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All right, we're a few minutes late, but welcome to the February 4th, 2025 Commissioners meeting. If you have a cell phone, please 00:00:05
turn it to silent. 00:00:10
If you'll stand and join me with the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:15
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. 00:00:19
And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:24
Alright. 00:00:34
All board members are in attendance. You'll please. 00:00:37
Just join me in a moment of silence for individual prayer, meditation, or reflection. We'll get ready for the meeting. 00:00:41
All right. Thank you. 00:01:07
No one signed in to speak. 00:01:11
To any of the agenda items, we will allow public comment. 00:01:13
At the end of the meeting. 00:01:17
Our agenda has been posted. I do have two items that I would like to add by unanimous consent to tonight's meeting. 00:01:20
One is a letter in support of BEAD funding. 00:01:26
For one of our local suppliers, we'll get more information on that from Nick. 00:01:30
Look for a motion to add that to the agenda. 00:01:36
So moved. 00:01:39
Second. OK, all in favor. 00:01:41
And also an addition of a resolution under. 00:01:44
This foxes agenda for a supplement to a consulting agreement. 00:01:50
With our. 00:01:54
Landfill. 00:01:56
Ongoing settlement litigation issues. 00:01:57
Motion approved. 00:02:00
Second uh. 00:02:01
All in favor, aye aye. 00:02:02
All right, old business. We have a discussion of contract with Virgin Corporation Chair Bush and Christy Fox, our attorney. 00:02:05
Good evening, Sheriff Bush. 00:02:16
So the first item I have, I have an extra item but it's not an agenda. But I just will give you a report. 00:02:18
So we have a contract. 00:02:22
Reference to backup batteries. 00:02:24
Miss Fox is Mr. Fox has been going over that contract and we actually just got it here at the 11th hour. 00:02:27
The last update that we wanted. 00:02:32
Under the. 00:02:34
The statute, it needed to be read a certain way. So Floyd County, Indiana, for the Flow County sheriff's departments, we got that 00:02:35
added in. 00:02:38
The gentleman left his office and came back, so we got all that death 11th hour. So we have a contract for. 00:02:42
District was able to sign it. Y'all proof? 00:02:47
Make a motion. 00:02:50
Go ahead and accept that new contract. 00:02:52
And I have looked at it. 00:02:54
Sheriff Bush shared that with me right before the meeting. I've reviewed that to confirm that change was made. 00:02:56
OK, OK. Now second. Yeah, motion is second. All in favor. Aye, aye. 00:03:00
So the other item, if you don't mind, I'll just present. It's our annual jail report. 00:03:05
From last year so. 00:03:09
Statue We get to the Circuit Court. 00:03:11
I like to give you all copy and present here if you have any questions. 00:03:12
And also give it to all the judges what they have. 00:03:16
So OK. 00:03:18
Questions. You can look through that report. 00:03:27
Mr. Luke will be familiar with it. 00:03:29
It's been 2000. Get statistics on the jail. 00:03:32
Top ten charges of this Notice this is an average stay. It's in different things. 00:03:35
OK, when do you need that signed copy back? 00:03:40
Of the contract, yes. 00:03:44
Oh yeah, but you don't need. The report was just for. 00:03:46
That was 4 year olds. 00:03:48
Her view. Thank you. 00:03:50
Thank you. 00:03:53
Chairman. 00:04:01
All right, Item 2 under Old Business County Attorney Christy Fox. 00:04:08
Thank you. The three resident. Sorry, 3 ordinances there, Ordinance FC. 00:04:12
2020 FCO. I apologize. 20250506 and 07:00. 00:04:18
Those are ordinances amending the current establishment documents for three different fire districts. The New Albany Township Fire 00:04:23
District is the 05, the Highlander Fire District is the 06 and the Georgetown Fire District is the 07. 00:04:31
We discussed those changes last month. They were voted on. 00:04:39
It was a 21 approval. 00:04:42
With that, could not be approved in the unit by unanswered consent in one meeting, so it's back for a second reading this evening. 00:04:44
Happy to answer any questions. 00:04:48
OK. I'll look for these to be brought into discussion formally by one of the Board members. 00:04:54
So. 00:05:01
These ordinance. 00:05:03
These ordinances. 00:05:04
Of a different directly effects everyone of our fire boards. The initiative is designed to streamline the members of each board to 00:05:05
five members each. 00:05:09
Five members. That gives our boards the ability to meet and conduct critical business. At times that has been stifled with larger 00:05:14
boards not having a quorum. 00:05:18
Additionally, this ordinance ensures that the public has access to who serves. 00:05:22
On their local fire boards, each member shall be provided an e-mail address. 00:05:26
By the district they represent, and those members will be listed on both the county and the district's website. 00:05:31
Furthermore, it requires that the fire districts. 00:05:37
Not associated with the territory meet monthly and their agendas are posted in accordance to statute and additionally on their 00:05:40
district websites and social media pages. 00:05:44
This action is designed to ensure our fire boards are opening up, operating openly and transparently. 00:05:48
More transparency from our fire district boards is something that has been asked by several members of the public, and I agree 00:05:54
with them. 00:05:57
This ordinance will take effect immediately. 00:06:00
And. 00:06:03
Do we want to? 00:06:04
Vote on the ordinances first before we. 00:06:05
Yes, trustees and they, I think they need to be done singularly as well. That is correct, yeah. 00:06:08
All right, so I'll make a motion to approve Floyd County Ordinance 2025 dot. 00:06:14
Dash 05. 00:06:18
Bending resolution FCR 2006. 00:06:19
Dash 3 establishing the New Albany Township Fire District. 00:06:23
I'll second motion. 00:06:27
I have a motion and a second. 00:06:28
Any further discussion? 00:06:32
I will just say that I spoke with the. 00:06:35
President of the. 00:06:38
The board and he's in favor of this. He even sent me a statement. It's in support of that tonight. 00:06:39
And so. 00:06:46
All in favor. 00:06:47
Hi. Hi. 00:06:49
2nd is Floyd County Ordinance 2025 Dash 06 amending Floyd County Ordinance 2022 Dash 41 establishing the Highlander Fire 00:06:52
Protection District. 00:06:56
I'll make a motion. 00:07:04
Second time. 00:07:05
OK. Motion is second. Any further discussion? 00:07:06
All right, again, I did speak with a Highlander Fire District Board president and he is in favor of this. So all in favor, aye, 00:07:11
aye, aye. 00:07:15
And finally have Floyd County Ordinance 2025 Dash 07 amending resolution Floyd County, I'm sorry, Floyd County Resolution 2026 00:07:22
Dash 3B. 00:07:27
Establishing Georgetown Township Fire Protection District. 00:07:32
I'll make a motion. 00:07:36
We have a second. Any further discussion? 00:07:39
All right. And once more I spoke with the president of the Georgetown Township Fire District Board and he stated he was in favor 00:07:43
of this as well. So all in favor. 00:07:48
All right, so those three do pass. 00:07:54
As a matter of orders, but I think this would flow better. I'm going to bring board and committee reports up to here to. 00:07:59
Go ahead and put forward the nominations for. 00:08:05
The five board members for. 00:08:08
Each district and again these should be done. 00:08:11
Separately by. 00:08:14
OK. 00:08:16
So starting with. 00:08:18
New Albany Township, we will have Collin New. 00:08:19
Scott Sears. 00:08:22
Ben Gupe, give Kenny. 00:08:24
And Danny Jacobs. 00:08:27
Is that a motion? 00:08:30
I have a motion a second. All in favor. Aye aye. 00:08:33
Right the next. 00:08:37
Have a motion to approve for Highlander fire Matt Smith. 00:08:39
Mike Nevin. 00:08:43
Michael Bloom. 00:08:44
Heather Schonkweiler and Bill Fender. 00:08:46
I second that motion. 00:08:49
OK, a motion to second all in favor. 00:08:51
Aye. 00:08:54
And for Georgetown, fire. 00:08:55
I make a motion for Michael Moody. 00:08:57
David Fair, Jeffrey McNulty, Travis Sharp. 00:09:00
And Mark Ringenberg. 00:09:03
2nd the motion. 00:09:05
Motion a second. All in favor, aye. 00:09:07
All right. Any further discussion or comment on that from board? 00:09:11
Not at this time. 00:09:15
I do want to say that. 00:09:17
With the presidents of each board, I did remind them that although these will be the five designated board members. 00:09:18
It is permissible and encouraged to have any comment or input that they want from public or other previous board members at their 00:09:26
meetings, but those five would be the ones that meet. 00:09:31
And vote on that formally so. 00:09:36
Again. 00:09:38
We wanted to keep them all uniform with regard to number. Each of those districts represents basically the same. 00:09:43
Proportion of our population within the county. 00:09:48
And. 00:09:51
Please give it a chance to work. 00:09:53
New business, County Engineer Horatio. 00:09:55
Good evening. 00:10:03
On item A you have the community crossing. 00:10:05
Page project that need to be open. 00:10:09
You should have all the beats. 00:10:12
How many do we have here? 00:10:15
Thank you. 00:10:17
OK. So we did receive a couple at the beginning of the meeting. 00:10:20
Is there anyone else who wishes to? 00:10:24
Submit a bid. 00:10:27
All right. 00:10:29
We will proceed. 00:10:30
1st if you can just announce who the first one came from. Libs paving. 00:10:32
Right. 00:10:37
Lips paving submitted. 00:10:48
644,569 thousand. 00:10:51
$0.91. 00:10:55
All right, so lips Paving 644,000 five 69.91. 00:10:57
Looking for it. This one was from. 00:11:15
APC. 00:11:21
I'm looking for the e-mail. 00:11:24
Music. 00:11:34
Yeah, that drum roll or something. Which one's this from? I'm sorry, Frank. 00:11:36
This was uh. 00:11:40
All terrain paving and construction. Gotcha. 00:11:41
That's a balance. 00:11:45
No, no, I don't think so. I was going to say what? 00:11:47
