WEBVTT 00:00:00.898 --> 00:00:06.973 - Good morning. I'm going to call to order this meeting of the Monroe County Board of Commissioners. It 00:00:06.973 --> 00:00:13.048 - is Thursday, May 21st, and we will begin. I will note for the record that all three commissioners are 00:00:13.048 --> 00:00:19.183 - here and present in the NatU Hill Room, and we'll begin with our public statement read by Commissioner 00:00:19.183 --> 00:00:25.258 - Madera. We, the Monroe County Board of Commissioners, renew our commitment to welcome and protect the 00:00:25.258 --> 00:00:27.998 - rights of all people regardless of age, race, 00:00:28.194 --> 00:00:34.050 - color, creed, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, economic status, 00:00:34.050 --> 00:00:39.793 - and national origin. And we affirm the right of every person to live peacefully and without fear. And 00:00:39.793 --> 00:00:45.536 - we will fight and resist at every step discrimination and harmful policies, whatever their source. We 00:00:45.536 --> 00:00:51.279 - believe in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We also stand in support of our county public 00:00:51.279 --> 00:00:57.022 - school systems, both RBB and MCCSE. Great. Thank you so much. And it's the last day of school. It is. 00:00:58.146 --> 00:01:05.165 - All right, now we will move on to our department updates. First, we have Ms. Kelly joining us from the 00:01:05.165 --> 00:01:12.047 - health department. Good morning. Good morning, commissioners. According to the Indiana Department of 00:01:12.047 --> 00:01:18.929 - Health, we have not seen any changes in wastewater concentrations for COVID and wastewater scan data 00:01:18.929 --> 00:01:25.948 - for Monroe County shows very low levels. Flu activity is still minimal, but the health department does 00:01:25.948 --> 00:01:27.038 - still have free 00:01:27.170 --> 00:01:35.831 - flu and COVID tests available for the public. The health department will be offering free walk-in testing 00:01:35.831 --> 00:01:44.002 - and treatment services for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis on June 25th from 3 to 6 p.m. We will 00:01:44.002 --> 00:01:52.990 - also have free rapid HIV and hepatitis C testing services during this time. That's what I have for you today. 00:01:53.410 --> 00:02:02.096 - Great. Thank you so much. Comments or questions? Commissioner Madura? I have one. Thank you. Commissioner 00:02:02.096 --> 00:02:10.453 - Jones? No, I don't. All right. Thank you so much. Thanks for joining us. We don't have captions. TSD, 00:02:10.453 --> 00:02:19.139 - we don't have captions up here. Thank you. Next we have Stephen Miller, our Director of Veterans Affairs. 00:02:19.139 --> 00:02:20.286 - Good morning. 00:02:20.610 --> 00:02:27.888 - Good morning to you. I had just two quick things I wanted to kind of give a little update on Memorial 00:02:27.888 --> 00:02:35.594 - Day weekend coming up and there's a number of a number of activities going on. The first are some volunteer 00:02:35.594 --> 00:02:39.518 - opportunities for flag placement, the American Legion. 00:02:39.650 --> 00:02:49.874 - family post 18 is doing on Saturday, May 23rd at 8 a.m. at Rose Hill Cemetery and at White Oak Cemetery 00:02:49.874 --> 00:02:59.999 - to follow flag placing. There'll be more flag placing on Saturday the 23rd by the VFW family at 9 a.m. 00:02:59.999 --> 00:03:08.158 - at the Clear Creek Cemetery. Then actually today, an hour ago, there was the first 00:03:08.322 --> 00:03:17.055 - Excuse me, the Presbyterian Cemetery in Ellisville. And then, excuse me, on Saturday, there will be 00:03:17.055 --> 00:03:26.487 - flag placement by the AMVETS at Valhalla Memory Gardens. Then on, for Memorial Day services and ceremonies, 00:03:26.487 --> 00:03:36.094 - we have on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Little Union Baptist Church on Bromance Creek Road, there'll be a service. 00:03:36.226 --> 00:03:44.957 - on Monday at 9 a.m. at Rose Hill Cemetery presented by the American Legion and then at 10 a.m. at Valhalla 00:03:44.957 --> 00:03:53.117 - Memory Gardens there'll be a ceremony as well. The Bloomington Community Band will begin at 930 and 00:03:53.117 --> 00:03:57.278 - again that's promoted that's presented by the VFW. 00:03:58.626 --> 00:04:04.338 - Additionally, I had a quick veteran update, veteran story for you. I wanted to share a recent experience 00:04:04.338 --> 00:04:10.430 - that highlights the importance of carefully reviewing military records to ensure they're accurate and complete. 