[9:01] Jasper County: I would assume.

[9:03] Jasper County: But I was driving too fast. Okay, are we ready to go?

[9:16] Jasper County: Alright, good morning. We're gonna call the… September 8th?

[9:22] Jasper County: Jasper County Commissioners meeting to order.

[9:25] Jasper County: We'll start with the pledge, and then have a brief moment of silence, and…

[9:28] Jasper County: Obviously, we have people in harm's way on behalf of the country, and this is also, I would say, a time of remembrance of 9-11 from 25 years ago, so…

[9:42] Jasper County: Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[10:05] Jasper County: All right, thank you.

[10:13] Jasper County: Okay, we need to start out with, approval of the minutes from August 3rd.

[10:21] Jasper County: And the, continued meeting then on the 17th. So we'll do the 3rd first.

[10:26] Jasper County: You've had a chance to review what either Craig or Ryan

[10:30] Jasper County: Make a motion and move to approve the minutes as presented, unless you noted any additions or corrections.

[10:38] Jasper County: I'd move to approve the minutes as, presented.

[10:41] Jasper County: Support?

[10:42] Jasper County: Motion has been made to approve the minutes of August 3rd.

[10:46] Jasper County: By Craig, supported by Ryan. Any further discussion? Being none, all in favor as presented, say aye. Aye.

[10:53] Jasper County: Those are approved.

[11:01] Jasper County: Some back sign, okay.

[11:07] Jasper County: And same process here for the continued meeting on August 17th, 2026.

[11:14] Jasper County: One of you gentlemen want to move, make the motion to approve?

[11:17] Jasper County: Those meetings… those minutes for the continued meeting.

[11:21] Jasper County: I'll make a motion to approve.

[11:23] Jasper County: Brian makes the motion, supported by Craig. Any further discussion?

[11:28] Jasper County: Being done, all in favor as presented, say aye. Aye.

[11:31] Jasper County: Those are also approved.

[11:47] Jasper County: All right, next up we have the monthly payroll claim distribution.

[11:53] Jasper County: We have a check date from August 15th, 2026, $556,252.37.

[12:03] Jasper County: And then the following check date of August 28th, 2026, $538,583.92.

[12:12] Jasper County: Payroll total, including withholdings, is $1 million.

[12:15] Jasper County: $94,836.29.

[12:20] Jasper County: You guys have had a chance to review. Would one of you want to move and make the motion to approve the payroll claim distribution as presented?

[12:31] Jasper County: Make a motion to approve. Ryan makes a motion. Do we have a second? Support. Supported by Craig.

[12:37] Jasper County: Any further discussion?

[12:39] Jasper County: Being none, all in favor as presented, say aye. Aye.

[12:43] Jasper County: Those are approved.

[13:01] Jasper County: All right, next up we have the monthly claim distribution.

[13:05] Jasper County: We have claims at $2,274,618.59.

[13:11] Jasper County: Highway of $2,564,360.89.

[13:17] Jasper County: Prepays of $20,238,000, $1.37.

[13:25] Jasper County: Health insurance of $497,197.14.

[13:31] Jasper County: For a report total of $25,574,177.99.

[13:40] Jasper County: You've also had a chance to review those. Would one of you gentlemen want to move and make the motion to approve the monthly claim distribution as presented?

[13:51] Jasper County: I moved to approve.

[13:52] Jasper County: Craig makes the motion to approve. Do we have a second? Support. Supported by Ryan.

[13:57] Jasper County: Any further discussion?

[13:59] Jasper County: Being done, all in favor as presented, say aye. Aye. Those are approved.

[14:24] Jasper County: So we've got a little bit of time here before we have the, the bid opening for bridges 4, 68, and 261.

[14:31] Jasper County: And we have a… a,

[14:34] Jasper County: presentation at 9.30, so we can jump ahead here, is, looks like Brandon's here.

[14:41] Jasper County: Would you want to go ahead and… Jump forward and…

[14:46] Jasper County: We can hear what you've got for us.

[14:54] Jasper County: Okay, just want to go ahead and give it to,

[14:57] Jasper County: Superintendent Kane there, that'd be great.

[15:00] Jasper County: Thank you.

[15:07] Jasper County: Morning, Chief, how you doing? Oh, well, how are you guys? Good.

[15:11] Jasper County: So, two things on, my agenda today. One, we lost another correctional officer.

[15:17] Jasper County: Or ask for permission to go ahead and replace that individual, a full staff.

[15:25] Jasper County: Okay?

[15:28] Jasper County: Would one of you gentlemen want to move and make the motion to approve, to support the, Sheriff's Department to replace the, vacant correctional officer?

[15:37] Jasper County: job position.

[15:40] Jasper County: Move to, approve the replacement of the vacancy.

[15:44] Jasper County: Craig makes the motion to approve the filling of the position. Do we have a second? Support. Supported by Ryan. Check your mic a minute. Is your mic on?

[15:53] Jasper County: There we go. There we go. Any further discussion?

[15:57] Jasper County: Not all in favor? Say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay, so please do that.

[16:03] Jasper County: Secondly, we have, we have an employee

[16:07] Jasper County: Alicia Santiago, she's been with us for a very long time now. Her wife, Tara Santiago, who also used to work for our facility.

[16:17] Jasper County: She has, acute leukemia. She's in the hospital. She has been for a little while now, taking some pretty aggressive treatments for this. The jail staff,

[16:29] Jasper County: they're wanting to… they are putting on a benefit on October 3rd out at the fairgrounds.

[16:34] Jasper County: And part of that benefit, they're wanting to do a, like, they're gonna do a ride. There's gonna be trucks, motorcycles, ATVs, and UTVs in this ride. At least that's their plan, anyhow.

[16:47] Jasper County: So… I have Brandon Denton here. He's got the, the route.

[16:51] Jasper County: And what their schedule is for the day, and they just want to get approval to have the ATVs and the UTVs on the roadway to do… they're gonna stick to county roads, they're not gonna ride down any state roads, they're gonna cross, I think, State Road 16, at a straight angle.

[17:07] Jasper County: Other than that, they're gonna be sticking, to county roads, so… And I assume there'll be some sort of escort from… I mean, so that way, it's… okay. Yeah, yeah, law enforcement will, we're gonna have, a couple guys helping with the escort of everything. Okay. All right. Morning, Brandon. Morning.

[17:34] Jasper County: Thank you very much.

[17:38] Jasper County: None of you.

[17:46] Jasper County: Thank you.

[18:33] Jasper County: Essentially, what you're looking for is a parade permit, I would think. Isn't that kind of what… Essentially, yeah. Yeah, okay.

[18:42] Jasper County: Definitely seems like a fun, unique opportunity. Yeah.

[18:45] Jasper County: Definitely creative.

[18:49] Jasper County: They're… they're very big into ATVs, UTVs, they spend a lot of their weekends out riding, so that's why they were wanting to do an event like that.

[18:56] Jasper County: You may have told me already, what's your time that you're starting and ending? I forget. The registration opens up at 10. Oh, I see it here now. Takeoff would be 11. Leave at 11? Is that Central Time, Rensselaer time? Central time, sir.

[19:13] Jasper County: Got it. Break. Leave. And then you'll get back to the fairgrounds by…

[19:18] Jasper County: I don't know the approximate time, to be honest with you. Okay. I mean, it's not gonna be a…

[19:23] Jasper County: Dilly-dally kind of thing, it's gonna be…

[19:25] Jasper County: Point A to point B? Yeah.

[19:29] Jasper County: Gotcha. Any questions for… for Brandon, for Cheet?

[19:35] Jasper County: Eric, do we need any… anything specific to approve, essentially, a parade through the county on county roads?

[19:42] Jasper County: Okay, alright.

[19:44] Jasper County: All right, well then, one of… would one of you guys want to move and make the motion to approve this special event, for these circumstances to allow ATVs

[19:53] Jasper County: from inside and outside the county to come, along with the Sheriff's Department escort, For this, benefit.

[20:00] Jasper County: I will make a motion to approve.

[20:02] Jasper County: Ryan makes the motion. Do we have a second? Support. Supported by Craig. Any further discussion?

[20:08] Jasper County: Being none, all in favor as presented, say aye. Aye.

[20:12] Jasper County: Great idea.

[20:13] Jasper County: So, appreciate… hopefully you guys have a… Good turnout, and

[20:18] Jasper County: We got good weather, and yeah.

[20:21] Jasper County: Thank you much. Got anything out for us?

[20:24] Jasper County: Yeah, and no cooking oil, I assume, will be applied to roads sprayed in, I apologize. I hear we had a pretty large donation over the weekend of cooking oil. I'm sorry for all the time you had to invest in this. Appreciate you. Appreciate the weekend with that, but yeah, we're…

[20:40] Jasper County: We're square, and I think we'll have reports ready tomorrow. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, guys, appreciate it. Thanks, Brandon.

[20:52] Jasper County: Okay…

[20:59] Jasper County: All right. Is, Andy available? Do you know Diana? He's on his way. Okay.

[21:04] Jasper County: Well, do you want to jump to you, Diana? What would you like to go over? That's fine.

[21:07] Jasper County: The, grant summary form.

[21:10] Jasper County: is, something to help me, or whoever, with doing the annual financial report in February.

[21:18] Jasper County: And that way we don't miss any little part, or I'm spending forever looking for this in someone else's grant when they know

[21:27] Jasper County: their grant better than I'm going to.

[21:30] Jasper County: Other counties use something very similar, so I just modeled it basically after what they are doing.

[21:37] Jasper County: And, you know, when you get the grant, and you get the approval, and all that, you fill it out and head it back into my office so I can put it in a folder for…

[21:46] Jasper County: that time.

[21:47] Jasper County: So this is something… this would be something new, we've not done this before. Yeah, and so it, you know, like I said, it just helps a little bit, and…

[21:55] Jasper County: Saves some time.

[21:57] Jasper County: Okay. And you said this was based on a… Other county's… Other county's template. …using it…

[22:03] Jasper County: It saved them a lot of time, too. Sure, okay.

[22:08] Jasper County: Okay.

[22:09] Jasper County: It's not that difficult if you've got… because you have to report

[22:13] Jasper County: Federal ones, you do and don't have to report state ones, unless they're federally funded, and

[22:18] Jasper County: washing it through, and it just kind of helps. Sounds like it's probably a good idea just to

[22:24] Jasper County: fill one out for any grant. If nothing else, record keeping for just a little more explanation. Okay. You guys had a chance to look at this? Yeah, you've got a copy of it. Yep. Do you have any questions?

[22:35] Jasper County: All right, would one of you want to move and approve,

[22:39] Jasper County: For the auditor to use this form for a grant.

[22:44] Jasper County: Recording and reporting.

[22:48] Jasper County: Make a motion to approve.

[22:51] Jasper County: Ryan makes a motion. Do we have a second? Or, supported by Craig.

[22:55] Jasper County: Any further discussion?

[22:57] Jasper County: Being none, all in favor as presented, say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay.

[23:01] Jasper County: Okay, and then the other option, or anyway…

[23:05] Jasper County: Peterson Consulting Contract, we've used them. They were the ones that got our capital assets all organized, and…

[23:15] Jasper County: Didn't you and Donya kind of initiate this back in the day? Yeah. And, they're able to, yeah.

[23:21] Jasper County: catalog all our assets, and that's made available during the audit? Is that how that goes? Well, it goes with the audit, and it goes with the AFR, and the one year we got dinged on the AFR was for the 24 yet, and a little bit of the 25, but…

[23:38] Jasper County: It was just getting started then, so hopefully everything will be just fine this next time with it.

[23:44] Jasper County: Is there a total on here? It should be about $3,500, I think. Okay.

[23:50] Jasper County: Because it was a little more of the first year to get it.

[23:53] Jasper County: all organized, and then now it's just adding on… Adding and deleting whatever gets… Yeah. Yeah, December 31st will be $3,500. Yeah. $35. Okay, all right.

[24:05] Jasper County: Okay, we had approved this previously. Would one of you guys want to move and make the motion to approve, essentially, the reinstatement or the continuation of the Peterson Consulting Services Incorporated?

[24:17] Jasper County: Company Capital Assets Reporting Services for our state and local.

[24:21] Jasper County: For our local government, for the grants, and so forth.

[24:24] Jasper County: I'm moved to approve.

[24:26] Jasper County: Sorry, Ryan, Craig makes the motion to approve. Ryan supports.

[24:32] Jasper County: Any further discussion?

[24:33] Jasper County: Being none, all in favor as presented, say aye. Aye.

[24:38] Jasper County: Okay.

[24:40] Jasper County: Is there a signature page on here for us, Diana, or… I don't think you guys need to even… other than I needed… you wanted me to have you approve it. We'll sign on one copy, and then that way you've got it for your… Okay.

[24:52] Jasper County: records here.

[24:57] Jasper County: If you still passed Cynthia, that's fine. And he's almost to Answler Road, so he'll be here. But anyway, go ahead.

[25:05] Jasper County: Okay.

[25:15] Jasper County: Dine.

[25:19] Jasper County: Okay, Kate's back there.

[25:23] Jasper County: I think we'll, go ahead and… Yep.

[25:25] Jasper County: Good morning.

[25:30] Jasper County: We're really chopping this one up, aren't we? Yeah, I'm gonna… Is Mary online, by the way, or is she coming in, do you know?

[25:42] Jasper County: The first thing I have is just permission for me to do a one-night stay in Angola for an admin health officer boot camp, and that's at the end of the month, like, the 26th, maybe?

[25:52] Jasper County: Well, what did you call that again? It's an administrator or the health officer. It's a boot camp, they recommended somebody, yeah. Oh, boy. Dr. Lauf has went, so it's now my turn. So it's now your turn. All right, so, expecting, fun times, or what do you… I'm not sure yet. There's not much to do in goal, so we're gonna be crying.

[26:14] Jasper County: Are you gonna go down, doesn't Bokhagan State Park? Yeah, that's about all they got rolling.

[26:19] Jasper County: Yeah, when, when is this request, or what conference do you have to go to? It's September 26th, I think. Oh, okay, so you get to see the fall colors on that. Yes. That'll be nice. Okay, would one of you guys want to move and make the motion to approve,

[26:33] Jasper County: the, conference request for the health department for Kate.

[26:37] Jasper County: I move to approve.

[26:39] Jasper County: Support. Craig makes a motion.

[26:41] Jasper County: Ryan supports. Any further discussion?

[26:44] Jasper County: Other than we'd like a full detailed report when you're back? Yeah, just kidding. It would be a brief… Brief detail. A brief report when you get back, okay. I can do that. All in favor as presented, say aye. Aye. Okay.

[26:57] Jasper County: And then next? Next thing…

[27:00] Jasper County: A couple emails, but the first one we'll go over is the last and final, hopefully, of this year board appointment. Our board unanimously voted for Superintendent Andrew Jones to fill that last spot, which would be replacing Dr. Davis, who resigned.

[27:18] Jasper County: So as long as you're okay with the board's recommendation, I'll just need a signature for his form.

[27:28] Jasper County: As far as I know, that'd be great. Okay. Would one of you guys want to move and make the motion to approve the, the board appointment of A.J. Jones for the Health Award?

[27:38] Jasper County: I'll make a motion to approve the appointment for Andrew Jones. Support. Ryan makes a motion. Supported by Craig. Any further discussion?

[27:45] Jasper County: Being none, all in favor, as presented, say aye. Aye.

[27:49] Jasper County: Thank you.

[27:50] Jasper County: And then the last thing was the, Memorandum of Understanding for those two county-owned facilities, the Fozzie Center and the Fairgrounds. These are something that you guys typically sign every year, just…

[28:04] Jasper County: You can set up to do…

[28:06] Jasper County: immunizations and whatnot? Well, yeah, for emergencies, so that way, if there's an emergency, you need to get out there and use the facility, it's permission to do that. Okay. We've gotten all the other ones back from the schools and the other couple places we use, so these are our last two to get updated for, okay, would, Ryan or Craig, would one of you guys want to,

[28:25] Jasper County: Move and make the motion for us to assign

[28:28] Jasper County: And approve the MOU that we typically do every year for the health department to access.

