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On my official. 00:00:12
Clock if you'll please. 00:00:14
Stand and join us for the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:17
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. 00:00:21
Into the Republic for which? 00:00:25
Nation under God. 00:00:28
Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:30
All right, thank you for joining us for the June 3rd, 2025 meeting the Floyd County Commissioners. If you have a. 00:00:33
Cell phone, will you please silence it at this moment in time? 00:00:40
If you need to use that, the hallway works well for that. 00:00:45
If you'll join me for a moment of individual prayer, meditation, or reflections. 00:00:50
There for tonight's meeting. 00:00:54
All right. Thank you. I have no one who has signed up to speak on agenda items. 00:01:15
So we'll take these two. 00:01:21
Discussions at the end of. 00:01:23
Tonight's scheduled meeting. 00:01:26
New business tonight building the development services director, Nick Creevy. Nick is actually on vacation. 00:01:30
Rick's taking that OK. 00:01:36
You have the Stine Glass agreement first. 00:01:40
This really damage. 00:01:53
I mean, it is what it is. 00:01:55
All right, so. 00:01:59
I think publicly we need to address why, why these units are being replaced. 00:02:02
Or at least on the record as such. 00:02:06
Those are all from that incident of vandalism. 00:02:09
That's correct. 00:02:12
OK, don't know if you want to expand upon that to the any degree or not, but. 00:02:14
It doesn't really have that on portal. 00:02:18
Public record, but. 00:02:21
Well, basically for those that are in the audience listening, the building was vandalized by juvenile that was being housed here 00:02:23
in the youth shelter. 00:02:27
And so we have got. 00:02:32
About there's another one there for $769, about $8000 from Stine Glass to fix the damage. 00:02:35
So far. 00:02:43
And we're still working on another damage estimates for the rest of building, so this is a bid from Stung Glass. 00:02:45
For $7300 and some change. 00:02:53
To repair the. 00:02:57
Windows. 00:03:00
So these are windows on the building, and there's also a. 00:03:01
Collection of automobile damage, correct? 00:03:05
Quote B is for the door, which is the $769 OK, there's $769 for the door. 00:03:08
And we're still awaiting the hug. Will be over pair estimates, correct? 00:03:15
OK, so. 00:03:18
There are no other discussion. I'll entertain a motion to accept the bids from Stein Glass. Make a motion to accept. 00:03:20
I'll second. 00:03:26
All in favor, aye aye. 00:03:27
All right. Approval of final Bridge 51 plans. 00:03:30
And I haven't reviewed those plans. 00:03:34
But we have all reviewed them. 00:03:38
So. So if we just have. 00:03:40
Kind of handling that from a parliamentarian standpoint. 00:03:42
I'll say that we have the final. 00:03:45
Engineering schematics on bridge 51, which is due to let. 00:03:49
In October of 2020. 00:03:54
Five and. 00:03:58
We're looking for approval to go ahead and sign those so that we can get those back to the engineers and continue on schedule for 00:04:00
that project. That's the Blackstone Mill Bridge. 00:04:04
Make a motion to do. 00:04:09
Do we need a motion then? Right? Yes, make a motion to approve those final bridge plans. 00:04:11
From a bridge 51 and I'll second. 00:04:16
All in favor, aye? 00:04:18
All right, County Attorney Fox. 00:04:21
Law Offices again. 00:04:24
Yes. 00:04:26
And uh. 00:04:27
The you have an ordinance in front of you which. 00:04:30
Is develop. 00:04:34
Opening a line item for our band funding. 00:04:36
And so it. 00:04:40
Will be used. 00:04:42
For the new health. 00:04:44
Apartment building. 00:04:46
And that. 00:04:48
Were set to potentially close on. 00:04:49
There's been on Thursday. 00:04:53
And that's where the money will go. 00:04:55
All right, look for a motion to approve. I'll make a motion to approve with unanimous consent, Floyd County Ordinance 2025-15, the 00:04:59
establishing Non Reverting Fund for the Health Department Building Fund. 00:05:04
Now second. 00:05:09
All in favor, aye? 00:05:10
Aye, all right. Any board committee reports we can have a quick turn around. 00:05:14
Last meeting than this, I met with the health department and we went over the drawings. 00:05:18
For the. 00:05:26
Renovations of the new building. 00:05:29
That looks like exciting project that. 00:05:33
They were definitely excited to get out of what they're doing. 00:05:36
Um, and. 00:05:40
I had another meeting. 00:05:47
Guess that was it. 00:05:51
All right, Jason, nothing. 00:05:55
All right, I attended a couple of ceremonies and. 00:05:57
I don't need to dynamize those tonight. 00:06:01
And spend some time up in New York. 00:06:03
Did not conduct any business for Floyd County while in New York. 00:06:06
All right for approval of Commissioners meeting minutes for May 20, 2025. Post to approve. 00:06:10
Second all in favor, aye. 00:06:16
And approval of payroll and claims. 00:06:20
Motion to approve. 00:06:22
Second all in favor, aye. 00:06:24
Earlier today we had a stormwater meeting at 4:30. Our next meeting is Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM. 00:06:28
Do we have any government officials here who would like to? 00:06:35
Big comment tonight. 00:06:38
Now Mr. 00:06:42
OK, we'll have public comment. We have two who signed up this booth says that the one to talk about Lumos, I'll just. 00:06:44
Give you a preface to this before I call you up. 00:06:51
Letting you know that. 00:06:54
You know, we are aware of multiple concerns in multiple neighborhoods on that. The commissioners have no authority over that 00:06:55
particular issue that. 00:06:59
Is all regulated by state Regulatory Commission on utilities. 00:07:03
Before they begin work, they have to come in and kind of introduce themselves and let us know where they're working. 00:07:08
But they have to prescribe easements that they go through with regards to. 00:07:12
