VANDERBURGH COUNTY

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

NOVEMBER 18, 2002

The Vanderburgh County Commissioners met in session this 18^th day of November, 2002 at 5:32 p.m. in Room 307 of the Civic Center Complex with President Catherine Fanello presiding.

President Fanello: Call to order Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioner meeting November 18^th.

President Fanello: To my right, introductions are as follows, Tammy McKinney; County Attorney, Kevin Winternheimer; Commissioner Mosby. To my left, Commissioner Mourdock; newly elected Commissioner, currently County Auditor, Suzanne Crouch; and Madelyn Grayson, Recording Secretary. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

(The Pledge was given.)

President Fanello: Do I have approval of the November 11^th minutes?

Commissioner Mourdock: So moved.

Commissioner Mosby: Second.

President Fanello: So ordered.

President Fanello: Next item, Phil Lawrence permission to award cell phone bid.

Phil Lawrence: I have, just before I do that, a couple things. At the Board of Public Works meeting this morning, APA002 and 003, crushed stone and sand and gravel were opened. They were taken under advisement. There is only one bidder, Mulzer, as is always the case. So, if you guys could take those under advisement, I would appreciate it.

Commissioner Mosby: Motion to take bids under advisement.

Commissioner Mourdock: Second.

President Fanello: So ordered.

Phil Lawrence: Second is permission to award cell phones to Cingular Wireless. In essence, what we did was we went out for bid in May for the city side, and now we would like to piggyback that contract with the county.

President Fanello: I saw an e-mail today from Deputy Chief Williams, and I know I talked to you about our cell phones, and I was happy at the thought of saving money, but I think there may have been a couple of concerns on the Sheriff’s side. I don’t know if we need to defer this for one week until he gets those questions answered. Sheriff, did you want to add anything?

Brad Ellsworth: Good evening, Sheriff Ellsworth. Yeah, the only question we have, of course, our provider for most of our cell phones is Cingular, but there are instances, and we’ve had good conversation with Phil about this, is that sometimes, some of these providers who don’t provide services that we find necessary. One, for instance, is our trip van that travels across the state to other prisons and jails doesn’t have very good, doesn’t get adequate reception from that particular carrier. So, we switched those two or three to another company. We also find in some of our investigations, and among the staff that we went with Nextel with a handful of phones, because between our investigators, it’s cheaper to use...I call it the walkie talkie feature, than it is to actually making a cellular phone call. That’s a benefit that Cingular...and so, we would ask that there be some kind of deviation in special circumstances for when the office holder, we think it’s necessary to use another one for coverage or safety, that we be able to do something like that. I don’t know, I know, like I said, Cingular carries most of our in-line phones.

Commissioner Mourdock: The bid that we’re considering, or the contract that we would be piggybacking on is not an exclusive contract that binds us to only their services, is it, Phil?

Phil Lawrence: No. I mean, the contract we have is exclusive. I don’t see any reason why they couldn’t get four or five phones outside of that contract for specific, non-specific reasons.

Commissioner Mourdock: Exclusive, but not exclusive in the sense that we are committed to them as our sole carrier.

Phil Lawrence: Right. No. No.

President Fanello: So, if that’s the case, excuse me, if that’s the case do you think, I mean, are you okay with going ahead with?

Brad Ellsworth: That’s fine. As long as we have a little bit of that, I guess, wiggle room to–

President Fanello: As long as you get to do–

Brad Ellsworth: –for those needs that we have that Cingular doesn’t meet.

President Fanello: Kevin, does that meet with your approval?

Kevin Winternheimer: Yeah, I just want to see the contract to make sure that it doesn’t say that we’re, they’re an exclusive vendor. As long as it’s a here’s our price, if you utilize our service type contract, I have no problem. That way if he chooses not to for certain individuals, then he can go somewhere else.

President Fanello: Would it be possible for us to just ,maybe, defer for one week until–

Phil Lawrence: Sure.

President Fanello: –Kevin has a chance to look at everything to make sure it’s to his satisfaction? Do I have a motion to defer for one week?

Commissioner Mosby: I’ll make a motion to defer for one week.

Commissioner Mourdock: Second.

President Fanello: So ordered.

Commissioner Mosby: Do you have some prices that we can look at? Something–

Phil Lawrence: Yeah, I had given them to Catherine. I’ll certainly give copies to both of you two.

Commissioner Mosby: Okay.

Phil Lawrence: The last thing is permission to award VC036-2002, Transportation Services for Vanderburgh County Office of Family and Children. Unfortunately, we only had one bid. We really tried to get several other companies interested, but to no avail. River City Yellow Cab was the only bid, and responsive bidder. We did put some things in the contract to keep their feet to the fire. They were having some serious problems with getting their TANF customers to their office on time. If they are not on time, they have got to wait a whole, another month, and some of them were getting cut off, getting their assistance cut off, because the cab service wasn’t getting there. So, we put some teeth into it, so we can actually say if you don’t get there, then you can be penalized. So, hopefully, we’ll be able to monitor it a little better than that.

Commissioner Mourdock: You’re suggesting that we go ahead and award as negotiated?

Phil Lawrence: Yes.

Commissioner Mourdock: So moved.

Commissioner Mosby: Have you seen it?

Kevin Winternheimer: I haven’t seen that contract.

Commissioner Mourdock: Oh.

Phil Lawrence: Oh. I’m sorry.

Kevin Winternheimer: Is it something that we could actually sign next week?

Phil Lawrence: Sure.

Kevin Winternheimer: The board could.

President Fanello: Okay.

Kevin Winternheimer: So, I could have a chance to read it.

Commissioner Mourdock: I’ll withdraw the motion then, and move that we defer for one week.

Commissioner Mosby: I’ll second the motion to defer. Is this, do you have a contract from these people? This is not the contract, is it?

Phil Lawrence: No. This is the, this is just the tabulation.

Commissioner Mosby: Okay.

Kevin Winternheimer: Just, send me a copy of the contract as soon as you can–

Phil Lawrence: Sure.

Kevin Winternheimer: –and I can review it.

President Fanello: Anything else?

Phil Lawrence: That’s it.

President Fanello: Thank you, Phil.

Phil Lawrence: Alright. Thank you.

President Fanello: Next item we have is County Assessor, Nexus contract. Is there anyone here from the Assessor’s office?

Becky Kasha: Good evening, I’m Becky Kasha.

President Fanello: Hi, Becky. I believe Kevin has reviewed the contract.

Kevin Winternheimer: Yeah, I reviewed it for legality. I have no problem with it.

President Fanello: Okay.

Commissioner Mourdock: Okay.

President Fanello: I only had two questions, but I thought maybe the Assessor was going to be here.

