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Welcome everyone to tonight's March 19th meeting of the Floyd County Commissioners. 00:00:04
If you have cell phones, if you can silence those. And if you have any conversation needs or something taken to the hall of If we 00:00:10
get going here, you join me for the Pledge of Allegiance, please. 00:00:15
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, 00:00:20
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:26
All right, now, if you'll join me before I just an individual moment of silence for prayer, meditation or reflection as we focus 00:00:34
on tonight's. 00:00:38
Agenda. 00:00:44
All right. Thank you very much. We did have a couple of late additions to the agenda. So we'll need to have a unanimous consent 00:01:10
from the commissioners to add. 00:01:15
Items. 00:01:22
#7 Susanna were these. 00:01:23
Was this amended agenda made public with the additions already listed as number 7 and eight? 00:01:26
OK, so we will have a #7, which will be County Sheriff's Steve Bush for approval of A. 00:01:34
Control contract that we'll be hearing about. 00:01:43
And also approving the submission of a Max Levy request for Highlander Fire District and New Albany Township Fire Protection 00:01:46
District. 00:01:50
So I will need a motion and ultimately unanimous consent to add those to tonight's agenda. 00:01:55
Motion with unanimous consent to add to add items number 7 and #8 to our. 00:02:02
To the March 19th agenda now. Second, OK, all in favor. Aye, aye. All right. So those will be towards the bottom we will have. 00:02:08
Time for public comment at the end of tonight's meeting for general purposes. 00:02:18
And with regards to that approval of the submission of a Max Levy request, I'll probably. 00:02:24
It's my intent to have public comment prior to that as well. So if I fail to do that, please someone remind me to to add that. 00:02:31
New business County engineer Horatio Euritia. 00:02:38
And I pronounce you. 00:02:42
OK. All right. 00:02:46
Yes, Sir, You should have in front of you be opening for. 00:02:51
Bridge 27 Construction. 00:02:56
Or actually the clinical name is. 00:02:59
Foundation repair and approach reconstruction. 00:03:02
That's Bridge 27. Can you give a geographical location? 00:03:07
Georgetown, Greenville Rd. Right after Cook's meal. 00:03:12
Entrance and there's probably. 00:03:18
2300. 00:03:20
Going to Greenville, that is in pretty bad shape and it needs to be repaired. Thank you. 00:03:22
Didn't announce any other bits? Yeah, I'll say we have a few bids in front of us, about five or six there. Do we have anyone else 00:03:28
wishing to submit the? 00:03:33
This evening. 00:03:38
I see no one. 00:03:40
OK, first bid is temple and temple. 00:03:43
All right, temple and temple $223,700. 00:03:51
Next bid is CNR Construction. 00:04:02
All right. C&R Construction $279,434. 00:04:13
Next bit is E&B Paving. 00:04:25
E&B Paving 280,000. 00:04:38
The next bid is. 00:04:50
TRC LLC. 00:04:53
TRCLLC. 00:05:04
257,000. 00:05:06
$451 00:05:09
Final bid is RL. 00:05:15
Buxton Excavating. 00:05:18
RL Vuxen with AV $197,347. 00:05:31
Motion. We take these under advisement. 00:05:38
We have two spots for an FCI Bridges and Matt Construction on the sheet. Did we not receive bids from those companies? All right, 00:05:43
I'll second. All right. I have a motion to take these under advisement. And the second, all in favor. Aye, aye. Thank you. 00:05:50
The second item and the agenda is a. 00:05:59
Release for Windsor Creek subdivision. 00:06:01
Subdivision to be completed the owner. 00:06:06
Well developer was be required to submit a bond for 96,000 hundred 441. 00:06:10
With $0.25. 00:06:18
And then since they are complete, they are willing to. 00:06:20
He was a two year bond for maintenance of the road, so we are supposed to release 72,330. 00:06:25
.94. 00:06:34
So I advise the. 00:06:36
Commissioners to authorize the releasing of. 00:06:39
The rest of the Bond. 00:06:42
So this is the, the full bond was over 97, but we're going to release around 72,000, is that correct? OK, we want to keep at 00:06:46
24,110. 00:06:52
.31 for a two year bond maintenance bond. 00:06:57
What was the amount to be to be released 72,000 What the amount will release is 72,330.94? 00:07:02
94. 00:07:16
OK, make a motion that we. 00:07:19
Release for Windsor Creek subdivision bond and the amount of $72,330.94. 00:07:23
I'll say have a motion and a second for release of the amount stated. All in favor, aye. 00:07:32
Thank you. Thank you. All right. Rachel, do you want these? 00:07:40
Sure. 00:07:46
Sure. 00:07:49
All right. Director of Operations and Planning, Mr. Don Lock. 00:07:51
Good evening. First item I have is the award of the old Vincents Rd. project. 00:07:58
Strand and Associates has reviewed the bids and the low bid was Danny Christiani at $2,337,470.13. 00:08:05
So ask for action to. 00:08:16
Award that amount. 00:08:20
In that country, in that contract. 00:08:22
Toward the bed and then the contract will be coming. 00:08:26
Motion to award the bid to Danny Christianity for the Old Vincennes Rd. Project Construction. 00:08:31
I'll second motion a second. Any further discussion? 00:08:38
I just Has that schedule been released? 00:08:43
Yeah, I think we've talked about it here in the public meeting right before. It is supposed to start June 1 and run through 00:08:48
September 30th for 2024 and then. 00:08:54
Be closed in June 1 of 2025 to August 1st of 2025. I know we had discussed it here, but has that been formally posted on the 00:09:01
website? Yeah, after tonight, after the award, will we'll do that? And then we've got letters to send out to. I just want people 00:09:08
to know that information is forthcoming on that. So. OK, so the motion is second. All in favor, Aye. 00:09:16
2nd Ward A bid is for Temple and Temple for the North Tucker Rd. Small Structure Project. 00:09:26
In the amount of 312, three $112,470. 00:09:34
Motion Motion to Approve. 00:09:40
Temple Temple for the North Tucker Rd. project. 00:09:44
I'll second. 00:09:48
OK, I have a motion a second. Any further discussion? 00:09:50
And the description of that project has been discussed multiple times in this setting, correct? 00:09:54
Yes, I said. I just want to make sure people can access that. 00:10:00
We that has been discussed in this public forum before. OK, my motion is second. All in favor, aye? 00:10:05
3rd item is a small paving pad for in front of the second soft barn. 00:10:12
Temple and Temple was low quote. We had four quotes. This was for an amount of $7150. 00:10:19
Motion to approve Temple Temple for the small. 00:10:29
Pad in front of the Salt Barn. 00:10:33
I have a motion. A second all in favor, Aye, Aye. 00:10:37
OK. Next time is award for the, this is part of our. 00:10:42
Facilities and. 00:10:50
And I guess active shooter type of programming to Hardener sites. This is with Stanley Schultz and company. 00:10:52
It is for $94,410. It's for both the the doors here at Pineview. Not only the front, but also the sides and the and the the. 00:11:01
Entrance to the youth shelter, but then also the. 00:11:14
Doors at. 00:11:18
The rice building as well. 00:11:21
And and and and also some. There's some windows as well in terms of. 00:11:23
Bulletproof, bolt resistant. OK. 00:11:30
We'll make a motion to approve Stan Schultz and company for the award for the Facilities Windows contract. 00:11:34
Second, all right, have a motion. The second any further discussion. 00:11:43
I just want to state for the record, I want to thank you for being responsive to the commissioners request and I think this back 00:11:48
and forth discussion that's been going on for the last 18 months about trying to harden some of these. 00:11:54
Unfortunate, use the word targets, but and we're serious about it, and it's for the protection of not only the folks that work 00:12:01
here, but also the people that visit and do business here, so. 00:12:06
This is the beginning. These are the beginning steps of of ongoing training and upgrades and so. 00:12:12
I think it's one of the most important things that we've done here in the last 18 months. I appreciate your efforts on it. 00:12:18
Appreciate the efforts of the Sheriff's Department for helping us. I failed to mention that. Yeah. Thank you as well. 00:12:23
Next item I have is a award. This is for the auditor's office. 00:12:32
And this is for their GASP 34 compliance for the capital asset asset property record. 00:12:38
And it is with Peterson Consulting Services for $6500. 00:12:45
There would that also be #4 down there too? 00:12:55
On our agenda. 00:12:59
Yeah. But OK. Do you want to consolidate those? Yes. Yeah. So since I just had one question on that, is that? 00:13:03
They also included in that. 00:13:13
Contract the potential for 32150 are. 00:13:16
Doing the same thing for year end 2020, Rick, is your mic on? 00:13:21
All right. Yep. They also had in the contract an additional $32150. 00:13:27
For year in 2024. 00:13:33
That may be something that you would want to consider. 00:13:38
As part of the contract for. 00:13:43
What you're doing for year end? 00:13:47
2024, I think for clarity's sake, if we're going to, if you're going to be presenting for Diana, maybe you can go ahead and do 00:13:50
whatever we were going to do for #4 on this development as well. And just explain for everyone's benefit exactly just synopsis of 00:13:57
what we're doing here. This is a capital assets report is required by the State Board of Accounts. This is one of the items that 00:14:04
she's been working on in terms of kind of getting some things that weren't done in the past, getting those into. 00:14:12
SPL a compliance and basically what this is, is it walks through all the government assets, land, land improvements, buildings, 00:14:20
machinery, vehicles, software. 00:14:26
Roads, bridges, sidewalks, traffic control streets, any type of construction. 00:14:32
And it goes through process of finding out what the exact cost is, what the ages are. Then it does a capitalization for each 00:14:38
class. Then it goes through a detailed. 00:14:44
Analysis for acquisition cost determining older assets. 00:14:52
They'll need an actual year of acquisition. 00:14:57
And they estimate useful life and compute straight cost, depreciation cost amounts when they summarize that as a report to be 00:15:01
provided. 00:15:06
With a beginning balance and then allowing for additions and retirements is items, so. 00:15:13
The. 00:15:22
First year is the 6500. I'll be just very, very, you know, direct review all I did not know that there was doing this for her. I 00:15:25
did not know that there was an annual renewal. 00:15:31
3200, the I guess Diana can come back, you can approve the 6500 and talk to them and if she wants to do the 2000 year in 2024, she 00:15:37
can bring that back and get approval for that. 00:15:45
Is that part of that contract in there? I mean, can we? 00:15:53
Yeah. So the motion we can just say for. 00:16:01
The amount $6500 for fiscal year 2023, correct? Is that right? OK. 00:16:04
OK. I'll make a motion that we accept the contract and Peterson Company. 00:16:10
For the GA SB34 gap. 00:16:16
Compliant capital asset property record for fiscal year 2023 an amount of $6500 strictly for fiscal year 2023. 00:16:19
I'll second. 00:16:28
I have a motion a second. 00:16:31
All in favor, aye. 00:16:33
I just wanted to give you some quick updates on our projects for the. 00:16:37
That we've got ongoing just really quickly our Charlestown Rd. Trail project. 00:16:44
OK. 00:16:53
Our Charlestown Rd. Trail probably give you an update. That's a 1.3 mile multi use trail 10 feet from Connecting County Line to 00:17:09
the Lewis Enders Parkway or Kevin Hamilton Smith Park. 00:17:14
The project started in 20/20/14 and it will be LED forbid July of 2024. Some things that are going on this next couple weeks we'll 00:17:21
be doing tree clearing prior to bat season. 00:17:27
Which is April 1, so next week or. 00:17:34
Week to 10 days we'll be clearing what trees need to be cleared. It also that will primarily be near the bridge and then around 00:17:38
the nursing home facility. 00:17:43
The total cost. 00:17:49
Of the project and then we anticipate it being complete bid and let in 2024, completed in 2025. 00:17:51
The cost project cost estimate is 3. 00:18:02
.3 million our local match will be 10% of the construction inspection, which is right at $40,000. 00:18:05
Want to kind of give a kudos to Nick Greevey. He's done a lot of work on this project. This was an 8020 project that would have 00:18:14
had the county probably in for a little over $1,000,000. 00:18:21
And also it was a phased project at the time, but he worked with Endot and has been working to make some deadlines that they had 00:18:28
for additional funding source. So my understanding is the constructions. 00:18:34
100% and the construction inspection is the 10% match for the county. So I just want to let you know about that project that's 00:18:41
been going on like I said for 10 years. So we're at that. 00:18:47
I think the implementation stage of that. 00:18:54
Edwardsville School project is redevelopment project. I was in the paper here recently. It's located on Carroll Ave. 00:18:59
It's part in the comprehensive plan. It's in our growth area. It's also in the Edwardsville Gateway area as well and it's master 00:19:06
plan. It's a redevelopment area primarily because of the Edwards Elementary School, which is a 1936 WPA project. It had about 00:19:12
16,000 square feet. 00:19:18
That's historically designated as notable in our interim report, so. 00:19:25
As part of a development that's taking place on that 7 acres sprigular, Developer Development is going to be 120 apartment 00:19:32
complex. It's approved by the Planning Commission. It has set aside for units for seniors, first responders and teachers as as 00:19:37
well. 00:19:43
The school set to be renovated into a Community Center. 00:19:50
With the library park, small park. 00:19:54
And parks facilities and and possibly a sheriff's substation that as we went through that the taxes generated in terms of how this 00:19:58
is being paid is in the TIF district. So the taxes generated by the development over the life of the TIF which is 25 years. 00:20:06
Is 7.1 million of that and the public Private Partnership 1.985 million? 00:20:16
Is the TIF TIF funds and. 00:20:25
AARP funds that were used for the signalization of State Road 62. I'd also includes regional stormwater. 00:20:28
Basin extension of sanitary sewer lines and parking. 00:20:36
Parking for the school facility the developers contributions is. 00:20:40
1.2 million includes repairs and the value of the donation. Developers making repairs to school, including a masonry repair of the 00:20:45
building and installing a new. 00:20:52
The building and one acre is going to be donated to the county after county inspection. The county had a pre inspection before we 00:21:00
started this project with a structural engineering firm and also an environmental firm. 00:21:05
In addition, there will be $10,000 annually from the developer for seven years to do maintenance on State Road 64 and 62 for 00:21:12
streetscape improvements that are for the 4th company. So that's kind of the overall that project. I don't know if you had any 00:21:18
questions on Charlestown Road or or. 00:21:24
Edwardsville will go on the next one, which is Blackson Mill Road Bridge 51. 00:21:31
Let you know that the Federal Highway now has the environmental report. We hope to have that anticipate that hopefully 1st of 00:21:38
April. Having that finalized and back right away appraisals title and appraisal reports have started. They commenced on 25 parcels 00:21:46
to be obtained, permitting is through the hydrology. The hydrology study has been requested and commencing per DN Rs request. 00:21:54
And design will continue. We're projected to let still in July of 2025, which is in dots fiscal year 2026. 00:22:03
