WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.200 - I'm calling to order this meeting of Monroe County Board of Commissioners. 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:13.160 - It is Thursday, May 29th, and I'll note for the record that Commissioner Jones and myself 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:16.620 - are present here in the NatU Hill Room. 00:00:16.620 --> 00:00:20.180 - We'll begin with our public statement. 00:00:20.180 --> 00:00:24.820 - We the Monroe County Board of Commissioners renew our commitment to welcome and protect 00:00:24.820 --> 00:00:33.440 - the rights of all people regardless of age, race, color, creed, disability, sexual orientation, 00:00:33.440 --> 00:00:40.200 - gender, gender identity, marital status, economic status, and national origin. 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:45.000 - And we affirm the right of every person to live peacefully and without fear, and we will 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:50.740 - fight and resist at every step discrimination and harmful policies, whatever their source. 00:00:50.740 --> 00:00:55.760 - We believe in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. 00:00:55.760 --> 00:01:03.600 - We also stand in support of our county public school systems, both RBB and MCCSC. 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:14.740 - And with that, we will move on to our department updates will begin with the Health Department. 00:01:14.740 --> 00:01:20.920 - Good morning, commissioners. As of May 27th, emergency department visits for COVID-like 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:26.680 - illness have continued to decrease, as well as wastewater concentrations. 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:34.520 - As of May 22nd, there have been a total of 1,046 confirmed measles cases across the United 00:01:34.520 --> 00:01:41.160 - States, but there have been no new cases in Indiana as of April 21st. 00:01:41.160 --> 00:01:44.780 - Our public health clinic has vaccines available for all ages. 00:01:44.780 --> 00:01:51.260 - You can call 812-353-3244 for an appointment. 00:01:51.260 --> 00:01:54.200 - Thank you so much. Comments or questions? 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:57.560 - Commissioner Jones? No, I don't. 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:03.720 - I know there's a new COVID variant that's pretty active in other parts of the world 00:02:03.720 --> 00:02:06.420 - right now. Is that something we're going to be able 00:02:06.420 --> 00:02:12.600 - to track with the new administrations? Or is that something where we're just going 00:02:12.600 --> 00:02:18.360 - to be able to track it through wastewater? I think that we still have a lot more information 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:21.440 - to learn on that. There are lots of changes being made and 00:02:21.440 --> 00:02:27.980 - even changes to eligibility for the COVID vaccines that will be coming up for this fall. 00:02:27.980 --> 00:02:33.680 - But right now we can still do that through our wastewater testing and we'll have more 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:38.360 - information I think at the end of June about upcoming changes. 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:42.400 - Great. Thank you so much. Appreciate that. Thank you. 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:49.480 - All right. I believe we also have emergency management joining us this morning for an 00:02:49.480 --> 00:02:54.320 - update. Good morning. 00:02:54.320 --> 00:03:02.000 - Good morning. I wanted to start by saying we have completed 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:10.040 - the install of four new outdoor warning sirens at the Seven Oaks Station 25 Monroe Fire Protection 00:03:10.040 --> 00:03:16.760 - District, Smithville Ball Diamonds and the Fairgrounds. Those sirens are complete, complete 00:03:16.760 --> 00:03:24.460 - install and working as of last week. I did want to give an update on where we 00:03:24.460 --> 00:03:34.600 - are with tornado recovery. So we have several means of assistance in place currently. 00:03:34.600 --> 00:03:42.960 - If you do not have an open case with the Red Cross, please call 1-800-RED-CROSS to start 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:47.520 - that process. They have some resources available. Definitely 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:52.280 - get that started if you have not touched base with them already and you are affected. 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:58.060 - If you are a veteran status, please get in touch with the County Veterans Affairs. 00:03:58.060 --> 00:04:07.680 - If you are in need of furniture, St. Vincent DePaul at 812-961-1510 and press 3. 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:11.720 - I will put all of these numbers in the chat, so don't get bogged down with trying to write 00:04:11.720 --> 00:04:16.500 - them down if you are currently trying to. If you are in need of clothing, Salvation 00:04:16.500 --> 00:04:23.240 - Army is open and available for that. Hoosier Hills Food Bank is available for 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:28.360 - any food needs. And we are currently still waiting on the 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:32.420 - official word for the Small Business Administration Declaration. 00:04:32.420 --> 00:04:38.540 - As I understand it, the packet has been completed and it is waiting for a Governor's signature. 00:04:38.540 --> 00:04:43.760 - Now once that occurs, we will have a site established where people can come in and apply 00:04:43.760 --> 00:04:52.800 - for SBA loans. Now, I do encourage everybody to come in and at least have the conversation 00:04:52.800 --> 00:05:02.400 - with those workers, because it opens the door for different things. The State Disaster Relief 00:05:02.400 --> 00:05:07.440 - Fund will have people there as well to talk about those benefits as well. If you don't 00:05:07.440 --> 00:05:11.920 - qualify for an SBA loan, you could qualify for those funds. 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:18.720 - And it's a conversation worth having. It is not an obligation. If you apply for the loan, 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:22.860 - you are not obligated. It does not behave like a traditional loan where you apply for 00:05:22.860 --> 00:05:27.300 - it and you have to take it. You can say no at any time. But I do encourage everybody 00:05:27.300 --> 00:05:33.140 - to at least come and have the conversation. And we will be advertising that a lot on all 00:05:33.140 --> 00:05:40.340 - of our platforms and encourage sharing with as many entities as possible. And it will 00:05:40.340 --> 00:05:53.920 - be for a week. We do have dumpsters available for debris at the road intersection of Elrin 00:05:53.920 --> 00:06:00.640 - and Harmony Road. There are two dumpsters there for house debris and one for tree debris, 00:06:00.640 --> 00:06:06.740 - small tree debris. Another one at Jackson Creek Drive and another set at Lighthouse 00:06:06.740 --> 00:06:11.860 - Christian Academy. And those are being dumped regularly. 00:06:11.860 --> 00:06:23.360 - Great. Thank you. Let's see if there's I just was notified that Commissioner Madeira has 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:29.200 - joined the meeting. Welcome Commissioner Madeira from Europe. Commissioner Jones, do you have 00:06:29.200 --> 00:06:36.480 - any questions? No questions. Just thank you very much for all that you all have done to 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:45.200 - try to help out people who were impacted by this? Yeah, it was a big storm. So we've we've 00:06:45.200 --> 00:06:55.240 - had questions about the county role and what we should be doing or why aren't we picking 00:06:55.240 --> 00:07:04.120 - up tree debris from yards, etc. I don't know if that's something you want to address regarding 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:14.000 - FEMA, regarding the state, etc. So the FEMA piece, this did not meet any thresholds for 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:22.200 - FEMA. So while Monroe County was greatly impacted, we were the only one that received this much 00:07:22.200 --> 00:07:27.480 - of an impact. While Greene County did have impacts, it was not as impacted as Monroe 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:34.320 - County. Brown County was also impacted not as much as we were. Same with Bartholomew 00:07:34.320 --> 00:07:41.440 - County. Whenever you in the expectation that we are going to see a reaction from FEMA, 00:07:41.440 --> 00:07:50.920 - it has to be large and widespread beyond one county. Great. So the need was not at the 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:57.400 - threshold to bring in FEMA. Right, right. Thank you. And their their threshold has increased 00:07:57.400 --> 00:08:09.840 - as well of uninsured losses. And is so one of the issues that has come up from residents 00:08:09.840 --> 00:08:20.800 - is, you know, oh, I need help getting trees off my property. That's a property owner responsibility. 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:30.960 - Correct. Correct. I don't know, Ms. Ridge, if you want to chime in on the tree issue 00:08:30.960 --> 00:08:39.440 - related to county roadways. So, yeah, we we've been monitoring the roads, say, ice and road. 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:45.960 - We've kind of stayed out of the way. But while utilities were trying to get power telephone 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:51.520 - service back in place, we are out there today just to make sure that there's nothing within 00:08:51.520 --> 00:08:59.320 - the roadway. And that is our responsibility to make sure that the roadway is safe for 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:05.600 - the traveling motorist. We don't enter onto properties, private property to remove to remove 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:15.080 - the debris. I know a lot of people are putting debris in subdivisions out into the roadway. 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:20.320 - It would be our responsibility. We won't be hauling it off. That's an expense to the county. 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:25.320 - We would be putting it back onto the property out of the roadway. So we just encourage the 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:33.280 - public not to put their debris, their pieces of their we've seen furniture and housing 00:09:33.280 --> 00:09:41.400 - and everything put into the roadway. Again, our responsibility is to maintain the roadway 00:09:41.400 --> 00:09:46.880 - for the traveling motorist. And thank you, Ms. pretty. Did you have anything you wanted 00:09:46.880 --> 00:09:57.520 - to add based on this conversation? I think so. I think that it's difficult for our community 00:09:57.520 --> 00:10:08.320 - when we when they experience this kind of loss, devastation. And there is this hope, 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:15.760 - I think that county government can provide an assistance that that's not under our county 00:10:15.760 --> 00:10:22.920 - government's umbrella. And ideally, when he was talking about when Jamie was talking about 00:10:22.920 --> 00:10:29.920 - FEMA, that would be what would normally assist homeowners with this kind of devastation. 