Becky Kasha: Well, I can–

President Fanello: Can you–

Becky Kasha: –take my, try my hand at answering. If not, I’ll carry it back to her–

President Fanello: I only had two small questions. The effective date of the contract–

Becky Kasha: Uh-huh.

President Fanello: –or it says approval date November, I guess, which would be today, November 18^th, with an effective date of October 2^nd–

Becky Kasha: Right.

President Fanello: –what is the meaning behind that?

Becky Kasha: My understanding of that was that, was two fold, neither party of the contract thought it was appropriate to enter into the contract prior to the election. To bind, potentially bind Ms. Musgrave’s successor. They thought it would be appropriate for, if someone else was elected that they would have the opportunity to negotiate that contract in the manner that they wished. Because of the fairly tight time schedule, they thought it was necessary to at least get it under way.

President Fanello: So, they’ve actually already started work then?

Becky Kasha: I think some very minor exchange of information has under, has occurred.

President Fanello: Okay. Do you know if she was able to obtain quotes from any other vendors, or if she put it out for RFP, or anything like that?

Becky Kasha: My understanding on that is they did talk to other company, another company, but they were not able to...because this is two components, there is an analysis, and then to be able to provide the information necessary to correct any deficiencies that might be discovered during the analysis. One company could do the analysis, but couldn’t provide the corrective information. The price that they wanted for just that one component was not very much less than the other company wanted for the two components that Nexus wanted. So, and I don’t think other than those two companies, that there is anybody else out there doing this, but Cherie could confirm that.

President Fanello: Is there any other questions that anybody has?

Commissioner Mourdock: This being part of the all critical equalization process–

Becky Kasha: Correct.

Commissioner Mourdock: –I know everybody’s concerned about getting this thing done in a timely basis–

Becky Kasha: Right.

Commissioner Mourdock: –so, I would move approval of the contract.

Commissioner Mosby: I’m not going to second it. I mean, I have a problem with anybody that goes ahead and starts a contract without this body’s okay. I mean, this contract has to be okayed by the Commissioners. It looks to me like we’ve already started work. I’ve seen no comparison on any type of bids. If we’re going to spend $100,000 plus, then I think there should be some kind of bids. If people didn’t want to bid, then I’ll accept that in writing. As far as I’m concerned, I will not retroactively pay anybody to October 2^nd. I would not sign the contract.

President Fanello: This is a tough one, because it bothers me a little bit too, but I know how critical reassessment is. I feel like I’m being put in a place which I normally wouldn’t like to be in, but I do want to see those tax bills go out on time. I don’t know what kind of message it sends when we do something with an effective date that’s earlier than the contract. I would suggest that we approve the contract, but it be effective for today, and we only pay for work that begins from today on. That’s my feeling on the issue.

Becky Kasha: Well, I can’t....I don’t know what the effect of that would be. I think that this is a, it’s a one price for the entire amount of work that’s performed. As far as I’m aware, as I said, it’s very minor exchanges of information have occurred to date. I mean, we could have set an effective date of today, but we wanted to be truthful and up front about how the process has occurred, due to the election, and the time constraints imposed by the reassessment statutes.

President Fanello: I think Tammy knows, and Patty knows, I’ve bugged them for about four or five weeks about getting this contract up here, and it just didn’t happen, but–

Commissioner Mosby: I guess, I don’t understand what you mean by the election. I mean, if you had got a contract, and it was competitively bid, and the three of us looked at it, what problem there would be.

Becky Kasha: I don’t think it was a matter of not having it competitively bid, I don’t know that there’s a, certainly, I’m not aware that there’s a requirement for that, but I do believe it was not, it was felt that it was not necessarily appropriate to bind the potential successor to the office to this vendor.

Commissioner Mourdock: Certainly, there were, I won’t say spokes people, because they weren’t formally spokes people for the other companies, but there were proponents for other companies in this room prior to the election trying to say, well, let’s go with other companies, they provide this service. I suppose this one’s about as broad as it is long. On the one hand, the Assessor, I think, did absolutely the right thing by saying she wasn’t going to commit any future assessor to her choice of software. I know there has been discussions on this board before about not micro managing the work of the different elected officials. On the other hand, if she had done nothing, the ultimate successor might have been that much further behind in getting somebody on board to make this thing work. I understand your point, Catherine, I think we are in a bit of a box. Certainly, the equalization is a big issue that’s here, and, again, I don’t think we need to be micro managing. I would amend my motion slightly, which is, as you were suggesting, to say that work prior to today, that we would approve this contingent upon Nexus accepting that language. You’re saying, Becky, and I know you can’t commit for them–

Becky Kasha: Right.

Commissioner Mourdock: –I’m not asking you to.

Becky Kasha: I’m just saying my understanding is they have agreed to do all of the work for “x” price. Whether it occurred before today, or after today. I appreciate your concerns. I just think these are unusual, extenuating circumstances.

President Fanello: I mean, I’m going, and if you’ll amend your motion that way, I will second it.

Commissioner Mourdock: It’s hard to amend exactly to the language that they’ll accept, because I don’t know that they’ll accept it, but I would move that we accept this contract contingent upon the acceptance by the contractor, Nexus, that the start up date is effectively today, as opposed to October 2^nd that they had listed.

President Fanello: Yes. And I’ll second that, but only based on the conversation that I had with our County Treasurer, who is very, very concerned about the financial stability of this county if those tax bills don’t, do not go out on time. It’s for her that I will approve this, and second that motion.

Commissioner Mourdock: Okay. Becky, maybe you can get with both the Assessor and the contractor, and then report back to Kevin so we would know next week if there’s a problem.

Becky Kasha: I can. I apologize for Cherie, she had to go to Indianapolis today, and I certainly will get the two of them together. I don’t foresee that this would be any kind of problem, because, like I said, only very minor exchanges of information have occurred thus far. But, of course, you know, I appreciate the contingency aspect of this, and I will let Kevin know if that presents a problem that can’t be rectified some other way.

President Fanello: Okay. Thank you, Becky.

Becky Kasha: I’m sorry. Was there a vote? Did I miss something?

President Fanello: Yes, I seconded it. So ordered.

Becky Kasha: Thank you. I didn’t want to walk away before you did.

Commissioner Mosby: I want a roll call.

President Fanello: Okay.

Commissioner Mosby: I request a roll call.

President Fanello: Okay. We’ll take a roll call vote. Commissioner Mourdock?

Commissioner Mourdock: Yes.

President Fanello: Commissioner Mosby?

Commissioner Mosby: No.

President Fanello: And I’ll vote yes, only so the tax bills can go out on time.

Commissioner Mosby: So what?

President Fanello: I said so the tax bills can go out on time, because I’m afraid that they won’t go out on time. Not that I’m really in favor of the whole process of how this worked. It seems kind of strange to me, you know, we talk about not micro managing other departments, but I can have comments on our vote on the health insurance, and I feel like we’re being micro managed at the point where we’re trying to save this county almost a million dollars over the next three years. I find that quite ironic.

