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

(Pledge of Allegiance was given)

President Winnecke: At this time I would entertain a motion to approve the minutes from our August 2nd meeting.

Councilmember Wortman: So moved.

Councilmember Raben: Second.

President Winnecke: Motion and a second. Questions or discussion? Roll call vote.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Tornatta?

Councilmember Tornatta: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Sutton?

Councilmember Sutton: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Abell?

Councilmember Abell: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Goebel?

Councilmember Goebel: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Raben?

Councilmember Raben: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Wortman?

Councilmember Wortman: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

(Motion unanimously approved 7-0)

President Winnecke: Okay, at this time, I’ll turn the floor over to our – Oh, I’m sorry. At this time I would also entertain – these are amended? A motion to approve our amended minutes from our August –

Councilmember Sutton: Amended?

Bill Fluty: These are budget hearing minutes.

President Winnecke: Okay, at this time I would entertain a motion to approve our minutes from the August 8th, 9th & 10th budget meeting – and the 22nd.

Councilmember Wortman: Second.

President Winnecke: Motion?

Councilmember Wortman: Yes.

Councilmember Tornatta: Second.

President Winnecke: And second. Roll call vote.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Tornatta?

Councilmember Tornatta: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Sutton?

Councilmember Sutton: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Abell?

Councilmember Abell: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Goebel?

Councilmember Goebel: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Raben?

Councilmember Raben: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Wortman?

Councilmember Wortman: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

(Motion unanimously approved 7-0)

President Winnecke: At this time I would turn the floor over to Mr. Raben, our Finance Chair.

TREASURER

Councilmember Raben: Okay, thank you. First, the County Treasurer, for a total request of $5,831, I’ll move approval.

Councilmember Wortman: Second.

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

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Tornatta?

Councilmember Tornatta: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Sutton?

Councilmember Sutton: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Abell?

Councilmember Abell: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Goebel?

Councilmember Goebel: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Raben?

Councilmember Raben: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Wortman?

Councilmember Wortman: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

TREASURER                                                         REQUESTED       APPROVED

(Motion unanimously approved 7-0)

CIRCUIT COURT

Councilmember Raben: Circuit Court, 1360-3903 in the amount of $13,000, I’ll move approval.

Councilmember Wortman: Second.

President Winnecke: Motion and a second. Questions or discussion? Roll call vote.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Tornatta?

Councilmember Tornatta: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Sutton?

Councilmember Sutton: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Abell?

Councilmember Abell: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Goebel?

Councilmember Goebel: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Raben?

Councilmember Raben: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Wortman?

Councilmember Wortman: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

CIRCUIT COURT                                                   REQUESTED       APPROVED

(Motion unanimously approved 7-0)

Councilmember Sutton: Mr. President, I was a little slow. On that request there, now this was to pay through the third quarter. Are we anticipating another request coming to us on this Petit Jurors? Is this going to carry us through the balance of the year?

Karen Angermeier: Karen Angermeier, Circuit Court. The fourth quarter isn’t paid until next year.

Councilmember Sutton: One more time?

Karen Angermeier: The fourth quarter jury fee will not be paid until January.

Councilmember Sutton: Okay, gotcha. Thank you.

SUPERIOR COURT

Councilmember Raben: Okay, Superior Court 1370-1821-1370 Network Specialist, the amount should be $13,708, 1370-1822-1370 the amount is $9,721, FICA $1,793, PERF $1,582, 1370-3530 zero, 1370-4220 Office Machines 45,000, for a total of $71,804. I make that in the form of a motion.

Councilmember Wortman: Second.

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

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Tornatta?

Councilmember Tornatta: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Sutton?

Councilmember Sutton: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Abell?

Councilmember Abell: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Goebel?

Councilmember Goebel: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Raben?

Councilmember Raben: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Wortman?

Councilmember Wortman: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

SUPERIOR COURT                                               REQUESTED       APPROVED

(Motion unanimously approved 7-0)

CIRCUIT COURT SUPPLEMENTAL ADULT PROBATION

Councilmember Raben: Circuit Court Supplemental, 2600-1900 and 2600-1980, for a total of $19,400. I’ll move approval.

Councilmember Wortman: Second.

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

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Tornatta?

Councilmember Tornatta: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Sutton?

Councilmember Sutton: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Abell?

