VANDERBURGH COUNTY

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

JUNE 14, 2011

The Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners met in session this 14^th day of June, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. in room 301 of the Civic Center Complex with President Lloyd Winnecke presiding.

President Winnecke: Good evening. I would like to call to order the June 14^th meeting of the Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners. We’ll begin with attendance roll call, please.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Abell?

Commissioner Abell: Here.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Melcher?

Commissioner Melcher: Here.

Madelyn Grayson: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Here.

President Winnecke: Would you please stand and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance?

(The Pledge of Allegiance was given.)

President Winnecke: We’ll begin with a quick announcement. Mike Duckworth, Superintendent of County Highways could not be here, but he did ask that we remind residents that live outside the city limits that we are picking up storm debris, and, again, you must live outside the city limits. You need to call the County Highway Garage to be put on the list for pick up. That number is 435-5777, 435-5777. The debris must be placed at the curb to be picked up. This is for tree limbs and storm debris, not heavy trash pick up. The Highway Department does not have a time line on when they will be in what area, but we’re getting requests so that they can get that information. So, again, this is for storm debris only for those residents who live outside the city limits. The number to call to get it picked up is 435-5777. If you have any questions you could contact the Commissioners office, or the County Garage.

President Winnecke: Next, permission to open quotes for VC-9903-2011, Burdette food and related items.

Commissioner Melcher: So moved.

Commissioner Abell: Second.

President Winnecke: A motion and a second. Questions or discussion? All in favor say aye.

All Commissioners: Aye.

President Winnecke: Opposed? Okay, open the quotes, we’ll be back to those.

(Motion approved 3-0)

President Winnecke: Action items, first we have a presentation from Torian, Hofmann, Dillow and Flittner Insurance. Bob?

Bob Dillow: Thank you, Commissioners. I’m here today with Andy Dillow, Greg Hofmann and Tony Flittner. We’re the team that is putting together the website that we want to present to you today. So, I would like to begin by thanking the Commissioners for showing confidence in the staff of our firm, and to thank you for allowing us to serve as the insurance agency for the employees of Vanderburgh County. Obviously, we take our job very, very seriously. With that said, we’re here to request your approval for three value added services that we wish to provide. We have a very brief presentation of those three items. The first on the screen is a custom designed website available to every employee, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. On this site you will be able to, or the employees will have a summary plan description detailing every benefit available to county employees. It will also provide contact information to customer service departments of each insurance company. It will provide resource information regarding health and wellness and many other topics. Are you there? Okay, then, in addition to this site, we wish to restore the agent on site program previously introduced by our firm. We will provide a customer service agent on site at the Civic Center, two times per month. This customer service agent will be available for face to face coverage information of claims and assistance to county employees. Then, the third item is we wish to prepare for each county employee what we call pocket cards. We would provide a pocket card to each employee containing contact information to our agency customer service personnel and customer service departments to each insurance carrier. Samples of that are also on the screen. All of these services we would like to provide in addition to the normal day to day services that we provide as your agent of record. We ask for your approval to proceed with the services. We will begin immediately to provide communication materials to Vanderburgh County employees regarding the services, again, upon your approval. There is no cost for these value added services. Again, we thank you for the opportunity to serve the employees of Vanderburgh County.

President Winnecke: Thanks, Bob. What would be the communication strategy to alert employees of this?

Bob Dillow: We have, we’re willing to prepare banners at our cost, signage at various locations to announce this service. We would work with Matt Arvay from the existing county website to help make the appropriate announcement, and there’s any number of suggestions that you would come up with that we would be willing to do. We talked about if it would be possible to put information with the county, with the pay stubs, to go out in the county employee’s checks to notify them that the service was available.

Commissioner Abell: You’ve talked to Joe’s office about that?

Bob Dillow: Yes.

Joe Gries: We have had discussions about that, yes.

Commissioner Abell: Jane Laib has been involved in this, I’m assuming?

Bob Dillow: Yes.

Commissioner Abell: Okay.

Bob Dillow: We have listened to Jane’s suggestions about how the website can be expanded to be even more meaningful for employees, and we’re open to any of those suggestions. We can do that because we control the site. We prepared it, we developed it. So, if there’s something that makes the site more meaningful, we’re very happy to do it, and Jane has had suggestions for us.

