County Commissioners - Regular Meeting

Good morning everybody. I'd like to call the meeting of the Hancock County Board of Commissioners to order. Today is the 16th of June, 2026. It is 8 o'clock. This meeting has been recorded and streamed for public viewing. By participating, you acknowledge that your image, voice, and comments may be captured and made publicly available. This meeting has been properly noticed in accordance with Indiana Code 5-14-1.5. Let the record show the quorum of commissioners are present. The commissioners are open for business. We will now proceed with the agenda. At this time, I invite all in attendance to stand and do the pledge with us. Could I get a motion to approve the minutes?

I make a motion to approve the minutes for 6-2-2026. Second.

There's a motion and a second to approve the minutes for 6-2-2026. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Gary Poole.

Good morning. It's good to be back. I know last week was rough for a lot of our brothers and sisters in public service throughout the county. So everybody look out for each other. Everybody's important. Everybody's working towards the same goals. And a lot of our brothers and sisters had a rough time last week. So keep an eye out for each other. We're going to begin with signatures. We've got two. Our first of our six projects we won grants on is back. This one's with Crossroads.

I've got it listed in front of you. But both these contracts are here. One is for

One is for professional engineering and the other is for .

This is for the roundabout 200 west and 500 north.

It's crossroads down here under .

Got it. I make a motion that we approve and sign the contract with LPA Consulting, Crossroads Engineer PC. This project DES number is 250-1407. Project description is County Road 200 West and County Road 500 North Roundabout, RW Services in Greenfield District. And the amount shall not exceed $40,880. Second.

There's a motion and a second to approve the DES number 2501407, LPA, around about at 200 west and 500 north. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Okay.

Second I make a motion that we approve the contract for LPA consulting contract Crossroad engineers PC does number two five zero one four zero seven Project description is County Road 200 West and County Road 500 North roundabout PE services in an amount not to exceed three hundred and ninety thousand six hundred dollars second

We have a motion and a second on the floor to approve professional engineering, is that LPA? What is it, LPA?

LPA Consulting.

LPA's consultant, DES number 2501407 in the amount of $390,600 for around about 200 west, 500 north. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries.

Thank you.

Sometime later this week we'll be linking up with Southern Hancock County Schools to assist with another drive onto their parking lot. It'll assist one with the roundabout that we have doing and it'll assist with the football games to keep it from being a complete pandemonium after the football games. It'll just be a partial pandemonium with this new drive. Economic development, so you probably, there's all sorts of talk out there about stuff. I probably need to have a one-on-one meeting, if we're not gonna have an executive meeting about it, to talk about whether you wanna go or no-go on some specific projects throughout the area. If it's a no-go, then we can tell them to stop working on it. If it's a go, we can tell them to continue working on it. So you'll see an email from me, and hopefully you can make some time to come visit with me this next week, because we owe it to at least do a no-go to save your staff and their staff time if they're gonna go on something. So keep that on your thing. Jack and Sons buying has been initiated. Scott and I are finishing up. They are cool with the purchase agreement. Scott and I are finishing up the lease. We'll get that to them. If they're okay with the lease, then we will get the Jack and Sons closed. Good. And Greenfield's aware of it. Greenfield is alert. They'll help us with the... Yes. The primary part for Greenfield is helping with the Brownfield project to help get that cleaned up when it's done. We're going light on salt next year. We got El Nino. El Nino is great for the winter. It'll be dry and warm. It'll be a little bit rough for the spring and the summer though. You'll see some more intense storms and stuff like that too. And it's a pretty big El Nino. So basically that's just a big mass of warm air in the Pacific. But it affects us here with a wet, hot summer and a dry, warmer winter. So it helps on one side, cuts on the other. Automated mowing, the guys are working on them. It worked at the highway department. We're going to try one at 911. We'll let it run for a while and see if they work well. Otherwise, that will save us a lot of labor outsourcing that to machines. We just have trouble hiring people, so we'll use these as we can. Hopefully, it's effective and we can keep labor freed up to work on other things. We talked about the capital plan. I don't think we'll be able to get the capital plan manager. Don't panic. That's fine. We can still work. We need to consider traditional project types. We're still doing some BOTs. I think they work great, especially now if we might not have a proper. If we don't have a capital manager, BOTs become attractive again because they're hard to manage. So if someone else manages it, of course you pay for that management. So that's just the nature of the game. But don't panic about it. Ann and I can handle this stuff in-house. We'll be all right. Ann might just make her work a few more days a week and be fine. She said she'd love to do that. You'd love to, eh? Okay. Mike Rawl is looking into a portal-lit concrete pad and fence. I don't know if he's on the agenda later today. I think.

