VANDERBURGH COUNTY

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

APRIL 5, 2005

The Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners met in session this 5^th day of April, 2005 at 3:30 p.m. in room 301 of the Civic Center Complex with President Suzanne Crouch presiding.

President Crouch: Good afternoon. Welcome to the Vanderburgh County Commission meeting, April 5^th. We will start with introductions to my far right.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Ted Ziemer, Vanderburgh County Attorney.

Commissioner Musgrave: Commissioner, Cheryl Musgrave.

Commissioner Nix: Commissioner, Bill Nix.

President Crouch: Commissioner, Suzanne Crouch.

Madelyn Grayson: Madelyn Grayson, Recording Secretary.

Bill Fluty: Bill Fluty, County Auditor.

Jennifer Wigginton: Jennifer Wigginton, Superintendent of County Buildings.

President Crouch: Please join us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

(The Pledge of Allegiance was given.)

President Crouch: Our first item of business is approval of prior minutes.

Commissioner Musgrave: Move approval.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered.

President Crouch: The next item on our agenda is we invite boards or commissions that we make appointments to, to come and make a presentation not only to the Commissioners, but to the public who are watching this broadcast. We are pleased and honored to have with us today ARC. I know that Deidra Conner will start, and has a number of people here that will tell us a little bit about what ARC is and how they contribute to our community.

Deidra Conner: Thank you for inviting us today. We’re excited to be here, and really pleased to have this partnership with the County Commissioners. I originally planned to start the presentation and spend a little time with you, but I wised up pretty quickly after I talked with the folks that I’ve brought with me. They are really the ones who can tell you much more about one of our adult programs at Evansville ARC. So, I’m going to turn it over right away, and I’ll pick it up at the end. Cindy?

Cindy Blackford: Hi, I’m Cindy Blackford. I’m a QMRP Program Coordinator at Evansville ARC. Basically we kind of laugh and say that my job is a jack of all trades, and probably a master of none. But, some of the things that we do at Evansville ARC is we have adults that come to the training center on Virginia Street, and we provide programming, day services. Individuals are there usually from 8:00 to 2:00, and we do a variety of things there. Annie is one of the individuals that comes with us, comes to see us, and we help with, basically, enabling individuals to become more independent. To be able to be in the community and to be a part of the community. We have individuals who go out and volunteer at some of the nursing facilities, at some of the churches. Annie volunteers a couple of days a week at the Child Life Center. What I’m going to do is let Annie go ahead and do her presentation, and then if you guys have any questions, I’ll be happy to answer those too.

President Crouch: Thank you. Welcome, Annie.

Annie Hazelip: Hi, my name is Annie. I am using a Dyna Vox to help me speak. I can touch it to control it, or use a special button on my left to control it. I have been working a couple of days a month to read stories to preschool children. With the help of ARC staff and program I also hope to soon be able to read nursery rhymes and lead a few nursery songs.

Cindy Blackford: The Dyna Vox that Annie is using today, we receive a grant, a communications grant....I’m sorry, I’m not used to this. We receive a communications grant that we’re able to have speech language evaluations done on individuals to see if there are different communication devices that we can use to help them to communicate to us what their needs and what their wants are. Because it’s very frustrating for individuals not to be able to express what’s going on into their life for us. So, you know, and for us to be able to enable them to be more independent. So, we have these evaluations done, and then they either use the Dyna Vox like Annie has, or there’s other communication devices where they just take their hand and press buttons to have, like one word commands. Like if they’re needing a drink, or if they need to go to the bathroom, they can push those buttons to let us know this.

President Crouch: Thank you, Annie. That was great.

Commissioner Nix: Thank you.