00:10:29.920 --> 00:10:35.760 - But the the requirement, the cost requirement that is involved with for FEMA to come into 00:10:35.760 --> 00:10:45.320 - play is so high that this county has not made that level. So it is it is it's a difficult 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:54.640 - time for our community and for our members. And it'd be nice if we could see some maybe 00:10:54.640 --> 00:11:00.680 - of our local people who like to have a skid steer and play with it and chainsaws if we 00:11:00.680 --> 00:11:04.760 - could work out something to get our own little team go and just go out there and help some 00:11:04.760 --> 00:11:12.080 - people. But that's just that's just me. Yeah. Yeah. Did you have something? Yeah, I think 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:16.640 - that's a really good. That's a good point you brought up because in the winter we keep 00:11:16.640 --> 00:11:22.400 - a list of private contractors for snow removal for property owners. So it would be great 00:11:22.400 --> 00:11:27.800 - if we, you know, were able to put together a contractor list that we could provide to 00:11:27.800 --> 00:11:34.080 - the public. And maybe we can work with emergency management management on that. So that way 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:39.920 - we can at least provide names and people that have equipment that are capable to help the 00:11:39.920 --> 00:11:45.680 - property owners in these types of situations. So that's yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that. 00:11:45.680 --> 00:11:50.880 - Yeah. But actually, us actually organizing it is beyond anything that that is a normal 00:11:50.880 --> 00:11:57.400 - scope of our operations, unfortunately. And there is an opportunity through the volunteer 00:11:57.400 --> 00:12:07.280 - network at the city of Bloomington to sign up to assist property owners who request assistance 00:12:07.280 --> 00:12:14.400 - through emergency management. So there are opportunities to help. And of course, there 00:12:14.400 --> 00:12:23.660 - are a lot of it was a frightening, a frightening storm. We made it out without any fatalities, 00:12:23.660 --> 00:12:30.840 - thank goodness. And there were some injuries, but it is difficult if you're facing this 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:39.080 - kind of loss to your home or your business. But there are a lot of folks who have stepped 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:47.060 - up to help. For example, donating to pals, which was hit particularly hard. The food 00:12:47.060 --> 00:12:54.000 - bank always needs assistance, but you can help by helping those organizations as well 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:59.440 - if you can actually physically go out to help. So there's a lot that can be done. And I've 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:05.240 - seen a lot of great things that neighbors are doing to help neighbors. And it's really 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:11.280 - inspiring. This is a wonderful community. And we've really all come together in the 00:13:11.280 --> 00:13:17.400 - way that I knew we would, and it's heartwarming. So a big thank you to everyone who's helped 00:13:17.400 --> 00:13:27.160 - out big or small after this storm. It's been a real test. I'm sure there are more to come. 00:13:27.160 --> 00:13:32.760 - Commissioner Madera has joined us. Do you have any questions for Ms. Nibel? 00:13:32.760 --> 00:13:39.400 - No, I don't. I just wanted to say thank you so very much for everything you're doing. 00:13:39.400 --> 00:13:42.480 - And I've been following everything for the last week and a half because I've been out 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:48.040 - of the county. And I think I would like to see us get more organized in the future as 00:13:48.040 --> 00:13:55.080 - far as a volunteer network. But we're just getting, I think, into the season. And so, 00:13:55.080 --> 00:14:04.360 - thank you to everyone who has helped. Yeah, we do thank you, Ms. Nibel and Mr. Baker 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:10.760 - with emergency management. I know Monroe County Fire Protection District did an amazing job 00:14:10.760 --> 00:14:18.720 - immediately after the storm and then helping provide some statistical information on damage 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:24.200 - to help with the assessments at emergency management with the state. So, we really appreciate 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:32.780 - everybody stepping up and questions can be directed to emergency management beyond that. 00:14:32.780 --> 00:14:38.560 - Thank you. Thank you so much for being here this morning. All right. Any other department 00:14:38.560 --> 00:14:55.240 - updates? Okay. Seeing none, we'll come back for our next agenda item, which is public 00:14:55.240 --> 00:15:01.800 - comment. Public comment is time reserved on our agenda for items that are not elsewhere 00:15:01.800 --> 00:15:09.020 - on our agenda. Each speaker is limited to three minutes per person. Please give us your 00:15:09.020 --> 00:15:15.280 - name and county of residence. And you may raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. 00:15:15.280 --> 00:15:21.280 - And we have Mr. MG joining us. Good morning. Good morning commissioners, both present here 00:15:21.280 --> 00:15:26.760 - and online. I am Christopher MG from the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce, a Monroe 00:15:26.760 --> 00:15:31.800 - County resident. And today our community is being showcased through Showcase Bloomington, 00:15:31.800 --> 00:15:37.000 - the Chamber's Business Expo at Switchyard Park starting at five o'clock. We'll be presenting 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:42.000 - all of the great things and innovative ways that the business community is present here 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:47.080 - and adds to the vitality of the community. We'd love to see you out there today. We did 00:15:47.080 --> 00:15:51.080 - it last year. The weather looks perfect again. I don't know how we do it, but two years in 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:56.840 - a row, we'll take it. The one thing I wanted to talk about today in my brief time is SB 00:15:56.840 --> 00:16:02.200 - 1, this sort of the budget uncertainty there. And I've noted, I think, to one of you that 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:07.400 - the more of it it's explained to me, the less I'm really sure of it. But as we sort of celebrate 00:16:07.400 --> 00:16:11.660 - our community, we sort of need to look at SB 1 and what the significant uncertainty we 00:16:11.660 --> 00:16:16.280 - have moving forward. And I think this has the potential to be an opportunity here in 00:16:16.280 --> 00:16:21.600 - the community, despite the revenue shortfalls and these unfunded mandates that the state 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:28.120 - puts on us. And just to really think about government, not just cuts, but to be creative 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:34.180 - in the duties and the partnerships involved, not just new buildings, but sort of new partnerships. 00:16:34.180 --> 00:16:38.900 - Not just expanding staff, but streamlining roles across departments. The fiscal road 00:16:38.900 --> 00:16:43.120 - ahead is not smooth, but if we navigate this together, I think we can have it. So when 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:49.440 - you talk about strategic reinvention, we're looking at sort of a pivot point for the community. 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:54.960 - Let's start re-evaluating job descriptions and organizational charge to reduce duplication 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:59.040 - and sort of improve efficiency. It's something we've done in the chamber since Eric Spoonmore 00:16:59.040 --> 00:17:04.880 - has taken over. We have an opportunity to do shared service across county, city, Bloomington, 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:08.840 - town of Ellitsville. Once we clear up what this is going to entail, we can start sort 00:17:08.840 --> 00:17:14.520 - of navigating together and cross-training certain staff resilience and just adaptability 00:17:14.520 --> 00:17:20.720 - to be sort of a leaner operation as we move forward. And collaboration is really in our 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:26.320 - DNA. Tonight, as a personal example, is Little League Baseball at Winslow Park. If you look 00:17:26.320 --> 00:17:32.960 - at the 11-player roster, it's 11 players from 11 different schools in the county. That includes 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:39.440 - RBB, Lighthouse, Christian, Seven Oaks. I mean, the gamut of schools are represented 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:45.760 - by our team, and they sort of come together not as Cougars, Panthers, or Mustangs, but 00:17:45.760 --> 00:17:52.120 - they come together as a team, which is what the city, the county, and the business community 00:17:52.120 --> 00:17:57.560 - need to do going forward, not work in silos, not work in competition, but really come together. 00:17:57.560 --> 00:18:02.240 - And when we put Monroe County on the map, that's not just what we build, but how we 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:07.640 - build it. So as we celebrate our community today at Showcase Bloomington, I'd like to 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:13.000 - think we're all on the same team moving forward in this difficult climate. I thank you. 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:23.520 - Thank you, Mr. MG. Appreciate it. Online, we have Maria Douglas. Good morning. 00:18:23.520 --> 00:18:27.800 - Good morning. Thank you for having me. For some reason, I was able to get on on my laptop, 00:18:27.800 --> 00:18:33.400 - but not my phone. So I don't know. So anyway, I'm Maria Douglas, a 30-year resident of Monroe 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:38.900 - County. And today I'm giving public comment as a county council appointed member of the 00:18:38.900 --> 00:18:44.360 - Monroe County Women's Commission. Currently, the Women's Commission, this is our purpose, 00:18:44.360 --> 00:18:50.760 - states that the commission shall serve in an advisory role to assist residents, businesses, 00:18:50.760 --> 00:18:57.480 - and the government of Monroe County in addressing issues of gender equity in all aspects of 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:05.040 - society. As plans move forward for the new county jail facility, I would like to comment 00:19:05.040 --> 00:19:10.640 - on the Monroe County Sheriff's Office of Jail and Justice Center pre-design report that 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:16.560 - was released on February 27. Members of the Women's Commission have reviewed the space 00:19:16.560 --> 00:19:24.160 - plans. And while the decision to increase the overall number of beds to 500 is incompatible 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:29.600 - with stopping the trend of increased incarceration in our county and reducing the recidivism 00:19:29.600 --> 00:19:35.680 - of people penalized more for their circumstances than any crimes committed, we do want to 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:36.300 - acknowledge 00:19:36.300 --> 00:19:43.800 - that this plan includes spaces designed separately for female inmates, for detox bullpen, video 00:19:43.800 --> 00:19:48.560 - arraignment waiting, which is great, medical and mental health, holding cells and housing 00:19:48.560 --> 00:19:55.880 - units, and an inmate worker dormitory. Alongside the plan, that plan also includes designated 00:19:55.880 --> 00:20:01.280 - special housing units in both male and female medical and mental health areas for marginalized 00:20:01.280 --> 00:20:06.840 - genders. And we want to make notice of these plans, of those plans, and point them out 00:20:06.840 --> 00:20:12.320 - to the public and the board of commissioners so that you can also keep an eye on these 00:20:12.320 --> 00:20:18.320 - designated spaces to ensure they remain in place for the safety and dignity of all people. 