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| Board of Commissioners meeting agenda if you'll please rise and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance. | 00:00:03 | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. | 00:00:07 | |
| Probably like for which stands one nation under God. | 00:00:12 | |
| Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. | 00:00:17 | |
| All right, if you will, please take this opportunity to silence your cell phones and join me in a moment of silence. | 00:00:22 | |
| Or a little individual prayer, meditation, reflection as we. | 00:00:29 | |
| Get ready for tonight's meeting. | 00:00:33 | |
| All right. Thank you very much. | 00:00:59 | |
| Have a lengthy addition or agenda tonight? | 00:01:02 | |
| Most of the items are pretty straightforward. | 00:01:08 | |
| I do have an agenda item I would ask to add. | 00:01:10 | |
| Regarding the street closure for the American Legion. | 00:01:14 | |
| Which I'll. | 00:01:17 | |
| Discuss at greater length when we come to that, but if I can get a motion to add that with unanimous consent, yeah, so moved. | 00:01:18 | |
| I'll second that. All in favor, aye. | 00:01:26 | |
| All right, new business. We have Honorable Judge Kerry Stiller with us tonight to discuss J Rack opioid funding recommendations | 00:01:29 | |
| welcome. Hi, good evening. Yes, I am Judge Kerry Solar Floyd's Pierre Court One, also chair at Floyd County Community Corrections | 00:01:35 | |
| and J Rack, which is the justice. | 00:01:41 | |
| Reinvestment Advisory Council Board. | 00:01:47 | |
| And I know I've emailed you all with our recommendations for. | 00:01:50 | |
| Some opioid expenditures we also have with us here I am the. | 00:01:54 | |
| Spokesperson for the group is the chair but. | 00:01:58 | |
| Actually, there is a lot of work that goes into this from a lot of individuals and stakeholders. | 00:02:01 | |
| That serve on our board of course. | 00:02:07 | |
| Frank Loop is familiar. He is a member of the board as well. And here tonight with me, I have Magistrate Flanagan, also Kara | 00:02:11 | |
| Hodges. She's a Sergeant. | 00:02:16 | |
| In our. | 00:02:21 | |
| Jail and she is the chair of our Opioid Finance Committee Darius from Committee Corrections and of course Sheriff on behalf of the | 00:02:23 | |
| Sheriff's Office and the. | 00:02:27 | |
| The jail transition coordinator position that is sought so. | 00:02:32 | |
| I think I'll just turn it over to you if there's any questions you have or anything you want me to go over tonight with this | 00:02:36 | |
| recommendation. | 00:02:38 | |
| All right. First, I want to thank you for the details that you provide with us and we have a lot of agencies that we work with on | 00:02:43 | |
| a number of things. No one does a better job with regards to getting this really. | 00:02:48 | |
| The details up front, which minimizes the amount of questions that we normally have. | 00:02:53 | |
| And I also appreciate the fact that you have representatives with you tonight from the board. | 00:02:58 | |
| And, umm. | 00:03:03 | |
| I speak on behalf of all of us with an appreciation for the amount of work that you put in this above and beyond. | 00:03:04 | |
| Your normal duties, each and everyone of you SO. | 00:03:10 | |
| I have no questions. | 00:03:13 | |
| Thank you for saying that. I also like to put a plug in it is. | 00:03:15 | |
| The National. | 00:03:18 | |
| Public Servant Recognition Week and most. | 00:03:19 | |
| Most of the people who serve on the. | 00:03:23 | |
| On our board are all public servants and we thank them for their service. All of this work that they do on this board is volunteer | 00:03:25 | |
| in addition and above. | 00:03:28 | |
| And beyond to their regular job duties. So thank you for saying that. | 00:03:32 | |
| Yeah. Any questions? | 00:03:35 | |
| I have none. | 00:03:37 | |
| I don't have any. I just want to echo our sentiments and just say I appreciate everyone, your all passion because that's what it | 00:03:38 | |
| really is and it just really radiates from you guys when you talk about it. So thank you for everything that you do and we really | 00:03:42 | |
| appreciate. | 00:03:46 | |
| Thank you. | 00:03:51 | |
| All right, then I look for motion we. | 00:03:52 | |
| Accept judge stores recommendations. | 00:03:55 | |
| That's really not it. | 00:03:58 | |
| I'll make a motion that we accept the J Rack opioid funding recommendations now. Second that. OK, all in favor. | 00:03:59 | |
| Aye. | 00:04:07 | |
| Thank you very much. Thank you all. Thank you. All right, second on the agenda, I invited County Assessor Terry Watson to join us | 00:04:08 | |
| and we'll ask him to come up. Just a second. I do have. | 00:04:13 | |
| One person who wanted to make a comment on property assessments, PJ Moore, signed up for that. So again, this is not going to be | 00:04:18 | |
| AQA with our assessor tonight. I've asked him for a little general background information, but I'll welcome your comments if you'd | 00:04:22 | |
| like to make some. | 00:04:27 | |
| Which one's first? | 00:04:33 | |
| PJ Yeah, PJ's first, OK. | 00:04:35 | |
| Good evening. Thank you. | 00:04:40 | |
| PJ More at Your Town Township. | 00:04:42 | |
| I don't know how much. | 00:04:45 | |
| Leeway County officials having this. | 00:04:47 | |
| And I followed this the changes in the statutes regarding property assessments. | 00:04:50 | |
| Now, years ago, they expanded the radius. | 00:04:55 | |
| And as a matter of convenience, they're just doing it. | 00:04:58 | |
| I was like a market wide thing for your area instead of looking at properties or health sales. | 00:05:01 | |
| Near you? | 00:05:06 | |
| Something's got to be. | 00:05:08 | |
| Tweaked or altered a little bit? | 00:05:10 | |
| We've had serious. | 00:05:12 | |
| Water damage from a sump pump outage from the storm. | 00:05:15 | |
| A year something ago. So our house is actually in worse shape. | 00:05:18 | |
| Get repairs. | 00:05:22 | |
| But it went up 24 1/2 thousand by the assessment just because of the automatic. | 00:05:24 | |
| Area wide system. | 00:05:28 | |
| So and I know about the appeal process. | 00:05:30 | |
| But I don't know if you gentlemen have any leeway in that or whether it's strictly by state statute. | 00:05:32 | |
| But. | 00:05:38 | |
| The idea of a blanket. | 00:05:39 | |
| You know one-size-fits-all assessment increase. | 00:05:42 | |
| Doesn't work for some of this. | 00:05:45 | |
| Like I said on our property probably actually went down in value over the last year because of these damages. | 00:05:47 | |
| And because how much you're going to have to spend to get it repair. | 00:05:53 | |
| So I just want to make you aware of that. | 00:05:56 | |
| That the assessments leaves I know can't be perfect, but does leave something to be desired with this one-size-fits-all approach. | 00:05:58 | |
| OK. Thank you. | 00:06:06 | |
| Mr. Watson, Mr. Moore has set us up well for that. That's. | 00:06:08 | |
| One of the issues I've invited Mr. Watson to join us just to discuss with regards to how much. | 00:06:13 | |
| Latitude we do or do not and also the appeal process with regards to. | 00:06:19 | |
| Not only who to appeal to, but how to appeal on a meaningful, effective way with regards to data and. | 00:06:23 | |
| Case by case specific, so welcome as another elected official, you We certainly didn't. | 00:06:30 | |
| Prevail upon you to come. We invited you to come, and I appreciate your time here tonight. Well, basically, we're happy to be here | 00:06:36 | |
| tonight. | 00:06:39 | |
| This this process of assessments is. | 00:06:45 | |
| Something, uh. | 00:06:48 | |
| That encompasses a lot of different parts. | 00:06:50 | |
| Most of what we do. | 00:06:54 | |
| Is guided by statutes with the state of Indiana. | 00:06:56 | |
| They set up our cost tables. | 00:07:00 | |
| Our market data. | 00:07:03 | |
| And all that. | 00:07:04 | |
| You know, basically. | 00:07:05 | |
| I don't, I don't know where to start. This is Amanda. | 00:07:09 | |
| We know Amanda. She's my. | 00:07:12 | |
| Chief Appraiser. Chief. | 00:07:16 | |
| What are you, my chief deputy? OK, so she could help me with anything I can't happen to remember. | 00:07:18 | |
| But umm. | 00:07:25 | |
| Basically with that said that. | 00:07:27 | |
| You know, I've been an appraiser. | 00:07:31 | |
| For 50 some years. | 00:07:34 | |
| And we do that. | 00:07:36 | |
| We do. | 00:07:38 | |
| Appraisals. | 00:07:39 | |
| In the open market, much differently than it's done for assessors. | 00:07:41 | |
| With the assessment process. | 00:07:46 | |
| They're trying to hit. | 00:07:49 | |
| The majority of the people. | 00:07:51 | |
| There are properties, outliers, the. | 00:07:53 | |
| Higher assessments. | 00:07:57 | |
| And lower assessments. | 00:07:59 | |
| That don't fall within that little box that nobody wants to be in. | 00:08:01 | |
| And. | 00:08:05 | |
| Basically. | 00:08:07 | |
| People. | 00:08:09 | |
| Don't understand what we're doing. | 00:08:10 | |
| I also have here tonight my. | 00:08:13 | |
| Property Tax Board of Appeals members. | 00:08:16 | |
| That we've got three of them. We're sitting back in the back. | 00:08:19 | |
| They all have. | 00:08:22 | |
| A lot of experience in the appraisal. | 00:08:24 | |
| Industry. | 00:08:27 | |
| Two of them are licensed certified appraisers in the state of Indiana. | 00:08:29 | |
| One of them was a Township assessor. | 00:08:33 | |
| And he's familiar with the way the state. | 00:08:35 | |
| Handles this. | 00:08:39 | |
| So. | 00:08:41 | |
| Basically. | 00:08:42 | |
| All I want to say now is I want to encourage people. | 00:08:44 | |
| If you don't think your house is worth what it's assessed for. | 00:08:48 | |
| What you could sell it for? | 00:08:52 | |
| Then appeal it. | 00:08:54 | |
| I mean. | 00:08:56 | |
| These people back in the back. | 00:08:57 | |
| In our Board of Appeals. | 00:08:59 | |
| Look at your house individually. | 00:09:02 | |
| We as an assess. | 00:09:04 | |
| Assessment Industry. | 00:09:06 | |
| Look at it in groups. | 00:09:08 | |
| Is done in a mess. | 00:09:10 | |
| Mass Appraisal. | 00:09:13 | |
| It's set up in the neighborhoods. | 00:09:14 | |
| Of hopefully homes similar to yours. | 00:09:16 | |
| That we can compare it with. | 00:09:20 | |
| But we have to start with the basics. | 00:09:22 | |
| Of what? The state? | 00:09:25 | |
| Tells us to do. | 00:09:27 | |
| And that's. | 00:09:28 | |
| To use. | 00:09:29 | |
| Their cost data. | 00:09:31 | |
| We we were given the cost data not long ago. | 00:09:32 | |
| December 20th. December. | 00:09:37 | |
| It went up. | 00:09:39 | |
| The lowest was 31%. | 00:09:42 | |
| That's a lot. | 00:09:45 | |
| You know, people that get their their tax assessments. | 00:09:47 | |
| First of all, it is. | 00:09:51 | |
| It's blamed on the cost approach. | 00:09:54 | |
| The markets the same way they. | 00:09:58 | |
| They got us. They put a factor. | 00:10:00 | |
| On each of your neighborhoods. | 00:10:03 | |
| So. | 00:10:05 | |