Deidra Conner: Thanks, Annie. You did a great job. This is just one of the many programs that we offer at Evansville ARC. I understand that we will be back, probably once a quarter to share a little bit more with you about each of our programs. The ARC started in 1954. So, we just celebrated our 50^th anniversary. We are very proud of that. We’re also very pleased that the County Commissioners have been partners with us since 1964. So, we have a long standing relationship. We now serve over 1,000 families and individuals every year. We started out with 15 families who formed the ARC because there were no services for their children in the community. So, we’ve really grown, with your assistance. The funding that you provide helps to give extra funding for staffing, programs, supplies, helps to have supplemental programs like this, which will really help individuals like Annie become much more independent. I think if you came and visited the facility, as Bill did a few weeks ago, and talk to some of the folks that we serve, you will see that adults, even with significant disabilities want to be independent. They want to be involved in the community, and they want to be active citizens in the Evansville area. They are very proud to live here. So, we will talk more in upcoming months about other programs and services that we offer to help adults become more independent in the community. We still have our children’s programs, which is kind of where it all started for the ARC. So, we’ll share more with you about that as the months progress. Do you have any questions for us? Or for Annie? Or Karen Schapker, her support staff?

Commissioner Musgrave: No, it’s just really very impressive, and thank you for coming.

Deidra Conner: Thank you. You’re welcome to come and visit any time.

President Crouch: Thank you very much.

Commissioner Nix: Thank you.

President Crouch: Thanks, Annie.

Commissioner Musgrave: Bye.

President Crouch: Next item on our agenda is an ordinance concerning parks and recreation advisory committee. This was, this ordinance has been revised at the request of the Burdette Advisory Board. In it, really the only change from the prior ordinance is that this asks that all board members have attendance, and if they have three unexcused attendances, then they would be asked to not participate on the board. If we could, if it’s the pleasure of this Commission, we could pass this today if we have a motion to waive the second reading.

Commissioner Musgrave: So moved.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: Roll call vote please. Commissioner Musgrave?

Commissioner Musgrave: Yes.

President Crouch: Commissioner Nix?

Commissioner Nix: Yes.

President Crouch: I vote yes. Now, a motion to pass on first reading.

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Musgrave: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: Commissioner Musgrave?

Commissioner Musgrave: Yes.

President Crouch: Commissioner Nix?

Commissioner Nix: Yes.

President Crouch: I vote yes. This ordinance passes.

President Crouch: Our next item are contracts, agreements, and leases. We have a number. So, we will take them in order. The County Auditor has a KRONOS software maintenance agreement.

Commissioner Musgrave: Move approval, and I would like to do the first three, the County Auditor, County Clerk, and Legal Aid Society. Move approval of those contracts.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered.

Commissioner Musgrave: I understand that there were questions regarding the Sheriff’s Phoenix Imaging. Were those questions resolved, Mr. Ziemer?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: No. I don’t....have you, well, we haven’t had a chance, I don’t think yet, to discuss this with the Sheriff. It’s actually a one page contract for, I forget the amount of money involved, but it’s thousands of dollars, and it doesn’t really explain what the duties of the contracting entity are supposed to do. I think it’s a contract that has been used in the past, but we just weren’t satisfied that if we didn’t have some further discussion about it that it would spell this out a little bit better.

Commissioner Musgrave: Okay.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: So, we suggest that it be waived until the next meeting.

Commissioner Musgrave: Then, unless the Sheriff has any comments to make, I see he’s in the audience today, I move to defer this until next week. He’s saying that that’s alright. So, that’s my motion.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered.

President Crouch: Superior Court.

Commissioner Musgrave: Move approval of the Superior Court Home Verification Officer.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered.

President Crouch: County Engineer is next on our agenda with action items, and we have a number of bids to open, and quotes.

Commissioner Musgrave: He’s out in the hallway.

President Crouch: He’ll be joining us shortly. We have open bids for VC–

John Stoll: For Lyle Road?

President Crouch: Lyle Road, correct.

John Stoll: Then also some erosion repairs on Lynch, and –

Commissioner Musgrave: An underdrain retrofitting.

John Stoll: Pardon?

Commissioner Musgrave: Underdrain retrofitting.

John Stoll: Yes.

Commissioner Musgrave: Oh, that’s on Lynch. Then the St. Joseph Avenue Bridge.

Commissioner Nix: Right.

John Stoll: Right.