00:04:10.690 --> 00:04:17.534 - Earlier this month, I assisted a veteran who was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1947 to a father serving in 00:04:17.534 --> 00:04:24.717 - the United States Army while stationed in Japan. Although he is a veteran, although the veteran is a U.S. 00:04:24.717 --> 00:04:31.765 - citizen by birth through his American parents, his DD 214 military discharge document contained a small 00:04:31.765 --> 00:04:38.677 - but significant administrative error. In box number seven, they incorrectly indicated that he was not 00:04:38.677 --> 00:04:39.422 - a veteran. 00:04:39.586 --> 00:04:46.421 - The veteran carried this around with him for many years not realizing there was an error until he went 00:04:46.421 --> 00:04:53.189 - to file for social security benefits Where social security said you're not a vet you're not a citizen 00:04:53.189 --> 00:05:00.024 - So he had to jump through a lot of hoops to try to figure out how to prove his citizenship We reviewed 00:05:00.024 --> 00:05:06.725 - his record and the error was clear There was one small checkbox on his DD 214 that indicated that he 00:05:06.725 --> 00:05:08.318 - was not a citizen so we 00:05:09.026 --> 00:05:16.935 - put together a package for a board of correction of military record to have his DD 214 updated. So this 00:05:16.935 --> 00:05:24.539 - is interesting to me for a lot of reasons. One, something similar happened to me when I retired. My 00:05:24.539 --> 00:05:32.371 - unit put down the wrong retirement date, which actually put me at just under the amount of time needed 00:05:32.371 --> 00:05:37.086 - for retirement. And I was able to get that fixed, but it took 00:05:37.250 --> 00:05:44.790 - almost a year. So my word of advice to all veterans and families out there is if you do see an error 00:05:44.790 --> 00:05:52.331 - in military documentation, please reach out to my office. It can be contacted at 812-349-2537. We're 00:05:52.331 --> 00:05:59.796 - happy to see what we can get figured out with that. So thank you again for all of your support, and 00:05:59.796 --> 00:06:06.142 - I'll leave you with that. Thank you. Thank you so much. And that's such an important 00:06:06.498 --> 00:06:18.509 - tips such good advice just check your military record absolutely great advice and thank you for the 00:06:18.509 --> 00:06:31.602 - information on the events this weekend we will there absolutely see you then thank you any other departments 00:06:31.602 --> 00:06:35.806 - have an update for us good morning 00:06:36.930 --> 00:06:46.231 - excited to be here. I was going to just sign in real quickly. Trondin Randolph, Nero County Surveyor. 00:06:46.231 --> 00:06:55.987 - I'm really excited to be here yet again to share a bit of good news. We just recently attended the Indiana 00:06:55.987 --> 00:07:05.470 - Geographic Information Council GIS Conference. It was here locally. It was pretty awesome. Everyone had 00:07:05.570 --> 00:07:13.857 - great things to say about the community. And during that, our GIS division within the Surveyor's Office 00:07:13.857 --> 00:07:21.985 - won a special achievement in GIS award. And this is basically a collaborative project with the Monroe 00:07:21.985 --> 00:07:30.272 - County Public Library. It's the Hoosier Character. The Hoosier Character is a interactive website aimed 00:07:30.272 --> 00:07:34.814 - at inspiring Hoosiers to find out more about the history 00:07:35.138 --> 00:07:42.572 - of the place we live, work, and play is a living project with new data being added regularly. This is 00:07:42.572 --> 00:07:50.225 - an award that recognizes special geospatial projects developed through teamwork, demonstrates commitment 00:07:50.225 --> 00:07:57.513 - to working with others towards a common goal, while performing important work to create outstanding 00:07:57.513 --> 00:08:00.574 - information resources to the public. It's 00:08:00.898 --> 00:08:08.894 - Again, my pleasure to introduce our GIS coordinator that helped with this collaborative effort, plus 00:08:08.894 --> 00:08:16.969 - a few folks within our GIS division to share a bit about this project and demonstrate it. I also want 00:08:16.969 --> 00:08:25.202 - to bring a little recognition that after endearing the conference, they did a transition of leadership. 