| If we do, the cost of your house. | 00:10:06 | |
| We take off. | 00:10:08 | |
| Depreciation. Umm. | 00:10:09 | |
| And we add a market factor for that particular. | 00:10:11 | |
| Area. | 00:10:14 | |
| That's supposedly what the. | 00:10:16 | |
| Market approach is. | 00:10:18 | |
| Whether it is or it isn't. | 00:10:20 | |
| That's how we're directed to do it. | 00:10:22 | |
| And that's why I want to encourage you. | 00:10:25 | |
| With these three people on my board. | 00:10:28 | |
| That are appraisers. | 00:10:31 | |
| They're going to look at your house individually instead of as a mass. | 00:10:32 | |
| You know, with the mass appraisals we've got over 40,000. | 00:10:36 | |
| Parcels in Floyd County. | 00:10:42 | |
| Which is a lot of different. | 00:10:44 | |
| Owners. | 00:10:46 | |
| Physically, we can't go out and look at 40,000. | 00:10:48 | |
| Thousands of lots and all that. | 00:10:52 | |
| I don't agree with the way the system is, but for the majority of the people in the middle. | 00:10:56 | |
| It works. | 00:11:02 | |
| For the ones on the outside. | 00:11:03 | |
| It doesn't work. | 00:11:05 | |
| But that's where you've got to put forth of effort. | 00:11:07 | |
| To bring that up to us. | 00:11:10 | |
| We had a Property Tax Board of Appeals meeting tonight. | 00:11:13 | |
| Which is not. | 00:11:17 | |
| Unusual once a month. | 00:11:19 | |
| We go through that. | 00:11:21 | |
| People. | 00:11:23 | |
| Want to come and they want to appeal their taxes. | 00:11:24 | |
| Nobody ever shows up. | 00:11:27 | |
| You know. | 00:11:29 | |
| We had one person show up tonight. | 00:11:31 | |
| You know how many people call us during the day? | 00:11:34 | |
| And say their taxes are too bad. | 00:11:36 | |
| I mean the phone I got. | 00:11:39 | |
| 5 people and they're answering the phones. | 00:11:41 | |
| All the time from the time we opened to the time we closed. | 00:11:43 | |
| Have one person. | 00:11:46 | |
| Show up. | 00:11:48 | |
| And all we want you to do in that is to say. | 00:11:49 | |
| Why you think your your assessment is too high? | 00:11:53 | |
| I mean, are your neighbors the same? | 00:11:58 | |
| You know, has there been sales in your neighborhood? Give us some reason. | 00:12:00 | |
| Because it doesn't matter to me. | 00:12:05 | |
| Honestly, or anybody else in my office. | 00:12:07 | |
| What's your what's your appraisal is? What's your assessment? | 00:12:09 | |
| We don't gain anything, one thing or another. | 00:12:13 | |
| I mean, truthfully, I could go in and say, OK, we're going to cut everybody's assessment in half. | 00:12:16 | |
| Would that make you happy? | 00:12:22 | |
| That just means your tax rates from the double, you still could have paid same amount. | 00:12:24 | |
| So. | 00:12:28 | |
| You know, unfortunately. | 00:12:30 | |
| In all my years of experience. | 00:12:32 | |
| People want it to be what they want it to be. | 00:12:34 | |
| For what they want. | 00:12:37 | |
| You know, not necessarily what is. | 00:12:39 | |
| So let me ask, how do people. | 00:12:41 | |
| Initiate that appeal. That's just, that's what I want to lead people with tonight last year. | 00:12:44 | |
| Amanda looked. | 00:12:49 | |
| And 1000. | 00:12:51 | |
| That's 1000 appeals. | 00:12:53 | |
| We looked at. | 00:12:56 | |
| And she went through and tried to find cops for each one of them and all that. | 00:12:57 | |
| That's really not. | 00:13:01 | |
| What we're supposed to do? | 00:13:03 | |
| I mean, we've already given you our value. | 00:13:05 | |
| Based upon the information. | 00:13:08 | |
| Given to us by the state and the other information we have. | 00:13:10 | |
| So, uh. | 00:13:14 | |
| They're saying, well, we just think it's too high, can you lower it? | 00:13:14 | |
| I mean, you see how that goes. | 00:13:19 | |
| Right. So how who do they who do? Who does the homeowner contact? | 00:13:22 | |
| In our office you can e-mail it. Mail it. | 00:13:27 | |
| It is on our website. There is a downloadable form. I brought some with me with letters. | 00:13:30 | |
| We would ask if you have a recent appraisal, that would be great. | 00:13:34 | |
| Any MLS listings that are in your neighborhood that's comparable to your house? | 00:13:38 | |
| That's recently sold would also help us lower the values. | 00:13:43 | |
| We did know we have a few neighborhoods that are really out of whack and we are adjusting those accordingly and sending out | 00:13:47 | |
| corrected formula. Gloria, can we list their? | 00:13:52 | |
| That e-mail on our on the commissioners site as well on his site. | 00:13:57 | |
| Yeah. | 00:14:01 | |
| Just piggyback that we could do that and I have to ask on behalf of the public then is if someone. | 00:14:02 | |
| Files an appeal. Is there any chance that their assessment is going to go up? | 00:14:07 | |
| No, not anymore. There was a legislation passed that it cannot increase. | 00:14:11 | |
| But we can make changes if they we find that there is an error on your card. | 00:14:16 | |
| So you have a finished basement and we didn't know that it can change for the future years, but not current? | 00:14:20 | |
| OK. Thank you for being here. | 00:14:25 | |
| Thank you for being here. | 00:14:28 | |
| Terry may or may not be available for questions afterwards. He might meet you in the hallway. I need to move forward with the | 00:14:31 | |
| meeting that at the moment. So thank you very, very much. Thanks, Terry. Thank you. | 00:14:35 | |
| Mr. Bill Hawkins from Strand. | 00:14:41 | |
| Welcome. | 00:14:44 | |
| Thank you. | 00:14:46 | |
| Schedule last fall. | 00:14:47 | |
| Submitted UH. | 00:14:49 | |
| Innovation Pkwy Rd. for an engineered excellence. | 00:14:51 | |
| Award through the American Council of. | 00:14:56 | |
| Engineering companies. | 00:14:58 | |
| While we didn't win the top honor award for Transportation Project, we were given a merit award. | 00:15:00 | |
| For it so. | 00:15:06 | |
| They recognize the. | 00:15:07 | |
| The nature of the project and what went into it. | 00:15:08 | |
| And I just have today the. | 00:15:12 | |
| Plaque that belongs to you. | 00:15:14 | |
| For that, for that award. So all right, well, thank you. | 00:15:16 | |
| Thank you very much. Yeah, Appreciate being able to work on that project and the other ones we've been doing for the counties. | 00:15:20 | |
| Thank you. Thank you. We will make sure that. | 00:15:28 | |
| Don gets a good look at that and Nick here at night. | 00:15:32 | |
| Yeah, yeah. There you go. Yeah, I always misplace you. | 00:15:36 | |
| He moves around. | 00:15:39 | |
| He's kind of fits, right? There's a lot of work that goes into that and I'm glad that it was recognized. And yeah. | 00:15:42 | |
| Yeah, well, thank you for being here tonight with that. | 00:15:49 | |
| Thank you very much. | 00:15:52 | |
| Thank you. | 00:15:53 | |
| Kent, Barrow. | 00:15:55 | |
| EMA director with a preventative maintenance renewal contract. | 00:15:57 | |
| Which we're going to have to make sure is in the name of Floyd County. | 00:16:03 | |
| So if we can do that tonight before we move forward, but. | 00:16:07 | |
| Kent voting was yours. | 00:16:10 | |
| OK, yeah, it's ever park. | 00:16:13 | |
| Maintenance agreement. | 00:16:16 | |
| For the two generators that we have at the Georgetown site to do Little Hill site for the 800 communications so. | 00:16:17 | |
| It's just they come out twice a year. | 00:16:23 | |
| Do a maintenance check and then come back and. | 00:16:25 | |
| Everybody every six months. | 00:16:29 | |
| Keep the generators going. | 00:16:32 | |
| So there's no new. | 00:16:34 | |
| Elements to that. | 00:16:35 | |
| Now we sent it to Rick. He looked over it. | 00:16:37 | |
| Had some changes. We had them make those changes, send it back to Rick and he. | 00:16:40 | |
| Said it was good to present to you all tonight. | 00:16:44 | |
| I'm just recognizing. | 00:16:46 | |
| We're on your signature that it's Floyd County. Just I'm going to write Floyd County. | 00:16:48 | |
| If you have. | 00:16:54 | |
| If you have that here. | 00:16:56 | |
| OK, here we are. | 00:16:57 | |
| OK. Yeah. We weren't sure whose packet the original ended up in, so we'll take care of that then. So are there any questions for | 00:16:59 | |
| Rick or for Kent? | 00:17:04 | |
| No. If not, I'll look for a motion to accept and approve. | 00:17:08 | |
| I'll make the motion to approve. | 00:17:12 | |
| 2nd. | 00:17:14 | |
| OK, all in favor, aye? | 00:17:16 | |
| Thank you very much. | 00:17:19 | |
| Time but did receive a phone call today from IDHS. | 00:17:22 | |
| And May the 15th, tentatively. | 00:17:26 | |
| FEMA Rep. | 00:17:30 | |
| State Rep and a Small Business Administration loan Rep is going to be coming. | 00:17:32 | |
| Floyd County. | 00:17:37 | |
| To meet with me and we're going to go around and look at some of the damaged homes for the individual assistance. | 00:17:38 | |
| To try to help those people out with. | 00:17:45 | |
| The flooding, do you feel like you've identified everyone who would benefit from that at this point? Yeah, we had 25 and then we | 00:17:47 | |
| added one. | 00:17:51 | |
| A couple days ago on old Ford Rd. that I think you're familiar with so. | 00:17:55 | |
| We're 26 homes that we're going to be. | 00:18:00 | |
| Well I appreciate all your all's activity with that I know y'all were. | 00:18:03 | |
| Very busy on, especially on the 111 S corridor and. | 00:18:08 | |
| Everything else. So thank you for all your work. Unfortunately we only had 2526 homes. Yeah, like. | 00:18:11 | |
| Clark County and Utica. | 00:18:16 | |
| Yeah, some of the other counties, but. | 00:18:17 | |
| Our normal 2526. | 00:18:20 | |
| All right. Thank you. | 00:18:23 | |
| Thank you very much. | 00:18:24 | |
| We have confirmed that Nick Cream is in the building so #5 Directory Building and Development Services. | 00:18:25 | |
| First item here is a additional service request to the contract with Tower Pinkster. This is for the Red Wire building. | 00:18:35 | |
| Just want your tenant there. | 00:18:43 | |
| Requesting some design. | 00:18:46 | |
| Modification to hang a rocket in there for them. | 00:18:48 | |
| They will be paying. They're paying for that. Yeah, yes. It's just that the contract is with us. So we will have to approve that. | 00:18:52 | |
| Prior to them doing it work right? | 00:19:00 | |
| So I went out there. | 00:19:03 | |
| Last week and saw where they're going to hang the rocket or the model of it. And again, the important thing to realize is that. | 00:19:05 | |
| They're covering the confidence of this. Yep. So. | 00:19:11 | |
| I don't know. | 00:19:14 | |
| We do need a formal motion. | 00:19:15 | |
| To approve the MOU, I'll make the motion. That's good. | 00:19:19 | |
| Frank, I need a. | 00:19:24 | |
| 2nd on the memorandum. No, this is for the tower. I'll second this is for the tower painters. | 00:19:25 | |
| And but this is. | 00:19:31 | |
| All on red wires. That's what I wanted to emphasize for Frank before he the rocket. | 00:19:33 | |
| Yes. | 00:19:38 | |
| OK. | 00:19:39 | |
