WEBVTT 00:00:00.450 --> 00:00:09.336 - I apologize for the delay. I'm going to call to order this meeting of the Monroe County stormwater management 00:00:09.336 --> 00:00:17.899 - board. I will note for the record that Commissioner Medeira is joining us via Teams. We have Commissioner 00:00:17.899 --> 00:00:26.138 - Jones present and Surveyor Tron and Wright Randolph and myself, Commissioner Julie Thomas here in the 00:00:26.138 --> 00:00:29.854 - NatU Hill Room. And we do have a time crunch. 00:00:30.466 --> 00:00:46.229 - Is there any public comment on items not on our agenda? Raise your hand on teams or come to the podium. 00:00:46.229 --> 00:00:59.870 - All right. Seeing none, we'll move on to the next item. If we could get a motion, please. 00:01:00.098 --> 00:01:12.573 - We have a motion and we have a second. Since we have a member who is joining us via Teams, we're going 00:01:12.573 --> 00:01:24.806 - to have to do a roll call vote if you would please, Ms. Spana. Madira? I, but I'm driving. Do I have 00:01:24.806 --> 00:01:30.014 - to turn on my camera to vote? Yes, you do. 00:01:30.306 --> 00:01:39.892 - I just hit a red light. We could take the rest of. Aye. Okay, great. Thomas? Yes. Jones? Yes. Randolph? 00:01:39.892 --> 00:01:49.294 - Yes. Great. South area. That's approved. What about them? Great, thank you so much. Next we will move 00:01:49.294 --> 00:01:59.710 - on to our stormwater expenditure report for December of 2025 and January, February of 2026, if you would please. 00:02:00.354 --> 00:02:08.478 - I have a recommendation maybe we could delay the overview this month and review it next just since we 00:02:08.478 --> 00:02:16.442 - need to be out by 4-15. All right. Well, is that all right? Anything big? Okay. I would say I would 00:02:16.442 --> 00:02:24.486 - just ask members of the board to review what's in the packet and if they have questions to send them 00:02:24.486 --> 00:02:29.822 - forth with and we will take this matter up next month, April 22nd. 00:02:30.978 --> 00:02:42.069 - All right, next we'll move on to new business and we have the Lake Monroe Water Fund MOU on water monitoring. 00:02:42.069 --> 00:02:48.926 - We do have Michelle Cohen is here and we have a brief presentation. 00:02:52.034 --> 00:02:58.511 - Good afternoon. I'm Michelle Cohen with the Lake Monroe Water Fund. Thank you for listening 00:02:58.511 --> 00:03:05.059 - to my presentation today. I just wanted to let you know that I've also got a colleague here, 00:03:05.059 --> 00:03:12.452 - Amalia Schifras. She's also with the Water Fund and just kind of came to observe. So in the past, you've 00:03:12.452 --> 00:03:19.563 - generously funded some data collection on South Fork Salt Creek with a stream flow gauge, and that's 00:03:19.563 --> 00:03:21.886 - what I'm asking again for today. 00:03:22.018 --> 00:03:28.723 - Most of you have heard from me before, so you can advance the next slide, please. Just want to do a 00:03:28.723 --> 00:03:35.629 - quick review, and I know you're in a time crunch, so I'll try to make it snappy, but go ahead and yank 00:03:35.629 --> 00:03:42.468 - me off the podium if you need to. So we're a water fund, and the basic idea behind a water fund is to 00:03:42.468 --> 00:03:47.966 - take resources from the watershed, and particularly to focus on downstream users. 00:03:48.066 --> 00:03:55.834 - of, in this case, drinking water in the city of Bloomington and to put that money and resources into 00:03:55.834 --> 00:04:03.526 - upstream conservation activities to help with water quantity and or quality. In our case, we really 00:04:03.526 --> 00:04:11.294 - focus on the quality aspect. So some of our other programs, we deal with healthy forests, fertilizer 00:04:11.294 --> 00:04:15.678 - mitigation management, I should say, and septic systems. 00:04:16.034 --> 00:04:25.792 - In this case, we are working with several other groups who are the funding source for the stream flow 00:04:25.792 --> 00:04:35.551 - gauges operation every year. Next slide, please. So the Water Fund has been around since 2021, and we 00:04:35.551 --> 00:04:45.118 - cover multiple counties. The watershed stretches across mainly Monroe, Jackson, and Brown counties. 00:04:45.474 --> 00:04:54.029 - The water fund model was started by the Nature Conservancy and we're the only one in Indiana. As I mentioned 00:04:54.029 --> 00:05:02.192 - before, we focus on several different aspects of being able to reduce nutrients and sediment pollution. 00:05:02.192 --> 00:05:10.198 - So for this particular stream flow gauge, the U.S. Geologic Survey is in charge of it. The total cost 00:05:10.198 --> 00:05:14.750 - in the past has been $14,000 and they cover half of that. 00:05:15.266 --> 00:05:22.641 - And we're taking responsibility for raising the other half. I did just find out that this upcoming year, 00:05:22.641 --> 00:05:29.945 - they've raised it by $200. So now it's a little bit more. But you're all very familiar with watersheds. 