[0:00] Correct. Dear Lord, we thank you for the opportunity to serve. We thank you

[0:05] for the opportunity to uh uh

[0:09] have the resources that we have to serve the residents of Adams County and to

[0:14] serve all those that uh we are responsible for. We thank you for

[0:20] the the blessing of of safety, cooperation, and and uh uh abundance in

[0:27] in our abilities. Please bless us and guide us in this county. Please continue

[0:32] to bless and guide the the leaders not only in this county but through the

[0:36] state and and through the United States and and uh continue to

[0:41] grant us uh safety, cooperation, and and uh

[0:46] continued uh service to you. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.

[0:56] » [clears throat]

[0:59] » We're going to start by looking at the minutes from the April 21st meeting.

[1:03] Anybody have any uh comments or thoughts on those?

[1:07] » I reviewed nice little new additions or corrections as appropriate.

[1:11] Stan, you okay with minutes? So moved. Second. Okay. Motion made and seconded

[1:16] to approve the minutes. That motion passes.

[1:20] Stan, you got them? I'll get the waste and paper here. All

[1:24] right.

[1:29] Okay. Our counsel tells me we need to suspend this meeting and move into a uh

[1:34] public hearing on the uh

[1:37] proposed parking lot ordinance. Motion on that. We would need a motion on that.

[1:42] » So moved. Second. Okay. We are suspended and moving into a public hearing on

[1:47] ordinance number 2026-4 2026-4

[1:54] » [clears throat] >> Right. So, generally um

[1:56] as it was previously described, this would be ordinance 2026-4.

[2:00] It's previously introduced uh two meetings ago. Um short titled an

[2:04] ordinance regulating parking on county owned property. Um

[2:09] for instance, the

[2:13] permitted types of parking or is obviously parking on county owned lots

[2:17] uh by members of the public while actively

[2:19] engaged in in conducting county business within an adjacent county building,

[2:23] county employees, elected officials, and appointed officials during their hours

[2:26] of work for the county. Uh jurors who've been summoned in jury

[2:30] duty um or operators of authorized vehicle in the performance of official

[2:34] duties. Um

[2:37] Prohibited conduct under this would be um

[2:41] to park a vehicle on a county owned lot for the purpose of storage or long-term

[2:44] parking. Um Park a vehicle that is not an authorized

[2:50] vehicle um for an extended period of time.

[2:53] Uh Park an inoperable vehicle. An

[2:56] inoperable vehicle would be defined under Indiana code for a period longer

[2:59] than 24 hours unless actively engaged in arranging for immediate removal.

[3:04] Uh per- performing non-emergency maintenance. Um

[3:09] etc. And then enforcement provisions.

[3:18] Generally just it's a the citation format um that they could be any person

[3:25] in violation of the ordinance could be liable for civil citations and

[3:29] penalties, which Is there anything about removing the vehicle? Public charge?

[3:32] » Yes. Sorry. That would be um

[3:50] » [clears throat]

[3:53] » So, that is actually its own section. Sorry, Sheriff. It would be uh towing

[3:57] and impoundment and release procedures. Um

[4:00] Section A of that would be authorization to tow. An enforcement official is

[4:04] hereby authorized to cause any vehicle found in violation of this ordinance to

[4:06] be removed and towed from the county lot. Um that that decision rests with

[4:11] the discretion of the enforcement officer based on the nature of the

[4:15] violation, the operational needs of the county.

[4:17] Um and then it goes through, you know, obviously grounds for immediate towing.

[4:22] Um the authorization for an immediate towing of the vehicle is that it's

[4:25] parked in an in a manner that obstructs a fire fire lane, building entrance or

[4:29] exit, or driving lane. Vehicles parked in an accessible space, which would be a

[4:33] handicap accessible space without displaying the relevant placard. Um the

[4:37] vehicle presents an immediate hazard to public safety or property. The vehicle

[4:41] is reasonably believed to be stolen or evidence of a crime. And the vehicle is

[4:45] parked in an area designated as temporary no park temporary or permanent

[4:48] no parking zone. Um Selection of towing provider. Um

[4:54] It can be any licensed and insured towing provider. Um

[4:58] Impoundment and owner notification. Any vehicle towed pursuant to this ordinance

[5:01] shall be impounded at a secured facility operated by said tow provider. Um and

[5:06] that the enforcement official authorizing the tow shall notify the

[5:10] Adam County Sheriff's Department, which is itself um and and then provide um

[5:16] attempt to provide notice to the owner um based on license plate information if

[5:21] if applicable. So, if

[5:25] If it doesn't meet those criteria, then we don't tow. We just make arrangements.

[5:30] But say we contact the owner and we give them 24-hour notice and if it's not

[5:34] corrected, then then are we allowed to tow? So, the enumerated sections based

[5:37] on the ordinance were just simply grounds for immediate towing. Um section

[5:41] A, the authorization to tow again goes that the decision to tow the vehicle

[5:45] rests within the discretion of the enforcement official. So,

[5:49] um So, after 24 hours they have rectified it after we make contact, then

[5:53] we still could Sure. For perhaps in a situation you've given them a citation

[5:57] and said, "Hey, this needs to be moved within 48 hours." And they don't and I

[6:00] mean again, >> So, do So, do we give them 24 hours cuz

[6:04] otherwise they could park there every day and then just move it at the end of

[6:07] the day. Well, again, I think that's a

[6:09] discretionary. I would say probably not 24 hours given that. Got you. That's

[6:13] That's after the citation. Yep. So, it'd be a citation first.

[6:17] Um Right.

[6:20] So, there's a a financial penalty for the citation. Correct.

[6:26] How much is that financial penalty?

[6:30] 100 dollar.

[6:39] And is it just our our county deputies that issue citations on county property

[6:44] or could that be city? County only.

[6:49] The city can't city officers can't enforce county ordinances.

[6:52] They can't. And I can't enforce city ordinances. Oh.

[6:56] So, actually I left the I left the actual fee schedule. So, civil penalties

[6:59] is under um penalties, fees, and civil revenues is under section A. And so, any

[7:04] violation of this provision of this ordinance shall constitute a civil

[7:06] infraction subjecting the owner to a vehicle to a fine. The amount of fine

[7:09] shall be set, which is what we would set um

[7:13] during regular meeting here in adoption um to to create a fee schedule, which

[7:18] would be then adopted officially by the Board of Commissioners. So, really it's

[7:23] it's up to you all as to if you do um I know from a citation standpoint and

[7:27] other enforcement ordinances, you know, it's maybe certain amount certain amount

[7:31] first violation, second violation, third, depending on how many citation

[7:37] you want to go cuz obviously the more of those you want to go, it's probably more

[7:40] of an exhaustive remedy where you need to go through every step of the

[7:43] citations before towing, etc. Um

[7:47] What would be a typical citation for parking?

[7:51] I'd say 50 bucks first offense and then escalate. Usually it doubles for second,

[7:56] third violations. Normally.

[8:01] » [clears throat] >> Okay. So, this is the public hearing

[8:03] part. So, anybody interested to speak to this um

[8:08] uh proposed ordinance, please come to the mic, state your name, and uh tell us

[8:12] what you're thinking.

[8:17] Going once. Going twice. Okay.

[8:22] Um I'll entertain a motion to close the public hearing portion of this. Do we

[8:26] need to adopt the ordinance? Not before we close the hearing. It'll be in during

[8:31] my time in the regular >> close.

[8:33] Second. Public hearing is closed. Ready to move

[8:37] on to our regular business. I'll bring it back up in the play. Yeah. So,

[8:41] that'll come back then during the attorney's presentation. So, we can move

[8:44] on to our normal regular business. Uh Tony, what have you got for us this

[8:49] morning? We have Allied weekly health insurance

[8:51] claims for medical. Those are in the amount of $36,246.97.

[8:59] 36 246 97.

[9:05] Any problem, Stan? Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Stan, seconded by

[9:09] Doug. The Allied weekly claims are approved.

[9:14] And then we have Northwind prescription insurance claims

[9:19] for the week and those are in the amount of $2,457.86.

[9:24] 24 57 86. I did uh verify the claimants as well.

[9:30] I move we accept the prescription claims from Northwind for the week of $2,457

[9:37] and 56 [clears throat] cents, Tony.

[9:41] Second. Motion by Doug, seconded by Stan. That

[9:44] motion passes. Then we have the Allied monthly health

[9:49] insurance claim.

[9:52] It's more of the administrative type side. And that is in the amount of

[9:56] 67,585.06.

[9:59] 67,585.06. >> [clears throat]

[10:04] » Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Stan, second by Doug. Okay.

[10:10] Motion is approved. We'll pay that claim.

[10:13] Then we have the payroll AP claims. Which are all of the benefits attached

[10:18] to payroll.

[10:21] And that is in the amount of 358, 326.91.

[10:27] 358,326.91.

[10:31] Move we approve. Second. Motion by Doug, second by Stan. Payroll

[10:36] AP claims are approved. And then finally, you should have

[10:41] received via email the accounts payable claims.

[10:45] And those accounts payable claims are in the amount of 370,406.58.

[10:50] 370,406.58. And I believe that highway had a couple

[10:56] of big ones in there with equipment, truck, something.

[10:59] And stone. Right. So it's that time of year when And that's stone. Yeah.

[11:04] Those are bigger ones. >> [clears throat]

[11:06] » There's one for a truck, 64,892. >> Yeah, that's probably the biggest.

[11:10] Probably. I think it was W.H. Jones, maybe. I I didn't see anything I had

[11:14] questions on in there, so I didn't either. I I move we [clears throat]

[11:17] we pay the accounts payable claims as presented.

[11:23] Second. Motion by Doug, second by Stan. AP claims are approved.

[11:27] » [clears throat]

[11:30] » Or account payable, I think, maybe, Ardy.

[11:33] Yeah. Accounts payable claims. >> [snorts]

[11:37] » That is technically all I have depending Steve. Uh

[11:41] When the chairman would like the the two Council on Aging

[11:47] drafts that you tabled. Clayton has looked at those.

[11:52] Uh you want to do that later? Do you want

[11:54] to do it under his time? You When you want to do that?

[11:56] » Unless you Are you okay with doing that in your time?

[11:59] That's fine. I mean I'm just >> But but you've reviewed them and and and

[12:02] you're comfortable with them. Yeah, I'm going to recommend it.

[12:05] Okay. Okay. Let's go ahead and get knock them

[12:08] out. >> Okay.

[12:09] Okay, and there were Steve, there's one form that you and I signed and the other

[12:13] one only I signed. >> Okay.

[12:15] Uh the first one was the pass-through

[12:19] agreement with INDOT.

[12:24] Adams had County asked the pass-through agent for their grant.

[12:27] » Their grant. So this is the agreement that That's the agreement

[12:30] » operate under. Yes, and that's the agreement that Clayton reviewed.

[12:34] Clayton's reviewed that and you're recommending approval?

[12:37] Clayton? Correct. Okay. You guys We do need a motion.

[12:41] Okay. Uh I'm not sure how we should word this motion.

[12:46] Pass-through agreement for rural public transportation.

[12:48] » I move that Stan, unless you have a comment to make on that.

[12:52] » I'm good, for sure. >> that we pass approve the pass-through

[12:55] agreement for rural public transportation.

[12:59] Second. Okay. The motion passes. I'll sign.

[13:02] » That's just your signature on that. It's just mine and Steve's. You both sign

[13:06] them. And then the other one that Clayton

[13:09] reviewed has to do with special labor warranty.

[13:12] That's a special warranty arrangement. Uh

[13:16] And if you remember, Michelle is doing all of this to satisfy

[13:21] When was that audit? Last year. Yeah, I think it was It was last year. I think

[13:25] it was last year regarding being a pass-through. We need to

[13:28] » Yeah. So this would be for the special labor

[13:31] warranty and only I have a spot for signing it.

[13:34] » [clears throat] >> Need a motion to uh accept, right? We

[13:37] do. Yeah. Stan, you want to make that? Yeah,

[13:40] that's fine. I second. INDOT, right, Tony? Involving INDOT's grant that

[13:44] Council on Aging has. Okay. For the vehicles and so forth. So that special

[13:49] warranty agreement passes as well. Okay, very good.

[13:53] That's out of the way. Okay, thanks, bud. Yeah.

[13:59] Anything else for us, Tony? That's it. Okay.

[14:03] Moving on. Nate, come on up.

[14:09] Good morning. Good morning, Nate. Couple of different items here for you.

[14:14] I'm going to save small structures for today, so we're going to talk about

[14:17] those quite a bit here. The first thing I want to talk about is

[14:21] really the map that you have attached. That is the proposed schedule as far as

[14:27] the areas that the our agreement with Janssen and Spaans have done and what

[14:32] we're proposing to do under what is going to be phase two. Mhm. Uh phase two

[14:37] covers six of the six of the 12 townships in the county.

[14:41] Preble and Root, French and Hartford, and then Wabash and Jefferson townships.

