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Welcome to the Floyd County Council regular meeting for Tuesday, May 12th, 2026. 00:00:05
Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:10
Pledge allegiance to the flag. 00:00:13
The United States of America. 00:00:15
To the Republic for which it stands. 00:00:17
One Nation. 00:00:20
Under God, indivisible. 00:00:21
With liberty and justice for all. 00:00:23
All right, let the record show that we are. We have six members of the seven here. 00:00:29
Mr. Fry Burger is not with us tonight. 00:00:34
Councilman Tran, would you? 00:00:38
Say the prayer force this evening. 00:00:40
Currently. Thank you for it. 00:00:44
This day that you have restless to see and we thank you for. 00:00:45
The privilege to gather together in. 00:00:49
This rule's preferred service for the people of this family. 00:00:52
We wouldn't ask that every good and. 00:00:56
Come from you. 00:00:58
And we ask for your wisdom, your damage. 00:00:59
The ring is cancel. 00:01:03
And as we meet, going. 00:01:06
What's my name? 00:01:08
A scene from The Commanders. 00:01:10
Around and we know a new beginning for private. 00:01:11
You embrace the work of. 00:01:15
And then decisions before us. 00:01:17
And. 00:01:21
I have employees that take care of the healthcare. 00:01:26
Remember that animal labor daily? 00:01:28
To strengthen our community. 00:01:30
I will have to. 00:01:33
Reasoning to manage the resources responsibly. 00:01:34
What is going to plan for the future and the humidity to remember that leadership is serviced. 00:01:38
Are these things we ask in your son Jesus name? 00:01:44
Amen. 00:01:47
Thank you, Tony. 00:01:48
Alright, acceptance of tonight's agenda. 00:01:50
Move text app. 00:01:54
2nd. 00:01:55
We have a motion and a second for. 00:01:57
Tonight's agenda? Any discussion? 00:02:00
All in favor say aye. 00:02:04
Aye, any opposed? 00:02:05
That carries. 00:02:07
Approval minutes from our April 14th meeting. 00:02:09
Move to approve. 00:02:13
2nd I have a motion and a second. 00:02:15
April 14th meetings. Any discussion on those? 00:02:18
All in favor say aye aye. 00:02:22
Any opposed? 00:02:24
I abstain. 00:02:25
I was absent. 00:02:26
That that passes with one abstention. 00:02:28
We will now open the. 00:02:32
Public hearing for Night Tonight's additional. 00:02:34
Appropriations. Is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? 00:02:37
About our additional appropriations. 00:02:40
Seeing none, I will adjourn the public hearing, and we will. 00:02:45
Get started with new business. 00:02:48
Page, you're up, Baker Tilly. 00:02:50
Thank you. 00:02:58
I'm good, I made my own. 00:02:59
I. 00:03:17
Yard. 00:03:23
Well, thank you for having me on the agenda. I wanted to give you an update on some legislative changes and also give you a 00:03:26
preview of your budget. 00:03:30
I do want to let you know that the we have updated your long term financial plan. 00:03:34
It is nearly complete. I would like to come back next month and present that draft to you. 00:03:39
And that'll be just in time, hopefully for your, your budget season. What we're waiting on right now is. 00:03:45
2026 circuit breaker information from the department of local government finance It should be any day that we get that we did get 00:03:51
circuit breaker information from the county abstract which. 00:03:56
Is hopefully identical to what DLGF will give us, but we just want to make sure and we also. 00:04:02
Are running that parcel by parcel analysis so we can have a good outlook through 2031 as to how Senate Enrolled Act One will 00:04:07
impact you. 00:04:12
So all of that is underway again, nearly complete. We will be back here next month. I'll work with Diana to figure out the best 00:04:17
date to appear before you with that information. 00:04:23
So. 00:04:30
Again wanted to give where should I point those because it's not working. How is it not working? 00:04:31
OK, thank you. OK. So first of all with the local income tax, there were some changes at the beginning of the year and. 00:04:39
Honestly, we anticipate. 00:04:47
Further changes in the 2027 legislative session. So just when we thought we had figured it out. 00:04:50
I I'm sure there will be additional changes, but here's the good news. 00:04:56
It has been delayed. The implementation of the new local income tax structure has been delayed till 2029. That's good news 00:05:00
because. 00:05:04
The Department of Revenue doesn't yet have the information we need or in for any of the municipalities to determine the adjusted 00:05:09
gross income by municipality as you know the way our structure works right now. 00:05:15
We do have the adjusted gross income county wide. 00:05:21
But it's not broken out by municipality in order for us. 00:05:25
For this new structure to work, we need to have it by municipality. 00:05:28
Now we are able to get very good estimates of the adjusted gross income, so we are running local income tax analysis. 00:05:33
We, we will do that. 00:05:40
Based on the estimated adjusted gross income. 00:05:43
But regardless, it has been delayed to 2029, so in 2028 you all will be making some very important decisions. 00:05:46
And I'm going to talk about the municipal unit task force before I leave here tonight because that's part of. 00:05:53
That's a very important part of making those decisions in 2028. 00:06:00
So another change. 00:06:05
Pretty significant. 00:06:08
Is that there is now the ability for those municipalities that are 3500 and above population. 00:06:09
They could now opt into a county wide municipal rate. 00:06:18
So if you remember under the previous legislation. 00:06:23
Those municipalities that have populations up below 3500. 00:06:27
Had to be into, had to be in the county wide municipal rate. They had no choice. 00:06:31
But those that were 3500 and above, like new album New Albany for example. 00:06:37
They could just go and adopt their own reign. 00:06:42
Well, what we were finding last year is that those larger municipalities were not bringing in near what they they would be. 00:06:44
Or what they are currently under that type of structure because? 00:06:53
Their rate would only be on the adjusted gross income of their municipality rather than county wide. 00:06:58
So now that they are able to opt into the county wide, so here it would be like New Albany and Georgetown could now be in that 00:07:03
county wide pool. They will likely benefit from that. 00:07:09
But they're going to lose the ability to be able to adopt their own. 00:07:15
So this is all things that that we need to kind of look at. 00:07:19
Run analysis, run scenarios and see. 00:07:23
How it benefits? 00:07:27
You the county unit. 00:07:28
Will be able to get a share of this county wide municipal rate. 00:07:30
Think which would be an adjust addition to your county wide county services rate. 00:07:34
So there is a benefit to the county unit as well. 00:07:40
Lit readoption. So when this first came about, we were going to have to adopt this local income tax annually. 00:07:46
That is still there, but. 00:07:54
When you adopt it for the first time, that's going to carry for three years then. 00:07:56
There will be annual adoption after that. 00:08:01
Five, there were changes made to the fire and EMS local income tax. 00:08:05
So the changes. 00:08:10
Really give the county more ability to. 00:08:12
In the way in which you allocate these. 00:08:17
So another words. 00:08:19
There was this 20 times multiplier for the service area and it was a very specific formula on how you allocate. 00:08:21
The fire Ernie and massive revenue. 00:08:28
And none of it seemed to go to the county unit. 00:08:30
Which was a huge flaw. If you Remember Me coming last year, I said that was a huge flaw in the legislation that's been fixed now. 00:08:33
There is an allocation that go to. 00:08:40
That can go to the county unit as well as fire territories districts. 00:08:42
And then, in certain circumstances, townships. 00:08:46
You, as the County Council, can still decide to. 00:08:50
To allocate it to Volunteer Fire departments as well. 00:08:53
There is. 00:08:57
There is a formula. 00:08:59
And it's based on service area and population, but you, the County Council, gets to determine how to weight those. 00:09:00
So if you want to wait it more on population or more on service area that's. 00:09:07
You're going to have the authority to do that, so you're going to have a lot of of decisions to make. And again, Baker Tilly's 00:09:12
here to help you run scenarios on what that different weighting looks like. 00:09:18
And that all goes back to this municipal unit strategic. 00:09:24
Task force and why that's going to be important. And again I'll I will get them. 00:09:28
Hit on that in a minute. 00:09:31
So if we go, Oh yeah, sure. 00:09:33
So. 00:09:35
There's going to be 1 lit rate. 00:09:37
But. 00:09:39
There's but the fire and EMS LIT will stay in place. 00:09:40
So. 00:09:44
That brings me to my next slide. If you go yes, that. 00:09:45
We'll go right to the next slide. So here's. 00:09:48
What this new structure looks like? 00:09:50
So there will be a county services rate. 00:09:53
1.2%. 00:09:57
That all goes to the county unit. 00:09:58
Just the county unit. 00:10:00
And you're you can levy a rate up to 1.2%. You may not need all of that. 00:10:02
That's all for you to use just the county unit. 00:10:08
There will be a fire EMS rate, so the public safety lit that you know today that expires. 00:10:12
Yeah, that will expire, but there's this new fire EMS rate that you can adopt. 00:10:19
And a portion of it can go to the county. 00:10:24
For EMS and then you have to distribute it to the fire districts, territories and municipal fire departments. Beyond that, you do 00:10:28
have the option of distributing it to Volunteer Fire Department. 00:10:32
Just note that. 00:10:38
Really, all the local income taxes you have today are going to expire unless you have a special purpose local income tax. That's 00:10:40
the only one that does not expire at the end of 2028. 00:10:45
So this truly is a whole brand new structure. 00:10:51
OK, now we have non municipal local income tax again. You the County Council have to decide if number one you want to adopt this 00:10:55
non municipal. 00:11:00
And then #2 how? What rate do you want? So how this works is the total non municipal rate cannot exceed .2%. 00:11:06
But truly it can't exceed .05% for each unit type. So when I say non municipal I'm talking about. 00:11:14
Townships and libraries primarily. 00:11:22
So what it comes down to is you can adopt A maximum rate of .05% for the townships. 00:11:24
A .05% for the libraries. 00:11:30
That's over the entire AGI of the county, and then it gets allocated based on their populations. 00:11:33
So it's not multiple rates, it's. 00:11:38
I have a library rate of .05%. 00:11:41
A Township rate of .05% and then it gets allocated based on population. 00:11:43
And as. 00:11:48
You know, today in this current structure, it's allocated based on levy. 00:11:49
Much different formula. 00:11:54
So that's where we may see some big swings either way. 00:11:56
Of of revenue allocation. 00:12:01
But that's why we really need this. 00:12:03
Collaboration and having the townships and libraries in the room to understand these things. 00:12:05
And you all will need to understand it because ultimately you will be making those decisions. 00:12:12
Municipal services, county wide rate I I did hit on that, but I want to talk about that again so. 00:12:18
So these larger municipalities are going to be able to opt into the county wide rate. 00:12:25
If they do that, then the smaller units are going to get a little bit diluted, right, because now we have these other entities 00:12:31
coming in. But again, you do get a portion of that. 00:12:36
Part of the formula is the county gets a portion of that. 00:12:41
But when the larger municipalities opt in, you're. 00:12:45
Portion gets diluted as well. So again we would need to run scenarios to see how all that will affect the county unit and the 00:12:48
municipalities. 00:12:53
I think a lot of municipalities like the idea that they will benefit from opting in because they would get more local income tax 00:12:57
revenue, but what they don't like. 00:13:02
Is the loss of control. 00:13:06
Because. 00:13:09
They're going to have to. 00:13:10
You know, so the cost benefit of of what they want to do there. 00:13:11
And then again. 00:13:16
As I stated before, the larger municipalities can adopt their own. 00:13:18
But the rate is only on their AGI. 00:13:23
And would not count. 00:13:27
You know, they would not be able to charge other taxpayers outside of their municipality. 00:13:29
So the next slide is just an illustration at this point. I just did a very quick calculation of. 00:13:36
What it looks like today for just the county unit, so just you all your portion of what is generated. 00:13:43
So right now the county unit, this is not county wide, the county unit gets. 00:13:50
Certified shares at 6.4 million. 00:13:55
Public Public safety 6.6 million. Lit Economic development about 4.1 million. 00:13:58
Lit correctional 6.1 million and lit judicial 1.2 so. 00:14:06
The county unit gets about 24.4 million. 00:14:10
For all of these various items here. 00:14:14
Your rate right now is 1.89%. 00:14:17
That is your county wide rate. 00:14:21
So if we move under this new let structure and again I'm just looking at county services lit. 00:14:23
It would take a rate of about .85% to get you about what you have now. 00:14:31
So that would be. 00:14:38
That would actually give you a little bit more honestly about $1,000,000 more, $25.8 million at. 00:14:39
.85% That's why I'm saying you may not want to go. 00:14:46
To the full 1.2 you can at some time in the future, it's not like you're locked in. 00:14:49
So that's what that looks like for you. We can run, you know, all the other units and, and, and what fire and EMS looks like. But 00:14:55
I just wanted you to just to get have some idea of what this looks like for the county unit. 00:15:02
Also with. 00:15:13
Slide also with this new legislation, we now have protection for for debt that is. 00:15:15
That is, has. 00:15:24
That is supported by local income tax, and you do have that here in this county. You've got 2 bonds. 00:15:25
A recovery zone economic development bond and a park district bond. 00:15:31
That is. 00:15:36
Supported or has local income tax obligated to it? 00:15:38
So I'm glad that this coverage is now in the statute because last year we didn't have any protection. 00:15:43
But now you all will have to make sure that you adopt A local income tax rate that's at least sufficient to have 1.25 times 00:15:51
coverage on your debt. 00:15:56
So that was a move in the right direction. 00:16:01
OK, now I want to. 00:16:07
Take a little bit of time to talk about this Municipal unit Strategic task Force. 00:16:08
So this is an optional task force. You do not need to convene this task force, but I want to. 00:16:14
Tell you about the benefits of having such task force. 00:16:22
So 1 is that. 00:16:27
It really opens up the lines of communication with with the units within this county. That's one. 00:16:29
2 is that. 00:16:36
At the end of this. 00:16:37
We are going to provide a report or the county would provide a report to the Department of Local Government Finance, which would 00:16:39
then go on to the Legislative Council. 00:16:43
I think this report is going to be very important to the Legislature so that they understand what does work. 00:16:49
What doesn't work? What needs to be changed? 00:16:55
Et cetera. And they they. 00:16:58
My understanding is that they're going to use these reports as they go into the 2027 legislative session. 00:17:00
So let me tell you a little bit about this task force. 00:17:08
The task force committee is made-up of 1. 00:17:11
County Council member. 00:17:14
And the fiscal officer of each municipality. So I think you just have 3 municipalities in in this county. 00:17:16