Councilmember Abell: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Goebel?

Councilmember Goebel: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Raben?

Councilmember Raben: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Wortman?

Councilmember Wortman: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

CIRCUIT COURT SUPPLEMENTAL                     REQUESTED       APPROVED

(Motion unanimously approved 7-0)

CLERK                                                         SURVEYOR

CIRCUIT COURT                                         LOCAL ROADS & STREETS

CUMULATIVE BRIDGE                               FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (LATE)         PUBLIC DEFENDER (LATE)

Councilmember Raben: Okay, under Transfers, Mr. President, I’ll move that for – excuse me – Local Roads & Streets has been withdrawn, so I move that be set in at zero. All other accounts as they are listed and I make that in the form of a motion.

Councilmember Wortman: Second.

President Winnecke: Motion and a second. Questions or discussions on the transfers? Hearing none, roll call vote.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Tornatta?

Councilmember Tornatta: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Sutton?

Councilmember Sutton: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Abell?

Councilmember Abell: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Goebel?

Councilmember Goebel: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Raben?

Councilmember Raben: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Wortman?

Councilmember Wortman: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

CLERK                                                                   REQUESTED       APPROVED

SURVEYOR                                                           REQUESTED       APPROVED

CIRCUIT COURT                                                   REQUESTED       APPROVED

LOCAL ROADS & STREETS                                REQUESTED       APPROVED

CUMULATIVE BRIDGE                                         REQUESTED       APPROVED

FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES                        REQUESTED       APPROVED

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS                                REQUESTED       APPROVED

PUBLIC DEFENDER                                             REQUESTED       APPROVED

(Motion unanimously approved 7-0)

Councilmember Raben: Okay, under Salary Ordinance Amendments, under Circuit Court, I move that we amend salary line 2600-1980 as transfer previously approved. Under County Clerk, salary line 1010-1310 Counter Clerk/Misdemeanor as the transfer we previously approved. This employee is a COMOT IV/Step 6 with an annual salary of $31,507. Surveyor, salary line 1060-1200 Chain Man as the transfer previously approved. This current employee is a PAT II/Step 3 with an annual salary of $27,657. Public Defender, amend salary line 1303-1180 and 1303-1290 as the transfers previously approved. Employees listed in the above line numbers have been assigned to a death penalty case. The employees will be paid at their current rate at $18.1923 per hour unless working on the death penalty case. While working on the death penalty case, the attorneys will receive an additional $77.8077 per hour from account 2910, which is their cash card. Also move approval of paying an Investigator in line item 1303-1790 an additional 18.8738 per hour while working on the death penalty case. The additional funds per hour will be paid from account 2910 cash card account. Health Department, amend salary ordinance adding line 2157-1140 Indiana Childhood Lead Poison Prevention Grant. The current employee is a Med Tech Supervisor with an annual salary or $38,182. Superior Court, amend salary ordinance as previously approved, which is salary line 1370-1821 Court Network Specialist at a 2006 annual salary of $54,832 and amend salary ordinance adding line 1370-1822 Court Technical Service Specialist at a 2006 annual salary of $38,881. The salaries to be effective and prorated from October 2nd, 2006. That concludes the amendments, and I make that in the form of a motion.

Councilmember Wortman: Second.

President Winnecke: There’s a motion and a second to the amendments to the Salary Ordinance. Any questions or discussion? Roll call vote please.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Tornatta?

Councilmember Tornatta: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Sutton?

Councilmember Sutton: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Abell?

Councilmember Abell: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Goebel?

Councilmember Goebel: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Raben?

Councilmember Raben: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: Councilmember Wortman?

Councilmember Wortman: Yes.

Teri Lukeman: President Winnecke?

President Winnecke: Yes.

(Motion unanimously approved 7-0)

President Winnecke: Okay, I believe under new business, before we get to the one new business item that’s on the agenda, the Council does have an appointment to the MWB/E board. Our previous appointment has left. I have spoken with Michele Howell from the Indiana Business Diversity Council, and she has agreed to serve on that board, so at this time I appoint Michele Howell to serve as the Council’s appointment to the MWB/E.

President Winnecke: Abell?

