- I'm going to call to order this meeting of the Monroe County Board of Commissioners. It is Thursday,
- July 23rd, and we will begin with our commissioner's statement read by Commissioner Maduro. We, the
- Monroe County Board of Commissioners, renew our commitment to welcome and protect the rights of all
- people, regardless of age, race, color, creed, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity,
- marital status, economic status, and national origin.
- and we affirm the right of every person to live peacefully and without fear. And we will fight and resist
- at every step, discrimination and harmful policies, whatever their source. We believe in diversity,
- equity, inclusion, and belonging. And we also stand in support of our county public school systems,
- both RBD and MCCSC. Great, thank you so much. I have a couple of agenda items to add.
- item L will be the flock termination letter and item M will be the agreement with Midwest Salt LLC for
- treated salt. That is on our work sessions. If you want to see it on the packet, it's there, but we
- can move it into our regular session. So that is item M.
- I get a second. Yes, I will second those items. Thank you. All right. All those in favor of amending
- the agenda signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries to zero. I'll note for the record, I'm sorry,
- I forgot to do this, that there's two of us present here in the NETU Hill Room, Commissioner Madeira
- and myself, Commissioner Thomas. We will now move on to our department updates.
- Good morning, commissioners. We are continuing to track cyclosporiasis cases. This is caused by a parasite,
- and it can be treated with antibiotics. The Indiana Department of Health is providing total case counts
- across the state on their website, which is available for the public. The Health Department still has
- free COVID and flu tests available. You can walk in Monday through Friday from 8 to 4 for free tests.
- and we are still scheduling for vaccines. You can call 812-803-6364 for an appointment. Thank you so
- much. Do you have any questions or comments? No. And do we have any idea about what it's traced to other
- than this lettuce? Right now, they're just advising to avoid bagged lettuces. OK. All right. Thank you.
- Well, let us avoid them then. Ah, let us avoid them. All right. Thank you.
- any other department updates? I'm sorry. Sure, yeah, I just kind of wanted to update you guys. We've
- gotten I've gotten calls from Sheriff's Department. I believe you guys have discussed with the Sheriff's
- Department about increase of activity with the at the Thompson site and it's becoming
- I think they would say it's becoming more dangerous and more of a cause of a public safety concern.
- We had some meetings and I think it would be important for you guys to know and if you agree to go ahead
- and bless this is that we think we're going to have to do something with that property and we're working
- with, you know, the sheriff and all the providers that we can.
- We don't have a plan yet, we don't have a plan in place, but I think given the fact that you're not
- having a meeting the next two weeks, we may need to act and begin the process formally prior to your
- next meeting. So I make sure you're aware of that and that you're all right with us proceeding along
- those, if necessary. Yes, I do believe we've been kept abreast of increased calls and been in touch
- with residents and I, yes, especially in light of the new law.
- Thank you so much. Any other department updates? Seeing none, we'll move on to public comment. Public
- comment is time reserved for items that are not on our agenda. We ask each speaker to limit their time
- to three minutes per person and to give your name and county of residence when you begin speaking. If
- you're on Teams, you may raise your hand to be recognized and unmuted.
- In the NatU Hill Room, please proceed to the podium. All right, seeing none, we will move on to item
- five, please. I would like to move to approve the minutes for June 4th, 2026 and for July 16th, 2026.
- I will second that. Any comments, corrections, edits?
- All those in favor of approving the minutes for June 4th and July 16th, 2026 signify by saying aye.
- Motion carries to zero. Next item, please. Yes, I'd like to move to approve the claim socket for accounts
- payable for July 23rd, 2026 and payroll for July 24th, 2026. I will second that we have this guy or
- those in us. Good morning. Good morning.
- The accounts payable claims docket for July 23, 2026 totals $10,151,930.52. This includes all emergency
- claims and adjustments. The payroll docket for July 24, 2026 includes $1,673,702.01 in direct costs
- and the remaining
- $878,341.98 were for indirect costs for a grand total of $2,552,073.99. Thank you so much. Comments
- or questions, Commissioner Madeira? I have none. Thank you. Thank you so much. Let's see if there's
- any public comment on this item. You raise your hand on teams or come to the podium.
- Seeing none, all those in favor of approving the claim stock at accounts payable, July 23rd, and payroll,
- July 24th, 2026, signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries to zero. Thank you. All right, we don't
- have any reports, so we will move on to new business, please. Yes, I'd like to move approval for the
- contract with Amergis to staff public health nurse positions, fund name, health fund, fund number 1159,
- in an amount to be determined.
- I will second that. Good morning, Ms. Kelly. So back in December of 2025, the Health Department discussed
- with the Board of Health of using a contractual agency for contract nurses. So we are continuing to
- receive applications for nurses in the medical assistant position. We are still doing interviews, but
- one of the problems that we're running into is that while
- the candidates will have years of experience, we can only offer that entry level rate right now. So
- we want to look into using this agency to be able to find contract nurses that we can get in, hopefully
- get them trained, have them working, and eventually be able to move them into a permanent county position.
- Comments or questions? No, thank you for trying to fill these positions and taking whatever means necessary to do so.
- So would the rate be lower or the same with this? So what we pay for an LPN, it's $55 per hour. And
- then the RN would be 65. So they're actually employed through this staffing agency, stay on all of their
- benefits. We just pay that rate. We're only paying for hours that they work. So when we're closed for
- a holiday, for example, they simply just won't get paid that time.
- I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Got it. Did you work with our our newer HR director to find the best agency to
- use? Is that I have met with her and spoken with her a few times. This agency I actually came across
- because Hamilton County Health Department uses this agency and they have been using them for five years.
- To help support their
- as Mel has experience with this. Trying to think of what we should do here because I feel like we should
- have at least an HR review of this. But the problem is if that HR review
- doesn't go as planned, we're not meeting the next two weeks. So I don't want to do approval. What kind
- of review? Well, we do a contingent on HR review, but maybe we just need to be clear with HR that if
- they have a suggestion for a different agency that we can then implement that later. So we can start
- with one and then move to another. Yeah. OK.
- So I'm going to make a motion to amend this to approval contingent on HR review with those copies. That
- shouldn't slow you down at all. Even if we're not reading, you should be fine. And that's my motion.