New Albany, Georgetown. And is it Greenville? I think yeah. 00:17:24
So small task force. 00:17:28
But what we're encouraging is that if you do convene this task force and you have those meetings, invite other taxing units to 00:17:31
come. 00:17:35
To be in the room and be a part of this discussion, it's unfortunate. 00:17:40
That townships weren't. 00:17:44
Part of this task force or libraries weren't made a part of this task force or schools or any other unit really, the fire 00:17:46
districts, territories. 00:17:50
Because they really. 00:17:55
They need to convey to you their needs. 00:17:57
So that you can determine what rates to adopt for the non municipals. 00:18:00
What rate to adopt for the fire and EMS? 00:18:06
So basically how this is supposed to be structured is that you convene this task force. 00:18:09
And you, it's like a formal collaborative effort. You determine what are the priorities of each of the taxing units, in particular 00:18:16
the municipalities and the counties. But. 00:18:21
Also the other units as well. 00:18:26
And how are you going to structure those rates? 00:18:29
This is non binding. 00:18:33
By the way. 00:18:34
If you come up with a plan at the end, it is non binding. You don't have to stick to that plan, but. 00:18:35
What the Legislature is looking for is a plan like we're going to adopt X-ray for county services, we're going to adopt X-ray for 00:18:40
fire, EMS. 00:18:44
X-ray for. 00:18:49
The non municipal units, they want that in a detailed plan. 00:18:51
And they really want it to be a unanimous approval of the plan. 00:18:56
But what I'm telling counties is that even if you can't get to this unanimous approval. 00:19:01
Submit the plan anyway. 00:19:07
Because that's what the Legislature needs to hear. Like we just couldn't come to an agreement because of this. This just wouldn't 00:19:09
work. 00:19:13
So we see a lot of benefits to this task force and, and what I just mentioned, the collaboration #1 and #2 providing that 00:19:17
information to the Legislature. 00:19:24
So we have a limited amount of time because the the report if you do decide to go through with the strateg. 00:19:30
Task Force. The report is due to DLGF. 00:19:38
By December 1st, and that seems like a long time away, but. 00:19:41
We're already working with the counties right now and we kind of put that out in a timeline. 00:19:45
And for us to have all of these meetings and get everybody on the same page, it's probably going to take. 00:19:50
That long until December to do this so. 00:19:55
Just wanted to let you know about this. We do have. 00:19:59
A suite of services that we offer, we can facilitate every meeting. 00:20:03
We know what questions to ask to get the conversations going. We can prepare the report for you. 00:20:07
The counties were working for right now. They're going to split the cost with the municipalities. You don't have to, but I think. 00:20:14
If the municipalities want to have. 00:20:20
Like a voice in this, they should be willing to pay for a portion of. 00:20:22
But how much is? How much is it? I can send it to you, I've got a menu of the. 00:20:26
Because honestly, I don't know how much it's going to cost. We're going to do time and expense and I'm going to show you like a 00:20:31
not to exceed amount. So it really depends on how long the meetings last. 00:20:35
Umm, how many meetings you need to have? 00:20:40
Elkhart County's already done this, and they've already completed their. 00:20:43
So I think they only needed like 2 meetings. 00:20:46
Which is crazy, isn't it? But but like, that's what it depends on. We're not going to charge you for anything that. 00:20:48
You know, we are not. You know, I'm not gonna charge you for five meetings if it only takes a couple meetings. So that's why it's 00:20:54
kind of hard to price, but I will send you a scope. 00:20:58
And you all can just look at it and see what you need. 00:21:02
With that. 00:21:05
But yeah, we've, we've engaged a few counties now and and they're moving right along with their meetings, so. 00:21:06
I again, I think it's a good thing. At first when I saw that it was optional, I was like, I don't know if people really want to 00:21:15
waste time with this, but I see the value in it. I really do. 00:21:19
So we can send you our scope of service and it outlines exactly all the phases that we could do, but we could help you facilitate 00:21:24
from start to finish. 00:21:28
With this task force. 00:21:33
So. 00:21:35
Next, next slide please is has to do with tax income. Well, do any, does anybody have any questions about the mask before I move 00:21:37
on because that was a big thing? 00:21:41
No, I know I had questions about it when I first got the e-mail, but I. 00:21:46
Looked into it a little bit, so OK. 00:21:50
All right, so another item that came up in the legislative session, what has to do with tax increment financing? 00:21:53
So redevelopment commissions are required to notify. 00:22:00
Or on an annual basis, notify the county. 00:22:06
If they're going to pass through any net assessed value, well now there's a penalty if they fail to provide notice. 00:22:09
Then the county auditor can reallocate 5% of the assessed value. 00:22:17
In an allocation area to the overlapping taxing units. 00:22:22
So that could benefit. 00:22:26
I don't know if that's a good or bad thing here, but. 00:22:29
It could benefit. 00:22:35
So. 00:22:39
The only way that that wouldn't happen, this is only for the county because we only have a few tips. Yeah, we're not talking about 00:22:41
New Albany. 00:22:44
Right. It just well, if New Albany doesn't have any tests, then it would just. 00:22:47
It's then it applies to all. Yeah. Yes, it's every steps. Yes, it's everyone. Yeah. Yeah, it's Georgetown. 00:22:52
All of their tips processed through my office and report to my office. Yeah. Oh wow. 00:23:02
I mean, the reason for this like penalty is because people were failing to notify. 00:23:08
It's important that they notify if they have any. 00:23:13
Excess net assessed value that they can pass through. 00:23:16
So. 00:23:20
This it it it. 00:23:21
Could serve to benefit. 00:23:23
Or at least make people do what they need to do. 00:23:25
No, they still won't. 00:23:32
So. 00:23:34
So the next item I want to talk to you is about Township mergers because. 00:23:38
There is a component where at least the county commissioners will. 00:23:43
Be somewhat involved with this, but I at least want you to be aware of it. 00:23:46
So. 00:23:51
For many, many years, the Legislature has. 00:23:53
Attempted to put something in the statute to reorganize or dissolve townships. Well now we do have something that requires 00:23:56
Township mergers and this really is directed towards townships that are low performing. 00:24:03
Or have little to no activity. 00:24:10
So what this is going to require is it's like a grading system, like a point system. So townships that are assigned at least four 00:24:14
points are are designated townships, meaning. 00:24:20
They either have to merge with another Township. 00:24:27
Or they have to reorganize. 00:24:30
With a municipality. 00:24:32
If 80% of their boundaries overlap that municipality. 00:24:35
Or at least 51% of the population live in that municipality. 00:24:39
But again, it's directed to low performing or townships that are just not providing much service. 00:24:44
This will be effective January 2029. The DLGF at the end of this year will release the official grades if you will. 00:24:51
But if you go to the next slide, this is the point system. I know there's a lot going on here, so I'm not going to hit every 00:25:01
single one, but how this is working? 00:25:05
Just to give you an idea as if. 00:25:10
Let's say, for instance, the Township. 00:25:12
Has a certified budget that's less than 100,000. That means they're not providing much service Let's say that they. 00:25:15
Are not managing fire and EMS, they're just contracting with another. 00:25:21
Another entity. 00:25:26
If they are not uploading their annual reports like they're required to or their monthly reports so they just aren't performing. 00:25:30
Not providing service so again. 00:25:38
If there are side points, that's a bad thing. So if you get 4 at least 4 points. 00:25:40
You're going to be required to again either merge with another Township. 00:25:45
Or merge with a municipality. 00:25:50
So. 00:25:52
The grading system is going to come out or the grades are going to come out in December. 00:25:53
And the townships will know. 00:25:58
So is the state grading these? 00:26:00
Yes, the Department of Local Government Finance will be doing the grading. We we have the ability to grade to a certain extent. 00:26:02
However, there are some information that's not public record. 00:26:08
So the DLGF will make those grades but. 00:26:13
If town if a Township disagrees with the DLGS grades, they can petition and ask them to take another look. 00:26:16
But yes, it will be the DLGF. They'll be using State Board of accounts data and other data. 00:26:25
When they get to 4, will they stop or will they keep rubbing it in and get to? When they get to 4, they'll stop because that's all 00:26:30
that's required. 00:26:33
So where the county comes into play? 00:26:40
Right. Is that umm. 00:26:43
On by August 1st of 2027. 00:26:46
The county commissioners will have to hold a public meeting of all Township trustees to just discuss the merger, and I imagine the 00:26:50
meeting will just be talking about who will need to merge and who they're going to merge with. 00:26:56
And then by October 1st, the county commissioners will adopt A resolution that actually names the townships that will merge. 00:27:04
And so by February 28th, all that information, February 28th of 28, all that information will be sent to the DLGF and this will be 00:27:13
effective January 1 of 2029. 00:27:18
Quick question. 00:27:24
Can it only be two townships that merge, or can more? It could potentially be more so. 00:27:26
The townships that are graded less than 4 can be a recipient Township. 00:27:32
So depending on the circumstance, there could be two of those non performing townships. 00:27:39
Go in with A1 recipient. 00:27:45
If they have money. 00:27:48
In a bank account does it? 00:27:49
It goes to the recipient, either municipality or Township. 00:27:51
Now I do know in some counties townships are. 00:27:56
Getting are starting to be proactive and they're trying to merge. 00:28:00
With who they want to merge with because they know what's coming down the road. 00:28:06
I don't know what the tops are here in this county because I don't work with any townships here in this county, but. 00:28:10
They can either take a proactive approach or they're going to merge whether they like it or not for the. 00:28:16
I appreciate the. 00:28:21
The number the 1st. 00:28:23
Point. 00:28:25
On the point scale is they're going back to 23 and 24, so. 00:28:26
Townships can't go recruit. 00:28:30
People in 26 for assistance and. 00:28:33
Yeah, that was a. 00:28:35
That was a smart move there, but yeah. 00:28:37
OK. 00:28:40
OK. 00:28:41
Next slide just has to do with housing matters. I'm not an expert in this, but just to let you know that there there is some new 00:28:43
legislation that grants local ordinances on. 00:28:48
Density, setbacks and parking. 00:28:53
It limits communities abilities to adopt and raise housing development fees. 00:28:55
The residential and housing tip areas will not no longer revert to formal, I'm sorry, former rules in 27/20/27 that would have 00:29:01
required a return to the 1% test. 00:29:06
It changes the lifespan of residential housing tip areas. 00:29:14
And allows property tax abatements to enable higher density and mixed income communities. 00:29:18
The only thing I would say about the whole housing thing, because part of that statute has to do with. 00:29:23
With fees that are generated from building and construction, like your building permit fees, this is a pretty big change when it 00:29:29
comes to budgeting because now starting in 2027, all building and construction fees. 00:29:36
Are gonna need to be receded into a separate fund. 00:29:43
And then you're building type of like planning and zoning will need to be paid from that fund. 00:29:47
That's a pretty big change, and that came out of this Housing matters. 00:29:53
And we will be helping the. 00:29:57
Determine all of that. We'll look at your general fund, see what needs to be moved. 00:29:59
But. 00:30:04
You know, and I, I think. 00:30:05
I don't think that this happens in many counties, but I guess in some counties maybe. 00:30:06
Building permit fees are um. 00:30:11
Kind of. 00:30:13
Compensating for other. 00:30:15
Items. Maybe it's getting used for other things other than building. 00:30:17
Stuff. So I think that's why they created the stack. 00:30:22
Other legislation you should be aware of. Oh, here's a good one. This is what I call the Baker Tilly legislation. 00:30:27
For some reason we were targeted. 00:30:33
You now have to upload municipal advisor contracts. 00:30:36
And that is effective now. 00:30:41
So if you have any Baker Tilly contracts, those need to be uploaded. 00:30:43
OK, Yeah. 00:30:47
Yeah, anyway, Anyway, yes. 00:30:52
It's not just for Baker Tilly, but. 00:30:55
We were definitely targeted there. 00:30:58
For whatever reason. 00:31:00
Well, I know the reason but. 00:31:01
Don't talk in riddles because we were out there talking about the effects of Senate and World Act One and there were people that 00:31:05
didn't. 00:31:08
Care for that? 00:31:12
Library budgets. 00:31:15
So this is something you also need to be aware of SO. 00:31:17
You have. 00:31:21
Units that come to you providing review and those are the fire districts. 00:31:23
It is possible. I don't know how many libraries you have. Do you just have one county wide library? 00:31:26
It's possible that the library could come to you for a binding review because now. 00:31:32
Their budget increase is very restrictive. 00:31:37
If they increase their bio. 00:31:41
Budget by more than half. 00:31:43
Of that maximum levy growth quotient. 00:31:45
They have to come to you for a binding review, so let me translate that. 00:31:47
In 2027, we think that the the levy growth will be about 5.6%. 00:31:51
That means the library can't increase its budget by more than 2.8% without having to come to you. 00:31:57
For a binding review. 00:32:03
So just for awareness, I'm letting you know that. 00:32:05
I don't know what we don't work with the library but. 00:32:08
If they're saying hey, we need a binding review, that's why. 00:32:11
Because. 00:32:15
They have an unelected board. 00:32:17
And this is what the statute. 00:32:19
The constraints that the statute has put on to them. 00:32:21
Next slide. 00:32:26
Fire Protection districts. So you. 00:32:27
You probably heard last year fire territories were capped at a $0.40 rate. 00:32:30
That has now been extended to fire districts now. 00:32:35
Current fire districts are grandfathered in. 00:32:38
But if? 00:32:41
Any current fire districts try to expand, they will be capped at that $0.40 rate. 00:32:42
I I feel like it's an. 00:32:49
An arbitrary rate. I don't know where they came. 00:32:51
Up with that. 00:32:53
Umm, but. 00:32:55
You know, I just don't think this is going to be sustainable in the long term. So we'll see if that ever changes, but right now 00:32:56
they're capped at $0.40. Not only that. 00:33:00
Equipment replacement funds and cumulative fire funds that both territories and districts have. 00:33:06
That used to be outside the maximum levy limitations are now within. 00:33:12
Their loving limitations so that even they've been restricted even more. 00:33:16
Data centers, that's a popular topic all over the state of Indiana, but. 00:33:21
There's a piece of legislation that allows a unit that approves A qualified data center. 00:33:27
To receive revenue equal to 1%. 00:33:32
Of the data centers electricity bill sales tactics, sales tax exemption. So basically in other words. 00:33:35
