WEBVTT 00:00:00.642 --> 00:00:10.798 - Good morning. I'm going to call to order this meeting of the Monroe County Board of Commissioners. It 00:00:10.798 --> 00:00:20.755 - is Thursday, April 9th, and we will begin with our public statement, this time read by Commissioner 00:00:20.755 --> 00:00:25.534 - Jones. The Monroe County Board of Commissioners 00:00:25.666 --> 00:00:33.861 - Renew our commitment to welcome and protect the rights of all people, regardless of age, race, color, 00:00:33.861 --> 00:00:41.976 - creed, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, economic status, and 00:00:41.976 --> 00:00:50.171 - national origin. And we affirm the right of every person to live peacefully and without fear. We will 00:00:50.171 --> 00:00:54.590 - fight and resist at every step discrimination and harm 00:00:55.810 --> 00:01:04.649 - whatever their source. Even diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We also stand in support of 00:01:04.649 --> 00:01:13.401 - our county public school system, both RBB and MCC. All right, thank you so much. All right, we will 00:01:13.401 --> 00:01:21.803 - move on now to our department updates. We have Ms. Kelly joining us from the health department. 00:01:21.803 --> 00:01:25.566 - Good morning. Good morning, commissioners. 00:01:26.562 --> 00:01:32.801 - According to the Indiana Department of Health, as of April 7th, COVID wastewater concentrations are 00:01:32.801 --> 00:01:39.040 - low and continuing to trend down. Flu activity is still high. The Health Department does still have 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:45.841 - free flu and COVID tests available for the public. Individuals can walk in Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. 00:01:45.841 --> 00:01:52.766 - to 4 p.m. to receive free tests. And vaccines are still available through the Morgan County Health Department. 00:01:52.898 --> 00:02:00.631 - for appointments or more information. The number to call is 765-342-6621. Thank you so much. Comments 00:02:00.631 --> 00:02:07.834 - or questions? Commissioner Madeira? I have none. Thank you. Commissioner Johnson? No, I don't. 00:02:07.834 --> 00:02:10.942 - Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. 00:02:23.970 --> 00:02:29.448 - My name is Adye Kwanwa and I'm the Health and Human Science Educator and County Extension Director for 00:02:29.448 --> 00:02:35.138 - Purdue Extension here in Monroe County. And we just wanted to give the commissioners our quarterly update. 00:02:35.138 --> 00:02:40.510 - I have a couple of handouts if you don't mind me. You can hand them to Ms. Purdy. Thank you so much. 00:02:49.698 --> 00:02:56.819 - I'll start with providing updates regarding our 4-H youth. So we are on track to enroll more than 400 00:02:56.819 --> 00:03:03.940 - youth in our 4-H program. Right now, more than 4,000 youth are engaged through local learning events. 00:03:03.940 --> 00:03:11.201 - We offer our 4-H youth a wide range of experiences, including participating in clubs, interest meeting, 00:03:11.201 --> 00:03:17.694 - workforce skill workshops, leadership development, camp, livestock education, certification, 00:03:17.794 --> 00:03:24.597 - and identification events and camp counselor training as well. 4-H has been partnering with five schools 00:03:24.597 --> 00:03:31.659 - in our county for their spring learning festival and launching initiatives for intracurricular project-based 00:03:31.659 --> 00:03:38.332 - elementary programs, and this will help to engage kids before, during, and after school. Our youth are 00:03:38.332 --> 00:03:43.774 - exceeding not only locally, but in the state and national level as well. We have 16 00:03:43.874 --> 00:03:49.702 - local youths who have attended the Teen Leadership Weekend. Two youths are representing Manure County 00:03:49.702 --> 00:03:55.702 - nationally at Washington, DC. Two youths represent the county nationally at the 4-H Congress in Atlanta. 