[28:32] Jasper County: the, county buildings.

[28:34] Jasper County: As needed.

[28:36] Jasper County: Moved to approve.

[28:37] Jasper County: Support. Craig makes a motion. Ryan supports. Any further discussion?

[28:42] Jasper County: Being none, all in favor as presented, say aye. Aye.

[28:45] Jasper County: Okay, those are approved. Do we have… do you have a signature page that we need? That's all I have, so thank you. Okay.

[28:52] Jasper County: Does Eric need to look at those, or not? What's that? Does Eric need to look at those MOUs?

[28:57] Jasper County: Or not. It should be repetitive, but I didn't… It's the exact same. Yeah, it's just new date, and then…

[29:03] Jasper County: Yeah. My signature, so… Yeah.

[29:05] Jasper County: Those two spots.

[29:09] Jasper County: Oh, exciting.

[29:17] Jasper County: We'll just all three… well, all three signs fine. That'll work.

[29:44] Jasper County: Alright, where do you need me to sign? Oh, sorry.

[29:48] Jasper County: Just down here.

[30:00] Jasper County: Okay.

[30:06] Jasper County: Thank you.

[30:09] Jasper County: Do they, do they have a theme that you're gonna…

[30:12] Jasper County: Be expecting nothing, you're just gonna go show up, okay.

[30:18] Jasper County: Let's good.

[30:22] Jasper County: Okay.

[30:25] Jasper County: Mary's here.

[30:28] Jasper County: Nice to see you.

[30:29] Jasper County: Thank you. My apologies for being late. Oh, no, we were… we're, we're probably…

[30:34] Jasper County: get into things a little bit sooner since we have bids here at 9 o'clock, so… Oh, very good. So yeah, you have the floor. Okay, I have a rezone for Jeff and Sheila DeYoung.

[30:45] Jasper County: 11 and a half acres. They just want to split an almost two-acre piece off for their daughter to be able to build a home, and it had a unanimous recommendation.

[30:56] Jasper County: for approval.

[30:58] Jasper County: Okay.

[31:07] Jasper County: There's a lot of homes in that area on similar parcels, and it's been pretty well split up up that way.

[31:19] Jasper County: Just wanna make sure I'm looking at the right one here.

[31:24] Jasper County: spot on.

[31:29] Jasper County: Okay, alright. One of you guys want to move and…

[31:32] Jasper County: Make the motion to approve, as presented.

[31:36] Jasper County: Make a motion to approve.

[31:39] Jasper County: Ryan makes the motion. We have a second. Support.

[31:42] Jasper County: Supported by Craig. Any further discussion?

[31:45] Jasper County: If not, all in favor ask presented, say aye.

[31:53] Jasper County: Right?

[31:54] Jasper County: And then we have a few amendments to the UDO. One, there are several definitions. This is language that's been passed down from the legislators with their last session, and we are just getting those placed into the UDO at their request.

[32:14] Jasper County: And that also had a unanimous, favorable recommendation.

[32:25] Jasper County: Okay.

[32:28] Jasper County: We've heard that one. Would one of you guys want to move and make the motion to approve the favorable recommendation from the Plans Commission?

[32:41] Jasper County: Make a motion to approve.

[32:44] Jasper County: Okay, Ryan makes the motion. Do we have a second?

[32:46] Jasper County: Support? Supported by Craig?

[32:49] Jasper County: Any further discussion?

[32:54] Jasper County: If not, all in favor as presented, say aye. Aye.

[32:57] Jasper County: Okay.

[32:59] Jasper County: Hey!

[33:00] Jasper County: And then lastly, we have a solar overlay district. Basically, it's been requested that we look into doing the solar as an overlay, rather than the way it's been in the past.

[33:16] Jasper County: And I took the language.

[33:19] Jasper County: From our solar ordinance, and it's… it's the exact same language that we worked on a year or two ago, and just converted it to an overlay so that we handle solar farms as an overlay versus a special exception, basically.

[33:35] Jasper County: And that also had a favorable recommendation. So that'd be solar and then, battery energy storage, which is… Correct, yes. …goes along with it. Yes, yes.

[33:45] Jasper County: And I don't know, Eric might have some input on this one.

[33:50] Jasper County: this is what Mary and I had discussed in July by telephone, and I think that it can be approved. I have not yet had a time to go through it line by line, but the concept is that it would be established in an overlay

[34:05] Jasper County: for existing solar, and then, future projects would need to petition to get into the overlay, and that would require the Commissioners, to, do that, as opposed to, getting a variance, from the, BZA. And so,

[34:21] Jasper County: it keeps the control of development on these projects within the Commissioner's authority.

[34:27] Jasper County: Okay.

[34:28] Jasper County: Alright.

[34:30] Jasper County: Okay.

[34:33] Jasper County: So Eric's surprised of it. You've heard Mary's description of it.

[34:36] Jasper County: Would one of you guys want to move and make the motion to approve?

[34:40] Jasper County: It was a favorable recommendation from the Planning Commission.

[34:44] Jasper County: Would one of you want to move and make the motion? And then,

[34:48] Jasper County: Give me a second, if so. Oh, I can clarify. I can… I can make it a, put it into the text for the actual, written ordinance based on, what's before you, and so it could be approved, by oral resolution, and then, signed so it can go into the county code

[35:06] Jasper County: Shortly thereafter. Okay.

[35:09] Jasper County: Right?

[35:13] Jasper County: I make a motion to approve the, solar overlay district. The overlay, okay.

[35:19] Jasper County: Support. Craig makes the motion, Ryan supports. Any further discussion?

[35:23] Jasper County: Being none, all in favor, as presented, say aye. Aye.

[35:27] Jasper County: Okay, that's approved. We'll get these to you to sign here, guys. Thank you.

[35:31] Jasper County: Now, Mary, we have a… we have a wind overlay now, right? Yes, we do. Is that on our…

[35:39] Jasper County: On our zoning map, the county-wide map, is that delineated, where that overlay is at? Yes, it is. So will this be delineated, too, then?

[35:47] Jasper County: worthy… solar overlays that? Yes.

[35:51] Jasper County: So, okay. I'm just thinking for developers, when they come in and look at that stuff, they know where the overlay's at, right? That is correct.

[36:01] Jasper County: may act as answering many questions for your office before that. Yes.

[36:05] Jasper County: Fair.

[36:07] Jasper County: So on this overlay language, you're saying you'll get the language to us, and then we'll have a signature page. At that point, we don't necessarily sign this. Right, this one doesn't necessarily need to be signed, although if there's a resolution approving that, that is just fine. Okay.

[36:21] Jasper County: Alright, it was approved, so, okay.

[36:24] Jasper County: I actually expect a couple of math.

[36:28] Jasper County: B.

[36:29] Jasper County: It's just pretty spotty, but the orange… delineates the solar.

[36:40] Jasper County: So basically, it's just where it's existing. Where it exists.

[36:45] Jasper County: But if somebody wanted to expand or whatever, there's…

[36:49] Jasper County: according to Eric, then there'd be a process for them to petition to get into the district. They would have to petition the commission, and then sue the commission. And essentially, I saw the language in there, basically remote

[36:59] Jasper County: areas.

[37:00] Jasper County: Correct. French population. Right. Okay. All right.

[37:03] Jasper County: Is this going to be on the… on your… on the county page, so the residents can look that up and see where that's at? We have our,

[37:11] Jasper County: zoning on Beacon, and we can add the… Oh, perfect, perfect. Everybody uses Beacon. Okay, perfect. Right. Okay, thanks. You're welcome. We'll just go ahead and sign that, that way it's got signatures on it.

[37:43] Jasper County: Right, we have 1 minute until our 9 o'clock,

[37:47] Jasper County: bridge bid opening for bridges 4, 68, and 261, so we're gonna… give Jack and Ed the…

[37:56] Jasper County: Preparation time there to get us, ready for that?

[38:01] Jasper County: Also, on the agenda here, you'll see that we're just supposed to mention it every time the disclosure of

[38:07] Jasper County: New related party interest, does anyone have any?

[38:11] Jasper County: Think so? Nope, so.

[38:12] Jasper County: We did mention it.

[38:26] Jasper County: Mary, when we get done with, the bid and our…

[38:30] Jasper County: If we have time for our 9.30, we'll talk about the, licensing of contractors.

[38:36] Jasper County: I think maybe Jake or whatever's gonna help us with that, so…

[38:42] Jasper County: All right, 9 o'clock. We'll, open these bids. Jack, what do you have for us?

[38:47] Jasper County: Bye.

[38:48] Jasper County: Jake?

[38:53] Jasper County: Jack's got people. He's got… he's got our people.

[39:00] Jasper County: Peace.

[39:08] Jasper County: Hope you guys do the honors here. We received 4 bids today.

[39:12] Jasper County: Gary Up Construction, Milestone, Dunnett Bay Construction, and La Porte Construction.

[39:20] Jasper County: I did not. I forgot my pocket.

[39:25] Jasper County: Alright.

[39:27] Jasper County: It's a rarity for me that I did not. Yeah.

[39:32] Jasper County: Give me, Wanda.

[39:35] Jasper County: Alright.

[39:41] Jasper County: I've got the one for Garyip.

[39:44] Jasper County: Construction company?

[39:49] Jasper County: So what do you need me to read off of here?

[39:52] Jasper County: Let me show you here, just… this should be pretty straightforward.

[39:56] Jasper County: Sorry, this is sliding.

[40:02] Jasper County: Is it just the bottom line? Yeah.

[40:05] Jasper County: Bot number here, there you go, yep.

[40:08] Jasper County: Alright, total of all bid, price, All unit bid price items.

[40:14] Jasper County: $1,297,500.

[40:19] Jasper County: 1, 297,500.

[40:23] Jasper County: That was who?

[40:25] Jasper County: Gary Up?

[40:27] Jasper County: I think? Saying that right. Geary up, yep.

[40:31] Jasper County: Yeah, Gary of Construction Company.

[40:35] Jasper County: You want me to read this one? Sure. I have one here from Milestone.

[40:38] Jasper County: Construction?

[40:41] Jasper County: And their total number is $1,400.

[40:45] Jasper County: $1,299.

[40:49] Jasper County: 1400299. 1402… 999.

[40:58] Jasper County: Milestone Construction.

[41:03] Jasper County: 1402… 999.

[41:09] Jasper County: Okay.

[41:10] Jasper County: No, you're welcome.

[41:17] Jasper County: Got it. Who you got, Ryan? I've got the Dunnett Bay.

[41:23] Jasper County: 1,443,000.

[41:27] Jasper County: 43551.

[41:31] Jasper County: 1, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 5.

[41:36] Jasper County: 0.51.

[41:37] Jasper County: Okay?

[41:43] Jasper County: One more? Yeah, the port construction.

[42:06] Jasper County: Okay, LaPorte Construction.

[42:08] Jasper County: $997,424.

[42:12] Jasper County: 997-424.

[42:27] Jasper County: Okay, so again, that was Bridge 4, which is Melville Street over the Iroquois River, Bridge 68, which is County Road 1000 West over the Iroquois, and Bridge 261, which is County Road 400 over Hodge Ditch. We would recommend you take those under advisement at this time for review for both, engineering and legal.

[42:48] Jasper County: Per the recommendation of our,

[42:52] Jasper County: Contracting advisor, would one of you want to move and make the motion to approve these, or to take these bids under advisement at this time for further… further review?

[43:02] Jasper County: I'll make a motion.

[43:04] Jasper County: To accept and accept.

[43:06] Jasper County: And put these under advisement. Okay. All right. Sport?

[43:10] Jasper County: Motion made by Ryan, supported by Craig.

[43:12] Jasper County: Any further discussion?

[43:14] Jasper County: Being none, I'll accept it for advisement. Say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay.

[43:20] Jasper County: Thank you.

[43:21] Jasper County: All right, thank you.

[43:37] Jasper County: Yeah, I think so, yeah. Yeah, hand those, yeah, hand those down.

[43:41] Jasper County: Thank you.

[43:43] Jasper County: Jake, I'm sorry, 400 West in the Hodge, is that correct? Yes. Okay, thank you.

[43:54] Jasper County: Is that handy?

[43:55] Jasper County: Yeah, I see the coroner's here, Andy?

[44:02] Jasper County: Got a little time for you?

[44:21] Jasper County: This is some reading material from the wall.

[44:30] Jasper County: That is our, guideline that, we are going to adopt. You guys can read through that. It's not something I want an answer on today, I want you to read through it. That is, a guideline that was,

[44:48] Jasper County: The state has been…

[44:49] Jasper County: Pushing that we get something in writing for each county, and they've offered up to

[44:57] Jasper County: throw Allen County under the bus, because they're… they have a large county, and they went ahead and, kind of devised it, and then, sent it out to the other counties that ask for it, and we were one of them, so they sent it to us.

[45:12] Jasper County: And they told us what… what was…

[45:15] Jasper County: Pertinent to counties of over 400,000 that we didn't need, because the state doesn't require us to follow the law to that effect.

[45:28] Jasper County: So, we were able to negate some of the things that they had in theirs in order to get to the smaller counties. So, something for you to look at, something for the attorney to look at, and then we'll

[45:39] Jasper County: kind of reissue that, or revisit that issue, and I don't know how that works, Eric. Is that something that they adopt, or is that just something that is ours?

[45:51] Jasper County: to follow, or how does that work? Andy, also, did you happen to… just… just for the sake, since you're gonna… okay, I see you did,

[46:00] Jasper County: I was just gonna ask, have you included, at least referenced all the applicable IC codes? Yeah. That way he can… okay. Yes, that was the… that was what they had their, attorneys do so that everything reconciles to

[46:14] Jasper County: the state. Some of the things that we can't we can't…

[46:22] Jasper County: I would just say not really mandate, but we… we're required by law, mandated by law, to follow certain IC codes, and we referenced those in there from Allen… Allen County did that for us, so…

[46:36] Jasper County: And I figured that was something that… So this was compiled by Allen County? This was compiled by Allen County and then shared to any of the counties that wanted to use it, and then they removed the parts that are for counties with 400,000 population or more.

[46:54] Jasper County: Andy, do you have any,

[46:57] Jasper County: Written direction from the state as to,

[47:00] Jasper County: what it… where this is coming from, if there's, just to follow the IC codes that are provided, throughout that. Okay. The IC Code Foreigners Association is listed through that throughout that, giving us directions on where to…

[47:16] Jasper County: how and when and who is to be in charge, and… and how that goes. Okay, that's definitely… it's a really good idea, and so…

[47:26] Jasper County: Whether it needs to be an ordinance or, just, something that you,

[47:32] Jasper County: pin on your bulletin board, I'll take a look and see if we can give you some guidance on it. Yes, that'd be great. Okay, so let me just ask you a question. So, like, on your page here, all deaths must be reported to the coroner.

[47:44] Jasper County: regardless of location, etc. So, if…

[47:47] Jasper County: if somebody dies at home, somebody calls 911, EMS comes, who actually makes the call to the coroner? Usually the sheriff's department when they get there, because usually they dispatch an ambulance, they dispatch law enforcement as well. Okay, so I… because I was just curious, is this on the… is this on the head of the…

[48:05] Jasper County: grieving family member to have to make the call, or somebody in the chain? Law enforcement is in that chain of… in that chain of command, and they're the ones that call us, whether it's the city or the county. If someone passes away in the hospital or at a nursing home facility, they contact you, they call us, they call us and let us know.