No.

Okay. He might be reaching out to you guys to ask about that. Obviously, they didn't want to do the vault because it's a maintenance thing. It's always a maintenance thing. Building new stuff's easy. It's the maintenance. Unless there's a good maintenance plan in place. Now, pad for that's a different look. So, I know that's coming your way. So, just heads up on that.

Not the vault. Well, a pad for a temporary toilet out there is totally different.

Yes, totally different. So, they're just reworking the program. They're good people. They're just trying to rework it. They're being sensitive to the maintenance. Exposure because if there's a maintenance problem that becomes a problem for the county It's not a problem for them because we own the property Just FYI I've got a lot of talk about this on ditches and stuff We're a county. We're not a city. We don't get tax money like a city or town We are not building for aesthetics our primary goal the highway department is you don't damage your vehicle or get injured and that's it We have to build ditches or you'll have flooding and sure 50 years, you won't have a flood. But if you have a flood, it could damage your house or kill you. So we need things in place. The county doesn't owe you the ability to use a rider mower on the entirety of your property. The county doesn't, we just can't, we would love to, to do that, but we don't have enough people or money to provide aesthetics. So keep that in mind. We'd like to pave everything, but we can't. If you try to pave everything, we'll end up looking like Indianapolis rapidly. You can look good for four years while you're just paving and everybody's patting their back on how they're doing it right, but they're not. They're doing it wrong and you have a bunch of potholes and accidents and things like that. So just keep that in mind. I try to be sensitive with people, but we are not building for aesthetics. We're building to prevent property damage and injuries. Anything we spend on aesthetics is coming away from property damage and injuries, and we barely have enough for that, especially with gas tax reductions, things like that.

We want to maintain our top PACER rating throughout the state.

We are one of the top PACER ratings throughout the state. Our accident rates and insurance claims speak for themselves. You might have to push mow and weed eat in the right of way. All speeds are determined by US limits 52. Now, that said, if you have any special exceptions, I'll just need a motion from two of the three commissioners to change that. We use science. We have a magneto. Basically, our goal is to put things between 50% and 85% of the drivers in there so we don't have people passing. Our biggest fear is it's not intuitive, but if we make the speed limit too slow or something, people will start passing because a lot of people don't pay attention to the speed limit, but some people do. And passing is when pedestrians and other cars get injured badly. That said, and also if we put speed limits out that aren't going to be followed, we don't like to post things. We don't like to try to have laws that aren't followed. That said, I want to keep in mind, we do have special requests sometimes. If two or three commissioners want me to do something, we are going to do it, but you'll have to make a motion for it. Speaking of that, we'll put the magneto out on South Street and get a speed study done, and then we'll let you know the results of that. And if you want to go a different way, then we can, but I'll get the speed study done.

At least it shows we're trying.

Yeah, we will look at it, but we want to use science. That said, science, there's always unique situations, and I'm willing to do that, but I do need a motion on that if that's the case. Um, but we'll take our time with that. I don't, we haven't had a fatality in a neighborhood since they started recording it. True. So there's no, everybody's scared to death of it, but the real deal is we don't have those happen. Um, they will eventually. I mean, if you have a hundred years here, someone's going to get hurt, but it's just not something that's scaring the death out of me because people are being killed and stuff other places. Mm hmm. So we play it by the books on that. DNR, LCF, Ann and Miriam have been working that and have been doing a great job. We might not be as competitive on the Land Water Conservation Fund, that's the LWCF, but they've identified the Harrison Trust, might be a better angle. And it also reimburses at 75% versus 50%, so that's less money out of our pocket. Miriam, probably after me on this thing, is gonna solicit some appraisals to get some of that going. recommend you approve those appraisals. But she'll talk to you about it. If you have any specific questions, you can ask her about it. The 300 South Bridge is open. So that is open. You should be using it now.

Yes.