You know Indianapolis on that. 00:07:16
Having said that. 00:07:18
I'm happy to hear concerns from. 00:07:21
John Manzo. 00:07:23
And then Jason Eagle. 00:07:25
So we'll take John Manzo first. 00:07:27
Welcome. 00:07:31
Oh, thank you. 00:07:32
As well, just for the record, just name and address for the. 00:07:34
John Manzo 3016 Cobb Horse Crossing Rd. New Albany. 00:07:39
And I. 00:07:44
I know this is probably not beyond this is probably beyond your control. So it's all beyond our control, but we're. 00:07:46
Being I'm AI am vice president of the HOA board at College Crossing. 00:07:52
And yeah. 00:07:58
Just wanted to sort of let you know Culver's Crossing has been sort of a. 00:07:59
Difficult place the last few years. 2 1/2 years ago. 00:08:04
Pretty much every home in the subdivision was damaged severely from a hailstorm. It was a really localized hail storm and. 00:08:07
Pretty much everybody had to get their roof replaces and siding replaced. 00:08:16
And the good news is that. 00:08:20
In March we had another hail storm and we all have to get our roots replaced and everything, so we're just really feeling. 00:08:22
Good about that. 00:08:28
And the Silver Creek Bridge, which I know you have no control over. 00:08:30
Being out has impacted all of us a lot. And of course opening Wawa in. 00:08:34
In Clarksville, it's made getting to Clarksville into a whole and possible experience. 00:08:40
Construction on Charlestown Rd. has been. 00:08:46
If you live in our subdivision, most of us have to make a left out on Charlestown Rd. 00:08:49
Charlestown Rd. feels like every time you pull out, you feel like you're in the midst of a new demolition Derby. How are you going 00:08:55
to miss and the recent construction? 00:08:59
On that for the bike path and such. 00:09:04
Has made cut, has made a bad Rd. 00:09:08
Works and we're all sort of frustrated on that. And the other aspect of that is The Walking trail is pretty much inaccessible to 00:09:11
us because we have to cross the street to get to it and. 00:09:16
Charlestown Rd. is bad. 00:09:21
The limousine has been really took all of us by surprise. We sort of all got a last minute notice. 00:09:24
And they're really damaging property pretty extensively, probably more than people are realizing. 00:09:31
And uh. 00:09:37
We're just really frustrated in the fact that we feel really unprotected at this point. 00:09:39
And I. 00:09:44
And I'm probably saying something that you can't do anything about, and I'm not blaming any of you by any stretch of the 00:09:45
imagination. 00:09:49
But we're really frustrated between the development on that road, which feels like over development. 00:09:53
Chaos and now we're going to be We've all been hit with an extra expense, having to get our homes repaired. 00:09:59
Again. 00:10:06
And all fighting with insurance because we just did this a few years ago and, and so people are really struggling with that. 00:10:07
And now our neighbors and they've been complaining to us on the HOA board are all getting a lot of property damage from from 00:10:14
Lumos. 00:10:18
So, umm. 00:10:23
I'm just saying, I'm just basically saying that a lot of us in the subdivision are feeling really. 00:10:25
Overwhelmed at this point and perhaps feeling under protected. We're outside of city limits and. 00:10:31
Not sure who to talk to. 00:10:37
Something came to talk to you. 00:10:38
Thank you. 00:10:40
Who's the president of your HOA, Joe? 00:10:41
A Schmidt. 00:10:45
You got stuck with me tonight. 00:10:48
Yeah, it's good to be stuck with you. Yeah, I did. 00:10:50
A couple points that might bring a ray of sun. 00:10:53
We had two of the four permits. 00:10:55
Necessary to bring the blacksmith dam down. Signed off on last Friday. We're waiting the the final two and then construction. 00:10:58
Demolition can begin and then construction. 00:11:07
Yeah. Also just want to clarify something that there was kind of a misnomer. You had nothing to do with this, but there was this 00:11:10
misconception that. 00:11:13
We were spending money on that. 00:11:18
Trail project that could have been diverted. I know that that's not my just so people know. I've never spoken to it on the public 00:11:20
record, but I feel compelled to do that, you know, when we came into office. 00:11:25
There was actually money earmarked for that that was under county. 00:11:30
Control for the trail project, we took that and that's what's rebuilding Old Vincent's Road hill slide right now. 00:11:33
And we took kind of a gamble. We didn't. 00:11:41
We actually just push that down the calendar on that trail project 3 or 4 years and thought we'd get money when we could get it, 00:11:44
but. 00:11:46
Through grant writing we were able to get that, so we didn't miss a beat on that, whether you like the design on that or not. 00:11:49
That was. 00:11:54
Put into place by. 00:11:56
By our predecessors. 00:11:58
You know, I don't, I'm not trying to cast blame on them. I mean, I signed off on that too. 00:12:00
But there was there was no way to take that money and. 00:12:04
And speed up the process down there. And I and I understand that I'm not complaining about that. I'm just basically saying I just 00:12:08
feel like. 00:12:11
You know, I'm feeling like we're in the other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like to play kind of moment and the I will tell 00:12:15
you that. 00:12:19
A couple of the neighborhoods that they were in earlier. 00:12:22
Sent us some. 00:12:26
Photographs of the work that had been done and we were able to relay that to our engineer. 00:12:27
And he was able to talk to the Lumos engineers to make sure to kind of stay on top of them. So if you want to forward. 00:12:31
You've got my, I think my. 00:12:38
My personal cell number, which I'm happy to give out to you, but just. 00:12:41
If you want to send me some photographs of what's being done over there, I can send it to the engineers and then they can speak 00:12:43
with the Lumos folks to make at least make sure that. 00:12:47