President Fanello: Next item is earthquake preparedness proclamation. I do have that, is there, did you want to read the proclamation, Sherman.

Sherman Greer: No, I’ll have you read the proclamation please.

President Fanello:

“Whereas, Vanderburgh County is located near the Wabash and New Madrid Faults and experienced a seismic event on June 18, 2002; and whereas, disasters are a fact of life and will continue to be a threat in the future; and whereas, Vanderburgh County is vulnerable to many types of natural and man made hazards; and whereas, a long-term commitment to mitigation and preparedness efforts by public and private members of the local community will minimize loss of life and property, while improving response and recovery efforts; and whereas, land use, new construction, retrofitting of existing construction, community education, and information management are key components of any mitigation and preparedness strategy; and whereas, the efforts to reduce loss of life and limit the interruption of the public service, resume business operations, manage response and recovery in a timely manner continues to be top priority in the hearts and minds of emergency service personnel. Now, therefore, I, Catherine Fanello, President of the County Commission, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, do hereby proclaim the week of November 18-22, 2002 as “Earthquake Preparedness Week”.

Sherman Greer: I would like to, I’m Sherman Greer, Emergency Management Director for Evansville and Vanderburgh County. I would like to bring you up to date on what we have planned for this week. Already this morning we had a program out at New Harmony, at the New Harmony School out there, grade school out there, to where a seismograph has been put in, in conjunction with Indiana University. So, that, there again, we can get a good reading on any type of seismic activity that may happen within this area. Also, for your leisure this evening, after you go home, from 8:00 p.m. till 9:00, WNIN, Cable Channel 12 is going to be running the earthquake risk and readiness, “It’s Everybody’s Fault”. It’s a documentary that was done here in the Evansville area that is being shown all over the central part of the United States. So, that’s something that you might, if you haven’t, if you’ve never seen it before you can tune in this evening. Tuesday, the 19^th, Be Ready Program is being put on by the American Red Cross out at Highland School. 175 first graders will be assembled. So, I’m going to go out and help them with that.

Commissioner Mourdock: 175 what?

Sherman Greer: 175 first graders–

President Fanello: First graders.

Commissioner Mourdock: Oh, first graders.

Sherman Greer: –will be assembled, and the American Red Cross is handling that to teach them more about earthquake preparedness and safety. On Wednesday, between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m., Dr. James Durbin, geologist from the University of Southern Indiana is going to be on the Mike Blake Show on the Ask the Expert segment, if anyone wants to call in and ask any questions about earthquakes, he would be able to answer those. Thursday at the Armory, the National Guard Armory, the Tri-State Construction Expo is going on. We’ll have representatives from the Building Commission and the Southwest Indiana Disaster Resistance Community Corporation there to discuss any earthquake preparedness for structures and non-structural mitigation for contractors and for homeowners. Then Friday we will wrap everything up by making an announcement to, well, for Harrison High School, we’ve worked with Dr., well, with Mike Kelly out there, which is a science teacher, and we have purchased a seismograph, a 3-D seismograph through the Emergency Management Agency to go in out to Harrison High School That was going to serve two purposes, number one, it will be connected to the Indiana Geological Survey in, at IU in Bloomington, and it will also act as a teaching tool for the young people out there about the seismographs and earthquakes within this area. I think, right now, the way it is set up is that they are going to take their existing one that they have, and donate that to another school, I think, in Owensboro, so that we can help our neighbors out, and getting as much information, because when we do have seismic activity within this area, we need as much information as quick as possible. So, there again, that’s what our plans are for this week. Also I have with me Christine Martin, and Christine is with the Disaster Resistance Community Corporation, and she’s got a couple of things that she would like to pass out to you.

Christine Martin: Thank you, Sherman. I want to share with you a couple of documents that we have put together with specific information dealing with earthquakes, and the tri-state region. First is a map which shows, each dot is an earthquake that has been felt, in other words it’s of size that can be quantified. There’s a little bit of history, going back to the 1800's, and then the most recent for earthquakes that have occurred right nearby here. That way when people ask you questions in regard to earthquakes, you can let them know, yes, they do happen here. Yes, we do have two fault lines that do affect us, and it’s not a matter of if, but when. The second brochure is for the Community Emergency Response Team. As you can see, on the back there are four teams. We have just finished training the fifth team. We are working through the neighborhood associations, and through funds that we have received from a Toyota grant, of $5,000, and most recently $1,000 grant from the Gibson County Community Foundation we are purchasing the equipment for the CERT team members. It’s approximately $85 to $87 per bag for all of the equipment that we are giving to each member. As you can see, the different teams are of different sizes. The smallest neighborhood was 60 homes, and that was at Mt. Auburn, but they have the uniqueness of having the zoo as their next door neighbor. So, they definitely also have a lot of houses sitting down off of a hillside, off their main road, which is a challenge, along with the large trees. The largest neighborhood is the Oakhill Neighborhood Association, and they have over 3,000 homes. They’re looking to subdivide their neighborhood, because they realize it’s not feasible for them to serve that large an area going from Morgan Avenue all the way to Highway 57, along that corridor. I would just like to say thank you for supporting the DRC in 2002, and thank you, in advance, for supporting DRC in 2003. We sincerely appreciate it, and the community, I know, will benefit from the work that we’re doing. Thank you.

President Fanello: Thank you, Christine. Does anybody have any questions?

Commissioner Mourdock: No. I note with interest the earthquake here with the epicenter in Darmstadt, it was the first time in history anything was ever centered in Darmstadt. With the motion having been read into the record, I would move approval of the resolution.

Commissioner Mosby: Second.

President Fanello: So ordered.

President Fanello: Dave Rector.

Dave Rector: Things are moving along well with the updating of the building drawings. I have for each of you tonight a set of architectural as-builts of the complete complex. We’re working on the electrical and HVAC as-builts. Hope to have those done by the end of the month, first of December. With that then we will start, after the first of the year with the space planning efforts. We, of course, have the county’s survey results in. The city is working on theirs. They tell me they expect to have those in the first part of December, then we will all have to be sitting down as we do overlays, and space planning efforts about where everyone will move. I’m sure you all have started to get lobbied about space, as I have.

President Fanello: Everyday.

Dave Rector: It’s going to be a lot of tough decisions for everybody who moves too. But, I do have a set for each of you tonight. If you have any questions after looking at them, let me know, and we’ll keep moving forward.

President Fanello: Okay. So, we could possibly sit down with you some time in December then, and–

Dave Rector: Start conceptually–

President Fanello: –start, okay.

