County Commissioners - Regular Meeting
Hancock County Commissioners approved administrative items and accepted a Letter of Intent for a data center. This led to significant public opposition, with residents raising concerns about environmental impact, property values, and infrastructure strain.
About this meeting
- Government Body
- County Commissioners
- Meeting Type
- County Commissioners
- Location
- Hancock County, IN
- Meeting Date
- August 18, 2026
Transcript
251 sections
That's my place.
We can start. Good morning everyone. I hereby open the session of the Hancock County Board of Commissioners. Today is August 18th, 2026 and it is 8 o'clock. This session will be recorded and transmitted to the public. With your participation, please vote that your picture, your voice and your comments can be recorded and published. This meeting was formally announced in Janakot 55. The protocol should state that a quorum of the commissars is present. The commissars are ready for the agenda. We are now moving on with the agenda. I would now like to ask all those present to rise and participate. Loyal praise.
Loyal praise to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for the way it stands. A nation under God, under God, with freedom,
I make the application to approve the protocol of the Commissioner's meeting on August 4, 2026.
There is an application and a support for the approval of the protocol on August 4, 2026. Everyone who is in favor, please say yes. The application has been adopted.
Good morning. You never have a big audience, but I assume the people are not here because of me, so that's fine. We have tomorrow nothing to sign. LKW cameras and body cameras are being installed. That helps a lot. The people tell the most fantastic stories about what we're doing out there and the cameras really clear it up. So they're being built in right now. We work on what works best for us. We try to keep it cheap but effective. Jack and Sons closed yesterday. Thank you, Gary, for being out there. Hopefully we can get his widow money as soon as possible. We are grateful to Jack & Sons for their services that they have done to the community in the last decades. And we will hand it over, clean up and probably create a kind of parking lot until we decide what to do with it, because it is on the way. I'm glad it's done. It took 30 to 40 years. Ja, ich bin jetzt seit 16 Jahren dabei und als ich bei der Stadt war, haben wir schon darüber gesprochen. Also ich meine, es ist gut. Die Stadt ist unser Partner. Es ist gut, ihnen zu helfen. Die Durchlassinstallationen sind zu 50% geschlossen. Natürlich gab es in den letzten paar Wochen ein paar Verzögerungen. War ziemlich nass. As everyone here in the district knows, it was very humid. But I'm grateful. We had a downpour. We'll take that into account in the emergency measures. Everyone pays taxes, so let's get some of it back into the district. But every pass, every street seems to have stopped. We will check all the bridges on Thursday if the water has run off a bit so that we can take a look at it. You will see it later. We will talk about the great bad weather, but everything has held. No one was hurt. All roads are open so that people can get where they have to go. I am very grateful for that. Many people invest in a lot of work. Another short year, of course because of the gas tax reduction, but we are right. We are tearing up from our deposits. We got something back from the state reserves. That supports us. And we have adapted our program so that it fits. We will be a little short on our liquidity reserve. We are reducing it a little, but I think we are still on the safe side. If we want to make an expiry for micro-UPNV services, it has to happen next month. So next month we know whether we have it for next year or not. I don't know. You're just starting with your budget. I know. We have money for it. We just have to see how the city wants to participate in it. Then we will decide whether we will implement it or not. Micro surface treatment and surface sealing continued for about a month. We will continue there, where we have carried out the surface treatment in the residential areas. We give the whole moment time to dissolve excess material. Then we will return in autumn, if there are any questions. We come back to it, we just give the process time. We are not done with everyone either. So we will finish them all. We wait a short time until the loose material has dissolved at the top and then return in autumn. We don't want to have to return five or six times. We just wait until everything has been dissolved and then do it. That saves us a lot of money in this way. It doesn't make sense that the taxpayer pays five times for it if it can be done once. We are checking a contract for special maintenance work at the 600 West via the RDC to help with weed control and cleaning. And of course it's a roundabout. We were determined to have gravel roads everywhere, but the world has changed. We have errors, we don't have gravel roads everywhere. So we are looking for a contract to keep the weed short and grind it a little more thoroughly than we normally do. I'll let you know how it goes. As far as HCSS is concerned, we have finally received a refund. I know that you kept it in your office, Deborah. I saw that a refund actually came in. I had to put in a little pressure down there to make it happen. But we'll stick to it and see if we can continue the program as long as it still exists. I will continue to make sure that the money flows because I know that you have reached a cash balance of zero.