They're doing what they're supposed to do within specification. I appreciate it. OK, thank you. 00:12:51
All right. Thank you, Mr. Jason Eagle. 00:12:55
Good evening. 00:13:05
It's Jason. 00:13:06
3305 Coppers Court in New Albany. 00:13:07
Is it eagle or Engle? I'm sorry about House and Prairie with an eagle. 00:13:10
All right. I've been there about 11 years. Wonderful. 00:13:13
Community businesses love it, investing a lot of my financial ability into it. 00:13:16
I would love to see the area grow. 00:13:20
Three weeks ago when we came back on a wonderful vacation. 00:13:22
And we? 00:13:25
Wonderful. Eric back there had been trying to communicate with Loomis as well as Horatio on a lot of the situations. 00:13:26
Being that I love Internet in the. 00:13:32
Different things we can bring into the community. I didn't really mind. 00:13:35
However, last Tuesday when I saw Loomis begin construction in our subdivision, that concerned me. 00:13:38
I'm not going to come forward and. 00:13:44
Great stink of another company. I try to be very understanding. 00:13:46
However, I wanted to come today as well. I've been talking with Suzanne a lot of the. 00:13:49
I actually reached out to my real estate attorney last week. 00:13:53
Had several conversations around this. 00:13:56
The situation with Loomis is and Horatio and I discussed this after Susanna had requested him. 00:13:58
After Mickey Thompson had requested him several times to contact me. 00:14:03
Is the fact that they do have the right of way of the county roads? 00:14:07
They have 20 feet from the center line to do so. 00:14:10
However, once they enter a subdivision, they're supposed to abide by the plotted easements. 00:14:12
For the type of foundation they're laying. 00:14:17
Back in October. 00:14:20
They normally submitted with Indiana. 00:14:22
Utility Commission. 00:14:24
On what kind of license they wanted. 00:14:25
In March of this year. 00:14:27
Loomis was granted by Indiana a telecommunications utility certificate. 00:14:29
To operate in our state. 00:14:33
Unfortunately, they're moving so quickly. 00:14:35
That the Registry Commission cannot track them. 00:14:37
They weren't even familiar with them when I spoke to him 2 days ago on last Friday. 00:14:39
And they're very concerned, so much so that they reached out to them yesterday. 00:14:43
And asked him to put a stop. 00:14:47
Until they can get all the lines marked. 00:14:48
Their concern was is that once they reached a subdivision, they shouldn't be utilizing those easements that's been plotted by the 00:14:50
reporter's office. 00:14:53
And unfortunately, you're using the right away of the roads and Horatio unfortunately didn't know that he could prevent that or at 00:14:57
least mention that up front to utilize those easements. 00:15:01
He apologized. He's very humble and he's showed a lot of integrity. Integrity. 00:15:05
To dress that with me. 00:15:09
But he didn't ask me to reach out to Rick Fox as well as Susanna and the committee here. 00:15:10
To let them know that. 00:15:15
He wasn't aware of that. 00:15:16
And he didn't know if there's anything we could do to prevent them for other subdivisions or even the rest of ours. 00:15:17
In that matter. 00:15:22
The concerns we had with Loomis was the fact that they were moving so quickly that they're leaving open pits throughout our 00:15:23
community. 00:15:26
3 foot deep. 00:15:30
Of course, we don't have sidewalks on our subdivision. 00:15:31
So most the children play 5 yards. 00:15:33
That was a major concern. 00:15:35
The concern I noticed is that the water lines were marked in the road where the water mains were. 00:15:37
There are no flags or other you. 00:15:41
Utilities marked in our subdivision. 00:15:42
Specifically, Whittemore Court. 00:15:44
Coverage crossing and Cobblers Court. 00:15:47
When I made a phone call to Indiana University. 00:15:49
Indiana Utility Commission based off my employers recommendation. 00:15:51
I was approached by Aaron, who was over pipeline safety. He reached out to Mickey Thompson after his phone call last Friday. 00:15:56
Try to figure out what the world's going on. 00:16:02
Because 811 had actually asked them not to begin digging until June 3rd. 00:16:03
Because the RMC or gas lines or water could not be marked until then. 00:16:09
The issue was that they had already begun and already dug those three sticks, those three-step streets worth. 00:16:14
Before they even got to the point of getting marked. 00:16:19
Supposedly they don't know. We can't prove it, that they think that even their own. 00:16:21
The contractor, which is Millennium Incorporated, who's digging on behalf of one of us, were marking the water mains himself. 00:16:25
Based off of people's. 00:16:31
Property lines and where the water meter was located at. 00:16:32
RMC requested them not to dig till June 3rd because they couldn't get out there till June till my May 28th. 00:16:36
But they've already completed the three streets. 00:16:41
The weird part is, is even though they got all the digging and all the piping laid round, none of it's been finished. They're 00:16:43
moving throughout the whole subdivision. 00:16:47
And they're not completing anything. 00:16:50
The concern was is that there are so many of these numerous subcontractors because they had told Mickey at the beginning when they 00:16:52
applied for the permit. 00:16:56
That it was going to be their own contractors. 00:17:00
But it's actually not. It's actually a subcontractor and they actually have another subcontract. 00:17:01
With them and Millennium Incorporated is requesting the dig permits. 00:17:05
And eight One One has finally got caught up with. 00:17:10
After the speaking to the OUCC. 00:17:13
Aaron called me yesterday. 00:17:15
And said hey, what streets are they performed on so far? 00:17:17
Informed on the same one that. 00:17:20
And he says, well, they're going to pause until they get it confirmed. 00:17:22
Bioluminescence actual contractor to come out and proceed forward. 00:17:25