00:20:18.320 --> 00:20:25.140 - So the plan also identifies general population by housing number or rooms, I had to check 00:20:25.140 --> 00:20:32.280 - my time there, number of rooms and beds, but does not make note of any separation or designated 00:20:32.280 --> 00:20:39.800 - areas for female inmates or other marginalized gender inmates. So this is, that is 384 out 00:20:39.800 --> 00:20:45.920 - of the 500 total beds planned for this facility. So bottom line is, is that we would encourage 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:52.080 - more details to be made available to ensure that people incarcerated, unfortunately in 00:20:52.080 --> 00:20:57.800 - our jail, in our county jail who are women and other marginalized genders are insured 00:20:57.800 --> 00:21:04.080 - the human dignity of being safe in who they are and not further punished for how they 00:21:04.080 --> 00:21:08.280 - present themselves to the world. Thank you so much. 00:21:08.280 --> 00:21:15.880 - Thank you so much. And we would really appreciate seeing this report via email if that's possible 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:22.120 - we really appreciate the thought that's gone into this. There, there aren't a lot of details 00:21:22.120 --> 00:21:27.160 - in a pre-design and that's, that's part of the pre-design process. So, but I, but it's, 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:31.680 - it's great information to keep in mind. We appreciate that, that this has been studied 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:38.480 - and considered. Thank you. All right. Any other public comment today? Please, please 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:41.560 - give us your name and county of residence and you'll have three minutes. 00:21:41.560 --> 00:21:49.520 - I'm Molly Radecki. I'm a Monroe County residence of the town of Steinsville. I'm relatively 00:21:49.520 --> 00:21:55.280 - new to Steinsville of two years, which still makes me a newbie there and I love it. And 00:21:55.280 --> 00:22:01.160 - I, well, there's a couple of issues that I wanted to address is that there's a historic 00:22:01.160 --> 00:22:09.000 - distrust between the town of Steinsville and the Monroe County government. And I would 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:15.880 - like to say that along with the older residents, there's also younger residents that are moving 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:22.120 - in that need some kind of form of communication that's clear and direct with the county to 00:22:22.120 --> 00:22:27.960 - get needs met. And I particularly have some needs that need to be met and I don't know 00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:37.000 - who to turn to. My house flooded during the April 2nd and 3rd flooding event and it was 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:43.000 - an anomaly. I have water coming in from the street because of poor drainage, as well as 00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:51.320 - we are part on septic and in our public sewer system. And my septic tank didn't have a backflow. 00:22:51.320 --> 00:22:56.680 - So I had black water coming from my shower drain. I talked to Vanyam-Fanyam, I talked 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:02.600 - to the town of Steinsville, but I'm in this feedback loop where I can't get help because 00:23:02.600 --> 00:23:08.280 - Steinsville doesn't give their storm water tax to the county so I can't get help. But 00:23:08.280 --> 00:23:14.840 - I hope that someone could help me to tell me who do I direct my needs to that they get 00:23:14.840 --> 00:23:24.320 - met and I'm not constantly chasing my own tail. The second thing is I wanted to ask 00:23:24.320 --> 00:23:32.560 - who should I direct my questions to. I'm interested in applying for a sustainable partnership 00:23:32.560 --> 00:23:40.520 - with the center of rural engagement at IU, which would be due in October. It's a collaborative 00:23:40.520 --> 00:23:46.520 - project but I would like to know who can I engage in the county that would be interested 00:23:46.520 --> 00:23:55.520 - in helping me to help Steinsville and other entities of rural Owen County to apply for 00:23:55.520 --> 00:24:03.040 - this. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Radecki. I hope I pronounced it right. Okay, 00:24:03.040 --> 00:24:12.440 - thank you. I'm wondering, Angie, if you could, if you could at least get a phone number or 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:21.280 - an email and then be in contact and see what what could be done to direct, direct her questions 00:24:21.280 --> 00:24:29.360 - as best as possible. I'll do that. Okay, I think I want to hear to me this is a town 00:24:29.360 --> 00:24:36.160 - of Steinsville issue, a much of it may be and or maybe a trustee issue. But yeah, and 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:41.480 - I don't know if Ms. Ridge has anything she wanted to. I do know that they collect their 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:47.840 - own stormwater fee. So they they should have I don't know what they use their fee and that 00:24:47.840 --> 00:24:53.880 - fund for but it is collected for stormwater issues and drainage issues. So we usually 00:24:53.880 --> 00:24:59.280 - when we get requests that fall within the town of Steinsville because we have a MS for 00:24:59.280 --> 00:25:04.720 - program also, we refer them to Steinsville because within the city limits, they do collect 00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:11.680 - their own fee there. Yeah. If you wouldn't mind, this pretty thank you so much. Thank 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:19.720 - you for coming in. We'll we'll help you direct your questions. All right. Any other public 00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:32.200 - comment for items not on our agenda? Let's see. Then we'll come back to our next item, 00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:40.720 - please. The approval of the minutes for May 15 2025. Second. Any comments, corrections 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:50.680 - or edits? Okay. All right. We'll go ahead and Mr. Cockrell, will you please call the 00:25:50.680 --> 00:25:55.480 - roll on the approval of the minutes for May 15 2025? And just a reminder to Commissioner 00:25:55.480 --> 00:26:03.780 - Medeiros, you will have to be visible on camera in order to vote. Commissioner Thomas? Yes. 00:26:03.780 --> 00:26:15.840 - Commissioner Jones? Yes. Commissioner Medeiros? Yes. Root three to zero. Thank you, Mr. Cockrell. 00:26:15.840 --> 00:26:24.280 - Next item, please. Move approval of the claims docket accounts payable May 29 2025 and payroll 00:26:24.280 --> 00:26:35.520 - May 30 2025. We have our auditor Miss Gregory joining us. Good morning. Good morning, commissioners. 00:26:35.520 --> 00:26:46.120 - The accounts payable claims docket for today, May 29 2025, total $16,792,063.71. This includes 00:26:46.120 --> 00:26:53.320 - all emergency claims and adjustments. Additionally, the payroll docket for tomorrow May 30 2025 00:26:53.320 --> 00:27:04.920 - equals $2,266,853.98. That includes direct and indirect costs. Thank you so much. Comments 00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:13.480 - or corrections, Commissioner Jones? No, I don't. Any comments or questions, Commissioner Medeiros? 00:27:13.480 --> 00:27:20.560 - I have none. Thank you. I don't have any either. Well, I had one and it got answered very quickly. 00:27:20.560 --> 00:27:24.760 - I appreciate that. So let's see if there's any public comment on this item. You raise 00:27:24.760 --> 00:27:35.520 - your hand on Teams or come to the podium. Seeing none. Mr. Cockrell, will you please 00:27:35.520 --> 00:27:40.400 - call the roll on approval of the claim stock and accounts payable May 29 2025 and payroll 00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:51.120 - May 30 2025? Mr. Thomas? Yes. Commissioner Jones? Yes. Commissioner Medeira? Yes. Approved 00:27:51.120 --> 00:27:57.200 - three to zero. Thank you so much. I will note for the record that we have received a report 00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:08.240 - from the treasurer for April of 2025. We will now move on to new business, please. Move approval 00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:16.000 - of ratification of a local disaster emergency declaration? I'll second that. And Ms. Purdy 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:20.840 - just sat down and it's her item. Sorry. No, you're fine. I get you going this morning. 00:28:20.840 --> 00:28:27.040 - Yes. It's good to get me moving. This is the ratification of the declaration of a weather 00:28:27.040 --> 00:28:35.360 - emergency that was signed by Commissioner Thomas on the 19th of May. It turned out on May 23rd. 00:28:35.360 --> 00:28:42.920 - So this is just the official approval of that because we had to do it in the event of a 00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:49.560 - joint emergency and the commissioners were not meeting. Right. Exactly. And if there's 00:28:49.560 --> 00:28:53.840 - funding available, this is something we have to have in place in order to be eligible for 00:28:53.840 --> 00:29:00.640 - that funding, for example, the information that the governor has regarding our interest 00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:08.520 - in receiving some assistance. So comments or questions? Commissioner Jones? No, I don't. 00:29:08.520 --> 00:29:17.040 - Commissioner Madeira? No, I have none. Thank you. Any public comment on this item? You 00:29:17.040 --> 00:29:26.680 - raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. Seeing none, Mr. Cockrell, will you please 00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:31.400 - call the roll on the ratification of local disaster emergency declaration? Commissioner 00:29:31.400 --> 00:29:41.000 - Thomas? Yes. Commissioner Jones? Yes. Commissioner Madeira? Yes. Motion. All right. Thank you 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:50.200 - so much. Next item, please. Move approval of an MOU with Wagner, Erwin, Shealy and Associates 00:29:50.200 --> 00:30:00.280 - or WIS, fund name, county general, fund number 1,000, in an amount not to exceed $28,000. 00:30:00.280 --> 00:30:06.320 - Second that. And Mr. Cockrell, I think you're standing in for Ms. Turner King today on this 00:30:06.320 --> 00:30:11.040 - one. Yes, this is essentially an extension of the agreement that the council has with 00:30:11.040 --> 00:30:16.920 - Wagner, Erwin and Shealy. They've been using this firm for well over a decade to help them 00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:24.960 - do job description reviews, classification of those job descriptions and salary recommendations. 00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:31.520 - This is a two-year agreement not to exceed $28,000. Thank you so much. Comments or questions? 00:30:31.520 --> 00:30:39.280 - Commissioner Jones? No, I don't. Commissioner Madeira, comments or questions? No. I don't 00:30:39.280 --> 00:30:48.520 - either. I just, well, I don't have a question, but my comment is that I encourage the council 00:30:48.520 --> 00:30:57.800 - to use this judiciously as it seems like this money could be used towards salaries for our 00:30:57.800 --> 00:31:04.360 - county employees and especially if they're sort of standard job descriptions and things, 00:31:04.360 --> 00:31:09.200 - it feels like we have such a catalog of them that we should really only be using this in 00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:14.800 - unusual circumstances. That's just my take on it. I'm not a member of council anymore. 