- It is 1115. I'm going to call to order this work session. The Monroe County Board of Commissioners for
- Thursday, October 23rd. I will note for the record that Commissioner Madera, myself, are here and present,
- and at you Hill Room, and Commissioner Jones is joining us via Teams. Our first agenda item is from
- the legal department. Mr. Schilling, please.
- Thank you very much. We are seeking your authority to offer a little over $1,100 to settle some damages
- allegedly caused by a highway truck that slid a snow plow that slid off the road and hit a fence and
- damaged that fence.
- And the homeowners have complained about their yard being torn up and a mailbox being destroyed as well.
- The county went out and repaired the yard. The mailbox, the driver says he didn't get close to, so we
- have no reason to think that the county is responsible for that. But the driver did say that it's possible
- that he hit the fence.
- We are seeking approval to offer that to them because that is consistent with the fence claim or fence
- estimate that they received and will require them to sign a settlement agreement releasing us from all
- of their claims. Okay, for that incident that day. I'm assuming this is something we have to vote on.
- Yes. Yes. Okay. And where is the appropriation coming from? That is coming out of the settlement line
- in the legal department budget. Great. All right. So before we get to questions for you from my colleagues,
- I'm going to go ahead and make a motion to approve the fence settlement claim for 4243 West Buick Drive.
- um and the the fund name is county legal fund number 1000 and the amount is 1132 dollars and 60 cents
- i will second that motion all right thank you so much uh do you have any uh commissioner madura do you
- have any comments or questions no this all appears very straightforward commissioner jones comments
- or questions
- Yeah, I'm a little curious. Originally, I was under the impression that it's just a fence post. Is it
- the entire fence that's going to have to be replaced? It seems like it must be a very special fence
- post for that price. Yes, it is only the fence post. And that was what the estimate was for. And we
- confirmed that.
- I spoke to Richard Kreider about it and he was familiar with this fence company as one that the county
- uses and he felt confident, I believe, that that's what it would cost, whether that's reasonable or
- not. I don't know. Yeah. It sounds amazing to me, but I guess we have to go with what we have. Yes.
- All right.
- Thank you so much. I don't have any other questions. 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
- this fence post settlement signify. Oh, I'm sorry, we can't do that. Mr. Cockrell, will you please call
- the roll on the settlement of the fence post matter? Commissioner Thomas. Yes. Commissioner Jones. Yes.
- Commissioner Madeira. Yes. Motion is approved 3 to 0. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next item, Mr. Cockrell.
- Yes, I had placed something on the council agenda and I realized that I hadn't brought to you guys formally
- first. We've talked about it at a couple executive sessions. We're talking about the Thompson property.
- As you know, we bought it in 2001 for the purpose of expanding our jail there. We looked at that when
- we were looking at jail sites and it was determined to not be appropriate for what we were planning on doing.
- and we had been talking with a potential person, developer, company to buy that property in order to
- put in some economic development into that property. They have kind of cooled on that but during the
- conversations with the executive sessions with both the council and commissioners, it was readily apparent
- that people were really
- we're not really interested in utilizing that property for county purposes anytime in the near or distant
- future given that it's 90 acres and relatively close to well in Bloomington and it's probably better
- to get that into a private productive on the tax rolls kind of a situation. So I put that on the county
- council's agenda to approve the
- as an ordinance for the terms and conditions. I left the terms and conditions very broad and a lot of
- aspects however we have had two appraisals on that property so it can't be sold for less than the average
- of the two appraisals. I have referenced three possible Indiana codes in order to utilize for selling
- that property. The first is kind of the general if we have property we put it out for bid and it gets
- bid. The second is the economic development
- statute where if a company somebody wants to come in and do a project with it we can utilize that and
- the third is we could sell to another governmental entity. I'm intending to ask the City of Bloomington
- if they have any interest in that at all just to kind of get a feel and maybe they have people who might
- be interested in the property otherwise.
- think there'll be a little bit of well probably quite a bit of legwork to figure out if there's a market
- what the market is and how to make that market know that this potential sale is going to happen before
- we actually put out the bids and that kind of stuff but it's just kind of the first step to make sure
- we're all on board with with moving forward with it but I wanted to make you guys aware that I've done
- that so if you don't want me to do it want me to pull from the agenda you could you could tell me now
- it's still ultimately you guys would have to
- determine which of those three paths to take and move forward that way. Any comments or questions,
- Commissioner Jones? Makes sense to me. Commissioner Madeira? It absolutely makes sense to me as well.
- Yeah. I'm on board here. So I'm glad it's on the agenda. I know we did talk about it at executive sessions.
- So thank you for that. Appreciate it. I assume we don't have to vote on that. I don't think you have
- to vote on that. We just got a round of consensus here. It's on the agenda. That's a direction of staff
- that what I did was not inappropriate, which is really what I was looking for. Appropriate, sir. It
- was appropriate. All right. Let's see. Anything else? Other updates? Nothing? OK.
- Awesome. So our next regular meeting is October 30th, 10 a.m. right here in the NatU Hill Room. Thanks,
- everyone. We're adjourned.