00:03:55.702 --> 00:04:01.530 - And one youth is representing Manure County in Washington, DC at the National 4-H Conference. There's 00:04:01.530 --> 00:04:08.158 - a lot of engagement at the state and national level just from one county. So our youth are doing a really good job. 00:04:08.322 --> 00:04:13.981 - In our agricultural realm, we have been continuing our partnership with Hoosier Energy for the past 00:04:13.981 --> 00:04:16.414 - couple of years to provide drone training. 00:04:16.482 --> 00:04:22.458 - And Hoosier Energy is committed to training their personnel, including all our EMCs across the southern 00:04:22.458 --> 00:04:28.377 - part of the state, on safe use of drone technology to enhance their operations. The drones help reduce 00:04:28.377 --> 00:04:34.469 - the risk to workers, make work more efficient, and assist with identifying infrastructure failures before 00:04:34.469 --> 00:04:40.272 - they occur. So this partnership has been continuing for a couple of years, and we've been helping to 00:04:40.272 --> 00:04:42.686 - educate Hoosier Energy employees as well. 00:04:43.906 --> 00:04:50.144 - In our health and human science realm, we've been offering financial literacy programs to third and 00:04:50.144 --> 00:04:56.757 - fourth graders here in our county, educating more than 150 third and fourth graders on saving, borrowing, 00:04:56.757 --> 00:04:58.878 - spending, and saving their money. 00:04:59.170 --> 00:05:05.142 - The Purdue Extension has been partnering with M Street Fiber Indiana to deploy a mobile classroom and 00:05:05.142 --> 00:05:11.523 - that classroom will help to educate and bring laptops to seniors to help educate them on financial literacy. 00:05:11.523 --> 00:05:16.382 - So we've been starting that program in the spring and we hope to continue to grow. 00:05:17.378 --> 00:05:22.950 - Through maternal and childhood support, we've been offering our monthly program with the Women's Center 00:05:22.950 --> 00:05:28.522 - and have been piloting a new Purdue program called Perinatal Mental Health, helping to talk to not only 00:05:28.522 --> 00:05:33.933 - moms and their support systems about perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, how to identify them, and 00:05:33.933 --> 00:05:39.612 - providing moms with the resources they need to take care of themselves and their families. And of course, 00:05:39.612 --> 00:05:45.130 - we have our fair coming up in a couple of weeks through the end of June, beginning of July. So we also 00:05:45.130 --> 00:05:47.166 - hope to see you all there. Thank you. 00:05:47.490 --> 00:05:57.636 - Excellent. Thank you for the great update. What are the dates of the county fair this year? It is June 00:05:57.636 --> 00:06:07.586 - 30th to July 6th. Sounds right. Yes, I think so. Yes, June 30th to July 6th. So very end of June and 00:06:07.586 --> 00:06:09.950 - the first week of July. 00:06:10.178 --> 00:06:16.927 - Thank you for the update and thank you for all the ways that you engage with the youth of Monroe County 00:06:16.927 --> 00:06:24.065 - and with all the folks in Monroe County in various ways. Appreciate that. Comments or questions, Commissioner 00:06:24.065 --> 00:06:30.554 - Jones? Yeah, I'm just very impressed by all that you're doing, especially for the youth, but all of 00:06:30.554 --> 00:06:37.108 - it is sounds like it's things that are really needed and you're doing a great job of supplying them. 00:06:37.108 --> 00:06:37.822 - Thank you. 00:06:38.082 --> 00:06:43.351 - Absolutely. These events are critical and more so now than ever before. And that county fair is literally 00:06:43.351 --> 00:06:48.570 - a couple of weeks away. I know. We're getting ready. Also, we're hoping to do our Citizen Academy Active 00:06:48.570 --> 00:06:53.640 - County Fair. So we're hoping to increase engagement. Finding this is a different twist to help engage 00:06:53.640 --> 00:06:58.710 - the county members and also kind of increase participation. So we're looking forward to kind of doing 00:06:58.710 --> 00:07:00.798 - something new this year as well. Awesome. 