00:05:29.945 --> 00:05:37.109 - And so there's just, on the next slide, there's just a map of exactly the watershed that we focus on. 00:05:37.109 --> 00:05:44.414 - And we're fortunate that most of our watershed is not heavy industrial use at all, not heavy, heavy ag. 00:05:44.898 --> 00:05:52.375 - and over 80% forested. Next slide. Thank you. I just wanted to give you a little kind of picture of 00:05:52.375 --> 00:06:00.002 - where we're talking about. The gauge is located on South Fork Salt Creek in northwest Jackson County. 00:06:00.002 --> 00:06:07.853 - And it's, if you've never, you probably have, you're really heavily involved in storm water, but looking 00:06:07.853 --> 00:06:11.966 - at the data that's available publicly on the USGS site 00:06:12.290 --> 00:06:19.576 - You know it's a continuously monitored level so you can go back to any point in time and see what that 00:06:19.576 --> 00:06:26.721 - flow of that stream is and it's really important for other groups like Friends of Lake Monroe to use 00:06:26.721 --> 00:06:34.078 - that information and feed it into models so they can calculate sediment load and other pollutant loads. 00:06:34.078 --> 00:06:35.422 - Next slide please. 00:06:37.026 --> 00:06:44.305 - So I just wanted to give you an actual picture of what the gauge looks like. We hosted a little kind 00:06:44.305 --> 00:06:51.801 - of show and tell situation in the fall and we had a roadside cleanup in conjunction with that. So those 00:06:51.801 --> 00:06:59.008 - are my board president and our work study intern who helped out at that. So next slide please. So I 00:06:59.008 --> 00:07:05.278 - just wanted to say thank you. We bring a bunch of people together to make this happen. 00:07:05.410 --> 00:07:13.127 - The Jackson County Soil and Water Office is the fiscal agent who helps us be able to pay for this to 00:07:13.127 --> 00:07:20.996 - the USGS. We've gotten funding from Duke Energy Jackson County, from this board. We've put in a little 00:07:20.996 --> 00:07:28.866 - funding ourselves. And the Community Foundation of Jackson County also supported that gauge last year. 00:07:28.866 --> 00:07:31.998 - So with that, I will end. Any questions? 00:07:33.314 --> 00:07:42.110 - Thank you so much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues on the board? Just a quick one. No, 00:07:42.110 --> 00:07:50.907 - thank you. Just a comment. I had to pull this out because I attended one of DNR's water stakeholder 00:07:50.907 --> 00:07:59.439 - meetings just recently, and they gave us about a bunch of iterations of like maybe what regional 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:03.134 - collaboration district might look like in 00:08:03.394 --> 00:08:10.178 - what you were explaining kind of I think is the intention and reflects what a good collaborative effort 00:08:10.178 --> 00:08:16.766 - is with like they were focused on like river basin commissions or water development commission and a 00:08:16.766 --> 00:08:23.485 - drink water collaborative is kind of some of their focuses and they highlighted areas in the state are 00:08:23.485 --> 00:08:30.334 - doing well. We might want to bring some attention to our little area so we get highlighted on their next 00:08:30.722 --> 00:08:38.522 - iterations of maps and proposals. High support of this and also I'll kind of just leave it with what 00:08:38.522 --> 00:08:46.245 - I say all the time when we look at this. I think this is one way that we can do water monitoring is 00:08:46.245 --> 00:08:54.200 - by creating these partnerships and not necessarily taking on all that effort in-house. So I appreciate 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:59.838 - the opportunity to support these efforts. Thank you. Commissioner Jones? 00:09:00.642 --> 00:09:10.204 - I appreciate that this is information that's really needed in order to get other information that's 00:09:10.204 --> 00:09:19.766 - going to be really important and that maybe people will understand the importance of more than they 00:09:19.766 --> 00:09:25.694 - do this, but this is the kind of stone it's all dependent on. 00:09:25.826 --> 00:09:32.862 - I'm sure that this information has guided you in some of the programming that has gone on in the area. 00:09:32.862 --> 00:09:39.897 - Yes, and we're grateful that, you know, friends can take the information and feed it into their models 00:09:39.897 --> 00:09:47.069 - and that we serve kind of as that funding mechanism for it through generosity of people like you. Great. 00:09:47.069 --> 00:09:54.105 - All right. Let's see. We need a motion first and then we can take public comment. Move approval of the 00:09:54.105 --> 00:09:55.198 - lake water lake 00:09:55.298 --> 00:10:01.991 - Monroe Water Fund? Second, and I'll state the amount that was at 3,500. Right, and we have a motion 00:10:01.991 --> 00:10:09.018 - and we have a second, and this fits into our budget, yes? Yes, it's already accounted for in our budget. 