VANDERBURGH COUNTY

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

APRIL 18, 2006

The Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners met in session this 18^th day of April, 2006 at 3:30 p.m. in room 301 of the Civic Center Complex with President Cheryl Musgrave presiding.

President Musgrave: Good afternoon. I would like to call to order the April 18, 2006 meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Vanderburgh County. We’ll start with introductions to my right.

B.J. Farrell: B.J. Farrell, Superintendent of County Buildings.

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

Commissioner Nix: Bill Nix, County Commissioner.

President Musgrave: Cheryl Musgrave, County Commissioner.

Commissioner Shetler: Tom Shetler, County Commissioner.

Madelyn Grayson: Madelyn Grayson, Recording Secretary.

Bill Fluty: Bill Fluty, County Auditor.

President Musgrave: If you would please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

(The Pledge of Allegiance was given.)

President Musgrave: Do I hear a motion to approve the April 11^th Commission meeting minutes?

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Shetler: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: The motion carries.

President Musgrave: We have quotes to open for the Burdette Park parking lot. Is there a motion to approve opening the quotes?

Commissioner Shetler: So moved.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: We will need permission to open the quotes for the moving of the voting equipment, and we’re looking to award this tonight as well. That’s VC-05-2006, is there a motion to open?

Commissioner Nix: Move.

Commissioner Shetler: I don’t know if I should, should I vote on that since we put a bid in?

President Musgrave: To open them? I think that’s fine.

Commissioner Shetler: I’ll second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: Mr. Lawrence, are you at the point where you’re ready to award the traffic paint bid?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Excuse me, does mean that I can now open all of these packages back here?

President Musgrave: Go ahead.

Commissioner Nix: Have at it.

Phil Lawrence: Madam Chairman, Commissioners Nix and Shetler, I would like your permission to award APA-014-2006, traffic paint, to Sherwin-Williams, who was the low bidder at $79,738.75.

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Shetler: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: The motion carries.

Phil Lawrence: Thank you.

President Musgrave: County Engineer, permission to open proposals for bridge inspection and North Green River Road. Is there a motion?

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Shetler: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: County Highway, Mike Duckworth, here to present the final paving list for 2006.

Mike Duckworth: Good afternoon, President Musgrave, Commissioners Nix and Shetler. Today I’m here for the wrap up and the summation of what we would perceive and would propose to the County Commissioners to be the 2006 road paving projects. As you can see, we’ve got a graphic up on the wall that pretty well shows you, if you’ll look at the green lines, how sparsely we’ve selected the roadways in all three Commissioner districts, as well as from the north, east and west sides of the county. They detail just slightly over 34 miles of paving, which is, again, an increase this year in our paving schedule, and that is from, basically, a year’s learning curve of how to work the materials, and I think that this will, in fact, will even leave us a little left, so if we have some smaller projects that we can do at the end of the paving season, we’ll be able to complete those as well. We actually started our paving this week by assisting Burdette Park in some of their parking lot paving. As you well know, the budget money for the materials comes out of their budget, and we provide the labor and the equipment for that paving. In addition, this year, later in the year when we get along the proximity of Baseline Road, which you’ll notice by the listing that I’ve provided to you, that will be on our website, and I’m providing to the media, that Baseline Road is going to have in excess of eight miles completed. It’s one of our county roads, or one of the only county roads that goes from the west side to the east side borders. We’ll be doing about eight miles of that, because it’s in pretty bad shape. But, we’ll be out in the Scott area at that time, so we’ll probably do the finishing job of paving the park out there, the Scott Park, which is another similar situation with Burdette Park, where they pay for the materials and we basically do the work while we’re on site. I would entertain any questions about this. As you can see, over the last two years this would represent somewhere over 60 miles of paving that we have done on straight-a-way roads. Just recently we completed, or are in the midst of completing our pothole blitz. We fielded approximately 118 calls, and completed that project earlier, or late last week. So, the only thing else that I have to add in regards to the paving projects, is that you notice ID number 25 is Hillside Drive, and that is a continuation of a 2005 project. The Surveyor’s office and the Engineer’s office have worked together to do some surveying of that area, and we hope to get that complete some time in the near future and get it completed this year. I would entertain any questions, but I would ask for your approval of this paving project list.