[14:45] The different years from '27, '28, '29 would be included in that. Uh one of the

[14:50] additions that we have from phase one to I'll move away from there. Good deal.

[14:55] I'll move the microphone here a little like that. Uh one of the additions that

[14:59] we're going to have from our small structures from previous year uh or

[15:04] years is the addition of five pedestrian bridges. We have five pedestrian bridges

[15:08] that to my knowledge have not been inspected since they were constructed or

[15:12] reconstructed. That includes the South Adams Trail

[15:15] Bridge, the covered bridge, a pedestrian bridge

[15:20] near Hanna and Nollman uh over the the name

[15:24] Oh, I know. It just just west or south of Washington Street connects the

[15:29] uh Woodring subdivision to Hanna and Nollman Park on the west side of

[15:33] Decatur. Uh there's also the large Greenway Trail Bridge that sits over the

[15:37] St. Mary's River in Decatur. And then there is a pedestrian bridge behind

[15:42] Adams Memorial Hospital. All five of those are pedestrian

[15:46] bridges. They're subject to uh regular inspections, but they're not part of the

[15:51] federal program. And they're not being inspected by anybody.

[15:55] Out of an abundant I'll say an abundance of

[15:57] caution, but under your purview of health, welfare, and safety of the

[16:01] public, since we do bridge inspections, I felt that it was necessary to at least

[16:06] offer to do the inspections under the IQ Bridge Bond. If you're able to do that,

[16:12] I think that it makes good sense to do that. It is not an admission of

[16:16] ownership of all these bridges because different entities have different

[16:19] involvements with each of these or their uses. This is for an inspection and

[16:24] reporting to parks departments, both city, county, South Adams Trail

[16:29] organization, and then again to you as a commissioners cuz some of these do have

[16:34] parcels that are under the county control. So I I feel that it's in our

[16:38] best interest to add that to this inspection since there's no grant money

[16:42] that's eligible. For both small structures, this is a good opportunity

[16:46] to do that. And it is not a full hands-on federal bridge inspection um

[16:53] that would involve lift trucks and tens of thousands of dollars versus what's

[16:57] being proposed currently. Uh if you're in agreement with this

[17:02] scope and system and method, um the proposal that I have from Janssen

[17:07] and Spaans, their total is a not to exceed fee of 105,283.51

[17:14] over that three-year period from '27 through '29.

[17:19] » Did you mention the one on the River Greenway Trail? Yes. Okay. Yep. So

[17:22] there's the two of these are one's an original uh railway

[17:27] uh railroad bridge and the other one's a reconstructed railroad bridge.

[17:31] Certainly they were originally designed for significant loads. I don't

[17:34] anticipate finding any issues, but I'd rather find the issue before I get a

[17:39] call from EMA or dispatch or something about the an issue coming up. Um this is

[17:46] just a way of making sure that if there is a problem, these sort of inspections

[17:51] find those and then we can work with the other agencies that are involved in

[17:55] using those structures to find out how they want to resolve that.

[17:59] As far as uh inspecting them, are we then

[18:03] responsible for the cost of inspecting them? This would be This is the cost of

[18:07] inspecting them. So Even if we don't have ownership of the bridge. Correct.

[18:13] So I felt that that was really the best interest in it. If we want to So as part

[18:19] of this agreement, I'm not asking you to sign the proposal from Janssen and

[18:23] Spaans cuz it's not in our standard format yet. I wanted to talk about the

[18:27] the the philosophy, the approach, why we're proposing to do it this way versus

[18:32] others. The actual cost of the pedestrian bridge

[18:36] inspections with travel is 11,324.30

[18:42] out of this Yeah. So it's a little over 10% of the project overall inspections

[18:49] is just the pedestrian bridge. And part of the reason it's that low is because

[18:53] it's being added onto another contract. If this was stand-alone and each one of

[18:57] them was an individual inspection, it would be quite a bit more.

[19:01] Well, [clears throat] and I think all all the pedestrian bridges are

[19:04] are are probably owned by the parks department and that. Uh they're either

[19:08] city city parks, county parks, and another one is

[19:13] actually one of the two of these are kind of like combinations because of how

[19:16] the parcels are listed. >> I wonder if it'd be good once those

[19:20] pedestrian bridges are inspected to to get a report to the parks department.

[19:24] Just so they know they're being inspected and Absolutely. And if there's

[19:28] any issues, they would In fact, it's my intent to take the individual inspection

[19:35] reports and then present those at city parks board meetings and then at county

[19:39] parks board meetings and say, "Here's what we found." And and do that really

[19:44] as a service rather than as a "Oh, by the way, you have to deal with this." I

[19:47] didn't want to come to them with a That way they got the reports good, bad, or

[19:51] otherwise. >> Yeah. And that And that's that is my

[19:53] intent is that here's the information, here's here's the recommendation from

[19:57] myself and and our consulting engineer because they're not working with these

[20:01] consultants. They don't have the relationships, they're not going to be

[20:04] able to negotiate those prices and the risk. It really kind of keeps the

[20:07] control in in where I think the service that the county has the best opportunity

[20:11] to do that. Very good. So, it's it'll save them money obviously because we're

[20:16] we're covering that cost, but it is not an admission of ownership of any of

[20:20] these. There's going to have to be discussion of that. If a major issue is

[20:24] found, it's going to be very expensive and I think there's going to be some

[20:27] serious discussions between you as the commissioners and the parks boards at

[20:31] different levels in the city as well. So, I don't want to find anything. I'm

[20:35] actually hoping that we don't, but I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't

[20:39] look into it. Nate, will will this ins- inspection

[20:44] » [clears throat] >> be primarily structural so we know if

[20:46] the bridge is going to fall down or can bear the bear the weight or the load or

[20:50] whatever, or will it be from a perspective of this is a pedestrian

[20:54] bridge and we need to make it safe for pedestrians to walk across this thing,

[20:57] whether that be railing and stuff like that, or is it

[21:01] just structural? It it's going to look at a little bit of the of both. Um

[21:05] because the structures, for the most part, they're so overbuilt for the loads

[21:09] that they have, a structural analysis isn't necessarily going to work the

[21:13] [clears throat] same way as what I'm going to talk about for my next part of

[21:15] this is we've got a a small structure with emergency vehicles. You're not

[21:21] taking a fire truck across any one of these bridges and you're not even taking

[21:25] a loaded pickup truck across these. These aren't subject to maybe a Gator

[21:29] for an emergency access might use those. That might be the heaviest loads you've

[21:33] got. Um really we're going to be looking at minimal pedestrian. We're going to

[21:37] look at wear and weathering of certain areas, prevent the maintenance that can

[21:40] be done, and looking at pedestrian safety to make sure that if there if

[21:44] there's missing planks in a in a timber deck on this that you've got the fall

[21:48] risks or guardrail that's damaged. So, it it's to try to cover the purpose and

[21:53] needs specifically those types of structures. If there's a structural

[21:56] issue, it's going to jump off the page at all of us. Good. So, that's what we

[22:00] want to make sure we do and I want to have a third-party document it so that

[22:03] all of us have record that this was being done besides finding out about an

[22:08] accident and saying, "Well, who looked at it? Nobody." Um we can we can

[22:12] actually point to specifically the powers that be having that sort of

[22:16] response and report. So, if that if that makes good sense, then what I'm I plan

[22:21] on doing, I don't necessarily need a vote, but if you're good with it, then

[22:24] I'm going to take this back to them and work with Clayton to write up an actual

[22:28] formal agreement, and then I can present that agreement. We'll just reference

[22:31] back to today's meeting. Good. This was sounds good.

[22:35] So, okay. Well, good. No, didn't want to surprise anybody with

[22:38] a extra inspections, so that's that's the intent there. So, thank you.

[22:43] Um second part is these load ratings obviously come up now and then. During

[22:48] the inspection, um what I mostly see is a small structure, C258

[22:54] that carries 550 north between 400 east and State Road 101. It's just on the

[22:59] east side east of Decatur. It's been one that I've been watching for a while to

[23:03] address. Um I don't have the right-of-way, which is probably the

[23:07] biggest kind of sticking point for me, but during the inspection that was done

[23:11] in 2025 comparing it to to the 2017 photos, you can see in the picture

[23:17] below, there is a facial wall supporting against the original field rock

[23:22] foundation. That should have been in contact. That whole area that's got the

[23:26] little red areas, those were poured against each other and it has walked its

[23:29] way off and is now blocking access to the to the field rock for any repairs.

[23:35] It should have been dowel or pinned into it so it wouldn't move away, but it is

[23:40] it's really not serving its purpose at this point, so I've asked

[23:44] uh JSE to do a load rating and inventory this. Look at the structure, look at the

[23:50] condition, and give me a load rating and how bad is this as a as a structure for

[23:54] condition. Based on their draft report, they're

[23:57] recommending a weight restriction be posted for conventional vehicle weights

[24:02] of 32 tons for gross vehicle weight. There is also a separate emergency

[24:07] vehicle category that's established and that's set on the weak axle

[24:11] configurations of emergency vehicles. So, I've sent this actually over to Jeff

[24:16] Sheets at the Decatur Fire Department already, so he's aware of it. He's the

[24:19] only one with the vehicles and maybe the other volunteer fire departments would

[24:23] as well, but he is going to be the one that needs to contact and coordinate

[24:26] with them. And that covers everything from 16 tons on a single axle, 28 tons

[24:32] for a tandem axle, and then 38 tons for their gross vehicle

[24:36] weight. So, it just changes the config- configurations. How much does a school

[24:40] bus weigh? They are 15 tons. So, if once we get under 15 tons, so this thankfully

[24:46] this does not affect school buses. And the school buses would fall under that

[24:50] 32-ton limit. Um it doesn't affect the vast majority of the travelers, it's

[24:56] not going to affect public, but you're going to see new signs show up out there

[24:59] and I'm going to get questions as to why. Or a big farm tractor? Farm

[25:03] equipments, uh the farm tractors themselves, there's really nothing in

[25:07] the load rating that sits up depending on those. The tractors themselves aren't

[25:11] necessarily the problem, it's the grain wagons and the semis full of grain.

[25:16] So, if you're harvesting out there and you've got you're over 40 tons and you

[25:21] know it, you need to go around it. Um the notice itself is

[25:26] for informational purposes. Uh it's so that the public knows the

[25:30] conditions these bridges are able to sustain regular traffic.

[25:34] If something happens and you're the one taking an oversized load compared to

[25:39] what this is rated for, you could be held liable and you as commissioners

[25:43] could take legal action against those taking those loads over it.

[25:47] Don't want that situation. It's certainly my intent as I noted, the

[25:52] earliest replacement that I can do for this is right now 2028.

[25:56] I'm going to I'm working with Clayton to try to get the necessary necessary

[26:00] right-of-way so that we can replace the structure with a four-sided box and

[26:06] eliminate the guardrail and that would make everybody happier when that's

[26:09] finally put in place. Good. Uh unfortunately, the time frame and

[26:12] » [laughter] >> my money for '27 is already committed to

[26:14] two other currently load rated structures like this. [clears throat]

[26:18] Um this one is one that I want to try to get addressed as soon as I can. So, it

[26:22] is certainly my my next highest priority for 2028. So. How many how many

[26:28] structures I If we add this one to the list, how many structures in Adams

[26:33] County do we have with a uh a a weight posting like this? There This

[26:39] will make three. And two of them two of those three, I

[26:43] already have the right-of-way and the sizing established, so they are proposed

[26:47] to be replaced in next year. Okay. So, this will be the only one hopefully in

[26:52] 2028. Um unfortunately, I need to get I need to work with the property owners to

[26:57] try to get this replaced and for everybody else that's adjacent or uses

[27:00] this roadway, I need to make sure that they're aware of it. So. So, would you

[27:05] have no if in fact this fall harvest, if a semi

[27:09] goes across it, you're you're not you're you're you're not

[27:13] overly concerned it's going to break down if 80 with with an 80,000 No, I I

[27:18] this isn't When it comes to these load ratings, I think a lot of people get

[27:22] concerned. It's like you've got this limit and then immediately everything

[27:25] breaks. No, you've got this certain limit that is estimated ba- based on

[27:29] certain factors of safety for repeated regular use.

[27:32] And so, this structure is going to be fine with that 32 tons, 38 tons

[27:37] depending on on the axle configuration, repeated regular use. That's what that's

[27:42] estimated at. Um it would certainly take more than that, but that there is no

[27:47] guarantee that when you start to exceed that weight limit that you're not doing

[27:51] incremental damage to the structure, which will then shorten its life.