[48:25] Jasper County: Okay. As to what,

[48:28] Jasper County: what the deal was, and it's not something that we go out on all the time. They just call us and say, hey, we've had an incident… So it may not be a case that you're required to go on. …to respond to, but you're still aware of it, and they make us aware of it. I guess I just wanted to clear that it goes through some form of official

[48:45] Jasper County: Correct. Communication channel, as opposed to feeling like

[48:49] Jasper County: Correct, no, it doesn't… The individual has to… It goes to… no, the families are…

[48:53] Jasper County: Well, the people that are with the families, it's not their… it's not their issue. Same way with hospice and things like that. The care center, if somebody falls out of bed, the care center calls us. If they don't call us and the family does call us, then that gives us a reason to throw up a red flag, so…

[49:11] Jasper County: Okay.

[49:12] Jasper County: All right, some reading material. Yeah, we'll read through this. I'll give you something to look at. Yeah. This is something else for you to look at.

[49:21] Jasper County: This, we had a gentleman that, showed up at the annex, and as you guys all well know, the annex,

[49:34] Jasper County: doesn't have a…

[49:37] Jasper County: an actual, real security system. Our panic system is down, and we asked Arkham to come up and do an assessment. Arkham brought a gentleman, Chad, up with him, and they went to the building a few weeks ago.

[49:55] Jasper County: And there is, one, we don't have panic stuff. Two, we don't have, remote

[50:03] Jasper County: sensors on the coolers and their freezers, so we don't know. We have to go there twice a week on the weekend, or twice a day on the weekends, on Saturday and Sunday, to make sure that the coolers are running properly. And so, they came in and wanted to, facilitate some type of

[50:21] Jasper County: device that will let us know what… we can look at it and see it. The other thing that they was concerned about is when you walk in the front door.

[50:30] Jasper County: There is a glass window separating the individual that comes to the office, as opposed to

[50:37] Jasper County: it just being open, but we have offices and storage upstairs, so if somebody is there, if Teresa's there by herself, she either has to lock the steel door from the outside, and if somebody comes to come in.

[50:53] Jasper County: The door's locked, even though the sign says we're there or we're open.

[50:58] Jasper County: It's kind of confusing, and it does tend to make people upset, but I told her I don't want her to become down the stairs from upstairs, or come out of the storage room, and there'll be 2 or 3 people standing there. The other day, the gentleman that was there was pretty irate. He ended up at the,

[51:16] Jasper County: prosecutor's office.

[51:18] Jasper County: Pretty irate, and…

[51:20] Jasper County: they had issues as well. So, this was just something that Arkham thinks that we need to do, to facilitate a better, secure.

[51:31] Jasper County: As far as electronic stuff is concerned, we don't know anything as far as how would we sequester somebody from getting

[51:41] Jasper County: Into where we meet them.

[51:44] Jasper County: And if she would be upstairs in one of the offices doing something and comes downstairs, and then you're… if they are irate, you're right up against them by yourself. So…

[51:57] Jasper County: we don't… we haven't got that problem figured out yet. The main problem here is getting a panic system back in play that's functional, and getting the units to record and notify us if the coolers was to

[52:13] Jasper County: turn too warm, or… So, yeah, Eric George did give me a call to let me know that he had… he was doing that, and… and I… it is a county building, and it probably should be treated the way we treat other buildings as far as having

[52:28] Jasper County: good internet access, or a panic system, and so forth. So,

[52:32] Jasper County: I think it's something we need to look into to make sure that we're… Andy, have you been to a, Franciscan hospital the last couple years? Oh, yeah. They went to this necklace?

[52:42] Jasper County: Yes. With this deal on it? Yes. So, if I'm on the third floor, and I need the corner, and you're in the basement, I can… Yes. …call the coroner, and then it'll ring, and then you can go back to it? Yeah. Is that possible for what you're talking about in her scenario, where she would have one of those, and there could be something on the outside, when the door's locked, people could hit? I'm here to get a…

[53:00] Jasper County: Something that Eric talked about. So kind of a buzz-in, like at the… Yeah, because she'd have it with her, and she could just… Okay. I'm upstairs right now, give me a couple minutes, I'll be down there, so people are not there beating on the door. Well, that is something that Eric and Chad talked about, was putting a box there, like a ring camera, like, you know, on a doorbell ring camera. And give her a way to respond. Right, and give her a way to respond, rather than… well, that way they know somebody's in there and… Right. Correct, correct.

[53:24] Jasper County: And so, that was something, that's why we put it all in paper, so you guys can look at it, and then we can kind of discuss about how far, or what we need to do, and things like that. The gentleman, Chad, was from, I believe he was from Franklin, Indiana, or Frankfurt, one of the two, south towards Indianapolis, and he came up, and they spent half a day up there.

[53:47] Jasper County: middling around through the attic, and trying to get a handle on how they can run wire, and for video, and checking out the internet, and so on and so forth. I mean, that would actually even work in a scenario where you guys are all

[54:01] Jasper County: get an autopsy, and somebody's at the door. That's right. Right, somebody could have that on their neck and, you know, we're busy now, can you come back in an hour? We don't know, you know, unless somebody… Right. And we have been in autopsy, and the state police have been out there waiting to come in, and they have to call us on our telephone because we don't hear them knocking on the door. Right.

[54:23] Jasper County: So, at the very least, something…

[54:26] Jasper County: Yeah, that's a buzzed enter system. That's right. So, anyway, you got that to kind of review, and then we'll catch up with it and see where we're at, and it was…

[54:36] Jasper County: I think his whole total right in there was around 18 grand or so, somewhere close to that for all the sensors and doing what they thought needed to be done. And then that would also put in a system that would… you would have to key in

[54:54] Jasper County: Our keys, it'd be much like the jail has, or… and when you swipe in, it records who you are.

[55:03] Jasper County: And they want to make it to where, like, our fobs that work for the jail and work for the courthouse would work there, so if the officers had to use a restroom or something like that, and they come in the west or the east door, we'd know who was in and who was out at any given time.

[55:20] Jasper County: Yeah. Okay. That makes sense, and remote monitoring of your coolers.

[55:25] Jasper County: Seems to make sense as well. Everybody takes a choice, turn, runs from on the way home from church, or on the way to, or whatever, to look at it, make sure that it isn't depressing if there's nobody in it, but if there's somebody in it, we don't want an issue. Okay.

[55:42] Jasper County: Has there been any more follow-up on the, electrical panels on the backs of the building? With Kevin, I know you said you were talking to Kevin more about it. Kevin and I have come to a conclusion that we're gonna have to probably

[55:55] Jasper County: pull some of that off, because there's electrical wiring that goes somewhere, outside the building where they used to have those big overhead lights that were up there in the air for the golf and the rising rain and all that, and we don't know if that's terminated or not, so…

[56:13] Jasper County: he's gonna have to come in there a day and make sure that the wires are unhooked from the breakers, and… because we don't know where they're at outside. I know when we had those building inspections done, there was one of the things that were noted on that, that that was starting to pull away from the building, and that's been over a year ago now, so…

[56:28] Jasper County: Before we have an issue there, and…

[56:30] Jasper County: a fire that we can't come back from. Yeah. Probably. I'll get Kevin a holler and let him know we need to get in there and get that done. All right. All right. Appreciate it. Okay.

[56:40] Jasper County: Have you guys had a building committee update lately, or… No, no. The last one was when we were gonna do it, and then tried that Charlie Hellick thing show up on the, that we all needed to be at, so we…

[56:55] Jasper County: kind of winged it, and we need to do another one. I'd say this might be one of those topics before… too far invested in… Before we spend a whole bunch more. …$80,000 of investment to figure something out there, too. Right. Okay. Alright, very good. I'll… I'll get ahold of Jake and you, Craig, and we'll maybe get another day to set aside and get a… see what the judge is doing.

[57:14] Jasper County: Alright? Yep. Alright.

[57:18] Jasper County: Okay, a couple quick items before we get to our 9.30 appointment here. We had this request for the, courthouse gazebo, and grounds permit to have a short film

[57:29] Jasper County: filmed, one of you guys want to move and either make the motion to approve or deny this.

[57:37] Jasper County: I've moved to deny this permit just because of the usage of the inside of the courthouse, and I'm just not comfortable with it. Okay, motion has been made to deny this, courthouse gazebo and grounds permit by Craig. Do we have a second?

[57:53] Jasper County: Might be out of… out of line here, I'm not…

[57:56] Jasper County: You… we can't make a negative motion, can we?

[57:59] Jasper County: I'm going back to my parliamentary procedure days. I don't believe you can make a negative motion. I've heard that. I, I don't think that that is,

[58:08] Jasper County: I would have no problem with a motion to deny. Okay. Yeah. I've heard of this negative motion thing, and I think that that's probably… Going back, well, I mean… 20 years here, but I can't… Or otherwise, how would you not approve it? I think it would fail to lack of motion.

[58:25] Jasper County: No, that's true. Well, but if there's… if there's no motion, there's… if there's no… there needs to be some action taken on the application, otherwise it's just pending. And so, I think a motion to deny is an affirmative, act.

[58:38] Jasper County: Okay. Okay. So, I will support the… I will support the… Yes. Okay. Motion has been made to deny by Craig, supported by Ryan.

[58:47] Jasper County: All in favor of denial of this

[58:49] Jasper County: Courthouse, gazebo, and grounds permit say aye. Aye. Alright, denied.

[59:11] Jasper County: We're up there what it is, huh?

[59:13] Jasper County: Okay, we have just a bit of time here,

[59:18] Jasper County: Mary, in our conversation with BF&S, we had talked about the licensing of contractors, so let's… let's pick up on that, and what's… where are we at with that? Are we gonna…

[59:29] Jasper County: Jake, maybe, or Phil, either one, were we going to… we just need to make a resolution?

[59:36] Jasper County: To approve licensing from other jurisdictions? Is that what our… solution is?

[59:46] Jasper County: Yes, that's correct.

[59:48] Jasper County: basically a reciprocation resolution that allows other… allows contractors who have licensing in other locations to be used here in Jasper County. It allows for the building team there to have the file and record of them being licensed elsewhere, and having the insurance is also one of the big things related to the need.

[1:00:08] Jasper County: So, I think at this point, maybe late last week, we provided a… For now, a simple list.

[1:00:14] Jasper County: for Mary to use to kind of begin the process of recording while we work out the details of resolution with you all. Okay. So essentially, the… it'll recognize those credentials and essentially require them to provide those same credentials to us, I assume. Correct. Okay.

[1:00:31] Jasper County: Okay.

[1:00:32] Jasper County: All right, well then, if there's… when there's more to the story, or something for us to, review and approve, then…

[1:00:37] Jasper County: We will do that.

[1:00:40] Jasper County: So I know, Greg Falkowski from our team provided some language to Attorney Beaver on that, fee and schedule application. I'm not sure if you've had a chance to see that yet, so I didn't want to put you on the spot, but…

[1:00:52] Jasper County: I think we gotta work together in order to get that resolution and everything in order. Eventually, there'll need to be an ordinance, but I have no problem with a resolution accepting this batch of contractors that are approved in other counties. Okay.

[1:01:07] Jasper County: But we'll work tandemly to get both in place. I do have the email, and I have not had a chance to open that yet. Okay, no problem. Is that, just asking for merely the sake of information, is that something that we realistically put on next month's agenda timeline, or will it take a little bit longer than that to get…

[1:01:26] Jasper County: developed. What are your thoughts?

[1:01:28] Jasper County: It's… it's realistic. Okay, alright, so would you want to put that on our…

[1:01:32] Jasper County: October agenda, please, Cynthia, thank you. Perfect. Thank you. Okay, thanks a lot. Appreciate it.

[1:01:40] Jasper County: Okay…

[1:01:46] Jasper County: Also, while we have just a couple minutes here, a bit of other business.

[1:01:51] Jasper County: We also need to get, the agreement crafted for… that will…

[1:01:58] Jasper County: work between the city and county concerning the pavilion, which I know we had talked about briefly, so that might be something we need to get,

[1:02:07] Jasper County: Tidied up. I have, reviewed, Todd Sam has put together a really nice agreement, and… Okay.

[1:02:13] Jasper County: It covers, basically, the construction

[1:02:17] Jasper County: of the building that's… is already built, or being built, and management going forward, and the city would manage the property. They need to have something in writing for their utility office to put the utilities in the city's name, and the county as the owner of that.

[1:02:35] Jasper County: there… everything in there I found was just fine. The city would actually undertake the lease and operation of the facility, but one thing that stood out in the draft that I saw is that there's no,

[1:02:51] Jasper County: reference to the county having, exclusive access to the grounds during, county business hours. And so…

[1:02:59] Jasper County: I wouldn't have a problem if the Commissioners were to approve, the, MOU in principle for the, the city to operate the

[1:03:08] Jasper County: Operate the facility and… and pay utilities, for that directly.

[1:03:16] Jasper County: subject to a revision to allow the county to have, exclusive access to… Right, county employees should have access from… what time frame did you say? 7.30 to…

[1:03:28] Jasper County: Could you say 6.30 to 5.30, something like that? Yeah, I've got it. I've got it written down. And does that include… that includes snow removal? So that it's done by…

[1:03:37] Jasper County: That was agreed upon in the conversation with the mayor, but I don't know if it's in there, too. I mean, all maintenance, including the snow, but the snow being gone.

[1:03:45] Jasper County: And everything will be salted in time for the employees to come in. Yeah, and that would need to be, spelled out in there as well, so I've got this written right here.

[1:04:01] Jasper County: 6.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. county parking,

[1:04:06] Jasper County: And then, snow removal,

[1:04:09] Jasper County: Snow needs to be removed to facilitate that, timeline.

[1:04:15] Jasper County: Okay. So we could… we could do a oral resolution to approve them to put the meters on, but then wait until we have the…

[1:04:26] Jasper County: the final signed document for final approval. If… unless there would be anything substantial, then, yes, it would be… you'd have the approval now during the, the meeting.

[1:04:36] Jasper County: oral resolution accepted that, and it also does put the, requirement on the city to do the bidding, which was already done as well, so… Okay. But then that can be…

[1:04:47] Jasper County: once we hammer out these steps by details, that can be signed by the Commissioners and given to the city so that they can get their facilities in their name. Okay. Question, and I apologize if I've seen, and I don't remember. Does the agreement state in there that the farmer's market has

[1:05:07] Jasper County: First access to it.

[1:05:08] Jasper County: Whenever they want to use it, and does it agree in there that the farmer's market doesn't pay the lease on it, or are they paying the lease on it?

[1:05:16] Jasper County: Those are questions. I don't think there was ever a desire to require the farmer's market to pay. Should we delineate that in the agreement, too? So, I would say they should have first… first use rights, or… yeah. Yep. Well, usually it's from 4.30…

[1:05:33] Jasper County: to 8 o'clock, or whatever their time was, in those designated months that they do it. Yeah, right. But yeah, let's something in there that they don't pay a lease fee, and they get first options. They have first options, yeah. Okay, that's good.

[1:05:54] Jasper County: Anything else you can think of, Ryan?

[1:05:56] Jasper County: Not at the moment on that one. Okay. You guys are around that a lot more than I am.

[1:06:00] Jasper County: It's coming along quite nice. Yes, it's gonna… I saw it today for the first time in a couple weeks. It's moving fast. They are getting right along with us.

[1:06:09] Jasper County: Okay, well, with… with what Eric has noted,

[1:06:14] Jasper County: Would one of you guys want to move and make the motion to approve the… essentially the MOU,

[1:06:20] Jasper County: For this to continue to proceed.

[1:06:23] Jasper County: And then the, the formal agreement to be signed when it's presented.

[1:06:28] Jasper County: I'd move to approve, with the changes recently mentioned, today, that we go forward with this agreement. Okay.

[1:06:37] Jasper County: Craig makes the motion to approve. Do we have a second? Supported by Ryan.

[1:06:42] Jasper County: Any further discussion?

[1:06:43] Jasper County: Being none, all in favor as presented, say aye. Aye. Okay.

[1:06:52] Jasper County: All right, we just have 2 minutes before we have our discussion with TrueU.

[1:06:57] Jasper County: Which is a human resource.

[1:06:59] Jasper County: and potential payroll vendor who currently works with Newton County.

