all emerging Mr M G's comments tonight, 00:54:57.700 --> 00:55:02.510 - and then some, and then balance this and all that. I'm just, I'm trying to figure out as a local 00:55:02.510 --> 00:55:06.000 - official, and I don't expect you to have those answers, but I would 00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:11.810 - like someone out there that listens to these meetings to try to figure out what that narrative is, 00:55:11.810 --> 00:55:17.890 - because we don't have the dollars to afford the bureaucratic state of what they have they've got 45 00:55:17.890 --> 00:55:21.000 - people looking in on us, we have our own auditor. 00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:25.770 - Right. And yet we also get the narrative when you push all this and hold all this and do this and 00:55:25.770 --> 00:55:31.000 - if you don't do it by the third day and ringing of the shapes and all that jazz you'd be in trouble. 00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:37.000 - I'm passing that message in joining you with a bit of frustration and trying to figure it out too. 00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:43.220 - Thank you. Thank you. And with regard to this I just do you want to remind you that these are the 00:55:43.220 --> 00:55:49.290 - minimums so these aren't target balances I mean we would like these balances to be much higher and 00:55:49.290 --> 00:55:51.000 - typically they are. 00:55:51.000 --> 00:55:54.000 - This is just a guideline that we will not fall below. 00:55:54.000 --> 00:56:09.230 - With regard to SB one it's not fun. And we have to work together and we're still waiting on 00:56:09.230 --> 00:56:09.640 - information from the state and we're all very frustrated with that, but the transition from you 00:56:09.640 --> 00:56:13.000 - know that from tax revenue and putting that into lit it's it's going to be difficult 00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:18.890 - it's definitely a big transition and we there's so many unknowns still so I'm with you when I 00:56:18.890 --> 00:56:25.060 - appreciate that very much. I just see it's a continuing moving target. It's, you've got enough now 00:56:25.060 --> 00:56:28.000 - well actually, you don't have enough now because we found this definition 00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:34.400 - by price waterhouse Cooper blah blah blah, and it just keeps changing. So anyway, I'll leave it 00:56:34.400 --> 00:56:36.000 - alone. Thank you. 00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:45.890 - All right, Mr. Henry. Mr. President, I do I just have one question because I did have the good 00:56:45.890 --> 00:56:47.000 - fortune of sitting in on some of the LG TF meeting, or, oh yeah, on Friday. 00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:52.870 - The motor vehicle highway with that this number changed from Friday didn't it wasn't out of 2 00:56:52.870 --> 00:56:56.000 - million and now it's a million in the second draft. 00:56:56.000 --> 00:57:02.330 - Yeah, go ahead. I'm sorry. So there was confusion with the draft on Friday whether this was meant 00:57:02.330 --> 00:57:08.610 - to be a target fund balance or minimum fund balance and in further clarifying communication with FSG, 00:57:08.610 --> 00:57:11.000 - it's to be a minimum. 00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:14.000 - So that was why the number changed. 00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:19.000 - I know I know Mr was here to talk about that a little bit. Are there other. 00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:24.000 - So, the numbers here that that all that all tracks is the minimum at this point is that. 00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:31.830 - There was confusion from having the two columns which had minimum, and then target to just minimum 00:57:31.830 --> 00:57:33.000 - so yeah we. 00:57:33.000 --> 00:57:38.270 - There was some fluctuation with the minimum but you're basically with the exception of what I went 00:57:38.270 --> 00:57:39.000 - through. 00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:41.000 - You're seeing what you saw last year. 00:57:41.000 --> 00:57:48.860 - Have you ever once had questions like Mr rigid with the highway fund, or is this okay with with the 00:57:48.860 --> 00:57:53.000 - other departments that draw from these funds. 