[27:55] Um so, if someone were running concrete trucks beyond that weight, hundreds of

[28:00] them for a turkey barn or something beyond that route and using that

[28:04] roadway, that certain that repeated regular use in excess of that, that

[28:08] could exacerbate the issue that we don't necessarily see and could cause a

[28:13] problem. I don't want that. I don't think anybody

[28:16] does, but part of my role in this is to make sure

[28:20] that we provide the information that we have. So, and if anybody's curious about

[28:24] more information about this, other photos we have, or some historic photos,

[28:29] certainly call my office, let me know, and I'd be happy to sit down with

[28:32] anybody that's curious about it, but

[28:36] again, there you That's what I have. >> need anything from us on that, or is

[28:39] that just really an update? I uh based on my statutory authority, I

[28:43] can establish those. So, this is just an informational report. I don't have to

[28:48] have your permission, but I don't necessarily want to load post things

[28:51] without you being informed. Appreciate that.

[28:54] » Cuz you're going to get the phone calls when I just start going rogue like that.

[28:57] So, again, thank you. All right, thanks. Thanks, Nate.

[29:02] Brad, one up.

[29:08] Morning, Brad. Good morning, gentlemen. Um I have one

[29:11] permit today and honestly, that's about it.

[29:14] It is for Jay County RMC, North Salem Road between 250 north and 350 north.

[29:22] And all they want to do there is change where the electric location

[29:27] goes into the house. And that's it. So, basically going to be out in the

[29:30] right-of-way and

[29:33] Move we approve. Okay.

[29:37] Approved. And other than that, um

[29:40] 700 South 000 are done. Has been paint striped.

[29:44] That is taken care of. We are out still patching potholes.

[29:49] Imagine that. But

[29:52] kind of business as usual. We're getting equipment ready to mow. That time is

[29:56] coming. Getting the equipment ready for

[30:00] chip seal, you know, normal preparations. Getting road closures

[30:04] today for flood? No, not yet. No. How many miles of chip and seal do you

[30:10] intend to do this summer? We're going to try and do 110.

[30:12] Is that above normal? That's above normal. Yeah, last year we were about

[30:15] 106, which is up from normal. But we're

[30:21] trying to get ahead on some issues. Are you using lessons on those? Yes,

[30:25] correct. Yep.

[30:28] Other than that, that's about all I got to report. Very good. Thank you.

[30:30] Appreciate it. Thanks, Fred. Thanks. Thanks, Fred.

[30:34] Rick.

[30:37] » [clears throat]

[30:44] » Going to reinforce it, so. >> [laughter]

[30:51] » Thank you. This is so much.

[31:16] I want to give you some updates and then I have a uh

[31:19] » [clears throat] >> a new uh

[31:22] preventative maintenance agreement that I would like to present to you. And that

[31:27] will be from the Dilling Group. Um

[31:31] it's for our chillers. So

[31:35] I'll just start with that.

[31:45] Maybe there's some of that.

[31:49] So this is for our chillers that we have here at the complex.

[31:55] Uh the old one expires here, I believe, May

[31:58] 31st.

[32:02] I have budgeted for this in case you wanted to go forward and do it again

[32:06] this year. That dollar amount is the same as last

[32:10] year.

[32:12] What is that amount? >> gets paid in three installments.

[32:21] And this is the company that installed those chillers, is that correct?

[32:25] » Yeah. Did you feel like we got our money's

[32:28] worth out of the maintenance agreement last year?

[32:30] » I do. Um

[32:33] I I do. They found a bearing in in one that they did and

[32:37] Where are they located? Here in the complex.

[32:40] » but In the basement.

[32:42] » In the basement. And then the condensers are up on the Okay. [clears throat]

[32:46] Roof. I'm the roof. I was going to say 60 60-ton on the roof, I think.

[32:50] Scares me. Two Yeah, we have two 60-ton in the basement.

[32:53] » All right.

[33:00] Each. I should like to remove those things.

[33:03] Where's Dilling from? Springfield. Uh

[33:06] Logan's four four So okay. So you're asking us to approve the

[33:12] maintenance agreement >> for the Dilling Group on the chillers.

[33:15] That's correct. I see no reason we should not proceed.

[33:22] Needs done.

[33:25] I I move that we approve these 6557.

[33:32] Yeah, I'll second that. Motion by Doug, seconded by Stan, that Dilling Group

[33:36] maintenance agreement's approved. Just need signature on that.

[33:41] Yes. Need more than one?

[33:47] Rick, is is any of this uh

[33:51] maintenance and I know we want to do it anyway, uh

[33:55] necessary to comply with warranty issues?

[33:59] Uh I mean, I would think certainly that it

[34:02] would help if we did have any warranty issues. Yeah. Then we could show where I

[34:06] put the maintenance. Right. It It does. Rick, once you get the invoice for this,

[34:12] you know where to put it in your claims and send it to Glenda, right? Uh yeah.

[34:15] Okay. I'll give her a heads-up that it'll be

[34:19] coming. Uh the next thing

[34:23] um

[34:28] there's an air handler up in the sewer district office.

[34:32] Uh that's where it's located. And it operates Mark Wynn's office, too.

[34:38] Um there's a bearing going out of it.

[34:43] I really didn't realize this, but we do have a couple different type of air

[34:47] handlers in here. This one's a Magic Chef.

[34:50] Um I can't just buy the bearing.

[34:54] So I got to buy the whole shaft, squirrel cage, fan,

[35:00] which is probably going to be easier to install. But it's about It's It's a

[35:04] little over $1,500. So I wanted you aware of that. I thought

[35:08] it was going to be 15,000 when you started talking there. 1,500's not so

[35:12] not so shocking. Anyway. Are you guys able to do it or

[35:16] you got to have somebody come in? Um Don Myers is going to come do it. We're

[35:21] going to assist him. So as soon as that comes in, we'll we'll

[35:25] get that taken care of. Good. And over at the courthouse, one of our

[35:29] heat pumps um

[35:31] has a leak in it and we're going to try to fix that tomorrow.

[35:42] We still getting pretty good response from Don Myers

[35:45] since it's under new management? Uh maybe not as good as it was, but I I

[35:50] I would say not as That's a good way to put it. We were We

[35:54] were spoiled. Um

[35:57] because Judd, which was one of the owners, I mean, he could just climb out

[36:01] from underneath the desk and from under the desk and come over. Um

[36:05] we don't have that exact response like we did, but they've been good.

[36:11] You know, one thing I can mention, I found out Jeff Sprunger used to

[36:17] have his own plumbing business at the

[36:22] Burn area. Yeah. I guess he's back in business to do do work if

[36:28] I mean, I don't think it's big jobs. I think it's But if you run into something

[36:32] that that is a smaller plumbing job and and

[36:35] you need need emergency or quick service, you might might keep him on

[36:39] your list to call. I just found out about that last night.

[36:43] I think there are two Jeff Sprungers. That is Jeff Sprunger married to Willa.

[36:48] Is that Jay's boy or is or Jay's brother or is this uh Toby's brother?

[36:52] » Toby's. Okay.

[36:54] So Jeff Sprunger. Okay. I wanted to

[36:59] » [clears throat]

[37:02] » I believe there is someone They've hired someone new at the parks

[37:06] now. I don't know the lady's name. >> Yes. Oh, yeah. Caregiver.

[37:10] [clears throat] Yeah, caregiver. She came in as

[37:12] caregiver. I've gotten a call from the parks, but

[37:16] not from her. It was from Chris Kroll. I just want to know where you guys want

[37:19] me to go with this. It's It's It's probably been over a

[37:23] year. It's when Jeremy Gilbert was here. There's a water fountain in the

[37:28] gymnasium. There's two. There's one in the weight room and

[37:32] there's one in the lobby. And it's a water fountain that you the

[37:37] drain is plugged on it. We tried jetting it.

[37:41] We could not get through it. Um

[37:44] I asked Jeremy at the time, "What do you want to do?"

[37:48] Uh he said, "The only other thing I know to do is

[37:51] put a lift station in it and pump it somewhere else." And at that time, he

[37:55] didn't want to spend the money. The water works.

[37:59] Just that they overflow. If they fill up a water jug and the water overflows,

[38:04] it's obviously going to run over because it doesn't drain.

[38:08] Um I'm thinking because now that maybe there may nothing be going on in the

[38:12] gymnasium, they would like to have that fixed.

[38:17] To what extent do you want me to go with that?

[38:22] You want me to help try to

[38:26] Maybe Maybe though pay for it. >> seems like what

[38:30] you know, now any repairs that we make to this building, we would almost have

[38:36] to look at long-term repairs. So I I guess that's the way I

[38:40] would look at it is what's going to be the best

[38:44] uh long-term for this situation that they have.

[38:49] » [clears throat]

[38:53] » So it would be the only place for it to to replenish a water bottle. Is that No.

[38:58] There is There is two. There's one that you have to go down into the weight

[39:03] room. In other words In other words, down where the weights are, there is a

[39:07] water fountain down there. Okay. Or you would have to come in the service

[39:12] complex and get on the second floor to get water.

[39:17] Yeah, we probably need to have a place where we can do that at.

[39:21] I mean, the water does work. It's just the drain.

[39:24] » You can get a drink like a regular water fountain or you can fill up the jug up a

[39:29] water bottle. Right. But if they run it over,

[39:32] you got a mess.

[39:35] It feels to me like we need to resolve that drain problem.

[39:39] » [clears throat and cough] >> I don't know what's going on with it. I

[39:42] mean I've had it I think we jetted it twice and just couldn't get through it

[39:46] for some reason. >> Wow.

[39:48] Sounds serious. I don't know if it's if it's a pipe that's clogged. One time

[39:54] I got coffee grounds out of it. You know how hard packed they get.

[39:59] I mean Anyway.

[40:03] I believe that's all I got except I guess

[40:07] myself and Sheriff >> At the courthouse

[40:11] we got all the quotes in to use the bottom floor

[40:15] for prisoner transport. There's a old door that needs replacing. It's an

[40:20] oversized door it's like two doors together.

[40:23] The quote is on the last page that I gave you a packet of. That's closing

[40:27] that in to make it a standard steel door steel frame door.

[40:31] That's a 48 42 50. And then the other two quotes the one

[40:36] right on top of that is to put that on the fob system into the

[40:42] network where we don't have keys. We have fob

[40:46] that gives us access to get in and out that door

[40:49] especially for the transport officers and then for his people too. We don't

[40:53] have that master key floating around that gains access. That's the 44 34 06.

[40:59] Uh and then the hallway door from inside

[41:04] the basement is the top quote to fob that door also so again we don't have

[41:09] keys. My my transport officers won't have

[41:12] keys. They'll just have the fob that they already have and Bob can program

[41:16] who needs access to that. If a fob is lost we can shut it off and that's

[41:21] that's not an issue. So those three

[41:25] uh items estimates we're going to have to

[41:28] use that and if that does come to fruition

[41:32] there's a we will start using that for permanent

[41:36] transport of prisoners in there so we're not taking prisoners up the stairs

[41:41] through the main hall to the elevator. We'll just go in ground level through

[41:44] the boiler room down the hallway to the stair to the elevator then up the court.

[41:49] So it's a much safer [clears throat]

[41:52] way and less interference and less contact with our citizens when we're

[41:57] dealing with prisoners. So I'm asking that these would be approved and then we

[42:02] pay for them out of the Hume courts. So this is two separate doors?

[42:08] I mean the one one on the outside >> is getting replaced. The other door is

[42:12] just getting wired up to the network fob system. Got you.

[42:18] Sheriff as you know one of the options that we're considering for the justice

[42:22] center is to utilize the historic courthouse which is what we're

[42:27] talking about here remodel it move spare court into the first floor keep circuit

[42:33] court on second floor that probably will involve some type of right in the middle

[42:40] there's a discussion of a sally port and how the how prisoners would be brought

[42:43] into there. Obviously that's a ways down the road

[42:48] but it may not be a long ways down the road. That would be one of the

[42:53] first things we would probably start on um

[42:58] as we would want to probably probably would wait till after

[43:03] construction of the new building. So I guess maybe

[43:06] if if this solution is only going to be used for pick a number two years

[43:12] would you still recommend doing it? Or if we're going to throw it away after

[43:17] two years what would you say? My question also is how long have we been

[43:21] doing it the way we're doing it? Well we've been doing it forever and it's not

[43:26] the proper way of doing it. >> I understand to Steve's point. So let's

[43:31] say it's two years so if we break that down this is about a

[43:37] $500 a month investment for that and I would still recommend we

[43:42] do that because honestly the exterior door is not to par to begin

[43:49] with. Even if we did want to use it for the

[43:53] take the prisoners in it need that door needs replaced no

[43:57] matter what. >> What what what what if we waited just Do

[44:01] we know a few weeks until we until we begin to develop a plan.

[44:05] » Yeah do we know an answer what we're doing? And and and then what once we

[44:09] look at the plan we can say yeah that those doors are still going to be there

[44:12] after remodel whatever let's do it or no they're going to be gone but they can be

[44:17] reused somewhere else or we reuse it again or

[44:20] maybe if you we just kick the can down the road a little bit.