We did have conversations with. 00:22:13
Origin Park Conservancy about possibly the old bridge. 00:22:16
And then we had conversations with Ndoc and NDOT said if you want to keep the old bridge, you have to start the environmental 00:22:23
over. So I'm. 00:22:26
I kind of told them that I think we're going to probably get rid of the old bridge. So that's that project that's ongoing. 00:22:31
Next, real quickly. I just kind of wanted to have them. 00:22:42
What what I hope to do like the second meeting of every month is kind of highlight a sub department of your of your overall 00:22:46
operations. It's something that give a little report of what that department does and the the. 00:22:52
The employees and the services they provide. So the first step was development of building and development services. 00:22:59
They do all building related permits for Floyd County. They also have agreements with the Town of Greenville and the Town of 00:23:07
Georgetown, Town of Greenville. They not only do the building permits, they also do the planning and in the town of Georgetown we 00:23:12
do the building permits. 00:23:16
They do all zoning requests, variances, special exceptions, zoning and subdivision planning. 00:23:21
They do unsafe building investigations, they do building compliance investigations, so. 00:23:27
How many people do that? It's a staff of five. 00:23:35
The average experience level for that staff is 8.2 years. 00:23:39
The education certification levels, we have two certified residential and commercial inspectors. 00:23:45
But one with masters, 2 for bachelor's. 00:23:51
One with an associates in the. 00:23:54
And one gentleman who's currently going through master school for planning. 00:23:57
I asked him every day why. 00:24:02
2023 Permits Local Improvement Permits was 470 permits were issued. Of those, 126 were single family dwellings. 00:24:06
There's 1899 inspections primarily done by by the two inspectors. 00:24:18
Code and code violations were 23. Unsafe building cases were three. 00:24:26
And then our zoning approvals. Last year, the Planning Commission had one subdivision approval was a major subdivision for 14 00:24:32
lots. 00:24:36
One map amendment, one text Amendment 13 variances, 4. Exceptions 1. Conditional use and two. 00:24:40
Administrative appeals. There may be a part region of pear tree there as well. 00:24:48
That's about as good as I can get, so this is probably not very good. 00:24:54
Our the budget. The budget is 345,000. The salaries make up 71% of that 247,000. The general fund is 260,000 with 75%. 00:24:59
And the edit funds cover $84,000. 00:25:12
Permit fees currently are 164,000. The permit fees planning fees have not been increased since 2006. 00:25:15
And building fees since 1982 and that's one of the items that you all had asked. 00:25:24
Us to take a look at internally. We are finalizing that report. Nick shouldn't be having that to you. 00:25:31
Hopefully by the. 00:25:37
As well, so. 00:25:40
Just an overview of that, that that department there's, like I said, there's five folks in there. 00:25:42
And you can see the amount of work that they do in a given year, especially with almost 1900 inspections. 00:25:48
So other two items just real quickly, our website, each of the departments is working on transitioning information. We anticipate 00:25:56
all the departments to be integrated into the website by June 1. 00:26:03
And we're going to make available more project specific data, so. 00:26:10
The data I talked about tonight on the projects, we will have a dedicated site and again dedicated information for each of those. 00:26:15
Including budgets, minutes mapping, there's some really, I think, some neat things. 00:26:24
Mr. Morgan, in terms of mapping and RFP data as well be on the site. 00:26:29
And then 2025 budget. 00:26:34
We're finalizing the budget actually had. 00:26:37
Horatio and Ronnie in our office today to look at that, look at those budgets. We'll have those finalized for your review by April 00:26:40
one. Well, take that back, April 8th, Mr. Berman wanted to. 00:26:47
Have another week, they get some things ready. So April 8th we'll be submitting that to you for your review. There's some 00:26:54
anticipated requests just to let you know it funding. 00:27:00
Our phones and computers are towards the end of the useful life cycle. 00:27:05
Kept a membership. 00:27:10
They have increased their membership and increased their membership since the 1990s. So for the $3,000,000 just for. 00:27:12
That we would receive for Charlestown Rd. 00:27:21
$5,000,000 we're getting through tipta. 00:27:24
We paid last year $4500 so they have. They, like everyone else is seen an increase. 00:27:27
And then our utilities are going to be something. 00:27:35
Just the cost of doing business items there and as I said before, we're reviewing our ability to develop these and should have 00:27:38
those two as well so. 00:27:43
I just wanted to give you that update and. 00:27:49
And answer any questions you may have. 00:27:51
I think this is a great idea to incorporate this into one of the monthly meetings as you said. 00:27:57
Gives everybody a little bit more familiarity with. 00:28:04
What goes on here day-to-day? 00:28:06
I can't speak highly enough of the department and the employees that work in each of our departments. 00:28:09
They do a very Yeomans type of work. As you can see that amount of work has been done and I agree with you. The nick, no, he's 00:28:15
there. I mean, good job. We need to give him more work. 00:28:20
I can do that, yeah. 00:28:26
Thank you. Thank you. 00:28:29
All right. Thank you very much. Next we have the honor of having the Honorable Judge Stiller with us tonight to give us an annual 00:28:31
report on the the Jay rack. 00:28:36
I'll share with. 00:28:53
I can send you the very lengthy e-mail. 00:28:57
OK. Good evening. I am Carrie Siller, Judge of Lloyd Superior Court #1. I'm also the chair of our Floyd County Community 00:29:07
Corrections and Justice. 00:29:11
Reinvestment Advisory Council, J. 00:29:17
And it was John's great idea, and I think it was a great idea. 00:29:21
That I bring an annual report. I think he even said maybe quarterly. I'm like, let's let's start with annual and. 00:29:25
We'll go from there. There you go. We did have a very busy 2023. That is a lot to report, so I will move through here fairly 00:29:32
quickly. I tried to add pictures to make this a little bit more fun, OK? 00:29:39
And so one of the things we did in 2023 is we created our our mission and vision statement for J REC. And I think that's important 00:29:47
for me to just kind of back up a little bit and tell you. 00:29:52
How J Rat came to be community corrections has been around for a really long time, as most everyone knows. But 2021 the statute 00:29:58
came out. Legislature passed a law for every county to have a local J rec. 00:30:04
And that that J Rack Board, Justice Reinvestment Advisory Council could be consolidated combined with the Community Corrections 00:30:11
Board. Their purposes are different but similar and they're overlapping in the sense that I would just say the simplest way to put 00:30:18
this is our goal is reduction every citizen, recidivism. 00:30:25
Community safety and all of that really, with a focus toward addressing mental health and addiction related issues. 00:30:32
That contribute to people becoming a criminal justice involved persons. 00:30:40
Now we so we set out. We created a mission and vision statement as you can see there. It's rather lengthy. I won't go through that 00:30:49
at this time. I know our time is sort of limited. We also I. 00:30:56
Are working on the Samsung Intercept model. So basically what that is to say, Floyd County is providing access to resources 00:31:04
including treatment for mental health and addiction. 00:31:09
To criminal justice involved individuals. 00:31:14
At every intercept. 00:31:18
Thanks to the work of. 00:31:20
RJ Rag. 00:31:23
And that is a tribute to everyone involved in J Rack. 00:31:24
And you can see there the intercept model was created by, you know, a lot of people at the federal level. 00:31:29
Involved in mental health and addiction and what they basically have passed along that we've learned is how important it is that 00:31:37
at every, at every point. 00:31:41
In the life of a criminal case that it is important that we have. 00:31:46
And we provide opportunities and access to treatment and reduction of barriers toward rehabilitation. 00:31:50
For criminal and criminal justice involved individuals or criminal defendants, you might call them. 00:31:58
And I would say that. 00:32:05
We we are strong on our intercepts from the point of. 00:32:08
Coming court, so their initial hearing, so particularly starting an intercept 234 and five. 00:32:14
I think where we have work to do is intercept 0 and one. 00:32:21
That's pre arrest, pre incarceration. 00:32:25
Pre even the law enforcement getting involved, we're working on that. That's part of J Rex task. 00:32:29
Going forward? 00:32:34
Help me put they help me put this together. 00:33:10
And they they're they're the reason why we're having the success that we are having. 00:33:12
And getting the work done that needs to be done for Floyd County. And one of the things that we started doing is we saw that. 00:33:17
Umm, people coming through our court systems. Although there were some opportunities for treatment, it wasn't nearly what it 00:33:26
needed to be. 00:33:29
So we put into place processes to improve that and make that better and this is a very. 00:33:33
A detailed description of that process. 00:33:40
So what were we doing in 2023? We have some highlights here to report. I think as you all well know as we came here about a year 00:33:44
ago, a little longer than a year ago and we told you about our grand ideas and. 00:33:50
We told you that we could apply for a matching grant. 00:33:58
But it would require the commissioners for offering up to match with opioid money. And commissioners did US1 better than we didn't 00:34:01
expect and say, all right, J Rack, here's $846,000. That is our opioid money. We like for you to help, help us with that, make 00:34:07
recommendations that everybody at the table we have, you know, John sits on it. He's very active. We have council members, the 00:34:13
sheriff, all the judges. 00:34:19
Probation committee corrections. 00:34:27
System of care we have members in all. 00:34:30
Really across all of the stakeholders are on J Rack and actively participating in this process. So they have been with us all 00:34:34
through the way. We did end up getting an award from the state matching great not as much as we had hopeful we got $180,000 it was 00:34:40
specifically. 00:34:46
For the jail transition, coord. 00:34:52
In an administration, an administrative portion, and that was awarded in May and that position was filled and Carmen Kerbert is 00:34:55
here. She would. 00:34:59
There's your hand. She is an officer in the jail and her role is to help again addressing. 00:35:04
The rehabilitation component helping people get who are getting out of jail in Floyd County and they're going out onto the 00:35:11
streets. 00:35:15
To help that with that transition. 00:35:19
What? Whatever those barriers may be, it could be anything from education to treatment to mental health services. And she doesn't 00:35:22
do it by herself. She has a great team, and Sheriff Bush has a great name for it. Changing while incarcerated. Sheriff is here. 00:35:29
Doing great things in the jail with his program. So he's ratcheted up what we started in 2021. 00:35:37
Annie has a team, including Officer Sarah Pett. 00:35:42
Kara Hodges. 00:35:46
Kelly Stafford was a huge part of it. She's still a part of it. You know, she's not working in the jail now. 00:35:48
She's still on J rag. She he has a. 00:35:52
Darla Dabney, the licensed clinical social worker for the jail. 00:35:55
So that is a key component to all of this. 00:35:59
Now also in June and in the summer and really throughout the year, all of this was being done, but a couple of things happened we. 00:36:04
And I give you the YouTube website, they're still on there, posted, and they're kind of lengthy. 00:36:47
But they are interviews that they took of a lot of us about what we're doing and goes into a lot more detail about what I'm 00:36:53
telling you today. 00:36:56
Also in Sept. 00:37:01
Of last year, we hosted our first Mental Health and Addiction Summit. It was we had a keynote speaker, Lieutenant Governor Suzanne 00:37:03
Crouch. 00:37:08
And we had a collaboration of the justice partners. 00:37:14
And a huge turn out, 150 people came, we had service providers there, we had community leaders there, had a great discussion 00:37:18
talking to our community about all the things that we're doing about our plans with the opioid money and so forth. 00:37:26
Well, all of this garnered. 00:37:37
Even more attention, which I'll get to, but first I want to talk to you about. 00:37:41
Our work with our local service providers. None of the work that J rec is doing would even be possible without. 00:37:46
The service providers in not only in Floyd County but in surrounding counties who are doing the heavy lifting, they are providing 00:37:52
the treatment, they are providing the mental health services, they are providing employment and jobs and training and help with 00:37:58
insurance and all of these things. And Anne Carruthers, who's also here with System of Care, she's been really instrumental in 00:38:04
pulling those people together and organizing them, vetting them, making sure we have good conversations and collaboration with 00:38:10
them. 00:38:16
So we can have seamless delivery of services and that is really instrumental to all of this. We meet with them regularly and host 00:38:23
monthly meetings. We often participate. Many of them come to our meetings and that was really the point behind Jay Rag is to get 00:38:28
people talking and collaborating and that's what we're doing. 00:38:34
And I will say on a daily basis, our community corrections, probation and the jail works with those same service providers to 00:38:41
connect individuals to treatment. 00:38:45
Now all of this work that we did this year got a little more attention than we really were even expecting. And that was from the 00:38:52
Chief Justice Loretta Rush in which I know you all are aware was very proud moment for for myself and all the judges and all of 00:38:59
our J. Rack to be there and to be honored by her in the way that she did. And really she was she was honoring Floyd County and and 00:39:07
I was there as the personification of that along with Chris Lane unfortunately Sheriff. 00:39:14
It was supposed to be there and Matt Lauer to our public Chief Public defender and they. 00:39:22
Had illnesses that prevented them from being there. I know they want to be there and was able to come. 00:39:26
Judge Granger and you can see the picture at Claire. Judge Brown was there. His baby came home from the hospital that day, but he 00:39:31
made the trip because it was such a big deal. 00:39:36
And I will tell you that. 00:39:42
It's really pretty pretty awesome feeling to have Chief Justice introduce our county and all the work that we're doing in front 00:39:45
of. 00:39:48
The entire Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, everything, legislator, the governor and Lieutenant governor. So that's pretty 00:39:53
cool. And I think that is a tribute to the hard work that our leaders are doing in this community. 00:39:59
And not only the leaders, but also all the agencies and departments involved, all the work that they're doing every single day. 00:40:06
And this was picked up and spread across the county and across the state. 00:40:14
Now getting down to brass tacks on the opioid funds, here's where we are as of as of today. 00:40:20
Now this is just a real general overview. What we we did is we sort of divided the money up into buckets as you can see at the 00:40:27