Dave Rector: –planning as to who, where, and how. Of course, after we come up with a plan on how, we’re going to have to put some costs and budgetary figures to it about how that happens.

President Fanello: Okay.

Commissioner Mourdock: Have you done anymore analysis on the survey that we sent out? I know Patty summarized pages and pages of that. Has there been any more analysis of that?

Dave Rector: No further analysis. Waiting on, this is what we’re waiting on–

Commissioner Mourdock: Okay.

Dave Rector: –to complete. Now we’ll take that information on the additional space requirements, and the type of those requirements, and how that will fit in with the space being vacated, and who best fits into those areas, based on the square footage.

Commissioner Mourdock: Alright. Do we need to schedule a time to get together for December? Or do you want to do that?

President Fanello: We can do that, or we can wait to hear from him, and make sure everything is on schedule, and then schedule a date.

Dave Rector: I would say that you’re looking in later December by the time we get–

President Fanello: Okay.

Dave Rector: – the electrical and mechanical done–

President Fanello: Well, why don’t we take a–

Dave Rector: – and by the time we get the city’s back in.

President Fanello: Okay. Why don’t we take a look in our first meeting in December, and maybe make a decision about when we can get together.

Dave Rector: I would be happy to update you at that time.

President Fanello: Alright.

Dave Rector: On another additional item, real quickly. Based on your request to the Council, and they generously volunteered the Building Authority to fund it. I have had a sound consultant in to look at replacing the sound system in here. Expect that pricing in later this week. According to what it is, and how our budget is, we’ll try to move forward, and get this sound system, if not replaced, improved.

President Fanello: Okay. Thank you, Dave. Any other questions?

Dave Rector: Thank you.

Commissioner Mosby: Thank you.

President Fanello: Thanks.

President Fanello: Is there anyone in the audience wishing to address the board at this time? I don’t see any. Oh, I’ll wait.

Donald Burton: My name is Donald Burton. I represent the homeowners in Mill Terrace Subdivision. We came before the County Commissioners on approximately June the 1^st of 2001 petitioning for the Barrett Law for repairs on our street. We went through the full process of talking with John Stoll, and the County Attorney, at that particular time, in getting the engineering papers drawn up. So, it’s been a long process for us, but we’re still waiting. We’ve not heard anything from the County Commissioners, and, so, I guess, I’m really here to repetition getting our streets fixed.

President Fanello: I haven’t heard, I haven’t received any other information. Didn’t even know how far along you were.

Commissioner Mourdock: Maybe John can fill us in a little bit, since he has to start that process from our end.

John Stoll: I was going to say, since they initially came in, Kevin replaced Phil Hayes as County Attorney. One of the things that I discussed with Kevin was making sure that Kevin’s opinion on how to proceed with the Barrett Law coincided with what Phil thought, and Joe Harrison, and, I guess, it was Keith Rounder before that. That’s something that I need to verify with Kevin, but the way I understand it the next step in the process would be the preliminary resolution where everybody in the subdivision would have to be notified, and then we have to have the maximum cost included in the resolution, so that way they can proceed to bidding, as long as the, there wasn’t more than, was it 60, 40% of the people opposed to the project. So, that’s my current understanding. I guess, I need to verify that with Kevin to make sure that’s where we are. There are a couple of changes that still need to be made on the plans. I shouldn’t say changes, I had some drainage questions for the consultant who drew up the plans for their projects, and he hasn’t answered those, as of yet. For the most part the plans are pretty well finished, and they do have specifications for the contract as well.

Commissioner Mourdock: Plans to the point of bidding?

John Stoll: It’s close.

Kevin Winternheimer: I was just wondering, have we, have you gotten a rough idea of what this is going to cost? Just rough?

Donald Burton: Well, actually, the estimate that John gave me, well, that was actually two years ago, was right at $201,000.

Kevin Winternheimer: Okay.

Donald Burton: We were given the okay by the Commissioners and John that we hire an engineer–

Kevin Winternheimer: Right.

Donald Burton: –to draw up plans, which we did. So, he gave us an estimate, I think, it was around $220,000, is what he estimated it at.

Kevin Winternheimer: So, this is a pretty sizeable project compared to the one we were talking about, I guess, it was last week.

Commissioner Mourdock: Well, yeah.

President Fanello: Uh-huh.

Kevin Winternheimer: Yeah, I’m not, I’m not going to give my whole speech I gave last time, but just so you homeowners understand, that this is the most expensive way to build a street is what you’re entering into. Because of many factors, but the least of which is because you’re financing this with a bond–

Donald Burton: Correct.

Kevin Winternheimer: –there are going to be bond counsel fees, and other fees related to this, as well as engineering fees, all that are going to be billed on the project. So, I don’t know what figure to give you, but please remember that the $200,000 or whatever fee, that was just construction. There’s going to be a lot of fees on top of that. Now, you will be dividing that among your neighbors, I think you said approximately 30, but do keep in mind that this is, without a doubt, the most expensive way to build a street.

Donald Burton: Right. This was actually brought before the neighbors, and we had a 77% to go with it.

Kevin Winternheimer: Okay. If the Commissioners want to proceed, I can put together a process, and get that started. I know that, and I can check, but off the top of my head I don’t know exactly, but at some point we’ll have to have a hearing in a meeting, and with the neighbors, and give them some preliminary assessments, an idea of what it’s going to cost. That may be amended later, but we’ll have to put that together. We can start that process.

Commissioner Mourdock: Okay.

Kevin Winternheimer: I don’t know how many weeks, but you’ve been working years, so weeks, I don’t think will be a big deal.

Donald Burton: Yeah, we’re going on five years now, but it’s caving in bad.

Kevin Winternheimer: Yeah.

Commissioner Mourdock: How about this, I would move then that we direct the County Attorney to work with Mr. Stoll and Mr. Burton to get that preliminary approval before us on December 9^th? Three weeks?

Kevin Winternheimer: Well, I don’t want to commit to a date yet, until I see how much notice has to be given. I don’t have that on top of my head. I’ll report back to you next week.

Commissioner Mourdock: Okay.

Kevin Winternheimer: Do you see what I’m saying? I’ll present a plan, in other words to you, on where we’re going to go with this. I can do that by next week, but I don’t want to, I don’t want to set a hearing date at this point.

Commissioner Mourdock: Okay. Did you find the information, now that I think of it, that we discussed briefly last week about the little booklets that they put together?

Kevin Winternheimer: I think I’ve got what you were referring to, yeah, but I just don’t have it off the top of my head.

John Stoll: I thought I gave you a copy of that.

Kevin Winternheimer: Yeah, I believe I do.

John Stoll: If not, I can get you one.