00:31:14.800 --> 00:31:18.640 - So I'll leave it at that. Is there any public comment on this item? You can raise your hand 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:32.680 - on Teams or come to the podium. See none. Mr. Cockrell, will you please call the roll 00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:39.200 - on the MOU with Wagner, Irwin, Shealy and Associates? Commissioner Thomas? Yes. Commissioner 00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:49.360 - Jones? Yes. Commissioner Madeira? Yes. Motion is approved. Three to zero. Thank you so much. 00:31:49.360 --> 00:31:56.240 - Next item, please. Move approval of the Indiana Health Care Information Exchange Agreement 00:31:56.240 --> 00:32:06.920 - fund name, local public health fund number 1161 in the amount of $1,800. Second. And 00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:15.880 - Ms. Kelly is joining us again to tell us all about it. Yes. So the Indiana Department of 00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:22.600 - Health is offering at this time all local health departments free access for one year 00:32:22.600 --> 00:32:28.840 - to this platform. They would also be covering the startup fees for this service. So it's 00:32:28.840 --> 00:32:35.400 - essentially a platform that gives us access to patient information. So our disease intervention 00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:42.600 - specialists would be using this to be able to more quickly verify medication, past medical 00:32:42.600 --> 00:32:47.600 - history to kind of reduce some of the time that they are currently spending having to 00:32:47.600 --> 00:32:54.160 - find that information by calling various doctors' offices. So the data is collected from over 00:32:54.160 --> 00:33:01.680 - 140 Indiana hospitals and health systems. So really a lot of information. We'd only 00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:08.400 - be searching for patient information. We would not be using the system for any other purpose. 00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:18.240 - All right. Thank you so much. Comments or questions, Commissioner Jones? No, I don't. 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:26.720 - Commissioner Madera? No, it just sounds incredibly valuable. Thank you. I don't have any questions 00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:30.220 - either. Let's see if there's any public comment on this item. You raise your hand on Teams 00:33:30.220 --> 00:33:43.200 - or come to the podium. All right. Seeing none, Mr. Cockrell, will you please call the roll 00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:47.940 - on the Indiana Healthcare Information Exchange Agreement? Commissioner Thomas? Yes. Commissioner 00:33:47.940 --> 00:33:57.840 - Jones? Yes. Commissioner Madera? Yes. Motion approved, three to zero. Thank you so much. 00:33:57.840 --> 00:34:04.560 - Next item, please. Move approval of a surveyor review board new appointment. Nope, it's item 00:34:04.560 --> 00:34:13.400 - D. Oh, sorry. You're good. I'm fogging the pen. Oh, sorry. Move approval of the Indiana 00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:25.480 - Department of Health MOU for the use of SCI-APSXRF, paint analyzer. I'll second that. Ms. Kelly, 00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:34.380 - tell us all about it. So this equipment we originally received with a grant back in 2022. 00:34:34.380 --> 00:34:40.400 - The grant has ended, but the Indiana Department of Health has essentially sent out these MOUs 00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:47.620 - to allow health departments who have this equipment continued use of it at no charge. 00:34:47.620 --> 00:34:53.920 - This agreement would go until December 31st of 2026. We don't use it a whole lot, but 00:34:53.920 --> 00:35:01.720 - it does give us access to be able to go test lead paint levels for homeowners. 00:35:01.720 --> 00:35:07.400 - Great. Thank you so much. Comments or questions? Commissioner Jones? 00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:13.720 - Yes, even if this isn't used a lot, it's very valuable for the homeowners who do ask 00:35:13.720 --> 00:35:19.960 - for it. So thank you for making it happen. Yeah, this is a great piece of equipment, 00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:24.600 - right? And especially if somebody is trying to restore or repair an old home. Commissioner 00:35:24.600 --> 00:35:31.360 - Medeira, comments or questions? I agree. It's an essential service and I have 00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:35.760 - no other comments. Thank you. Any public comment on this item? 00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:46.760 - You raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. 00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:50.960 - Seeing none, Mr. Cockerill, will you please call the roll on the Indiana Department of 00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:58.920 - Health MOU for use of the SCIAPS XRF paint analyzer? Commissioner Thomas. Yes. Commissioner 00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:09.280 - Jones. Yes. Commissioner Medeira. Yes. Motion approved 3-0. Thank you so much. We'll now 00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:13.400 - move on. Thank you, Ms. Kelly. We'll now move on to the next item, please. 00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:23.120 - Now the Surveyor Review Board new appointment. I'll second that. And Mr. Tron Enright-Randolph, 00:36:23.120 --> 00:36:28.600 - if you could tell us about it, please. Yes. Good morning. I was here kind of earlier in 00:36:28.600 --> 00:36:34.440 - the year to appoint our core members. The max is five members on the board. This would 00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:42.920 - move us to four members. So I won't go into lengthy presentation. This helps me with my 00:36:42.920 --> 00:36:48.400 - statutory duties of perpetuating the county. And this is the board that approves those 00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:59.720 - monument records. Mr. Gwynne is a resident of the county. One good contribution he'll 00:36:59.720 --> 00:37:06.960 - be providing to the board is he works more in the rural area. So we have a nice group 00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:13.320 - of folks that work kind of more in like a dense city environment. And then now this 00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:20.620 - will add another one kind of into our rural environment. And it's fun. That gives us four 00:37:20.620 --> 00:37:25.600 - professional licensed surveyors that get to make quadrijudicial decisions. And I need to 00:37:25.600 --> 00:37:32.100 - bring consensus and get them to approve monuments. So also one other notable point is this is 00:37:32.100 --> 00:37:39.760 - paid out of our corner fund. So that's a non-reverting dedicated fund. So it will be sustainable 00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:44.160 - to add that new member. And that would be it. And I'm asking for your approval today. 00:37:44.160 --> 00:37:49.960 - Thank you. Thank you. Comments or questions? Commissioner Jones? No, I'm just glad that 00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:57.240 - the board is getting closer to full. Yeah. Commissioner Madeira, comments or questions? 00:37:57.240 --> 00:38:04.160 - I have none. I don't have any either. Let's see if there's any public comment on this 00:38:04.160 --> 00:38:14.960 - item. You raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. Seeing none, all those in favor 00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:22.400 - of approving the survey review board new appointment signify by saying aye. Aye. Oh, I'm sorry. 00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:29.020 - Sorry. It's been a long day, not enough campaign. Mr. Cocker, will you please call the roll? 00:38:29.020 --> 00:38:36.840 - Mr. Thomas? Yes. Commissioner Jones? Yes. Commissioner Madeira? Yes. Motion is approved 00:38:36.840 --> 00:38:42.800 - three to zero. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. All right. Next item please. Move 00:38:42.800 --> 00:38:54.440 - approval of shy rubric MS 365 backup agreement. Fund name cumulative capital fund number 1138 00:38:54.440 --> 00:39:07.440 - in the amount of $13,796.44. Second. And Mr. Cron, tell us all about it please. Good morning. 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:12.780 - So our Microsoft 365 environment is cloud based, which requires a separate set of licensing 00:39:12.780 --> 00:39:17.920 - from our on-premise backup. The licensing that we currently have in place is about to 00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:23.920 - expire at the end of June, so we were looking for different solutions that gave us better 00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:29.440 - manageability of the data than what we were currently seeing under the software solution 00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:36.400 - we had in place. After searching through a couple different options, we've looked at 00:39:36.400 --> 00:39:43.120 - the rubric option to backup that 365. It gives us much improved manageability. We're able 00:39:43.120 --> 00:39:48.600 - to sort out through the individual backup staff to pull files in mass as we were doing 00:39:48.600 --> 00:39:54.680 - with our current solution. And this also comes in at $2,000 less than what we were quoted 00:39:54.680 --> 00:39:59.760 - to renew our current solution. So it's a mass improvement and gives us a little bit of money 00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:06.940 - back to our coffers. So this request is to approve the quote provided by Shy for 820 00:40:06.940 --> 00:40:13.440 - rubric licenses, good for a period of one year for $13,796.44. 00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:20.320 - >> All right. Thank you so much. Comments or questions? Commissioner Jones? 00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:24.160 - >> No, I don't. >> Commissioner Madeira? 00:40:24.160 --> 00:40:30.720 - >> No. >> My question was already answered. Appreciate 00:40:30.720 --> 00:40:36.760 - that. And let's see if there's any public comment on this item. You can raise your hand on Teams 00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:52.280 - or come to the podium. Seeing none, Mr. Cockrell, will you please call the roll on the SHI rubric 00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:57.360 - MS365 back up agreement? >> Commissioner Thomas? 00:40:57.360 --> 00:40:59.360 - >> Yes. >> Commissioner Jones? 00:40:59.360 --> 00:41:02.360 - >> Yes. >> Commissioner Madeira? 00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:07.080 - >> Yes. >> Most approved, 3-0. 00:41:07.080 --> 00:41:13.600 - >> Thank you so much. Next item, please. >> Move approval of the Fort Service Agreement 00:41:13.600 --> 00:41:24.760 - for Courtroom 212 audio system retooling. Fund name, 2023 geobond. Fund number, 4817. 00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:35.760 - In the amount of $39,892.12. >> I'll second that. Mr. Crone? 00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:39.760 - >> So this would be the third courtroom that we've started working on as I've come up here 00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:46.040 - and stated before, many of our courtrooms, the audio systems are in various states of 00:41:46.040 --> 00:41:51.560 - age and deterioration. So this courtroom has been identified as the next issue that we're 00:41:51.560 --> 00:41:57.160 - going to have. TSD staff has been working over and over again to keep this equipment 00:41:57.160 --> 00:42:04.040 - going. So it's time to replace it before it does fail. So this is through the same company, 00:42:04.040 --> 00:42:09.320 - Forte was AVI. They've just recently changed their name. So that's why you see the difference 00:42:09.320 --> 00:42:15.560 - in what's put on the summary versus what's on the quote there. Same company. So this 00:42:15.560 --> 00:42:20.520 - is the same group that we've been working with, who's currently completing courtroom 00:42:20.520 --> 00:42:22.840 - 313 this morning. 00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:27.360 - Excellent. Thank you so much. Comments or questions? Commissioner Jones? 00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:33.440 - Yes. Every time we seem to ask, is this equipment that can move to the new location? 00:42:33.440 --> 00:42:42.640 - Absolutely, yes. And just so everyone's aware, we're going to hit the pause button. We're 00:42:42.640 --> 00:42:48.360 - at a stable point right now once we complete this courtroom. The pricing for these components 00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:52.800 - has changed, obviously, since we originally allocated funds for that. And since we are 00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:58.200 - in that stable position, I don't want to do any more until we have some glaring problems 00:42:58.200 --> 00:43:01.440 - that we need to address for fear of coming up short on funds. 