Should have a summary sheet somewhere I'm looking for. 00:11:49
Balance sheet. 00:11:53
We've asked for them to market in the past, may just need to. 00:12:01
Ask them once more to do that. I know it's. 00:12:04
OK, so. 00:12:07
ATP 1,000,000. 00:12:09
$38,033.65. 00:12:13
Can you go through that number one more time? 00:12:17
1 billion. 00:12:19
38,000. 00:12:21
OK, $33. 00:12:22
$0.65. 00:12:25
Louisville Paving Company. 00:12:31
There we go. Yeah. 00:12:47
$825,000. 00:12:48
Louisville Paving, 825000. 00:12:52
Oh, she gave me something I can't feel. 00:13:02
This was hall paving. 00:13:14
For 769,000. 00:13:16
Call paving 769,000 even. 00:13:20
Max construction. 00:13:38
609573. 00:13:40
All right, Mac instruction 609. 00:13:46
573. 00:13:49
Seeing our construction. 00:14:01
Gordon. 00:14:04
737. 00:14:13
27413. 00:14:15
C&R. 00:14:26
737. 00:14:27
274. 00:14:28
.13. 00:14:30
E&B paving. 00:14:32
6. 00:14:36
630,540. 00:14:38
Any other paving Floyd County paving project six $30,504. 00:14:45
All right. Need a motion to take these bids under. 00:15:03
Advisement please so moved. 00:15:06
Second, all in favor? 00:15:08
Aye. 00:15:10
All right. Thank you. 00:15:12
Next item Second item on the agenda is the old incense like. 00:15:16
Change order. 00:15:22
After the project was beat out, we review that we went after the. 00:15:24
Field and. 00:15:27
We found that some other sections. 00:15:29
Off the road. 00:15:33
Close to me. 00:15:35
Area we decide to. 00:15:38
Include those areas. 00:15:41
Do it and do the right. 00:15:45
So the the war was increased by. 00:15:47
Approximately. 00:15:52
But we also. 00:15:54
Increase the cost by. 00:15:57
39,000. 00:15:59
And then the regional project was. 00:16:01
Two walls design. 00:16:04
After we walk through and look at it. 00:16:06
I would decide that. 00:16:09
Three walls a little bit longer. 00:16:10
We'll cover the whole. 00:16:13
That area much better, so we extend. 00:16:15
Of the heel. 00:16:17
There was going to be extended. 00:16:19
Certain amount of feet. 00:16:21
Down the hill and. 00:16:22
October is going to be extended, too. 00:16:24
So the change over the original. 00:16:26
Was 2 millions. 00:16:30
860. 00:16:32
One 48144.70. 00:16:33
And no, that's the final cause of the original cause was. 00:16:38
823. 00:16:43
So the cost decreases. 00:16:45
38,844.70. 00:16:47
So it's approximately 1 point. 00:16:52
3/8. 00:16:54
I think it's well worth it. 00:16:58
We want to cover more area. 00:17:00
And then? 00:17:01
We will have a road that is going to have. 00:17:04
A large span of. 00:17:06
7075 to 80. 00:17:08
Yeah, so I hope I I won't be here too. 00:17:10
Is this the project to Max? 00:17:14
Yes, yeah, yeah. And the project now includes. 00:17:17
Total paving and resurfacing from. 00:17:21
Captain Frank Rd. to Quarry Rd. so there will be no gas. 00:17:24
Right, but I said the scope of the project now includes that as well. 00:17:31
So we'll have that not not on this, I understand that, but I just. 00:17:35
Yeah, it's both going to be combined. 00:17:38
To get an entire new length. 00:17:42
Yeah, so. 00:17:44
Any questions for her issue? 00:17:47
No, it's just a change order of an additional 39,000, correct. 00:17:49
Do we need a motion? 00:17:54
No discussion. Yes. Yeah, I'll make a motion to accept that change order. 00:17:56
Motion second, any further discussion or comments, I'm going to comment say. 00:18:01
This is something that I'm very proud that we're getting out in front of this. You know, when I came into the office. 00:18:06
We weren't even going to begin looking at this in earnest until November of this year. 00:18:11
And now we should be completed by Thanksgiving of this year. 00:18:16
Regards to this right? 00:18:20
Yes, yes, yeah, that's it. They had a yes at the table. So now put them on the point here, so. 00:18:23
Can we hold you to that? 00:18:29
All right, motion a second. All in favor. Aye, aye, aye. 00:18:31
Thank you. And would you like to give any updates on Bridge 51? I know you've been out there a lot, as have most of us, so Sunday 00:18:34
night. 00:18:39
With. 00:18:44
Checking around, we've been breaching then uh. 00:18:47
We were. 00:18:49
Really concerned about the. 00:18:51
How quick the bank was being eroded out. 00:18:53
We contact the bridge inspection. 00:18:57
A company that do all the inspections of the county. 00:19:00
And they were there early Monday morning. 00:19:03
And they determined that. 00:19:06
Dumping some heavy. 00:19:09
Great great rap will help to cover. 00:19:11
The bank and prevent further erosion. 00:19:15
We think that we are dumping out. 00:19:18
But we're still thinking about the brain that is going. 00:19:21
Tomorrow. 00:19:25
I will. I'll be monitoring that. 00:19:27
To make sure that everything is. 00:19:30
Doing fine. 00:19:32
I don't think it's been nothing major is going to happen that way. We have it right now and but I'll keep posting you all about 00:19:33
what the situation is, but. 00:19:37
OK. 00:19:42
Here's your change order. 00:19:43
And just just you get you and the sheriff were there after the day have broken, not before the damn brook that goes. 00:19:46
Not before. OK. 00:19:53
All right. Thank you, Horatio. 00:19:57
Continuing with new business building development director Nick Creevy. 00:20:00
A few items for you this evening. The 1st is. 00:20:06
Approval of the replat of sundown farms this. 00:20:11
Plat #1357. 00:20:14
This is a. 00:20:17
Minor modification of this plat. Additional 3 lots. 00:20:19
It was approved by the Planning Commission. 00:20:24
And it is ready for your awesome group. 00:20:27
All right. Any questions or discussion regarding the matter? 00:20:34
We need to form a motion, are we? 00:20:44
No, I think you guys usually just sign, OK. 00:20:46
There's two of these, right? 00:21:05
Another Yeah, we do have another major plat here. 00:21:08
I meant, I meant on this. You only had two here, right? 00:21:11
3 got it all right. 00:21:14
Three within. 00:21:22
Well, we're signing that one. I'll I have the Highlands Section 2 AI have a. 00:21:28
Open agreement for your approval. 00:21:34
And the plat #1573, we do have the performance bond. 00:21:36
For this section. 00:21:41
It was for. 00:21:48
1,201,168. 00:22:13
$1000 for the infrastructure improvements. 00:22:16
So we do have all the requirements. 00:22:20
Sorry, can you repeat that? 00:22:27
So I need the development agreement approved. 00:22:28
For this section of the subdivision. 00:22:32
And then we have the plat for approval with it. 00:22:35
We have received the performance bond for the infrastructure. 00:22:38
Of 1,200,000 some I mentioned. 00:22:42
For that work. 00:22:47
OK, so you are seeking formal approval? 00:22:48
Agreement. Yeah, Yes. 00:22:52
I'll make a motion to approve the Highland Section 2A Development Agreement and Platt 1573. 00:22:54
I'll second. 00:23:00
Have a motion to second all in favor. 00:23:01
Just give those to Jason. 00:23:05
Right here. 00:23:11
Is this the only one to sign? 00:23:13
Or to us on the one below 2. 00:23:15
Just this one. 00:23:17
All right, so while we're doing that, you have your bead letters. Yes, we have the. 00:23:20
Letter of support for. 00:23:26
Charter submittal of for the lead application. 00:23:28
This is to provide. 00:23:33
Web services throughout the county. 00:23:35
A few weeks ago, we did AT&T requesting a support letter for for their application. They're not asking for any funding. 00:23:38
It's really that we support. 00:23:46
Trying to provide. 00:23:48
I have a draft letter here so I would ask that. 00:23:50
You improve this and allow AL to sign it outside of the meeting. 00:23:55
OK. I think we're familiar with that. 00:24:01
Concept at this point by now I hope that they they can get their funding on it. So I'll look for a motion to approve allowance for 00:24:03
me to sign that once we have a. 00:24:07
Finalized copy. 00:24:12
Yeah, someone. 00:24:13
Second, emotions second. 00:24:15
All in favor. 00:24:17
And then I did want to make it a. 00:24:20
Couple announcements, one for the old Vincennes Highlander point. 00:24:23
Intersection improvement. 00:24:29
Tribe or Rd. 00:24:31
We have. 00:24:33
Confirmed with the last utility that they will be. 00:24:34
Moving their infrastructure out later this month. 00:24:37
Expected February 20th. 00:24:41
With that, we will be able to come. 00:24:44
Immense construction of that project. 00:24:46
We are anticipating the start of work. 00:24:48
Beginning of March. 00:24:51
So we will be closing that section of the road, we will be notifying the school and the local residents and businesses. 00:24:52
Directly with the detour information. 00:25:01
Additional closure information. 00:25:05
We will be putting that on the website as well. 00:25:07
Do you know? 00:25:10
From what points that's going to be closed and for how long? 00:25:12
I'd have to look at the construction schedule. 00:25:16
I believe the last. 00:25:19
Plan was to have it. 00:25:22
Completed prior to the start of next year's school year, so. 00:25:24
August, yeah, end of July would be the end of construction. 00:25:28
Road closures. 00:25:33
Between. 00:25:35
Tuscany. 00:25:36
It's a Duffy, but not not all at once. 00:25:38
There may be sections. 00:25:43
Open and close. 00:25:44
During that period, OK. 00:25:47
And then the last item I just wanted to give an update on the bridge. 00:25:52
51 project in terms of the. 00:25:56
Funding schedule that we have currently in place within. 00:25:58
That we are still securing the final five parcels. 00:26:01
Through eminent domain condemnation process which is. 00:26:07
We are following the regulatory guidelines. 00:26:11
For that, we hope to have that completed. 00:26:13
No later than the end of March. 00:26:17
That would keep us in on schedule to meet the September. 00:26:20
10th letting date for the project. 00:26:26
For our funding. 00:26:29
For fiscal year 26. 00:26:31
So start a construction would still be. 00:26:33
Anticipated to be late this year. 00:26:36
Next year. 00:26:39
And I'll just add. 00:26:41