- Yes. So would you like to take a vote on the amendment first? Yeah, but I need a second. Second to that.
- All right, so any comments on the amendment? No, no. Okay. Yeah, I just wanted to know what we were.
- Yeah, so we're gonna put the second one. Yes. Yep, that's just on the amendment. Any public comment
- just on the amendment? Raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. Seeing none, all those in favor
- of amending the motion signify by saying aye. Aye. All right, motion carries two zero. So now this is
- gonna be an amended motion.
- any comments or questions on the amended motion now? Okay, I don't either. Let's see if there's any
- public comment on the amended motion. You raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. All right,
- seeing none, all those in favor of approving the amended agreement slash contract with emergis
- to staff public health nurse position signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries two zero. And if you
- could get those instructions Angie to be helpful. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. Next item,
- please. Yes, I'd like to move approval for the memorandum of understanding between the Monroe County
- Clerk's Office and Rainbow Printing Fund Name Clerk election fund number 1215 in the amount of $18,550.
- I will second that. Mr. Branham. Hi, there. Thank you so much. Good morning, commissioners. We are requesting
- approval for this contract to cover services provided during the May 2026 primary. Rainbow Printing
- provided postcards that were sent to registered voters informing them of their voter registration status.
- OK. Do you have any questions or comments?
- none um I think that this is uh self-explanatory so um so I had um a lot of questions about this because
- this is a really unusual way for us to do things first of all after the fact um which is really um not
- necessary it should have been done beforehand um so um unlike what we approved last week which was also
- this is just for the primary is my understanding. Um, yes. So this is essentially kind of a part two
- of what we did last week. We wanted to bring these together, but this one just didn't quite make it
- so. Rainbow only provided these postcards during the primary. I expect all of our future mailings will
- be able to be covered by Midwest, which is what we requested last
- the general, the primary, excuse me. Yeah. So this is typically done as a contract in advance, not an
- MOU after the fact. We have an invoice. I have an invoice. So this is a really unusual way, and I know
- that you're kind of newer to county government, so I'm not
- But I'm just stating it for the public's edification that this is not how we typically conduct business.
- So just to kind of explain that. So typically the this kind of mailing would be covered under a different
- line item. So we were
- to cover it out of our supply line because they provided these postcards. And we didn't have enough
- funds in our supply line, so originally we had just requested with the council to increase our supply
- line to cover this bill just because we had a shortfall. And then we were informed that our supply line
- was under the edit fund, and Molly Turner King suggested that this would be the preferable route to
- go to cover this, doing it contractually rather than just doing it as a paying it out of one of our
- normal lines.
- I guess my one question would be, and what I meant self-explanatory, I meant following from what was
- explained last week about the contractual arrangement. Because that's in the executive summary, I agree
- it's highly unorthodox. And we want to pay people, ideally, beforehand. I just would hope that there
- is some way to make this more efficient and to deal with this awkwardness moving forward.
- as we discussed last week. And I think we all agree on that point. Absolutely. Yes. Yes. Yeah. It is
- a transparency issue for the public because any comment that's made now is after the fact. Like we already
- owe this money, right? So that's the issue. And it's better for the vendors too. Well, yeah, to know
- they're going to get paid would be nice. And I get that it was a fairly unusual circumstance,
- But hopefully, yes, this will be addressed with Midwest and then this will be dealt with in the future.
- So that would be good. Thank you so much. Let's see if there's any public comment on this item.
- Can't help it. We've already got filled, but you're welcome to comment. Raise your hand and teams come
- to the podium.
- Seeing none, all those in favor of approving the Memorandum of Understanding between Monroe County Clerk's
- Office and Rainbow Printing, signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries to zero. Thank you. Thank you
- very much. Thank you. All right, next. Yes, I'd like to approve the Memorandum of Understanding between
- the Monroe County Circuit Court and Indiana University, fund name JDAI Programming, fund number 9175
- and the amount of $1,500. I will second that.
- Let's see, who do we have here to talk through this? Is this with the item C? Yes. Ms. McAfee should
- be on, she sent me an email saying that she was having some difficulty. Should be on the... Is not.
- Just send me a text, hang on, let me see.
- All right. I'm having technical difficulties. Let me see what this is about. Well, I do have a question
- about it. So I'm going to I'm going to move to table item C to the end of our agenda. Regular agenda.
- It was like that. All right. Motion and a second to make a note so I don't forget. And we will now move on.
- to I'm sorry all those in favor of tabling the items signify by saying aye aye motion carries now we'll
- move on to item b please yes i'd like to move approval for uh letter no yes r i are just three year
- enterprise license agreement renewal fund name key load of capital fund number 1138 in the amount of
- three hundred sixty thousand nine hundred dollars i'm sorry if i uh mispronounced any of that
- It is alphabet soup. I will second that. Now we're all hungry for alphabet soup. We have too many acronyms,
- I think. TSD, if I could share my screen, that would be great. I'll be quick. Boom. That's showing up. OK. OK.
- Okay. Hello, commissioners. Thanks for having us. Today I'm here for the enterprise license agreement
- for our Esri, basically GIS software across the county. I prepared just a brief PowerPoint to show kind
- of the public what we've been doing with GIS in Monroe County for the past few years. So beginning in
- 2023 is when we first got our enterprise license agreement. What this does is allows us as the GIS division
- to really kind of expand
- not just what we can do providing with services, but also with licenses and different software and things
- like that. So in 2023, before we had the enterprise license agreement with Esri, we had 16 total GIS
- licenses across the county. Many of these were shared between
- departmental employees and departments. We constantly had to change from somebody having a very basic
- ESRI license to somebody having an advanced or a pro one. So it was a lot of kind of extra administrative
- work. We also had kind of a limited user base across the county and we didn't really have a public facing
- website. We had a couple of public facing applications, but they were limited and kind of hard to find
- with the exception of the survey utility, which is still going on today.
- Where we are currently, since we've gotten the enterprise license agreement, we've expanded our GIS
- users kind of extremely across the county. We've also included new personnel within the county as well.
- So we were able to establish a new GIS technician position, which really has foundationally assisted
- myself as a coordinator, as well as just GIS users in general.