00:07:01.250 --> 00:07:09.701 - Yeah, and I mean, it is wonderful news that we have sort of national representation. So if that individual 00:07:09.701 --> 00:07:17.757 - wishes to come and speak and tell us about their experience, we'd love to have them here. Just let us 00:07:17.757 --> 00:07:25.261 - know. Absolutely. We'll do. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you so much, Commissioner. I appreciate it. 00:07:25.261 --> 00:07:28.894 - Thank you. Mr. Oh, we have John Baten online. 00:07:31.586 --> 00:07:38.522 - an update. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna unraise my hand here. TSC, I am able to share my screen. Hello 00:07:38.522 --> 00:07:45.735 - commissioners. Yeah, just here today to give an update from what we're doing with with the early voting 00:07:45.735 --> 00:07:51.838 - with the midterm primary. So I'll share my screen. We are working in collaboration with 00:07:52.034 --> 00:07:58.676 - the voter registration office, again, to track early voting across Monroe County. To get to our early 00:07:58.676 --> 00:08:05.253 - voting dashboard, you can go to the Monroe County main website, click on the GIS division link here, 00:08:05.253 --> 00:08:12.156 - and this will bring us view to our award-winning GIS division page with all of our exciting applications. 00:08:12.156 --> 00:08:19.710 - And you can click on this, scroll down, and we have a link here to the Monroe County 2026 midterm primary election. 00:08:19.810 --> 00:08:26.234 - We're doing pretty good so far this year for early voting in Monroe County for the primary. So you can 00:08:26.234 --> 00:08:32.784 - see we've had 339 votes cast over a total of two days so far. We have 27 days until the election, 89,755 00:08:32.784 --> 00:08:39.146 - registered voters as of April 7th. You can flip through these little gauges here, these indicators on 00:08:39.146 --> 00:08:45.258 - the top of the screen to see how we did with early voting and past midterm elections. So in 2020, 00:08:45.258 --> 00:08:48.190 - in 2022, we had 3,433, 2018 a little bit more. 00:08:48.514 --> 00:08:55.101 - 2014, et cetera. We also have a chart here that's showing how we're doing at a per day basis versus 00:08:55.101 --> 00:09:01.885 - past primary midterm early voting elections. So as of two days, we're doing better than we have in the 00:09:01.885 --> 00:09:07.550 - past. Yesterday was actually a record setting opening day for early voting within the 00:09:07.650 --> 00:09:14.079 - the midterms. So yeah, this is it. Just kind of trying to get the word out that we're tracking this. 00:09:14.079 --> 00:09:20.444 - And as the election comes up on May 5th, we'll be doing live election reporting for that as well at 00:09:20.444 --> 00:09:26.745 - a county and precinct scale. That's all I've got. Great. Thank you so much. Comments or questions? 00:09:26.745 --> 00:09:33.301 - Commissioner Medeira? Yeah, I have a question. Where's 2024? Because it goes from 2022 to 2026. I know 00:09:33.301 --> 00:09:37.502 - that's kind of, oh, yeah, yeah. Sure, this is midterms. Yeah, OK. 00:09:37.858 --> 00:09:47.122 - The reason for that is that those... Good answer. Okay. Yep. Excellent. Anything else? I think I need 00:09:47.122 --> 00:09:56.386 - reading glasses. We all do. Commissioner Jones, comments or questions? Thanks so much for updating us 00:09:56.386 --> 00:10:06.014 - on this. It's interesting information to have. It's great to hear that people are getting out and voting. 00:10:06.114 --> 00:10:14.711 - Absolutely. Yep. And just a reminder to folks that we're at 501 North Morton Street on the main floor, 00:10:14.711 --> 00:10:23.392 - plenty of parking for this. And I think it's great to have these statistics for residents at any point. 