Commissioner Abell: Would it be possible for this site to run on our monitors? Well, you probably wouldn’t know that. That’s probably something that I need to ask Matt Arvay. Maybe for a couple days just run them on our monitors out here in the building and let people get used to seeing them.

Bob Dillow: If you need our assistance in anyway for that, of course–

Commissioner Abell: We can ask Matt about that.

Bob Dillow: –we’re available.

Commissioner Abell: Thank you.

Bob Dillow: Thank you.

Commissioner Abell: I like it.

President Winnecke: Yeah, I think this, could you describe real briefly sort of the, back to the website, sort of the depth and breadth of what they’ll be able to–

Tony Flittner: I’m Tony Flittner. What they’ll be able to do is they’ll be able to go on to the website 24/7, or 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and get detailed information regarding the plan designs for the benefits that are offered to them through Vanderburgh County. So, they’ll be able to click on the plan design that they have, Andy, maybe if you would just click on one of those. They, all of a sudden, a detailed summary plan description pops up, and they can look at what their coverages are, they can look at what their deductible is, what the out-of-pocket limitations are, how certain procedures are covered, how hospitalizations are covered and so forth. So, depending on which plan they have, they just simply click on that plan design and they get a summary plan description. It saves them from having to maybe track down someone in the Auditor’s office, or try to get a hold of somebody on Saturday evening when they’re talking with their spouse about maybe a procedure that they’re considering having or something like that.

President Winnecke: I think it’s great. Is there anywhere on the site that details problem resolution information?

Tony Flittner: The best thing to do for problem resolution is to go down to the contact information. Let’s click on that, Andy. Who do I contact? It gives all of the information regarding our agency contact, e-mails, names, phone numbers, and then, as well, gives customer service phone numbers to the carriers themselves. So, the employee can make their decision as to who they want to contact, us or the carrier themselves. Of course, we’re more than happy to help. So, a lot of them do contact us. I think this will help expand our information to more and more people so they know who to call. Maybe they won’t just run around here within their circle of co-workers and try and figure out who to talk to. They’ll be able to get on here, get the information and maybe, who knows, maybe somebody will print some of those contact sheets out and they’ll be floating around here.

President Winnecke: Is the website ready to launch?

Tony Flittner: It’s ready.

President Winnecke: At our approval?

Tony Flittner: Yes, sir.

President Winnecke: What about the timing for the pocket cards?

Tony Flittner: We can have those within two weeks.

President Winnecke: Okay. What’s your thought, or what are your thoughts relative to re-establishing the agent on site, in terms of timing and what not?

Tony Flittner: We can do that immediately. I think it’s a very valuable service. I think a lot of people are confused, at times, about their benefits. They get confused about some claim summaries that they get. They don’t quite understand the details on the claim summaries. It’s a very difficult process.

President Winnecke: Right.

Tony Flittner: If any of you have tried to make an appointment, go to a doctor, try to be in network, am I in network, am I out, did the claim get adjudicated properly? All sorts of details that can be very confusing. We found, the last time that we did this for Vanderburgh County, it was very helpful. You know, people that felt hopeless found that their situation wasn’t hopeless, that we could help them, we could save them money and help them get into the care that they need.

President Winnecke: Yeah, I agree, I think it’s great. I think probably the best thing to do is get with Mrs. Deig and Ms. Laib to determine like when the best times of the month are to schedule those and just pick the dates and times based on their recommendation.

Tony Flittner: Sure.

President Winnecke: And communicate that as best you can.

Tony Flittner: Okay.

President Winnecke: I think this is all very positive.

Tony Flittner: Good. Thank you.

Commissioner Melcher: Those times will be on the website too, eventually?

Tony Flittner: Yes, sir.

Commissioner Melcher: That way... I would like to go back to who you contact if you’ve got a problem. You’ve got a number up there and it says after business hours and then you press seven, now, will they talk to somebody on Saturday afternoon, eventually?

Tony Flittner: That’s a great question. Yes, they will.

Commissioner Melcher: Because that seems to be, if I’m at a hospital because I took my wife or something, I might have a question there, and I would like to be able to figure out how to do that, not wait till Monday.

Tony Flittner: Right. Bob should have told you about that when he was up here, but he didn’t.

Commissioner Melcher: Well, he said you were going to take it from here.