Nick knows because I've been lighting him up on the phone that. 00:26:42
We're working with officials in Washington and Indianapolis to try to. 00:26:45
Speed that up, but. 00:26:49
Even if even if it starts tomorrow, we're still looking at. 00:26:52
A gap there, but I'm hopeful that we can maybe move it up a little bit. 00:26:56
I mean, you're talking about with two pretty large bureaucracies who are controlling the purse strings on this. I get that. 00:27:01
But. 00:27:07
We have, I think we've made a little bit. 00:27:08
They know of the problem, that's for sure. At this point in time, I agree. And I think it may be reasonable that we may be able to 00:27:11
move it up several months. 00:27:15
If things go. 00:27:20
Well, for us. 00:27:22
And construction for this is still anticipated to be a two year project. So it will still be some time before that bridge is fully 00:27:25
operational, the new bridge. 00:27:30
All right, well, keep pushing. 00:27:35
Yeah. Thank you. 00:27:38
All right, County Attorney. 00:27:40
Is Christy Fox representing Fox Law Office? 00:27:43
That's a change this month. 00:27:47
OK, so the first thing I have there is the OPC Pest Control Service agreement for the. 00:27:48
I won't refer to it as Chase Building, 120 W Spring Street, the new Foley County building on Spring Street. 00:27:54
I reviewed that, no concerns there. That's a continuation of services for that building. 00:28:00
OK, need a motion, right? 00:28:07
Yes, yes. Make a motion to accept OPC Pest Control Service Agreement. 00:28:09
Second emotion is second all in favor. Aye aye. 00:28:13
OK. The second thing I have, there's a contract for attorney services from the coroner's office. They presented that through the 00:28:18
the statute that requires that to go through you all for review and approval. 00:28:23
It is in line, has all the language necessary, so I would. 00:28:28
Unless you have any questions, recommend approval and allow Mr. Tomlin to sign that. 00:28:33
All right. Any questions regarding that? 00:28:39
Not at all. Look for a motion. 00:28:42
To make a motion to accept. 00:28:45
I'll second it in motion to second all in favor. 00:28:47
Aye, aye. 00:28:50
OK, the last thing I have. 00:28:52
Is a resolution for the approval of a supplement to the consulting agreement related to the Clark Floyd Landfill litigation? 00:28:54
It's it's a a consultant that has been hired in that litigation. 00:29:02
For Clark and Floyd County. 00:29:07
So that resolution, I do not have that number. I apologize. We can allow Susanna to fill that in when she is back. 00:29:09
But it's FCR 2025 and then whatever resolution number we are on. 00:29:16
Make a motion to accept. 00:29:23
I'll second it. 00:29:25
Motion a second. All in favor. 00:29:26
Aye, aye. And I do have a copy of that signature. I'm sorry because I'm not not sure if that was in the packet. That's all I have. 00:29:29
All right, Next is new business listed under me regarding the petition to amend the Indiana statutes pertaining to a county's 00:29:36
abilities to assess impact fees. 00:29:41
I I think this. 00:29:47
Is an important issue that has kind of developed as part of our ongoing committee on impact fees. 00:29:49
One of its members. 00:29:57
Mr. Dale. 00:29:58
Has prepared this and would like participation, so if you have time after the meeting to hang around and consider signing this. 00:30:01
I'm going to be signing it after the meeting as a. 00:30:08
And my role as a. 00:30:11
Just a citizen. 00:30:13
So. 00:30:14
But trying to. 00:30:17
Have the state. 00:30:19
Legislature look at expanding. 00:30:20
The scope of impact fees Indiana is fairly limited with regards to that. 00:30:24
Mister Man, do you want to come and speak to the? 00:30:28
Topic. 00:30:32
Dale man guards down. 00:30:37
We've been calling for impact fee for years. 00:30:39
Nobody would look at it and when we first started we were told we couldn't do it. 00:30:42
Well, we could. It's in 941994. That's when the state allowed. 00:30:47
But the state only allows impact fees for infrastructure. 00:30:51
Parks in drainage. 00:30:56
And it can only stay in one area where the impact is implemented. 00:30:58
That limits very much and everybody, everybody's hauling for more taxes, more tax money, tax increases. 00:31:03
And the reason all this main increase is wanting because of growth. 00:31:09
And you're asking the old people? 00:31:14
To pay for all these tax increases, this is one way we'll have the money up front. 00:31:16
If we can get the state to do it for services, services is what cost? 00:31:21
And we can't get any impact fees for service. 00:31:26
In this petition is asking for service. 00:31:29
Schools fire safety is asking for all of it. 00:31:31
But the state of Indiana is one of the only states that limits us. 00:31:36
To just roads. 00:31:39
Drainage in parks. 00:31:41
And I'm asking this is a. 00:31:42
Mr. Moore wrote this up is pretty legal document. 00:31:44
That we want to go to the state, our state reps. 00:31:47
All of them if we can, because we can't be the only community that's going through this. 00:31:50
We can't. 00:31:54
And you, everybody knows what we're going through is our tax increases. 00:31:56
This would deeply help and I really urge people to sign it. 00:31:59
And I really urge the leadership of this county to push it. 00:32:03
Because you guys know the people up north. 00:32:06
Yeah, I do have a question. 00:32:11
So a, do you have a legislator that you're working with to author that? 00:32:13
We I've left it up, Mr. Kneeler, we talked about it. I've left it up before. I presented this to anybody and he asked for the 00:32:19
letter. 00:32:23
This is a petition. 00:32:27
And you guys know them all? 00:32:29
You guys pretty much know our, let's say our reps. 00:32:31
Our Senators. 00:32:34
And if you all could present it to him. 00:32:35
Would be held a lot more power than my little groups can. 00:32:38
I did tell Mister Mann that once he has signatures. 00:32:42
I'll be happy to. 00:32:44
Present a copy of it to each of the members of the state legislature that I know. 00:32:46
And I'll do that. 00:32:51
Hopefully this will solve a lot if we'd had it. 00:32:53
We would have had it. 00:32:56
In 94. 00:32:57
With the end limits that we have, we wouldn't be in their shape we are now. 00:33:00
And any more questions? 00:33:04
You have that on hand for folks to sign? I do have. I have two or three copies with them. OK. 00:33:06
I don't have a question, but I will say that this is something you and I have talked about before at length. 00:33:11
I agree with you 100% this should have been done a long time ago, but you know, the laws are what the laws are. Hopefully we can 00:33:16
get that changed. 00:33:19
Additionally, another thing I hope they can get changed Is that to my fringe? 00:33:23
That causes his problems. That's what causes his problems as well, so. 00:33:27
That's for a battle for another day. But. 00:33:31
I agree with you, but if we could get them, if we could, if we could get it for services. 00:33:34
Roads and services would be a whole lot. 00:33:38
But the services are where our cost is and we can't touch it. 00:33:41
With impact base. 00:33:44
Schools and Schools is involved in this too. 00:33:45
If we can get to schools involved, I've talked to. 00:33:48
President. School Board. 00:33:50
They're worth thinking about it. 00:33:53
Get everybody involved and it's killing us. 00:33:55
OK. Any more questions? 00:33:59
No Hang around afterwards and. 00:34:01
Appreciate it. Yeah, if somebody wants to take on a page for to get signatures, I'm sure they'll appreciate that. 00:34:03
Do we have any public comment from any government? 00:34:09
Any public comment? 00:34:15
Oh well, there you go. Sorry, you were. 00:34:17
I I'd just like to say. 00:34:22
I agree with. 00:34:24
Mr. Mann. 00:34:25
Endeavor. 00:34:27
I'm prepared to sign Mr. Mann. 00:34:29
So just from where I sit and then. 00:34:32
Kind of frivolous, but. 00:34:34
Even with bridges and. 00:34:36
Everything we got going on for the account, I'm still proud of that. 00:34:38
And I think it's gonna be exciting times. 00:34:42
Going forward in the next three to five years. 00:34:45
I think our county could be a lot better than it has been. 00:34:48
Hopefully we'll be more proud to live in Floyd County at that time than we are now. 00:34:51
All right. 00:34:56
Any other government officials? 00:34:58
All right, public comments will be public. 00:35:00
Anyone who'd like to speak to any item would. 00:35:03
Can we limit that to three minutes tonight? 00:35:06
All right, seeing no one tonight on that. 00:35:09
Have board appointments? We've already done committee reports. 00:35:13
Jason, any activity you'd like to discuss this week? 00:35:17
Well, I did attend my first. 00:35:20
Kipped a meeting. 00:35:23
Via the Internet, it's gonna take a while to get used to that. That's a little bit new of a new realm for me, so I'm looking 00:35:25
forward to learning a new role and scheduled to go over and. 00:35:30
Meet with them one day here in the next couple weeks. 00:35:35
And talk to them a little bit more. 00:35:38
To the road workers contract, we're still. 00:35:41
Waiting to hear back from from. 00:35:44
Roadway so. 00:35:46
OK, nothing new there. 00:35:48
Right, the only thing that I've done recently other than take care of all my. 00:35:51
Jobs is I did go to a. 00:35:56
County Council workshop. 00:35:59
Where the topic was EMS. 00:36:01
And that was interesting to hear. There are different points of view. 00:36:04
So stay tuned for that. I'm sure it'll be coming our way. 00:36:09
All right, I. 00:36:13
I had a couple of administrative meetings on the 23rd and the 30th met with. 00:36:15
Mac on that change order on the 23rd for new extension, meaning the 27th. 00:36:19
And a pretty lengthy discussion with Matt Dennison, the head of our Parks Department and. 00:36:25
We really need public input. 00:36:31
Coming up, we're going to have. 00:36:34
Our consultants reports with regards to what they're going to be recommending for the Bob Lane Park as well as the CMP Community 00:36:36