00:10:23.392 --> 00:10:31.738 - They can see how we're doing and that may hopefully compel them to vote for whatever reason, but we 00:10:31.738 --> 00:10:34.910 - do need voters. So thank you so much. 00:10:35.522 --> 00:10:42.035 - Yeah, and I just want to highlight to this is a collaborative effort between the GIs division as well 00:10:42.035 --> 00:10:48.484 - as voter registration. So it's been a great kind of teamwork process. So thanks so much, guys. Good. 00:10:48.484 --> 00:10:54.869 - Yeah, thank you. I like that. Excellent. Thank you. All right. We have Mr. Cockrell. Yes, I'm going 00:10:54.869 --> 00:11:01.254 - to start off with an update, and then I'm going to have a request for you because things are moving 00:11:01.254 --> 00:11:04.638 - fast, as I'm sure every as you are aware, we had our 00:11:05.890 --> 00:11:13.309 - settlement agreement for the for the jail litigation extended until April 15th of 2025 or 2026 excuse 00:11:13.309 --> 00:11:20.582 - me need to make sure I'm right here 2026 we've been we've been continued to have conversations with 00:11:20.582 --> 00:11:28.219 - the with the attorney for the Indiana Civil Liberties Union or American the ACLU in the Indiana Division 00:11:28.219 --> 00:11:34.110 - I think they've changed their name and and the commissioners are a party to that 00:11:34.306 --> 00:11:41.270 - to the settlement agreement, of course. There's been some discussion about the potential to extend that 00:11:41.270 --> 00:11:48.235 - settlement agreement for a period of time, and that would require both, well, three parties, the Indian 00:11:48.235 --> 00:11:55.132 - Civil Liberties Union, Monroe County Board of Commissioners, and the Monroe County Sheriff to approve. 00:11:55.132 --> 00:12:02.030 - We don't have anything in detail, but since it expires before your next meeting, I would recommend and 00:12:02.030 --> 00:12:03.838 - request that you authorize 00:12:03.970 --> 00:12:11.903 - the President of the County Commissioners to execute that if it meets her standards. Yes, I would like 00:12:11.903 --> 00:12:19.682 - to move to allow the Board of Commissioners to authorize the President of the Board of Commissioners 00:12:19.682 --> 00:12:27.923 - to extend the settlement agreement. Second. All right, we have a motion and we have a second. Any comments 00:12:27.923 --> 00:12:31.774 - or questions, Commissioner Jones? No, not really. 00:12:32.610 --> 00:12:40.239 - Yes, that sounds like a darn good idea. Yeah, it's a very good idea. I appreciate you bringing this 00:12:40.239 --> 00:12:47.867 - forward and thinking about that timeline, because that is a big one looming. And since we just made 00:12:47.867 --> 00:12:56.030 - a motion, we'll go ahead and take public comment on this item. You can raise your hand on Teams or Podium. 00:13:05.026 --> 00:13:15.887 - Seeing none, all those in favor of authorizing me to sign off on a private settlement agreement extension 00:13:15.887 --> 00:13:26.132 - signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries 3-0. Did you have other updates to offer? I think that's 00:13:26.132 --> 00:13:31.870 - the one I had. All right. Excellent. Thank you so much. 00:13:32.354 --> 00:13:41.209 - All right, now we will move on. I don't see any other department updates. All right, now we'll move 00:13:41.209 --> 00:13:50.153 - on to public comments. Public comment is time reserved for items not on our agenda. Each speaker has 00:13:50.153 --> 00:13:59.008 - up to three minutes and we ask that you provide your name and county of residence before you begin. 00:13:59.008 --> 00:14:01.310 - Raise your hand on teams. 00:14:01.410 --> 00:14:11.137 - or come to the podium. We'll move on to our next item, please. Yes, I would like to move approval of 00:14:11.137 --> 00:14:21.441 - the minutes for April 2nd, 2026. Second. We have a motion and we have a second. Any comments, corrections? 00:14:21.441 --> 00:14:30.494 - Okay. All those in favor of approving the minutes for April 2nd, 2026, signify by saying aye. 00:14:31.106 --> 00:14:38.884 - I motion carries three zero. Next item, please. I'd like to move approval of the claims docket for accounts 00:14:38.884 --> 00:14:46.158 - payable for April 9th, 2026. Second. We have a motion and we have a second. This is Guyardo. Tell us 00:14:46.158 --> 00:14:47.742 - all about it, please. 