Tony Flittner: Oh, I guess that’s right. No, actually, they will get in touch with a live person. That live person will have the ability to contact us. They have all of our cell phone numbers, they can get in touch with us, and then we can get back in touch with the person who needs the help. So, it is, it’s literally 24 hour a day customer service.

Commissioner Melcher: Okay.

President Winnecke: Any other questions? If not, I would entertain a motion to approve what our agents, agent of record, Torian, Hofmann, Dillow and Flittner Insurance have presented.

Commissioner Abell: So moved.

Commissioner Melcher: Second.

President Winnecke: A motion and a second. Questions or discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote, please.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Abell?

Commissioner Abell: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Melcher?

Commissioner Melcher: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

(Motion approved 3-0)

President Winnecke: So, feel free to proceed, gentlemen.

Bob Dillow: Thank you.

Tony Flittner: Thank you. We appreciate it.

President Winnecke: Thanks.

Tony Flittner: Okay, thank you.

President Winnecke: Next we have a road race request. The West Terrace Elementary School 4K for Kids. The race is scheduled for September 10^th. This is the third year for this event. The appropriate forms and certificate of liability insurance has been presented. Organizers have been coordinating with the County Sheriff’s Department. Anyone here to speak to that event? Mr. Ziemer, are you confirming that everything is in order for that?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Yes, everything is in order.

President Winnecke: In that case, I would entertain a motion to approve.

Commissioner Melcher: I’ll move for approval.

Commissioner Abell: Second.

President Winnecke: A motion and a second. Questions or discussion? Roll call vote, please.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Abell?

Commissioner Abell: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Melcher?

Commissioner Melcher: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

(Motion approved 3-0)

President Winnecke: Next, contracts, agreements and leases. First, for the Prosecutor’s Office, Adult Protective Services grant amendment. This amendment changes the grant number to EDES #345-1-82-11-PV-1253, increases the amount of the grant by $144,796 to a new total of $287,592 and extends the term of the grant to June 30, 2012. I would entertain a motion to approve.

Commissioner Abell: So moved.

Commissioner Melcher: Second.

President Winnecke: A motion and a second. Questions or discussion?

Commissioner Abell: What do they do with this grant? Do you know?

President Winnecke: I did. Ted, do you remember off the top of your head?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: What’s the question?

Commissioner Abell: What do they do with this grant? Do they pay an employee out of this grant?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: They do. Yes, it’s for salaries, a contribution towards salaries. It doesn’t cover all of the salaries, but attached to the grant is a schedule which shows the various salaries that it covers.

Commissioner Abell: I guess, my only concern is, my continuing concern is with grants, when they run out what we do with the employee who’s getting paid out of them?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: I don’t know, maybe Sherman–

President Winnecke: This is for the Prosecutor’s Office.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Oh, this is the Prosecutor. I’m sorry, Sherman. Yeah, right.

Commissioner Abell: Yeah, this is Prosecutor.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Yeah.

President Winnecke: I think that’s a good question. The good news is this grant goes through September of ‘12.

Commissioner Abell: So, we’ve got a little time.

President Winnecke: We’ve got a little bit of time.

Commissioner Abell: And, the other good news is, it’s really the County Council’s problem.

President Winnecke: I didn’t want to say that. Do we have a motion?

Commissioner Abell: We do.

President Winnecke: Okay. Roll call vote, please.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Abell?

Commissioner Abell: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Melcher?

Commissioner Melcher: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

(Motion approved 3-0)

President Winnecke: Next, we have the Emergency Management Agency 2010 Emergency Management performance grant salaries sub-grant agreement to be entered into between the county and the Indiana Department of Homeland Security. The grant is to reimburse the county for a portion of salaries paid to EMA staff from October 9, 2009 through December 31, 2010, for an amount not to exceed seventy, oh, surely this is a typo. Surely it would be $77,465.05.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: That is correct.

President Winnecke: The grant period is for one year. I would entertain a motion to approve.

Commissioner Melcher: So moved.

Commissioner Abell: Second.

President Winnecke: A motion and a second. Questions or discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote, please.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Abell?

Commissioner Abell: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Melcher?

Commissioner Melcher: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

(Motion approved 3-0)

President Winnecke: Sherman, before you leave, I do have a question.

Sherman Greer: Yes, sir?