00:10:09.018 --> 00:10:15.778 - But I thought, thank you, just verifying. Let's see if, thank you again for being here. Let's see if 00:10:15.778 --> 00:10:22.270 - there's any public comment on this item. You can come to the podium or raise your hand on Teams. 00:10:27.458 --> 00:10:41.510 - Seeing none, would you please call the roll, Ms. Penna, on the Lake Monroe Water Fund MOU water monitoring 00:10:41.510 --> 00:10:56.350 - for $3,500? Madira? We couldn't hear you, Jody. You're muted. Yes. Thomas? Yes. Jones? Yes. And Wright-Randolph? 00:10:57.538 --> 00:11:06.642 - Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. Next we'll move on to the soil and water conservation district. 00:11:06.642 --> 00:11:15.400 - We have two separate items here. We have an MOU for the grant partnership and we'll start with that. 00:11:15.400 --> 00:11:24.677 - We'll just start with that. Okay. Part of what we do when we get this $35,000 is we offer a quick snapshot 00:11:24.677 --> 00:11:26.238 - of what happened. 00:11:26.530 --> 00:11:38.392 - We're gonna roll through that real fast. Overview, been going on for about 12 years. I can't see the 00:11:38.392 --> 00:11:50.960 - big number because old. You can turn that if you'd like toward you. On to the next slide. So quick rundown 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:54.718 - is in 2025 we paid out $49,500. 00:11:54.818 --> 00:12:01.388 - in cost share to landowners that went directly into Monroe County landowner's pockets. The reason that 00:12:01.388 --> 00:12:07.830 - number's a little bigger than the 35,000 is because when we get to the end of the year, we have ones 00:12:07.830 --> 00:12:14.336 - that we hold over, so that was that. We also approved 12 projects this year, this past year. So we've 00:12:14.336 --> 00:12:20.779 - allocated all the money this past year. We actually have three or four? Yeah, they're on the waiting 00:12:20.779 --> 00:12:24.606 - list, ready to go. So yeah, all funds were allocated, okay. 00:12:26.914 --> 00:12:34.817 - These are the kind of projects we had, pollinator planting, invasive species, heavy use pads, watering 00:12:34.817 --> 00:12:43.103 - systems, cover crops, log jam removal, which we worked with stormwater on that one, and a flood mitigation. 00:12:43.103 --> 00:12:50.622 - That's just the percentages. Okay, so Erica's gonna talk a little bit about some of the projects. 00:12:52.514 --> 00:12:59.009 - Yeah, I'm really excited to highlight just a few of our projects for this year. This one I was particularly 00:12:59.009 --> 00:13:05.323 - excited about. It's a tree and pollinator planting. There was a new culvert put in and a ditch installed 00:13:05.323 --> 00:13:11.637 - to help mitigate flooding from a neighborhood development across the street. And when they put the ditch 00:13:11.637 --> 00:13:17.711 - in, they took out some native species. There was native golden rod and yeah, there's a lot of native 00:13:17.711 --> 00:13:22.462 - species. I'll try to make this faster. Anyway, so we can go to the next slide. 00:13:24.546 --> 00:13:32.518 - So these landowners actually went and bought 450 native species and they planted them themselves along 00:13:32.518 --> 00:13:40.646 - this creek bed along with 75, you can go to the next slide, along with 75 different oak species as well. 00:13:40.646 --> 00:13:48.386 - Yes, and bits of everything, they were impacted by the tornado and even through that they were able 00:13:48.386 --> 00:13:52.798 - to get their lawn cleaned up and complete their project. 00:13:52.930 --> 00:13:59.075 - They also spoke at our annual meeting this year, and they're just really enthusiastic to talk with people 00:13:59.075 --> 00:14:05.277 - about their projects, so really, really cool one. Okay, we can go to the next slide. We did some automatic 00:14:05.277 --> 00:14:11.132 - waters for livestock. They just had hydrants for this, and they wanted to put in automatic waters so 00:14:11.132 --> 00:14:16.987 - that the livestock had access to fresh and clean water. We can go to the next slide. They put in new 00:14:16.987 --> 00:14:21.566 - heavy-use area pads and waters, and I thought this one turned out really nice. 00:14:22.370 --> 00:14:28.241 - We can go to the next slide. That's a quote from the landowner. They love their fresh water. We can 00:14:28.241 --> 00:14:34.170 - go to the next slide. This was a bit of flooding mitigation. As you're aware, we've had a really big 00:14:34.170 --> 00:14:40.041 - uptick in erosion and floods happening in Monroe County. So this was more of an urban, I guess it's 00:14:40.041 --> 00:14:46.558 - not urban, it is on a farm, but it's near their home. It was flooding their home. We can go to the next slide. 00:14:47.714 --> 00:14:54.317 - So they actually added a drain in at the end of their driveway and it led out into the field and drained 00:14:54.317 --> 00:15:00.983 - and it's no longer flooding their home. But they also put a berm up at the top where the water was coming 00:15:00.983 --> 00:15:07.461 - to redirect the water flow into the drain. And they put some native species in there as well. We could 00:15:07.461 --> 00:15:13.812 - go to the next slide. This is a project up near the lake. They bought property where there were some 00:15:13.812 --> 00:15:15.070 - old logging trails. 