MINUTES MONROE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MAY 2, 2018 NAT U HILL Ill MEETING ROOM COURTHOUSE BLOOMINGTON, IN

The Monroe County Commissioners met in a regular meeting on May 2, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. with the following members prese nt: Amanda Barge, President, Patrick Stoffers, Vice President and Julie Thomas. Also present: Jordan Miller, Payroll Administrator, Jeff Cockerill, Attorney, Paul Satterly, Public Works and Anita Freeman, Deputy Auditor. Not present: Angie Purdie, Commissioners Administrator and Lisa Ridge, Public Works Director.

I. CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order by Barge

II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Led by Barge

Ill. COMMISSIONERS' PUBLIC STATEMENT Statement read by Barge

IV. PROCLAMATION • IU Women's Basketball Day V. ENCOMIUM • Local Artist recognition for the Alexander Memorial Coloring Book

VI. PUBLIC COMMENT- FOR ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA

My name is Scott Wells. This is for the voters out there. Chapter 9 continuing county corruption at its finest. The tentacles of corruption and cover ups involved in a recent west side trash transfer station debacle, IGTR directly involving the Commissioners, proves we need new leadership at the helm. On February 10th of this year the HT editorial called for an investigation

pg. 1 of a political process involved in IGTR st ating quote "it painted a picture of dishonest, deceptive, political maneuvering that appeared designed to solidify one company's hold on an important business sector. It didn't make Yoder good either. County officials should continue to dig into the details ofIGTR's attempt to get a permit from the state for a trash transfer station in the community, as well as the apparent involvement ofHoosier Disposal/ Republic Services. This shady series ofevents deserves more sunlight." Th e whole sordid affairs sta rted when Kevin Robling was appointed to the Plan Com mission President last year. Quote from the minutes of the meeting "(Julie Thomas) I'm going to go ahead and nominated Kevin Robling President" Vice President Lee Jones respon se "how do we vote for this?" Robling then spea r hea ded this illega l scheme as discovered by the foyer request of May sth last year in the email phone ca ll to Plan Commission director Wilson involving Shelli Yod er as the f ace age nt for IGTRto get the IDEM permit and so it'd be quote unquote "delicately and smoothly handled without any public comment." And of course Pat, you as you remember, 2007-18 authored, one of those county ordinances of the three that was violated. At the Plan Commission meeting in Janu ary 16th of this year regarding the codified ambiguous language regarding this case, Schilling st ated, that's what the Commissioners wanted at the BZA hea ring February 7 th, sa id County attorney Schilling, nothing goes through without the Commissioners approval. Bottom line Commissioners approval is a paramount to action. Yet, Pat Stoffers has stat ed five times he was not aware of the trash transfer station until October 4th, about 4 months after ince ption. So are we to believe that Robling, Schilling, Wilson never informed Stoffers of IGTR? Can actions Pat Stoffers and Kevin Robling you've got co ntracts with Republic Services and you give Robling his contracts on the Showers new parking garage, YSB expansion et c. He gives you $1,000 for your campaign Stoffers. So we look at that. And then you look at Lee Jones, she's Vice President of Plan Commission and Robling was President, both are on t he key executive co mmittee and as I predicted on December 6th the permit was a front designed to sell it back to Republic Se rvices to expand their monopoly. So the bottom line is, we add all this, Lee Jones and Robling and Pat Stoffers, I'm asking you all out there this is why neither ca ndidat e should be elected. Pat Stoffers, Lee Jones they do not deserve a vote for County Com miss ioner. Th ank you.

Good morning Com missioners, Jim Shelton with the Chamber here on behalf of CASA aga in. We start a new class tomorrow evening. So it's too late to register for that one. I know we had 13 people signed up and there was still 4 applications to be processed . Our next training then w ill be at the end of August. We've still got over 100 children who need CASA's. And as I've explained to you and I want to tell the public aga in. We've got a new opportunity to volunteer, it's ca lled Ch ild Visit Monitor. It basically will help the CASA program do triage on children to decide which ones most desperately need a CASA. So if you're intimidated by maybe having to go to court or maybe havin g to write a report. Thi s might be a volunteer opportunity you want to look into. So you can call (812)333-2272 and talk to Susan Wannamaker who's a coordinator for the program. Or go to http://monroecountycasa.org for details. Tha nk you.