President Winnecke: A month or so ago when we were all in the throws of the flooding, we had a lot of great volunteer effort, and we talked out there at the site about recognizing some of those folks–

Sherman Greer: I’ve got the information for both of the churches.

President Winnecke: Oh, great, and the, was it Civil Air Patrol?

Sherman Greer: Civil Air Patrol.

President Winnecke: Are you going to send that to the office so we can–

Sherman Greer: Yes, we will.

President Winnecke: Okay, great, do that at a future meeting soon.

Sherman Greer: Okay.

President Winnecke: Okay.

Sherman Greer: Just for your information–

President Winnecke: Sure.

Sherman Greer: –since I’m here, 11 counties, out of the 34 counties that are declared for, by the Governor, we have 11 counties that were declared for individual assistance, and Vanderburgh County is one of those 11 counties. Then, also, for public assistance, of course, we’re on that list. This memo that we got, it says that the damage reports from April the 18^th and continuing on until the flooding and the wind storms that we’ve had. So, anything that we’ve done in the last couple of weeks is still considered to be, you know, under this State of Emergency until we get a declaration out of it.

President Winnecke: Great. Any questions of Sherman?

Sherman Greer: That house that, over on Bellemeade that the tree fell through the house? That’s my niece’s house.

President Winnecke: I’m sorry to hear that.

Sherman Greer: Two little kids in there, but everybody’s okay. That’s the most important thing.

President Winnecke: Good. It would be nice to make, to coordinate those presentations to the volunteers, to the churches and the other volunteers that helped us at a future meeting.

Sherman Greer: Okay. We might want to, if at all possible we need to, in the past we’ve always put something in the newspaper thanking a host of people, like Mulzer’s–

President Winnecke: Right.

Sherman Greer: –and a lot of people and everything like that. I didn’t know if that was something we could get into the budget to be able to do that.

President Winnecke: Why don’t you send the Commissioners, each of the Commissioners a list of the companies, volunteer groups and individuals that really went above and beyond–

Sherman Greer: Sure.

President Winnecke: –for possible consideration, and we’ll shoot back individual e-mails and figure out...some we might want to recognize publicly before this Board.

Sherman Greer: Thank you. Okay. I’ll do that.

President Winnecke: Thanks, Sherman. Next, for the Auditor’s office, Maximus professional consulting services agreement. This is to review expenditures by the county under various State and Federal programs and then to assist the county in filing claims to recover what essentially consists of excess expenditures by the county under those programs. The agreement is for 2011, 2012 and 2013 at a cost of $10,200 per year. I would entertain a motion to approve.

Commissioner Abell: So moved.

Commissioner Melcher: Second.

President Winnecke: A motion and a second. Anything from the Auditor?

Joe Gries: If I may.

President Winnecke: You may.

Joe Gries: I provided some inaccurate information to Ted when we spoke yesterday. The amounts that we receive back were significantly higher than what I gave you, Ted.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Okay.

Joe Gries: The lowest amount over the last three years is $140,000 that we get back from the State. One year it was actually above $170,000.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Thanks, Joe, because you’ll see in my e-mail I said that we had approximately $40,000 per year in savings, and now it’s $140,000, which makes it even more valuable.

Joe Gries: That was based on information–

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Plus it’s $10,200 in a year to get $140,000 back.

Joe Gries: Yes.

Commissioner Abell: Good return on our money.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: Yeah.

President Winnecke: Roll call vote, please.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Abell?

Commissioner Abell: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Melcher?

Commissioner Melcher: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

(Motion approved 3-0

President Winnecke: Next, from the County Highway Garage, a Xerox lease agreement. The copy machine lease will replace the current copier and four printers with a new Xerox copier to be leased under a master pricing agreement between Xerox and the city-county that was entered into in July of 2010. The lease period for the new Xerox copier is 60 months. The monthly lease payment will be $226.22 per month. I would entertain a motion to approve.

Commissioner Melcher: So moved.

Commissioner Abell: Second.

President Winnecke: A motion and a second. Questions or discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote, please.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Abell?

Commissioner Abell: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Melcher?

Commissioner Melcher: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

(Motion approved 3-0)

President Winnecke: Next, department heads. Steve, would you like to say anything?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: While he’s coming up, perhaps I’ll report on the bids?