| In a second, second. OK, All in favor, aye. | 00:19:42 | |
| All right. The second item is a interlocal agreement with the town of Georgetown. This is regarding. | 00:19:46 | |
| Some drainage improvements near their Maplewood lift station and they have an existing contract for some work that they did out | 00:19:57 | |
| there. | 00:20:01 | |
| When they were doing that work, they observed some issues with the drainage. They agreed. | 00:20:06 | |
| Or had the contractor produce an estimate for that work. | 00:20:11 | |
| It will be under the existing contract. | 00:20:18 | |
| That they have with Georgetown. | 00:20:21 | |
| Georgetown has agreed to take on a 50% of that cost and requested that the county take on the other 50%. | 00:20:23 | |
| It is our drainage infrastructure. | 00:20:31 | |
| The cost? | 00:20:35 | |
| Would be $7625. | 00:20:37 | |
| Make a motion to accept the interlocal agreement. | 00:20:41 | |
| I'll second. | 00:20:44 | |
| Have a motion and a second, any further discussion? I think all three of us went out there and saw that, yeah, so. | 00:20:45 | |
| All in favor. | 00:20:52 | |
| All right, all right, Horatio. | 00:20:54 | |
| Pacer quote. | 00:20:57 | |
| Yes, Sir. Good afternoon. | 00:21:01 | |
| Every two years we have to update our payment service evaluation rating for our undergrowth in Floyd County. | 00:21:06 | |
| In the past without being able to do it in house. | 00:21:16 | |
| This time. | 00:21:19 | |
| We will need to hire someone to do that for us. | 00:21:21 | |
| Send request. | 00:21:25 | |
| The companies that is in the list. | 00:21:29 | |
| And three of them submit a quote. | 00:21:32 | |
| That you should have those in front of you. | 00:21:35 | |
| So I would appreciate if you can take a look at it and. | 00:21:37 | |
| I guess we you gonna. | 00:21:42 | |
| Pick the the. | 00:21:44 | |
| Yeah. I think we'll end up taking this under advisement tonight, but I just want to clarify why we're taking this outside the | 00:21:45 | |
| shop. Is it? | 00:21:49 | |
| Too big a job. Do we not have the man? We don't have enough manpower to do that. | 00:21:52 | |
| And then is is due by the end of this. | 00:21:56 | |
| Next month. | 00:22:00 | |
| June, OK. | 00:22:01 | |
| Have we had a reduction in manpower or we have an increased demand on personnel? We have. We don't. We don't have enough personnel | 00:22:03 | |
| to do that. The person that I had with us, I was planning to use him and give him enough training to do the work. | 00:22:10 | |
| And he is not with this it didn't work out right exactly. So I just I can anticipate a question as to why we're. | 00:22:18 | |
| Contracting this out so, but I recall that we had. | 00:22:24 | |
| Yes, someone who had to leave. That was my intention. But. | 00:22:28 | |
| Yes, sometime. | 00:22:32 | |
| Yeah. OK. I'll make the motion to take these under advisement for. | 00:22:33 | |
| I was going to say these things have. | 00:22:42 | |
| How long it's going to take and I think. | 00:22:45 | |
| If you're going to choose. | 00:22:48 | |
| Beacon which is the lowest 14,000? | 00:22:50 | |
| I just want to check their agreement because they say how long. | 00:22:54 | |
| I don't have. | 00:22:59 | |
| Do you have the beacon agreement? | 00:23:01 | |
| The beacon no. | 00:23:04 | |
| No. So you're talking about how long it's going to take them to turn around the results for us? | 00:23:05 | |
| OK, my best guess is someone working. | 00:23:11 | |
| Straight the whole day. | 00:23:15 | |
| He might take about. | 00:23:17 | |
| Two weeks. | 00:23:19 | |
| I think part of each contract they were aware of your deadline. | 00:23:20 | |
| Yes, and each contract. | 00:23:24 | |
| Stated that they could meet that deadline, yes. | 00:23:26 | |
| I know we had someone who was clearly lower, but I wasn't sure that. | 00:23:29 | |
| Everyone had that chance to look at it. | 00:23:33 | |
| Why don't we move to the next item and go back? Because he's he's involved in the next item as well as a contract. So I was | 00:23:47 | |
| actually going to go down to. | 00:23:51 | |
| You're not leaving the meeting, are you in case? OK, so. | 00:23:59 | |
| If you will. | 00:24:03 | |
| Step aside while I Rick review that and. | 00:24:05 | |
| I'm going to go to #9 to our fire board appointment. | 00:24:08 | |
| It's quite all right. OK. Thank you. | 00:24:11 | |
| We got. | 00:24:14 | |
| OK, You wanna go to 9? Yeah. OK, yeah. | 00:24:16 | |
| So we've had a resignation on the Georgetown Fire Board due to someone. | 00:24:19 | |
| Moving outside the area. | 00:24:23 | |
| We have. | 00:24:26 | |
| Somebody who's a interested in taking upon that appointment I think would be a good fit. | 00:24:27 | |
| Kyle Johnson, he's a company officer at Clarksville Fire Department has. | 00:24:33 | |
| Of very many years in firefighting experience and I think he would be good for that. So I would like to nominate. | 00:24:37 | |
| Kyle Johnson to. | 00:24:43 | |
| Be appointed to the Georgetown Fire Board. | 00:24:45 | |
| And I'll second that motion. | 00:24:47 | |
| I have a motion and a second all in favor. | 00:24:49 | |
| Aye, Gloria, did you get the? | 00:24:53 | |
| Spelling and everything on. | 00:24:55 | |
| I'll yeah, I think I got this contact for stuff for you. | 00:24:58 | |
| OK, OK, OK. | 00:25:02 | |
| I'm going to go ahead and move down to approval of Rd. closure at Jefferson Gardens Sunday, July 6, 2025 for the Smith Kendrick | 00:25:05 | |
| family reunion which. | 00:25:09 | |
| Make the motion handle that I don't think you've had. | 00:25:14 | |
| The objections to that, that's correct. Yeah. We've been doing that since I've been around. I'll second. | 00:25:17 | |
| Motion is second all in favor, aye. | 00:25:22 | |
| I and then I also had the road closure that. | 00:25:26 | |
| We had added to the agenda for the American Legion. | 00:25:31 | |
| Paoli Pike in Scottsville. | 00:25:35 | |
| It was Poppy and yes, yeah. | 00:25:40 | |
| Yeah, yeah. So I'll need a motion for that. I'll make motion. We approve that. I'll second. | 00:25:42 | |
| OK. Motion is second all in favor, aye? | 00:25:49 | |
| 9 All right, I as well. | 00:25:52 | |
| So we can notify them of those closures on that. | 00:25:55 | |
| Mr. Fox still busy so I will look for approval of the Commissioners meetings minutes for April 15th, 2025 S. | 00:26:01 | |
| Second, all in favor? | 00:26:08 | |
| Approval of payroll and claims. | 00:26:13 | |
| All right, motion approved. | 00:26:16 | |
| Second. OK, all in favor. | 00:26:18 | |
| That was for the record. We had a meeting today at Stormwater at 4:30. | 00:26:23 | |
| PM So I think we're going to have to have Mr. Fox's input on. | 00:26:29 | |
| The remaining It's my understanding there are no board and committee reports tonight. | 00:26:34 | |
| So and I'll announce. | 00:26:40 | |
| In advance that our next meeting is Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 at 6:00 PM. | 00:26:43 | |
| I don't see this. | 00:26:49 | |
| Yes, ma'am. | 00:26:51 | |
| Did you say it was a Rd. closure? | 00:26:54 | |
| No, it's just a. | 00:26:56 | |
| He may have said Rd. Closure. | 00:26:59 | |
| It's an event. It's an event, yeah. | 00:27:04 | |
| That's actually. | 00:27:09 | |
| Poppy and Poppy and Scottsville, yeah. | 00:27:11 | |
| Yes, ma'am. | 00:27:20 | |
| As long as I don't need any input from him on the contract. | 00:27:26 | |
| Gloria. | 00:27:31 | |
| Everything was in order. | 00:27:32 | |
| All right. | 00:27:36 | |
| I feel like. | 00:27:38 | |
| I'm a filibustering. I'm going to start reading the phone book or something. | 00:27:39 | |
| So for clarity, they wanted to stop at Schubert's corner. | 00:27:45 | |
| For their poppy drive. | 00:27:50 | |
| It's not a road. They're selling poppies, apparently. Poppy drug. | 00:27:53 | |
| It says Poppy Drive because I kept thinking I know where all the roads are and I've never heard of that one. I thought it was the | 00:27:58 | |
| name of going into the place. That's what I figured it was. | 00:28:02 | |
| I didn't know you could sell Poppy Goddess. | 00:28:07 | |
| All right, Item 7, County Auditor Diane, the topping 2025 Maximus Cost Allocation Plan contract. | 00:28:10 | |
| This is just a renewal of a current contract that we have. Our current one has expired. | 00:28:16 | |
| They do our cost allocation. | 00:28:21 | |
| For us. | 00:28:24 | |
| In case you don't know what that is or just as a reminder. | 00:28:25 | |
| That is a federal reimbursement for direct and indirect costs that are incurred for the Title 4D plan in Floyd County, which is | 00:28:28 | |
| child support, so. | 00:28:33 | |
| We run a lot of reports at the 1st of the month for the previous month for this company. They do all of the really fun math | 00:28:38 | |
| involved and submit the requests on our behalf to the federal government for reimbursement. | 00:28:43 | |
| OK. | 00:28:49 | |
| And there were no issues with that. I want to confirm that with you, Mr. Fox. I know that we got the e-mail stating that the. | 00:28:51 | |
| For the public record. | 00:28:57 | |
| No issues with this. | 00:29:01 | |
| OK. Well, I'll make the motion to approve the 2025 Maximus Cost Allocation plan contract with the auditor. | 00:29:03 | |
| Second all in favor, aye. | 00:29:10 | |
| Thank you. All right. | 00:29:14 | |
| Thank you. | 00:29:16 | |
| We are now at an. | 00:29:19 | |
| OK, I found Beacon St. can complete the project and provide a draft report within 45 days of notice to proceed. | 00:29:23 | |
| OK, so so that would have to be altered or? | 00:29:32 | |
| I mean, he needs it by the end of the month, right? | 00:29:36 | |
| Next month, OK, we're Caitlin. | 00:29:39 | |
| So if. | 00:29:42 | |
| If you take it under advisement and. | 00:29:43 | |
| You should be OK. | 00:29:47 | |
| Right. | 00:29:48 | |
| So I'll need a motion to take these bids under advisement. There you go. I'll second motion is second all in favor, aye. | 00:29:51 | |
| All right, item 8. | 00:29:59 | |
| The Floyd County on Site Wastewater Management District Notice of Intent. | 00:30:01 | |
| Yes, I've discussed the Notice of Intent. | 00:30:08 | |
| With the. | 00:30:11 | |
| Publicly already and it's for an on site septic management district. | 00:30:13 | |
| This is I call it the rescue systems whenever a. | 00:30:21 | |
| Septic system fails on a residential property. | 00:30:24 | |
| The this district will allow us to be able to evaluate the property for. | 00:30:30 | |
| Rescue systems, so at least it can be a viable prop. | 00:30:37 | |
| And operational. | 00:30:42 | |
| All kinds of rules that go with this It'll be administered by the Floyd County Health Department. | 00:30:43 | |
| There will be appeals to the commissioners. | 00:30:48 | |
| The midst of writing the ordinance now. | 00:30:52 | |
| However, what's pertinent? | 00:30:55 | |
| The in terms of the process of setting up the district, I just need you to. | 00:30:57 | |
| Approve the Notice of Intent. | 00:31:01 | |
| And all that does is it goes forward with regards to this. | 00:31:04 | |