The weird part is an hour and a half later. 00:17:30
They didn't even show up on those streets yesterday, they showed up on Hadley Place. 00:17:32
A whole different street. So they pause on the three streets that he mentioned. 00:17:37
That started up starting new work on a whole other area and they haven't finished the other ones yet. 00:17:40
The weird part was that today they came right back to covers court and it's finishing up what they showed us to finish to begin 00:17:44
with yesterday. 00:17:47
Prior to. 00:17:50
So the concern was is. 00:17:52
They're also supposed to give us as of January 1st this year. 00:17:53
They're going to use an easement they're supposed to let us know 48 hours in advance. 00:17:56
As of July July 1st, my lawyer said that. 00:18:00
811 requires that within 48 hours they're supposed to let you know. 00:18:03
Which easement they're going to dig? Which easement that is? 00:18:07
Whether it's the rear or the front and if they need to progress beyond that point. 00:18:10
There was no notice. 00:18:14
Portland in front of me, who's very elderly. She has irrigation lines all throughout her yard. 00:18:15
And she was so worried that they're gonna dig him up. 00:18:19
Because they'd already started digging and nothing was marked. 00:18:22
Not only the gas lines or water lines or electric lines, but her poor line, so we had to mark those forward. 00:18:24
Based off her memory. 00:18:30
Because our water company put them in, couldn't come out to a week later. 00:18:31
So those are the concerns we're worried about. 00:18:34
Obviously they're only three streets in. 00:18:36
For now, if you want to count, Hadley Place has been working like crazy, but we have several more left to go. 00:18:38
And it's not the only subdivision that I'm concerned about because it's one of the first they're getting started on. 00:18:43
Aaron at the pipeline safety was was concerned with the fact that. 00:18:48
We don't know why they're moving without stuff being marked. 00:18:51
Luckily, 811 sent out six different trucks yesterday and a training crew to get a whole subdivision marked. 00:18:54
Did an outstanding job of that. 00:19:00
But it wasn't for those phone calls that I made. I don't think it would have happened. 00:19:01
The frustrating part that I had was is I did reach out to numerous people, numerous phone calls last week. 00:19:05
And I spent two whole work days trying to reach someone that knew something about him. 00:19:10
Thankfully Susanna and Mickey Thompson with wonderful help with this. 00:19:14
And help me get tied into the right people. 00:19:17
But unfortunately not be able to reach out to you all, our Horatio. 00:19:20
Is concerned now, Horatio, I know he he's going to approve what he's presented. 00:19:23
Same with Vicki Thompson. 00:19:28
But if women's isn't being honest up front or utilizing the curriculum. 00:19:30
Prove that they say they're going to. 00:19:33
That we need to find a way to intervene. I don't know where that part comes into play. 00:19:35
And that's why I'm here tonight. 00:19:39
Is I'm concerned not only for our own community, but the rest, because they're just starting. 00:19:41
They're going to be everywhere. 00:19:44
And that was a concern of the pipeline. 00:19:45
Well, thank you for taking the time to be here with that tonight, Rick, I don't want to put you on the spot because I don't know 00:19:47
if you've heard of this, but. 00:19:50
We do need to know what recourse we do or don't have in the matter. 00:19:54
With regards to this. 00:19:57
This is the first I've heard of it. 00:20:01
I don't have. 00:20:03
Any documentation in terms of contracts or? 00:20:04
I did send Susanna the copy of the contract the Indiana. 00:20:11
Gave them approval for certificate. 00:20:14
Authority of Indiana, what they're allowed to use. 00:20:16
And they are considered a telecommunications company. 00:20:19
The gentleman that I spoke to at the third. 00:20:21
Translator. 00:20:23
Last week said that they're going to use the right away. It was easier. 00:20:25
And they're a foundation utility. 00:20:28
That's not the case. 00:20:29
They're actually considered by Indiana, a telecommunications utility. 00:20:31
And therefore we're supposed to be using the same utilities. 00:20:34
As spectrum, AT&T as well as RNC. 00:20:36
And two years ago, when RMC put our streetlights in, even they abided by the. 00:20:40
It's been a lot easier. 00:20:43
But then put the streamlines using the right away of a Rd. 00:20:44
But even they utilize their reasons. 00:20:47
But any any research you could do in the process? 00:20:50
Appreciate it. Thank you. 00:20:53
All right. Thank you. 00:20:55
My comment. 00:20:59
From that I would have. From that is that. 00:21:00
You know, we've been in open communication with. 00:21:02
Every neighborhood that's reached out to us and got hold of us so. 00:21:05
That's a little concerning to me that you weren't able to get. 00:21:08
Directly. 00:21:10
I decided to look you don't have my number or. 00:21:12
Zoe's Facebook director. 00:21:15
John has my number. I think everybody in the county has. 00:21:17
There you go. Everybody's got it. Yeah, so. 00:21:21
Anyway, let's. 00:21:23
See what resources we do have. 00:21:25
And what authority we do have. And let's. 00:21:27
Exercise it. 00:21:30
As best we can. 00:21:31
We have to bring somebody else. 00:21:32
Yeah. You know, I'm like Scott or somebody like that or whatever. And then I would also encourage you since this. 00:21:35
Kind of in the realm of the. 00:21:43
The state of Indiana that I would recommend that you speak to maybe Senator Gary Byrd about that as well, State Senator Gary Byrne 00:21:45
or state representatives. 00:21:49
All right. Thank you. 00:21:55
All right, I. 00:21:58
Any closing comment? 00:22:00
You know, if I forgot to do anything. I don't think so, but. 00:22:02
All right. I'll look for a motion to adjourn. 00:22:08
So moved. 00:22:09
Second. All right. Thank you all. 00:22:11
