[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] 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.

[16:35] 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.

[18:16] 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.

[19:10] 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.

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