[1:07:03] Jasper County: But one thing we need to swing back around and talk about when we get done with that is the,

[1:07:09] Jasper County: updated UTV, ATV, road use ordinance.

[1:07:15] Jasper County: with,

[1:07:16] Jasper County: We had talked about it a few months ago, and we need to… we need to follow up on that a little bit, so…

[1:07:21] Jasper County: Remind me to come back to that when we have time.

[1:07:24] Jasper County: Cynthia is… is a… is a lady named Amber.

[1:07:27] Jasper County: Fields, I believe, on the, on the call.

[1:07:48] Jasper County: Nope.

[1:07:51] Jasper County: Anybody from True You, maybe?

[1:08:01] Jasper County: If they could raise their hand.

[1:08:08] Jasper County: Anything, then I'd know which one.

[1:08:10] Jasper County: I don't see anyone by True, you, or Ian.

[1:09:17] Jasper County: If you can… yeah, if you can hear us here on, and you're on Zoom, and you're from TrueU, you can raise your hand in the,

[1:09:25] Jasper County: In the library there, then we can get you on.

[1:09:30] Jasper County: Sorry about that.

[1:09:31] Jasper County: Sorry, Ms. Cynthia, I misunderstood what you… I was gonna send that meeting by… that message by way of an email, so…

[1:09:55] Jasper County: Resend the link, too.

[1:10:08] Jasper County: a resident.

[1:10:10] Jasper County: Is that right?

[1:10:12] Jasper County: Oh.

[1:10:32] Jasper County: Alright, we'll give them a few minutes, see if they can get… Connected.

[1:10:39] Jasper County: Yep, she's the one. Alright, very good.

[1:10:46] Amber Fields: Good morning!

[1:10:47] Jasper County: Good morning, Amber, how are you?

[1:10:49] Amber Fields: I'm great, how are you?

[1:10:50] Jasper County: Good. Thanks for joining us this morning.

[1:10:53] Amber Fields: Yes, sorry for my delay. I was having a little bit of trouble with the link.

[1:10:56] Jasper County: That's fine. I was trying to make… I was trying to reflect to see if I actually sent it to you, so I'm glad you've got it.

[1:11:03] Amber Fields: Yeah, you do.

[1:11:04] Jasper County: Okay, we are here, we're in our regular meeting, and we're looking to hear,

[1:11:10] Jasper County: the services that you have, you kind of did talk to us about it, but maybe you'd elaborate and give us a presentation about what TrueU services,

[1:11:19] Jasper County: offer counties. I know you currently work with Newton County, and we're looking to potentially engage with you and your company regarding HR services for the county, and potentially expanding that into payroll. So, I'll just give you the floor.

[1:11:34] Amber Fields: Okay, thank you. I'll turn my video on, just so that you guys can see me, but then I will, start to share my screen. So, first and foremost, thank you for the opportunity, it's really great to meet you. I am Amber Fields, I'm one of the partners here at TrueU. I'm also the Chief Growth Officer, have been with the organization a little over 5 years, so I'm excited to share with you a little bit more about…

[1:11:57] Amber Fields: what we do, and how we, hopefully can help. I just sent a request to be able to share my screen.

[1:12:05] Jasper County: Yep, she just proved it.

[1:12:06] Amber Fields: Alright.

[1:12:08] Amber Fields: I'm gonna share this, let me know…

[1:12:13] Jasper County: Got it. Yep, we got it.

[1:12:14] Amber Fields: You see that okay? Okay, great.

[1:12:15] Jasper County: Yes, oh yeah.

[1:12:16] Amber Fields: As mentioned, I think you already have this, but I can send it over to whoever needs it, so don't feel like you have to take copious notes. But…

[1:12:27] Amber Fields: We have been around for, a little over 12 years, almost 13 years, and in our time, we are solving the number one problem in business inside organizations who have people, is that number one challenge is the ability to attract, develop, and engage top talent so that you can retain them, so that you can drive the result that you're looking for. And through all the different services that we offer, that's what we're really focused on doing.

[1:12:53] Amber Fields: We have, now over 350-plus years of combined experience designing and implementing proven HR talent culture strategies that drive those real organizational and business results.

[1:13:05] Amber Fields: Everything from strategic to tactical, we are that full-service talent partner.

[1:13:12] Amber Fields: What we do is we, focus on 4 different areas. We have a high focus, as I mentioned, on HR, talent, and culture strategy. So lots of organizations have a business plan and a finance plan, but don't often have a talent plan to really help them execute on, you know, focusing on the mission, taking care of the city, or whatever that might be. We help create that. That's really the foundation that we focus on.

[1:13:37] Amber Fields: We also do outsourced and fractional HR. Some folks call it HR talent and culture operations. That's where we're going to spend a bulk of our time today.

[1:13:46] Amber Fields: In addition to that, one of our differentiators is we have a virtual and in-person cultured community where we bring executive leaders, HR leaders, and people leaders together to help learn and grow.

[1:13:58] Amber Fields: And then we also have an in-person and virtual leadership academy. So many leaders are, getting promoted because they're really great at their jobs, but never given the appropriate tools to be really great managers and leaders, and so we have accessibility, and offerings in that as well, if you were ever interested.

[1:14:16] Amber Fields: So I wanted to share a little bit about what we heard in our first initial meetings. We talked about that today there is no, HR in place. The last HR hire left after about 5 months, and before that, HR sat inside the auditor's office without any formal HR training.

[1:14:34] Amber Fields: There have been some payroll errors with the retirement withholdings, and taxes, have been calculated incorrectly with no clear review step to catch that.

[1:14:43] Amber Fields: There has been some confidentiality gaps, so employee matters needs somewhere to go that sits outside of the department relationships and county politics.

[1:14:51] Amber Fields: No shared process, so no formal HR system or documentation. Departments each kind of handle things their own way.

[1:14:59] Amber Fields: There's been a little bit of resistance to change, so, friction between departments and pushback on new and younger HR staff asking for new habits and new expectations. We want to be able to resolve that. And then some retention pressure. County Pay competes against private sector, offers.

[1:15:17] Amber Fields: And the last HR lead was poached away.

[1:15:20] Amber Fields: So the… the other things that I took away, about 200 employees, there are 26 pay periods in a year, mostly remote support, and then we would… we would schedule on-site days to be able to support you all.

[1:15:33] Amber Fields: Is there anything there, that I missed?

[1:15:36] Amber Fields: Or anything that, in your conversations, you would want to add?

[1:15:42] Jasper County: I think that covers some of the issues that we've been dealing with, but largely that we've just had no formal HR, not a good system in place. We haven't had time to…

[1:15:51] Jasper County: And the way circumstances have fallen have kind of left us a little bit lacking in that regard, so we're really wanting to get

[1:15:58] Jasper County: that, system in place for a better employee experience. And also, we… I talked with the auditor this morning, and her office has a lot of

[1:16:06] Jasper County: other complex issues and deal with, and so that's where we're considering that, if we… if we have the payroll with you guys, it frees them up and allows this to be, you know, a more consistent process that we're looking to…

[1:16:20] Jasper County: to implement here. Currently, the financial program, I believe the auditor uses is Lau, right? Are you able to interact and use that system?

[1:16:29] Amber Fields: I believe so. Yeah, that's… we mentioned that's the one that Newton County uses as well.

[1:16:33] Jasper County: Okay.

[1:16:34] Amber Fields: Yeah.

[1:16:36] Jasper County: Now, are you… what all are you providing? Just… just asking, what all you… do you provide for Newton County?

[1:16:41] Amber Fields: So we do, their… what we call core services. We're not there yet. You'll get to see everything that is included in there, but we are their full HR team, essentially, and so we go on-site at least once per month, and really are that HR team

[1:16:58] Amber Fields: And I'll show you down… I'll show you in a couple slides ahead exactly everything that we offer for them.

[1:17:03] Jasper County: Okay. Craig or Ryan, anything that… Missed?

[1:17:07] Jasper County: No, I… I mean, in the… in the conversations we've had already with her, I…

[1:17:13] Jasper County: I feel like it's a good fit, I feel like it gives us a lot of,

[1:17:18] Jasper County: a lot of, reassurance, you know, whether it's… whether it's TrueU or another firm like that, just… just to not have a gap like we have now.

[1:17:28] Jasper County: Right. Because we're not responsible for that person. So, no, I don't have any questions. I think… I think it's a good… good direction. I think there's a lot of merit when you look at a neighboring county utilizing the same format we're looking at here.

[1:17:40] Jasper County: trying to reinvent the wheel is not easy, or necessary when you've got somebody else doing it. Yeah.

[1:17:46] Jasper County: Dale, if you want to proceed, sounds good.

[1:17:48] Amber Fields: Great. Marianne has her hand up. I don't know if that was from previous, or if she has a question or comment for this.

[1:17:55] Jasper County: Yeah, I don't believe it's really related. Yeah, that'll be for other business, so yeah, you're good to continue.

[1:18:00] Amber Fields: Great.

[1:18:01] Amber Fields: So I won't go through everything here. Like I said, you guys can take a look at this, in… when I send this over, but it just kind of shows you a couple gaps that you have, and at risk with the benefits and withholdings. You do have that handbook and policy in place, so that's good. And then a few additional gaps, and then at risk, the development and succession, so…

[1:18:21] Amber Fields: Not having any manager training in place would be something that we would want to look at down the road.

[1:18:26] Amber Fields: So I did include some of the, you know, with not having formal HR infrastructure in place, some of the things that it could expose the county to, that payroll and withholding accuracy, with no one being in that HR seat today, just making sure that every hire is compliant, the leave requests, the terminations, you know, for over 200 employees, that's… it's… it's unknown, and it's probably being absorbed by

[1:18:51] Amber Fields: another staff doing that job, which takes them away from focusing on their

[1:18:56] Amber Fields: their job, that confidentiality and neutrality, the undocumented practices, and then turnover in a thin market. So…

[1:19:04] Amber Fields: The good news is, we are a partner that can take care of that. So we really want to focus on running your HR so that you can run the organization, because it is also a business. And so, you get your own dedicated talent team, so we… we are… we come in teams of 2 to 3, depending on, how much

[1:19:24] Amber Fields: work there is, how many needs there are, so we get a VP of Talent. Our VP of Talent has at least 20 years of experience in HR, our HR director has at least 10, and then there is a talent business partner underneath that that has anywhere between 2 and 5.

[1:19:39] Amber Fields: Sometimes you'll see them working on policies, updating handbooks, things like that. We come with an HR talent and culture toolbox of proven tactics, SOPs, HR best practices to really simplify the complexity of HR.

[1:19:55] Amber Fields: And in the end, we want, to be able to be that integrated partner, where your employees know who we are, they know how… who to come to with issues, if they have questions. We are very much an integrated part of your organization, and I'll tell you a little bit more about that later.

[1:20:14] Amber Fields: So, when you ask the question about what we are doing, for Newton County and what we are, proposing that we do for you all, so as I mentioned, you get the dedicated HR team, you get the toolbox of proven tactics.

[1:20:27] Amber Fields: We will also manage all of your current HR relationships. So, your benefits provider, if there's 401 offered, for your payroll, you know, working through… working with that relationship, so… so kind of handling all of those conversations, being that point person for all of those current HR relationships.

[1:20:47] Amber Fields: Most importantly, we're going to make sure that you are compliant. Make sure that in the hiring process, your I-9s are completed, any postings, any paperwork that is relevant to be connected, collected, we're going to do that. E-Verify if that is relevant. I'm not sure that that is for you all. The handbook.

[1:21:05] Amber Fields: We're gonna look at it. I know it's worked through, another organization, but we can also continue to work with them and look at it. If there's any new HR policies, maintaining that.

[1:21:15] Amber Fields: We handle employee file structure, maintenance and recording retention, so just making sure from

[1:21:20] Amber Fields: the interview, hiring, to when they leave, when an employee turns over, we've got the appropriate information we need to have on file, and that we're only keeping it for as long as we need to. Lots of organizations believe they have to keep it forever, and if you're ever audited, you actually don't want to have those on hand.

[1:21:38] Amber Fields: And so, we look at your leave management, so your PTO, FMLA, you know, any time off, we're gonna, manage that for you.

[1:21:47] Amber Fields: We manage your pre-boarding of new hires, your orientation of new hires. I do like to make a delineation here. We handle everything up to the date of hire, and we will make sure that they have a plan, they know exactly where to show up, when to show up.

[1:22:03] Amber Fields: We do leave onboarding for you all, because we want, we want them to really understand what it looks like to be a part of Jasper, what is the culture, and we really believe the people internally are the ones that, should have that conversation and welcome them, but we're definitely going to be a part of guiding and making sure that there's a solid plan in place for that.

[1:22:23] Amber Fields: We do workers' compensation and unemployment claims management.

[1:22:27] Amber Fields: Offboarding of employees, which includes an exit interview. We want to collect the data as to the reason why they're leaving, what would have made them stay? How can we continue to be better, you know, employers.

[1:22:39] Amber Fields: Because we want our people to want to work for us. And then we handle all job descriptions. We also call them success profiles, so we create the external-facing job description. You probably have those today. We can help create the internal document.

[1:22:52] Amber Fields: which is called a success profile, and it really gives employees an understanding of what it means to do their job, how it's done, and what does success look like in a year from now. So it becomes a really great tool based on that job description, where you can coach them throughout the year, and at the end of that year, you can continue to coach them up, or coach them out if their tour of duty is over.

[1:23:14] Amber Fields: We create SOPs for every HR process that we do for you all, and so everything is documented, it lives inside of your, framework, whatever you use, Google or 365, or whatever you use, we have that live inside of your environment.

[1:23:29] Amber Fields: And then employee relations management. So if there is an issue, if you do have to have us on-site because, you know, something is happening… happening, we can be available for that as needed. We can talk about what it looks like to have somebody on-site, a little bit further on.

[1:23:47] Amber Fields: But if there's any issues with managers, coaching, one of the things that I love about what we do and the way we do it is, we don't just handle the situation for you, we can, but we also want to teach your managers and leaders, what does it look like to have those hard conversations? How can we coach you and help you, making sure you're handling them appropriately to protect the organization?

[1:24:10] Amber Fields: So we work really closely with your teams on that.

[1:24:14] Amber Fields: As mentioned, you get access to the Discounted Leadership Academy programs. If you wanted to participate in the monthly professional development, you can. There's also an online learning platform.

[1:24:25] Amber Fields: So I'm going to pause there, because there's a lot, that we do take care of and answer any questions before I move into some of the premium and more strategic services.

[1:24:36] Jasper County: It looks like a pretty comprehensive list, and we'll cover a lot of the deficiencies we currently have.

[1:24:41] Jasper County: Yeah. I would say, based on… based on what our conversations have been.

[1:24:46] Amber Fields: Yeah.

[1:24:46] Amber Fields: This is everything that we believe is necessary for a solid HR infrastructure to protect an organization. This is everything that would need to be covered.

[1:24:55] Jasper County: Got it.

[1:24:56] Amber Fields: Okay.

[1:24:57] Amber Fields: So typically what happens is we continue the relationship, more things come up, right? So…

[1:25:04] Amber Fields: things like, engagement survey administration, we can do that. Interview process development, we can create that interview process, we can do the guides, and we can train your team so that everybody's interviewing across the board consistently, the way that you all want it to be done.

[1:25:20] Amber Fields: If you were to ever go out and shop your benefits provider or your payroll company, we could come in and help, and these are on a project basis, but we could do all of the work. The benefits design, selecting the appropriate carrier, or vendor, and then doing the open enrollment for it. So, I won't go through everything here, but…

[1:25:38] Amber Fields: A couple things to note. Recruiting is not included. That would be, a more strategic service, so if you ever wanted us to go out and help, in bringing in new candidates, things like that, that is something we can do. It is not included in what we're proposing today.

[1:25:54] Amber Fields: Okay?

[1:25:55] Jasper County: Alright.