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Event transcript
On my official. 00:00:12
Clock if you'll please. 00:00:14
Stand and join us for the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:17
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. 00:00:21
Into the Republic for which? 00:00:25
Nation under God. 00:00:28
Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:30
All right, thank you for joining us for the June 3rd, 2025 meeting the Floyd County Commissioners. If you have a. 00:00:33
Cell phone, will you please silence it at this moment in time? 00:00:40
If you need to use that, the hallway works well for that. 00:00:45
If you'll join me for a moment of individual prayer, meditation, or reflections. 00:00:50
There for tonight's meeting. 00:00:54
All right. Thank you. I have no one who has signed up to speak on agenda items. 00:01:15
So we'll take these two. 00:01:21
Discussions at the end of. 00:01:23
Tonight's scheduled meeting. 00:01:26
New business tonight building the development services director, Nick Creevy. Nick is actually on vacation. 00:01:30
Rick's taking that OK. 00:01:36
You have the Stine Glass agreement first. 00:01:40
This really damage. 00:01:53
I mean, it is what it is. 00:01:55
All right, so. 00:01:59
I think publicly we need to address why, why these units are being replaced. 00:02:02
Or at least on the record as such. 00:02:06
Those are all from that incident of vandalism. 00:02:09
That's correct. 00:02:12
OK, don't know if you want to expand upon that to the any degree or not, but. 00:02:14
It doesn't really have that on portal. 00:02:18
Public record, but. 00:02:21
Well, basically for those that are in the audience listening, the building was vandalized by juvenile that was being housed here 00:02:23
in the youth shelter. 00:02:27
And so we have got. 00:02:32
About there's another one there for $769, about $8000 from Stine Glass to fix the damage. 00:02:35
So far. 00:02:43
And we're still working on another damage estimates for the rest of building, so this is a bid from Stung Glass. 00:02:45
For $7300 and some change. 00:02:53
To repair the. 00:02:57
Windows. 00:03:00
So these are windows on the building, and there's also a. 00:03:01
Collection of automobile damage, correct? 00:03:05
Quote B is for the door, which is the $769 OK, there's $769 for the door. 00:03:08
And we're still awaiting the hug. Will be over pair estimates, correct? 00:03:15
OK, so. 00:03:18
There are no other discussion. I'll entertain a motion to accept the bids from Stein Glass. Make a motion to accept. 00:03:20
I'll second. 00:03:26
All in favor, aye aye. 00:03:27
All right. Approval of final Bridge 51 plans. 00:03:30
And I haven't reviewed those plans. 00:03:34
But we have all reviewed them. 00:03:38
So. So if we just have. 00:03:40
Kind of handling that from a parliamentarian standpoint. 00:03:42
I'll say that we have the final. 00:03:45
Engineering schematics on bridge 51, which is due to let. 00:03:49
In October of 2020. 00:03:54
Five and. 00:03:58
We're looking for approval to go ahead and sign those so that we can get those back to the engineers and continue on schedule for 00:04:00
that project. That's the Blackstone Mill Bridge. 00:04:04
Make a motion to do. 00:04:09
Do we need a motion then? Right? Yes, make a motion to approve those final bridge plans. 00:04:11
From a bridge 51 and I'll second. 00:04:16
All in favor, aye? 00:04:18
All right, County Attorney Fox. 00:04:21
Law Offices again. 00:04:24
Yes. 00:04:26
And uh. 00:04:27
The you have an ordinance in front of you which. 00:04:30
Is develop. 00:04:34
Opening a line item for our band funding. 00:04:36
And so it. 00:04:40
Will be used. 00:04:42
For the new health. 00:04:44
Apartment building. 00:04:46
And that. 00:04:48
Were set to potentially close on. 00:04:49
There's been on Thursday. 00:04:53
And that's where the money will go. 00:04:55
All right, look for a motion to approve. I'll make a motion to approve with unanimous consent, Floyd County Ordinance 2025-15, the 00:04:59
establishing Non Reverting Fund for the Health Department Building Fund. 00:05:04
Now second. 00:05:09
All in favor, aye? 00:05:10
Aye, all right. Any board committee reports we can have a quick turn around. 00:05:14
Last meeting than this, I met with the health department and we went over the drawings. 00:05:18
For the. 00:05:26
Renovations of the new building. 00:05:29
That looks like exciting project that. 00:05:33
They were definitely excited to get out of what they're doing. 00:05:36
Um, and. 00:05:40
I had another meeting. 00:05:47
Guess that was it. 00:05:51
All right, Jason, nothing. 00:05:55
All right, I attended a couple of ceremonies and. 00:05:57
I don't need to dynamize those tonight. 00:06:01
And spend some time up in New York. 00:06:03
Did not conduct any business for Floyd County while in New York. 00:06:06
All right for approval of Commissioners meeting minutes for May 20, 2025. Post to approve. 00:06:10
Second all in favor, aye. 00:06:16
And approval of payroll and claims. 00:06:20
Motion to approve. 00:06:22
Second all in favor, aye. 00:06:24
Earlier today we had a stormwater meeting at 4:30. Our next meeting is Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM. 00:06:28
Do we have any government officials here who would like to? 00:06:35
Big comment tonight. 00:06:38
Now Mr. 00:06:42
OK, we'll have public comment. We have two who signed up this booth says that the one to talk about Lumos, I'll just. 00:06:44
Give you a preface to this before I call you up. 00:06:51
Letting you know that. 00:06:54
You know, we are aware of multiple concerns in multiple neighborhoods on that. The commissioners have no authority over that 00:06:55
particular issue that. 00:06:59
Is all regulated by state Regulatory Commission on utilities. 00:07:03
Before they begin work, they have to come in and kind of introduce themselves and let us know where they're working. 00:07:08
But they have to prescribe easements that they go through with regards to. 00:07:12