- We have somewhat unlimited licensing, and this is one of those things that not saying that's a great
- thing if you, you know, if you have unlimited licensing, are you ever going to use it so but we do have
- we're meeting all of our licensing right now. We also have a public facing website that's had over 63,000
- hits over the past two years right so we're getting lots of traffic and people are enjoying this across
- the county, as well as at a state level.
- We're also continuing to grow and provide more public facing and transparent applications. And we're
- seeing a growing departmental usage as well across the county. So lots of departments that weren't online
- with GIS are now utilizing it and contacting us for support. Our website as well, when you see it, we
- have numerous different public facing web applications. On the top left there, you see our safe place
- viewer and locator that's with you services. We have a national land cover data set, American community
- survey, parcel data,
- community resources, including the survey utility fairly popular one that we established recently is
- our storm dashboard social vulnerability index and different. roads at the highway departments maintaining
- we also one of the departments that has come on board and done a tremendous job as the health department,
- and this is from us, providing some assistance with.
- them learning GIS and things like that but a lot of their own initiative with food locations ticks and
- radon testing as well so we're getting great feedback from that and then finally our work with the clerk's
- office in the voter registration office as well we've been able to do live election reporting across
- Monroe County. We've won back to back to back state level awards for excellence in GIS as well as a
- special achievement in GIS in 2024 2025 and 2026. So
- This enterprise license agreement is going to allow us to kind of continue to expand and develop GIS
- across the county. It's going to allow us to sustain our current initiatives and goals and also reduce
- dependencies on outside contracts, which is going to be a fiscally responsible thing for us to try to
- continue to do for the county. So that's what I have here for you guys in terms of what we're hoping
- will happen with this approval. So thanks. Great. Thank you so much. Comments or questions?
- No, what I always feel very grateful for is the level of information and transparency. And I'm just
- grateful for your office, too, because in terms of technology, I think you are one of the offices within
- county government that brings the most to residents. I don't know how many times I get inquiries and
- can refer them. Yeah. So thank you so much for everything you bring. Thanks. And I'll say that this
- is our office, but it's
- it's very much dependent on the support we've gotten from TSD as well as the surveyors. Absolutely.
- Yeah. It's a great, great teamwork. Yeah. Thank you. And just to verify, TSD has reviewed this and is
- fine with this because we- That is correct. I've been through the process with the surveyor and Mr.
- Dr. Baten here. We've worked closely with this company. They're a good company to work with. This has
- all been vetted.
- I know people are starting to notice, but I'd really like to put out, I've really seen this GIS program
- develop here over the last several years, thanks to the hard work of Dr. Baten and Mr. Tron in, right?
- We are leaps and bounds ahead of where we are. I appreciate their tenacity in trying to figure out what
- we can do with these things to better advance us and the more tools we can have, the more they're gonna
- be able to do us. So I appreciate the support from them. Thanks. Yeah, I appreciate it. Thank you.
- Thank you, Mr. Crum.
- of the sixty three thousand hits I probably had five thousand of them but. But you know I. Since you're
- here I do want to thank you again for your help with putting together our G. I. S. survey of all the
- properties we look at for the justice center you pulled that together.
- very quickly for us we had a discussion like yep we want to add floodways and I had a draft email and
- then I got your email it's like oh it's already done so I mean yes yes yes yes you're amazing yes so
- thank you um thank you you really just it really means a lot and I know that as we've had discussions
- about our potential stormwater long range plan one of the things we've talked about is the importance
- of creating a great dashboard
- related to stormwater, and I know we're going to lean on you happily for that. So thank you. Appreciate
- you. All right. Let's see if there's any public comment on this item. You raise your hand on teams or
- come to the podium. Get into that. Pick GIS and start counting ticks. That's the kind of ticks you want
- to count. Yes, those ticks are, yeah.
- All right. Seeing no public comment, all those in favor of approving the Esri ArcGIS three-year enterprise
- license agreement renewal signified by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries 2-0. Great. Thank you.
- Thank you, sir. You have no idea of the amount of people who have actually reached out and said they
- love that map, too. It's so helpful. Yeah. Yes. I wish I'd thought of it sooner. Yes, absolutely.
- Great tool. Thank you. All right.
- Let's see. So we have Mr. Cockrell, can we take the four ARPA items together? Yes, they're all related.
- Yes. Could you make a motion that combines the four ARPA items? I will. I can't promise I can do them
- all in one breath, but I can do them. OK. So I would like to move approval for item E.
- I'd like to move approval for item F, ARPA item number 12, fund name American Rescue Plan Act Fund,
- fund number 8950, in an amount re-obligating within the $28,830,982 award. I'd like to move approval
- for item F, ARPA item number two, Monroe Fire Protection District Contract, addendum number one, fund
- name American Rescue Plan Act Fund, fund number 8950,
- Yes, $1,417,970, which is an increase of $200,000. I'd like to move approval for item G, or item number
- three, septic replacement contract addendum two, fund name American Rescue Plan Act Fund, fund number
- 8950, in an amount total of $947,426, which is a decrease of $252,000.
- $712.91, and I'd like to move approval for ARPA item number four, ARPA Airport Contract Addendum Number
- One, Fund Name American Rescue Plan Act Fund, Fund Number 8950, an amount total of $5,092,308.28, which
- is an increase of $15,225.41. I will second that. Thank you for reading all of those into the record.
- I appreciate it. Ms. Woodruff.
- Good morning. We have these four items.
- And this shouldn't be anything new. So this just aligns the county's paperwork with the decisions that
- were made by the council and the commissioners to kind of rearrange those ARPA dollars within our current
- obligation. The ARPA plan is a requirement that we are expected to have for the federal government.
- You can see that the only thing updated with that is just the table reorganizing the amounts within
- the plan. And then we have three contractual adjustments that need to be made as well.
- Great, thank you so much. We've already gone through this information before, but these are all the
- adjustments to the ARPA plan that then gets submitted into the Fed registry, whatever it's called, database.
- And a reminder that the septic program
- was not going to be able to install. It's not that we don't have a need, because we do. It was not going
- to be able to install enough septics to meet the deadline. And we had other items that were where there
- was a need. And we are going to address those needs.
