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[0:00] It is now 1 o'clock July 1, 2024 at Cascani Commissioners' meeting. It's called a order, ready to head in for the pledge of allegiance, followed by a moment of silence.
[0:25] Thank
[0:35] you.
[0:42] Approved regular minutes from June 17, 2024 and the special meeting minutes from June,
[0:55] I'll
[0:55] and special meeting from June 24th, 2024.
[0:58] Move approval, both sets of minutes.
[1:00] Second, the motion?
[1:01] All in favor?
[1:02] Hi.
[1:03] All in favor of the claims and payroll?
[1:06] Move approval.
[1:07] Second.
[1:07] All in favor?
[1:08] Hi.
[1:12] I'm going to get the right.
[1:15] Anderson's 2D seismic testing.
[1:18] Do you want to come up here, please?
[1:21] I'm sorry.
[1:21] I didn't get your name on here.
[1:23] My name is Alan Chattney, and I'm the president of Explore,
[1:28] we're a Houston-based company that specializes in seismic data acquisition testing.
[1:34] And we'd like to seek your permission to do 30 miles of testing along
[1:39] and within county road right away for the Anderson's.
[1:43] Okay, so I entertain a motion to allow the testing.
[1:52] But we want to offer work on the road use agreement, so we want to table this road use agreement
[2:00] until our next meeting.
[2:04] We want to prove the allowing of the testing.
[2:09] Second, the motion.
[2:10] All in favor?
[2:12] Hi.
[2:12] Hi.
[2:12] Okay.
[2:13] Thank you.
[2:14] Of course, that would be so.
[2:16] Ending things, road use.
[2:18] Yes, it seems to be to our county attorney is putting that
[2:20] right used to agreement together.
[2:27] That's why I said put that way.
[2:34] Probation department, Terry Haney.
[2:41] Good afternoon.
[2:42] Good afternoon.
[2:43] I have two items today.
[2:47] The quick one will be.
[2:49] I have a probation officer leaving.
[2:51] option would be is relocating to Houston, Texas and seeking permission to fill that position
[3:01] when he
[3:06] went.
[3:06] Do you want to do one at a time?
[3:08] I think we...
[3:12] Second, the motion.
[3:13] Okay.
[3:14] All in favor?
[3:15] Hi.
[3:16] Thank you.
[3:17] The second is completely discretionary.
[3:23] have a part-time secretary have, it's not an incredibly urgent need for that to be a full-time
[3:32] position, but it's getting busy. Diane, like I explained, has been around a while, she's
[3:42] got more personal time, you
[3:48] know, the salary schedule and everything, and it would just be
[3:52] very handy for us to have a second full time as opposed to the part time.
[3:58] The Secretary that we have is agreeable to going full time whenever that should happen.
[4:04] And I just thought that, you know, this being budget time would
[4:09] make that every last.
[4:12] Would you, would your budget allow for a full time?
[4:16] That was my idea to pay that out of the user, but actually my budget request, my paper request, differs from the online request because the online
[4:32] Let me add that position this whole time, so my paper budget request has that same position budgeted in the alternative I put
[4:48] question in part time funds and the potential impact that we have as you
[4:54] went full time. So you know that budget shows it either way.
[5:02] I have questions.
[5:04] Approval of the full time sector of the position.
[5:07] Second.
[5:08] All in favor.
[5:10] Hi.
[5:11] Okay. Thank you.
[5:13] Health Department, Serenity.
[5:19] Good afternoon.
[5:20] So, in the month of June, we did 34 permits, 40 routine inspections, 3 complaints, 3 operational,
[5:28] 1 pool inspection, 5 lead, and 2 five lead followups, and then 2 regular inspections.
[5:34] We have 8 residential soil profiles, 2 onsite septic permits, 2 new construction for residential repair,
[5:41] and 10 searches, and then 12 environmental calls.
[5:43] We did 92 births, 166 certificates.
