VANDERBURGH COUNTY

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

JUNE 5, 2007

The Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners met in session this 5^th day of June, 2007 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 meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Vanderburgh County. It’s June 5, 2007, and approximately 3:30. We will begin with introductions.

Marissa Nichoalds: Marissa Nichoalds, Superintendent of County Buildings.

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

Commissioner Nix: Bill Nix, County Commissioner.

President Musgrave: Cheryl Musgrave, Commissioner.

Commissioner Tornatta: Troy Tornatta, County Commissioner.

Madelyn Grayson: Madelyn Grayson, Recording Secretary.

Bill Fluty: Bill Fluty, County Auditor.

President Musgrave: Will you please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance?

(The Pledge of Allegiance was given.)

President Musgrave: First item of business is to open the bids APA-005-2007 for surfacing materials. Is there a motion?

Commissioner Tornatta: So moved.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: Under action items, we welcome today the Board of Health. Mr. Robert Stayman is here to give a brief update on the Board of Health. As you know this is part of our continuing series of bringing in the boards to which the Commissioners appoint members. Welcome, Mr. Stayman.

Robert Stayman: Thank you, Madam Chairman, members of Commission, esteemed counsel. My name is Bob Stayman. I’m the chairman of the Board of Health of Vanderburgh County. I would note parenthetically, with regard to this first slide, that a plethora of information that will supplement what’s said here is available at our website, vanderburghgov.org/health. This is the national logo promulgated by the National Association of City and County Health Officials. You’ll see this from time to time on several of our other slides. The Health Department uses both the logo and the slogan, “Prevent Promote Protect”, in it’s mission statement, which is our next slide. As you can see, our mission is to work with our community partners to promote healthy lifestyles, protect against and prevent the spread of disease, etcetera. This is the current makeup of the Vanderburgh County Board of Health. We note, with some pride, that this board represents 94 years of combined public health service. That includes two new appointments with terms of less than three years. So, long in the tooth maybe is one to describe it, but we like to say experience. It really helps us. The County Board of Health was begun statutorily in 1948. Since that time, all members have been appointed to terms of four years. Appointments are made under the Indiana statutes by the Mayor and the County Commissioners. We receive no compensation. This is our Health Department organizational chart. 68 staff members have a combined total of 821 years of service. So, if you combine that, do the math, with the board we have 915 years of total public health service. In the next series of slides we’ll take a closer look at our recent local achievements, two special projects, and talk about our future challenges. This is the thing I’m the most proud of this year, these are the numbers for our county dental clinic. I’ve got to be honest with you all and say that I never thought this was going to happen. I’d seen too many projects like this come and go. They were great ideas, but this one happened and it happened with the cooperation of the private sector and the public sector. Notice during the time period covered by this slide, as of May 31, we have provided 5,942 dental procedures to 1,358 patients during 2,518 visits. I think that’s incredible. It’s an incredible asset for the county and the county health. This is our total operating expense report. From the board’s perspective, we knew this was the right thing to do, and now we know economically it’s the prudent thing to do. Simply put, the county spent $269,917, and received $408,760 worth of quality dental services. Dental services that probably would not have been provided but for the start and maintenance of the county dental clinic. Immunizations, this is something we’ve done as long as I’ve been on the board, 9,298 doses of vaccine were administered in 2006. Two recent awards from the State Board in recognition of the extraordinary effort of the board and staff for promoting and protecting public health in this community. This is something that won’t go away. We’re doing our best. We know that the West Nile virus is eradicated, at least in part, by prevention, education and control. Now, we use several methods to control mosquitos, this is an on-going project. Larvae control and breeding site reduction are the two most effective. Here that means monitoring combination sewer catch basins. Here’s an example of the GSI grid, or GIS grid that we use to monitor catch basins. We color code the catch basins based on wetness. It’s the wetness that provides the problem. As you can see, there are three, some that show three red codes. Those are dry areas. The areas that are yellow, or green and blue, those are areas that are problems, areas that need to be treated. By way of the numbers, in 2006, 544 of these catch basins were inspected, and added to our data base. This brings our catch basin inventory to 2,068. Forty percent of the catch basins in the data base were wet and treatable. This is one of my hot button issues, frankly, state-wide and county-wide