| There's not going to be any fees that are going to be charged for. | 00:31:08 | |
| The territory in the District, which is the unincorporated county, Greenville and Georgetown. | 00:31:11 | |
| It the Floyd County Health Department will administer this just like they do all the other septic systems with regards to permits. | 00:31:18 | |
| We have. | 00:31:28 | |
| In terms of the process, a notice of public hearing, which I got. | 00:31:30 | |
| Posted out. | 00:31:35 | |
| In the Tribune on Friday. | 00:31:36 | |
| And. | 00:31:39 | |
| I've posted it out here on the bulletin board. | 00:31:41 | |
| Week we filed it with Georgetown and Greenville with regards to their governments, but. | 00:31:45 | |
| We have a hearing scheduled on May 22nd. | 00:31:53 | |
| Here in this room at 3:00. | 00:31:56 | |
| And Scott Waters will be the hearing officer. | 00:31:58 | |
| I'll be making a presentation with regards to. | 00:32:02 | |
| The the process. | 00:32:06 | |
| We'll have Anthony Lieber from the Floyd County Health Department who will speak with regards to the environmental associated with | 00:32:09 | |
| this. Doctor Harris, I believe, is going to be here. | 00:32:14 | |
| And so. | 00:32:21 | |
| Scott will listen to. | 00:32:24 | |
| Anybody that wants to speak with regards to. | 00:32:25 | |
| Who is against who's for it, That type of a situation that we have at all the hearings. | 00:32:29 | |
| The Scott will write a report. | 00:32:35 | |
| For the commissioners after the hearing. | 00:32:39 | |
| I've got scheduled for June 17th for the commissioners to address. | 00:32:44 | |
| A proposed ordinance with regards to setting up the district. | 00:32:50 | |
| And we will go from there. | 00:32:54 | |
| OK. So I'll look for a motion of acceptance for the on-site Wastewater Management District notice of intent. | 00:32:56 | |
| So moved. I'll second. | 00:33:03 | |
| All in favor, aye, And unless there's any further discussion required, I'll look for a motion of acceptance for the notice of | 00:33:06 | |
| public hearing on the same matter. | 00:33:10 | |
| So move down that second. | 00:33:16 | |
| All in favor. | 00:33:20 | |
| And then a CFL supplemental agreement. | 00:33:22 | |
| Yes, that's is. | 00:33:26 | |
| For the expert that's been retained in the litigation in the Clark Floyd Landfill. | 00:33:29 | |
| And. | 00:33:35 | |
| This individual. | 00:33:37 | |
| Is working with Ice Miller, who is. | 00:33:39 | |
| The law firm in Indianapolis that's handling the litigation? | 00:33:42 | |
| And we're asking that. | 00:33:46 | |
| Both Floyd County Commissioners and the Clark County Commissioners improve a little indemnity agreement on behalf of the services | 00:33:49 | |
| he's providing. | 00:33:53 | |
| Yeah. Any discussion on that matter? | 00:33:59 | |
| Now I'm pretty clear. | 00:34:02 | |
| OK. | 00:34:03 | |
| I'll make the motion to approve the supplemental removal. | 00:34:04 | |
| Is a house, is that right? | 00:34:07 | |
| Second motion is second all in favor, aye. | 00:34:10 | |
| All right. Thank you. May 22nd is that. | 00:34:14 | |
| Do we have any comment from government officials present this evening? | 00:34:19 | |
| But you come if you want. | 00:34:23 | |
| I'm not egg shell. Is Sheriff Bush OK? Public comment. | 00:34:25 | |
| Mr. Moore. | 00:34:30 | |
| Thank you. PJ Moore, Georgetown Township. | 00:34:40 | |
| Couple of things #1. | 00:34:43 | |
| Horatio is. | 00:34:46 | |
| In all my years come here, one of them was on the ball officials. We have always appreciate his efforts. | 00:34:47 | |
| He's already advised me that I'm. | 00:34:53 | |
| For next year, he's going to try to have a in-house person for that. | 00:34:55 | |
| Review. You guys just approved, so he's already on the ball. I appreciate that. | 00:34:59 | |
| #2. | 00:35:04 | |
| They are property assessment. | 00:35:05 | |
| But Doctor kneel is a question, I believe. | 00:35:07 | |
| There's some guidance on the assessment form itself. | 00:35:10 | |
| As to file an appeal, which is what I'll be using, you're talking about how the public knows. | 00:35:14 | |
| So hopefully you'll be able to read the appeal rate directly. | 00:35:19 | |
| The third thing is. | 00:35:23 | |
| I've gotten. | 00:35:26 | |
| Inquiries or comments once in a while from members of TCC. | 00:35:27 | |
| A couple years ago. | 00:35:32 | |
| Somebody asked me about all these. | 00:35:34 | |
| The proliferation of these. | 00:35:36 | |
| Do yourself yard signs. | 00:35:38 | |
| Some corners just look like. | 00:35:40 | |
| You know a junkyard of signs on telephone poles are all over. This is. | 00:35:42 | |
| All of these signs are against. | 00:35:47 | |
| County ordinance were. | 00:35:49 | |
| Illegal signs in public right of ways where it's either state or county property. | 00:35:51 | |
| Well, when I inquired. | 00:35:56 | |
| About certain officials. | 00:35:58 | |
| About enforcing the ordinance, I was told that the new policy was. | 00:36:00 | |
| To have individuals. | 00:36:04 | |
| Filed A1 on one complaint with the county. | 00:36:05 | |
| And the person had asked at the time. | 00:36:09 | |
| Was reluctant to do so. She was afraid of retribution. | 00:36:11 | |
| Or anything from the contractors or providers in question. | 00:36:15 | |
| Because she didn't want all her information at home and all that stuff out there. | 00:36:19 | |
| And I was thinking I saw a bunch of signs on the way in. | 00:36:23 | |
| And I'm wondering why the umm. | 00:36:27 | |
| It's a county ordinance. | 00:36:30 | |
| I truthfully, I don't think on behalf of me or anybody else. | 00:36:32 | |
| I don't think the onus should be on individual. | 00:36:35 | |
| Residents to enforce the county ordinance. | 00:36:39 | |
| I'm hoping you gentlemen will. | 00:36:41 | |
| An actor allowed policy where? | 00:36:43 | |
| A complaint or concern can be brought to the proper county official. | 00:36:46 | |
| And they can go out or contact the person and say stop putting your signs there. | 00:36:50 | |
| And yeah, I think that the. | 00:36:55 | |
| Private residents should not be the ones required to be the front man for enforcing the county ordinance. | 00:36:57 | |
| I didn't know if you were aware of that. | 00:37:03 | |
| But it. | 00:37:05 | |
| The the idea of having a county resident. | 00:37:06 | |
| Filed A complaint with the county. | 00:37:09 | |
| That the county steps out, but they could say hey. | 00:37:10 | |
| Joe Schmo, Here's one saying you signs are illegal. | 00:37:13 | |
| I think it should be brought to the county's attention. | 00:37:16 | |
| And the county officials should be the one contacting. | 00:37:19 | |
| The person who is violation of the ordinance. | 00:37:22 | |
| Like you gentlemen to consider that. | 00:37:25 | |
| And if you need to, you can discuss it with me further, I can give you particulars. | 00:37:27 | |
| But I think you know what I'm talking about. | 00:37:32 | |
| And the last thing is. | 00:37:34 | |
| Good catch on the poppy. | 00:37:36 | |
| Yeah, Canada has been doing that to celebrate the World War One veterans for decades. | 00:37:38 | |
| So maybe we're going to be there 50% if we're following them, right? | 00:37:44 | |
| Thank you. | 00:37:48 | |
| Any other public comment? | 00:37:52 | |
| Dale Man, Georgetown I want to thank Theresa Plies and Kimball. | 00:38:00 | |
| Refurbishing the battery for a clock. | 00:38:03 | |
| I know it's clicking now. | 00:38:06 | |
| I only see with my glasses on. OK. | 00:38:09 | |
| And another thing that come up today, PJ called requesting, said we had a wheelchair here. | 00:38:11 | |
| Throw somebody in, you know that needed out of their car. We don't. | 00:38:18 | |
| I see him throw it away all the time. | 00:38:23 | |
| A wheelchair? You want us to have a wheelchair here in the building? | 00:38:25 | |
| In case something happens, somebody falls, it wouldn't hurt us to have a wheelchair around here in building. | 00:38:30 | |
| Somebody falls and they need a wheelchair. We probably need a stretcher and. | 00:38:34 | |
| Professional medics to take care of. It's just something that just came up tonight because PJ called me and when we had | 00:38:39 | |
| wheelchairs we could go out and get him. | 00:38:43 | |
| And then I asked Teresa and everybody else, no, we don't have one here. | 00:38:48 | |
| And we should have. | 00:38:52 | |
| Some kind of kind of wheelchair. I'm sure we can find them everywhere. | 00:38:53 | |
| This this chairs got wheels, but I'm telling you. | 00:38:57 | |
| If you put somebody in a wheelchair and you've just provided medical attention. | 00:39:01 | |
| And we don't want to encourage that. We want professionals. | 00:39:07 | |
| Come in here. | 00:39:11 | |
| Evaluate the person with their. | 00:39:13 | |
| Education and put them in a wheelchair or on a stretcher. | 00:39:15 | |
| Go in any high school. High school's got a wheelchair. | 00:39:19 | |
| They also have a nurse. | 00:39:22 | |
| My electric wheelchair is too heavy for me to hoist back and forth on my own. | 00:39:28 | |
| So I was just curious as to whether. | 00:39:36 | |
| Everyone, you are just one of these lightweight collapsible chairs. | 00:39:38 | |
| In case somebody has. | 00:39:42 | |
| A liability problem, not a medical emergency. | 00:39:44 | |
| Or fall but. | 00:39:46 | |
| I told him. | 00:39:48 | |
| That if I didn't feel good coming in, I wasn't going to be able to make the meeting. | 00:39:49 | |
| But for something like this where it's arthritis or anything else? | 00:39:53 | |
| Just having a wheelchair for somebody. | 00:39:56 | |
| Push it might be nice. | 00:39:59 | |
| You're going to fight down usually provided for the cap. | 00:40:01 | |
| Opens up our liability. | 00:40:04 | |
| Don't think of those things until your ability. | 00:40:07 | |
| Starts the media. | 00:40:09 | |
| I understand what you're saying, Frank, about. | 00:40:11 | |
| Liability emergency I'm talking about. | 00:40:13 | |
| Just people like me that have off days. | 00:40:16 | |
| It can't campground line, that's all. | 00:40:18 | |
| All right. | 00:40:21 | |
| We do have hearing impaired. | 00:40:23 | |
| But a lot of people have wheelchair churches. A lot of churches have wheelchair. | 00:40:26 | |
| Case something like that happens. | 00:40:30 | |
| And anyway, that's all I got. | 00:40:33 | |
| The impact fee petition is still going. | 00:40:35 | |
| I guess you read George's letter and you read Daniel Sutton Death's letter in the Tribune today. | 00:40:39 | |
| Where Clark County referendum. | 00:40:44 | |
| Increase their taxes 44%. | 00:40:46 | |
| If it passed today, which I doubt if it did. | 00:40:49 | |
| But we need to get on it. | 00:40:52 | |
| We need every every every county owner too. | 00:40:55 | |
| Thank you. | 00:40:57 | |
| Any other public comments? | 00:40:59 | |
| And they'll look for a motion to adjourn unless they have closing comments. | 00:41:01 | |
| So move. All right. Thank you. | 00:41:06 | |
| Is that it left the sun? | 00:41:10 | |
| I'm sure. | 00:41:12 |
