Good morning. I'm going to call to order this meeting of the Monroe County Board of Commissioners. It is Thursday, April 3rd and I will note for the record that all three commissioners are here and present in the Na'i Hill Room and we will begin with our public statement read by Commissioner Jones. We, the Monroe County Board of Commissioners, renew our commitment to welcome and protect the rights of all people regardless of age, race, color, creed, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, economic status, and national origin. And we affirm the right of every person to live peacefully and without fear and we will fight and resist at every step discrimination and harmful policies whatever their source. We believe in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We also stand in support of our county public school systems both RBB and MCCSC. Thank you so much. Next we will move on to our department updates. Do we have somebody here from the health department? We do. Ms. Kelly, NTSD, can you put the captioning up on our screen for us? Thank you. Ms. Kelly, good morning. Good morning commissioners. Just a few updates. As of April 1st, emergency visits for COVID-like illness has decreased. The wastewater concentrations are trending up across Indiana. Flu activity is now low as of March 31st. And as a reminder, the health department is offering free infant safe sleep training and resources. Individuals can call 812-349-2075 for more information or for an appointment. Great. Thank you so much. Comments or questions? Commissioner Jones? No, I don't. Commissioner Madera? Just that I'm really glad that we finally turned the corner on these rising numbers of flu cases. And so thank you very much. That's good news. All right. Thank you so much. Is any other department here to provide an update? I had a quick conversation on text with Ms. Neville and she's got another meeting, so I don't know that she could make it today. But we just want everybody to be weather aware this weekend. And if you haven't yet, please go to co.monroe.in.us, click on the megaphone and sign up for the resident alert system, because despite the bits of sunshine today, we are expecting a lot of rain over the next several days. All right. Now we will-- any other departments have an update? Okay. Now we'll move on to public comment. This is dedicated time for items not on our agenda, where we invite the public to offer commentary. Each commenter is limited to three minutes, and we ask that you state your name and your county of residence. May raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. All right. Seeing none, we will move on to our next agenda item. Move approval of the minutes for March 27th, 2025. We have a motion. I second that motion. We have a motion. We have a second. Any comments, corrections, or edits? Okay. All those in favor of approving the minutes for March 27th, 2025, signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries 3-0. Next item, please. Move approval of the claims stock at accounts payable April 3rd, 2025, and payroll April 4th, 2025. I second that motion. We have a motion. We have a second. We have Auditor Gregory joining us. Good morning. Good morning, commissioners. The accounts payable claims docket for April 3rd, 2025 totals $2,653,994.18. This includes all emergency claims and adjustments. Additionally, the payroll docket for April 4th, 2025 includes $1,584,974.97. Indirect costs in the remaining $677,298.10 were for indirect costs for a grand total of $2,262,273.07. Excellent. Thank you so much. Comments or questions? Commissioner Madeira? I have none. Commissioner Jones? No, I don't. I don't either. Let's see if there's any public comments on this. Raise your hand on teams or podium. See none. All those in favor of approving the claim stock and accounts payable April 3rd, 2025 and payroll April 4th, 2025 signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries 3-0. We will now move on to new business please. Move approval of resolution 2025-16. Sheriff, highway and commissioner's surplus property. We have a motion. I will second that motion. All right. We have a motion and we have a second. Mr. Kreider. Good morning. Good morning, commissioners. Richard Kreider, building fleet manager. This request is to accept the declaration of items for surplus from the sheriff's department, highway department and commissioner's office. From the sheriff's department, 10 file cabinets that have reached into service life or are no longer usable for intended purpose. The cabinets will be sold as scrap metal. Highway department, three dump trucks that have reached the end of their service life and will be sold at auction. And from the commissioner's office, a patrol truck that has reached the end of service life and will be listed at auction for a minimum of $1,500. If it does not sell at auction, it will be used as trade-in. Excellent. Thank you so much. Comments or questions? Commissioner Jones. No, I don't. Commissioner Medeira. Nope. I just wish that the public knew more about how we responsibly use materials that are at the end of their life. I think that they just think we throw things away and we're actually extraordinarily conservative and we try to get every extra penny of value out. Thank you. Absolutely. Yeah. And it's always great to create scrap metal runs like that and keep things out of the landfill if you can't sell it. Excellent. All right. Let's see if there's any public comment on this item. You raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. Seeing none. All those in favor of approving resolution 2025-16, signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries 3-0. Next item, please. Move approval of automated doors and access ink, matrix integration, and BTEC fire and security service agreements to relocate exterior door hardware at Showers North. Fund name, election fund, fund number 1215 in the amount of $6,699. We have a motion. I second that. And we have a second. Mr. Crider. Okay. This is part of a project that we're doing to remove what we can from the former election operations site and relocate those to other areas that make sense. This is a three-vendor project. This request is to approve the proposal submitted by three companies to remove door hardware from the former election operations early voting site and reinstall on the east entrance at Showers North. Automated doors and access ink is responsible