Kevin Winternheimer: Yeah, but I can do a short summary for you, and give you some time tables on that. We’ll just take it step by step, I think that’s about as far as we can go. Because, as I mentioned last week, even if one of your neighbors wants to throw a monkey wrench into this deal, they can. So, that’s why I don’t want to commit to, we’re going to have this done within three months, because if they start appealing these various decisions that the board makes along the way, that’s going to slow the process down. But, you have to start somewhere, and if you want to start, we’ll get that ball moving.

Commissioner Mourdock: Just to give you plenty of time, how about, Kevin, then if you would report back in two weeks. That would be Monday, December 2^nd.

Kevin Winternheimer: That would be fine.

Donald Burton: Need us back here?

Commissioner Mourdock: If I were you, I would probably want to be here, and hear what was said.

Donald Burton: Okay.

Commissioner Mourdock: Even if you don’t have any direct input.

Donald Burton: Okay. Alright. Thank you.

Commissioner Mosby: Second, if that’s a motion.

Commissioner Mourdock: That was a motion.

President Fanello: So ordered. Anyone else in the audience wishing to address the board? Seeing none.

President Fanello: Old Business. Anyone have any Old Business? The only thing I have was just to make sure everybody got copies of the stuff that was sent to the Council on the health insurance. It’s my understanding that they have set a meeting for Wednesday. At what time, I don’t know.

Suzanne Crouch: I think it’s 8:00.

President Fanello: 8:00 in the morning.

Commissioner Mourdock: Okay. I do have one issue of Old Business, just a question. Did we ever hear back from the Count Us In folks? Or did we ever, did we ever hear back from the Count Us In people who were concerned about the polling places.

Tammy McKinney: I got an e-mail from Gary May today, and they’re coming December the 2^nd.

Commissioner Mourdock: Oh, okay. Have we received anything in writing from any of the polling places? Their group or otherwise?

Tammy McKinney: I haven’t.

President Fanello: I thought we’d received a couple of phone calls and–

Commissioner Mourdock: Okay.

Patty White: (Inaudible. Not at mike.)

President Fanello: Okay, probably print those out for the Commissioners, I think, next time.

President Fanello: Any New Business?

Commissioner Mosby: I have one item of New Business I want to bring up, maybe two. I wanted to get the feeling of this Commission and talk to Kevin about how we need to proceed, or where we need to go. I’ve been approached by several people out in the community, politically both sides, bi-partisan, I guess, to do something at the Centre in honor of Bill Brooks. So, I mean, and I’m not talking about renaming the Centre, you know, for Bill Brooks, but what I’m looking at, more or less, I think which would be favorable would probably be the exhibition hall. I would like to see from Kevin where we need to go, if we need a resolution or whatever to, you know, start that process. I would also like to talk to Sandy Aarons to see what kind of costs might be involved with the renaming and the signage. I have a commitment from Larry Aiken and a few people that he has talked with, like I say bi-partisan to raise the money to do this. So, it would be at no expense to the county that we would do this, but it would be in honor of Bill Brooks, and I’ve been approached by several people recently and before, and I’ve been slow at doing this, but I’m here to bring it up.

Commissioner Mourdock: What would you actually be raising the money for? Just a sign or something?

Commissioner Mosby: Just signage to maybe, you know, do something with the exhibition hall that would, some type of signage, and then anything that might be related to it out in the lobby that would point, you know, to the exhibition hall. He, they just said that if there was any cost to the county whatsoever, that they are willing to put that money up or raise that money, bi-partisan, to see something done.

Commissioner Mourdock: And you said Sandy is looking into that?

Commissioner Mosby: I’m going to talk to Sandy tomorrow. I haven’t had a chance to get with her. I was going to do it last week, and I never did. I’m just going to ask her if there’s going to be, you know, any type of expense or what expense we would have. But that cost would not be incurred by the Commission or the Council.

President Fanello: Well, I know I’ve been approached by several individuals also, and definitely in favor of looking at it. I never had the pleasure to meet Mr. Brooks, but have heard of several of the wonderful things that he did for the community. So, I think it would be nice to honor him in that way. So, I don’t know if we need to direct that–

Commissioner Mosby: Do we need a motion?

Commissioner Mourdock: Sounds like until you get back word from–

Kevin Winternheimer: I was going to suggest, let me talk to Dave Rector first, and let’s get some ideas on what exactly we’re going to do, and the cost, and some of that stuff and bring it back for a formal motion at a later date, if that would be alright. I don’t know if you’ve talked to Mr. Rector and his board or anything about this.

Commissioner Mosby: No, I have not talked to Dave or Sandy. Like I say, it’s just something that’s been out there in the community–

Kevin Winternheimer: Sure.

Commissioner Mosby: –and I didn’t know if we needed a motion to start this rolling, or if–

Kevin Winternheimer: I don’t think so. I think, ultimately we’ll need a motion to do it, but at this point I think we can get some more details worked out, and then come back with a more formalized proposal that you can approve at a later date.

President Fanello: Okay. So, will you work on that, and maybe we’ll hear something back next week.

Kevin Winternheimer: Right.

President Fanello: Okay. Any other New Business?

Commissioner Mosby: One thing I wanted to ask Tammy, or maybe propose to Tammy, when we get the employment changes in our packets, I would like to see that we have addresses on the employment changes. I know I have been one before that has questioned people being hired from outside Vanderburgh County. The City of Evansville or Vanderburgh County. I’ve questioned it with Legal Aid and several others before, and have always voiced my opinion of not being for that. Last week I think one got slipped through under some initials with no address on it. It was slipped through under S.S. Taylor, and I believe it’s actually Susan Taylor out of Henderson, Kentucky. I will voice my opinion, you know, of hiring outside the City of Evansville or Vanderburgh County when I know we have plenty of people willing to accept $10 an hour to go to work.

President Fanello: I don’t know what would be the big secret anyway that we would need to leave the address off of a pink slip.

Commissioner Mosby: I went back and looked at a lot of them, and most always there is an address on them.

President Fanello: I was going to say, I very rarely, don’t even recall seeing one without an address before. I don’t recall one hiding somebody’s first name either. Is there any other New Business from either Commissioner? I have one piece of small New Business. On election equipment I would like for Kevin to check on something for us. I received, and I think each Commissioner has probably seen it by now, there was a letter from the Secretary of State, and then I think Marsha passed along this information to the Council that the application for reimbursement for election equipment had been formalized. I read over the application, and it seems like it’s an application if you’ve already purchased equipment, or you know you’re going to purchase equipment. The deadline to file this form is by January 1, 2003. Which makes it very confusing, because we have no plans, at this time, or no funding in place to even buy election equipment. So, I’m wondering do we file, are we going to be able to file this form, and maybe seek reimbursement later? Or what steps do we have to take to make sure that we are going to receive reimbursement whenever we do buy election equipment? Because, as I understand it, and I think Patty checked it out for me, the election equipment we have is outlawed after 2004. We can no longer use the type of system we have after 2004. So, I’m not exactly sure what the Council, or how the Council is going to proceed.