[44:24] » that and then my question to you would be okay

[44:27] then in that

[44:30] plan once it comes to truth is the other building going to be built first before

[44:35] that cuz then if that drags it out the four years then I still say we need to

[44:39] do I think we're looking at four years but

[44:41] it wouldn't surprise me if we're looking at two. And I think your assessment $500

[44:44] a month is is Yeah. That that's a good way to look at

[44:48] it. If we just throw it away at the end. Well in the hardware itself the the the

[44:55] they call them what do they call them the

[44:58] the readers the proximity readers so we could reuse those on other doors. So

[45:01] some of the hardware we could do but the exterior door

[45:05] again that needs done no matter what. So nothing else I still say we move forward

[45:12] with that and we can hold off on adding to the the network issues. Which one's

[45:16] which one? >> The very last page.

[45:18] That is >> 48 42 50.

[45:21] » Correct. And I don't know if we're going to be

[45:23] able to do that. >> problem going along with the door. That

[45:26] feels like a maintenance issue. Would you agree with that Red? That's a

[45:28] maintenance issue. Do you have that in your budget or do we still need to do

[45:31] that out of Hume courts? Well you would have to pay that out of Hume courts. If

[45:36] you did that out of Hume courts I understand that. I can I can pay that.

[45:41] » [clears throat] >> How do you mean you can pay that? Okay.

[45:44] So I guess we'll hold off on adding the fob systems but we still move forward on

[45:49] replacement of that door that he can handle through his normal budget.

[45:53] That's the door. We've been hearing that that door is bad for years and

[45:56] especially when the clerk moved new new election equipment down there and stuff

[46:00] like that. Sounds like plan to me. So we'll we'll

[46:04] hold off and then once determination

[46:08] Nope he's got that in his budget so >> Well yeah if you want me to replace it

[46:13] you can you can make that decision. Okay.

[46:16] So we'll hold off on the fob system until plans made on final decision of

[46:20] the judicial side. Good conversation guys. Thank you. Thanks.

[46:27] Megan's here on Facebook. Oh Megan come on up.

[46:31] Even better. And she's got a stack of papers.

[46:36] Just one? Oh just one. Okay.

[46:41] Okay that's under them. How's the Sheriff going to bring a second one?

[46:44] » Yeah yeah let's do that. That's nice. We've got a new toy.

[46:49] Yeah we played with this is this is on the what the plan

[46:53] commission had the other night. Yeah. >> No this is not the reason. This is a

[46:57] subject Okay all you're replacing Mark this one.

[47:01] Yep.

[47:03] But you got that other thing on the agenda too right? Usually

[47:07] [clears throat] usually the lawyers present that.

[47:10] Clayton has it Clayton has it okay. Okay what is this one?

[47:19] So this is on 450 north and 200 west and it's a [clears throat] little bit of

[47:26] a special deal going on.

[47:30] Um you can see the original partial comes all the way up. There's a portion

[47:34] here. Right now they're working with Mark Burris' office to get this um

[47:40] used to be a railroad to get that transferred into their name

[47:44] and they're going to make that a subdivision up north.

[47:49] So we're kind in the middle of a big process right now.

[47:53] How many acres are you talking altogether? Um that looks like it would

[47:56] be an 80 altogether. Yep it's three lots.

[48:03] So this is an existing and an 18 and a three and right now

[48:08] they're building a new house This is a lane? Correct. Wow. It's a long lane.

[48:13] You can see that's actually an existing partial they're just including it into

[48:17] the subdivision. Well your design committee went through

[48:21] this I'm sure. Yep. It's been signed off just I haven't had

[48:25] Mark sign it yet but both Joe from the health department and Mike surveyor So

[48:31] are they doing it as a major subdivision? Because it's multiple

[48:34] partials each partial can have a subdivision. Okay. So

[48:40] like even this here already has two partials cuz that's

[48:44] a partial right now and that's a second partial so right now

[48:48] they're doing two partials into one subdivision

[48:50] and then they're going to get this transferred into their name. It's a

[48:56] a vacated railroad. So this right here is this right here.

[49:02] Correct. So we're missing this

[49:07] Pam Lingerc.

[49:11] So there's going to be another one that's up here. The reason it's not

[49:13] approved it's because it's So there

[49:17] so this will be the subdivision. Yeah it's going to come down.

[49:22] Yes. Right west of Richards. Yep. So this is the old clay factory area.

[49:30] So there's going to be on the old grade use. Right. So there's going to be

[49:33] another subdivision coming later that's on the west side or the east side and

[49:38] going north.

[49:42] Okay, second.

[49:51] I was waiting for and bears on my

[49:59] Maybe one of their Detroit sports fans.

[50:08] Well, Indiana is getting the Bears, ain't they?

[50:25] Um, if you want to. Yeah, it shouldn't take long. Um

[50:29] Yeah, so then I'd be presenting um ordinance number 2026-6, which is short

[50:34] title ordinance of the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, state of

[50:36] Indiana, which rezones the property at 6091 North 500 West, Decatur, County of

[50:44] Adams, state of Indiana.

[50:47] It would it's the the ordinance would be rezoning the relevant property from its

[50:52] current zoning of agricultural to

[50:57] I1 light industrial.

[51:03] The applicant and the property owner did um go before the Plan Commission and uh

[51:09] the Plan Commission did come back with a uh recommendation of do pass.

[51:15] And I do know the property owner is here. If you have any questions, you

[51:18] have them. What what's the ordinance number? 20 or 26-6.

[51:24] 2026-6. >> tell us what the use is going to be or

[51:26] give me any details on Okay. I'm sorry, what fab

[51:30] Okay, fab shop. Yeah, we had a lengthy discussion at Plan Commission meeting

[51:34] and it was unanimously a positive recommendation.

[51:38] I abstained from that vote, but I knew it would come here,

[51:43] so I moved it unless there's further discussion or questions. What what's the

[51:48] address? Um

[51:50] 6091 North 500 West. It's off of 224. It's the first place

[51:56] going north on the east side.

[52:01] Yeah, it's a rezone from current ag to I1 light industrial, I1.

[52:06] What's the acreage acreage isn't large right now?

[52:09] » One. One acre. One acre. It's all uh the Surrey district. Yeah.

[52:15] I move that we approve ordinance 26-6. I'll second that. Motion passes.

[52:31] Thanks, Megan.

[52:57] » [clears throat] >> That was actually uh

[52:59] prior to the rezoning that um

[53:03] there was a subdivision plat that split that into two lots.

[53:07] Um and that was approved through um

[53:11] Plan Commission and then Commissioners. So it's actually lot one

[53:16] in that subdivision is what's being rezoned.

[53:25] There's a copy down here that we're signing

[53:30] I just need you to test that one signature and sign it.

[53:35] There's copy number two of that guy. So I'll take a copy of Steve's. Megan want

[53:39] one, do you want one? Sign one for Brooke. Sign one for

[53:43] Brooke. Okay. I'll give one to Brooke and to Megan.

[53:57] Okay, are we all done with Plan Commission?

[54:00] If so, Rachel.

[54:04] I said 11:00. It's uh not too not too bad for my timing.

[54:10] No. Thank you very much for having me this morning. Can you hear me okay? We

[54:15] we can. If I could just do a a quick quick intro here.

[54:19] Um Rachel Cardis is with American Structure

[54:22] Point. And back uh well over a year ago,

[54:27] probably a year and a half ago now. Um at two years ago, we started with

[54:31] Surrey Committee, many of who are are are out here today. I appreciate them

[54:35] coming. Uh we started with a steering committee

[54:38] uh talking about uh uh a a vision plan, a vision for Adams

[54:43] County. And we first tried to answer the

[54:46] question of do we even need a vision plan? What's a vision plan?

[54:49] Uh what what all does it entail? And we kind of wrestled all those uh

[54:54] questions to the ground, ultimately decided that we really uh it would be

[54:59] beneficial uh

[55:01] to have uh to create a vision for Adams County, a

[55:05] future vision for Adams County. Um

[55:08] And so we we listened to uh how other counties have done it. Uh it's

[55:13] not new to county governments to uh to work through a vision plan, 20 or

[55:19] 30-year vision for the county. Uh so that's um

[55:22] that that that's And and then we started looking for a partner that could help us

[55:26] do that. Uh and we interviewed I believe we interviewed five. You guys

[55:31] correct me if I'm wrong. I don't have my notes in front of me. Who did we

[55:34] interview? Five uh applicants to be a partner to help us craft this vision

[55:39] plan. Ultimately, we chose American Structure Point. Uh Rachel Cardis was

[55:44] assigned as our uh as our project manager. And so we've been working with

[55:49] Rachel and her team now for well over a year and a half. Is that Is that

[55:53] correct, Rachel? Feels like it feels like longer than that, but a year and a

[55:56] half or so. Yeah, that's about right. And we have we've gone through uh many

[56:01] many steering committee meetings. We've gone through um

[56:05] uh public presentations. We've gone through public information gathering

[56:10] sessions. We sat Rachel and her team sat at 4-H Fair and uh and Swiss Days and uh

[56:17] uh various concerts in Decatur just gathering public input. Uh we we did a

[56:23] uh uh

[56:24] uh a a survey and we received uh

[56:29] uh I know it was over 500, 600, or 700 uh responses to that survey. Uh

[56:35] and so what you're seeing today, and this is a presentation to the

[56:39] Commissioners, uh what you're seeing today is the

[56:42] proposal from the steering committee. Uh

[56:45] we would uh ultimately like you to consider this to be adopted uh by the

[56:50] Commissioners as a vision plan for Adams County.

[56:53] Uh we won't ask you to do that today because I know it's a lot of

[56:56] information, but Rachel's kind of going to walk us through that plan. I've got

[57:00] hard copies for each of you. Um

[57:03] just to kind of follow along. But uh Rachel, what am I missing

[57:08] uh other than a a great a huge debt of gratitude to the steering committee for

[57:13] all of their hours? Uh those of you that are out here, thank you. Uh many uh we

[57:18] had several that were here last week. Uh and and Rachel was a little bit under

[57:24] the weather and we needed to uh to postpone last week. Uh

[57:28] Thank you, Steve. But uh but here we are and and we've got a uh a vision for

[57:34] Adams County that we'd like to talk about. So Rachel, if you wouldn't mind,

[57:37] take it from there. Thank you, Steve. I wanted to just say

[57:40] it's been a great experience. It's been about 14 months or more, almost a year

[57:45] and a half of getting to know Adams County and it's been you guys have a

[57:48] unique, wonderful community and it's really been a pleasure to be able to

[57:52] work with you guys over the past year and a half and I'm kind of proud to be

[57:56] able to show you this and showcase this and bring it to fruition. So I thought I

[58:00] would go over you do have hard copies and you can dive into each page and let

[58:05] us know kind of your thoughts and your comments, but I'd like to just give you

[58:09] an overview of how we came to be, what the process was, what were some of the

[58:14] key findings. As Steve said, we did lots of engagement with community stakeholder

[58:18] interviews. We did public engagement. We were at Swiss Days. We were at Adams

[58:24] County Fair, Decatur concert series. So we did a lot of a lot of getting out

[58:29] with the public in in the process and kind of bringing some of those

[58:33] sentiments back on what what the public wanted to see for the future vision of

[58:37] of Adams County. With that, I'll just go ahead and kind of get started.

[58:42] Make sure Can you guys see the presentation there okay?

[58:45] Yeah. We can. Okay, just want to be sure. I can kind of see it in the back

[58:49] of the room, James, and so that's good. So over the year course of the year, we

[58:53] did three phases. Phase one was educate. Phase two was explore and phase three

[58:58] was empower, kind of where we are now. Under phase number one, we really got to

[59:03] know you at a data level. We did a kind of a a due diligence on what your

[59:07] economic conditions are, what the retail climate is, what you're looking at as

[59:11] far as parks and placemaking. And we took all the existing plans from the

[59:16] from the county, from Berne, and from Monroe, from Geneva, and all the

[59:20] communities, and we collectively just made a very good baseline of data to

[59:24] work off of to help the steering committee understand what are the

[59:28] current trends of population, what are the what are the projections for the

[59:31] future, what are the housing trends that are affecting your community now? How

[59:36] are we going to look at getting attainable housing in the future? So,

[59:39] the first phase was really to get to understand the steering committee, to

[59:43] hold interviews, to do public input, and also collect that data to present to the

[59:48] steering committee as well. Then we moved on to phase two and we really kind

[59:51] of rolled up our sleeves and we started brainstorming.

[59:54] Steering committee members, I give them a lot of credit. They stuck with us and

[59:58] did lots of visioning sessions where we were able to kind of bounce ideas off of

[1:00:03] each other from what came back from the public input and put those into goals

[1:00:07] and recommendations. And where Structure Point kind of differentiates from other

[1:00:12] firms is we make sure we don't just leave you with a plan, with things that

[1:00:16] sound good. Like, that's a great goal. How are we going to achieve it? How are

[1:00:19] you going to fund it? We leave you with a playbook to say, "Hey, here's all the

[1:00:23] steps that you need to achieve this. Here's the funding sources. Here's where

[1:00:27] you go after this is done." And I think one of the key things that came out of

[1:00:32] phase two here is that we have a Adams County Vision Plan Task Force. So, after

[1:00:38] this, the plan won't just sit on a shelf. There'll be a task force and

[1:00:42] everybody's going to kind of understand, "Okay, these are year one initiatives.

