[0:02] the final United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one

[0:07] nation under God indivisible with liberty coming from your County

[0:16] Commissioners another piece of value-added install most people got the

[0:25] winter are you counting that are watching the Christian channel

[0:59] sec to bring right

[1:13] the Vardo you are you sure okay today we have a probation transfer from a

[1:20] contingency account for the wellness incentives to receive from to be

[1:23] received from South come from Hawaii payouts this week we have several

[1:27] probation transfers from various departments including building the park

[1:30] expect reports commissioners common pleas court to fund final payrolls for

[1:34] the year probation transfers from Board of Elections an engineer for year and

[1:38] hospitalization rate of payments to supplemental appropriations from water

[1:43] resources for death papers we have a cash transfer from the general fund to

[1:47] the emergency management fund for the 2016 funding any cash transfer to the

[1:52] general fund to the airport construction local match-3 traveling conferences 14

[1:56] engineer 14 jf a sponsor casa a purchase order for southern computer warehouse in

[2:02] the amount of eleven thousand six or seven eighty six for water resources for

[2:05] the lab computer equipment and a pain in fifteen thousand nine fifty to join the

[2:10] mechanical for the courthouse annex rooftop air conditioning unit question

[2:20] resolution 1668 2016 make them

[2:51] and i am recording on items i approved on December second and december seven

[2:57] has authorized by resolution 1607 on December second PI accepting resignation

[3:05] of Charles Battaglia part time driver from transit to the attachment 1123 2016

[3:11] on December 7th for the airport authority announced an approved

[3:15] reimbursement number 34 FAA grant project number three dash 39 s 005 4018

[3:22] dash 2015 rehabilitate turn away from phase 2 of 2 in the amount of 5365 34

[3:31] cents a portion of 4828 and 537 dollar and 34 said local match also

[3:39] acknowledged that approved reimbursement number 34 faa glant project number 33

[3:45] 9005 four-day 019 dashing 2016 can stretch out construct passing lanes

[3:53] cracks he'll run late design area lighting system and pappy on only 29 and

[3:59] 30 7206 dollars 10-7 at a portion 36 thousand five hundred ninety-four

[4:06] dollars and six twenty dollars in ten cents

[4:23] here

[4:28] jogging I was saying to people where we always use words you want to look at it

[4:36] see straight

[4:41] the first item which is the cancellation of mortgage is just we have five year

[4:48] mortgage on the property and the way that the state has place mortgages that

[4:54] if they live in the parking for five years entire mortgage we cancel it is

[5:00] so I'm standing for injustice

[5:17] one

[5:26] Oh

[5:29] so

[5:33] second sorry

[5:52] yep that's okay so we're just picking the next one yep take it off

[6:13] um this is a request to hire her name's Lily in glasses she's wants a part-time

[6:22] position but she was going to be such a good asset she's retired from

[6:26] lawrenceville developmental center so nothing fazes her she's she's gonna be

[6:32] crazy well we're going to be a walk in the park for compared to what she's used

[6:36] to

[6:42] the county homes are closing the board higher of hiring lilius access to

[6:48] position a part-time attended number 15 04 dash one at the rate of 11 other

[6:52] states type cents per hour with a one-year probationary period which I

[6:56] specification of the required redeployment condition and we'll give as

[7:01] well

[7:07] hey thank you that's good morning good

[7:19] morning rain flexible pavement flexible payment i was looking at them down in

[7:24] front yeah so it's out there Reuters that this all kinds of flexible the

[7:30] asphalt it I think I won't be time as the item on the agenda today is for

[7:35] mulberry road this is to execute the dispersment request from you now public

[7:40] works for their portion of the project in the amount of three hundreds of eight

[7:45] thousand nine hundred ninety nine dollars and eighty-one cents that's a

[7:48] one-time it's a complete everything so this will be coming back for any okay

[7:53] receipt of this beautiful final change order

[8:04] the county assayer's office with your cussing the word Christmas for a quarter

[8:08] of a full board members we executed hulkenberg Commission appendix Jesus

[8:12] person request form and certification number one final in order to release

[8:16] funds for state portion of our opw c grades for the ice water surface in with

[8:19] my berry road see three main section chief Ryan share any model 417,000 night

[8:34] thanks have a good day dear the letter we have here is just a payroll

[8:54] authorization to add more stable sign off on the payroll every week one of the

[9:01] issues we have as monday was a good example those payroll week I wasn't here

[9:06] I was in Columbus they was in Columbus so I had to rush to get everything down

[9:10] friday thread invent anything changes luckily there weren't any changes over