00:08:25.202 --> 00:08:27.102 - So our GIS coordinator, 00:08:27.426 --> 00:08:35.983 - Dr. John Baten is actually now the current IJIC president, which is pretty great. It's a very important 00:08:35.983 --> 00:08:44.457 - role, and I'm very excited to see what happens with our GIS community across the state. And with that, 00:08:44.457 --> 00:08:52.766 - here's John. Thank you. Commissioners? TSD, can I share my screen? Sorry, I'm trying to get a laptop 00:08:52.766 --> 00:08:55.646 - up here with a mouse. There we go. 00:08:56.162 --> 00:09:03.891 - And let's see here. Oh, and I'm going to unmute myself there so I can talk here. Hello? All right, guys. 00:09:03.891 --> 00:09:11.767 - Let's see. Is that showing up on the screen? Yeah, there you go. Hey, OK, cool. It works. Yeah, so thanks, 00:09:11.767 --> 00:09:18.686 - commissioners. I'm John Baten. I'm the GIS coordinator. Yeah, so three years in a row, we are 00:09:18.818 --> 00:09:23.938 - G.I.S. champions in Indiana, so huzzah for Monroe County G.I.S. and the Surveyor's Office. We won two 00:09:23.938 --> 00:09:29.208 - years ago for our website, last year for the election reporting, and this year for Who's Your Character? 00:09:29.208 --> 00:09:34.327 - And this is a new one. The previous ones were Excellence in G.I.S. This one's Special Achievement, so 00:09:34.327 --> 00:09:39.447 - it's really looking at that kind of collaborative work. What this, oh man, I hit the wrong thing. I'm 00:09:39.447 --> 00:09:42.910 - just going to get out the splash screen. Nobody reads those anyways. 00:09:43.138 --> 00:09:49.049 - This is as Tron mentioned like an interactive and immersive project that's allowing Hoosiers to kind 00:09:49.049 --> 00:09:55.838 - of get a better idea of what's going on in the past and where they live. It's a again it's an interactive database. 00:09:55.970 --> 00:10:01.510 - A lot of the legwork for this was done by the Monroe County Public Library, pulling together an amazing 00:10:01.510 --> 00:10:06.943 - amount of historical data. This website allows you to search by last name or business. It also allows 00:10:06.943 --> 00:10:12.269 - you to search by a field note. And a field note's gonna be more of the qualitative information. But 00:10:12.269 --> 00:10:17.809 - for instance, if we type in to the dashboard, Smith, I'm just gonna do a last name. I did practice this 00:10:17.809 --> 00:10:23.349 - too, so I picked out some interesting characters to look at. And we can go to Henry Smith. The map will 00:10:23.349 --> 00:10:24.414 - zoom in on the map. 00:10:24.706 --> 00:10:30.347 - to the location of where Henry Smith in 1856 lived. And you can see a field note here that in 1856, 00:10:30.347 --> 00:10:36.214 - he was a property owner in Salt Creek Township and oral histories for local leads about the Underground 00:10:36.214 --> 00:10:41.630 - Railroad. So this is an Underground Railroad contributor just outside of Monroe County in 1856. 00:10:42.402 --> 00:10:48.582 - You can zoom out too on the map and you can see there's these beautiful historic maps in the back. This 00:10:48.582 --> 00:10:54.523 - is from an atlas of Indiana that was made in 1876. And so what we've done is geo-references for the 00:10:54.523 --> 00:11:00.465 - entire state. This is on the state's GIS website as well called Indiana Map. And so you can type an 00:11:00.465 --> 00:11:06.526 - address in into the search bar here, something like Noblesville, and it's gonna allow you to zoom in. 00:11:07.298 --> 00:11:12.912 - to an area in Noblesville or wherever in the state and see kind of what's going on. So just kind of 00:11:12.912 --> 00:11:18.527 - another cool resource. You can also search by field notes here. And so if I type in school here, we 00:11:18.527 --> 00:11:24.141 - go down to a field note and you're gonna get a bigger kind of qualitative understanding of what was 00:11:24.141 --> 00:11:29.811 - going on. So this is the location of where the Clear Creek School was in the 1820s. You can see here 00:11:29.811 --> 00:11:34.078 - on the map right next to the Chicago rail line and zooming out again there. 