issues regarding the childhood obesity are embarrassing. We’ve got to do something about it. The Health Department needs to be in front of that crusade. Today, just particularly, we highlight something that I’ve been proud of during my term on the board, and that is the Women’s Infant and Children nutrition program, or WIC. WIC nutritional education program provided $2,450,286 in revenues for this community in 2006. That’s to purchase supplemental foods rich in protein, iron, calcium and vitamins to serve 3,757 individuals. That includes 863 women, 1,259 infants, and 1,635 children. WIC vouchers can be used at any of the 22 certified Vanderburgh County vendors. After 2001 this became one of our main issues, emergency preparedness. We’re ready. Through the efforts of our public health coordinator and decision team, our Health Department is better prepared to respond to emergencies that threaten public health. The National Incident Management Systems, or NIMS, is in place in the county. I can state that all the staff and the board members have completed the required NIMS instruction for their position. This system is in place. ICS, the Incident Command System, is the standard on-scene all hazards incident management system, already in use by firefighters, hazmat teams, rescuers, public health and emergency medical teams. The ICS has five major functions, and you can see them denoted on the slide. This situation is in place for your public Health Department. Another problem in Vanderburgh County and state-wide, lack of physical activity. Your Health Department is involved in trying to remedy this problem. The value of increasing physical activity at this point is beyond question. Multiple benefits include preventing many chronic diseases, which basically is what your Health Department is all about. The Evansville in Motion Guide was developed to provide an exercise resource with information on how to get started, safety tips, and easy to read maps that includes distances. Here’s the greater Evansville walking site map. Recently a local radio station started a weekly walking program as a public service to their listening audience using this Evansville in Motion as a resource. They plan to use this in their walks. One of the most popular routes is just right downtown here, the Evansville river front. I can see, everyday, from my office, people taking advantage of the beautiful Evansville river front to walk off a lunch, or just go out and get some exercise. This is something new this year, Vanderburgh County as a member of the National Association of Counties, opted to participate in the prescription drug discount program. This is a sample card that’s been distributed throughout the county. We distributed 43,700 prescription cards to over 70 distribution sites here in the county. In addition to 44 pharmacies locally, the card is accepted at over 57 nationwide. Couldn’t be easier to sign up, there are no forms to complete, you simply go in, pick up the card, and all of a sudden you’re eligible for the discounts. Minimum requirement for this card is that you live in this county. Incidentally, you have a handout, we now have a month’s report on the use of the discount card, and we’re proud to say that the first month resulted in a total savings, you’ll see, of $10,273. I don’t have time to get into some of the interesting math that’s set out on this printout, but the program already is a success. Tobacco use, we want individuals to live longer, healthier lives. The smoke free ordinance, it was a close run thing, we know that. We’re proud of the ordinances that are in place. We have developed an informational website to raise awareness, to assist implementation of the city and county smoke free ordinances. Smoking cessation programs are offered by the Health Department. Mary Jo Borowiecki is in charge, there’s her number. Childhood lead poisoning, we educate the community to help prevent diseases like childhood lead poisoning by testing our children in our homes. Frankly, when I first came on the board in ‘94, I thought, what’s the big deal? This is something I’d never heard of. It’s a serious problem. It can cause damage to the kidneys, nervous system and brain. It’s a problem here in the county. Often lead poisoning goes undetected because initial signs are similar to common cold and flu ailments. The State Department of Health recently located lab equipment which will greatly enhance our ability to test and report blood levels. We screened, in 2006, 4,034 children for lead poisoning. 120 children showed up as lead poisoned. We track and follow up on these cases, and our public health outreach nurses provide case management, and our environmental health specialists provide risk assessments in their home. 15,586 other lab tests, for a total of 19,890. Projects and challenges, two state pilot projects provide us with the opportunity to improve pubic health outcomes. We continue to address a major public health challenge, which is reducing the burden of chronic disease. I’m going to have to, I realize I’ve used up most of my time, so, I’m going to have to cut this short, but I just wanted to tell you about the state-wide informatics program which provides for an exchange of information between these counties. We found that the more information we have, the better we can do our job, and the more useful the public health department can be. I’ve used up all my time. I will be glad to entertain any questions, if you have any.