[9:15] weekend if there had been changes we wouldn't been able to get it back in

[9:18] till wednesday so that means I Lazar is lowered to be a sign of our water

[9:25] resources or two

[9:36] you be around teacher yeah

[9:43] yeah there is a promise

[10:04] the Christians offices request a new board improving public officials bond

[10:07] and asserting company or sharing the order in d 10 $10,000 pursuant to RC 3

[10:13] 17 point though to further authorized a fundamental or two max community

[10:19] summer I'm very excited to be able to do the surety bonds very successful good

[10:34] people get elected

[11:24] no so it is just the first appointing right so we could yes okay the

[11:31] Commissioner's Office is requesting the board reappoint auditor Frank Lea to the

[11:34] volunteer peace officers dependent on board for the term ending December 31st

[11:38] 2017 which is office is requesting border point Sheriff a life schedule to

[11:42] bring to the volunteer peace officers dependence on for determining 734 2017

[11:47] so second it's just a night

[11:56] push those offices across important group actually resolution number 16 161

[12:02] asian

[12:06] right

[12:13] present this joint

[12:45] um I wanted I wanted deep if you could come up here I want to have a discussion

[12:50] regarding not some position that

[12:57] I'm booths been development coordinator

[13:08] description

[13:16] these are coming into your closure

[13:26] so the discussion is as you know has been that we basically been now you know

[13:37] looking at some some options and actually you know Tim if you wanted to

[13:41] also you know participate in this more than welcome to as far as you know just

[13:45] having some of the discussions of trying to get a person in place so that we

[13:53] would be able to have a you know a voice for both residents a voice for business

[14:04] voice for just some of you know some of the development and

[14:12] you know continued growth for both residents in soon and also for

[14:17] businesses that sometimes I think fall short on what the availabilities are of

[14:24] Geauga County to be able to facilitate certain things and with the direction

[14:31] that we're looking to move forward with in 2017 and beyond as far as the

[14:37] potential of having some special projects here in house that we're

[14:43] looking to do with with some some potential growth positions as far as

[14:48] some facilities that we're looking to

[14:53] possibly you know consolidate and grow and you know restructure that there's

[15:01] just not there's there's a lot of responsibilities that a lot of the

[15:07] departments and departments had heads have within those the different you know

[15:12] departments such as building planning health department you know across the

[15:19] board that we would want to be able to have somebody under the commissioners

[15:26] hiring authority as as the the go-to person so that they would be able to

[15:33] facilitate allow this to oversee a lot of this to have somebody that we would

[15:38] be able to find it has experience and experience in a lot of different things

[15:42] experience in you know the building field experience in planning and zoning

[15:48] experiencing in conservation and you know we've had some people that have

[15:56] come forward just through you know last year year and a half and have expressed

[16:01] an interest in this people that I've talked to people that skip is talked to

[16:05] and you know I've had a sit-down with Dave on this also and I won't put words

[16:13] in your mouth they could give you for two of trying to explain a little bit to

[16:16] of some of the strategies and some of the hurdles that we all go through

[16:20] and the other situation to is is to be able to have somebody that can also work

[16:26] with Dave as Davis you know though he looks like he's 26 he's not and and and

[16:34] there's going to be a point in time that if they were to you know win the lottery

[16:39] and call us and say he's not going to be here tomorrow nor any point forward what

[16:44] kind of in a situation where we don't really have that experience and somebody

[16:48] in that to be able to just fall into place so this what I'd like to try to do

[16:55] is Dave go ahead and explain a little bit of your position to and stuff that

[16:58] you you feel that something like this would work there's no doubt that the

[17:07] commander increasing

[17:13] limited resources we have

[17:18] to be very blunt about it I need backup I really do and this takes time to

[17:29] develop we're experiencing

[17:36] and it's a multi-faceted thing as you knew it so I've been concerned actually

[17:42] for some time honors growing concern now

[17:47] are are growing I'm telling you Cara and I give it one hundred ten percent day-in

[17:53] and day-out and try to run that like a well-oiled machine over there take care

[17:59] of business but there are some things that I think we are also we should be

[18:07] looking at beyond just the day-to-day the bigger picture at the county level

[18:14] varies during the tempest we haven't been able to reach and I think now

[18:19] commissioners want to go forward with something like this would be a great

[18:23] opportunity to move forward with such things again at our level you can do

[18:32] particularly in the room with economic development and marketing ourselves and

[18:40] working with working with those that are here and

[18:44] those that may not come here and helping to navigate all that and

[18:50] actually getting people together at the table at the same time and working

[18:57] through things and we had something some of the Canada's a few years back before