00:57:53.000 --> 00:58:00.000 - If they haven't gotten back to you that's okay too. 00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:04.450 - I don't think other departments have seen this in all honesty this is a draft that got finished 00:58:04.450 --> 00:58:08.000 - today. And so FSG or no one else is seeing it until now. 00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:11.000 - Thank you. 00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:19.610 - I think the bond rating was the clincher for me if it's going to affect our bond rating I think 00:58:19.610 --> 00:58:25.000 - that's important to consider having this established. 00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:36.190 - Could you either counselor Henry or the folks over there. Tell me what the concern or maybe it was 00:58:36.190 --> 00:58:41.000 - just a question from highway was sure I think I can speak to that. 00:58:41.000 --> 00:58:50.120 - Yeah, I think there was concern about being able to achieve a $2 million I think it was we had it 00:58:50.120 --> 00:58:58.000 - at two or $2.5 million target balance that funds is often fully utilized. 00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:05.680 - So, I think Miss rich is more comfortable with, you know, a $1 million minimum so and you know this 00:59:05.680 --> 00:59:11.000 - is this is new, where it's, it's been tweaked for 2026. 00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:19.520 - So, you know, still discussing and we do need our financial advisors to review as well and give 00:59:19.520 --> 00:59:21.000 - their blessing. 00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:28.000 - All right, any other further questions from Council Council member cross Lee you're good. 00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:33.580 - All right. The only thing I want to add is there's just a lot of uncertainty. If you watch the two 00:59:33.580 --> 00:59:39.110 - hour and 11 minute video from Friday, that's kind of the underlying thing, I will point out to the 00:59:39.110 --> 00:59:44.000 - public and to our departments that have not yet watched that that 00:59:44.000 --> 00:59:52.760 - meeting right now on cats dot cats TV dot net, as well as YouTube. So you can catch that meeting 00:59:52.760 --> 00:59:58.690 - and and all of the conversation that underlines this this item on those platforms which I think is 00:59:58.690 --> 01:00:00.000 - really helpful. 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:05.080 - It's good to have transparency around this. And I think it's really vital that we're having these 01:00:05.080 --> 01:00:12.000 - conversations in the public. My question is to our county attorney. 01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:19.510 - The motion that was read was to adopt tonight, should, should, or actually the motion was 01:00:19.510 --> 01:00:22.000 - discussion and adoption. 01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:29.000 - So, should the motion be conditional upon 01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:44.000 - Mr Garrett toss or others, looking at this. I think you could do it that way my preference and 01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:44.000 - suggestion would be that we send it to miss get your gear toss before you vote on it and then I 01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:44.000 - would bring it back to the 24th meeting. 01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:51.260 - I would also give departments time to think about it, and that is very important. Well yeah, 01:00:51.260 --> 01:00:58.920 - because I'm just seeing this for the first time I was, I have not caught up on the Friday streaming 01:00:58.920 --> 01:01:02.000 - option, which I will be doing soon. 01:01:02.000 --> 01:01:14.000 - But, can, could you just looking at I mean this is a lot of money. 01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:20.920 - How aspirational is this and how realistic because I mean I guess, do we have this. We certainly do 01:01:20.920 --> 01:01:26.000 - and this, this, this is, I mean at a very minimum, this is what needs to occur. 01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:33.110 - So these, this is okay so very high rate was the only one that you said gets fully utilized and 01:01:33.110 --> 01:01:40.140 - yeah, we can go over the detail and I can even provide those reports to counsel so you can see 01:01:40.140 --> 01:01:46.000 - where we are, like, as of the end of last year, and then where we are currently. 01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:55.380 - I have an idea, we settle settlement which means you know we, we get our tax revenues in, and so 01:01:55.380 --> 01:01:58.000 - forth. This week. So, that will change our balances as well. 01:01:58.000 --> 01:02:01.000 - Right. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. 01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:05.000 - Right. Any other further comments and questions from counsel. 01:02:05.000 --> 01:02:12.160 - Seeing none. I think that concludes this discussion, and it sounds like we will take this up for 01:02:12.160 --> 01:02:17.000 - more discussion and potential approval at a future meeting. 01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:24.150 - All right, that concludes our business for the day but before we adjourn, it is time for us to look 01:02:24.150 --> 01:02:31.000 - down at the end of the table at a color coded sheet of legal paper, Councilmember final. 01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:37.930 - Do you have down there, I do have some things to report I've been doing. I asked for and got to 01:02:37.930 --> 01:02:46.000 - meet with the Monroe County Airport recently I enjoyed my time with the director. 01:02:46.000 --> 01:02:54.270 - President, and the vice president of the board Carlos Kenan Allen, and they went over their 01:02:54.270 --> 01:03:04.010 - strategic plan update with me, and they'll be approving that in February of 2026 they said, but you 01:03:04.010 --> 01:03:11.000 - can see this outline of all of this at www BMG masterplan.com. 01:03:11.000 --> 01:03:14.000 - Looking at I think if you're interested. 01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:20.270 - They have 100 plus acres of develop a land. They offer flight instruction rental hangar space 01:03:20.270 --> 01:03:27.000 - charter service full service barber shop right there. They have an Airbnb right on site. 01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:31.000 - So if you want to watch planes fly in and out it's a great place to have an Airbnb. 01:03:31.000 --> 01:03:37.000 - And they also now do an Ivy Tech auto class which I found very very interesting. 01:03:37.000 --> 01:03:45.000 - Also, things that I went to the eldersville legislative wrap up session on Tuesday, the third 01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:47.000 - learned a lot there. 01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:53.540 - Five legislators I believe are there certainly state legislators, and they. I think the biggest 01:03:53.540 --> 01:04:01.000 - takeaway I got from that was there may need to be some fixes with the section, because it was. 01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:06.910 - I've been saying for some time now it seems like there is a lot of unintended consequences that 01:04:06.910 --> 01:04:10.000 - came as a result of all the session this year. 01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:16.410 - The Washington Center groundbreaking, same day. The Monroe County Fair Board I did have something 01:04:16.410 --> 01:04:22.410 - to pass along there that I thought was good for people who want to go to the fair especially people 01:04:22.410 --> 01:04:26.000 - who want to ride rides, they're having fair 01:04:26.000 --> 01:04:32.250 - tickets pre sale, and they're having them at all people state bank locations they're there now they 01:04:32.250 --> 01:04:33.000 - tell me. 01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:40.080 - There are 22 tickets for $20 which are normally $30 so this budget friendly mother of and 01:04:40.080 --> 01:04:47.730 - grandmother thinks that's a good deal so 22 tickets for $20 normally $30 all at people state bank 01:04:47.730 --> 01:04:49.000 - locations. 01:04:49.000 --> 01:04:55.290 - Their vendor market went well they they cleared about 12,000 there. The roof on the community 01:04:55.290 --> 01:05:00.390 - building, I think I reported earlier that it was going to be repaired well once they got up there 01:05:00.390 --> 01:05:04.000 - they realized that it was going to be not just 01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:10.640 - repair but needed replacement because there were major water issues with water standing between the 01:05:10.640 --> 01:05:16.000 - roof, and the next layer down so that'll be a $73,000 and change. 01:05:16.000 --> 01:05:20.000 - That'll come with a 20 year warranty. 