You know Indianapolis on that. 00:07:16
Having said that. 00:07:18
I'm happy to hear concerns from. 00:07:21
John Manzo. 00:07:23
And then Jason Eagle. 00:07:25
So we'll take John Manzo first. 00:07:27
Welcome. 00:07:31
Oh, thank you. 00:07:32
As well, just for the record, just name and address for the. 00:07:34
John Manzo 3016 Cobb Horse Crossing Rd. New Albany. 00:07:39
And I. 00:07:44
I know this is probably not beyond this is probably beyond your control. So it's all beyond our control, but we're. 00:07:46
Being I'm AI am vice president of the HOA board at College Crossing. 00:07:52
And yeah. 00:07:58
Just wanted to sort of let you know Culver's Crossing has been sort of a. 00:07:59
Difficult place the last few years. 2 1/2 years ago. 00:08:04
Pretty much every home in the subdivision was damaged severely from a hailstorm. It was a really localized hail storm and. 00:08:07
Pretty much everybody had to get their roof replaces and siding replaced. 00:08:16
And the good news is that. 00:08:20
In March we had another hail storm and we all have to get our roots replaced and everything, so we're just really feeling. 00:08:22
Good about that. 00:08:28
And the Silver Creek Bridge, which I know you have no control over. 00:08:30
Being out has impacted all of us a lot. And of course opening Wawa in. 00:08:34
In Clarksville, it's made getting to Clarksville into a whole and possible experience. 00:08:40
Construction on Charlestown Rd. has been. 00:08:46
If you live in our subdivision, most of us have to make a left out on Charlestown Rd. 00:08:49
Charlestown Rd. feels like every time you pull out, you feel like you're in the midst of a new demolition Derby. How are you going 00:08:55
to miss and the recent construction? 00:08:59
On that for the bike path and such. 00:09:04
Has made cut, has made a bad Rd. 00:09:08
Works and we're all sort of frustrated on that. And the other aspect of that is The Walking trail is pretty much inaccessible to 00:09:11
us because we have to cross the street to get to it and. 00:09:16
Charlestown Rd. is bad. 00:09:21
The limousine has been really took all of us by surprise. We sort of all got a last minute notice. 00:09:24
And they're really damaging property pretty extensively, probably more than people are realizing. 00:09:31
And uh. 00:09:37
We're just really frustrated in the fact that we feel really unprotected at this point. 00:09:39
And I. 00:09:44
And I'm probably saying something that you can't do anything about, and I'm not blaming any of you by any stretch of the 00:09:45
imagination. 00:09:49
But we're really frustrated between the development on that road, which feels like over development. 00:09:53
Chaos and now we're going to be We've all been hit with an extra expense, having to get our homes repaired. 00:09:59
Again. 00:10:06
And all fighting with insurance because we just did this a few years ago and, and so people are really struggling with that. 00:10:07
And now our neighbors and they've been complaining to us on the HOA board are all getting a lot of property damage from from 00:10:14
Lumos. 00:10:18
So, umm. 00:10:23
I'm just saying, I'm just basically saying that a lot of us in the subdivision are feeling really. 00:10:25
Overwhelmed at this point and perhaps feeling under protected. We're outside of city limits and. 00:10:31
Not sure who to talk to. 00:10:37
Something came to talk to you. 00:10:38
Thank you. 00:10:40
Who's the president of your HOA, Joe? 00:10:41
A Schmidt. 00:10:45
You got stuck with me tonight. 00:10:48
Yeah, it's good to be stuck with you. Yeah, I did. 00:10:50
A couple points that might bring a ray of sun. 00:10:53
We had two of the four permits. 00:10:55
Necessary to bring the blacksmith dam down. Signed off on last Friday. We're waiting the the final two and then construction. 00:10:58
Demolition can begin and then construction. 00:11:07
Yeah. Also just want to clarify something that there was kind of a misnomer. You had nothing to do with this, but there was this 00:11:10
misconception that. 00:11:13
We were spending money on that. 00:11:18
Trail project that could have been diverted. I know that that's not my just so people know. I've never spoken to it on the public 00:11:20
record, but I feel compelled to do that, you know, when we came into office. 00:11:25
There was actually money earmarked for that that was under county. 00:11:30
Control for the trail project, we took that and that's what's rebuilding Old Vincent's Road hill slide right now. 00:11:33
And we took kind of a gamble. We didn't. 00:11:41
We actually just push that down the calendar on that trail project 3 or 4 years and thought we'd get money when we could get it, 00:11:44
but. 00:11:46
Through grant writing we were able to get that, so we didn't miss a beat on that, whether you like the design on that or not. 00:11:49
That was. 00:11:54
Put into place by. 00:11:56
By our predecessors. 00:11:58
You know, I don't, I'm not trying to cast blame on them. I mean, I signed off on that too. 00:12:00
But there was there was no way to take that money and. 00:12:04
And speed up the process down there. And I and I understand that I'm not complaining about that. I'm just basically saying I just 00:12:08
feel like. 00:12:11
You know, I'm feeling like we're in the other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like to play kind of moment and the I will tell 00:12:15
you that. 00:12:19
A couple of the neighborhoods that they were in earlier. 00:12:22
Sent us some. 00:12:26
Photographs of the work that had been done and we were able to relay that to our engineer. 00:12:27
And he was able to talk to the Lumos engineers to make sure to kind of stay on top of them. So if you want to forward. 00:12:31
You've got my, I think my. 00:12:38
My personal cell number, which I'm happy to give out to you, but just. 00:12:41
If you want to send me some photographs of what's being done over there, I can send it to the engineers and then they can speak 00:12:43
with the Lumos folks to make at least make sure that. 00:12:47