Commissioner Musgrave: So, will one motion do for all three of those?

President Crouch: That would be fine.

Commissioner Musgrave: So moved.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So, the County Attorney will open those bids and quotes, and we will come back to him later in the meeting.

President Crouch: Evansville Plating Works, Vanderburgh County tax code consolidation.

Commissioner Musgrave: Move to consolidate the codes as listed on the paperwork in your packet.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered.

Commissioner Musgrave: I have one additional item to bring up about this. There should be someone here from the brownfields department to answer any questions, if the Commissioners have any. The parcels we are moving toward a sale, an eventual sale. It’s been brought to our attention that the county owns all except for one of the parcels on that block. The suggestion has been made that we move to acquire this parcel. In order to make a decision and move on, I thought that I would bring it up today to ask you whether or not you wanted to move to acquire this parcel. It has an assessed valuation of some $24,000, but I understand that when the city contacted the owner, he thought that that evaluation was somewhat low. So, my guess is he’d be asking more than that. Do you have any comments that you care to make?

Jane Reel: Not unless you have any questions.

President Crouch: I guess, my question would be what is the advantage to the county purchasing property to turn around and sell?

Jane Reel: The advantage that I would see is that you would have a full block for development, instead of just most of the block excluding one parcel.

Commissioner Nix: Which part of the lot is the parcel on, the one that’s not ours.

Jane Reel: It’s on the southwest corner.

Commissioner Nix: So, it’s across from where the billboard is then, to the west?

Jane Reel: To the west of the billboard location, yes.

Commissioner Nix: Okay. How big a parcel is it?

Commissioner Musgrave: Like 40' by 100' or something, with a two story frame. So, I feel that once we consolidate the codes, we’re also taking action to vacate the alley, vacate the little diagonal street, add the little grassy lot to this whole thing. My feeling is that once we have one whole parcel for sale with one little corner out of it, that the purchaser of that could entertain whether or not to buy this additional lot. So, my personal feeling is to just let that go, but I know that that’s a decision for us.

Commissioner Nix: It would make sense to me to do that. It could end up taking six months to a year to acquire a piece of property like that. To hold this up, I don’t think it would be in the best interest of the county to do.

President Crouch: Motion?

Commissioner Musgrave: So, do you want to have the attorney approach the owner?

President Crouch: You know, that might makes sense is to have the County Attorney at least just make an initial effort before we just–

Commissioner Musgrave: Make a decision.

President Crouch: –before we just rule it out totally. So, perhaps he could make an overture on behalf of the County Commission?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: I can do it.

Commissioner Musgrave: Would you be sure that he gets the information he needs to do that?

Jane Reel: Sure.

Commissioner Musgrave: Okay, thank you.

President Crouch: Next item on our agenda is Evansville Police Department waiver of rental fees and overtime charges. There are actually three requests for that, and in the past it has been our practice to waive the rental fee, but not the overtime.

Commissioner Musgrave: Move to waive the rental fee, but not the overtime for the three pending requests from the EPD.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered.

President Crouch: Next, Mr. Lawrence, Purchasing.

Phil Lawrence: Madame Chairman, Commissioners, I would like to at this time ask your permission to advertise for Burdette Park food bid. That’s VC9903-2005. It will be advertised on April 8^th, April 15^th, and then opened here April 26^th.

President Crouch: At 3:30?

Phil Lawrence: At 3:30.

Commissioner Musgrave: Move to advertise the Burdette Park food bid.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered.

Phil Lawrence: The second two, award VC-02-2005, which is the tax bills to Relizon for $75,000.

Commissioner Nix: Move to approve VC-02-2005, tax bills.

Commissioner Musgrave: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered.

Phil Lawrence: Last is VC-07-2005, Burdette Park t-shirt bids. The low bidders are all the highlighted ones. I would like to award as highlighted in the bid tabulation. So, actually all three would get a small portion; Siegel’s, Southwest Grafix, and Chips.

Commissioner Musgrave: Move approval of the highlighted document for the t-shirt bids, the shirts for Burdette Park.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered.