President Musgrave: Commissioners, are there any questions? I see no questions. Thank you, Mr. Stayman.

Robert Stayman: Thank you very much for your time.

President Musgrave: I would like to welcome now Ms. Maria Cavins, the manager of Westbrook Mobile Home Park, who is here to discuss the pool issue that she has experienced at her park, and the help that she asked for, and the response that she received. Welcome, Ms. Cavins.

Maria Cavins: I’m a little nervous, guys. We have 3,200 residents at Westbrook Mobile Home Park. It’s a community. It’s the size of a small town. I’m the only one out there, well, Joe helps me, the owner, it’s not an easy situation to maintain a small town, one person. I’m the thumb, I need fingers, you know. I want to thank the McCutchanville Fire Department, I want to thank Brad Mills from the Area Planning, Scott Mulden, Mary Klaser, they all came out on their, you know, it isn’t anybody’s job to do this. We kind of found out nobody really has any say. I go to the state, they say, well, it’s not the mobile home park state whoever is the inspector. The city says, the Commissioners and everybody wrote letters. Mc Cutchanville Fire Department came out and helped me. The Vanderburgh County Sheriff helped me. It’s not an easy task to run a park with 800 mobile homes and 3,000 people. I can’t, people come to me and say, oh, Marie, you’ve done this wonderful job in a year. I didn’t do it. I did it, you did it, they did it, we did it. It was an extremely hard job, and a lot of people come up here and complain about things, and I’m just here to thank everybody, because I didn’t do it myself, and I couldn’t have. So, thank you.

President Musgrave: Thank you. Mr. Mills, from Area Plan, if you could come forward and tell us what the requirements are for pool safety, in terms of the ordinance that affects the county? And, perhaps what we may pursue with regard to the mobile home parks.

Brad Mills: Brad Mills, Area Plan Commission. Yes, for city and Vanderburgh County, the requirement for pools is that if you have any pool that is two foot deep or deeper, or could be filled to two feet, you’re required to have a six foot impassable fence that surrounds the pool, and it would be separate from the pool. So, it couldn’t go on top of the pool rails for an above ground pool, it would have to be set off from that. All the entrances that would go into that would have to be divided from that. So, this is clearly a safety issue. I was very happy to work with Maria to help resolve this issue for her mobile home park. If there is any questions, we did a news story on it a couple of weeks ago, before Memorial Day and had a lot of calls and comments. So, that’s been really great, but we would be happy to come out and look at your pool, or investigate a neighbor’s pool, if you think there’s a pool that requires a fence that doesn’t have one.

President Musgrave: What is the phone number for your department?

Brad Mills: Our office is 435-5226.

President Musgrave: Okay. Alright, thank you. Commissioners, are there any questions? Good luck, Ms. Cavins with the pool situation. I know that your primary concern is the safety of the children. You relayed to me in a phone conversation the other day that you had seen a number of drownings occur–