[1:00:46] These are mid-term initiatives. These are long-term initiatives." So, that's

[1:00:50] what we kind of looked at and brainstormed in phase two. Phase three

[1:00:54] is what I'm going to show you today, getting towards adoption and

[1:00:57] recommendation to implement into the county.

[1:01:02] So, the key components of the vision plan as you go through today, we focused

[1:01:06] on economic development, cultural and livability, transportation and

[1:01:11] infrastructure, housing, education and health services, the Amish

[1:01:16] community, which was a big focus and lots of common conversations around that

[1:01:21] and lots of focus on that as well, youth engagement and retention. So, these are

[1:01:26] our seven key components that will have themes, that will have recommendations,

[1:01:30] that will have strategies as you go through the vision plan.

[1:01:36] Under [snorts] the public engagement summary, I wanted to highlight and I

[1:01:39] won't go through um each one of these in in in heavy detail. If you want to

[1:01:44] really review that, you can get with through the plan. But, I wanted to bring

[1:01:48] to you what's on the mind of your residents. Whether we were in Monroe,

[1:01:51] Geneva, at the county fair, what kind of came back to us not only in public

[1:01:56] surveys and open houses, it was preserving the rural character, um

[1:02:02] making sure that the agricultural heritage and legacy remained intact, um

[1:02:06] balance for economic growth. They wanted to see small business thrive, but also

[1:02:11] have the ability to have larger employment economic base, larger

[1:02:16] manufacturing facilities, larger employment um opportunities for the

[1:02:21] residents either from commuting in or leaving to go out to Allen County, to

[1:02:25] Fort Wayne. They felt like we needed to look at balanced economic growth.

[1:02:30] Infrastructure and connectivity, we spent a great deal of time with the

[1:02:33] county highway departments and really understood kind of what the issues are

[1:02:38] that are unique and germane to Adams County. So, you'll see that further down

[1:02:42] the presentation, but we we really heard that back from, you know, not only the

[1:02:46] county highway director, but we heard from residents saying, you know, we need

[1:02:51] to improve our roads this way or, you know, we have these Amish impacts or we

[1:02:55] have to look at how can we look at this towards the future to make sure that our

[1:03:00] that our county is well connected. And a lot of the infrastructure and

[1:03:03] connectivity didn't just deal with cars on the road. It was, you know, whether

[1:03:07] it was Amish buggies, whether it was being able to do bikes and trail systems

[1:03:12] and really growing your park system in Adams County and kind of getting the

[1:03:16] ball rolling that way. It's just people really were seeking out different

[1:03:21] recreational amenities. Quality of life was a big key component

[1:03:26] that came back. What would make, you know, young people that move back to the

[1:03:29] area? What amenities will be here in the future? Housing diversity, that was the

[1:03:34] big one. There's a lot of um it's not unique to Adams County, but just the

[1:03:39] housing diversity and being able to afford entry level or kind of that

[1:03:43] missing middle and understanding the frustrations and some of what's going on

[1:03:47] with the housing market um from people that want to live in

[1:03:51] Adams County or feel they they have to kind of, you know, shell in and and stay

[1:03:55] where they are just because of the kind of the trends in the housing market.

[1:03:59] Agricultural and environmental sustainability, this was a big one as

[1:04:04] well, just protecting your heritage, but growing strategically.

[1:04:09] Um community identity and pride, this was very big. Uh I I I want to say, you

[1:04:14] know, in all my years of of doing this, I've never seen three high schools that

[1:04:18] have so much individual pride and I think that's great. I think that makes a

[1:04:22] a very um very healthy rivalry and a very um

[1:04:27] prideful community. It just really um shows you guys really give a lot of

[1:04:31] to your schools and you really take a lot of pride in your your activities,

[1:04:35] your sports, your academics. So, that was something that kind of came through

[1:04:39] with the with the public engagement as well.

[1:04:44] So, Penna, that's an overview of all the surveys, the conversations, all the

[1:04:49] events that we had. And so, when we brought this back to the steering

[1:04:53] committee, it's how do you harmonize all the public input from the survey? How do

[1:04:57] you harmonize everything that comes out of the steering committee? How do you

[1:05:01] harmonize everything that comes back with the stakeholder interviews and put

[1:05:05] it into an action plan? So, you start with a lot of ideas and you brainstorm.

[1:05:10] So, the ones that I'm going to cover today, I just want to say that they've

[1:05:13] been thoroughly vetted by the steering committee before we brought them before

[1:05:17] you, before we put them in the plan. And it was really a prioritization exercise.

[1:05:22] So, before we picked the the following critical path strategies, we said,

[1:05:27] "Which ones really float to the top? Which ones are critical to the future of

[1:05:31] Adams County and which ones do you want to see come to fruition?" So, with that

[1:05:36] said, I'll segue into the first one. Um the first one is the transportation

[1:05:41] strategy. There, the critical path strategy that I I referred to before

[1:05:45] shows you exactly the action steps that you need to achieve to get a a capital

[1:05:51] improvement plan and program in your community, what the estimated cost is,

[1:05:55] the time frame, and we work with the county highway director very closely to

[1:06:00] understand what the needs and the unique needs of the road systems are within

[1:06:04] Adams County. So, this was one of the prioritization exercise. This one

[1:06:09] floated to the top. So, one of the key strategies is to develop a capital

[1:06:13] improvement plan and program. Under housing, we spent a lot of time

[1:06:19] understanding, you know, what the development market is. We worked with

[1:06:23] the private builders in the community. We talked to property owners. We

[1:06:27] understood from the sentiment of, you know, not just second and third

[1:06:31] generation of where the housing market is now and the need for housing. We did

[1:06:37] our own demographic and trends and looked at what kind of housing stock you

[1:06:42] will need for the future. And, you know, with all that

[1:06:45] conversation and all that input, the steering committee really felt to be

[1:06:50] able to incentivize housing growth. Whether that's looking at your zoning

[1:06:55] regulations to look at mixed density, to maybe allowing more density or a variety

[1:07:01] of housing types. They did not kind of key it under any one principle. They

[1:07:06] just wanted to make sure that we're looking at our ordinance standards,

[1:07:10] we're looking at our housing strategy, that you're looking at, you know, the

[1:07:14] future of Adams County to be able to open up the variety of housing that can

[1:07:19] be allowed and make sure that you're planning for the future to have housing

[1:07:24] in strategic locations. Whether that's around Decatur, whether that was around

[1:07:29] Berne, whether that was around Monroe or throughout the rural residential areas.

[1:07:34] We're going to look at housing throughout that, um kind of following up

[1:07:37] on the housing task force.

[1:07:42] The next was the Amish community. We had a great process. Um we were able to

[1:07:47] discuss some of the key issues, not just, you know, from the residents as

[1:07:54] well as the Amish representatives. We had bishops that attended

[1:07:59] uh one of our steering committee meetings. I was able to get out and meet

[1:08:03] a couple of the bishops on a a couple of occasions to really understand what they

[1:08:08] would like to see for the future of of Adams County and what are some of the

[1:08:13] key issues they're facing and uh kind of as a result of all that communication

[1:08:19] and opening up about the issues and kind of talking about pros and cons on each

[1:08:23] side, it was decided through the task force to involve um an Amish

[1:08:28] representative to, you know, be named at a subsequent date, but to have them on

[1:08:33] the Adams County Vision Task Force and be able to bring issues, whether it's

[1:08:38] schools, whether it's hospital, education, whether it's one was a very

[1:08:43] big one was public transportation um availability to employment

[1:08:47] opportunities, not just for the younger generation, but for the senior

[1:08:51] population. So, I think there's going to be a lot of discourse in the future, but

[1:08:55] I really like the channel that was opened up during this process and kind

[1:08:59] of a real kind of firm understanding of some of the things that the Amish would

[1:09:03] like to see from Adams County in the future and and vice versa. And so, I

[1:09:08] think that's a a great starting point that this plan is has done.

[1:09:13] Economic development, um I want to thank Colton Bickel for all of his input and

[1:09:18] all of the time he has spent. He has been our liaison as as well as

[1:09:23] Commissioner Bailey on this project. And so, working with Steve to understand

[1:09:28] um the dynamics right now with economic development in Adams County. One of the

[1:09:33] key initiatives was to come up with an inventory of all the business community

[1:09:37] to understand available properties to kind of start that public private excuse

[1:09:42] me public private partnership discussions with property owners not

[1:09:46] with just key downtown economic areas but with a small to medium-size

[1:09:51] employers and different parcels that may be amenable to open having open

[1:09:58] development and those discussions in the future. So just looking at how to

[1:10:02] diversify the employment, diversify the building type but also too it landed

[1:10:07] really into what kind of amenities and entertainment and attractions outside of

[1:10:13] business and having employment in Adams County can we look to to kind of grow

[1:10:17] different business strategies from an entertainment and a place making

[1:10:21] perspective. And so this plan does a really great job of that and this is

[1:10:24] just one of those initiatives.

[1:10:28] Small business growth as I said we talked a lot about downtown

[1:10:33] economic development. You guys have a host of wonderful festivals and

[1:10:38] community events that you hold. You really cherish your downtowns. We really

[1:10:43] just want to kind of continue you know looking at succession planning, how to

[1:10:47] grow small business, how to retain them. Colt does a fantastic job. This is

[1:10:52] really just to bring all the communities and not you know not that they operate

[1:10:56] on a silo basis now but it's really just to kind of build that that network

[1:11:01] between all the downtowns throughout Adams County and see where they can kind

[1:11:05] of build on partnerships and help networking events, help kind of you know

[1:11:10] support each other through the business channels and and bring them together. So

[1:11:14] that's what this initiative is all about.

[1:11:18] Youth engagement. This was a a great discussion that we had throughout

[1:11:23] the process. We really wanted to understand right now what is there to do

[1:11:28] for young people in Adams County? Where do they hang out? What would be some

[1:11:32] desired amenities whether it's place making and and things to do downtown or

[1:11:37] understanding you know sustainability for your future. Are you going to in 5

[1:11:42] years have the same amenities that you had for the youth today? And so kind of

[1:11:47] looking at youth retention it wasn't just for coming back and having a job

[1:11:52] and affordable housing but the amenities to be able to say if we live in this

[1:11:57] community and we travel to Fort Wayne for entertainment or we go to

[1:12:01] restaurants here, it really took a a deep dive to kind of look at and say how

[1:12:06] are we going to look at the future for you know not just our high school

[1:12:09] graduates but the generations that follow. How are you going to sustain

[1:12:14] your population outside of employment and outside of housing and what can we

[1:12:19] do to kind of drive the impetus to be able to say we're going to create great

[1:12:23] parks. We're going to create great trails. We're going to have

[1:12:27] a sense of place and a sense of community that way. So that's you know

[1:12:31] step by step and you know it doesn't happen in a day and you know it'll take

[1:12:36] getting this this task force going but like I think that the the vision is

[1:12:40] there to be able to to say here's what we would like and we're going to kind of

[1:12:44] take it step by step. So that was a great part of that initiative as well.

[1:12:50] Well Steve I'll I'll turn it back to you to open up for any questions or anything

[1:12:54] you'd like me to to cover throughout. Happy to answer anything that anyone

[1:13:00] would want to ask. Good. Thanks Rachel.

[1:13:04] Start with I know it's a lot to start with the commissioners. You guys uh

[1:13:07] thoughts, anything you heard? We're not going to uh

[1:13:11] not going to ask you to adopt this today but ultimately would like you to

[1:13:15] consider like us to consider adopting this plan or some version of this plan

[1:13:21] as our as our vision for the future. So any questions or thoughts from you

[1:13:26] guys then we'll open it up to the public.

[1:13:30] I have a couple. Stan you have? No, go ahead. You're fine.

[1:13:34] Uh I just

[1:13:36] This is first I saw it. So I just briefly gleaned through it.

[1:13:41] I think the statistics on the Amish population is significantly

[1:13:46] lower than what the vision plan has. I think it mentioned 11,000.

[1:13:52] I would say that the Amish population in this county is

[1:13:55] much closer to uh

[1:13:59] I'll just [snorts] throw a figure out that I think is fairly accurate 18,000

[1:14:04] at least. And my second

[1:14:08] you know I I guess your question is you we're not going to we're not going to uh

[1:14:14] I I I I I don't see a problem in the future of what what was your

[1:14:19] language that you said to adopt to adopt it?

[1:14:22] » Adopt this as a as a vision >> as a vision plan. I I don't I don't see

[1:14:25] any problem in the future of adopting this.