Phil Lawrence: Thank you.

President Crouch: Thank you, Mr. Lawrence.

President Crouch: Next, department heads. Only those department heads that have business that requires action on behalf of this Commission need to appear at this time. County Engineer?

John Stoll: I have three items. The first one is a recommendation to award contract VC05-03-02, concrete repairs of bridge 290 on Burkhardt Road to J.H. Rudolph. This is for $16,500.

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Musgrave: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered.

John Stoll: The second item that I have is a letter to send to the commission of INDOT to request that they accept the Lynch and I-164 interchange for maintenance. This has been requested in the past, and no action has ever been taken. So, this is another attempt to try and get that finally resolved.

President Crouch: Did you copy Mr. Grand?

John Stoll: Yes.

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Musgrave: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered.

John Stoll: The last item that I have is a travel request for me to go to a meeting with DNR on April 15^th. This will be in Bloomington, Indiana. The meeting is in regard to the DNR permits required for the Green River Road project. I would have gotten this on the consent agenda, but I didn’t receive the e-mail until yesterday in regard to the meeting time and date.

Commissioner Musgrave: Move approval of the late travel request.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered.

John Stoll: That’s all I have, unless you have any questions on anything else. Thanks.

President Crouch: Thank you, Mr. Stoll.

President Crouch: County Highway.

Mike Duckworth: I have three brief items. First of all I wanted to report that I spoke with Mr. Ziemer this morning in regards to the snow ordinance, and his office has received the information, and that is a work in progress. We’ll report back at a later date.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: It isn’t likely to snow anymore.

Mike Duckworth: As soon as he says that I’ll have six inches this weekend, you know. The next thing I would like to have action on has to do with in some recent job responsibilities I’ve had, and we’ve tried this, and I think this is a good thing for the county to consider, and that is having a pothole blitz. Basically, what happens during that time period is that our crews would basically attack the potholes in our area that snow and deterioration over the winter months have caused to our pavement. We are going to announce today, and we’ll send out a release to the media and to the general public that starting next Monday, April 11^th, folks can start calling our office at 435-5777, or send us e-mails and we’ll advertise, of course, the county e-mail address that they can send that to.

Commissioner Musgrave: Go ahead and say what that address is.

Mike Duckworth: Vanderburghgov.org, or you can just send it to mduckworth@vanderburghgov.org. We’ll get that information as a complaint at our location. Remember it needs to be outside the city limits. We will then make our list and send our crews out starting on Tuesday, April 12^th, through Friday the 15^th. I’m happy to also announce that on the twelfth we’ll be adding three employees to our crews, our three County Commissioners will be joining us, and we’ll have to have a little bit of a time training and those kinds of things. But, we’ll probably do that somewhere in the late morning hours, and we’ll send that information out. But, we want folks to know that we’re initially going to attack some of the smaller areas, and then at later meetings we’ll be establishing a road and paving list to handle some of the bigger problems in the county. That’s all I have.

Commissioner Musgrave: So, that phone number was 435-5777, or mduckworth@vanderburghgov.org for all the pothole complaints outside city limits.

Mike Duckworth: Outside city limits, right.

Commissioner Musgrave: Okay.

President Crouch: And here’s Mr. Ziemer. Maybe he wants to join us.

Mike Duckworth: Well, I don’t know if he does or not, but he’s here. Thank you.

President Crouch: You’re welcome. Burdette? Nothing? Alright.

President Crouch: County Highway Superintendent.

Jennifer Wigginton: I have three items. My weekly report to add to the consent items, a late travel request for the Health Department to be added to the consent items, and a contract to be signed for the Old Courthouse for J.E. Shekell to make certifications and inspections on the backflow system of the generator.

President Crouch: Would someone care to amend the consent items to include those three?

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Musgrave: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered. I apologize, it’s County Building Superintendent.

Jennifer Wigginton: No problem.

President Crouch: You all look so much alike.

Jennifer Wigginton: Thank you.