Maria Cavins: Well, what had happened–

President Musgrave: Not personally, but–

Maria Cavins: It was over the news, and I had a legal pool, and I came home from the office and I had my five year old granddaughter, and three neighbor children were in our pool, 2,3 and 5 and the mother was nowhere around. It happened to be that day, I believe it was Boonville or somewhere that another child drowned. My granddaughter looked at me and said, Grandma, I want to take my pool down, because I don’t want a little baby to drown in my pool. Well, I started to go around with my residents, and, you know, managers are not popular people, so, they kind of were bucking me, you know. It amazed me that my five year old granddaughter could see the danger in this pool, and it was her pool, and she would rather take it down. That’s when I reached out to everybody else, because we are private property. It isn’t easy for the city or county or state to come in, but I couldn’t do it myself. People were kind of well, you know, I’ll leave my pool up until I, and when you get a letter from, you know, Brad or somebody, it just kind of helps them bring their attention. Boy, in three days all them pools were down. My major concern out there isn’t making money, I’m just the manager, it’s to make it a safe, tranquil place for the children and our middle income families in Evansville. Because 90 percent of our families are middle income. This is their home. They can’t go anywhere else. So, that’s my main concern are the kids. Thank you again.

President Musgrave: Thank you, Maria.

President Musgrave: We can read the bids into the record, if you have that ready at this time.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Oh, sure.

President Musgrave: Okay.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: These are bids for various road improvements. E&B Paving Company, cold patch, no bid; hot mix asphalt, $35.00 a ton, that’s for patching; hot mix asphalt for paving, $39.00 per ton; HMA intermediate per ton, $35; pot hole patching per ton, $65; total bid, $763,100. Gohmann Asphalt, no bid for cold patch; $42.50 for hot mix asphalt for patching; $40.25 for hot mix asphalt for paving; $38 for HMA intermediate per ton; pot hole patching $100 per ton; total bid, $816,750. Jerry David, no bid for cold patch; hot mix for patching, $49.50 per ton; hot mix asphalt for paving, $45 per ton; HMA intermediate per ton, $43; pot hole patch per ton, $49.50; total cost, $885, no, $885,094. J.H. Rudolph, cold patch, no bid; hot mix asphalt for patching, $50; hot mix asphalt for paving, $43.50; HMA intermediate, $41 per ton; pot hole patch per ton, $80; total bid, $874,300.

Commissioner Nix: I move we take the bids under advisement.

Commissioner Tornatta: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: The motion carries.

President Musgrave: I’m going to ask now for permission to advertise, APA-017-2007, pipe materials and guard rails.

Commissioner Tornatta: So moved.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: The motion carries.

President Musgrave: We move now to the public hearing on preliminary assessment roll, Aabel’s Park Barrett Law project. Mr. Ziemer?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: On....turn it on, turn it off. On May the 16^th, or excuse me, on June 6, 2006 the board adopted a final resolution confirming the preliminary resolution for the Barrett Law sewer improvements for the Aabel’s Lane project. On May 22, 2007, after the work had been completed, the board accepted a preliminary assessment roll for the project. Then, notice was given that a public hearing would be held on the preliminary assessment roll at 3:30 this afternoon. I have a copy of the published notice, which is in correct form. So, it is time to open the public hearing on the preliminary assessment and see if there’s anyone that has any comments on that.

President Musgrave: Is there anyone here to comment on this matter? I see no one. Do we adopt the assessment roll?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: You have a resolution before you, which would be a resolution of the Commissioners to accept the Barrett Law improvements and confirm the preliminary assessment roll.

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Tornatta: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: I believe that’s a roll call vote?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Yes.

President Musgrave: Commissioner Nix?

Commissioner Nix: Yes.

President Musgrave: Commissioner Tornatta?

Commissioner Tornatta: Yes.

President Musgrave: And I vote yes as well.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Now, you have a second resolution before you, which is CO.R-06-07-005. This is a resolution of the Commissioners authorizing the issuance of bonds for the purpose of providing funds to be applied to pay for this Barrett Law project and the incidental expenses in connection with the project on account of the issuance of the bonds. If you have had an opportunity to review that, it is in form satisfactory for adoption.

President Musgrave: Is there a motion?

Commissioner Nix: Move approval.

Commissioner Tornatta: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: Does this also require a roll call vote?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Yes.

President Musgrave: Commissioner Nix?

Commissioner Nix: Yes.

President Musgrave: Commissioner Tornatta?

Commissioner Tornatta: Yes.