top. The top two are the buckets that are still in process. We know that we have some gaps in the juvenile. 00:40:35
Area and Magistrate who is our juvenile? 00:40:44
Detention, sort of. She handles all of the juvenile delinquency cases. Judge Brown handles the chins and those types of cases. So 00:40:47
they're sort of leading the charge on that work, coming up with an identification, doing that, doing the homework and the research 00:40:55
to determine where that money ought to be spent. It's important to what we want you to know is that we are taking this, we're 00:41:02
going very intentionally, we're doing the research, find out what's needed before. 00:41:09
Anything is spent similarly with mental health and addiction. If you remember you tasked the J rack, ask Honeymoon to be in charge 00:41:17
of this. 00:41:21
Bucket of funds and she is. She's leading a work group on that. They have developed an application form. It is ready to be 00:41:25
unleashed into the public here as soon as we have your blessing. 00:41:30
To start soliciting bids from community agencies, groups, organization organizations and the like who meet certain criteria to 00:41:35
support mental health and addiction. 00:41:40
Resources, we've already spent 150,000. Well, we one year of that. 00:41:45
With committee corrections, the programming that we were doing there with getting individuals access to treatment at the at the 00:41:53
intercepts. 00:41:57
Is really only made possible thanks to community corrections and the assessments they're doing and the work they're doing along 00:42:01
with others. And so that became. 00:42:05
So well used that we needed another person. We didn't have the funding to do it, so this allowed that to continue and to grow. 00:42:10
And So what that means for example in my court and is just as a reminder of 75%. 00:42:17
Of all the criminal cases. 00:42:23
Other than the misdemeanor docket. 00:42:25
Every single person who comes through my court that has a low level drug related charge gets access to community corrections 00:42:29
assessment. 00:42:32
And assistance. 00:42:36
For treatment. 00:42:38
And that's something that really has never happened before. 00:42:40
Not to that level. 00:42:43
And that's in large part thanks to this funding. 00:42:45
And Clark Floyd System of Care continuing to provide us services and I'm giving you the kind of detail on that. That's $109,000 00:42:49
that has been assigned for them to continue to provide these service they were really. 00:42:55
Instrumental in all of this. 00:43:03
They did the work. They helped identify what the need was in Floyd County. 00:43:05
And then they've stuck around. 00:43:10
And they're in my courtroom almost every single day meeting with people. 00:43:12
Being there for anyone, so there is nobody that falls through the gap and that's the goal. 00:43:16
That's our intention. If you want treatment and you're coming through the court system, we want to make sure you get that 00:43:21
opportunity. 00:43:24
We had a recent case. 00:43:27
That that's from the beginning, all the way to the end. I had a recent case, a gentleman who cycled in and out of our courts. I 00:43:29
can't even tell you how many times he's costing a lot of money to the county because this is expensive. 00:43:34
His mental health issues. 00:43:41
Every time we get them, you know, he serves his time and he just starts all over again. 00:43:43
Well, we've made tremendous progress with that man. 00:43:47
And he served a recent sentence, and he's doing much better. 00:43:50
And system of care is right there by his side still to this day, even though he's done with the course and that's what we want, we 00:43:53
need it on the back end too. 00:43:56
So anyway, we still have funds to, you know, we've got the total funds committed, we have uncommitted funds of $184,000. 00:44:01
I apologize. The uncommitted funds are 134,000. 00:44:12
And really, that was just money that didn't fit in any of those buckets. We may come back to you if we get. 00:44:16
Petitions from the community. 00:44:22
And it's more than we have in the buckets, then we may come back and ask, would that be OK? 00:44:25
And we're going to look for your approval on all of this. 00:44:30
OK, so. 00:44:33
I want to make sure everyone knows. I know I've covered a lot of material, there could be questions and there's really not time 00:44:37
for it in this forum. 00:44:40
So we have meetings on a monthly basis and on a quarterly basis you can e-mail us. We have a general e-mail box. You can find out 00:44:45
more about us on the county website, which is. 00:44:50
Recently revamped and really nice. These are our meetings. 00:44:55
Coming up and they're announced, they're all public. We have zoom availability as well. 00:45:00
So I think that's everything in your packet. I asked all of the agencies to provide you the summary report with more details. 00:45:06
Then I knew we would have time to deal with today in this meeting and hopefully you find that informative. 00:45:17
Thank you for your time today. Thank you. I do have one question. The first time I want to thank you and everybody on the 00:45:22
committee for the work that they do on behalf of everybody in Floyd County. 00:45:27
Whether they have the privilege of paying taxes or not, it's it's. 00:45:34
It's good that you're looking after a lot of people who have been trying to reduce recidivism and everything. The one quick 00:45:39
question I had was, is there a deadline for committing the uncommitted? 00:45:45
Funds. There is no deadlines that I'm aware of. 00:45:51
On the spending of the money. 00:45:57
Unless if you've been made aware of, I've not been made aware of. I just want to make sure there's no use it or lose it date. 00:46:00
Just one year's worth of the opioid funding that was assigned. 00:46:05
I'm not that I'm very good and thank you again for being here and taking your time to be with us and share the information with 00:46:14
the community. 00:46:17
Thank you. Any other questions? No, I just want to make one comment. I don't know of any family at least at this point that hasn't 00:46:22
been touched by addiction or mental health, this, you know this point anyway, you know, I mean it's it's such a big issue out 00:46:27
there. So thank you for all everything that you all do and. 00:46:32
Appreciate you coming out tonight. 00:46:37
Well, we appreciate your support. Thanks. Thank you. And also to attend the meetings. I mean, the people on these committees, 00:46:39
they've got their inner gut. 00:46:43
I mean, you know, they want to make a change. 00:46:47
You know, and I think this is what what this committee does and the people that we're working with is just, you know. 00:46:50
It's going to happen and this happened a little by little, so thank you. 00:46:56
You're welcome. If I could just say one more thing to that point, I talked to a judge who reached out. So after the Supreme Court, 00:46:59
I'm getting a lot of contact from other judges and they, they struggle around the state getting this kind of cooperation and 00:47:04
participation. I had one judge tell me, you know, she had people complain, well, they're not getting paid to come to these 00:47:09
meetings on their lunch. You know, everything that everyone's doing for this. 00:47:14
Far as Jay Rag goes. 00:47:20
It's, it's in addition to their regular job. So, yeah, we appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Some of you may have on 00:47:22
the agenda, #5 county resident Linda Russell. Is Linda Russell here tonight? 00:47:28
OK, I was going to move that to public comment, but. 00:47:36
If she's not here, then if we have further communication from her, we can just. 00:47:42
Find out what her needs are and the appropriate amount of time on that County Attorney Rick Fox Bond Council contract. 00:47:46
Yes, you have in front of you. Bond hit the bond council contract hiring Barnes and Thornburg is bond council. 00:47:55
For the cumulative capital development purposes of financing various projects and improvements throughout the county. 00:48:03
And this is just basically putting in place one of the pieces to the puzzle that we'll need when it comes time to to finance the 00:48:12
capital Q projects that you end up going forward with. 00:48:19
All right, very good. We've had that in place to review. Do I have a motion for approval on that contract? 00:48:28
All right, Motion. And the second all in favor, Aye, motion passes. 00:48:35
Thank you very much. Next is County Sheriff Steve Bush, approval of Accurate Controls Incorporated contract. 00:48:40
Thank you very much. I'd like to make a comment before I get started on this that Don has spoke about the trails there off 00:48:47
Charlestown Rd. That did begin back in 2014. We also talked about back then. I can't remember that I spoke to him once in 00:48:52
reference to trails connecting all parks. 00:48:57
So we sent that to Rick with potentially iron out the process of how we do it that he will oversee or look the contracts and 00:50:05
agreements and they'll go before you and them hearing and then we'll attach the minutes from potential approval. 00:50:11
With that contract. So we have a record of that. You know if you decide not to approve a contract or agreement then we have 20 00:50:19
days that you all would have to submit that request that why you denied it and then after 20 days and I can sign off on that. So 00:50:24
potentially that's the agreement what the law states, but we're going to head start with that. 00:50:30
Currently at least for tonight, so before you you'll have a an agreement with Echo Controls in reference to what was approved by 00:50:36
the council in terms of moving forth or IT situation. And so we currently got on this particular piece go with the Greenwich 00:50:42
hacker controls. I think it's an amount of 98,686 and seven cents. And so all I would ask for tonight is approval to go ahead and 00:50:49
sign that and move forward with that project. 00:50:55
And the funding is in place for that as well. 00:51:03
Well, I pardon you for. 00:51:05
Being maximally transparent, he said. More transparent. I don't think there's that. There's been a lack of transparency in the way 00:51:07
that the Sheriff's Department is operating A. 00:51:11
And this may be the first time in Indiana that this has happened. I guess it's the legislation hasn't passed. So I. 00:51:16
What we do tonight may or may not become a benchmark, or I'm sure there'll be some adaptation to it. But Rick, do you want to 00:51:24
comment on the House bill and how you feel like it should be? 00:51:28
Carried out once fully enforced. 00:51:35
Well, I think it's a. 00:51:37
You know clear that the state. 00:51:41
Transparency with regards to. 00:51:44
The Sheriff's Department and and as well as all the other offices in terms of getting the contracts approved. 00:51:48
And embedded legally. 00:51:55
So I think it's a good move and. 00:51:58
You know, I appreciate working with Sheriff's Department in terms of getting the contracts run through the commissioners for 00:52:03
approval. Yeah, I think the more sets of eyes that are on this and more opportunity there is for public input and oversight, good 00:52:10
thing. So any further comment on that, If not, I'll look for a motion to approve. 00:52:16
Motion to approve the accurate control contract. And I'll second. All right. A motion is second. All in favor, aye? 00:52:24
Thank you very much. Thank you very much. 00:52:34
All right, Item 8 is approving the submission of a maximum levy request for Highlander Fire Protection District and New Albany 00:52:36
Township Fire Protection District. 00:52:41
I think we'll hear a description of how this ended up on the agenda and why at this time. And then we'll hear from Representatives 00:52:47
Highlander and New Albany Township and then we'll have public comment on that before. 00:52:53
A vote on that, so. 00:53:01
John, you're instrumental in putting that on there. If you want to explain the timing of it and everything, I received a call from 00:53:03
Ruben Cummings, easily financial agent for New Albany. 00:53:08
Our district as well as Highlander but anyway, and he just had gotten this was on Friday the 15th. He just got information from 00:53:13
the DLGF. 00:53:18
On the 15th and told me about there is a. 00:53:23
Opportunity for the for the Fire Districts to increase your Max levy. 00:53:29
And from his I'm gonna read his e-mail here. This is a state law that allows the far districts. 00:53:35
And townships and fire territories to apply for maximum levy increases if your population has grown by more than 6% over the last 00:53:40
10 years. 00:53:45
The idea being that as population grows, the demands on fire departments grow as well, so the levy can increase to stay up with 00:53:50
that growth. This could be applied for every year as long as the 10 year growth is greater than 6%. 00:53:58
That for fire districts, the county commissioners have to sign the letter and what he did was he. And he also said that all three 00:54:07
of the fire districts do qualify. 00:54:12
And they they looked at the population from 2013 to 2022, which is 10 years. It looked at the population growth if it's over 6%. 00:54:17
Then then they were allowed. Then then they would fall under the under these these guidelines up to a maximum of 15%. So he did. 00:54:29
He looked at all three of them, and. 00:54:35
New Albany fire. 00:54:43
They had an increase of 21 / 21% less than 6%. It'd be about a .15. 00:54:45
6/1 and then for Highlander. 00:54:54
Same thing they they were at .08, so they're looking at a .0246. 00:54:58
Georgetown had a .121. Let's see, 6% is .61. But anyway, that's what this is for. 00:55:05
That's the short and then a couple other details. So you heard about this on the 15th, You contacted Jason and I on Sunday? 00:55:49
And again, this does not mean that the rates are going to go up, it just it gives the individual fire boards the opportunity to 00:55:58
discuss. 00:56:02
Raising their levies. But what you had left out was the importance that. 00:56:07
The deadline for the commissioners letter is April first. Exactly. I'm sorry. That's OK, That's OK. I just wanted people to 00:56:13
understand why this is before us tonight. 00:56:17
Again, the Commissioner's letter allowing that discussion to take place has to be in place in order for those discussions to take 00:56:22
place, and it had to be in place by April 1st, so. 00:56:27
I called Darrell Mills on Sunday from New Albany Township because I told. 00:56:34
John that if we're going to sign these letters, I want to representatives from the boards to be here to discuss this tonight. And 00:56:40
Darrell got back with me. 00:56:44
That day and we had a discussion on Monday, and I'll let him take things from his end of things. 00:56:49
The short of it is, I think he just wants the option to pursue that discussion to go forward. But we'll have you come up in a 00:56:56
minute and I do want people to know that. I talked to Michael Moody with Georgetown Fire District and he stated that he did not 00:57:03
anticipate that discussion taking place among Georgetown fire in the upcoming fiscal year. And so he did not think that they 00:57:09
declined for the commissioners to sign that letter, which is why there's not one for Georgetown before us tonight. 00:57:16
If I could add, they had that option next year to do that. You know, the only the only hazard is that. 00:57:24
When you look at comparing 2014 to 2023, if you don't have that increase in the population. 00:57:31
Then that's the like you did in the previous ten years, but but again they have that option to do that again next year, right? 00:57:38
Correct. Yeah. OK. So with that in mind. 00:57:43
There, I see you before us, if you'd like to. 00:57:50
Come up and give your rationale for. 00:57:52
If I didn't steal your rationale for it, you pretty much took it there. That's fine. No, we're kind of in unknown territory, so. 00:57:55