You get kind of a revenue stream coming in there from a data center if you approve that. 00:33:41
Next slide, OK, maximum levy growth portion, I did touch on this, so. 00:33:50
For 20. 00:33:54
4-5 and six. 00:33:56
The maximum levy growth was limited to 4%. 00:33:59
By the legislature for those three years. 00:34:03
Good news is that that. 00:34:06
Restriction has been lifted for 2027 and beyond unless they change the legislation again. 00:34:08
So preliminary. 00:34:14
Estimates show that that Levy growth could be 5.6%. That's higher than we've seen in many years. 00:34:17
So that actual number should come out in June. 00:34:24
But right now we're just going to go with the estimate of 5.6%. 00:34:28
And just as a reminder, that's based on a six year average of income basically. 00:34:32
So it is income driven. 00:34:37
Here's something as a council you should be aware of. 00:34:41
My understanding is the State Board of accounts is going to require you to pass a resolution on these two items I'm getting ready 00:34:44
to talk about. So item number 1 is. 00:34:48
And this was effective July 1st, 2025. 00:34:53
Financial institutions tax, also known as FIT. 00:34:57
And commercial vehicle excise tax known as CVAT. 00:35:01
Those taxes are deposited in funds that you have that are supported with property tax, or that's how it was in the past. 00:35:05
Now. 00:35:13
You, as a council, can decide to put those taxes in any fund that you wish. 00:35:15
The electoral legislation. 00:35:19
Have the commissioners dictating. 00:35:21
Where? Oh, it's alright, OK. 00:35:23
Until it's actually for sure you can take this event, then go. 00:35:25
OK. They did have to take that vote last year. 00:35:29
And they've already made them, yes, OK, just just for the council's purview, and I apologize. No, that's OK. Steven is going to 00:35:32
MBH because it's commercial vehicle excise tax benefit, which is kind of just designated to the general fund. 00:35:39
OK, perfect. So now with the vehicle excise. 00:35:48
Is that going to be the same way? Is that going to go to? 00:35:52
Multiple funds. So you see that the county portion used to get broken up between multiple different levy funds. It's now just goes 00:35:55
directly to LRS or MBH and then. 00:36:00
The Fit County portion. 00:36:06
But the auto aircraft excise, which is also a part of that settlement. 00:36:10
Yeah, that's new. Yeah, right. So that starts. 00:36:14
Yeah. No, no, no, gotcha. The next one, Yeah, yeah. 00:36:18
So. 00:36:22
Starting for 2027 and we could talk about this during budget time. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. 00:36:23
You also have. 00:36:27
An auto aircraft. 00:36:29
Excise tax. 00:36:30
And that's a larger. 00:36:33
Revenue stream than those than the CVET and FIT, that's a larger revenue stream. So that we'll need to decide, you know, if that's 00:36:35
still going to be divvied up among the funds or just go to general or however you want to do that. So we can work on that during 00:36:39
budget season. 00:36:44
It it is something that you do have to consider and we can help you with that. 00:36:51
So what's coming up? 00:36:57
This is a little budget preview. 00:36:59
Next slide. 00:37:02
So. 00:37:05
In 2026. 00:37:06
The property tax credits, also known as circuit breaker credit, should be available. 00:37:08
And. 00:37:12
I They actually should have been available mid-april and we're still looking for them, but I understand that some counties have 00:37:13
been released so. 00:37:17
Once we get those circuit breaker credits, we will let you know. 00:37:21
What it looks like as far as what we estimated. 00:37:25
For the 2026 budget. 00:37:28
And what they are. 00:37:30
Actually, because we might have to make some course corrections, I hope not. I think we tend to be conservative. So we're 00:37:31
probably, we probably have a higher estimate than what will actually occur. But we need to let you know that and we will as soon 00:37:36
as we get those numbers. 00:37:40
We are preliminary estimates. 00:37:46
Was a $716,000 increase for all property tax supported funds. So another words in 2025, the property tax credits. 00:37:49
OR 530,000. So that was a reduction of your property tax revenue? 00:38:00
Our preliminary estimates as I stand here right now is about 1.245 million, but we had incorporated that into your budget. 00:38:04
So everything should be OK now if it comes in at higher than 1.2, that's where we may need to make some adjustments. 00:38:14
Supplemental local income tax distributions, those are available now. Unfortunately Floyd County is not getting any supplemental 00:38:22
local income tax. We we did check that and you're they're just scheduled to start qualifying again until next year, OK, OK. We had 00:38:29
a period of time that we had to make up for an overdistriction that will now make withheld from us for three to four years. And I 00:38:36
think that next year for sure even a lot of qualifying, OK. 00:38:42
And and hopefully you get some. 00:38:49
That will end up going away in 2029. 00:38:53
We talked about the property tax levy growth factor that is. That is some good news. There is a new budget application in Gateway 00:38:59
Budget 2.0. We will assist the county with that. It seems pretty straightforward. It's actually a better system, I think. 00:39:07
Yeah, it carries more through it, it does. So I think that'll be a good thing. 00:39:15
And then the 2027 local income tax, which has been going up, we've been experiencing growth. Those numbers will come out. 00:39:20
At least the preliminary estimates in August, so we will keep an eye out for that as well. 00:39:29
And the final page, if you want to start planning for budgets is. It's showing your estimated receipts in column B for each of 00:39:35
your fonts. 00:39:40
The disbursements we just kind of put in an arbitrary growth factor of 3%. So I wouldn't focus on that so much. 00:39:46
But column. 00:39:52
As the estimated receipt, so for like. 00:39:53
The county general under just real quick. 00:39:56
Perusing those numbers because keep in mind the numbers that were provided to Baker Tilly were prior to the most recent joint 00:39:59
meeting where an additional some creation occurred in the public safety list. 00:40:05
Not bank on that beginning fund balance and column A for the public safety list, you can thank you. 00:40:10
Yeah, we'll get those updated numbers too. Yeah, that's a good point. And that's really why I just want to. 00:40:16
Want you to focus on column B on this report. 00:40:21
I didn't want them to be around, you know? I know, I know. 00:40:24
Column B How much it was adjusted by, you know. 00:40:27
3 million. 00:40:31
I can tell you that my estimate for the end of the year for that balance is going to be about $600,000. 00:40:32
So I firmly believe we're going to roll into 2027 with a carryover of $600,000. 00:40:39
That should be offset somewhere else then. 00:40:45
No, it's additional spending that has happened this year as ambulances. 00:40:50
At the beginning of EMS and all of those things. 00:40:54
So it's it's offset in the fact that there's growth. 00:40:57
Direction of those those dollars. 00:41:01
No, no, no worries. So column B is, yes, what I would focus on right now. These are preliminary revenue estimates, but if you just 00:41:08
want to get a general idea of the revenue that we think will be coming into those funds, this would be for your recurring costs. 00:41:15
So. 00:41:23
Again, preliminary numbers based on what we know today, these will change as we get additional information. When I come back next 00:41:24
month, I'm hoping we're reasonably close, but next month we'll have even more information that we'll be able to. 00:41:31
Log into your model. So again, preliminary information. 00:41:37
For you to to take a look at. 00:41:42
Any that was a lot of information. I went over any questions, but I did want to. 00:41:47
Come down, touch base with you, let you know that we're. 00:41:51
We've got your financial plan nearly complete. We'll be back next month. 00:41:55
Any questions for Paige? 00:42:00
The Europe is normally a client of your own. 00:42:02
I'm sorry, normally a client y'all. 00:42:06
I don't. 00:42:09
Think so. I don't work with them make it a lot easier for us. I know I don't I can check, I know we don't do any budgetary things 00:42:10
for them, but we might do other things like economic development. I can check and see I just. 00:42:15
We try to. 00:42:22
Keep separation like since I am assigned to you. 00:42:23
I wouldn't work for New Albany. Somebody else in the firm would. That's why I don't know, but I can certainly find out. 00:42:28
Yep, normally as a client. 00:42:34
Victor Tilly, That's a hole. 00:42:36
Yeah, this makes it a lot easier, yes. 00:42:38
That's true and. 00:42:40
As we're doing these musts, these task forces, there's some counties where all of the units are Baker Tilly clients, so it does 00:42:42
help. 00:42:46
Because we can get everybody coordinated all in the same room and. 00:42:51
It does help and I'll find out if New Albany is. I just I don't know. I know that the fire district is obviously our client. 00:42:54
So the Georgetown or fire territory now, I guess. 00:43:02
Fire District who is this must something we were going to discuss. 00:43:06
Now or. 00:43:11
Yes, for lack of a better term, yes, so that you can have a better idea. It might be something to put on the joint agenda for 00:43:17
Friday. 00:43:21
I'm I'm not just making this Oh yes, now and then and that way you have some additional information because that are. 00:43:25
And if you need me to join virtually to answer questions or if there's questions that arise and. 00:43:33
You'd like to follow up, that's fine as well. 00:43:38
Good. Perfect. 00:43:42
Anything else? 00:43:46
Yes, that will be in our report. I, I don't have a copy of the draft report with me, but we will make sure that that's a part of 00:43:58
that. Yeah, for sure. 00:44:03
All right. Thank you very much. All right, thank you. Thank you. 00:44:10
All right. Is anybody here representing the? 00:44:19
Public Defender. 00:44:22
Is that you? 00:44:25
Go ahead. 00:44:26
I know that you got to see the prosecutor. 00:44:32
Last month concerning some additional appropriations due to the high cost of some trials. 00:44:34
So far this year, this. 00:44:39
Follows the same vein, except it is outside of the. It's out of their supplemental fund. 00:44:41
Motion to approve 2A. 00:44:49
And sabotage. 00:44:50
Tag it. We have a motion a second for 2A. Any questions or discussion? 00:44:51
All in favor say aye. 00:44:57
Any opposed that carries? 00:44:59
Mr. Dennison. 00:45:01
Good evening. All of this is Grant related. 00:45:07
Items. The 1st is a. 00:45:10
A new fund that had to be created because the. 00:45:13
Land and Water Conservation Fund is federal money, so it has to be in its own. 00:45:15
Account our own fund and this is to move money into those lines so. 00:45:20
This is all for construction and. 00:45:25
Planning for Phase 2? 00:45:27
Of the Bob Lane Regional Park, the design is in the early stages and there will be some. 00:45:30
Minor construction and things for phase two later this year. 00:45:35
Motion to approve 3A as advertised. 00:45:40
2nd. 00:45:43
I have a motion and a second. 00:45:44
438. 00:45:46
Any questions for my just have comment. Glad you briefly. 00:45:47
Explain what professional services is. 00:45:51
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean. 00:45:53
I'll just stop it again, at least in its supporting dogs. 00:45:55
I mean, we get stuff for 125 hundred 30,000. 00:45:59
Professional. Sorry, it could be. 00:46:02
Maybe somebody washed the car. That's a professional. Yeah, I don't know. 00:46:04
They're usually contractually based. 00:46:07
OK. 00:46:10
Yeah, there were. Professional services fall under a contract. 00:46:12
There were some options that Diane and Gloria gave us and so for. 00:46:16
We'll take all the design stuff out of professional services and then. 00:46:20
But the other construction there that line. 00:46:23
How's the? 00:46:26
Totally unrelated, how's the path going to community park? 00:46:28
The path no at the hillside. 00:46:31
It's getting ready to get an RFP out for design. We have your money that you guys were kind enough at the end of last year to give 00:46:33
us. 00:46:37
It's in one of our non reverting funds and the federal money. 00:46:41
To go with that, I'm still waiting to get it. I got an e-mail last week. 00:46:44
Of the next step. It's an online ACH process, but no. 00:46:48
No beginning to that. Just a heads up that it's coming. So we're watching for that, but we're going to go ahead with the design 00:46:53
work. There's been some preliminary. 00:46:57
Options. 00:47:02
Uh, design work to. 00:47:03
Get us to where we're at now, now that we have the. 00:47:04
The avenue that we want to take the the style of trail that we think it fits, the budget that we've got totally to work with. 00:47:07
We feel comfortable going ahead and having the full design of the trail done. 00:47:15
And as long as we get the federal money at some point here in the next month or so, we hope that that is a project that takes 00:47:19
place. 00:47:22
By the fall of this year is our hope. 00:47:26
Good. All right. Any other questions on 3A? 00:47:28
All in favor say aye. 00:47:33
Aye, any opposed? 00:47:35
Carries. 00:47:36
Item B. Both of those items are. 00:47:39
Grants that. 00:47:41
Have been. 00:47:42
That came long before my time here. 00:47:44
They were under commissioner line items and we're just requesting to move those into. 00:47:46
1178 one of our non reverting funds, the Duke Trail grant, that's leftover money that. 00:47:51
We're trying to figure out how to put that to use at the Jensen Trail based on the grant agreement from years ago and then the 00:47:57
Caesars Foundation. That's the major gift, 200,000 a year. 00:48:02
$1,000,000 in total. We just got our draw. 00:48:08
For this year, we have one more year on that and we will be approaching Caesars again to. 00:48:11
Talk about continuing to help us with that park as we move forward. So this is just getting stuff in funds that we have full 00:48:16
control over and so we can better. 00:48:21
Stay on top of them and stay organized. 00:48:27
Motion to approve 3B as advertised. 00:48:32
Second, have a motion and a second for 3B. 00:48:35
Any questions for Matt? 00:48:38
Discussion. 00:48:40
All in favor say aye aye. 00:48:41
Any opposed? 00:48:43
Carries is there is that is CA carryover from last time or is that? 00:48:45
New this time. 00:48:50
We've had so many different grant proposals. I'm not. 00:48:52
It doesn't. 00:48:56
Please maybe this one is. 00:48:58
They went to convention but hadn't get counsel yet. Yes. 00:49:02
It's just permission to finish. 00:49:06
It's a clean up. 00:49:07
Really, I believe this grant has already written. Is it the? Is it the legacy? 00:49:08
I believe so, yeah. So just. 00:49:12
Following procedure. 00:49:16
Yeah. So somehow. 00:49:18
We came a few meetings ago with like 3 or 4 grant proposals and I'm scared when I give him to Gloria I gave only three instead of 00:49:19
four. 00:49:23
We went ahead and applied for the Legacy Foundation. 00:49:27
It's I think a $200,000 request. They were kind enough to help us last year with kind of kick starting some work at Stampede 00:49:30
Community Park at Shelter 4, which is underway now. 00:49:35
The hope is with this grant that we could pair this with the money from the tourism Bureau. 00:49:40
For a small amphitheater facility. So the money we have from tourism is a nice start. 00:49:45
We need some more money to make sure that it's done correctly, that it has a parking lot, that it probably has its own restroom 00:49:51
facilities. 00:49:54
We have big plans there when it comes to entertainment, music and so forth, and this would be the next step in helping. 00:49:58
Make those reality so. 00:50:05
