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Just to make sure. 00:00:01
Welcome everyone. We have kind of a double matinee today because of our. 00:00:05
Storm cancellation the last time around, so we do a busy agenda, so I appreciate everybody's patience with that. 00:00:11
Thank you all for coming out and. 00:00:18
We'll ask you to please silence your cell phones if you need to have a conversation the big hallway out there and that would work 00:00:21
well. So if you'll stand and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance, please. 00:00:25
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, 00:00:31
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:37
All right. If you'll please join me for a moment of just individual prayer, meditation, or reflections we have. 00:00:47
Focus on this busy agenda tonight for people Floyd County. 00:00:54
All right. Thank you very much. As I already stated, we do have a busy agenda. We're going to have time for public comment at the 00:01:17
end. I don't think we had a sign in sheet, so just. 00:01:21
We'll do that in an informal fashion at the end of the regular meeting. If you have an agenda before you, there are a couple of. 00:01:26
Uh, items that will be tabled. We'll get to those in order under new business #1 Storm order director Chris Moore that. 00:01:36
Annual report has been moved to the May 7th meeting. 00:01:45
And then we have two additions to tonight's meeting. We're going to have an Item 4, QA mowing contract. I'd like to have a motion 00:01:50
to add that to the tonight's agenda. 00:01:56
OK, all in favor. Aye. And then we'll have an item 9:00, we'll have a Miss Beth Keeney from Light Springs will introduce herself 00:02:04
as well. So I'd like to have a call for that to be added to the agenda motion. So sorry. 00:02:11
Dual motions and dual seconds all in favor, aye, all right. 00:02:18
Fantastic. OK, first to the podium tonight we'll have county engineer Horatio and Gritio. 00:02:23
Forbid openings for local paving. Spring 2024. 00:02:28
And at this time, are there any additional bids to be brought forward tonight? 00:02:34
You ready? Yes, Sir, I am ready. OK, first bit is Louisville Paving. 00:02:45
It would put. 00:03:06
Little marker. 00:03:09
That's all we have. Second eyes on this. And it's Louisville painting, correct? Yes. All right, Louisville Paving. 00:03:11
$306,980.10. 00:03:20
Second one is E&B Paving. 00:03:27
E&B paving 304,850 dollars. 00:03:37
Zero cents. 00:03:41
#3 is CNR construction. 00:03:45
Thank you C&R Construction $321,301.20. 00:04:05
Next one is Mac construction. 00:04:14
Mac construction $275,720. 00:04:31
Zero cents. 00:04:36
Next one is temple and temple. 00:04:40
Temple and Temple 293,000. 00:04:49
$79.20. 00:04:53
293079.20. 00:04:55
Next one is. 00:04:59
DL Construction services. 00:05:02
DLDL. 00:05:06
OK. Yes, like David Leo. 00:05:07
DL Construction, 407. 00:05:18
$100,075.75. 00:05:21
Got it. And the final bid is Libs paving. 00:05:26
Libs paving 200 and 7600 thousand. 00:05:42
$958.30. 00:05:46
And that's the final bid motion that we take these under advisement. 00:05:51
I have a motion. A second to take these under advisement. All in favor. Aye. Thank you. And. 00:05:57
County Engineers, Second item letter 2B. 00:06:04
Has been requested for table motion to table the more bridge 27, so move. 00:06:10
Yes, Sir. 00:06:16
All right, motion to 2nd to table, all in favor. 00:06:18
Aye. Thank you. 00:06:23
Horatio ratio. 00:06:26
All right, Nick, Creepy building and development director. 00:06:29
I have a plat for your signature. It's a partial replat of the 10s place. 00:06:35
This was approved approved by the planning question. 00:06:42
Y'all are aware of this project. We have the stormwater bond for that in place. 00:06:53
Do you have? 00:07:02
Down. 00:07:05
I mean, I've got. 00:07:09
Motion to Approve. 00:07:17
I have a motion to approve for signature and a second all in favor, aye? 00:07:20
Aye. 00:07:26
I got an excellent. 00:07:36
Are there 2 pages for signature or just one? 00:07:38
All right, while Jason finishes that up. 00:07:49
Any other further action on that, Nick, where you move on to? 00:07:55
The second item I have is a partial bond release for Knob Hill Subdivision Section 6. 00:08:00
They have a. 00:08:08
Cash bond amount of 26 thousand 4625 that was 125% of the public infrastructure. They're requesting the release of that 00:08:09
withholding 25% for a two year maintenance bond. So the release will be 19,534 Sixty nine and will retain 6500 Eleven 56. 00:08:21
Horatio went out and proved those items, the infrastructure items, So those are ready. All right. Any questions for? 00:08:33
Nick, on that. If not, I'll seek a motion to approve for the stated amount on that release motion to approve and I'll second. All 00:08:42
right, motion is second. All in favor? 00:08:46
I thank you. 00:08:53
All right. Director of Operations and Planning, Mr. Don Lop. 00:08:59
The first item on Mr. Lock's agenda tonight is a public hearing on a build off rate transfer or bought agreement. 00:09:04
And in order to have a public hearing on that, I'm going to put our commissioners meeting into recess at this moment in time. 00:09:12
And open up a public hearing for the bill to operate transfer. 00:09:20
Well, good evening. For the record, Don Lump, Director of Operations and Planning, before you tonight is a public hearing as part 00:09:26
of the process of a build, operate transfer agreement for the Building 5, which is also known as Red Wire Building. 00:09:34
The Redevelopment Commission has is presenting this to you with a favorable recommendation. 00:09:42
For a contract to be awarded to charm and construction. 00:09:49
For the BLT for Building 5 at Nova Park. 00:09:53
The construction amount is 909,000,600 and 54,952. 00:09:57
The financing of that is a redevelopment bond and the amount of 5,200,000. 00:10:03
And ready funds and tiff of 4,500,000. 00:10:09
Bond payment is the lease payments that will be provide our that will be paid by red wire Backup is the Red wire tiff which is 00:10:13
also on your agenda tonight. The Highlander TIFF revenues and a debt service reserve. 00:10:20
The project, just to give you an overview, it's construction of a 35,000 square foot facility to house a state of an art 00:10:29
state-of-the-art microgravity payload and space operations facility. 00:10:35
30,000 will be leased to Red Wire for the expansion of its Indiana operations and 5000 will be designated for laboratory and 00:10:42
entrepreneurial space. 00:10:46
Under for the. 00:10:53
County's Redevelopment Commission and its partner, Indiana University Southeast. 00:10:54
There's two videos. We'll try to see if we can plan them. 00:10:59
Posture. 00:11:02
And if. 00:11:05
You may have a You may have a commercial in this too, so I. 00:11:08
Pardon the commercial routine that may help support better vision. Ever wonder why glasses alone don't fix all? Here we have the 00:11:13
pillbox flutist cassette Orbit for 40 days. 00:11:19
There are 20 unique samples. 00:11:36
Tested on the ISS. 00:11:39
I'll take a look what we got. So one of the main reasons we would like to do experiments like this in space, especially for the 00:11:44
farm industry, is in microgravity. You might get a larger crystal, you might get a more pure crystal, you might get a more pure 00:11:49
form. I do see crystals. 00:11:54
That's excellent. Wow, that's too cool. Good to go. 00:12:00
And you could receive that material back to earth and potential use it as seed to make that unique form down here on earth. 00:12:05
That was one of two real quick videos that kind of highlight what what they're working on. 00:12:20
In terms of their partnerships, that's a pharmaceutical. 00:12:26
The ultimate purpose for you bio printing in microgravity would be to address the organ shortage that we have on Earth. 00:12:31
We have way too many people on the transplant list and not enough organs to go around. 00:12:38
Tissue engineering is potentially the answer to that. 00:12:43
3D bioprinting on the ground is quite difficult. Things kind of settle out. Gravity tends to mush things together. So microgravity 00:12:48
gives us this wonderful opportunity to print. And when we print, we get to put something and it stays exactly where we put it. So 00:12:53
it allows us to build this big thick tissues. 00:12:58
Well, there's something in there that is your human meniscus right there. 00:13:04
This was printed on the ISS. 00:13:10
Cultured and then brought down to the earth and survived. And I'm holding it right here, so Oh yeah, I'd say it was a. 00:13:12
Very good. 00:13:19
Thought those might be a little bit better in terms of actual video than a planner trying to explain 3D printing and. 00:13:24
And how? 00:13:31
Madison's are. 00:13:33
Developed in space, but those are those are two of the items that are currently being. 00:13:35
Being done at the Galena location, that would be now done. 00:13:40
Within the new building. 00:13:45
At Nova Park. So the next item just real quickly, just give you an economic impact during construction, 64 direct and indirect 00:13:48
positions, job creation and retention both direct and indirect is 121. 00:13:55
75 direct positions being through red wire. An average wage of $55 per hour, which is over double what the Floyd County average 00:14:03
wage is currently. An annual income and property tax generated just South of $1 million annually. 00:14:10
It's a $51 million total private, direct and indirect investment in the project. 00:14:19
The county has been with the partnership of Red Wire has received $7,000,000 in public grant funding. 00:14:23
Those again are the two, direct and indirect. 00:14:30
Job creations both in construction and and through the project. 00:14:35
And then, since our grand opening, we have submitted 3 I EDC requests for information regarding possible business relocations. 00:14:40
Which if they came to fruition, we represent $200 million in additional private investment. Obviously that's a competitive 00:14:49
process. But as you can see since July now to April, Noble Park is starting to get its feet under it and in terms of not only this 00:14:56
project but other projects. So the purpose of the public hearing tonight is for the contract and. 00:15:04
With that, basically take both. 00:15:14
Favorable and unfavorable comments and then I will answer any questions at the end. All right. Thank you very much for that. I. 00:15:18
So at this point, I would like to call for anyone present who would like to speak in favor of this project moving forward. 00:15:26
You can come up one at a time or. 00:15:37
I think 3 hands is that what I thought 1/2. 00:15:41
All right, so. 00:15:45
We won't stop until we run out of hands. 00:15:46
Good evening, Joseph Moyer, Georgetown Township. I'm in favor of clean technology, you know industries in Nova Park. 00:15:49
Some totally support it. I just going to have to wait until that answers questions. My only questions about the financing. 00:15:58
But I'm in favor of the idea. 00:16:05
Thank you. 00:16:08
Hello. 00:16:14
Good evening. Thank you for having me. I'm Debbie Ford. I'm the Chancellor at Indiana University Southeast and on behalf of our 00:16:17
university, I speak on behalf of this project at Nova Park and I'd like to share a few details. First of all, Indiana University 00:16:23
Southeast is dedicated to student success and our 2030 strategic plan is laser focused on educating this next generation of 00:16:30
talent. 00:16:36
By partnering with Nova Park and Red Wire, we are providing students with invaluable opportunities to cultivate their 00:16:42
entrepreneurial mindsets and acquire practical experiences for this evolving knowledge. 00:16:48
Economy As we know, innovation is the engine that propels progress and drives societal development. 00:16:55
Through our collaboration with Nova Park and of course with Red Wire and other future business partners, we are creating a vibrant 00:17:03
ecosystem that nurtures creativity, encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and supports cutting edge research. 00:17:10
Specifically, we are already providing pre accelerator consultation services to both the public and our students. 00:17:19
Our faculty and staff are supporting the fixed accelerator through activities including business plan development, market 00:17:27
validation, prototype development and an introduction to business related services. 00:17:34
Indiana University Southeast is also providing entrepreneurial workshops and consultation services to tenants in Nova Park. 00:17:41
And we are inspiring this next generation of entrepreneurs through our annual pitch competitions. 00:17:50
For our students and the community, by integrating academic knowledge with real world opportunities, I know that our students will 00:17:57
gain a deeper understanding of the practical applications of their studies, making them better prepared and ready to lead. I would 00:18:05
like to recognize our Dean, David Epplin of the School of Business. Dean has been dating. David Eplione has been leading much of 00:18:13
the conversations with Nova Park, and then I have also hosted Rich Bowling or Vice the Vice President of Red Wire a 2 hour campus. 00:18:21
Meet with our science faculty because we see this as such a mutually beneficial relationship. So thank you. 00:18:30
Thank you. Thank you for being here. 00:18:36
Yeah, watch off Lloyd County Council. I've supported Noble Park since when we broke ground on Hwy. 62. Was it three or four years 00:18:46
ago? 00:18:49
Was that a ribbon cutting for the? 00:18:54
Yeah, what's the stop? So I support Noble Park and I'm excited to see development start taking place and hopefully this will be 00:18:56
the beginning of great things. Thanks. 00:19:02
Thank you. 00:19:08
Yes, Sir. 00:19:10
Hello, David Eppling, Dean, School of Business at IU SE. I'll be very brief. In addition to the benefits Chancellor mentioned, 00:19:17
this facility will provide lab space that's desperately needed in our community as well. We've got a budding group of potential 00:19:23
entrepreneurs out there, and this lab space will allow them to realize some of their dreams, create businesses, and one of the 00:19:28
great things about the IU SE graduates. 00:19:33
Is the vast majority, well over 80% stay in the area and in the region. So these would be jobs will be coming to our region that 00:19:39
will be supported by this project as well. So I'm very much in favor. Thank you. Thank you, Dean. Thank you. 00:19:44
Was there another hand over this one? Yes, ma'am. 00:19:51
I'm Juanita Melton and I'm representing Red Wire for this evening. 00:19:59
For more than 30 years, Red Brush Space Technologies here in Floyd County has specialized in designing, building and operating 00:20:03
research and manufacturing equipment in space. 00:20:09
About space shuttles, International Space Station and private commercial spacecraft. 00:20:15
Every cargo supply spacecraft launching to the space station carries a new device or experiment. 00:20:21
Made in our laboratory here in Galena, where we employ approximately 50 people. 00:20:27
In the new larger facility Nova Park, we anticipate adding 25 new high skill, high wage jobs as we ramp up our efforts in space to 00:20:33
assist with the development of more effective drugs that can only be made in the lab without gravity. 00:20:41
We also recently manufactured a replacement human knee meniscus. 00:20:50
In space with our 3D printer and returned it to Earth as you saw with the video this evening. 00:20:54
And just this week, we printed thick heart tissue. 00:21:00
That couldn't be made on the ground. 00:21:04
Redmond goes to work in space to develop new technologies and treatments that can improve healthcare for everyone on Earth, and 00:21:06
this facility will help us accelerate that impact. 00:21:12
We want to deepen our roots here, with the new laboratory being designed to better share what we're doing with our community. 00:21:18
Well, house tours for students. 00:21:27
And we'd even like to allow visitors to watch us working with NASA astronauts in space via our own payload Mission Control center. 00:21:29
Hopefully we can inspire the next generation of engineers, scientists and technicians. 00:21:37
We are eager to launch this project. 00:21:44
Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. 00:21:46
Is there anyone else present who would like to speak? 00:21:51
In support of this measure. 00:21:54
All right. Is there anyone here who would like to speak in opposition to the question that Dan? 00:21:56
Damn, man, Georgetown. I'm neither for or against. 00:22:07
What the questions I get out there? Everybody's asked me. 00:22:10
They were already doing it and cleaning. What did we gain? 00:22:13
Just that. The lady just got there. We gained 21 more jobs. 00:22:16
Spending millions and millions to put it in over park. 00:22:20
The business was already in cleaner. 00:22:23
So this big growth we're talking about, it's not true. 00:22:25
It's 21 jobs. 00:22:28
Is what she just stated. 00:22:30
We're getting, we're spending all this money, taxpayer money. 00:22:32
To do this for 21 jobs. That business was already in cleanup. We didn't gain anything. Thank you. 00:22:35
Thank you. 00:22:41
Anyone else? 00:22:42
President would like to speak in opposition to this. 00:22:44
Question tonight. 00:22:47
All right. We'll close public comment on that and. 00:22:49
Mr. OP, if you'd like to return to the podium, we'll see if we have any questions from the board. 00:22:53
Yes. 00:22:58
Any questions from Mr. Law for comments on the matter at this moment in time? 00:23:02
I would if I could. There was a question about financing and so I'd like to address that question and how this is being financed 00:23:07
is through the lease. 00:23:12
Payments from Red Wire. 00:23:16
To pay for the bond. 00:23:19
And then on your agenda after that? 00:23:21
Is the taxes that are being they're going to be placed in a separate tip? 00:23:23
From the red wire expansion. 00:23:29
So that that it also covers the. 00:23:32
Any shortfalls on the on the on the on the lease payment but the lease payment? 00:23:37
Will pay for the actual bond payments. 00:23:41
The remainder of the money is ready money, and that is. 00:23:46
Grant money that was received by the county for for Nova Park. 00:23:50
In terms of the question regarding the location. 00:23:55
We have been on myself, Mr. Woosley, who's in the back, Mr. Schoenberger who's also on the Redevelopment Commission, probably on a 00:23:59
six year odyssey with tech shot slash red wire. 00:24:05
They had outgrown their facility. 00:24:13
There was number sanitary sewer in the area to expand their facility. 00:24:16
And so and then when they got, when they were purchased by red wire. 00:24:20
There is a possibility that was communicated to us by the new folks that they were looking at consolidating. 00:24:25
Operations throughout the United States. 00:24:33
So that's that kind of addresses why the why that we're involved. 00:24:37
So with that, if you if you don't have any other questions, um. 00:24:42
Really the next step for you would be to go back into the full session. 00:24:46
And then if there's a motion to approve the the award of the GMP agreement. 00:24:50
Yeah, I just want to say briefly, remember. 00:24:58
We need a Chester, Chester always said at the RDA meetings and at the groundbreaking, she said. Investments follow investments. 00:25:02
And our investment here that you know that the county government has done at Nova Park. 00:25:10
We've got red water. We got other companies that are falling behind. But investments follow investments. People need to realize 00:25:15
that. 00:25:18
So we need a motion then to approve. 00:25:24
I'll close the public meeting on this momentarily but before doing so Mr. Is there anyone else that you'd like to acknowledge from 00:25:28
your team on this? I know it's been a long, I just I think Mr. Rosley is in the background. He's been the president of the 00:25:33
Redevelopment Commission since it started, well since redevelopment started in 14. 00:25:38
So we have had numerous iterations and working working on this project and others and Mr. Schoenberger as a member of the 00:25:44
commissioners on redevelopment. I don't know if there's anyone else that's there. I did not see anybody but those folks today And 00:25:51
also just want to again send my thanks to Indiana University Southeast, they have been unbelievable partners as we start down this 00:25:57
journey in terms of the campus and. 00:26:04
Really making this a? 00:26:11
Hub for innovation and technology in Floyd County. 00:26:14
I'll just add before closing that I know that these projects. 00:26:19
Really Go? 00:26:24
Beyond the the term limits of any. 00:26:25
One office holder. So I just wanted to acknowledge my immediate predecessors, Mr. Tim Kamer and Mr. Sean Carruthers, for their 00:26:29
efforts on this as well. 00:26:34
Sometimes that can be overlooked. I know that they had. 00:26:39
Important input on this as did John along the way on that SO. 00:26:42
My thanks to you all and I will close that. 00:26:47
Public meeting on the issue and reopen. 00:26:51
Call from recess the commissioners meeting. 00:26:54
And like to call forward Floyd County Resolution 2024-01 Red Wire Allocation Area. 00:26:57
Before that, the first item would be the approval. It's not in a resolution, but just the approval and ward a contract if you so 00:27:06
choose. 00:27:10
So the way the agenda was written, I. 00:27:17
Didn't have that in front of me, so I apologize. I apologize. No worries. 00:27:20
So I will look for a motion for approval for the agreement Motion to approve I second. 00:27:24
A motion is second. All in favor, aye? All right. Now we'll proceed with Floyd County Resolution 2024-01 Red Wire Allocation Area. 00:27:32
This is the allocation area. This is a process of making this its own TIF district. It's went through the 1st, 3. This is the 00:27:43
third and 4th step process. It has went Redevelopment Commission to Planning Commission, now to the county commissioners, After 00:27:51
which if you decide to approve, it would go back for a public hearing in front of the Redevelopment Commission and the estimated 00:27:58
tiff being generated would be approximately $125,000 annually from according to Crow. 00:28:05
And associates. 00:28:14
Motion to Approve with unanimous Consent. 00:28:17
Is this an ordinance? 00:28:20
Resolution, OK. 00:28:21
Motion to Approve Floyd County, Floyd County Resolution 2024-01. 00:28:23
The red wire allocation area. 00:28:29
I'll second it. I have a motion. And second all in favor. 00:28:32
Thank you. 00:28:36
Call forward FCR 2024-02 Approving Red Wire Bond. 00:28:38
This is a Redevelopment Commission bond for the. 00:28:43
Building 5. 00:28:48
Has a maximum of $6 million, maximum of 8% those are just maximum is used for pricing the market. Again the payments are from the 00:28:50
lease payments from red wire and then the any if there is a shortfall of the TIF district that that just. 00:28:59
In the final stages of being created. 00:29:08
All right. Any discussion on the matter or questions for Mr. Lot? 00:29:11
Otherwise, I'll seek a motion to approve. 00:29:15
Motion to Approve for Floyd County. 00:29:18
Resolution of 2024 Dash L2 approving the red wire bond. I'll second. All right. I have a motion. Dan the 2nd on the matter. All in 00:29:21
favor. Aye, Aye. 00:29:25
All right. Calling forward FCR Floyd County resolution 2024 Dash 03 bond reimbursement. 00:29:31
This is a just a bond reimbursement for any local funds that were expended by the Redevelopment Commission in prior to the. 00:29:38
Issuance of bonds. 00:29:47
Motion to Approve Floyd County Resolution 2024 Dash 03 Bond Reimbursement and I'll second. 00:29:51
I have a motion in a second. All in favor, aye. 00:29:58
Alright. 00:30:02
Calling forward Floyd County Ordinance 2024-07, creation of Red Wire. 00:30:05
Tiff non reverting fund. 00:30:11
This is the creation of the Red wire TIF district fund where those proceeds from that tip would be placed in a non reverting fund. 00:30:15
For for use in within the TIF. 00:30:25
All right, any discussion or questions? If not, I'll look for a motion to pass with unanimous Consent Motion to Approve with 00:30:28
Unanimous Consent, Floyd County Ordinance 2024-07. 00:30:33
Creation of red wire TIF non reverting fund. 00:30:39
One second, All right. A motion and a second. All in favor. Aye? Aye. 00:30:41
All right and Floyd County Ordinance 2024-08, Creation of Edwardsville School. 00:30:47
Tax increment financing, non reverting fund. 00:30:55
This is for the average little school project that was already passed. The allocation area has already been set. 00:30:58
Earlier this year. This just sets into motion again a an account fund with the auditor's office for. 00:31:04
Receipt of funds through that project. 00:31:15
All right, I. 00:31:19
There's no further discussion. I'll look for a motion to approve with unanimous consent. 00:31:21
Motion Tipper with unanimous consent, Floyd County Ordinance, 2024-08. 00:31:25
Creation of Edwardsville School 10th Not Reverting Fund. 00:31:30
All right, They have a motion to second. All in favor, aye? 00:31:34
All right. 00:31:40
We're up with the OK. Next item that you should have in front of you is the 2023 Operations Annual report that's provided to NDOT 00:31:41
and LTAP. 00:31:47
That is, gives a synopsis of the expenditures receipts. 00:31:54
Debt service, amount of roads that we collect that we've added to our system. Currently we have. 00:32:01
370 miles of Rd. in the system. 00:32:07
So this is an annual report that just needs to be approved and then it's submitted. Believe it. We need all three of your 00:32:11