[5:48] We saw 169 patients with 374 vaccines given.
[5:52] We have 40 latent TB patients, two active,
[5:56] four hepatitis B and C, 29 skin tests were done.
[5:59] 30 lead cases that were currently working on with six below.
[6:02] We did get news that they're going to lower that level again.
[6:06] I'm not sure if I'll do it here.
[6:08] I think they'll get it done before the end of this year.
[6:10] But suppose that?
[6:10] That for adults or children?
[6:14] It's five now, so my curve that they were going to go to 2.5, I heard 3.5, but my curve 2.5, so we'll see how that works out.
[6:23] And then we did the QPR last month.
[6:28] We're actually offering another QPR on July 16th.
[6:31] We're in the process of setting the time for that.
[6:33] We believe it's going to be the same place from 10 to 12 again with mental health America.
[6:38] We're also working on a health fair for August 1st.
[6:41] who's your park, Houston Park, that'll do back to school vaccines, but also
[6:45] gives immunizations for adults too. So if you need
[6:49] shingles or RSV those are free during that time, we're looking
[6:52] with the immunization coalition on that. Tentness will be there as
[6:56] well. And more distributed seven car seats. We're also going to have a
[7:01] car seat distribution during that health fair that day. We have
[7:04] Indiana Health Centers working with us, the hospitals working with us. The
[7:07] schools are working so we'll have lots of activities that day.
[7:12] Any questions?
[7:16] The TD cases can have more than what we have in the set of concern.
[7:21] Very much.
[7:23] Very much.
[7:26] Any special, just react to it?
[7:33] The latency be that we seem to have a lot of the immigrants.
[7:37] So I think that's kind of where we're getting in our active as well.
[7:39] One of them is not an immigrant or one of them is it?
[7:44] One of them is actually the second one passed away.
[7:49] Okay.
[7:51] Any other questions?
[7:52] Thank you.
[7:53] Thank you.
[7:55] Thank you.
[7:58] Serenity, were you going to do the,
[8:10] we'd have to amend the agenda?
[8:22] Mm-hmm.
[8:22] Yeah.
[8:24] Okay.
[8:24] Yeah.
[8:24] We have to do it now.
[8:25] Okay.
[8:27] Can he come up and talk with me?
[8:29] Mm-hmm.
[8:30] Okay.
[8:31] So this is John Phillips.
[8:32] This is just my work guy.
[8:34] This year we're trying to shut down the road five hundred E's.
[8:37] actually directed behind my house, there's by my list of Baltimore Street, one of the largest
[8:41] fireworks in Indiana this year, professionally built by us, so that way where we came
[8:46] for it, literally, or anything to that degree.
[8:49] There are a couple of pictures here where it's actually going to be located, so I've ever
[8:52] been at a 24 inch shell and I need about 1,700 feet in every direction, I'm sorry, so this
[8:57] will be in the center of the fields, the picture here at the base where it's actually going
[9:01] to be shut off from and it's just one country block that will be shutting off for what we're
[9:06] doing.
[9:11] There's a couple of pages there because we have a couple of different things here
[9:14] to shut down. We'll have a venue on July 20th. There's going to be the who's your warrior
[9:18] best. This is Kevin Anneford, the veterans, suicide prevention, and the first responders
[9:23] too as well. That's why there's two different pictures there.
[9:27] They're terrible pictures.
[9:33] And this is for who's your, tell me again.
[9:36] This is the first one that we'll be shut down road there in Walton as for their July
[9:41] four of the best divvities. Okay, so we are the primary pivot technicians on the
[9:46] side. We shoot the show. This year we have two different sites. We have the one
[9:50] at Jeff Leffer's where it normally goes off right next to the school. And my
[9:54] side is removed by at least a mile. So that way we can shoot this in order to
[9:58] show them another we have a safety that we need. I have every condition that I need to
[10:02] be safe or I'm at all the locations right and correct. So that way we don't get me
[10:07] legal trouble finding my means is ensured and permitted for both sites.