So hopefully everybody down there, we've got a school down there and stuff. It'd been nice to get open, but they'll be ready for the new school year. They'll be ready to go. Yeah. And they got a new building going in this. We're very excited for Zion and the success of that community. And I'm glad that bridge is done. So they went to work out for 75 years. God willing. We are going to make a new appraisal on the prosecutor's office for rehab in the floodplain. I think you gave me permission last meeting to do that, so that will be coming. You'll see me ordering that. appraisal and then we'll have a quick discussion. I'll discuss on the one-on-ones whether we wanna do it as a BOT or do it as traditional. On this one being we didn't get a capital programs manager, I'm probably just gonna say we're gonna continue with the original plan, though unperfect, we'll go on that. I am meeting Thursday. We've been struggling to schedule an AAR on that particular project, but we'll get it scheduled. I think Janine's going to make it out to my meeting on Thursday, but we'll try to get the scheduled time to our pros and cons on that. Corey had some concerns. He felt like some of the maintenance stuff was missed. I'm not sure if we would have caught it. I mean, we've been in that building for two or three years, and there's no list of things we need to address. I don't think there's any way we could make the list for the next project.

It'll always be something.

There's always going to be something. There is a limit. We could ball up all our projects and never complete them by trying to chase. We need to launch at 90%. When we're 90% sure, we should go. Barring any, oh, Scott and I, maybe when you're done with this meeting, give me a call and we'll talk about that lease, get that finished up.

I reviewed it. It's ready to go. It just needed a little.

Yes. Anything I've written probably has a lot of grammatical problems. So that's a genteel way of saying that. Thank you. Insurance is the only way. Okay. Sure. Just give me a buzz after that and I'll finish it up. Yes, ma'am.

I sent you Dave Huffman's phone number. Did you get it over the weekend? I sent it by text.

I'll double check.

Your discontact, yeah.

So Mr. Huffman needs something? He wants me to call him?

Yeah.

Okay.

Regarding across the street?

Oh, yes. I don't know if I saw that, but I will check.

Check and text me?

I'll check before I leave.

Okay.

All right. But I was in the middle of the floor, so for all I know, I could have gone over. Anything else?

Nope.

All right. Have a great day.

Keep up the great work. Thank you, sir.

Make sure you know what you're investing in. So good morning commissioners.

I've identified a willing landowner and a beautiful property which you can see on the monitors. So the presentation that I'm showing you is just simply a brief photo visual overview of the property. It's located at 400 North and 100 West along the Sugar Creek. A second site for Sugar Creek. The site includes a 28-cage disc golf course already that's been previously hosting approximately 200 participants, but it's not currently in use right now. Additional features include a pond, mature trees, wetlands, and frontage again along that Sugar Creek. This acquisition would help launch, which is a funny word, a long-term five to ten year vision for Hancock County Park System. It would allow the county to create a new public access point upstream on the Sugar Creek and connect it by water to Nine Star Park downstream. This would form the beginning of a park-to-park paddling corridor, giving residents and visitors a way to enjoy the creek, if it's navigable. We still have to look into that. It also strengthens the role of our Nine Star Park as a key destination in future water trail network. And it'll support the county's investment in low impact nature-based recreation. So I'm requesting approval to obtain two appraisals for the 26 acre parcel at 400 North and 100 West, not to exceed $4,500. I have a letter of intent from the landowner who is willing to partner with us. We're currently exploring, like Gary said, the two grants. One is the Land, Water and Conservation Fund, which is 50-50 split, and the other is the President Benjamin Harrison Conservation Trust, which is a 75-25 split. So the appraisals are the next step to establishing that fair market value, and that's the way we continue our due diligence on the land. So I'm just requesting your approval to proceed with those appraisals. Do you have any questions? Yes.

Make a motion that we approve and give Marion the authority to go after the two appraisals.

Second.

The motion is second on the floor to allow Marion Rollis to proceed with the two grants possibility. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries.

I appreciate it. Thank you.

Mike Gibson.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Today I'm asking for right-of-way dedication approval for the Matsey Miner Subdivision, located at 5831 North State Road 9. It's a 70-foot dedicated half right-of-way, 0.478 acres. 0.478 acres.

I make a motion that we approve the Matt C Minor Subdivision 70-foot dedicated right-of-way with acreage of 0.478. Second.

Well, the motion is second on the floor to approve the acceptance of the 70-foot half-ride-away equaling 0.0478 acres on the Matsey Minor Subdivision. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Motion carries.

Isn't that nice of you?

Any Roberts? Morning. Sorry.

Well, John and I are here to talk about the Eagle View contract. I believe you all have a copy of it.

Yeah.