00:11:34.274 --> 00:11:40.327 - Lastly, you can also look at the original federal land patents. So these would be things as the United 00:11:40.327 --> 00:11:46.380 - States was colonized and moved west and kind of divided up, different individuals would be able to buy 00:11:46.380 --> 00:11:52.257 - land. And so if we go to a specific section or a specific county, let's go to Decatur County, it'll 00:11:52.257 --> 00:11:58.310 - zoom in and you're going to get the different federal land patents. These are clusters. So this circle 00:11:58.310 --> 00:12:03.070 - right here is showing that there's 22 points of data at this area. I'll zoom in. 00:12:03.234 --> 00:12:09.385 - here, and we can kind of just expand one of these. I clicked it, there we go. We're gonna open up this 00:12:09.385 --> 00:12:15.476 - cluster, and we can see the different individuals that bought property in this section of land in the 00:12:15.476 --> 00:12:21.567 - 1820s. I'm gonna pick on Henry McDonald here, and this is gonna give you kind of the area of where he 00:12:21.567 --> 00:12:27.658 - actually purchased property in 1823, but we have a link here to the actual federal land patent that's 00:12:27.658 --> 00:12:31.838 - gonna zoom in, and you'll be able to see what that image looked like. 00:12:31.938 --> 00:12:37.851 - I'm going to blame this on the Bureau of Land Management. Hey, is it going to work? I also call that 00:12:37.851 --> 00:12:43.880 - my Swiper the Fox voice. I've got kids who watch Dora the Explorer, and I say that too often. But this 00:12:43.880 --> 00:12:49.969 - gives people an idea of what that actual land patent looks like. And so again, this is this interactive 00:12:49.969 --> 00:12:56.291 - website, and it's growing, and it's going to continue to grow. And the goal here is for folks to contribute 00:12:56.291 --> 00:13:01.150 - to this so we get a better idea of where we came from and maybe where we're going. 00:13:01.410 --> 00:13:07.361 - That's Hoosier character. And again, this wouldn't have been possible without our collaboration with 00:13:07.361 --> 00:13:13.371 - the Mineral County Public Library. So, yeah. Awesome. That's really cool. Thank you for bringing that 00:13:13.371 --> 00:13:19.440 - in. Congratulations on your hard work and your achievement. Any of my colleagues? It's just very cool. 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:25.863 - It is very cool. Thank you. Yeah, awesome. And I love the fact that if families especially have information, 00:13:25.863 --> 00:13:31.166 - material in their own archives, they could upload it onto this. That would be incredible. 00:13:31.298 --> 00:13:37.874 - Yeah, very cool. And it works well, despite the fact this is an 1870s-era map. And you're dealing with 00:13:37.874 --> 00:13:44.386 - older data. It still all fits fairly well. Well, I mean, there could be information that we pull into 00:13:44.386 --> 00:13:50.834 - Hoosier character that's prior to 1876, right? But as a base map, it works fairly good. And the goal 00:13:50.834 --> 00:13:57.409 - here isn't to move past 1900, because we have other websites that are doing that as well. So it's kind 00:13:57.409 --> 00:13:58.750 - of pre-19th century. 00:13:58.946 --> 00:14:09.653 - I'm sorry, pre 20th century. Yes. Really cool. Thanks for the show and tell. Thank you. Any other department 00:14:09.653 --> 00:14:19.672 - have an update for us. It's hard to follow that one. I'm seeing that we'll move on to public comment. 00:14:19.672 --> 00:14:24.190 - This is for items that are not on our agenda. 