[1:14:28] Um I guess I would like to know a little

[1:14:31] bit um

[1:14:35] I guess without giving this a lot of thought and a lot of study

[1:14:38] my my first impression is that this is kind of a

[1:14:42] road map Very very aspirational. It's not not

[1:14:46] » It's kind of yeah it's kind of a road map. It's not the

[1:14:50] it is not the Adams County comprehensive plan use

[1:14:56] ordinance that we have. land use ordinance

[1:14:59] And I think this road map

[1:15:03] would be of assistance

[1:15:07] to the plan commission members as they consider possible changes to the

[1:15:12] ordinances on land use. I think that's what we had in mind was

[1:15:18] drafting something that that reflected the aspirations of Adams County

[1:15:26] residents, what they see for the future and what they hope for

[1:15:32] for the future of Adams County and then as we begin to think about the

[1:15:36] comprehensive land use plan and other ordinances and things that that factor

[1:15:41] into that how those things work together and complement each other.

[1:15:48] Yeah, because you know having sat on the plan

[1:15:52] commission for many years

[1:15:55] and currently on it when

[1:15:58] when discussion comes up about things such as

[1:16:04] uh such as I'll just throw a couple examples such as wind turbines or

[1:16:08] discussions come up with uh

[1:16:11] things such as solar farms you know then

[1:16:16] as that discussion is evolves we go back to the comprehensive Adams

[1:16:23] County comprehensive land use plan and say

[1:16:27] what is the general what's this general I could see this as

[1:16:33] as a supporting document as we as the plan commission

[1:16:37] investigates major decisions. I agree.

[1:16:43] So it's kind of like I guess my my interpretation would be it's kind of

[1:16:47] like a road map. Yeah.

[1:16:51] Stan thoughts? First thoughts? >> I guess I'd like to spend some more time

[1:16:55] with her. Absolutely.

[1:16:57] » I I think it's been approached very thoughtfully with starting with the

[1:17:02] public input with with the steering committee input and

[1:17:06] with the assistance of American Structurepoint and so

[1:17:10] you know it's been been very thoughtfully developed. So I'd I'd like

[1:17:14] to spend some time with it. Good. But yeah. Yeah. I know the steering

[1:17:18] committee spent just hours and hours and hours in this room and outside this room

[1:17:22] talking about um first talking about the mechanics of how

[1:17:27] we would gather a vision. You know when you think of county of 35,000 residents

[1:17:32] um and and how do you collaborate or collectively gather their

[1:17:38] thoughts and and put that into some kind of a of

[1:17:42] a vision for the future um you know how we sample those those

[1:17:47] thoughts and gather those thoughts and and then try to assess and analyze those

[1:17:52] with steering committee and with Rachel's help um trying to

[1:17:56] understand what was being said and what the what what the

[1:18:00] uh that

[1:18:02] that vision was it just it just took quite a bit of time and and um

[1:18:07] and so um Valuable sir. I I think it was I think it was very well done. You know

[1:18:12] I I'm assuming there was probably grant money available to help put this

[1:18:16] together. >> Well we we actually used some of the the

[1:18:18] ARPA funds. Okay. So it it was we we used some ARPA funds to to help

[1:18:24] put it together. Well one one thing I would mention

[1:18:27] along with the Adams County land use

[1:18:33] uh plan is

[1:18:36] those kind of documents including this when you have a different set of leaders

[1:18:43] you have a different set of elected officials

[1:18:46] you know none of us are going to be here forever.

[1:18:50] I've I've seen these kind of things

[1:18:55] someone says well you have a comprehensive land use plan or now we're

[1:18:58] talking about a a vision plan. And sometimes new leaders that come in

[1:19:03] say well

[1:19:06] where are they? So so you grab you drag them out of a cabinet and shake the dust

[1:19:12] off of them. And so I would like to see not only this

[1:19:17] but in the in the plan commission on the comprehensive plan I would like to see a

[1:19:23] some type of a review or some type of a system and I think that was mentioned

[1:19:28] somewhere in in her presentation that it's revisited on a periodic basis.

[1:19:34] » And Rachel help help me if I'm wrong here, but

[1:19:37] I think it's our intention for each one of those major categories to basically

[1:19:41] have a uh a a team or a group that works to kind of

[1:19:48] flush out those uh

[1:19:50] those areas of focus and continue to build out

[1:19:55] specific action items and and help us to uh

[1:20:00] bring this vision to reality near term and long term.

[1:20:05] Uh so I think that that's kind of where we're at. Is that

[1:20:09] correct, Rachel? Yeah, it's it's dead on where you guys say it's a playbook and

[1:20:14] so it can be tweaked, but I really the Adams County Vision Task Force each one

[1:20:18] of those initiatives that come out of the plan what do we call responsible

[1:20:22] party or I call them kind of the community champion that's going to get

[1:20:26] the baton passed to them to spear off, you know, what that initiative is and

[1:20:31] they're going to be able to use their their staff or whoever they assign to

[1:20:34] that actual initiative and you guys are going to meet however frequently is

[1:20:39] necessary to say, okay, where are we on this initiative? How are we progressing,

[1:20:44] you know, how much funding, you know, to basically look at it as what's our

[1:20:48] collective needs to keep the needle moving in all these areas.

[1:20:52] So yes, yeah, it's it's very much treated like a playbook.

[1:20:56] I would I I would hope that as commissioners we have an expectation

[1:21:00] that periodically whether that's annually or maybe twice a year or

[1:21:03] whatever that we would get an update from

[1:21:07] those responsible parties. Where are you at on this? What what are you thinking?

[1:21:10] What's your team thinking? What have you done? What are you trying to do? How can

[1:21:13] we help? >> Steve, but

[1:21:16] who who are who are these responsible parties?

[1:21:20] What department in county organization does this fall under?

[1:21:24] » Yeah, I hear you. You know, and that obviously it's it's

[1:21:28] ours. We're going to adopt it. So I think it it is ours, but a very natural

[1:21:34] responsible party for like for the economic development piece very natural

[1:21:38] for economic development to try kind of

[1:21:41] drive that piece. But when we think about uh health and welfare, I know part

[1:21:46] of that group was Dr. Smith, you know, from the hospital. So there'll be

[1:21:51] a kind of a mini task force that I don't know whether we've actually identified

[1:21:57] who each one of those folks are and who's going to be on that mini task

[1:22:00] force, but there'll be a mini task force associated with each one of these

[1:22:04] primary objectives and I would expect that they would be they would come and

[1:22:08] report periodically to the commissioners how they're doing and what's going on.

[1:22:13] Well, I don't know that we've got to that level to that level yet.

[1:22:16] » don't want to I don't want to have I don't want to see this laid in in the

[1:22:20] cabinet somewhere. >> Yeah, that that was my fear from the

[1:22:22] beginning. That was my fear from the beginning is

[1:22:25] is that we not just have this aspirational vision that that sits on a

[1:22:29] shelf and nobody even remembers 5 years from now and we're trying to paint a

[1:22:33] vision for the next 20 years and 5 years from now it's it's dust. So we don't we

[1:22:37] don't want that. I'll I'll throw in a little comment, too. I know being part

[1:22:41] of those committees, it's not just necessarily finding some appointed

[1:22:46] person or a salaried position that says it's your job to then go and implement

[1:22:50] the vision plan, Steve. I think that there's there's opportunities within

[1:22:53] that of different service organizations and other volunteer groups. What this

[1:22:58] helps you do is it gives gives the county here's the things that we've

[1:23:02] we've heard we want to see and there's service groups and clubs and groups that

[1:23:06] have that are volunteering time and they're looking for opportunities to

[1:23:09] participate in this. It allows you to try to work within that vision as well

[1:23:13] and say here's how we want to try to partner with with different areas.

[1:23:18] Well, [clears throat] well, one of the areas of focus that we had was that kind

[1:23:21] of that Amish community um and and

[1:23:26] my hope is that an outshoot of this discussion

[1:23:31] is some kind of an ongoing dialogue with a a representative

[1:23:37] um portion of the Amish community between

[1:23:39] the Amish and and Adams County government and we begin to talk about

[1:23:43] things like transportation struggles and and and other issues that are that that

[1:23:48] are prevalent that we just kind of as of today we're just kind of uh

[1:23:53] um accepting, but how do we begin to be

[1:23:58] proactively plan planful in a in approaching those challenges and

[1:24:03] opportunities. So again, I think it's still I don't know that we have all the

[1:24:07] answers at this point. Um but what we tried to do is over the last couple of

[1:24:11] years just at least identify the major questions and the major challenges and

[1:24:15] then put together some um

[1:24:21] objectives with some strategies that we can begin to attack those Yeah, I think

[1:24:26] I think the most I'm not being critical. I think Rachel

[1:24:30] you did a great job. Steve, your leadership in this was

[1:24:33] was very good. I think we've got a nice very well organized document. But I

[1:24:38] think where the rubber's going to hit the road

[1:24:41] where the rubber's actually going to hit the road is during plan commission

[1:24:44] meetings when we have

[1:24:47] when we have some major discussions on land use in the county and then we go

[1:24:54] back to as a plan commission members are trying to make a recommendation to the

[1:24:59] commissioners like we had this morning, okay, on on Mr. House request, okay. I

[1:25:05] think where rubber's going to hit the road is when we can say

[1:25:10] when the plan commission is discussing what is the overall

[1:25:15] comprehensive land use plan in Adams County currently and if we're talking

[1:25:20] about changing an ordinance, then >> [clears throat]

[1:25:24] » we could refer to this document. This could be an added document along

[1:25:30] with the comprehensive plan. >> I I think probably that's a great

[1:25:33] example of how this document might influence those discussions. We we heard

[1:25:39] um pretty loud and clear that the

[1:25:41] agricultural uh culture

[1:25:46] the rural culture and the agricultural culture of our community is very

[1:25:51] important to the residents that we heard from. And so when we think about from a

[1:25:55] plan commission perspective and maybe a comprehensive land use perspective, when

[1:26:00] we think about those aspects that may detract from that agricultural

[1:26:06] or rural culture that we value you may be able to go back to this

[1:26:12] document and say, now wait a minute, I remember in the vision plan when we

[1:26:17] drafted this vision for the future, it really held that in high importance that

[1:26:22] we not detract from that uh rural culture that that we have. So I

[1:26:28] think you're exactly right. We don't have the details in here of how that

[1:26:32] lives out, but I think we have that aspiration that says

[1:26:37] we like that aspect of of life in Adams County. Don't mess that

[1:26:42] up. So I think that's what And again, you

[1:26:45] know, it's it's one thing for me to sit here for the three of us to sit here to

[1:26:49] be quite honest with you and say, yeah, that's our vision.

[1:26:52] But you know, all every one of the three of us won't be here someday and whose

[1:26:57] vision is that going to be then? But what we tried to do as best we could was

[1:27:01] create a vision of the residents of Adams County. We didn't get 35,000

[1:27:06] visions and try to put that into a vision, but we sampled thousands of

[1:27:11] people and tried to put that into this vision.

[1:27:14] Yeah, and I you know, here's a good example. On page 87

[1:27:20] it says, how important is it for Adams County to preserve its rural and

[1:27:25] agricultural land? And the survey said 53.7%

[1:27:31] thought it was extremely important. And then it went to 27 very important.

[1:27:36] So I think that is a good indicator. >> So a total of 80% felt that it was

[1:27:40] extremely or very important that we preserve the

[1:27:43] » And and I think the plan commission should take that into consideration

[1:27:47] during discussion. And I think those are, you know, when you think about the

[1:27:50] play of a parks board and a parks plan and

[1:27:53] we have a hospital board and we have all these

[1:27:56] different entities that that

[1:28:00] do forward planning and forward thinking. I think this is something that

[1:28:04] can help them. Yeah, I hope >> And so so it carries one step further.

[1:28:09] And I'm not being critical at all. I think this is well done. But it you can

[1:28:13] always take it one step further and say, okay, let's look beyond the plan

[1:28:17] commission on making decisions. That would be when we get requests for

[1:28:22] subdivisions out in the in the county and things of that type, you know, this

[1:28:26] could be a leading this could be a not a game changer, but a consideration.

[1:28:32] Yeah, I think it's done well. Stan, other thoughts before we pass it out to

[1:28:36] the public? I I think we have to take a

[1:28:40] real hard look at uh what our administrative responsibilities are as

[1:28:45] commissioners. You know, we are here as a county government. The county

[1:28:49] government has core responsibilities, but we also have peripheral

[1:28:52] responsibilities to support and facilitate uh

[1:28:57] quality of life issues. You know, like 4-H is a big one, the extension board.