I'm sorry for the oversight, it just didn't get that on the agenda. 00:50:07
But it's been applied for. 00:50:11
Make motion. We accept 4C. 00:50:12
I will say. 00:50:14
Second process is actually how we caught that this didn't make it through 2nd. 00:50:17
Yeah, it works OK. 00:50:23
We have a motion and a second for 3C. 00:50:25
Any further discussion? Sorry, I had to be the one that. 00:50:27
Make sure your ordinance works. 00:50:30
No, you're not. Yeah, you're not. 00:50:33
All in favor of three C say aye. 00:50:37
Aye, any opposed? 00:50:39
That carries. Thank you all. 00:50:41
Mr. Staying high. 00:50:43
You are up. 00:50:46
Good evening. 00:50:50
Mr. Tran, Welcome back, Sir. It's good to see you. 00:50:52
Thank you. It's good to be keeping you in our prayers for serving. Thank you. 00:50:54
#4A, this is it's a basically it's a pass through house unit. 00:50:58
To hold traffic study monies that are being paid by developer for the Highway 150 break. 00:51:04
That we're going to turn right around right to check out to Strand. 00:51:10
To do the highway study. 00:51:14
At 1:50 so. 00:51:16
I would just ask them to create a pathway so that we create a solid audit trail for the. 00:51:18
We've got the money and it's already been received in 9112. 00:51:23
Just asking to set up a an expense allocation line. 00:51:26
With this request here and to allow us to pay. 00:51:30
Strand Invoice. 00:51:33
Make a motion to accept for a. 00:51:36
Flag it. 00:51:38
We have a motion and a second for 4A. Any questions for Stan? 00:51:39
I can tell him it's a mess. 00:51:43
I'm sorry Sir, I can tell him 150 is a mess. 00:51:45
Whether there was that accident today, a semi ran right up off Napleton Rd. I think it was and. 00:51:49
Yeah, it's. 00:51:54
It's always a mess. 00:51:55
All right, all in favor of 4A say aye. 00:51:58
Aye, any opposed that carries? 00:52:02
4B This is a grant proposal again, we. 00:52:04
Trying to follow all the procedures, all as cross, all T's. This is a Lily grant. 00:52:08
It's supported by Ready Money. 00:52:13
This is. 00:52:15
Going to be used in the. 00:52:16
Elimination of the OR it's the blight elimination out the Edwardsville school. 00:52:19
The gym remodel is now. 00:52:23
Pushing upwards of 400,000 in the remodel so. 00:52:25
Applying for a grant to assist in the funding of this entire process. So we're just making the council aware of this particular 00:52:29
opportunity that we're trying to take advantage of. 00:52:34
Motion to approve 4B. 00:52:40
2nd. 00:52:44
Motion in a second, 4B. 00:52:45
Any further discussion on the? 00:52:47
Proposal. 00:52:49
Stan, I'm just curious. 00:52:50
We've applied for another grant for this too. 00:52:52
Were we denied or Yes? Well, we haven't been denied yet. This was the Aaron Houchins grant. 00:52:54
If that goes through, that was actually for the. 00:53:00
The other portion of the the facility, the school there. 00:53:04
This specifically is targeted in the gym location. 00:53:07
Yes, Sir. 00:53:11
All right, all in favor of 4B say aye. 00:53:14
Aye, any opposed? 00:53:17
Thank you. 00:53:18
See so. 00:53:20
I asked him put this on the council. Thanks Diane, I appreciate it. 00:53:22
There's been lots of discussion about gold buying that go bond funding. 00:53:26
I I've talked with Gary several times. The there's been a lot of discussion about the. 00:53:30
Utilization of. 00:53:35
Go bond funds from the council's behalf. 00:53:37
On upgrading. 00:53:40
The IT equipment that we currently have in place. 00:53:42
We have a lot of our. 00:53:45
Switches. 00:53:48
That are reaching end of life. 00:53:49
We have in this particular plan right now, we currently have about four weeks. 00:53:51
We're looking at about 3535 switches. 00:53:55
32 of them or two of them are other core switches and then we did the remodel or the upgrade of all the courts and the clerks PCs. 00:53:59
Last year thanks to your assistance. 00:54:08
But this money is also to buy an additional 132 PCs. 00:54:11
So that we can get all of the PCs in the county. 00:54:15
Up to. 00:54:18
A an upgraded level to perform it. It's at a peak performance moving into the future. 00:54:19
And then where our attempt us to. 00:54:25
And working with Gary and his team to. 00:54:27
Get our PC and our IT equipment on a. 00:54:29
Subsequent recycle. 00:54:32
Period. 00:54:34
We're not exactly sure how that's going to play out, but we had to start with Foundation somewhere. 00:54:36
And I think there's been a lot of discussions. 00:54:40
About. 00:54:43
To go buy monies using it for this IT upgrade program and establishing this foundation. 00:54:44
So I'm not really asking for any funding at this point. 00:54:49
At this point, but I think. 00:54:52
I wanted to kind of bring it to light so that we could have a discussion. 00:54:54
About what this plan is starting to unfold. 00:54:58
As you know, the longer we put off. 00:55:02
A commitment to doing. 00:55:04
Uh, in negotiating for. 00:55:06
Switches or PCs or any of the IT equipment. 00:55:09
Prices are continuing to escalate in that world. 00:55:12
Right now, based on just the numbers I shared with you, Trace 3, they're the organization who has. 00:55:15
I've been vetted for the switch upgrades. 00:55:22
And that's coming in right now at 332,000. 00:55:26
A little bit of change. 00:55:30
Dell right now has given us an estimated price for 132 PCs and all of the. 00:55:32
Links to getting those upgraded at about 220-1000. 00:55:38
Now I know we. 00:55:43
We have brief discussions about half $1,000,000 from the Gold Bond. 00:55:44
This comes in at $554,000. Just adding the numbers. So the reason? 00:55:49
Again, part of. 00:55:55
Why I think we need to have this discussion? 00:55:56
Is. 00:55:59
If the Council is committed to. 00:55:59
That half, $1,000,000, at least it gives and moving this program forward. 00:56:02
It gives us negotiating powers. 00:56:06
With these organizations. 00:56:08
To say this is a real life situation. 00:56:10
We are not just trying to negotiate for the best price to go back and then find funding. 00:56:12
We have funding somewhere in place. Our target is 500,000. 00:56:16
If if that's still an agreed upon amount. 00:56:21
But now if, if the Council is willing to move forward with this process. 00:56:23
We have a foundation, a solid foundation to negotiate fraud. 00:56:30
And and that's. 00:56:34
What I was asking tonight is are we still on board? 00:56:35
I'm still being supportive. 00:56:39
It's it's my understanding we're just waiting on Gary and you all because we've got the money, we're defending their half 00:56:41
$1,000,000. That's what we've allowed I think. 00:56:45
That was the. That was the commitment. 00:56:49
I mean so. 00:56:51
And it's still standing. 00:56:52
I mean, we're just waiting on you. 00:56:53
Well, thank you. And that's. 00:56:55
That's what I wanted to bring tonight. Gary's been working on this. It's. 00:56:56
It's very time consuming as you know, piercing together a massive upgrade like this. 00:56:59
But, but how many PCs? Did you say it's going to be 132 PCs? How many? 00:57:04
Do we have total? 00:57:09
They just upgraded 80 with the courts in the clerks last year so. 00:57:11
Probably looking at about. 00:57:15
Right at the 200 mark, I would think. So This can get everybody. Yes, ma'am. 00:57:17
Within two years, everybody will have. 00:57:21
2 year old. 00:57:24
Yes. 00:57:26
That's correct, yes. 00:57:28
So we wouldn't have this expense. 00:57:30
The entire time I've been the auditor's office, we've not had we get inherited PCs. 00:57:33
So as the courts get upgraded. 00:57:40
You kind of inherent what they got rid of. 00:57:43
I don't want to get too far into the weeds, but I know the. 00:57:45
Like the prosecutor's office, they upgraded some of theirs with their own. So are we. I'm sure he's. 00:57:48
Took a survey and he's taking those out. Absolutely. Yes Sir. 00:57:53
Absolutely. Make any sense to put get that rolling? 00:57:57
Start it at the beginning where you only do. 00:58:01
132 you enjoy a third of them and every three years. 00:58:04
I I think that's, that's significant, but. 00:58:08
What we have to realize is we have fallen so far behind. 00:58:11
That we have to have a solid foundation. 00:58:14
And I think absolutely that's a plan moving forward now. 00:58:17
We get these in place, we're not taking old PCs, we're trying to. 00:58:20
In in the IT team has worked very diligently trying to keep everything. 00:58:24
Working. 00:58:29
And they're working with. 00:58:30
Yeah, I did. 00:58:31
And with with. 00:58:33
With the outside. 00:58:34
Influence. 00:58:35
Gaining strength I guess. 00:58:37
You know the not so nice I guess. 00:58:39
We have to protect. 00:58:42
As well and and. 00:58:43
So this is just the first step and again creating a solid foundation. 00:58:45
And then we'll have future discussions on. 00:58:50
Potential rotation moving forward. 00:58:52
With a very solid plan to hope. 00:58:54
To me this is just like the digitizing program. 00:58:57
I mean, we're at a point where something needs to be done or we're going to have. 00:59:00
Potential for a failure somewhere in the system and it won't be good. 00:59:04
Yes, Sir. Absolutely, George. 00:59:08
To this point that I asked the Council for a vote. 00:59:09
Still adhering to that half $1,000,000 towards the IT projects that I can officially set it aside. 00:59:13
I'll make a motion to. 00:59:20
I'll make a motion. 00:59:23
Can we make a motion to put it in a separate line item? I'll make that motion to. 00:59:24
Get the IT money into. 00:59:29
I'd like to put the IT money. I'll make a motion to put the half $1,000,000 into a separate. 00:59:33
Line item in the go. 00:59:38
10 there's PR. I'm sorry. That's OK. No, no, you do it. You got it. 00:59:41
I was just asking. 00:59:51
That it be put in a line item. 00:59:53
Go for it so there's no additional. 00:59:54
You're halfway down the road. 00:59:57
Yeah, specify the amount and I guess the. 01:00:01
500,000 in a separate line. I'll second that motion. 01:00:06
OK, we have a motion and a second. I want some. 01:00:10
Clarification on. 01:00:12
We're creating a new line. 01:00:15
I'm going to create a new line. It'll still be under their councils department purviews and we're going to call it. They'll still 01:00:16
process directly through me with your knowledge and we're going to call it. 01:00:21
It's literally gonna probably be IT. 01:00:26
ATI Goban. 01:00:29
Copy upgrade. Yeah, OK, I'll make sure you got the information, Diana. That will work very closely. 01:00:30
Not to exceed 500. 01:00:38
We appreciate it. We appreciate it. 01:00:40
Any further discussion on this? No. 01:00:42
All in favor say aye. 01:00:47
Aye. Any opposed? Thank you very much. I certainly appreciate it. 01:00:48
I appreciate it. 01:00:57
It just makes it to where they do have the unofficial parking power because it is set aside specifically for them. 01:00:58
I am covering for JRAC. 01:01:04
And for the Opioid Oversight Committee tonight, so 5A is on behalf of J Rack, It is an award that the J Rack awarded at the end of 01:01:07
last year, but it is specific to the 2026 crossing into the 2027 budgetary year for our place. 01:01:14
So it's not actually part of the current approved budget for that fund. So we do need the additional appropriation granted to that 01:01:21
line so that they can pay out that grant to our place. 01:01:26
Move to approve 5A. 01:01:31
2nd. 01:01:33
Motion and a second for 5A. Any further discussion? 01:01:34
All in favor say aye aye. 01:01:39
Any opposed? 01:01:41
SO5B is the unrestricted opioid funds, and that would be the opioid Oversight Committee, which consists of myself, the county 01:01:43
auditor. 01:01:47
Sheriff who's currently Sheriff Bush, a commissioner appointee, which would be Mr. Sharp. 01:01:51
And then the current county prosecutor, which is Mr. Lane. 01:01:57
As you guys know. 01:02:01
Requests are brought forward. 01:02:03
They're considered. 01:02:04
Approved or denied, brought towards the Commissioners and then the appropriations brought to you. 01:02:06
So you're seeing training again and that is because we've approved additional training. 01:02:10
For an APD detective later on this year. 01:02:15
And for the first time ever, an ISP detective. 01:02:18
So the houses in this area are taking advantage. 01:02:21
Of these funds that are available for additional training and new tools brought into the county, and I think it's a wonderful 01:02:25
thing. 01:02:28
The other is drug testing services that's to be used for testing of substances in the course of investigations. 01:02:31
Specific to you. 01:02:37
Drug investigations. 01:02:39
Move to approve 5B. 01:02:41
2nd. 01:02:43
We have a motion and a second for 5B. 01:02:45
Further questions Who controls those drug testing? 01:02:47
If it's for case specific. 01:02:50
So right now that process is going through the prosecutor's office. 01:02:53
So it is under Floyd County control. 01:02:59
All right, all in favor, say aye. 01:03:05
Aye, any opposed? 01:03:07
That carries. 01:03:09
So C is. 01:03:12
The request for the additional appropriation that was discussed. 01:03:14
At the. 01:03:18
Last meeting. 01:03:21
That everyone gave a consensus of. 01:03:22
To support to begin working on the. 01:03:24
Digitizing project. I will say that Susannah Worrell and I have met. 01:03:27
With Miss Bailey. 01:03:31
Recently and we actually have another teams meeting with her tomorrow. 01:03:33
SBS has been. 01:03:37
Amazing and they're. 01:03:39
I think you guys are going to be really pleased with the results of this project. I'll make a motion to approve 5. 01:03:43
2nd. 01:03:48
We have a motion and a second for. 01:03:50
5C. 01:03:52
So I, I was under the understanding that we were in a position where we were, we were fully funding for the county. 01:03:55
For county general. 01:04:04
And it looks like from what page? 01:04:06
Just showed us we are going to be 1,000,001 short. So that's for next year. 2027. Yes ma'am. 01:04:09
And we actually would have been that this year without the diligent work that the council did to shuffle costs around. 01:04:17
I was thinking this was 2020. 01:04:23
Six, No, ma'am, that's next year's projection without any, without any movements on your old's behalf and that we're going into 01:04:26
the 2027 with $1,000,000. 01:04:31
Yes, and I have every confidence that this council will make sure that we're fully funded before we exit budget season this year. 01:04:39
OK, so. 01:04:45
I guess you we're just putting it in this line. 01:04:48
So that. 01:04:52
As invoices. 01:04:53
Correct. It would be a lot more arduous if we had it split up between 5 different budgets. So you will agree to just place it in 01:04:54
one budgetary line since I'm the lead on the project anyways. 01:05:00
So it's not like that amounts going out tomorrow morning. 01:05:06
No Sir, that goes out as stages are completed. 01:05:08
All right, any further discussion? 01:05:13
All in favor say aye aye. 01:05:17
Any opposed? 01:05:19
That carries. 01:05:21
You get to scan them. 01:05:22
Semi Semi. 01:05:25
They're well and sure, OK. 01:05:26
6A Is ordinance for additional appropriations for this evening Ordinance 2020? 01:05:34
26-11. 01:05:39
I'll make a motion. Approve 6A. 01:05:41
2nd, I have a motion and a second any discussion on our? 01:05:42
Appropriations. 01:05:46
All in favor say aye aye. 01:05:48
Any opposed? 01:05:50
Is there anyone from the public that would like to speak this evening? 01:05:52
Sidney had a leg cramp. 01:06:02
Anyone on council have any? 01:06:04
Committee reports or anything to update on? 01:06:06
I just like to now talk about to put up with me for at least a minimum. 01:06:10
Without us. Happy to have it in my race. 01:06:14
Happy to have you. 01:06:17
Focused on county business. 01:06:19
Anybody else? 01:06:23
All right, entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to adjourn. 01:06:26
2nd. 01:06:29
All in favor. 01:06:30
Aye, adjourned. 01:06:31
Don't leave. There's paperwork side. 01:06:35