Commissioner Nix: Just for the record, I guess, just how you and the Commission and everyone arrived at this list. If you could just go through that in 30 seconds or less.

Mike Duckworth: Sure. We had three road hearings where we’ve gone to each district, and the Commissioners have fielded questions and inquiries and complaints from residents about stretches of roadway that need fixing or shoulders or potholes or whatever the case may be. We compiled a list of a great deal more than this. We had our supervisors and myself drive those areas, we asked and received assistance from the Engineer’s office to inspect those roadways, and these are the roadways that we’ve come up with as our priority list to hit for this year.

Commissioner Nix: Okay.

Mike Duckworth: That was 28.5 seconds.

Commissioner Nix: That’s pretty good.

President Musgrave: When do you expect to start paving?

Mike Duckworth: As I said, we began our paving, to work the kinks out of our repairs to our equipment and getting it in good shape. We’ve had some glitches as far as getting the mix from one of the local companies, and so we’re working through that, but I would say by the end of April we will have Burdette completed, with all their new paving projects, and by May 1^st we’ll be on these roadways, weather permitting, working through, as long as it takes to get them complete.

President Musgrave: Is there a motion to approve the 2006 road paving list?

Commissioner Shetler: So moved.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: The motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Duckworth.

Mike Duckworth: Thank you.

Commissioner Nix: Thank you for your hard work there, Mr. Duckworth.

President Musgrave: If you could turn the lights back on on your way past the switch, that would be very helpful.

President Musgrave: We have now the resolution CO.R-05-06-012, approving the issuance of bonds. Mr. Ziemer, do you have a moment to discuss?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Yes, in connection with the expansion of the Burkhardt Road TIF, the Redevelopment Commission has adopted a resolution on April 4^th to issue bonds up to, but not in excess of $30 million. The law requires that if any bond issuance amount is in excess of three million dollars, that the Commissioners must adopt a resolution authorizing that issuance. That’s what the resolution you have before you today would do.

President Musgrave: Is there a motion to approve?

Commissioner Shetler: So moved.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: The motion carries.

President Musgrave: We move now to contracts, agreements and leases. We have several, and if it pleases the Commissioners, perhaps we could take them as a group. We have the Health Department, the breastfeeding peer counselor contract, EMA Homeland Security Sub Grant agreement, EMA memorandum of understanding with Department of Homeland Security, and the Sheriff Department, Indiana Department of Corrections 2006-2007 grant.

Commissioner Nix: And according to the information that I’ve received, the County Attorney has had time to review all of these?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: I have, and they’re all satisfactory for execution.

Commissioner Nix: Move approval.

Commissioner Shetler: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: The motion carries.

President Musgrave: We move now to the department head reports. Mr. John Stoll, County Engineer.

B.J. Farrell: Commissioner, could we ask Mr. Stoll one quick question. John?

John Stoll: Sure.

B.J. Farrell: Thank you.

John Stoll: I had two items this afternoon. The first was a notice to bidders–

Commissioner Nix: Is your microphone on?

President Musgrave: I can hardly hear you.

John Stoll: Does that sound any better?

President Musgrave: A little.

John Stoll: The red light was on, so, I thought it was on. First, I have a notice to bidders for an Old State Road bridge, it’s about half way between Hillsdale and Mt. Pleasant. This is for a new deck overlay. I would like your approval for to advertise a notice to bidders, and we will open the bids for that project on May 16^th.

Commissioner Nix: Move approval.

Commissioner Shetler: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: The motion carries.