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| Board of Commissioners meeting agenda if you'll please rise and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance. | 00:00:03 | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. | 00:00:07 | |
| Probably like for which stands one nation under God. | 00:00:12 | |
| Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. | 00:00:17 | |
| All right, if you will, please take this opportunity to silence your cell phones and join me in a moment of silence. | 00:00:22 | |
| Or a little individual prayer, meditation, reflection as we. | 00:00:29 | |
| Get ready for tonight's meeting. | 00:00:33 | |
| All right. Thank you very much. | 00:00:59 | |
| Have a lengthy addition or agenda tonight? | 00:01:02 | |
| Most of the items are pretty straightforward. | 00:01:08 | |
| I do have an agenda item I would ask to add. | 00:01:10 | |
| Regarding the street closure for the American Legion. | 00:01:14 | |
| Which I'll. | 00:01:17 | |
| Discuss at greater length when we come to that, but if I can get a motion to add that with unanimous consent, yeah, so moved. | 00:01:18 | |
| I'll second that. All in favor, aye. | 00:01:26 | |
| All right, new business. We have Honorable Judge Kerry Stiller with us tonight to discuss J Rack opioid funding recommendations | 00:01:29 | |
| welcome. Hi, good evening. Yes, I am Judge Kerry Solar Floyd's Pierre Court One, also chair at Floyd County Community Corrections | 00:01:35 | |
| and J Rack, which is the justice. | 00:01:41 | |
| Reinvestment Advisory Council Board. | 00:01:47 | |
| And I know I've emailed you all with our recommendations for. | 00:01:50 | |
| Some opioid expenditures we also have with us here I am the. | 00:01:54 | |
| Spokesperson for the group is the chair but. | 00:01:58 | |
| Actually, there is a lot of work that goes into this from a lot of individuals and stakeholders. | 00:02:01 | |
| That serve on our board of course. | 00:02:07 | |
| Frank Loop is familiar. He is a member of the board as well. And here tonight with me, I have Magistrate Flanagan, also Kara | 00:02:11 | |
| Hodges. She's a Sergeant. | 00:02:16 | |
| In our. | 00:02:21 | |
| Jail and she is the chair of our Opioid Finance Committee Darius from Committee Corrections and of course Sheriff on behalf of the | 00:02:23 | |
| Sheriff's Office and the. | 00:02:27 | |
| The jail transition coordinator position that is sought so. | 00:02:32 | |
| I think I'll just turn it over to you if there's any questions you have or anything you want me to go over tonight with this | 00:02:36 | |
| recommendation. | 00:02:38 | |
| All right. First, I want to thank you for the details that you provide with us and we have a lot of agencies that we work with on | 00:02:43 | |
| a number of things. No one does a better job with regards to getting this really. | 00:02:48 | |
| The details up front, which minimizes the amount of questions that we normally have. | 00:02:53 | |
| And I also appreciate the fact that you have representatives with you tonight from the board. | 00:02:58 | |
| And, umm. | 00:03:03 | |
| I speak on behalf of all of us with an appreciation for the amount of work that you put in this above and beyond. | 00:03:04 | |
| Your normal duties, each and everyone of you SO. | 00:03:10 | |
| I have no questions. | 00:03:13 | |
| Thank you for saying that. I also like to put a plug in it is. | 00:03:15 | |
| The National. | 00:03:18 | |
| Public Servant Recognition Week and most. | 00:03:19 | |
| Most of the people who serve on the. | 00:03:23 | |
| On our board are all public servants and we thank them for their service. All of this work that they do on this board is volunteer | 00:03:25 | |
| in addition and above. | 00:03:28 | |
| And beyond to their regular job duties. So thank you for saying that. | 00:03:32 | |
| Yeah. Any questions? | 00:03:35 | |
| I have none. | 00:03:37 | |
| I don't have any. I just want to echo our sentiments and just say I appreciate everyone, your all passion because that's what it | 00:03:38 | |
| really is and it just really radiates from you guys when you talk about it. So thank you for everything that you do and we really | 00:03:42 | |
| appreciate. | 00:03:46 | |
| Thank you. | 00:03:51 | |
| All right, then I look for motion we. | 00:03:52 | |
| Accept judge stores recommendations. | 00:03:55 | |
| That's really not it. | 00:03:58 | |
| I'll make a motion that we accept the J Rack opioid funding recommendations now. Second that. OK, all in favor. | 00:03:59 | |
| Aye. | 00:04:07 | |
| Thank you very much. Thank you all. Thank you. All right, second on the agenda, I invited County Assessor Terry Watson to join us | 00:04:08 | |
| and we'll ask him to come up. Just a second. I do have. | 00:04:13 | |
| One person who wanted to make a comment on property assessments, PJ Moore, signed up for that. So again, this is not going to be | 00:04:18 | |
| AQA with our assessor tonight. I've asked him for a little general background information, but I'll welcome your comments if you'd | 00:04:22 | |
| like to make some. | 00:04:27 | |
| Which one's first? | 00:04:33 | |
| PJ Yeah, PJ's first, OK. | 00:04:35 | |
| Good evening. Thank you. | 00:04:40 | |
| PJ More at Your Town Township. | 00:04:42 | |
| I don't know how much. | 00:04:45 | |
| Leeway County officials having this. | 00:04:47 | |
| And I followed this the changes in the statutes regarding property assessments. | 00:04:50 | |
| Now, years ago, they expanded the radius. | 00:04:55 | |
| And as a matter of convenience, they're just doing it. | 00:04:58 | |
| I was like a market wide thing for your area instead of looking at properties or health sales. | 00:05:01 | |
| Near you? | 00:05:06 | |
| Something's got to be. | 00:05:08 | |
| Tweaked or altered a little bit? | 00:05:10 | |
| We've had serious. | 00:05:12 | |
| Water damage from a sump pump outage from the storm. | 00:05:15 | |
| A year something ago. So our house is actually in worse shape. | 00:05:18 | |
| Get repairs. | 00:05:22 | |
| But it went up 24 1/2 thousand by the assessment just because of the automatic. | 00:05:24 | |
| Area wide system. | 00:05:28 | |
| So and I know about the appeal process. | 00:05:30 | |
| But I don't know if you gentlemen have any leeway in that or whether it's strictly by state statute. | 00:05:32 | |
| But. | 00:05:38 | |
| The idea of a blanket. | 00:05:39 | |
| You know one-size-fits-all assessment increase. | 00:05:42 | |
| Doesn't work for some of this. | 00:05:45 | |
| Like I said on our property probably actually went down in value over the last year because of these damages. | 00:05:47 | |
| And because how much you're going to have to spend to get it repair. | 00:05:53 | |
| So I just want to make you aware of that. | 00:05:56 | |
| That the assessments leaves I know can't be perfect, but does leave something to be desired with this one-size-fits-all approach. | 00:05:58 | |
| OK. Thank you. | 00:06:06 | |
| Mr. Watson, Mr. Moore has set us up well for that. That's. | 00:06:08 | |
| One of the issues I've invited Mr. Watson to join us just to discuss with regards to how much. | 00:06:13 | |
| Latitude we do or do not and also the appeal process with regards to. | 00:06:19 | |
| Not only who to appeal to, but how to appeal on a meaningful, effective way with regards to data and. | 00:06:23 | |
| Case by case specific, so welcome as another elected official, you We certainly didn't. | 00:06:30 | |
| Prevail upon you to come. We invited you to come, and I appreciate your time here tonight. Well, basically, we're happy to be here | 00:06:36 | |
| tonight. | 00:06:39 | |
| This this process of assessments is. | 00:06:45 | |
| Something, uh. | 00:06:48 | |
| That encompasses a lot of different parts. | 00:06:50 | |
| Most of what we do. | 00:06:54 | |
| Is guided by statutes with the state of Indiana. | 00:06:56 | |
| They set up our cost tables. | 00:07:00 | |
| Our market data. | 00:07:03 | |
| And all that. | 00:07:04 | |
| You know, basically. | 00:07:05 | |
| I don't, I don't know where to start. This is Amanda. | 00:07:09 | |
| We know Amanda. She's my. | 00:07:12 | |
| Chief Appraiser. Chief. | 00:07:16 | |
| What are you, my chief deputy? OK, so she could help me with anything I can't happen to remember. | 00:07:18 | |
| But umm. | 00:07:25 | |
| Basically with that said that. | 00:07:27 | |
| You know, I've been an appraiser. | 00:07:31 | |
| For 50 some years. | 00:07:34 | |
| And we do that. | 00:07:36 | |
| We do. | 00:07:38 | |
| Appraisals. | 00:07:39 | |
| In the open market, much differently than it's done for assessors. | 00:07:41 | |
| With the assessment process. | 00:07:46 | |
| They're trying to hit. | 00:07:49 | |
| The majority of the people. | 00:07:51 | |
| There are properties, outliers, the. | 00:07:53 | |
| Higher assessments. | 00:07:57 | |
| And lower assessments. | 00:07:59 | |
| That don't fall within that little box that nobody wants to be in. | 00:08:01 | |
| And. | 00:08:05 | |
| Basically. | 00:08:07 | |
| People. | 00:08:09 | |
| Don't understand what we're doing. | 00:08:10 | |
| I also have here tonight my. | 00:08:13 | |
| Property Tax Board of Appeals members. | 00:08:16 | |
| That we've got three of them. We're sitting back in the back. | 00:08:19 | |
| They all have. | 00:08:22 | |
| A lot of experience in the appraisal. | 00:08:24 | |
| Industry. | 00:08:27 | |
| Two of them are licensed certified appraisers in the state of Indiana. | 00:08:29 | |
| One of them was a Township assessor. | 00:08:33 | |
| And he's familiar with the way the state. | 00:08:35 | |
| Handles this. | 00:08:39 | |
| So. | 00:08:41 | |
| Basically. | 00:08:42 | |
| All I want to say now is I want to encourage people. | 00:08:44 | |
| If you don't think your house is worth what it's assessed for. | 00:08:48 | |
| What you could sell it for? | 00:08:52 | |
| Then appeal it. | 00:08:54 | |
| I mean. | 00:08:56 | |
| These people back in the back. | 00:08:57 | |
| In our Board of Appeals. | 00:08:59 | |
| Look at your house individually. | 00:09:02 | |
| We as an assess. | 00:09:04 | |
| Assessment Industry. | 00:09:06 | |
| Look at it in groups. | 00:09:08 | |
| Is done in a mess. | 00:09:10 | |
| Mass Appraisal. | 00:09:13 | |
| It's set up in the neighborhoods. | 00:09:14 | |
| Of hopefully homes similar to yours. | 00:09:16 | |
| That we can compare it with. | 00:09:20 | |
| But we have to start with the basics. | 00:09:22 | |
| Of what? The state? | 00:09:25 | |
| Tells us to do. | 00:09:27 | |
| And that's. | 00:09:28 | |
| To use. | 00:09:29 | |
| Their cost data. | 00:09:31 | |
| We we were given the cost data not long ago. | 00:09:32 | |
| December 20th. December. | 00:09:37 | |
| It went up. | 00:09:39 | |
| The lowest was 31%. | 00:09:42 | |
| That's a lot. | 00:09:45 | |
| You know, people that get their their tax assessments. | 00:09:47 | |
| First of all, it is. | 00:09:51 | |
| It's blamed on the cost approach. | 00:09:54 | |
| The markets the same way they. | 00:09:58 | |
| They got us. They put a factor. | 00:10:00 | |
| On each of your neighborhoods. | 00:10:03 | |
| So. | 00:10:05 | |
