WEBVTT 00:00:00.546 --> 00:00:09.287 - All right. I'm going to call to order this work session the Monroe County Board of Commissioners. It 00:00:09.287 --> 00:00:18.287 - is a very long meeting day and beautiful spring, cold, chilly day. But before we get to our first item, 00:00:18.287 --> 00:00:27.547 - I was alerted that our vote on item T, as in Tom or Thomas, wasn't clear. And that's on ordinance 2026-12, 00:00:27.547 --> 00:00:29.278 - Highlands Parcel E. 00:00:30.402 --> 00:00:40.835 - The vote I called was related to accepting the planning commission's recommendation. That's not typically 00:00:40.835 --> 00:00:50.776 - how we vote. So to be clear, a yes vote would be to allow the planned unit development to enter into 00:00:50.776 --> 00:00:56.190 - a private. It would be to do what Mr. Winninger wants. 00:00:56.514 --> 00:01:06.706 - and has requested, so that's a yes vote. And a no vote would be to agree with the plan commission that 00:01:06.706 --> 00:01:16.701 - we need these changes made to the original plan. So, on ordinance 2026-12, let's do roll call. Let's 00:01:16.701 --> 00:01:25.310 - do roll call. If you don't mind. Unless, let's be clear, a yes vote means Mr. Winniger 00:01:25.922 --> 00:01:32.740 - is approved in making the changes he wants to make, including keeping the street private. So we're doing 00:01:32.740 --> 00:01:39.493 - it opposite how we did it. Yes, we are. And the no vote would be to follow along to support the planned 00:01:39.493 --> 00:01:46.116 - commission vote that says, no, you should make this public road. And there are other changes as well. 00:01:46.116 --> 00:01:52.739 - But simply put. Yeah. OK. I understand. Ms. Turner-King, would you call the roll? Commissioner Jones? 00:01:52.739 --> 00:01:54.622 - No. Commissioner Thomas? No. 00:01:54.946 --> 00:02:04.179 - Shiner Madeira. State. Motion passes 2-0-0-2-1. Two nays and one abstention. It doesn't pass. 00:02:04.179 --> 00:02:14.198 - It's not passed. The motion fails. Let me turn this over. The motion fails 0-2-1. You know, we should 00:02:14.198 --> 00:02:23.038 - not be doing this. I think we should have moved that by the very beginning of our agenda. 00:02:23.170 --> 00:02:32.409 - and caffeine food, I'm tapped. All right. Thank you. All right, we're good. Now let's move on to our 00:02:32.409 --> 00:02:42.014 - work session, please. First is approval of distribution of timber sale funds. Ms. Bird? Excuse me, yeah. 00:02:42.014 --> 00:02:51.710 - So I don't think we've had one of these for a few years, but the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, 00:02:51.842 --> 00:03:03.876 - retain 15% of the proceeds received from permits, lease or contracts entered into for the removal and 00:03:03.876 --> 00:03:15.675 - sale of what's termed mercantible timber. Timber for sale. Timber for sale from our local forestry. 00:03:15.675 --> 00:03:20.158 - So we have received a sum of $25,719. 00:03:20.290 --> 00:03:31.180 - And the receipt of those funds are also somewhat dispersed. So the maximum dispersal of the funds is 00:03:31.180 --> 00:03:41.962 - that $1,000 of each of the money is to go to each department that has signed a contract. The mutual 00:03:41.962 --> 00:03:48.862 - aid agreement with? Yeah, it's a cooperative agreement with the 00:03:48.962 --> 00:03:59.326 - DNR and we have, I believe, four, let's see here. Yeah, three, okay. And so you can either give them 00:03:59.326 --> 00:04:09.587 - $1,000 and the rest would remain in county general or the board of commissioners as the legislative 00:04:09.587 --> 00:04:14.718 - body can decide to provide a larger distribution. 00:04:14.978 --> 00:04:20.615 - And that's what we're here for today is to discuss whether or not you want to give a larger distribution. 