[19:06] here we called it rapid response at that time rapid response team game was on

[19:11] that right I thought it worked really well right but it was all it was all

[19:15] people who had plenty of daily responsibilities yes oh yeah there's a

[19:19] group of us who were interested in economic development but that wasn't our

[19:24] primary focus so that was proud of you but we draw back have somebody that's

[19:29] their primary focus it was hidden mists and we didn't have a regular schedule of

[19:34] meetings or anything like that but I guess what I'm saying maybe if this

[19:39] position comes to fruition that would be a a point to

[19:45] take on and carry through on and I think we could really build on that there's a

[19:50] lot to be said for that there's a lot to be said for talking to people

[19:54] face-to-face quite frankly I really feel that way getting the job done in that

[20:00] fashion people really appreciate that when you walk out of the room you know

[20:05] you've got you've got agreement amongst the party's general so not to belabor

[20:12] the point but not here to cry on your shoulder anything like that I'm just

[20:17] simply saying the facts are the facts and at least with regards to what I do

[20:24] it's it's becoming it's becoming quite I'll be diplomatic to make it go and

[20:36] here it's a great it's a great opportunity I don't know what else was

[20:39] saying I truly feel it and that was one of the things that I've discussed this

[20:45] with Tim as we were going through the election process to is both of us to be

[20:49] in business people in the community you know talking a lot of people but we've

[20:53] we've encountered a lot of this with business to that sometimes they don't

[20:58] have place or they just say I think that we need to take this even step further

[21:04] of actually marketing ourselves as yoga county what we have to offer we want you

[21:10] know and and and this you know this I never heard it stated like this but it

[21:16] made a lot of sense and it was to do is put very very point blank and simple

[21:20] from thieves words were if we can create jobs we can eliminate a lot of the

[21:27] problems that we have and it's the truth because if people have jobs they're able

[21:33] to afford a living they're able to afford a lifestyle they're able to

[21:38] afford things that we're being burdened with every day here whether it's JFS

[21:43] whether it's the jail whether it's you know because people at the end of the

[21:47] day have to do something to try to survive and too many times they'll take

[21:52] the easier route of going in the wrong direction so us having a stronger County

[21:57] and the stronger in stronger communities and continue to push for us to be able

[22:02] to build jobs build manufacturing facilities whatever the case may be was

[22:10] set best we will eliminate a lot of our problems that people are working it's

[22:15] about a lot and and I just I think it's a think we

[22:22] you know we need to you know 2017 I'm super excited you know to have you know

[22:30] Tim come on board is it as a business guy and and and you know I think that

[22:35] it's uh it's going to be a it's I'm energized because there's things that

[22:41] when you're in when you own your own business you make your own payroll you

[22:44] do your own you know make sure that your benefits are covered and everything else

[22:49] since you've got to create that you have a whole different appreciation and

[22:52] understanding of what day-to-day hits and and and you know and that's you know

[22:58] I'm very very excited but at the same time I also understand that we we don't

[23:05] have a lot of fat and in our in our in our county in our county you know

[23:13] organizations we really don't and and you know I mean perfect example 8 Linda

[23:18] brandy she's doing you know archives she's doing this everybody is taken on

[23:24] doing more with less and and you know this is in a position that's going to be

[23:28] an absorbent amount of money but it's going to give us that ability that what

[23:32] could that small dollar produce big picture and and and at the same time to

[23:40] it's like if you if you focus on too many things you never focus on got any

[23:47] of it because you're you're not able to do it and and if we have somebody like

[23:51] this especially with the project that potentially we have that will be a very

[23:55] very large scale project that we've have been as a individual county potentially

[24:00] taken out in a long time dollar wise and involvement wise we need to have

[24:05] somebody so I guess what that being said is you know Tim do you have anything you

[24:11] would like to add or what you wanted to say anything regarding this

[24:16] you know I i think the you know without just from an outside looking in I mean

[24:23] it sounds like you know if with some of the new projects that are possibly

[24:28] coming up here in the future you know a liaison between you know some of these

[24:32] contractors and in the commissioner's office and all the departments you know

[24:40] it sounds like a good idea for sure you know what I mean do you have somebody in

[24:44] mind already or no we did a couple of different people we've looked at for

[24:49] would I what I would like to do today is I would like to ask to put a motion

[24:53] forward to think that when they've created a job description and to do a

[25:00] posting so that we can you know we can put it out there and at the end of the

[25:05] day you know review what what candidates we can we can get you know and and

[25:11] basically interview some people and make a decision on who would best suit the

[25:17] needs of the county and the needs of direction if we want to go with and you

[25:22] know and I think that that would probably be something that we would like