John Stoll: Next, I put a copy of the McCutchan Estates report in front of you. This is in regard to the letter that you had received from the homeowners association president a few weeks ago. This was a proposal from the homeowners association that the county would accept McCutchan Place as it enters into Ashmore Estates. In conjunction with that, we went out and took a look at it, originally, the homeowners association said that they would remove the guard shack, remove the speed bumps, resurface the road, and upgrade a retaining wall alongside the road. After having inspectors look at, we had a couple of other things that they needed to address, and that is in the list of recommendations that I presented to you. Those final items that I’m recommending that need to be done would be to provide a right-of-way dedication to replace an existing private easement, and also provide a survey that shows that the road lies within the easement, I mean, within the right-of-way that would be dedicated. Any encroachments, such as the retaining wall, the guard house, and the decorative walls at the entrance to the sub would need to be covered by an encroachment agreement, or they would have to be removed. In talking to Mr. Deputy, who originally submitted this letter, he said that they would like to keep these encroachments in place and do an encroachment agreement. The third item was something that I agreed with his assessment that the speed bumps would need to be removed. The fourth item that I recommended was that there was some areas where the street needed some patching before they did their resurfacing project. This typically consists of about six inches of rock and six inches of asphalt, and we would mark those areas in the event the homeowners association pursues these items. Then the final item was the retaining wall, it would need to be either designed by an engineer with experience in doing retaining wall work, or if it was just replaced with another railroad tie structure, then the homeowners association would retain control of it. Mr. Deputy indicated that their preference would probably be to go back with another retaining wall made of railroad ties, and in doing so then we would address that with an encroachment agreement as well. So, those are my recommendations, and with your approval then we can forward that back to the homeowners association for their final action to let us know whether or not they plan to pursue these items.

President Musgrave: Okay, so you don’t need any action from us today then?

John Stoll: I guess, other than the consensus that you agree with our recommendations on how the homeowners association needs to proceed.

Commissioner Shetler: Or would you want to make a motion to approve subject to making sure that the conditions are met and signed by some kind of draft agreement by the (Inaudible)?

Commissioner Nix: I think we should (Inaudible).

President Musgrave: Okay, there is item number two on here, the decorative wall and the guard house, are we saying that they need to be removed or would we prefer to look at an encroachment agreement?

Commissioner Shetler: I think what they’re looking to do, at the moment, is to go ahead and go with an encroachment agreement that we would draft and they would sign off on for both the guard shack, the decorative wall around it, and then also the retaining wall where the ties are, which is listed there in number five. I think that’s what they’re seeking at the moment.

President Musgrave: So, you want to go ahead and–

Commissioner Shetler: So, in essence, what we’re doing is really approving the road surface, that 600 feet of road surface that’s been in existence for over 20 years now, or been used for that neighborhood, to accept it for future maintenance after they get it up to county shape.

President Musgrave: Subject to all of these requirements?

Commissioner Shetler: Subject to all of those requirements. I would make a motion that we would accept it, subject to approval, final approval by the County Engineer and County Attorney on getting those details laid out.

Commissioner Nix: Go ahead, John.

John Stoll: Once the county approves this plan of attack for this road, then the homeowners association would take a final vote as to whether or not they want to pursue it. Then, assuming they did pursue it, we would have inspectors out there verifying that everything was completed in accordance with this list, and at that time I would bring an acceptance form back to you for official acceptance of the road.

Commissioner Nix: All the legal work that’s being done is being done by the association, the neighborhood association of McCutchan Place? As far as the descriptions, the easements and that type of thing?

John Stoll: Yes.

Commissioner Nix: Okay. That’s all a cost that they will bear as part of this?

John Stoll: Right. The county wouldn’t be out money for construction associated with any of the things on this list.

Commissioner Nix: Plus also the legal work and those things?

John Stoll: Probably the only legal work issue that would come into play would be I would have to get with the County Attorney in regards to an acceptable encroachment agreement format, but I suspect we could use something similar to the agreements that were used when METS got approval to put their bus shelters in county right-of-way.

Commissioner Nix: Yeah. I’ll second that motion then.

President Musgrave: Okay, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor?

Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: The motion carries.

John Stoll: The only other thing that I have, when Mike was up here a while ago talking about the paving list and he was saying that he would get started next month, we’re in the process right now of getting the quantities put together for the concrete patching contract, and I hope to bring a notice to bidders on that to you next week for approval.