Our board, we kind of discussed it among ourselves and and we don't know where this will go like you stated. 00:58:06
Mr. President, we don't know that we're going to request it, but we would like to have that option because we don't know what 00:58:13
growth we're going to have. 00:58:17
Are what needs we might have to have for increases in our Fire Protection and ambulance service which. 00:58:21
Is a continuing thing. It's changes almost monthly, so we would like to be a part of this in case we have a situation that arises 00:58:28
where we might need this. 00:58:32
For our board and then you're all board and then the County Council for approval. 00:58:39
So I think it's a good thing and a necessity for our department is not knowing what our growth needs might be in the future. 00:58:43
So I would appreciate any support y'all give us. I appreciate you coming out tonight on that and who is representing Highlander 00:58:50
Fire Protection. 00:58:55
No cane tonight, huh? 00:59:06
Ron Weber representing. 00:59:09
Highlander Fire Protection District. 00:59:12
You took it all. 00:59:14
It's the same, you know, we're new. 00:59:17
Since we combined the two fire districts, Highlander. 00:59:19
But we just since this is a new program that's available, we didn't want to pass up the opportunity for. 00:59:25
Those funds to be available in the future. 00:59:31
You know, we don't know what tomorrow. 00:59:34
Home as far as? 00:59:37
So that's what we're asking for. 00:59:39
Approval to increase our Max levy. 00:59:42
Not to be confused with. 00:59:46
Our budget. 00:59:47
Very good. Any other? 00:59:50
Questions for any of the representatives here tonight? 00:59:54
OK, before we have any further discussion amongst ourselves, so anyone from the public wishing to. 00:59:58
Can I ask a point of clarification? 01:00:06
This may be obvious, and I will need you to state your name and address for the record, please. Kim Harbison, 3820 Edwardsville 01:00:09
Galena Rd. Georgetown IN. 01:00:13
I want to make sure I understood this because. 01:00:20
It's kind of mind blowing to me. 01:00:23
Mr. Moody from Georgetown. 01:00:26
If he would have allowed you to support. 01:00:29
What the other two fire districts wanted, that didn't mean they had to raise their levy, it just gave them the opportunity to. Am 01:00:34
I correct? 01:00:38
I mean, these gentlemen don't have to raise. 01:00:43
The levy it just raises the ceiling for the 2nd right? Is that correct? 01:00:46
So in essence, Mr. Moody said. I don't trust us. I don't want us to be able to raise our levy if we want to. 01:00:50
He just pretty much said we don't want the option to do that for ourselves if we would choose to. 01:00:59
Is that is that what I'm getting from? I would not put those words in Mr. Moody's mouth. Mr. Moody's Well, what? What was it? He 01:01:07
said. I'm sorry, 'cause I didn't. He said that he did not foresee a need to increase the levy in the upcoming fiscal year. 01:01:13
And therefore. 01:01:19
They would not send a representation tonight, but there was no undercutting of. 01:01:22
Oh no, no, no. I know that. But he. 01:01:26
He didn't want to give himself the opportunity to do that. If he needed to do that, that's just mind blowing. But thank you. 01:01:30
That's what I wanted to know. 01:01:34
Again, I'll further clarify that that those words were not stated by Mr. Moody. He just declined to have representation here 01:01:40
tonight with regards to that. 01:01:44
Mister Man. 01:01:49
The old man George sounds very interesting in my fire district, but you want to been bragging on is the one that didn't. 01:01:54
Considering wanting to raise levy and what bothers me with the levy, we've got every house that goes up, it's got a levee placed 01:02:00
on their tax bill for the farm district. 01:02:04
That continuously goes up. Every house goes up and up and up. The levee might go down, but the amount of money come in every year 01:02:09
goes up and up and up and that should be the increase to pay for all the things needed to support the fire district. The amount of 01:02:15
new houses going in. In Georgia, I think it was 1900, home inspections last year. 01:02:21
That's where the money's going up for everybody. 01:02:29
And why they need this now, I don't know why they would need anything because was that growth we've got is going up tremendously. 01:02:32
And their income is going to be tremendous. 01:02:40
And why keep hitting the taxpayers more and more and more and more? 01:02:42
Thank you. Any other public comment. 01:02:46
Any further discussion or comment from the Commission? Again, all I want to say is it raises the ceiling. 01:02:51
It does not raise their operating levy. That's something every year they submit their budget to the County Council. 01:02:56
And the County Council is the one that reviews that Okay. 01:03:04
And but again this only raises a ceiling that allow them to increase their operating levy and this by us taking action tonight for 01:03:07
8 by April one, this will be then effective for for 2025 going forward. 01:03:14
All right, I'll need a motion on this and to sign the 2 letters that we have before us. 01:03:24
And a second. 01:03:30
Make a motion to approve. I think we need to be specific on both of them if we could. 01:03:33
Individual we can't be workout or just. 01:03:39
Yeah, I would say, I would say so, yes. 01:03:42
OK, well, I'll make a motion to approve the Max Levy request for Highlander Fire Protection District. I'll second that. 01:03:44
All right. Motion second. All in favor, aye? Aye. 01:03:50
All right. And I'll ask the same for the Yeah, you all need to, I'll make the motion to approve the submission of the Max Levy 01:03:54
request for the New Albany Township Fire Protection District. I'll second that. 01:03:59
All right, have a motion a second. All in favor, aye? 01:04:05
All right. Thank you. 01:04:09
Boarding committee reports. 01:04:12
John. 01:04:17
It's been a busy two weeks, guys. I'm sorry to have. In fact, we've been to a lot of the same meetings. 01:04:20
OK met with Tyler Warman from the Governor's office at a luncheon on March the 6th. And on March the 9th, Don and Bob Woods and I, 01:04:26
we met the members of the Redevelopment Commission with a with a developer around Edwardsville. 01:04:34
Later that morning, I visited the Edwardsville Elementary School with others to view the building. Several local local leaders and 01:04:42
government leaders were there in attendance. 01:04:47
And later that evening we attend. I attended the our first annual animal control meeting on Friday, attended the RDA meeting. We 01:04:52
discussed, they discussed the ready 2 dot O. 01:04:58
And there's also Eli Lilly in parallel to the Ready 2.0. They have 150 million. 01:05:04
A large portion of that is going to go towards blight remediation and the other portion will be going towards arts and culture. 01:05:12
I'm going to skip down. Later that afternoon I attended the OPPOSED. On Tuesday, I attended the REMS Advisory Board. 01:05:20
Then stayed around for the monthly County Council meeting Tuesday. Commissioners we attended the virtual check in with Envoy later 01:05:28
that afternoon. Commissioners and and met and I commissioners and Don Meth. 01:05:35
With some concerned citizens that Highland Village regarding a tree buffer between the suit to the between the two subdivisions 01:05:43
and then I attended the land breakfasts at Chapel Hill last Sunday or Sunday, Saturday in the third for that. But what I what I 01:05:51
want to end on is on Tuesday the 12th I attended the Southern Indiana Works Board of Directors at Caesars. They also had their 01:05:59
Southern Indiana Works annual State of the workforce summit with about 130 people attended was a really great turn out. 01:06:07
And Tony Watterson, He's the President, CEO of the SIW. He indicated that from July 2022 to June of 2023, the approximate total 01:06:16
economic. 01:06:22
Wage Impact by SIW. 01:06:28
Was 6,000,000 and over 6 / 606,600,000. 01:06:32
It also served 520 businesses and gave around 500 and. 01:06:37
56,000 employee training grants to support local businesses. 01:06:42
Si W works here in Floyd County. A really, really fantastic job. So I want to give a shout out to them. Thank you. Thank you John. 01:06:47
Jason. Well, I had to take a drink of water after listening to John talked about. 01:06:52
On March 6, I met with Tyler Warbin from the Governor's office to discuss issues impacting Floyd County and that included the lack 01:07:00
of funding for roadways and the ever rising cost associated with emergency services. 01:07:06
Here that we're facing March 14th, I attended the virtual check in with our owners Rep for the County building and was updated on 01:07:13
the status of the asbestos study and the structural analysis. 01:07:18
March 14th, I also met with some neighbors concerned about some of the development practices be using a new subdivision next door. 01:07:24
It was a positive meeting, and I'm glad the residents felt like they were hurt with their concerns. 01:07:30
March 15th attended the Joint Council Commissioners meetings. Several topics were discussed, ranging from employee benefits to 01:07:36
EMS. 01:07:40
Also on March 15th, I met with members from the Citizens Climate Lobby and discussed a multitude of issues with renewable energy 01:07:45
and conservation practices. 01:07:49
Also on March 15th, I met with the leadership from Georgetown and Highlanders Fire Protection Districts, their collective 01:07:55
bargaining units in regards to getting the county wide GIS done. 01:08:01
The purpose of the studies to examine bringing all the departments kind of under one single agency and looking what assets and 01:08:07
personnel it would take to be compliant with national standards and best practices. 01:08:12
Later on that evening, I was honored to speak at the Georgetown Fire Protection District Annual Awards Banquet and I could say as 01:08:19
a as a former member of that board, I couldn't be happier with the direction that the district has gone a. 01:08:25
Both with the fire board and under the command of. 01:08:32
Of Chief Banta. I think that the board should be commended for their years of fiscal Conservancy. 01:08:35
And later that that evening, Chief meant to let us know that he's going to be retiring from the fire service after 42 years, so he 01:08:43
leaves big shoes to fill. So. 01:08:49
Whoever feels them is going to have a tall task ahead of them. 01:08:56
Big boots. 01:08:59
Thank you very much. 01:09:02
I was part of a lot of those but but not all of those couple of just unique to my couple weeks of the Caesars Foundation meeting 01:09:04
on 3/13 and then on 314 before joining you guys up on the hill we had our open door youth shelter board meeting as well. Mr. 01:09:12
Bagshaw attend his first meeting is the County Council representative too and I think he'd agree they do. 01:09:20
Really important work and kind of fly under the radar. So anyway, that's all I have of a unique nature on that the. 01:09:28
We do have one appointment tonight, Floyd County Parks and Recreation Board appointment we had. 01:09:37
A vacation of a spot on that. And though we so we named Mr. Scott Birch, he is the county commissioners Democrat appointment to 01:09:43
that. Many of you might know Mr. Birch, so. 01:09:49
Outstanding teacher Outman Tabor for many years and he's going to be, I think a really, I think he was on the he was on the parks 01:09:55
board prior to the split between the city and the county so. 01:10:01
Now The Return of King is back in his place. He's incredibly intellectual guy with a love for all outdoors, so I'm really excited 01:10:07
to see. 01:10:13
What he brings to that I don't Do we need to make that formal appointment tonight by voters? That's already been done, correct? 01:10:18
Well, who would like to? 01:10:27
I'll make a motion to approve. 01:10:30
Scott Birch Scott Birch. 01:10:33
To the Floyd County Parks and Recreation Board. I'll second. OK, All in favor, aye? 01:10:35
Seeking approval for the Commissioners Meeting minutes for March 5, 2024. Motion to Approve All in Favor, All Right and Approval 01:10:41
of Payroll and Claims. 01:10:47
Motion to Approve. 01:10:54
All right. Earlier today we had solid waste meeting at 4:30. Next commissioners meeting was Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024 at 6:00 PM. 01:10:55
So do we have any of them? 01:11:00
Sorry. OK. I need a motion. Yeah. Motion to approve. OK. All in favor. Aye. All right. 01:11:09
Any government officials wishing to comment for the night? Public. 01:11:16
Government official and member of the public. 01:11:21
He's got a notebook tonight. 01:11:26
I as well want to commend Mr. Lock and Mr. Greevey. 01:11:28
Further operations report. It was very informative. After all, the duty of government is to provide service for the community. 01:11:36
And also Judge Stiller's report was very informative as well. And as I stated, a function of local government is to provide 01:11:46
service to the community. 01:11:49
Thank you. 01:11:55
Any other comments from the public tonight? 01:11:57
Yeah, man, Jordan, I sort of agree with Mr. Bradshaw. The other Dale. 01:12:05
We do appreciate the transparencies coming back. I do want to say something if you read today's paper. 01:12:09
New Omni police chief wrote a letter. 01:12:16
That cameras on his policeman. 01:12:18
Body cameras How well it worked. The annual cost? Like 150,000. 01:12:20
That's not an issue, I've been asking for them. 01:12:25
On our county Police Department ever since two citizens got shot by deputy sheriff in our county. 01:12:28
And it's always been turned down. We had plenty of money. 01:12:33
AARP Money. 01:12:37
To buy the cameras and purchase. 01:12:38
$150.00 hundred 50,000 a year, probably in your own budget somewhere. 01:12:40
We're going to have to do it. 01:12:45
State police got him. Now I'm the city police has got him and loves them. 01:12:47
And I don't know why I can't. We can't put them on our county police officers. 01:12:51
Thank you. All right. Thank you. I have not read that yet. I will read that when I go home. 01:12:54
Any other comment? 01:13:01
OK. Closing comments from the commissioners. 01:13:04
Yeah, I want to thank the Highlander Fire Board and all the fire district coming out tonight and representing your fire districts. 01:13:07
I do want to get a reminder there's a lot of construction going on in Floyd County, especially out there on US150. They have 01:13:15
temporary stoplights there installed at the east part of Greenville. So you know, there might be some traffic delay depending upon 01:13:22
the time of day, but there's alternate routes you can take. But again, we will need to be patient. 01:13:29
You know, regardless of maybe a convenience, but when the projects completed, they will be a much needed improvement to US 150. 01:13:37
And again, thanks for coming out. Appreciate it. 01:13:44
I'll just echo what John said about our fire districts. They have it's a pretty tall task at times that was on the fire district 01:13:47
board. So thank you very much for everything that you all do for your all districts. I also want to thank Officer Scott in the 01:13:51
back there for. 01:13:55
Always being here and kind of looking after, so thank you for everything you do. 01:14:00
All right. Thank you. And I don't want to end the meeting on a somber note, but I'm going to, I mean, I think tonight we had. 01:14:04
We heard mention of Caesars Casino at least twice and maybe a third time and. 01:14:11
We all probably know people who workout there. They're a partner in our community. 01:14:18
And what happened out there over the weekend is a genuine tragedy, particularly for the family. 01:14:22
Love the victim out there so. 01:14:31
I just want to keep that family. 01:14:34
And the folks who workout there. 01:14:37