00:14:50.082 --> 00:14:57.273 - The accounts payable claims docking for April 9, 2026 totals $815,910.80. This includes all emergency 00:14:57.273 --> 00:15:04.464 - claims and adjustments. All right. Thank you so much. Any comments or questions? Commissioner Maduro? 00:15:04.464 --> 00:15:11.514 - No, I do not have any. Thank you. Commissioner Jones? No, I don't. Thank you. I don't either. Let's 00:15:11.514 --> 00:15:18.846 - see if there's any public comment on this item. You can raise your hand on Teams or come to the podium. 00:15:26.338 --> 00:15:33.999 - Seeing none, all those in favor of approving the claim stock at accounts payable April 9, 2026 signify 00:15:33.999 --> 00:15:41.884 - by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries. We don't have any reports. We will now move on to new business place. 00:15:41.884 --> 00:15:49.694 - I would like to move approval for Graber Post Buildings Incorporated Service Agreement, fund name County 00:15:49.694 --> 00:15:55.198 - General, fund number 1000, in an amount not to exceed $30,730.57. Second. 00:15:55.618 --> 00:16:02.713 - We have a motion, and we have a second. Ms. Whitmer, tell us all about it, please. We have what we call 00:16:02.713 --> 00:16:09.672 - a recreation barn, kind of like. It's this rectangle with bays in it. The last storm took off part of 00:16:09.672 --> 00:16:16.768 - our roof, so the park board wanted to replace the roof and replace the siding, because that's more cost 00:16:16.768 --> 00:16:23.454 - effective. Why they're all there, since the siding is at least 35 years old. It could be 40 some. 00:16:24.386 --> 00:16:32.271 - So they just want to get it done. It should last another 25 years. Barring any big storms. Barring, 00:16:32.271 --> 00:16:39.919 - yeah, getting hit by a storm. All right. Comments or questions? Commissioner Jones? No, I don't. 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:48.356 - This makes. Yeah. Commissioner Madeira? No, I don't have any. Thank you. Is the roof replacement partially 00:16:48.356 --> 00:16:54.270 - covered by insurance? Nope. No. OK. All right. That answers that question. 00:16:54.402 --> 00:17:02.315 - All right, any public comment on this item? You raise your hand in teams or come to the podium. 00:17:02.315 --> 00:17:10.722 - Seeing none, all those in favor of approving the Graver Post Buildings Inc. Service Agreement signify 00:17:10.722 --> 00:17:18.965 - by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries 3-0. Thank you. Item, please. Yes, I'd like to move approval for 00:17:18.965 --> 00:17:24.158 - Richard Hansen Service Agreement, memorandum of understanding. 00:17:24.258 --> 00:17:36.049 - Fund name, County General, fund number 1,000 in the amount of $10,000. Second. We have a motion and 00:17:36.049 --> 00:17:47.486 - we have a second. Ms. Hamlin is joining us via Teams. Good morning. Sorry, I think I'm good now. 00:17:48.482 --> 00:17:57.118 - This is a request for approval and signature on a contract between our office and Rich Hanson for the 00:17:57.118 --> 00:18:05.923 - purposes of training cadets at the Indiana Law Force Academy at Indiana University's Police Department. 00:18:05.923 --> 00:18:14.729 - We had historically used our staff to train for this purpose in-house. However, we found that it's more 00:18:14.729 --> 00:18:17.438 - cost effective to contract with 00:18:17.730 --> 00:18:26.080 - to provide these services as the caseloads do not really allow for our staff to take off days to train. 00:18:26.080 --> 00:18:34.671 - Um, the funding under this contract has already been approved for the budget for 2026. So no appropriation 00:18:34.671 --> 00:18:42.700 - is being requested. Great. Thank you so much. Comments or questions. Commissioner Madera? Uh, no, I 00:18:42.700 --> 00:18:47.678 - do not have any. Thank you. Commissioner Jones. Yeah, this is 00:18:48.738 --> 00:18:55.761 - I think a great idea. It's definitely a good idea to do this kind of training. I can see how it would 00:18:55.761 --> 00:19:02.921 - be a bit much for the office. Yeah. It would be a lot of time. Excellent. Yeah. It does go on for weeks 00:19:02.921 --> 00:19:09.875 - and weeks. Yeah. Bringing this forward and the foresight to include it in your budget was very wise. 00:19:09.875 --> 00:19:16.829 - All right. Let's see if there's any public comment on this item. You can raise your hand on Teams or 00:19:16.829 --> 00:19:18.206 - come to the podium. 