| If we do, the cost of your house. | 00:10:06 | |
| We take off. | 00:10:08 | |
| Depreciation. Umm. | 00:10:09 | |
| And we add a market factor for that particular. | 00:10:11 | |
| Area. | 00:10:14 | |
| That's supposedly what the. | 00:10:16 | |
| Market approach is. | 00:10:18 | |
| Whether it is or it isn't. | 00:10:20 | |
| That's how we're directed to do it. | 00:10:22 | |
| And that's why I want to encourage you. | 00:10:25 | |
| With these three people on my board. | 00:10:28 | |
| That are appraisers. | 00:10:31 | |
| They're going to look at your house individually instead of as a mass. | 00:10:32 | |
| You know, with the mass appraisals we've got over 40,000. | 00:10:36 | |
| Parcels in Floyd County. | 00:10:42 | |
| Which is a lot of different. | 00:10:44 | |
| Owners. | 00:10:46 | |
| Physically, we can't go out and look at 40,000. | 00:10:48 | |
| Thousands of lots and all that. | 00:10:52 | |
| I don't agree with the way the system is, but for the majority of the people in the middle. | 00:10:56 | |
| It works. | 00:11:02 | |
| For the ones on the outside. | 00:11:03 | |
| It doesn't work. | 00:11:05 | |
| But that's where you've got to put forth of effort. | 00:11:07 | |
| To bring that up to us. | 00:11:10 | |
| We had a Property Tax Board of Appeals meeting tonight. | 00:11:13 | |
| Which is not. | 00:11:17 | |
| Unusual once a month. | 00:11:19 | |
| We go through that. | 00:11:21 | |
| People. | 00:11:23 | |
| Want to come and they want to appeal their taxes. | 00:11:24 | |
| Nobody ever shows up. | 00:11:27 | |
| You know. | 00:11:29 | |
| We had one person show up tonight. | 00:11:31 | |
| You know how many people call us during the day? | 00:11:34 | |
| And say their taxes are too bad. | 00:11:36 | |
| I mean the phone I got. | 00:11:39 | |
| 5 people and they're answering the phones. | 00:11:41 | |
| All the time from the time we opened to the time we closed. | 00:11:43 | |
| Have one person. | 00:11:46 | |
| Show up. | 00:11:48 | |
| And all we want you to do in that is to say. | 00:11:49 | |
| Why you think your your assessment is too high? | 00:11:53 | |
| I mean, are your neighbors the same? | 00:11:58 | |
| You know, has there been sales in your neighborhood? Give us some reason. | 00:12:00 | |
| Because it doesn't matter to me. | 00:12:05 | |
| Honestly, or anybody else in my office. | 00:12:07 | |
| What's your what's your appraisal is? What's your assessment? | 00:12:09 | |
| We don't gain anything, one thing or another. | 00:12:13 | |
| I mean, truthfully, I could go in and say, OK, we're going to cut everybody's assessment in half. | 00:12:16 | |
| Would that make you happy? | 00:12:22 | |
| That just means your tax rates from the double, you still could have paid same amount. | 00:12:24 | |
| So. | 00:12:28 | |
| You know, unfortunately. | 00:12:30 | |
| In all my years of experience. | 00:12:32 | |
| People want it to be what they want it to be. | 00:12:34 | |
| For what they want. | 00:12:37 | |
| You know, not necessarily what is. | 00:12:39 | |
| So let me ask, how do people. | 00:12:41 | |
| Initiate that appeal. That's just, that's what I want to lead people with tonight last year. | 00:12:44 | |
| Amanda looked. | 00:12:49 | |
| And 1000. | 00:12:51 | |
| That's 1000 appeals. | 00:12:53 | |
| We looked at. | 00:12:56 | |
| And she went through and tried to find cops for each one of them and all that. | 00:12:57 | |
| That's really not. | 00:13:01 | |
| What we're supposed to do? | 00:13:03 | |
| I mean, we've already given you our value. | 00:13:05 | |
| Based upon the information. | 00:13:08 | |
| Given to us by the state and the other information we have. | 00:13:10 | |
| So, uh. | 00:13:14 | |
| They're saying, well, we just think it's too high, can you lower it? | 00:13:14 | |
| I mean, you see how that goes. | 00:13:19 | |
| Right. So how who do they who do? Who does the homeowner contact? | 00:13:22 | |
| In our office you can e-mail it. Mail it. | 00:13:27 | |
| It is on our website. There is a downloadable form. I brought some with me with letters. | 00:13:30 | |
| We would ask if you have a recent appraisal, that would be great. | 00:13:34 | |
| Any MLS listings that are in your neighborhood that's comparable to your house? | 00:13:38 | |
| That's recently sold would also help us lower the values. | 00:13:43 | |
| We did know we have a few neighborhoods that are really out of whack and we are adjusting those accordingly and sending out | 00:13:47 | |
| corrected formula. Gloria, can we list their? | 00:13:52 | |
| That e-mail on our on the commissioners site as well on his site. | 00:13:57 | |
| Yeah. | 00:14:01 | |
| Just piggyback that we could do that and I have to ask on behalf of the public then is if someone. | 00:14:02 | |
| Files an appeal. Is there any chance that their assessment is going to go up? | 00:14:07 | |
| No, not anymore. There was a legislation passed that it cannot increase. | 00:14:11 | |
| But we can make changes if they we find that there is an error on your card. | 00:14:16 | |
| So you have a finished basement and we didn't know that it can change for the future years, but not current? | 00:14:20 | |
| OK. Thank you for being here. | 00:14:25 | |
| Thank you for being here. | 00:14:28 | |
| Terry may or may not be available for questions afterwards. He might meet you in the hallway. I need to move forward with the | 00:14:31 | |
| meeting that at the moment. So thank you very, very much. Thanks, Terry. Thank you. | 00:14:35 | |
| Mr. Bill Hawkins from Strand. | 00:14:41 | |
| Welcome. | 00:14:44 | |
| Thank you. | 00:14:46 | |
| Schedule last fall. | 00:14:47 | |
| Submitted UH. | 00:14:49 | |
| Innovation Pkwy Rd. for an engineered excellence. | 00:14:51 | |
| Award through the American Council of. | 00:14:56 | |
| Engineering companies. | 00:14:58 | |
| While we didn't win the top honor award for Transportation Project, we were given a merit award. | 00:15:00 | |
| For it so. | 00:15:06 | |
| They recognize the. | 00:15:07 | |
| The nature of the project and what went into it. | 00:15:08 | |
| And I just have today the. | 00:15:12 | |
| Plaque that belongs to you. | 00:15:14 | |
| For that, for that award. So all right, well, thank you. | 00:15:16 | |
| Thank you very much. Yeah, Appreciate being able to work on that project and the other ones we've been doing for the counties. | 00:15:20 | |
| Thank you. Thank you. We will make sure that. | 00:15:28 | |
| Don gets a good look at that and Nick here at night. | 00:15:32 | |
| Yeah, yeah. There you go. Yeah, I always misplace you. | 00:15:36 | |
| He moves around. | 00:15:39 | |
| He's kind of fits, right? There's a lot of work that goes into that and I'm glad that it was recognized. And yeah. | 00:15:42 | |
| Yeah, well, thank you for being here tonight with that. | 00:15:49 | |
| Thank you very much. | 00:15:52 | |
| Thank you. | 00:15:53 | |
| Kent, Barrow. | 00:15:55 | |
| EMA director with a preventative maintenance renewal contract. | 00:15:57 | |
| Which we're going to have to make sure is in the name of Floyd County. | 00:16:03 | |
| So if we can do that tonight before we move forward, but. | 00:16:07 | |
| Kent voting was yours. | 00:16:10 | |
| OK, yeah, it's ever park. | 00:16:13 | |
| Maintenance agreement. | 00:16:16 | |
| For the two generators that we have at the Georgetown site to do Little Hill site for the 800 communications so. | 00:16:17 | |
| It's just they come out twice a year. | 00:16:23 | |
| Do a maintenance check and then come back and. | 00:16:25 | |
| Everybody every six months. | 00:16:29 | |
| Keep the generators going. | 00:16:32 | |
| So there's no new. | 00:16:34 | |
| Elements to that. | 00:16:35 | |
| Now we sent it to Rick. He looked over it. | 00:16:37 | |
| Had some changes. We had them make those changes, send it back to Rick and he. | 00:16:40 | |
| Said it was good to present to you all tonight. | 00:16:44 | |
| I'm just recognizing. | 00:16:46 | |
| We're on your signature that it's Floyd County. Just I'm going to write Floyd County. | 00:16:48 | |
| If you have. | 00:16:54 | |
| If you have that here. | 00:16:56 | |
| OK, here we are. | 00:16:57 | |
| OK. Yeah. We weren't sure whose packet the original ended up in, so we'll take care of that then. So are there any questions for | 00:16:59 | |
| Rick or for Kent? | 00:17:04 | |
| No. If not, I'll look for a motion to accept and approve. | 00:17:08 | |
| I'll make the motion to approve. | 00:17:12 | |
| 2nd. | 00:17:14 | |
| OK, all in favor, aye? | 00:17:16 | |
| Thank you very much. | 00:17:19 | |
| Time but did receive a phone call today from IDHS. | 00:17:22 | |
| And May the 15th, tentatively. | 00:17:26 | |
| FEMA Rep. | 00:17:30 | |
| State Rep and a Small Business Administration loan Rep is going to be coming. | 00:17:32 | |
| Floyd County. | 00:17:37 | |
| To meet with me and we're going to go around and look at some of the damaged homes for the individual assistance. | 00:17:38 | |
| To try to help those people out with. | 00:17:45 | |
| The flooding, do you feel like you've identified everyone who would benefit from that at this point? Yeah, we had 25 and then we | 00:17:47 | |
| added one. | 00:17:51 | |
| A couple days ago on old Ford Rd. that I think you're familiar with so. | 00:17:55 | |
| We're 26 homes that we're going to be. | 00:18:00 | |
| Well I appreciate all your all's activity with that I know y'all were. | 00:18:03 | |
| Very busy on, especially on the 111 S corridor and. | 00:18:08 | |
| Everything else. So thank you for all your work. Unfortunately we only had 2526 homes. Yeah, like. | 00:18:11 | |
| Clark County and Utica. | 00:18:16 | |
| Yeah, some of the other counties, but. | 00:18:17 | |
| Our normal 2526. | 00:18:20 | |
| All right. Thank you. | 00:18:23 | |
| Thank you very much. | 00:18:24 | |
| We have confirmed that Nick Cream is in the building so #5 Directory Building and Development Services. | 00:18:25 | |
| First item here is a additional service request to the contract with Tower Pinkster. This is for the Red Wire building. | 00:18:35 | |
| Just want your tenant there. | 00:18:43 | |
| Requesting some design. | 00:18:46 | |
| Modification to hang a rocket in there for them. | 00:18:48 | |
| They will be paying. They're paying for that. Yeah, yes. It's just that the contract is with us. So we will have to approve that. | 00:18:52 | |
| Prior to them doing it work right? | 00:19:00 | |
| So I went out there. | 00:19:03 | |
| Last week and saw where they're going to hang the rocket or the model of it. And again, the important thing to realize is that. | 00:19:05 | |
| They're covering the confidence of this. Yep. So. | 00:19:11 | |
| I don't know. | 00:19:14 | |
| We do need a formal motion. | 00:19:15 | |
| To approve the MOU, I'll make the motion. That's good. | 00:19:19 | |
| Frank, I need a. | 00:19:24 | |
| 2nd on the memorandum. No, this is for the tower. I'll second this is for the tower painters. | 00:19:25 | |
| And but this is. | 00:19:31 | |
| All on red wires. That's what I wanted to emphasize for Frank before he the rocket. | 00:19:33 | |
| Yes. | 00:19:38 | |
| OK. | 00:19:39 | |