In the in all of our collective thoughts and prayers. 01:14:40
And. 01:14:43
Again, I want to thank everybody for coming out as well, but with that I'll wish everybody a safe journey home and. 01:14:45
Look for motion to motion to adjourn. 01:14:52
I'll say all right. 01:14:54
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Welcome everyone to tonight's March 19th meeting of the Floyd County Commissioners. 00:00:04
If you have cell phones, if you can silence those. And if you have any conversation needs or something taken to the hall of If we 00:00:10
get going here, you join me for the Pledge of Allegiance, please. 00:00:15
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, 00:00:20
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:26
All right, now, if you'll join me before I just an individual moment of silence for prayer, meditation or reflection as we focus 00:00:34
on tonight's. 00:00:38
Agenda. 00:00:44
All right. Thank you very much. We did have a couple of late additions to the agenda. So we'll need to have a unanimous consent 00:01:10
from the commissioners to add. 00:01:15
Items. 00:01:22
#7 Susanna were these. 00:01:23
Was this amended agenda made public with the additions already listed as number 7 and eight? 00:01:26
OK, so we will have a #7, which will be County Sheriff's Steve Bush for approval of A. 00:01:34
Control contract that we'll be hearing about. 00:01:43
And also approving the submission of a Max Levy request for Highlander Fire District and New Albany Township Fire Protection 00:01:46
District. 00:01:50
So I will need a motion and ultimately unanimous consent to add those to tonight's agenda. 00:01:55
Motion with unanimous consent to add to add items number 7 and #8 to our. 00:02:02
To the March 19th agenda now. Second, OK, all in favor. Aye, aye. All right. So those will be towards the bottom we will have. 00:02:08
Time for public comment at the end of tonight's meeting for general purposes. 00:02:18
And with regards to that approval of the submission of a Max Levy request, I'll probably. 00:02:24
It's my intent to have public comment prior to that as well. So if I fail to do that, please someone remind me to to add that. 00:02:31
New business County engineer Horatio Euritia. 00:02:38
And I pronounce you. 00:02:42
OK. All right. 00:02:46
Yes, Sir, You should have in front of you be opening for. 00:02:51
Bridge 27 Construction. 00:02:56
Or actually the clinical name is. 00:02:59
Foundation repair and approach reconstruction. 00:03:02
That's Bridge 27. Can you give a geographical location? 00:03:07
Georgetown, Greenville Rd. Right after Cook's meal. 00:03:12
Entrance and there's probably. 00:03:18
2300. 00:03:20
Going to Greenville, that is in pretty bad shape and it needs to be repaired. Thank you. 00:03:22
Didn't announce any other bits? Yeah, I'll say we have a few bids in front of us, about five or six there. Do we have anyone else 00:03:28
wishing to submit the? 00:03:33
This evening. 00:03:38
I see no one. 00:03:40
OK, first bid is temple and temple. 00:03:43
All right, temple and temple $223,700. 00:03:51
Next bid is CNR Construction. 00:04:02
All right. C&R Construction $279,434. 00:04:13
Next bit is E&B Paving. 00:04:25
E&B Paving 280,000. 00:04:38
The next bid is. 00:04:50
TRC LLC. 00:04:53
TRCLLC. 00:05:04
257,000. 00:05:06
$451 00:05:09
Final bid is RL. 00:05:15
Buxton Excavating. 00:05:18
RL Vuxen with AV $197,347. 00:05:31
Motion. We take these under advisement. 00:05:38
We have two spots for an FCI Bridges and Matt Construction on the sheet. Did we not receive bids from those companies? All right, 00:05:43
I'll second. All right. I have a motion to take these under advisement. And the second, all in favor. Aye, aye. Thank you. 00:05:50
The second item and the agenda is a. 00:05:59
Release for Windsor Creek subdivision. 00:06:01
Subdivision to be completed the owner. 00:06:06
Well developer was be required to submit a bond for 96,000 hundred 441. 00:06:10
With $0.25. 00:06:18
And then since they are complete, they are willing to. 00:06:20
He was a two year bond for maintenance of the road, so we are supposed to release 72,330. 00:06:25
.94. 00:06:34
So I advise the. 00:06:36
Commissioners to authorize the releasing of. 00:06:39
The rest of the Bond. 00:06:42
So this is the, the full bond was over 97, but we're going to release around 72,000, is that correct? OK, we want to keep at 00:06:46
24,110. 00:06:52
.31 for a two year bond maintenance bond. 00:06:57
What was the amount to be to be released 72,000 What the amount will release is 72,330.94? 00:07:02
94. 00:07:16
OK, make a motion that we. 00:07:19
Release for Windsor Creek subdivision bond and the amount of $72,330.94. 00:07:23
I'll say have a motion and a second for release of the amount stated. All in favor, aye. 00:07:32
Thank you. Thank you. All right. Rachel, do you want these? 00:07:40
Sure. 00:07:46
Sure. 00:07:49
All right. Director of Operations and Planning, Mr. Don Lock. 00:07:51
Good evening. First item I have is the award of the old Vincents Rd. project. 00:07:58
Strand and Associates has reviewed the bids and the low bid was Danny Christiani at $2,337,470.13. 00:08:05
So ask for action to. 00:08:16
Award that amount. 00:08:20
In that country, in that contract. 00:08:22
Toward the bed and then the contract will be coming. 00:08:26
Motion to award the bid to Danny Christianity for the Old Vincennes Rd. Project Construction. 00:08:31
I'll second motion a second. Any further discussion? 00:08:38
I just Has that schedule been released? 00:08:43
Yeah, I think we've talked about it here in the public meeting right before. It is supposed to start June 1 and run through 00:08:48
September 30th for 2024 and then. 00:08:54
Be closed in June 1 of 2025 to August 1st of 2025. I know we had discussed it here, but has that been formally posted on the 00:09:01
website? Yeah, after tonight, after the award, will we'll do that? And then we've got letters to send out to. I just want people 00:09:08
to know that information is forthcoming on that. So. OK, so the motion is second. All in favor, Aye. 00:09:16
2nd Ward A bid is for Temple and Temple for the North Tucker Rd. Small Structure Project. 00:09:26
In the amount of 312, three $112,470. 00:09:34
Motion Motion to Approve. 00:09:40
Temple Temple for the North Tucker Rd. project. 00:09:44
I'll second. 00:09:48
OK, I have a motion a second. Any further discussion? 00:09:50
And the description of that project has been discussed multiple times in this setting, correct? 00:09:54
Yes, I said. I just want to make sure people can access that. 00:10:00
We that has been discussed in this public forum before. OK, my motion is second. All in favor, aye? 00:10:05
3rd item is a small paving pad for in front of the second soft barn. 00:10:12
Temple and Temple was low quote. We had four quotes. This was for an amount of $7150. 00:10:19
Motion to approve Temple Temple for the small. 00:10:29
Pad in front of the Salt Barn. 00:10:33
I have a motion. A second all in favor, Aye, Aye. 00:10:37
OK. Next time is award for the, this is part of our. 00:10:42
Facilities and. 00:10:50
And I guess active shooter type of programming to Hardener sites. This is with Stanley Schultz and company. 00:10:52
It is for $94,410. It's for both the the doors here at Pineview. Not only the front, but also the sides and the and the the. 00:11:01
Entrance to the youth shelter, but then also the. 00:11:14
Doors at. 00:11:18
The rice building as well. 00:11:21
And and and and also some. There's some windows as well in terms of. 00:11:23
Bulletproof, bolt resistant. OK. 00:11:30
We'll make a motion to approve Stan Schultz and company for the award for the Facilities Windows contract. 00:11:34
Second, all right, have a motion. The second any further discussion. 00:11:43
I just want to state for the record, I want to thank you for being responsive to the commissioners request and I think this back 00:11:48
and forth discussion that's been going on for the last 18 months about trying to harden some of these. 00:11:54
Unfortunate, use the word targets, but and we're serious about it, and it's for the protection of not only the folks that work 00:12:01
here, but also the people that visit and do business here, so. 00:12:06
This is the beginning. These are the beginning steps of of ongoing training and upgrades and so. 00:12:12
I think it's one of the most important things that we've done here in the last 18 months. I appreciate your efforts on it. 00:12:18
Appreciate the efforts of the Sheriff's Department for helping us. I failed to mention that. Yeah. Thank you as well. 00:12:23
Next item I have is a award. This is for the auditor's office. 00:12:32
And this is for their GASP 34 compliance for the capital asset asset property record. 00:12:38
And it is with Peterson Consulting Services for $6500. 00:12:45
There would that also be #4 down there too? 00:12:55
On our agenda. 00:12:59
Yeah. But OK. Do you want to consolidate those? Yes. Yeah. So since I just had one question on that, is that? 00:13:03
They also included in that. 00:13:13
Contract the potential for 32150 are. 00:13:16
Doing the same thing for year end 2020, Rick, is your mic on? 00:13:21
All right. Yep. They also had in the contract an additional $32150. 00:13:27
For year in 2024. 00:13:33
That may be something that you would want to consider. 00:13:38
As part of the contract for. 00:13:43
What you're doing for year end? 00:13:47
2024, I think for clarity's sake, if we're going to, if you're going to be presenting for Diana, maybe you can go ahead and do 00:13:50
whatever we were going to do for #4 on this development as well. And just explain for everyone's benefit exactly just synopsis of 00:13:57
what we're doing here. This is a capital assets report is required by the State Board of Accounts. This is one of the items that 00:14:04
she's been working on in terms of kind of getting some things that weren't done in the past, getting those into. 00:14:12
SPL a compliance and basically what this is, is it walks through all the government assets, land, land improvements, buildings, 00:14:20
machinery, vehicles, software. 00:14:26
Roads, bridges, sidewalks, traffic control streets, any type of construction. 00:14:32
And it goes through process of finding out what the exact cost is, what the ages are. Then it does a capitalization for each 00:14:38
class. Then it goes through a detailed. 00:14:44
Analysis for acquisition cost determining older assets. 00:14:52
They'll need an actual year of acquisition. 00:14:57
And they estimate useful life and compute straight cost, depreciation cost amounts when they summarize that as a report to be 00:15:01
provided. 00:15:06
With a beginning balance and then allowing for additions and retirements is items, so. 00:15:13
The. 00:15:22
First year is the 6500. I'll be just very, very, you know, direct review all I did not know that there was doing this for her. I 00:15:25
did not know that there was an annual renewal. 00:15:31
3200, the I guess Diana can come back, you can approve the 6500 and talk to them and if she wants to do the 2000 year in 2024, she 00:15:37
can bring that back and get approval for that. 00:15:45
Is that part of that contract in there? I mean, can we? 00:15:53
Yeah. So the motion we can just say for. 00:16:01
The amount $6500 for fiscal year 2023, correct? Is that right? OK. 00:16:04
OK. I'll make a motion that we accept the contract and Peterson Company. 00:16:10
For the GA SB34 gap. 00:16:16
Compliant capital asset property record for fiscal year 2023 an amount of $6500 strictly for fiscal year 2023. 00:16:19
I'll second. 00:16:28
I have a motion a second. 00:16:31
All in favor, aye. 00:16:33
I just wanted to give you some quick updates on our projects for the. 00:16:37
That we've got ongoing just really quickly our Charlestown Rd. Trail project. 00:16:44
OK. 00:16:53
Our Charlestown Rd. Trail probably give you an update. That's a 1.3 mile multi use trail 10 feet from Connecting County Line to 00:17:09
the Lewis Enders Parkway or Kevin Hamilton Smith Park. 00:17:14
The project started in 20/20/14 and it will be LED forbid July of 2024. Some things that are going on this next couple weeks we'll 00:17:21
be doing tree clearing prior to bat season. 00:17:27
Which is April 1, so next week or. 00:17:34
Week to 10 days we'll be clearing what trees need to be cleared. It also that will primarily be near the bridge and then around 00:17:38
the nursing home facility. 00:17:43
The total cost. 00:17:49
Of the project and then we anticipate it being complete bid and let in 2024, completed in 2025. 00:17:51
The cost project cost estimate is 3. 00:18:02
.3 million our local match will be 10% of the construction inspection, which is right at $40,000. 00:18:05
Want to kind of give a kudos to Nick Greevey. He's done a lot of work on this project. This was an 8020 project that would have 00:18:14
had the county probably in for a little over $1,000,000. 00:18:21
And also it was a phased project at the time, but he worked with Endot and has been working to make some deadlines that they had 00:18:28
for additional funding source. So my understanding is the constructions. 00:18:34
100% and the construction inspection is the 10% match for the county. So I just want to let you know about that project that's 00:18:41
been going on like I said for 10 years. So we're at that. 00:18:47
I think the implementation stage of that. 00:18:54
Edwardsville School project is redevelopment project. I was in the paper here recently. It's located on Carroll Ave. 00:18:59
It's part in the comprehensive plan. It's in our growth area. It's also in the Edwardsville Gateway area as well and it's master 00:19:06
plan. It's a redevelopment area primarily because of the Edwards Elementary School, which is a 1936 WPA project. It had about 00:19:12
16,000 square feet. 00:19:18
That's historically designated as notable in our interim report, so. 00:19:25
As part of a development that's taking place on that 7 acres sprigular, Developer Development is going to be 120 apartment 00:19:32
complex. It's approved by the Planning Commission. It has set aside for units for seniors, first responders and teachers as as 00:19:37
well. 00:19:43
The school set to be renovated into a Community Center. 00:19:50
With the library park, small park. 00:19:54
And parks facilities and and possibly a sheriff's substation that as we went through that the taxes generated in terms of how this 00:19:58
is being paid is in the TIF district. So the taxes generated by the development over the life of the TIF which is 25 years. 00:20:06
Is 7.1 million of that and the public Private Partnership 1.985 million? 00:20:16
Is the TIF TIF funds and. 00:20:25
AARP funds that were used for the signalization of State Road 62. I'd also includes regional stormwater. 00:20:28
Basin extension of sanitary sewer lines and parking. 00:20:36
Parking for the school facility the developers contributions is. 00:20:40
1.2 million includes repairs and the value of the donation. Developers making repairs to school, including a masonry repair of the 00:20:45
building and installing a new. 00:20:52
The building and one acre is going to be donated to the county after county inspection. The county had a pre inspection before we 00:21:00
started this project with a structural engineering firm and also an environmental firm. 00:21:05
In addition, there will be $10,000 annually from the developer for seven years to do maintenance on State Road 64 and 62 for 00:21:12
streetscape improvements that are for the 4th company. So that's kind of the overall that project. I don't know if you had any 00:21:18
questions on Charlestown Road or or. 00:21:24
Edwardsville will go on the next one, which is Blackson Mill Road Bridge 51. 00:21:31
Let you know that the Federal Highway now has the environmental report. We hope to have that anticipate that hopefully 1st of 00:21:38
April. Having that finalized and back right away appraisals title and appraisal reports have started. They commenced on 25 parcels 00:21:46