President Crouch: Next on our agenda, County Attorney. Mr. Ziemer, are you ready to read the bids? Or do you want us to come back to you?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Not quite, but I do have just one item. We did advise you that the Scott Township standards are ready for approval. We advised you by e-mail that the Scott Township standards are ready for approval. I don’t know if you have those.

President Crouch: They are on the consent items, yes.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Okay, they’re on the consent items. Okay, great. Thanks.

President Crouch: We’ll come back to Mr. Ziemer later in the meeting.

President Crouch: New business. Old jail detention, just a little note to the Commissioners, I met with Judge Niemeier and Council President Lloyd Winnecke, we had a meeting about just initial discussion of the juvenile detention and the future of that. We all decided to revisit the PMSI report and get back together and kind of go from there. So, I’ll keep you abreast. Really not much to report in that area.

Commissioner Musgrave: Okay.

President Crouch: Next item, Old Courthouse ordinance. We actually have two ordinances concerning the Old Courthouse. One regarding the Old Courthouse Foundation, which was enacted in 2001 when the Conrad Baker Foundation turned over the operation of that building to the county. The second ordinance is for the Old Courthouse Advisory Management ordinance, and that is to establish a group to kind of look at the Old Courthouse operation and make recommendations to the County Commissioners. I’ve been meeting with Mr. Au, who is the historic preservation officer, who’s very involved with the Old Courthouse, since the beginning of the year, and have come to the conclusion that perhaps one board would be best suited for addressing the Old Courthouse. That board would more than likely be the Foundation, which would be a not-for-profit, which would allow them to receipt in monies on behalf of the Old Courthouse for renovation. But, we also feel that that particular ordinance needs to be expanded upon to where they’re giving perhaps responsibilities that the advisory committee had in the future, and that is to look at the whole operation of that facility, and make recommendations to the County Commissioners. So, not only would they be able to receipt in and spend money that is not county money, but they would also be able to make recommendations to us. If that makes sense to the Commissioners, I would like to ask that the County Attorney move in that direction and try to draft something up for us.

Commissioner Musgrave: So, you’re looking to make one board out of two, and breathe new life into the board itself, and perhaps have it do some fundraising and help set the direction and maintenance of the building itself?

President Crouch: Right. Mr. Au indicated that in Allen County their foundation was very active in raising monies for the renovation of their courthouse, and actually contributed huge amounts of money. Millions of dollars of money. It seems reasonable that we ought to look at moving in that direction. I believe the county has, and I’m sure the Auditor can get that for us, but I believe we’ve expended in excess of probably seven or eight million dollars on the Old Courthouse to date. With the roof, the new roof and then all the energy savings. We need to make a determination of how much more do we need to put in, does it make sense to do that, and then what is the future of that historic building. So, hopefully, this will be a step in that direction.

Commissioner Nix: Historic preservation would play a big part in that then too, as far as the process?

President Crouch: Yes, I believe that would be their role.

Commissioner Musgrave: So, we’re looking for some community minded people who are also interested in fundraising for the Old Courthouse.

President Crouch: That’s right.

Commissioner Musgrave: Okay, step on up. I’ll make a motion that this be turned over to the attorney to work on amending or creating a new ordinance out of the two existing ones.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered. Last new business, a resolution concerning Riverboat taxes. Does either of the Commissioners care to comment? This is similar to what the City Council passed at their meeting yesterday. It is asking that our delegation and the legislative delegation not change the law, which would in turn reduce the revenues to the county that we get from Riverboat. That’s about $2.1 million dollars that the county does receive, and that money is spent on economic–

Bill Fluty: Economic development, infrastructure/drainage, and initiative based–

President Crouch: Welfare to work.

Bill Fluty: Welfare to work, right.

President Crouch: Work based initiative.

Bill Fluty: Yes.

Commissioner Musgrave: That program provides child care funding for parents who are going back into the workforce, right?

President Crouch: That is correct. That is where the majority of their money is spent.

Commissioner Musgrave: So, that service, if my memory serves correctly, several thousand children a year are taken care of while their parents begin work.

President Crouch: Uh-huh.

