I'm going to call to order this meeting at the Monroe County Board of Commissioners.
 It is Thursday, April 10th and we will begin with our public statement read by Commissioner Madeira.
 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
 MCCSE. All right thank you so much. We will now move on to our department updates.
 Any, let's see, Ms. Kelly is here via Teams. Good morning. Yes, good morning Commissioners.
 Just a few updates. As of April 8th, emergency visits for COVID-like illness has decreased
 but wastewater concentrations are still elevated. Flu activity is minimal. There are six confirmed
 measles cases in Allen County as of yesterday. Health care providers recommend children receive
 the MMR vaccine between 12 and 15 months of age and again between four and six years of age.
 Two doses of the vaccine are 97% effective in preventing measles and providing protection
 for life. The health department is hosting another MMR vaccine mobile clinic on April 21st.
 This will be held at the Monroe County Public Library Ellitsville branch from 12 to 6 p.m.
 Great thank you so much. Comments or questions? Commissioner Madeira? I think it was just a matter
 of time before the cases made their way into Indiana. I think this is a very scary time. I'm
 very glad that my loved ones and myself are vaccinated and I urge everyone out there to get
 themselves and their loved ones vaccinated so we don't have the catastrophic loss of life that we
 have seen in Texas. Yeah for sure. It's really frightening, really frightening. All right I don't
 have any questions. Thank you Ms. Kelly. Appreciate you being here. All right any other department
 updates for us? I'd like to introduce to you our new Transition Team Director, retired from the
 State Police Todd Smith. Let me just give you some of his backgrounds, accomplishments here. He's
 been with the United States Police for 38 years, obtained his law degree from the University in
 2004.
 He was the Chief Counsel in the United States Police for 18 years, also Chief Counsel during
 the entire construction process including site selection, procurements, contracting, design,
 owner representative punch list, building turnover and warranty work for three Indiana State Police
 posts and three new regional State Police laboratories. For over 12 years he has
 served as General Counsel for Indiana Sheriff's agencies. He also is the primary policy author of
 Indiana State Police and three Indiana Sheriff's offices. Co-author of Correctional Policy Manual
 in compliance with Indiana Jail Standard currently in use with several Indiana Sheriff's offices.
 Todd has been my co-instructor training for culture awareness for law enforcement for 12 years.
 We instructed over 10,000 students in the topic throughout the United States. Todd and I also
 co-instruct numerous programs to improve police community relationship. With that being said I
 introduce you to Todd Smith retired from Indiana State Police. So as the Sheriff said I'm retiring
 my job of 38 years with Indiana State Police to take on this position and I'm really excited to
 have the opportunity to work again with Sheriff Marte. We've worked together for a number of years.
 Most of that time I was his supervisor so now he gets an opportunity to be mine
 so I don't know if there's going to be a little bit of payback here but but we'll see.
 The duties and responsibilities this position as I told the council has a significant overlap with
 what I've done with the Indiana State Police for the last 20 years. I've met the team the
 transition
 team it's a great group of guys and I think we're really going to do good things. We've we're
 already
 neck deep into to what we're doing and I'm really excited to be here so thank you.
 Thank you Mr. Smith it's nice to meet you and we look forward to working with you.
 Thank you very much. Give you a warm welcome from all of us it's going to be
 uh as as Commissioner Thomas said wonderful to work with you and welcome to the team.
 Thank you ma'am thank you very much appreciate it.
 Commissioner thank you for your time. Thank you. Thanks for coming in we appreciate you all coming
 in. Thank you. Any other uh departments have an update to offer? Raise your hand on teams
 or come to the podium.
 All right uh seeing none we'll move on to public comment.
 This is the portion of our meeting reserved for public comment for items that are not
 on our agenda. We do ask folks to limit their commentary to three minutes per person. Please
 give us your name and county of residence. So anybody online raise your hand on teams
 or you can come to the podium here in the NatU Hill Room.
 All right seeing none we'll move on to our next agenda item please.
 I would like to approve the minutes from April 3rd 2025. I will second that motion and do you
 have any comments, corrections or edits? I do not. All right all those in favor of approving the
 minutes for April 3rd 2025 signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries to zero. Next item please.
 I would like to move for approval of the claims docket for accounts payable from April 10th 2025.
 I will second that. Ms. Gallardo. Good morning. Good morning. The accounts payable claims docket
 for April 10th 2025 totals $1,105,692.24 and this includes all emergency claims and adjustments.
 Thank you so much. Comments or questions? Commissioner Madeira. I have none. I don't either.
 Let's see if there's any public comment on this item. Raise your hand on teams or come to the
 podium. All right seeing none all those in favor of approving the claims docket accounts payable
 April 10th 2025 signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries two zero. New business please.