There's lots and lots of pages, but towards the back on page seven is the cost. Yes. I believe we chose to go with...

Three inches every year. Capturing that every other year, but I think we're at the point now when you look at that annually.

We had the option to go smaller, but it would have required more computer space.

It would be a little bit more of an indirect cost on IT.

Yeah, that's what it was. Oh, there it is. Okay.

Let me, I'll find it here. Yeah. It's buried deep in all those papers.

There it is. There it is. Yeah. It's 114,000 per year.

Yeah, and I believe the contract's for six years, so we shouldn't see an increase of that.

That's steady. Every year. I make a motion that we approve the Eagle View contract for three years? Six years. Six years. At the amount not to exceed $114,999.75. Per year. Per year. Second.

Well, motion is second to approve the Eagle View contract for the assessor's office. It is $114,999.75 per year. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Judge Davis.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning. Good morning.

The request that you have a written telework policy, I went ahead and drafted one and wanted to go over that today. So at no time would it be expected that you're just able to work from home instead of coming into the office unless it was for very specific reasons. We do have a shared workspace where there are three of us in one office. So if we have virtual training, that's for continued education hours, which are mandatory for each of us. It makes it difficult to do training in the office with participants coming in and having case management appointments. things, distractions. So for training purposes, certain administrative tasks where we would need limited distractions. If you were sick but not so sick as to where you couldn't operate in your job duties but that you may put other employees or participants at risk of illness, those would be the primary reasons why we would have a work from home day approval. But at no point would it be like, oh, I don't have child care or I just don't feel like coming in today. It would have to be for very specific reasons. I don't know if you guys have a copy of the telework policy that was drafted.

Yes, we do.

Okay. But that's just a minor breakdown of the purpose for having that policy.

Did you, for all intents and purposes, get with Andrea and HR just to make sure? I have not.

I've had the minor illness policies. I was in a minor work, and I know they can do something So it was just they're stuck in that room on it. I don't have any other room Especially the classes that I take for bringing into stuff. It's like you do when you got the volume going

And you are not bringing clients into your home, though, right? Correct.

Now, do you require them to have any type of proof or anything of that type? I mean, doctor's notes or anything like that?

I've only done that if they were going to miss me. With COVID starting, I was proud that we haven't brought it back into the office. If you have something like a little cold

right you might want to add that to your I notice it's in there just you may not work from home for more than two consecutive work days you may want to play something in it if somebody does need to expect some kind of doctors information to write additional days at home

We should probably run that.

Yeah. Yeah. Andrea, look at it and make sure it's kind of comparable to what we already had.

Any other questions? Approve it upon, yes.

I make a motion that we approve the Hancock County Behavioral Health Court telework policy once it is approved by our HR department. Second. That contingency.

We have a motion and a second to approve the Hancock County Behavioral Health Court telework policy contingents on HR reviewing. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries.

Appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you. Go ahead and sign it now or wait?

I think you can sign it now.

Kayla. Andrea. Welcome back.

Thank you.

I am back today just to revisit the previous approval for the PTO corrections. We discovered, I discovered, it was brought to my attention that there was one more Handbook dated, my apologies, I don't have it memorized, 8-1 of 2023 that contained the same charts with errors. So we needed to go back and correct for those additional folks between 8-1 of 23 and 8-21 of 24 who were hired. It's a total of 39 people, according to the paperwork given to me by the payroll department when they did the audit. So I'm just here to request approval to backdate and clean the last of that up.

I make a motion that we allow our HR department to clean up our PTO policy in our handbook.

Second.

We have a motion and a second on the floor to approve our HR person, Andrea McLaughlin, to correct PTO time off where it is wrong. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries.

Thank you.

Andrea, thanks for taking a deep dive into that. I know it was challenging when we first implemented, but thanks for getting it straight.

Not a problem. Just want to make it all right.

Kayla Brooks. Good morning. Good morning.

How are you today?

Wonderful, you?

Excellent.

Good.

I've got three items to discuss with you today.

Okay.

So first up is the fee schedule. We are updating our fee schedule to be a little more in line with what it needs to be as far as expenses and time involved. with the work we do. So I believe you have a packet that contains that. So most notably we've adjusted and simplified a few of the sections. I'd say the main difference is in variances and special exceptions. For the variances we did adjust if it's a non-residential versus a residential variance. The commercial and industrial players we have should be paying a higher fee because those are more complicated cases, involve more attorney time, more staff time, so we adjusted it. Anyway, that was the main difference. We also changed a note on this from encouraged to meet with staff prior to submission of a variance petition to the pre-filing meeting is required for all petitions. So that's the main difference.