Commissioner Musgrave: Well, I think that’s a very important program, and it’s all funded by the Riverboat. It was created when the Riverboat funding came. What are you hearing from Indianapolis? Where’s the likely spot that they’re going to put this initiative?

President Crouch: I don’t know.

Commissioner Musgrave: I guess, I had heard that they were going to put it in a budget bill.

President Crouch: I don’t know.

Commissioner Musgrave: If they do that, then, I, you know, it seems to be it might take on a life of it’s own. Well, move to approve the letter.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

Commissioner Musgrave: Resolution, I’m sorry.

Commissioner Nix: Yes, that’s a resolution.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered. Is there any other new business that the Commissioners have?

Commissioner Musgrave: No.

President Crouch: Any old business?

Commissioner Musgrave: No.

President Crouch: We could come back to the County Attorney if you’re ready to read the bids and the quotes?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: I am. For the underdrain retrofitting, CCC of Evansville, $16,420.04. Deig Brothers, $13,869.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: For Lyle Road elevation and widening, Koberstein Construction, $219,016.50. Kieffer Brothers Construction, $158,038.09. Deig Brothers, $226,802.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: For the St. Joseph Avenue Bridge number 1922 repair, CCC of Evansville, these are with a base quote plus optionals. The base quote of CCC of Evansville was $23,692.77. With all of the optionals that would rise to $27,996.05. Deig Brothers base quote is $16,512. With all of the optionals being exercised it would be $23,417.

Commissioner Musgrave: Move to take the bids under advisement.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered. Anything else, Mr. Ziemer?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: No.

President Crouch: At this time on the agenda this is the opportunity for the public to make comment to the Commissioners. Is there anyone in the audience that cares to comment at this time? We do have a number of students here. Can you all stand and tell us where you’re from?

Unidentified: North High School.

President Crouch: All of you?

Unidentified: Yes.

President Crouch: Well, welcome.

Commissioner Musgrave: Thanks for coming.

Commissioner Nix: Thank you.

President Crouch: Perhaps one of you will be sitting up here one day. Seeing no one else in the audience at this time–

President Crouch: –consent items, with the amendments?

Commissioner Nix: I’ll make a....go ahead.

Commissioner Musgrave: No, no, go ahead.

Commissioner Nix: I’ll make a motion that we approve the consent items.

Commissioner Musgrave: With the amendments?

Commissioner Nix: With the amendments, yes.

Commissioner Musgrave: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered. There being no further business.

Commissioner Musgrave: Move to adjourn.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Crouch: All in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Crouch: So ordered. We will commence briefly with our Drainage Board meeting that we are reconvening from two weeks prior.

(The meeting was adjourned at 4:00 p.m.)

CONSENT ITEMS:

         Employment Changes:

         Burdette Park (3)            County Highway (1)        County Clerk (4)

         Sheriff Department (2)    VCCC (1)                        Area Plan (1)

         Travel Requests:

         Legal Aid (1)                   Treasurer (1)                  Health Department (4)

         County Engineer (1)

         Commissioners:

         Jail Construction Payment No. 55: $907,965.54

         Old Courthouse Energy Savings Payment No. 11: $171,033

         Prosecutor: Revised Federal Annual Certification Report.

         Scott Township Assessor/Trustee: 2005 Poor Relief Standards.

         Department Head Reports:

         Burdette Park                 County Engineer             County Highway

         Ozone Officer                 SWCD                            Veterans Service

         CIO                                 Supt. of Buildings

         Those in Attendance:

         Suzanne Crouch             Cheryl Musgrave            Bill Nix

         Bill Fluty                          Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.          Jennifer Wiggington

         Madelyn Grayson           Deidra Conner                Cindy Blackford

         Annie Hazelip                           John Stoll                        Mike Duckworth

         Others Unidentified         Members of Media

VANDERBURGH COUNTY

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

Suzanne M. Crouch, President

Cheryl A.W. Musgrave, Vice President

Bill Nix, Member

Recorded and transcribed by Madelyn Grayson.