President Musgrave: And, I vote yes.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Then, just for the information of the board and the public, tomorrow the Auditor will send letters containing installment agreements to all of the lot owners in the project area. The owners have, if they wish, they could pay the entire assessment, the assessment per lot is $7,414.28. They can pay that, in cash, one lump sum, anytime between now and July the 5^th. If they do not want to pay the assessment in cash, they can elect to pay it in 10, 20 or 30 years of annual installments. With the letter that’s going out from the Auditor tomorrow will be installment agreements that the lot owners can sign instead of making their payment in full. If they are going to pay in full, they’ll prevent themselves to the Auditor’s office sometime between now and July the 5^th for that purpose, otherwise, the agreements must be received by my office, and that’s indicated in the agreement, no later than July 5, 2007. If we have not received your cash payment, and do not receive the agreement back by July the 5^th, you will be deemed to have elected to pay your installment in full, and collection proceedings would start the next day.

President Musgrave: I assume your letters to them outline all of this in detail?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: It does. It does. It does.

President Musgrave: Alright, thank you.

President Musgrave: We move now to contracts, agreements and leases. We have several, the 2007 Byrne justice assistance grant program award, the childhood lead poisoning prevention grant for 2007 and 2008. Is there a motion to accept both?

Commissioner Tornatta: So moved.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: The motions carry.

President Musgrave: We move now to department head reports. Mr. Steve Craig of Burdette has some good news to share with us today.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: I believe we had another agreement.

President Musgrave: Oh, I’m sorry. Please go ahead with that one.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: That is the, let me see here, it’s the agreement for allocation of Byrne grant funds between the city and the county. You have that before you. It is satisfactory for execution from a legal perspective.

Commissioner Tornatta: We approved it.

President Musgrave: That was the first one.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Oh, I’m sorry, then the other one that you have, I’m sorry, is the lead poisoning. Or, did you approve both of them?

President Musgrave: Yes.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Oh, I thought you just did one. I’m sorry. You’re way ahead of me. Thank you.

President Musgrave: Welcome, Mr. Craig.

Steve Craig: Is it my turn?

President Musgrave: Well, for the moment.

Steve Craig: Well, first off I would just like to tell everybody that Burdette Park and Aquatic Center is open for the summer. The aquatic center’s hours Monday thru Thursday are 10:00 to 6:00, and on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, they are 10:00 to 7:00. Our batters cage and our miniature golf is open from 10:00 to 8:00 during the week, and then on Friday, Saturday and Sunday it’s open 10:00 to 10:00. I want to welcome everybody out there. One thing that I had asked Commissioner Musgrave to read was an e-mail we got. You don’t always hear all the good things that happen, but we did get a good e-mail, and I would like her to read that right now.

President Musgrave: Alright, this is from Mr. Steve Skipworth. He has some initials after his name and I’m not sure what they are, but it’s NREMT-P. Do you know what that is, Mr. Craig?

Steve Craig: I think it’s a professional EMT, but I’m not sure what all the extras are.

President Musgrave: He’s from Paducah, Kentucky. He writes:

“My family had the opportunity to visit your aquatic center this past Memorial Day weekend. I would like to tell you of an experience I had while visiting. While sitting in one of the chairs located by the alligator in the wading kids pool, two children evidently got into water that was over their heads. Your lifeguard that day, a young man, immediately saw that they were in trouble, blew his whistle and jumped into the water to effect a rescue. He was able to immediately grab the two children and bring them to the side of the pool, where he was met by the children’s scared parents. What impressed me the most was that it was very evident that your employee’s had been very well trained, as whistles around the pool were sounded, and other lifeguards and medical personnel were on the scene in less than a minute. I am employed as a paramedic in Kentucky and see a lot of good, and, unfortunately, some bad responses to people in need of medical attention. Kudos to your staff, as it was very apparent that they knew what they were doing. I for one will be recommending that my friends and family visit your facility when considering a place to take a vacation.”