How often can we change this?

Well, after, is it July 1st? Once every five years.

Okay.

So you feel you've adequately put those fees in a place that we should be good fiscally for five years? I hope so. I don't know if there's any mechanism that lets us make an appeal to go back and change that or not.

I believe there is a provision in there that does allow for unforeseen circumstances, things like that. I'd have to read through it more.

Well, if you're confident that it's going to get us by.

And the Planning Commission sent it forward with a favorable recommendation.

Okay.

We'll need an ordinance number. 22. I make a motion that we approve ordinance 2026-D regarding planning department fees for services.

Yeah, we have to introduce it first. Oh, okay.

You go ahead and introduce it.

Okay. I'd like to introduce ordinance number 2026-D regarding planning department fee schedule. with the Planning Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals.

Then suspend the... And suspend the... That's another motion.

Oh, okay. Well, then do I have a second on the first?

On the introduction, we don't have to motion it. It's just you've introduced it.

Okay. Make a motion to...

Approve.

Approve.

No, suspend the rules on the day of introduction.

Suspend the rules on the day of assigning for ordinance 2026-D. Second.

We have a motion and a second on the floor to suspend the rules on the day of introduction. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Motion carries. And then a motion to adopt. Yes.

I make a motion to adopt ordinance number 2026-D regarding the Planning Commission FEE SCHEDULE FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.

SECOND.

WE HAVE A MOTION TO SECOND TO APPROVE ORDINANCE NUMBER 2026-D, THE SCHEDULE OF FEES FOR THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, AND THE OTHER CORRECTION IN THE NOTES ABOUT ENCOURAGE BUT HAS TO HAVE THE, WHAT'S IT CALLED? THEY HAVE TO MEET WITH THE PLAN COMMISSION.

Yes. Refiling meeting. Yes.

Okay. All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye. Motion carries.

Bill needs to sign.

Okay.

Next up is an ordinance amending our zoning ordinance regarding data center siting. So this ordinance separates out a modern-day data center's definition from the communication service exchange definition, which is where it had been lumped in up to this point. It also inserts data center as a use type in our land use matrix and permits it in the IG zoning district only as a permitted use with a footnote, when you look at that footnote, it will tell you that a data center overlay is required. That data center overlay is also established by this ordinance. And that requires, very similar to a rezone, It requires any petition to come to this board. Now the special process put in place by this ordinance requires somebody seeking a data center overlay district designation to come to this board first. Have your blessing before it proceeds to the plan commission and discussions about where practically and technically speaking this would fit in.

Because before they could just go to BZA and get an approved outcome to us.

Before, it was actually a permitted use in several zoning districts. It would have had to go to the technical committee. It may have had to go to the BZA if they needed something like a height variance.

Okay.

And that still is the case. BZA, like a variance would still be required for something like that.

But we have to give the approval for it to even exist.

You got it, yep.

So what I see is an ordinance that protects public interest. There's a letter of intent that comes to the president of the commissioners from a developer who desires to do a project. There is some review criteria that's in there that we look at. And then there's a public hearing mechanism. Again, I think another thing to protect public interest. And finally, these projects come back to the board of commissioners. uh... not unlike solar wind power generation that we've done in the past big projects where people are looking for their elected officials to make those decisions instead of appointed boards we need an order

Is this the same process? Yes. I'd like to introduce ordinance number 2026-6-E. Ordinance amending title 15, chapter 156 of the Code of Ordinances of Hancock County, Indiana, regarding data center siting. And then I would like to suspend the rules on the day of induction.

That's a motion.

Second.

Okay, we've got a... We've got a motion and a second to approve or to suspend the rules on the day of introduction. All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Motion carries.

And I would suspend the rules on ordinance number 2026-6E, correct?

Yes. Second. Okay, we got a motion and a second to suspend the rules. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Okay.

Make a motion to approve ordinance number 2026-6-1, an ordinance amending Title 15, Chapter 156, the Code of Ordinances of Hancock County, Indiana regarding data center siting.

Second.

We have a motion and a second on the floor to approve 2026-6E, an ordinance amending Title 15, Chapter 156 of the Code of Ordinances of Hancock County, Indiana, regarding data center sightings. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries.