signatures, Mr. Urietti's and Mr. Tools signature. 00:32:16
All right. Any questions or discussion on the matter for Mr. Lau? 00:32:23
Motion to approve the 2023 Operations Annual Report. 00:32:29
I'll second motion is second all in favor aye, aye. 00:32:33
Next next item is a contract with. 00:32:40
SWT This is for the Regional Park and community Park master plan. 00:32:45
It's been vetted by Mr. Fox. The total lump sum amount is $207,050 and a not to exceed 2500 for reimbursable expenses. Those funds 00:32:51
are available and appropriated through. 00:32:59
The Caesars Foundation grant that county received and from the Commissioners Capital Fund. 00:33:07
All right, I. 00:33:16
Again, this is another. 00:33:19
Kind of landmark project that is slowly being launched tonight. I just wanted to. 00:33:21
See if there's any timeline it can be. 00:33:27
Even whether it's even month or whatever, when we can have expect public input on this. I know people are anxious to kind of. 00:33:31
Get a look at what might be going down here. We just we met last week with the principal planner, myself and Mr. Dennison. 00:33:37
He's put together a time frame I would say you're looking at. 00:33:48
Public input starting sometime early summer, I would say in June. 00:33:54
There'll be a series of public meetings and public outreach. 00:33:58
For both the community park project portion and the Regional Park portion. 00:34:03
And we'll work to get that on the website. 00:34:09
As soon as we can. So I know that there's some committees that will be formed after this is done, advisory and stakeholders 00:34:13
committee and as soon as as soon as he's ready to hit the ground, as soon as the contract signs. 00:34:20
OK. They've done this is for Sam, Sam Payton as well as the new regional parks that correct. 00:34:27
Motion. 00:34:36
Motion to approve the Regional Park Master. 00:34:38
Contract Umm. 00:34:42
With SWT design, I'll 2nd, I have a motion a second, all in favor aye aye. 00:34:44
Next next item is the oven sins Rd. contracts. 00:34:53
This is the phase three. Dan Christiani was awarded the contract. 00:34:57
In the amount of $2,337,470.13, those funds are appropriated through 908903 and 9160. 00:35:03
8903 being American rescue funds and 909162 being the road bond proceeds. 00:35:14
All right, just for clarification, for the public and all interested parties, we have a few different projects in the works on 00:35:25
different links of old Vincent's Road, so you can just put a pin in the map for us on this. This will start at Duffy Road and in 00:35:30
at Tuscany Drive. 00:35:34
Right now, Staffs working to put the things that will go out at the end of this week will be mailers to each of the residents who 00:35:41
are who live along. Those live along the sections regarding the Detours. There's also going to be, I think you've seen some 00:35:45
drafts. 00:35:50
Maps and kind of a. 00:35:56
For lack of better term, just kind of AI, don't call story map, but let's just call it that for right now because I can't think of 00:35:59
anything else, but just basically outlining what that project is that the links, the contractor, the schedule. 00:36:07
And for the public, once again, this is going to be a two year project. It will start June 1st. 00:36:15
And run to September 30th and then it will pick back up June 1st of 2025 and in July 31st of 2025. 00:36:21
And that would create three lane section of Rd. From Tuscany to Duffy signalized intersection at Schreiber Rd. 00:36:31
And also bring in in line drainage capacity and within the road. 00:36:40
To assist with. 00:36:47
Storm water retention. 00:36:50
All right. Any other questions or comments? 00:36:52
Not look for a. 00:36:56
Motion to approve so moved. 00:36:59
I'll 2nd I have a motion a second all in favor, aye? 00:37:02
Next contract on that is contract obsolete construction observation. 00:37:07
It is with strand and associates on a part time basis. 00:37:11
The scope of services include administrative services, Cementals, review of pay requests that is a lump sum of 42,000. 00:37:15
And then on an hourly basis, the scope of service for construction inspection? 00:37:24
As an estimate not to exceed 151,000 for the two year project. 00:37:29
Motion to Approve the Tram. 00:37:34
Such as contract. This is for the old good sands That correct, Don. 00:37:36
Yes. Yeah, that's my motion. Yeah. I'll second. All right. Motion and a second. All in favor. Aye, Aye. 00:37:40
Next next item is Bridge 51. A very real quick update this evening. The red letter which is a letter regarding. 00:37:48
Allows us to access the right of way funds that have been set aside was sent to NDOT. 00:37:58
There'll be a couple more administrative components of that. 00:38:03
We have received environmental clearance. 00:38:06
The appraisals and review appraisals are complete. 00:38:10
And the next step in that project moving forward would be the process of purchase. 00:38:13
So we are. 00:38:20
The construction we had set. 00:38:25
For July of 2025, which would be fiscal year 2026 and so we have. 00:38:29
Basically year to finish final tracing stage 3 cementals. 00:38:37
And the right way acquisition? 00:38:41
So we are right now. 00:38:44
Back on track. 00:38:48
He knocked on wood, right? 00:38:51
All right. Any further questions on Bridge 51? 00:38:54
All right. Thank you for that update. Next item is the State Board of Accounts compliance report. We submitted that report in 00:38:59
November. We received approval of that report. 00:39:04
We were guided this office and. 00:39:10
This world is guided in terms of the submission it was approved. 00:39:13
We received an e-mail in February from The Next Level at SBOA that said that that compliance. 00:39:17
That compliance procedure. 00:39:26
Not what they wanted to see and they asked us to start the process and give that back to them. 00:39:29
That's even after the approval of the of the of the report. 00:39:36
I'm going to share that with. Let me just give you a quick update. 00:39:40
Our goal today is to submit that back for their final review and have that for your May meeting. The changes that you'll see is in 00:39:44
the previous was a reimbursement. 00:39:49
Procedure regarding 1173 which is motor vehicle highway restricted and 1197 which is storm water. 00:39:56
The SBI has asked us to revise that. 00:40:04
To do that in a percentage basis. 00:40:07
And then at the end of each month, review that percentage basis of the work completed with the auditors office for payroll, make 00:40:11
sure that they're In Sync. 00:40:16
And then if there's any changes at that point? 00:40:21
They're done internally with the auditor's office. 00:40:24
So I. 00:40:27
My goal is to. 00:40:30
Hopefully get. 00:40:32
Final final approval in the next couple of weeks and get that to you at your next week. 00:40:34
Any questions for. No, I'm good. All right. Thank you for that update. OK. Veteran service office, Miss Schneiders here I. 00:40:43
Prior to the. 00:40:53
Prior to the moratorium that was set on moving of space at the City County building, the veteran service Office had reached out to 00:41:02
the commissioners about moving their office. It's my understanding and and she can correct me if I'm wrong, that they would like 00:41:09
to move from their first floor accommodations to the basement which was previously occupied by. 00:41:16
Public defender, so I'll have her speak on any questions you have. 00:41:25
Hello, I'm Marty Snyder, the Veterans Service Officer. 00:41:31
And we are requesting to move. 00:41:35
We have two rooms. 00:41:39
Literally. And we are needing a receptionist to help us build phone calls. 00:41:42
We're getting 45 to 50 phone calls a day and we're missing. 00:41:48
Probably half of those because we're with a veteran. 00:41:53
And we won't answer the phone, obviously, if we're serving someone. 00:41:58
And they're hanging up or they're not leaving voicemails. I come in every morning and I have at least five to seven voicemails 00:42:04
that I need to get to. 00:42:09
And do appointments and stuff. Don came in our office on Friday. 00:42:15
How many people are sitting in there waiting? 00:42:21
I mean, I had someone with me, Aaron had someone with him, and I had three people waiting to talk to us. Not only. 00:42:24
The benefit of having a receptionist. We don't have anywhere to put a receptionist. 00:42:33
Of the privacy. 00:42:39
When Aaron's with someone. 00:42:42
The only place for someone waiting is to sit where Aaron's talking to that veteran. We're talking about health issues. 00:42:44
So there's HIPAA violations going on all over the place in my office, but I have nowhere else. 00:42:54
To talk about these issues, except right there, if we move down there, we each have our own private office where no one's going to 00:43:02
hear what we're talking about. And I'm talking about female issues, male issues. 00:43:08
And plus the surveyors not going to hear us because I hear everything they talk about and they hear everything I'm talking about 00:43:15
and my veterans are loud because we can't hear and so we talk and they tell me we talk loud and and. 00:43:23
Vice versa, so. 00:43:31
If y'all would allow us, we would love to. Maybe. 00:43:33
Back down to the basement, would there be any kind of renovation needs to be done? Would it be kind of renovation need be done or? 00:43:36
Because I'm going from memory. You walk in, you've got a counter. 00:43:44
With area for receptionist and off to the right you have. 00:43:47
Several offices, right. We walked. We walked through with Chuck. 00:43:50
The only thing we would need is Gary is going to have to. 00:43:55
But I I'm assuming they had computers in the public defender's office, so I don't think they're going to have to run any certain 00:44:01
wires or? 00:44:06
I just need phones and. 00:44:11
Computer access, and I can't think of anything else I need except movers, but I've got that covered because Chuck said I had to 00:44:13
hire a moving company. 00:44:18
I think I found somewhere in my budget I can put that. 00:44:23
Alright. Any other questions on the matter? 00:44:28
Well, I'll just thank you for the work that you have done and continue to do out of that. You've always been very, very helpful to 00:44:35
folks who've sent that way and to me personally and. 00:44:39
You know those those prohibitions on construction remain in place and as we discussed a year ago, it's, it's temporary. 00:44:45
We don't know how long temporary is, but it's temporary. 00:44:53
And for the record, I'd like to say that those are potential HIPAA violations that go on rather than. 00:44:56
That HIPAA violations, This will say potential. How's that? 00:45:03
All right. So we need to, I'll make a motion to allow veterans. 00:45:07
Affairs. That veterans service office. 00:45:11
To move from the first floor down to the public defender's office in the basement. 00:45:14
Gladly second. 00:45:20
All right. All in favor. Aye. All right. Thank you so much. It's done often. You hear of an office that wants to go from 00:45:21
visibility on the 1st 4 count of the basement? 00:45:26
Started in the nice one. I'll go back. 00:45:32
Thank you. We appreciate you. Yes. 00:45:36
Good call. 00:45:40
All right. Next it. 00:45:42
We have a presentation from. 00:45:45
Sits we have Greenville, so real quick. 00:45:48
The Town of Greenville is requesting a amendment to their ARP. 00:45:55
Project for meter installation. They have 16,680, four, 95 unallocated and would like to move that into a meter and to using those 00:46:01
for meters throughout their system. 00:46:08
Each meter is 200 and 82188 dollars. 00:46:18
And they would purchase 57 meters. It is an eligible expense. 00:46:21
Through AARP and in the past, the commissioners have allowed for. 00:46:27
Funds to be reallocated to different. 00:46:32
Projects for the water company's request. 00:46:35
Uniform. Emotion, Yes. Motion approved. 00:46:40
I have a motion to approve second and a second all in favor, aye aye. 00:46:44
All right, now now sits. Now it's, it's. 00:46:50
Other Thank you. 00:47:11
How you doing today? Good seeing you again. 00:47:17
Alright, since we don't have that loaded, can we make sure that this gets downloaded? 00:47:30
Or am I Mr. seen this is not loaded electronically for everyone to see? OK, so after the presentation? 00:47:35
Take my copy or and then make sure we have it available for OK. My name is Roll Dennis. I'm a transportation director for Blue 00:47:44
River Services and Southern Indiana Transit. 00:47:49
Today, we're here. 00:47:55
To go over the presentation if you so desire, but I was aware that we're under some time constraints, so I was going to go with 00:47:57
page through page on this presentation. My main goal here is to ensure that. 00:48:03
We have a few things covered, which is the 5311 operating budget for 2025 and I believe that you that you were able to get a copy 00:48:09
of the gentleman over here. 00:48:14
Of the intergovernmental document and also the authorizing resolution. So we were looking to have some hopefully some signatures 00:48:20
and talk about local match and and discuss the the World Public Transportation Grant in regards to ensuring that we can get the 00:48:26
2025 operating grant application. 00:48:32
Completed and in order to do that we have to go to all the other counties that are within our system. 00:48:39
So normally, Harrison. 00:48:46
Does all of this stuff. They don't. They don't have to involve any of the other counties in regards to. 00:48:49
Having the grant processed, but now the FGA and N .1 every county to sign an intergovernmental department. 00:48:56
And it's called an intergovernmental agreement. 00:49:03
For the 53115339 funded rural public transportation grant. So that is what I provided there. And so tonight we're hoping for a 00:49:06
motion to pass that so we get some signatures so we can put the initial operating grant in so for 2025. 00:49:14
Which is, again, normally just done through Harrison County. But they changed it up and they. 00:49:23
At this extra process, so you're actually the last county we were going right down the line from the north and moving all the way 00:49:28
over. So we've been the Scott County, Washington County, Crawford County. 00:49:33
Harrison And now we're going to, we're just trying to make sure we get the grant submitted. 00:49:39
So that is the first thing we're going over and the presentation data that I provided for you is just a recall of some of the 00:49:43
things that we had talked about initiating the urban, urban stuff and just giving you some information how many calls, how many 00:49:50
runs we provided, you know what we consist of. So we have A2 format process going for Floyd County which is 5311 rural public 00:49:56
transportation opportunities that we're doing which is what we're talking about here for the governmental thing and then we also 00:50:02
have the urban. 00:50:09
Process which which were? 00:50:16
So do not end up subsidies and resources. 00:50:18
Rick, we also have this listed under Item 8, County Auditor Diana Topping authorizing resolution for public transportation. 00:50:25
Diana, do you have anything to add to conversation at the moment on that? 00:50:33
And record passage of this resolution does not. 00:50:38
Allocate or dedicate any funding for this at this moment, correct? 00:50:42
It speaks to local funding being required. Local match is required for each county, so initially tonight we were not really asking 00:50:47
for. 00:50:52
Matching funds, but if it was mentioned to me from a. 00:50:58
From Don that they that you might want to know exactly what what is that process entails. So last year you contributed 20,000. 00:51:03
Dollars for the 5311 operating grant, which is what would, which is what we would ask for again for the 2025 ensure that we can 00:51:12
continue. 00:51:16
The transportation processes for world public transportation. 00:51:21
Not anything to do with the urban part. We're talking strictly for the 5311 world public transportation. 00:51:26
Which is what we have already done for two thousand 2024. 00:51:33
And so we're just trying to continue on and make sure we were able to serve Floyd County residents for the for the world public 00:51:38
transportation. 00:51:42
So by moving forward with this, I'm not comfortable moving forward with it unless. 00:51:50
It's very clear that we're not allocating those funds tonight because I'm not sure. 00:51:55
Where those funds would come from at the moment? 00:52:00
We're not requesting funding tonight at all. We're requesting and able to get the grant operating grant process through Harrison 00:52:03
County. 00:52:07
So we can get the grant submitted. Without it, Floyd County can't be submitted into. I'm just getting confirmation. 00:52:11
Council right and and. 00:52:17
That was the my problem was I couldn't determine anything with regards to the the local funding other than said local funding is. 00:52:21
The matching is required. 00:52:30
And so. 00:52:32
Well, if you're not clear on the matter, then I'm not clear. I'm not clear on the matter. Table it until our next meeting. 00:52:34
Yeah. I don't know what time constraints you're under where first week of May, they gave us a very short timeline. We don't have a 00:52:42
lot of time to. 00:52:46
Because this wasn't really being approached as. 00:52:50
Local match opportunity. This was mainly just to get to grant submitted and. 00:52:54
Because with there's no money attached to any of these Intergovernmental transportation processes, there is a a list and a process 00:52:59
and how the claims will be done. 00:53:05
And that's the responsibility of Harrison County and Blue River Services. But that's way after the fact. 00:53:11
Yes. 00:53:20
And my name is Dan Dan Lao and I'm CEO of Blue River Services. 00:53:21
And even though we're not asking for those matching funds, tonight, we we will be asking for them. 00:53:26
And we will be we would request $20,000. 00:53:33
Approximately what happens with this grant? 00:53:36
Is that money is the local match which is. 00:53:39
Approximately matched one for one with state dollars and two federal dollars, so that $1.00 of local match becomes $4.00 through 00:53:43
this grant. 00:53:49
And so that's the amount of money that we have to serve Floyd County residents. 00:53:55
As you know. 00:54:00
This is rural public transportation. 00:54:03
We can provide transportation from rural to rural as designated by a federal map. 00:54:05
From urban to rural or from urban or from rural to urban? 00:54:12
And this is a little different issue that we've discussed before, but we can't do urban to urban, right? 00:54:17
And for example. 00:54:23
Georgetown is considered urban. 00:54:25
By the federal man, so. 00:54:28
In the rural public transportation, we can't take someone from Georgetown. 00:54:31
To the hospital. 00:54:37
In New Albany. We could take someone from Scottsburg to the hospital in New Albany, though. 00:54:38
Because that would be rural to urban and that's I'm just trying to give a little further explanation of how this system works, but 00:54:44
we will be asking for. 00:54:49
You know that that. 00:54:54
Match which is provided by the other four counties that are involved and actually. 00:54:56
Some of the cities also. 00:55:01
You know this system has been in place for a long time. Floyd County has only been involved for a year. 00:55:03
I think that Roland gave you statistics there that shows that there is a lot of activity in Floyd County, both in the rural public 00:55:11
and in the urban to urban. 00:55:16
And we hope to continue that and what he's saying, they're doing differently right now. 00:55:22
Used to be that. 00:55:27
Counties essentially bought into the public transportation system. 00:55:28
And then Harrison County is the grantee. 00:55:34
And Harrison County would do the signatures. 00:55:36
But now they want an annual confirmation from each of the counties that they're still buying into the system. I guess that's how 00:55:39
I'd explain it, is that that you all are still buying into the rural public transportation system. 00:55:45
I think I guess my. 00:55:56
My concern with this is that, you know, it says that parties will be responsible for securing the required local funding to 00:56:02
satisfy the local share. 00:56:06
In other words, as part of that commitment. 00:56:11
And the the the contract itself references other agreements that I don't have. 00:56:13
Those agreements are related to the overall operating grant for 5311 and that is. 00:56:23
Unfortunate to the process we have to you know the way they've put this down in regards to having it done this year, that whole 00:56:31
grant is looked at and approved by the lawyers of Harrison County because the other grantee as Dan mentioned. So that process is 00:56:39
mainly run through Harrison County and that's not to say we can we can bring that information to you. 00:56:47
Outside of this meeting and you can see that the whole grant the whole, all the legalities as far as the. 00:56:55
The other. 00:57:03
Documents that are required for the grant, we would wear an open book. We will share that with you and you can see all that stuff 00:57:06
and then also get with Chris Bird who was the Harrison County. 00:57:10
Lawyer who approves to interject for a minute. We we do have two special meetings. 00:57:16
Scheduled on the 18th of this month and the 23rd. 00:57:22
So would it be appropriate to table until one of those meetings to give you time to access and review materials? 00:57:26
Prior to that and that still gets you for the deadline. I don't think we can get it on the agenda for the 18th because we. 00:57:35
Yeah, it had to be the 23rd because we have to have time to advertise it. 00:57:42
So I'm going to recommend. 00:57:45
That we table this until the meeting of the 23rd. 00:57:48
Advertise appropriately at that point in time and we'll break away and have a commissioners meeting on that day and that gives. 00:57:52
Our attorney Time to request any documentation. 00:57:59
And also some time for us to explore. 00:58:03
Means for earmarking. 00:58:07
20,000 if. 00:58:10
Elect to proceed with that, Sure. I want to ask the Diane where has where was it funded in the past last year, do you know? 00:58:14
Yeah, that thing is probably not working. 00:58:24
Over that $20,000 was allocated. My computer is dead. OK. I would be happy to find out for you and e-mail you in the morning. 00:58:27
Like, knows that you have that information going into the meeting. So you know where it was allocated for this year because I 00:58:33
believe this is the first year we participated. It is, yes. Yeah. Yeah. 00:58:40
Brand new county itself and and the process changed. 00:58:48
I think the intent is. 00:58:52
This documentation goes to the state just to apply for the agreement S the grade is awarded, the county can buy into 00:58:54
participation. 00:58:58
Obviously. 00:59:03
The worrying is a little obtuse and I. 00:59:05
Applied Mr. Box for requesting initial information so we know what we're dealing with with the changes that have happened, but 00:59:09
I'll get you the information. 00:59:12
Allocated for the sheriff. 00:59:17
And I know you're probably already ahead of me on this, but in addition to the commissioners, just make sure that Mister Fox and 00:59:19
Mr. Lobb. 00:59:22
All right, I thought as much so. 00:59:27
Any other questions for the reps tonight? So then we'll make a decision at our 20 April 23rd meeting on this. 00:59:31
Sure, OK. 00:59:40
OK. Yeah. We have to do our due diligence on that. Yeah. OK. Thank you. Motion to table and. 00:59:42
Well, Rick, chance to look at everything legally and then we'll take it up at our April 23rd meeting. All right. All in favor. 00:59:49
Aye. Thank you, gentlemen. 00:59:53
All right. 01:00:00
Item, oh, Department Presentation Um. 01:00:03
I have a request to table that presentation as well. 01:00:07
So I'll look for a motion to table table motion table. 01:00:12
One second. All right. I have a motion and a second. Are you tabling that until the next meeting or indeterminate time? 01:00:16
Depending on how much what's on your agenda for the meeting, it may we may do that at the second meeting. 01:00:23
That was a continuation of the presentations that I was making. 01:00:29
With the building development, we were just having our next. 01:00:34
Iteration of that so motion to table to future time. 01:00:37
I'll second all in favor, aye. All right. 01:00:40
Next next item I have is the North Tucker Rd. project. That is our. 01:00:47
Part of our Regional Park project, we have been working with the Mike Cell family regarding. 01:00:53
There's a road ext from Brookline Trail. 01:01:04
That trail would that extension of the road. 01:01:08
Will go on to his. 01:01:14
His property, it was initially thought that was a homeowner association property at Brookstone, but like there was a deed found, 01:01:17
he is. 01:01:21
We have circulated agreement basically that is a 1923 home that has the septic tank in the front yard, so. 01:01:26
Town. Georgetown's worked with him in terms of tap fees. We. 01:01:37
Through the Caesars grant, would we pay for the? 01:01:43
Connection into the system. 01:01:48
Bob Woosley The town engineers provided 3 quotes. The lowest quote was with Checkers for $11,250. 01:01:51
All right. Any questions or discussion on that matter? 01:02:08
So no taxpayer dollars. It's no no taxpayer dollars. This is all through the Caesars Foundation that the $1,000,000 grant is part 01:02:13
of the Parks project to connect the road. 01:02:18
And. 01:02:23
Instead of going through the process right away and and moving the the septic tank to the back which is. 01:02:26
My estimation More than $11,000. 01:02:34
This seemed to be. 01:02:38