00:19:27.106 --> 00:19:34.699 - Seeing none, all those in favor of approving the Richard Hansen Service Agreement Memorandum of Understanding 00:19:34.699 --> 00:19:41.672 - signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries 3-0. Next item, please. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry. Yes, 00:19:41.672 --> 00:19:48.782 - I would like to move approval for Signal Construction Incorporated traffic signal services. Fund names 00:19:48.782 --> 00:19:56.030 - Motor Vehicle Highway, County General, and Parks Non-Reverting. Fund numbers 1173, 1000, 1178, and 1179. 00:19:56.162 --> 00:20:03.778 - in the amount not to exceed $50,000. Second. We have a motion and we have a second. Ms. Ridge. 00:20:03.778 --> 00:20:12.115 - Good morning. So the services provided for the contract is for routine maintenance, emergencies, annual 00:20:12.115 --> 00:20:20.291 - inspection, for traffic signals, hawk signals, and the flashing beacons at trail crossings as needed. 00:20:20.291 --> 00:20:25.502 - Not routing but routine. Not routing maintenance. It is routine. 00:20:25.730 --> 00:20:35.971 - All right. Excellent. Thank you so much. Comments or questions? Yeah, I should probably know this, but 00:20:35.971 --> 00:20:46.013 - what's a hawk signal? So if you go on Gifford Road in the curve at the Curse Trail or at Vernal Pike 00:20:46.013 --> 00:20:53.470 - and Loesch, it's overhead. Those are called what we call. Well, thank you. 00:20:54.082 --> 00:21:03.967 - Comments or questions, Commissioner Madera? No, this is, again, critical. For sure. All right. Let's 00:21:03.967 --> 00:21:13.949 - see if there's any public comment on this item. All right. Seeing none, all those in favor, approving 00:21:13.949 --> 00:21:24.030 - the signal construction, Inc. traffic signal services, signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries 3-0. 00:21:24.226 --> 00:21:33.887 - We don't have any appointments today and just a few announcements, a reminder that with spring storms 00:21:33.887 --> 00:21:38.718 - that it's a good time to go to our county website. 00:21:39.074 --> 00:21:48.499 - and sign up for the resident alert services. And you can do so through our website, in.gov slash county 00:21:48.499 --> 00:21:57.923 - slash Monroe. You will be alerted about weather emergencies by phone, text, and or email. And we really 00:21:57.923 --> 00:22:07.439 - encourage residents to do this for their safety. The next blood drives that we're holding in conjunction 00:22:07.439 --> 00:22:08.798 - with Ivy Tech, 00:22:09.122 --> 00:22:18.920 - are Tuesday, May 5th and Thursday, May 7th at 200 Daniels Way, room 130A and B. The Tuesday is 1 to 6 p.m. 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:28.536 - Thursday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Please make an appointment at redcross.org. If you can't make an appointment 00:22:28.536 --> 00:22:38.334 - but can stop in, I recommend that you do because we are always in need of blood products in Monroe County. 00:22:38.466 --> 00:22:49.914 - We have already begun early voting, as we saw earlier in the meeting, with some strong numbers. Remember, 00:22:49.914 --> 00:23:00.714 - this is at the North Showers building. Lots of parking available. No meters. Thank you. And most of 00:23:00.714 --> 00:23:06.654 - the hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. 00:23:06.882 --> 00:23:16.041 - and we have a couple of Saturdays thrown in the 25th of April and the 2nd of May 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 00:23:16.041 --> 00:23:25.200 - the last day for early voting is 4th 8 a.m. to noon and of course Election Day if you prefer to go on 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:31.486 - Election Day is May 5th this year and just a reminder that we do have 00:23:31.650 --> 00:23:41.291 - Positions open on boards and commissions, animal management, health board, and even the library board. 