[10:13] And that week 500 East, Walt and Ending-Anne,
[10:20] the top road above it, that it can
[10:21] next to, it will be 600 South and 2018.
[10:31] And if you're a warrior festival that we're doing as a fundraiser for veterans, suicide awareness
[10:37] and first responders.
[10:39] So we have lots of things going on.
[10:40] of the car shadow, GANS fish fry, lots of vendors that are going to be there that day.
[10:44] And what does that, and that's the way I tell you, and all of the funding for that, we'll
[10:48] go towards that, so the second question is if that turns the end of the day.
[10:53] So is that one?
[10:58] The end of the day is the Galveston Park.
[11:01] Okay.
[11:02] And we're actually shedding roads that will be leaving Elveston, or by the public tech, it
[11:07] be shutting down South County Road 950 East will be travel and west on County Road 600 North
[11:17] and we'll be heading back north on 900 East
[11:22] countries where we're walking literally right there
[11:24] with the polytet going all the way around and back up over for their 5k. This is basically
[11:29] being put on by the Lewis Cassus
[11:35] site. Okay, that's all of the like 20. That one's on July 20.
[11:39] The Walton Show will be on the floor.
[11:41] Okay.
[11:45] Hi, Wade Department.
[11:46] Sheriff's Department.
[11:47] Okay.
[11:48] Both closures.
[12:01] Seconded.
[12:02] All in favor.
[12:04] Just make sure you get together with with the.
[12:06] Highway Department.
[12:06] One question here.
[12:08] We're going to have an event.
[12:10] They're in Galveston.
[12:12] We're worried about her permitting on that because it's actually going to be lower than 250 people at this very event as it starts this year.
[12:18] Is there permits that we need for such a set of things to be in the public for that degree and with alcohol there too as well?
[12:27] You'll have to check with the zoning. Okay, check with Erin let her ask her. Thank you very much. Thank you
[12:36] Okay, high-way department
[12:42] Good afternoon
[12:44] In the month of June our forces logged over 600 hours of culvered and drainage related projects and we had nearly equal amounts of time over
[12:52] 450 man hours each dedicated to patching and maintenance,
[12:57] mowing and road construction activity and preparation for our summer road program.
[13:03] The chip seal phase of that is scheduled to begin in just about two weeks.
[13:08] Roughly the 16th of July is the date we currently have when our contractor is going to be ready to start with us.
[13:14] How many miles a chip seal?
[13:16] We're doing approximately 68 sinner line miles, believe it's around a hundred actual sealic
[13:24] equivalent miles.
[13:25] We have some double and triple seals in there.
[13:29] Our contractor tells me that of the ones they, the counties they work with, we are actually
[13:34] doing the most this year.
[13:36] So it's still not what we would like to do, but it's more than our neighbors apparently.
[13:43] We did have some storm clean up of multiple down trees last Tuesday, the 25th, fortunately most
[13:50] of that occurred during normal working hours to get the roads back opened up.
[13:55] We did complete some paving work on June 22nd on county roads, 250 south and 125 west.
[14:02] That's the road out in the Tyson area.
[14:04] That was a seated funded project and it was actually paved on a Saturday to alleviate as many
[14:10] traffic issues as we could for both employees of the industry and for our
[14:16] paving crews. We did accumulate approximately 24 man hours of overtime
[14:20] assisting with flagging during that paving work. During that work we also did
[14:27] some patches on Monticello Road in old 25 that same week. We have for consideration a
[14:35] We live at Ordnance on County Road 600 East between US 24 and US 35 with the construction
[14:42] going on in that area and general road conditions, it's recommended to enact a 45 mile
[14:49] per hour speed zone from County Road 175 South going south to US 35.
[14:55] Now, the speed limit already is at 35, south of Vietnam.