Best best case to move forward done. This is the house as your. 01:02:39
Leaving the subdivision house upon the right. Is that correct? 01:02:43
Yes, as you're going down into the right hand side. 01:02:47
Home to the right, Yes. OK. 01:02:51
Make a motion to approve the marks over. 01:02:54
I'll second a motion. All right. A motion and a second. All in favor, aye? 01:02:59
Then the final item on on North Tucker we received Temple and temples contract for starter construction on the culvert that was 01:03:05
awarded it is $312,470 that's coming out of 9162 the. 01:03:14
Road and Bridge Bond. 01:03:23
All right. Any questions on that? It seems like a reasonable. 01:03:27
Motion to approve. I'll second. 01:03:30
All right, All in favor, aye. 01:03:32
And the last item is the Parks Department and the commissioners entered have traditionally entered into a contract with crocodile 01:03:37
cutters for mowing. For certain areas that would be the 4H Fairgrounds and the North Annex are the areas for mowing. For Crocodile 01:03:47
Cutter fairgrounds, 18 acres and it's $700.00 per MO. Morphanix at 7.8 acres for $400.00 so that. 01:03:57
Totals $1100 per per mowing. 01:04:07
That was provided to me by Mr. Jensen. 01:04:11
The Parks Department has has approved their their part of the contract. 01:04:15
And was that coming tonight for your approval? 01:04:20
Motion to Approve. 01:04:32
I'll 2nd I have a motion and a second all in favor, aye? 01:04:35
And I appreciate your patience and consideration on 8th or Q. 01:04:40
Staying within the alphabet. 01:04:46
All right. Next we have Melissa Sprigler from 1 Southern Indiana Annual Review and Financial Request. 01:04:49
Thank you. Thank you. 01:05:04
Hi, Melissa. 01:05:08
All right. Greetings. I'm not Melissa Sprigler. 01:05:27
John Launice Melissa Sprigler, our Director of Investor Relations. 01:05:32
Gracious enough to help us out and get us on the agenda. Also, before I get going, I also want to recognize another special guest, 01:05:37
another colleague of mine, our newest colleague. 01:05:41
Lance Allison, who's our new President and CEO. 01:05:46
On his fifth week, I believe now in the role, but wanted to make sure to be here to to make a quick introduction and and looks 01:05:51
forward to working with you all as we move forward. So again John Lanas have the honor of serving as Vice President and Director 01:05:56
of Economic Development at 1 Southern Indiana. 01:06:01
You just received a packet with some some items in there. I'll primarily focus on the PowerPoint, but we'll reference a couple of 01:06:08
other items for your review later. And of course I'm going to ask for some assistance over here on the PowerPoint. Before I, I I 01:06:16
dive in, I wanted to just offer a quick kind of high level insights that are Jermaine to our work. 01:06:23
Some of the items that we regularly communicate when we're trying to drive investment here into our region, as Don alluded, don't 01:06:32
a close partner obviously in this work is our primary contact here with the county with economic development. The majority of our 01:06:40
leads come in from IDC. I'll review some of our numbers in a little bit, but but well over 50% of our leads come in from the State 01:06:47
of Indiana through the Indiana Economic Development Corporation. So when you look at their reporting over the past several years. 01:06:55
I thought you might find it a little insightful. When you look at the types of projects that are coming in and really what they're 01:07:04
looking for, you'll see the first graphic there represents the site versus building or both. So you'll see that there's a nice 01:07:10
balance there of investment and projects that are looking for a mix of a site or a building or potentially both. The next graphic 01:07:16
there represents sale versus lease or again, both. You'll see the lion's share, over 40% are really looking for for ownership of 01:07:23
that building or property. 01:07:29
But also. 01:07:36
Well over 40% would be open to a lease or purchase option. 01:07:37
On the next slide. 01:07:42
This graphic represents. 01:07:44
Still some major interest and activity within that area even though we are seeing an increase building size search. 01:08:23
On the next slide, we'll move over to acreage requests. So we're going to follow that same formula, go back one slide, yeah, on 01:08:31
the far right there you'll see 101 acreage plus. So again, if you look back in 2020, we received one project proposal that was 01:08:38
looking for over 100 acres. Last year we we received 32. So you can see a growing appetite for what you you might more familiar 01:08:46
here the mega sites, the the larger acreage sites, but again. 01:08:53
I'm going to bring your attention back over to the left side of the column where you still see a very healthy appetite for some of 01:09:01
the smaller parcels as well what we would consider medium sized parcels 5 years ago. The five acre to 50 acre site which obviously 01:09:08
Nova Park and some other opportunities fit fit that mold. 01:09:14
Good question. Yeah, please. 01:09:22
That 2020, like how much of that would you think would be like a covet, hangover or right in the thick of COVID, I mean? 01:09:24
It'd be interesting to see 2017. Yeah, we could get some more historical data. What I will tell you as a practitioner, you know in 01:09:31
2020 obviously a lot of things were dynamic and changed, but it was also go time for a lot of industries and a lot of projects, 01:09:38
particularly those that had some logistics component. So sometimes you have the logistics kind of met with the manufacturing 01:09:44
component and a lot of those companies and projects really saw unique opportunity. The other thing was there was an exposure to 01:09:50
the liability. 01:09:57
Having a lot of offshore asset, the old pub and spoke we'll do things in five different spots And then bringing it back to the 01:10:04
consumer base that I think there was a liability that was recognized in that. And so we continue to see a lot of FDI foreign 01:10:09
direct investment kind of bringing bringing back a lot of opportunities here to the the larger consumption base that is the US 01:10:15
economy. 01:10:20
Thank you. The next slide I'll show you just a couple of insights here. You know a key driver in nationally and within our market 01:10:27
is workforce availability. Obviously with a tight labor market. I think we're just around 37 now here in our local community, so 01:10:34
pretty tight labor market. What we talk a lot about is you know the regional opportunity. So within our region you can see your 01:10:41
average commute times kind of range between that 25. 01:10:48
And and 30 minute commuter time. So why is that important here, here locally? 01:10:57
If you go to the next slide, what that really looks like here within our region is that we have about 50,000 commuters on a 01:11:02
day-to-day basis migrating from Kentucky to Indiana, Indiana, Kentucky. And when you really look at who's going where, you'll see 01:11:08
an outflow of roughly 36,000 Hoosiers every day that drive across the bridge to go to to Kentucky to work, you'll see an inflow of 01:11:14
about 13,000. So when we look at our community and when we're talking to potential investment opportunities, we talk a lot about 01:11:20
the recapture. 01:11:27
Opportunity, right and and but for livable wage job opportunities, but for high quality of life, but for housing stock. 01:11:34
We are able to kind of recapture many of our workforce, doesn't happen overnight, but over days, years, months, time. We are able 01:11:43
to recapture the Ohio River Bridges project, the completion of that in 2016, at the time the largest public private partnership in 01:11:50
the country at about $2.6 billion when completed. 01:11:57
Have definitely helped to mature and incrementally change again, our ability to bring more over from Kentucky, but also the 01:12:05
opportunity to recapture. 01:12:09
What did Covet disrupt? It absolutely disrupted our commuter patterns. So it has taken us some time to really understand some of 01:12:14
the incremental changes and we will continue in the coming years. But COVID definitely disrupted some of our commuter data flow 01:12:21
that we were we were peering into. I want to go a bit more granular here with the next slide and look specifically at Floyd 01:12:29
County. As you guys are well aware, you guys have seen pretty sustainable growth since 1950 roughly doubling in size as a county. 01:12:36
On the right column though, those are your commuter patterns. And So what you will see there is you've got about just shy of 01:12:45
16,000 workers that live in Floyd County and work in Floyd County. The next highest work center that you have is just over 12,000 01:12:53
and those are folks that traverse into Jefferson County, Kentucky. Obviously Clark County dials in next with just under 8000 and 01:13:01
our border counties there follow suit. But I do think that it's enlightening to to kind of as a refresher to really understand. 01:13:08
The regional dynamics that that really can make things complicated but also provide us as a region a really unique value 01:13:17
proposition to talk about and communicate and and really invest in our region. I feel like over the past several years 01:13:24
particularly with ready regionalism has become kind of a buzzword. But I think when you really look at the data what you grew a 01:13:31
deep appreciation for is that it's really our our community's reality and. 01:13:38
Our economic vitality. 01:13:46
So with that, we'll go into the next slide here and start to dial in really on our annual report. You know our primary function 01:13:48
here with with the services that we provide Floyd County are related directly to new business attraction, existing business 01:13:54
expansion and existing business retention. 01:14:00
That's oversimplified and I think many of you that are in this work alongside us recognize a more broad tactical approach that 01:14:07
really put us in a position to do the fun stuff like make announcements and and drive investment into our market. And those 01:14:14
include accessing the capital grants, loan programs, connectivity to to local. 01:14:21
Programs, state programs, federal programs, a number of different training and educational workshops not only for our businesses, 01:14:30
but also best practices and ongoing engagement with our elected officials. 01:14:36
So how do we get that done? You'll see the dream teams there in the center of that. So really quickly I want to again just kind of 01:14:43
refresh and make sure you know who is on the one side economic development team and those should include some familiar faces. Ann 01:14:50
Keller who leads our business attraction efforts. As you might imagine a lot of times those are more desktop responses that come 01:14:57
in, in the form of RFIS and and pretty detailed community information from workforce to utilities. 01:15:04
To tax infrastructure and business environment so and manages our sites and buildings database. That's how we present property and 01:15:12
product to companies for potential investment. Matt Hall again formally in this role, I was able to to twist his arm and bring him 01:15:20
back this past year Max with us four days a week and his focus is on business retention and expansion. So as I like to say that 01:15:28
the companies that he brought here he has a great natural relationship with them and as you'll see through all reporting. 01:15:35
We've really gotten a unique traction in our BRE work with Matt being back on board. Rachel Armstrong joined us about a year ago. 01:15:43
She is our Small Business navigator. She is a split position with the ISB DC of the Indiana Small Business Development Center, but 01:15:50
she also is the liaison to our Metro Manufacturing alliance. 01:15:56
It's kind of a mini chamber within the chamber specifically for our manufacturers, recognizing that they represent just under 30% 01:16:03
of our direct or indirect employment throughout the region. So it behooves us to make sure that we keep a tight proximity to our 01:16:10
manufacturers to support our existing industry. But as you might imagine, when we're recruiting investment into the market, it's 01:16:17
quite the showpiece to be able to point to the way that we support our existing employers. 01:16:24
And the way our community really embraces our legacy industry of advanced manufacturing. 01:16:31
In addition to that, Jack Harrison started the same day as our new CEO, Lance Allison. So he's been with us about 5 weeks, just 01:16:37
graduated from Georgia State with his Master's in public administration economic development, but is really working across our 01:16:42
team to provide bench strength to everybody. 01:16:48
Go to the next slide. 01:16:54
So what does that team do on a day-to-day basis beyond hopefully cutting ribbons and announcing projects? Well, it takes a lot of 01:16:56
work on the front end of that. This past year, one SI worked 130 unique economic development projects. 01:17:04
For just a little scope change last year in 2021 that is a 33 project increase, the year before that was a 16. So you're looking 01:17:12
at over 45, nearly 50 increased kind of pipeline flow from 2021. So we continue to have the attention of a lot of projects as I 01:17:21
mentioned that are that are looking to invest in communities like ours. 01:17:29
That also consists of 321 outreach meetings, 120 specifically here in Floyd County and that's through Matt Hall and Rachel 01:17:39
Armstrong's work, which again is out kind of beating the streets, meeting with existing industry to better understand where they 01:17:46
are in their growth cycle, what barriers we might be able to remove and and what accelerants we might be able to provide to help 01:17:53
them grow. We are a part of several different different regional economic development organizations. 01:18:00
Oftentimes in economic development, you find communities or partners that you have some synergy or some alignment with. One 01:18:08
includes A partnership with GLI Greater Louisville, Inc, the Metro Chamber, recognizing that we have a shared downtown, a shared 01:18:15
regional workforce. Another group is the South Central IN Economic Development group that includes 10 counties along the I-65 01:18:23
corridor, all within Indiana, recognizing right that we have some shared assets and a little bit louder of a voice. 01:18:30
And our dollars go a little bit further when we are able to to partner together. 01:18:38
Was able to meet with Mr. Toyota himself both in a one-on-one meeting and the next day at a reception there in Nagoya and have 01:19:22
both active projects within our existing companies that are looking at growth within our region as a follow up from that event as 01:19:30
well as some perspective investment opportunities that have even followed up with site visits since that trip. 01:19:38
I would just also know, you know one SI has been a long standing partner in the Indiana Economic Development Association that is a 01:19:48
statewide association for economic development. 01:19:53
Communities such as ours and was asked in December to join that board, So I was honored to accept on behalf of our region. So I 01:19:59
will maintain that commitment through this year as well serving on a ten person board of IEDA. 01:20:05
This past year, we also hosted an elected official event exclusive for our elected officials to provide some unique insights and 01:20:14
3rd party input on kind of the work and best practices and the trends that we're seeing. We actually hosted our 2024 event just 01:20:21
last week and had a representation here from one of them, the county. So appreciate that, that engagement as well. Small business 01:20:28
services, again, Rachel, who I mentioned earlier manages our small business services. 01:20:35
That includes the One Fund in your packet. You do have some information related to the ONE fund and its availability to you and 01:20:43
your residents and members as well as we are the administrator of the Caesars revolving loan fund. So I'll give you an update on 01:20:51
2024 in a minute. But with 2023 we had 32 unique small business consultations with existing industry here within Floyd County. 01:21:00
All the letters there, I'm going to try New Albany Central Business downtown loan program. 01:21:10
I think I got that right. We were honored to partner with the city to develop that loan program, recognizing there were some 01:21:16
unique obstacles related to the bridges project as well as the Main St. revitalization project there. So was able to designate 01:21:23
over $100,000 to 8 local businesses that were directly impacted by that investment. In addition, I mentioned the Metro 01:21:30
Manufacturing Alliance. I would just note, you know that is. 01:21:38
Really an industry focused partnership there we provide roundtables from plant managers, CEOs, procurement experts, HR and it's 01:21:46
solely for those manufacturers to provide them a peer group. In addition to that, we also are the conveners of the National 01:21:52
Manufacturing Week. 01:21:59
How we celebrate that here locally is over three days, including a kickoff event as well as. 01:22:06
An engagement opportunity for high school students to meet our local manufacturers. This past year we had over 800 students that 01:22:14
joined over a two day period and were able to interact with over 20 of our local manufacturers. 01:22:20
Next slide. 01:22:26
2024 recognizing we're already a few months in here, I'll skip through some of this. Recognizing that we've we've had a number of 01:22:28
different events including our regional leadership launch our elected officials event last week. 01:22:35
We are partnering with the IDC, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation on a strategic sites identification process. They 01:22:42
have essentially hired a third party site consultant to do some community level exploration of available parcels within the 01:22:48
community to give some third party valuation on the marketability and viability both from an external investment standpoint but 01:22:54
also from a localized infrastructure standpoint. So what does that road access look like? What does the utility infrastructure 01:23:01
look like? 01:23:07
So excited to kick that off with Floyd County here in 2024. 01:23:14
We will continue to work with existing businesses. We'll continue to leverage our relationship with IDC to promote buildings. 01:23:20
And sites, we will again host a number of out of market site consultants here into the region to showcase all of our counties. And 01:23:27
a quick update on our small business services, we've had 17 individual meetings with New Albany or Floyd County businesses and 01:23:34
again that's strictly through that small business development services and does not include our business retention expansion 01:23:42
efforts. We have also again in partnership with the Caesars revolving loan program just in 2024. 01:23:50
Have allocated $225,000 to five small businesses within Floyd County and currently available is just shy of $70,000 again 01:23:58
available to Floyd County businesses. This is a lender of last resort resort so it can be a nice gap funding. It can also be good 01:24:07
supplemental funding for those that are having a difficult time finding traditional lenders. 01:24:15
So with that, we'll go to kind of the meat and potatoes of the presentation, which is our 2023 year in review. So one SI is 01:24:25
honored to partner alongside many of our municipal partners to have a record year in 2023. With the facilitation and announcement 01:24:34
of 14 unique projects, you'll see the balance there between expansion and attraction. 01:24:44
There, you know it was a record year in terms of number of announcements. It was a record year as you'll see in amount of capital 01:24:54
investment into the market. But I'll be candid and our team has talked about this several times. The thing that we're most proud 01:25:01
of those 14 announcements is that for the first time in one Sis track record. Those 14 announcements represent nine different 01:25:09
municipalities and jurisdictions. So it was now some of the jobs in the CapEx obviously were a little heavier in certain areas. 01:25:16
Very proud of the coverage that that we garnered in 2023. 01:25:24
Next slide. 01:25:29
For Floyd County specifically there we've talked a lot about Red Wire and I would just kind of note a kudos to many of the folks 01:25:30
in this room, including yourselves that is a visionary. Noble Park is a visionary investment and to your point, as Wendy always 01:25:35
said. 01:25:40
Private investment follows public investment and we're really excited as a practitioner to have such a showpiece to be able to 01:25:47
market as we manage these projects that come in. So congratulations on Nova Park in your first anchor tenant there with Red Wire 01:25:52
bringing in 25 new jobs. 01:25:57
Just under 3 million in capital investment, I'm sorry an annual payroll and 9 million in capital investment. Other announcements 01:26:03
that that we were able to garner was Midwest Metal Works located in in New Albany with 12 new employees. 01:26:10
Rails and Ale's Brewhouse there in Georgetown, which will be a restaurant and and brewery operation bringing 8 jobs in just 01:26:18
$1,000,000 in capital investment. Very excited for the town of Georgetown. That was the first project that they formally brought 01:26:25
through, so we were able to work with them to create some tools and some infrastructure. 01:26:32
That they will now be able to utilize moving forward to attract more investment into the market. And then lastly, you'll see Smith 01:26:39
Creek locally owned company there in Borden, Indiana adding ten new employees and some equipment investments just just over $11 01:26:45
million. 01:26:50
Excellent. So those 14 projects, you'll see the split there. The majority do go to attraction. We have 2500 new jobs with just 01:26:57
over 2000 going to new investments into the market just under just a shy of 450 into the expansion. The existing companies that 01:27:05
are growing within our market, the new capital investment, we crossed the the billion dollar threshold for the first time in our 01:27:13
agencies history. You'll see the lion's share again, they're going to the attraction side. 01:27:21
The Canadian Solar, the solar cell manufacturer locating at River Ridge, really brought the majority of that capital investment 01:27:29
into the equation there. 01:27:33
Excellent. 01:27:38
You know the payroll I think is sometimes underlooked, but I do always like to to remind folks that at full capacity that 01:27:40
annualized payroll is just that that is an annual recurring benefit to to the residents and to the municipalities in which the 01:27:47
company is located. So you'll see at 134 million of recurring annualized increased payroll again with the the, the lion's share 01:27:53
they're going to attraction. 01:28:00
In 2022 when we were assessing projects, we were looking at that the left column there. So for Floyd County we were really 01:28:40
benchmarking things around that 2352 and if a company wasn't looking to provide 2352 average wages or above. 01:28:48
There was really an opportunity for us to try to drive that wage up or let the reality be the reality. We oftentimes can't 01:28:58
necessarily stop folks from moving in, but it definitely. 01:29:04
Makes us hesitant to roll out the red carpet and provide kind of the boutique services that we provide. So we really strive to 01:29:12
garner projects above that county average wage. You'll see a significant increase year over year. So 2023 numbers came out in 01:29:19
January. So as we work projects now we are benchmarking everything off of that $2497.00 an hour average wage. You'll see the 01:29:26
average projects for 2023 was just shy of $26 an hour. 01:29:33
But very proud of Floyd County's average wages for the four projects that located here. We're just shy of $43.00 an hour. 01:29:40
The next slide, because we are a few months in and we have had a couple of substantial projects, I selfishly wanted to make sure 01:29:49
that those were included in our tally year. They were not included in any of the other previous information that I shared. So in 01:29:57
2024 we have had three new project announcements including the Meta Data Center, then Telly and MKS Vision Global, which puts one 01:30:04
SIS tally since 2006 up to 226 announced projects. 01:30:11
21,383 new job commitments into the region, just shy of a billion dollars worth of added annual payroll and just over $4 billion 01:30:20
of new capital investment into the region since 2006. 01:30:28
In the last slide, we always like to hold ourselves and our organization accountable to the stewardship of those dollars. So this 01:30:37
is an ongoing tally based on the impact. And So what we know is that for every dollar invested in one Southern Indiana's economic 01:30:45
development work, we have been able to generate an $89.00 return for every dollar and added annual payroll and for new capital 01:30:52
investment. This one ticked up quite a bit in the past 18 months. 01:31:00
But very honored that we're just shy of $400.00 return for every dollar in terms of new capital investment into the region. 01:31:09
With that, I will take a breath and happy to answer any questions obviously here to provide that annual update, but also 01:31:17
respectfully ask for a continuation of your support of our economic development work with a request of a $15,000 investment. 01:31:26
I know just from talking to Wendy in the past, she always talks about the average wage. 01:31:39
And it's great to see it go up almost a dollar and 40 within one year. That's fantastic because that that helps everybody across 01:31:45