00:15:15.522 --> 00:15:21.452 - and they just have Japanese stiltgrass just covering everything. So this particular project actually 00:15:21.452 --> 00:15:27.383 - has a contract with Ecologic. It's a very big project that's gonna take at least three years, but we 00:15:27.383 --> 00:15:33.489 - helped a little bit and helped them get started. You could go to the next slide. It doesn't look pretty 00:15:33.489 --> 00:15:39.478 - now, but that was all invasive Japanese stiltgrass that they were able to eradicate, and then they're 00:15:39.478 --> 00:15:42.238 - gonna put some native pollinator plants there. 00:15:42.754 --> 00:15:48.881 - Those are just a few. If you ever want to hear about more, I'm happy to share. Thank you. I'm going 00:15:48.881 --> 00:15:55.620 - to just quickly tell you that she actually did a site visit yesterday. We have four landowners in conjunction 00:15:55.620 --> 00:16:02.114 - with one another who are working on a project to control Asian bush honeysuckle along one of the channels 00:16:02.114 --> 00:16:08.670 - into Bean Blossom, which is a focus for us. So yeah, so anyway, that's that's what we're doing. Nice. Wow. 00:16:08.802 --> 00:16:19.941 - Great projects. Which leads us to the MOU. Which leads us to the MOU. And let's go ahead and get a motion 00:16:19.941 --> 00:16:30.450 - on the floor to start with. I move for approval of the Solid and Waste Conservation District MOU 26 00:16:30.450 --> 00:16:34.654 - through 2028 grant partnership. Second. 00:16:35.746 --> 00:16:43.018 - with an amount of $35,000? Correct. I'm sorry. Oh, you're fine. Okay. So we have a motion and we have 00:16:43.018 --> 00:16:50.289 - a second. So is there anything different about this next grant cycle? Yeah. I'm excited that you guys 00:16:50.289 --> 00:16:57.775 - agreed to do a three-year MOU instead of a one-year MOU, which will help us because some of our projects 00:16:57.775 --> 00:17:05.118 - overlap years, and that's just beneficial in that respect. So we'll give it our best to continue on as 00:17:05.506 --> 00:17:16.164 - and build. Great. Any comments or questions from my colleagues here in the NETU Hill Room first? Yes. 00:17:16.164 --> 00:17:26.613 - I will repeat a comment that I made last Thursday at our meeting where a pollinator garden came up, 00:17:26.613 --> 00:17:31.838 - which is hopefully more people will be listening. 00:17:32.034 --> 00:17:41.666 - And we'll hear that we have a worldwide problem with crash in insects. And this of course affects our 00:17:41.666 --> 00:17:51.864 - food security, but also before we're affected, a lot of other things are affected. And the bird populations 00:17:51.864 --> 00:18:01.118 - are falling because of this. I'm sure the same is true for many reptiles. Insects are kind of the 00:18:03.266 --> 00:18:14.283 - ground level for many, many species, eating chain or food chain and more pollinator gardens that people 00:18:14.283 --> 00:18:25.194 - can plant and hopefully teach, help teach people that insects are not scary, that insects don't really 00:18:25.194 --> 00:18:31.550 - chase people down to bite them. At least not in most cases. 00:18:32.578 --> 00:18:41.222 - And they really need all the help we can give them at this point. I'll start with, I hope CATS features 00:18:41.222 --> 00:18:49.533 - this on their Friday recap comment there. And then also, I do have a question with the three years, 00:18:49.533 --> 00:18:57.844 - we're giving three years to complete these projects, but you will still be coming back annually for 00:18:57.844 --> 00:19:00.670 - the dollar amount, correct? Yeah. 00:19:00.802 --> 00:19:06.781 - The the goal is just that we would have three years to kind of put these projects in place and get them 00:19:06.781 --> 00:19:12.646 - done if we need to We also did as Julie asked if Commissioner Thomas asked if we had anything else we 00:19:12.646 --> 00:19:18.625 - did lower the two-year mark Instead of three year to do a project But it can't be a consecutive project 00:19:18.625 --> 00:19:24.432 - So like if you come in and you want to do invasive species removal, we can do that over a three-year 00:19:24.432 --> 00:19:27.134 - period but if you come in you want to put in a 00:19:27.554 --> 00:19:35.443 - a watering system, you gotta wait two more years before you can come back and do that again. So yeah, 00:19:35.443 --> 00:19:42.946 - it just made sense because there are some people who wanna do things in... Injunction. Sequence, 00:19:42.946 --> 00:19:49.598 - thank you. And that just made sense. So we are very appreciative. I will say quickly, 00:19:49.954 --> 00:19:56.530 - Being moved into a county office has been a game changer for us. It's huge. We're seeing more influx. 