| In a second, second. OK, All in favor, aye. | 00:19:42 | |
| All right. The second item is a interlocal agreement with the town of Georgetown. This is regarding. | 00:19:46 | |
| Some drainage improvements near their Maplewood lift station and they have an existing contract for some work that they did out | 00:19:57 | |
| there. | 00:20:01 | |
| When they were doing that work, they observed some issues with the drainage. They agreed. | 00:20:06 | |
| Or had the contractor produce an estimate for that work. | 00:20:11 | |
| It will be under the existing contract. | 00:20:18 | |
| That they have with Georgetown. | 00:20:21 | |
| Georgetown has agreed to take on a 50% of that cost and requested that the county take on the other 50%. | 00:20:23 | |
| It is our drainage infrastructure. | 00:20:31 | |
| The cost? | 00:20:35 | |
| Would be $7625. | 00:20:37 | |
| Make a motion to accept the interlocal agreement. | 00:20:41 | |
| I'll second. | 00:20:44 | |
| Have a motion and a second, any further discussion? I think all three of us went out there and saw that, yeah, so. | 00:20:45 | |
| All in favor. | 00:20:52 | |
| All right, all right, Horatio. | 00:20:54 | |
| Pacer quote. | 00:20:57 | |
| Yes, Sir. Good afternoon. | 00:21:01 | |
| Every two years we have to update our payment service evaluation rating for our undergrowth in Floyd County. | 00:21:06 | |
| In the past without being able to do it in house. | 00:21:16 | |
| This time. | 00:21:19 | |
| We will need to hire someone to do that for us. | 00:21:21 | |
| Send request. | 00:21:25 | |
| The companies that is in the list. | 00:21:29 | |
| And three of them submit a quote. | 00:21:32 | |
| That you should have those in front of you. | 00:21:35 | |
| So I would appreciate if you can take a look at it and. | 00:21:37 | |
| I guess we you gonna. | 00:21:42 | |
| Pick the the. | 00:21:44 | |
| Yeah. I think we'll end up taking this under advisement tonight, but I just want to clarify why we're taking this outside the | 00:21:45 | |
| shop. Is it? | 00:21:49 | |
| Too big a job. Do we not have the man? We don't have enough manpower to do that. | 00:21:52 | |
| And then is is due by the end of this. | 00:21:56 | |
| Next month. | 00:22:00 | |
| June, OK. | 00:22:01 | |
| Have we had a reduction in manpower or we have an increased demand on personnel? We have. We don't. We don't have enough personnel | 00:22:03 | |
| to do that. The person that I had with us, I was planning to use him and give him enough training to do the work. | 00:22:10 | |
| And he is not with this it didn't work out right exactly. So I just I can anticipate a question as to why we're. | 00:22:18 | |
| Contracting this out so, but I recall that we had. | 00:22:24 | |
| Yes, someone who had to leave. That was my intention. But. | 00:22:28 | |
| Yes, sometime. | 00:22:32 | |
| Yeah. OK. I'll make the motion to take these under advisement for. | 00:22:33 | |
| I was going to say these things have. | 00:22:42 | |
| How long it's going to take and I think. | 00:22:45 | |
| If you're going to choose. | 00:22:48 | |
| Beacon which is the lowest 14,000? | 00:22:50 | |
| I just want to check their agreement because they say how long. | 00:22:54 | |
| I don't have. | 00:22:59 | |
| Do you have the beacon agreement? | 00:23:01 | |
| The beacon no. | 00:23:04 | |
| No. So you're talking about how long it's going to take them to turn around the results for us? | 00:23:05 | |
| OK, my best guess is someone working. | 00:23:11 | |
| Straight the whole day. | 00:23:15 | |
| He might take about. | 00:23:17 | |
| Two weeks. | 00:23:19 | |
| I think part of each contract they were aware of your deadline. | 00:23:20 | |
| Yes, and each contract. | 00:23:24 | |
| Stated that they could meet that deadline, yes. | 00:23:26 | |
| I know we had someone who was clearly lower, but I wasn't sure that. | 00:23:29 | |
| Everyone had that chance to look at it. | 00:23:33 | |
| Why don't we move to the next item and go back? Because he's he's involved in the next item as well as a contract. So I was | 00:23:47 | |
| actually going to go down to. | 00:23:51 | |
| You're not leaving the meeting, are you in case? OK, so. | 00:23:59 | |
| If you will. | 00:24:03 | |
| Step aside while I Rick review that and. | 00:24:05 | |
| I'm going to go to #9 to our fire board appointment. | 00:24:08 | |
| It's quite all right. OK. Thank you. | 00:24:11 | |
| We got. | 00:24:14 | |
| OK, You wanna go to 9? Yeah. OK, yeah. | 00:24:16 | |
| So we've had a resignation on the Georgetown Fire Board due to someone. | 00:24:19 | |
| Moving outside the area. | 00:24:23 | |
| We have. | 00:24:26 | |
| Somebody who's a interested in taking upon that appointment I think would be a good fit. | 00:24:27 | |
| Kyle Johnson, he's a company officer at Clarksville Fire Department has. | 00:24:33 | |
| Of very many years in firefighting experience and I think he would be good for that. So I would like to nominate. | 00:24:37 | |
| Kyle Johnson to. | 00:24:43 | |
| Be appointed to the Georgetown Fire Board. | 00:24:45 | |
| And I'll second that motion. | 00:24:47 | |
| I have a motion and a second all in favor. | 00:24:49 | |
| Aye, Gloria, did you get the? | 00:24:53 | |
| Spelling and everything on. | 00:24:55 | |
| I'll yeah, I think I got this contact for stuff for you. | 00:24:58 | |
| OK, OK, OK. | 00:25:02 | |
| I'm going to go ahead and move down to approval of Rd. closure at Jefferson Gardens Sunday, July 6, 2025 for the Smith Kendrick | 00:25:05 | |
| family reunion which. | 00:25:09 | |
| Make the motion handle that I don't think you've had. | 00:25:14 | |
| The objections to that, that's correct. Yeah. We've been doing that since I've been around. I'll second. | 00:25:17 | |
| Motion is second all in favor, aye. | 00:25:22 | |
| I and then I also had the road closure that. | 00:25:26 | |
| We had added to the agenda for the American Legion. | 00:25:31 | |
| Paoli Pike in Scottsville. | 00:25:35 | |
| It was Poppy and yes, yeah. | 00:25:40 | |
| Yeah, yeah. So I'll need a motion for that. I'll make motion. We approve that. I'll second. | 00:25:42 | |
| OK. Motion is second all in favor, aye? | 00:25:49 | |
| 9 All right, I as well. | 00:25:52 | |
| So we can notify them of those closures on that. | 00:25:55 | |
| Mr. Fox still busy so I will look for approval of the Commissioners meetings minutes for April 15th, 2025 S. | 00:26:01 | |
| Second, all in favor? | 00:26:08 | |
| Approval of payroll and claims. | 00:26:13 | |
| All right, motion approved. | 00:26:16 | |
| Second. OK, all in favor. | 00:26:18 | |
| That was for the record. We had a meeting today at Stormwater at 4:30. | 00:26:23 | |
| PM So I think we're going to have to have Mr. Fox's input on. | 00:26:29 | |
| The remaining It's my understanding there are no board and committee reports tonight. | 00:26:34 | |
| So and I'll announce. | 00:26:40 | |
| In advance that our next meeting is Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 at 6:00 PM. | 00:26:43 | |
| I don't see this. | 00:26:49 | |
| Yes, ma'am. | 00:26:51 | |
| Did you say it was a Rd. closure? | 00:26:54 | |
| No, it's just a. | 00:26:56 | |
| He may have said Rd. Closure. | 00:26:59 | |
| It's an event. It's an event, yeah. | 00:27:04 | |
| That's actually. | 00:27:09 | |
| Poppy and Poppy and Scottsville, yeah. | 00:27:11 | |
| Yes, ma'am. | 00:27:20 | |
| As long as I don't need any input from him on the contract. | 00:27:26 | |
| Gloria. | 00:27:31 | |
| Everything was in order. | 00:27:32 | |
| All right. | 00:27:36 | |
| I feel like. | 00:27:38 | |
| I'm a filibustering. I'm going to start reading the phone book or something. | 00:27:39 | |
| So for clarity, they wanted to stop at Schubert's corner. | 00:27:45 | |
| For their poppy drive. | 00:27:50 | |
| It's not a road. They're selling poppies, apparently. Poppy drug. | 00:27:53 | |
| It says Poppy Drive because I kept thinking I know where all the roads are and I've never heard of that one. I thought it was the | 00:27:58 | |
| name of going into the place. That's what I figured it was. | 00:28:02 | |
| I didn't know you could sell Poppy Goddess. | 00:28:07 | |
| All right, Item 7, County Auditor Diane, the topping 2025 Maximus Cost Allocation Plan contract. | 00:28:10 | |
| This is just a renewal of a current contract that we have. Our current one has expired. | 00:28:16 | |
| They do our cost allocation. | 00:28:21 | |
| For us. | 00:28:24 | |
| In case you don't know what that is or just as a reminder. | 00:28:25 | |
| That is a federal reimbursement for direct and indirect costs that are incurred for the Title 4D plan in Floyd County, which is | 00:28:28 | |
| child support, so. | 00:28:33 | |
| We run a lot of reports at the 1st of the month for the previous month for this company. They do all of the really fun math | 00:28:38 | |
| involved and submit the requests on our behalf to the federal government for reimbursement. | 00:28:43 | |
| OK. | 00:28:49 | |
| And there were no issues with that. I want to confirm that with you, Mr. Fox. I know that we got the e-mail stating that the. | 00:28:51 | |
| For the public record. | 00:28:57 | |
| No issues with this. | 00:29:01 | |
| OK. Well, I'll make the motion to approve the 2025 Maximus Cost Allocation plan contract with the auditor. | 00:29:03 | |
| Second all in favor, aye. | 00:29:10 | |
| Thank you. All right. | 00:29:14 | |
| Thank you. | 00:29:16 | |
| We are now at an. | 00:29:19 | |
| OK, I found Beacon St. can complete the project and provide a draft report within 45 days of notice to proceed. | 00:29:23 | |
| OK, so so that would have to be altered or? | 00:29:32 | |
| I mean, he needs it by the end of the month, right? | 00:29:36 | |
| Next month, OK, we're Caitlin. | 00:29:39 | |
| So if. | 00:29:42 | |
| If you take it under advisement and. | 00:29:43 | |
| You should be OK. | 00:29:47 | |
| Right. | 00:29:48 | |
| So I'll need a motion to take these bids under advisement. There you go. I'll second motion is second all in favor, aye. | 00:29:51 | |
| All right, item 8. | 00:29:59 | |
| The Floyd County on Site Wastewater Management District Notice of Intent. | 00:30:01 | |
| Yes, I've discussed the Notice of Intent. | 00:30:08 | |
| With the. | 00:30:11 | |
| Publicly already and it's for an on site septic management district. | 00:30:13 | |
| This is I call it the rescue systems whenever a. | 00:30:21 | |
| Septic system fails on a residential property. | 00:30:24 | |
| The this district will allow us to be able to evaluate the property for. | 00:30:30 | |
| Rescue systems, so at least it can be a viable prop. | 00:30:37 | |
| And operational. | 00:30:42 | |
| All kinds of rules that go with this It'll be administered by the Floyd County Health Department. | 00:30:43 | |
| There will be appeals to the commissioners. | 00:30:48 | |
| The midst of writing the ordinance now. | 00:30:52 | |
| However, what's pertinent? | 00:30:55 | |
| The in terms of the process of setting up the district, I just need you to. | 00:30:57 | |
| Approve the Notice of Intent. | 00:31:01 | |
| And all that does is it goes forward with regards to this. | 00:31:04 | |