the board. 01:31:48
So it's the second year in a row, I'm glad you pointed that out. The second year rolls since in since we started collecting data 01:31:52
on in 2006 that we've had over a dollar increase year over year, so. 01:31:58
That's phenomenal, yes. 01:32:03
That wage, if my math is right, is around 6%, right? Which is. 01:32:05
Kind of the cost of living adjustment of has there been any? 01:32:10
Gain in the last 10 years beyond cost of living. 01:32:14
That that you know the cost of living. I would have to benchmark that. I do believe that that the past two years have represented 01:32:18
over the 6%, but I haven't put a calculator and it was just over 6. 01:32:24
Yeah. So I'd have to look look year over year, but. 01:32:33
What is driving that is obviously not necessarily like the inflation. It is truly an assessment of the average wages kind of 01:32:38
throughout the region. So it's probably correlation and causation kind of there. Yeah, I'd like to see maybe you know a decade 01:32:43
just to see if we're getting out ahead of it and and getting. 01:32:49
You know, not just keeping up. 01:32:55
Any other questions or great presentation? 01:33:01
All right. All right. Well, thank you for your time and the information and. 01:33:05
We'll proceed from there. Great. Well, thank you. And again, I would hope that that we would be able to kind of continue our 01:33:12
investment relationship. I don't know if that would be handled here tonight or at a future time, but our request would be to to 01:33:19
continue that that investment of our economic development. We are not in a position to handle that here this evening so. 01:33:26
But. 01:33:34
We'll get with Mr. Lop on that. 01:33:35
They all historically since we have. 01:33:38
Of former president of the County Council with us, is that the council out? 01:33:40
Contributed in the pastures that come through the commissioners. 01:33:47
Downside. 01:33:54
Meaning nod from edit. 01:33:56
OK and. 01:33:57
Thus far we have not. 01:34:00
Accounted for that for this year out of edit, correct? 01:34:02
So we we have not really discussed that yet, correct. 01:34:07
So as I said, we're not prepared to discuss it this evening, but. 01:34:13
With this in mind, we will. 01:34:16
Confer amongst ourselves and go from there. 01:34:19
Thank you again. Thank you. Thank you. 01:34:22
All right, Chief Probation Officer Kelly Looser. 01:34:26
Good evening. 01:34:32
I'm going to keep mine short, I am just here. I need to establish a new non reverting fund for a grant received from the Community 01:34:34
Foundation of Southern Indiana. 01:34:38
The fund number is 9164 and this is for trauma kits and first aid kits. 01:34:43
All right Motion to approve with unanimous consent Floyd County orders 2024 that the showdown established a non reverting fund for 01:34:52
Community Foundation. 01:34:56
For said Indiana probation grant fund number 9164 and I'll second. OK, all in favor, aye? 01:35:01
Thank you. 01:35:10
All right, American Legion Auxiliary Unit 42. Floyd's Knobs, Shirley. 01:35:12
Hotel. 01:35:18
OK. 01:35:22
All right. And the sheriff is usually here to opine on that, but he is not. So historically, is this, is this a new road block or 01:35:26
is this one that's been done in the past? 01:35:30
Without any knowledge of. 01:35:36
Issues with it in the past, correct? 01:35:39
All right. Well, look for a motion motion to approve. I'll second. All in favor, aye. All right. 01:35:41
Life Springs. We we were done with #8, correct? All right, so Life Springs Health System, the doctor, Beth Keeney. 01:35:48
Good evening. I'm luckily I talked really fast naturally, so hopefully I can get you out of here. 01:35:58
Pretty quickly. 01:36:07
I'm Beth Keeney. I'm the CEO from Live Spring Health Systems and it's been a couple years since I was here. So I wanted to just 01:36:11
come and update you on your community mental Health Center and the things that are going on here in Floyd County. 01:36:18
I want to start by just sharing with you some of our patient numbers. 01:36:26
From Floyd County, so in 2023, Life Spring provided health care services to 3189 Floyd County residents. In our Floyd County 01:36:32
offices we saw 3278 patients. Of course most of them are residents, but we do get some folks who come in from out of area that 01:36:40
represents about 20% of our total patient base. 01:36:48
We have 120 staff who either live or work in Floyd County. Last year we paid 75,000 in resident or our staff paid 75,000 in 01:36:57
resident non resident payroll taxes. 01:37:03
Just sharing some of our locations here. We've got 8 located in Floyd County. We have center place three on Mosier Ave. 01:37:11
In Manor House One on Scribner Ave. those are residential facilities for adults who have a serious mental illness and are not able 01:37:22
to live independently. 01:37:26
Primary care. 01:38:08
That office is just a little bit, a little bit behavioral health, a lot of primary care. Most of our behavioral health is on Grant 01:38:10
Line Rd. We have two student health centers that's at New Albany High School and Floyd Central High School. We also have a 01:38:15
community based mobile health, which is a mobile health clinic and goes around Southern Indiana providing care at different 01:38:20
different locations. 01:38:25
Year over year, we're seeing about a 15% increase in the patients coming from Floyd County who are Floyd County residents. 01:38:32
About 85% of our Floyd County patient base is 100% or less federal poverty level for a family of four, that's 30,000. So we are 01:38:40
truly serving those most in need among us. 01:38:47
5% of our Floyd County patients meet the federal definition of homelessness, and that's probably a number that's underrepresented. 01:38:54
Looking at the state statutory requirements, of course outpatient services. As I've mentioned, we have behavioral health services 01:39:02
at Floyd County Office on Grant Lawn Rd. as well as the Colonial Manor Shopping Center. In the last few years, we've really 01:39:09
refocused and redesigned our system to promote low barrier access. So all of our locations have Open Access at least four to five 01:39:16
hours a week. During that time, you can walk in without an appointment and have a reasonable degree of certainty that you will be 01:39:22
seen. We also have. 01:39:29
A Relaxed our discharge process and allow people to come right back into treatment as long as. 01:39:37
There is a reason that they aren't prohibited from doing so. We have individual therapy, group therapy, case management skills, 01:39:43
training of psychiatry and nursing. 01:39:47
I've already talked a little bit about residential services. Again, those are two are not able to live independently. We also 01:39:53
provide a consultative and education services. Specifically last year we did 3 trainings in Floyd County. 01:40:01
We participated in 40 community events and then additionally attended more than 110 community based meetings in Floyd County. We 01:40:09
also provide a lot of services that you probably never hear about, including debrief services for both first responders and 01:40:16
businesses who may need assistance after an acute or traumatic incident. 01:40:23
We provide the state hospital liaison services, so we are the gatekeeper to getting people into the state hospital, whether our 01:40:31
patient, whether they are our patient or not, as well as getting them out of the state hospital. 01:40:37
In addition to that, something that has been added over the last few years that has become a pillar of the states behavioral 01:40:44
health response is a is a comprehensive crisis continuum and that's someone to call, someone to respond in a place to go. So here 01:40:51
in Floyd County, we have our crisis call center and that's our call Center for all 11 counties in which we operate. We have staff 01:40:58
24/7 clinicians who are able to take a call and help. 01:41:05
Determine on, you know, whether it's 3:00 in the morning or 4:00 in the afternoon, What's the right level of care? How do we need 01:41:12
to respond to that? 01:41:16
In about 100 we we surveyed our calls the first year that we were in operation, and of every hundred calls, 85 to 90 we were able 01:41:21
to resolve over the phone. Two to three of them we actually had to send police and fire right away, or EMS. 01:41:29
And then the others, we actually would deploy A clinical team, so someone to call, someone to respond. We've also developed and 01:41:39
implemented a place to go, which is a crisis stabilization program and that is in Jeffersonville and that serves Clark Floyd Scott 01:41:45
in Jefferson County. So folks can come with us and stay for up to 24 hours while we figure out what the next most appropriate 01:41:52
level of care is. 01:41:58
In your packet today, I've left you with the annual County Commissioners report, so this is sent to each of you and also mailed to 01:42:06
the state. I've included information on the crisis continuum as well as my card with my phone number, so reach out anytime I can 01:42:13
answer any questions, and I'm happy to do that now if you have some. 01:42:19
That was quick. 01:42:30
And you tried. You did a good job. 01:42:33
Thank you and your accessibility. 01:42:36
Thank you. Thank you. 01:42:41
All right, board and committee reports. 01:42:46
Jason. 01:42:51
Yeah, I got a few things here. I. 01:42:53
Most of them circle around the EMS, but the EMS Advisory Board met on March 21st. 01:42:56
We had a special committee commissioners meeting on EMS on March 27th and of course the Council Commissioner works up on the 01:43:05
Mississippi on April 1st. 01:43:09
On April 8th we had a Floyd County Planning Commission as you know that we have a vacancy now on the board. And then on April 12th 01:43:14
I attended the cast of the Casa Advocacy Rising. 01:43:20
Gala. 01:43:27
An amazing organization if anybody's looking for any way to give back to your community. 01:43:29
That would be an amazing way to do so. 01:43:35
The last thing I have in regards to that is that as a chair of the EMS Committee, I did receive. 01:43:38
An e-mail from the Fire Chief of Georgetown, which he asked me to. 01:43:43
Read at the next public meeting. So I'm going to do so right now. 01:43:48
It's addressed to me, from oral band to the Chief of Georgetown Fire Department. 01:43:52
In regards to the Floyd County EMS Committee, he states. 01:43:58
After discussions with my chief staff, we are requesting that some issues be addressed by you as the EMS Committee Chair. The 01:44:02
first issue we think needs to be addressed is the fact that Brandon Alexander misrepresented the facts in a public meeting on 01:44:07
March 21st concerning. 01:44:12
The preparedness of Highlanders. 01:44:17
Fire Protection District to assume ambulance service for the county, in particular the fact that the state certification was only 01:44:19
two weeks from being obtained when in fact the request for certification had not even been submitted until March 27th. 01:44:26
Which, by the way, you revealed at the special Floyd County Commissioners meeting conducted on March 27th. 01:44:32
With the integrity of the EMS Committee now being questioned, we feel like Mr. Alexander should be removed as participating 01:44:38
committee member. 01:44:42
It is also suggested that you re examine the makeup of the EMS committee. 01:44:45
To ensure that each fire district is equally represented. 01:44:50
We know that Highlander Fire Protection District has at least two members on your committee, whereas the other districts was only 01:44:53
requested for one. 01:44:56
I'm referring to Mr. Aponte, who is a member of the Board of Trustees for Highlander Fire Protection District, and the 01:45:00
aforementioned Mr. Alexander, who is not only the employee of the district, but also the President, the IFF union that represents 01:45:05
the staff, Highlander Fire Protection District. 01:45:10
We acknowledge that Mister Hyponte is a EMS veteran and his input could be valuable for your committee and therefore his 01:45:15
membership should be sufficient. 01:45:18
Representation for the Highlander Fire Protection Districts, if you should so choose for him to remain on your committee. There is 01:45:22
also a need to ensure that the leadership of the Highlander Fire Protection District is not using personal relationships with any 01:45:28
members of the committee to assert its influence as it pertains to recommendations and goals of your committee. 01:45:33
As a result of your statement on March 27th meeting the other statements from other elected officials not involved in your 01:45:39
committee. 01:45:42
It is made to appear that the leadership of Highlander Fire Protection District is using your committee for other ambitions, such 01:45:45
as acquiring the Georgetown Township Fire Protection District. 01:45:49
Allow me to affirm at this point this time Georgetown Township Fire Protection District has not sought to merge with any other 01:45:54
fire district, nor do we wish to be acquired by any of other fire districts. With that being stated, we also request that any 01:45:59
discussions of merger or acquisition be left to the Board of Trustees. 01:46:04
Of the involved district and the focus, the EMS committee should be on recommending the best available EMS service to the county. 01:46:09
Another item that should be looked at is now that New Chapel, Fire and EMS is no longer a contender for the Ambulance service 01:46:16
contract. To this point, they are the current fire protections service provider for New Albany Township. Their input should be 01:46:22
sought either directly or through membership of your board, indirectly through the representative of New Albany Township on your 01:46:28
board. Also, Franklin Township currently has no representation and we feel their voice should be heard. 01:46:35
We also feel that due to a conflict of interest, no entity whose intent is to offer ambulance service. 01:46:41
At the expense of taxpayer funding should be allotted and vote when it comes. 01:46:47
To recommendation of such services to the Commissioners. 01:46:51
It was noted that Hot New Chapel Fire and EMS was not allotted the same opportunity that was given to Highlander Fire Protection 01:46:54
District. 01:46:57
The final item that we acknowledge the accommodation made for Doctor Harris and Chief Mayfield to participate in the March 21st 01:47:01
meeting. 01:47:04
We request that those accommodations be afforded to Chief Mayfield at each scheduled and unscheduled meeting until such time. 01:47:09
He becomes mobile again. In conclusion, we want to affirm our support to the Commissioner's decision that was made on March 27th. 01:47:16
And we offer our continue to support for the task that your EMS Committee has undertaken. We also request that these 01:47:22
considerations listed receive serious thought to ensure that your EMS Committee retains its transparency and integrity. Signed 01:47:27
Chief Oral-B Beta. 01:47:32
That's all. 01:47:37
Any recommended action based upon that? 01:47:39
I mean with regards to future consideration, I mean. 01:47:42
Only hearing it tonight, I well, I think at at some point we're going to have to have a discussion about the makeup of the of the 01:47:46
committee because I think he brings up some very valid points. 01:47:51
OK, well. 01:47:58
Thank him for his input from from me. 01:47:59
Let me address that first. I guess the one thing that really concerns me is that on our ES Advisory Board, we have three very 01:48:04
knowledgeable physicians. 01:48:08
Emergency room physicians. 01:48:14
And they have over 120 years experience. I think that says a lot. 01:48:16
And for us to just kind of ignore their recommendation, these are the, these are the the people that that receive the patients 01:48:21
from the from the ambulances they see first hand. 01:48:28
The, the quality of care and the condition that these patients are receiving are being received, but we just totally ignore that, 01:48:36
OK with that having been said. 01:48:41
Doctor Harris, Dr. Potter. 01:48:47
And Doctor Dan O'Brien. 01:48:50
Because Doctor Harris at his last meeting, did publicly state that. Whatever. 01:48:52
We come up with should. 01:48:57
Be county. 01:48:59
He stood at that podium and stated that. 01:49:02
So I don't think anybody's ignoring. 01:49:06
Well, all of that input well. 01:49:08
We asked, we asked to put professionals on there that are experienced in our field and we did. 01:49:11
And we just totally put that aside. 01:49:16
And inside go a different way. 01:49:20
But to be continued. 01:49:23
As far as I. 01:49:25
What's been going on the past two or three weeks? On March 20th and met with Ronnie Tool, Horatio and Cameron. 01:49:28
There is a large culvert on Arthur Kaufman that's failing. 01:49:35
And we were out there looking at that and come up with a plan of repair. 01:49:39
That same day went to the Galena Digital Library. There's a the roadway needs to be wide, and we looked at that. 01:49:43
On the 22nd Friday. 01:49:51
Attended the RDA ready to that old presentation. Don did a fantastic job of presenting 3 projects. 01:49:54
For Floyd County Edwardsville School renovation, the natural gas line in the Regional Park. 01:50:01
And later that day, I joined Don and Sheriff Bush and the RDA directors as they toured the old Edwardsville school. 01:50:06
As Jason indicated, on the 27th we attended the EMS Advisory Board as they made recommendations to not select. 01:50:14
Either. 01:50:21
And later that evening, the next evening I had, I was on the phone for two hours and 45 minutes talking to the lady. 01:50:23
From the Albee about EMS. 01:50:30
It was very good, very good conversation on Saturday. The 23rd had the honor of. 01:50:32
Attending the Highlander Fire District and Approach Annual Appreciation Dinner they recognize while the firefighters and their. 01:50:38
EMT's for a job well done that they that they do for Highlander. 01:50:46
Fire district. 01:50:50
On Monday, April the 1st attended the workshop, we discussed funding for EMS. 01:50:52
And last Thursday attended the Farm Bureau Spring meeting The Prosser, the culinary school, prepared a prepared a very delicious 01:50:58
dinner. 01:51:01
We learned about the hellbender. 01:51:05
Being released in Indian Creek and Agriculture in the classrooms, and on Friday attended the second annual gala at Huber's. 01:51:08
And myself, we both at one time were cost of members for certain costs of volunteers. 01:51:15
For several years, and they're needed volunteers. 01:51:21
On Saturday, I attended the IU Chancellor Medallion Scholarship and Award Banquet. 01:51:25
They awarded scholarships to 4 juniors and four seniors. 01:51:30
And then also they awarded Medallion awards to Danny Heaver. 01:51:35
And Gary Lib, I worked with Dana on the RDA and know Gary is one of our paving contractors. 01:51:39
They do a fantastic job for the county. 01:51:45
And Dana and Gary are both very deserving of this of this award. 01:51:48
And then I'll. 01:51:52
Monday Yesterday I attended the J Rack quarterly meeting and they are prepared to accept applications. 01:51:53
To distribute. 01:51:59
Funds to organizations, so. 01:52:01
Very busy. Three weeks. All right. Thank you. In the interest of time, I will not itemize my engagements. I'll just say that it's 01:52:04
been a busy time. If anybody wants a list, I'm happy to provide it. 01:52:09
So I'm seeking approval of the commissioners meeting minutes for March 19, 2024 and March 27, 2024. 01:52:15
So moved second. All right, motion is second. All in favor, aye and then approval of payroll and claims. 01:52:24
Call of Duty. 01:52:31
Motion approved. 01:52:33
2nd I have a motion to approve and a second. 01:52:35
All in favor, aye, aye. 01:52:38
We have the next. 01:52:41
Regularly scheduled commissioners meeting Monday, May 6/20/24 at 6:00 PM. 01:52:43
We have two joint meetings as previously discussed. 01:52:48
April 18th. 01:52:53
What time is the April 18th meaning? I want to get it wrong. 01:52:55
4:30. 01:52:59
Show up early 4:30 to get a seat if you're in SO. 01:53:04
OK. 01:53:12
And then the April 23rd. 01:53:13
Is at 4. Is that 4? 01:53:16
All right. Any public comment this evening? 01:53:19
Please. 01:53:24
You get our Patience Award for the. 01:53:26
How Mr. Schiller, I actually know your daughter Julie, but my name is Ashley Justice. The reason I'm here, I was told that this 01:53:29
would be the the 1st place to start. I live in the 1500 block of Edwardsville Galena Rd. In Georgetown and we are having issues 01:53:34
with this lot of traffic, a lot of speeders. 01:53:39
Whole lot of speeders, I'm not in like 50, it's like 3035 through there. So they're doing like 50-60 on average, especially during 01:53:45
school time and like rush hour traffic when everybody's getting off work. 01:53:50
So I was thinking speed bumps. I would, I don't know with that, like try and get speed bumps put in through there to try and slow 01:53:56
them, slow them down. 01:54:02
And so I was advised by Sheriff Bush that you guys would be my starting point for something like this. What's your address again? 01:54:36
I live at 1535 Edwardsville, Colina Rd. In Georgetown. 01:54:42
And normally. 01:54:48
The sheriff is with us on these, these meetings. Yeah, that's what I talked to him earlier. He studies with his grandmother. I'm 01:54:50
curious as to whether or not he indicated that they might increase the level of patrols out in that area or presence that's that's 01:54:55
pretty typical request for extra patrols in the area. 01:55:01
He mentioned putting like one of the speed machines in my yard too and I'm like, yeah, go ahead, yes please. I've even told him 01:55:08
like if one of the sheriff, they can park in my driveway if they would like to sit there and my recommendation if you have an 01:55:12
extra 5 minutes in you is that. 01:55:16
Is that your district? 01:55:22
With you afterwards and coordinate with Sheriff Bush at least about increasing patrols as an initial measure but I'm sure Jason 01:55:25
will give you time here. In just a minute I will speak for you but I just both these guys stay around and afterwards and are happy 01:55:30
to to talk into that would be great. Thank you guys. 01:55:36
I'm serious. I wish I had an award for your patience. Oh yeah, no problem. Yeah, Because I know all three of us pride ourselves on 01:55:43
being available. So, you know, for the record, our phone numbers are on the. 01:55:49
The website. And we can usually get a measure that wave across. Certainly this is the best Ave. to make it a public issue and kind 01:55:55
of put it on the map that way, though. OK. So I applaud you for being here. Yes, Sir. Thank you. If you know Julie, you can get my 01:56:00
number from Julie. OK. Yeah. That's what she she's I was like, well, I'm at a meeting right now, but I might take you up on that. 01:56:05
Sounds good. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you. 01:56:10
Any other public comments? 01:56:16
OK, 4:30 on the 18th. 01:56:21
And 4:00 on the 23rd, OK. Any closing statements from? We'll go with you first. 01:56:24
Thanks for coming. I just want to make everybody aware that on the last Saturday in April, which I believe is April the 27th. 01:56:33
We have pollinator day at Purdue. 01:56:42
We have less than we had. About 1200 people were expected, about 1600 people if the weather's nice. 01:56:45
Be a lot of people, a lot of people, their kids. A lot of events for the kids will also be, I mean, the Spring Valley beekeepers. 01:56:51
We will have a booth there will have a observation hive with with live bees and all that. So we welcome you all to come, have a 01:56:58
good time. They have trees that they give away and a lot of good food and all that, but anyway. 01:57:05
But if you're available in that day and the weather's nice, come out and join us. And the second thing is that last week they 01:57:12
announced that. 01:57:16
Our RDA was going to receive $45 million. I'm ready to dot O. 01:57:22
Which is fantastic. Last year we got 50 million but 45 is still a good amount and Don has been working feverishly representing the 01:57:26
Floyd County government putting together the the projects and so they have a process now that they will be the. 01:57:35
The hit candidates will then presenter projects to the board and then they will then select the worthy ones and award from the 01:57:44
45,000,000. But again, good news for our Southern Indiana RDA and thank you all for coming. Appreciate it. 01:57:51
All right. 01:58:02
Everybody wear their coats next week, Jason. Yeah, I just want to give a quick shout out to the Floyd County Sheriff's Department, 01:58:14
Floyd County in May for their assistance during the Tornadoes that we experienced in Jeffersonville on April 2nd, you know? 01:58:20
We didn't have to call they they are. They knew by the traffic that was going over the radio that that we were going to need 01:58:28
assistance out there. So they headed that way and I just think that's a. 01:58:32
It was really great for them to kind of be proactive and do that. It really kind of helps. 01:58:37
You know, speed up the process of getting some of these things mitigated, but anyway, I also wanted to give a shout out to some of 01:58:42
our Council members, also to Commissioner Schoenberger and Commissioner Knable for checking in and just to make sure how 01:58:46
everything was going out there. So just wanted to say thank you for that. 01:58:51
Thank you. Thank you. 01:58:57
I'm gonna yield my time to County Attorney Rick Fox tonight. 01:58:58
Any parting words of wisdom? 01:59:05
Everybody have a wonderful evening. I could not have said that letter. Motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. All right. 01:59:09