[1:25:56] Amber Fields: I left these items in here. Again, I'm not going to spend a ton of time here, but I just want you to know you do have access to continued education and growth for your leaders virtually. It's also, you know, we offer leadership academy programs that are both in-person and virtual. You're welcome to send them down here, have them drive down, or have them attend virtually. I'll leave this in here for you guys to review at a later date.

[1:26:22] Amber Fields: We also…

[1:26:23] Jasper County: Are those management training options stuff that folks can do online at their convenience, or are there set times for those?

[1:26:32] Amber Fields: So, both. So, the programs that are the quarterly ones for the executives, obviously HR leaders and people leaders, these are both monthly and quarterly that they can attend. They're held at a particular time, but they're also recorded, so they can go in and watch them on their own time if you want. We teach things, like…

[1:26:51] Amber Fields: Accountability, how to set appropriate expectations, conflict resolution, effective communication, stuff like that.

[1:27:00] Jasper County: Got it. Okay.

[1:27:01] Amber Fields: And these, these are multi-company cohorts, so you have anywhere between 15 to 30 people in a cohort with other, organizations, and these are… it's about 42 hours of training.

[1:27:14] Amber Fields: They meet 6 times in that 3 months, and these are the different competencies based on the class, that we offer.

[1:27:21] Amber Fields: Happy to chat about that in the future, if you want to dig in a little bit more on that.

[1:27:25] Jasper County: Alright, thank you.

[1:27:26] Amber Fields: Yeah.

[1:27:27] Amber Fields: We also have access to assessments, so lots of organizations like to use these as great tools for better communication, understanding one another. Know that you can get access to those through us as well.

[1:27:40] Amber Fields: Okay?

[1:27:41] Amber Fields: And then this is just a smattering of the different types of organizations that we work with, the people that, if you were to come to an event, you'd be in the room with, that we have, that we have worked with. So every… from government organizations, non-for-profits, professional services, construction, and all across the country. So, we are coast to coast.

[1:28:03] Amber Fields: With a big presence here in Indy, obviously, because it's where we started.

[1:28:09] Jasper County: Looks like a good list there, yes.

[1:28:10] Amber Fields: Yeah, we are very lucky. We get to work with a lot of really great people. So this is the scope of work, friends. Everything that I mentioned before, in addition to that, we did add one strategic service for you all, and that's the payroll services. So we would be working to run payroll for you all, in addition to everything else that we talked about.

[1:28:30] Amber Fields: Okay?

[1:28:32] Amber Fields: Anything that you would want added.

[1:28:39] Amber Fields: Based on what we… what I just shared.

[1:28:43] Jasper County: I think that… that covers the core of what we were… we were looking at here.

[1:28:47] Amber Fields: Great, okay.

[1:28:48] Jasper County: And so on.

[1:28:48] Jasper County: And then some, yeah.

[1:28:50] Amber Fields: And then some. Yep, some other layers of protection there.

[1:28:54] Amber Fields: So here is the investment slide. It is the $9,500 per month. It is a one-year agreement.

[1:29:02] Amber Fields: We put in here on-site, so it would be $500 per day, and what that means is you have a dedicated 1 or 2 times per month that we would be driving up and being there for the day.

[1:29:15] Amber Fields: As mentioned, there might be times that we will come up, especially in the first 90 days, that we will be up there more frequently, spending more time with you all, because we… we are, business and organizationally minded first. We really want to understand the culture of the company, organization, really understanding where you sit today, working with you to figure out prioritization of what needs to be worked on first.

[1:29:39] Amber Fields: And so, in that first 90 days, we'll be spending a lot of time, so…

[1:29:43] Amber Fields: Rin, when I sent over the, agreement, you noticed I put a… in there, this wouldn't start… the onsite wouldn't start until after the fourth… after the third month in month four, and I did it for 6 months, because then you might want to drop down to one day, or, some virtual time.

[1:29:59] Jasper County: Got it.

[1:29:59] Amber Fields: Okay? There is a one-time foundation fee, everyone. It is spread out over the first 3 months of service, because as I mentioned, we'll be spending a lot of time with you just getting onboarded and everything.

[1:30:11] Jasper County: Okay.

[1:30:11] Amber Fields: Okay? And then those Leadership Academy classes are above the, above the cost, but they're highly discounted for our clients.

[1:30:20] Amber Fields: I left those there as well.

[1:30:22] Jasper County: Okay, what would it look like? Let's… let's just say, hypothetically, we enter into an agreement with.

[1:30:28] Jasper County: your company and you. What's the timeline look like as far as getting up to speed and getting implemented here? I know it's a ramp-up process, I'm sure, but what's that look like?

[1:30:41] Amber Fields: Yeah, so, we would… you've already got the agreement, if you signed it, we would be launching and onboarding within the next 2 to 3 weeks. We've just brought on a couple new employees.

[1:30:51] Amber Fields: And so we want to get them onboarded. I don't know where your account would go, it really just depends on, at what time you come in. We look at capacity, we look at experience, and so we will make those determinations once you decide, you want to work with us.

[1:31:06] Amber Fields: And so, in that time frame, though, there's some back-end work that we're going to be doing. We will be working with you all to determine what key meetings that we need to be a part of as it relates to leadership meetings, meetings that we should be attending to get acclimated with all of you or anybody else inside of the office that we need to be connected with.

[1:31:26] Amber Fields: We would schedule a 90-minute, kickoff.

[1:31:29] Amber Fields: Whether that be virtual, in person, I leave that up to you and the HR team to decide, but it would be about 90 minutes long for us to really establish

[1:31:38] Amber Fields: who we are, get to know everyone, get to know, you know, all the parties that be. We would ask for an HR email, so HR at, you know, Jasper County, and so that all of the communications flow, and we can immediately start receiving things, sending things out. If any emergency came up and you needed HR support, we can begin the day the agreement is signed, okay, if anything were to come up.

[1:32:04] Amber Fields: During that 90-minute, we would want to look at the immediate systems that we need to get access to. We would talk through, like I said, the prioritization, and then schedule the next, kind of, 30, 60, 90 days of what that's going to look like. It typically takes us, you know, 45 to 60 days to get fully onboarded and taking over and doing a lot of the day-to-day work.

[1:32:27] Amber Fields: So I've kind of broken it out over the first 90 days. You've got the kickoff, one to two weeks, after signature, you've got your first 30 days of transition and access, you've got your 31 to 60 days of building that foundation, and then the full handover is 61 to 90. So on, you know, the 90th day, we will be handling almost everything.

[1:32:46] Jasper County: Okay.

[1:32:47] Amber Fields: Okay?

[1:32:49] Amber Fields: And finally, a year from now, just making sure that you have a professional HR function that is fully stood up and running, your payroll and benefits are accurate and compliant for every cycle, your process and documentation exist, and departments follow the same ones, and then, you know, really hoping for less drama, better employee experience, and a reason for people to stay.

[1:33:09] Jasper County: Okay.

[1:33:10] Jasper County: So realistically, we could… I mean, if we did something here in the near future, we could be… we could count on having you guys onboarded, like, October 1st, starting this, right?

[1:33:19] Amber Fields: Yeah.

[1:33:20] Amber Fields: Yep.

[1:33:21] Amber Fields: Or at least the kickoff schedule, like, at least starting, yeah, starting the conversation by then, absolutely.

[1:33:27] Amber Fields: Last couple things that I have here, this is our, executive leadership team, so I like for you to be able to see the faces that lead the organization.

[1:33:35] Amber Fields: Our backgrounds are listed here, so when this is sent over to you, you are welcome to read through them. This is our talent team, minus two. Like I said, we have two additional folks that have joined us. But yeah, we're really grateful for the opportunity to be considered, as a partner for you all.

[1:33:52] Amber Fields: And like I said, we've got some experience here, so would love to be able to transfer that over to you as well.

[1:33:57] Amber Fields: What questions?

[1:34:04] Jasper County: I know most of my… my questions have been…

[1:34:06] Jasper County: Been, handled here, just… just looking ahead at what the possibilities are.

[1:34:11] Jasper County: Our council president is sitting out in the audience, you know, is this a direction that you think the council would support us on if we chose to go this way?

[1:34:22] Jasper County: Put you on the spot, Steve.

[1:34:25] Jasper County: I mean, we would… we would be able to,

[1:34:28] Jasper County: you know, delete the salary line that we had for HR, so we'd have some funds left over from this year, and then could budget for it, then, you know.

[1:34:38] Jasper County: We'll probably have to ask for additional to do it next year, but… Right, we've, we've discussed as a council the possibility of, of,

[1:34:47] Jasper County: the payroll going. We know HR needs to probably go that direction, since the,

[1:34:52] Jasper County: Last few months, and going through, having a good one in place and losing it,

[1:34:57] Jasper County: I think it's a, a right direction to go. I guess one question I have, would they need a,

[1:35:05] Jasper County: office to use here, when they're here during the days, to where you would be keeping a place, such as you had for HR?

[1:35:13] Jasper County: in place already.

[1:35:15] Jasper County: I mean, we do have the dedicated space still set aside that could be utilized for them when they're here on site.

[1:35:21] Jasper County: Okay. Doing secure files and things like that. Yeah, right, which would give them a… and also a place to meet with them, instead of just being thrown into the Commissioner's room or such like that. I think we would preserve this space for those HR functions, yes. Well, I can't speak for the whole council, but I can tell you from our…

[1:35:39] Jasper County: discussions we've had on stuff, we'd be very supportive of, looking into this, and sounds like a company that's

[1:35:45] Jasper County: definitely worked with a neighboring county that would be a good option, so… Okay. We would, we'd owe you support. Well, I'll, either one…

[1:35:55] Jasper County: Or more of us will come to your, council meeting

[1:35:58] Jasper County: this month to, present what the cost is, let you… you know, I'll forward…

[1:36:03] Jasper County: the information that Amber has given to us,

[1:36:08] Jasper County: And it looks to me like it would be a good, process to work with

[1:36:12] Jasper County: Diana, you know, talking with her, she has a lot going on. To be able to,

[1:36:18] Jasper County: Much like we did with Arkham when we offloaded our IT, that was one of the…

[1:36:23] Jasper County: More efficient things that we did, which helped with keeping us up to… our equipment up to date, and it was just more than one employee could…

[1:36:31] Jasper County: could handle internally. And also, this also insulates us from when our… if we had our own dedicated HR person, if they're gone, sick, or whatever, then we're back to

[1:36:42] Jasper County: in a deficit situation. Yeah, so this will keep us, functional.

[1:36:47] Jasper County: And, and I have heard,

[1:36:49] Jasper County: anecdotally, from Newton County, they really are getting along well with this company, with TrueU, so…

[1:36:57] Jasper County: Is Amber still on?

[1:36:59] Amber Fields: I am.

[1:36:59] Jasper County: Okay, thank you so much for your time and presentation, and we will… we will definitely be getting back with you.

[1:37:05] Jasper County: To, let you know what we're… what we're looking to do.

[1:37:08] Amber Fields: Okay, so…

[1:37:09] Jasper County: One more question for you, before you jump off. Do you operate in Newton County on a…

[1:37:16] Jasper County: Renewable one-year agreement every year, or are you… because you've been there for a while, are you on more of a long-term agreement with them?

[1:37:22] Amber Fields: Yeah, so, it's actually… we've been with them for, 6 years, 6 or more years, and they are in a month-to-month, so it's only a 1 year for the first year, and then it's evergreen after that, with a 90-day out.

[1:37:36] Jasper County: Okay. Okay. Alright.

[1:37:38] Amber Fields: Yep.

[1:37:39] Jasper County: Okay. Well, that answers that.

[1:37:41] Amber Fields: Yep, great. Well, you guys have a really great rest of your week. Hope you enjoyed your holiday, and I look forward to hearing back. Good to meet you.

[1:37:47] Jasper County: Thank you, Amber, appreciate your time.

[1:37:48] Amber Fields: Yep, take care, bye-bye.

[1:37:50] Jasper County: Alright, bye.

[1:37:54] Jasper County: Okay, we'll have… More discussions on that topic, to come.

[1:38:01] Jasper County: Alright, looks like next.

[1:38:05] Jasper County: Are we at the DeMont Town Plan Commission appointment?

[1:38:09] Jasper County: Have I missed anything else ahead of that?

[1:38:12] Jasper County: Yeah, I think we're caught up.

[1:38:15] Jasper County: Okay.

[1:38:17] Jasper County: DeMont Town Plan Commission appointment. So, what do we know about that?

[1:38:21] Jasper County: So, one of our duties is we've got to appoint some individuals to certain boards throughout the county.

[1:38:28] Jasper County: Democratic Party Chair Samantha Misch reached out to us several weeks ago. There's an individual on the Dumont Plan Commission who is looking to vacate that seat, and we've got to backfill that. So, Samantha and her diligence came to us with two proposed names, one of which is Bruce Lutringer.

[1:38:46] Jasper County: And I would be in position to Nominate him, her.

[1:38:51] Jasper County: Samantha's recommendation to the DeMont Plan Commission.

[1:38:55] Jasper County: Okay?

[1:38:57] Jasper County: So Ryan makes the motion to approve

[1:39:00] Jasper County: Could you state his name again, please? Bruce Lutringer? Bruce Lut Ringer. Okay, so the DeMont Town Plan Commission is the commissioner appointee?

[1:39:09] Jasper County: Craig, do I have a second? Support. Supported by Craig, any further discussion?

[1:39:14] Jasper County: Being none, all in favor as presented, say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay.

[1:39:19] Jasper County: Next up, Enterprise Fleet Management.

[1:39:23] Jasper County: about county vehicles. Greg, was that something that you came up with? Yeah, he reached out to me, wanted to get on the agenda. It's been some time ago when he reached out to me, and

[1:39:32] Jasper County: Had him get in contact and get on the agenda, obviously sent us something, I don't know what held him up, maybe,

[1:39:38] Jasper County: Maybe still on a long weekend, I'm not sure. But, what this was, basically, they take over,

[1:39:46] Jasper County: They market your vehicles, they buy… you know, when you want a vehicle, they source the vehicles for you, along with everybody else they're sourcing vehicles for, at a better price, is what they claim.

[1:39:59] Jasper County: And then they take them, like, such as what he described,

[1:40:03] Jasper County: the deputy vehicles. You know, all the vehicles, in their mind, they want them out of service at 80,000 miles.

[1:40:10] Jasper County: And then they sell them.

[1:40:11] Jasper County: getting us more money back, and keeping us in newer vehicles. We're talking about pickup trucks and cars and things like that, so not so much the big trucks, but

[1:40:21] Jasper County: And they do it for nothing.

[1:40:22] Jasper County: So, obviously, you can see it's part of Enterprise.

[1:40:26] Jasper County: So that's where the buying power's coming from, is from Enterprise.

[1:40:29] Jasper County: What, you just wanted to present it to us? I believe they're doing this…

[1:40:35] Jasper County: memory serves me, in maybe Benton County?

[1:40:38] Jasper County: that they… they service them down there, handle that, and obviously, I think Tippecanoe County also, but…

[1:40:44] Jasper County: I'm just trying to get more coverage out there and expand his footprint.

[1:40:48] Jasper County: They cover a lot, if this list is correct, they cover a lot in central Indiana, Hendricks County, Putnam, Fountain… Yep.

[1:40:56] Jasper County: City of Hamilton.

[1:40:59] Jasper County: So…

[1:41:01] Jasper County: something to consider. We can try to reach out to him if we want to hear a presentation from him and get him here at the next meeting.

[1:41:10] Jasper County: And obviously, Ed, Brandon, whomever, if you're interested in looking at this, I can make a copy for you.

[1:41:17] Jasper County: Yep.

[1:41:19] Jasper County: Okay?

[1:41:21] Jasper County: All right, thank you, Craig.

[1:41:25] Jasper County: Alright, next up, NIPSCO with a construction project update.