- i don't um we also we also voted to allocate money um or first farm so that's gonna be due uh ledger
- correction so the contract has already been approved okay so that's just that doesn't have to be voted on again
- Yes. And you'll notice the jail contract also isn't in here. And that's because it came in under. So
- we don't have to go back to that contractor and request them to amend that. Perfect. Thank you so much.
- I just want to make sure I'm spinning all the plates appropriately and not dropping it. OK. Good. No.
- Nope. OK. Any public comment on these items? You can raise your hand on Teams or come to the podium.
- All those in favor of approving ARPA items one, two, three, and four. See how easy that was. Signified
- by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries to zero. I get the easy job. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much.
- Thank you. All right. Next item, please. Yes, I would like to approve ordinance 2026-25 to amend various
- traffic ordinances.
- I will second that. Yeah, you get the you get the short one after all that. All right, Mr. Cockroach
- is managing this today because Miss Bridge is not here. Yes, and I will do my best. This is an ordinance
- and this has gone through the Traffic Commission and everything had passed the Traffic Commission unanimously
- on July 15th. This is reading deleting the no parking locations on Deerlick Rd from Pine Grove Rd to
- We are going to add the following no parking locations, which is all of that road. Dear Lick Road. And,
- um, Mammy Eads Road. And then we're deleting the 40 mile per hour locations on Kirksville Road. From
- Harmony Road to 300 feet west of bridge number 68.
- And we're also deleting the 35 mile per hour location on Kirkwood Loads from 300 feet west of bridge
- 68 to Heinz Road. And we're going to delete the following 30 mile per hour locations. Dearlich Road,
- Jeremy Drive Road, Nicole Drive Road, Ron Bailey Road, Ron Bailey Drive, excuse me, and Viola Drive.
- Those are, we're deleting them for the 30 mile an hour because we're putting
- them as a 25 mile per hour roads. And now that Kirksville Road we deleted is because we're making the
- entire Kirksville Road 35 miles per hour. There you go. See, I always thought, yeah, there's a lot here.
- There's a lot here. Any comments or questions? Make it a tough question for Jeff because this is his.
- Why is it called Deerlick Road?
- I'm happy to do this I know that sometimes parking around some areas of yes of woods can be. Tricky
- for residents when there are.
- walking through properties, et cetera. So I'm happy to do this. And I know this went to the Traffic
- Commission for approval. Do you have any questions? No, no, no, no, none. This makes perfect sense.
- Yeah. Okay. So any public comment on this item? You raise your hand on teams or come to the podium.
- All those in favor of approving ordinance 2026-25 to amend various traffic ordinances, signify by saying
- aye. Aye. Motion carries 2-0. All right. Next we have, I'd like to move approval for Ordinance 2026-23,
- Tabor Owens Rezone on SR, on State Route 45. And again, another short one. Yeah, I will second that. We have,
- Ray Devaya, who is one of our newer planners, presenting this. Hello, good evening. Hello. Sorry. It's
- hard to share on the screen here.
- Can you all see it? We can. Thank you so much. All right. Good evening. I'll be discussing ordinance
- 2026-23, which is a rezone petition to change the zoning of the subject property from limited business
- to general
- to allow the petitioner to pursue a use that is not permitted in the limited business zoning district
- that uses restaurant fast casual. If approved for the rezone by the board of commissioners, the petitioner
- intends to apply for their drive-through as an accessory use component for the development, which is
- permitted as a conditional use in the general business zoning district. The petitioner will then have
- to apply for a site plan certified by a licensed surveyor and or engineer, and if necessary, apply for
- any applicable variances, grading permits, et cetera.
- The petition site at 3695 West State Road 45 contains road footage on West State Road 45, which serves
- as the primary access point to the lot that was formerly utilized as a business called mobile home hardware,
- which is, I still believe, in the process of being relocated. The adjacent properties to the north,
- east, and south are all zoned general business, and the adjacent property
- the west is in the city of Bloomington's purview and his own mixed use medium scale. The petition site
- contains two access points via existing driveway addresses along State Road 45 which are maintained
- by the Indiana Department of Transportation. We have comments from the Highway Department stating that
- you know as NDOT maintains those
- that road that they really don't have any comment on as far as no maintenance, but the petitioner did
- indicate that NDOT would not review the driveway permits unless the rezoned petition was approved. The
- adjacent site to the petition to the subject property is a Walmart Supercenter. Stormwater program has
- indicated that they will have to meet more stringent
- release rates and as well as meeting the requirements set forth in chapter 761. Things to note are that
- the property is serviced by public utilities including water, sewer, gas and electric and that there
- are two bus stops in the vicinity located to the northeast and southwest of the lot. Another important
- thing to note is that the rezone will increase the permitted uses from 60
- to 85, so 60 permitted uses in the limited business zoning district and 85 in the general business zoning
- district. So here are the definitions of both limited business and general business per the Monroe County
- development ordinance, as well as the definition of restaurant fast catering. And here's the definition
- of drive through as an accessory.
- So this is a snippet from the use table in the Monroe County Development Ordinance. As you can see on
- the top table that the restaurant fast calories is not permitted in the limited business zoning district,
- but it is permitted in the general business zoning district. And in the bottom table, you can see that
- both zoning districts permit drive-through as an accessory use as a conditional use.
- Big thing to note here on these tables, I mean, on these maps are on the right map, you see the red
- around the subject property, that's the general business zoning district, and the pink is the limited
- business zoning district. So as you can see, most of the surrounding properties are also zoned at general
- business. There's a site conditions map outlining the site conditions
- There's not a lot of course features, but as you can see in the next picture that many improvements
- have been made to that site from 2005 to 2025. More likely due to that Walmart Supercenter being located
- to the east. Other site conditions map. And here is a photo from Eagle View that shows the property
- from the north and from the west. You can see the parking area there. And here's a couple of photos
- of the bus stops in the vicinity to the southwest and to the northeast. The one to the right is the
- one on the northeast. The one to the left is the one on the southwest, as indicated in these photos.
- As you can see, there are some minor changes that the rezone will have on the effect of the dimensional
- standards that are outlined below. The significant ones are really the change in the maximum impervious
- cover and the critical watershed, which this property is located in, as well as the max height of the
- primary structure and accessory structure. Here are the comments from the other departments.