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Event transcript
Welcome to the Floyd County Council regular meeting for Tuesday, May 12th, 2026. 00:00:05
Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:10
Pledge allegiance to the flag. 00:00:13
The United States of America. 00:00:15
To the Republic for which it stands. 00:00:17
One Nation. 00:00:20
Under God, indivisible. 00:00:21
With liberty and justice for all. 00:00:23
All right, let the record show that we are. We have six members of the seven here. 00:00:29
Mr. Fry Burger is not with us tonight. 00:00:34
Councilman Tran, would you? 00:00:38
Say the prayer force this evening. 00:00:40
Currently. Thank you for it. 00:00:44
This day that you have restless to see and we thank you for. 00:00:45
The privilege to gather together in. 00:00:49
This rule's preferred service for the people of this family. 00:00:52
We wouldn't ask that every good and. 00:00:56
Come from you. 00:00:58
And we ask for your wisdom, your damage. 00:00:59
The ring is cancel. 00:01:03
And as we meet, going. 00:01:06
What's my name? 00:01:08
A scene from The Commanders. 00:01:10
Around and we know a new beginning for private. 00:01:11
You embrace the work of. 00:01:15
And then decisions before us. 00:01:17
And. 00:01:21
I have employees that take care of the healthcare. 00:01:26
Remember that animal labor daily? 00:01:28
To strengthen our community. 00:01:30
I will have to. 00:01:33
Reasoning to manage the resources responsibly. 00:01:34
What is going to plan for the future and the humidity to remember that leadership is serviced. 00:01:38
Are these things we ask in your son Jesus name? 00:01:44
Amen. 00:01:47
Thank you, Tony. 00:01:48
Alright, acceptance of tonight's agenda. 00:01:50
Move text app. 00:01:54
2nd. 00:01:55
We have a motion and a second for. 00:01:57
Tonight's agenda? Any discussion? 00:02:00
All in favor say aye. 00:02:04
Aye, any opposed? 00:02:05
That carries. 00:02:07
Approval minutes from our April 14th meeting. 00:02:09
Move to approve. 00:02:13
2nd I have a motion and a second. 00:02:15
April 14th meetings. Any discussion on those? 00:02:18
All in favor say aye aye. 00:02:22
Any opposed? 00:02:24
I abstain. 00:02:25
I was absent. 00:02:26
That that passes with one abstention. 00:02:28
We will now open the. 00:02:32
Public hearing for Night Tonight's additional. 00:02:34
Appropriations. Is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? 00:02:37
About our additional appropriations. 00:02:40
Seeing none, I will adjourn the public hearing, and we will. 00:02:45
Get started with new business. 00:02:48
Page, you're up, Baker Tilly. 00:02:50
Thank you. 00:02:58
I'm good, I made my own. 00:02:59
I. 00:03:17
Yard. 00:03:23
Well, thank you for having me on the agenda. I wanted to give you an update on some legislative changes and also give you a 00:03:26
preview of your budget. 00:03:30
I do want to let you know that the we have updated your long term financial plan. 00:03:34
It is nearly complete. I would like to come back next month and present that draft to you. 00:03:39
And that'll be just in time, hopefully for your, your budget season. What we're waiting on right now is. 00:03:45
2026 circuit breaker information from the department of local government finance It should be any day that we get that we did get 00:03:51
circuit breaker information from the county abstract which. 00:03:56
Is hopefully identical to what DLGF will give us, but we just want to make sure and we also. 00:04:02
Are running that parcel by parcel analysis so we can have a good outlook through 2031 as to how Senate Enrolled Act One will 00:04:07
impact you. 00:04:12
So all of that is underway again, nearly complete. We will be back here next month. I'll work with Diana to figure out the best 00:04:17
date to appear before you with that information. 00:04:23
So. 00:04:30
Again wanted to give where should I point those because it's not working. How is it not working? 00:04:31
OK, thank you. OK. So first of all with the local income tax, there were some changes at the beginning of the year and. 00:04:39
Honestly, we anticipate. 00:04:47
Further changes in the 2027 legislative session. So just when we thought we had figured it out. 00:04:50
I I'm sure there will be additional changes, but here's the good news. 00:04:56
It has been delayed. The implementation of the new local income tax structure has been delayed till 2029. That's good news 00:05:00
because. 00:05:04
The Department of Revenue doesn't yet have the information we need or in for any of the municipalities to determine the adjusted 00:05:09
gross income by municipality as you know the way our structure works right now. 00:05:15
We do have the adjusted gross income county wide. 00:05:21
But it's not broken out by municipality in order for us. 00:05:25
For this new structure to work, we need to have it by municipality. 00:05:28
Now we are able to get very good estimates of the adjusted gross income, so we are running local income tax analysis. 00:05:33
We, we will do that. 00:05:40
Based on the estimated adjusted gross income. 00:05:43
But regardless, it has been delayed to 2029, so in 2028 you all will be making some very important decisions. 00:05:46
And I'm going to talk about the municipal unit task force before I leave here tonight because that's part of. 00:05:53
That's a very important part of making those decisions in 2028. 00:06:00
So another change. 00:06:05
Pretty significant. 00:06:08
Is that there is now the ability for those municipalities that are 3500 and above population. 00:06:09
They could now opt into a county wide municipal rate. 00:06:18
So if you remember under the previous legislation. 00:06:23
Those municipalities that have populations up below 3500. 00:06:27
Had to be into, had to be in the county wide municipal rate. They had no choice. 00:06:31
But those that were 3500 and above, like new album New Albany for example. 00:06:37
They could just go and adopt their own reign. 00:06:42
Well, what we were finding last year is that those larger municipalities were not bringing in near what they they would be. 00:06:44
Or what they are currently under that type of structure because? 00:06:53
Their rate would only be on the adjusted gross income of their municipality rather than county wide. 00:06:58
So now that they are able to opt into the county wide, so here it would be like New Albany and Georgetown could now be in that 00:07:03
county wide pool. They will likely benefit from that. 00:07:09
But they're going to lose the ability to be able to adopt their own. 00:07:15
So this is all things that that we need to kind of look at. 00:07:19
Run analysis, run scenarios and see. 00:07:23
How it benefits? 00:07:27
You the county unit. 00:07:28
Will be able to get a share of this county wide municipal rate. 00:07:30
Think which would be an adjust addition to your county wide county services rate. 00:07:34
So there is a benefit to the county unit as well. 00:07:40
Lit readoption. So when this first came about, we were going to have to adopt this local income tax annually. 00:07:46
That is still there, but. 00:07:54
When you adopt it for the first time, that's going to carry for three years then. 00:07:56
There will be annual adoption after that. 00:08:01
Five, there were changes made to the fire and EMS local income tax. 00:08:05
So the changes. 00:08:10
Really give the county more ability to. 00:08:12
In the way in which you allocate these. 00:08:17
So another words. 00:08:19
There was this 20 times multiplier for the service area and it was a very specific formula on how you allocate. 00:08:21
The fire Ernie and massive revenue. 00:08:28
And none of it seemed to go to the county unit. 00:08:30
Which was a huge flaw. If you Remember Me coming last year, I said that was a huge flaw in the legislation that's been fixed now. 00:08:33
There is an allocation that go to. 00:08:40
That can go to the county unit as well as fire territories districts. 00:08:42
And then, in certain circumstances, townships. 00:08:46
You, as the County Council, can still decide to. 00:08:50
To allocate it to Volunteer Fire departments as well. 00:08:53
There is. 00:08:57
There is a formula. 00:08:59
And it's based on service area and population, but you, the County Council, gets to determine how to weight those. 00:09:00
So if you want to wait it more on population or more on service area that's. 00:09:07
You're going to have the authority to do that, so you're going to have a lot of of decisions to make. And again, Baker Tilly's 00:09:12
here to help you run scenarios on what that different weighting looks like. 00:09:18
And that all goes back to this municipal unit strategic. 00:09:24
Task force and why that's going to be important. And again I'll I will get them. 00:09:28
Hit on that in a minute. 00:09:31
So if we go, Oh yeah, sure. 00:09:33
So. 00:09:35
There's going to be 1 lit rate. 00:09:37
But. 00:09:39
There's but the fire and EMS LIT will stay in place. 00:09:40
So. 00:09:44
That brings me to my next slide. If you go yes, that. 00:09:45
We'll go right to the next slide. So here's. 00:09:48
What this new structure looks like? 00:09:50
So there will be a county services rate. 00:09:53
1.2%. 00:09:57
That all goes to the county unit. 00:09:58
Just the county unit. 00:10:00
And you're you can levy a rate up to 1.2%. You may not need all of that. 00:10:02
That's all for you to use just the county unit. 00:10:08
There will be a fire EMS rate, so the public safety lit that you know today that expires. 00:10:12
Yeah, that will expire, but there's this new fire EMS rate that you can adopt. 00:10:19
And a portion of it can go to the county. 00:10:24
For EMS and then you have to distribute it to the fire districts, territories and municipal fire departments. Beyond that, you do 00:10:28
have the option of distributing it to Volunteer Fire Department. 00:10:32
Just note that. 00:10:38
Really, all the local income taxes you have today are going to expire unless you have a special purpose local income tax. That's 00:10:40
the only one that does not expire at the end of 2028. 00:10:45
So this truly is a whole brand new structure. 00:10:51
OK, now we have non municipal local income tax again. You the County Council have to decide if number one you want to adopt this 00:10:55
non municipal. 00:11:00
And then #2 how? What rate do you want? So how this works is the total non municipal rate cannot exceed .2%. 00:11:06
But truly it can't exceed .05% for each unit type. So when I say non municipal I'm talking about. 00:11:14
Townships and libraries primarily. 00:11:22
So what it comes down to is you can adopt A maximum rate of .05% for the townships. 00:11:24
A .05% for the libraries. 00:11:30
That's over the entire AGI of the county, and then it gets allocated based on their populations. 00:11:33
So it's not multiple rates, it's. 00:11:38
I have a library rate of .05%. 00:11:41
A Township rate of .05% and then it gets allocated based on population. 00:11:43
And as. 00:11:48
You know, today in this current structure, it's allocated based on levy. 00:11:49
Much different formula. 00:11:54
So that's where we may see some big swings either way. 00:11:56
Of of revenue allocation. 00:12:01
But that's why we really need this. 00:12:03
Collaboration and having the townships and libraries in the room to understand these things. 00:12:05
And you all will need to understand it because ultimately you will be making those decisions. 00:12:12
Municipal services, county wide rate I I did hit on that, but I want to talk about that again so. 00:12:18
So these larger municipalities are going to be able to opt into the county wide rate. 00:12:25
If they do that, then the smaller units are going to get a little bit diluted, right, because now we have these other entities 00:12:31
coming in. But again, you do get a portion of that. 00:12:36
Part of the formula is the county gets a portion of that. 00:12:41
But when the larger municipalities opt in, you're. 00:12:45
Portion gets diluted as well. So again we would need to run scenarios to see how all that will affect the county unit and the 00:12:48
municipalities. 00:12:53
I think a lot of municipalities like the idea that they will benefit from opting in because they would get more local income tax 00:12:57
revenue, but what they don't like. 00:13:02
Is the loss of control. 00:13:06
Because. 00:13:09
They're going to have to. 00:13:10
You know, so the cost benefit of of what they want to do there. 00:13:11
And then again. 00:13:16
As I stated before, the larger municipalities can adopt their own. 00:13:18
But the rate is only on their AGI. 00:13:23
And would not count. 00:13:27
You know, they would not be able to charge other taxpayers outside of their municipality. 00:13:29
So the next slide is just an illustration at this point. I just did a very quick calculation of. 00:13:36
What it looks like today for just the county unit, so just you all your portion of what is generated. 00:13:43
So right now the county unit, this is not county wide, the county unit gets. 00:13:50
Certified shares at 6.4 million. 00:13:55
Public Public safety 6.6 million. Lit Economic development about 4.1 million. 00:13:58
Lit correctional 6.1 million and lit judicial 1.2 so. 00:14:06
The county unit gets about 24.4 million. 00:14:10
For all of these various items here. 00:14:14
Your rate right now is 1.89%. 00:14:17
That is your county wide rate. 00:14:21
So if we move under this new let structure and again I'm just looking at county services lit. 00:14:23
It would take a rate of about .85% to get you about what you have now. 00:14:31
So that would be. 00:14:38
That would actually give you a little bit more honestly about $1,000,000 more, $25.8 million at. 00:14:39
.85% That's why I'm saying you may not want to go. 00:14:46
To the full 1.2 you can at some time in the future, it's not like you're locked in. 00:14:49
So that's what that looks like for you. We can run, you know, all the other units and, and, and what fire and EMS looks like. But 00:14:55
I just wanted you to just to get have some idea of what this looks like for the county unit. 00:15:02
Also with. 00:15:13
Slide also with this new legislation, we now have protection for for debt that is. 00:15:15
That is, has. 00:15:24
That is supported by local income tax, and you do have that here in this county. You've got 2 bonds. 00:15:25
A recovery zone economic development bond and a park district bond. 00:15:31
That is. 00:15:36
Supported or has local income tax obligated to it? 00:15:38
So I'm glad that this coverage is now in the statute because last year we didn't have any protection. 00:15:43
But now you all will have to make sure that you adopt A local income tax rate that's at least sufficient to have 1.25 times 00:15:51
coverage on your debt. 00:15:56
So that was a move in the right direction. 00:16:01
OK, now I want to. 00:16:07
Take a little bit of time to talk about this Municipal unit Strategic task Force. 00:16:08
So this is an optional task force. You do not need to convene this task force, but I want to. 00:16:14
Tell you about the benefits of having such task force. 00:16:22
So 1 is that. 00:16:27
It really opens up the lines of communication with with the units within this county. That's one. 00:16:29
2 is that. 00:16:36
At the end of this. 00:16:37
We are going to provide a report or the county would provide a report to the Department of Local Government Finance, which would 00:16:39
then go on to the Legislative Council. 00:16:43
I think this report is going to be very important to the Legislature so that they understand what does work. 00:16:49
What doesn't work? What needs to be changed? 00:16:55
Et cetera. And they they. 00:16:58
My understanding is that they're going to use these reports as they go into the 2027 legislative session. 00:17:00
So let me tell you a little bit about this task force. 00:17:08
The task force committee is made-up of 1. 00:17:11
County Council member. 00:17:14
And the fiscal officer of each municipality. So I think you just have 3 municipalities in in this county. 00:17:16