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Event transcript
Just to make sure. 00:00:01
Welcome everyone. We have kind of a double matinee today because of our. 00:00:05
Storm cancellation the last time around, so we do a busy agenda, so I appreciate everybody's patience with that. 00:00:11
Thank you all for coming out and. 00:00:18
We'll ask you to please silence your cell phones if you need to have a conversation the big hallway out there and that would work 00:00:21
well. So if you'll stand and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance, please. 00:00:25
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, 00:00:31
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:37
All right. If you'll please join me for a moment of just individual prayer, meditation, or reflections we have. 00:00:47
Focus on this busy agenda tonight for people Floyd County. 00:00:54
All right. Thank you very much. As I already stated, we do have a busy agenda. We're going to have time for public comment at the 00:01:17
end. I don't think we had a sign in sheet, so just. 00:01:21
We'll do that in an informal fashion at the end of the regular meeting. If you have an agenda before you, there are a couple of. 00:01:26
Uh, items that will be tabled. We'll get to those in order under new business #1 Storm order director Chris Moore that. 00:01:36
Annual report has been moved to the May 7th meeting. 00:01:45
And then we have two additions to tonight's meeting. We're going to have an Item 4, QA mowing contract. I'd like to have a motion 00:01:50
to add that to the tonight's agenda. 00:01:56
OK, all in favor. Aye. And then we'll have an item 9:00, we'll have a Miss Beth Keeney from Light Springs will introduce herself 00:02:04
as well. So I'd like to have a call for that to be added to the agenda motion. So sorry. 00:02:11
Dual motions and dual seconds all in favor, aye, all right. 00:02:18
Fantastic. OK, first to the podium tonight we'll have county engineer Horatio and Gritio. 00:02:23
Forbid openings for local paving. Spring 2024. 00:02:28
And at this time, are there any additional bids to be brought forward tonight? 00:02:34
You ready? Yes, Sir, I am ready. OK, first bit is Louisville Paving. 00:02:45
It would put. 00:03:06
Little marker. 00:03:09
That's all we have. Second eyes on this. And it's Louisville painting, correct? Yes. All right, Louisville Paving. 00:03:11
$306,980.10. 00:03:20
Second one is E&B Paving. 00:03:27
E&B paving 304,850 dollars. 00:03:37
Zero cents. 00:03:41
#3 is CNR construction. 00:03:45
Thank you C&R Construction $321,301.20. 00:04:05
Next one is Mac construction. 00:04:14
Mac construction $275,720. 00:04:31
Zero cents. 00:04:36
Next one is temple and temple. 00:04:40
Temple and Temple 293,000. 00:04:49
$79.20. 00:04:53
293079.20. 00:04:55
Next one is. 00:04:59
DL Construction services. 00:05:02
DLDL. 00:05:06
OK. Yes, like David Leo. 00:05:07
DL Construction, 407. 00:05:18
$100,075.75. 00:05:21
Got it. And the final bid is Libs paving. 00:05:26
Libs paving 200 and 7600 thousand. 00:05:42
$958.30. 00:05:46
And that's the final bid motion that we take these under advisement. 00:05:51
I have a motion. A second to take these under advisement. All in favor. Aye. Thank you. And. 00:05:57
County Engineers, Second item letter 2B. 00:06:04
Has been requested for table motion to table the more bridge 27, so move. 00:06:10
Yes, Sir. 00:06:16
All right, motion to 2nd to table, all in favor. 00:06:18
Aye. Thank you. 00:06:23
Horatio ratio. 00:06:26
All right, Nick, Creepy building and development director. 00:06:29
I have a plat for your signature. It's a partial replat of the 10s place. 00:06:35
This was approved approved by the planning question. 00:06:42
Y'all are aware of this project. We have the stormwater bond for that in place. 00:06:53
Do you have? 00:07:02
Down. 00:07:05
I mean, I've got. 00:07:09
Motion to Approve. 00:07:17
I have a motion to approve for signature and a second all in favor, aye? 00:07:20
Aye. 00:07:26
I got an excellent. 00:07:36
Are there 2 pages for signature or just one? 00:07:38
All right, while Jason finishes that up. 00:07:49
Any other further action on that, Nick, where you move on to? 00:07:55
The second item I have is a partial bond release for Knob Hill Subdivision Section 6. 00:08:00
They have a. 00:08:08
Cash bond amount of 26 thousand 4625 that was 125% of the public infrastructure. They're requesting the release of that 00:08:09
withholding 25% for a two year maintenance bond. So the release will be 19,534 Sixty nine and will retain 6500 Eleven 56. 00:08:21
Horatio went out and proved those items, the infrastructure items, So those are ready. All right. Any questions for? 00:08:33
Nick, on that. If not, I'll seek a motion to approve for the stated amount on that release motion to approve and I'll second. All 00:08:42
right, motion is second. All in favor? 00:08:46
I thank you. 00:08:53
All right. Director of Operations and Planning, Mr. Don Lop. 00:08:59
The first item on Mr. Lock's agenda tonight is a public hearing on a build off rate transfer or bought agreement. 00:09:04
And in order to have a public hearing on that, I'm going to put our commissioners meeting into recess at this moment in time. 00:09:12
And open up a public hearing for the bill to operate transfer. 00:09:20
Well, good evening. For the record, Don Lump, Director of Operations and Planning, before you tonight is a public hearing as part 00:09:26
of the process of a build, operate transfer agreement for the Building 5, which is also known as Red Wire Building. 00:09:34
The Redevelopment Commission has is presenting this to you with a favorable recommendation. 00:09:42
For a contract to be awarded to charm and construction. 00:09:49
For the BLT for Building 5 at Nova Park. 00:09:53
The construction amount is 909,000,600 and 54,952. 00:09:57
The financing of that is a redevelopment bond and the amount of 5,200,000. 00:10:03
And ready funds and tiff of 4,500,000. 00:10:09
Bond payment is the lease payments that will be provide our that will be paid by red wire Backup is the Red wire tiff which is 00:10:13
also on your agenda tonight. The Highlander TIFF revenues and a debt service reserve. 00:10:20
The project, just to give you an overview, it's construction of a 35,000 square foot facility to house a state of an art 00:10:29
state-of-the-art microgravity payload and space operations facility. 00:10:35
30,000 will be leased to Red Wire for the expansion of its Indiana operations and 5000 will be designated for laboratory and 00:10:42
entrepreneurial space. 00:10:46
Under for the. 00:10:53
County's Redevelopment Commission and its partner, Indiana University Southeast. 00:10:54
There's two videos. We'll try to see if we can plan them. 00:10:59
Posture. 00:11:02
And if. 00:11:05
You may have a You may have a commercial in this too, so I. 00:11:08
Pardon the commercial routine that may help support better vision. Ever wonder why glasses alone don't fix all? Here we have the 00:11:13
pillbox flutist cassette Orbit for 40 days. 00:11:19
There are 20 unique samples. 00:11:36
Tested on the ISS. 00:11:39
I'll take a look what we got. So one of the main reasons we would like to do experiments like this in space, especially for the 00:11:44
farm industry, is in microgravity. You might get a larger crystal, you might get a more pure crystal, you might get a more pure 00:11:49
form. I do see crystals. 00:11:54
That's excellent. Wow, that's too cool. Good to go. 00:12:00
And you could receive that material back to earth and potential use it as seed to make that unique form down here on earth. 00:12:05
That was one of two real quick videos that kind of highlight what what they're working on. 00:12:20
In terms of their partnerships, that's a pharmaceutical. 00:12:26
The ultimate purpose for you bio printing in microgravity would be to address the organ shortage that we have on Earth. 00:12:31
We have way too many people on the transplant list and not enough organs to go around. 00:12:38
Tissue engineering is potentially the answer to that. 00:12:43
3D bioprinting on the ground is quite difficult. Things kind of settle out. Gravity tends to mush things together. So microgravity 00:12:48
gives us this wonderful opportunity to print. And when we print, we get to put something and it stays exactly where we put it. So 00:12:53
it allows us to build this big thick tissues. 00:12:58
Well, there's something in there that is your human meniscus right there. 00:13:04
This was printed on the ISS. 00:13:10
Cultured and then brought down to the earth and survived. And I'm holding it right here, so Oh yeah, I'd say it was a. 00:13:12
Very good. 00:13:19
Thought those might be a little bit better in terms of actual video than a planner trying to explain 3D printing and. 00:13:24
And how? 00:13:31
Madison's are. 00:13:33
Developed in space, but those are those are two of the items that are currently being. 00:13:35
Being done at the Galena location, that would be now done. 00:13:40
Within the new building. 00:13:45
At Nova Park. So the next item just real quickly, just give you an economic impact during construction, 64 direct and indirect 00:13:48
positions, job creation and retention both direct and indirect is 121. 00:13:55
75 direct positions being through red wire. An average wage of $55 per hour, which is over double what the Floyd County average 00:14:03
wage is currently. An annual income and property tax generated just South of $1 million annually. 00:14:10
It's a $51 million total private, direct and indirect investment in the project. 00:14:19
The county has been with the partnership of Red Wire has received $7,000,000 in public grant funding. 00:14:23
Those again are the two, direct and indirect. 00:14:30
Job creations both in construction and and through the project. 00:14:35
And then, since our grand opening, we have submitted 3 I EDC requests for information regarding possible business relocations. 00:14:40
Which if they came to fruition, we represent $200 million in additional private investment. Obviously that's a competitive 00:14:49
process. But as you can see since July now to April, Noble Park is starting to get its feet under it and in terms of not only this 00:14:56
project but other projects. So the purpose of the public hearing tonight is for the contract and. 00:15:04
With that, basically take both. 00:15:14
Favorable and unfavorable comments and then I will answer any questions at the end. All right. Thank you very much for that. I. 00:15:18
So at this point, I would like to call for anyone present who would like to speak in favor of this project moving forward. 00:15:26
You can come up one at a time or. 00:15:37
I think 3 hands is that what I thought 1/2. 00:15:41
All right, so. 00:15:45
We won't stop until we run out of hands. 00:15:46
Good evening, Joseph Moyer, Georgetown Township. I'm in favor of clean technology, you know industries in Nova Park. 00:15:49
Some totally support it. I just going to have to wait until that answers questions. My only questions about the financing. 00:15:58
But I'm in favor of the idea. 00:16:05
Thank you. 00:16:08
Hello. 00:16:14
Good evening. Thank you for having me. I'm Debbie Ford. I'm the Chancellor at Indiana University Southeast and on behalf of our 00:16:17
university, I speak on behalf of this project at Nova Park and I'd like to share a few details. First of all, Indiana University 00:16:23
Southeast is dedicated to student success and our 2030 strategic plan is laser focused on educating this next generation of 00:16:30
talent. 00:16:36
By partnering with Nova Park and Red Wire, we are providing students with invaluable opportunities to cultivate their 00:16:42
entrepreneurial mindsets and acquire practical experiences for this evolving knowledge. 00:16:48
Economy As we know, innovation is the engine that propels progress and drives societal development. 00:16:55
Through our collaboration with Nova Park and of course with Red Wire and other future business partners, we are creating a vibrant 00:17:03
ecosystem that nurtures creativity, encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and supports cutting edge research. 00:17:10
Specifically, we are already providing pre accelerator consultation services to both the public and our students. 00:17:19
Our faculty and staff are supporting the fixed accelerator through activities including business plan development, market 00:17:27
validation, prototype development and an introduction to business related services. 00:17:34
Indiana University Southeast is also providing entrepreneurial workshops and consultation services to tenants in Nova Park. 00:17:41
And we are inspiring this next generation of entrepreneurs through our annual pitch competitions. 00:17:50
For our students and the community, by integrating academic knowledge with real world opportunities, I know that our students will 00:17:57
gain a deeper understanding of the practical applications of their studies, making them better prepared and ready to lead. I would 00:18:05
like to recognize our Dean, David Epplin of the School of Business. Dean has been dating. David Eplione has been leading much of 00:18:13
the conversations with Nova Park, and then I have also hosted Rich Bowling or Vice the Vice President of Red Wire a 2 hour campus. 00:18:21
Meet with our science faculty because we see this as such a mutually beneficial relationship. So thank you. 00:18:30
Thank you. Thank you for being here. 00:18:36
Yeah, watch off Lloyd County Council. I've supported Noble Park since when we broke ground on Hwy. 62. Was it three or four years 00:18:46
ago? 00:18:49
Was that a ribbon cutting for the? 00:18:54
Yeah, what's the stop? So I support Noble Park and I'm excited to see development start taking place and hopefully this will be 00:18:56
the beginning of great things. Thanks. 00:19:02
Thank you. 00:19:08
Yes, Sir. 00:19:10
Hello, David Eppling, Dean, School of Business at IU SE. I'll be very brief. In addition to the benefits Chancellor mentioned, 00:19:17
this facility will provide lab space that's desperately needed in our community as well. We've got a budding group of potential 00:19:23
entrepreneurs out there, and this lab space will allow them to realize some of their dreams, create businesses, and one of the 00:19:28
great things about the IU SE graduates. 00:19:33
Is the vast majority, well over 80% stay in the area and in the region. So these would be jobs will be coming to our region that 00:19:39
will be supported by this project as well. So I'm very much in favor. Thank you. Thank you, Dean. Thank you. 00:19:44
Was there another hand over this one? Yes, ma'am. 00:19:51
I'm Juanita Melton and I'm representing Red Wire for this evening. 00:19:59
For more than 30 years, Red Brush Space Technologies here in Floyd County has specialized in designing, building and operating 00:20:03
research and manufacturing equipment in space. 00:20:09
About space shuttles, International Space Station and private commercial spacecraft. 00:20:15
Every cargo supply spacecraft launching to the space station carries a new device or experiment. 00:20:21
Made in our laboratory here in Galena, where we employ approximately 50 people. 00:20:27
In the new larger facility Nova Park, we anticipate adding 25 new high skill, high wage jobs as we ramp up our efforts in space to 00:20:33
assist with the development of more effective drugs that can only be made in the lab without gravity. 00:20:41
We also recently manufactured a replacement human knee meniscus. 00:20:50
In space with our 3D printer and returned it to Earth as you saw with the video this evening. 00:20:54
And just this week, we printed thick heart tissue. 00:21:00
That couldn't be made on the ground. 00:21:04
Redmond goes to work in space to develop new technologies and treatments that can improve healthcare for everyone on Earth, and 00:21:06
this facility will help us accelerate that impact. 00:21:12
We want to deepen our roots here, with the new laboratory being designed to better share what we're doing with our community. 00:21:18
Well, house tours for students. 00:21:27
And we'd even like to allow visitors to watch us working with NASA astronauts in space via our own payload Mission Control center. 00:21:29
Hopefully we can inspire the next generation of engineers, scientists and technicians. 00:21:37
We are eager to launch this project. 00:21:44
Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. 00:21:46
Is there anyone else present who would like to speak? 00:21:51
In support of this measure. 00:21:54
All right. Is there anyone here who would like to speak in opposition to the question that Dan? 00:21:56
Damn, man, Georgetown. I'm neither for or against. 00:22:07
What the questions I get out there? Everybody's asked me. 00:22:10
They were already doing it and cleaning. What did we gain? 00:22:13
Just that. The lady just got there. We gained 21 more jobs. 00:22:16
Spending millions and millions to put it in over park. 00:22:20
The business was already in cleaner. 00:22:23
So this big growth we're talking about, it's not true. 00:22:25
It's 21 jobs. 00:22:28
Is what she just stated. 00:22:30
We're getting, we're spending all this money, taxpayer money. 00:22:32
To do this for 21 jobs. That business was already in cleanup. We didn't gain anything. Thank you. 00:22:35
Thank you. 00:22:41
Anyone else? 00:22:42
President would like to speak in opposition to this. 00:22:44
Question tonight. 00:22:47
All right. We'll close public comment on that and. 00:22:49
Mr. OP, if you'd like to return to the podium, we'll see if we have any questions from the board. 00:22:53
Yes. 00:22:58
Any questions from Mr. Law for comments on the matter at this moment in time? 00:23:02
I would if I could. There was a question about financing and so I'd like to address that question and how this is being financed 00:23:07
is through the lease. 00:23:12
Payments from Red Wire. 00:23:16
To pay for the bond. 00:23:19
And then on your agenda after that? 00:23:21
Is the taxes that are being they're going to be placed in a separate tip? 00:23:23
From the red wire expansion. 00:23:29
So that that it also covers the. 00:23:32
Any shortfalls on the on the on the on the lease payment but the lease payment? 00:23:37
Will pay for the actual bond payments. 00:23:41
The remainder of the money is ready money, and that is. 00:23:46
Grant money that was received by the county for for Nova Park. 00:23:50
In terms of the question regarding the location. 00:23:55
We have been on myself, Mr. Woosley, who's in the back, Mr. Schoenberger who's also on the Redevelopment Commission, probably on a 00:23:59
six year odyssey with tech shot slash red wire. 00:24:05
They had outgrown their facility. 00:24:13
There was number sanitary sewer in the area to expand their facility. 00:24:16
And so and then when they got, when they were purchased by red wire. 00:24:20
There is a possibility that was communicated to us by the new folks that they were looking at consolidating. 00:24:25
Operations throughout the United States. 00:24:33
So that's that kind of addresses why the why that we're involved. 00:24:37
So with that, if you if you don't have any other questions, um. 00:24:42
Really the next step for you would be to go back into the full session. 00:24:46
And then if there's a motion to approve the the award of the GMP agreement. 00:24:50
Yeah, I just want to say briefly, remember. 00:24:58
We need a Chester, Chester always said at the RDA meetings and at the groundbreaking, she said. Investments follow investments. 00:25:02
And our investment here that you know that the county government has done at Nova Park. 00:25:10
We've got red water. We got other companies that are falling behind. But investments follow investments. People need to realize 00:25:15
that. 00:25:18
So we need a motion then to approve. 00:25:24
I'll close the public meeting on this momentarily but before doing so Mr. Is there anyone else that you'd like to acknowledge from 00:25:28
your team on this? I know it's been a long, I just I think Mr. Rosley is in the background. He's been the president of the 00:25:33
Redevelopment Commission since it started, well since redevelopment started in 14. 00:25:38
So we have had numerous iterations and working working on this project and others and Mr. Schoenberger as a member of the 00:25:44
commissioners on redevelopment. I don't know if there's anyone else that's there. I did not see anybody but those folks today And 00:25:51
also just want to again send my thanks to Indiana University Southeast, they have been unbelievable partners as we start down this 00:25:57
journey in terms of the campus and. 00:26:04
Really making this a? 00:26:11
Hub for innovation and technology in Floyd County. 00:26:14
I'll just add before closing that I know that these projects. 00:26:19
Really Go? 00:26:24
Beyond the the term limits of any. 00:26:25
One office holder. So I just wanted to acknowledge my immediate predecessors, Mr. Tim Kamer and Mr. Sean Carruthers, for their 00:26:29
efforts on this as well. 00:26:34
Sometimes that can be overlooked. I know that they had. 00:26:39
Important input on this as did John along the way on that SO. 00:26:42
My thanks to you all and I will close that. 00:26:47
Public meeting on the issue and reopen. 00:26:51
Call from recess the commissioners meeting. 00:26:54
And like to call forward Floyd County Resolution 2024-01 Red Wire Allocation Area. 00:26:57
Before that, the first item would be the approval. It's not in a resolution, but just the approval and ward a contract if you so 00:27:06
choose. 00:27:10
So the way the agenda was written, I. 00:27:17
Didn't have that in front of me, so I apologize. I apologize. No worries. 00:27:20
So I will look for a motion for approval for the agreement Motion to approve I second. 00:27:24
A motion is second. All in favor, aye? All right. Now we'll proceed with Floyd County Resolution 2024-01 Red Wire Allocation Area. 00:27:32
This is the allocation area. This is a process of making this its own TIF district. It's went through the 1st, 3. This is the 00:27:43
third and 4th step process. It has went Redevelopment Commission to Planning Commission, now to the county commissioners, After 00:27:51
which if you decide to approve, it would go back for a public hearing in front of the Redevelopment Commission and the estimated 00:27:58
tiff being generated would be approximately $125,000 annually from according to Crow. 00:28:05
And associates. 00:28:14
Motion to Approve with unanimous Consent. 00:28:17
Is this an ordinance? 00:28:20
Resolution, OK. 00:28:21
Motion to Approve Floyd County, Floyd County Resolution 2024-01. 00:28:23
The red wire allocation area. 00:28:29
I'll second it. I have a motion. And second all in favor. 00:28:32
Thank you. 00:28:36
Call forward FCR 2024-02 Approving Red Wire Bond. 00:28:38
This is a Redevelopment Commission bond for the. 00:28:43
Building 5. 00:28:48
Has a maximum of $6 million, maximum of 8% those are just maximum is used for pricing the market. Again the payments are from the 00:28:50
lease payments from red wire and then the any if there is a shortfall of the TIF district that that just. 00:28:59
In the final stages of being created. 00:29:08
All right. Any discussion on the matter or questions for Mr. Lot? 00:29:11
Otherwise, I'll seek a motion to approve. 00:29:15
Motion to Approve for Floyd County. 00:29:18
Resolution of 2024 Dash L2 approving the red wire bond. I'll second. All right. I have a motion. Dan the 2nd on the matter. All in 00:29:21
favor. Aye, Aye. 00:29:25
All right. Calling forward FCR Floyd County resolution 2024 Dash 03 bond reimbursement. 00:29:31
This is a just a bond reimbursement for any local funds that were expended by the Redevelopment Commission in prior to the. 00:29:38
Issuance of bonds. 00:29:47
Motion to Approve Floyd County Resolution 2024 Dash 03 Bond Reimbursement and I'll second. 00:29:51
I have a motion in a second. All in favor, aye. 00:29:58
Alright. 00:30:02
Calling forward Floyd County Ordinance 2024-07, creation of Red Wire. 00:30:05
Tiff non reverting fund. 00:30:11
This is the creation of the Red wire TIF district fund where those proceeds from that tip would be placed in a non reverting fund. 00:30:15
For for use in within the TIF. 00:30:25
All right, any discussion or questions? If not, I'll look for a motion to pass with unanimous Consent Motion to Approve with 00:30:28
Unanimous Consent, Floyd County Ordinance 2024-07. 00:30:33
Creation of red wire TIF non reverting fund. 00:30:39
One second, All right. A motion and a second. All in favor. Aye? Aye. 00:30:41
All right and Floyd County Ordinance 2024-08, Creation of Edwardsville School. 00:30:47
Tax increment financing, non reverting fund. 00:30:55
This is for the average little school project that was already passed. The allocation area has already been set. 00:30:58
Earlier this year. This just sets into motion again a an account fund with the auditor's office for. 00:31:04
Receipt of funds through that project. 00:31:15
All right, I. 00:31:19
There's no further discussion. I'll look for a motion to approve with unanimous consent. 00:31:21
Motion Tipper with unanimous consent, Floyd County Ordinance, 2024-08. 00:31:25
Creation of Edwardsville School 10th Not Reverting Fund. 00:31:30
All right, They have a motion to second. All in favor, aye? 00:31:34
All right. 00:31:40
We're up with the OK. Next item that you should have in front of you is the 2023 Operations Annual report that's provided to NDOT 00:31:41
and LTAP. 00:31:47
That is, gives a synopsis of the expenditures receipts. 00:31:54
Debt service, amount of roads that we collect that we've added to our system. Currently we have. 00:32:01
370 miles of Rd. in the system. 00:32:07
So this is an annual report that just needs to be approved and then it's submitted. Believe it. We need all three of your 00:32:11