- and here's the staff recommendation. I will now take any questions. Thank you so much. Do you have any
- questions? Oh, thank you so much for the comprehensive explanation. One of the things that came up,
- I just want to mention this, one of the things that came up during our Plan Commission discussion related to
- the in dot in the driveway because because that driveway will go on to a state road. But they have to
- see that this petition was approved first before they consider that. But that's why there was one abstention
- because they thought something should be in here. And this do we know yet the sidewalk
- they will have to have a sidewalk, but we don't know yet whether it's in dot or the city that has to
- permit that. Um, I believe that, um, it might be, I'm not entirely sure. Okay. Okay. Oh,
- planning director is online and has raised her hand. So I'm going to go to her. Sorry to ask you a tough
- question. It was not expected. Ms. Nestor Jelen back from leave. Welcome back. Hello. Hi. Thank you.
- So the road frontage is in dot maintained and the site plan would require the sidewalk. So if in that doesn't
- permit us to require them a sidewalk, they'll be getting a variance. Got it. Perfect. Thank you. I just
- wanted that clarified. I know it was kind of a little technical question that we had. Thank you so much
- for jumping on. Appreciate it. Awesome. All right. Let's see if there's anyone here or online that wishes
- to speak in favor of this petition. You may raise your hand on Teams or come to the podium.
- Is there anyone who wishes to speak in opposition to this petition? You may raise your hand on teams
- or come to the podium. Seeing none, any general public comments? We are happy to see another business
- going in there. It's really good to not have a vacant business, especially in that location. Yeah,
- it's busy, so very smart.
- All right. We don't see any public comment. Do you have anything else? Any other commentary before we
- move on? Okay. Seeing no comments. All those in favor of approving ordinance 2026-23 signified by saying
- aye. Aye. Motion carries to zero. Thank you, everyone. Thank you, Mr. DeVio for your presentation. Appreciate
- it. All right.
- So next on our agenda is the review on the Form 144s. Nope, I said we're putting it at the end of the
- agenda. Oh, sorry. So yeah. The 2027 Form 144s are the salaries for each
- And this is a standard- letter that we get and we're asked to respond- and we. Have come up with a response-
- that includes the following and I will just read into the record but we will make this into a
- We appreciate the council's commitment to ensure that all Monroe County employees are paid equitably
- and adequately, reflecting the current local employment market and local cost of living. We also understand
- the fiscal pressures facing county government, boy do we ever. The state, that's my, sorry. The state
- budget agency issued a growth quotient six year increase in non-farm income of 6%.
- While not all county employee wages are derived from property tax revenue, the growth quotient represents
- an increase in tax revenue for the county. We recommend a salary increase of 6% for Monroe County employees.
- As a note as well, the consumer price index increased 5% in the Midwest between May of 2025 and May
- of 2026, which demonstrates the impact of inflation on our employees' paychecks.
- So, in sum, we recommend that the council provide an increase for all employees, except those who have
- statutorily mandated salaries of six percent. We ask the council to ensure relevant salaries for employees
- who hold similar positions at the City of Bloomington and Monroe County are made equitable. Eight, we
- recommend that the council continue to work
- toward pay equity and to ensure all full-time county employees earn a living wage. Are you fine with
- that language? Do you have anything you want to add? Any comments? Nope. I think that pretty much sums
- it up. Pay equity is a wonderful thing. Yeah. All right. So I'm going to make a motion to approve this
- letter for council, which we will then get
- run up and sign hopefully today and we'll present it to council or at least send it to them. I'm not
- sure if we have to present it formally. So that's my motion. I second that. All right. Any public comment
- on this item?
- Good morning, officially. I've been here through the meeting. I just wanted to express my gratitude
- of referring to the equitable pay with the city. There's various jobs that it impacts. We've been seeing
- that in planning, which I serve on the Plan Commission and also collaborate extensively with other projects.
- There's other areas or sectors, if you will, of government that, you know,
- kind of have that overlap. GIS is one of them as well. And I think whatever we can do to make sure that
- we're not competing with the city for qualified employees is great. I know it's a very challenging time.
- And unless you kind of mentioned that in your motion today, I wasn't gonna come and speak, but since
- you did, I just wanted to come and express my support and just talk about how we've already seen it happen.
- I've seen it happen internally too, but we have our procedures to go through to kind of rebalance that.
- And I've had to do that once before because people were competing for internal roles that come with
- the same skill sets and expertise. So again, I'm really happy that you brought this up and it's going
- to be a very challenging thing to address moving forward. Yeah.
- It absolutely is. And yes, planning has been impacted by this. And I would say policing has been impacted
- by this. And so we have to make sure that we have established ourselves in a way that puts
- us in a competitive position because we lose talent and experience and that's not a good thing.
- So thank you. Any other public comment on this item?
- So hopefully county employees will watch the county council's budget sessions and find the time. I know
- time is short, but find the time to come in and offer comment or send emails to the council if they
- support this idea. All right. All those in favor of approving the
- 44 letter content signified by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries to zero. Just to duck in there real quick
- and say, you know, we know that there's sometimes other outside processes that affect salaries as well.
- Sure. But, um, but I think too, especially there's so many outside externalities that are taking, uh,
- boy that's redundant. Um, you know, driving everything
- up that I think it's especially important for counties to stand up for their employees and uh and cities
- too right but uh but yes and while we know that there was a WIS review it it doesn't necessarily balance
- us locally it's just a statewide review of job descriptions but it doesn't provide that local balance
- that we really need because this is the real world so yeah right it was what three years ago
- Yeah. All right. Yeah. We don't want the county to become like sort of the ugly stepchild. Yeah. Yeah.
- All right. So now we will move on to one of the and I'm going to have to add another item to our agenda
- at the end. So sorry. This is just this is what happens when. Yes. Like it's crazy. Okay. So to say
- that's that's always the case, by the way. Yeah. No, it never is that way. Any other day. No, just today.
- Just today.
- I want that ugly stepchild category. We don't want it to fall farther. We don't want that distance to
- open up. I just wanted to be sure where my comment was in reference to. But crazy days, too. I mean,
- we don't ever have those. I'm going to make a motion to submit a letter to the Flock Group, which is
- the license plate reader
- company to approve a letter of termination dated today. Yes, you can get a second on that. Mr. Cockrell.