Park, and so look for those announcements when they come out. 00:36:41
We had meetings for. 00:36:47
The courthouse and the administrative building. 00:36:49
Projects. 00:36:53
We got a Floyd County Legacy Foundation forming meeting. 00:36:54
And then the bridge has kept us kind of busy the last few days, so. 00:36:58
Felons been burning up the lines so. 00:37:03
Again, stabilization efforts on that are ongoing and I think they're they're bearing some fruit and, and. 00:37:07
And we'll get a plan to see whether or not. 00:37:13
We can economically get the bridge reopened. 00:37:15
While we're pushing forward with the new bridge built so. 00:37:19
That's all I had. 00:37:22
I need approval of the Commissioners meeting minutes for January 21, 2024, so moved. 00:37:25
Second, all in favor? 00:37:30
Aye, aye. And they'll need approval of payroll and claims. 00:37:33
Motion to approve. 00:37:37
Second all in favor Aye. And our next Commissioners meeting will be Tuesday, February 18th, 2025. 00:37:39
At 6:00 PM. 00:37:47
Any closing comments? 00:37:48
I do. You have do too, don't you, Frank? You want to go first? You want me to? 00:37:51
No, I don't mind. Oh, I thought you said you had some. Yeah, I'll, I'll go ahead and go. 00:37:55
So since I became county commissioner, I've been working diligently on improving and enhancing many aspects of our emergency 00:38:00
services. 00:38:03
My only goal in doing so is to ensure that when people are in this community are most likely having the worst day of their life. 00:38:08
That the assistance that we provide you is highly trained, highly equipped and operationally ready to solve your problem. 00:38:14
Two of the solutions that I have been working on are bringing our fire departments together and providing a stable and effective 00:38:21
emergency medical system. 00:38:24
These solutions are not just a pipe dream developed on a whim. 00:38:29
These are systems in which I've collected applicable data and I have peer reviewed by outside and unbiased sources. 00:38:32
Geographically, Floyd County is the second smallest county in Indiana. 00:38:39
We have a total of 5 townships and three County Fire departments currently protecting. 00:38:44
These jurisdictions currently Highlander Fire Protection District covers Greenville and Lafayette townships. 00:38:48
Georgetown Fire Protection District covers Georgetown Township as well as contractual services to Franklin Township. 00:38:54
And New Albany Township Fire Protection District provides Fire Protection to the unincorporated portions of New Albany. 00:39:00
Township not including the City of New Albany. 00:39:05
Historically there have been attempts in the past to combine these service I myself served. 00:39:09
Commissioner Kamer as his subject matter expert in the last attempt. 00:39:14
My recommendation was not to proceed with the county wide service at the time. 00:39:18
Was based upon the application in which it was being done and not the theory that combining these services was a bad thing. 00:39:23
During these discussions, it was determined that the goal of creating the system was to solely serve as a mechanism to create a 00:39:29
county ambulance service. 00:39:33
However, I quickly discovered there was critical terminology and inappropriately applied. 00:39:37
For example, the desire to have personnel cross trained. 00:39:42
That typically means that holding both fire and EMS certifications and is a common practice in most fire departments. 00:39:46
However, what was really being discussed was the utilization of split companies. 00:39:52
This would essentially place an ambulance in the same station as a fire apparatus and when a fire call came out. 00:39:57
The crew would take a fire truck and when a medical call came out they would take the ambulance. 00:40:02
To the untrained eye, one would say. 00:40:07
Well, that sounds like a very efficient way. 00:40:09
To provide both of their services. However, the reality is your community. You leave your community extremely vulnerable. 00:40:12
And it puts your emergency responders in a very dangerous situation. 00:40:18
Additionally, there was number supporting information to this transition. 00:40:22
No fiscal analysis, no GIS information, and what was the clear indication of the lack of understanding of national standards and 00:40:25
best practices by some of the participants? 00:40:29
My recommendation was not to proceed. 00:40:34
Today, our climate is much different. 00:40:37
Than it was during our last discussion. 00:40:39
We now have a better understanding of the geographical and staffing challenges. We also have fiscal information to understand the 00:40:41
costs. 00:40:44
It is clear that forming 1 fire district for Floyd County would likely not meet the long term needs of our county. 00:40:48
However, a fire territory would. 00:40:54
What makes the territory different? 00:40:57
Than a district it is that it's more of a marriage than it is a merger. 00:40:59
This allows already established districts and municipalities to pull their resources together and form 1 cohesive unit. 00:41:03
This will streamline command staff policies, procedures, hiring practices, training, and even equipment. 00:41:10
This also allows the rape. 00:41:17
To fund these services to be equal. 00:41:19
Amongst all the participants. 00:41:21
Essentially, you will be paying no more. 00:41:24
Or nor less than your neighbors jurisdictions. 00:41:26
It is a much easier and cleaner way to provide these essential services to everyone in our county instead of having three 00:41:29
different departments. 00:41:32
With three different command Staffs, three different hiring standards, 3 different training regiments, and the long list of other 00:41:36
redundancies that goes on and on and on. 00:41:41
It is my hope that we can get all of our jurisdictions under a territory, and that includes Highlander and Franklin townships. 00:41:46
Currently, Highlander has accumulated $2.3 million worth of debt. 00:41:52
And that in itself excludes them from being part of the territory at this time. 00:41:57
The commissioners have yet determined what we if we were going to even intervene with Franklin Township. However, I have voiced my 00:42:01
concerns very clearly to my peers and we are monitoring the situation. 00:42:06
Regarding EMS, I am one of three commissioners. 00:42:12
We formed an EMS Advisory committee to determine that our community's needs from our EMS system. 00:42:15
And we then formed an EMS task force to determine how those services would be delivered. 00:42:21
Their conclusion of the task force was that the departments could not afford to take home. 00:42:26
As they were struggling to stay afloat with their current service level. 00:42:31
Therefore, since the need did obviously exist, those members felt a standalone county wide service would be the best option. 00:42:35
This system would provide top of the line equipment utilizing some of the most advanced protocols and since that system would have 00:42:43
a dedicated funding mechanism. 00:42:47
We would be able to bill your insurance and whatever remained would. 00:42:51
Be written off if you're a Floyd County. 00:42:54
To me, that was a clear return on investment considering in 2024 there were 3546 calls for emergency medical services in Floyd 00:42:56
County. 00:43:01
The average amount the insurance company pays for ambulance service is between 425 and $450. 00:43:05
Typically leaving the patient with the remaining balance of between 1000 and $2500 to be paid out of pocket. 00:43:12
This last portion, I'm going to say something. To be quite honest, I don't think I should have to. 00:43:20
But I'm going to. 00:43:24
There is a small group of people who believe I am developing these services because I in some way am looking to create myself a 00:43:26
job or enrich myself. 00:43:30
I don't need a job. 00:43:35
I have a job. 00:43:36
I've been at that job for 25 years and I plan to be there at least seven more before I retire. 00:43:37
I can't even collect my pension, I'm too young. 00:43:43
It's nonsense. 00:43:46
Applying on spending remind remaining days of my career. 00:43:49
The organization which I started. 00:43:52
And that has never changed. 00:43:54
So I say this loud and clear for the record. 00:43:56
I will not be creating myself a job. 00:43:59
Or have any interest in being a Chief Officer or any employee of any capacity for any Floyd County Fire or EMS organization. 00:44:02
So let's just put that nonsense to rest. 00:44:09
The systems I develop are to save lives. 00:44:11
And for no reason more. 00:44:14
And that's all I have to say. 00:44:16
Thank you. 00:44:19
Very much. 00:44:20
Frank. 00:44:23
You're here. 00:44:24
All right. My only closing comment. I thank everybody for being here. 00:44:28
Thank our first responders and engineers for. 00:44:34
I had energetic response to our bridge issue on Sunday. 00:44:37
I found that. 00:44:42
Bridge. 00:44:45
Road issues are kind of like medical issues. They tend to happen on Sundays and you're getting ready to go on vacation, right? So 00:44:47
that seems to what's happening. 00:44:50
We still have. 00:44:54
Anywhere between 3:00 and 4:00. 00:44:57
Public meetings on the fire. There's there's two more public hearings and I do encourage everyone to come. We have gone out of our 00:44:59
way to make these as transparent as possible. 00:45:05
Even by giving the. 00:45:11
The people access to Pine View. 00:45:13
Our streaming system and even have these recorded so anybody can watch them at anytime they feel necessary. 00:45:16
So yes, there will be two more hearings and then there will be a vote. 00:45:23
On whether they accept the Tory of territory or not. 00:45:27
So I encourage everyone likewise to attend. 00:45:30
Very informative. 00:45:34
And lots of detail. 00:45:35
And lots of handouts that you could take home with you and go over. 00:45:38
So. 00:45:41
With that, I'll look for a motion to. 00:45:43
To adjourn. 00:45:45
So moved. 00:45:46
2nd. 00:45:47