01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:25.740 - I attended a conference well actually a presentation at a law firm in Indianapolis about 01:05:25.740 --> 01:05:31.810 - legislative issues that other has been discussed earlier this evening there's still no hard 01:05:31.810 --> 01:05:36.000 - financial numbers to base decisions on which is very frustrating 01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:41.280 - and I found that even the attorneys there are continuing to figure it out they were there was a 01:05:41.280 --> 01:05:46.530 - PowerPoint presentation and even one of the PowerPoint slides was incorrect that they had to 01:05:46.530 --> 01:05:51.000 - correct on site so I just find that very frustrating. 01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:57.800 - We talked a little bit about the long term finance committee meeting and doing. I'm going to be 01:05:57.800 --> 01:06:04.590 - doing coed meetings when necessary I couldn't make it back in time to attend the one that they had 01:06:04.590 --> 01:06:08.000 - earlier but I'm in contact with Randy Rogers that united way 01:06:08.000 --> 01:06:12.570 - about that and then I've been meeting with employee services about some issues there so I've, I've 01:06:12.570 --> 01:06:17.000 - been out and about and around and doing things. Thank you. 01:06:17.000 --> 01:06:19.000 - Once. 01:06:19.000 --> 01:06:24.600 - Can we do these in a different order sometimes because this is rough. Oh, how can you not start 01:06:24.600 --> 01:06:30.000 - with the color coded legal pad maybe that would be a great finish, or maybe we should not scotch. 01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:34.000 - I don't know. 01:06:34.000 --> 01:06:36.000 - All right. 01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:53.080 - I swear Councilmember Wilson this is not a competition. Well, I feel like it might be. My thing is 01:06:53.080 --> 01:06:53.320 - I've always had to do reports on anything that I've ever done with regard to serving anywhere and 01:06:53.320 --> 01:06:53.510 - so I'm used to going through my calendar from the last time I met to this time and that's how I 01:06:53.510 --> 01:06:56.000 - come up with this list it doesn't just happen by magic. 01:06:56.000 --> 01:07:05.000 - And I do that regularly, all the time, but I know if I don't write it down. 01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:14.550 - My, my only thing is I think I have met with most of the departments on my liaison list, and to 01:07:14.550 --> 01:07:25.000 - varying extents have talked about budget, if we haven't, please call me, look me up, we will. 01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:31.680 - If I don't hear from you I'll call you so that's that's where we are we met today with probation 01:07:31.680 --> 01:07:38.880 - and community corrections and they're working on, you know, trying to figure out how to face the 01:07:38.880 --> 01:07:43.000 - challenges so I feel free off we can be of help. 01:07:43.000 --> 01:07:48.000 - That's our job. 01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:53.270 - My gosh now I have to follow all that. I'll just be very quick and say that if I was giving my 01:07:53.270 --> 01:07:59.100 - actual report, I spent an hour on the phone, driving it can't present crossly about this issue or 01:07:59.100 --> 01:08:00.000 - that now. 01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:06.450 - That's not what I did, I will say I do want to recognize the convention center groundbreaking, 01:08:06.450 --> 01:08:09.000 - which are our president spoke at. 01:08:09.000 --> 01:08:14.340 - I think that when we have those big accomplishments in the community. It's important to not only 01:08:14.340 --> 01:08:19.000 - recognize those things, but look what made those work, and then replicate it. 01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:22.000 - And I think for our big challenges ahead. 01:08:22.000 --> 01:08:29.160 - There's a lot of good patterns there to kind of pick up and figure it out. We as a community are 01:08:29.160 --> 01:08:36.000 - very much in a extreme transitional period on about just every level, imaginable. 01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:42.930 - And so my ear to the ground, or eyes to the ground ear to the ground is to figure that out for a 01:08:42.930 --> 01:08:49.830 - lot of people right now and then try to meaningfully bring that into discussions with our 01:08:49.830 --> 01:08:53.000 - department heads as I do my pre budget kind of warm up. 01:08:53.000 --> 01:08:59.210 - And it's good to be able to do that now as a non leadership member and to kind of go back out into 01:08:59.210 --> 01:09:01.000 - my folks so I'll pass. 01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:06.000 - Thank you, Mr. Decker. All right, Mr. Henry. Thank you. I'll just keep it short. 