00:04:20.615 --> 00:04:25.934 - Right. And we don't have to hear this again. Once we vote on it today. This is a public. Yeah. So I 00:04:25.934 --> 00:04:31.252 - prefer that we distribute everything. Now there was something said at Tuesday night's meeting about 00:04:31.252 --> 00:04:36.783 - some money in the fund that shouldn't be there because it's not just county general money. So look into 00:04:36.783 --> 00:04:39.070 - that and we may come back and have another 00:04:40.194 --> 00:04:46.357 - vote on additional funds if there are additional funds there. But let's just deal with the money that's 00:04:46.357 --> 00:04:52.520 - there now that we know is there now. Would you be okay with a motion on all of them? Okay, so I'm going 00:04:52.520 --> 00:04:58.860 - to go ahead and move that we distribute the timber sale funds to the Beam Blossom Township Fire, Volunteer 00:04:58.860 --> 00:05:05.438 - Fire Department, Bloomington Fire Department, Ellisville Fire Department, and Monroe Fire Protection District. 00:05:05.698 --> 00:05:14.444 - in the amount of $6,429.75 per unit to cover a total of $25,719. And this is fund number 1,000 and that 00:05:14.444 --> 00:05:23.273 - total amount. Second. Thank you. We have a motion and we have a second. Any public comment on this item? 00:05:23.273 --> 00:05:31.851 - All right, seeing none, all those in favor of approving the distribution of timber sale funds signify 00:05:31.851 --> 00:05:34.878 - by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries. 00:05:35.746 --> 00:05:42.722 - 3-0, thank you. Ms. Biermann from the planning, are we good? Yes, thank you, sorry. Ms. Biermann from 00:05:42.722 --> 00:05:49.835 - planning department, she's the assistant director and acting director right now. You have been patient. 00:05:49.835 --> 00:05:57.085 - You and Mr. Smith have been so patient. Thank you for waiting and please tell us about ordinance 2026-15. 00:05:57.085 --> 00:06:04.130 - Right, I'm gonna go ahead and share screen for this one. So at the beginning of our ordinance, we have 00:06:04.130 --> 00:06:05.566 - a list of revisions. 00:06:06.018 --> 00:06:12.864 - And this is the summary of the revisions that we have. A lot of it is just some Scrivener errors or 00:06:12.864 --> 00:06:19.915 - trying to keep up with some of the state statute that is coming through. And so I know this didn't end 00:06:19.915 --> 00:06:26.760 - up in the work session packet, but this is the packet from the plan commission from April 21st. And 00:06:26.760 --> 00:06:33.811 - I'm just going to highlight a couple of the major substantive text amendments and not fritter our time 00:06:33.811 --> 00:06:35.454 - with the little things. 00:06:36.290 --> 00:06:46.727 - I probably have like 10 things I'd like to address. And so in red, this is what will be amending. And 00:06:46.727 --> 00:06:56.959 - on the second page, it delves into that as well. So looking for my page number. All right. So we do 00:06:56.959 --> 00:07:06.270 - have on our two pagers, we're clarifying some how we look at front setbacks for lot lines. 00:07:06.914 --> 00:07:15.731 - I'm going to jump right over to page 85 now. And those are going to be through each of our two pagers. 00:07:15.731 --> 00:07:24.376 - And then in our use table, the state statute said we needed to have schools permitted in every zone. 00:07:24.376 --> 00:07:33.022 - So we're going to add them to the industrial zones and mineral extraction on page 88 of that packet. 00:07:33.570 --> 00:07:41.513 - This is something that we're addressing now is battery energy storage systems and we have added a definition 00:07:41.513 --> 00:07:48.874 - for this. We have also added conditions that would go with this use and it is to be permitted in the 00:07:48.874 --> 00:07:53.246 - IP zone, HI, and airport zones. And then also on this page, 00:07:53.986 --> 00:08:00.675 - Just confirming that data center is not a permitted use in Monroe County. We also are stating that small 00:08:00.675 --> 00:08:07.046 - modular nuclear reactors are not permitted in the county. And this is kind of a response to some of 00:08:07.046 --> 00:08:13.672 - the state legislation that we've been seeing. And then skipping to another page. This is the conditions 00:08:13.672 --> 00:08:20.170 - that we associated with the battery energy storage systems. And this would have to go in front of the 00:08:20.170 --> 00:08:22.718 - Board of Zoning Appeals to be approved. 