So, I would also like to say thank you to the great staff you have and the great lifeguards. Let them know how much we appreciate that.

Steve Craig: Well, I appreciate that, because, like I said, they don’t always get all the credit that they deserve. It is a hard job. It’s a very, very important job when you’re out there to save people’s lives. When they do it, and do a good job, I’m just glad that somebody stepped forward and wrote a positive thing about my kids. I thank you for reading it to the public.

Commissioner Nix: It’s good to hear something good every now and then, isn’t it?

Steve Craig: Yeah.

Commissioner Nix: Just curious, Steve, have you got vacancies in any of the chalets, anything at all that you can talk about today for this summer? Is everything pretty well booked up?

Steve Craig: Well, we’re quite booked, but we do have openings. We have a lot of cancellations where people have emergencies and family things that come up where they can’t use it. So, it never hurts to call and see what we do have available. We are busy in the summer with our buildings and our chalets. It just seems like there’s always something that opens up, and it’s usually due to somebody cancelling and that, but, I would call if I had a need for one of the chalets or one of the buildings.

Commissioner Nix: And that number is?

Steve Craig: It’s 812-435-5602.

Commissioner Nix: Okay.

Steve Craig: Our office is open 8:00 to 4:30.

President Musgrave: Thank you.

Steve Craig: Thank you.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Madam President, I guess, on the sort of good news about Burdette Park, just under my report as County Attorney, the county was sued by an individual who had been out at Burdette Park and the complaint was for $100,00. In the course of time we have managed to obtain an offer to settle this complaint for $20,000, and, we, as County Attorney recommend that settlement to the county. I have, should you decide to approve it, I have a settlement agreement here for execution by the county.

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Tornatta: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: The motion carries. Ted, do you have anything further?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: No.

President Musgrave: Okay.

President Musgrave: Mr. Stoll, County Engineer.

John Stoll: We received INDOT approval to proceed with making offers on the University Parkway right-of-way purchases. So, I’m here to request approval on the number of purchase offers for that project. This covers basically everything from Upper Mount Vernon to Diamond Avenue. The offers are as follows; parcel one, Herschelman, $135,500; parcel two, Geiser, $2,100; parcel three, Mildred Mueller Revocable Trust, $74,200; parcel four, Colleen Mueller, $135,400; parcel five, Green, $22,600; parcel six, Albert Mueller , $157,400; parcel seven, Sater Family Partnership, $1,700; parcel eight, Jeannett Rueger, $18,650; parcel nine, Frederick and Janet Bumb, $101,000; parcel ten, Albert Mueller , $57,300; parcel 12, Keith Singer, $950; parcel 13, Brent and Carol Barnes, $314,200; parcel 14, Russell and Carol Reising, $208,100; parcel 15, Terry Kulenkamp, $4,800; parcel 16, Louis and Helen Fleck, $1,850; parcel 17, Connie Wilson and Karen Wilson, $1,050; parcel 19, William and Letitia Boeke, $213,000; and parcel 20, Albert and Susan Umbach for $300, which results in a grand total of $1,450,100. These will all be purchased through federal money. This is 100 percent federal money that the county does pay the costs up front and then requests reimbursement through INDOT. The federal funding obligated to this project was $1,584,000. So, we’re just beneath that, based on these appraised amounts.

President Musgrave: Is there a motion?

Commissioner Tornatta: So moved.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: Just to remind the public, this is part of the $4.6 million in earmark and SAFETEA-LU money that was given to the county as grants. I’m sorry, it’s wasn’t SAFETEA-LU, was it? Yes, it was SAFETEA-LU. That’s the, every seven years, I believe–

John Stoll: The Highway Bill.

President Musgrave: –the Transportation Bill out of the U.S. Congress, and the other was part of an earmark. Earmarks last year were all stricken from the federal budget, and this year the process is still moving forward, but I did get an e-mail from the lobbyist that we employ in Washington to assist us in this, and, apparently the House is not including earmarks in the budget that they are sending to the Senate. The Senate, I understand, is considering including them, and, so, there will probably be more activity on this, but these funds were never certain for us. This is the very first time that Vanderburgh County had ever received any money in either of these two types of funds. We are hopeful that we receive more, but with this grant we are buying all of the right-of-way between the end of the road now and Diamond Avenue. I’m very much looking forward to construction starting?