President Musgrave: Okay.

John Stoll: That’s all I have.

President Musgrave: Mr. Steve Craig, manager of Burdette Park?

Steve Craig: I have nothing at this time.

President Musgrave: B.J. Farrell has nothing?

B.J. Farrell: I have nothing this week, thank you.

President Musgrave: Mr. Matt Arvay? Oh, the attorney will handle that. Mr. Ziemer?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Yes, Matt Arvay in the IT department has been working on the development of requests for services to be disseminated widely in an effort to obtain responses to those requests for services for provision of contractual services regarding information technology for Vanderburgh County and the City of Evansville. He is here today requesting approval from the Commissioners to issue those requests for services.

President Musgrave: Any questions? If there are none, do we have a motion to approve the issuing of the RFS?

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Shetler: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: The motion carries. Any other department heads that I may have overlooked? I see none.

President Musgrave: We move now to new business. Board of Health, resolution in support of a smoke free ordinance. Are you here from the Board of Health to address this?

Gary Heck: Gary Heck, Vanderburgh County Health Department. I’m here to request that on behalf of the board, yes, Ma’am.

President Musgrave: I believe we have a copy of the ordinance.

Gary Heck: Oh, this is a request, this is a resolution–

President Musgrave: Resolution, I’m sorry.

Gary Heck: –that was passed by the Board of Health requesting, and it was sent to both the County Commissioners and to the City of Evansville Council requesting them to consider supporting a smoke free ordinance as well. I’m not sure of your procedures, do you need it read into the record?

President Musgrave: I think that would be nice. The board itself voted to adopt this resolution, is that right?

Gary Heck: The board itself unanimously, at it’s regular meeting on April 13^th.

President Musgrave: Okay, if you would go ahead and read it please.

Gary Heck:

“Whereas, environmental tobacco smoke, also referred to as second hand smoke, is classified as a group A carcinogen, carcinogenic to humans under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Carcinogen Assessment Guidelines; and, Whereas, exposure to environmental tobacco smoke causes lung cancer, nasal sinus cancer, and has been linked to an increased risk for heart disease in non-smokers; and, Whereas, exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is associated with increased respiratory problems in children, such as inducing and exasperating asthma and causing severe lower respiratory tract infections, environmental tobacco smoke exposure also causes middle ear infections in children and increases the risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome; and, Whereas, surveys conducted in other cities or states before and after smoke free laws went into effect have shown a reduction in the incidence of heart attacks in a given population, improvement in the health of workers and patrons in the hospitality industry, and an improvement in the air quality after the implementation of smoke free laws; and, Whereas, the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers concluded that adverse health effects associated with indoor exposure to second hand smoke cannot be controlled by ventilation, and that the only effective means to eliminate health risks is to ban smoking activities; and, Whereas, involuntary exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is a serious public health hazard that is preventable by adopting and enforcing appropriate regulatory policies. Therefore, be it resolved that the Vanderburgh County Board of Health supports optimal protection of the public through an ordinance requiring smoke free environments in all schools, work places and public places. Approved this 13th day of April, 2006 in Vanderburgh County, Indiana, and forwarded to the Vanderburgh County Commissioners, the Mayor of Evansville, and the members of the Evansville City Council.”

It was signed by the secretary and the president of the board.

President Musgrave: Thank you.

Gary Heck: There was also an attachment of references to sites, websites that supported the findings in the resolution as well.

President Musgrave: Is this on the Health Department’s website, so that people can access it?

Gary Heck: If it’s not, it will be real soon.

President Musgrave: Okay, thank you, Gary.

Gary Heck: Yes, Ma’am.

President Musgrave: Does anybody have any questions?

Commissioner Shetler: I don’t have a question with Gary on this, but on a related matter, there will be a meeting that will take place Thursday afternoon where at that time we’ll try to line up...what we’re going to do is try to have joint city and county meetings with the City Council and the County Commissioners, public hearings on the issue so that people aren’t having to go to two or three different same kind of meetings. That way we could do it all at one time. My desire, and this is just my own opinion at the moment that we would have at least two, maybe more, but one held in the city, and one perhaps out in the county area. Locations haven’t been decided, I assume Thursday afternoon all of this will be talked about.