00:14:24.578 --> 00:14:33.891 - speaker to limit their time to three minutes per person and TSD if you could put the clock the stopwatch 00:14:33.891 --> 00:14:42.760 - up that would be great and I guess it's a countdown clock give us your name and county of residence 00:14:42.760 --> 00:14:48.702 - that would be great waiting for the timer to be added don't see it 00:14:55.330 --> 00:15:02.047 - up there. In a new place. It's that blue bar up there. Okay, excellent. Thank you. Thank you, TSD. Sir. 00:15:02.047 --> 00:15:08.505 - Good morning, Madam President, commissioners. This is Christopher M.G. from the Greater Bloomington 00:15:08.505 --> 00:15:15.028 - Chamber of Commerce, a membership organization with 900 such members and 80% of those being of small 00:15:15.028 --> 00:15:21.874 - business nonprofit. I just want to do a little housekeeping tonight. We had our third annual Valor Awards 00:15:21.874 --> 00:15:23.166 - presented by CEMTRA 00:15:23.362 --> 00:15:29.567 - Biofarm Solutions, which was a wonderful event at Ivy Tech. We honored law enforcement, fire, EMS, dispatch, 00:15:29.567 --> 00:15:35.373 - and corrections. We had Sergeant Trippany from the Sheriff's Office that was a winner, and Lieutenant 00:15:35.373 --> 00:15:41.066 - Williams from Monroe County Fire District, among others. I recommend going to our photo gallery and 00:15:41.066 --> 00:15:46.929 - checking out some of the fine shots and the stage display. It was quite a ceremony, very moving. Going 00:15:46.929 --> 00:15:50.174 - on to our next awards, we have, I want to encourage some 00:15:50.370 --> 00:15:55.838 - to submit their nominations for 00:15:56.514 --> 00:16:02.429 - that we'll be hosting. This is our 15th annual web award where we recognize local civic minded women 00:16:02.429 --> 00:16:08.402 - from a wide range of professions and backgrounds who men or others lead by example and just give back 00:16:08.402 --> 00:16:14.375 - to the community. Nominees just work in the business or nonprofit sector. The common thread though is 00:16:14.375 --> 00:16:20.406 - leadership and those who inspire others. The eligibility is just going to be 21 or older, not have won 00:16:20.406 --> 00:16:22.046 - a web award, but previously 00:16:22.690 --> 00:16:29.593 - You also, you don't need to be a chamber member. It's not required unless you do live outside of Monroe 00:16:29.593 --> 00:16:36.230 - County. This is a great opportunity for residents, employers, coworkers, friends, communities, just 00:16:36.230 --> 00:16:42.934 - to recognize women who are making a meaningful difference in Monroe County. Nominations are due June 00:16:42.934 --> 00:16:49.572 - 26th at 5 p.m. Where can you find those? ChamberBloomington.org. And then our next little business, 00:16:49.572 --> 00:16:52.094 - we have our Showcase Bloomington Next 00:16:52.194 --> 00:16:59.383 - Thursday. This is our business expo. That'll be Thursday, the 28th at Switchyard Park from five to eight 00:16:59.383 --> 00:17:06.366 - o'clock. It's our community facing event of the year with local business entrepreneurs, food vendors, 00:17:06.366 --> 00:17:13.554 - music, family-friendly activities in a very welcoming, cool outdoor setting. It's a chance for residents 00:17:13.554 --> 00:17:20.606 - to discover some businesses, connect with the community organizations, enjoy some food, entertainment, 00:17:20.834 --> 00:17:27.227 - and just really celebrate all that is Monroe County. While the Chamber does a lot of work and advocacy, 00:17:27.227 --> 00:17:33.681 - as you know, and workforce and business support, this is really the opening the door to the, while we're 00:17:33.681 --> 00:17:40.074 - inviting the entire community. And so again, join us for that on May 28th, next Thursday, five to eight 00:17:40.074 --> 00:17:46.466 - at Switchyard Park. And again, more information at chamberblueington.org. Thank you. Thank you so much. 00:17:46.466 --> 00:17:48.126 - Appreciate you being here. 00:17:55.842 --> 00:18:01.396 - Good morning. Good morning. And happy last day of school. I'm Mike Chavis. I'm the forest supervisor 00:18:01.396 --> 00:18:07.006 - at the Hoosier National Forest. It's been a little bit since I last came to one of these meetings. So 00:18:07.006 --> 00:18:12.725 - my primary objective this morning is just to reintroduce myself. And we have one new commissioner. Nice 00:18:12.725 --> 00:18:18.609 - to meet you. It's the last time I was here. And to make sure that you all know who I am and how to contact 00:18:18.609 --> 00:18:21.854 - me so I can leave a business card if there's any comments, 00:18:22.082 --> 00:18:28.578 - any kind of discussion you want to have about the National Forest. We're 205,000 acres of public land 00:18:28.578 --> 00:18:34.755 - located in nine different counties, so fairly scattered from Lake Monroe down to the Ohio River. 