to be obtained, permitting is through the hydrology. The hydrology study has been requested and commencing per DN Rs request. 00:21:54
And design will continue. We're projected to let still in July of 2025, which is in dots fiscal year 2026. 00:22:03
We did have conversations with. 00:22:13
Origin Park Conservancy about possibly the old bridge. 00:22:16
And then we had conversations with Ndoc and NDOT said if you want to keep the old bridge, you have to start the environmental 00:22:23
over. So I'm. 00:22:26
I kind of told them that I think we're going to probably get rid of the old bridge. So that's that project that's ongoing. 00:22:31
Next, real quickly. I just kind of wanted to have them. 00:22:42
What what I hope to do like the second meeting of every month is kind of highlight a sub department of your of your overall 00:22:46
operations. It's something that give a little report of what that department does and the the. 00:22:52
The employees and the services they provide. So the first step was development of building and development services. 00:22:59
They do all building related permits for Floyd County. They also have agreements with the Town of Greenville and the Town of 00:23:07
Georgetown, Town of Greenville. They not only do the building permits, they also do the planning and in the town of Georgetown we 00:23:12
do the building permits. 00:23:16
They do all zoning requests, variances, special exceptions, zoning and subdivision planning. 00:23:21
They do unsafe building investigations, they do building compliance investigations, so. 00:23:27
How many people do that? It's a staff of five. 00:23:35
The average experience level for that staff is 8.2 years. 00:23:39
The education certification levels, we have two certified residential and commercial inspectors. 00:23:45
But one with masters, 2 for bachelor's. 00:23:51
One with an associates in the. 00:23:54
And one gentleman who's currently going through master school for planning. 00:23:57
I asked him every day why. 00:24:02
2023 Permits Local Improvement Permits was 470 permits were issued. Of those, 126 were single family dwellings. 00:24:06
There's 1899 inspections primarily done by by the two inspectors. 00:24:18
Code and code violations were 23. Unsafe building cases were three. 00:24:26
And then our zoning approvals. Last year, the Planning Commission had one subdivision approval was a major subdivision for 14 00:24:32
lots. 00:24:36
One map amendment, one text Amendment 13 variances, 4. Exceptions 1. Conditional use and two. 00:24:40
Administrative appeals. There may be a part region of pear tree there as well. 00:24:48
That's about as good as I can get, so this is probably not very good. 00:24:54
Our the budget. The budget is 345,000. The salaries make up 71% of that 247,000. The general fund is 260,000 with 75%. 00:24:59
And the edit funds cover $84,000. 00:25:12
Permit fees currently are 164,000. The permit fees planning fees have not been increased since 2006. 00:25:15
And building fees since 1982 and that's one of the items that you all had asked. 00:25:24
Us to take a look at internally. We are finalizing that report. Nick shouldn't be having that to you. 00:25:31
Hopefully by the. 00:25:37
As well, so. 00:25:40
Just an overview of that, that that department there's, like I said, there's five folks in there. 00:25:42
And you can see the amount of work that they do in a given year, especially with almost 1900 inspections. 00:25:48
So other two items just real quickly, our website, each of the departments is working on transitioning information. We anticipate 00:25:56
all the departments to be integrated into the website by June 1. 00:26:03
And we're going to make available more project specific data, so. 00:26:10
The data I talked about tonight on the projects, we will have a dedicated site and again dedicated information for each of those. 00:26:15
Including budgets, minutes mapping, there's some really, I think, some neat things. 00:26:24
Mr. Morgan, in terms of mapping and RFP data as well be on the site. 00:26:29
And then 2025 budget. 00:26:34
We're finalizing the budget actually had. 00:26:37
Horatio and Ronnie in our office today to look at that, look at those budgets. We'll have those finalized for your review by April 00:26:40
one. Well, take that back, April 8th, Mr. Berman wanted to. 00:26:47
Have another week, they get some things ready. So April 8th we'll be submitting that to you for your review. There's some 00:26:54
anticipated requests just to let you know it funding. 00:27:00
Our phones and computers are towards the end of the useful life cycle. 00:27:05
Kept a membership. 00:27:10
They have increased their membership and increased their membership since the 1990s. So for the $3,000,000 just for. 00:27:12
That we would receive for Charlestown Rd. 00:27:21
$5,000,000 we're getting through tipta. 00:27:24
We paid last year $4500 so they have. They, like everyone else is seen an increase. 00:27:27
And then our utilities are going to be something. 00:27:35
Just the cost of doing business items there and as I said before, we're reviewing our ability to develop these and should have 00:27:38
those two as well so. 00:27:43
I just wanted to give you that update and. 00:27:49
And answer any questions you may have. 00:27:51
I think this is a great idea to incorporate this into one of the monthly meetings as you said. 00:27:57
Gives everybody a little bit more familiarity with. 00:28:04
What goes on here day-to-day? 00:28:06
I can't speak highly enough of the department and the employees that work in each of our departments. 00:28:09
They do a very Yeomans type of work. As you can see that amount of work has been done and I agree with you. The nick, no, he's 00:28:15
there. I mean, good job. We need to give him more work. 00:28:20
I can do that, yeah. 00:28:26
Thank you. Thank you. 00:28:29
All right. Thank you very much. Next we have the honor of having the Honorable Judge Stiller with us tonight to give us an annual 00:28:31
report on the the Jay rack. 00:28:36
I'll share with. 00:28:53
I can send you the very lengthy e-mail. 00:28:57
OK. Good evening. I am Carrie Siller, Judge of Lloyd Superior Court #1. I'm also the chair of our Floyd County Community 00:29:07
Corrections and Justice. 00:29:11
Reinvestment Advisory Council, J. 00:29:17
And it was John's great idea, and I think it was a great idea. 00:29:21
That I bring an annual report. I think he even said maybe quarterly. I'm like, let's let's start with annual and. 00:29:25
We'll go from there. There you go. We did have a very busy 2023. That is a lot to report, so I will move through here fairly 00:29:32
quickly. I tried to add pictures to make this a little bit more fun, OK? 00:29:39
And so one of the things we did in 2023 is we created our our mission and vision statement for J REC. And I think that's important 00:29:47
for me to just kind of back up a little bit and tell you. 00:29:52
How J Rat came to be community corrections has been around for a really long time, as most everyone knows. But 2021 the statute 00:29:58
came out. Legislature passed a law for every county to have a local J rec. 00:30:04
And that that J Rack Board, Justice Reinvestment Advisory Council could be consolidated combined with the Community Corrections 00:30:11
Board. Their purposes are different but similar and they're overlapping in the sense that I would just say the simplest way to put 00:30:18
this is our goal is reduction every citizen, recidivism. 00:30:25
Community safety and all of that really, with a focus toward addressing mental health and addiction related issues. 00:30:32
That contribute to people becoming a criminal justice involved persons. 00:30:40
Now we so we set out. We created a mission and vision statement as you can see there. It's rather lengthy. I won't go through that 00:30:49
at this time. I know our time is sort of limited. We also I. 00:30:56
Are working on the Samsung Intercept model. So basically what that is to say, Floyd County is providing access to resources 00:31:04
including treatment for mental health and addiction. 00:31:09
To criminal justice involved individuals. 00:31:14
At every intercept. 00:31:18
Thanks to the work of. 00:31:20
RJ Rag. 00:31:23
And that is a tribute to everyone involved in J Rack. 00:31:24
And you can see there the intercept model was created by, you know, a lot of people at the federal level. 00:31:29
Involved in mental health and addiction and what they basically have passed along that we've learned is how important it is that 00:31:37
at every, at every point. 00:31:41
In the life of a criminal case that it is important that we have. 00:31:46
And we provide opportunities and access to treatment and reduction of barriers toward rehabilitation. 00:31:50
For criminal and criminal justice involved individuals or criminal defendants, you might call them. 00:31:58
And I would say that. 00:32:05
We we are strong on our intercepts from the point of. 00:32:08
Coming court, so their initial hearing, so particularly starting an intercept 234 and five. 00:32:14
I think where we have work to do is intercept 0 and one. 00:32:21
That's pre arrest, pre incarceration. 00:32:25
Pre even the law enforcement getting involved, we're working on that. That's part of J Rex task. 00:32:29
Going forward? 00:32:34
Help me put they help me put this together. 00:33:10
And they they're they're the reason why we're having the success that we are having. 00:33:12
And getting the work done that needs to be done for Floyd County. And one of the things that we started doing is we saw that. 00:33:17
Umm, people coming through our court systems. Although there were some opportunities for treatment, it wasn't nearly what it 00:33:26
needed to be. 00:33:29
So we put into place processes to improve that and make that better and this is a very. 00:33:33
A detailed description of that process. 00:33:40
So what were we doing in 2023? We have some highlights here to report. I think as you all well know as we came here about a year 00:33:44
ago, a little longer than a year ago and we told you about our grand ideas and. 00:33:50
We told you that we could apply for a matching grant. 00:33:58
But it would require the commissioners for offering up to match with opioid money. And commissioners did US1 better than we didn't 00:34:01
expect and say, all right, J Rack, here's $846,000. That is our opioid money. We like for you to help, help us with that, make 00:34:07
recommendations that everybody at the table we have, you know, John sits on it. He's very active. We have council members, the 00:34:13
sheriff, all the judges. 00:34:19
Probation committee corrections. 00:34:27
System of care we have members in all. 00:34:30
Really across all of the stakeholders are on J Rack and actively participating in this process. So they have been with us all 00:34:34
through the way. We did end up getting an award from the state matching great not as much as we had hopeful we got $180,000 it was 00:34:40
specifically. 00:34:46
For the jail transition, coord. 00:34:52
In an administration, an administrative portion, and that was awarded in May and that position was filled and Carmen Kerbert is 00:34:55
here. She would. 00:34:59
There's your hand. She is an officer in the jail and her role is to help again addressing. 00:35:04
The rehabilitation component helping people get who are getting out of jail in Floyd County and they're going out onto the 00:35:11
streets. 00:35:15
To help that with that transition. 00:35:19
What? Whatever those barriers may be, it could be anything from education to treatment to mental health services. And she doesn't 00:35:22
do it by herself. She has a great team, and Sheriff Bush has a great name for it. Changing while incarcerated. Sheriff is here. 00:35:29
Doing great things in the jail with his program. So he's ratcheted up what we started in 2021. 00:35:37
Annie has a team, including Officer Sarah Pett. 00:35:42
Kara Hodges. 00:35:46
Kelly Stafford was a huge part of it. She's still a part of it. You know, she's not working in the jail now. 00:35:48
She's still on J rag. She he has a. 00:35:52
Darla Dabney, the licensed clinical social worker for the jail. 00:35:55
So that is a key component to all of this. 00:35:59
Now also in June and in the summer and really throughout the year, all of this was being done, but a couple of things happened we. 00:36:04
And I give you the YouTube website, they're still on there, posted, and they're kind of lengthy. 00:36:47
But they are interviews that they took of a lot of us about what we're doing and goes into a lot more detail about what I'm 00:36:53
telling you today. 00:36:56
Also in Sept. 00:37:01
Of last year, we hosted our first Mental Health and Addiction Summit. It was we had a keynote speaker, Lieutenant Governor Suzanne 00:37:03
Crouch. 00:37:08
And we had a collaboration of the justice partners. 00:37:14
And a huge turn out, 150 people came, we had service providers there, we had community leaders there, had a great discussion 00:37:18
talking to our community about all the things that we're doing about our plans with the opioid money and so forth. 00:37:26
Well, all of this garnered. 00:37:37
Even more attention, which I'll get to, but first I want to talk to you about. 00:37:41
Our work with our local service providers. None of the work that J rec is doing would even be possible without. 00:37:46
The service providers in not only in Floyd County but in surrounding counties who are doing the heavy lifting, they are providing 00:37:52
the treatment, they are providing the mental health services, they are providing employment and jobs and training and help with 00:37:58
insurance and all of these things. And Anne Carruthers, who's also here with System of Care, she's been really instrumental in 00:38:04
pulling those people together and organizing them, vetting them, making sure we have good conversations and collaboration with 00:38:10
them. 00:38:16
So we can have seamless delivery of services and that is really instrumental to all of this. We meet with them regularly and host 00:38:23
monthly meetings. We often participate. Many of them come to our meetings and that was really the point behind Jay Rag is to get 00:38:28
people talking and collaborating and that's what we're doing. 00:38:34
And I will say on a daily basis, our community corrections, probation and the jail works with those same service providers to 00:38:41
connect individuals to treatment. 00:38:45
Now all of this work that we did this year got a little more attention than we really were even expecting. And that was from the 00:38:52
Chief Justice Loretta Rush in which I know you all are aware was very proud moment for for myself and all the judges and all of 00:38:59
our J. Rack to be there and to be honored by her in the way that she did. And really she was she was honoring Floyd County and and 00:39:07
I was there as the personification of that along with Chris Lane unfortunately Sheriff. 00:39:14
It was supposed to be there and Matt Lauer to our public Chief Public defender and they. 00:39:22
Had illnesses that prevented them from being there. I know they want to be there and was able to come. 00:39:26
Judge Granger and you can see the picture at Claire. Judge Brown was there. His baby came home from the hospital that day, but he 00:39:31
made the trip because it was such a big deal. 00:39:36
And I will tell you that. 00:39:42
It's really pretty pretty awesome feeling to have Chief Justice introduce our county and all the work that we're doing in front 00:39:45
of. 00:39:48
The entire Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, everything, legislator, the governor and Lieutenant governor. So that's pretty 00:39:53
cool. And I think that is a tribute to the hard work that our leaders are doing in this community. 00:39:59
And not only the leaders, but also all the agencies and departments involved, all the work that they're doing every single day. 00:40:06