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Event transcript
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All right, we're a few minutes late, but welcome to the February 4th, 2025 Commissioners meeting. If you have a cell phone, please 00:00:05
turn it to silent. 00:00:10
If you'll stand and join me with the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:15
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. 00:00:19
And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:24
Alright. 00:00:34
All board members are in attendance. You'll please. 00:00:37
Just join me in a moment of silence for individual prayer, meditation, or reflection. We'll get ready for the meeting. 00:00:41
All right. Thank you. 00:01:07
No one signed in to speak. 00:01:11
To any of the agenda items, we will allow public comment. 00:01:13
At the end of the meeting. 00:01:17
Our agenda has been posted. I do have two items that I would like to add by unanimous consent to tonight's meeting. 00:01:20
One is a letter in support of BEAD funding. 00:01:26
For one of our local suppliers, we'll get more information on that from Nick. 00:01:30
Look for a motion to add that to the agenda. 00:01:36
So moved. 00:01:39
Second. OK, all in favor. 00:01:41
And also an addition of a resolution under. 00:01:44
This foxes agenda for a supplement to a consulting agreement. 00:01:50
With our. 00:01:54
Landfill. 00:01:56
Ongoing settlement litigation issues. 00:01:57
Motion approved. 00:02:00
Second uh. 00:02:01
All in favor, aye aye. 00:02:02
All right, old business. We have a discussion of contract with Virgin Corporation Chair Bush and Christy Fox, our attorney. 00:02:05
Good evening, Sheriff Bush. 00:02:16
So the first item I have, I have an extra item but it's not an agenda. But I just will give you a report. 00:02:18
So we have a contract. 00:02:22
Reference to backup batteries. 00:02:24
Miss Fox is Mr. Fox has been going over that contract and we actually just got it here at the 11th hour. 00:02:27
The last update that we wanted. 00:02:32
Under the. 00:02:34
The statute, it needed to be read a certain way. So Floyd County, Indiana, for the Flow County sheriff's departments, we got that 00:02:35
added in. 00:02:38
The gentleman left his office and came back, so we got all that death 11th hour. So we have a contract for. 00:02:42
District was able to sign it. Y'all proof? 00:02:47
Make a motion. 00:02:50
Go ahead and accept that new contract. 00:02:52
And I have looked at it. 00:02:54
Sheriff Bush shared that with me right before the meeting. I've reviewed that to confirm that change was made. 00:02:56
OK, OK. Now second. Yeah, motion is second. All in favor. Aye, aye. 00:03:00
So the other item, if you don't mind, I'll just present. It's our annual jail report. 00:03:05
From last year so. 00:03:09
Statue We get to the Circuit Court. 00:03:11
I like to give you all copy and present here if you have any questions. 00:03:12
And also give it to all the judges what they have. 00:03:16
So OK. 00:03:18
Questions. You can look through that report. 00:03:27
Mr. Luke will be familiar with it. 00:03:29
It's been 2000. Get statistics on the jail. 00:03:32
Top ten charges of this Notice this is an average stay. It's in different things. 00:03:35
OK, when do you need that signed copy back? 00:03:40
Of the contract, yes. 00:03:44
Oh yeah, but you don't need. The report was just for. 00:03:46
That was 4 year olds. 00:03:48
Her view. Thank you. 00:03:50
Thank you. 00:03:53
Chairman. 00:04:01
All right, Item 2 under Old Business County Attorney Christy Fox. 00:04:08
Thank you. The three resident. Sorry, 3 ordinances there, Ordinance FC. 00:04:12
2020 FCO. I apologize. 20250506 and 07:00. 00:04:18
Those are ordinances amending the current establishment documents for three different fire districts. The New Albany Township Fire 00:04:23
District is the 05, the Highlander Fire District is the 06 and the Georgetown Fire District is the 07. 00:04:31
We discussed those changes last month. They were voted on. 00:04:39
It was a 21 approval. 00:04:42
With that, could not be approved in the unit by unanswered consent in one meeting, so it's back for a second reading this evening. 00:04:44
Happy to answer any questions. 00:04:48
OK. I'll look for these to be brought into discussion formally by one of the Board members. 00:04:54
So. 00:05:01
These ordinance. 00:05:03
These ordinances. 00:05:04
Of a different directly effects everyone of our fire boards. The initiative is designed to streamline the members of each board to 00:05:05
five members each. 00:05:09
Five members. That gives our boards the ability to meet and conduct critical business. At times that has been stifled with larger 00:05:14
boards not having a quorum. 00:05:18
Additionally, this ordinance ensures that the public has access to who serves. 00:05:22
On their local fire boards, each member shall be provided an e-mail address. 00:05:26
By the district they represent, and those members will be listed on both the county and the district's website. 00:05:31
Furthermore, it requires that the fire districts. 00:05:37
Not associated with the territory meet monthly and their agendas are posted in accordance to statute and additionally on their 00:05:40
district websites and social media pages. 00:05:44
This action is designed to ensure our fire boards are opening up, operating openly and transparently. 00:05:48
More transparency from our fire district boards is something that has been asked by several members of the public, and I agree 00:05:54
with them. 00:05:57
This ordinance will take effect immediately. 00:06:00
And. 00:06:03
Do we want to? 00:06:04
Vote on the ordinances first before we. 00:06:05
Yes, trustees and they, I think they need to be done singularly as well. That is correct, yeah. 00:06:08
All right, so I'll make a motion to approve Floyd County Ordinance 2025 dot. 00:06:14
Dash 05. 00:06:18
Bending resolution FCR 2006. 00:06:19
Dash 3 establishing the New Albany Township Fire District. 00:06:23
I'll second motion. 00:06:27
I have a motion and a second. 00:06:28
Any further discussion? 00:06:32
I will just say that I spoke with the. 00:06:35
President of the. 00:06:38
The board and he's in favor of this. He even sent me a statement. It's in support of that tonight. 00:06:39
And so. 00:06:46
All in favor. 00:06:47
Hi. Hi. 00:06:49
2nd is Floyd County Ordinance 2025 Dash 06 amending Floyd County Ordinance 2022 Dash 41 establishing the Highlander Fire 00:06:52
Protection District. 00:06:56
I'll make a motion. 00:07:04
Second time. 00:07:05
OK. Motion is second. Any further discussion? 00:07:06
All right, again, I did speak with a Highlander Fire District Board president and he is in favor of this. So all in favor, aye, 00:07:11
aye, aye. 00:07:15
And finally have Floyd County Ordinance 2025 Dash 07 amending resolution Floyd County, I'm sorry, Floyd County Resolution 2026 00:07:22
Dash 3B. 00:07:27
Establishing Georgetown Township Fire Protection District. 00:07:32
I'll make a motion. 00:07:36
We have a second. Any further discussion? 00:07:39
All right. And once more I spoke with the president of the Georgetown Township Fire District Board and he stated he was in favor 00:07:43
of this as well. So all in favor. 00:07:48
All right, so those three do pass. 00:07:54
As a matter of orders, but I think this would flow better. I'm going to bring board and committee reports up to here to. 00:07:59
Go ahead and put forward the nominations for. 00:08:05
The five board members for. 00:08:08
Each district and again these should be done. 00:08:11
Separately by. 00:08:14
OK. 00:08:16
So starting with. 00:08:18
New Albany Township, we will have Collin New. 00:08:19
Scott Sears. 00:08:22
Ben Gupe, give Kenny. 00:08:24
And Danny Jacobs. 00:08:27
Is that a motion? 00:08:30
I have a motion a second. All in favor. Aye aye. 00:08:33
Right the next. 00:08:37
Have a motion to approve for Highlander fire Matt Smith. 00:08:39
Mike Nevin. 00:08:43
Michael Bloom. 00:08:44
Heather Schonkweiler and Bill Fender. 00:08:46
I second that motion. 00:08:49
OK, a motion to second all in favor. 00:08:51
Aye. 00:08:54
And for Georgetown, fire. 00:08:55
I make a motion for Michael Moody. 00:08:57
David Fair, Jeffrey McNulty, Travis Sharp. 00:09:00
And Mark Ringenberg. 00:09:03
2nd the motion. 00:09:05
Motion a second. All in favor, aye. 00:09:07
All right. Any further discussion or comment on that from board? 00:09:11
Not at this time. 00:09:15
I do want to say that. 00:09:17
With the presidents of each board, I did remind them that although these will be the five designated board members. 00:09:18
It is permissible and encouraged to have any comment or input that they want from public or other previous board members at their 00:09:26
meetings, but those five would be the ones that meet. 00:09:31
And vote on that formally so. 00:09:36
Again. 00:09:38
We wanted to keep them all uniform with regard to number. Each of those districts represents basically the same. 00:09:43
Proportion of our population within the county. 00:09:48
And. 00:09:51
Please give it a chance to work. 00:09:53
New business, County Engineer Horatio. 00:09:55
Good evening. 00:10:03
On item A you have the community crossing. 00:10:05
Page project that need to be open. 00:10:09
You should have all the beats. 00:10:12
How many do we have here? 00:10:15
Thank you. 00:10:17
OK. So we did receive a couple at the beginning of the meeting. 00:10:20
Is there anyone else who wishes to? 00:10:24
Submit a bid. 00:10:27
All right. 00:10:29
We will proceed. 00:10:30
1st if you can just announce who the first one came from. Libs paving. 00:10:32
Right. 00:10:37
Lips paving submitted. 00:10:48
644,569 thousand. 00:10:51
$0.91. 00:10:55
All right, so lips Paving 644,000 five 69.91. 00:10:57
Looking for it. This one was from. 00:11:15
APC. 00:11:21
I'm looking for the e-mail. 00:11:24
Music. 00:11:34
Yeah, that drum roll or something. Which one's this from? I'm sorry, Frank. 00:11:36
This was uh. 00:11:40
All terrain paving and construction. Gotcha. 00:11:41
That's a balance. 00:11:45
No, no, I don't think so. I was going to say what? 00:11:47