President Winnecke: Sure.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: These are bids for various food services, candies, hamburger buns and so forth for Burdette Park. So, there are no total bids on any of these. So, I can only tell the Commissioners at this time that we have three bids, one from CRS One Source of Owensboro for various foods at various prices; one from Sara Lee for various foods at various prices; and the third from Fischer Candy Company, again for various foods at various prices. I think it’s the recommendation of the Purchasing Agent that we take these under advisement so that the department can review the various bids for the various foods and determine what’s best.

President Winnecke: I would entertain a motion to take–

Commissioner Melcher: So moved.

Commissioner Abell: Second.

President Winnecke: A motion and a second to take these bids under advisement. Any other questions or discussion?

Commissioner Abell: Where is Sara Lee from? Are they local?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: They have a local office.

Commissioner Abell: Okay.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: I mean, I think they’re a national organization, but they do have a local office.

President Winnecke: Roll call vote, please.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Abell?

Commissioner Abell: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Melcher?

Commissioner Melcher: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

(Motion approved 3-0)

President Winnecke: Okay, Steve?

Steve Craig: Yes, Steve Craig, Manager of Burdette Park. We opened the park on Memorial Day weekend. We had large crowds. We had a very safe three day holiday. We didn’t have parts of the park open, the front part of the park. The picnic area and that was still covered with debris and mud and all the nasty stuff that a flood leaves. We finally got that cleaned up and are moving our efforts to other parts of the park. In the front of the park, still cleaning up some of the mud and the debris from there. Fixing some of the stuff that was repaired. We had to redo our landscaping. Lost a lot of bushes and trees that was submerged for a couple of weeks. They didn’t take the water too good. The clean up, it’s put us behind on a few of our other projects, but we’re working on them and they’ll be done in a timely manner. We’ve had, like I said, great crowds so far. The weather’s been conducive to swimming and all of our buildings are rented, and having a good summer so far.

President Winnecke: Great. Any questions of Steve? Thanks.

Steve Craig: Still need lifeguards if there’s any people out there that’s got their lifesaving that would want a job for the summer.

President Winnecke: There you go, Richard. There’s a story that no one else is going to have.

Richard Goote: I had that two weeks ago.

Commissioner Melcher: Sounds like you need to do it again.

Steve Craig: Thank you.

Commissioner Melcher: In bigger print.

President Winnecke: Thanks, Steve.

President Winnecke: John?

John Stoll: I have two items. The first is a notice to bidders for the Baseline and 41 work. This is for the lane improvements associated with the new school construction. This would be approval to advertise the project for bids. We would open bids on July 12^th.

President Winnecke: I would entertain a motion to approve.

Commissioner Melcher: So moved.

Commissioner Abell: Second.

President Winnecke: A motion and a second. Questions or discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote, please.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Abell?

Commissioner Abell: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Melcher?

Commissioner Melcher: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

(Motion approved 3-0)

John Stoll: Then, the other item is a change order on the University Parkway embankment repair project. This is for an increase of $4,048.61. That increase was a result of increased quantities of dirt needed to fill up all of the erosion. We didn’t do a detailed survey on that. We just estimated what was needed and we underestimated the total volume.

President Winnecke: I would entertain a motion to approve.

Commissioner Melcher: So moved.

Commissioner Abell: Second.

President Winnecke: A motion and a second. Questions or discussion? Roll call vote, please.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Abell?

Commissioner Abell: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Melcher?

Commissioner Melcher: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

(Motion approved 3-0)

John Stoll: That’s all I have.

President Winnecke: Thanks, John.

John Stoll: Thanks.

President Winnecke: Gary, did you have anything?

Gary Heck: No, sir.

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: I do.