00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:05.920 - Absolutely, that makes sense. Commissioner Madeira, comments or questions? 00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:14.640 - None. I shared Commissioner Jones' question, and thank you for answering that. 00:43:14.640 --> 00:43:19.320 - I don't have any other questions. Any public comment on this item? You can raise your hand 00:43:19.320 --> 00:43:23.320 - on teams or come to the podium. 00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:31.880 - Seeing none, Mr. Cocker, will you please call the roll on the Forte Service Agreement for 00:43:31.880 --> 00:43:34.400 - Courtroom 212 Audio System Retooling? 00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:35.840 - Commissioner Thomas? 00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:36.840 - Yes. 00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:37.840 - Commissioner Jones? 00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:38.840 - Yes. 00:43:38.840 --> 00:43:39.840 - Commissioner Madeira? 00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:40.840 - Yes. 00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:44.520 - Motion is approved, three to zero. 00:43:44.520 --> 00:43:45.520 - Thank you so much. 00:43:45.520 --> 00:43:46.520 - Thank you very much. 00:43:46.520 --> 00:43:55.720 - Next item, please. Move to approve Ordinance 2025-15, an amendment to the Monroe County 00:43:55.720 --> 00:43:58.040 - Code in Health. 00:43:58.040 --> 00:43:59.040 - Second. 00:43:59.040 --> 00:44:00.040 - Second. 00:44:00.040 --> 00:44:01.040 - Mr. Cocker? 00:44:01.040 --> 00:44:09.400 - Yes. This has got some changes from our current, namely we've removed the future family health 00:44:09.400 --> 00:44:16.960 - clinic language. There are three new categories for sewage disposals. Sewage holding tank 00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:23.160 - construction initial operation permit is 250. Sewage holding tank biannual operation permit 00:44:23.160 --> 00:44:30.920 - is 350. And certified soil test or minimum specification certifications is 50. It reduced 00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:39.200 - the amount for the septic installer test and company registration from 150 to 75. The remaining 00:44:39.200 --> 00:44:45.340 - of it is just kind of clarifications, changing things from less, from five months to less 00:44:45.340 --> 00:44:50.360 - than six months and things like that. So it's really just cleaning it up. 00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:54.120 - Yes. I agree. Comments or questions? Commissioner Jones? 00:44:54.120 --> 00:44:55.120 - No, I don't. 00:44:55.120 --> 00:44:56.120 - Commissioner Maduro? 00:44:56.120 --> 00:44:57.120 - No. 00:44:57.120 --> 00:45:04.920 - This is something we saw discussed at a health board meeting and it really is going to help 00:45:04.920 --> 00:45:10.840 - make things clear. All right. Appreciate the work on this. Let's see if there's any public 00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:16.000 - comment on this item. You raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. 00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:26.000 - Seeing none, Mr. Copper, will you please call the roll on ordinance 2025-15? 00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:28.000 - Commissioner Thomas? 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:29.000 - Yes. 00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:30.000 - Commissioner Jones? 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:31.000 - Yes. 00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:35.720 - Commissioner Maduro? Yes. Approved 3-0. 00:45:35.720 --> 00:45:39.760 - Thank you so much. Next item, please. 00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:48.320 - Move approval of resolution 2025-26 authorizing the City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation 00:45:48.320 --> 00:45:53.600 - to submit a variance request for their Thompson Trail project. 00:45:53.600 --> 00:45:56.920 - I'll second that. Mr. Copper? 00:45:56.920 --> 00:46:02.880 - Yes, we have provided an easement that coincided with the Duke easement on the south side of 00:46:02.880 --> 00:46:11.000 - the Thompson property. They are going through the city planning process, asking for a variance 00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:17.800 - from having to look at the entire parcel to see if there's any other easements or things 00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:25.220 - like that that would be necessary. This says that we support their going through that process. 00:46:25.220 --> 00:46:30.160 - We support it to the extent that it doesn't cost us anything and that we are not committing 00:46:30.160 --> 00:46:37.620 - to any additional easements. That's kind of what they've requested. I think the other 00:46:37.620 --> 00:46:42.520 - part is they want to file this tomorrow. If we could get this approved today, I think 00:46:42.520 --> 00:46:47.040 - it would meet their timeline. Sounds good. Comments or questions, Commissioner 00:46:47.040 --> 00:46:49.000 - Jones? No, I don't. 00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:57.880 - Commissioner Madera? No. I don't either. Makes sense. And let's 00:46:57.880 --> 00:47:01.160 - see if there's any public comment on this item. You raise your hand on teams or come 00:47:01.160 --> 00:47:12.640 - to the podium. All right. Seeing none, Mr. Cockrell, will you please call the roll on 00:47:12.640 --> 00:47:19.640 - Resolution 2025-26? Commissioner Thomas? Yes. Commissioner Jones? Yes. Commissioner 00:47:19.640 --> 00:47:29.200 - Madera? Yes. 3-0. Thank you so much. Next item, please. 00:47:29.200 --> 00:47:39.120 - Move to approve the amendment of 3/2024 Opioid Settlement Community Service Grants. Fund 00:47:39.120 --> 00:47:51.120 - Names, Opioid Restricted and Opioid Unrestricted, Fund Numbers 1237 and 1238. I'll second that. 00:47:51.120 --> 00:47:55.040 - And there's no amount because there's no amount of money involved. It's just a matter of time. 00:47:55.040 --> 00:47:59.280 - Mr. Cockrell, will you address this? Yes. There's no amount because there's no 00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:05.320 - change in amount, right? So these are already approved MOUs. There are three changes that 00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:13.360 - are being made to them to involve the extension of a timeline until May 31, 2026. And the 00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:21.200 - third was just clarifying what the Monroe County courts could use their grant funding for. 00:48:21.200 --> 00:48:30.120 - That was a question that went back to the committee that reviews these on their recommendations. 00:48:30.120 --> 00:48:35.810 - Thank you so much. Comments, questions, Commissioner Jones? No, I'm just pleased to have this 00:48:35.810 --> 00:48:36.100 - cleared 00:48:36.100 --> 00:48:46.960 - up. Commissioner Medeira? None. Thank you. I appreciate the work of the Opioid Settlement 00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:52.760 - Review Board and all of these agencies that do this great work in our community. Let's 00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:57.760 - see if there's any public comment on this item. You can raise your hand on Teams or come to 00:48:57.760 --> 00:49:08.980 - the podium. Seeing none, Mr. Cockrell, will you please call the roll on amending three 00:49:08.980 --> 00:49:16.280 - 2024 opioid settlement community service grants? Commissioner Thomas? Yes. Commissioner Jones? 00:49:16.280 --> 00:49:25.480 - Yes. Commissioner Medeira? Yes. Motion approved at three to zero. Thank you so much. Next 00:49:25.480 --> 00:49:32.860 - item please. Move approval of the USDA disbursements under the Emergency Commodity Assistance 00:49:32.860 --> 00:49:33.480 - Program 00:49:33.480 --> 00:49:40.560 - regarding the Huntington property. I'll second that. Mr. Cockrell, you're doing some heavy 00:49:40.560 --> 00:49:46.040 - lifting today, if you wouldn't mind. I've been prepared very well. Okay. Except for 00:49:46.040 --> 00:49:55.460 - this. Just kidding. This involves the generous donated property for the Huntington. The current 00:49:55.460 --> 00:50:01.400 - kind of, it's currently being farmed, it's currently being farmed with kind of a 50/50 00:50:01.400 --> 00:50:07.880 - split with the property owner and the farmer. And the USDA, it plays a role in that. And 00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:13.880 - so this is just to fill out the documentation the USDA found necessary in order to continue 00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:19.240 - that program. I believe that the court said that we could continue these leases for up 00:50:19.240 --> 00:50:25.440 - to two years. I think the one, there's one decision point I think that we need in that 00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:32.200 - is a contact person from the USDA. They want an actual person or several. I guess, I talked 00:50:32.200 --> 00:50:39.160 - to Justin this morning, he would recommend either himself or Kelly Whitmer or both. But 00:50:39.160 --> 00:50:42.840 - if you would include that in your decision, that would be great. 00:50:42.840 --> 00:50:48.160 - Okay, great. Thank you. Comments or questions? Commissioner Jones, this is your pun intended 00:50:48.160 --> 00:50:51.800 - field of work. What can you tell us? 00:50:51.800 --> 00:51:01.640 - Well, I'm just very excited about this property and certainly agree to either Kelly or Justin 00:51:01.640 --> 00:51:10.320 - being the contact person for the USDA. I don't think this is really what the long term plans 00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:17.400 - are. So, you know, it's just going to get us through the stage to where we will start 00:51:17.400 --> 00:51:19.160 - actually developing it. 00:51:19.160 --> 00:51:25.560 - Excellent point. I agree. I think I would put both names down, both Ms. Whitmer and 00:51:25.560 --> 00:51:34.200 - Mr. Roddy on that as a contact. That way if one is not available the other hopefully is. 00:51:34.200 --> 00:51:40.640 - Commissioner Madeira, any questions or any thoughts on the contact name? 00:51:40.640 --> 00:51:47.840 - None. I just echo this is a very generous gift and I'm glad to see this move forward. 00:51:47.840 --> 00:51:58.640 - Thank you. Yeah. And yeah, it's really generous. Generous gift to everyone in Monroe County. 00:51:58.640 --> 00:52:03.560 - It's not a gift to county government. It's a gift to all the residents of Monroe County. 