Councilmember Abell: Thank you, Mr. President. I thought Mr. Arvay was going to be here, but I don’t see him here, so I’ll just try to wing this myself. There was a contract signed by the Vanderburgh County Commissioners with Premis. It’s the company that did the evaluation and actually wrote the RFP for bidding out the computer services contract. And they have submitted a bill and Ms. Deig called me because I’m the IT board’s representative. This was unappropriated. They did not have the funds in place for this so we need to do something. It has to be paid. Its – how much, Sandie? Is it $10,000? I thought it was $30,000. There’s two contracts, one of them was to write the RFP, the other is to actually help with the interviewing and awarding of the contract to a company. Anyway, our part of it is about $10,000 and I guess its something that needs to be paid. I just – we wanted Mr. Arvay here – I think there’s some – hopefully, we have cleared up with the Commissioners the problem with signing contracts without money in place. That was the whole purpose of having Mr. Arvay here, but I relayed it to him last week.

President Winnecke: Well, I spoke to him this morning, he, I know he intended to be here but perhaps the discussion from the previous meeting has...

Councilmember Sutton: This contract was initiated by who?

Councilmember Abell: Well, it was initiated by the Commissioners. We have enough money in our computer budget that the Council holds to pay this bill. But we didn’t – that wasn’t part of how we got that money. We didn’t say at the beginning of the year, we’re going to budget $10,000 for this. They assumed at that point that they had the freedom to spend that money out of our account. I think now they understand that they don’t have that freedom. They assumed there was money in place because it was in our budget.

Councilmember Sutton: Okay, now you’re the messenger, so I’m not going to pull out a pistol and shoot you.

Councilmember Abell: Yeah, I am just the messenger.

Councilmember Sutton: But clearly, this is not just an item where we are just going to tap them on their wrist for stepping outside of the – this isn’t the county policy, this is a state law that you cannot enter into a contract without the money in place and set forth for that contract to be paid. So to come to us, you know, secondhand, and say, okay, now can you pay this, I mean, that is, like I said, state law just does not provide them to be able to do that. And I hope they are very clear and understand that that is a violation of state law. Now this contract, help me also to understand, too, in terms of the RFP that was put together for this, didn’t the RFP indicate what the cost was going to be, you know, prior to them proceeding forward?

Councilmember Abell: You’d have to ask them. I don’t know.

Councilmember Sutton: So, even if, the RFP should have clearly indicated what the contract provisions were going to be, cost, timing, all that other stuff, equipment, supplies. That just concerns me that they would proceed. And I would just hope that this is not an ongoing issue or pattern that we need to come and bail out the Commissioners on matters like this. And they’re the contract approving and writing body, so we shouldn’t have to come back and try to cover tracks here.

President Winnecke: I don’t know this to be fact, but my suspicion is that they probably thought that since there was money in a budget, they had the money in place. I don’t think it was an attempt to circumvent anyone, I think it was probably maybe naive on their part, but I think they just believed since there was money in a budget, it was there to spend, I believe, is the issue. They have since been made aware of our position.

Councilmember Sutton: How much do we have in that line item, Sandie?

Sandie Deig: I couldn’t tell you right now. I could get it and come back.

Councilmember Sutton: I mean, if you’re asking for ten, I want to make sure we’ve got ample funds.

Sandie Deig: You’ve got ample.

President Winnecke: Mrs. Abell, are you making a motion that we accept this?

Councilmember Abell: I think I just need to approve the payment of it, and because it was done this way, I just didn’t want to do it without –

President Winnecke: So is that in the form of a motion?

Councilmember Abell: Do we need a motion? Okay.

Councilmember Tornatta: Second.

President Winnecke: Further discussion or questions? Everyone in favor, raise your right hand. All those who oppose, raise your right hand.

(Motion unanimously approved 7-0)

President Winnecke: Any other business to come before Council? I would entertain a motion to adjourn.

Councilmember Tornatta: So moved.

President Winnecke: We are adjourned.

(There being no further business to come before the Council, the meeting was adjourned at 9:49 a.m.)

VANDERBURGH COUNTY COUNCIL

                                                                                                                                             President Lloyd Winnecke                 Vice President Marsha Abell

       Councilmember Jim Raben           Councilmember Mike Goebel

                                                                                                                                         Councilmember Curt Wortman       Councilmember Royce Sutton

Councilmember Troy Tornatta

Recorded and transcribed by Teri Lukeman