signatures, Mr. Urietti's and Mr. Tools signature. 00:32:16
All right. Any questions or discussion on the matter for Mr. Lau? 00:32:23
Motion to approve the 2023 Operations Annual Report. 00:32:29
I'll second motion is second all in favor aye, aye. 00:32:33
Next next item is a contract with. 00:32:40
SWT This is for the Regional Park and community Park master plan. 00:32:45
It's been vetted by Mr. Fox. The total lump sum amount is $207,050 and a not to exceed 2500 for reimbursable expenses. Those funds 00:32:51
are available and appropriated through. 00:32:59
The Caesars Foundation grant that county received and from the Commissioners Capital Fund. 00:33:07
All right, I. 00:33:16
Again, this is another. 00:33:19
Kind of landmark project that is slowly being launched tonight. I just wanted to. 00:33:21
See if there's any timeline it can be. 00:33:27
Even whether it's even month or whatever, when we can have expect public input on this. I know people are anxious to kind of. 00:33:31
Get a look at what might be going down here. We just we met last week with the principal planner, myself and Mr. Dennison. 00:33:37
He's put together a time frame I would say you're looking at. 00:33:48
Public input starting sometime early summer, I would say in June. 00:33:54
There'll be a series of public meetings and public outreach. 00:33:58
For both the community park project portion and the Regional Park portion. 00:34:03
And we'll work to get that on the website. 00:34:09
As soon as we can. So I know that there's some committees that will be formed after this is done, advisory and stakeholders 00:34:13
committee and as soon as as soon as he's ready to hit the ground, as soon as the contract signs. 00:34:20
OK. They've done this is for Sam, Sam Payton as well as the new regional parks that correct. 00:34:27
Motion. 00:34:36
Motion to approve the Regional Park Master. 00:34:38
Contract Umm. 00:34:42
With SWT design, I'll 2nd, I have a motion a second, all in favor aye aye. 00:34:44
Next next item is the oven sins Rd. contracts. 00:34:53
This is the phase three. Dan Christiani was awarded the contract. 00:34:57
In the amount of $2,337,470.13, those funds are appropriated through 908903 and 9160. 00:35:03
8903 being American rescue funds and 909162 being the road bond proceeds. 00:35:14
All right, just for clarification, for the public and all interested parties, we have a few different projects in the works on 00:35:25
different links of old Vincent's Road, so you can just put a pin in the map for us on this. This will start at Duffy Road and in 00:35:30
at Tuscany Drive. 00:35:34
Right now, Staffs working to put the things that will go out at the end of this week will be mailers to each of the residents who 00:35:41
are who live along. Those live along the sections regarding the Detours. There's also going to be, I think you've seen some 00:35:45
drafts. 00:35:50
Maps and kind of a. 00:35:56
For lack of better term, just kind of AI, don't call story map, but let's just call it that for right now because I can't think of 00:35:59
anything else, but just basically outlining what that project is that the links, the contractor, the schedule. 00:36:07
And for the public, once again, this is going to be a two year project. It will start June 1st. 00:36:15
And run to September 30th and then it will pick back up June 1st of 2025 and in July 31st of 2025. 00:36:21
And that would create three lane section of Rd. From Tuscany to Duffy signalized intersection at Schreiber Rd. 00:36:31
And also bring in in line drainage capacity and within the road. 00:36:40
To assist with. 00:36:47
Storm water retention. 00:36:50
All right. Any other questions or comments? 00:36:52
Not look for a. 00:36:56
Motion to approve so moved. 00:36:59
I'll 2nd I have a motion a second all in favor, aye? 00:37:02
Next contract on that is contract obsolete construction observation. 00:37:07
It is with strand and associates on a part time basis. 00:37:11
The scope of services include administrative services, Cementals, review of pay requests that is a lump sum of 42,000. 00:37:15
And then on an hourly basis, the scope of service for construction inspection? 00:37:24
As an estimate not to exceed 151,000 for the two year project. 00:37:29
Motion to Approve the Tram. 00:37:34
Such as contract. This is for the old good sands That correct, Don. 00:37:36
Yes. Yeah, that's my motion. Yeah. I'll second. All right. Motion and a second. All in favor. Aye, Aye. 00:37:40
Next next item is Bridge 51. A very real quick update this evening. The red letter which is a letter regarding. 00:37:48
Allows us to access the right of way funds that have been set aside was sent to NDOT. 00:37:58
There'll be a couple more administrative components of that. 00:38:03
We have received environmental clearance. 00:38:06
The appraisals and review appraisals are complete. 00:38:10
And the next step in that project moving forward would be the process of purchase. 00:38:13
So we are. 00:38:20
The construction we had set. 00:38:25
For July of 2025, which would be fiscal year 2026 and so we have. 00:38:29
Basically year to finish final tracing stage 3 cementals. 00:38:37
And the right way acquisition? 00:38:41
So we are right now. 00:38:44
Back on track. 00:38:48
He knocked on wood, right? 00:38:51
All right. Any further questions on Bridge 51? 00:38:54
All right. Thank you for that update. Next item is the State Board of Accounts compliance report. We submitted that report in 00:38:59
November. We received approval of that report. 00:39:04
We were guided this office and. 00:39:10
This world is guided in terms of the submission it was approved. 00:39:13
We received an e-mail in February from The Next Level at SBOA that said that that compliance. 00:39:17
That compliance procedure. 00:39:26
Not what they wanted to see and they asked us to start the process and give that back to them. 00:39:29
That's even after the approval of the of the of the report. 00:39:36
I'm going to share that with. Let me just give you a quick update. 00:39:40
Our goal today is to submit that back for their final review and have that for your May meeting. The changes that you'll see is in 00:39:44
the previous was a reimbursement. 00:39:49
Procedure regarding 1173 which is motor vehicle highway restricted and 1197 which is storm water. 00:39:56
The SBI has asked us to revise that. 00:40:04
To do that in a percentage basis. 00:40:07
And then at the end of each month, review that percentage basis of the work completed with the auditors office for payroll, make 00:40:11
sure that they're In Sync. 00:40:16
And then if there's any changes at that point? 00:40:21
They're done internally with the auditor's office. 00:40:24
So I. 00:40:27
My goal is to. 00:40:30
Hopefully get. 00:40:32
Final final approval in the next couple of weeks and get that to you at your next week. 00:40:34
Any questions for. No, I'm good. All right. Thank you for that update. OK. Veteran service office, Miss Schneiders here I. 00:40:43
Prior to the. 00:40:53
Prior to the moratorium that was set on moving of space at the City County building, the veteran service Office had reached out to 00:41:02
the commissioners about moving their office. It's my understanding and and she can correct me if I'm wrong, that they would like 00:41:09
to move from their first floor accommodations to the basement which was previously occupied by. 00:41:16
Public defender, so I'll have her speak on any questions you have. 00:41:25
Hello, I'm Marty Snyder, the Veterans Service Officer. 00:41:31
And we are requesting to move. 00:41:35
We have two rooms. 00:41:39
Literally. And we are needing a receptionist to help us build phone calls. 00:41:42
We're getting 45 to 50 phone calls a day and we're missing. 00:41:48
Probably half of those because we're with a veteran. 00:41:53
And we won't answer the phone, obviously, if we're serving someone. 00:41:58
And they're hanging up or they're not leaving voicemails. I come in every morning and I have at least five to seven voicemails 00:42:04
that I need to get to. 00:42:09
And do appointments and stuff. Don came in our office on Friday. 00:42:15
How many people are sitting in there waiting? 00:42:21
I mean, I had someone with me, Aaron had someone with him, and I had three people waiting to talk to us. Not only. 00:42:24
The benefit of having a receptionist. We don't have anywhere to put a receptionist. 00:42:33
Of the privacy. 00:42:39
When Aaron's with someone. 00:42:42
The only place for someone waiting is to sit where Aaron's talking to that veteran. We're talking about health issues. 00:42:44
So there's HIPAA violations going on all over the place in my office, but I have nowhere else. 00:42:54
To talk about these issues, except right there, if we move down there, we each have our own private office where no one's going to 00:43:02
hear what we're talking about. And I'm talking about female issues, male issues. 00:43:08
And plus the surveyors not going to hear us because I hear everything they talk about and they hear everything I'm talking about 00:43:15
and my veterans are loud because we can't hear and so we talk and they tell me we talk loud and and. 00:43:23
Vice versa, so. 00:43:31
If y'all would allow us, we would love to. Maybe. 00:43:33
Back down to the basement, would there be any kind of renovation needs to be done? Would it be kind of renovation need be done or? 00:43:36
Because I'm going from memory. You walk in, you've got a counter. 00:43:44
With area for receptionist and off to the right you have. 00:43:47
Several offices, right. We walked. We walked through with Chuck. 00:43:50
The only thing we would need is Gary is going to have to. 00:43:55
But I I'm assuming they had computers in the public defender's office, so I don't think they're going to have to run any certain 00:44:01
wires or? 00:44:06
I just need phones and. 00:44:11
Computer access, and I can't think of anything else I need except movers, but I've got that covered because Chuck said I had to 00:44:13
hire a moving company. 00:44:18
I think I found somewhere in my budget I can put that. 00:44:23
Alright. Any other questions on the matter? 00:44:28
Well, I'll just thank you for the work that you have done and continue to do out of that. You've always been very, very helpful to 00:44:35
folks who've sent that way and to me personally and. 00:44:39
You know those those prohibitions on construction remain in place and as we discussed a year ago, it's, it's temporary. 00:44:45
We don't know how long temporary is, but it's temporary. 00:44:53
And for the record, I'd like to say that those are potential HIPAA violations that go on rather than. 00:44:56
That HIPAA violations, This will say potential. How's that? 00:45:03
All right. So we need to, I'll make a motion to allow veterans. 00:45:07
Affairs. That veterans service office. 00:45:11
To move from the first floor down to the public defender's office in the basement. 00:45:14
Gladly second. 00:45:20
All right. All in favor. Aye. All right. Thank you so much. It's done often. You hear of an office that wants to go from 00:45:21
visibility on the 1st 4 count of the basement? 00:45:26
Started in the nice one. I'll go back. 00:45:32
Thank you. We appreciate you. Yes. 00:45:36
Good call. 00:45:40
All right. Next it. 00:45:42
We have a presentation from. 00:45:45
Sits we have Greenville, so real quick. 00:45:48
The Town of Greenville is requesting a amendment to their ARP. 00:45:55
Project for meter installation. They have 16,680, four, 95 unallocated and would like to move that into a meter and to using those 00:46:01
for meters throughout their system. 00:46:08
Each meter is 200 and 82188 dollars. 00:46:18
And they would purchase 57 meters. It is an eligible expense. 00:46:21
Through AARP and in the past, the commissioners have allowed for. 00:46:27
Funds to be reallocated to different. 00:46:32
Projects for the water company's request. 00:46:35
Uniform. Emotion, Yes. Motion approved. 00:46:40
I have a motion to approve second and a second all in favor, aye aye. 00:46:44
All right, now now sits. Now it's, it's. 00:46:50
Other Thank you. 00:47:11
How you doing today? Good seeing you again. 00:47:17
Alright, since we don't have that loaded, can we make sure that this gets downloaded? 00:47:30
Or am I Mr. seen this is not loaded electronically for everyone to see? OK, so after the presentation? 00:47:35
Take my copy or and then make sure we have it available for OK. My name is Roll Dennis. I'm a transportation director for Blue 00:47:44
River Services and Southern Indiana Transit. 00:47:49
Today, we're here. 00:47:55
To go over the presentation if you so desire, but I was aware that we're under some time constraints, so I was going to go with 00:47:57
page through page on this presentation. My main goal here is to ensure that. 00:48:03
We have a few things covered, which is the 5311 operating budget for 2025 and I believe that you that you were able to get a copy 00:48:09
of the gentleman over here. 00:48:14
Of the intergovernmental document and also the authorizing resolution. So we were looking to have some hopefully some signatures 00:48:20
and talk about local match and and discuss the the World Public Transportation Grant in regards to ensuring that we can get the 00:48:26
2025 operating grant application. 00:48:32
Completed and in order to do that we have to go to all the other counties that are within our system. 00:48:39
So normally, Harrison. 00:48:46
Does all of this stuff. They don't. They don't have to involve any of the other counties in regards to. 00:48:49
Having the grant processed, but now the FGA and N .1 every county to sign an intergovernmental department. 00:48:56
And it's called an intergovernmental agreement. 00:49:03
For the 53115339 funded rural public transportation grant. So that is what I provided there. And so tonight we're hoping for a 00:49:06
motion to pass that so we get some signatures so we can put the initial operating grant in so for 2025. 00:49:14
Which is, again, normally just done through Harrison County. But they changed it up and they. 00:49:23
At this extra process, so you're actually the last county we were going right down the line from the north and moving all the way 00:49:28
over. So we've been the Scott County, Washington County, Crawford County. 00:49:33
Harrison And now we're going to, we're just trying to make sure we get the grant submitted. 00:49:39
So that is the first thing we're going over and the presentation data that I provided for you is just a recall of some of the 00:49:43
things that we had talked about initiating the urban, urban stuff and just giving you some information how many calls, how many 00:49:50
runs we provided, you know what we consist of. So we have A2 format process going for Floyd County which is 5311 rural public 00:49:56
transportation opportunities that we're doing which is what we're talking about here for the governmental thing and then we also 00:50:02
have the urban. 00:50:09
Process which which were? 00:50:16
So do not end up subsidies and resources. 00:50:18
Rick, we also have this listed under Item 8, County Auditor Diana Topping authorizing resolution for public transportation. 00:50:25
Diana, do you have anything to add to conversation at the moment on that? 00:50:33
And record passage of this resolution does not. 00:50:38
Allocate or dedicate any funding for this at this moment, correct? 00:50:42
It speaks to local funding being required. Local match is required for each county, so initially tonight we were not really asking 00:50:47
for. 00:50:52
Matching funds, but if it was mentioned to me from a. 00:50:58
From Don that they that you might want to know exactly what what is that process entails. So last year you contributed 20,000. 00:51:03
Dollars for the 5311 operating grant, which is what would, which is what we would ask for again for the 2025 ensure that we can 00:51:12
continue. 00:51:16
The transportation processes for world public transportation. 00:51:21
Not anything to do with the urban part. We're talking strictly for the 5311 world public transportation. 00:51:26
Which is what we have already done for two thousand 2024. 00:51:33
And so we're just trying to continue on and make sure we were able to serve Floyd County residents for the for the world public 00:51:38
transportation. 00:51:42
So by moving forward with this, I'm not comfortable moving forward with it unless. 00:51:50
It's very clear that we're not allocating those funds tonight because I'm not sure. 00:51:55
Where those funds would come from at the moment? 00:52:00
We're not requesting funding tonight at all. We're requesting and able to get the grant operating grant process through Harrison 00:52:03
County. 00:52:07
So we can get the grant submitted. Without it, Floyd County can't be submitted into. I'm just getting confirmation. 00:52:11
Council right and and. 00:52:17
That was the my problem was I couldn't determine anything with regards to the the local funding other than said local funding is. 00:52:21
The matching is required. 00:52:30
And so. 00:52:32
Well, if you're not clear on the matter, then I'm not clear. I'm not clear on the matter. Table it until our next meeting. 00:52:34
Yeah. I don't know what time constraints you're under where first week of May, they gave us a very short timeline. We don't have a 00:52:42
lot of time to. 00:52:46
Because this wasn't really being approached as. 00:52:50
Local match opportunity. This was mainly just to get to grant submitted and. 00:52:54
Because with there's no money attached to any of these Intergovernmental transportation processes, there is a a list and a process 00:52:59
and how the claims will be done. 00:53:05
And that's the responsibility of Harrison County and Blue River Services. But that's way after the fact. 00:53:11
Yes. 00:53:20
And my name is Dan Dan Lao and I'm CEO of Blue River Services. 00:53:21
And even though we're not asking for those matching funds, tonight, we we will be asking for them. 00:53:26
And we will be we would request $20,000. 00:53:33
Approximately what happens with this grant? 00:53:36
Is that money is the local match which is. 00:53:39
Approximately matched one for one with state dollars and two federal dollars, so that $1.00 of local match becomes $4.00 through 00:53:43
this grant. 00:53:49
And so that's the amount of money that we have to serve Floyd County residents. 00:53:55
As you know. 00:54:00
This is rural public transportation. 00:54:03
We can provide transportation from rural to rural as designated by a federal map. 00:54:05
From urban to rural or from urban or from rural to urban? 00:54:12
And this is a little different issue that we've discussed before, but we can't do urban to urban, right? 00:54:17
And for example. 00:54:23
Georgetown is considered urban. 00:54:25
By the federal man, so. 00:54:28
In the rural public transportation, we can't take someone from Georgetown. 00:54:31
To the hospital. 00:54:37
In New Albany. We could take someone from Scottsburg to the hospital in New Albany, though. 00:54:38
Because that would be rural to urban and that's I'm just trying to give a little further explanation of how this system works, but 00:54:44
we will be asking for. 00:54:49
You know that that. 00:54:54
Match which is provided by the other four counties that are involved and actually. 00:54:56
Some of the cities also. 00:55:01
You know this system has been in place for a long time. Floyd County has only been involved for a year. 00:55:03
I think that Roland gave you statistics there that shows that there is a lot of activity in Floyd County, both in the rural public 00:55:11
and in the urban to urban. 00:55:16
And we hope to continue that and what he's saying, they're doing differently right now. 00:55:22
Used to be that. 00:55:27
Counties essentially bought into the public transportation system. 00:55:28
And then Harrison County is the grantee. 00:55:34
And Harrison County would do the signatures. 00:55:36
But now they want an annual confirmation from each of the counties that they're still buying into the system. I guess that's how 00:55:39
I'd explain it, is that that you all are still buying into the rural public transportation system. 00:55:45
I think I guess my. 00:55:56
My concern with this is that, you know, it says that parties will be responsible for securing the required local funding to 00:56:02
satisfy the local share. 00:56:06
In other words, as part of that commitment. 00:56:11
And the the the contract itself references other agreements that I don't have. 00:56:13
Those agreements are related to the overall operating grant for 5311 and that is. 00:56:23
Unfortunate to the process we have to you know the way they've put this down in regards to having it done this year, that whole 00:56:31
grant is looked at and approved by the lawyers of Harrison County because the other grantee as Dan mentioned. So that process is 00:56:39
mainly run through Harrison County and that's not to say we can we can bring that information to you. 00:56:47
Outside of this meeting and you can see that the whole grant the whole, all the legalities as far as the. 00:56:55
The other. 00:57:03
Documents that are required for the grant, we would wear an open book. We will share that with you and you can see all that stuff 00:57:06
and then also get with Chris Bird who was the Harrison County. 00:57:10
Lawyer who approves to interject for a minute. We we do have two special meetings. 00:57:16
Scheduled on the 18th of this month and the 23rd. 00:57:22
So would it be appropriate to table until one of those meetings to give you time to access and review materials? 00:57:26
Prior to that and that still gets you for the deadline. I don't think we can get it on the agenda for the 18th because we. 00:57:35
Yeah, it had to be the 23rd because we have to have time to advertise it. 00:57:42
So I'm going to recommend. 00:57:45
That we table this until the meeting of the 23rd. 00:57:48
Advertise appropriately at that point in time and we'll break away and have a commissioners meeting on that day and that gives. 00:57:52
Our attorney Time to request any documentation. 00:57:59
And also some time for us to explore. 00:58:03
Means for earmarking. 00:58:07
20,000 if. 00:58:10
Elect to proceed with that, Sure. I want to ask the Diane where has where was it funded in the past last year, do you know? 00:58:14
Yeah, that thing is probably not working. 00:58:24
Over that $20,000 was allocated. My computer is dead. OK. I would be happy to find out for you and e-mail you in the morning. 00:58:27
Like, knows that you have that information going into the meeting. So you know where it was allocated for this year because I 00:58:33
believe this is the first year we participated. It is, yes. Yeah. Yeah. 00:58:40
Brand new county itself and and the process changed. 00:58:48
I think the intent is. 00:58:52
This documentation goes to the state just to apply for the agreement S the grade is awarded, the county can buy into 00:58:54
participation. 00:58:58
Obviously. 00:59:03
The worrying is a little obtuse and I. 00:59:05
Applied Mr. Box for requesting initial information so we know what we're dealing with with the changes that have happened, but 00:59:09
I'll get you the information. 00:59:12
Allocated for the sheriff. 00:59:17
And I know you're probably already ahead of me on this, but in addition to the commissioners, just make sure that Mister Fox and 00:59:19
Mr. Lobb. 00:59:22
All right, I thought as much so. 00:59:27
Any other questions for the reps tonight? So then we'll make a decision at our 20 April 23rd meeting on this. 00:59:31
Sure, OK. 00:59:40
OK. Yeah. We have to do our due diligence on that. Yeah. OK. Thank you. Motion to table and. 00:59:42
Well, Rick, chance to look at everything legally and then we'll take it up at our April 23rd meeting. All right. All in favor. 00:59:49
Aye. Thank you, gentlemen. 00:59:53
All right. 01:00:00
Item, oh, Department Presentation Um. 01:00:03
I have a request to table that presentation as well. 01:00:07
So I'll look for a motion to table table motion table. 01:00:12
One second. All right. I have a motion and a second. Are you tabling that until the next meeting or indeterminate time? 01:00:16
Depending on how much what's on your agenda for the meeting, it may we may do that at the second meeting. 01:00:23
That was a continuation of the presentations that I was making. 01:00:29
With the building development, we were just having our next. 01:00:34
Iteration of that so motion to table to future time. 01:00:37
I'll second all in favor, aye. All right. 01:00:40
Next next item I have is the North Tucker Rd. project. That is our. 01:00:47
Part of our Regional Park project, we have been working with the Mike Cell family regarding. 01:00:53
There's a road ext from Brookline Trail. 01:01:04
That trail would that extension of the road. 01:01:08
Will go on to his. 01:01:14
His property, it was initially thought that was a homeowner association property at Brookstone, but like there was a deed found, 01:01:17
he is. 01:01:21
We have circulated agreement basically that is a 1923 home that has the septic tank in the front yard, so. 01:01:26
Town. Georgetown's worked with him in terms of tap fees. We. 01:01:37
Through the Caesars grant, would we pay for the? 01:01:43
Connection into the system. 01:01:48
Bob Woosley The town engineers provided 3 quotes. The lowest quote was with Checkers for $11,250. 01:01:51
All right. Any questions or discussion on that matter? 01:02:08
So no taxpayer dollars. It's no no taxpayer dollars. This is all through the Caesars Foundation that the $1,000,000 grant is part 01:02:13
of the Parks project to connect the road. 01:02:18
And. 01:02:23
Instead of going through the process right away and and moving the the septic tank to the back which is. 01:02:26
My estimation More than $11,000. 01:02:34
This seemed to be. 01:02:38