[1:29:01] We've always supported that. Uh things like that. So, you know, back to back to

[1:29:06] Nate's point you know, you you've got uh

[1:29:11] uh other

[1:29:16] uh board >> uh boards and and people that they would

[1:29:22] have a specific [snorts] interest in specific parts of this

[1:29:25] to promote things. So, you know, as far as the

[1:29:29] parks board, I think it would force us to take a good hard look at at the

[1:29:34] cooperative efforts we do with the city and and

[1:29:37] you know, to to provide better better county parks and Right.

[1:29:43] » And a big part of it is housing, too. You know, for years we've said, "Oh, we

[1:29:47] need more housing. We need more housing. We need more housing." Well,

[1:29:50] we can facilitate that. But as far as county government, we can't build the

[1:29:55] first house. >> [clears throat]

[1:29:56] » So, you know, we have to be able and prepared to facilitate some of the

[1:30:01] things in here even though as county government um we're not going to go out

[1:30:06] there and build 100 houses. But we can facilitate plans and zoning

[1:30:11] to to help those people that are building houses. So,

[1:30:14] » Sure. we have to kind of really look at what our responsibility as commissioners

[1:30:19] in county government is to facilitate this plan. So, you know, and and to look

[1:30:25] at the organizations that may may be willing to

[1:30:31] participate in in the in some of these goals.

[1:30:36] Um Thoughts from the public?

[1:30:39] You all are here or many of you here are just specifically for this topic.

[1:30:45] What do you think?

[1:30:49] Anybody? Come on up. State your name, please, and

[1:30:57] Good morning, uh Wiley Sirk. Hi, Wiley. And and this is a little more granular

[1:31:03] than I than where you're at right now, but you just talked about need for

[1:31:07] public transportation. And uh I it really is a and I'm not

[1:31:13] really telling you anything new. It is a need across the whole county.

[1:31:19] Uh I recently learned of one example of how it could very much benefit some

[1:31:25] individuals that are working to improve their themselves,

[1:31:31] their future. And that would be at the Merit Center, at the Literacy Alliance

[1:31:36] classroom, where young adults, well, not adults, are working to complete their

[1:31:44] GED. >> Yeah.

[1:31:45] And there are cases where they can't get there.

[1:31:49] And it's even to the point where they've had to give up on completing their GED

[1:31:56] because of no transportation. So, I just wanted to share that one little piece

[1:32:01] there. Uh a little more granular than where we're at right now, but

[1:32:05] » But but I think your point the the point that I would take out of that, Wiley, is

[1:32:08] there are many things that I don't see as commissioner.

[1:32:12] When when when Michelle Lingor came to us and said, "We need public

[1:32:16] transportation. We need we need to work on this um

[1:32:19] this effort throughout the county." To be

[1:32:23] quite honest with you, my response was, "Really? I didn't know that." So, I

[1:32:27] think until you look at take a project like this and survey

[1:32:33] as many people as you can and try to solicit those that vision and build that

[1:32:39] vision from as many people as you can possibly work with,

[1:32:43] we miss many things. I miss many things. One of those would have been public

[1:32:49] transportation. Now, Michelle has done a great job with kind of try to build that

[1:32:53] out and offer that. And I would hope that

[1:32:56] that somebody who's pursuing a GED in Adams County can get to class. Right.

[1:33:01] Now, but that wouldn't have been the case two or

[1:33:04] three years ago. The the difficulty right now is these are evening classes.

[1:33:10] And so, So, obviously that's another gap we need to address. Yeah. So, Yeah.

[1:33:15] Point well taken. If I can speak to that, I mean, when when Michelle came to

[1:33:19] us, she

[1:33:23] facilitated this whole plan uh and attempted to go through Wells

[1:33:28] County and and that was not agreed on. So, because of the plan she put together

[1:33:33] for the 5311 transportation plan, she expanded it from health and medical

[1:33:38] needs to a full public transportation. And that was a huge huge I mean, we are

[1:33:44] light years ahead of where we were. And then to the for the county to

[1:33:49] facilitate that, we purchased the property, built a building for all the

[1:33:53] vehicles, uh and uh

[1:33:57] facilitated an office for her. And I I think we have made huge strides

[1:34:03] in public transportation. >> We have.

[1:34:05] » So, so the last thing that I would be critical on is is moving public

[1:34:11] transportation ahead cuz I think we have done, you know, we we have a lot of

[1:34:15] money not only out of the commissioner's budget, which I think this year was

[1:34:19] 44,000 for the operation, but [clears throat] also out of the local

[1:34:24] uh uh

[1:34:27] the lit taxes to facilitate.

[1:34:30] » Sure. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm not disagreeing, but you

[1:34:34] we are light years ahead of where we had been. But again,

[1:34:38] this is another little component, but yet it's a major component for those

[1:34:43] that it's impacting. >> But that that public transportation came

[1:34:47] out of this study as one of those areas of focus that we need to work on. Now,

[1:34:52] um and I don't think any of this um steering committee members, you guys

[1:34:56] chime in here. Um I don't think any of this was meant to

[1:34:59] be critical of where we're at today. It's meant to be visionary of where how

[1:35:04] we can even be better in the future. So, we do have we are light years ahead of

[1:35:08] where we were two or three years ago on public transportation. Are we where we

[1:35:11] need to be yet? Probably not. So, we can do better. So, I think this is all just

[1:35:17] And I This is not really intended to be critical at all of where what's happened

[1:35:22] in the past. It's meant to be more visionary of where we can be in the

[1:35:25] future. Exactly. And I would do anything It's just a general statement, too. I

[1:35:29] commend you gentlemen for this

[1:35:34] this vision plan. And I agree it's it's an

[1:35:38] excellent road map uh to work through the

[1:35:42] the future. >> Yeah, as far as public transportation,

[1:35:45] you know, your example was a great one, Wiley. You know, this this

[1:35:50] young or middle-aged adult that's trying to get a

[1:35:53] his diploma, if we can identify that person

[1:35:58] and provide that transportation day or evening, I think it's critical.

[1:36:03] Likewise, in the southern part of county, if someone needs a medical

[1:36:07] attention, a doctor's appointment, and they don't have a way to get there, you

[1:36:11] know, some sometimes we just assume we've been blessed. We have a way to get

[1:36:16] there. Sometimes we forget the people that weren't blessed or as fortunate as

[1:36:20] us. I would go out of my way to make that happen.

[1:36:24] However, no matter what service you provide,

[1:36:28] you can be taken advantage of if you're not careful.

[1:36:32] And one of the items that kind of

[1:36:36] I had a little bit of a uh uneasy feeling was, you know, visitation.

[1:36:42] You know, do you do you stretch out your transportation

[1:36:47] to go pick up someone down in the southern part of county to visit someone

[1:36:51] else? So, you always got to be constant

[1:36:54] constantly of of of being taken advantage of.

[1:36:59] I will serve the people that need it. But I'm always got an eye on

[1:37:06] it this is stretching a little bit. So, Sure. But But speaking to it, I mean,

[1:37:10] both you and I, we kind of come from education, so we very much understand

[1:37:16] the importance And and and obviously education was another

[1:37:20] aspect that came out very very high in this vision as far as being important to

[1:37:26] the future of Adams County. Yeah. And this classroom serves Adams County. They

[1:37:31] average probably 10 to 15 students at a time. They and they've got it's a

[1:37:38] revolving door cuz they're working to graduate. So, because there's more

[1:37:43] waiting to come in. You bet. You bet. But Thanks, Wiley.

[1:37:47] » much. Thanks, Wiley. Other other thoughts from anybody?

[1:37:54] Kelly, I know this is something that you've that you've watched. I know you

[1:37:58] weren't necessarily part of the steering committee, but you we've talked a lot

[1:38:02] about where this is at, where it's going, and how library functions. And I

[1:38:06] told you about my aha moment with the Amish community and how uh in in the

[1:38:11] conversation right there in that hallway, we talked about how important

[1:38:15] the library system is to the Amish community. And that was another blind

[1:38:18] spot of mine. So, this going through this process for me

[1:38:23] the last couple of years has really opened my eyes to a lot of blind spots

[1:38:28] that I had of vision of Adams County residents that didn't necessarily wasn't

[1:38:33] Steve Bailey's vision. And that's the reason that I really felt it was

[1:38:36] important that we go down this path and take the time and engage an organization

[1:38:41] like Rachel's organization to uh to to find a vision that was something

[1:38:46] more than just one or two or a half a dozen people's thoughts.

[1:38:51] Any thoughts, Kelly? I haven't seen this I know. And I'll

[1:38:55] we're going to get Rachel, I know that this is available online. I'm going to

[1:39:00] make sure that we get everybody the opportunity to look at this online. Even

[1:39:03] though this is not this is still in draft form until the commissioners feel

[1:39:07] comfortable adopting it, this is still a draft, but I'm we're going to point you

[1:39:11] toward the the website where you can actually look

[1:39:15] at this at what we're talking about today.

[1:39:18] Okay. Absolutely. a while ago Yeah.

[1:39:23] Sure. Ra- Ra- Rachel, thoughts or where can we

[1:39:27] find this at? What is that? Yeah, I will post up on the screen the project

[1:39:31] website so everybody can take it down. Happy, you know, if I'll put my email on

[1:39:35] there as well if you have any questions, but I'll put the project website up.

[1:39:40] What is that? Can you read it off, Rachel? Some- it's pretty small here in

[1:39:44] the room and my eyes are old. >> [laughter]

[1:39:50] » Just 1 second. Sure.

[1:39:58] Will be on the county website there's a place It is. There's a There's a There's

[1:40:01] a button on the county website to the vision plan and if you if you if you

[1:40:05] click there, it'll take you to the website that that Rachel's going to give

[1:40:10] us. >> Okay. Okay.

[1:40:31] I think you're on mute, Rachel, if you're talking to us. If you're not,

[1:40:33] that's >> Oh, no. I'm sorry. I'm just going to

[1:40:35] unshare my screen this way and then pull up your your vision plan and then Okay.

[1:40:40] » the website for everybody. Just 1 second.

[1:40:56] » [clears throat]

[1:41:10] » Yep. What if we forget to leave that you guys

[1:41:14] signing those though? Okay. While While Rachel's working on that, um

[1:41:19] Aaron Selkin was one of our steering committee members from the beginning if

[1:41:22] I don't We had We kind of added steering

[1:41:24] committee members and as we went along, but I think Aaron was

[1:41:27] on along for the whole ride. Thoughts on the process? How comfortable were you

[1:41:32] with it? What did you think? Well, the whole reason why I wanted to

[1:41:35] stay involved with it was I just felt like there was a disconnect between

[1:41:39] the cities and the county when it comes to housing.

[1:41:43] And I think that with this county sewer

[1:41:46] project, I think it's a great thing. It cleans things up.

[1:41:49] My concern is leapfrogging on residential.

[1:41:56] I think the city and the county need to work better on buffer zones

[1:42:01] that that surround cities and theater where the city actually wants to grow

[1:42:06] and the county work with them.

[1:42:09] But I think I think that as we talked about the whole housing

[1:42:13] challenge as we talked about through the vision plan, I think that better

[1:42:17] collaboration and cooperation between the city and the county and kind of an

[1:42:22] expectation of where the natural and most appropriate housing growth is,

[1:42:27] I just think we have to do better at that.

[1:42:33] And if you tack on your concern, Aaron, which is well taken,

[1:42:38] if you go to from the middle count part of the

[1:42:41] county southward, the housing situation is is also an

[1:42:46] issue, but a little bit different. Quite a different challenge. And that's where

[1:42:50] I think instead of doing the setbacks, and I've had this conversation with you.

[1:42:56] But with

[1:43:00] I I think they should have limited to 20 acres on on a subdivision in rural Adams

[1:43:04] County versus a setback. What you're seeing is they're taking a

[1:43:10] 20-acre farm and now it's getting turned into a subdivision.

[1:43:14] And you have more of an issue there than what you do Well, we did it We did

[1:43:18] address that somewhat several years ago when we put an ordinance on how much how

[1:43:24] many times you can split a parcel. It slowed it up some. Some.

[1:43:28] Some. Well, obviously we've got some work to

[1:43:30] do there, but those are those are things that

[1:43:33] um that I think part of the vision is that we get our arms around that. The

[1:43:39] actual execution of how to do that is not in this book. So, we have to figure

[1:43:43] that out, but the vision is that we do figure it out.

[1:43:48] I do know techniques right and it helps It helps the city indicator. It helps

[1:43:52] the people that are you know, different all all the

[1:43:56] different things that they're able to have a road map themselves.

[1:43:59] What the county actually wants. Right. Yeah. Right. I agree.

[1:44:03] And you know, we can we can assume we know what

[1:44:07] the vision is for Adams County, but until you begin to ask the residents

[1:44:11] what their vision is, I think it's all just an assumption.

[1:44:17] Rachel? Yeah, I found it. It's www.advancingadamscounty.com.

[1:44:23] More than happy to I'll send a a link to the all three commissioners and if

[1:44:28] there's anywhere else you would like us to disperse that, we're happy to have

[1:44:32] our communications department put in a newspaper or, you know, make sure we get

[1:44:36] the word out that the draft is available, but the draft is available on

[1:44:40] that website. Advancingadamscounty.com.