President Winnecke: Mr. Ziemer?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: We, you’ll recall that in December of 2010 the Knight Township Volunteer Fire Department, it developed that they were going to be unable to continue providing service to the residents of Knight Township. At the same time the county had constructed a building for the Knight Township Fire Department on Pollack Avenue under a grant, under a $500,000 grant from the Office of Community and Rural Affairs for the State of Indiana. If that building were not going to continue to be used for fire protection services through December 31, 2012, there would have been danger of the county having to repay a portion or all of the grant funds to OCRA, plus there was the problem of having fire service, fire protection service available for the residents of Knight Township. After some negotiations it developed that the City of Evansville was willing to take a lease of that building, that is the building built with the grant money from Knight Township Volunteer Fire Department in return for, at one dollar a year. In return for that to agree to provide, the City of Evansville to provide through its Fire Department fire protection services for the Knight Township residents through at least the period until December 31, 2012. That lease was signed and those problems were solved. We were then notified, we have since been notified by OCRA that since the original grant was between the county, between OCRA and the county, and since the city was taking over obligations of the county as the grant recipient, they wanted to see an interlocal agreement between Vanderburgh County and the City of Evansville which would recite that the city is willing to perform the fire protection services and use the building for storage as required under the terms of the grant. I have prepared an interlocal agreement between Vanderburgh County and the City of Evansville, which you have before you, and it has attached to it a copy of the lease agreement, and it basically provides that the city agrees to provide fire protection services for the residents of Knight Township in return for the lease of the property. The interlocal agreement has been approved by David Jones, the corporate counsel for the City of Evansville, and he has provided me, and I did also provide an e-mail to you, a copy of a proposed resolution, which will be adopted by the Common Council of the City of Evansville. It’s already been approved by the Board of Public Works, approving this interlocal agreement so that it can be signed by the Mayor. So, I recommend that you consider approving the interlocal agreement today, so we can then forward it to the city for execution, and then forward that to OCRA.

President Winnecke: Okay, I would entertain a motion to approve the proposed interlocal agreement.

Commissioner Melcher: So moved.

Commissioner Abell: Second.

President Winnecke: A motion and a second. Questions or discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote, please.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Abell?

Commissioner Abell: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Melcher?

Commissioner Melcher: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

(Motion approved 3-0)

President Winnecke: Anything else?

Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.: No, thank you.

President Winnecke: I don’t believe we have any board appointments this evening.

President Winnecke: Any new business to come before the Commissioners? Any old business?

President Winnecke: Any public comment?

Commissioner Melcher: I do have one comment that I want to make tonight. Last year when we were putting the Commissioners budget together, and I noticed today we picked up the budget for next year, I wanted to look at GAGE and see what they were doing and how much. I was talking about cutting it last year, if you remember. Maybe we ought to be looking at it seriously. I think Saturday you read in the paper where they’ve turned the farmers market next year over to somebody else, maybe they probably shouldn’t have even been in that business. They spun off the Freedom Festival to the Shriners, to the Shrine, and as of right now, as far as the phase-ins, when they were before us in January or February I asked them if they were going to do it and they said yes. To this day, and I verified it again with the President of the County Council, they haven’t been before them. The City Council actually last night got one of them that I think that they were requesting. I don’t know what the hold up is, there’s cut off dates with all of these corporations. They have to be mailed out. They should have mailed them out, I think the 15^th of March. They should have been back by the end of May. They should be contacting the county and the City Council about bringing them all in. This is something that I think a lot of the taxpayers do watch, because, you know, the only thing the taxpayer gets from us is the homestead credit, and businesses get a lot of credit. So, this is something that we’ve always tried to stay on top of, especially like with Whirlpool pulling out, we have tried to stay on top of this. Even though it’s part not us, but it is us, as Commissioners, I believe. I would like her to come to our next meeting, or the meeting after that, with whoever’s doing the phase-in and bring a list of all the county, so that we have an idea of what’s going on and tell us that they are caught up. Because if there’s somebody behind, they need to come in and explain why, the County Council needs to go ahead and keep them going. Both of you probably already understand it, you’ve done that in the past when you were County Councilmembers. But, I do think that if they’re not going to be doing that, then we need to find somebody that will do the phase-in, and this would be the time to address their budget. If there is jobs out there that they’re supposed to be bringing in, maybe they could bring us a list of the jobs they’ve produced.

President Winnecke: Marissa, would you ask, extend an invitation to Debbie Dewey to come before our next meeting and be prepared to talk about the status of phase-in compliance issues?

Marissa Nichoalds: Yes.

President Winnecke: Thanks. Anything else, Steve?

Commissioner Melcher: That’s it.

President Winnecke: Okay. Any other public comment?

President Winnecke: At this time I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda items.

Commissioner Abell: So moved.

Commissioner Melcher: Second.

President Winnecke: A motion and a second. Madelyn, you’re on.