- Yes, I think you had received a request from the public to look at this contract. I can tell you the
- contract was approved in September of 2021 for two years with an automatic renewal of an additional
- two years.
- every so often, or every two years. So it will go into perpetuation, which would have this contract
- terminate in September of 2027. If you would want to wait till September of 2027 to terminate this contract,
- you could. If you do it immediately, then there are some costs associated with that. Namely, we would
- reimburse the company up to $500 per camera.
- for the removal for their cost of removing the camera. So it's my understanding there are six. So it
- would be a potential cost of $3,000. Thank you. Several. So I think it is $3,000 well spent. I appreciate
- the advocacy of the citizens who
- spoke before the city on this issue. And I think that it would be worth paying that $3,000 as a county.
- And I'm concerned about the implications for this contract as a county. And so I would support terminating
- this contract. And this is the sheriff's contract, FYI. And it is something that we approved many, many
- years ago.
- And it has helped reduce crime. It has helped them find people who are missing. It has helped them track
- people coming into the county to do nefarious things that they were aware of, and they could find them
- before they did that thing. So, you know, it has a role, but the way the data has been abused, and we've seen
- national stories about this is terrible. Now, I think if there's money set aside for this contract,
- so hopefully if we're terminating in that we'll have enough money to cover the camera removal. I don't
- know that, but we might have to go to council or we might have to find a way to do that.
- Yeah, two things, because I just got an email from the office and there's actually another contract
- that was signed by the sheriff outside of a commissioner meeting in 2023. I afforded it to all of you
- via email just now. The other issue is the contract. I don't believe we're paying anything on this contract
- on a daily basis or on a monthly. So we don't have a line for this contract. So what we have to use is
- I believe the sheriff's paying for it. Okay. Okay. There is no expense to it. I assume Q cap because
- of the technology. Yeah. Okay. So it's out of the sheriff's eye. I am not aware of any payments. Okay.
- So in order for you guys to pay for this, I believe, and I had a quick conversation with Mr. Crocknell
- yesterday, we could use our professional services line.
- And so, and this falls into again, kind of the council's process of you bend your line and then for
- new needs that come up, you expand the line and then if you're unable to meet the expected expenses
- in that budget line, then you go back and ask for additional. So that will be happening.
- Well, I do want to say that I had a discussion with the sheriff about this, and he said, I'm fine with
- terminating it. So we're not undermining him. We got his OK on it. I will say I'm really grateful that
- Mr. Cockrell raised the issue of removal of cameras because other agencies could still use the information. Right.
- If they're not removed and so I do hope and I encourage the city of Bloomington to proceed with that
- portion of Their contract termination with flock because there are still cameras out there and you can
- find them online So are those cameras on and operating? Well, I don't know but they but flock could
- certainly I imagine that
- could certainly still collect data from them, even if there's no contract. Even if they think it is
- not accessing right data, right? Because they actually they can use it themselves. They can sell it.
- They could whatever. I don't know. I don't know that. But but that's the worst case scenario. And so
- I I would hope that we could encourage our city colleagues to take the next step and have those removed.
- It'd be nice if there were a way to do this locally so that we can get the
- Well, I mean the technology that we could be able to use it for its purposes and help protect residents
- better. Finding silver alerts, amber alerts, it really makes a big difference and it's hard to say,
- well, we don't want that protection. We don't want that ability because of the things this company has
- done. So it is unfortunate, but I do appreciate Mr. Copper looking into that and I look forward to this
- contract being finalized and ended and terminated. And I assume if there's any issue between the sheriff's
- version of the contract and the one that we approved in 2021, I think. Yeah, that's when we started.
- But I thought he had told me several months ago in a conversation I had with him about it, he was like,
- oh, yeah, we just renewed it. And I was like, really? How did that happen?
- I don't remember that. So it's the new lawn contract. His ability to do that. Yes. So anyway, I just
- want to make sure that all of that gets settled before we send out this letter, but with that. Hopefully,
- if he's got money in the line, then he will pay for the removal. Yeah. How soon can we get them removed,
- do you think? I don't know, but we'll have to see what's in that contract. We can only get the invoice.
- We'll know that they're done.
- Yeah, I think that we'll know it when we get the invoice, but I had a contract that the 2021 contract
- indicated they have to remove it in a reasonable amount of time. So they want a specific, but it. So
- they remove, but they define reasonable, so we're going to have to keep an eye on that. Can we hood
- them in the meantime or? Highway Department has to do some spray painting projects on traffic lights. No, no.
- I don't think we can. Because it's not our equipment. Gotcha. They might say it overheats or something
- like that. Any public comment on this? We've had a lot of internal comment, but let's see if there's
- any public comment on this. You can reach your hand on Teams or come to the podium.
- Seeing none, all those in favor of approving the flock termination letter and camera removal signified
- by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries to zero. Now we have the item from the work session. So if you could
- go ahead and make that motion, please. Yes, I'd like to move approval for the agreement with Midwest
- Salt LLC and Monroe County for treated salt. Fund name, local road and street, fund number 1169.
- in the amount of two hundred eighty six dollars and one hundred two hundred eighty six yeah two hundred
- eighty six thousand dollars and one hundred. I'm sorry it was a long night last night. Two hundred eighty
- six thousand one hundred and fifty dollars I will second that. Welcome thank you. Good morning good
- afternoon. What you have for you is a contract for treated salt with the company called Midwest Salt
- LLC. We did annual bids
- maybe a couple weeks ago, maybe a month ago at this time, but we got no bid on our treated salt. We
- did have a supplier for untreated salt. I just want to get another avenue for salt supply. We did have
- an issue getting salt 25, 26 winter. I hear that with the bids they were,
- it's my understanding that might be the case again, so I just want to make sure we have some options.
- This requires us to make a commitment to the tonnage that is here. Minimum 80% of those tonnage maximum
- 100% of that time, so maximum contract would be 286 150. If we have a mild winter, we do not have to
- take all that tonnage. But at least 80%.
- And based on your knowledge of even a mild winter, which seems to be the ones where we get a lot of
- ice storms, super El Nino, whatnot, you're thinking that we're going to be able to use 80% of this.