They're doing what they're supposed to do within specification. I appreciate it. OK, thank you. 00:12:51
All right. Thank you, Mr. Jason Eagle. 00:12:55
Good evening. 00:13:05
It's Jason. 00:13:06
3305 Coppers Court in New Albany. 00:13:07
Is it eagle or Engle? I'm sorry about House and Prairie with an eagle. 00:13:10
All right. I've been there about 11 years. Wonderful. 00:13:13
Community businesses love it, investing a lot of my financial ability into it. 00:13:16
I would love to see the area grow. 00:13:20
Three weeks ago when we came back on a wonderful vacation. 00:13:22
And we? 00:13:25
Wonderful. Eric back there had been trying to communicate with Loomis as well as Horatio on a lot of the situations. 00:13:26
Being that I love Internet in the. 00:13:32
Different things we can bring into the community. I didn't really mind. 00:13:35
However, last Tuesday when I saw Loomis begin construction in our subdivision, that concerned me. 00:13:38
I'm not going to come forward and. 00:13:44
Great stink of another company. I try to be very understanding. 00:13:46
However, I wanted to come today as well. I've been talking with Suzanne a lot of the. 00:13:49
I actually reached out to my real estate attorney last week. 00:13:53
Had several conversations around this. 00:13:56
The situation with Loomis is and Horatio and I discussed this after Susanna had requested him. 00:13:58
After Mickey Thompson had requested him several times to contact me. 00:14:03
Is the fact that they do have the right of way of the county roads? 00:14:07
They have 20 feet from the center line to do so. 00:14:10
However, once they enter a subdivision, they're supposed to abide by the plotted easements. 00:14:12
For the type of foundation they're laying. 00:14:17
Back in October. 00:14:20
They normally submitted with Indiana. 00:14:22
Utility Commission. 00:14:24
On what kind of license they wanted. 00:14:25
In March of this year. 00:14:27
Loomis was granted by Indiana a telecommunications utility certificate. 00:14:29
To operate in our state. 00:14:33
Unfortunately, they're moving so quickly. 00:14:35
That the Registry Commission cannot track them. 00:14:37
They weren't even familiar with them when I spoke to him 2 days ago on last Friday. 00:14:39
And they're very concerned, so much so that they reached out to them yesterday. 00:14:43
And asked him to put a stop. 00:14:47
Until they can get all the lines marked. 00:14:48
Their concern was is that once they reached a subdivision, they shouldn't be utilizing those easements that's been plotted by the 00:14:50
reporter's office. 00:14:53
And unfortunately, you're using the right away of the roads and Horatio unfortunately didn't know that he could prevent that or at 00:14:57
least mention that up front to utilize those easements. 00:15:01
He apologized. He's very humble and he's showed a lot of integrity. Integrity. 00:15:05
To dress that with me. 00:15:09
But he didn't ask me to reach out to Rick Fox as well as Susanna and the committee here. 00:15:10
To let them know that. 00:15:15
He wasn't aware of that. 00:15:16
And he didn't know if there's anything we could do to prevent them for other subdivisions or even the rest of ours. 00:15:17
In that matter. 00:15:22
The concerns we had with Loomis was the fact that they were moving so quickly that they're leaving open pits throughout our 00:15:23
community. 00:15:26
3 foot deep. 00:15:30
Of course, we don't have sidewalks on our subdivision. 00:15:31
So most the children play 5 yards. 00:15:33
That was a major concern. 00:15:35
The concern I noticed is that the water lines were marked in the road where the water mains were. 00:15:37
There are no flags or other you. 00:15:41
Utilities marked in our subdivision. 00:15:42
Specifically, Whittemore Court. 00:15:44
Coverage crossing and Cobblers Court. 00:15:47
When I made a phone call to Indiana University. 00:15:49
Indiana Utility Commission based off my employers recommendation. 00:15:51
I was approached by Aaron, who was over pipeline safety. He reached out to Mickey Thompson after his phone call last Friday. 00:15:56
Try to figure out what the world's going on. 00:16:02
Because 811 had actually asked them not to begin digging until June 3rd. 00:16:03
Because the RMC or gas lines or water could not be marked until then. 00:16:09
The issue was that they had already begun and already dug those three sticks, those three-step streets worth. 00:16:14
Before they even got to the point of getting marked. 00:16:19
Supposedly they don't know. We can't prove it, that they think that even their own. 00:16:21
The contractor, which is Millennium Incorporated, who's digging on behalf of one of us, were marking the water mains himself. 00:16:25
Based off of people's. 00:16:31
Property lines and where the water meter was located at. 00:16:32
RMC requested them not to dig till June 3rd because they couldn't get out there till June till my May 28th. 00:16:36
But they've already completed the three streets. 00:16:41
The weird part is, is even though they got all the digging and all the piping laid round, none of it's been finished. They're 00:16:43
moving throughout the whole subdivision. 00:16:47
And they're not completing anything. 00:16:50
The concern was is that there are so many of these numerous subcontractors because they had told Mickey at the beginning when they 00:16:52
applied for the permit. 00:16:56
That it was going to be their own contractors. 00:17:00
But it's actually not. It's actually a subcontractor and they actually have another subcontract. 00:17:01
With them and Millennium Incorporated is requesting the dig permits. 00:17:05
And eight One One has finally got caught up with. 00:17:10
After the speaking to the OUCC. 00:17:13
Aaron called me yesterday. 00:17:15
And said hey, what streets are they performed on so far? 00:17:17
Informed on the same one that. 00:17:20
And he says, well, they're going to pause until they get it confirmed. 00:17:22
Bioluminescence actual contractor to come out and proceed forward. 00:17:25