| There's not going to be any fees that are going to be charged for. | 00:31:08 | |
| The territory in the District, which is the unincorporated county, Greenville and Georgetown. | 00:31:11 | |
| It the Floyd County Health Department will administer this just like they do all the other septic systems with regards to permits. | 00:31:18 | |
| We have. | 00:31:28 | |
| In terms of the process, a notice of public hearing, which I got. | 00:31:30 | |
| Posted out. | 00:31:35 | |
| In the Tribune on Friday. | 00:31:36 | |
| And. | 00:31:39 | |
| I've posted it out here on the bulletin board. | 00:31:41 | |
| Week we filed it with Georgetown and Greenville with regards to their governments, but. | 00:31:45 | |
| We have a hearing scheduled on May 22nd. | 00:31:53 | |
| Here in this room at 3:00. | 00:31:56 | |
| And Scott Waters will be the hearing officer. | 00:31:58 | |
| I'll be making a presentation with regards to. | 00:32:02 | |
| The the process. | 00:32:06 | |
| We'll have Anthony Lieber from the Floyd County Health Department who will speak with regards to the environmental associated with | 00:32:09 | |
| this. Doctor Harris, I believe, is going to be here. | 00:32:14 | |
| And so. | 00:32:21 | |
| Scott will listen to. | 00:32:24 | |
| Anybody that wants to speak with regards to. | 00:32:25 | |
| Who is against who's for it, That type of a situation that we have at all the hearings. | 00:32:29 | |
| The Scott will write a report. | 00:32:35 | |
| For the commissioners after the hearing. | 00:32:39 | |
| I've got scheduled for June 17th for the commissioners to address. | 00:32:44 | |
| A proposed ordinance with regards to setting up the district. | 00:32:50 | |
| And we will go from there. | 00:32:54 | |
| OK. So I'll look for a motion of acceptance for the on-site Wastewater Management District notice of intent. | 00:32:56 | |
| So moved. I'll second. | 00:33:03 | |
| All in favor, aye, And unless there's any further discussion required, I'll look for a motion of acceptance for the notice of | 00:33:06 | |
| public hearing on the same matter. | 00:33:10 | |
| So move down that second. | 00:33:16 | |
| All in favor. | 00:33:20 | |
| And then a CFL supplemental agreement. | 00:33:22 | |
| Yes, that's is. | 00:33:26 | |
| For the expert that's been retained in the litigation in the Clark Floyd Landfill. | 00:33:29 | |
| And. | 00:33:35 | |
| This individual. | 00:33:37 | |
| Is working with Ice Miller, who is. | 00:33:39 | |
| The law firm in Indianapolis that's handling the litigation? | 00:33:42 | |
| And we're asking that. | 00:33:46 | |
| Both Floyd County Commissioners and the Clark County Commissioners improve a little indemnity agreement on behalf of the services | 00:33:49 | |
| he's providing. | 00:33:53 | |
| Yeah. Any discussion on that matter? | 00:33:59 | |
| Now I'm pretty clear. | 00:34:02 | |
| OK. | 00:34:03 | |
| I'll make the motion to approve the supplemental removal. | 00:34:04 | |
| Is a house, is that right? | 00:34:07 | |
| Second motion is second all in favor, aye. | 00:34:10 | |
| All right. Thank you. May 22nd is that. | 00:34:14 | |
| Do we have any comment from government officials present this evening? | 00:34:19 | |
| But you come if you want. | 00:34:23 | |
| I'm not egg shell. Is Sheriff Bush OK? Public comment. | 00:34:25 | |
| Mr. Moore. | 00:34:30 | |
| Thank you. PJ Moore, Georgetown Township. | 00:34:40 | |
| Couple of things #1. | 00:34:43 | |
| Horatio is. | 00:34:46 | |
| In all my years come here, one of them was on the ball officials. We have always appreciate his efforts. | 00:34:47 | |
| He's already advised me that I'm. | 00:34:53 | |
| For next year, he's going to try to have a in-house person for that. | 00:34:55 | |
| Review. You guys just approved, so he's already on the ball. I appreciate that. | 00:34:59 | |
| #2. | 00:35:04 | |
| They are property assessment. | 00:35:05 | |
| But Doctor kneel is a question, I believe. | 00:35:07 | |
| There's some guidance on the assessment form itself. | 00:35:10 | |
| As to file an appeal, which is what I'll be using, you're talking about how the public knows. | 00:35:14 | |
| So hopefully you'll be able to read the appeal rate directly. | 00:35:19 | |
| The third thing is. | 00:35:23 | |
| I've gotten. | 00:35:26 | |
| Inquiries or comments once in a while from members of TCC. | 00:35:27 | |
| A couple years ago. | 00:35:32 | |
| Somebody asked me about all these. | 00:35:34 | |
| The proliferation of these. | 00:35:36 | |
| Do yourself yard signs. | 00:35:38 | |
| Some corners just look like. | 00:35:40 | |
| You know a junkyard of signs on telephone poles are all over. This is. | 00:35:42 | |
| All of these signs are against. | 00:35:47 | |
| County ordinance were. | 00:35:49 | |
| Illegal signs in public right of ways where it's either state or county property. | 00:35:51 | |
| Well, when I inquired. | 00:35:56 | |
| About certain officials. | 00:35:58 | |
| About enforcing the ordinance, I was told that the new policy was. | 00:36:00 | |
| To have individuals. | 00:36:04 | |
| Filed A1 on one complaint with the county. | 00:36:05 | |
| And the person had asked at the time. | 00:36:09 | |
| Was reluctant to do so. She was afraid of retribution. | 00:36:11 | |
| Or anything from the contractors or providers in question. | 00:36:15 | |
| Because she didn't want all her information at home and all that stuff out there. | 00:36:19 | |
| And I was thinking I saw a bunch of signs on the way in. | 00:36:23 | |
| And I'm wondering why the umm. | 00:36:27 | |
| It's a county ordinance. | 00:36:30 | |
| I truthfully, I don't think on behalf of me or anybody else. | 00:36:32 | |
| I don't think the onus should be on individual. | 00:36:35 | |
| Residents to enforce the county ordinance. | 00:36:39 | |
| I'm hoping you gentlemen will. | 00:36:41 | |
| An actor allowed policy where? | 00:36:43 | |
| A complaint or concern can be brought to the proper county official. | 00:36:46 | |
| And they can go out or contact the person and say stop putting your signs there. | 00:36:50 | |
| And yeah, I think that the. | 00:36:55 | |
| Private residents should not be the ones required to be the front man for enforcing the county ordinance. | 00:36:57 | |
| I didn't know if you were aware of that. | 00:37:03 | |
| But it. | 00:37:05 | |
| The the idea of having a county resident. | 00:37:06 | |
| Filed A complaint with the county. | 00:37:09 | |
| That the county steps out, but they could say hey. | 00:37:10 | |
| Joe Schmo, Here's one saying you signs are illegal. | 00:37:13 | |
| I think it should be brought to the county's attention. | 00:37:16 | |
| And the county officials should be the one contacting. | 00:37:19 | |
| The person who is violation of the ordinance. | 00:37:22 | |
| Like you gentlemen to consider that. | 00:37:25 | |
| And if you need to, you can discuss it with me further, I can give you particulars. | 00:37:27 | |
| But I think you know what I'm talking about. | 00:37:32 | |
| And the last thing is. | 00:37:34 | |
| Good catch on the poppy. | 00:37:36 | |
| Yeah, Canada has been doing that to celebrate the World War One veterans for decades. | 00:37:38 | |
| So maybe we're going to be there 50% if we're following them, right? | 00:37:44 | |
| Thank you. | 00:37:48 | |
| Any other public comment? | 00:37:52 | |
| Dale Man, Georgetown I want to thank Theresa Plies and Kimball. | 00:38:00 | |
| Refurbishing the battery for a clock. | 00:38:03 | |
| I know it's clicking now. | 00:38:06 | |
| I only see with my glasses on. OK. | 00:38:09 | |
| And another thing that come up today, PJ called requesting, said we had a wheelchair here. | 00:38:11 | |
| Throw somebody in, you know that needed out of their car. We don't. | 00:38:18 | |
| I see him throw it away all the time. | 00:38:23 | |
| A wheelchair? You want us to have a wheelchair here in the building? | 00:38:25 | |
| In case something happens, somebody falls, it wouldn't hurt us to have a wheelchair around here in building. | 00:38:30 | |
| Somebody falls and they need a wheelchair. We probably need a stretcher and. | 00:38:34 | |
| Professional medics to take care of. It's just something that just came up tonight because PJ called me and when we had | 00:38:39 | |
| wheelchairs we could go out and get him. | 00:38:43 | |
| And then I asked Teresa and everybody else, no, we don't have one here. | 00:38:48 | |
| And we should have. | 00:38:52 | |
| Some kind of kind of wheelchair. I'm sure we can find them everywhere. | 00:38:53 | |
| This this chairs got wheels, but I'm telling you. | 00:38:57 | |
| If you put somebody in a wheelchair and you've just provided medical attention. | 00:39:01 | |
| And we don't want to encourage that. We want professionals. | 00:39:07 | |
| Come in here. | 00:39:11 | |
| Evaluate the person with their. | 00:39:13 | |
| Education and put them in a wheelchair or on a stretcher. | 00:39:15 | |
| Go in any high school. High school's got a wheelchair. | 00:39:19 | |
| They also have a nurse. | 00:39:22 | |
| My electric wheelchair is too heavy for me to hoist back and forth on my own. | 00:39:28 | |
| So I was just curious as to whether. | 00:39:36 | |
| Everyone, you are just one of these lightweight collapsible chairs. | 00:39:38 | |
| In case somebody has. | 00:39:42 | |
| A liability problem, not a medical emergency. | 00:39:44 | |
| Or fall but. | 00:39:46 | |
| I told him. | 00:39:48 | |
| That if I didn't feel good coming in, I wasn't going to be able to make the meeting. | 00:39:49 | |
| But for something like this where it's arthritis or anything else? | 00:39:53 | |
| Just having a wheelchair for somebody. | 00:39:56 | |
| Push it might be nice. | 00:39:59 | |
| You're going to fight down usually provided for the cap. | 00:40:01 | |
| Opens up our liability. | 00:40:04 | |
| Don't think of those things until your ability. | 00:40:07 | |
| Starts the media. | 00:40:09 | |
| I understand what you're saying, Frank, about. | 00:40:11 | |
| Liability emergency I'm talking about. | 00:40:13 | |
| Just people like me that have off days. | 00:40:16 | |
| It can't campground line, that's all. | 00:40:18 | |
| All right. | 00:40:21 | |
| We do have hearing impaired. | 00:40:23 | |
| But a lot of people have wheelchair churches. A lot of churches have wheelchair. | 00:40:26 | |
| Case something like that happens. | 00:40:30 | |
| And anyway, that's all I got. | 00:40:33 | |
| The impact fee petition is still going. | 00:40:35 | |
| I guess you read George's letter and you read Daniel Sutton Death's letter in the Tribune today. | 00:40:39 | |
| Where Clark County referendum. | 00:40:44 | |
| Increase their taxes 44%. | 00:40:46 | |
| If it passed today, which I doubt if it did. | 00:40:49 | |
| But we need to get on it. | 00:40:52 | |
| We need every every every county owner too. | 00:40:55 | |
| Thank you. | 00:40:57 | |
| Any other public comments? | 00:40:59 | |
| And they'll look for a motion to adjourn unless they have closing comments. | 00:41:01 | |
| So move. All right. Thank you. | 00:41:06 | |
| Is that it left the sun? | 00:41:10 | |
| I'm sure. | 00:41:12 |