 I would like to move for approval of Bloomington seal coding and paving LLC for parking lots seal
 and stripe fund names 2021 geobond and LIT special purpose fund numbers 4814 and 114.
 I will second that Mr. Griffith. Good morning. Good morning commissioners.
 Hope you all are doing so well and you as well. I'm here to request the acceptance of proposals
 submitted by Bloomington seal coding and paving to clean fill surface cracks apply asphalt sealant
 and repaint the stripes between parking spots in the amount of two thousand dollars at the health
 building and in the amount of four thousand dollars at the youth services bureau for a total
 project
 cost of six thousand dollars. Excellent thank you so much. Comments or questions commissioner Madera?
 I have none. I know we're going to be going to be doing some construction work renovation work
 inside the health building. This is not going to be an issue to have this done first
 or in terms of because there's not gonna be like big heavy trucks coming in or supplies or
 materials
 using that parking lot. I don't believe so. Hopefully it will have time to cure up and I'm
 I'm not completely familiar with the the time overlap between the two. I think that's my question.
 I agree with you if we could get the the blacktop resealed after all the heavy equipments in
 where before it's cured. Right right. So yeah I guess just you know Richard will work with you on
 that and and give you give you the info you need. So been great. Thank you. Thanks for doing this.
 It's something we need. Very much so. There's like six versions of stripes in that lot and
 whatever we can do that would be really good. Absolutely. Thank you. All right let's see if there's
 any
 public comment on this item. You could raise your hand on teams or come to the podium.
 On all those in favor of approving the Bloomington seal coating and paving LLC parking lot seal and
 stripe agreement signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries to zero. Thank you. Thank you so much.
 I would like to move approval for the Bloomington transit agreement
 fund name county general fund number one thousand in an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars.
 I will second that. Good morning. Hello. This over the years the county has had a partnership with
 Bloomington transit to provide bus access as requested. That's looked in a different
 depending on the year and the Bloomington transit is modernizing their system which requires the
 use of an app to ride the bus and so this is formalizing an agreement with Bloomington transit
 to give us access to that app and then also be able to share data with them to make sure we're
 paying for appropriate numbers of bus rides and things like that.
 Okay great. Thank you so much. Comments or questions? Commissioner Madero?
 I have known this is a great program and thank you so much for helping to bring it about.
 Yeah it's it's really a great option for employees who you know live in inside the city limits or
 in
 the bus service area and work here downtown. It's going to be very useful. Yeah great thing to
 offer.
 Appreciate that. 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 of approving the Bloomington transit agreement signify by
 saying aye. Aye. Motion carries 2-0. Thank you. Next item please. I would like to move for approval
 of the Bloomington seal coding and paving LLC on-call service agreement. Fund names, county
 general, parks non-reverting, fund numbers 1,000, 1178, and 1179 in an amount not to exceed $30,000.
 I will second that Ms. Whitmer. Good morning. This is just an on-call basis. One year we didn't use
 any of our asphalt, but you never know when we have a bad winter. We have potholes and we need
 to crack fill on the greenways. So we just have it just in case. Excellent. Good deal. Thank you.
 Comments or questions, Commissioner Madeira? Nope. This is one of those essential agreements that
 we
 just approve of. And again, I think one of the things I would like to just mention too is that
 one of the things that I've learned getting into county government is it just takes so many cogs
 and wheels that you never see unless you watch these meetings. So unfortunately not all of these
 cogs and wheels are on site. Some of them are on call. So thanks. Yeah. And I appreciate again that
 we're using a local company. It's really always a good thing for us. So thank you.
 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 the Bloomington seal coding and paving
 LLC on call service agreement signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries to zero. Next item please.
 I'd like to move to approve Bledsoe, Rygert, Cooper, James on call service agreement,
 fund names county general and parks non-reverting, fund numbers 1,178 and 1,179
 in an amount not to exceed $10,000. I will second that. Ms. Whitmer. This is the same thing we've
 been doing for years. In case things pop up we need a quick survey or we need advice on
 you know where to put the water. This makes it easier to take care of those little matters fast.
 Yeah for sure. Comments or questions Commissioner Medeira? I have none. All right. I don't either.
 This is makes a lot of sense to have this on call because if you need help you don't you don't you
 aren't going to be able to wait for a meeting. So I appreciate that thinking ahead. Mario see if
 there's any public comment on this item. You raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. It
 looks
 like we have a hand raised in teams. Hello my name is Lee Green paper. I'm a resident of Monroe
 County.