00:19:56.530 --> 00:20:02.978 - We're seeing more people who are asking questions. We're able to work with storm water closer. It's 00:20:02.978 --> 00:20:09.425 - the best thing that's ever happened in my opinion. Awesome. It's great to have you. Yeah, it really 00:20:09.425 --> 00:20:15.486 - is. Good, good, good, good. Well, you know where to contact us if you have anything you need. 00:20:15.650 --> 00:20:20.856 - I do want to make one clarification. I think the intention of the MLU being three years would be that 00:20:20.856 --> 00:20:25.959 - we dedicate those funds for the next three years, and they don't have to come back to us each year. 00:20:25.959 --> 00:20:31.114 - They'll come back each year to give us a recap of the previous year, but we don't need to re-approve 00:20:31.114 --> 00:20:36.830 - the funds each year. It'll just be incorporated into our budget. Right. That's correct. But at the same amount. 00:20:37.058 --> 00:20:46.397 - Same amount. 35,000 a year for three years. But we can obviously budget now for year two and year three. 00:20:46.397 --> 00:20:55.292 - So Commissioner Madera, do you have any comments or questions? No, I do not. Thanks. Thank you. And 00:20:55.292 --> 00:21:03.742 - I will say thank you again for being here. Thank you for your hard work. I've got three out of 00:21:04.354 --> 00:21:11.637 - four of those things going on in my, that were on your list in my yard. And if you could send us the 00:21:11.637 --> 00:21:18.920 - presentation via email, we'd appreciate it. That'd be great. I can share that with you. Great. Thank 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:26.203 - you so much. All right. Let's see if there's any public comment on the MOU for the grant partnership 00:21:26.203 --> 00:21:33.630 - with the Soil and Water Conservation District. You may come to the podium or raise your hand on Teams. 00:21:38.754 --> 00:21:57.494 - Seeing none, Ms. Penna, would you please call the roll on that grant partnership MOU? Yes. Madera? Aye. 00:21:57.494 --> 00:22:08.126 - Yes. Thomas? Yes. Jones? Yes. Randal? Yes. Motion carries. 00:22:08.322 --> 00:22:15.936 - And we'll now move on to the next item please, the part time staff. Oh, I'm back again. Sorry. 00:22:15.936 --> 00:22:24.431 - Martha Miller. Yeah. So we did a summer program. You guys gave us $5,000 last year to do summer education 00:22:24.431 --> 00:22:33.086 - focus and that sort of thing. We're bringing it back to you again. I do believe it's already in the budget. 00:22:33.346 --> 00:22:39.774 - We're hoping to take a little bit of a turn on this one just a smidge. We actually have a retired MCCSE 00:22:39.774 --> 00:22:46.016 - teacher who has reached out to us and is very interested in working with us this summer and possibly 00:22:46.016 --> 00:22:52.382 - maybe doing some things in the fall. We've met and talked and waiting for your approval and then we'll 00:22:52.382 --> 00:22:58.624 - talk with the soil and water board and see how they're gonna feel about this. But the goal right now 00:22:58.624 --> 00:23:03.198 - would be that we would develop like an eight week session that deals with 00:23:03.618 --> 00:23:10.402 - food and why water and soil are important to that, and we'll be dealing with the pollinators and addressing 00:23:10.402 --> 00:23:16.620 - that. We will be working with Carson Farm Park. We are potentially gonna work with Banneker again. 00:23:16.620 --> 00:23:23.090 - And then, depending on where this goes and how we can build it, maybe getting into schools in the fall 00:23:23.090 --> 00:23:29.434 - some, so we'll see. Great, okay. And let's see if my colleagues have any questions. We'll start here 00:23:29.434 --> 00:23:30.942 - in the Nat Yohill room. 00:23:31.266 --> 00:23:43.856 - I was just wondering if you wanted a motion? Sure. For approval of the MOU-2026 summer part-time staff 00:23:43.856 --> 00:23:56.446 - with the amount of $5,000. Second. All right. We have a motion and a second. Do you have any comments? 00:23:56.642 --> 00:24:07.228 - I'm excited to see how we can tackle the K-12. I think education, like Commissioner Jones just mentioned, 00:24:07.228 --> 00:24:18.013 - is very important to kind of achieve big impacts on our efforts. Commissioner Medeira, do you have anything 00:24:18.013 --> 00:24:26.302 - to add? No, I do not. Thank you. All right. And we have the budget space for this. 00:24:26.978 --> 00:24:35.052 - It's already in there. Sometimes you ask a question when you know the answer. That's one of them. Okay. 00:24:35.052 --> 00:24:42.892 - All right. Let's go ahead and see if there's any public comment on this item. You raise your hand on 00:24:42.892 --> 00:24:50.733 - teams or come to the podium. All right. Seeing none, Ms. Pena, would you please call the roll on the 00:24:50.733 --> 00:24:56.478 - MOU with Soil and Water Conservation District for summer part-time staff? 00:24:57.378 --> 00:25:09.109 - Madeira? Yes. Thomas? Yes. Jones? Yes. And Randolph? Yes. Thank you all. Thank you so much. Thanks for 00:25:09.109 --> 00:25:20.611 - being here. Appreciate it. Thank you. Motion carries 4-0. And we will now move on to item C, please. 