Commissioner Mourdock: Is the letter that you’re referring to, was that after the federal bill was signed?

President Fanello: Yes.

Commissioner Mourdock: Okay. Because until the federal bill is signed, the state didn’t have any money to do it.

President Fanello: Yeah. No, this was afterwards. I think that’s why she distributed the letter at the Council meeting.

Commissioner Mourdock: Yeah, but the state still, I think this is true, I’m pretty sure it’s true still. The state has not actually appropriated money into that line item to allow the funding.

President Fanello: Yeah, but they still have that deadline in the statute, which worries me. I don’t want us to miss a deadline that we need to adhere to. I don’t want us to be on the outs of any reimbursement. So, it was kind of, it was very confusing the way the form was constructed, and the way this is all taking place. I did have a meeting with Marsha Abell, I think it was last week, just kind of touching base, and she is going to try and set up one more demonstration for us from the four accepted vendors, that are approved in the state of Indiana. She was going to try and set that up one more time, so that everybody could have a one, once more glance over.

Commissioner Mourdock: Okay, so just to clarify in bringing it up now, are you asking Kevin to look at the statute to give you that–

President Fanello: Yes, well, I would like for him to maybe have discussion with anyone in Indianapolis to see what we’re supposed to do with this form, and just kind of check out where, you know, what we do if we don’t buy equipment right now. If we don’t, maybe don’t buy it until 2004. Or put it in place until 2005, I don’t know.

Commissioner Mourdock: Yeah, and certainly the intent of the legislation, initially, was to force counties to buy it by that date.

President Fanello: Uh-huh.

Commissioner Mourdock: I know there have been a number of counties that said, well, if we don’t do it, and we still use punch cards, are you not going to certify our results in 2004?

President Fanello: Uh-huh.

Commissioner Mourdock: Quite honestly, I don’t think that’s going to happen.

President Fanello: No, I don’t think, and we may not have money to buy them over the next two years.

Commissioner Mourdock: That’s right.

President Fanello: And we have two very big elections over the next two years. I don’t know how feasible it is for us to get it in....I don’t think it, obviously, it wouldn’t be good for us to have them in on a general election day.

Commissioner Mourdock: Right.

President Fanello: You know, is it feasible for us to get them in by the next primary? I don’t think so.

Commissioner Mourdock: I think, no matter what, we still have to pay 10%, right?

Originally it was 50%, but after the feds came in, I think, the state’s saying now we only have to pay 10.

President Fanello: This letter doesn’t address that issue.

Commissioner Mourdock: Okay.

President Fanello: So, I’m not sure on that. That could possibly be something that Kevin could check out also.

Commissioner Mourdock: Because even if it’s 10, it’s still $120,000.

President Fanello: Uh-huh.

Commissioner Mourdock: Of wasted money, in my opinion.

President Fanello: Any other questions? That’s my only bit of New Business, oh, one more thing. Madelyn reminded me. I almost forgot again. We need to reschedule our January Drainage Board meeting, because we have nine rezonings that night? Six?

Madelyn Grayson: Six second readings.

President Fanello: Six rezonings that night. Because in January and February, the way the dates fall with the holiday, we have rezoning and drainage on the same night. So, we do not want to do....Richard is laughing because he won’t be here. So, we need to reschedule our Drainage Board meeting.

Commissioner Mourdock: Are you wanting to do that for both January and February? Or just January?

Commissioner Mosby: I was going to say, according to your e-mail, it’s two months in a row, so.

Madelyn Grayson: I was corrected by APC that the first readings for those six will take place in December, but that’s just reading them into the record. So, I don’t know how many will be scheduled for February.

President Fanello: Right. So, we might as well go ahead and reschedule both of them, because it’s just kind of hard to have two meetings like that in one night. Sometimes you never know how long the Drainage Board meeting is going to last. So–

Commissioner Mosby: I’m going to be with Richard vacationing.

Commissioner Mourdock: What was that?

Commissioner Mosby: I’m going with you to vacation.

Commissioner Mourdock: Oh.

President Fanello: So, what dates...I don’t have a February calendar here either. What dates do we, can we possibly do this? Do you have a–

Madelyn Grayson: I don’t have a February calendar either.

Norma Duckworth: I have one.

Commissioner Mourdock: Norma to the rescue.

President Fanello: So the 20^th is our holiday, right?

Madelyn Grayson: Right.

President Fanello: So, can we just go ahead and maybe move drainage up on the 13^th, or something?

Commissioner Mourdock: We have solid waste.

President Fanello: Yeah.

Commissioner Mourdock: I would make a suggestion, obviously, it doesn’t matter much to me, but I would try to move Solid Waste up to the 6^th, and then–

President Fanello: Have drainage on the 13^th?

Commissioner Mourdock: –have drainage on the 13^th.

President Fanello: That makes sense. See we normally have solid waste on the 13^th, and we’re going to be gone the 20^th, so 27^th, so we want to move drainage up to the 13^th, and Solid Waste up to the 6^th, is his suggestion.

Commissioner Mosby: I don’t mind having solid waste and drainage in the same night, but I don’t want Drainage and Rezoning.

President Fanello: Doesn’t matter to me.

Commissioner Mosby: Solid waste starts at 4:30.

Commissioner Mourdock: So, you want to have the solid waste, what’s the date, Catherine? The 13^th?

President Fanello: Yes, January 13^th.

Commissioner Mourdock: So, I would move then that the schedule be for the 13^th to have the rezonings, on the 13^th, as opposed to the–

President Fanello: Drainage.

Commissioner Mosby: Drainage.

Commissioner Mourdock: Have drainage on the 13^th.

President Fanello: Do you want to second that motion?

Commissioner Mosby: Yeah. He’s still looking.

Commissioner Mourdock: Yeah, but it’s just that drainage is usually the fourth Monday, which would be the 27^th. Instead of moving the one that’s normally scheduled, you’re really rescheduling two. So, that’s why I was going to have rezonings on the 13^th.

President Fanello: But they haven’t already advertised the rezonings, have they?

Commissioner Mourdock: I wouldn’t think so. Usually it’s not this early.

President Fanello: Do you know, Suzanne?

Suzanne Crouch: We haven’t advertised.

President Fanello: We haven’t advertised the rezonings yet. Okay, I didn’t know how far in advance they needed to know.

Suzanne Crouch: (Inaudible. Mike not on.)

Madelyn Grayson: APC has sent out notices for January, beginning November 11^th.

President Fanello: Okay, so–

Madelyn Grayson: And that was moved to 5:30.

President Fanello: Okay. So, the rezoning is already set then?

Suzanne Crouch: Right.