00:52:03.560 --> 00:52:13.200 - So it sounds like our motion is we have consensus on amending the motion. So Mr. Cocker will 00:52:13.200 --> 00:52:18.080 - we please call the roll on the USDA disbursements under emergency commodity assistance program 00:52:18.080 --> 00:52:25.280 - regarding the hunting property noting that Ms. Whitmer and Mr. Roddy should both be listed 00:52:25.280 --> 00:52:35.600 - as contact names. Mr. Thomas? Yes. Commissioner Jones? Yes. Commissioner Madeira? Yes. Motion 00:52:35.600 --> 00:52:46.020 - approved three to zero. Thank you so much. Move on to item L please. Move approval of 00:52:46.020 --> 00:52:56.040 - the InDOT inspection agreement for 2026 through 2029 countywide bridge inspections. Fund name 00:52:56.040 --> 00:53:05.520 - countywide bridge inspections 2026 through 2029. Fund number to be decided in the 2026 00:53:05.520 --> 00:53:20.560 - budget in the amount of $647,669.17. I will second that. Ms. Ridge? Good morning. So 00:53:20.560 --> 00:53:27.320 - we are required to do a four-year cycle for our bridge inspections. The next cycle begins 00:53:27.320 --> 00:53:34.200 - in 2026. March is our compliance month that we're assigned from InDOT. This is a reimbursable 00:53:34.200 --> 00:53:40.680 - grant program with 80% being reimbursed and 20% being the local match. The funding's based 00:53:40.680 --> 00:53:47.900 - on the contract that was approved with EGIS/BLN on May 8th, 2025 and included in your packet 00:53:47.900 --> 00:53:55.360 - as a breakdown of funding by year. All right. Thank you so much. Comments or questions, 00:53:55.360 --> 00:54:03.240 - Commissioner Jones? I don't. Commissioner Maduro? No, just very important stuff. Really important 00:54:03.240 --> 00:54:09.560 - program. All right. Thank you so much, Ms. Ridge for organizing all of this. Let's see 00:54:09.560 --> 00:54:12.680 - if there's any public comment on this item. You can raise your hand in teams or come to 00:54:12.680 --> 00:54:23.880 - the podium. Seeing none, Mr. Cockrell, will you please call the roll on InDOT agreement 00:54:23.880 --> 00:54:33.040 - for 2026 through 2029 county wide bridge inspections? Mr. Thomas? Yes. Commissioner Jones? Yes. 00:54:33.040 --> 00:54:41.320 - Commissioner Maduro? Yes. Motion is approved. Three to zero. Thank you so much. Thank you. 00:54:41.320 --> 00:54:50.560 - All right. We'll now move on to the next item, please. Move approval of ordinance 2025-13 00:54:50.560 --> 00:54:58.240 - North Park PUD outline amendment number seven. I'll second that. Ms. Cresselius is joining 00:54:58.240 --> 00:55:09.160 - us. Good morning. Good morning. Okay, if all's going well, I am sharing screen. So this is 00:55:09.160 --> 00:55:16.640 - a proposed amendment number seven to North Park planned unit development. The petition 00:55:16.640 --> 00:55:26.080 - site is 46 parcels for a total of 470 acres. This is spread across Bloomington and Richland 00:55:26.080 --> 00:55:35.880 - townships, and they are all currently zoned North Park PUD. Here on the screen is just 00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:40.720 - the zoning map of the area. Everywhere in gray is shown is currently zoned North Park 00:55:40.720 --> 00:55:51.040 - or another adjacent PUD. So some of the roadways are also zoned PUD, et cetera. So on screen 00:55:51.040 --> 00:55:57.840 - is a map showing the ownership of the properties that are included within this request. The 00:55:57.840 --> 00:56:02.560 - petitioner is Logan Land Development LLC. They are proposing to significantly alter 00:56:02.560 --> 00:56:09.140 - the current North Park PUD ordinance. The petitioner's representative is Trevor Trapagan 00:56:09.140 --> 00:56:16.200 - of MKSK Studios, which is a planning urban design and architectural firm. There are 11 00:56:16.200 --> 00:56:22.280 - landowners included within the petition site. That includes the petitioner, Logan Land Development, 00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:33.060 - and also Monroe County Board of Commissioners and the Quarry Park property. So a couple 00:56:33.060 --> 00:56:41.280 - of overview points. So the impetus for this petition is that there is a contractual agreement 00:56:41.280 --> 00:56:45.680 - between the petitioner and the County Board of Commissioners to purchase a portion of 00:56:45.680 --> 00:56:51.780 - this property. It is one small portion of the total petition site, and that would be 00:56:51.780 --> 00:56:57.920 - a potential future location for the Monroe County Justice Center. Additionally, planning 00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:04.800 - staff has met with the property owner multiple times over the last couple of years, acknowledging 00:57:04.800 --> 00:57:12.000 - and strategizing about a desire to revamp the North Park PUD. It was created 21 years 00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:17.720 - ago and has not necessarily developed as they had expected. So they've been wanting to revamp 00:57:17.720 --> 00:57:26.000 - the ordinance to reflect more current development patterns. The North Park PUD, Amendment 7 00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:34.000 - before you, would amend the PUD, and as we know, a PUD is kind of a create your own zone. 00:57:34.000 --> 00:57:40.000 - That dictates certain things. It dictates land use, what can be permitted in this area, 00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:48.000 - and design standards like landscaping, parking, and sign structures. There's language within 00:57:48.000 --> 00:57:53.320 - this PUD that states any development plan, so any property that proposes to develop for 00:57:53.320 --> 00:57:59.680 - the first time or add new structures to an existing property, if triggered, would have 00:57:59.680 --> 00:58:04.040 - to submit a development plan. And there is language in the PUD that states all development 00:58:04.040 --> 00:58:11.400 - plan has to require approval through the plan commission. So for a development plan, it 00:58:11.400 --> 00:58:15.200 - has to go before the plan commission and have a public hearing, which does include public 00:58:15.200 --> 00:58:20.480 - notice and neighbor notice. So any adjacent property owners for any new development, you 00:58:20.480 --> 00:58:28.560 - will hear about that in the future. So a review of some of the changes. So this is an overhaul 00:58:28.560 --> 00:58:36.060 - of the existing PUD. We're going from about a 140-page document down to a 40-page document. 00:58:36.060 --> 00:58:40.960 - So they've really consolidated the information. There were a lot of very specific standards 00:58:40.960 --> 00:58:46.320 - within the current North Park PUD that through the properties that have developed, they know 00:58:46.320 --> 00:58:51.720 - through experience now that, you know, what worked, what didn't, and what can be condensed. 00:58:51.720 --> 00:58:58.040 - So on screen are a current couple of screen clips of the current ordinance. So on the 00:58:58.040 --> 00:59:04.480 - right is an image of the zoning map that North Park currently has. We are currently operating 00:59:04.480 --> 00:59:10.960 - with kind of five main use areas that have 19 different sub-use districts and different 00:59:10.960 --> 00:59:18.040 - acronyms and associated acreages shown on the left. They're proposing to condense that 00:59:18.040 --> 00:59:24.320 - to five development sub-districts with no further breakdown in those districts. So we're 00:59:24.320 --> 00:59:32.480 - just going from 19 to five. The proposed sub-districts are regional services shown in purple, 00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:33.760 - neighborhood 00:59:33.760 --> 00:59:43.840 - shown in orange, government center shown in blue, conservation development shown in yellow, 00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:49.760 - and then a zone called open space and parks shown in green. There's one area of overlap 00:59:49.760 --> 00:59:57.880 - on the map where neighborhood orange and regional services kind of pink purple do overlap on 00:59:57.880 --> 01:00:04.000 - the eastern side of 46. On the left side of the screen, they have kind of a breakdown 01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:08.560 - as to what the primary uses of these zones are, how much areas in that, and then they 01:00:08.560 --> 01:00:13.680 - have a column for allowed residential units. So some of these are not, don't allow residential 01:00:13.680 --> 01:00:23.280 - units like open space and parks and government center or regional services. So the PROS-PUD 01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:30.120 - has 65 uses listed within a single consolidated use table. The use titles and definitions 01:00:30.120 --> 01:00:38.040 - are consistent with the Monroe County consolidated county development ordinance, so the CDO. 01:00:38.040 --> 01:00:45.120 - The categories of the uses are the same as within our CDO, from like residential, public 01:00:45.120 --> 01:00:51.900 - and semi-public, to retail, automotive, industrial, etc. The consistency between these uses are 01:00:51.900 --> 01:00:59.460 - going to allow us to have a little bit maneuverability between the two documents as it gets 01:00:59.460 --> 01:01:00.360 - proposed 01:01:00.360 --> 01:01:09.880 - to be developed. On the table, as we flip through it, we have the standard P for permitted, 01:01:09.880 --> 01:01:17.680 - PS for permitted with standards, and then blank would be not permitted. There are also 01:01:17.680 --> 01:01:25.760 - just a couple of conditional uses throughout the use, throughout the use table. Those acronyms 01:01:25.760 --> 01:01:29.480 - tie right back to our county development ordinance, so if you're looking at permitted with 01:01:29.480 --> 01:01:29.920 - standards 01:01:29.920 --> 01:01:35.760 - in the north part of PUD, for an example, an entertainment center, we could then reference 01:01:35.760 --> 01:01:41.160 - the standards listed within the county development ordinance. One of the ways that we are keeping 01:01:41.160 --> 01:01:48.140 - they were able to keep this document a little bit smaller. So on screen, we do have some 01:01:48.140 --> 01:01:54.800 - design standards for how those residential and non-residential zones are going to get 01:01:54.800 --> 01:01:58.920 - developed. So this is similar to the county development ordinance where we have setbacks 01:01:58.920 --> 01:02:05.040 - for structures. We have a minimum lot area, a lot width, and maximum height for structures. 01:02:05.040 --> 01:02:09.480 - And then we also have a maximum impervious cover. That's something that was added in 01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:15.480 - by the petitioner after some discussion. Staff's very appreciative. It's been a long journey 01:02:15.480 --> 01:02:20.600 - of working through and editing this document. And it has been, you know, it's gone very 01:02:20.600 --> 01:02:27.240 - well and we're very happy with how this document has turned out so far. So just a couple of 01:02:27.240 --> 01:02:31.880 - zones that I'm going to highlight for, you know, just more importance or I have notes 01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:40.760 - about them. Two areas. One is the Conservation Development Zoning District. This is unique 01:02:40.760 --> 01:02:47.560 - because it's a sub-district. It's intended for single-family residential homes, but it 01:02:47.560 --> 01:02:56.600 - is kind of specifically allowed to be developed in what's referred to as a conservation subdivision 01:02:56.600 --> 01:03:06.440 - design. So it has a very small minimum lot size and that is because there are standards 01:03:06.440 --> 01:03:14.120 - with this that allows, that states that with the first proposed development within this 01:03:14.120 --> 01:03:24.760 - region that they have to provide an open space plan that would be upon submittal of the first 01:03:24.760 --> 01:03:29.960 - development plan for the Conservation Development Sub-District, a comprehensive open space plan 01:03:29.960 --> 01:03:35.160 - encompassing at minimum all the open space that would be located for the entire news district 01:03:35.160 --> 01:03:39.400 - shall be submitted with the development plan for review and approval by the Monroe County 01:03:39.400 --> 01:03:46.200 - Planning Commission. So basically the subdivision or the neighborhood that could be proposed within 01:03:46.200 --> 01:03:54.680 - this development would be a more compact cluster design and would require conservation areas to be 01:03:54.680 --> 01:04:00.600 - platted at the same time. So you would not necessarily be able to take the whole conservation 01:04:00.600 --> 01:04:08.360 - development area, divide it evenly 10 times and have 10 lots. You would have to do smaller clusters 01:04:08.360 --> 01:04:16.360 - of lots because this area contains a lot of different terrain. There's a creek from Stout's 01:04:16.360 --> 01:04:22.600 - Creek, a branch of it that goes through this area. There's some hilly terrain that just wouldn't be 01:04:22.600 --> 01:04:29.080 - very conducive for development. So this is one way that they could have residential development 01:04:29.080 --> 01:04:33.720 - in the area but also kind of conserve the areas that where wouldn't be appropriate. 