 I was just I was just thinking about these contracts and if you have years and years of data
 is that how you inform the amount that you're paying for these services because it seems like
 to me that for the service contract you're going to be paying you know ten thousand dollars for it
 but does that do you have history to show that that's the amount that you need or is there data
 proving that ten thousand dollars is the right number. All right thank you thank you for that
 question it's up to Woodmer if she wants to answer that but it's just an educated amount that we
 in case something big happens normally sometimes we don't use any of the vendors at all and we
 don't pay him anything for the entire contract but so I think the last time we paid him a couple
 thousand dollars but you never know what's going to pop up at a park so most times we pay a lot
 less than not to exceed amount. It is a smart idea to have these in place because as I noted it's
 difficult to you know deal with an emergency issue if you don't have this kind of a contract in
 place
 so that that's going to be this is about thinking ahead and planning ahead and you know if
 something
 came up and it cost eight thousand dollars because it was an emergency and it was huge I can say
 let's make sure I've got enough not to exceed in this contract now to manage that additional
 if something else happens so correct yeah all right excellent thank you so much uh TSD we don't
 have captions on our screen I don't know if you could address that for us thank you
 just realized that because it was hard to hear the caller there we did hear but we did hear thank
 you so much all right any other public comment on this item
 seeing none all those in favor of approving the blizzard reager cooper james on call service
 agreement signify by saying aye aye motion carries to zero please I'd like to move commercial
 service
 on call service agreement uh fund names county general and parks non-reverting fund numbers
 1,000 1178 and 1179 I will second that motion for approval miss Whitmer more on call yes this is
 commercial service and here's an example just a few weeks ago we had an emergency in our uh I'll
 call it a lift tank for sewage for one of our restrooms and we called commercial service they
 came out we figured out what the pump was you know for a couple hundred dollars which is very
 important to keep a restroom open so and the reason why the amount is 15,000 say for instance
 we get a lightning strike at cars farm park and it takes out a completely h vac system or water
 heater system it's probably going to cost up to that that's worst case scenario and you can say
 oh what about insurance well insurance doesn't cover any anything like that so we have to get
 that up and going we have renters coming in so good news is if everything works fine we don't
 spend a dime if we get a lightning strike which we actually do get out at out at the park oh this
 year not this year but we I you know for some reason they the storm seemed to pass over the
 fairgrounds in cars farm park and we do have a lot of power issues out there that's I assume more
 a duke energy problem but things happen surges happen and insurance is not does not pay out right
 away either I mean that's the thing you can't call the insurance company go we need this fixed
 tomorrow right and the deductible is not the deductible is high in the county for good reason
 yeah yeah excellent thank you comments or questions commissioner madera no and I think that uh one
 of
 the common things that people members of the public might assume with these contracts is that we're
 you know going to pay this money to those service providers no matter what but that's only if
 something happens and if something happens it's like that's when the contract springs into being
 and you know we have the privilege of calling on people at odd hours if we have these on-call
 service agreements set up but we don't necessarily pay out that that dollar amount unless again we
 we incur an expense you have to look at this one expires five one to 26 so we have a whole
 season uh-huh yes it's good no and i appreciate you coming and doing these all at once and um that
 they are a year and that you know you can look at usage over the year and make determinations uh
 for
 the future um all right see if there's any public comment on this item you can raise your hand on
 teams or come to the podium all right seeing none all those in favor of approving the commercial
 service on-call service agreement signify by saying aye aye motion carries two zero you got another
 one i'd like to move to approve the nathaniel hancock service agreement uh fund names county
 general parks non-overting fund numbers 1,178 and 1,179 i will second that miss whitmer this
 was very important to us um and we haven't really spent that much probably in the last five years
 no more than 500 and what our database is for the park board is that's how we compare our numbers
 with the auditor's office and as with databases you have to keep updating them or funky things
 happen and and plus we want nate to maybe upgrade some of our other databases that we have because
 that's not a service tst does in order for us to keep track of everything we have to have help and
 nate nate does it at a very nice price he's local everyone thinks oh this is easy there's millions
 of people who do this i guarantee you it's very difficult to find people who will stay in this
 community and you can rely on and they understand the database year after year if not it's like oh
 find a student well that student's gone yeah all right um comments or questions commissioner medeira
 i have none this is very important appreciate again having this on standby if needed uh let's
 see if there's any public comment on this item you raise your hand on teams or come to the podium
 um being done all those in favor of approving the nathaniel hancock service agreement signify
 by saying aye aye motion carries two zero thank you thank you all right next two items together
 please sure i'd like to move for computer systems incorporated csi service agreement renewal
 fund name recorders perpetuation fund fund number 1189 in the amount of fifteen thousand eight
 hundred and forty i'd also like to move for approval of computer systems incorporated
 or csi service agreement renewal fund name recorders perpetuation fund fund number 1189
 in the amount of twenty seven thousand seven hundred and sixty eight dollars and ninety four
 cents i will second those recorders swain good morning good morning it's good to see you both
 see you all so this is our annual contracts with our software provider for our land records