Commissioner Mourdock: And what did they set for the January Rezoning.

Suzanne Crouch: 5:30.

Commissioner Mosby: On what day?

Madelyn Grayson: On January 28^th.

President Fanello: 27^th.

Madelyn Grayson: 27^th.

Commissioner Mourdock: 27^th, okay, in that case, yeah, I’ll move the drainage be scheduled on the 13^th.

Commissioner Mosby: Second.

President Fanello: So ordered. Then I would assume that we would do the same thing for February. Move it to February 10^th.

Commissioner Mosby: Well, let’s move zonings.

Kevin Winternheimer: No.

Commissioner Mourdock: You can’t.

Kevin Winternheimer: You don’t want to move zonings, you want to move the other one.

Commissioner Mourdock: Right.

Kevin Winternheimer: Zonings (Inaudible. Mike not on.)

Commissioner Mourdock: Right. The zonings for February is already scheduled for the 24^th?

Madelyn Grayson: The way the resolution reads is that if there is a holiday on the third Monday, it moves to the fourth.

Commissioner Mourdock: Okay.

John Stoll: One problem there might be on moving the Drainage Board is the sub review meeting is the second Tuesday of every month. Typically, between that time and the Drainage Board, I’m not sure what the exact time frames are, but that’s the times that the developers and engineers have to submit their drainage plans to the County Surveyors office. So, depending on when the second Tuesday falls, it may tighten down the time frames on when the consultants can actually get their plans into Bill Jeffers office. So, it might create some problems in that way too.

President Fanello: That won’t work.

Commissioner Mosby: (Inaudible. Too far away from mike.)

President Fanello: When is your sub review meeting?

John Stoll: The sub review is always the second Tuesday. I shouldn’t say always, generally it’s the second Tuesday.

Commissioner Mourdock: Well, one other alternative would be to schedule just the Drainage Board meeting on the 21^st, on the Tuesday, and then meet just for Drainage Board, and not the Commissioner.

President Fanello: Can we just do that at a different time, so we don’t have to come in at 5:30?

Kevin Winternheimer: You can do whatever you want.

Commissioner Mourdock: Yeah, I’m sure Bill Jeffers would be delighted–

President Fanello: Yeah, I mean, if we could do it during the day, or in the morning, or something. How about 9:00 or something? Does that work for you?

Commissioner Mosby: 9:00. It depends on whatever day it is.

Commissioner Mourdock: Tuesday the 21^st. You don’t know, at this point?

President Fanello: He doesn’t always have a schedule.

Commissioner Mosby: (Inaudible. Too far away from mike.) I mean, yeah, I’ll just have to be here.

President Fanello: Do you want me to go ahead.

Commissioner Mosby: I don’t have a 2003 calendar.

President Fanello: Okay, why don’t we go ahead and–

Commissioner Mourdock: Okay, I will move that the regularly scheduled Drainage Board meetings for January and February be held at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 21^st, and at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 18^th.

Commissioner Mosby: I’ll second that motion.

President Fanello: So ordered.

Madelyn Grayson: Kevin, will those require advertising?

Kevin Winternheimer: If you give an annual notice of–

President Fanello: Thank you.

Kevin Winternheimer: –Drainage Board meetings, you can just note those dates, and then say the fourth, or whatever it is, Monday of every month after that. Just specifically notice that in your annual notice.

Madelyn Grayson: Okay. I think they sign that the first meeting of the year.

Kevin Winternheimer: That’s fine.

President Fanello: Okay. Department head reports.

President Fanello: County Engineer.

John Stoll: First I’ve got two items relating to The Village at Timber Park Subdivision. First is a request for street acceptance. This is for 108' of Shadwell Drive, 180' of Stanmore Drive, and 178' of Halford Drive. It’s requested that these be accepted for maintenance by the county.

Commissioner Mosby: So moved.

Commissioner Mourdock: Second.

President Fanello: So ordered.

John Stoll: Also in that same subdivision, this is Section Five, Phase Two of the subdivision, request for acceptance of storm sewers outside the right-of-way. This is for a total of 267' of storm sewers. It’s requested these also be accepted for maintenance.

Commissioner Mosby: So moved.

Commissioner Mourdock: Second.

President Fanello: So ordered.

John Stoll: We haven’t received the $2 a foot fee from that developer, but we will get that. He has committed to giving that to us. The last item I’ve got is a request to go to County Council for an appropriation of $825,000 in Local Road and Street, and $825,000 in Cum Bridge for the University Parkway Project. This would cover the remainder of our local match on the road project, and it also covers the balance of getting the bridge constructed with local dollars.

Commissioner Mosby: So moved.

Commissioner Mourdock: Second.

President Fanello: So ordered.

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

President Fanello: No.

Commissioner Mourdock: John, did you hear anything back from the fella who was here last week? Kim Husk.

John Stoll: Not a word.

Commissioner Mourdock: Okay. Didn’t know if we’d cleared up anything there or not.

John Stoll: I’m not sure. That was pretty much what we had told him in the past, and we haven’t heard anything back since.

President Fanello: Thank you, John.

President Fanello: County Highway.

Dennis Hudnall: Good evening, Dennis Hudnall, County Highway. I hope you received my report for this week. I added a page to this report, and what I’m trying to do is track some of the costs that we incur out at the County Garage. These after end call-ins can be very expensive. It’s an element that we almost have to do, like picking up deer on the road, after hours, and things of that nature. So, I’m going to start including that, those types of things into this report, with your permission to just try to get a matrix together, where the dollars go on some of these things. Another item I had was the automatic data processing people came out Friday and assessed out area for trying the network, all of our computers together to get us to where we don’t have to go four different places to receive our data on each computer. Because right now we’re not networked together. So, they’re putting together a cost for all of those types of things, and I’ll turn that in as soon as I get that to you. Besides that, the only thing I have is do you have any questions on the report?

President Fanello: Anybody have any questions?

Commissioner Mourdock: No.

President Fanello: Thank you, Dennis.

Dennis Hudnall: Thank you very much.

President Fanello: County Attorney.

Kevin Winternheimer: Yes, I have two matters. The first matter I received notice after our last meeting that there is an appeal from a Trustee’s denial of poor relief to an individual, a Ms. Johnson. I looked at the statute, and the statute says this is the body that has jurisdiction of that appeal, but you have several choices. You can hear it as a body as a whole, one member can hear it, or you can appoint a hearing officer. My recommendation would be, unless you want to hear this, which is your prerogative, that you appoint me as the hearing officer. The bad news is that the statute specifically says I can’t get paid for this. I don’t know why they put that in there. I wouldn’t have billed anyway, but it does say that. In any event, that you appoint me as a hearing officer. We’ll have a hearing, and then I report back to you what my determination is. Or you can do it yourself, but I need authorization from the board if you desire me to hear it.