for door openers, pedestal and activation switch in the amount of $1,884. Matrix integration will route network cable from the IT room to the entrance in the amount of $2,090. BTEC fire and security will remove all access control hardware and other security related items from the building to be used at Showers North in the amount of $2,725 for a combined total project cost of $6,699. Thank you so much. Comments or questions? Commissioner Madeira? I have none. Commissioner Jones? I don't. I don't either. This makes lots of sense. We talked about what possible things we need to take from that building and it's getting to be that time. When is the demolition supposed to begin? June 1st-ish. Okay. All right. So we don't want to be there on May 31st. No, actually we almost have everything that's Monroe County out of there. Okay. Excellent work. Thanks for following up on that. I know it's not always easy. Thank you. Let's see if there's any public comment on this item. You can raise your hand on Teams or come to the podium in NET-U Hill. Seeing none, all those in favor of approving Automated Doors and Access, Inc. Matrix Integration and BTEC Fire and Security Service Agreements to relocate exterior door hardware at Showers North signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries three zero. Thank you. Thank you. Next item please. Move approval of Limelight Recovery LLC Service Agreement. Fund name, local public health, fund number 1161 in the amount of $27,000. Second. We have a motion. We have a second. Ms. Kelly, tell us all about this please. Yes, so this is an agreement for mental health and substance use treatment services with Limelight Recovery. They are operating out of the Indiana Recovery Alliance. We did start a program with them last year. We provided $5,000 for services from May 2024 to January of this year and that served 39 clients, a total of 336 sessions provided to individuals in Monroe County. So we just saw how successful the program was and wanted to be able to provide this for a full year and also increase funding to provide both group therapy sessions and individual therapy. Excellent. Thank you so much. Comments or questions? Commissioner Jones? Yeah, I'm just very pleased to see that this is being taken on. I actually do have one question. I particularly like the fact that they do not require complete abstinence. I often ask people who are talking about that if they've ever gone on a diet and never cheated. It's just, I don't think it's as easy as that. My question is that I know the probation department does require complete abstinence, I believe, because of a state or law covering it. And it is mentioned that they would be working with the probation department. I was wondering if this is going to cause any kind of problems or anything? Sure, that's a really great question. I can't say that I have that answer, but I will check with Allison about that and get that information for you. Thank you. Commissioner Medeiro, comments or questions? Yes, to follow up on Commissioner Jones' question, I was wondering if they, because people should not be expected to adhere to complete abstinence in an evidence-based framework of care, is there an integration with medication assisted treatment? Can individuals that receive therapy actually get hooked up with doctors that will prescribe suboxone or buprenorphine or other drugs? Sure. I will clarify with Allison about that too, because I wouldn't want to speak inappropriately about how she integrates that into this service. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right, let's see if there's any public comment on this item. You can raise your hand on Teams or come to the podium here in the NETU Hill Room. Being none, all those in favor of approving the service agreement with Limelight Recovery LLC, signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries 3-0. Next item please. Move approval of Baker-Tilley Advisory Group LP agreement regarding financial options for bean blossom fire. I second that. We have a motion. We have a second. Mr. Cockrell. Yes, last fall, last summer and last fall, we had began a process where bean blossom would be added to the Monroe Pire Protection District. Part of that process had us have a public hearing out at the Steinsville Elementary School. At that hearing, the residents of Bean Blossom Township indicated that they did not feel they had enough information to make an educated choice on the future of the fire in that area. They also were a little hesitant because they didn't know that there was a problem, the residents as well. We're working with the fire protection chief and the Eltsville fire chief and the township trustee to gather that information as to what the current problems is and what are potential solutions for that. This is a contract that would analyze both the proposal from the mineral fire protection district as well as the Eltsville fire town of Eltsville's proposal for fire service in that in that area to kind of put that whole thing in a package so that the residents can understand hey here's the problem and here's potential solutions to those problems so that they can make an educated decision on their fire protection. We'd like to have that decision done this year if possible. All right any comments or questions commissioner Madeira? No I just applaud the county for their commitment to transparency and for taking the time to really get this decision resolved in a correct and correct manner in which all residents are informed and I think that's what good government looks like. Commissioner Jones comments or questions? No but I very much agree with what commissioner Madeira said. So one of the other components that we need information on will be if we did nothing what would happen. So I you know Jeff and I had a email conversation about this and hopefully that will come from the the township board regarding their funding and what happens if and we're also going to have to send out letters as well. Yes I think the the the result of this contract will be two-thirds of the of the information and I think working with I would say not only the township trustee but also the fire chief for the current volunteer fire department in the area who has also been at the last couple meetings kind of to put that all in some kind of letter or mail or that then would go out to the to the individual landowners in the area. And then we'll