Madelyn Grayson: The consent items for the June 14^th meeting are as follows; approval of prior minutes, there’s the May 24, 2011 Commission meeting minutes, there are minutes from the joint Commissioner-City Council workshops for May 19^th, May 26^th and June 2^nd; employment changes for the Commissioners approval, there are five for the County Highway, two for Burdette Park, one for the Public Defender, one for the Health Department, and one for the Co-Op Extension; the Auditor has the May 2011 A/P vouchers; the Assessor has a request to surplus various office machines; the Public Defender has a request to surplus a fax machine, a scanner, three toner cartridges and one paper cutter; the Commissioners have the INDOT response to a letter regarding the intersection of U.S. 41 and Ruffian Way; the Commissioners have a request from SICAN to waive Centre fees, not overtime for the 2012 College and Career Expo; the County Engineer has pay request number 129 in the amount of $779, $779,123.63 for TIF projects; the Hillcrest Washington Youth Home December 31, 2010 financial report; the Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau May 25, 2011 meeting minutes; the IBAP Gatekeeper May 31, 2011 report; Burdette Park has a comparison from 2010 through 2011 through April 30^th; AMR has the first quarter 2010 report and reimbursement, and the first quarter 2011 report and reimbursement; and there are department head reports from the County Engineer and the Ozone Officer.

President Winnecke: Any other questions? Any questions relating to the consent agenda? Roll call vote, please.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Abell?

Commissioner Abell: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Melcher?

Commissioner Melcher: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

(Motion approved 3-0)

President Winnecke: We have one rezoning to approve to send to the Area Plan Commission. I would consider a motion to approve VC-1-2011, New Urban Investments, Incorporated, 15201 Peck Road, a change from Ag to R-3. Anyone to speak to that tonight? This is just sending it on to the Area Plan Commission. I would entertain a motion to approve.

Commissioner Abell: So moved.

Commissioner Melcher: I’ll second it just to send it on to the Area Plan Commission.

President Winnecke: A motion and a second. Questions or discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote, please.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Abell?

Commissioner Abell: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: Commissioner Melcher?

Commissioner Melcher: Yes.

Madelyn Grayson: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

(Motion approved 3-0)

President Winnecke: Any other business to come before the Board of Commissioners? If not, I would entertain a motion to adjourn.

Commissioner Melcher: So moved.

Commissioner Abell: Second.

(The meeting was adjourned at 5:36 p.m.)

CONSENT ITEMS:

Commissioners:

Approval of the May 24, 2011 Commission Meeting Minutes.

Approval of the 5/19 & 5/26/11 & 6/2/11 Joint Commission-City Council Minutes.

INDOT Response Letter: Intersection of U.S. 41 & Ruffian Way.

Waiver of Centre Fee for 2012: SICAN College & Career Expo.

Hillcrest Washington Youth Home: December 31, 2010 Financial Report.

Convention & Visitors Bureau: 5/25/2011 Meeting Minutes.

IBAP Gatekeeper: May 31, 2011 Report.

Burdette Park: Comparison 2010-2011 through April 30, 2011.

AMR: Fourth Quarter 2010 & First Quarter 2011: Report & Reimbursement.

Employment Changes:

Health Dept (1)                         County Highway (5)                  Burdette Park (2)

Public Defender (1)                  Co-Op Extension (1)                 Sheriff Office (5)

Prosecutor (1)                           County Clerk (1)                       Circuit Court (1)

VCCC (1)                                  Superior Court (1)                      Assessor (1)

County Auditor: May 2011 A/P Vouchers.

Surplus Request Letters:

County Assessor: Various office machines.

Public Defender: 1 fax machine, 1 scanner, 3 toner cartridges & 1 paper cutter.

County Engineer: Pay Request No. 129: Green River-Burkhardt TIF Projects.

Department Head Reports:    County Engineer                       Ozone Officer

Those in Attendance:

Lloyd Winnecke                        Marsha Abell                            Stephen Melcher

Joe Gries                                  Ted C. Ziemer, Jr.                    Marissa Nichoalds

Madelyn Grayson                     Bob Dillow                                Tony Flittner

Sherman Greer                         Steve Craig                               John Stoll

Gary Heck                                Others Unidentified                   Members of Media

VANDERBURGH COUNTY

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

Lloyd Winnecke, President

Marsha Abell, Vice President

Stephen Melcher, Member

(Recorded and transcribed by Madelyn Grayson.)