00:18:34.755 --> 00:18:41.124 - And 19,000 of those acres, more or less, are located in Monroe County. So two specific things I did 00:18:41.124 --> 00:18:47.747 - want to bring up while I'm here is a common misconception I run into in the counties where we have land 00:18:47.747 --> 00:18:48.766 - located is that 00:18:48.898 --> 00:18:54.500 - the counties don't receive any financial benefit, that it's a loss to have national forest system land 00:18:54.500 --> 00:19:00.157 - within their county. So I just wanted to address that quickly because some payments were recently made. 00:19:00.157 --> 00:19:05.651 - So it is true we don't pay property taxes, technically speaking, but we make payments in the form of 00:19:05.651 --> 00:19:11.199 - payment in lieu of taxes. And then there's also a different fund called the Secure Rural Schools Act. 00:19:11.199 --> 00:19:16.965 - So it comes in two different tranches. And in the 2025 payments were just recently made. So that amounted 00:19:16.965 --> 00:19:18.814 - for Monroe County specifically to 00:19:18.946 --> 00:19:26.298 - 119,000 acres. That's not a huge windfall, but that's that's fun. That can be funds that can be applied 00:19:26.298 --> 00:19:33.438 - to road schools, public. And of course, we think there's there's other value besides that payment to 00:19:33.438 --> 00:19:38.174 - having a national forest with within your free with that for sure. 00:19:38.274 --> 00:19:43.636 - And then the other thing I wanted to point out was an upcoming opportunity right here in Bloomington. 00:19:43.636 --> 00:19:48.894 - We have, well, there's an annual conference called the Fire in Eastern Oak Conference happens every 00:19:48.894 --> 00:19:54.414 - year. It's being hosted in Indiana for the first time ever this year. And it's right here in Bloomington 00:19:54.414 --> 00:19:59.934 - at the Convention Center. And that's June 2nd through the 4th. So I know that's been a topic of interest 00:19:59.934 --> 00:20:05.559 - is fire and the use of prescribed fire on our natural lands and on our national forests by this commission 00:20:05.559 --> 00:20:08.240 - in the past. So it's a great learning opportunity. 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:14.372 - it's a it's not our event we'll have some participation there but it's it's being hosted it's a it's 00:20:14.372 --> 00:20:20.443 - a litany of different land managers at the federal and state level for multiple states academia and 00:20:20.443 --> 00:20:26.515 - nonprofit organizations NGOs who also manage land as well so I hope you look into that too and like 00:20:26.515 --> 00:20:32.707 - I said I'm glad to leave my business card if I leave that with Miss Purdy just so you all know how to 00:20:32.707 --> 00:20:36.350 - contact me happy to take any questions too if you have them 00:20:36.674 --> 00:20:43.080 - Thank you so much for coming in, Mr. Chavez. Do you have any? Not at this time, thank you. What was 00:20:43.080 --> 00:20:49.679 - the conference called again? Fire in... It's called the Fire in Eastern Oak Conference. Okay, awesome. 00:20:49.679 --> 00:20:56.085 - And there's a website, I don't know if I can, but if you Google that, you'll find it pretty easily. 00:20:56.085 --> 00:21:02.491 - Excellent, thank you so much. Thank you, thank you so much. Any other public comment? You can raise 00:21:02.491 --> 00:21:05.182 - your hand on Teams or come to the podium. 00:21:12.066 --> 00:21:19.615 - Seeing none, we'll come back to our agenda if you could make a motion. Yes, I would like to move approval 00:21:19.615 --> 00:21:26.736 - of the minutes for March 30th, 2026, for April 2nd, 2026, and for May 14th, 2026. Should I say what 00:21:26.736 --> 00:21:34.284 - they are? Yes, if you would please. For the March 30th, 2026, Commissioner and Council Executive Session. 00:21:34.284 --> 00:21:39.198 - For the April 2nd, 2026, Commissioner and Council Executive Session. 