hold some meetings hopefully out there at maybe Steinsville school again to hear from residents and get their feedback once they have the information they need. So great. Excellent thank you for following through on this. All right see if there's any public comment on this item you raise your hand on teams or come to the podium isn't that you hill. Seeing none all those in favor of approving the Baker-Tilley advisory group LP agreement regarding financial options for beam blossom of fire signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries three zero. Next item please. Move approval of ordinance 2025-10 to amend Monroe county code chapter 430 the building code. I second that motion. We have a motion. We have a second. Mr. Schilling and Mr. Leroux are here. Good morning. Good morning. We are presenting for your consideration some some updates to the building code. Nothing earth shattering just sort of some housekeeping to clarify the jurisdiction. Previously it was for the unincorporated area so we've changed that to unincorporated area plus any area that we serve through an interlocal. We've clarified some of the fees. We used to collect the pass through fee for the city under the old interlocal and now we don't do that we just collect the city fees that the city establishes and pass those through. We've when we incorporate state code or administrative code materials into our ordinances we're required to keep two copies of those in the auditor's office by state statute so we we've retained that and then we've added links to electronic copies as well and then we've in a couple places we simply just changed the language from the passive voice to the active so that kind of stuff. Very good. If you have any specific questions about the building code Bobby's here to speak on that. Thank you. Let's see if there's any comments or questions. Commissioner Jones. I'm just pleased that this has been done. I think it's a good idea to do this with all of our ordinances every once in a while. Times do change and it's important to keep up with that. Commissioner Madeira. I think that again just to verify what Commissioner Jones said and to agree I think LRW instructors everywhere would be proud about the change from passive to active voice. But just for efficiency's sake these changes really streamline the ordinances as well. Thank you. I think everything we can do to make our information and our ordinances more comprehensible to the public is going to be useful. This is what we do with the CDO and it's something we need to do with everything in our code. So thank you for working on this. I appreciate it. Thank you. All right let's see if there's any public comment on this item. Raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. Seeing none all those in favor approving ordinance 2025-10 signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries three zero. Thank you. Thank you. Next item please. Move approval of ratification of ordinance 2025-09 revision of Monroe County code chapter 270 adding section 270-81. Second that. We have a motion we have a second. Ms. Turner King. Good morning. Good morning. This was discussed at the work session on 3/13/20 of this year. I don't know why I almost told you the year. But this adds the county council donation fund which will receive the funds that were donated in Cheryl Munson's honor and that will be used for Sophia Travis. Excellent. Comments or questions. Commissioner Jones. I just I think this is a good idea. We could be seeing more of these kinds of donations and it's nice to know exactly what to do with them. Commissioner Medeira. I just love that we can again celebrate the legacy of dedicated public servants such as Councillor Munson and again allow that to pay dividends forward for the community. Yeah it is it was really a great idea to do this and I appreciate the council's willingness to do this and it is a good way to honor her memory because this was certainly one of her projects that she dedicated a great deal of time to and we appreciate her for that and remember her for that. All right let's see if there's any public comment on this item. You raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. Seeing none all those in favor of ratifying ordinance 2025-09 signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries three zero. Next item please. Resolution 2025-13 clerk's office surplus property. I move approval. I second that motion. We have motion and we have a second did you find it. Ms. Turner King. This is player a scan pro 220 scanner that's used by the clerk's office as surplus. This is the scanner that clerk Brown was here about last meeting that they've you approved a purchase of a new scanner so this is to remove the old one from the inventory and I believe Mr. Cron from TSD indicated to me that this is going to be recycled with our next surplus run. Thank you so much. Comments or questions? Commissioner Madera. No just kind of a silly comment I especially liked you know the ability to see the offensive firewire scanner and it's kind of like we see the photos and it's like aha finally I meet you you know and so it was enlightening but again we do our business very carefully and we are very you know precise about what we do with the equipment nothing's wasted. Comments or questions? Commissioner Jones. No I don't. Yeah it was almost like a mug shot. All right any public comment on this item raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. Seeing none all those in favor approving resolution 2025-13 signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries three zero. Next item please. Thank you. Move approval to award milestone contractors LP bid for community crossing matching grant paving projects. Fund name county general fund number 1000 in the amount of two million eight hundred twenty three dollars eight hundred twenty three thousand dollars sorry. I second. We have a motion and we have a second regarding a lot of money. Ms. Ridge. Good morning. So we uh open sealed bids um on march 27th at 1 p.m. and we've received two bids for the projects uh enb paving and milestone milestone was the lowest most responsible and responsive bidder so we would recommend awarding the paving projects to milestone um and this is again part of the community crossings matching grant program. Excellent thank you so much uh comments or questions commissioner jones. Yes just congratulations on