Commissioner Mourdock: I’ll move the appointment of Mr. Winternheimer as our liaison to be the hearing officer.

Commissioner Mosby: Second.

President Fanello: So ordered.

Kevin Winternheimer: Okay. The second matter, as I mentioned last week, the City Council a couple of weeks ago, I believe, realigned the City Council wards, and that necessitated this Commission renaming two of the precincts. 1-11 will now be 3-16, and 2-6 will now be 4-16. That will move these precincts, and give them the name so that will coordinate with the City Council ward districts for the fourth ward and the third ward. Today I was, I talked to Dale with the Secretary of State’s office, asked if they had a particular form for this? The statute provides you issue an order, he said, no, he said just send us something that lets us know what you’re doing. We’re not changing any boundaries, we’re just sort of moving, although it’s not actually moving anywhere, renaming 1-11 as 3-16, and 2-6 as 4-16. I think I put a copy of the order on your desk, and would ask for your approval.

Commissioner Mosby: You want a vote on this?

Kevin Winternheimer: Yes.

Commissioner Mosby: Okay. Motion to approve.

Commissioner Mourdock: Second.

President Fanello: So ordered.

Kevin Winternheimer: Okay. That’s all I have.

President Fanello: Thank you, Kevin.

President Fanello: Superintendent.

Tammy McKinney: I would like to ask the permission from the Commissioners to enter into negotiations with Will Fosse for writing specs for renovation of the ground floor bathrooms at the Old Courthouse.

President Fanello: Tammy and I talked about this, excuse me, last week when we were looking at our budget before the end of the year. We have extra money in some accounts in her budget. So, she has, I think, turned in a transfer Friday, and it possibly would be enough money for us to renovate both of the bathrooms on the ground floor. She did speak with Will Fosse about this, and I told her to bring it to the board, and talk to the Commissioners about it. So, if that’s okay if she could pursue talking with him, and getting a contract for him to write those specs, and we could get that, and we could get those quotes before the end of the year.

Commissioner Mourdock: So moved.

Commissioner Mosby: Second.

President Fanello: So ordered.

Tammy McKinney: That’s all.

President Fanello: Burdette Park.

Gary Hohman: Yes, Gary Hohman, Burdette Park. You have our work report, as well, I think you have an explanation of our Day Camp Director that explained her justification for the rate package for 2004. If you’ve had a chance to look over that.

President Fanello: You haven’t? I don’t think Richard has either. I was asking him before the meeting if he had, and I don’t think everybody saw it behind their information.

Gary Hohman: Okay. If you have a chance to look over those, if you have any questions–

President Fanello: Okay. We’ll look over it this week, and try and get back to it next Monday.

Gary Hohman: Also I would like to express our appreciation for the article that appeared in the Courier and Press this morning. Delightful to see positive publicity–

President Fanello: That was a nice article.

Gary Hohman: As a result of this article, we received an excessive amount of requests for a Monday for chalet building rentals. The only problem that we had with this, one out of every four requests, we were only able to book one out of four, due to the lack of availability of existing facilities. Which only goes to show a dire need for additional chalets at Burdette Park. That’s all I have.

President Fanello: Thank you, Gary. Anybody have any questions? Alright. Thank you.

President Fanello: Soil and Water.

Norma Duckworth: Norma Duckworth.

Les Nunn: I’m Les Nunn. I’m one of the associates (Inaudible).

President Fanello: Hi.

Norma Duckworth: Our report this evening is fairly brief. Our soil erosion control, water quality, education committee work is ongoing. Nothing in particular to report. We are, starting tomorrow, going to have an informational booth that Mike and I are going to take turns manning at the Professional Training Institute for the contractors to get their license, so that we can give them information on soil erosion. The two projects we have going with the Clean Water Indiana money are progressing. I have met now with people from Howell wetland, and the zoo project, and I believe we’ll see quite a bit of construction on that in the spring. It’s getting a little late this year. One thing I had reported earlier, several months ago, that I had taken a test for the Professional Erosion Control Specialist Certification, and I did receive that.

President Fanello: Okay.

Norma Duckworth: That’s really about it. Do you have any questions from our reports?

President Fanello: I don’t think so. Thank you both.

Les Nunn: Thank you now. Appreciate it.

President Fanello: Do I have a motion to accept the Ozone Officer’s report.

Commissioner Mourdock: Salute.

Commissioner Mosby: Second.

President Fanello: So ordered.

President Fanello: I don’t–

Commissioner Mourdock: Any changes to the Consents.

President Fanello: No, not that I know of.

Commissioner Mourdock: I’ll move approval of the Consents, then, as filed.

Commissioner Mosby: Second.

President Fanello: So ordered.

Commissioner Mourdock: Just, we don’t have scheduled meetings on there, but Bill Jeffers just walked in the room, and, Bill, before you get away, we rescheduled a couple of Drainage Board meetings for January and February. So, you’ll need that information. Did we schedule for next week an Executive Session?

President Fanello: No.

Commissioner Mourdock: Did we not? I have one entered.

Kevin Winternheimer: I don’t have anything–

Commissioner Mourdock: Okay.

Kevin Winternheimer: –pending, that I know of.

Commissioner Mourdock: Okay. In that case–

President Fanello: Motion to adjourn?

Commissioner Mourdock: Motion to adjourn.

Commissioner Mosby: Second.

President Fanello: So ordered.

The meeting was adjourned at 6:32 p.m.

CONSENT ITEMS:

         Travel Requests:

         Superintendent of Buildings     Health Department         Auditor

         SWCD                                      Knight Assessor             County Assessor

         Perry Assessor

         Employment Changes:

         Cum Bridge                    Public Defender              Coroner

         Auditor                                      County Clerk                   Burdette Park

         Center Assessor                       Sheriff Department         Recorder

         The Centre                               Prosecutor 

         Requests for Service:

         Superior Court                          County Engineer             Health Department

         Sheriff Department

         Auditor: Submit Accounts Payable Vouchers.

         Sheriff: Submit Weekly Jail and Community Corrections Reports.

         Those in Attendance:

         Catherine Fanello           David W. Mosby             Richard E. Mourdock

         Kevin Winternheimer      Suzanne Crouch             Tammy McKinney

         Madelyn Grayson           Phil Lawrence                 Becky Kasha

         Sherman Greer               Christine Martin              Donald Burton

         Dave Rector                   John Stoll                        Dennis Hudnall

         Gary Hohman                 Norma Duckworth Les Nunn

         Others Unidentified         Members of Media

         VANDERBURGH COUNTY

         BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

        Catherine Fanello, President

         David W. Mosby, Vice President

         Richard E. Mourdock, Member

         Recorded and transcribed by Madelyn Grayson.