 management system and it's two separate parts we contract with computer systems incorporated
 otherwise known as csi for these two different agreements and it's on an annual basis so we
 always have the ability to renegotiate every year and we did that last year when our tsd took over
 the simple maintenance of the peripherals our scanners our label printers receipt printers
 but for the higher issues for
 server issues or network issues that's what the the support system agreement is for
 the proposal also includes our annual imaging
 agreement where we pull images in from those scanners that i just mentioned
 the ones that come in over the counter or through the mail rather than electronic recording and so
 that's part of it as well the software we actually have a very nice integrated system now where we
 are
 able to take credit cards over the phone again and provide that service or take credit cards in
 person
 as well i know that was an issue in years past especially so that's been reinstated we also added
 a fourth e-recording partner and this is all integrated makes it very easy for our staff and for us
 to
 reconciliation so any questions did you have comments or questions no i think this sounds very
 specialized there's not too many services that do what we needed to do here and so this is
 essential
 yeah i appreciate this so hardware one software the other makes sense um i actually have a question
 for you that has not related to either of these and and i was driving here sorry to do this to
 you but i was driving here today and heard an ad about titles and people stealing titles and title
 scams and what do what do we have in place in monroe county wonderful question and commissioner
 thomas so people don't spend money on something right we actually offer a free service it's free
 to the county we don't pay anything for it it's also free to property owners here in monroe county
 it's called property watch and you can sign up online at docs pop.com that's d-o-x-p-o-p.com
 it's very simple if you have any problems you can call docs pop which is one of our business
 partners
 to have them step you through the process basically sign up for alerts that whenever something is
 recorded in our office that pertains to your property you can do it by address or by name but
 if you're a julie thomas that might be a little bit more common name so you would want to put your
 actual address in and it goes by legal description as well i do want to caution people that if you
 are out in the county and you have what's called a meets and bounds legal description you may get
 alerted if something in that same section township and range is recorded so if your neighbor
 records
 something you might get an alert as well because it can't differentiate between the two yeah makes
 sense very good excellent thank you i i heard that today and i thought dang i i hope people
 aren't spending money on this you know now it's completely free and like i said it will alert you
 we've had several people sign up for it we've also had several calls into our office when they get
 the alert and we're happy to look those records up for people and let them know whether it's
 their property or a neighbor's property and what the document is great thank you so much appreciate
 it thanks all right see if there's any public comment on this item you can raise your hand
 on teams or come to the podium
 seeing none all those in favor of approving the two separate computer systems inc csi service
 agreement renewal signified by saying aye aye motion carries two zero thank you ma'am thank you
 all right next item please i'd like to move for approval of north park office state road 45
 subdivision i'm sorry 46 subdivision inventory acceptance i will second that mr errors good
 morning thanks for joining us today
 good morning got a request for road acceptance for a new segment of north linal drive as part
 of the north park pud the road does or the road was built to our specs meets ashto standards
 developers just asking for us to request it he is i believe on teams as well if you have any
 questions for him thank you so much comments or questions commissioner madira i have done no this
 makes total sense projects done it looks good and appreciate you bringing this forward thank you
 you're welcome i'm sure the developer does too all right although snow season's over but still
 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 all right see none all those in favor of approving the north park office state road
 46
 subdivision inventory acceptance signify by saying aye aye motion carries two zero thank you so
 much
 all right um oh gosh you know this is one there it is it's unfrozen now anyway uh so we don't have
 any appointments today uh just to note that um we do have our next meeting will be uh thursday
 april 17th make sure that you also know that we are not meeting on the 24th of april we do want
 to encourage especially after the flooding and storms of the past week for folks to sign up
 on our residential alert system if you go to co.monroe.in.us and click on the megaphone
 you will receive information like the freeze warning notice i just got for tonight go cover
 those plants but it's a free service that we provide to all residents of the county
 and it does provide emergency information and weather updates and weather warnings
 in a very timely way and it was really helpful to have it this past over this past storm so
 there is still are still covid tests available at the health department and that's
 uh at 119 west 7th street and then also at the public health clinic at 333 east miller drive
 and again if if you're unsure about your mmr vaccination status please contact our health
 department they will help you out we do continue to have office hours uh via teams and um you just
 go
 to the calendar on our home page and join us uh for a conversation we're looking forward to hearing
 from you and uh the next blood drives are uh thursday may 8th from 1 to 6 um and wednesday
 june 4th from 10 a.m to 3 these are at ivy tech uh in room c 130 a and b this is something that
 we're doing in conjunction with ivy tech and our emergency management department and the red cross
 please make an appointment at the red cross uh dot org if you can in advance um i don't have
 anything
 else um for announcements do you have anything okay all right we do have a work session item
 for planning uh you want to come back at 10 45 that's great great we will come back at 10 45
 for our work session um thank you everyone be well stay safe and we are adjourned thanks tst thanks
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