(Barge) Thank you. So just to clarify, what do you mean by triage?

pg. 2 (Shelton) To do an evaluation ofthe different children's situations to see which ones indicate they need a real total CASA the most.

(Barge) Prioritizing kind of?

(Shelton) Right. That's good.

(Barge) Thank you. I hope you get more volunteers.

********** Good morning, my name is Mike Chaveas, good to see you all again. I'm the supervisor of the Hoosier National Forest. And I've just got to say that opening Proclamation was a lot of fun. My wife and I take our kids to {IU) women's games all season long. And a graduate of both IU and Virginia Tech, that final was (hard to know who to root for).

(Stoffers) Well wait. Where did you fall?

(Chaveas) I had my candy striped pants on, my IU shirt on and a Virginia Tech hat. I know these players {IU) way better than I know the Virginia Tech. The actual reason I'm here was just to share quickly that the Hoosier National Forest is about 600 larger now than it was a year ago. And 145 or so of those acres are here in Monroe County. So I just wanted to first of all thank the Commissioners for your support, which helped us get the funding in the first place for these acquisitions. But also your staff who helped through what is a very long process to finalize land acquisitions on the Federal side. So we can't be successful with these things without obviously the willing sellers on the front end, but also the support of local government and partners like Sycamore Land Trust and the Nature Conservancy who often help us on the front end of getting these pieces acquired and wait until we can move on it. So just wanted to thank you and the rest of the County for that assistance and support.

(Stoffers) Thank you, sir

(Thomas) Thank you.

(Barge) Thank you. And definitely a shout out to Sycamore Land Trust.

(Thomas) They do great work

(Chaveas) They do. They do a lot of good and this is a new partnership with us working on the acquisitions.

(Stoffers) Any legislation in the pipe line relative to the forest happening right now?

(Chaveas) Well there's usually a lot of stuff in committee that's floating out there and I couldn't give you a full list of that and a lot of that doesn't go beyond committee. Something that just

pg. 3 occurred though with the Omnibus Bill that passed for funding the whole Federal government was we finally got a fix to our wild fire situation, which is very positive to us. It doesn't kick in fully until 2020, but that's good that it's happening. So what people don't realize is we, in all years until 2020, we have to pay for the cost of wild fires suppression out of our regular appropriated budgets. In more years than not that amount does not cut it once we get to the end of fire season at the end of summer. And we have to pull funds from recreation, from forest treatment, from lands, from everything else in order to fight the rest of the season's wild fires that go on. So we have to basically rob one program to keep feeding wild fire funding and the costs have just gone up and up increasingly where now it eats more than half of our budget on an annual basis. So Congress did something that is very helpful for us and getting that legislation passed where now there's going to be a pot similar to FEMA where there's a pot of money for the largest of the large, most expensive wild fires that happen, almost all of them out west. So we no longer have to steal from one pot to the other.

(Stoffers) I just want to make sure that I understood, so that when there is a wild fire out west that impacts your budget locally.

(Chaveas) It does. When July, August rolls around and if our wild fire suppression funds have been exhausted at that point, the National office starts looking for anything that's left on the table unspent. That's one piece and also a lot of our employees locally are sent west to help fight those wild fires, so we lose capacity locally for a big chunk of the summer often.

(Thomas) That's interesting. If you could keep us posted on anything coming in the Statehouse that we can help with, that'd be really good.

(Chaveas) Don't hesitate to get in touch if there's any questions you have.

(Barge) Thanks for visiting.

(Thomas) And I will note as well that it's important to keep an eye on the weather because we had a weather statement yesterday about the winds and the low humidity. And I mean that impacts, you know that could potentially impact what we take pride in around here. So be very careful everyone about burning outside and all those things, keep an eye on the weather.