New Albany, Georgetown. And is it Greenville? I think yeah. 00:17:24
So small task force. 00:17:28
But what we're encouraging is that if you do convene this task force and you have those meetings, invite other taxing units to 00:17:31
come. 00:17:35
To be in the room and be a part of this discussion, it's unfortunate. 00:17:40
That townships weren't. 00:17:44
Part of this task force or libraries weren't made a part of this task force or schools or any other unit really, the fire 00:17:46
districts, territories. 00:17:50
Because they really. 00:17:55
They need to convey to you their needs. 00:17:57
So that you can determine what rates to adopt for the non municipals. 00:18:00
What rate to adopt for the fire and EMS? 00:18:06
So basically how this is supposed to be structured is that you convene this task force. 00:18:09
And you, it's like a formal collaborative effort. You determine what are the priorities of each of the taxing units, in particular 00:18:16
the municipalities and the counties. But. 00:18:21
Also the other units as well. 00:18:26
And how are you going to structure those rates? 00:18:29
This is non binding. 00:18:33
By the way. 00:18:34
If you come up with a plan at the end, it is non binding. You don't have to stick to that plan, but. 00:18:35
What the Legislature is looking for is a plan like we're going to adopt X-ray for county services, we're going to adopt X-ray for 00:18:40
fire, EMS. 00:18:44
X-ray for. 00:18:49
The non municipal units, they want that in a detailed plan. 00:18:51
And they really want it to be a unanimous approval of the plan. 00:18:56
But what I'm telling counties is that even if you can't get to this unanimous approval. 00:19:01
Submit the plan anyway. 00:19:07
Because that's what the Legislature needs to hear. Like we just couldn't come to an agreement because of this. This just wouldn't 00:19:09
work. 00:19:13
So we see a lot of benefits to this task force and, and what I just mentioned, the collaboration #1 and #2 providing that 00:19:17
information to the Legislature. 00:19:24
So we have a limited amount of time because the the report if you do decide to go through with the strateg. 00:19:30
Task Force. The report is due to DLGF. 00:19:38
By December 1st, and that seems like a long time away, but. 00:19:41
We're already working with the counties right now and we kind of put that out in a timeline. 00:19:45
And for us to have all of these meetings and get everybody on the same page, it's probably going to take. 00:19:50
That long until December to do this so. 00:19:55
Just wanted to let you know about this. We do have. 00:19:59
A suite of services that we offer, we can facilitate every meeting. 00:20:03
We know what questions to ask to get the conversations going. We can prepare the report for you. 00:20:07
The counties were working for right now. They're going to split the cost with the municipalities. You don't have to, but I think. 00:20:14
If the municipalities want to have. 00:20:20
Like a voice in this, they should be willing to pay for a portion of. 00:20:22
But how much is? How much is it? I can send it to you, I've got a menu of the. 00:20:26
Because honestly, I don't know how much it's going to cost. We're going to do time and expense and I'm going to show you like a 00:20:31
not to exceed amount. So it really depends on how long the meetings last. 00:20:35
Umm, how many meetings you need to have? 00:20:40
Elkhart County's already done this, and they've already completed their. 00:20:43
So I think they only needed like 2 meetings. 00:20:46
Which is crazy, isn't it? But but like, that's what it depends on. We're not going to charge you for anything that. 00:20:48
You know, we are not. You know, I'm not gonna charge you for five meetings if it only takes a couple meetings. So that's why it's 00:20:54
kind of hard to price, but I will send you a scope. 00:20:58
And you all can just look at it and see what you need. 00:21:02
With that. 00:21:05
But yeah, we've, we've engaged a few counties now and and they're moving right along with their meetings, so. 00:21:06
I again, I think it's a good thing. At first when I saw that it was optional, I was like, I don't know if people really want to 00:21:15
waste time with this, but I see the value in it. I really do. 00:21:19
So we can send you our scope of service and it outlines exactly all the phases that we could do, but we could help you facilitate 00:21:24
from start to finish. 00:21:28
With this task force. 00:21:33
So. 00:21:35
Next, next slide please is has to do with tax income. Well, do any, does anybody have any questions about the mask before I move 00:21:37
on because that was a big thing? 00:21:41
No, I know I had questions about it when I first got the e-mail, but I. 00:21:46
Looked into it a little bit, so OK. 00:21:50
All right, so another item that came up in the legislative session, what has to do with tax increment financing? 00:21:53
So redevelopment commissions are required to notify. 00:22:00
Or on an annual basis, notify the county. 00:22:06
If they're going to pass through any net assessed value, well now there's a penalty if they fail to provide notice. 00:22:09
Then the county auditor can reallocate 5% of the assessed value. 00:22:17
In an allocation area to the overlapping taxing units. 00:22:22
So that could benefit. 00:22:26
I don't know if that's a good or bad thing here, but. 00:22:29
It could benefit. 00:22:35
So. 00:22:39
The only way that that wouldn't happen, this is only for the county because we only have a few tips. Yeah, we're not talking about 00:22:41
New Albany. 00:22:44
Right. It just well, if New Albany doesn't have any tests, then it would just. 00:22:47
It's then it applies to all. Yeah. Yes, it's every steps. Yes, it's everyone. Yeah. Yeah, it's Georgetown. 00:22:52
All of their tips processed through my office and report to my office. Yeah. Oh wow. 00:23:02
I mean, the reason for this like penalty is because people were failing to notify. 00:23:08
It's important that they notify if they have any. 00:23:13
Excess net assessed value that they can pass through. 00:23:16
So. 00:23:20
This it it it. 00:23:21
Could serve to benefit. 00:23:23
Or at least make people do what they need to do. 00:23:25
No, they still won't. 00:23:32
So. 00:23:34
So the next item I want to talk to you is about Township mergers because. 00:23:38
There is a component where at least the county commissioners will. 00:23:43
Be somewhat involved with this, but I at least want you to be aware of it. 00:23:46
So. 00:23:51
For many, many years, the Legislature has. 00:23:53
Attempted to put something in the statute to reorganize or dissolve townships. Well now we do have something that requires 00:23:56
Township mergers and this really is directed towards townships that are low performing. 00:24:03
Or have little to no activity. 00:24:10
So what this is going to require is it's like a grading system, like a point system. So townships that are assigned at least four 00:24:14
points are are designated townships, meaning. 00:24:20
They either have to merge with another Township. 00:24:27
Or they have to reorganize. 00:24:30
With a municipality. 00:24:32
If 80% of their boundaries overlap that municipality. 00:24:35
Or at least 51% of the population live in that municipality. 00:24:39
But again, it's directed to low performing or townships that are just not providing much service. 00:24:44
This will be effective January 2029. The DLGF at the end of this year will release the official grades if you will. 00:24:51
But if you go to the next slide, this is the point system. I know there's a lot going on here, so I'm not going to hit every 00:25:01
single one, but how this is working? 00:25:05
Just to give you an idea as if. 00:25:10
Let's say, for instance, the Township. 00:25:12
Has a certified budget that's less than 100,000. That means they're not providing much service Let's say that they. 00:25:15
Are not managing fire and EMS, they're just contracting with another. 00:25:21
Another entity. 00:25:26
If they are not uploading their annual reports like they're required to or their monthly reports so they just aren't performing. 00:25:30
Not providing service so again. 00:25:38
If there are side points, that's a bad thing. So if you get 4 at least 4 points. 00:25:40
You're going to be required to again either merge with another Township. 00:25:45
Or merge with a municipality. 00:25:50
So. 00:25:52
The grading system is going to come out or the grades are going to come out in December. 00:25:53
And the townships will know. 00:25:58
So is the state grading these? 00:26:00
Yes, the Department of Local Government Finance will be doing the grading. We we have the ability to grade to a certain extent. 00:26:02
However, there are some information that's not public record. 00:26:08
So the DLGF will make those grades but. 00:26:13
If town if a Township disagrees with the DLGS grades, they can petition and ask them to take another look. 00:26:16
But yes, it will be the DLGF. They'll be using State Board of accounts data and other data. 00:26:25
When they get to 4, will they stop or will they keep rubbing it in and get to? When they get to 4, they'll stop because that's all 00:26:30
that's required. 00:26:33
So where the county comes into play? 00:26:40
Right. Is that umm. 00:26:43
On by August 1st of 2027. 00:26:46
The county commissioners will have to hold a public meeting of all Township trustees to just discuss the merger, and I imagine the 00:26:50
meeting will just be talking about who will need to merge and who they're going to merge with. 00:26:56
And then by October 1st, the county commissioners will adopt A resolution that actually names the townships that will merge. 00:27:04
And so by February 28th, all that information, February 28th of 28, all that information will be sent to the DLGF and this will be 00:27:13
effective January 1 of 2029. 00:27:18
Quick question. 00:27:24
Can it only be two townships that merge, or can more? It could potentially be more so. 00:27:26
The townships that are graded less than 4 can be a recipient Township. 00:27:32
So depending on the circumstance, there could be two of those non performing townships. 00:27:39
Go in with A1 recipient. 00:27:45
If they have money. 00:27:48
In a bank account does it? 00:27:49
It goes to the recipient, either municipality or Township. 00:27:51
Now I do know in some counties townships are. 00:27:56
Getting are starting to be proactive and they're trying to merge. 00:28:00
With who they want to merge with because they know what's coming down the road. 00:28:06
I don't know what the tops are here in this county because I don't work with any townships here in this county, but. 00:28:10
They can either take a proactive approach or they're going to merge whether they like it or not for the. 00:28:16
I appreciate the. 00:28:21
The number the 1st. 00:28:23
Point. 00:28:25
On the point scale is they're going back to 23 and 24, so. 00:28:26
Townships can't go recruit. 00:28:30
People in 26 for assistance and. 00:28:33
Yeah, that was a. 00:28:35
That was a smart move there, but yeah. 00:28:37
OK. 00:28:40
OK. 00:28:41
Next slide just has to do with housing matters. I'm not an expert in this, but just to let you know that there there is some new 00:28:43
legislation that grants local ordinances on. 00:28:48
Density, setbacks and parking. 00:28:53
It limits communities abilities to adopt and raise housing development fees. 00:28:55
The residential and housing tip areas will not no longer revert to formal, I'm sorry, former rules in 27/20/27 that would have 00:29:01
required a return to the 1% test. 00:29:06
It changes the lifespan of residential housing tip areas. 00:29:14
And allows property tax abatements to enable higher density and mixed income communities. 00:29:18
The only thing I would say about the whole housing thing, because part of that statute has to do with. 00:29:23
With fees that are generated from building and construction, like your building permit fees, this is a pretty big change when it 00:29:29
comes to budgeting because now starting in 2027, all building and construction fees. 00:29:36
Are gonna need to be receded into a separate fund. 00:29:43
And then you're building type of like planning and zoning will need to be paid from that fund. 00:29:47
That's a pretty big change, and that came out of this Housing matters. 00:29:53
And we will be helping the. 00:29:57
Determine all of that. We'll look at your general fund, see what needs to be moved. 00:29:59
But. 00:30:04
You know, and I, I think. 00:30:05
I don't think that this happens in many counties, but I guess in some counties maybe. 00:30:06
Building permit fees are um. 00:30:11
Kind of. 00:30:13
Compensating for other. 00:30:15
Items. Maybe it's getting used for other things other than building. 00:30:17
Stuff. So I think that's why they created the stack. 00:30:22
Other legislation you should be aware of. Oh, here's a good one. This is what I call the Baker Tilly legislation. 00:30:27
For some reason we were targeted. 00:30:33
You now have to upload municipal advisor contracts. 00:30:36
And that is effective now. 00:30:41
So if you have any Baker Tilly contracts, those need to be uploaded. 00:30:43
OK, Yeah. 00:30:47
Yeah, anyway, Anyway, yes. 00:30:52
It's not just for Baker Tilly, but. 00:30:55
We were definitely targeted there. 00:30:58
For whatever reason. 00:31:00
Well, I know the reason but. 00:31:01
Don't talk in riddles because we were out there talking about the effects of Senate and World Act One and there were people that 00:31:05
didn't. 00:31:08
Care for that? 00:31:12
Library budgets. 00:31:15
So this is something you also need to be aware of SO. 00:31:17
You have. 00:31:21
Units that come to you providing review and those are the fire districts. 00:31:23
It is possible. I don't know how many libraries you have. Do you just have one county wide library? 00:31:26
It's possible that the library could come to you for a binding review because now. 00:31:32
Their budget increase is very restrictive. 00:31:37
If they increase their bio. 00:31:41
Budget by more than half. 00:31:43
Of that maximum levy growth quotient. 00:31:45
They have to come to you for a binding review, so let me translate that. 00:31:47
In 2027, we think that the the levy growth will be about 5.6%. 00:31:51
That means the library can't increase its budget by more than 2.8% without having to come to you. 00:31:57
For a binding review. 00:32:03
So just for awareness, I'm letting you know that. 00:32:05
I don't know what we don't work with the library but. 00:32:08
If they're saying hey, we need a binding review, that's why. 00:32:11
Because. 00:32:15
They have an unelected board. 00:32:17
And this is what the statute. 00:32:19
The constraints that the statute has put on to them. 00:32:21
Next slide. 00:32:26
Fire Protection districts. So you. 00:32:27
You probably heard last year fire territories were capped at a $0.40 rate. 00:32:30
That has now been extended to fire districts now. 00:32:35
Current fire districts are grandfathered in. 00:32:38
But if? 00:32:41
Any current fire districts try to expand, they will be capped at that $0.40 rate. 00:32:42
I I feel like it's an. 00:32:49
An arbitrary rate. I don't know where they came. 00:32:51
Up with that. 00:32:53
Umm, but. 00:32:55
You know, I just don't think this is going to be sustainable in the long term. So we'll see if that ever changes, but right now 00:32:56
they're capped at $0.40. Not only that. 00:33:00
Equipment replacement funds and cumulative fire funds that both territories and districts have. 00:33:06
That used to be outside the maximum levy limitations are now within. 00:33:12
Their loving limitations so that even they've been restricted even more. 00:33:16
Data centers, that's a popular topic all over the state of Indiana, but. 00:33:21
There's a piece of legislation that allows a unit that approves A qualified data center. 00:33:27
To receive revenue equal to 1%. 00:33:32
Of the data centers electricity bill sales tactics, sales tax exemption. So basically in other words. 00:33:35