The Data Center Committee continues to meet this summer. We are expecting to have a report to the plan commission at the conclusion of those meetings with a more fine-tuned set of recommendations for data center siting so expect to see this back okay next OUR FINAL ITEM OF BUSINESS TODAY IS A LITTLE BIT OF HOUSE, CLEANING HOUSE HERE A LITTLE BIT. WE HAD AN ORDINANCE SITTING ON OUR DESK AND WE COULDN'T GET A SIGNED VERSION OF IT WITH AN ORDINANCE NUMBER. SO WE CHECKED AROUND AND REALIZED It was not given an ordinance number when it was passed back in August. Was it that long ago already? This was the, I might be wrong about that date, I'm sorry, that was November of 25 is when it was certified by the plan commission, so it must have been here this winter. This is the removal of power generation facility as a permitted commercial use with special exception in the Ag zoning district. So we need to, what I'm asking for today is that ordinance to be passed with an ordinance number. So that can be reflected in American legal and truly removed from our land use matrix and so we can file this away as completed.

Okay, an ordinance number? We don't have to introduce this. We've already done this.

We've already done this, haven't we?

Yes. Well, I would say, I would go ahead, let's just go ahead and run through the whole process, the introduction of it, because what you're going to introduce is something with the 2026 ordinance number, but it's retroactive to the date of November 4th of 2025, and have that reflected in this. Of November 2025?

Uh-huh. I'd like to introduce ordinance number 2026-6-F, an ordinance amending Title 15, Chapter 156 of the Code of Ordinances of Hancock County, Indiana, regarding power generation and facilities commercial, dating back, retro back to November 2025. November 4th. November 4th.

Second. Second.

We need to have an introduction there. That's an introduction. So we didn't need to vote on that. Now we have to have it.

We need to suspend the rules on that, Scott. Yes. Okay.

Yes. Make a motion to suspend the rules regarding ordinance number 2026-6-F on the day of introduction.

Again, and it's retroactive to the date of November 4th of 2025.

SECOND. WE HAVE A MOTION AND SECOND ON THE FLOOR TO APPROVE ORDINANCE NUMBER OR TO SUSPEND THE RULES ON ORDINANCE NUMBER 2026-6F RETROACTIVE BACK TO NOVEMBER 4TH, 2020-25. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. MOTION CARRIES.

I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE ORDINANCE NUMBER 2026-6-F THE ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 15 CHAPTER 156 OF THE CODE OF of Hancock County, Indiana regarding power generation facilities commercial. And this will be active retroing to November 4th, 2025.

Second.

We have a motion and second on the floor to approve 2026, ordinance 2026-6F and making it retroactive back to November 4th, 2025. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries.

Thank you. Thank you.

John Deaconis.

Good morning. Casual today.

But you're asking for money.

I think I'm the only thing stopping you from ending this meeting, so I'll go as quickly as possible. What you should have is two quotes. for a new access DVR server, which is our video recorder for our cameras, our security cameras. What we've found is that As we're adding more cameras, our retention period is going lower and lower and lower. And we'd like to at least at minimum double that, if not triple it. So the two quotes that you have in front of you, one is a 96 terabyte with 96 licenses for $26,010. The other one is for 192 terabytes, 96 licenses for 32,960. Obviously, I would prefer the larger one. I do have money in my CCD line item, if that's where you would choose to take it from.

So you're not asking for two, you're just asking us to pick one? Just one, but I wanted to show you both options. I would think that we'd need a 32, because what we found, it got covered over quicker than what we thought it was.

Right, he's graciously offered some of his money, so I think we should take advantage of that.

I make a motion that we approve the quote number 10667 from Nelson Alarm in the amount not to exceed $32,960 to be paid for through the 911 CCD budget. Second.

I have a motion and a second on the floor to approve quote number 10667 to approve the purchase and installment of an access server in the annex building at the amount of $32,960. All those in favor, say aye. Aye.

Motion carries. Then I have one quick question for you. In a roundabout way, through a couple people, I found out that a person that was recommended to me to look at our windows replacement at the 911 center is the person who actually has your contract for the courthouse windows. Darren something, and I can't remember his name now. Attica so yep, and so I would I'm just asking for permission if I can have them come out and take a look at our windows to see what What we need yeah Good we're good with that. Okay. All right. That's all I have. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Thank you Approve making make a motion that we approve claims and payroll second second

motion on floor and second to approve claims and payroll all those in favor say aye aye motion carries auditor business we do not have any oh all is well in the in the building okay uh the etiquette invoice i make a motion that we um So we're to the bond That will be a council because they approved us to do that so and we'll reimburse The bond whenever it gets approved The 2026 yes, what do we do just want to forward it on?