[25:26] to do sooner than later and I don't know what the time frame is that we need to

[25:30] do to post in position but obviously a skip if you wanted you know if you

[25:35] supported to supported the emotion to to post for this position I know that you

[25:42] know we've got a description we've got posting that we could get together today

[25:48] for it to fulfill that job description or what your position is if you feel

[25:54] that this is a good thing a bad thing or you know I like to hear that so we have

[26:01] been be injuring and I've been talking to Dave about this has been a concept

[26:04] but we've been talking about for some I'm in full support of concept by the

[26:08] way just this morning I sit in on the discussion with economic development on

[26:15] a business down in Bainbridge that were we the taxpayers have been alone two

[26:21] hundred thousand dollars to I had significant questions on that particular

[26:24] business it's a high-risk business and you know I have personal issues with

[26:30] government loaning money to private enterprise but with my business

[26:35] background looking at their cash flow and looking at the economics of the

[26:39] whole thing and all that kind of stuff I have number of questions on it but this

[26:42] is the sort of thing that if we could plan on a broader basis across the

[26:47] county I think bring a lot of value to our account Tim and I just got back from

[26:51] the Columbus commissioners kind of commission association meeting and we

[26:58] had an opportunity to talk to a number of other counties and how they do things

[27:02] Wayne County for the examples the day after I stayed down on Tuesday and had a

[27:07] conversation with the northeastern ohio commissioners

[27:13] and various counties that are in Northeast Ohio take a look at our common

[27:17] interest and what what's working what's not working interestingly economic

[27:21] development came and airports in the same conversation Wayne County Board of

[27:27] economic development and the airport board are married it makes sense because

[27:32] the airport is a contributor to the economic health of the Wayne County and

[27:38] they're doing a pretty good job so there's just uses an opportunity to say

[27:43] that we're we're signed up to host a we important County your site up the host a

[27:50] number of counties going to take a look at our detention center we're still

[27:54] having the sill doing some information gathering on the concept will be able to

[27:58] better utilize that facility or else idea or started the conversation I'm

[28:02] continuing to do some homework on that but coming back around to this

[28:08] particular topic I think it's a good idea to put this on buzz been in this

[28:16] position is going to evolve there's a number of questions I have on

[28:18] opportunities that we have here one of which it would have to

[28:22] Planning Commission whether or not we could this person can sit on the

[28:26] Planning Commission and be one of the board members or planning commissioners

[28:29] would make sense so there's there's a number of things that I think we need to

[28:33] kind of have all been this whole thing it's going to play itself out we just

[28:35] recently begin a sponsor for conservation easements and Ohio to give

[28:39] people an alternative one of the people that we're looking at or talking to or

[28:43] have you know at least expressed an interest has a background in

[28:47] conservation easements that we are in a lot of value because we don't have an

[28:50] engine set up but we don't have a mechanism set up right now to go through

[28:53] the process we've established the fact or respond sir we've established an

[28:57] agent and the soil wanted apartment to go out and do the work but in terms of

[29:01] actually going to the process it'd be nice to have somebody who had the

[29:05] background and experience to help us to navigate that so with that said I know

[29:11] but I would support a proposal to propose this I'm going to go one step

[29:15] further I would like to hand suggest that we go into executive session right

[29:22] now because of some related personnel topics that like that bring up to ralphs

[29:26] and 2 Timothy commissioner-elect you're going to be being a part of this whole

[29:31] process and in this year I'd like to have a brief conversation 15 minutes

[29:35] with you guys about some things related to this and get your take on it and then

[29:39] we can come out and take action is that okay with you sure okay so with that

[29:45] said I'd like to go into executive session or purpose of discussing

[29:49] personnel the employment of a public remember coverage of damage to say yeah

[29:56] I have a motion make that motion it's like tightly like what I didn't gave and

[30:07] [Music]

[30:11] no well yes yes I took it they think he do okay today 30 and for the record day

[30:22] when I had a conversation back from executive session now we are for vacuum

[30:26] executive session 2 10 6 according to the clock on the wall and the action

[30:33] that I think we're going to take us to go ahead and pass a resolution to coast

[30:37] well we have is tough several evidence or do we have a alright efficient office

[30:42] is requesting the board approved the new position and job description for a

[30:46] button and development coordinator number of 132 to grade 10 e to be

[30:52] effective December 8 2016 so Chuck I pushers office is requesting

[31:01] the board a cruise through by organizational chart to include the

[31:04] position of output Ombudsman & development coordinator number 132 tuned

[31:08] to the effective 12 8 2015 what's the date today so wishes office is

[31:19] requesting the board grant permission to advertise fourth position of athletes oh