01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:10.000 - There's no reason to keep it to the director's cut we could actually make this a longer meeting. 01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:13.000 - No, no, we'll see, Peter, you didn't tie me anyway. 01:09:13.000 --> 01:09:32.000 - The emac will meet this coming week, and of course the bodies representative on that body. And, you 01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:32.000 - know, I've made some recommendations to the county commissioners to add some seats to the emac, I 01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:32.000 - think we do, and should have someone from the township association at the table as well as our GIS 01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:32.000 - person Dr. 01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:37.750 - Baton who both have, you know, and they're in townships and his role have really shown some great 01:09:37.750 --> 01:09:43.470 - value in the last tornado response that is released recommendation, Jamie and I have made to the 01:09:43.470 --> 01:09:46.000 - commissioners for consideration. 01:09:46.000 --> 01:09:50.590 - I've also had a chance to start attending the co add meetings when they meet regarding the response 01:09:50.590 --> 01:09:53.000 - we heard from us be a time which is really great. 01:09:53.000 --> 01:09:58.390 - But I think one thing to keep in mind is that, again, the tornado exposed just how few single 01:09:58.390 --> 01:10:03.920 - single room occupancy spaces are available in our community for both times of crisis as well as 01:10:03.920 --> 01:10:07.000 - when townships are placing people and assistance 01:10:07.000 --> 01:10:12.550 - I know the city is looking at their UDO to add an SRO as a housing choice within the city limits of 01:10:12.550 --> 01:10:18.180 - Bloomington losing the economy and which was a provider of that is just exposed a huge gap in our 01:10:18.180 --> 01:10:24.000 - housing choices so I think again as I continue to beat the drum on the recovery from 01:10:24.000 --> 01:10:29.150 - that event, even though many have moved on there's still many that are have not been able to really 01:10:29.150 --> 01:10:33.000 - get back on their feet on that. Secondly, I did join. 01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:37.050 - Councilor Fiddle and counselor hawk at the old school chambers legislative wrap up I will, I do 01:10:37.050 --> 01:10:41.300 - have to reflect on something counselor Decker brought up about, you know, things up north and kind 01:10:41.300 --> 01:10:45.000 - of how things affect our community representative Mayfield did go out 01:10:45.000 --> 01:10:50.340 - of her way to remind us that in her view, some of the legislation that was passed that affects our 01:10:50.340 --> 01:10:55.580 - localities ability to collect taxes and how we use our taxes was for us to really think about our 01:10:55.580 --> 01:10:58.000 - needs once and luxuries as she put it. 01:10:58.000 --> 01:11:03.160 - And it's something I take umbrage with because it's a county government and being a resident of 01:11:03.160 --> 01:11:08.000 - this community I don't think the county government deals and luxuries very often. 01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:12.130 - Yeah, I think we've been talking about that through our whole budget process this evening but it 01:11:12.130 --> 01:11:16.370 - does show a disconnect in the manner by which that particular representative sees this county and 01:11:16.370 --> 01:11:19.000 - all the good work people do in this building. 01:11:19.000 --> 01:11:24.160 - Senator again wants to join this body and take a seat here to learn about that I'm sure President 01:11:24.160 --> 01:11:29.170 - cross he would welcome her to but it was it was not it was not it was not a well received comment 01:11:29.170 --> 01:11:32.000 - by me in the audience and other members of the audience 01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:37.620 - who did speak up on a variety of what she perceives to be luxuries including public education our 01:11:37.620 --> 01:11:42.000 - community so I'm glad folks attended that and said things in the room. 01:11:42.000 --> 01:11:46.080 - I think about you know how we budget smarter and how we really think about smart development I was 01:11:46.080 --> 01:11:50.000 - just so excited with all my here tonight but I will also raise the council's attention. 