[1:41:37] Jasper County: You are on. Alright, perfect. Good morning, everyone. Morning. So, I'll be covering for myself, and then Mark Runyon as well, for both projects. So, first on the NiceHorse Genco,

[1:41:49] Jasper County: Schaefer CCGT project, just overall construction updates. So, if you've been driving by there, noticed, really just focus on earthwork still. So continued, topsoil stripping and installing some of our stormwater ponds and other drainage features.

[1:42:04] Jasper County: We did also continue receiving and stockpiling aggregates, and then spreading those across the site to support future work.

[1:42:11] Jasper County: One thing I'll point out is really a lot of that, like, stockpiling and receiving aggregates, that's going to continue throughout this year for additional foundation work, deep foundations, and things of that nature. So a lot of that traffic, the goal is to spread it out, but it will continue for, like, those dump trucks and things like that.

[1:42:28] Jasper County: continue to receive temporary facilities to support construction. They have been installing the, the fencing around the facility, and then we're working on installing the, craft access road that will be coming in off of County Road 180 East. So, that's been, been ongoing.

[1:42:45] Jasper County: Outside of that, just generally receiving deliveries and things of that nature. They'll be, staffing up for one of their subcontractors that will be installing, our deeper foundations in the next month or so here, so there'll be a little uptick in traffic as that work on, continues.

[1:43:04] Jasper County: But other than that, did complete some of the road repairs that we had on 1450, and then also we had that road crossing on, 180 East, and that was completed as well.

[1:43:16] Jasper County: Any specific questions on that project? Speaking of that crossing on 180 East… Yeah. Is there…

[1:43:24] Jasper County: Is there a process to come back and pave over top of the asphalt, or the concrete, or are you just leaving concrete as it is? So the way that I think we have it laid out is,

[1:43:34] Jasper County: that initial asphalt that was done for the entire road was really just the initial base, and then after all projects are done, then we'd go back and asphalt it at all. Alright, I didn't know if you… I noticed, obviously.

[1:43:47] Jasper County: there's a difference in height there, so I didn't know if you guys were gonna come back in and patch over top that to bring it to the height or not, so… Not at this point, but then, yeah, end state of after all project is done, give a clean,

[1:43:59] Jasper County: coat of pavement throughout. Sure.

[1:44:02] Jasper County: All right, then moving over to the NIPSCO, Schaefer Gas Peak project. One question, are you on… are you on schedule with this? Sort of? As far as you know? Sort of. Yes, currently we are on schedule overall for the project, so as far as initial activities, delivery of equipment, right now, nothing… nothing outside of whack. What we're doing is we're really refining some of the, like, when the plant will be… come online and things like that.

[1:44:27] Jasper County: All in the same general time frame. Okay.

[1:44:29] Jasper County: Have you… have you started receiving any of your heavy hauls that were supposed to be coming in through rail yet? No, we won't be receiving anything for that particular project until, I think it's late 20… yeah, in 2027, late 2027. Okay. Early 2028. Yeah, so there will be some on the peaker units, though, yep.

[1:44:47] Jasper County: Okay.

[1:44:48] Jasper County: Alright, continue. Yeah, yeah, so for the NIPSCO Schaefer Gas Peaker project, on that one, they did actually receive some heavy hauls, so if you look at some of the major, deliveries that we had, did receive

[1:45:00] Jasper County: one of the GSUs, so that was a heavy haul coming in from our internal rail spur. They did the heavy haul from that rail spur, through the internal plant roads, and then out, to the project site there, and all that went

[1:45:14] Jasper County: fairly well.

[1:45:15] Jasper County: They do have a couple other large deliveries coming throughout this month. I believe all of them are coming via truck, though. So, like, the unit auxiliary transformers are smaller transformers, the generator circuit breakers, and then compressed air systems. So I don't envision any of those to be highly impactful, you know, if they're slightly oversized loads, but there's nothing slow-moving or anything like that. Should be fairly standard.

[1:45:38] Jasper County: From a construction perspective on their end, so they did complete mobilization of their general works contractor that will be doing the majority of the work at the facility there. They started installing, deep foundations, so those are the stone columns. After that, they'll have the primary foundations that go on top of those, and that will continue throughout the year.

[1:45:57] Jasper County: And then now, they have continued additional installation of steel structures within their substation.

[1:46:04] Jasper County: Completed the gas infrastructure that will go to the facility, so they completed that gas line, and then completed the pressure testing associated with that.

[1:46:14] Jasper County: Minor note on that one, there's a little road repair that needs to be completed, right next to, like, the peaker entrances off of 1450, and I believe they're gonna start that tomorrow.

[1:46:26] Jasper County: And then for that project, overall, you know, getting it online, that has shifted out into the 2028 time period. But outside of that, it's about what we have for the PECA projects. Any questions on that one?

[1:46:40] Jasper County: Do you know if, and you may not, because you're doing this remark, but… Yeah. Do you know if they got the addressing issue figured out with the peaker and the other projects down there, so when these addresses are getting punched in.

[1:46:54] Jasper County: Google Earth, and something's coming from Fort Wayne, it doesn't bring them down $300, it takes them around to bring them in on $1,500. I know Mary was working on that, I know Amazon was, and I just want to make sure

[1:47:05] Jasper County: you're getting these other heavy loads, we don't shoot them down 300. Right, we haven't seen… we have explored it, but we haven't found, like, an IT issue where we can go in and say, in Google Maps, it will now tell you to go a preferred route.

[1:47:16] Jasper County: But what we have been doing is we've been issuing a very specific set of delivery instructions to anybody, at least I know on the CCGT project, if you're delivering to this site, you are to follow these roads, and here are the roads that you are to exclude because they're outside of the improved

[1:47:32] Jasper County: roads and things like that. So, yes, there has been a strong effort in doing that, so we'll continue to work through that.

[1:47:42] Jasper County: Thank you. And don't also… I mean, also, don't forget, coming up in the month of October, we have that October… October stroll up there on 1500, with all the homes there.

[1:47:53] Jasper County: I'm trying to get you the exact dates now. Gotcha. I did take note of that previously, had communicated it to our contractor, to see if we could stop work entirely, heavily limit work on those days, so on and so forth. Appreciate that. And I did, communicate that to the Schaefer Gaspeaker team as well. Perfect, thank you.

[1:48:14] Jasper County: Have you had any, further…

[1:48:19] Jasper County: conversations with, AWS and NDOT and everybody on

[1:48:24] Jasper County: What the temporary solution's gonna be there at 14…

[1:48:27] Jasper County: Or at 49 and 1500? We have had more conversations, not enough to come to a decision, but we have looked at the options of, like, a left turn lane and temporary signal versus other, options at that intersection. So, again, not to the point where it's driven a decision, but we have continued those conversations.

[1:48:47] Jasper County: Okay.

[1:48:48] Jasper County: Yeah.

[1:48:50] Jasper County: Alright.

[1:48:51] Jasper County: All right. Any other questions for Rob?

[1:48:54] Jasper County: When I get those dates hard from her, I'll text them to you. Okay, yeah, that sounds great.

[1:48:58] Jasper County: Thanks, Rob. Alright, thanks, Rob, appreciate it. Appreciate it. Yep.

[1:49:10] Jasper County: It's October 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. It just came through.

[1:49:14] Jasper County: Oh, it's early, huh? Yep. Yes, so it's a Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

[1:49:26] Jasper County: Okay,

[1:49:27] Jasper County: Craig or Ryan, any other business that you'd like to bring up before we offer that to other… county-related

[1:49:37] Jasper County: Questions?

[1:49:45] Jasper County: Were we gonna go back and…

[1:49:47] Jasper County: Was there something like that? UTV, 8DV? Yes, that's it.

[1:49:54] Jasper County: So we, the gentleman brought up that,

[1:50:00] Jasper County: UTVs and ATVs which go faster than 25 mile an hour.

[1:50:05] Jasper County: would like to have the WIP…

[1:50:09] Jasper County: Antennas with the flag, as opposed to the slow-moving

[1:50:12] Jasper County: Vehicle sign that golf cart would have?

[1:50:16] Jasper County: Eric, I think we've kind of talked about that a little bit.

[1:50:20] Jasper County: That'd be something that we should probably,

[1:50:23] Jasper County: Get addressed, and go ahead and get that in place.

[1:50:27] Jasper County: Farmers use them a lot, hunters use them, so forth and so on. I think this came up maybe in the, the May Commissioners meeting, and I still have my notes on it. I haven't had a chance yet to, see where it needs to fit into our ordinance. Okay. And what was it, specifically?

[1:50:44] Jasper County: So it'd be, UTVs and ATVs, All-terrain vehicle, what's UTV?

[1:50:51] Jasper County: Utility vehicle. Utility vehicle, okay. Like gators and side-by-sides and, you know, the… things that farmers use.

[1:50:58] Jasper County: They want to have the… the WIP antenna with the flag.

[1:51:03] Jasper County: As the indicator, what they are, instead of the slow-moving Vehicle sign. Okay.

[1:51:11] Jasper County: I believe when the ordinance was created, it was created around the theory of golf carts.

[1:51:15] Jasper County: Right, so the SMV sign was applicable to the golf carts, or the place to put it. They stayed under 25 mile an hour, it was fitting, and then when

[1:51:24] Jasper County: UTVs, ATVs came into the mix, it just never got updated. So, don't… doesn't the Sheriff's Department permit golf carts? So, there would be a separate permit for UTVAT? They're… they're getting the same permit now. Yeah, I think they're all universal. Yep. Okay, so that permitting process is already… Right, and that's… and that was where the subject came up, because

[1:51:44] Jasper County: if a UTV puts a slow-moving vehicle sign on their vehicle.

[1:51:48] Jasper County: By state statute, they can't go over 25 mile an hour, correct?

[1:51:51] Jasper County: Right.

[1:51:52] Jasper County: But that's our requirement, is that it has it on there, so in lieu of

[1:51:56] Jasper County: putting a guy in double jeopardy, realistically, take the SMV requirement away from the UTV, ATV, and put the WIP on there as the requirement for identification.

[1:52:06] Jasper County: And… and delineate them from a… from a golf cart.

[1:52:12] Jasper County: In other words, a driver can expect they're going faster than 25. Yeah, yeah.

[1:52:16] Jasper County: And it makes a lot of sense on our county roads, you know, with cornfields and such. The WIP, you're gonna see it, and on an asphalt road, you're not gonna see a trail of dust, so…

[1:52:25] Jasper County: It makes them more identifiable, I believe.

[1:52:31] Jasper County: Understood.

[1:52:35] Jasper County: So I guess at the very least, go ahead and put that on next month's agenda. Whether it's totally ready or not, it'll still drive the conversation. So, that sounds good. Are we gonna try to have the solar overlay on next month's agenda, too?

[1:52:49] Jasper County: Will it be ready?

[1:52:51] Jasper County: Data Center? Oh, sorry.

[1:52:54] Jasper County: Well, we talked about solar today. Correct. Data center… data center conversation was tabled at the last PC meeting because it was, the information was provided to us about 25-30 minutes ahead of the meeting, so we as a Planning Commission did not have enough time to review, so we tabled for a month to review the language.

[1:53:12] Jasper County: But you were going to turn the language you were given today into applicable language for the UDO, and that's what I was asking about for next month. Yeah, and so,

[1:53:22] Jasper County: there'll be another notice for the Planning Commission, and

[1:53:26] Jasper County: that will bring the existing approved property into the, overlay. Oh, perfect. And, so I had, written it, that way originally, and then after talking with Mary about the notice for the August meeting, wrote it, to exclude it, and, but it can go back in. It, works either way.

[1:53:45] Jasper County: Perfect.

[1:53:47] Jasper County: Thank you. Alright.

[1:53:49] Jasper County: Brian, anything else from you?

[1:53:51] Jasper County: Not at the moment. I don't know if Sara's online or not. I know in previous meetings, we've had discussions on the monies that we've acquired from a lot of the EDA payments over past time going on,

[1:54:02] Jasper County: going on the, websites and getting advertised, letting… letting the public know where that money's going to. The tracker? Yes. The investment tracker? Do we have any information on that yet?

[1:54:14] Jasper County: I don't know, but let's… let's go ahead and put that on our agenda for next month, and then I can… whether she has anything ready now or not, we definitely get it.

[1:54:23] Jasper County: That'll give me a chance to have… or us have… us to have a conversation with her to… Sure. See if we can get that moving forward. That's a good point. Thank you for bringing that up, Brian.

[1:54:31] Jasper County: Okay, Diana, anything from your perspective, other business?

[1:54:39] Jasper County: Okay?

[1:54:41] Jasper County: Eric, any other business that you're… I, I…

[1:54:45] Jasper County: I have been reminded by Phil Grelick, since February of the need for the county to have an interlocal agreement with, I think Rensselaer and Wheatfield for a grant application, and

[1:54:58] Jasper County: I know that this… there's something in October that there will be, that this will be part of, and I need to look at that more closely and, bring something to the Commissioners in that regard.

[1:55:10] Jasper County: To, coordinate a, an NDOT grant.

[1:55:15] Jasper County: And I don't have it all in front of me, but that's something that…

[1:55:20] Jasper County: will probably be coming back to Commissioners quickly soon. And so, in terms of if there's odds.

[1:55:26] Jasper County: an idea today as to whether to, adjourn or continue the meeting. I would suggest continuing in the event that something needs to be done before the October meeting.

[1:55:35] Jasper County: Okay.

[1:55:37] Jasper County: Thank you. Jack, do we have any permits?

[1:55:40] Jasper County: Yes, we do.

[1:55:47] Jasper County: We have one from NIPSCO, and we… they always ask us to approve this, and it's just for replacing four poles. We don't charge for pole work. It's in the Remington area, and

[1:55:58] Jasper County: That's pretty straightforward.

[1:56:01] Jasper County: We have one from Comcast, and it's pretty easy, too. They just want to bore under our 400 West to go to a family's house.

[1:56:15] Jasper County: Yeah.

[1:56:16] Jasper County: And then we have, one.

[1:56:22] Jasper County: from…

[1:56:25] Jasper County: Bright speed, and that's just… they have to do some work that we're probably requesting for our bridge project number 261.

[1:56:34] Jasper County: And we have another request.

[1:56:37] Jasper County: Bright speed.

[1:56:40] Jasper County: Do our work that we're asking to do for our bridge number 4.

[1:56:44] Jasper County: And we have… Black Path, and they've worked before, and they want to do… some… Internet work along.

[1:56:56] Jasper County: 1450 North, west of 300 East, that's up there, you know, where the big projects are, and LightPath, they also want to…

[1:57:09] Jasper County: do some work on our 300 East.

[1:57:12] Jasper County: North of 10.

[1:57:15] Jasper County: Is that Lightstream, the one that's been having…

[1:57:18] Jasper County: So, have you had any further conversation with their safety?

[1:57:23] Jasper County: like that. Yeah. I'm supposed to be a bunch of other things today.

[1:57:27] Jasper County: Okay.

[1:57:28] Jasper County: They've consolidated their operations to be 6 a.m. to 6 p.m, with cleanup time at 5.

[1:57:35] Jasper County: They have quality control on site daily.

[1:57:38] Jasper County: They have a guy out there who's traffic control, if you will. At least he's… he's watching everybody's back and keeping people out of the line of fire. They've quit putting material on the roads. They're not leaving open holes, over the night.

[1:57:53] Jasper County: It was… it was pretty erratic there for a while.

[1:57:57] Jasper County: They did note that they… there's cracking along 1500 that they're gonna repair, and I told them to contact you, send them your number for that repair.

[1:58:07] Jasper County: So they are making best efforts. AWS has worked with me on getting pressure from them from the top down.

[1:58:15] Jasper County: to get this corrected before they turn and go up 100, as they're going to. We talked a little bit about changing this program, but… A lot. Put some more safeguards in there for…

[1:58:25] Jasper County: Have you given them this? No, no, this was just given to me this morning by Ed, as a suggestion for us to look at. Okay, and he's getting one from the state that's even more stringent, or more in-depth, not stringent.