01:04:33.720 --> 01:04:42.040 - On screen is the open space and parks zone. So within every PUD there is a requirement to 01:04:42.040 --> 01:04:49.630 - conserve or open space. They are they've created a district that includes this open space 01:04:49.630 --> 01:04:50.200 - requirement 01:04:50.200 --> 01:04:56.600 - and also includes the board of commissioner owned property the quarry property that may become a 01:04:56.600 --> 01:04:56.920 - park 01:04:56.920 --> 01:05:02.920 - one day and could have developed on it. So they've offered some flexibility between this district 01:05:02.920 --> 01:05:09.800 - and the conservation development district that they will meet their threshold required PUD open 01:05:09.800 --> 01:05:16.280 - space between these two. So that's where that first comprehensive open space plan that they'd 01:05:16.280 --> 01:05:23.080 - be required to submit comes in. Staff went through this quite a bit with the petitioner 01:05:23.080 --> 01:05:28.120 - and you know with that requirement of the comprehensive open space plan for the first 01:05:28.120 --> 01:05:34.840 - submission of development we have you know full confidence that they will be able to maintain 01:05:34.840 --> 01:05:40.280 - the required 25 percent currently between the two zones they they exceed that amount. 01:05:41.000 --> 01:05:47.160 - So it's really about just working with the developer at the time as to what specific areas 01:05:47.160 --> 01:05:49.640 - what are the sensitive areas that they plan to preserve. 01:05:49.640 --> 01:05:58.120 - So one aspect that the PUD will be changing is the transportation infrastructure they'll 01:05:58.120 --> 01:06:03.160 - be also including alternative transportation which I'll get to in a moment. Currently on 01:06:03.160 --> 01:06:09.480 - screen is on the left side we have our existing map from the North Park PUD that shows us 01:06:10.200 --> 01:06:16.680 - the roads that were to be built and their classifications is an an image that has not 01:06:16.680 --> 01:06:24.280 - been updated. We even actually amended the PUD in 2023 and removed three of these roads. 01:06:24.280 --> 01:06:29.880 - And I've got a better map that I will show and help here in a moment. And then on the right 01:06:29.880 --> 01:06:35.080 - is the proposed transportation map that they are that they've included with the amendment. 01:06:36.600 --> 01:06:42.760 - So on screen to help make it a little bit more clear, you know, it's been 21 years. Some roads 01:06:42.760 --> 01:06:47.000 - have been developed. Some are currently in progress and then some have been removed. So 01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:54.760 - on screen the roads that have been built out are shown in blue. The roads that are in progress 01:06:54.760 --> 01:06:59.560 - are in yellow. That would be part of the the West Hunter Valley connection. And there's also a 01:06:59.560 --> 01:07:07.560 - connection from South Lentil to Woodyard Road that is kind of currently in progress. 01:07:07.560 --> 01:07:15.240 - The roads that they are proposing to remove from within this amendment seven are shown in red. 01:07:15.240 --> 01:07:23.880 - I would also like to note that road number eight shown in green has been removed from the plan. 01:07:24.600 --> 01:07:33.800 - This was a Planning Commission condition of recommending having a positive recommendation. 01:07:33.800 --> 01:07:40.520 - So the property owner of IU Health did attend the Planning Commission meeting and they had had some 01:07:40.520 --> 01:07:47.640 - kind of last-minute talks as to where you know they really didn't want to they didn't foresee 01:07:47.640 --> 01:07:55.720 - planning out that section labeled as road eight. The petitioner was fine with that. 01:07:55.720 --> 01:08:00.680 - We discussed planning staff discussed with the highway department. They 01:08:00.680 --> 01:08:07.800 - see no huge need to have that road connection eight. So number eight that requirement has 01:08:07.800 --> 01:08:15.960 - been stricken from the the proposed amendment ordinance before you. And then I did just want 01:08:15.960 --> 01:08:22.120 - to point out number road number 14 to be removed. This is the same area as the Conservation 01:08:22.120 --> 01:08:22.600 - Development 01:08:22.600 --> 01:08:27.720 - Zone that I discussed where it has a lot of variable terrain. So this map just kind of 01:08:27.720 --> 01:08:32.520 - highlights where this road was supposed to go and then you could see two different branches of 01:08:32.520 --> 01:08:38.280 - Stouts Creek and kind of that variable terrain that we were mentioning that they would have to 01:08:38.280 --> 01:08:45.080 - really have to have a civil engineer design around in the future. So overall you know staff is 01:08:45.080 --> 01:08:51.160 - supportive of this road being removed from the plan. It would be simply a connection from North 01:08:51.160 --> 01:08:57.800 - Stone Branch Drive up to a an existing road stub off of West Eight Road 46. 01:08:57.800 --> 01:09:07.080 - Regarding alternative transportation, the plan does include an update to that. So on the left 01:09:07.080 --> 01:09:13.560 - side of the screen is the existing alternative transportation plan. There were you know 01:09:13.560 --> 01:09:14.200 - requirements 01:09:14.200 --> 01:09:19.960 - for multi-use path sidewalks. There was a requirement for a bicycle pedestrian overpass 01:09:19.960 --> 01:09:29.800 - or underpass across 046. The petitioner representative has reviewed this and they 01:09:29.800 --> 01:09:35.320 - have removed the requirement for an overpass underpass simply because of feasibility and 01:09:35.320 --> 01:09:43.080 - changing of uses. On the right side of the screen they are showing a future connection. So they're 01:09:43.080 --> 01:09:49.240 - showing mainly that pedestrian crossing would be at the intersection of Hunter Valley Road and 01:09:49.240 --> 01:09:57.080 - State Road 440, State Road 46. There are already built out sidewalks along all along North Lentil, 01:09:57.080 --> 01:10:04.440 - Hunter Valley Road, Stone Branch, South Lentil and North Lentil. So they are keeping the 01:10:04.440 --> 01:10:05.000 - requirement 01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:10.360 - that every new site plant new development plan would be required to add a multi-use path along 01:10:10.360 --> 01:10:15.000 - any public road frontage. So that's still included there and it's shown in a dark green. 01:10:15.000 --> 01:10:22.520 - So the Monroe County stormwater program under the highway department you know they took this 01:10:22.520 --> 01:10:29.960 - for review at the drainage board in April. One of the changes to the infrastructure within the PUD 01:10:29.960 --> 01:10:38.280 - is to the stormwater infrastructure. The original existing PUD requires that stormwater is 01:10:38.280 --> 01:10:38.840 - addressed 01:10:38.840 --> 01:10:44.920 - sometimes on site but also regionally. Since a lot of the areas of North Park have not fully 01:10:44.920 --> 01:10:53.720 - developed we only have a few areas where there is a regional detention. So the petitioner has 01:10:53.720 --> 01:10:54.280 - proposed 01:10:54.280 --> 01:11:00.680 - that stormwater infrastructure is designed and constructed on a singular lot basis as it gets 01:11:00.680 --> 01:11:07.080 - proposed to be developed. The stormwater program is in support of this and they stated that you 01:11:07.080 --> 01:11:07.240 - know 01:11:08.280 --> 01:11:13.480 - that there would be proper consideration will be given to higher intensity use changes. 01:11:13.480 --> 01:11:22.120 - They state that the full drainage area of the area being developed you know includes off-site 01:11:22.120 --> 01:11:28.680 - adjacent pipe upgrades or additions and that they will be considering off-site drainage and 01:11:28.680 --> 01:11:34.840 - downstream drainage as they review. This is somewhat standard for stormwater programs so 01:11:36.360 --> 01:11:41.640 - pretty standard comments from from stormwater. They are supportive of these changes and they 01:11:41.640 --> 01:11:49.400 - will continue to maintain the areas that already have regional infrastructure will be 01:11:49.400 --> 01:11:52.360 - they will continue on that way. There won't be any changes to it. 01:11:52.360 --> 01:11:59.480 - So plan commission voted to send a positive recommendation. They did include the following 01:11:59.480 --> 01:12:07.800 - change that it was at the time section 621B which was that road number eight be removed and that 01:12:07.800 --> 01:12:11.800 - was done that was has been removed from the ordinance and they they forwarded that with 01:12:11.800 --> 01:12:20.360 - by a vote of seven to zero to one. So planning staff does recommend approval of ordinance 2025-13 01:12:20.360 --> 01:12:25.400 - the North Park PUD outline plan amendment number seven and can I answer any questions? 01:12:26.600 --> 01:12:30.120 - Thank you so much Ms. Krasilias really informative. 01:12:30.120 --> 01:12:35.160 - Comments or questions for planning staff? Commissioner Jones? 01:12:35.160 --> 01:12:44.280 - Well I would like to comment that I believe it's been about 18 years that I've been hearing that 01:12:44.280 --> 01:12:54.120 - this PUD needed to be revisited and I'm glad that that's finally happened. This is actually quite 01:12:54.120 --> 01:13:03.560 - important for us to be able to continue on with our plans for building a new justice center and a 01:13:03.560 --> 01:13:13.800 - new jail. So I am very supportive of it. And I will note that the simplification is really 01:13:13.800 --> 01:13:21.400 - a result of the CDO as well because that's given us the ability to be clear and less verbose. 01:13:22.600 --> 01:13:25.160 - Comments or questions for staff? Commissioner Madera? 01:13:25.160 --> 01:13:34.600 - No I really appreciate the detailed explanation. I do have one and that's more for the edification 01:13:34.600 --> 01:13:39.800 - of the public. So I really think conservation districts are amazing and I'm excited about this 01:13:39.800 --> 01:13:44.760 - and I just wondered I run into a lot of people who don't seem to know what that term really 01:13:44.760 --> 01:13:51.480 - means and so I wondered if you know someone could provide a general overview so we can kind of get 01:13:51.480 --> 01:13:57.880 - that out there for people who might be asking questions. Also you know these presentations 01:13:57.880 --> 01:14:04.120 - are always so detailed and I'm very appreciative just of how much work and how much effort has 01:14:04.120 --> 01:14:09.720 - gone into this and my little lawyer heart is just so happy anytime we can go from 140 pages down to 01:14:09.720 --> 01:14:18.440 - 40 pages. So this is great thank you. Ms. Cresilius would you talk through what it means to be in a 01:14:18.440 --> 01:14:27.640 - conservation development area? Sure so the term you know is similar to one of our current CDO 01:14:27.640 --> 01:14:36.520 - zoning districts. We have conservation so this term is conservation development. They're both 01:14:36.520 --> 01:14:42.840 - generally rural areas or have areas of sensitive environmental concern that are generally intended 01:14:42.840 --> 01:14:49.720 - to be residential in nature. The design standards are often smaller or more flexible and but there 01:14:49.720 --> 01:14:55.640 - are greater requirements for preservation of those environmentally sensitive areas. So in the 01:14:55.640 --> 01:14:56.040 - example 01:14:56.040 --> 01:15:02.840 - of this ordinance it's that flexibility to have a pretty small lot size and be able to subdivide 01:15:02.840 --> 01:15:08.040 - with pretty small lot while also having that requirement that you have to maintain a large 01:15:08.040 --> 01:15:14.280 - percentage of the original property being subdivided to conserve those areas that are 01:15:14.280 --> 01:15:24.200 - are more sensitive. Thank you so much. We do have the petitioners representative here I believe 01:15:24.200 --> 01:15:24.440 - from 01:15:24.440 --> 01:15:32.200 - MKSK. You have up to 15 minutes but you don't need to use all that I'm sure because we've got 01:15:32.200 --> 01:15:38.280 - we've received a very good review. Absolutely. Good morning everyone. Thank you for your time 01:15:38.280 --> 01:15:43.080 - commissioners. My name is Trevor Tropagan. I'm with MKSK. We were representing Logan Land Company 01:15:43.080 --> 01:15:49.640 - for this application. With Ann's very detailed explanation I'll keep this short. We entered into 01:15:49.640 --> 01:15:55.080 - this process really with three goals. One to obviously change the land use and designations 01:15:55.080 --> 01:16:00.360 - to allow the county to do what they intend to do with the justice center and then additionally make 01:16:00.360 --> 01:16:05.320 - it easier for the county staff to implement and understand the document as Ann pointed out it was 01:16:05.320 --> 01:16:08.680 - very complex. There were a lot of sub-districts things like that just that just kind of muddied 01:16:08.680 --> 01:16:13.640 - the waters when reviews occurred. And the last one was to increase the marketability for 01:16:13.640 --> 01:16:18.040 - for Logan Land Company. As it's been pointed out you know this PD's been in place for almost 20 01:16:18.040 --> 01:16:22.920 - years now and I think that everyone involved would like to see more development occur out there and 01:16:22.920 --> 01:16:27.480 - so that that was the last goal with this. With that I just want to add a little bit about the 01:16:27.480 --> 01:16:34.120 - conservation subdivision design standards. Mr. Elias was correct the goal is to allow for 01:16:34.120 --> 01:16:39.960 - smaller lot sizes in exchange for preserving at least 50% of the total area of that conservation 01:16:39.960 --> 01:16:44.600 - development. So with the topography and other natural features that are out there we felt that 01:16:44.600 --> 01:16:49.080 - that was a good way to allow for some development to occur while at the same time requiring that 01:16:49.080 --> 01:16:54.280 - a significant portion would remain undisturbed basically. And so with that I'm happy to answer 01:16:54.280 --> 01:16:58.120 - any additional questions but just wanted to provide a little additional oversight. Thank you. 01:16:58.120 --> 01:17:02.760 - Thank you so much we appreciate you being here. Comments or questions? Commissioner Jones? 