(Chaveas) Thank you I appreciate that. We're in another day today of very high fire danger, humidity's are going are supposed to pick up a little bit today which will help and rain tomorrow and then we should be much closer to full green up next week after the warm weather. But, it has been a busy year so far with wild fires locally.

(Stoffers) I got one more thing. I was out by the causeway over the weekend and I went by a sign that talked about bringing fire wood in. Is that relative to the emerald ash borer?

(Chaveas) Yeah, primarily emerald ash borer and there's some other species as well that can be transported from fire wood so we try to have people use local wood and we need to know that

pg, it's coming from a local source so you're not carrying one insect to another county or to another part of the state or different state even in transporting those species that then have very serious impact on our forests.

(Stoffers) Thank you for clarifying that.

(Thomas) It's always good to have you here. We always have great conversations.

(Stoffers) The sign age in of its self wasn't clear about the underlying reason, but it said don't bring fire wood. I mean that was pretty clear.

(Chaveas) Right, yeah we try to explain that on our website and other places as well. Like I've said before we manage land in 9 counties within the southern part of the State so I try to make the rounds and just show up whether I have anything in particular to brief you all on. But if there's anything you ever want me to come on a particular topic to discuss I'd be glad to do that as well. Thank you.

(Stoffers) Thank you.

(Thomas) Thanks so much.

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Good morning Commissioners, Jason Yanke, Monroe County Planning. Just here to put in a quick plug for Historic Preservation Month and National Bike Month. So May is each of those. And the County's Transportation Alternative Committee partnered with the City and so did the HP review board and we have several events, I was going to drop off some flyers in the Commissioner's office and go to some businesses around town and you can also find it on Facebook website and also the City's website. Because there's too many to list for you guys here. So we have a lot of events going on and we hope people come out. There was actually one last night at Upland, it was a good turnout. We look forward to beefing up the schedule more and more for the next year, it's been getting better and better each year.

(Thomas) Great, thank you. I will note as well something I don't know is on your list or not but the Maple Grove Historic District, mid- to late May we're going to do a dedication. We have some signs that are going to be posted out there. We'll be out there for that, which is great. Looking forward to it.

(Yanke) One more thing too, there was a great event that I wasn't able to go to last Monday, April 23rd for Hack's rededication. I know that it was a good turn out and a good event even though the rain was there. But I heard everything went smoothly.

(Barge) I heard Commissioner Stoffers said some really nice words too. (Stoffers) Yeah, I did indeed. Thank you.

(Yanke) Thank you.

(Barge) Thank you.

VII. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Stoffers made motion to approve minutes. Thomas seconded Motion carried by voice vote.

VIII. APPROVAL OF CLAIMS DOCKET • ACCOUNTS PAYABLE- MAY 2, 2018 Stoffers made motion to approve accounts payable. Thomas seconded.

Jordan Miller, payroll Administrator • Total for claims was $1,122,390.92. • $307,650 was distribution for HMA overlay preventative maintenance. • $207,881 was distribution for the SRE 2016 project #32 body and equipment. • The remaining $606,859.92 wa s spent on accounts payable.

IX. REPORTS • W eights and Measures- March 16, 2018- April15, 2018 • Clerk of Circuit Court- March 2018 • Traffic/Road Update­ • Fullerton Pike- Rhorer Road will be closed on May 1st for 150 days. Access to Kroger will remain open off of Rhorer Road. • Intersection of Walnut Street Pike and Rhorer Road will remain open until approximately May 15th, when the north/south legs of the intersection will alternate being closed. The east leg will remain open. • Bridge #73 Country Club Drive - Piers and abutments will be poured Monday April 30, Wednesday May 2 and Friday May 4th. • Bridge crew removing a log jam from Clear Creek at the railroad bridge adjacent to Fluckmill Road. • Stormwater crew does not have any road closures this week.