[1:58:40] Jasper County: Is… is, updated permit an agenda item for next month that we want to… I think it's a good opportunity. Okay, let's get that on there.

[1:58:50] Jasper County: And get a… get it, drafted up so we have a chance to review it.

[1:58:55] Jasper County: approve that. So, do you have any… do you have any reservations about approving

[1:59:00] Jasper County: these other permits from the same… No, I don't. I mean, it seems like we've got a good line of communication. Ed's going to be involved with it now, too. They… what they've told me they were going to do as of Thursday last week, they've done, from what I can see. Okay. I was getting calls from the incidents up there, so… Yeah.

[1:59:19] Jasper County: There's another crew working on 1700, they're kind of meeting in the middle, and it's a totally different atmosphere on 1700, and what they're doing there than what's happening on 1500. Yeah.

[1:59:30] Jasper County: cable cowboys up there. Something like that, yeah. But we're not the only county that has this problem. Oh, yeah. Porter County, York County, and all this reed stuff, oh, they're all pulling their hair out. Yeah. Right, understand.

[1:59:45] Jasper County: And, Jack, from your…

[1:59:48] Jasper County: Is it your expert opinion to approve these permits as presented? Yeah, there's one more, metro.ca.

[1:59:57] Jasper County: Team Fitzel, they were before, and they're gonna do a little internet work on 400 East.

[2:00:04] Jasper County: You know, through the TEFT area. Yeah, I would approve them.

[2:00:09] Jasper County: Craig or Ryan, would one of you want to move and make the motion to approve, Engineer Jack Haberlin to sign on behalf of the Commissioners to approve these permits?

[2:00:18] Jasper County: I move to approve the, buried cable permits.

[2:00:21] Jasper County: Okay, support. Craig makes the motion. Brian supports. Any further discussion?

[2:00:27] Jasper County: Being none, all in favor, as presented, say aye. Aye. Okay. Anything else, Jack? Yeah, I have one more, and I want Jake to come back up, because this has to do with our grant and our, markings and that, and I know how to sign two agreements, and Jake, did you bring a copy of this for everybody to sign?

[2:00:48] Jasper County: I did. Good.

[2:00:51] Jasper County: And then we gotta fax this back into NDOT to keep that grant going.

[2:00:59] Jasper County: Sorry.

[2:01:02] Jasper County: There we go.

[2:01:10] Jasper County: Two originals.

[2:01:16] Jasper County: Put the other one back there. I will explain that. Okay.

[2:01:23] Jasper County: So, I believe you all have seen,

[2:01:26] Jasper County: that contract in email form as it went back and forth to NDOT. That is for construction inspection services related to the striping that will occur on all the intersecting road of State Road 10 through the HSIP funding that we received about a couple years ago now.

[2:01:42] Jasper County: This is what Attorney Beaver was referring to earlier, where I think DeMont and Wheatfield agreed to pick

[2:01:48] Jasper County: portion of these construction and inspection fees. So, that before you has been reviewed by NDOT. You might recall we went through an RFP process for the selection of the services.

[2:01:58] Jasper County: And then went through the NDOT review period, for both the proposal as well as that agreement, for the construction inspection services as required by the federal government for HSIP projects.

[2:02:10] Jasper County: So, the county's contribution to that is 10%, to be $2,700 towards that contract, and I believe part of that is split through the other two agencies as well.

[2:02:22] Jasper County: Okay?

[2:02:25] Jasper County: Alright.

[2:02:26] Jasper County: for Jake's description, and… Refresh of… refresher of… this project?

[2:02:33] Jasper County: In process, would one of you gentlemen want to move and make the motion to approve?

[2:02:37] Jasper County: The signing of this agreement as presented.

[2:02:42] Jasper County: I'll make the motion to approve.

[2:02:45] Jasper County: Brian makes the motion. Do we have a second? Support? Supported by Craig.

[2:02:49] Jasper County: Any further discussion?

[2:02:51] Jasper County: Being none, all in favor as presented, say aye. Aye. Okay.

[2:02:55] Jasper County: That's proof.

[2:02:57] Jasper County: Thank you. And then, yeah, Jack, we'll make sure NDOT gets their copies, and they can begin… they'll issue a notice of authorization and a notice to proceed. That project goes to bid in October, so we would anticipate some work. It's weather-dependent, so they may, do most of that work in the spring.

[2:03:18] Jasper County: Jake, is there anything extra, then, that needs to be done?

[2:03:22] Jasper County: In terms of coordinating among the,

[2:03:25] Jasper County: Jasper County and the other two, municipals? It's that agreement that you were mentioning earlier for the financial contribution. Yeah, that's the only outstanding item. It's just the…

[2:03:35] Jasper County: Three getting together on the financial aid to the match.

[2:03:39] Jasper County: Okay, Diana has to sign it.

[2:03:49] Jasper County: So that sounds like about a page and a half.

[2:03:52] Jasper County: Should be pretty simple, yes.

[2:03:56] Jasper County: You might have some draft language in something that Phil

[2:03:59] Jasper County: I had sent prior to help with some of the other ones we've done like that in the past, so…

[2:04:05] Jasper County: Okay, should be a… maybe less than a page. Excellent, thank you. While we got you up here, either anything else from you or Phil? You want to… Were you gonna hear the owner representative contract for the AWS site today, for the building augmentation and all the various things that

[2:04:21] Jasper County: need to be accomplished for AWS.

[2:04:24] Jasper County: We can? Sure. Okay. I did bring copies of that as well, I'll bring those up.

[2:04:46] Jasper County: Okay, again, so you all would have first received this on August 18th, via email. That is on our boilerplate agreement. This is not federally funded, so it's not on the NDOT boilerplate, but this is for owner representative services related to the AWS site.

[2:05:03] Jasper County: You might recall something similar for the NIPSCO site that we had done prior.

[2:05:08] Jasper County: this one is a little bit more inclusive. There's quite a bit more to do here, and it… primarily, outside of construction compliance monitoring and the project management side, it's a building augmentation, where we would be helping Mary out in terms of code compliance. So both the building and the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing inspections that need to occur in order to allow

[2:05:32] Jasper County: those sites to progress, is all included in this, as well as we're bringing on a sub-consultant or a subcontractor, Skillman, who I think you all are familiar with. I've talked with you about that. They'll be helping us out on the MEP side, so the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing. They'll provide staff under us for that.

[2:05:49] Jasper County: We have already got a job trailer set on site with the help of Ryan to begin all these inspections, code compliance monitoring, et cetera, that are going to be needed, actually, starting this week with the work that's been approved so far on the masquerading and the utility side. Of course, not everything's been approved to move forward, but there are some things already that require inspections for compliance.

[2:06:12] Jasper County: This also includes the equipment around the cameras and the monitoring of all the haul routes.

[2:06:19] Jasper County: that's covered in here. We've elected to go with the,

[2:06:25] Jasper County: More or less trail cameras that are live fed.

[2:06:28] Jasper County: I think there's 2 or 3 that are installed. There's a couple more we're waiting on authorization for the location. This is a little bit more complicated than what it had been on the wind farms, because we've got multiple sites going on. If there are violations, we have to track where they end up. So there may be a hull violation over here, but did it go to one of NIPSCO's sites?

[2:06:48] Jasper County: AWS site, etc. We've got to be able to prove where they went if we're going to enforce any fines.

[2:06:54] Jasper County: Been understood that there's already been several, you know, violations, and we're getting under the road use agreement to start figuring out how to,

[2:07:04] Jasper County: make those…

[2:07:07] Jasper County: fines happen. There's been some conversation about a retainer or some kind of a dollar amount deposited that would be drawn from. These are just the details, but we all know, you know, how that's going to work through the process, similar to the wind farm. So this increased the…

[2:07:22] Jasper County: Scope of what we had negotiated as far as construction compliance funding from the company.

[2:07:28] Jasper County: And you had mentioned that AWS is willing to go over and above.

[2:07:33] Jasper County: Do we have a formal… Process, or how do we delineate that to make sure that

[2:07:38] Jasper County: you know, that that's… that your fees are covered by them… Taken care of. …for this extra work. Right. And does… does some of the building permit fees that we're collecting go to some of this as well? I mean, is that part of…

[2:07:52] Jasper County: exam.

[2:07:53] Jasper County: Okay. I mean, I just don't want to hold up…

[2:07:56] Jasper County: you know, we need to get it figured out with… for Diana's purposes and the Council to know where funding needs to come from, so we're not…

[2:08:03] Jasper County: Having, delays in getting you

[2:08:07] Jasper County: paid for what you're doing. Right, right. So, I think in the original email, I broke down the fees collected around the building permitting, and we have essentially everything related to the site going through the ILP process. The county has a 0.1% fee that's charged to

[2:08:23] Jasper County: the, based on the construction cost that goes to cover the inspections and all those things. So that covers the majority of this contract, and then there were conversations with AWS about the gap. Okay. And there has been commitment to fund a portion of that gap, and we have to continue those conversations, I think, with the three of you included. To get beyond that, we're probably short

[2:08:45] Jasper County: Over the next 42 months, maybe a million short. Okay. So this is a 4-year process, essentially the contract's full. And I, and I know you're probably well aware of it, but just as you're…

[2:08:57] Jasper County: accounting department submits invoices, it'd be great if there's a way to put a note on there so that they know what line item money needs to come from, whether it's out of Mary's building permits, or 49…

[2:09:07] Jasper County: the council lines… anyway, there's a lot coming in, and we want to make sure we keep it all straight. Am I… would you say that would be accurate? Yeah.

[2:09:17] Jasper County: Yeah, so yeah, we need… we need notes in the memo to say what this is for, where it's coming from, and so forth. Absolutely. I think we got that sorted out on NIPSCO, because that original contract got split, you know, when early on, it was kind of…

[2:09:33] Jasper County: both sites, and then things became clearer, so we got it pretty well lined up. But we'll work, certainly, with you to figure out some numbering or some description that's reoccurring. To make it easier.

[2:09:46] Jasper County: Your preference. We can do that by email or through the heart, you know, the mail, whatever's easiest for you.

[2:09:53] Jasper County: There would be, like, a letter in there, or, you know, an email with the attachments.

[2:09:57] Jasper County: Where's it coming from? Okay. Some sort of a direction. It could even be at a PO line, right? The PO number is the account. That's typically how we do it, is we have a job number assigned to every one of these contracts, and then under that, there's often, obviously, a written description, and then we can put a purchase order number under there, and if that's the… and somehow relate that to the line item. Yeah, that would be your account.

[2:10:21] Jasper County: Yep, and we'll take that information from you, and you can provide that, we can keep it

[2:10:25] Jasper County: On the invoice front page.

[2:10:27] Jasper County: Okay, you've… you've been presented this agreement for this additional scope of work.

[2:10:35] Jasper County: Would one of you guys want to move and make the motion to approve as presented?

[2:10:40] Jasper County: Make the motion to approve as presented. Okay. Ryan makes the motion. We have a second. Support. Supported by Craig.

[2:10:47] Jasper County: Any further discussion?

[2:10:49] Jasper County: Other than what we've already had?

[2:10:51] Jasper County: If not, all in favor as presented, say aye. Aye. Okay. Really appreciate the…

[2:10:57] Jasper County: attention to detail you guys are doing. I mean, and I know it's gonna be fast and furious now. When they want something inspected, it's gotta get

[2:11:04] Jasper County: checked so they can continue to move, so… One thing I would say, you touched on, sewer, inspections and pipe, the plumbing and whatnot, like, have you met Jordan Chopps?

[2:11:16] Jasper County: I have not personally. Okay, so we probably need to get you guys together, or whomever's gonna be on the ground out there together with Jordan, get contact information shared. He's our…

[2:11:24] Jasper County: local environmentalists from the sanitary side. Sanitation. On the health department. So he'll be issuing those well permits, he'll be issuing the, septic permits and all that stuff, so somebody can stay in touch with him.

[2:11:38] Jasper County: As that starts to unwind. Absolutely, yeah, it's quite possible Steve McDermott, who's our field representative,

[2:11:45] Jasper County: Former building commissioner, has a lot of experience in this arena. He's gonna be on site every day, you know, making sure things are going down. He quite possibly could have, but if not, we'll make sure that happens. We've got a small team of 10 to 12 people around this at any given time, so it's quite an undertaking, and looking forward to keeping things in order and keeping you guys abreast of things as they move forward.

[2:12:08] Jasper County: Certainly. Thank you. Thank you.

[2:12:10] Jasper County: And we did get Brandon's, activity report as well, so that was well done telling him… express our thanks to him for that. Will do.

[2:12:19] Jasper County: All right, thank you. Okay, thank you.

[2:12:22] Jasper County: Bill, is there anything from you on the other, projects?

[2:12:30] Jasper County: One thing I was going to mention, Commissioner, was the, no-cost supplement agreement for the ADA.

[2:12:37] Jasper County: work that we sent over in August. I didn't know if the board wanted to act on that. There's… essentially, we were able to do the ADA plan and Title VI plan updates, well under budget, and so the remaining budget we were going to use to do the self…

[2:12:54] Jasper County: Evaluations,

[2:12:57] Jasper County: the fairgrounds, the highway department, just for ADA access purposes. And so there's no additional cost beyond the budget that's already been set there. We just wanted to, you know, make that part of the scope formally.

[2:13:13] Jasper County: Okay. That amounts $10,500? Yes.

[2:13:16] Jasper County: That's the approved agreement, yeah. So we're just adding asks, but not…

[2:13:21] Jasper County: budget. Would you… would you be able to, in that… in that budget, be able to cover the Fozzie Center, and DeMott, and the Rensselaer Community Center?

[2:13:30] Jasper County: Senior Center, here also, in your… Study?

[2:13:34] Jasper County: I believe so, yeah.

[2:13:36] Jasper County: Can you think of anything else? For the building whites? I mean, there's the surveyor's office, which…

[2:13:42] Jasper County: Yeah, I think it's pretty…

[2:13:44] Jasper County: Cut and dried, but any of those remote outlying entities would be great if you're going to do that. Yeah, absolutely, and the county does have to do them all. Any county building that the public would be going into has to be included in that.

[2:14:00] Jasper County: Okay, well then, would one of you guys want to…

[2:14:03] Jasper County: Move to make the motion to… Prove Phil's…

[2:14:07] Jasper County: Request here on that little additional task work.

[2:14:12] Jasper County: move to approve the, the additional ADA and Title VI investigation. Okay.

[2:14:18] Jasper County: Motion made by Craig, supported by Ryan. Any further discussion?

[2:14:22] Jasper County: Not all in favor as presented, say aye. Aye. Aye.

[2:14:25] Jasper County: Does… does the… does the Sheriff's Annex morgue need to be looked at? Is that considered a public building?

[2:14:32] Jasper County: Yeah.

[2:14:33] Jasper County: We… it's owned by us.

[2:14:35] Jasper County: Okay, so I guess there's… Yeah, it would be only, I believe, only the portions that the public would be accessing, but yeah. Okay, probably where I says. Okay. Alright. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Phil.

[2:14:48] Jasper County: Ed, do we have anything from Highway? No, not at this time. Okay, thank you. Steve, any comments from the Council?

[2:14:59] Jasper County: just to back up to, Ryan's question there earlier on the EDA money, we've been through a lot in the budget process going up here in the last month or two, so it's delayed us a little, but I'm trying to work with Sarah to get her some figures, and I've been in, and Auditor's also been real cooperative as far as

[2:15:17] Jasper County: we had to rob Peter to pay Paul for a couple… a little bit of time frame there to make sure we get those credited to the right areas that it goes out. Now, when we get to the listing on the website.