You get kind of a revenue stream coming in there from a data center if you approve that. 00:33:41
Next slide, OK, maximum levy growth portion, I did touch on this, so. 00:33:50
For 20. 00:33:54
4-5 and six. 00:33:56
The maximum levy growth was limited to 4%. 00:33:59
By the legislature for those three years. 00:34:03
Good news is that that. 00:34:06
Restriction has been lifted for 2027 and beyond unless they change the legislation again. 00:34:08
So preliminary. 00:34:14
Estimates show that that Levy growth could be 5.6%. That's higher than we've seen in many years. 00:34:17
So that actual number should come out in June. 00:34:24
But right now we're just going to go with the estimate of 5.6%. 00:34:28
And just as a reminder, that's based on a six year average of income basically. 00:34:32
So it is income driven. 00:34:37
Here's something as a council you should be aware of. 00:34:41
My understanding is the State Board of accounts is going to require you to pass a resolution on these two items I'm getting ready 00:34:44
to talk about. So item number 1 is. 00:34:48
And this was effective July 1st, 2025. 00:34:53
Financial institutions tax, also known as FIT. 00:34:57
And commercial vehicle excise tax known as CVAT. 00:35:01
Those taxes are deposited in funds that you have that are supported with property tax, or that's how it was in the past. 00:35:05
Now. 00:35:13
You, as a council, can decide to put those taxes in any fund that you wish. 00:35:15
The electoral legislation. 00:35:19
Have the commissioners dictating. 00:35:21
Where? Oh, it's alright, OK. 00:35:23
Until it's actually for sure you can take this event, then go. 00:35:25
OK. They did have to take that vote last year. 00:35:29
And they've already made them, yes, OK, just just for the council's purview, and I apologize. No, that's OK. Steven is going to 00:35:32
MBH because it's commercial vehicle excise tax benefit, which is kind of just designated to the general fund. 00:35:39
OK, perfect. So now with the vehicle excise. 00:35:48
Is that going to be the same way? Is that going to go to? 00:35:52
Multiple funds. So you see that the county portion used to get broken up between multiple different levy funds. It's now just goes 00:35:55
directly to LRS or MBH and then. 00:36:00
The Fit County portion. 00:36:06
But the auto aircraft excise, which is also a part of that settlement. 00:36:10
Yeah, that's new. Yeah, right. So that starts. 00:36:14
Yeah. No, no, no, gotcha. The next one, Yeah, yeah. 00:36:18
So. 00:36:22
Starting for 2027 and we could talk about this during budget time. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. 00:36:23
You also have. 00:36:27
An auto aircraft. 00:36:29
Excise tax. 00:36:30
And that's a larger. 00:36:33
Revenue stream than those than the CVET and FIT, that's a larger revenue stream. So that we'll need to decide, you know, if that's 00:36:35
still going to be divvied up among the funds or just go to general or however you want to do that. So we can work on that during 00:36:39
budget season. 00:36:44
It it is something that you do have to consider and we can help you with that. 00:36:51
So what's coming up? 00:36:57
This is a little budget preview. 00:36:59
Next slide. 00:37:02
So. 00:37:05
In 2026. 00:37:06
The property tax credits, also known as circuit breaker credit, should be available. 00:37:08
And. 00:37:12
I They actually should have been available mid-april and we're still looking for them, but I understand that some counties have 00:37:13
been released so. 00:37:17
Once we get those circuit breaker credits, we will let you know. 00:37:21
What it looks like as far as what we estimated. 00:37:25
For the 2026 budget. 00:37:28
And what they are. 00:37:30
Actually, because we might have to make some course corrections, I hope not. I think we tend to be conservative. So we're 00:37:31
probably, we probably have a higher estimate than what will actually occur. But we need to let you know that and we will as soon 00:37:36
as we get those numbers. 00:37:40
We are preliminary estimates. 00:37:46
Was a $716,000 increase for all property tax supported funds. So another words in 2025, the property tax credits. 00:37:49
OR 530,000. So that was a reduction of your property tax revenue? 00:38:00
Our preliminary estimates as I stand here right now is about 1.245 million, but we had incorporated that into your budget. 00:38:04
So everything should be OK now if it comes in at higher than 1.2, that's where we may need to make some adjustments. 00:38:14
Supplemental local income tax distributions, those are available now. Unfortunately Floyd County is not getting any supplemental 00:38:22
local income tax. We we did check that and you're they're just scheduled to start qualifying again until next year, OK, OK. We had 00:38:29
a period of time that we had to make up for an overdistriction that will now make withheld from us for three to four years. And I 00:38:36
think that next year for sure even a lot of qualifying, OK. 00:38:42
And and hopefully you get some. 00:38:49
That will end up going away in 2029. 00:38:53
We talked about the property tax levy growth factor that is. That is some good news. There is a new budget application in Gateway 00:38:59
Budget 2.0. We will assist the county with that. It seems pretty straightforward. It's actually a better system, I think. 00:39:07
Yeah, it carries more through it, it does. So I think that'll be a good thing. 00:39:15
And then the 2027 local income tax, which has been going up, we've been experiencing growth. Those numbers will come out. 00:39:20
At least the preliminary estimates in August, so we will keep an eye out for that as well. 00:39:29
And the final page, if you want to start planning for budgets is. It's showing your estimated receipts in column B for each of 00:39:35
your fonts. 00:39:40
The disbursements we just kind of put in an arbitrary growth factor of 3%. So I wouldn't focus on that so much. 00:39:46
But column. 00:39:52
As the estimated receipt, so for like. 00:39:53
The county general under just real quick. 00:39:56
Perusing those numbers because keep in mind the numbers that were provided to Baker Tilly were prior to the most recent joint 00:39:59
meeting where an additional some creation occurred in the public safety list. 00:40:05
Not bank on that beginning fund balance and column A for the public safety list, you can thank you. 00:40:10
Yeah, we'll get those updated numbers too. Yeah, that's a good point. And that's really why I just want to. 00:40:16
Want you to focus on column B on this report. 00:40:21
I didn't want them to be around, you know? I know, I know. 00:40:24
Column B How much it was adjusted by, you know. 00:40:27
3 million. 00:40:31
I can tell you that my estimate for the end of the year for that balance is going to be about $600,000. 00:40:32
So I firmly believe we're going to roll into 2027 with a carryover of $600,000. 00:40:39
That should be offset somewhere else then. 00:40:45
No, it's additional spending that has happened this year as ambulances. 00:40:50
At the beginning of EMS and all of those things. 00:40:54
So it's it's offset in the fact that there's growth. 00:40:57
Direction of those those dollars. 00:41:01
No, no, no worries. So column B is, yes, what I would focus on right now. These are preliminary revenue estimates, but if you just 00:41:08
want to get a general idea of the revenue that we think will be coming into those funds, this would be for your recurring costs. 00:41:15
So. 00:41:23
Again, preliminary numbers based on what we know today, these will change as we get additional information. When I come back next 00:41:24
month, I'm hoping we're reasonably close, but next month we'll have even more information that we'll be able to. 00:41:31
Log into your model. So again, preliminary information. 00:41:37
For you to to take a look at. 00:41:42
Any that was a lot of information. I went over any questions, but I did want to. 00:41:47
Come down, touch base with you, let you know that we're. 00:41:51
We've got your financial plan nearly complete. We'll be back next month. 00:41:55
Any questions for Paige? 00:42:00
The Europe is normally a client of your own. 00:42:02
I'm sorry, normally a client y'all. 00:42:06
I don't. 00:42:09
Think so. I don't work with them make it a lot easier for us. I know I don't I can check, I know we don't do any budgetary things 00:42:10
for them, but we might do other things like economic development. I can check and see I just. 00:42:15
We try to. 00:42:22
Keep separation like since I am assigned to you. 00:42:23
I wouldn't work for New Albany. Somebody else in the firm would. That's why I don't know, but I can certainly find out. 00:42:28
Yep, normally as a client. 00:42:34
Victor Tilly, That's a hole. 00:42:36
Yeah, this makes it a lot easier, yes. 00:42:38
That's true and. 00:42:40
As we're doing these musts, these task forces, there's some counties where all of the units are Baker Tilly clients, so it does 00:42:42
help. 00:42:46
Because we can get everybody coordinated all in the same room and. 00:42:51
It does help and I'll find out if New Albany is. I just I don't know. I know that the fire district is obviously our client. 00:42:54
So the Georgetown or fire territory now, I guess. 00:43:02
Fire District who is this must something we were going to discuss. 00:43:06
Now or. 00:43:11
Yes, for lack of a better term, yes, so that you can have a better idea. It might be something to put on the joint agenda for 00:43:17
Friday. 00:43:21
I'm I'm not just making this Oh yes, now and then and that way you have some additional information because that are. 00:43:25
And if you need me to join virtually to answer questions or if there's questions that arise and. 00:43:33
You'd like to follow up, that's fine as well. 00:43:38
Good. Perfect. 00:43:42
Anything else? 00:43:46
Yes, that will be in our report. I, I don't have a copy of the draft report with me, but we will make sure that that's a part of 00:43:58
that. Yeah, for sure. 00:44:03
All right. Thank you very much. All right, thank you. Thank you. 00:44:10
All right. Is anybody here representing the? 00:44:19
Public Defender. 00:44:22
Is that you? 00:44:25
Go ahead. 00:44:26
I know that you got to see the prosecutor. 00:44:32
Last month concerning some additional appropriations due to the high cost of some trials. 00:44:34
So far this year, this. 00:44:39
Follows the same vein, except it is outside of the. It's out of their supplemental fund. 00:44:41
Motion to approve 2A. 00:44:49
And sabotage. 00:44:50
Tag it. We have a motion a second for 2A. Any questions or discussion? 00:44:51
All in favor say aye. 00:44:57
Any opposed that carries? 00:44:59
Mr. Dennison. 00:45:01
Good evening. All of this is Grant related. 00:45:07
Items. The 1st is a. 00:45:10
A new fund that had to be created because the. 00:45:13
Land and Water Conservation Fund is federal money, so it has to be in its own. 00:45:15
Account our own fund and this is to move money into those lines so. 00:45:20
This is all for construction and. 00:45:25
Planning for Phase 2? 00:45:27
Of the Bob Lane Regional Park, the design is in the early stages and there will be some. 00:45:30
Minor construction and things for phase two later this year. 00:45:35
Motion to approve 3A as advertised. 00:45:40
2nd. 00:45:43
I have a motion and a second. 00:45:44
438. 00:45:46
Any questions for my just have comment. Glad you briefly. 00:45:47
Explain what professional services is. 00:45:51
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean. 00:45:53
I'll just stop it again, at least in its supporting dogs. 00:45:55
I mean, we get stuff for 125 hundred 30,000. 00:45:59
Professional. Sorry, it could be. 00:46:02
Maybe somebody washed the car. That's a professional. Yeah, I don't know. 00:46:04
They're usually contractually based. 00:46:07
OK. 00:46:10
Yeah, there were. Professional services fall under a contract. 00:46:12
There were some options that Diane and Gloria gave us and so for. 00:46:16
We'll take all the design stuff out of professional services and then. 00:46:20
But the other construction there that line. 00:46:23
How's the? 00:46:26
Totally unrelated, how's the path going to community park? 00:46:28
The path no at the hillside. 00:46:31
It's getting ready to get an RFP out for design. We have your money that you guys were kind enough at the end of last year to give 00:46:33
us. 00:46:37
It's in one of our non reverting funds and the federal money. 00:46:41
To go with that, I'm still waiting to get it. I got an e-mail last week. 00:46:44
Of the next step. It's an online ACH process, but no. 00:46:48
No beginning to that. Just a heads up that it's coming. So we're watching for that, but we're going to go ahead with the design 00:46:53
work. There's been some preliminary. 00:46:57
Options. 00:47:02
Uh, design work to. 00:47:03
Get us to where we're at now, now that we have the. 00:47:04
The avenue that we want to take the the style of trail that we think it fits, the budget that we've got totally to work with. 00:47:07
We feel comfortable going ahead and having the full design of the trail done. 00:47:15
And as long as we get the federal money at some point here in the next month or so, we hope that that is a project that takes 00:47:19
place. 00:47:22
By the fall of this year is our hope. 00:47:26
Good. All right. Any other questions on 3A? 00:47:28
All in favor say aye. 00:47:33
Aye, any opposed? 00:47:35
Carries. 00:47:36
Item B. Both of those items are. 00:47:39
Grants that. 00:47:41
Have been. 00:47:42
That came long before my time here. 00:47:44
They were under commissioner line items and we're just requesting to move those into. 00:47:46
1178 one of our non reverting funds, the Duke Trail grant, that's leftover money that. 00:47:51
We're trying to figure out how to put that to use at the Jensen Trail based on the grant agreement from years ago and then the 00:47:57
Caesars Foundation. That's the major gift, 200,000 a year. 00:48:02
$1,000,000 in total. We just got our draw. 00:48:08
For this year, we have one more year on that and we will be approaching Caesars again to. 00:48:11
Talk about continuing to help us with that park as we move forward. So this is just getting stuff in funds that we have full 00:48:16
control over and so we can better. 00:48:21
Stay on top of them and stay organized. 00:48:27
Motion to approve 3B as advertised. 00:48:32
Second, have a motion and a second for 3B. 00:48:35
Any questions for Matt? 00:48:38
Discussion. 00:48:40
All in favor say aye aye. 00:48:41
Any opposed? 00:48:43
Carries is there is that is CA carryover from last time or is that? 00:48:45
New this time. 00:48:50
We've had so many different grant proposals. I'm not. 00:48:52
It doesn't. 00:48:56
Please maybe this one is. 00:48:58
They went to convention but hadn't get counsel yet. Yes. 00:49:02
It's just permission to finish. 00:49:06
It's a clean up. 00:49:07
Really, I believe this grant has already written. Is it the? Is it the legacy? 00:49:08
I believe so, yeah. So just. 00:49:12
Following procedure. 00:49:16
Yeah. So somehow. 00:49:18
We came a few meetings ago with like 3 or 4 grant proposals and I'm scared when I give him to Gloria I gave only three instead of 00:49:19
four. 00:49:23
We went ahead and applied for the Legacy Foundation. 00:49:27
It's I think a $200,000 request. They were kind enough to help us last year with kind of kick starting some work at Stampede 00:49:30
Community Park at Shelter 4, which is underway now. 00:49:35
The hope is with this grant that we could pair this with the money from the tourism Bureau. 00:49:40
For a small amphitheater facility. So the money we have from tourism is a nice start. 00:49:45
We need some more money to make sure that it's done correctly, that it has a parking lot, that it probably has its own restroom 00:49:51
facilities. 00:49:54
We have big plans there when it comes to entertainment, music and so forth, and this would be the next step in helping. 00:49:58
Make those reality so. 00:50:05