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A. MOVE TO APPROVE: ORDIANANCE 2018-11; SPEED LIMIT ORDINANCE 86-09 AND NO SEMI TRUCK ORDINANCE 89-01. Stoffers made motion to approve. Thomas seconded.

(Satterly) We had a request come in for establishing speed limit on Duke Road. I currently does not have a posted speed, so we went out and took a look, and evaluated the alignment and we recommend the posting of a 30 mph speed limit which is typical for a rural road like that one. And we will also be installing certain warning signs because it's a pretty curvy alignment so those will be posted. 20 mph for the majority of it and then we've got on curve that will be posted for 15 mph. We also received a request from Leonard Springs Addition neighborhood. Several folks in that neighborhood are concerned about semi-trucks cutting through. And usually it's the Wai-Mart trucks miss the main entrance they are supposed to enter on off of SR 45, they turn on Leonard Springs and then they find they can't get into the back entrance of Wai-Mart because of the right- in, right- out geometry there. And then they continue on Leonard Springs looking for a turn around, often times they seem to be turning into the neighborhoods. We'd like to add No Semi-Truck signs to both Hickory Leaf Drive, at the Sam's side ofthe subdivision and then also a sign off of Leonard Springs Rd/Walnut Leaf Drive. After call for public comment, motion carried by voice vote.

XI. APPOINTMENTS Stoffers made motion to recommend the following to the Food and Beverage Tax Advisory Commission. Thomas seconded. • Tony Suttile -1 year term • Helen Busch- 1 year term • Michael Cassady- 1 year term Motion carried by voice vote.

XII. ANNOUNCEMENTS • All Monroe County Government offices will be closed on Tuesday, May S'h for Primary Election Day. Election workers needed. Contact the Election Central if interested. • Accepting applications for the following Boards and Commissions: o Alcoholic Beverage Board -1 year term o Environmental Commission- 2 year term o Human Rights Commission- 2 year term o Traffic Commission- 2 year term • Next Commissioners' Meeting: May 9, 2018, at lOam in the Nat U Hill Ill Meeting Room, 3rd floor Courthouse. • Bicentennial Merchandise and New Coloring Book now available in the Commissioner's Office, M-F 10- 2 pm.

pg. I (Barge) Th e Bo ard of Commissioner's would like to not e that the County experienced a loss, Pam Moser, who was an employee w ith the County since 1985 . She was the Assistant Jail Commander and I know the st aff at the Monroe County Correctional Ce nter and all across the County are feeling that loss and our thoughts are wit h the employees and her f amily.

XIII. ADJOURNMENT Barge adjourned the meeting.

The minutes of the April 25, 2018 Board of Commissioners' meeting were approved on, M ay 2, 2018.

Monroe County Commissioners

Nays:

Amanda Barge, President

Patrick Stoffers, Vice President

Julie Thomas

Attest:

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1. Margie Rice- Legal Department a. Parks ·and Recreation Fence Contract PROCLAMATION IU WOMEN'S BASKETBALL DAY

WHEREAS: Indiana defeated Virginia Tech, 65-57, to win its first Women's National Invitational Tournament title on March 31, 2018 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, under head coach Teri Moren; and

WHEREAS: Senior guard Tyra Buss was named the tournament MVP while senior forward Amanda Cahill was named to the all-tournament team ; and

WHEREAS: The Hoosiers victory came in front of a record-setting women's basketball crowd of 13,007, the sixth largest crowd to see a WNIT final. ; and

WHEREAS: Four of the top ten attended games in IU history happened during the WNIT run ; and

WHEREAS: IU defeated University of Tennessee Martin, Milwaukee, Purdue, University of California Davis, Texas Christian University, and Virginia \ Tech, all at home, on its way to the WNIT title; and

WHEREAS: For the second-straight season, Indiana finished with 23 wins (23-14 overall) which ties a program-high.

WHEREAS: Monroe County is proud of the determination and winning spirit demonstrated by the IU Women's Basketball team. You are an inspiration to our entire county, but especially to our girls and women.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the Monroe County Board of Commissioners does hereby proclaim May 2, 2018 as

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