The weird part is an hour and a half later. 00:17:30
They didn't even show up on those streets yesterday, they showed up on Hadley Place. 00:17:32
A whole different street. So they pause on the three streets that he mentioned. 00:17:37
That started up starting new work on a whole other area and they haven't finished the other ones yet. 00:17:40
The weird part was that today they came right back to covers court and it's finishing up what they showed us to finish to begin 00:17:44
with yesterday. 00:17:47
Prior to. 00:17:50
So the concern was is. 00:17:52
They're also supposed to give us as of January 1st this year. 00:17:53
They're going to use an easement they're supposed to let us know 48 hours in advance. 00:17:56
As of July July 1st, my lawyer said that. 00:18:00
811 requires that within 48 hours they're supposed to let you know. 00:18:03
Which easement they're going to dig? Which easement that is? 00:18:07
Whether it's the rear or the front and if they need to progress beyond that point. 00:18:10
There was no notice. 00:18:14
Portland in front of me, who's very elderly. She has irrigation lines all throughout her yard. 00:18:15
And she was so worried that they're gonna dig him up. 00:18:19
Because they'd already started digging and nothing was marked. 00:18:22
Not only the gas lines or water lines or electric lines, but her poor line, so we had to mark those forward. 00:18:24
Based off her memory. 00:18:30
Because our water company put them in, couldn't come out to a week later. 00:18:31
So those are the concerns we're worried about. 00:18:34
Obviously they're only three streets in. 00:18:36
For now, if you want to count, Hadley Place has been working like crazy, but we have several more left to go. 00:18:38
And it's not the only subdivision that I'm concerned about because it's one of the first they're getting started on. 00:18:43
Aaron at the pipeline safety was was concerned with the fact that. 00:18:48
We don't know why they're moving without stuff being marked. 00:18:51
Luckily, 811 sent out six different trucks yesterday and a training crew to get a whole subdivision marked. 00:18:54
Did an outstanding job of that. 00:19:00
But it wasn't for those phone calls that I made. I don't think it would have happened. 00:19:01
The frustrating part that I had was is I did reach out to numerous people, numerous phone calls last week. 00:19:05
And I spent two whole work days trying to reach someone that knew something about him. 00:19:10
Thankfully Susanna and Mickey Thompson with wonderful help with this. 00:19:14
And help me get tied into the right people. 00:19:17
But unfortunately not be able to reach out to you all, our Horatio. 00:19:20
Is concerned now, Horatio, I know he he's going to approve what he's presented. 00:19:23
Same with Vicki Thompson. 00:19:28
But if women's isn't being honest up front or utilizing the curriculum. 00:19:30
Prove that they say they're going to. 00:19:33
That we need to find a way to intervene. I don't know where that part comes into play. 00:19:35
And that's why I'm here tonight. 00:19:39
Is I'm concerned not only for our own community, but the rest, because they're just starting. 00:19:41
They're going to be everywhere. 00:19:44
And that was a concern of the pipeline. 00:19:45
Well, thank you for taking the time to be here with that tonight, Rick, I don't want to put you on the spot because I don't know 00:19:47
if you've heard of this, but. 00:19:50
We do need to know what recourse we do or don't have in the matter. 00:19:54
With regards to this. 00:19:57
This is the first I've heard of it. 00:20:01
I don't have. 00:20:03
Any documentation in terms of contracts or? 00:20:04
I did send Susanna the copy of the contract the Indiana. 00:20:11
Gave them approval for certificate. 00:20:14
Authority of Indiana, what they're allowed to use. 00:20:16
And they are considered a telecommunications company. 00:20:19
The gentleman that I spoke to at the third. 00:20:21
Translator. 00:20:23
Last week said that they're going to use the right away. It was easier. 00:20:25
And they're a foundation utility. 00:20:28
That's not the case. 00:20:29
They're actually considered by Indiana, a telecommunications utility. 00:20:31
And therefore we're supposed to be using the same utilities. 00:20:34
As spectrum, AT&T as well as RNC. 00:20:36
And two years ago, when RMC put our streetlights in, even they abided by the. 00:20:40
It's been a lot easier. 00:20:43
But then put the streamlines using the right away of a Rd. 00:20:44
But even they utilize their reasons. 00:20:47
But any any research you could do in the process? 00:20:50
Appreciate it. Thank you. 00:20:53
All right. Thank you. 00:20:55
My comment. 00:20:59
From that I would have. From that is that. 00:21:00
You know, we've been in open communication with. 00:21:02
Every neighborhood that's reached out to us and got hold of us so. 00:21:05
That's a little concerning to me that you weren't able to get. 00:21:08
Directly. 00:21:10
I decided to look you don't have my number or. 00:21:12
Zoe's Facebook director. 00:21:15
John has my number. I think everybody in the county has. 00:21:17
There you go. Everybody's got it. Yeah, so. 00:21:21
Anyway, let's. 00:21:23
See what resources we do have. 00:21:25
And what authority we do have. And let's. 00:21:27
Exercise it. 00:21:30
As best we can. 00:21:31
We have to bring somebody else. 00:21:32
Yeah. You know, I'm like Scott or somebody like that or whatever. And then I would also encourage you since this. 00:21:35
Kind of in the realm of the. 00:21:43
The state of Indiana that I would recommend that you speak to maybe Senator Gary Byrd about that as well, State Senator Gary Byrne 00:21:45
or state representatives. 00:21:49
All right. Thank you. 00:21:55
All right, I. 00:21:58
Any closing comment? 00:22:00
You know, if I forgot to do anything. I don't think so, but. 00:22:02
All right. I'll look for a motion to adjourn. 00:22:08
So moved. 00:22:09
Second. All right. Thank you all. 00:22:11