John Stoll: As soon as we get this right-of-way purchased.

President Musgrave: Okay.

John Stoll: Right now a ballpark guess would be sometime, it would be ready for bid sometime in spring of ‘08 would be a ballpark guess. It all hinges on when the right-of-way is cleared, then additional paperwork has to be submitted to INDOT. There’s three to four months lead time between the time that paperwork is submitted to INDOT until the time that it actually shows up on a bid letting. But, hopefully, that will be sometime around the spring of 2008, and that will cover from Upper Mount Vernon to Marx.

President Musgrave: And, this is a new terrain road. I believe that we are purchasing at least one home. Is it just one home?

John Stoll: There are two, I believe.

President Musgrave: Two homes, and this is approximately three miles, or 2.6 miles?

John Stoll: Right, right about three miles.

President Musgrave: Okay, but the rest of it goes through essentially vacant ground.

John Stoll: Right.

President Musgrave: Well, good luck with the offers, and.....we already did. Yeah. Good luck with that. Is there anything further?

John Stoll: That’s all I had.

President Musgrave: Okay, thank you.

President Musgrave: Ms. Nichoalds, I believe you have something to add.

Marissa Nichoalds: Yes, I just have a letter that we received this afternoon. It’s from the Commissioners appointee to the Youth Care Center advisory board. It is an update of their May 24^th meeting. I would like to submit that for the record.

President Musgrave: Is there a motion?

Commissioner Tornatta: So moved.

Commissioner Nix: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: Is there any new business?

President Musgrave: Is there any old business?

President Musgrave: Is there any public comment?

President Musgrave: We have a consent agenda, is there a motion to adopt the consent agenda?

Commissioner Nix: So moved.

Commissioner Tornatta: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Musgrave: If there’s no further business, a motion to adjourn?

Commissioner Nix: Move approval.

Commissioner Tornatta: Second.

President Musgrave: All those in favor?

All Commissioners: Aye.

(The meeting was adjourned at 4:03 p.m.)

CONSENT ITEMS:

Commissioners:

Approval of the May 22, 2007 Commission Meeting Minutes.

Waiver of Fee for the Centre: EPD.

Evansville ARC: April 2007 Report of Activitites.

Anthem Fund Balance Agreement.

Animal Control Ordinance Letters/E-Mails.

Department Head Meeting Notes: 5/22/2007.

Employment Changes:

Burdette Park (2)                      County Clerk (2)                       Auditor (2)

Sheriff Office (1)                       Public Defender (1)                  VCCC (4)

Prosecutor (2)                           Circuit Court (2)                        Superior Court (1)

Travel Requests:

Treasurer (1)                            County Clerk (2)                       Health Dept. (1)

County Assessor (1)                 Commissioners (2)                   SWCD (1)

County Engineer: Pay Request No. 27: Burkhardt-Green River TIF Projects.

Weights & Measures: Monthly Report: 4/15-5/15/2007

County Clerk: Monthly Report: April 2007.

Department Head Reports:

Burdette Park                           County Engineer                       County Highway

Ozone Officer                           Supt. Of Bldgs.                         Veterans Services

Those in Attendance:

Cheryl Musgrave                      Bill Nix                                      Troy Tornatta

Bill Fluty                                    Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.          Marissa Nichoalds

Madelyn Grayson                     Robert Stayman                       Maria Cavins

Brad Mills                                  Steve Craig                               John Stoll

Others Unidentified                   Members of Media

VANDERBURGH COUNTY

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

Cheryl A. W. Musgrave, President

Bill Nix, Vice President

Troy Tornatta, Member

(Recorded and transcribed by Madelyn Grayson)