00:23:41.291 --> 00:23:50.932 - So if you or someone you know would be a good fit, please go to our website, in.gov slash county slash 00:23:50.932 --> 00:23:58.046 - Monroe and take a look at the available positions and you can apply online. 00:23:58.210 --> 00:24:08.108 - We do have virtual office hours each month, six different hours available. Check out the calendar at 00:24:08.108 --> 00:24:17.908 - the bottom of the webpage. We do not have a work session. Our next meeting is April 23rd. And did I 00:24:17.908 --> 00:24:27.806 - miss anything? Anything else? I think that I'd just like to highlight that for the folks in seminary 00:24:27.906 --> 00:24:34.599 - point apartments, there will be an open house on April 11th. And so that is a very valuable opportunity 00:24:34.599 --> 00:24:41.163 - to potentially find other housing opportunities. And actually, I don't know if this is the right time 00:24:41.163 --> 00:24:47.599 - to do this, but I was having a conversation with a constituent. And Jeff, there was a question that 00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:54.163 - came up. The county actually could not possibly keep these in their inventory, right? We have to turn 00:24:54.163 --> 00:24:56.094 - them over to the CIB legally. 00:24:57.346 --> 00:25:04.721 - We don't have a housing authority. There's no way that we could have made a land trust of this. I think 00:25:04.721 --> 00:25:12.024 - in order, there is a scenario where if these properties were no longer deemed appropriate or necessary 00:25:12.024 --> 00:25:16.350 - for the convention center, that there could be opportunities 00:25:16.738 --> 00:25:22.960 - I mean, the county does not have a housing authority or things like that, but it would open up opportunities 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:28.783 - for this property. But since this property was purchased with innkeeper's tax for the intent of doing 00:25:28.783 --> 00:25:34.892 - exactly what it's being requested for, you've got to honor that commitment. Right. And for that to happen, 00:25:34.892 --> 00:25:40.600 - the CIB would have to no longer need those properties. Right. I mean, if the CIB said we don't need 00:25:40.600 --> 00:25:46.366 - those properties and never will, that kind of would release you from having any kind of those hooks. 00:25:46.530 --> 00:25:52.630 - Which is definitely not the situation. Definitely not. Yes. Thank you so much for clarifying. Yes, I 00:25:52.630 --> 00:25:58.912 - think there's still a lot of misinformation out there in the community on that point. Thank you so much 00:25:58.912 --> 00:26:04.951 - for that clarification. But I think the open house is a great opportunity. And again, there's a lot 00:26:04.951 --> 00:26:10.206 - of help and assistance out there in the community for that effort. So thank you. Yeah. 00:26:10.338 --> 00:26:18.325 - forgot to mention that there are a couple of programs being offered to the public from the Youth Service 00:26:18.325 --> 00:26:25.931 - Bureau. One is called Empowered Parenting Workshop, EPW, eight-week program. This is free, designed 00:26:25.931 --> 00:26:33.613 - to enhance the relationship between parents, guardians, and their adolescent children. And it starts 00:26:33.613 --> 00:26:34.526 - April 15th. 00:26:34.690 --> 00:26:44.684 - is a free 10-week harm reduction program designed to support adolescents struggling with substance use. 00:26:44.684 --> 00:26:54.485 - You can contact the Youth Service Bureau at 812-349-2986 if you'd like to sign up for either of these 00:26:54.485 --> 00:27:03.326 - sessions. And again, free to the public. Great, great service that we offer. Anything else? 00:27:05.250 --> 00:27:12.095 - So thank you so much. Excellent. All right. So our next meeting is April 23rd. And with that, we are 00:27:12.095 --> 00:27:16.094 - adjourned. Thanks, everyone. Thanks, Katz. Thank you, TSD.