And this was picked up and spread across the county and across the state. 00:40:14
Now getting down to brass tacks on the opioid funds, here's where we are as of as of today. 00:40:20
Now this is just a real general overview. What we we did is we sort of divided the money up into buckets as you can see at the 00:40:27
top. The top two are the buckets that are still in process. We know that we have some gaps in the juvenile. 00:40:35
Area and Magistrate who is our juvenile? 00:40:44
Detention, sort of. She handles all of the juvenile delinquency cases. Judge Brown handles the chins and those types of cases. So 00:40:47
they're sort of leading the charge on that work, coming up with an identification, doing that, doing the homework and the research 00:40:55
to determine where that money ought to be spent. It's important to what we want you to know is that we are taking this, we're 00:41:02
going very intentionally, we're doing the research, find out what's needed before. 00:41:09
Anything is spent similarly with mental health and addiction. If you remember you tasked the J rack, ask Honeymoon to be in charge 00:41:17
of this. 00:41:21
Bucket of funds and she is. She's leading a work group on that. They have developed an application form. It is ready to be 00:41:25
unleashed into the public here as soon as we have your blessing. 00:41:30
To start soliciting bids from community agencies, groups, organization organizations and the like who meet certain criteria to 00:41:35
support mental health and addiction. 00:41:40
Resources, we've already spent 150,000. Well, we one year of that. 00:41:45
With committee corrections, the programming that we were doing there with getting individuals access to treatment at the at the 00:41:53
intercepts. 00:41:57
Is really only made possible thanks to community corrections and the assessments they're doing and the work they're doing along 00:42:01
with others. And so that became. 00:42:05
So well used that we needed another person. We didn't have the funding to do it, so this allowed that to continue and to grow. 00:42:10
And So what that means for example in my court and is just as a reminder of 75%. 00:42:17
Of all the criminal cases. 00:42:23
Other than the misdemeanor docket. 00:42:25
Every single person who comes through my court that has a low level drug related charge gets access to community corrections 00:42:29
assessment. 00:42:32
And assistance. 00:42:36
For treatment. 00:42:38
And that's something that really has never happened before. 00:42:40
Not to that level. 00:42:43
And that's in large part thanks to this funding. 00:42:45
And Clark Floyd System of Care continuing to provide us services and I'm giving you the kind of detail on that. That's $109,000 00:42:49
that has been assigned for them to continue to provide these service they were really. 00:42:55
Instrumental in all of this. 00:43:03
They did the work. They helped identify what the need was in Floyd County. 00:43:05
And then they've stuck around. 00:43:10
And they're in my courtroom almost every single day meeting with people. 00:43:12
Being there for anyone, so there is nobody that falls through the gap and that's the goal. 00:43:16
That's our intention. If you want treatment and you're coming through the court system, we want to make sure you get that 00:43:21
opportunity. 00:43:24
We had a recent case. 00:43:27
That that's from the beginning, all the way to the end. I had a recent case, a gentleman who cycled in and out of our courts. I 00:43:29
can't even tell you how many times he's costing a lot of money to the county because this is expensive. 00:43:34
His mental health issues. 00:43:41
Every time we get them, you know, he serves his time and he just starts all over again. 00:43:43
Well, we've made tremendous progress with that man. 00:43:47
And he served a recent sentence, and he's doing much better. 00:43:50
And system of care is right there by his side still to this day, even though he's done with the course and that's what we want, we 00:43:53
need it on the back end too. 00:43:56
So anyway, we still have funds to, you know, we've got the total funds committed, we have uncommitted funds of $184,000. 00:44:01
I apologize. The uncommitted funds are 134,000. 00:44:12
And really, that was just money that didn't fit in any of those buckets. We may come back to you if we get. 00:44:16
Petitions from the community. 00:44:22
And it's more than we have in the buckets, then we may come back and ask, would that be OK? 00:44:25
And we're going to look for your approval on all of this. 00:44:30
OK, so. 00:44:33
I want to make sure everyone knows. I know I've covered a lot of material, there could be questions and there's really not time 00:44:37
for it in this forum. 00:44:40
So we have meetings on a monthly basis and on a quarterly basis you can e-mail us. We have a general e-mail box. You can find out 00:44:45
more about us on the county website, which is. 00:44:50
Recently revamped and really nice. These are our meetings. 00:44:55
Coming up and they're announced, they're all public. We have zoom availability as well. 00:45:00
So I think that's everything in your packet. I asked all of the agencies to provide you the summary report with more details. 00:45:06
Then I knew we would have time to deal with today in this meeting and hopefully you find that informative. 00:45:17
Thank you for your time today. Thank you. I do have one question. The first time I want to thank you and everybody on the 00:45:22
committee for the work that they do on behalf of everybody in Floyd County. 00:45:27
Whether they have the privilege of paying taxes or not, it's it's. 00:45:34
It's good that you're looking after a lot of people who have been trying to reduce recidivism and everything. The one quick 00:45:39
question I had was, is there a deadline for committing the uncommitted? 00:45:45
Funds. There is no deadlines that I'm aware of. 00:45:51
On the spending of the money. 00:45:57
Unless if you've been made aware of, I've not been made aware of. I just want to make sure there's no use it or lose it date. 00:46:00
Just one year's worth of the opioid funding that was assigned. 00:46:05
I'm not that I'm very good and thank you again for being here and taking your time to be with us and share the information with 00:46:14
the community. 00:46:17
Thank you. Any other questions? No, I just want to make one comment. I don't know of any family at least at this point that hasn't 00:46:22
been touched by addiction or mental health, this, you know this point anyway, you know, I mean it's it's such a big issue out 00:46:27
there. So thank you for all everything that you all do and. 00:46:32
Appreciate you coming out tonight. 00:46:37
Well, we appreciate your support. Thanks. Thank you. And also to attend the meetings. I mean, the people on these committees, 00:46:39
they've got their inner gut. 00:46:43
I mean, you know, they want to make a change. 00:46:47
You know, and I think this is what what this committee does and the people that we're working with is just, you know. 00:46:50
It's going to happen and this happened a little by little, so thank you. 00:46:56
You're welcome. If I could just say one more thing to that point, I talked to a judge who reached out. So after the Supreme Court, 00:46:59
I'm getting a lot of contact from other judges and they, they struggle around the state getting this kind of cooperation and 00:47:04
participation. I had one judge tell me, you know, she had people complain, well, they're not getting paid to come to these 00:47:09
meetings on their lunch. You know, everything that everyone's doing for this. 00:47:14
Far as Jay Rag goes. 00:47:20
It's, it's in addition to their regular job. So, yeah, we appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Some of you may have on 00:47:22
the agenda, #5 county resident Linda Russell. Is Linda Russell here tonight? 00:47:28
OK, I was going to move that to public comment, but. 00:47:36
If she's not here, then if we have further communication from her, we can just. 00:47:42
Find out what her needs are and the appropriate amount of time on that County Attorney Rick Fox Bond Council contract. 00:47:46
Yes, you have in front of you. Bond hit the bond council contract hiring Barnes and Thornburg is bond council. 00:47:55
For the cumulative capital development purposes of financing various projects and improvements throughout the county. 00:48:03
And this is just basically putting in place one of the pieces to the puzzle that we'll need when it comes time to to finance the 00:48:12
capital Q projects that you end up going forward with. 00:48:19
All right, very good. We've had that in place to review. Do I have a motion for approval on that contract? 00:48:28
All right, Motion. And the second all in favor, Aye, motion passes. 00:48:35
Thank you very much. Next is County Sheriff Steve Bush, approval of Accurate Controls Incorporated contract. 00:48:40
Thank you very much. I'd like to make a comment before I get started on this that Don has spoke about the trails there off 00:48:47
Charlestown Rd. That did begin back in 2014. We also talked about back then. I can't remember that I spoke to him once in 00:48:52
reference to trails connecting all parks. 00:48:57
So we sent that to Rick with potentially iron out the process of how we do it that he will oversee or look the contracts and 00:50:05
agreements and they'll go before you and them hearing and then we'll attach the minutes from potential approval. 00:50:11
With that contract. So we have a record of that. You know if you decide not to approve a contract or agreement then we have 20 00:50:19
days that you all would have to submit that request that why you denied it and then after 20 days and I can sign off on that. So 00:50:24
potentially that's the agreement what the law states, but we're going to head start with that. 00:50:30
Currently at least for tonight, so before you you'll have a an agreement with Echo Controls in reference to what was approved by 00:50:36
the council in terms of moving forth or IT situation. And so we currently got on this particular piece go with the Greenwich 00:50:42
hacker controls. I think it's an amount of 98,686 and seven cents. And so all I would ask for tonight is approval to go ahead and 00:50:49
sign that and move forward with that project. 00:50:55
And the funding is in place for that as well. 00:51:03
Well, I pardon you for. 00:51:05
Being maximally transparent, he said. More transparent. I don't think there's that. There's been a lack of transparency in the way 00:51:07
that the Sheriff's Department is operating A. 00:51:11
And this may be the first time in Indiana that this has happened. I guess it's the legislation hasn't passed. So I. 00:51:16
What we do tonight may or may not become a benchmark, or I'm sure there'll be some adaptation to it. But Rick, do you want to 00:51:24
comment on the House bill and how you feel like it should be? 00:51:28
Carried out once fully enforced. 00:51:35
Well, I think it's a. 00:51:37
You know clear that the state. 00:51:41
Transparency with regards to. 00:51:44
The Sheriff's Department and and as well as all the other offices in terms of getting the contracts approved. 00:51:48
And embedded legally. 00:51:55
So I think it's a good move and. 00:51:58
You know, I appreciate working with Sheriff's Department in terms of getting the contracts run through the commissioners for 00:52:03
approval. Yeah, I think the more sets of eyes that are on this and more opportunity there is for public input and oversight, good 00:52:10
thing. So any further comment on that, If not, I'll look for a motion to approve. 00:52:16
Motion to approve the accurate control contract. And I'll second. All right. A motion is second. All in favor, aye? 00:52:24
Thank you very much. Thank you very much. 00:52:34
All right, Item 8 is approving the submission of a maximum levy request for Highlander Fire Protection District and New Albany 00:52:36
Township Fire Protection District. 00:52:41
I think we'll hear a description of how this ended up on the agenda and why at this time. And then we'll hear from Representatives 00:52:47
Highlander and New Albany Township and then we'll have public comment on that before. 00:52:53
A vote on that, so. 00:53:01
John, you're instrumental in putting that on there. If you want to explain the timing of it and everything, I received a call from 00:53:03
Ruben Cummings, easily financial agent for New Albany. 00:53:08
Our district as well as Highlander but anyway, and he just had gotten this was on Friday the 15th. He just got information from 00:53:13
the DLGF. 00:53:18
On the 15th and told me about there is a. 00:53:23
Opportunity for the for the Fire Districts to increase your Max levy. 00:53:29
And from his I'm gonna read his e-mail here. This is a state law that allows the far districts. 00:53:35
And townships and fire territories to apply for maximum levy increases if your population has grown by more than 6% over the last 00:53:40
10 years. 00:53:45
The idea being that as population grows, the demands on fire departments grow as well, so the levy can increase to stay up with 00:53:50
that growth. This could be applied for every year as long as the 10 year growth is greater than 6%. 00:53:58
That for fire districts, the county commissioners have to sign the letter and what he did was he. And he also said that all three 00:54:07
of the fire districts do qualify. 00:54:12
And they they looked at the population from 2013 to 2022, which is 10 years. It looked at the population growth if it's over 6%. 00:54:17
Then then they were allowed. Then then they would fall under the under these these guidelines up to a maximum of 15%. So he did. 00:54:29
He looked at all three of them, and. 00:54:35
New Albany fire. 00:54:43
They had an increase of 21 / 21% less than 6%. It'd be about a .15. 00:54:45
6/1 and then for Highlander. 00:54:54
Same thing they they were at .08, so they're looking at a .0246. 00:54:58
Georgetown had a .121. Let's see, 6% is .61. But anyway, that's what this is for. 00:55:05
That's the short and then a couple other details. So you heard about this on the 15th, You contacted Jason and I on Sunday? 00:55:49
And again, this does not mean that the rates are going to go up, it just it gives the individual fire boards the opportunity to 00:55:58
discuss. 00:56:02
Raising their levies. But what you had left out was the importance that. 00:56:07
The deadline for the commissioners letter is April first. Exactly. I'm sorry. That's OK, That's OK. I just wanted people to 00:56:13
understand why this is before us tonight. 00:56:17
Again, the Commissioner's letter allowing that discussion to take place has to be in place in order for those discussions to take 00:56:22
place, and it had to be in place by April 1st, so. 00:56:27
I called Darrell Mills on Sunday from New Albany Township because I told. 00:56:34
John that if we're going to sign these letters, I want to representatives from the boards to be here to discuss this tonight. And 00:56:40
Darrell got back with me. 00:56:44
That day and we had a discussion on Monday, and I'll let him take things from his end of things. 00:56:49
The short of it is, I think he just wants the option to pursue that discussion to go forward. But we'll have you come up in a 00:56:56
minute and I do want people to know that. I talked to Michael Moody with Georgetown Fire District and he stated that he did not 00:57:03
anticipate that discussion taking place among Georgetown fire in the upcoming fiscal year. And so he did not think that they 00:57:09
declined for the commissioners to sign that letter, which is why there's not one for Georgetown before us tonight. 00:57:16
If I could add, they had that option next year to do that. You know, the only the only hazard is that. 00:57:24
When you look at comparing 2014 to 2023, if you don't have that increase in the population. 00:57:31
Then that's the like you did in the previous ten years, but but again they have that option to do that again next year, right? 00:57:38