[15:00] We asked 24 coming through the S-curve there, and then we go to 45 of the rest of the way under this ordinance.
[15:08] So we have that for your consideration.
[15:10] And currently, it says 55?
[15:13] It is currently posted at 55, that's correct.
[15:16] I can comment on that. I can go that way of fair amount.
[15:20] And I can totally support reducing the to 45.
[15:24] And now, kind of.
[15:26] We have wider roads with better clear zones that are posted at 45 in the county.
[15:33] So I feel it's a prudent move.
[15:37] How do we improve all of one's 24 dash dwellers presented?
[15:42] Seconded.
[15:42] All in favor.
[15:44] Hi.
[15:44] Thank you.
[15:46] All right.
[15:47] We also have a retirement upcoming.
[15:50] Ron Blackman is here today.
[15:52] He is retiring, effective July 8th, a week from today after 18 years and 7 months of service.
[16:00] And he's done a great job for us.
[16:02] He's actually stuck around a few years past his eligibility.
[16:06] But we've enjoyed having him around and wish him the best in retirement.
[16:11] Toward that end, we do request permission to fill a full-time driver vacancy
[16:15] at the proper date, following Ron's retirement as calculated by human resources.
[16:22] In our Tantamotion to allow full-time driver position.
[16:25] We'll all the full-time driver position to fill.
[16:28] Second.
[16:29] All in favor.
[16:32] Thank you.
[16:32] Thank you.
[16:35] Also, we have two surplus used culvert pipes.
[16:38] We would like to declare surplus.
[16:39] The items are two 18 inch by 26 foot pipes.
[16:43] and 145 degree elbow, these are used items.
[16:47] We would like to declare them surplus.
[16:50] Interten a motion to allow these pipes to be used as surplus?
[16:54] Second.
[16:55] All in favor?
[16:58] And we have truck bids, which were opened at the last meeting.
[17:01] And after reviewing, we would recommend the low bids for two dump truck packages from
[17:06] from Wears International for 237-772, and from W.A. Jones for 207,430 dollars for the
[17:16] bed packages, that brings the grand total for two fully equipped trucks to 445,202.
[17:25] Intertainment to allow the purchase of these trucks that were presented.
[17:30] Will the role of the Trump Princess present?
[17:33] Seconded.
[17:34] All in favor.
[17:35] Hi.
[17:36] I would add like everything else since the last three years we've seen the price of the chassis
[17:42] go up by 27% and the beds by 42% inflation.
[17:51] And that's all I have for the regular report.
[17:56] Any questions?
[17:59] Thank you.
[18:00] Thank you.
[18:04] Park's Department.
[18:12] Good afternoon.
[18:12] Good afternoon.
[18:16] We also have some storm damage.
[18:18] I think Jeff Smith has used the bucket truck for a couple weeks there.
[18:21] We did a lot of trend work on low hanging branches and deadlands.
[18:26] Park's been running at folk capacity every weekend with camping and gas.
[18:30] The estimate revenue I gave you on my report had changed from time to
[18:38] support actually for the month of June 1st and in May the revenue of $198,418,
[18:46] $120,500,500 or that was in Gatley.
[18:53] Part of what's good.
[18:54] Young questions?
[18:56] It's amazing.
[18:58] Thank you very much.
[19:07] Good afternoon.
[19:09] Good afternoon.
[19:09] Good afternoon.
[19:09] Good afternoon.
[19:10] You can say I'm going to report that we had eight deaths this year, brings our total
[19:16] to the year for the year to 50.
[19:19] That puts us about 10 behind what we were at this time last year, but it's still considerably
[19:25] more than what pre-COVID deaths were.
[19:33] Any questions for the corner?
[19:35] And
[19:39] then if they're all natural deaths, they're all, they're all age range, they're between
[19:45] 56 and 67, it's kind of a narrow, more ancient seedings.
[19:53] It is, and it seems like we're getting more and more young people in their 50s and even a couple
[20:00] and they're 40s with heart attacks.