Should have a summary sheet somewhere I'm looking for. 00:11:49
Balance sheet. 00:11:53
We've asked for them to market in the past, may just need to. 00:12:01
Ask them once more to do that. I know it's. 00:12:04
OK, so. 00:12:07
ATP 1,000,000. 00:12:09
$38,033.65. 00:12:13
Can you go through that number one more time? 00:12:17
1 billion. 00:12:19
38,000. 00:12:21
OK, $33. 00:12:22
$0.65. 00:12:25
Louisville Paving Company. 00:12:31
There we go. Yeah. 00:12:47
$825,000. 00:12:48
Louisville Paving, 825000. 00:12:52
Oh, she gave me something I can't feel. 00:13:02
This was hall paving. 00:13:14
For 769,000. 00:13:16
Call paving 769,000 even. 00:13:20
Max construction. 00:13:38
609573. 00:13:40
All right, Mac instruction 609. 00:13:46
573. 00:13:49
Seeing our construction. 00:14:01
Gordon. 00:14:04
737. 00:14:13
27413. 00:14:15
C&R. 00:14:26
737. 00:14:27
274. 00:14:28
.13. 00:14:30
E&B paving. 00:14:32
6. 00:14:36
630,540. 00:14:38
Any other paving Floyd County paving project six $30,504. 00:14:45
All right. Need a motion to take these bids under. 00:15:03
Advisement please so moved. 00:15:06
Second, all in favor? 00:15:08
Aye. 00:15:10
All right. Thank you. 00:15:12
Next item Second item on the agenda is the old incense like. 00:15:16
Change order. 00:15:22
After the project was beat out, we review that we went after the. 00:15:24
Field and. 00:15:27
We found that some other sections. 00:15:29
Off the road. 00:15:33
Close to me. 00:15:35
Area we decide to. 00:15:38
Include those areas. 00:15:41
Do it and do the right. 00:15:45
So the the war was increased by. 00:15:47
Approximately. 00:15:52
But we also. 00:15:54
Increase the cost by. 00:15:57
39,000. 00:15:59
And then the regional project was. 00:16:01
Two walls design. 00:16:04
After we walk through and look at it. 00:16:06
I would decide that. 00:16:09
Three walls a little bit longer. 00:16:10
We'll cover the whole. 00:16:13
That area much better, so we extend. 00:16:15
Of the heel. 00:16:17
There was going to be extended. 00:16:19
Certain amount of feet. 00:16:21
Down the hill and. 00:16:22
October is going to be extended, too. 00:16:24
So the change over the original. 00:16:26
Was 2 millions. 00:16:30
860. 00:16:32
One 48144.70. 00:16:33
And no, that's the final cause of the original cause was. 00:16:38
823. 00:16:43
So the cost decreases. 00:16:45
38,844.70. 00:16:47
So it's approximately 1 point. 00:16:52
3/8. 00:16:54
I think it's well worth it. 00:16:58
We want to cover more area. 00:17:00
And then? 00:17:01
We will have a road that is going to have. 00:17:04
A large span of. 00:17:06
7075 to 80. 00:17:08
Yeah, so I hope I I won't be here too. 00:17:10
Is this the project to Max? 00:17:14
Yes, yeah, yeah. And the project now includes. 00:17:17
Total paving and resurfacing from. 00:17:21
Captain Frank Rd. to Quarry Rd. so there will be no gas. 00:17:24
Right, but I said the scope of the project now includes that as well. 00:17:31
So we'll have that not not on this, I understand that, but I just. 00:17:35
Yeah, it's both going to be combined. 00:17:38
To get an entire new length. 00:17:42
Yeah, so. 00:17:44
Any questions for her issue? 00:17:47
No, it's just a change order of an additional 39,000, correct. 00:17:49
Do we need a motion? 00:17:54
No discussion. Yes. Yeah, I'll make a motion to accept that change order. 00:17:56
Motion second, any further discussion or comments, I'm going to comment say. 00:18:01
This is something that I'm very proud that we're getting out in front of this. You know, when I came into the office. 00:18:06
We weren't even going to begin looking at this in earnest until November of this year. 00:18:11
And now we should be completed by Thanksgiving of this year. 00:18:16
Regards to this right? 00:18:20
Yes, yes, yeah, that's it. They had a yes at the table. So now put them on the point here, so. 00:18:23
Can we hold you to that? 00:18:29
All right, motion a second. All in favor. Aye, aye, aye. 00:18:31
Thank you. And would you like to give any updates on Bridge 51? I know you've been out there a lot, as have most of us, so Sunday 00:18:34
night. 00:18:39
With. 00:18:44
Checking around, we've been breaching then uh. 00:18:47
We were. 00:18:49
Really concerned about the. 00:18:51
How quick the bank was being eroded out. 00:18:53
We contact the bridge inspection. 00:18:57
A company that do all the inspections of the county. 00:19:00
And they were there early Monday morning. 00:19:03
And they determined that. 00:19:06
Dumping some heavy. 00:19:09
Great great rap will help to cover. 00:19:11
The bank and prevent further erosion. 00:19:15
We think that we are dumping out. 00:19:18
But we're still thinking about the brain that is going. 00:19:21
Tomorrow. 00:19:25
I will. I'll be monitoring that. 00:19:27
To make sure that everything is. 00:19:30
Doing fine. 00:19:32
I don't think it's been nothing major is going to happen that way. We have it right now and but I'll keep posting you all about 00:19:33
what the situation is, but. 00:19:37
OK. 00:19:42
Here's your change order. 00:19:43
And just just you get you and the sheriff were there after the day have broken, not before the damn brook that goes. 00:19:46
Not before. OK. 00:19:53
All right. Thank you, Horatio. 00:19:57
Continuing with new business building development director Nick Creevy. 00:20:00
A few items for you this evening. The 1st is. 00:20:06
Approval of the replat of sundown farms this. 00:20:11
Plat #1357. 00:20:14
This is a. 00:20:17
Minor modification of this plat. Additional 3 lots. 00:20:19
It was approved by the Planning Commission. 00:20:24
And it is ready for your awesome group. 00:20:27
All right. Any questions or discussion regarding the matter? 00:20:34
We need to form a motion, are we? 00:20:44
No, I think you guys usually just sign, OK. 00:20:46
There's two of these, right? 00:21:05
Another Yeah, we do have another major plat here. 00:21:08
I meant, I meant on this. You only had two here, right? 00:21:11
3 got it all right. 00:21:14
Three within. 00:21:22
Well, we're signing that one. I'll I have the Highlands Section 2 AI have a. 00:21:28
Open agreement for your approval. 00:21:34
And the plat #1573, we do have the performance bond. 00:21:36
For this section. 00:21:41
It was for. 00:21:48
1,201,168. 00:22:13
$1000 for the infrastructure improvements. 00:22:16
So we do have all the requirements. 00:22:20
Sorry, can you repeat that? 00:22:27
So I need the development agreement approved. 00:22:28
For this section of the subdivision. 00:22:32
And then we have the plat for approval with it. 00:22:35
We have received the performance bond for the infrastructure. 00:22:38
Of 1,200,000 some I mentioned. 00:22:42
For that work. 00:22:47
OK, so you are seeking formal approval? 00:22:48
Agreement. Yeah, Yes. 00:22:52
I'll make a motion to approve the Highland Section 2A Development Agreement and Platt 1573. 00:22:54
I'll second. 00:23:00
Have a motion to second all in favor. 00:23:01
Just give those to Jason. 00:23:05
Right here. 00:23:11
Is this the only one to sign? 00:23:13
Or to us on the one below 2. 00:23:15
Just this one. 00:23:17
All right, so while we're doing that, you have your bead letters. Yes, we have the. 00:23:20
Letter of support for. 00:23:26
Charter submittal of for the lead application. 00:23:28
This is to provide. 00:23:33
Web services throughout the county. 00:23:35
A few weeks ago, we did AT&T requesting a support letter for for their application. They're not asking for any funding. 00:23:38
It's really that we support. 00:23:46
Trying to provide. 00:23:48
I have a draft letter here so I would ask that. 00:23:50
You improve this and allow AL to sign it outside of the meeting. 00:23:55
OK. I think we're familiar with that. 00:24:01
Concept at this point by now I hope that they they can get their funding on it. So I'll look for a motion to approve allowance for 00:24:03
me to sign that once we have a. 00:24:07
Finalized copy. 00:24:12
Yeah, someone. 00:24:13
Second, emotions second. 00:24:15
All in favor. 00:24:17
And then I did want to make it a. 00:24:20
Couple announcements, one for the old Vincennes Highlander point. 00:24:23
Intersection improvement. 00:24:29
Tribe or Rd. 00:24:31
We have. 00:24:33
Confirmed with the last utility that they will be. 00:24:34
Moving their infrastructure out later this month. 00:24:37
Expected February 20th. 00:24:41
With that, we will be able to come. 00:24:44
Immense construction of that project. 00:24:46
We are anticipating the start of work. 00:24:48
Beginning of March. 00:24:51
So we will be closing that section of the road, we will be notifying the school and the local residents and businesses. 00:24:52
Directly with the detour information. 00:25:01
Additional closure information. 00:25:05
We will be putting that on the website as well. 00:25:07
Do you know? 00:25:10
From what points that's going to be closed and for how long? 00:25:12
I'd have to look at the construction schedule. 00:25:16
I believe the last. 00:25:19
Plan was to have it. 00:25:22
Completed prior to the start of next year's school year, so. 00:25:24
August, yeah, end of July would be the end of construction. 00:25:28
Road closures. 00:25:33
Between. 00:25:35
Tuscany. 00:25:36
It's a Duffy, but not not all at once. 00:25:38
There may be sections. 00:25:43
Open and close. 00:25:44
During that period, OK. 00:25:47
And then the last item I just wanted to give an update on the bridge. 00:25:52
51 project in terms of the. 00:25:56
Funding schedule that we have currently in place within. 00:25:58
That we are still securing the final five parcels. 00:26:01
Through eminent domain condemnation process which is. 00:26:07
We are following the regulatory guidelines. 00:26:11
For that, we hope to have that completed. 00:26:13
No later than the end of March. 00:26:17
That would keep us in on schedule to meet the September. 00:26:20
10th letting date for the project. 00:26:26
For our funding. 00:26:29
For fiscal year 26. 00:26:31
So start a construction would still be. 00:26:33
Anticipated to be late this year. 00:26:36
Next year. 00:26:39
And I'll just add. 00:26:41