Correct. Yeah. OK. So with that in mind. 00:57:43
There, I see you before us, if you'd like to. 00:57:50
Come up and give your rationale for. 00:57:52
If I didn't steal your rationale for it, you pretty much took it there. That's fine. No, we're kind of in unknown territory, so. 00:57:55
Our board, we kind of discussed it among ourselves and and we don't know where this will go like you stated. 00:58:06
Mr. President, we don't know that we're going to request it, but we would like to have that option because we don't know what 00:58:13
growth we're going to have. 00:58:17
Are what needs we might have to have for increases in our Fire Protection and ambulance service which. 00:58:21
Is a continuing thing. It's changes almost monthly, so we would like to be a part of this in case we have a situation that arises 00:58:28
where we might need this. 00:58:32
For our board and then you're all board and then the County Council for approval. 00:58:39
So I think it's a good thing and a necessity for our department is not knowing what our growth needs might be in the future. 00:58:43
So I would appreciate any support y'all give us. I appreciate you coming out tonight on that and who is representing Highlander 00:58:50
Fire Protection. 00:58:55
No cane tonight, huh? 00:59:06
Ron Weber representing. 00:59:09
Highlander Fire Protection District. 00:59:12
You took it all. 00:59:14
It's the same, you know, we're new. 00:59:17
Since we combined the two fire districts, Highlander. 00:59:19
But we just since this is a new program that's available, we didn't want to pass up the opportunity for. 00:59:25
Those funds to be available in the future. 00:59:31
You know, we don't know what tomorrow. 00:59:34
Home as far as? 00:59:37
So that's what we're asking for. 00:59:39
Approval to increase our Max levy. 00:59:42
Not to be confused with. 00:59:46
Our budget. 00:59:47
Very good. Any other? 00:59:50
Questions for any of the representatives here tonight? 00:59:54
OK, before we have any further discussion amongst ourselves, so anyone from the public wishing to. 00:59:58
Can I ask a point of clarification? 01:00:06
This may be obvious, and I will need you to state your name and address for the record, please. Kim Harbison, 3820 Edwardsville 01:00:09
Galena Rd. Georgetown IN. 01:00:13
I want to make sure I understood this because. 01:00:20
It's kind of mind blowing to me. 01:00:23
Mr. Moody from Georgetown. 01:00:26
If he would have allowed you to support. 01:00:29
What the other two fire districts wanted, that didn't mean they had to raise their levy, it just gave them the opportunity to. Am 01:00:34
I correct? 01:00:38
I mean, these gentlemen don't have to raise. 01:00:43
The levy it just raises the ceiling for the 2nd right? Is that correct? 01:00:46
So in essence, Mr. Moody said. I don't trust us. I don't want us to be able to raise our levy if we want to. 01:00:50
He just pretty much said we don't want the option to do that for ourselves if we would choose to. 01:00:59
Is that is that what I'm getting from? I would not put those words in Mr. Moody's mouth. Mr. Moody's Well, what? What was it? He 01:01:07
said. I'm sorry, 'cause I didn't. He said that he did not foresee a need to increase the levy in the upcoming fiscal year. 01:01:13
And therefore. 01:01:19
They would not send a representation tonight, but there was no undercutting of. 01:01:22
Oh no, no, no. I know that. But he. 01:01:26
He didn't want to give himself the opportunity to do that. If he needed to do that, that's just mind blowing. But thank you. 01:01:30
That's what I wanted to know. 01:01:34
Again, I'll further clarify that that those words were not stated by Mr. Moody. He just declined to have representation here 01:01:40
tonight with regards to that. 01:01:44
Mister Man. 01:01:49
The old man George sounds very interesting in my fire district, but you want to been bragging on is the one that didn't. 01:01:54
Considering wanting to raise levy and what bothers me with the levy, we've got every house that goes up, it's got a levee placed 01:02:00
on their tax bill for the farm district. 01:02:04
That continuously goes up. Every house goes up and up and up. The levee might go down, but the amount of money come in every year 01:02:09
goes up and up and up and that should be the increase to pay for all the things needed to support the fire district. The amount of 01:02:15
new houses going in. In Georgia, I think it was 1900, home inspections last year. 01:02:21
That's where the money's going up for everybody. 01:02:29
And why they need this now, I don't know why they would need anything because was that growth we've got is going up tremendously. 01:02:32
And their income is going to be tremendous. 01:02:40
And why keep hitting the taxpayers more and more and more and more? 01:02:42
Thank you. Any other public comment. 01:02:46
Any further discussion or comment from the Commission? Again, all I want to say is it raises the ceiling. 01:02:51
It does not raise their operating levy. That's something every year they submit their budget to the County Council. 01:02:56
And the County Council is the one that reviews that Okay. 01:03:04
And but again this only raises a ceiling that allow them to increase their operating levy and this by us taking action tonight for 01:03:07
8 by April one, this will be then effective for for 2025 going forward. 01:03:14
All right, I'll need a motion on this and to sign the 2 letters that we have before us. 01:03:24
And a second. 01:03:30
Make a motion to approve. I think we need to be specific on both of them if we could. 01:03:33
Individual we can't be workout or just. 01:03:39
Yeah, I would say, I would say so, yes. 01:03:42
OK, well, I'll make a motion to approve the Max Levy request for Highlander Fire Protection District. I'll second that. 01:03:44
All right. Motion second. All in favor, aye? Aye. 01:03:50
All right. And I'll ask the same for the Yeah, you all need to, I'll make the motion to approve the submission of the Max Levy 01:03:54
request for the New Albany Township Fire Protection District. I'll second that. 01:03:59
All right, have a motion a second. All in favor, aye? 01:04:05
All right. Thank you. 01:04:09
Boarding committee reports. 01:04:12
John. 01:04:17
It's been a busy two weeks, guys. I'm sorry to have. In fact, we've been to a lot of the same meetings. 01:04:20
OK met with Tyler Warman from the Governor's office at a luncheon on March the 6th. And on March the 9th, Don and Bob Woods and I, 01:04:26
we met the members of the Redevelopment Commission with a with a developer around Edwardsville. 01:04:34
Later that morning, I visited the Edwardsville Elementary School with others to view the building. Several local local leaders and 01:04:42
government leaders were there in attendance. 01:04:47
And later that evening we attend. I attended the our first annual animal control meeting on Friday, attended the RDA meeting. We 01:04:52
discussed, they discussed the ready 2 dot O. 01:04:58
And there's also Eli Lilly in parallel to the Ready 2.0. They have 150 million. 01:05:04
A large portion of that is going to go towards blight remediation and the other portion will be going towards arts and culture. 01:05:12
I'm going to skip down. Later that afternoon I attended the OPPOSED. On Tuesday, I attended the REMS Advisory Board. 01:05:20
Then stayed around for the monthly County Council meeting Tuesday. Commissioners we attended the virtual check in with Envoy later 01:05:28
that afternoon. Commissioners and and met and I commissioners and Don Meth. 01:05:35
With some concerned citizens that Highland Village regarding a tree buffer between the suit to the between the two subdivisions 01:05:43
and then I attended the land breakfasts at Chapel Hill last Sunday or Sunday, Saturday in the third for that. But what I what I 01:05:51
want to end on is on Tuesday the 12th I attended the Southern Indiana Works Board of Directors at Caesars. They also had their 01:05:59
Southern Indiana Works annual State of the workforce summit with about 130 people attended was a really great turn out. 01:06:07
And Tony Watterson, He's the President, CEO of the SIW. He indicated that from July 2022 to June of 2023, the approximate total 01:06:16
economic. 01:06:22
Wage Impact by SIW. 01:06:28
Was 6,000,000 and over 6 / 606,600,000. 01:06:32
It also served 520 businesses and gave around 500 and. 01:06:37
56,000 employee training grants to support local businesses. 01:06:42
Si W works here in Floyd County. A really, really fantastic job. So I want to give a shout out to them. Thank you. Thank you John. 01:06:47
Jason. Well, I had to take a drink of water after listening to John talked about. 01:06:52
On March 6, I met with Tyler Warbin from the Governor's office to discuss issues impacting Floyd County and that included the lack 01:07:00
of funding for roadways and the ever rising cost associated with emergency services. 01:07:06
Here that we're facing March 14th, I attended the virtual check in with our owners Rep for the County building and was updated on 01:07:13
the status of the asbestos study and the structural analysis. 01:07:18
March 14th, I also met with some neighbors concerned about some of the development practices be using a new subdivision next door. 01:07:24
It was a positive meeting, and I'm glad the residents felt like they were hurt with their concerns. 01:07:30
March 15th attended the Joint Council Commissioners meetings. Several topics were discussed, ranging from employee benefits to 01:07:36
EMS. 01:07:40
Also on March 15th, I met with members from the Citizens Climate Lobby and discussed a multitude of issues with renewable energy 01:07:45
and conservation practices. 01:07:49
Also on March 15th, I met with the leadership from Georgetown and Highlanders Fire Protection Districts, their collective 01:07:55
bargaining units in regards to getting the county wide GIS done. 01:08:01
The purpose of the studies to examine bringing all the departments kind of under one single agency and looking what assets and 01:08:07
personnel it would take to be compliant with national standards and best practices. 01:08:12
Later on that evening, I was honored to speak at the Georgetown Fire Protection District Annual Awards Banquet and I could say as 01:08:19
a as a former member of that board, I couldn't be happier with the direction that the district has gone a. 01:08:25
Both with the fire board and under the command of. 01:08:32
Of Chief Banta. I think that the board should be commended for their years of fiscal Conservancy. 01:08:35
And later that that evening, Chief meant to let us know that he's going to be retiring from the fire service after 42 years, so he 01:08:43
leaves big shoes to fill. So. 01:08:49
Whoever feels them is going to have a tall task ahead of them. 01:08:56
Big boots. 01:08:59
Thank you very much. 01:09:02
I was part of a lot of those but but not all of those couple of just unique to my couple weeks of the Caesars Foundation meeting 01:09:04
on 3/13 and then on 314 before joining you guys up on the hill we had our open door youth shelter board meeting as well. Mr. 01:09:12
Bagshaw attend his first meeting is the County Council representative too and I think he'd agree they do. 01:09:20
Really important work and kind of fly under the radar. So anyway, that's all I have of a unique nature on that the. 01:09:28
We do have one appointment tonight, Floyd County Parks and Recreation Board appointment we had. 01:09:37
A vacation of a spot on that. And though we so we named Mr. Scott Birch, he is the county commissioners Democrat appointment to 01:09:43
that. Many of you might know Mr. Birch, so. 01:09:49
Outstanding teacher Outman Tabor for many years and he's going to be, I think a really, I think he was on the he was on the parks 01:09:55
board prior to the split between the city and the county so. 01:10:01
Now The Return of King is back in his place. He's incredibly intellectual guy with a love for all outdoors, so I'm really excited 01:10:07
to see. 01:10:13
What he brings to that I don't Do we need to make that formal appointment tonight by voters? That's already been done, correct? 01:10:18
Well, who would like to? 01:10:27
I'll make a motion to approve. 01:10:30
Scott Birch Scott Birch. 01:10:33
To the Floyd County Parks and Recreation Board. I'll second. OK, All in favor, aye? 01:10:35
Seeking approval for the Commissioners Meeting minutes for March 5, 2024. Motion to Approve All in Favor, All Right and Approval 01:10:41
of Payroll and Claims. 01:10:47
Motion to Approve. 01:10:54
All right. Earlier today we had solid waste meeting at 4:30. Next commissioners meeting was Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024 at 6:00 PM. 01:10:55
So do we have any of them? 01:11:00
Sorry. OK. I need a motion. Yeah. Motion to approve. OK. All in favor. Aye. All right. 01:11:09
Any government officials wishing to comment for the night? Public. 01:11:16
Government official and member of the public. 01:11:21
He's got a notebook tonight. 01:11:26
I as well want to commend Mr. Lock and Mr. Greevey. 01:11:28
Further operations report. It was very informative. After all, the duty of government is to provide service for the community. 01:11:36
And also Judge Stiller's report was very informative as well. And as I stated, a function of local government is to provide 01:11:46
service to the community. 01:11:49
Thank you. 01:11:55
Any other comments from the public tonight? 01:11:57
Yeah, man, Jordan, I sort of agree with Mr. Bradshaw. The other Dale. 01:12:05
We do appreciate the transparencies coming back. I do want to say something if you read today's paper. 01:12:09
New Omni police chief wrote a letter. 01:12:16
That cameras on his policeman. 01:12:18
Body cameras How well it worked. The annual cost? Like 150,000. 01:12:20
That's not an issue, I've been asking for them. 01:12:25
On our county Police Department ever since two citizens got shot by deputy sheriff in our county. 01:12:28
And it's always been turned down. We had plenty of money. 01:12:33
AARP Money. 01:12:37
To buy the cameras and purchase. 01:12:38
$150.00 hundred 50,000 a year, probably in your own budget somewhere. 01:12:40
We're going to have to do it. 01:12:45
State police got him. Now I'm the city police has got him and loves them. 01:12:47
And I don't know why I can't. We can't put them on our county police officers. 01:12:51
Thank you. All right. Thank you. I have not read that yet. I will read that when I go home. 01:12:54
Any other comment? 01:13:01
OK. Closing comments from the commissioners. 01:13:04
Yeah, I want to thank the Highlander Fire Board and all the fire district coming out tonight and representing your fire districts. 01:13:07
I do want to get a reminder there's a lot of construction going on in Floyd County, especially out there on US150. They have 01:13:15
temporary stoplights there installed at the east part of Greenville. So you know, there might be some traffic delay depending upon 01:13:22
the time of day, but there's alternate routes you can take. But again, we will need to be patient. 01:13:29
You know, regardless of maybe a convenience, but when the projects completed, they will be a much needed improvement to US 150. 01:13:37
And again, thanks for coming out. Appreciate it. 01:13:44
I'll just echo what John said about our fire districts. They have it's a pretty tall task at times that was on the fire district 01:13:47
board. So thank you very much for everything that you all do for your all districts. I also want to thank Officer Scott in the 01:13:51
back there for. 01:13:55
Always being here and kind of looking after, so thank you for everything you do. 01:14:00
All right. Thank you. And I don't want to end the meeting on a somber note, but I'm going to, I mean, I think tonight we had. 01:14:04
We heard mention of Caesars Casino at least twice and maybe a third time and. 01:14:11
We all probably know people who workout there. They're a partner in our community. 01:14:18