We can forward on to the council and just let them know that the agreement was and that we Yeah

I make a motion that we approve the etiquette group payment invoice for professional services in the amount of $4,000, sending it forward to the county council for designation of where it should be paid from in the amount of $4,000. That invoice number is 0250026.00-1.

We have a motion and a second on the floor to approve the ethical invoice for professional services and to forward this on to County Council to see where they want to pay this from. And that is project 0250026.00. Invoice number, yeah, that same invoice number also. All those in favor say aye. Aye. And motion. Motion. Motion approved. Okay. Do you need, did you find one to sign? We don't need sign or anything like that? Okay.

We have an affidavit for construction fund disbursement number 28, the Hancock County Redevelopment Authority regarding Amplify. That amount is... $2,996,658.46. Second. We have a motion and a second on the floor to approve affidavit construction fund disbursement request number 28 and total will be $2,996,658.46. All those in favor say aye.

Aye. Motion carries.

We have here the commercial insurance application for the Amplify building. I'll make a motion that we approve for signing the insurance coverage, property coverage for Amplify. Second.

We have a motion and a second to approve the insurance coverage for Amplify Hancock. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries.

Okay. And a lot of places to sign on.

Okay. I don't know if it's the producer or applicant.

That's the RDA.

Need more ink down there, Bill? Yeah.

Hey, dear.

Brian, that takes effect 6-19, correct? Okay. Thank you.

Okay. Ordinance to establish new funds.

Now, we need an ordinance number for this.

Same thing as before?

Yeah, same thing as before, I think, isn't it? Yep. We're introducing ordinance number 2026-6-G, an ordinance establishing the Indiana Department of Corrections alternating juvenile grant funds, which would be 33.90 community corrections. Juvenile Indiana Department of Corrections grant fund would be 9127. and 33.91 Community Corrections Juvenile in Indiana Department of Corrections Grant Fund 9128. Okay.

Motion to suspend the rules?

Motion to suspend the rules regarding ordinance number 2026-6G. Second.

Motion and a second is on the floor to suspend the rules on the day of introduction for the Community Corrections Juvenile Indiana Department of Corrections Grant Fund 9127 and 9128. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries.

Motion to approve and adopt ordinance number 2026 6-g an ordinance establishing the Indiana Department of Corrections alternating juvenile grant funds those funds being numbered nine one two seven and nine one two eight Second motion and a second is on the floor to approve the community corrections juvenile Indiana Department of Correction grant fund 91 27 and 91 28 all those in favor say aye aye motion carries Lastly we have permission to travel for sergeant David wood Hancock County Sheriff's Department. He is going to FBI Lita training media and public relations in Coatesville, Pennsylvania July 5th through July 10th, he's going to expand on his intellectual capital at an amount not to exceed 1795 42 second

We have a motion to approve travel request for Sergeant David Wood to the FBI lead of training with the amount not to, his expenses not to spend or exceed $1,795.42. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries.

Okay.

You guys have anything else?

I don't have any additional.

With nothing else on the agenda, is there anything the public would like to address? What's that?

Ernie.

Oh.

As you know, we're trying to update all the AV equipment in the courthouse for the courts. I got a quote back yesterday that was way out. It was way out of range of what we were trying to get accomplished, like $68,000 for one court. So I think we need to look at that whole project as how we're going to get it done. I don't want to accept that quote. That's too much. Add it again. So I'm going to Each court is different. Each judge wants something different. So that's the problem right there.

They don't have a one-size-fits-all.

Right, exactly.

They use the same equipment, though, right?

Yeah, it may be configured differently. It may be like several courts need more microphones and some want to be able to project evidence on different screens and so forth and so on. Okay. So I need to look at that again. So we if we had we had I think we had budgeted like $75,000 for all for all three quarters and that's not gonna $6,000 or something. So I just wanted to be aware of that. Sure. And I need to look at that again. Okay. That'll be fine.

All right. Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Now anybody from the public? Hearing none, one thing left.

Motion to adjourn. Second.

Motion and second. I don't afford to adjourn. All those in favor say aye. Aye.