Nick knows because I've been lighting him up on the phone that. 00:26:42
We're working with officials in Washington and Indianapolis to try to. 00:26:45
Speed that up, but. 00:26:49
Even if even if it starts tomorrow, we're still looking at. 00:26:52
A gap there, but I'm hopeful that we can maybe move it up a little bit. 00:26:56
I mean, you're talking about with two pretty large bureaucracies who are controlling the purse strings on this. I get that. 00:27:01
But. 00:27:07
We have, I think we've made a little bit. 00:27:08
They know of the problem, that's for sure. At this point in time, I agree. And I think it may be reasonable that we may be able to 00:27:11
move it up several months. 00:27:15
If things go. 00:27:20
Well, for us. 00:27:22
And construction for this is still anticipated to be a two year project. So it will still be some time before that bridge is fully 00:27:25
operational, the new bridge. 00:27:30
All right, well, keep pushing. 00:27:35
Yeah. Thank you. 00:27:38
All right, County Attorney. 00:27:40
Is Christy Fox representing Fox Law Office? 00:27:43
That's a change this month. 00:27:47
OK, so the first thing I have there is the OPC Pest Control Service agreement for the. 00:27:48
I won't refer to it as Chase Building, 120 W Spring Street, the new Foley County building on Spring Street. 00:27:54
I reviewed that, no concerns there. That's a continuation of services for that building. 00:28:00
OK, need a motion, right? 00:28:07
Yes, yes. Make a motion to accept OPC Pest Control Service Agreement. 00:28:09
Second emotion is second all in favor. Aye aye. 00:28:13
OK. The second thing I have, there's a contract for attorney services from the coroner's office. They presented that through the 00:28:18
the statute that requires that to go through you all for review and approval. 00:28:23
It is in line, has all the language necessary, so I would. 00:28:28
Unless you have any questions, recommend approval and allow Mr. Tomlin to sign that. 00:28:33
All right. Any questions regarding that? 00:28:39
Not at all. Look for a motion. 00:28:42
To make a motion to accept. 00:28:45
I'll second it in motion to second all in favor. 00:28:47
Aye, aye. 00:28:50
OK, the last thing I have. 00:28:52
Is a resolution for the approval of a supplement to the consulting agreement related to the Clark Floyd Landfill litigation? 00:28:54
It's it's a a consultant that has been hired in that litigation. 00:29:02
For Clark and Floyd County. 00:29:07
So that resolution, I do not have that number. I apologize. We can allow Susanna to fill that in when she is back. 00:29:09
But it's FCR 2025 and then whatever resolution number we are on. 00:29:16
Make a motion to accept. 00:29:23
I'll second it. 00:29:25
Motion a second. All in favor. 00:29:26
Aye, aye. And I do have a copy of that signature. I'm sorry because I'm not not sure if that was in the packet. That's all I have. 00:29:29
All right, Next is new business listed under me regarding the petition to amend the Indiana statutes pertaining to a county's 00:29:36
abilities to assess impact fees. 00:29:41
I I think this. 00:29:47
Is an important issue that has kind of developed as part of our ongoing committee on impact fees. 00:29:49
One of its members. 00:29:57
Mr. Dale. 00:29:58
Has prepared this and would like participation, so if you have time after the meeting to hang around and consider signing this. 00:30:01
I'm going to be signing it after the meeting as a. 00:30:08
And my role as a. 00:30:11
Just a citizen. 00:30:13
So. 00:30:14
But trying to. 00:30:17
Have the state. 00:30:19
Legislature look at expanding. 00:30:20
The scope of impact fees Indiana is fairly limited with regards to that. 00:30:24
Mister Man, do you want to come and speak to the? 00:30:28
Topic. 00:30:32
Dale man guards down. 00:30:37
We've been calling for impact fee for years. 00:30:39
Nobody would look at it and when we first started we were told we couldn't do it. 00:30:42
Well, we could. It's in 941994. That's when the state allowed. 00:30:47
But the state only allows impact fees for infrastructure. 00:30:51
Parks in drainage. 00:30:56
And it can only stay in one area where the impact is implemented. 00:30:58
That limits very much and everybody, everybody's hauling for more taxes, more tax money, tax increases. 00:31:03
And the reason all this main increase is wanting because of growth. 00:31:09
And you're asking the old people? 00:31:14
To pay for all these tax increases, this is one way we'll have the money up front. 00:31:16
If we can get the state to do it for services, services is what cost? 00:31:21
And we can't get any impact fees for service. 00:31:26
In this petition is asking for service. 00:31:29
Schools fire safety is asking for all of it. 00:31:31
But the state of Indiana is one of the only states that limits us. 00:31:36
To just roads. 00:31:39
Drainage in parks. 00:31:41
And I'm asking this is a. 00:31:42
Mr. Moore wrote this up is pretty legal document. 00:31:44
That we want to go to the state, our state reps. 00:31:47
All of them if we can, because we can't be the only community that's going through this. 00:31:50
We can't. 00:31:54
And you, everybody knows what we're going through is our tax increases. 00:31:56
This would deeply help and I really urge people to sign it. 00:31:59
And I really urge the leadership of this county to push it. 00:32:03
Because you guys know the people up north. 00:32:06
Yeah, I do have a question. 00:32:11
So a, do you have a legislator that you're working with to author that? 00:32:13
We I've left it up, Mr. Kneeler, we talked about it. I've left it up before. I presented this to anybody and he asked for the 00:32:19
letter. 00:32:23
This is a petition. 00:32:27
And you guys know them all? 00:32:29
You guys pretty much know our, let's say our reps. 00:32:31
Our Senators. 00:32:34
And if you all could present it to him. 00:32:35
Would be held a lot more power than my little groups can. 00:32:38
I did tell Mister Mann that once he has signatures. 00:32:42
I'll be happy to. 00:32:44
Present a copy of it to each of the members of the state legislature that I know. 00:32:46
And I'll do that. 00:32:51
Hopefully this will solve a lot if we'd had it. 00:32:53
We would have had it. 00:32:56
In 94. 00:32:57
With the end limits that we have, we wouldn't be in their shape we are now. 00:33:00
And any more questions? 00:33:04
You have that on hand for folks to sign? I do have. I have two or three copies with them. OK. 00:33:06
I don't have a question, but I will say that this is something you and I have talked about before at length. 00:33:11
I agree with you 100% this should have been done a long time ago, but you know, the laws are what the laws are. Hopefully we can 00:33:16
get that changed. 00:33:19
Additionally, another thing I hope they can get changed Is that to my fringe? 00:33:23
That causes his problems. That's what causes his problems as well, so. 00:33:27
That's for a battle for another day. But. 00:33:31
I agree with you, but if we could get them, if we could, if we could get it for services. 00:33:34
Roads and services would be a whole lot. 00:33:38
But the services are where our cost is and we can't touch it. 00:33:41
With impact base. 00:33:44
Schools and Schools is involved in this too. 00:33:45
If we can get to schools involved, I've talked to. 00:33:48
President. School Board. 00:33:50
They're worth thinking about it. 00:33:53
Get everybody involved and it's killing us. 00:33:55
OK. Any more questions? 00:33:59
No Hang around afterwards and. 00:34:01
Appreciate it. Yeah, if somebody wants to take on a page for to get signatures, I'm sure they'll appreciate that. 00:34:03
Do we have any public comment from any government? 00:34:09
Any public comment? 00:34:15
Oh well, there you go. Sorry, you were. 00:34:17
I I'd just like to say. 00:34:22
I agree with. 00:34:24
Mr. Mann. 00:34:25
Endeavor. 00:34:27
I'm prepared to sign Mr. Mann. 00:34:29
So just from where I sit and then. 00:34:32
Kind of frivolous, but. 00:34:34
Even with bridges and. 00:34:36
Everything we got going on for the account, I'm still proud of that. 00:34:38
And I think it's gonna be exciting times. 00:34:42
Going forward in the next three to five years. 00:34:45
I think our county could be a lot better than it has been. 00:34:48
Hopefully we'll be more proud to live in Floyd County at that time than we are now. 00:34:51
All right. 00:34:56
Any other government officials? 00:34:58
All right, public comments will be public. 00:35:00
Anyone who'd like to speak to any item would. 00:35:03
Can we limit that to three minutes tonight? 00:35:06
All right, seeing no one tonight on that. 00:35:09
Have board appointments? We've already done committee reports. 00:35:13
Jason, any activity you'd like to discuss this week? 00:35:17
Well, I did attend my first. 00:35:20
Kipped a meeting. 00:35:23
Via the Internet, it's gonna take a while to get used to that. That's a little bit new of a new realm for me, so I'm looking 00:35:25
forward to learning a new role and scheduled to go over and. 00:35:30
Meet with them one day here in the next couple weeks. 00:35:35
And talk to them a little bit more. 00:35:38
To the road workers contract, we're still. 00:35:41
Waiting to hear back from from. 00:35:44
Roadway so. 00:35:46
OK, nothing new there. 00:35:48
Right, the only thing that I've done recently other than take care of all my. 00:35:51
Jobs is I did go to a. 00:35:56
County Council workshop. 00:35:59
Where the topic was EMS. 00:36:01
And that was interesting to hear. There are different points of view. 00:36:04
So stay tuned for that. I'm sure it'll be coming our way. 00:36:09
All right, I. 00:36:13
I had a couple of administrative meetings on the 23rd and the 30th met with. 00:36:15
Mac on that change order on the 23rd for new extension, meaning the 27th. 00:36:19
And a pretty lengthy discussion with Matt Dennison, the head of our Parks Department and. 00:36:25
We really need public input. 00:36:31
Coming up, we're going to have. 00:36:34
Our consultants reports with regards to what they're going to be recommending for the Bob Lane Park as well as the CMP Community 00:36:36