01:11:50.000 --> 01:11:55.670 - As your rep on the plan commission that we've had some heat of exchange at the plan commission over 01:11:55.670 --> 01:12:02.000 - the 25 year moratorium on development in the community that has been a contentious topic in the CDO. 01:12:02.000 --> 01:12:07.040 - We did make an attempt to discuss that at the plan commission. Last week to basically send it back 01:12:07.040 --> 01:12:11.000 - to the ordinance review committee for further consideration. 01:12:11.000 --> 01:12:15.520 - So that's that's a lot of words to say basically as you all know that 25 year moratorium really 01:12:15.520 --> 01:12:20.220 - limits our ability to help parcel owners develop their properties in the community in a manner that 01:12:20.220 --> 01:12:23.000 - helps us generate revenue to share the burden of 01:12:23.000 --> 01:12:28.000 - the quality of life and the taxes and the escalating costs of running our government. 01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:33.120 - I am wide open to suggestions from my peers on how to proceed with communicating that message to 01:12:33.120 --> 01:12:37.950 - those on the plan commission that think that the county council would not be interested in 01:12:37.950 --> 01:12:42.000 - investing in the infrastructure to help build those housing choices in the community 01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:47.200 - there seems to be some differences of philosophy there but I'm wide open to your suggestions in 01:12:47.200 --> 01:12:50.000 - that space as we continue to have that debate. 01:12:50.000 --> 01:12:56.830 - Just for the historical record the last time the plan commission took a vote on the 25 year moratorium 01:12:56.830 --> 01:13:00.000 - in 2014 to lift it it failed for for. 01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:06.150 - So it's not a unanimous thought in our community about whether or not that is a useful tool to plan 01:13:06.150 --> 01:13:08.000 - for smart development. 01:13:08.000 --> 01:13:12.250 - Lastly on a good note I look forward to rooting around the Monroe County History Center sale this 01:13:12.250 --> 01:13:16.710 - weekend hope I see you there. Also the city's Juneteenth celebration on Friday and we still do that 01:13:16.710 --> 01:13:20.000 - Monroe County in Bloomington I hope to see you all there as well. 01:13:20.000 --> 01:13:24.830 - And I guess for the dads upstairs and here below Happy Father's Day this weekend too. That's it Mr. 01:13:24.830 --> 01:13:26.000 - Mr. President. 01:13:26.000 --> 01:13:35.000 - Thank you, Mr. Henry, Councilmember Crossley would you like to have the last word tonight. 01:13:35.000 --> 01:13:43.940 - Oh also just I'll be brief because I'm only sitting up by just weird gravity and I feel like I'm 01:13:43.940 --> 01:13:51.490 - sitting up like I am Hannibal Lecter in silence of the lambs so I'm trying to bear through and grit 01:13:51.490 --> 01:13:53.000 - through everything. 01:13:53.000 --> 01:13:59.520 - I just want to say really quick, maybe to Councilmember Henry's point, we should have a state 01:13:59.520 --> 01:14:06.120 - legislation night or we invite all the state legislators and lawmakers who think they know more 01:14:06.120 --> 01:14:09.000 - than we do and have all the suggestions. 01:14:09.000 --> 01:14:14.980 - Maybe they can come in instead of watching cats they can see a live action version of what luxury 01:14:14.980 --> 01:14:17.000 - looks like versus reality. 01:14:17.000 --> 01:14:26.310 - And so, yeah, that might be great. Just a couple of quick updates. I wish I had a time frame for 01:14:26.310 --> 01:14:31.590 - Lieutenant Governor Beckwith to show up but I also have repeatedly checked with his office, because 01:14:31.590 --> 01:14:39.010 - as you may know two weeks ago I decided to invite him when I went to walk with us to see the 01:14:39.010 --> 01:14:46.000 - disaster relief efforts and to just speak with us in community, but I still haven't heard anything. 01:14:46.000 --> 01:14:51.000 - And I just want to remind folks that whatever party you decide to run on. 01:14:51.000 --> 01:14:57.000 - You are the elected for all the Hoosiers in the state not just one group or one centralized group. 