00:08:22.946 --> 00:08:40.702 - And we would make sure that all of these things were compliant. And then we are looking at, in this instance, 00:08:41.218 --> 00:08:47.372 - We have an alternative transportation map that we use to reference whether sidewalks or certain road 00:08:47.372 --> 00:08:53.647 - improvements are required or not with a subdivision or a commercial improvement. And we've been seeing 00:08:53.647 --> 00:08:59.862 - some, a lot of waivers and variances associated with ones that are moderate. They're just kind of far 00:08:59.862 --> 00:09:06.321 - out there. What we wanna do eventually is have a better map, a better, clearer vision with an alternative 00:09:06.321 --> 00:09:11.134 - transportation plan. And so at this point, we're gonna just exnay the moderate 00:09:11.266 --> 00:09:19.453 - road improvements, at least that's what we're proposing, and we hope that you support that. And we're 00:09:19.453 --> 00:09:27.479 - still going to go with high priority, but not the ones that are moderate priority at this time. And 00:09:27.479 --> 00:09:35.907 - then we are doing a modification to the expenses section to clarify payment for planned commission board 00:09:35.907 --> 00:09:39.358 - members. And then finally, we have several 00:09:40.098 --> 00:09:48.308 - amendments that are associated with our definitions chapter. And so this is battery energy storage systems 00:09:48.308 --> 00:09:56.212 - that we have. And then I think another one that I want to touch on is 524, our lot line, and how we've 00:09:56.212 --> 00:10:03.885 - clarified this to give staff a little more guidance when we're trying to figure out what is a front 00:10:03.885 --> 00:10:06.110 - yard setback. We did provide 00:10:06.466 --> 00:10:16.291 - a diagram in the ordinance to assist our staff. Then finally, we have a major utility definition and 00:10:16.291 --> 00:10:26.603 - we are making sure that it excludes the small modular nuclear reactors and battery energy storage systems 00:10:26.603 --> 00:10:35.358 - because we are defining those elsewhere in the ordinance. That pretty much is our summary 00:10:35.650 --> 00:10:43.111 - of our ordinances. Does anyone have any questions on that? Let's see if my colleagues have questions. 00:10:43.111 --> 00:10:50.571 - Commissioner Maduro? No, I don't. It's all very clear. Thank you. Commissioner Jones? No, I don't. It 00:10:50.571 --> 00:10:57.959 - really is about fixing. You always find typos. You always find mistakes. But it's about fixing that. 00:10:57.959 --> 00:11:01.470 - But it is also about updating it to match state 00:11:01.762 --> 00:11:08.442 - state statute and all of that. So, and really the mini nuclear reactors issue is kind of a big deal. 00:11:08.442 --> 00:11:15.055 - And it's often utilized for data centers, which are huge buildings that take up a lot of resources, 00:11:15.055 --> 00:11:21.734 - but don't employ very many people. And, and so we felt like that risk was way too high to have it in 00:11:21.734 --> 00:11:28.348 - Monroe County. And we have to have that done before the end of the year, I believe, based on states 00:11:28.348 --> 00:11:31.390 - that decision. And that would be this, right? 00:11:31.586 --> 00:11:38.107 - Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. So when do you want to hear this? Yeah. May I say, can I skip next 00:11:38.107 --> 00:11:44.627 - year? Please, please, please. Sorry. There's a chance I'm not here next week. So at the earliest would 00:11:44.627 --> 00:11:50.832 - be the May 14th for me. But anytime after that. Okay. That's cool. Is it okay date for everybody? 00:11:50.832 --> 00:11:57.226 - Fourteenths. Okay. Let's aim for that. That's perfect. Yeah. Whatever works for you all. We're good. 00:11:57.226 --> 00:12:01.214 - Okay. Okay. Thank you so much. Appreciate you. Yes. Take care. 00:12:01.378 --> 00:12:09.997 - Okay, anybody else have anything for work session? This is a marathon meeting. I talk too much. I apologize 00:12:09.997 --> 00:12:17.978 - for that. Thank you, TSD, as always. Thank you, Katz. And we are adjourned, and our next meeting is 00:12:17.978 --> 00:12:22.846 - May 7th, right here in the Nat Yohuru Room. We're adjourned.