President Musgrave: I would hope that we would have at least one meeting in this room to utilize the camera system that we already have in place. I’ll look into how we could film and then later broadcast on our regular WNIN contractual situation any meetings held elsewhere, if that’s agreeable to you?

Commissioner Nix: Sounds fine.

President Musgrave: Good. Thank you very much.

Gary Heck: Thank you.

Commissioner Nix: Thank you.

President Musgrave: Thanks to the board for it’s efforts.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Musgrave?

President Musgrave: Yes, Ma’am?

Madelyn Grayson: There were two agreements for Burdette that were in my packet today that I don’t think got approved earlier. One is an addendum to an agreement for American General to use the pavilion?

President Musgrave: Yes, you’re right, I do not see that on the agenda. What is the other one?

Madelyn Grayson: An agreement with USI to use their PAC pool for lifesaving. They’ve both been reviewed by the County Attorney, but I don’t think they were on here.

President Musgrave: It’s possible that it did not make it in time to get on the list, but I have seen the e-mails, going over those.

Commissioner Nix: Those were e-mailed earlier today.

President Musgrave: Would you like to make a motion to accept them?

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Shetler: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: Thank you for bringing that to my attention. The Commission meeting, cancellation of the May 9^th, we’re here to discuss cancelling our May 9^th meeting. As you know, May 2^nd is the Primary, and we did not schedule a meeting, of course, on that day, and now it appears that on May 9^th we may not have a quorum. I’ll be out of town, and it’s possible that another member of the Commission will also be out of town. So, if we want to go ahead and cancel that meeting, today might be a good time to do that, so that the department heads and members of the public know that next week is their opportunity to get that business matter to us, otherwise we’ll be waiting for two weeks after that. Is there a motion to cancel the May 9^th meeting?

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Shetler: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: The motion carries.

B.J. Farrell: Commissioner, may I have permission to send a notice to all department heads notifying them that our meeting will be cancelled?

President Musgrave: Please do. Police Department space. Two weeks ago we spoke with Mr. Rector from the Building Authority, I believe he’s here, and Chief of Police is also here. They’re looking to occupy the vacated Sheriff’s Department space on the first floor. We’ve had a number of discussions among Commissioners and other offices, and it looks like we’re at a point where, Mr. Rector, perhaps you can accommodate the need of the IT Department to be closer to itself, rather than spread all over. Do you have any remarks to make on this?

Dave Rector: I think we have, haven’t we?

President Musgrave: We’re working on it.

Dave Rector: As we’ve discussed, as you say, a number of times, and I met today with Matt Arvay and Joe Ballard. I thought we had it worked out. I think we have it worked out. I spoke with Commissioner Nix later this afternoon, another opportunity. I think the long and short of it is, yes, we can work out space for GIS to move into the Solid Waste space. There’s somewhere for them to get the additional space they need. How that’s going to work, I think we’ve got a multiple array of ideas we can come up with, but just to stand here and tell you right now this person’s moving here to there, I really can’t do that. Other than I do know the space is there and we can work it out.

President Musgrave: Okay.

Commissioner Nix: I really feel like once we get some space freed up in the existing building, less what we’re going to call the old jail space, it’s going to give us some opportunities to move forward with planning. So, this is the first step in that. I think it’s a positive step to get this out of the way and get that space freed up.

President Musgrave: It looks like with the furniture that we have left in the Sheriff’s Department and some other loose ends that need to be tied up, it looks like June 1^st might be the best date for us to make this switch from County Sheriff space to City Police space effective.

Dave Rector: Maybe it would make it even easier if we did July 1^st. That’s the next billing cycle.

President Musgrave: Oh, that would be better.

Dave Rector: That gives us all time to get your stuff out of there, and to get their plans put together. That’s a good, clean cut off, so we don’t have to try to pro-rate the rent.