00:25:20.611 --> 00:25:26.078 - Yes. So we already have a task order with HNTB. 00:25:26.370 --> 00:25:34.421 - for performing an analysis of our couple of county owned detention basins. And so this is an amendment 00:25:34.421 --> 00:25:42.316 - to that to assist us in putting together a work plan to now perform the work needed to bring them up 00:25:42.316 --> 00:25:50.446 - to a better working capacity. Thank you so much. Can we go ahead and get a motion on the floor and then 00:25:50.446 --> 00:25:53.182 - we'll take comments and questions. 00:25:54.818 --> 00:26:03.496 - Move approval of the HNTB task order number two, amendment one, detection, best managed practices, 00:26:03.496 --> 00:26:12.350 - maintenance. Second. This is for a fee estimate of 13,500. 13,500, which we've already accounted for 00:26:12.350 --> 00:26:21.116 - in the budget. Yes, so we have a motion and we have a second. Now comments or questions here in the 00:26:21.116 --> 00:26:24.798 - Net-U-Hill room? Just one quick question. 00:26:25.474 --> 00:26:33.341 - As far as the work plan goes, is the goal to use in-house efforts? It's potentially a little more than 00:26:33.341 --> 00:26:41.284 - we can do in-house, also accounting for the projects that are already on the list in-house. So we would 00:26:41.284 --> 00:26:48.998 - probably, we would contract that work out for completion hopefully this fall. Okay. Or by this fall. 00:26:48.998 --> 00:26:53.886 - I think having a work plan is necessary and maybe forward as we 00:26:55.394 --> 00:27:05.529 - it out. Commissioner Madera, do you have any comments or questions? No, I do not. Thank you. Okay. Any 00:27:05.529 --> 00:27:15.565 - public comment on this item? You raise your hand in teams or come to the podium. And seeing none, Ms. 00:27:15.565 --> 00:27:24.126 - Pena, would you please call the roll on the HNTB task order number two, amendment one? 00:27:24.866 --> 00:27:36.113 - Madeira? Yes. Thomas? Yes. Jones? Yes. And Randolph? Yes. Motion carries 4-0 and we will move on to 00:27:36.113 --> 00:27:48.147 - the next item please. So this is also with HNTB. We have task order number three. We believe had discussed 00:27:48.147 --> 00:27:54.558 - this with you previously. This is to support our efforts 00:27:54.850 --> 00:28:03.074 - for the emergency watershed protection program. So I will provide an update. So we submitted this application 00:28:03.074 --> 00:28:10.625 - back in September as related to the May 16th, 2025 tornado. We did receive the funding. So the total 00:28:10.625 --> 00:28:16.830 - estimated construction costs are $65,000. 75% of that will be covered by the NRCS. 00:28:16.962 --> 00:28:26.284 - which would be $48,750. 25% of that will be covered by Monroe County in partnership with City of Bloomington 00:28:26.284 --> 00:28:34.923 - Parks. That will be $16,250. The funding also provides for technical assistance, which will be up to 00:28:34.923 --> 00:28:43.390 - $3,250 reimbursed to us. So the total NRCS agreement is $52,000 will be reimbursed to us for this. 00:28:45.378 --> 00:28:53.395 - And that work will need to be completed by November 16th, 2026. And so as part of the technical assistance 00:28:53.395 --> 00:29:01.412 - that allows for us to use that funding towards these support services with HNTB to help us administrative, 00:29:01.412 --> 00:29:09.055 - deciphering everything, all the forms, just support in tracking everything as well and providing that 00:29:09.055 --> 00:29:14.974 - documentation back to NRCS. And so this is the not to exceed amount of 25,000? 00:29:15.362 --> 00:29:23.913 - So initially we thought that we might need them for some engineering services as well. That's why that 00:29:23.913 --> 00:29:31.634 - amount is a little bit higher. But I don't we will likely not reach that high. It's a little 00:29:31.634 --> 00:29:40.185 - more straightforward. We weren't sure if NRCS would need to do any engineering services for the stream 00:29:40.185 --> 00:29:43.838 - bank or not. So the not to exceed amount is 00:29:45.218 --> 00:29:53.073 - 12,400? It says 25,000 in here for task three. Yes, it is 25,000, but we don't anticipate it going that 00:29:53.073 --> 00:30:01.004 - high, yes. But that's a not to exceed, so that's correct. Okay, all right. Oh, I see in section C. Yeah, 00:30:01.004 --> 00:30:08.558 - I was gonna say, I don't see the 12 number anywhere. Okay, got it. Okay, great. Can we go ahead and 00:30:08.558 --> 00:30:13.694 - get a motion on the floor? Move approval of HNTB task order numbers 00:30:14.850 --> 00:30:24.661 - all grant administration and emergency and an amount of $25,000. Yeah, not to exceed. Not to exceed 00:30:24.661 --> 00:30:34.472 - $25,000. Do we have a motion? Do we have a second? Yeah, and I think you touched on it. I just want 00:30:34.472 --> 00:30:38.494 - to Is that your second? Oh, I'll second. 00:30:38.978 --> 00:30:49.209 - Thank you. Yeah, so now we'll go to questions in the net room first. So I guess what I was looking at 00:30:49.209 --> 00:30:59.741 - was water resource and plan review on call. That's what we're on, right? This is page 16 of your packet. 