01:17:02.760 --> 01:17:07.400 - No I don't at this time. Commissioner Madeira? 01:17:07.400 --> 01:17:14.350 - I don't have any thank you so much. Yeah we really appreciate you being here today. I don't have 01:17:14.350 --> 01:17:14.680 - any 01:17:14.680 --> 01:17:23.000 - further questions. It's all gone along very well I believe and I agree with the roadway changes and 01:17:23.000 --> 01:17:29.400 - all the other aspects that have been proposed here. All right let's see if there's any public 01:17:29.400 --> 01:17:33.640 - comment on this item. First we'll hear from people who support this petition. 01:17:33.640 --> 01:17:37.800 - You can come up to the podium and raise your hand in teams. 01:17:37.800 --> 01:17:46.040 - Does anyone wish to speak in opposition to this petition? 01:17:46.040 --> 01:17:52.520 - You'll have three minutes at the podium please give your name and county of residence. 01:17:53.480 --> 01:17:58.360 - And there'll be a timer clock visible to you on the screen. It looks like we have somebody coming. 01:17:58.360 --> 01:18:03.560 - There will be TSD. Can you make sure that the timer clock is visible on the screen? 01:18:03.560 --> 01:18:06.360 - Thank you. 01:18:16.200 --> 01:18:23.080 - Good morning my name is Seth Mutchler. I am a resident of Monroe County. 01:18:23.080 --> 01:18:28.120 - So I understand that this PUD revision contains many components and reaches far beyond its 01:18:28.120 --> 01:18:32.200 - utility for the criminal legal system. I'm not going to be commenting today on the other 01:18:32.200 --> 01:18:37.000 - components of this revision just to that that pertains to the proposed new jail. 01:18:37.000 --> 01:18:42.360 - I did want to give a brief content warning. At the beginning of my comment I will be reading 01:18:42.360 --> 01:18:47.560 - from a New York Times article that does discuss the death of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle. 01:18:47.560 --> 01:18:53.480 - This is from the New York Times article that was released on May 12th. When getting out of 01:18:53.480 --> 01:18:59.480 - jail means a deadly walk home. Rebecca Yamarillo stepped out of the Santa Fe jail and into the 01:18:59.480 --> 01:19:05.800 - cold one night in January 2021. After two days in a cell she was free but no one was there to pick 01:19:05.800 --> 01:19:12.040 - her up. So with a snowstorm coming she began the long walk towards town. The jail in Santa Fe 01:19:12.040 --> 01:19:16.280 - surrounded by barbed wire and tumbleweed sits on a remote stretch of highway far from the city's 01:19:16.280 --> 01:19:21.480 - bustling plaza and historic churches. It is nearly two miles down the highway to the closest gas 01:19:21.480 --> 01:19:26.040 - station, three miles to where a sidewalk starts and eight miles to the nearest homeless shelter. 01:19:26.040 --> 01:19:33.320 - Ms. Yamarillo, 33, made it only about a mile from the jail that night before she was hit by a 01:19:33.320 --> 01:19:33.720 - sheriff's 01:19:33.720 --> 01:19:41.080 - deputy driving a police pickup truck at 57 miles per hour. Her body was thrown more than 100 feet 01:19:41.080 --> 01:19:46.760 - and she was pronounced dead at the scene. Ms. Yamarillo is one of several people who have died 01:19:46.760 --> 01:19:52.280 - trying to make it home from the Santa Fe jail on foot in recent years. It is a walk that has been 01:19:52.280 --> 01:19:57.640 - far more deadly than previously reported. Five people have been struck fatally struck shortly 01:19:57.640 --> 01:20:04.040 - after being released over the past decade, four of them since March 2020. So the article continues 01:20:04.040 --> 01:20:09.170 - and I will send each of you a full copy for you to review on your own time. I know that our 01:20:09.170 --> 01:20:09.720 - situation 01:20:09.720 --> 01:20:14.600 - and that in Santa Fe are not identical. I'm not trying to compare apples to oranges and I recognize 01:20:14.600 --> 01:20:19.400 - that the Santa Fe case is a more egregious one than the proposed site for the Monroe County's new 01:20:19.400 --> 01:20:19.800 - jail 01:20:19.800 --> 01:20:25.720 - but that said there are similarities. The North Park site sits 3.6 miles from where we are today 01:20:25.720 --> 01:20:31.880 - in the heart of downtown. My Maps app claims that is a one hour and 21 minute walk and if you 01:20:31.880 --> 01:20:32.120 - wanted 01:20:32.120 --> 01:20:37.560 - to avoid walking on State Road 46 that would extend that to an hour and 51 minutes which 01:20:37.560 --> 01:20:43.160 - would still include a lengthy walk on West Vernal Pike, heavily trafficked road. I recognize that 01:20:43.160 --> 01:20:48.840 - this board has stated your plan to include public transit as part of this plan but we have to admit 01:20:48.840 --> 01:20:53.160 - the reality that you cannot compel people to use public transit and the reality is people simply 01:20:53.160 --> 01:20:59.480 - will be walking home from this site often in the dark. It's worth noting that the Santa Fe 01:20:59.480 --> 01:21:05.560 - jail is not co-located with their courts and their related offices so this would only be 01:21:05.560 --> 01:21:09.400 - exacerbated by the fact that we're not just talking about people going to and from jail 01:21:09.400 --> 01:21:13.560 - but from court, from daily reporting, from meeting with their prosecutor or public defender 01:21:13.560 --> 01:21:19.640 - and even if we have a satellite office for things like daily reporting which largely defeats the 01:21:19.640 --> 01:21:24.440 - purpose of co-location our facility will have a much higher number. I know I'm out of time I'll 01:21:24.440 --> 01:21:28.920 - wrap up really quickly. We need to keep in mind the undue burden for those who might be able to 01:21:28.920 --> 01:21:33.080 - not safely travel to and from but also might need to go to and from work even if they have 01:21:33.080 --> 01:21:38.680 - transportation. The North Park location is simply put not an acceptable location for a jail or 01:21:38.680 --> 01:21:43.800 - courts in their related offices. I ask you to please vote no on amending the North Park PUD 01:21:43.800 --> 01:21:48.920 - and reconsider other locations for the Monroe County Justice Center including giving serious 01:21:48.920 --> 01:21:54.200 - consideration to renovation of the existing facility. Thank you for your service and for 01:21:54.200 --> 01:22:03.720 - your time. Thank you. Does anyone else have a comment on this item in opposition to this petition? 01:22:03.720 --> 01:22:10.040 - Does anyone have any general public comment? 01:22:10.040 --> 01:22:14.280 - Any final thoughts Commissioner Jones? 01:22:14.280 --> 01:22:21.800 - No as I said I do support this I think it's important in several different ways. 01:22:23.640 --> 01:22:29.320 - Commissioner Madeira any final comments? No no final comments thank you. 01:22:29.320 --> 01:22:38.120 - All right thank you so much. With that I'm going to ask Mr. Cockrell if he would please 01:22:38.120 --> 01:22:46.280 - go ahead and call the roll on ordinance 2025-13. Commissioner Thomas? Yes. Commissioner Jones? 01:22:46.840 --> 01:22:54.600 - Yes. Commissioner Madeira? Yes. Motion approved three to zero. All right thank you so much. 01:22:54.600 --> 01:23:02.760 - We're gonna have time. Thank you. All right we don't have any appointments today. I will 01:23:02.760 --> 01:23:07.400 - run through the announcements really quickly again a big thank you to everyone in our community who 01:23:07.400 --> 01:23:13.240 - stepped up to volunteer to help. I do want to take a second to thank John Baten our GIS coordinator 01:23:13.240 --> 01:23:19.240 - because he put together an amazing storm damage GIS map. You can go to our website and see it. 01:23:19.240 --> 01:23:29.320 - Very cool and I appreciate that innovation. Again for those of you who are experiencing 01:23:29.320 --> 01:23:35.400 - storm damage or someone close to you is storm damage can be reported at 211. If you need 01:23:35.400 --> 01:23:45.400 - assistance call 1-800-RED-CROSS. Furniture needs St. Vincent de Paul 812-961-1510 extension 3. 01:23:45.400 --> 01:23:51.640 - Salvation Army for Clothing Hoosier Hills Food Bank will help with food needs and veterans are 01:23:51.640 --> 01:24:02.280 - encouraged to call the veteran service office for Monroe County here at 812-349-2658 and again we 01:24:02.280 --> 01:24:11.560 - thank everyone for all their hard work. The commissioners have office hours six different 01:24:11.560 --> 01:24:21.720 - times a month and go to co.monroe.in.us. Note that the next Monroe County Commissioner's Blood 01:24:21.720 --> 01:24:22.120 - Drive 01:24:22.120 --> 01:24:34.280 - will be at Ivy Tech on Thursday, June 5th from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. That is in room C-130A and B. 01:24:34.280 --> 01:24:41.240 - You can make an appointment at redcross.org. The Rural Housing Repair Program has been moved 01:24:41.240 --> 01:24:48.600 - over to Bloomington Foundation for ongoing sustenance and maintenance and so if you need 01:24:48.600 --> 01:24:54.840 - assistance as a homeowner with necessary repairs to your property and you are income restricted, 01:24:54.840 --> 01:25:02.680 - we encourage you to contact your Township Trustee for assistance. Please remember, 01:25:02.680 --> 01:25:11.080 - especially after the storms, to sign up for our Resident Alert System. Again, co.monroe.in.us. 01:25:11.080 --> 01:25:17.240 - Click on the megaphone on the home screen and sign up so that you receive weather notifications, 01:25:17.240 --> 01:25:25.640 - emergency notifications in a timely manner. Our next meeting is Thursday, June 5th, 01:25:25.640 --> 01:25:36.200 - right here in the NatU Hill Room at 10 a.m. We do have two items for our work session, 01:25:36.200 --> 01:25:43.720 - so I wonder if we can come back at 11.35. To do that, I will just let Ms. Cresilius in Planning 01:25:43.720 --> 01:25:51.160 - know that we're under a bit of a time crunch, so anything she can do to abbreviate the presentation 01:25:51.160 --> 01:25:59.320 - would be greatly appreciated for item one on our work session agenda. All right, anything else for 01:25:59.320 --> 01:26:08.920 - the good of the order? Thank you all. Be safe, and we will be back at 11.35 for our work session. 01:26:08.920 --> 01:26:14.520 - Thanks, everyone. We're adjourned. 01:26:44.520 --> 01:26:48.020 - (upbeat orchestral music) 01:26:48.020 --> 01:26:51.520 - ("Pomp and Circumstance") 01:26:51.520 --> 01:26:55.020 - ("Pomp and Circumstance") 01:26:55.020 --> 01:26:58.520 - ("Pomp and Circumstance") 01:26:58.520 --> 01:27:02.020 - ("Pomp and Circumstance") 01:27:02.020 --> 01:27:05.520 - ("Pomp and Circumstance") 01:27:05.520 --> 01:27:09.020 - ("Pomp and Circumstance") 01:27:09.020 --> 01:27:12.520 - ("Pomp and Circumstance")