- I'm going to call to order this work session for the Monroe County Board of Commissioners. It is Thursday, August 14th. I'll note for the record that most Commissioner Maduro and myself, Commissioner Thomas are present here in the NatU Hill Room. And the first item on our agenda is the Indiana Geographic Information Office
- seeds grant application. Morning. Good morning. Trying to write Randolph Monroe County Surveyor. I was going to be accompanied by our GIS coordinator, but he's actually attending. It's we kind of refer to the Indiana Geographic Office as the IGO and he's at the higher education summit currently.
- What we're doing here is pursuant to Chapter 272. And this is just Section 272-2, Commissioner's approval required. And basically, we just kind of need approval from you to pursue this grant. It's not a done deal. We're going through that.
- building a profile of the application. I was working with legal, making sure I was going through each step correctly, and then as we were reading this, his interpretation is we need preliminary approval. I'll dive in just real quick of what that seed grant is. Is it sowing enhanced?
- Sorry, it's so enriched and enhanced data sets. They have three different priorities. Essentially, a lot of this relates to the data harvest. And our goal is actually to work with an existing contractor that we have that we work in collaboration with TSD for their expertise and build out scripts, which is kind of more maybe commonly known as like crosswalk
- Tables because we need to meet the state schema data schema. So that's one of our main goals and then If we complete that we can kind of move into the other priorities So that's everything in a nutshell I don't think I highlighted anything else that I felt I needed to cover but if you have any questions Please just go ahead and ask
- I don't. I really just appreciate anything that helps us to use data more efficiently. So thank you so very much. Do we need to do a formal vote on this, Mr. Cockerill, or can we by consensus? I think what that code section says is that you're
- kind of verbal go ahead. We've also been working with the auditor's office on kind of all the other details. Well there's there is a lot to do with grant applications as you know. It's actually a new thing for my office and myself to take on but
- That's not, we've done a lot of new things over the years and been very successful. So we're really excited about this opportunity because you never know when the next kind of technology GIS grant will be offered by the state. They're already talking about introducing an Atlas grant next year, but I don't think we'll be one of the parties that are applicable to that grant. What are your thoughts, Mr. Cockrell, can we just?
- It seems to say all documents or instances that modify a grant or award application or contract must be approved by the board of commissioners prior to the execution of the application contract. I mean, I don't think we're executing an application we're submitting. No, we'll be back for that part as well. I think it's only when you are required to vote when it has a burden.
- Right. Application is that. But I do. And so you're fine with them. Yeah. Good. Yeah. We're good. All right. Thank you. Thank you. I hope this shows you that we're going to really make sure we follow every step correctly. So we'll be back. And I'm very optimistic about getting the grant. So thank you. Good luck. Yes. I hope are burdened quote unquote with the grant. All right.
- The other item is there are three grant support letters for the Monroe County Soil and Water Conservation District, the Indian Creek watershed grant application, the Bean Blossom watershed grant application,
- and the Clean Water Indiana application. So we have those letters and are you okay with me signing those? Absolutely. Okay. Great. So we'll get those to Ms. Miller. Excellent. Tomorrow, which is her deadline for today for her deadline tomorrow. That's exciting. Yeah. Anything else we need to do? Nope. Awesome. All right.
- We are adjourned. Thank you everyone. Thanks.