00:30:59.741 --> 00:31:07.966 - Task order number three. That's where I got confused. They're all the HNTD. Okay. 00:31:08.066 --> 00:31:17.618 - Sorry about that. Yeah, my one is just a comment. I'm really excited that we path to kind of try to 00:31:17.618 --> 00:31:27.838 - provide some assistance and remove some of the log jamming, if you will, or debris out of these waterways. 00:31:28.226 --> 00:31:36.686 - Also, just a side note, I've seen recent videos of some homeowners that were really close of having 00:31:36.686 --> 00:31:45.400 - to experience some significant flood damage, even the roadway being impacted and even that road bridge 00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:54.622 - almost over topped with water. So I'm hoping that with this removal, it won't restrict the water so much and 00:31:56.066 --> 00:32:03.159 - Hopefully if we see some type of storm event that we just recently had, hopefully they're not in such 00:32:03.159 --> 00:32:10.182 - a high risk situation and I'm excited that we're gonna be able to provide this relief and that's it. 00:32:10.182 --> 00:32:17.345 - Comments or questions, Commissioner Jones? No, I don't. Commissioner Madeira, do you have any comments 00:32:17.345 --> 00:32:24.438 - or questions? I'd just like to thank everybody for all the hard work. I know it was a lot of planning 00:32:24.438 --> 00:32:25.342 - and a lot of 00:32:25.570 --> 00:32:32.533 - and thank you so much. This is going to be invaluable as someone who lives in this area and there's 00:32:32.533 --> 00:32:39.845 - a lot of people personally uses these trails. There's a lot of stuff down there that needs to be cleared 00:32:39.845 --> 00:32:47.087 - out and this is going to be transformative for that area. Yeah, I agree. I'm glad this is this is going 00:32:47.087 --> 00:32:54.398 - forward. Alright. So let's see if there's any public comment on this item. You raise your hand on teams. 00:32:55.554 --> 00:33:05.249 - There's no one here to come to the podium, I don't think. All right, Ms. Pena, would you please call 00:33:05.249 --> 00:33:14.847 - the roll on HNTB task order number three? Yes, Madeira? Yes. Thomas? Yes. Joe? And right, Randolph? 00:33:14.847 --> 00:33:23.102 - Yes. All right, motion carries four zero. And let's move on to the next item, please. 00:33:23.650 --> 00:33:31.523 - All right, so last one with HNTB. This is, do we need to do a motion yet or should I jump straight into 00:33:31.523 --> 00:33:39.472 - it? Go ahead and start. So this is for drainage evaluation. We have an area where there's just recurring 00:33:39.472 --> 00:33:47.193 - issues. We've tried to solve it by opening the, widening the opening and the structure and it's still 00:33:47.193 --> 00:33:53.022 - just not taking, not the correct sizing. So this is a drainage evaluation to 00:33:53.154 --> 00:34:02.913 - help us do a small redesign of the infrastructure between two homes that drains down into a detention 00:34:02.913 --> 00:34:12.863 - area. All right. Thank you so much. Let's go ahead and put a motion on the table. Move approval of HNTB 00:34:12.863 --> 00:34:22.718 - test order number five, drainage evaluation. We have a motion. I'll add the 12,400 on that and second. 00:34:24.066 --> 00:34:30.572 - We have a motion and we have a second. Is there? No, I just wanted to make sure we weren't passing the 00:34:30.572 --> 00:34:37.142 - draft. It says it's a draft version. Sorry. The draft version, I didn't have the final version yet from 00:34:37.142 --> 00:34:43.901 - them that was signed by their staff, so I have that copy here with me today. So the draft version, nothing 00:34:43.901 --> 00:34:50.344 - has changed from it, but that's just to make sure it got into the packet. Got it. Yep. Thank you. And 00:34:50.344 --> 00:34:53.502 - the amount of $12,400. Do we want to revise that? 00:34:54.210 --> 00:35:02.244 - We're passing the official and not the draft. Okay. Okay. So let's see if there are any comments or 00:35:02.244 --> 00:35:10.439 - questions here in the Net-U Hill room. Commissioner Medura, do you have any comments or questions? No 00:35:10.439 --> 00:35:18.714 - comments or questions. Thank you. Yeah. So this most likely will be able to be completed in-house once 00:35:18.714 --> 00:35:23.294 - the evaluation has been done. Yes. I assume. Yeah. Okay. 00:35:25.314 --> 00:35:41.162 - All right. Let's see if there's any public comments on HNTB Task Order Number 5. All right. Seeing none, 00:35:41.162 --> 00:35:55.198 - Ms. Pena, would you please call the roll on Task Order Number 5 from HNTB? Yes. Thomas? Yes. 00:35:56.066 --> 00:36:04.321 - Yes. Motion carries 4-0 and can we do these two items together? But if you can just explain them both 00:36:04.321 --> 00:36:12.577 - since they're related. Yes, so this is related to our Redbud Heights drainage improvement project. We 00:36:12.577 --> 00:36:20.751 - have a couple of change order requests. One to replace turf grass seed and straw instead of sod. And 00:36:20.751 --> 00:36:23.422 - then the second one is there was 00:36:24.962 --> 00:36:33.161 - missed design in the design, the water line was located slightly differently than when they went out 00:36:33.161 --> 00:36:41.685 - to scope everything. So we had to do a pipe material change to meet water line material standards, close 00:36:41.685 --> 00:36:49.803 - proximity to the water line. Great. Thank you so much. Let's go ahead and put a motion on the floor 00:36:49.803 --> 00:36:51.102 - for both items. 