President Musgrave: What does this do to the Police Department’s lawsuit against you? Do they drop it?

Dave Rector: I think my attorney would probably advise me not to discuss that. That’s a whole different area.

President Musgrave: Alright, so, if there’s a motion that effective July 1, 2006, the Police Department will take over the vacated Sheriff Department space and all rent associated with that space, that would be good.

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Shetler: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: The motion carries.

Dave Rector: Thank you all.

Commissioner Nix: Thank you, Mr. Rector. Thank you, Chief Hill.

Commissioner Shetler: Thanks, Chief.

President Musgrave: Candidate signs. I believe it was last summer that this Commission passed an ordinance regarding signs, and it covers everything from the weight loss signs to all other signs placed out in county space, and it was brought to my attention that there are candidate signs being placed in public right-of-way, and the Highway Department has asked us what should they do about this? Basically, those signs, whether they’re candidates or for a weight loss clinic in public right-of-way are not permitted, and I would like to have a motion here today so that the Highway Department knows for sure that they are to pull any sign in county right-of-way and take them back to the Highway Department. If the political parties want to come and pick them up there, that’s fine, but they’ll be thrown away after the Primary itself.

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Shetler: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: Burdette Park. I’ve been corresponding with INDOT regarding the Major Moves money that is supplemental, that Governor Daniels said that would be distributed, both in 2006 and 2007, and I’ve been asking whether there were restrictions placed on that money, basically, whether we could use that on bike paths or not. I’m really pleased to report, yesterday, that I got an e-mail saying that it could be spent on bike paths, as well as roads. I would like the Commission to entertain setting aside this money that we will get two years running, I believe it’s a little over $700,000 each year to fund the county’s match for the $2.2 million that it will cost to construct the Burdette Park bike path. We still have a federal and state grant applications pending, but that would only cover about a million dollars of it, each grant would. It’s unlikely that we would get both. So, if the Commissioners want to discuss that, or have any comments, or any direction.

Commissioner Shetler: At this time you’re not asking for that money to be specifically used for that, but only set aside and no decision be made on it at the moment, right? So, that it’s available if we decide to go that direction?

President Musgrave: Uh-huh.

Commissioner Shetler: I have no problem.

Commissioner Nix: Nor I. I would like to say, and I think we’ve done a good job soliciting money for this particular project, and there may be some more money coming down the pike. That’s another reason that I feel, as Commissioner Shetler does, that we need to make sure that we look at all other avenues before we actually utilize money for this. But, I think it would be a good idea to set it aside for that. I don’t have a problem with that either.

President Musgrave: Our first grant application, the notification of whether or not we will receive it should be coming in June. Then the second one, the federal one, would come in November. So, we’ll have a couple of points between now and the end of the year where we can make a decision on this. From what I understand, no one’s exactly certain when the Major Moves money is coming either. I’ve heard dates as varied from June toward the end of the year. So, nothing’s done yet, but I’m pleased to hear that you’re willing to entertain spending it on the bike path at Burdette, which, as you all know, is about a three mile long path, and it’s been on a drawing board for at least 20 years. We’ve already hired, and they are out there working in the field placing little flags all along the path between Burdette Park and USI, and as soon as the surveying work gets done, we’ll be drawing up the legal descriptions, and it’s my understanding that Southern Indiana Higher Education, SIHE, has agreed to then hold a meeting where they will transfer, are those actually deeds?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Easements.

President Musgrave: Easements to the county. So, at that point we would be able to go ahead and start construction, when all of that gets done. So, we’re moving, and it’s good to know that we might have some money to actually make that happen.

President Musgrave: Ashmore Estates Subdivision, did we already cover that?

Commissioner Shetler: We did that with John.

President Musgrave: Thank you.

President Musgrave: We’re at the point in the agenda now for public comment. Is there anyone here who desires to address the Commissioners on matters that come under Commission authority? I see no one.