Park, and so look for those announcements when they come out. 00:36:41
We had meetings for. 00:36:47
The courthouse and the administrative building. 00:36:49
Projects. 00:36:53
We got a Floyd County Legacy Foundation forming meeting. 00:36:54
And then the bridge has kept us kind of busy the last few days, so. 00:36:58
Felons been burning up the lines so. 00:37:03
Again, stabilization efforts on that are ongoing and I think they're they're bearing some fruit and, and. 00:37:07
And we'll get a plan to see whether or not. 00:37:13
We can economically get the bridge reopened. 00:37:15
While we're pushing forward with the new bridge built so. 00:37:19
That's all I had. 00:37:22
I need approval of the Commissioners meeting minutes for January 21, 2024, so moved. 00:37:25
Second, all in favor? 00:37:30
Aye, aye. And they'll need approval of payroll and claims. 00:37:33
Motion to approve. 00:37:37
Second all in favor Aye. And our next Commissioners meeting will be Tuesday, February 18th, 2025. 00:37:39
At 6:00 PM. 00:37:47
Any closing comments? 00:37:48
I do. You have do too, don't you, Frank? You want to go first? You want me to? 00:37:51
No, I don't mind. Oh, I thought you said you had some. Yeah, I'll, I'll go ahead and go. 00:37:55
So since I became county commissioner, I've been working diligently on improving and enhancing many aspects of our emergency 00:38:00
services. 00:38:03
My only goal in doing so is to ensure that when people are in this community are most likely having the worst day of their life. 00:38:08
That the assistance that we provide you is highly trained, highly equipped and operationally ready to solve your problem. 00:38:14
Two of the solutions that I have been working on are bringing our fire departments together and providing a stable and effective 00:38:21
emergency medical system. 00:38:24
These solutions are not just a pipe dream developed on a whim. 00:38:29
These are systems in which I've collected applicable data and I have peer reviewed by outside and unbiased sources. 00:38:32
Geographically, Floyd County is the second smallest county in Indiana. 00:38:39
We have a total of 5 townships and three County Fire departments currently protecting. 00:38:44
These jurisdictions currently Highlander Fire Protection District covers Greenville and Lafayette townships. 00:38:48
Georgetown Fire Protection District covers Georgetown Township as well as contractual services to Franklin Township. 00:38:54
And New Albany Township Fire Protection District provides Fire Protection to the unincorporated portions of New Albany. 00:39:00
Township not including the City of New Albany. 00:39:05
Historically there have been attempts in the past to combine these service I myself served. 00:39:09
Commissioner Kamer as his subject matter expert in the last attempt. 00:39:14
My recommendation was not to proceed with the county wide service at the time. 00:39:18
Was based upon the application in which it was being done and not the theory that combining these services was a bad thing. 00:39:23
During these discussions, it was determined that the goal of creating the system was to solely serve as a mechanism to create a 00:39:29
county ambulance service. 00:39:33
However, I quickly discovered there was critical terminology and inappropriately applied. 00:39:37
For example, the desire to have personnel cross trained. 00:39:42
That typically means that holding both fire and EMS certifications and is a common practice in most fire departments. 00:39:46
However, what was really being discussed was the utilization of split companies. 00:39:52
This would essentially place an ambulance in the same station as a fire apparatus and when a fire call came out. 00:39:57
The crew would take a fire truck and when a medical call came out they would take the ambulance. 00:40:02
To the untrained eye, one would say. 00:40:07
Well, that sounds like a very efficient way. 00:40:09
To provide both of their services. However, the reality is your community. You leave your community extremely vulnerable. 00:40:12
And it puts your emergency responders in a very dangerous situation. 00:40:18
Additionally, there was number supporting information to this transition. 00:40:22
No fiscal analysis, no GIS information, and what was the clear indication of the lack of understanding of national standards and 00:40:25
best practices by some of the participants? 00:40:29
My recommendation was not to proceed. 00:40:34
Today, our climate is much different. 00:40:37
Than it was during our last discussion. 00:40:39
We now have a better understanding of the geographical and staffing challenges. We also have fiscal information to understand the 00:40:41
costs. 00:40:44
It is clear that forming 1 fire district for Floyd County would likely not meet the long term needs of our county. 00:40:48
However, a fire territory would. 00:40:54
What makes the territory different? 00:40:57
Than a district it is that it's more of a marriage than it is a merger. 00:40:59
This allows already established districts and municipalities to pull their resources together and form 1 cohesive unit. 00:41:03
This will streamline command staff policies, procedures, hiring practices, training, and even equipment. 00:41:10
This also allows the rape. 00:41:17
To fund these services to be equal. 00:41:19
Amongst all the participants. 00:41:21
Essentially, you will be paying no more. 00:41:24
Or nor less than your neighbors jurisdictions. 00:41:26
It is a much easier and cleaner way to provide these essential services to everyone in our county instead of having three 00:41:29
different departments. 00:41:32
With three different command Staffs, three different hiring standards, 3 different training regiments, and the long list of other 00:41:36
redundancies that goes on and on and on. 00:41:41
It is my hope that we can get all of our jurisdictions under a territory, and that includes Highlander and Franklin townships. 00:41:46
Currently, Highlander has accumulated $2.3 million worth of debt. 00:41:52
And that in itself excludes them from being part of the territory at this time. 00:41:57
The commissioners have yet determined what we if we were going to even intervene with Franklin Township. However, I have voiced my 00:42:01
concerns very clearly to my peers and we are monitoring the situation. 00:42:06
Regarding EMS, I am one of three commissioners. 00:42:12
We formed an EMS Advisory committee to determine that our community's needs from our EMS system. 00:42:15
And we then formed an EMS task force to determine how those services would be delivered. 00:42:21
Their conclusion of the task force was that the departments could not afford to take home. 00:42:26
As they were struggling to stay afloat with their current service level. 00:42:31
Therefore, since the need did obviously exist, those members felt a standalone county wide service would be the best option. 00:42:35
This system would provide top of the line equipment utilizing some of the most advanced protocols and since that system would have 00:42:43
a dedicated funding mechanism. 00:42:47
We would be able to bill your insurance and whatever remained would. 00:42:51
Be written off if you're a Floyd County. 00:42:54
To me, that was a clear return on investment considering in 2024 there were 3546 calls for emergency medical services in Floyd 00:42:56
County. 00:43:01
The average amount the insurance company pays for ambulance service is between 425 and $450. 00:43:05
Typically leaving the patient with the remaining balance of between 1000 and $2500 to be paid out of pocket. 00:43:12
This last portion, I'm going to say something. To be quite honest, I don't think I should have to. 00:43:20
But I'm going to. 00:43:24
There is a small group of people who believe I am developing these services because I in some way am looking to create myself a 00:43:26
job or enrich myself. 00:43:30
I don't need a job. 00:43:35
I have a job. 00:43:36
I've been at that job for 25 years and I plan to be there at least seven more before I retire. 00:43:37
I can't even collect my pension, I'm too young. 00:43:43
It's nonsense. 00:43:46
Applying on spending remind remaining days of my career. 00:43:49
The organization which I started. 00:43:52
And that has never changed. 00:43:54
So I say this loud and clear for the record. 00:43:56
I will not be creating myself a job. 00:43:59
Or have any interest in being a Chief Officer or any employee of any capacity for any Floyd County Fire or EMS organization. 00:44:02
So let's just put that nonsense to rest. 00:44:09
The systems I develop are to save lives. 00:44:11
And for no reason more. 00:44:14
And that's all I have to say. 00:44:16
Thank you. 00:44:19
Very much. 00:44:20
Frank. 00:44:23
You're here. 00:44:24
All right. My only closing comment. I thank everybody for being here. 00:44:28
Thank our first responders and engineers for. 00:44:34
I had energetic response to our bridge issue on Sunday. 00:44:37
I found that. 00:44:42
Bridge. 00:44:45
Road issues are kind of like medical issues. They tend to happen on Sundays and you're getting ready to go on vacation, right? So 00:44:47
that seems to what's happening. 00:44:50
We still have. 00:44:54
Anywhere between 3:00 and 4:00. 00:44:57
Public meetings on the fire. There's there's two more public hearings and I do encourage everyone to come. We have gone out of our 00:44:59
way to make these as transparent as possible. 00:45:05
Even by giving the. 00:45:11
The people access to Pine View. 00:45:13
Our streaming system and even have these recorded so anybody can watch them at anytime they feel necessary. 00:45:16
So yes, there will be two more hearings and then there will be a vote. 00:45:23
On whether they accept the Tory of territory or not. 00:45:27
So I encourage everyone likewise to attend. 00:45:30
Very informative. 00:45:34
And lots of detail. 00:45:35
And lots of handouts that you could take home with you and go over. 00:45:38
So. 00:45:41
With that, I'll look for a motion to. 00:45:43
To adjourn. 00:45:45
So moved. 00:45:46
2nd. 00:45:47