00:36:52.898 --> 00:37:02.824 - to approve Redbud Heights Drainage Improvement Project Milestone Change Order Request Number One, Surfgrass 00:37:02.824 --> 00:37:12.290 - in Louis Sade and Number Two, Waterline Impacts on Pipe Material. I'll second. Great. We have a motion 00:37:12.290 --> 00:37:20.286 - and we have a second. What is the total cost change here? So we have a savings on one. 00:37:20.610 --> 00:37:29.504 - The shift to seed and straw saves us $2,210, and then the pipe material change has a cost increase of 00:37:29.504 --> 00:37:38.660 - $14,263. Okay, thank you so much. All right, let's see if there's any other comments or questions. Yeah, 00:37:38.660 --> 00:37:47.380 - that was my question. My comment is, and I know that some of these are just really hard to create a 00:37:47.380 --> 00:37:49.822 - packet with the survey, but 00:37:51.234 --> 00:37:57.635 - I don't know, maybe I just want to zoom in more and get some of the details, so I guess I just wanted 00:37:57.635 --> 00:38:03.910 - to point out that the resolution doesn't hold on those, and maybe we can figure out a workaround to 00:38:03.910 --> 00:38:10.185 - share those. Oh, you mean the plan set? Yeah. Sorry about that. It's fine. Item number two, request 00:38:10.185 --> 00:38:16.836 - number two, was already taken to the commissioners so that we could have that and keep the project moving 00:38:16.836 --> 00:38:20.350 - quickly. So that was just the full part of that packet. 00:38:20.802 --> 00:38:26.771 - I understand. Just a comment. This right here catches my eye and I would like to dig into it a little 00:38:26.771 --> 00:38:33.032 - bit just for my own interest. I have the plans if you want to look at them more closely. See the original. 00:38:33.032 --> 00:38:38.884 - I understand. Just a comment. We don't have to go into it. Yeah, and I appreciate, you know, making 00:38:38.884 --> 00:38:45.029 - sure that we move these in a timely manner since we weren't able to meet last month. Commissioner Jones, 00:38:45.029 --> 00:38:49.886 - comments or questions? Commissioner Madera, do you have any comments or questions? 00:38:51.682 --> 00:39:02.400 - I do not, thank you. Okay. Let's see if there's any public comment on these two change orders for Redbud 00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:12.608 - Heights. Raise your hand on teams. All right. Seeing none, Ms. Pena, would you please call the roll 00:39:12.608 --> 00:39:21.182 - on the milestone change order request number one and number two for Redbud Heights? 00:39:23.330 --> 00:39:30.699 - Yes. Thomas? Yes. Henry Randolph? Yes. Thank you. I was going to recommend maybe we could have a staff 00:39:30.699 --> 00:39:37.854 - report too so no one has to be rushed. We're getting pretty close to time and then we could move to 00:39:37.854 --> 00:39:45.009 - adjournment if my colleagues are amenable to that. I need to first say that the motion carried 4-0. 00:39:45.009 --> 00:39:53.022 - Oh, sorry. That's all right. How long is the staff report? I think we've got I don't think we have enough time. 00:39:53.314 --> 00:39:59.107 - Yeah, we have to be out by 4.15, so we've got, I think, one more minute left. So that is okay. We can 00:39:59.107 --> 00:40:04.956 - do that next month. Their meeting doesn't start until 4.30, so I can give us five minutes, but I think 00:40:04.956 --> 00:40:10.692 - we need more than that. We need more than that. Okay. Sorry to do that. I know everybody puts effort 00:40:10.692 --> 00:40:16.485 - into, you know, just as the Soil and Water Conservation District did and the Water Fund did, they put 00:40:16.485 --> 00:40:22.846 - time and effort into making a report, and we're like, hurry up. So, but I think it's better if we take the time 00:40:23.362 --> 00:40:32.334 - I will just note that it's for annual report and the annual report needs to be submitted to item by 00:40:32.334 --> 00:40:41.306 - April 1st. So I will be getting that submitted. This is just the synopsis of it for you all so that 00:40:41.306 --> 00:40:43.998 - you know what we did in 2025. 00:40:44.546 --> 00:40:51.424 - I sign it, yes. You sign it. Yes. But we don't sign it. Correct. So that's fine. All right. 00:40:51.424 --> 00:40:58.899 - So with that, our next meeting is Wednesday, April 22nd here in the NatU Hill room at 3.30 p.m. And 00:40:58.899 --> 00:41:06.375 - unless there's anything else, we are adjourned. Thank you all so much for putting up with our crazy 00:41:06.375 --> 00:41:09.200 - schedule today. Thank you. Thank you.