- I do. Our mild winters, you get that one to two inch snow. And for us, that uses the most material.
- we get the bigger snows of five, six, seven, eight inch snows. We do a lot of plowing, same amount of
- material. So the littler snows, the littler skiffs actually eat up more material than the bigger ones.
- I think this is good. I know you have salt in the barn, as they say, treated salt in the barn,
- ready to go, but God, I can't imagine winter right now. I'm so just, yeah.
- So, but it looks like $7 a ton difference for early versus later. That's kind of interesting. But yeah,
- it looks like you're just kind of filling the barn. We're going to go ahead and top it off with that
- 350 tons. We think we can get that crammed in there and we know it won't be an issue getting it right now.
- But when those storms start coming days or weeks after weeks and everybody's trying to get more salt
- because they can only store so much towns, municipalities, cities and dot. Yeah, it's you start running
- out of trucks and and being able to get it so it gets a little tougher. In season. Yeah, I hear that
- and it's smart to go to go ahead and pre order. So thank you for bringing this. Do you have any comments?
- So I just think it's an excellent smart idea to have ready to go. So yes. All right. Let's see if there's
- any public comment on this item. You can raise your hand on Teams or come to the podium. And just to
- be clear, we also did an approval earlier on the untreated salt, and that's the brine system. And if
- we needed it. Absolutely. Yeah, that helped us a ton last year when we could not get treated salt. Yeah.
- we've been able to. The brine system's been amazing. Brine was good and we're still able to use untreated
- salt mixed with sand, and we have something to put down. Yep, got it. All right. I don't see any public
- comments, so all those in favor of approving the agreement with Midwest Salt LLC in Monroe County for
- treated salt, signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries 2-0. Thank you, sir, for coming in. Thank you.
- Appreciate it.
- Now let's go back to item C, and then I'm going to add something to our agenda. I'd like to move approval
- from memorandum of understanding between the Monroe County Circuit Court and Indiana University.
- Fund name, JDAI programming, fund number 9175, in the amount of 1,500. All right, I will second that.
- Ms. McAfee, we made you come here. That's all right. But it's always good to see you. Thank you. I'm
- sorry you are. It's a beautiful day to walk.
- It is a great day to be out walking, yeah. One thing I can quickly jump on and then that didn't work.
- Be sure to meander back. Thank you for letting me show up a little bit tardy. My apologies. Thank you.
- I was here a few weeks ago. You might remember we did a whole bunch of JDAI memorandums of understanding.
- This is one of that bucket that we're doing. It was delayed a little bit because Indiana University
- needs to have their people look through things and sometimes that just takes time.
- We currently have a process within the department for juveniles that we do surveys or offer surveys
- to young people who come to our office for an intake, for a court hearing, for a traditional appointment.
- They can use a QR code or they get a text message with the URL, I think is the right word to say. Clearly
- today, technology is not my jam. So if I mess that up, my apologies. But Indiana University gets that
- data for us. I think their system is qualified.
- that data, they identify all of it for us and then they give us quarterly reports on things like I was
- felt like I was treated respectfully. The process was understandable. Parking was manageable times and
- dates, so this contract just takes us through June of 2027. OK, great. Thank you so much. Questions?
- No, I think this again, you know, shows just how evidence based and data driven.
- we are, and that's why I think I'm so proud to say that our programs work. And if it doesn't, we can
- change it and see what's not working, which is a lot better than paying for things that don't work.
- So thank you. That is amazing. I do have a question for you, and it is related to, so are there,
- There's a lot of confidentiality information in the contract, obviously. Yes, is there identifiable
- information on the survey? Do they provide their identity when they complete the survey? Is that OK?
- What could be potentially identified is if I walk out of the office on Thursday at 2 o'clock then and
- do my survey. We could technically do a little bit of background and figure out who that was. The other
- thing is because it does
- include kind of broad demographics. If we have a 12-year-old that meets a certain profile, we don't
- have a lot of 12-year-olds. So we might be able, if we dug a little bit, to figure out who that was.
- So there are no names, there are no dates of birth, those kinds of things. But thankfully, our probation
- population is small enough that sometimes it wouldn't take a lot of energy to figure out who those folks
- are. But they're keeping that information confidential.
- And so, do you know if they have to do the IU protocol research test subject approvals? My understanding
- is that they have to go through that board, but because it's not direct service to people, that arm
- of it is not applicable. But yes, it does have to go through because they are collecting information
- on humans. Got it.
- Yeah human subject research board that's what it is okay for that yes subject research actually give
- us a whole lot of acronyms when we're trying to do this it was a little bit easier because we've done
- this for the last two or three years but yeah that first time we wanted to do it there were lots of
- questions and lots of concerns just about what are we collecting and how.
- How will we be using it then? And how is that information brought back to you in what form and how do
- you use it? And it would be research involving children and research involving subjects. But also, it
- would not be for publication purposes either. But there's always, I believe, numbers that people can
- call and backstops in case anybody feels that they have questions and stuff.
- That's all included. Thank you so much for your answer. That was a weird question. No, that's great.
- I'm proud of both of us. Yeah, you just had the answer right off the top of your head. Let's see if
- there's any public comment on this item. Can you raise your hand on teams or come to the podium?
- Seeing none, all those in favor of approving the MOU between Monroe County Circuit Court and Indiana
- University signify by saying aye.
- I motion carries two zero. Thank you again. Thank you again so much. Good seeing you. Bye. All right.
- Now I do want to add yet another item to our agenda. I forgot to add earlier. Apologies. This would
- be, can I use the term ratification for this MOU, Jeff? Because it's something the stormwater board
- voted on yesterday.
- I think it's an approval for you, or you could ratify the actions of the stormwater. We'll just do the
- approval. It's easier. All right, thank you. I move to approve the memorandum of understanding MOU between
- the city of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department and the Monroe County Highway Department for
- the removal of log jams along Clear Creek. I second that. So this was voted on at yesterday's stormwater
- meeting. And if you want to see some impressive fish
- pictures of log jams in an urban environment. That's the place to go look. It's in the packet. Those
- images are in the packet. Yeah, I won't be able to bring it up on screen quick enough. So this is in
- response to a grant. We're so grateful for our stormwater director, Ms. Erica Penna, who
- really worked to make sure that this grant happened. And the city of Bloomington working together, great
- thing again. And this is going to be a shared cost, but that cost is covered by that grant. So kudos,
- kudos, kudos to our stormwater program.