once again uh acquiring the money from the state to be able to do all of these projects. Absolutely a very important project and again looking forward to getting this underway. Yeah um appreciate all the hard work that goes into this. It's not um not easy and we've got the next item related to this um but I do do appreciate that uh consistently year after year um you've been able to secure this money and really greatly appreciate it not sure what's going to happen in the future with it though because I keep seeing the legislation change and it's not good. All right uh with that um any public comment on this item you could raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. Seeing none um all those in favor of of awarding Milestone Contractors LP the bid for Community Crossing Matching Grant Paving Project signified by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries three zero item please. Move approval to award EMB paving bid for Community Crossing Matching Grant Paving Projects fund name Motor Vehicle Highway fund number 1173 in the amount of 419 414 dollars. I second. We have a motion and we have a second Ms. Ridge. We opened bids um for these projects on March 27th at 1 p.m. We had received three bids for the paving projects. The paving projects are for the remainder of Stipp Road after the stormwater project is completed this summer. A portion of Union Valley Road and then Park Square Drive. EMB paving was the lowest most responsible responsive bidder so we would recommend awarding him to EMB paving. Get that all right let's see if my colleagues have any questions. Commissioner Madeira. No just again thank you for getting these important projects done. Commissioner Jones. No I don't. I don't have any questions either. Appreciate the work. Let's see if there's any public comment on this item. You raise your hand on teams or come to the podium in that you will. All right seeing none all those in favor of awarding EMB paving bid for community crossing matching grant paving project signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries three zero. Next item please. Move approval of endowed agreement for right of way engineering services for baby creek road bridge number 629 replacement. Fund name baby creek road bridge number 629. Fund number 8167 in the amount of seventeen thousand eight hundred ninety-two dollars. I second. We have a motion and we have a second. Ms. Ridge. So this is the agreement to enter to right of way engineering services for the replacement of baby creek road bridge number 629. Any comments or questions commissioner jones. No and again other than just it says again if you're referencing the packet the agreement is to provide eighty percent reimbursement from the state for the services by the consultant. So again I think this is just the public has no idea just how much of a partnership is involved in these projects and so that's one thing that I think is really remarkable about them. I appreciate the work that goes into coordinating all of this it's not as simple as it looks you make it look simple when it's not. All right let's see if there's any public comment on this item you raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. Done all those in favor of approving the end agreement for right-of-way engineering services for baby creek road bridge 629 by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries three zero. All right we do have an appointment today did you want to make a motion? Yes I want to appoint Eve Yarrow to the Women's Commission. Second. We have a motion and we have a second we appreciate everyone that applied and all those in favor of approving Eve Yarrow signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries three zero. We'll have to get the term time established. I do not have that info. All right excellent and that's a good time to remind everybody to apply to serve on our boards and commissions you can go to co.monroe.in.us to fill out an application and to learn more about all of the boards and commissions in Monroe County. While you're there please click on the megaphone on the home page and sign up for the resident alert system. This will keep you informed about weather incidents any emergencies in the county. You will be alerted you can choose text phone and or email alerts and we do continue to hold office hours via teams each month if you wish to speak with us to offer us any proposals comments ideas suggestions please go to the calendar at co.monroe.in.us and there are six different virtual office hours to choose from all of these take place via teams and we look forward to speaking with you. The next blood drive at Ivy Tech in conjunction with the Red Cross will be Wednesday April 9th 10 15 a.m. to 3 p.m. and that's at Shreve Hall and Thursday April 10th 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. and that's at c 130 a and b at Ivy Tech so we encourage folks to to attend please make an appointment at redcross.org all right is there anything else for the good of the order we do have a work session I take it down good Mr. Cockroach can we take an item oh you could amend your agenda to include the item so yeah oh this is the bond yeah I'm gonna go ahead and make a motion to amend our agenda to hear the item on the clerk's bond second all right all those in favor of amending the agenda signify by saying aye aye all right so we now have an item on the clerk's bond tell us all about it okay so as I think indicated before you have the responsibility of approving certain elected officials bonds and this particular bond is the clerk's and it does require your approval and as per approval on the front of this document so I'll give this to you and then we'll get it recorded our auditor excellent um any comments no no something we would take public comment on it seems odd but I guess we could take public comment on this item if anybody wishes to make public comment on this item you may raise your hand on teams or come to the podium all right see none all those in favor of approving the clerk's bond signify by saying aye aye motion carries two three zero and um we will go ahead we go ahead and sign that all right anything else for the good of the order all right uh with that um our next meeting is thursday april 10th uh 10 a.m right here in the net u hill room um until then we are adjourned everybody stay safe (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music)