[20:05] And unfortunately, we, the number of obese people
[20:09] that we're getting is just, it's way out there.
[20:16] Talk a lot about suicide and overdose deaths
[20:19] and whatever these other deaths, people dying,
[20:22] maybe not really young, but still a lot younger
[20:25] than you would think, and deaths of despair are the same.
[20:30] the obesity contributes heavily to the heart issues and diabetes.
[20:38] And is that just a matter of public education?
[20:41] I think it's a matter of the trend of the society today.
[20:46] That's just my opinion, my thought on it.
[20:52] There's, we see it all the time a lot more larger people now than what we did a few years ago.
[20:58] these people for some reason are taking care of themselves and that contributes to not only
[21:05] diabetes and heart disease but a whole host of other illnesses that could be prevented
[21:10] if people would just maintain their health and their weight.
[21:17] I do see one question I have on no autopsies were required, why did we, why did the coroner
[21:24] transport so many as you did?
[21:26] Because a lot of them, we need to take back the hospital to draw them blood, a lot of them, the funeral homes aren't available.
[21:34] The majority of the reason is because the family doesn't know what funeral home they're going to use.
[21:40] And that's, unfortunately, that that is pretty common.
[21:47] People aren't prepared, especially as young as the people we're having right now.
[21:51] in their 40s and 50s, they don't think about preparing or making prearranges for the funeral.
[21:58] And that's probably the biggest reason is because they just don't have any funeral plans, prearrangements.
[22:08] Also note that the age range here, but virtually all male.
[22:13] That's one.
[22:14] Is that a trend or a year or one?
[22:20] You would think so, but I don't know that I'm going to go to Trin, but it certainly was
[22:27] this past month, and that might be a good thing to start logging and keeping track of the
[22:33] number of female versus male deaths.
[22:37] And this thing is a side-of-way problem, like the middle-aged men dying earlier, a lot
[22:42] of women on the show.
[22:45] And again, I'm going to step back up on my wagon here for a second, but I'm a living example of it.
[22:53] If people would do preventative things like the hard scan, I've told you before that I was around
[23:00] in 25 to 30 miles a week, every week, and my wife one day said we're going to go for a hard scan.
[23:06] I ran seven miles the day before we went for the heart scan, and I go in and six weeks later
[23:14] I'm having a triple bypass.
[23:16] I had no symptoms, no shortness of breath, nothing, no chest pains, and if people would do
[23:22] just simple things like that, you wouldn't see nowhere near that many myocardial infarctions
[23:29] on that paper.
[23:30] I just don't need to sign it for the health department to consider this as the bad of these
[23:37] deaths.
[23:38] It's an area for HK and the public, but then the steps that you say to take them avoid
[23:46] these premature deaths.
[23:48] I would love to see an organization or a group of organizations come together and they have
[23:54] the mobile units that can come out and do that and schedule it free for a day.
[23:59] You can get scheduled your appointment show up.
[24:02] I'd love to see that happen, but I don't know if it's possible or not.
[24:10] Thank you George.
[24:11] Thank you.
[24:12] Have a good evening.
[24:13] Good evening.
[24:14] E 911, Tara.
[24:22] Hello.
[24:24] So for June we answered 1849, one one calls, four thousand two hundred and two administrative
[24:30] calls.
[24:31] They produced 2,690 grad screens, our training, still fully staffed, and we had 24 out of 24 available over time shifts worked for you.
[24:46] Step fully staffed.
[24:48] Still, okay, that's good.
[24:50] What does your July 4th day would you anticipate on a normal bag, double amount of calls, triple?
[24:57] I'm trying, I worked July 4th, last year, I'm trying to think it wasn't.
[25:03] We definitely had more calls, more drunk drivers, more drunkenness, but it wasn't too bad last year.
[25:14] So hopefully we can stick with the same pattern this year.