- the county expenses something like seven thousand dollars yeah that's coming out and that's coming out
- of the grant absolutely yes yes and uh you know i think um just you know to even backdate this further
- it comes out of the tornado from may of 2025 and if you've been walking along the clear creek trail
- you've seen just all of the
- And that could be that it poses a danger to landowners along there. It poses a danger to wildlife. And
- so and if there's another storm or a flash flood.
- it's going to get worse. But it would be enormously expensive for us to clear it out. And so thanks
- to our wonderful county employees and city employees, that is now not going to be a problem anymore.
- And so it's wonderful, wonderful. So take a walk by the Clear Creek Trail, and you can see it. It's
- even better than the photographs yesterday. And I don't really have a problem with adding it to the
- agenda here, because it got a full airing yesterday at 3.30. And tune in. It was a good meeting, and
- even the budget discussion.
- Yeah, absolutely. And yeah, and you're absolutely right. It adds to erosion. It adds to flooding concerns
- and property damage. And all of those things are terrible. So I know what I didn't make a motion to
- add this to the agenda.
- We need to do that. I think it's pretty clear from the from the motion that that's the intent. So I
- think you're fine. Thank you. Oh, my God. Oh, I think it's the cooler weather at night. That's I don't
- know. Well, I could say two hundred and six thousand. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Not enough caffeine.
- All right. So let's see if there's any public comment on this item. You can raise your hand on teams
- or come to the podium.
- Seeing none, all those in favor of approving the Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Bloomington
- Parks and Recreation Department and the River County Highway Department for the removal of log jams
- along Clear Creek, signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries 2-0. I know Aubrey DeLotter-Myers that
- this needs to get to Erika ASAP. So just a note to get that signed on DocuSign as soon as possible before
- anything else.
- because she needs to take it to the parks department tonight. All right, so back onto where we are.
- We don't have any appointments. A couple of announcements. I do want to note that we were at the city
- council meeting last night where we presented a June, 2026 design
- that's on the property. We kind of tossed that to the City Council with the caveat because we do know
- that our priorities right now are time and space. In terms of space, it's not
- but it works and there is some room to expand the facility if needed. Good. So that's that's excellent
- and and but we really can't go through a nine to 12 month. Plan commissioned.
- city council approval process. This is how long it takes. I mean, ours takes time too, because you have
- to put on notice. You have to, you know, have to have hearings. It's part of democracy. It takes time.
- Um, but, uh, so we, we gave them that caveat that we need to find a, if they're willing to do this,
- we need to find a quicker way to act. Um, so, um, I received one mail email of interest last night,
- sent some followup documentation.
- Um, and we'll see what happens, but hopefully we'll hear from our colleagues at the city council. Did
- you mention where and where this property is? I did say hope well, but at the very beginning. So this
- is the former Bloomington hospital site. Yeah. Um, otherwise known as hopeful. Yes. Thank you.
- Thank you. Uh, and it is a city project site. So that's why we went to them. Yeah. Thank you.
- that. It is the west. There's like a south one that there is to build on and yeah yeah yeah so I'd say
- we're north off of second it goes second it spans second to first um and we're we're going to um go
- ahead and um find a way to attach that and maybe maybe dr baton's listening again but we could find
- a way to attach that design to the GIS uh we're gonna have to add
- the secondary piece of information to that GIS that he so magically created for us and looks beautiful.
- So we'll add this other information because there are, you know, there are some benefits, but there
- are some and we'll put all that in the in the chart. So there'll be a second Hopewell site and then
- hopefully we'll add in this design and into that as well. So we'll see if you can do that.
- he could do anything all right um i do want to note that we are not having a regular meeting um july
- 30th and august 6 uh so but we will have claims only yes we will have claims only uh commissioner madera
- will be here um i will be remote and um so we will get that done but we we do have
- virtual office hours each month and go to the calendar at in.gov slash county slash Monroe for dates
- and times. We are accepting applications for all boards and commissions because we're almost at that
- point where we're going to need to get some spaces filled in 2027 and
- So you can go to our website and look for information and fill out an application as well, or contact
- one of us, drop by office hours, whatever, and we can talk through that. We have office hours tonight
- at six o'clock. Oh. Seven o'clock to nine o'clock as well. Oh, yes. We're out all night tonight. So, yep. Yep.
- We need to get that up there then because I think the only ones on there tonight are the six o'clock.
- You know what? I think it's mine and it goes six to nine. That's mine. That's just me. It's six to nine.
- It's just me. So everybody knows now. Thursday, it's me. Yeah, it is six to nine because you said six
- o'clock and I thought maybe mine's at seven. Okay. Yeah. Mine was usually six to seven and then yours
- was bigger than seven. Okay. I'm six to nine.
- Oh, three hours. You were doing three hours. I do three hours each. Okay, yep, yep, yep. Gotcha. And
- so there's another blood drive date coming up Wednesday, July 29th, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. And this is blood
- drive we hold in conjunction with IB Tech. Thank you, IB Tech and the Red Cross. Wednesday, July 29th, 9 a.m.
- to 2 p.m. IB Tech, room C130A and B.
- to make an appointment, not necessary, but better, go to redcross.org. We do want to remind folks to
- sign up for our resident alert system so you can be informed of any weather, health, or roadway emergency,
- any kind of community emergency will show up in its text call and or email. Belts, two belts and a suspender.
- All right.
- Do you have anything else for our announcements? No, just I believe that MCCSE is starting up August
- 5th. And so the next time we meet, we'll be in session. Yeah. So yeah, drive carefully. Yes. Yeah. It's
- a good reminder for folks to be aware of school buses and the morning commute will be a little bit longer.
- And then when IU comes back into session, it doubles my morning commute. Yeah, I know.
- All right. Anything else for the good of your daughter? I'm just in denial that summer is going down
- at some point. Yeah, I know. So we will not have a work session today because we've dealt with that
- one item. And until our next regular meeting of August 12th, and again, we will handle claims on August
- 5th and July 30th only, we are adjourned.
- Yes, until the next August month.