00:21:39.298 --> 00:21:47.566 - and for the May 14th, 2026 Board of Commissioners meeting. Second. All right, we have a motion, we have 00:21:47.566 --> 00:21:56.231 - a second. Any comments, corrections, edits? I sent some notes in. All right, all those in favor of approving 00:21:56.231 --> 00:22:04.260 - the minutes for March 30th, April 2nd and May 14th, signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries three 00:22:04.260 --> 00:22:05.214 - zero. Next. 00:22:05.410 --> 00:22:12.707 - I would like to move approval of the claims stock it for accounts payable for May 21st, 2026. Second, 00:22:12.707 --> 00:22:19.933 - we have a motion we have a second is guy or though you tell us all about it please. Good morning the 00:22:19.933 --> 00:22:27.660 - accounts payable claims Docker for May 21st 2026 totals 9,000,000 125,000 730 and four cents. This includes 00:22:27.660 --> 00:22:34.814 - all emergency claims and adjustments. Thank you so much comments or questions Commissioner Madeira. 00:22:35.426 --> 00:22:45.715 - Any public comment on this item? You can raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. Seeing none, 00:22:45.715 --> 00:22:56.408 - all those in favor of approving the claim stock and accounts payable for May 21st, 2026 signify by saying 00:22:56.408 --> 00:22:58.526 - aye. Motion carries. 00:22:58.658 --> 00:23:05.621 - Uh, we did not receive any reports for today and now we will move on to new business, please. I would 00:23:05.621 --> 00:23:12.788 - like to move approval of, uh, item a herald fish incorporated showers building update to repair a failed 00:23:12.788 --> 00:23:19.751 - control panel fund named 2022 geo bond fund number 4815 in the amount of $8,775. We have a motion. We 00:23:19.751 --> 00:23:25.758 - have a second. We have mr Griffith joining us. Good morning commissioners. How are you? 00:23:27.490 --> 00:23:38.315 - and cool. I was considering wearing a Hawaiian shirt after. So let's say this request is to accept the 00:23:38.315 --> 00:23:48.824 - proposal submitted by Harold Fish Incorporated in the amount of $8,775 for repair update work to be 00:23:48.824 --> 00:23:56.286 - done to the cooling tower control panel at the showers building tower. 00:23:57.698 --> 00:24:08.829 - Thank you so much. Any comments or questions? It just sounds like it was needed. Beyond needed. Commissioner 00:24:08.829 --> 00:24:19.348 - Madeira, big fan of this repair. Huge metal fan. Let's see if there's any public comment on this item. 00:24:19.348 --> 00:24:22.718 - You raised your hand on teams or 00:24:31.458 --> 00:24:39.952 - all those in favor of approving the showers building update repair by Harold fish ink signify by saying 00:24:39.952 --> 00:24:48.119 - aye aye motion carries three zero thank you sir thank you commissioners item please I would like to 00:24:48.119 --> 00:24:56.612 - move approval for resolution 20 26-20 highway bid openings second we have a motion and we have a second 00:24:56.612 --> 00:24:58.654 - mr. Cockrell yes when we 00:24:58.850 --> 00:25:07.171 - produced notice for bids for a couple of highway projects. The bid opening was to be at next month or 00:25:07.171 --> 00:25:15.492 - next week's meeting. We're not meeting next Thursday. So this is being pushed to the June 4th. Justin 00:25:15.492 --> 00:25:23.814 - or I will be in here to announce this again next Thursday at. Okay. Sorry, but thank you. Comments or 00:25:23.814 --> 00:25:28.382 - questions, Commissioner Madura? No. Commissioner Jones. 00:25:29.218 --> 00:25:38.928 - don't either, except that the agenda online has the wrong date. 24th. It's been corrected online. But 00:25:38.928 --> 00:25:48.923 - that's good. I opened the online and I got 24th on here. Just to make it clear, it's 24th. Yeah, because 00:25:48.923 --> 00:25:56.062 - I have it right. And it's right on here. Yeah. Anyway, awesome. Thank you. 00:25:59.106 --> 00:26:11.069 - If there's any public comment on this item, you raise your hand on teams or podium. None. All those 00:26:11.069 --> 00:26:23.390 - in favor of approving resolution 2026-20 on highway bid opening signify by saying aye. Motion carries. 