01:14:57.000 --> 01:15:00.000 - So just wanted to say that. 01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:05.750 - I appreciate the groundbreaking ceremony that I was able to attend and give some brief remarks on 01:15:05.750 --> 01:15:11.120 - and it got me to think in, you know, the, the timeline of how everything happened with the 01:15:11.120 --> 01:15:17.800 - convention center the blood sweat the tears the annoying times that everybody had to go through all 01:15:17.800 --> 01:15:25.440 - the things and I just think about that as we proceed forward with our justice facility complex that 01:15:25.440 --> 01:15:29.000 - we are imagining and try to figure out how we can do all those things here. 01:15:29.000 --> 01:15:37.520 - Um, and kind of take some take some flavor from that as well. Um, the other thing that I really 01:15:37.520 --> 01:15:44.350 - wanted to say in addition to this. Um, I made public comment at our city council meeting last week, 01:15:44.350 --> 01:15:48.000 - and I wanted to because there was an interesting comment. 01:15:48.000 --> 01:15:54.170 - There was an interesting comment that was being said that we have some county buildings that have 01:15:54.170 --> 01:16:00.130 - some affordable housing units that are going to be going away by the expansion of the convention 01:16:00.130 --> 01:16:01.000 - center. 01:16:01.000 --> 01:16:06.910 - And I just want to, and you know there's a council member that basically said you know it's the 01:16:06.910 --> 01:16:12.920 - county's buildings and didn't really give much umph into what it is that we should be doing and I 01:16:12.920 --> 01:16:19.170 - actually had a constituent that reached out that wants to talk and I promise I'll talk to that 01:16:19.170 --> 01:16:21.000 - constituent once I get to feeling better here soon. 01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:27.980 - But I just want to remind people that you know we, our county council have the financial body 01:16:27.980 --> 01:16:34.950 - component to this and so I just want to reiterate to any of our city colleagues that are paying 01:16:34.950 --> 01:16:42.000 - attention to really try to work with us and really let's talk to each other first before we start 01:16:42.000 --> 01:16:44.000 - talking at each other and we don't know what we're talking about. 01:16:44.000 --> 01:16:49.870 - So I just really want us to figure out how we can do that because we all are passionate about 01:16:49.870 --> 01:16:56.070 - affordable housing and attainable housing, but we just want to make sure that we're working 01:16:56.070 --> 01:16:58.000 - together and not out of sync. 01:16:58.000 --> 01:17:07.470 - So I again just wanted to make sure I say that and yes Councilmember Henry said the thing that I 01:17:07.470 --> 01:17:13.870 - wanted to say in terms of Juneteenth celebration. I know it's being ripped apart from all avenues 01:17:13.870 --> 01:17:21.620 - but the North always remembers and as long as people that look like me are continuing to be here 01:17:21.620 --> 01:17:25.000 - that the Juneteenth celebration will continue. 01:17:25.000 --> 01:17:34.000 - And so I'm as long as I feel better. I look forward to being out in the community with that as well. 01:17:34.000 --> 01:17:40.000 - And I would be remiss if I didn't have anything to say about all the uncertainty that's happening 01:17:40.000 --> 01:17:42.000 - that we see around the country. 01:17:42.000 --> 01:17:47.680 - And I think that we have some community members right now that are looking to other places and 01:17:47.680 --> 01:17:53.390 - wondering if Indiana is next. And I just want folks to know that I just stand with our community 01:17:53.390 --> 01:17:56.000 - members who are feeling some type of way. 01:17:56.000 --> 01:18:06.010 - Feeling so scared because we have leaders with the air quotes that think that they are by leading 01:18:06.010 --> 01:18:13.660 - with fear that it's okay. Nothing is ever okay when you lead with fear. And there is no illegal 01:18:13.660 --> 01:18:16.000 - human, point blank period. 01:18:16.000 --> 01:18:22.410 - So that's all I have to say again. Thanks so much for the well wishes. I hate being on teams when I'm 01:18:22.410 --> 01:18:27.000 - not in the building. And this is like killing me to not be there. 01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:34.660 - But hopefully I will be back in the next couple of weeks. And just a major shout out to everybody 01:18:34.660 --> 01:18:42.000 - at IU Health that took care of me during my spa day overnight this past weekend. So thank you. 01:18:42.000 --> 01:18:47.000 - All right. Thank you, Madam Frankenstein. All right. 01:18:47.000 --> 01:18:53.000 - We are at the end of our meeting, please remember to respect each other. 01:18:53.000 --> 01:19:19.000 - Remember your breath. We are adjourned. 01:19:49.000 --> 01:19:51.920 - (orchestral music) 01:19:52.160 --> 01:19:55.080 - (orchestral music) 01:19:55.080 --> 01:19:58.000 - (orchestral music)