Best best case to move forward done. This is the house as your. 01:02:39
Leaving the subdivision house upon the right. Is that correct? 01:02:43
Yes, as you're going down into the right hand side. 01:02:47
Home to the right, Yes. OK. 01:02:51
Make a motion to approve the marks over. 01:02:54
I'll second a motion. All right. A motion and a second. All in favor, aye? 01:02:59
Then the final item on on North Tucker we received Temple and temples contract for starter construction on the culvert that was 01:03:05
awarded it is $312,470 that's coming out of 9162 the. 01:03:14
Road and Bridge Bond. 01:03:23
All right. Any questions on that? It seems like a reasonable. 01:03:27
Motion to approve. I'll second. 01:03:30
All right, All in favor, aye. 01:03:32
And the last item is the Parks Department and the commissioners entered have traditionally entered into a contract with crocodile 01:03:37
cutters for mowing. For certain areas that would be the 4H Fairgrounds and the North Annex are the areas for mowing. For Crocodile 01:03:47
Cutter fairgrounds, 18 acres and it's $700.00 per MO. Morphanix at 7.8 acres for $400.00 so that. 01:03:57
Totals $1100 per per mowing. 01:04:07
That was provided to me by Mr. Jensen. 01:04:11
The Parks Department has has approved their their part of the contract. 01:04:15
And was that coming tonight for your approval? 01:04:20
Motion to Approve. 01:04:32
I'll 2nd I have a motion and a second all in favor, aye? 01:04:35
And I appreciate your patience and consideration on 8th or Q. 01:04:40
Staying within the alphabet. 01:04:46
All right. Next we have Melissa Sprigler from 1 Southern Indiana Annual Review and Financial Request. 01:04:49
Thank you. Thank you. 01:05:04
Hi, Melissa. 01:05:08
All right. Greetings. I'm not Melissa Sprigler. 01:05:27
John Launice Melissa Sprigler, our Director of Investor Relations. 01:05:32
Gracious enough to help us out and get us on the agenda. Also, before I get going, I also want to recognize another special guest, 01:05:37
another colleague of mine, our newest colleague. 01:05:41
Lance Allison, who's our new President and CEO. 01:05:46
On his fifth week, I believe now in the role, but wanted to make sure to be here to to make a quick introduction and and looks 01:05:51
forward to working with you all as we move forward. So again John Lanas have the honor of serving as Vice President and Director 01:05:56
of Economic Development at 1 Southern Indiana. 01:06:01
You just received a packet with some some items in there. I'll primarily focus on the PowerPoint, but we'll reference a couple of 01:06:08
other items for your review later. And of course I'm going to ask for some assistance over here on the PowerPoint. Before I, I I 01:06:16
dive in, I wanted to just offer a quick kind of high level insights that are Jermaine to our work. 01:06:23
Some of the items that we regularly communicate when we're trying to drive investment here into our region, as Don alluded, don't 01:06:32
a close partner obviously in this work is our primary contact here with the county with economic development. The majority of our 01:06:40
leads come in from IDC. I'll review some of our numbers in a little bit, but but well over 50% of our leads come in from the State 01:06:47
of Indiana through the Indiana Economic Development Corporation. So when you look at their reporting over the past several years. 01:06:55
I thought you might find it a little insightful. When you look at the types of projects that are coming in and really what they're 01:07:04
looking for, you'll see the first graphic there represents the site versus building or both. So you'll see that there's a nice 01:07:10
balance there of investment and projects that are looking for a mix of a site or a building or potentially both. The next graphic 01:07:16
there represents sale versus lease or again, both. You'll see the lion's share, over 40% are really looking for for ownership of 01:07:23
that building or property. 01:07:29
But also. 01:07:36
Well over 40% would be open to a lease or purchase option. 01:07:37
On the next slide. 01:07:42
This graphic represents. 01:07:44
Still some major interest and activity within that area even though we are seeing an increase building size search. 01:08:23
On the next slide, we'll move over to acreage requests. So we're going to follow that same formula, go back one slide, yeah, on 01:08:31
the far right there you'll see 101 acreage plus. So again, if you look back in 2020, we received one project proposal that was 01:08:38
looking for over 100 acres. Last year we we received 32. So you can see a growing appetite for what you you might more familiar 01:08:46
here the mega sites, the the larger acreage sites, but again. 01:08:53
I'm going to bring your attention back over to the left side of the column where you still see a very healthy appetite for some of 01:09:01
the smaller parcels as well what we would consider medium sized parcels 5 years ago. The five acre to 50 acre site which obviously 01:09:08
Nova Park and some other opportunities fit fit that mold. 01:09:14
Good question. Yeah, please. 01:09:22
That 2020, like how much of that would you think would be like a covet, hangover or right in the thick of COVID, I mean? 01:09:24
It'd be interesting to see 2017. Yeah, we could get some more historical data. What I will tell you as a practitioner, you know in 01:09:31
2020 obviously a lot of things were dynamic and changed, but it was also go time for a lot of industries and a lot of projects, 01:09:38
particularly those that had some logistics component. So sometimes you have the logistics kind of met with the manufacturing 01:09:44
component and a lot of those companies and projects really saw unique opportunity. The other thing was there was an exposure to 01:09:50
the liability. 01:09:57
Having a lot of offshore asset, the old pub and spoke we'll do things in five different spots And then bringing it back to the 01:10:04
consumer base that I think there was a liability that was recognized in that. And so we continue to see a lot of FDI foreign 01:10:09
direct investment kind of bringing bringing back a lot of opportunities here to the the larger consumption base that is the US 01:10:15
economy. 01:10:20
Thank you. The next slide I'll show you just a couple of insights here. You know a key driver in nationally and within our market 01:10:27
is workforce availability. Obviously with a tight labor market. I think we're just around 37 now here in our local community, so 01:10:34
pretty tight labor market. What we talk a lot about is you know the regional opportunity. So within our region you can see your 01:10:41
average commute times kind of range between that 25. 01:10:48
And and 30 minute commuter time. So why is that important here, here locally? 01:10:57
If you go to the next slide, what that really looks like here within our region is that we have about 50,000 commuters on a 01:11:02
day-to-day basis migrating from Kentucky to Indiana, Indiana, Kentucky. And when you really look at who's going where, you'll see 01:11:08
an outflow of roughly 36,000 Hoosiers every day that drive across the bridge to go to to Kentucky to work, you'll see an inflow of 01:11:14
about 13,000. So when we look at our community and when we're talking to potential investment opportunities, we talk a lot about 01:11:20
the recapture. 01:11:27
Opportunity, right and and but for livable wage job opportunities, but for high quality of life, but for housing stock. 01:11:34
We are able to kind of recapture many of our workforce, doesn't happen overnight, but over days, years, months, time. We are able 01:11:43
to recapture the Ohio River Bridges project, the completion of that in 2016, at the time the largest public private partnership in 01:11:50
the country at about $2.6 billion when completed. 01:11:57
Have definitely helped to mature and incrementally change again, our ability to bring more over from Kentucky, but also the 01:12:05
opportunity to recapture. 01:12:09
What did Covet disrupt? It absolutely disrupted our commuter patterns. So it has taken us some time to really understand some of 01:12:14
the incremental changes and we will continue in the coming years. But COVID definitely disrupted some of our commuter data flow 01:12:21
that we were we were peering into. I want to go a bit more granular here with the next slide and look specifically at Floyd 01:12:29
County. As you guys are well aware, you guys have seen pretty sustainable growth since 1950 roughly doubling in size as a county. 01:12:36
On the right column though, those are your commuter patterns. And So what you will see there is you've got about just shy of 01:12:45
16,000 workers that live in Floyd County and work in Floyd County. The next highest work center that you have is just over 12,000 01:12:53
and those are folks that traverse into Jefferson County, Kentucky. Obviously Clark County dials in next with just under 8000 and 01:13:01
our border counties there follow suit. But I do think that it's enlightening to to kind of as a refresher to really understand. 01:13:08
The regional dynamics that that really can make things complicated but also provide us as a region a really unique value 01:13:17
proposition to talk about and communicate and and really invest in our region. I feel like over the past several years 01:13:24
particularly with ready regionalism has become kind of a buzzword. But I think when you really look at the data what you grew a 01:13:31
deep appreciation for is that it's really our our community's reality and. 01:13:38
Our economic vitality. 01:13:46
So with that, we'll go into the next slide here and start to dial in really on our annual report. You know our primary function 01:13:48
here with with the services that we provide Floyd County are related directly to new business attraction, existing business 01:13:54
expansion and existing business retention. 01:14:00
That's oversimplified and I think many of you that are in this work alongside us recognize a more broad tactical approach that 01:14:07
really put us in a position to do the fun stuff like make announcements and and drive investment into our market. And those 01:14:14
include accessing the capital grants, loan programs, connectivity to to local. 01:14:21
Programs, state programs, federal programs, a number of different training and educational workshops not only for our businesses, 01:14:30
but also best practices and ongoing engagement with our elected officials. 01:14:36
So how do we get that done? You'll see the dream teams there in the center of that. So really quickly I want to again just kind of 01:14:43
refresh and make sure you know who is on the one side economic development team and those should include some familiar faces. Ann 01:14:50
Keller who leads our business attraction efforts. As you might imagine a lot of times those are more desktop responses that come 01:14:57
in, in the form of RFIS and and pretty detailed community information from workforce to utilities. 01:15:04
To tax infrastructure and business environment so and manages our sites and buildings database. That's how we present property and 01:15:12
product to companies for potential investment. Matt Hall again formally in this role, I was able to to twist his arm and bring him 01:15:20
back this past year Max with us four days a week and his focus is on business retention and expansion. So as I like to say that 01:15:28
the companies that he brought here he has a great natural relationship with them and as you'll see through all reporting. 01:15:35
We've really gotten a unique traction in our BRE work with Matt being back on board. Rachel Armstrong joined us about a year ago. 01:15:43
She is our Small Business navigator. She is a split position with the ISB DC of the Indiana Small Business Development Center, but 01:15:50
she also is the liaison to our Metro Manufacturing alliance. 01:15:56
It's kind of a mini chamber within the chamber specifically for our manufacturers, recognizing that they represent just under 30% 01:16:03
of our direct or indirect employment throughout the region. So it behooves us to make sure that we keep a tight proximity to our 01:16:10
manufacturers to support our existing industry. But as you might imagine, when we're recruiting investment into the market, it's 01:16:17
quite the showpiece to be able to point to the way that we support our existing employers. 01:16:24
And the way our community really embraces our legacy industry of advanced manufacturing. 01:16:31
In addition to that, Jack Harrison started the same day as our new CEO, Lance Allison. So he's been with us about 5 weeks, just 01:16:37
graduated from Georgia State with his Master's in public administration economic development, but is really working across our 01:16:42
team to provide bench strength to everybody. 01:16:48
Go to the next slide. 01:16:54
So what does that team do on a day-to-day basis beyond hopefully cutting ribbons and announcing projects? Well, it takes a lot of 01:16:56
work on the front end of that. This past year, one SI worked 130 unique economic development projects. 01:17:04
For just a little scope change last year in 2021 that is a 33 project increase, the year before that was a 16. So you're looking 01:17:12
at over 45, nearly 50 increased kind of pipeline flow from 2021. So we continue to have the attention of a lot of projects as I 01:17:21
mentioned that are that are looking to invest in communities like ours. 01:17:29
That also consists of 321 outreach meetings, 120 specifically here in Floyd County and that's through Matt Hall and Rachel 01:17:39
Armstrong's work, which again is out kind of beating the streets, meeting with existing industry to better understand where they 01:17:46
are in their growth cycle, what barriers we might be able to remove and and what accelerants we might be able to provide to help 01:17:53
them grow. We are a part of several different different regional economic development organizations. 01:18:00
Oftentimes in economic development, you find communities or partners that you have some synergy or some alignment with. One 01:18:08
includes A partnership with GLI Greater Louisville, Inc, the Metro Chamber, recognizing that we have a shared downtown, a shared 01:18:15
regional workforce. Another group is the South Central IN Economic Development group that includes 10 counties along the I-65 01:18:23
corridor, all within Indiana, recognizing right that we have some shared assets and a little bit louder of a voice. 01:18:30
And our dollars go a little bit further when we are able to to partner together. 01:18:38
Was able to meet with Mr. Toyota himself both in a one-on-one meeting and the next day at a reception there in Nagoya and have 01:19:22
both active projects within our existing companies that are looking at growth within our region as a follow up from that event as 01:19:30
well as some perspective investment opportunities that have even followed up with site visits since that trip. 01:19:38
I would just also know, you know one SI has been a long standing partner in the Indiana Economic Development Association that is a 01:19:48
statewide association for economic development. 01:19:53
Communities such as ours and was asked in December to join that board, So I was honored to accept on behalf of our region. So I 01:19:59
will maintain that commitment through this year as well serving on a ten person board of IEDA. 01:20:05
This past year, we also hosted an elected official event exclusive for our elected officials to provide some unique insights and 01:20:14
3rd party input on kind of the work and best practices and the trends that we're seeing. We actually hosted our 2024 event just 01:20:21
last week and had a representation here from one of them, the county. So appreciate that, that engagement as well. Small business 01:20:28
services, again, Rachel, who I mentioned earlier manages our small business services. 01:20:35
That includes the One Fund in your packet. You do have some information related to the ONE fund and its availability to you and 01:20:43
your residents and members as well as we are the administrator of the Caesars revolving loan fund. So I'll give you an update on 01:20:51
2024 in a minute. But with 2023 we had 32 unique small business consultations with existing industry here within Floyd County. 01:21:00
All the letters there, I'm going to try New Albany Central Business downtown loan program. 01:21:10
I think I got that right. We were honored to partner with the city to develop that loan program, recognizing there were some 01:21:16
unique obstacles related to the bridges project as well as the Main St. revitalization project there. So was able to designate 01:21:23
over $100,000 to 8 local businesses that were directly impacted by that investment. In addition, I mentioned the Metro 01:21:30
Manufacturing Alliance. I would just note, you know that is. 01:21:38
Really an industry focused partnership there we provide roundtables from plant managers, CEOs, procurement experts, HR and it's 01:21:46
solely for those manufacturers to provide them a peer group. In addition to that, we also are the conveners of the National 01:21:52
Manufacturing Week. 01:21:59
How we celebrate that here locally is over three days, including a kickoff event as well as. 01:22:06
An engagement opportunity for high school students to meet our local manufacturers. This past year we had over 800 students that 01:22:14
joined over a two day period and were able to interact with over 20 of our local manufacturers. 01:22:20
Next slide. 01:22:26
2024 recognizing we're already a few months in here, I'll skip through some of this. Recognizing that we've we've had a number of 01:22:28
different events including our regional leadership launch our elected officials event last week. 01:22:35
We are partnering with the IDC, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation on a strategic sites identification process. They 01:22:42
have essentially hired a third party site consultant to do some community level exploration of available parcels within the 01:22:48
community to give some third party valuation on the marketability and viability both from an external investment standpoint but 01:22:54
also from a localized infrastructure standpoint. So what does that road access look like? What does the utility infrastructure 01:23:01
look like? 01:23:07
So excited to kick that off with Floyd County here in 2024. 01:23:14
We will continue to work with existing businesses. We'll continue to leverage our relationship with IDC to promote buildings. 01:23:20
And sites, we will again host a number of out of market site consultants here into the region to showcase all of our counties. And 01:23:27
a quick update on our small business services, we've had 17 individual meetings with New Albany or Floyd County businesses and 01:23:34
again that's strictly through that small business development services and does not include our business retention expansion 01:23:42
efforts. We have also again in partnership with the Caesars revolving loan program just in 2024. 01:23:50
Have allocated $225,000 to five small businesses within Floyd County and currently available is just shy of $70,000 again 01:23:58
available to Floyd County businesses. This is a lender of last resort resort so it can be a nice gap funding. It can also be good 01:24:07
supplemental funding for those that are having a difficult time finding traditional lenders. 01:24:15
So with that, we'll go to kind of the meat and potatoes of the presentation, which is our 2023 year in review. So one SI is 01:24:25
honored to partner alongside many of our municipal partners to have a record year in 2023. With the facilitation and announcement 01:24:34
of 14 unique projects, you'll see the balance there between expansion and attraction. 01:24:44
There, you know it was a record year in terms of number of announcements. It was a record year as you'll see in amount of capital 01:24:54
investment into the market. But I'll be candid and our team has talked about this several times. The thing that we're most proud 01:25:01
of those 14 announcements is that for the first time in one Sis track record. Those 14 announcements represent nine different 01:25:09
municipalities and jurisdictions. So it was now some of the jobs in the CapEx obviously were a little heavier in certain areas. 01:25:16
Very proud of the coverage that that we garnered in 2023. 01:25:24
Next slide. 01:25:29
For Floyd County specifically there we've talked a lot about Red Wire and I would just kind of note a kudos to many of the folks 01:25:30
in this room, including yourselves that is a visionary. Noble Park is a visionary investment and to your point, as Wendy always 01:25:35
said. 01:25:40
Private investment follows public investment and we're really excited as a practitioner to have such a showpiece to be able to 01:25:47
market as we manage these projects that come in. So congratulations on Nova Park in your first anchor tenant there with Red Wire 01:25:52
bringing in 25 new jobs. 01:25:57
Just under 3 million in capital investment, I'm sorry an annual payroll and 9 million in capital investment. Other announcements 01:26:03
that that we were able to garner was Midwest Metal Works located in in New Albany with 12 new employees. 01:26:10
Rails and Ale's Brewhouse there in Georgetown, which will be a restaurant and and brewery operation bringing 8 jobs in just 01:26:18
$1,000,000 in capital investment. Very excited for the town of Georgetown. That was the first project that they formally brought 01:26:25
through, so we were able to work with them to create some tools and some infrastructure. 01:26:32
That they will now be able to utilize moving forward to attract more investment into the market. And then lastly, you'll see Smith 01:26:39
Creek locally owned company there in Borden, Indiana adding ten new employees and some equipment investments just just over $11 01:26:45
million. 01:26:50
Excellent. So those 14 projects, you'll see the split there. The majority do go to attraction. We have 2500 new jobs with just 01:26:57
over 2000 going to new investments into the market just under just a shy of 450 into the expansion. The existing companies that 01:27:05
are growing within our market, the new capital investment, we crossed the the billion dollar threshold for the first time in our 01:27:13
agencies history. You'll see the lion's share again, they're going to the attraction side. 01:27:21
The Canadian Solar, the solar cell manufacturer locating at River Ridge, really brought the majority of that capital investment 01:27:29
into the equation there. 01:27:33
Excellent. 01:27:38
You know the payroll I think is sometimes underlooked, but I do always like to to remind folks that at full capacity that 01:27:40
annualized payroll is just that that is an annual recurring benefit to to the residents and to the municipalities in which the 01:27:47
company is located. So you'll see at 134 million of recurring annualized increased payroll again with the the, the lion's share 01:27:53
they're going to attraction. 01:28:00
In 2022 when we were assessing projects, we were looking at that the left column there. So for Floyd County we were really 01:28:40
benchmarking things around that 2352 and if a company wasn't looking to provide 2352 average wages or above. 01:28:48
There was really an opportunity for us to try to drive that wage up or let the reality be the reality. We oftentimes can't 01:28:58
necessarily stop folks from moving in, but it definitely. 01:29:04
Makes us hesitant to roll out the red carpet and provide kind of the boutique services that we provide. So we really strive to 01:29:12
garner projects above that county average wage. You'll see a significant increase year over year. So 2023 numbers came out in 01:29:19
January. So as we work projects now we are benchmarking everything off of that $2497.00 an hour average wage. You'll see the 01:29:26
average projects for 2023 was just shy of $26 an hour. 01:29:33
But very proud of Floyd County's average wages for the four projects that located here. We're just shy of $43.00 an hour. 01:29:40
The next slide, because we are a few months in and we have had a couple of substantial projects, I selfishly wanted to make sure 01:29:49
that those were included in our tally year. They were not included in any of the other previous information that I shared. So in 01:29:57
2024 we have had three new project announcements including the Meta Data Center, then Telly and MKS Vision Global, which puts one 01:30:04
SIS tally since 2006 up to 226 announced projects. 01:30:11
21,383 new job commitments into the region, just shy of a billion dollars worth of added annual payroll and just over $4 billion 01:30:20
of new capital investment into the region since 2006. 01:30:28
In the last slide, we always like to hold ourselves and our organization accountable to the stewardship of those dollars. So this 01:30:37
is an ongoing tally based on the impact. And So what we know is that for every dollar invested in one Southern Indiana's economic 01:30:45
development work, we have been able to generate an $89.00 return for every dollar and added annual payroll and for new capital 01:30:52
investment. This one ticked up quite a bit in the past 18 months. 01:31:00
But very honored that we're just shy of $400.00 return for every dollar in terms of new capital investment into the region. 01:31:09
With that, I will take a breath and happy to answer any questions obviously here to provide that annual update, but also 01:31:17
respectfully ask for a continuation of your support of our economic development work with a request of a $15,000 investment. 01:31:26
I know just from talking to Wendy in the past, she always talks about the average wage. 01:31:39
And it's great to see it go up almost a dollar and 40 within one year. That's fantastic because that that helps everybody across 01:31:45