00:26:23.682 --> 00:26:29.144 - Yes, I'd like to move approval for in dot amendment number one for the pedestrian flashing weekends 00:26:29.144 --> 00:26:34.770 - installed at various trail crossings Fund name pedestrian crossing improvements fund number eighty one 00:26:34.770 --> 00:26:40.341 - seventy three in the amount of three hundred and one thousand five hundred and twenty six dollars and 00:26:40.341 --> 00:26:45.913 - fifty eight cents We have a motion and we have a second So this is just basically clean up on in dots 00:26:45.913 --> 00:26:52.030 - part they had allocated more funding at the time of the letting of the project over a year ago, so they're just 00:26:52.514 --> 00:27:04.491 - updating their contract with Monroe County to match what they had allocated to the project. So the $301,520 00:27:04.491 --> 00:27:15.692 - that is the total project cost and they're still paying 90% of that. That's their 90% of it. That is 00:27:15.692 --> 00:27:20.350 - their 90%. So we paid the 10%. We'll also 00:27:20.450 --> 00:27:27.735 - there's gonna be a change order to the project. We have to go back through and make some ADA modifications 00:27:27.735 --> 00:27:34.612 - to it. NDOT has already allocated that they will cover that additional cost at the 90% also. So I'll 00:27:34.612 --> 00:27:41.626 - be having another contract, increase to that contract or a change order for that. So, but this is just 00:27:41.626 --> 00:27:48.094 - to clean up the original contract. Yeah, sounds good. Comments, questions, Commissioner Jones? 00:27:49.442 --> 00:28:04.149 - No, thank you. Any public comment on this item? Raise your hand on teams or podium. Good example of 00:28:04.149 --> 00:28:09.150 - how quickly inflation. All right. 00:28:09.378 --> 00:28:18.561 - Seeing no public comment, all those in favor of approving in dot amendment number one for the pedestrian 00:28:18.561 --> 00:28:27.481 - flashing beacons installed at various trail crossings signify by saying aye. Motion carries. We don't 00:28:27.481 --> 00:28:35.614 - have any appointments today. I will note again that this is emergency medical services week. 00:28:35.938 --> 00:28:46.525 - nationally, and the governor was here this week to honor some of our CMS medics, and it was really a 00:28:46.525 --> 00:28:57.846 - nice moment. It was a nice event on Tuesday. And we do want to remind folks that there are events scheduled 00:28:57.846 --> 00:29:05.918 - for Memorial Day remembrances Sunday, 2 p.m. at Little Union Baptist Church. 00:29:06.050 --> 00:29:17.331 - Monday 9 a.m. at Rose Hill Cemetery and Monday 10 a.m. at Valhalla. It's a great opportunity to remember 00:29:17.331 --> 00:29:28.075 - those who sacrificed everything for our freedom. I will also remind folks that it's a great idea to 00:29:28.075 --> 00:29:33.662 - get yourself signed up for our notification system. 00:29:33.794 --> 00:29:46.705 - You just go to our website, in.gov, slash, county, slash Monroe, and you can sign up there to receive 00:29:46.705 --> 00:29:59.742 - an alert on any emergency, especially weather alerts. My phone has been very active the last few days. 00:29:59.842 --> 00:30:08.388 - And while you're there, if you are interested in serving on a Board of Commission, we invite you to 00:30:08.388 --> 00:30:16.933 - do so. Fill out an application there. You can see vacancies there. And we do also have office hours 00:30:16.933 --> 00:30:25.821 - posted on the calendar that's on our main landing page. And there are six hours of virtual meeting time 00:30:25.821 --> 00:30:26.846 - each month. 00:30:27.074 --> 00:30:36.235 - go on there and stop in and see us via Teams. And we will continue to support the blood drives. I don't 00:30:36.235 --> 00:30:45.219 - have the dates for June. I did ask for that and I don't see them here, but they are held at Ivy Tech, 00:30:45.219 --> 00:30:54.556 - usually two days each month. Go to redcross.org for more information. And today's the last day of school, 00:30:54.556 --> 00:30:56.670 - so be careful everyone. 00:30:56.898 --> 00:31:05.096 - Um, any, anything else for the good of the order? Okay. Um, we have a work session. So, um, how about, 00:31:05.096 --> 00:31:13.294 - uh, 10 45 for our work session? Is that work for everybody? No pun intended. Okay. Awesome. Um, we are 00:31:13.294 --> 00:31:21.334 - not meeting next week. So our next meeting after that will be June 4th for our regular meeting. And, 00:31:21.334 --> 00:31:25.950 - um, that'll be at 10 AM right here in the NatU Hill room. 00:31:26.658 --> 00:31:33.576 - but we are coming back at 1045 for work session. Thank you, everyone. Thank you, TSD. Thank you, CAPS. 00:31:33.576 --> 00:31:34.718 - We're adjourned.