[31:25] gosh there we go get word to work on that question illuminator son number 132

[31:32] to this position will remain posted until film so second we have two seats

[31:46] at the mental health board to fill we have to resume our two resumes on the

[31:51] table I don't recall the lady's name but Brian Johnson was the one of the guys

[31:58] was committed able to raise that up for consideration so we can take care of

[32:01] that so let's start with Brian Johnson to make a motion to I want to move to

[32:08] the point Brian Johnson to the network so

[32:13] so I guess I don't have all the information because this is only a

[32:17] short-term you're you're you're only appointing to fill the unexpired

[32:22] unexpired term of chambers Evan Malone O'Shea Scott is that who is that we're

[32:29] gonna do she's got whoever's got the roller ghoster another one I think the

[32:33] shades with mom there I think Darlene Violetta's is the first one and Shay's

[32:38] is actually longer Darlene was up a shame as applying to relatively a team

[32:43] right so I need to know which one you're yeah that was going to be I believe

[32:47] chase down yeah it was the longer of the two traps so you're pointing and I'm

[32:55] going to suggest for the for the gala because I can't remember her name either

[32:58] it's been a while since I doctor and I think Ralph you talked to her yet no I'm

[33:01] going to ask that you talked to her pitch up and I'll give her a heads up

[33:04] that you're going to call it okay we don't have any responses to the posting

[33:09] I must suggest made repost because we have we have some seats to fill their in

[33:14] addition to that I'm going to give you a heads up we have three seats on the

[33:16] Planning Commission up to fail before the end of the year okay and so I have

[33:20] reached out to Anna local attorney to ask her to submit her name

[33:23] having an attorney particularly one who has experienced a relative to zoning and

[33:28] so forth having an attorney on the board will be very helpful to everybody and so

[33:32] hopefully she will accept if not i think we need to find a process for post our

[33:38] seek interest anyway the three seats two of the people that are currently on

[33:43] there I would probably be okay with but would be nice to have some so there's

[33:50] Larry vacancies right now or they're distinct coming out three coming up the

[33:54] end of December so the December 31st Christine pierced a short and our

[33:59] narration rear deck are the three people that are coming up now we can reappoint

[34:04] them if they have interest was to check and see the answers and or replace them

[34:08] okay and so I'm just getting your hands up on it there's no particular action

[34:13] necessary today I'm just give me a heads up that that's coming up for awareness

[34:17] of perspective and I did reach out to an attorney since I'm very active in the

[34:22] Planning Commission I reached up to an attorney to ask her and she had an

[34:25] interest she's very active in development area she's a lot of

[34:30] experience only she sits out a number of boards and the combinations on the CIC

[34:35] very rich and background very energetic it already very much engaged so I don't

[34:41] know if she'll take it an opportunity real valuable asset

[34:45] ok so you yes i will make a motion to a boy hey

[34:57] and by the way next week we're going to bring up no Wagga that resolution so we

[35:01] can talk to them and I did clarify that I would i say the pledge meeting was

[35:10] that it does it need the concurrence of all five of the county's order for

[35:14] gratification okay we do have to submit an answer okay

[35:19] we have a board meeting the following or that week so doing it next week would

[35:24] allow us to go to cruise any atom that'll be done that's also and just to

[35:30] reinforce I did commit us as the only representative from this organization on

[35:37] the northeastern ohio commissioners Association to take part in a in event

[35:42] at portage county facility for of the Congress community we have great

[35:46] facility joint accounts that's right I talked to the youth services director

[35:50] from state of Ohio and a number of other counties relative to sharing a bed space

[35:55] and stuff from what I hear it's doable whether or not it's up what we want to

[36:01] do is a whole different matter I also talked to touch burger at a long

[36:05] conversation with them about the challenges with doing that and they

[36:08] talked to grin Dells office about the same topic and got their feedback on it

[36:14] of course they're very nervous about mix and crowds and it looks like it all

[36:18] comes down to the crux of it is how much control really would be happy if we put

[36:22] a contracting police we'll do it some discovery on that to

[36:24] see if it makes sense or not but there are economies that are doing Wayne

[36:28] County happens to be one and so you know again just because you're getting

[36:33] information doesn't mean you decide to act on it but it's good they have the

[36:36] information so I'm just making that you know raising

[36:39] that if our awareness that's we have a work session coming up a reef I mean you

[36:46] shut this down begin to is your up case we're closer to a turn adjourned till we

[36:53] want to pick up yeah he'll break and then come back so

Geauga County Commissioners' Meeting, 12/8/2016

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