I'm sorry for the oversight, it just didn't get that on the agenda. 00:50:07
But it's been applied for. 00:50:11
Make motion. We accept 4C. 00:50:12
I will say. 00:50:14
Second process is actually how we caught that this didn't make it through 2nd. 00:50:17
Yeah, it works OK. 00:50:23
We have a motion and a second for 3C. 00:50:25
Any further discussion? Sorry, I had to be the one that. 00:50:27
Make sure your ordinance works. 00:50:30
No, you're not. Yeah, you're not. 00:50:33
All in favor of three C say aye. 00:50:37
Aye, any opposed? 00:50:39
That carries. Thank you all. 00:50:41
Mr. Staying high. 00:50:43
You are up. 00:50:46
Good evening. 00:50:50
Mr. Tran, Welcome back, Sir. It's good to see you. 00:50:52
Thank you. It's good to be keeping you in our prayers for serving. Thank you. 00:50:54
#4A, this is it's a basically it's a pass through house unit. 00:50:58
To hold traffic study monies that are being paid by developer for the Highway 150 break. 00:51:04
That we're going to turn right around right to check out to Strand. 00:51:10
To do the highway study. 00:51:14
At 1:50 so. 00:51:16
I would just ask them to create a pathway so that we create a solid audit trail for the. 00:51:18
We've got the money and it's already been received in 9112. 00:51:23
Just asking to set up a an expense allocation line. 00:51:26
With this request here and to allow us to pay. 00:51:30
Strand Invoice. 00:51:33
Make a motion to accept for a. 00:51:36
Flag it. 00:51:38
We have a motion and a second for 4A. Any questions for Stan? 00:51:39
I can tell him it's a mess. 00:51:43
I'm sorry Sir, I can tell him 150 is a mess. 00:51:45
Whether there was that accident today, a semi ran right up off Napleton Rd. I think it was and. 00:51:49
Yeah, it's. 00:51:54
It's always a mess. 00:51:55
All right, all in favor of 4A say aye. 00:51:58
Aye, any opposed that carries? 00:52:02
4B This is a grant proposal again, we. 00:52:04
Trying to follow all the procedures, all as cross, all T's. This is a Lily grant. 00:52:08
It's supported by Ready Money. 00:52:13
This is. 00:52:15
Going to be used in the. 00:52:16
Elimination of the OR it's the blight elimination out the Edwardsville school. 00:52:19
The gym remodel is now. 00:52:23
Pushing upwards of 400,000 in the remodel so. 00:52:25
Applying for a grant to assist in the funding of this entire process. So we're just making the council aware of this particular 00:52:29
opportunity that we're trying to take advantage of. 00:52:34
Motion to approve 4B. 00:52:40
2nd. 00:52:44
Motion in a second, 4B. 00:52:45
Any further discussion on the? 00:52:47
Proposal. 00:52:49
Stan, I'm just curious. 00:52:50
We've applied for another grant for this too. 00:52:52
Were we denied or Yes? Well, we haven't been denied yet. This was the Aaron Houchins grant. 00:52:54
If that goes through, that was actually for the. 00:53:00
The other portion of the the facility, the school there. 00:53:04
This specifically is targeted in the gym location. 00:53:07
Yes, Sir. 00:53:11
All right, all in favor of 4B say aye. 00:53:14
Aye, any opposed? 00:53:17
Thank you. 00:53:18
See so. 00:53:20
I asked him put this on the council. Thanks Diane, I appreciate it. 00:53:22
There's been lots of discussion about gold buying that go bond funding. 00:53:26
I I've talked with Gary several times. The there's been a lot of discussion about the. 00:53:30
Utilization of. 00:53:35
Go bond funds from the council's behalf. 00:53:37
On upgrading. 00:53:40
The IT equipment that we currently have in place. 00:53:42
We have a lot of our. 00:53:45
Switches. 00:53:48
That are reaching end of life. 00:53:49
We have in this particular plan right now, we currently have about four weeks. 00:53:51
We're looking at about 3535 switches. 00:53:55
32 of them or two of them are other core switches and then we did the remodel or the upgrade of all the courts and the clerks PCs. 00:53:59
Last year thanks to your assistance. 00:54:08
But this money is also to buy an additional 132 PCs. 00:54:11
So that we can get all of the PCs in the county. 00:54:15
Up to. 00:54:18
A an upgraded level to perform it. It's at a peak performance moving into the future. 00:54:19
And then where our attempt us to. 00:54:25
And working with Gary and his team to. 00:54:27
Get our PC and our IT equipment on a. 00:54:29
Subsequent recycle. 00:54:32
Period. 00:54:34
We're not exactly sure how that's going to play out, but we had to start with Foundation somewhere. 00:54:36
And I think there's been a lot of discussions. 00:54:40
About. 00:54:43
To go buy monies using it for this IT upgrade program and establishing this foundation. 00:54:44
So I'm not really asking for any funding at this point. 00:54:49
At this point, but I think. 00:54:52
I wanted to kind of bring it to light so that we could have a discussion. 00:54:54
About what this plan is starting to unfold. 00:54:58
As you know, the longer we put off. 00:55:02
A commitment to doing. 00:55:04
Uh, in negotiating for. 00:55:06
Switches or PCs or any of the IT equipment. 00:55:09
Prices are continuing to escalate in that world. 00:55:12
Right now, based on just the numbers I shared with you, Trace 3, they're the organization who has. 00:55:15
I've been vetted for the switch upgrades. 00:55:22
And that's coming in right now at 332,000. 00:55:26
A little bit of change. 00:55:30
Dell right now has given us an estimated price for 132 PCs and all of the. 00:55:32
Links to getting those upgraded at about 220-1000. 00:55:38
Now I know we. 00:55:43
We have brief discussions about half $1,000,000 from the Gold Bond. 00:55:44
This comes in at $554,000. Just adding the numbers. So the reason? 00:55:49
Again, part of. 00:55:55
Why I think we need to have this discussion? 00:55:56
Is. 00:55:59
If the Council is committed to. 00:55:59
That half, $1,000,000, at least it gives and moving this program forward. 00:56:02
It gives us negotiating powers. 00:56:06
With these organizations. 00:56:08
To say this is a real life situation. 00:56:10
We are not just trying to negotiate for the best price to go back and then find funding. 00:56:12
We have funding somewhere in place. Our target is 500,000. 00:56:16
If if that's still an agreed upon amount. 00:56:21
But now if, if the Council is willing to move forward with this process. 00:56:23
We have a foundation, a solid foundation to negotiate fraud. 00:56:30
And and that's. 00:56:34
What I was asking tonight is are we still on board? 00:56:35
I'm still being supportive. 00:56:39
It's it's my understanding we're just waiting on Gary and you all because we've got the money, we're defending their half 00:56:41
$1,000,000. That's what we've allowed I think. 00:56:45
That was the. That was the commitment. 00:56:49
I mean so. 00:56:51
And it's still standing. 00:56:52
I mean, we're just waiting on you. 00:56:53
Well, thank you. And that's. 00:56:55
That's what I wanted to bring tonight. Gary's been working on this. It's. 00:56:56
It's very time consuming as you know, piercing together a massive upgrade like this. 00:56:59
But, but how many PCs? Did you say it's going to be 132 PCs? How many? 00:57:04
Do we have total? 00:57:09
They just upgraded 80 with the courts in the clerks last year so. 00:57:11
Probably looking at about. 00:57:15
Right at the 200 mark, I would think. So This can get everybody. Yes, ma'am. 00:57:17
Within two years, everybody will have. 00:57:21
2 year old. 00:57:24
Yes. 00:57:26
That's correct, yes. 00:57:28
So we wouldn't have this expense. 00:57:30
The entire time I've been the auditor's office, we've not had we get inherited PCs. 00:57:33
So as the courts get upgraded. 00:57:40
You kind of inherent what they got rid of. 00:57:43
I don't want to get too far into the weeds, but I know the. 00:57:45
Like the prosecutor's office, they upgraded some of theirs with their own. So are we. I'm sure he's. 00:57:48
Took a survey and he's taking those out. Absolutely. Yes Sir. 00:57:53
Absolutely. Make any sense to put get that rolling? 00:57:57
Start it at the beginning where you only do. 00:58:01
132 you enjoy a third of them and every three years. 00:58:04
I I think that's, that's significant, but. 00:58:08
What we have to realize is we have fallen so far behind. 00:58:11
That we have to have a solid foundation. 00:58:14
And I think absolutely that's a plan moving forward now. 00:58:17
We get these in place, we're not taking old PCs, we're trying to. 00:58:20
In in the IT team has worked very diligently trying to keep everything. 00:58:24
Working. 00:58:29
And they're working with. 00:58:30
Yeah, I did. 00:58:31
And with with. 00:58:33
With the outside. 00:58:34
Influence. 00:58:35
Gaining strength I guess. 00:58:37
You know the not so nice I guess. 00:58:39
We have to protect. 00:58:42
As well and and. 00:58:43
So this is just the first step and again creating a solid foundation. 00:58:45
And then we'll have future discussions on. 00:58:50
Potential rotation moving forward. 00:58:52
With a very solid plan to hope. 00:58:54
To me this is just like the digitizing program. 00:58:57
I mean, we're at a point where something needs to be done or we're going to have. 00:59:00
Potential for a failure somewhere in the system and it won't be good. 00:59:04
Yes, Sir. Absolutely, George. 00:59:08
To this point that I asked the Council for a vote. 00:59:09
Still adhering to that half $1,000,000 towards the IT projects that I can officially set it aside. 00:59:13
I'll make a motion to. 00:59:20
I'll make a motion. 00:59:23
Can we make a motion to put it in a separate line item? I'll make that motion to. 00:59:24
Get the IT money into. 00:59:29
I'd like to put the IT money. I'll make a motion to put the half $1,000,000 into a separate. 00:59:33
Line item in the go. 00:59:38
10 there's PR. I'm sorry. That's OK. No, no, you do it. You got it. 00:59:41
I was just asking. 00:59:51
That it be put in a line item. 00:59:53
Go for it so there's no additional. 00:59:54
You're halfway down the road. 00:59:57
Yeah, specify the amount and I guess the. 01:00:01
500,000 in a separate line. I'll second that motion. 01:00:06
OK, we have a motion and a second. I want some. 01:00:10
Clarification on. 01:00:12
We're creating a new line. 01:00:15
I'm going to create a new line. It'll still be under their councils department purviews and we're going to call it. They'll still 01:00:16
process directly through me with your knowledge and we're going to call it. 01:00:21
It's literally gonna probably be IT. 01:00:26
ATI Goban. 01:00:29
Copy upgrade. Yeah, OK, I'll make sure you got the information, Diana. That will work very closely. 01:00:30
Not to exceed 500. 01:00:38
We appreciate it. We appreciate it. 01:00:40
Any further discussion on this? No. 01:00:42
All in favor say aye. 01:00:47
Aye. Any opposed? Thank you very much. I certainly appreciate it. 01:00:48
I appreciate it. 01:00:57
It just makes it to where they do have the unofficial parking power because it is set aside specifically for them. 01:00:58
I am covering for JRAC. 01:01:04
And for the Opioid Oversight Committee tonight, so 5A is on behalf of J Rack, It is an award that the J Rack awarded at the end of 01:01:07
last year, but it is specific to the 2026 crossing into the 2027 budgetary year for our place. 01:01:14
So it's not actually part of the current approved budget for that fund. So we do need the additional appropriation granted to that 01:01:21
line so that they can pay out that grant to our place. 01:01:26
Move to approve 5A. 01:01:31
2nd. 01:01:33
Motion and a second for 5A. Any further discussion? 01:01:34
All in favor say aye aye. 01:01:39
Any opposed? 01:01:41
SO5B is the unrestricted opioid funds, and that would be the opioid Oversight Committee, which consists of myself, the county 01:01:43
auditor. 01:01:47
Sheriff who's currently Sheriff Bush, a commissioner appointee, which would be Mr. Sharp. 01:01:51
And then the current county prosecutor, which is Mr. Lane. 01:01:57
As you guys know. 01:02:01
Requests are brought forward. 01:02:03
They're considered. 01:02:04
Approved or denied, brought towards the Commissioners and then the appropriations brought to you. 01:02:06
So you're seeing training again and that is because we've approved additional training. 01:02:10
For an APD detective later on this year. 01:02:15
And for the first time ever, an ISP detective. 01:02:18
So the houses in this area are taking advantage. 01:02:21
Of these funds that are available for additional training and new tools brought into the county, and I think it's a wonderful 01:02:25
thing. 01:02:28
The other is drug testing services that's to be used for testing of substances in the course of investigations. 01:02:31
Specific to you. 01:02:37
Drug investigations. 01:02:39
Move to approve 5B. 01:02:41
2nd. 01:02:43
We have a motion and a second for 5B. 01:02:45
Further questions Who controls those drug testing? 01:02:47
If it's for case specific. 01:02:50
So right now that process is going through the prosecutor's office. 01:02:53
So it is under Floyd County control. 01:02:59
All right, all in favor, say aye. 01:03:05
Aye, any opposed? 01:03:07
That carries. 01:03:09
So C is. 01:03:12
The request for the additional appropriation that was discussed. 01:03:14
At the. 01:03:18
Last meeting. 01:03:21
That everyone gave a consensus of. 01:03:22
To support to begin working on the. 01:03:24
Digitizing project. I will say that Susannah Worrell and I have met. 01:03:27
With Miss Bailey. 01:03:31
Recently and we actually have another teams meeting with her tomorrow. 01:03:33
SBS has been. 01:03:37
Amazing and they're. 01:03:39
I think you guys are going to be really pleased with the results of this project. I'll make a motion to approve 5. 01:03:43
2nd. 01:03:48
We have a motion and a second for. 01:03:50
5C. 01:03:52
So I, I was under the understanding that we were in a position where we were, we were fully funding for the county. 01:03:55
For county general. 01:04:04
And it looks like from what page? 01:04:06
Just showed us we are going to be 1,000,001 short. So that's for next year. 2027. Yes ma'am. 01:04:09
And we actually would have been that this year without the diligent work that the council did to shuffle costs around. 01:04:17
I was thinking this was 2020. 01:04:23
Six, No, ma'am, that's next year's projection without any, without any movements on your old's behalf and that we're going into 01:04:26
the 2027 with $1,000,000. 01:04:31
Yes, and I have every confidence that this council will make sure that we're fully funded before we exit budget season this year. 01:04:39
OK, so. 01:04:45
I guess you we're just putting it in this line. 01:04:48
So that. 01:04:52
As invoices. 01:04:53
Correct. It would be a lot more arduous if we had it split up between 5 different budgets. So you will agree to just place it in 01:04:54
one budgetary line since I'm the lead on the project anyways. 01:05:00
So it's not like that amounts going out tomorrow morning. 01:05:06
No Sir, that goes out as stages are completed. 01:05:08
All right, any further discussion? 01:05:13
All in favor say aye aye. 01:05:17
Any opposed? 01:05:19
That carries. 01:05:21
You get to scan them. 01:05:22
Semi Semi. 01:05:25
They're well and sure, OK. 01:05:26
6A Is ordinance for additional appropriations for this evening Ordinance 2020? 01:05:34
26-11. 01:05:39
I'll make a motion. Approve 6A. 01:05:41
2nd, I have a motion and a second any discussion on our? 01:05:42
Appropriations. 01:05:46
All in favor say aye aye. 01:05:48
Any opposed? 01:05:50
Is there anyone from the public that would like to speak this evening? 01:05:52
Sidney had a leg cramp. 01:06:02
Anyone on council have any? 01:06:04
Committee reports or anything to update on? 01:06:06
I just like to now talk about to put up with me for at least a minimum. 01:06:10
Without us. Happy to have it in my race. 01:06:14
Happy to have you. 01:06:17
Focused on county business. 01:06:19
Anybody else? 01:06:23
All right, entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to adjourn. 01:06:26
2nd. 01:06:29
All in favor. 01:06:30
Aye, adjourned. 01:06:31
Don't leave. There's paperwork side. 01:06:35