President Musgrave: Have we anything to add to the consent agenda? Oh, I ought to let you report your bids too. Do you want to go ahead?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Sure, for the aquatic center improvements at Burdette Park there are eight alternates. Deig Brothers bids the following for alternates one through eight; $55,310, $35,150, $29,875, $9,000, $30,920, $29,210, $19, 500, $47,815. ECI Construction bids on the same eight alternates in the order of one through eight; $30,335, $10,728, $16,700, $6,500, $14,700, $11,650, $14,200, $42,800.

Burdette Park: Parking Lot and Landscaping

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: For the moving of election equipment we have two bids, one from Shetler Moving and Storage Company for $11,000, one for Kinder Moving for $4,700.

VC-5-2006: Moving of Election Equipment

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: We have responses for requests for proposals for Green River Road from Hirsch to Heckel, for engineering services as follows; from Professional Engineers, Wessler Associates, Morley and Associates, Corradino LLC, R.W. Armstrong, Beam, Longest and Neff, DLZ, Strand Associates, American Consulting, and RQAW Consulting Engineers. Then, we have responses to requests for proposals for engineering services for county bridge inspection from Professional Engineers, R.W. Armstrong, Beam, Longest and Neff, DLZ, WTH Engineering, Bernardin Lochmueller and Associates, USI Consultants, and United Consulting. That’s it.

President Musgrave: Is there a motion to take those bids under advisement?

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Shetler: On that election, what do I do now?

B.J. Farrell: We would ask the Commission to award the moving of the election equipment since election day is two weeks away, and we need to start working with the vendor to get that in progress.

President Musgrave: You could just withdraw the–

Commissioner Nix: That’s fine.

Commissioner Shetler: So, I’ll second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: The moving of the election equipment, you want to award today.

Commissioner Shetler: Since we’re not the successful, I’ll move that, since we’re not the successful bidder, I want to be clear on that, that we award that to Kinder, that was the low bidder on that.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: Is that all of the bid openings and awardings that we had left to do?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Yes, thank you.

President Musgrave: Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda?

Commissioner Nix: Yes, I have one change to the consent items. It does state, let me see here, jail pay application. One of them is an application for jail, and the other is actually a pay app to ARC Construction for Community Corrections. So, that would be revised for the record.

President Musgrave: And to approve them as submitted?

Commissioner Nix: Yes.

President Musgrave: Is there a motion to amend the consent items?

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Shetler: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: And a motion to approve the consent items?

Commissioner Shetler: So moved.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: And a motion to adjourn?

Commissioner Shetler: So moved.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

Commissioners: Aye.

(The meeting was adjourned at 4:05 p.m.)

CONSENT ITEMS:

Employment Changes:

County Highway (1)                  VCCC (1)                        Sheriff Office (3)

German Assessor (1)               County Clerk (1)             Health Department (2)

Travel Requests:

Commissioners (1)                   Health Department (1)

Commissioners:

Hillcrest Washington-1st Quarter Fees.

Kraftwerks Check for Spring Craft Sale at OCH-$1,300.

Taxpayer Comments on Smoking Ordinance.

Evansville ARC monthly report-March 2006.

IBAP Gatekeeper report.

Jail Pay Application #79: $200,630.86

Community Corrections Pay Applications 15 & 16: ARC: $138,447.15

Community Corrections Pay Application: Lyon Workspace: $23,771

Department head meeting notes: April 11, 2006.

County Clerk: Monthly report-September 2005.

County Treasurer Year-to-Date Investment Report: March 2006.

Department Head Reports:

Burdette Park                           County Engineer                       County Highway

Ozone Officer                           Supt. Of. Bldgs.                        Veterans Services

Those in Attendance:

Cheryl Musgrave                      Bill Nix                                      Tom Shetler, Jr.

Bill Fluty                                    Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.                    B.J. Farrell

Madelyn Grayson                     Phil Lawrence                           John Stoll

Mike Duckworth                        Steve Craig                               Gary Heck

Dave Rector                             Others Unidentified                   Members of Media

VANDERBURGH COUNTY

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

Cheryl A.W. Musgrave, President

Bill Nix, Vice President

Tom Shetler, Jr., Member

Recorded and transcribed by Madelyn Grayson.