[25:22] Thank you.
[25:23] Thank you.
[25:28] Clerk's Office has a contract that they would like for us to consider.
[25:34] it's a Malcolm contract, it's a history. I don't see it. No. And you're good with it?
[25:46] A little approval of the Malcolm contract from the folks office.
[25:50] Second in.
[25:51] All in favor?
[25:53] Bit opening for EMS, Walton Station, renovation project.
[25:57] It's like we have two bids,
[26:13] first one is chronic construction incorporated, bit of $489,000.
[26:42] And hamstruck builders incorporated,
[26:49] we field Indiana, ham construction is from
[27:02] I
[27:10] would move to these beads, be taken under advisement.
[27:13] All in favour?
[27:15] Aye.
[27:17] Thank you.
[27:19] We have some board appointments.
[27:25] Did you can go in?
[27:26] Thank you.
[27:33] The board appointments we have is for Jennifer O'Neill for Walton and Tipped in Township Library.
[27:39] Steven Plank for Airport Authority Board, it's he's a re-appointment and Rachel Taylor for the Board of Health.
[27:51] So I entertain a motion to allow these individuals to be placed on these boards.
[27:56] Move away point three individuals.
[27:59] Second.
[28:00] All in favour?
[28:01] Aye.
[28:03] Thank you.
[28:05] Public announcements and recognition.
[28:07] We'd like to recognize Ron Blackman for his year's service, 18 years of service with the
[28:14] Cascani Highway Department.
[28:18] We commissioners want to recognize you for your hard work and continue dedication throughout
[28:22] the years.
[28:25] So,
[28:30] that was just in your retirement.
[28:32] Thank you very much.
[28:35] Good luck.
[28:36] Thank you.
[28:38] That's delicious.
[28:38] So, did Jeff talk to you about putting you on a part-time first?
[28:42] Yeah, you were tired.
[28:43] Well, boys, I'm choked about it.
[28:46] It's morning, she already had me working on it.
[28:49] She was like, don't worry.
[28:50] She was like, don't worry.
[28:51] I'm going to be good about that for sure.
[28:56] For her, for Jeff.
[29:01] I want to note that the next meeting will be July the 15th.
[29:05] And I want to make sure that everybody has a safe, as I said.
[29:11] We've stated earlier from chair as safe and I happy for the July any
[29:18] other
[29:19] announcements,
[29:22] public comment,
[29:25] Laura Redwick, Laura Redwick, five, five, two
[29:29] four North County Road 600 East. I want to circle back to the Anderson's
[29:35] 2D site and a testing. It's 30-mile area. Is that continuous,
[29:41] a circular straight, do you have the map on where it's going to be?
[29:46] That will be on the road use agreement.
[29:49] It's an area.
[29:51] It's not.
[29:52] So it's just kind of different roads.
[29:55] Go within.
[29:56] And then...
[29:59] Does it say...
[30:00] In there, I don't know, the road use agreement, then how many sites they will be testing in that area.
[30:08] It's just on the different roads that they have on that road use agreement.
[30:13] And does it describe on how deep they will be going?
[30:18] Your sensors are only going. They're no journalists, not the six inches deep.
[30:22] Yeah, okay.
[30:25] Will the commissioners, well, you guys get a results on that testing?
[30:32] It's not for us.
[30:35] It's for a company,
[30:40] but if you wanted to,
[30:41] you could ask for, yes.
[30:43] I suppose we'll get asked for it.
[30:45] Okay, yeah, all right.
[30:46] I would, because they're better than none.
[30:49] Yeah, all right.
[30:50] There's a lot of communication there, so it's good.
[30:52] John, oh, that's who's your firework sky.
[30:57] Do you have anything else to say?
[30:59] I think we got you covered under the health department, so.
[31:03] All right, entertain attention to adjourn.
[31:07] We'll be adjourned.
[31:08] Second.
[31:09] All in favor.
[31:11] All right.