[2:15:29] Jasper County: you'll see the, EDA money that came in and how it goes back out, but the part where I don't plan on putting onto that site would be the, compliance fees and those types, because they're not,

[2:15:43] Jasper County: They're there to cover expenses that go back out of there, so that'd be the 1061, 1062, those accounts coming up in that area. So the 49…

[2:15:53] Jasper County: 12 through 4915, 4916 would be accounts that would be EDA money, and Sara's agreed to, or it goes back into the community. …show it, what's going out. Also, in that same aspect.

[2:16:06] Jasper County: We're in the process of putting together a application, paperwork. We've been real good in the past, couple months, three months, whenever, of getting a lot of documentation from the townships and Wheatfield and the ones… and the sheriff's office wanting

[2:16:23] Jasper County: the funding, but we'll also need to, have a, a form in case there's questions or, that the council and Commissioners would have on that. Standardized process, make it a, a simplified form that would be, submitted along with their written documentation that would go to that.

[2:16:42] Jasper County: any questions around that, but I'm trying to work with Sarah on that, and she's kind of waiting on me to get the stuff put together, so she's got access to it, and that's been kind of the holdup right now, but we will be getting it on the website. Yeah, I had heard about the application form, and I think that's a great idea, just to keep it more simplistic and clear for everybody. I'm assuming that will still be available to the general public if they have any

[2:17:05] Jasper County: questions outside of having to file for a public record, but as far as they can go to the courthouse and receive those documents. Once we get it put together here, which it's, not been finalized yet, but I hope to have it in the next week to two weeks, so…

[2:17:17] Jasper County: Right? But, those would be covering those accounts, and, then also on the,

[2:17:23] Jasper County: Plan Commission on the, building fees. We've been working hard to get that established on that 1240 account.

[2:17:31] Jasper County: states put more guidelines in place that will be, enacted on anything after January 1st.

[2:17:38] Jasper County: And, we will have to justify that, those monies that came in on building fees will be

[2:17:45] Jasper County: documented on what goes out and pays on those accounts. So we've had discussion or other, do we put… right now, they've been going in the general fund.

[2:17:54] Jasper County: Do we put those in there before January 1st? We've got a few in there already, but there's some mixed, feelings on that, and we really haven't got a good handle on it yet. Okay. But, those would be definitely fees that, we discussed a while ago as far as the,

[2:18:11] Jasper County: compliance requirements and, justifying the fees that we're putting out there, but it's a new process for all of us, and they keep changing as it goes along. Mary's been real great about working with us on that, and, we're just trying to make a, very simplified as we can

[2:18:31] Jasper County: trail to all the money as it comes in and goes out. Got it. Okay. Thanks for all your work on that. You and the Council, appreciate it. Council and Commissioners have worked great on this thing so far, and I still plan on it to be, so…

[2:18:44] Jasper County: Yeah. Same. Yep. All right. Thank you, Steve. I appreciate it. The piece of the puzzle gets added every time, and I think it's always a benefit. Yeah.

[2:18:51] Jasper County: That's true.

[2:18:53] Jasper County: Stace, anything from insurance? No, sir, unless you guys had any questions.

[2:18:57] Jasper County: Business going down this year?

[2:19:00] Jasper County: That's always gonna be my question, Stace. Is it going down this year? Standish. Standish strut. Yeah, actually small, not bad. Okay. It's tiny. Yeah.

[2:19:11] Jasper County: All right, any… I see Tim is back here from VS. Any comments you care to make? Tim, nice to see you. Only one would be that we're wrapping up the, solar project. You want to come to the front, Tim, if you don't mind, thanks.

[2:19:33] Jasper County: Good morning, Commissioners. Good morning. Good to see you. Good seeing you. As I was saying, we are wrapping up that solar project. We received the as-builds from the developer. We've made some markups as to where some things have changed that needs to be noted, as they originally said that they would have X, but it's changed to Y. The main thing would be

[2:19:56] Jasper County: both the vegetation buffer as well as the opaque fencing. They chose to only go with the vegetation buffer, as your ordinance states, one or the other. They were showing both, so we're going to be presenting this to the planning director to get their sign-off, and then we will get the proper paperwork to get everything closed out.

[2:20:16] Jasper County: Great. Otherwise, that project is getting very close to the end.

[2:20:20] Jasper County: What was the final decision, with the intersection of 1,000 and 300, where it was widened out and…

[2:20:28] Jasper County: Are they taking that back out, or is it staying that way, or… It's getting… yep, it's going up. Okay.

[2:20:38] Jasper County: Yep, I only got some extra material from it. Nice. No, I don't have the easy turn on a semi.

[2:20:45] Jasper County: That's a lot better. I'd say.

[2:20:48] Jasper County: Very good. Well, that's all we had for today. Okay. Thank you much, Tim. Thank you very much, Tim. Thanks.

[2:20:59] Jasper County: Okay, any other business before I go to public comment?

[2:21:04] Jasper County: Jack?

[2:21:09] Jasper County: I've gotten through, I think, 3 of them. I need to get to the last one here.

[2:21:13] Jasper County: Okay.

[2:21:15] Jasper County: Any in-person public comment here this morning from anybody?

[2:21:29] Jasper County: Becky Derrador, 13951 North 500 East, St. Pierre.

[2:21:34] Jasper County: Two questions,

[2:21:37] Jasper County: in the data center area, along 300 East and north of 1350, there's probably, like, 15,

[2:21:46] Jasper County: Office trailers?

[2:21:48] Jasper County: stacking up there? Is that where they're going to be? Are they permanently putting those buildings in right now, or they're just storing them

[2:21:58] Jasper County: There's probably 15 or more. I believe at this point they're just storing, and there is… I believe that's where yours is at for BF&S, but I don't think they're all going to stay there.

[2:22:07] Jasper County: That's just what I'm… They're delaying them right now. They're staging right now? Yes. I know that it's… Yeah, right. There's a asphalt driveway going back to them, so some of them may or may not, I don't know, I don't have that answer directly. Jake, they are going to submit what's being referred to as Trailer City site plan?

[2:22:24] Jasper County: And that's yet to be reviewed and approved. Okay. Okay. All right. And then a couple months ago, you signed some major agreements, about these projects, and I believe you said they'd be on the website. Are they on the website yet? No, that was just a conversation we had with Councilmember Steve Jordan. They're working on getting that taken care of.

[2:22:43] Jasper County: I don't… I wouldn't dare put a date on it today, but…

[2:22:46] Jasper County: I would hope it's in there by November.

[2:22:51] Jasper County: Okay. Because it takes a minute to develop all that and get all that information straightened out and put online. Okay.

[2:22:58] Jasper County: So, when was the last con… Steve, when was the last conversation you had on getting that developed with Sara?

[2:23:04] Jasper County: Okay.

[2:23:05] Jasper County: In fact, different guys going out.

[2:23:10] Jasper County: Correct. Yep. Hopefully in October, by October, mid-October. I'll let him put the date on it, I don't want to be wrong. So those were, some agreements, and then you also had, tax abatements, right? I mean, there were…

[2:23:27] Jasper County: Probably, like, 5 different agreements you sign, 3 and… maybe 3 and 3, or…

[2:23:34] Jasper County: Correct, all that information could be left privy on there. In fact, I think there was even conversation about backlogging some of it to what the dollars were spent, through EDA wind projects, and even some solar development, so it would…

[2:23:46] Jasper County: with any luck, I think the idealistic position would be to show all of it, but it's just got to get developed out that way, make sure it's correct before it hits the general public. All right, thanks. Yes, ma'am. Thank you.

[2:23:58] Jasper County: Anyone else in person?

[2:24:06] Jasper County: I'm with World & Co.

[2:24:07] Jasper County: And, you guys graciously granted us a grant at the beginning of the year, and I just want to give a quick update.

[2:24:15] Jasper County: We have, since November,

[2:24:19] Jasper County: approximately, we're a little more than that since I created this, but we have served over 60 women.

[2:24:26] Jasper County: Approximately 40 of them from Jasper County. We serve 4 counties.

[2:24:32] Jasper County: So that's about 66%. We've housed, 6 women. All but one of… all but two of them were Jasper County residents.

[2:24:43] Jasper County: One of them has successfully graduated. She has her own transportation, independent living, and is in the process of receiving her children back into her home.

[2:24:54] Jasper County: One of them will graduate, october, November.

[2:24:59] Jasper County: As long as,

[2:25:02] Jasper County: her final piece falls into place. It'll depend whether it's October or November. We have two elderly that are with us right now that were housing instability,

[2:25:13] Jasper County: shouldn't take them long for us to get them on their feet. We are collaborating with, community resources.

[2:25:22] Jasper County: trying not to duplicate things, but using what Jasper County and the other counties already have to offer. We're just filling in the gap. That's our mission, is to break the cycle.

[2:25:33] Jasper County: Bridge the gap, restore hope to these women that are in crisis. We do that through the three programs. We have, used your grant specifically for our housing needs.

[2:25:46] Jasper County: That is what we requested it for. To this date, the end of September, I believe, our usage of that grant will be…

[2:25:58] Jasper County: a total of $13,520. So throughout the whole year, we're still maintaining a lot of that. We do,

[2:26:07] Jasper County: Fundraising, donors, sponsors, grants, if you've…

[2:26:13] Jasper County: been around, you've seen us at every festival, every opportunity that there is to be out there. We have a 5K coming up in October, and we have a conference coming up in October that will be fairly huge money makers for the nonprofit.

[2:26:30] Jasper County: We just added two new people to our board, so now instead of just a minimal board, we are a full board. And that's Kay Jordan and, Jamie Scherer.

[2:26:40] Jasper County: From here in Rensselaer. So we are operating at a…

[2:26:45] Jasper County: both, capacity there. And then, we are…

[2:26:52] Jasper County: Seeing a huge need, so our house is full.

[2:26:55] Jasper County: And we have a waiting list of about 12 women right now. Wow. But we're seeing a need that we didn't anticipate in the beginning, and that was women with children.

[2:27:06] Jasper County: We only serve women.

[2:27:08] Jasper County: Because our housing doesn't allow for us.

[2:27:11] Jasper County: to do both at the same time. So, we are looking to expand at this point.

[2:27:15] Jasper County: Because women with children is… it's just an extreme need, especially in Jasper County. We are working with the Crisis Center to try to figure out the best way

[2:27:27] Jasper County: To do that, as they house temporary.

[2:27:29] Jasper County: And we want to, help fill in that gap for them when they cannot find somewhere for them to go. So that's where we're at, that's what we're doing.

[2:27:39] Jasper County: And we just wanted to give you an update and tell you thank you again, being a grassroots nonprofit.

[2:27:46] Jasper County: we couldn't have done it without you guys supporting us, so… Thank you for the work and the passion you're doing, and it's… it's gonna make… make a big difference here, so… We hope so. That's our prayer. Well, thank you for the update. Appreciate it so much. Thank you.

[2:28:02] Jasper County: Is there anybody online who wants to make a comment?

[2:28:05] Jasper County: Okay.

[2:28:07] Jasper County: Jen.

[2:28:13] Jasper County: This was it.

[2:28:17] Jasper County: In the bottom one will say.

[2:29:05] Jasper County: Where are you just have to unmute yourself?

[2:29:09] Jasper County: Hello? Okay, we can hear you.

[2:29:13] Maryann Mahlen: Oh, thanks.

[2:29:21] Jasper County: Go ahead.

[2:29:25] Maryann Mahlen: I think some good questions for these conferences is post-sponsoring conference.

[2:29:31] Maryann Mahlen: And an agenda from the conference. Who were the speakers, the instructors.

[2:29:38] Maryann Mahlen: What were the key takeaways?

[2:29:41] Maryann Mahlen: Of course, the place and time.

[2:29:44] Jasper County: Mary Ann, you're…

[2:29:45] Maryann Mahlen: How cute?

[2:29:46] Jasper County: You're… you're breaking up there a little bit, so maybe start… start your question over again, or your comment over, please.

[2:29:56] Maryann Mahlen: Oh, okay, for the conference questions, who is sponsoring and funding the conference?

[2:30:01] Maryann Mahlen: please provide an agenda, you know, hand in an agenda from the conference, who were the speakers, the instructors, what was the key takeaways from the conference, and the place, the time, and of course, the cost to the county of, of these conferences.

[2:30:20] Maryann Mahlen: And also, another question about the new UDO definitions, are those posted on the website? Will those be posted on the website, the new UDO definitions, so they can be found quickly?

[2:30:32] Maryann Mahlen: And also, at the next private JCE video meeting, with Commissioners on Traeger and also, Council,

[2:30:43] Maryann Mahlen: France, please address NIPSCO's DEI hiring practices, which have led to this mess we are seeing recently. Now it's in the news, and just so you realize that, again, the JCO is listed as a government board.

[2:30:59] Maryann Mahlen: And should, therefore.

[2:31:02] Maryann Mahlen: Let me be open to the public. And, but yeah, and I also want to just point out that if you look at a lot of the mess that's happening at NIPSCO, it just so happens to coincide with the, Blackstone 19.9% plus of

[2:31:18] Maryann Mahlen: the NIPSCO stock?

[2:31:20] Maryann Mahlen: and NYSource, and just so you know, NYSource, the CEO is… lives in Florida, and comes in on a private jet. So.

[2:31:31] Maryann Mahlen: to get to, the Maryville location. Just so you know that… It's because

[2:31:37] Maryann Mahlen: A lot of us don't predict how much, of…

[2:31:42] Maryann Mahlen: NISCO and MySource is basically, firms, running it. Thank you, and it should not be in any public utility. Thank you. And there's also a case that just

[2:31:58] Maryann Mahlen: was found, there's a case in Florida where

[2:32:03] Maryann Mahlen: By a federal judge that we can sue these equity companies for what they've done as a cartel to raise all of our rates

[2:32:15] Maryann Mahlen: positive.

[2:32:17] Maryann Mahlen: destroyed it, so… Let's go.

[2:32:21] Maryann Mahlen: Do you have any firms have just…

[2:32:24] Maryann Mahlen: Bringing this to your attention, and thank you.

[2:32:28] Jasper County: Okay, thank you, Mary Ann. You're… you're continuing to break up, so we… you had a few minutes there. Thank you, as always, for your thoughtful comments, and we will… we will…

[2:32:38] Jasper County: take these into consideration. Thank you.

[2:32:41] Jasper County: Was there anybody else online?

[2:32:43] Jasper County: No? Okay.

[2:32:45] Jasper County: Looks like we need to have a motion to continue the meeting, is that correct? Is that…

[2:32:51] Jasper County: the thought.

[2:32:54] Jasper County: Actually, I think that, the Commissioners can, orally approve a, interlocal agreement with, Wheatfield and Rensselaer to share the costs of the,

[2:33:04] Jasper County: Of the application that, was…

[2:33:09] Jasper County: What was this project? It's a striping project.

[2:33:13] Jasper County: the flooding is in October, and we'll take it from there, and some of the street zones, right, are, trees along State Road. Okay, and that's a… to,

[2:33:25] Jasper County: coordinate among the, the other two, entities within the county, the sharing of the costs. Okay. So we can, we can… Orally approved. We can orally approve that now, and then not have to reconvene. Okay. All right, per Attorney Beaver's legal opinion.

[2:33:43] Jasper County: Would one of you gentlemen want to orally… make a motion to orally approve?

[2:33:47] Jasper County: The, cost-sharing agreement with the interested parties concerning the road striping project.

[2:33:56] Jasper County: I'll make a motion to orally approve, both communities Rensselaer and Wheatfield for the road striping projects on 10K.

[2:34:02] Jasper County: All right, Ryan makes the motion, do we have a second?

[2:34:04] Jasper County: Support? Supported by Craig. Any further discussion?

[2:34:08] Jasper County: Being none, all in favor as presented, say aye. Aye. Okay.

[2:34:13] Jasper County: then I guess at that point, Unless there's something else?

[2:34:16] Jasper County: would entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved.

[2:34:20] Jasper County: Ryan makes the motion. We have a second. Support. Supported by Craig. All in favor of adjournment, say aye. Aye. All right, we are done. Thank you.

9/8/2026 Jasper County Commissioners

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