[1:44:44] All one word. Yep. www.advancingadamscounty.com.

[1:44:50] Yep. Yes, sir. Yep.

[1:44:53] If it's up for public consumption right now, can we have copies at the library?

[1:45:00] Physical copies? Um I guess I'd rather hold off on that

[1:45:04] until the the commissioners actually I mean, you can print it off, obviously,

[1:45:08] but it's a it's still in draft form rather than hand them to you today and I

[1:45:13] only have two. So, it's not like I have a ton up here that I can hand out. Um

[1:45:19] Would you mind waiting until we actually have an opportunity to adopt it as final

[1:45:23] final >> If you're asking the public to that they

[1:45:26] can view it, I don't I don't know what to say.

[1:45:32] Are you I mean, I Um

[1:45:34] » Rachel did say that. Well, as soon as we adopt it, there'll be more copies, won't

[1:45:38] there, Steve? Well, as soon as they obviously we can't make we we don't

[1:45:40] intend to make hundreds and hundreds of copies, but Kelly's only asking for a

[1:45:44] few. So, I I we should be able to get >> Yeah, I mean, we could put a big

[1:45:47] watermark across it that says draft for open for public comment to make

[1:45:51] everybody feel more comfortable, too. We can send some hard copies that way.

[1:45:55] If you go to that website, the whole plan that we've got in book form is on

[1:45:59] the website. Yeah. The entire thing. Other thoughts, Mike? You were You were

[1:46:05] along for most of the ride. Micah, you were along for most of the ride. Anybody

[1:46:09] else thoughts on where we're at?

[1:46:15] Micah? I guess I would like a little bit more

[1:46:19] clarification when it comes to the comprehensive land use plan

[1:46:23] and this vision plan now. I [clears throat] mean, you guys have

[1:46:26] discussed both plans interchangeably here today,

[1:46:31] but when an item comes before planning commission,

[1:46:35] which document is going to be the foundation document for them to make a

[1:46:39] decision? Is that still The The Their legal document is the comprehensive land

[1:46:43] use plan. >> That's That's the one that they use.

[1:46:45] » their legal That's their legal document. Right. And we really didn't We really

[1:46:50] didn't address that. Um I think the planning commission is is trying to

[1:46:54] review that comprehensive land use plan uh

[1:46:58] over time, but we really didn't touch that document with this work.

[1:47:03] I appreciate the clarification because that was my assumption, but I I'm not

[1:47:07] sure that the public has ever heard it put that way. So,

[1:47:10] thank you for that. And I guess I'm encouraged to see that agriculture is a

[1:47:14] priority in [clears throat] the vision plan on

[1:47:16] the public. That's very encouraging to me. Okay.

[1:47:19] Um so, thank you guys for doing that. Sure.

[1:47:24] You know, I think I think if I'm sitting on the planning commission and I sat on

[1:47:27] the planning commission for years. I don't today. Doug is our representative

[1:47:30] on planning commission. But if I'm sitting in there and I have a a proposal

[1:47:34] that comes before me that speaks to solar or wind or some of these other

[1:47:38] things that has a a potential of disrupting that agricultural and rural

[1:47:45] community, I think you can go back to this and say, I don't think that's what

[1:47:49] our what our residents are looking for. Um

[1:47:55] I guess one other thing that I and I saw that the plan was posted on the website.

[1:47:59] I briefly paged through it this morning.

[1:48:03] I'm probably a little bit disappointed that there isn't more emphasis put on

[1:48:07] manufacturing jobs and industrial jobs and industrial growth

[1:48:11] » [clears throat] >> in Adams County.

[1:48:12] » Sure. We talk about housing

[1:48:15] shortages. >> [clears throat]

[1:48:18] » But I would like those residents to work in Adams County instead of commuting out

[1:48:21] of Adams County. Sure. Sure. I think that's probably in in

[1:48:26] included in that whole economic development piece.

[1:48:31] Probably not maybe fleshed out as much as you would like to have seen it, but I

[1:48:34] would think that's probably a part of that economic development piece of our

[1:48:38] of our vision. Thanks.

[1:48:41] I think it'd be great, too, along with manufacturing if we could get more tech

[1:48:45] jobs here.

[1:48:50] Anybody else? We don't want to We don't want to belabor this too much.

[1:48:53] Obviously, this is In In guys, we actually have a

[1:48:57] a proposed um ordinance

[1:49:00] that uh uh

[1:49:02] Clayton has looked at or Mark has looked at, one or the other. Um but I I'd

[1:49:07] prefer not to consider that today until you all have time to look at it.

[1:49:12] And that was the ordinance It it it we in relation to the

[1:49:17] vision >> It it's it's related to vision. You

[1:49:19] haven't seen the ordinance yet. But but ultimately ultimately

[1:49:23] my desire is that we as commissioners consider adopting this as our vision

[1:49:30] including adopting an ordinance that states that this is our vision plan.

[1:49:35] » But obviously you're not prepared to do that today and I don't know

[1:49:38] » put it on a timeline. In a couple of weeks we can be addressing it. If if

[1:49:41] that's okay, we'll look at that in a couple of weeks.

[1:49:45] Anybody else? Rachel, parting parting thoughts here?

[1:49:51] All right, getting off mute there. No, I just want to say it's like I said, it's

[1:49:55] been a great experience. You guys have a wonderful community. We've really had a

[1:49:58] great time, you know, getting to know each one of the communities and going to

[1:50:02] Swiss Days and Monroe and County Fair. So it's it's been a great process and

[1:50:07] like I said, we're all open to comments and tweaks and

[1:50:11] we understand that you know, it might take a further reiteration and and

[1:50:16] certain parts. So happy to happy to hear that and and work on it. So

[1:50:22] Very good. Um if nothing else, we've got a couple

[1:50:27] more things on the agenda. Rachel, you're free to to hang in there with us

[1:50:30] but but I wouldn't mind you I I wouldn't I

[1:50:33] wouldn't wouldn't I wouldn't uh Hold it against me or

[1:50:37] something. Hold it against you. Yeah, I've got something else. Okay. All

[1:50:41] right, no problem. Great to meet everybody today and everybody have a

[1:50:44] great Tuesday. Thank you. Okay. The

[1:50:48] the ordinance 2026-6 that we signed, I guess that was that's been had a slight

[1:50:53] change to it. So we need to resign this document.

[1:50:55] » sent right after you signed it. Um okay.

[1:51:01] Um great discussion. Again, this is this is something that um

[1:51:07] that I've been working on and we've been working on for a couple of years. So

[1:51:11] um glad to see it come to some kind of a some kind of a

[1:51:16] not a close but at least a a a path forward that that we can be in the

[1:51:21] share. So Thank you Steve for all the time and effort you put into that.

[1:51:25] » It's been it's been really uh uh really a great learning experience for

[1:51:30] me. Um

[1:51:33] Okay, Justice Center update is next on the agenda. I'm not sure we have a lot

[1:51:38] to share there today but um I know we've got we continue to look at

[1:51:43] that option that we discussed a couple of weeks ago. Uh

[1:51:48] potential of moving superior court into the first floor of the historic

[1:51:52] courthouse. Um

[1:51:54] We look then at we have four or five departments then that would be looking

[1:51:58] for a new home uh including the clerk and prosecutor

[1:52:02] who would be displaced out of the courthouse.

[1:52:04] Um so we're looking at uh

[1:52:07] right now we're working with the elevator to give us some numbers and

[1:52:11] design concepts on uh uh an annex that would be built across

[1:52:17] Third Street. I know there's maybe a little bit of

[1:52:21] confusion as to where we're envisioning that. At this point probably is going to

[1:52:25] go in the parking lot that we have there now. So um so we would we would need to

[1:52:30] to find some new parking or the city would help us find some new parking for

[1:52:33] that. That's all that's all kind of in

[1:52:36] discussion right now and I don't know that we have a lot to share on that.

[1:52:40] Yeah, I I know you've been working real closely with department heads to to

[1:52:45] refine that. >> I have. That's been

[1:52:47] » that. They they have been that's also been a great collaborative

[1:52:51] effort. The judges came to the table and said,

[1:52:54] "Hey, we can do with maybe less than what we were initially thinking." And so

[1:52:58] we're having conversations with all of our department heads with along that

[1:53:01] vein of I know this is what you asked for but what do you really need and

[1:53:05] we're going to have those conversations here over the next week or so and then

[1:53:09] come back with a design that's that's hopefully

[1:53:12] meets all of our needs but yet fits into the budget that we that council set for

[1:53:16] us.

[1:53:20] Okay. Um Do we have a final issue we need or

[1:53:23] something we should bring up in our meeting with you? You know, we don't

[1:53:26] need to. I gave them um Yeah, we can we can talk about this. We

[1:53:30] really didn't sign that because we only gave them a go ahead on part of that.

[1:53:34] Okay. Um

[1:53:37] County Attorney, Mark Clayton, what have you guys got for us today?

[1:53:42] Um I know next week we're going to have a discussion about um

[1:53:46] fringe area jurisdiction. So I think that will

[1:53:49] it really goes kind of hand in hand >> Hand in hand with what we've been

[1:53:52] talking about. >> these discussions. So Yeah.

[1:53:57] Another reminder maybe that next week's meeting is on Wednesday rather than

[1:54:01] Tuesday because of the election. Right. Just as a reminder. Okay, thanks Tony.

[1:54:06] Clayton, what have you got for us? Uh so we did just have

[1:54:11] we suspended earlier. We had a public hearing on what will be ordinance number

[1:54:15] 2026-4, an ordinance regulating parking on

[1:54:18] county owned property. So if there's no further discussion

[1:54:22] amongst you all as commissioners um it would be available for you to move to

[1:54:27] adopt the same. [clears throat] Motion to approve. Second.

[1:54:31] Motion passes. And I will given that it has enforcement

[1:54:35] until make sure that our office gets published meant to the auditor because

[1:54:40] it will need published specifically the enforcement provisions will need

[1:54:44] published and then it'll be effective 10 days thereafter.

[1:54:48] Um and then to shorten the meeting today, it's

[1:54:51] already gone pretty long. I would just ask that it be put on the

[1:54:56] agenda for next week for me to present the the petition for vacation of a

[1:55:01] public way in relation to the portion of West 1100 South uh the roadway of Bridge

[1:55:08] near Red Gold. I have that petition prepared. So I would just request Can

[1:55:13] you send Angie and myself an email stating how you want that listed on the

[1:55:18] agenda and we'll make sure to get that on. Yep, I'll do that right now.

[1:55:22] Anything else from you guys? Nope, thank you. Okay. Hey, can I ask you a quick

[1:55:25] question? And I know I could look it up but on the

[1:55:28] abatement agreements that you've done out at

[1:55:34] West Union Town what's the final date on that?

[1:55:37] » [clears throat] >> The final date as in when they have

[1:55:40] cleaned up. Um all of them except one individual that came to the table a

[1:55:44] little bit later. I believe that individual has until October 15th. The

[1:55:48] remainder of them is July 15th. Okay. But I know multiple of them as the

[1:55:52] abatement agreement reads, they need to actually

[1:55:55] sign like a satisfaction notice that they've satisfied or believe

[1:56:00] that they're in compliance. Both my office and the sheriff's department is

[1:56:04] in possession of that form that becomes signed. That will then trigger the

[1:56:07] sheriff's deputy in charge of that enforcement to go out and double check

[1:56:11] and we'll start kind of dealing with that if there's issues with whether or

[1:56:14] not they're compliant. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

[1:56:17] Shannon, what have you got for us this morning?

[1:56:20] Nothing today but thank you. Okay. Um

[1:56:24] Doug, Stan, what else have you got for the good of the cause this morning?

[1:56:27] » I'm good. Um we

[1:56:30] really just a couple minor things. Um the

[1:56:35] Community Mental Health Centers has appointed a new

[1:56:38] additional Adams County rep and that's Ian Gilbert. So he'll be sitting on that

[1:56:42] board along with myself from Adams County. It's great.

[1:56:46] Um you know, the other thing which is

[1:56:50] a wish in one hand and whatever in the other but I've still got some interest

[1:56:55] in uh looking at the

[1:56:58] old meadows. So Good.

[1:57:01] So if if that's all right, I'll continue to

[1:57:04] keep the keys and pursue that as the interest is there. Obviously we don't

[1:57:09] have a plan for that facility yet. So if you can come up with somebody who can

[1:57:12] put it together you send it as priority. I had a meeting last week with Rob

[1:57:16] Purdy. Good. Good deal.

[1:57:20] Good deal. Um anything from the public?

[1:57:28] Move we adjourn. Okay.

[1:57:31] We're adjourned. Thanks everybody. Appreciate you coming.

[1:57:35] Appreciate your interest.

[2:00:04] » Mhm.

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