the board. 01:31:48
So it's the second year in a row, I'm glad you pointed that out. The second year rolls since in since we started collecting data 01:31:52
on in 2006 that we've had over a dollar increase year over year, so. 01:31:58
That's phenomenal, yes. 01:32:03
That wage, if my math is right, is around 6%, right? Which is. 01:32:05
Kind of the cost of living adjustment of has there been any? 01:32:10
Gain in the last 10 years beyond cost of living. 01:32:14
That that you know the cost of living. I would have to benchmark that. I do believe that that the past two years have represented 01:32:18
over the 6%, but I haven't put a calculator and it was just over 6. 01:32:24
Yeah. So I'd have to look look year over year, but. 01:32:33
What is driving that is obviously not necessarily like the inflation. It is truly an assessment of the average wages kind of 01:32:38
throughout the region. So it's probably correlation and causation kind of there. Yeah, I'd like to see maybe you know a decade 01:32:43
just to see if we're getting out ahead of it and and getting. 01:32:49
You know, not just keeping up. 01:32:55
Any other questions or great presentation? 01:33:01
All right. All right. Well, thank you for your time and the information and. 01:33:05
We'll proceed from there. Great. Well, thank you. And again, I would hope that that we would be able to kind of continue our 01:33:12
investment relationship. I don't know if that would be handled here tonight or at a future time, but our request would be to to 01:33:19
continue that that investment of our economic development. We are not in a position to handle that here this evening so. 01:33:26
But. 01:33:34
We'll get with Mr. Lop on that. 01:33:35
They all historically since we have. 01:33:38
Of former president of the County Council with us, is that the council out? 01:33:40
Contributed in the pastures that come through the commissioners. 01:33:47
Downside. 01:33:54
Meaning nod from edit. 01:33:56
OK and. 01:33:57
Thus far we have not. 01:34:00
Accounted for that for this year out of edit, correct? 01:34:02
So we we have not really discussed that yet, correct. 01:34:07
So as I said, we're not prepared to discuss it this evening, but. 01:34:13
With this in mind, we will. 01:34:16
Confer amongst ourselves and go from there. 01:34:19
Thank you again. Thank you. Thank you. 01:34:22
All right, Chief Probation Officer Kelly Looser. 01:34:26
Good evening. 01:34:32
I'm going to keep mine short, I am just here. I need to establish a new non reverting fund for a grant received from the Community 01:34:34
Foundation of Southern Indiana. 01:34:38
The fund number is 9164 and this is for trauma kits and first aid kits. 01:34:43
All right Motion to approve with unanimous consent Floyd County orders 2024 that the showdown established a non reverting fund for 01:34:52
Community Foundation. 01:34:56
For said Indiana probation grant fund number 9164 and I'll second. OK, all in favor, aye? 01:35:01
Thank you. 01:35:10
All right, American Legion Auxiliary Unit 42. Floyd's Knobs, Shirley. 01:35:12
Hotel. 01:35:18
OK. 01:35:22
All right. And the sheriff is usually here to opine on that, but he is not. So historically, is this, is this a new road block or 01:35:26
is this one that's been done in the past? 01:35:30
Without any knowledge of. 01:35:36
Issues with it in the past, correct? 01:35:39
All right. Well, look for a motion motion to approve. I'll second. All in favor, aye. All right. 01:35:41
Life Springs. We we were done with #8, correct? All right, so Life Springs Health System, the doctor, Beth Keeney. 01:35:48
Good evening. I'm luckily I talked really fast naturally, so hopefully I can get you out of here. 01:35:58
Pretty quickly. 01:36:07
I'm Beth Keeney. I'm the CEO from Live Spring Health Systems and it's been a couple years since I was here. So I wanted to just 01:36:11
come and update you on your community mental Health Center and the things that are going on here in Floyd County. 01:36:18
I want to start by just sharing with you some of our patient numbers. 01:36:26
From Floyd County, so in 2023, Life Spring provided health care services to 3189 Floyd County residents. In our Floyd County 01:36:32
offices we saw 3278 patients. Of course most of them are residents, but we do get some folks who come in from out of area that 01:36:40
represents about 20% of our total patient base. 01:36:48
We have 120 staff who either live or work in Floyd County. Last year we paid 75,000 in resident or our staff paid 75,000 in 01:36:57
resident non resident payroll taxes. 01:37:03
Just sharing some of our locations here. We've got 8 located in Floyd County. We have center place three on Mosier Ave. 01:37:11
In Manor House One on Scribner Ave. those are residential facilities for adults who have a serious mental illness and are not able 01:37:22
to live independently. 01:37:26
Primary care. 01:38:08
That office is just a little bit, a little bit behavioral health, a lot of primary care. Most of our behavioral health is on Grant 01:38:10
Line Rd. We have two student health centers that's at New Albany High School and Floyd Central High School. We also have a 01:38:15
community based mobile health, which is a mobile health clinic and goes around Southern Indiana providing care at different 01:38:20
different locations. 01:38:25
Year over year, we're seeing about a 15% increase in the patients coming from Floyd County who are Floyd County residents. 01:38:32
About 85% of our Floyd County patient base is 100% or less federal poverty level for a family of four, that's 30,000. So we are 01:38:40
truly serving those most in need among us. 01:38:47
5% of our Floyd County patients meet the federal definition of homelessness, and that's probably a number that's underrepresented. 01:38:54
Looking at the state statutory requirements, of course outpatient services. As I've mentioned, we have behavioral health services 01:39:02
at Floyd County Office on Grant Lawn Rd. as well as the Colonial Manor Shopping Center. In the last few years, we've really 01:39:09
refocused and redesigned our system to promote low barrier access. So all of our locations have Open Access at least four to five 01:39:16
hours a week. During that time, you can walk in without an appointment and have a reasonable degree of certainty that you will be 01:39:22
seen. We also have. 01:39:29
A Relaxed our discharge process and allow people to come right back into treatment as long as. 01:39:37
There is a reason that they aren't prohibited from doing so. We have individual therapy, group therapy, case management skills, 01:39:43
training of psychiatry and nursing. 01:39:47
I've already talked a little bit about residential services. Again, those are two are not able to live independently. We also 01:39:53
provide a consultative and education services. Specifically last year we did 3 trainings in Floyd County. 01:40:01
We participated in 40 community events and then additionally attended more than 110 community based meetings in Floyd County. We 01:40:09
also provide a lot of services that you probably never hear about, including debrief services for both first responders and 01:40:16
businesses who may need assistance after an acute or traumatic incident. 01:40:23
We provide the state hospital liaison services, so we are the gatekeeper to getting people into the state hospital, whether our 01:40:31
patient, whether they are our patient or not, as well as getting them out of the state hospital. 01:40:37
In addition to that, something that has been added over the last few years that has become a pillar of the states behavioral 01:40:44
health response is a is a comprehensive crisis continuum and that's someone to call, someone to respond in a place to go. So here 01:40:51
in Floyd County, we have our crisis call center and that's our call Center for all 11 counties in which we operate. We have staff 01:40:58
24/7 clinicians who are able to take a call and help. 01:41:05
Determine on, you know, whether it's 3:00 in the morning or 4:00 in the afternoon, What's the right level of care? How do we need 01:41:12
to respond to that? 01:41:16
In about 100 we we surveyed our calls the first year that we were in operation, and of every hundred calls, 85 to 90 we were able 01:41:21
to resolve over the phone. Two to three of them we actually had to send police and fire right away, or EMS. 01:41:29
And then the others, we actually would deploy A clinical team, so someone to call, someone to respond. We've also developed and 01:41:39
implemented a place to go, which is a crisis stabilization program and that is in Jeffersonville and that serves Clark Floyd Scott 01:41:45
in Jefferson County. So folks can come with us and stay for up to 24 hours while we figure out what the next most appropriate 01:41:52
level of care is. 01:41:58
In your packet today, I've left you with the annual County Commissioners report, so this is sent to each of you and also mailed to 01:42:06
the state. I've included information on the crisis continuum as well as my card with my phone number, so reach out anytime I can 01:42:13
answer any questions, and I'm happy to do that now if you have some. 01:42:19
That was quick. 01:42:30
And you tried. You did a good job. 01:42:33
Thank you and your accessibility. 01:42:36
Thank you. Thank you. 01:42:41
All right, board and committee reports. 01:42:46
Jason. 01:42:51
Yeah, I got a few things here. I. 01:42:53
Most of them circle around the EMS, but the EMS Advisory Board met on March 21st. 01:42:56
We had a special committee commissioners meeting on EMS on March 27th and of course the Council Commissioner works up on the 01:43:05
Mississippi on April 1st. 01:43:09
On April 8th we had a Floyd County Planning Commission as you know that we have a vacancy now on the board. And then on April 12th 01:43:14
I attended the cast of the Casa Advocacy Rising. 01:43:20
Gala. 01:43:27
An amazing organization if anybody's looking for any way to give back to your community. 01:43:29
That would be an amazing way to do so. 01:43:35
The last thing I have in regards to that is that as a chair of the EMS Committee, I did receive. 01:43:38
An e-mail from the Fire Chief of Georgetown, which he asked me to. 01:43:43
Read at the next public meeting. So I'm going to do so right now. 01:43:48
It's addressed to me, from oral band to the Chief of Georgetown Fire Department. 01:43:52
In regards to the Floyd County EMS Committee, he states. 01:43:58
After discussions with my chief staff, we are requesting that some issues be addressed by you as the EMS Committee Chair. The 01:44:02
first issue we think needs to be addressed is the fact that Brandon Alexander misrepresented the facts in a public meeting on 01:44:07
March 21st concerning. 01:44:12
The preparedness of Highlanders. 01:44:17
Fire Protection District to assume ambulance service for the county, in particular the fact that the state certification was only 01:44:19
two weeks from being obtained when in fact the request for certification had not even been submitted until March 27th. 01:44:26
Which, by the way, you revealed at the special Floyd County Commissioners meeting conducted on March 27th. 01:44:32
With the integrity of the EMS Committee now being questioned, we feel like Mr. Alexander should be removed as participating 01:44:38
committee member. 01:44:42
It is also suggested that you re examine the makeup of the EMS committee. 01:44:45
To ensure that each fire district is equally represented. 01:44:50
We know that Highlander Fire Protection District has at least two members on your committee, whereas the other districts was only 01:44:53
requested for one. 01:44:56
I'm referring to Mr. Aponte, who is a member of the Board of Trustees for Highlander Fire Protection District, and the 01:45:00
aforementioned Mr. Alexander, who is not only the employee of the district, but also the President, the IFF union that represents 01:45:05
the staff, Highlander Fire Protection District. 01:45:10
We acknowledge that Mister Hyponte is a EMS veteran and his input could be valuable for your committee and therefore his 01:45:15
membership should be sufficient. 01:45:18
Representation for the Highlander Fire Protection Districts, if you should so choose for him to remain on your committee. There is 01:45:22
also a need to ensure that the leadership of the Highlander Fire Protection District is not using personal relationships with any 01:45:28
members of the committee to assert its influence as it pertains to recommendations and goals of your committee. 01:45:33
As a result of your statement on March 27th meeting the other statements from other elected officials not involved in your 01:45:39
committee. 01:45:42
It is made to appear that the leadership of Highlander Fire Protection District is using your committee for other ambitions, such 01:45:45
as acquiring the Georgetown Township Fire Protection District. 01:45:49
Allow me to affirm at this point this time Georgetown Township Fire Protection District has not sought to merge with any other 01:45:54
fire district, nor do we wish to be acquired by any of other fire districts. With that being stated, we also request that any 01:45:59
discussions of merger or acquisition be left to the Board of Trustees. 01:46:04
Of the involved district and the focus, the EMS committee should be on recommending the best available EMS service to the county. 01:46:09
Another item that should be looked at is now that New Chapel, Fire and EMS is no longer a contender for the Ambulance service 01:46:16
contract. To this point, they are the current fire protections service provider for New Albany Township. Their input should be 01:46:22
sought either directly or through membership of your board, indirectly through the representative of New Albany Township on your 01:46:28
board. Also, Franklin Township currently has no representation and we feel their voice should be heard. 01:46:35
We also feel that due to a conflict of interest, no entity whose intent is to offer ambulance service. 01:46:41
At the expense of taxpayer funding should be allotted and vote when it comes. 01:46:47
To recommendation of such services to the Commissioners. 01:46:51
It was noted that Hot New Chapel Fire and EMS was not allotted the same opportunity that was given to Highlander Fire Protection 01:46:54
District. 01:46:57
The final item that we acknowledge the accommodation made for Doctor Harris and Chief Mayfield to participate in the March 21st 01:47:01
meeting. 01:47:04
We request that those accommodations be afforded to Chief Mayfield at each scheduled and unscheduled meeting until such time. 01:47:09
He becomes mobile again. In conclusion, we want to affirm our support to the Commissioner's decision that was made on March 27th. 01:47:16
And we offer our continue to support for the task that your EMS Committee has undertaken. We also request that these 01:47:22
considerations listed receive serious thought to ensure that your EMS Committee retains its transparency and integrity. Signed 01:47:27
Chief Oral-B Beta. 01:47:32
That's all. 01:47:37
Any recommended action based upon that? 01:47:39
I mean with regards to future consideration, I mean. 01:47:42
Only hearing it tonight, I well, I think at at some point we're going to have to have a discussion about the makeup of the of the 01:47:46
committee because I think he brings up some very valid points. 01:47:51
OK, well. 01:47:58
Thank him for his input from from me. 01:47:59
Let me address that first. I guess the one thing that really concerns me is that on our ES Advisory Board, we have three very 01:48:04
knowledgeable physicians. 01:48:08
Emergency room physicians. 01:48:14
And they have over 120 years experience. I think that says a lot. 01:48:16
And for us to just kind of ignore their recommendation, these are the, these are the the people that that receive the patients 01:48:21
from the from the ambulances they see first hand. 01:48:28
The, the quality of care and the condition that these patients are receiving are being received, but we just totally ignore that, 01:48:36
OK with that having been said. 01:48:41
Doctor Harris, Dr. Potter. 01:48:47
And Doctor Dan O'Brien. 01:48:50
Because Doctor Harris at his last meeting, did publicly state that. Whatever. 01:48:52
We come up with should. 01:48:57
Be county. 01:48:59
He stood at that podium and stated that. 01:49:02
So I don't think anybody's ignoring. 01:49:06
Well, all of that input well. 01:49:08
We asked, we asked to put professionals on there that are experienced in our field and we did. 01:49:11
And we just totally put that aside. 01:49:16
And inside go a different way. 01:49:20
But to be continued. 01:49:23
As far as I. 01:49:25
What's been going on the past two or three weeks? On March 20th and met with Ronnie Tool, Horatio and Cameron. 01:49:28
There is a large culvert on Arthur Kaufman that's failing. 01:49:35
And we were out there looking at that and come up with a plan of repair. 01:49:39
That same day went to the Galena Digital Library. There's a the roadway needs to be wide, and we looked at that. 01:49:43
On the 22nd Friday. 01:49:51
Attended the RDA ready to that old presentation. Don did a fantastic job of presenting 3 projects. 01:49:54
For Floyd County Edwardsville School renovation, the natural gas line in the Regional Park. 01:50:01
And later that day, I joined Don and Sheriff Bush and the RDA directors as they toured the old Edwardsville school. 01:50:06
As Jason indicated, on the 27th we attended the EMS Advisory Board as they made recommendations to not select. 01:50:14
Either. 01:50:21
And later that evening, the next evening I had, I was on the phone for two hours and 45 minutes talking to the lady. 01:50:23
From the Albee about EMS. 01:50:30
It was very good, very good conversation on Saturday. The 23rd had the honor of. 01:50:32
Attending the Highlander Fire District and Approach Annual Appreciation Dinner they recognize while the firefighters and their. 01:50:38
EMT's for a job well done that they that they do for Highlander. 01:50:46
Fire district. 01:50:50
On Monday, April the 1st attended the workshop, we discussed funding for EMS. 01:50:52
And last Thursday attended the Farm Bureau Spring meeting The Prosser, the culinary school, prepared a prepared a very delicious 01:50:58
dinner. 01:51:01
We learned about the hellbender. 01:51:05
Being released in Indian Creek and Agriculture in the classrooms, and on Friday attended the second annual gala at Huber's. 01:51:08
And myself, we both at one time were cost of members for certain costs of volunteers. 01:51:15
For several years, and they're needed volunteers. 01:51:21
On Saturday, I attended the IU Chancellor Medallion Scholarship and Award Banquet. 01:51:25
They awarded scholarships to 4 juniors and four seniors. 01:51:30
And then also they awarded Medallion awards to Danny Heaver. 01:51:35
And Gary Lib, I worked with Dana on the RDA and know Gary is one of our paving contractors. 01:51:39
They do a fantastic job for the county. 01:51:45
And Dana and Gary are both very deserving of this of this award. 01:51:48
And then I'll. 01:51:52
Monday Yesterday I attended the J Rack quarterly meeting and they are prepared to accept applications. 01:51:53
To distribute. 01:51:59
Funds to organizations, so. 01:52:01
Very busy. Three weeks. All right. Thank you. In the interest of time, I will not itemize my engagements. I'll just say that it's 01:52:04
been a busy time. If anybody wants a list, I'm happy to provide it. 01:52:09
So I'm seeking approval of the commissioners meeting minutes for March 19, 2024 and March 27, 2024. 01:52:15
So moved second. All right, motion is second. All in favor, aye and then approval of payroll and claims. 01:52:24
Call of Duty. 01:52:31
Motion approved. 01:52:33
2nd I have a motion to approve and a second. 01:52:35
All in favor, aye, aye. 01:52:38
We have the next. 01:52:41
Regularly scheduled commissioners meeting Monday, May 6/20/24 at 6:00 PM. 01:52:43
We have two joint meetings as previously discussed. 01:52:48
April 18th. 01:52:53
What time is the April 18th meaning? I want to get it wrong. 01:52:55
4:30. 01:52:59
Show up early 4:30 to get a seat if you're in SO. 01:53:04
OK. 01:53:12
And then the April 23rd. 01:53:13
Is at 4. Is that 4? 01:53:16
All right. Any public comment this evening? 01:53:19
Please. 01:53:24
You get our Patience Award for the. 01:53:26
How Mr. Schiller, I actually know your daughter Julie, but my name is Ashley Justice. The reason I'm here, I was told that this 01:53:29
would be the the 1st place to start. I live in the 1500 block of Edwardsville Galena Rd. In Georgetown and we are having issues 01:53:34
with this lot of traffic, a lot of speeders. 01:53:39
Whole lot of speeders, I'm not in like 50, it's like 3035 through there. So they're doing like 50-60 on average, especially during 01:53:45
school time and like rush hour traffic when everybody's getting off work. 01:53:50
So I was thinking speed bumps. I would, I don't know with that, like try and get speed bumps put in through there to try and slow 01:53:56
them, slow them down. 01:54:02
And so I was advised by Sheriff Bush that you guys would be my starting point for something like this. What's your address again? 01:54:36
I live at 1535 Edwardsville, Colina Rd. In Georgetown. 01:54:42
And normally. 01:54:48
The sheriff is with us on these, these meetings. Yeah, that's what I talked to him earlier. He studies with his grandmother. I'm 01:54:50
curious as to whether or not he indicated that they might increase the level of patrols out in that area or presence that's that's 01:54:55
pretty typical request for extra patrols in the area. 01:55:01
He mentioned putting like one of the speed machines in my yard too and I'm like, yeah, go ahead, yes please. I've even told him 01:55:08
like if one of the sheriff, they can park in my driveway if they would like to sit there and my recommendation if you have an 01:55:12
extra 5 minutes in you is that. 01:55:16
Is that your district? 01:55:22
With you afterwards and coordinate with Sheriff Bush at least about increasing patrols as an initial measure but I'm sure Jason 01:55:25
will give you time here. In just a minute I will speak for you but I just both these guys stay around and afterwards and are happy 01:55:30
to to talk into that would be great. Thank you guys. 01:55:36
I'm serious. I wish I had an award for your patience. Oh yeah, no problem. Yeah, Because I know all three of us pride ourselves on 01:55:43
being available. So, you know, for the record, our phone numbers are on the. 01:55:49
The website. And we can usually get a measure that wave across. Certainly this is the best Ave. to make it a public issue and kind 01:55:55
of put it on the map that way, though. OK. So I applaud you for being here. Yes, Sir. Thank you. If you know Julie, you can get my 01:56:00
number from Julie. OK. Yeah. That's what she she's I was like, well, I'm at a meeting right now, but I might take you up on that. 01:56:05
Sounds good. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you. 01:56:10
Any other public comments? 01:56:16
OK, 4:30 on the 18th. 01:56:21
And 4:00 on the 23rd, OK. Any closing statements from? We'll go with you first. 01:56:24
Thanks for coming. I just want to make everybody aware that on the last Saturday in April, which I believe is April the 27th. 01:56:33
We have pollinator day at Purdue. 01:56:42
We have less than we had. About 1200 people were expected, about 1600 people if the weather's nice. 01:56:45
Be a lot of people, a lot of people, their kids. A lot of events for the kids will also be, I mean, the Spring Valley beekeepers. 01:56:51
We will have a booth there will have a observation hive with with live bees and all that. So we welcome you all to come, have a 01:56:58
good time. They have trees that they give away and a lot of good food and all that, but anyway. 01:57:05
But if you're available in that day and the weather's nice, come out and join us. And the second thing is that last week they 01:57:12
announced that. 01:57:16
Our RDA was going to receive $45 million. I'm ready to dot O. 01:57:22
Which is fantastic. Last year we got 50 million but 45 is still a good amount and Don has been working feverishly representing the 01:57:26
Floyd County government putting together the the projects and so they have a process now that they will be the. 01:57:35
The hit candidates will then presenter projects to the board and then they will then select the worthy ones and award from the 01:57:44
45,000,000. But again, good news for our Southern Indiana RDA and thank you all for coming. Appreciate it. 01:57:51
All right. 01:58:02
Everybody wear their coats next week, Jason. Yeah, I just want to give a quick shout out to the Floyd County Sheriff's Department, 01:58:14
Floyd County in May for their assistance during the Tornadoes that we experienced in Jeffersonville on April 2nd, you know? 01:58:20
We didn't have to call they they are. They knew by the traffic that was going over the radio that that we were going to need 01:58:28
assistance out there. So they headed that way and I just think that's a. 01:58:32
It was really great for them to kind of be proactive and do that. It really kind of helps. 01:58:37
You know, speed up the process of getting some of these things mitigated, but anyway, I also wanted to give a shout out to some of 01:58:42
our Council members, also to Commissioner Schoenberger and Commissioner Knable for checking in and just to make sure how 01:58:46
everything was going out there. So just wanted to say thank you for that. 01:58:51
Thank you. Thank you. 01:58:57
I'm gonna yield my time to County Attorney Rick Fox tonight. 01:58:58
Any parting words of wisdom? 01:59:05
Everybody have a wonderful evening. I could not have said that letter. Motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. All right. 01:59:09