Yes, we did. Did you speak to the percentage that will be refunded? I know that it keeps going down. It keeps going down.
It used to be free, now it's not anymore. Obviously everyone is under pressure. Every government system is currently financially under enormous pressure. It's the same with him. So there's not much going back. We're about half way done with the property on the US 4. I don't know if that's our street. We're just trying to help there. You're about half way done. You've done a lot of cleaning. You've cleared a lot, but we'll see if it has any effect or not. It's hard to say at the moment, because with about 20 centimeters of rain, almost nothing works. Right. But you're out there at work. I would like to express my great gratitude to the deputies of the E911 emergency call and the bridge construction team. You have done a great job during all this flooding. You may have noticed that every district around us had problems. People were injured, people lost their homes and so on. We didn't have that.
That's good. We didn't have that. And that with rain over 20 centimeters. And that required a lot of money, a lot of consideration, a lot of risk and a lot of unpopular measures to strengthen our system so far. A little bit of luck was also there. It depends on where the rain hits certain things. So I will leave Mother Nature out of it. She also gave us a break. But there is no doubt that we have received a lot of rain. Everyone who lives here knows that. I want Chad, his team and all the people, as well as the sheriff, to thank everyone for working so well together. It was just good. I want people to be safe on the road. The time has come. It's very expensive this year, but it's an El Niño, so maybe we have a weaker one. El Niño, that means damp, windy. Hot, humid, unpleasant summer, but it also means dry, warm winter. Hopefully we'll get to feel the other side of the coin when it's too far away. It's a two-edged sword and hopefully we'll get the good side in winter. We're at 8.97 cumulated. That's a lot of rain, isn't it? But it could have been worse. I mean, Henry got 12. Of course they have to fight in Cornersville and the surrounding area. They have 11 to 12 inches. We were just before. I think a few more centimeters wouldn't have been good. Yes. You can see here on my diagram on the right how we got the August. And that was the state of about three days ago.
And that corresponds to the total rain that we got in March during the normal spring.
Everything compressed over a few weeks.
So the spring was pretty dry. But you can see the line, the selected line. These are the average values for the whole month. So we're not yet through the August and you can see how much rain we get. So it rained a lot. Hopefully it will get easier, because as I said, with every inch of rain, everyone calls because of their dehydration and says that everything is going wrong. Every inch of rain gets 24 hours to drain before we even consider it a problem. Hancock County is as flat as a pancake. If it rains a lot, there will be water everywhere. That is our general starting point. One inch of rain has 24 hours to drain. With three inches of rain, it takes 72 hours to drain. And only then do we start talking about it. We have some older houses that are lower than the street and so on. They are dangerous.
But that's on their property. We are a road construction agency, not a dewatering agency.
I'm convinced. If we apply for a split seal, we'll do it on the existing road. It is a common accusation that we flood everything in a circle of a mile when we move a shovel of earth. I mean, with the road layout, it's the same rain. If he hits a quarter inch earlier on something, before he reaches the earth, the earth will no longer add water. This is a widespread misunderstanding. With straight winds, we don't need a tornado to get into trouble. We were on the road for many nights. We also did a lot of wood chips during the storm. Everyone is talking about sewage and the like. And a large part of the public has also helped. Instead of grabbing the earpiece, it helps to get it out and clean the access. Everyone can contribute their part. Many people have also done it. I am grateful to them for doing this. Pull the maize leaves out of your passage. Do you do that? Everyone can help. Because we are only 20 people in the state championship and there are thousands of mile signs out there. The infrastructure has held up well. As I said, no major repairs. Colcated bridges. I'm worried about that. I'll check it out on Thursday. I just can't do it. Ja, ich kann sie jetzt nicht gut sehen. Ich weiß, ich bevorzuge Pfahlgründungsbrücken. So sind wir nicht so anfällig für kolkgefährdete Brücken. Ähnlich wie bei Heyselsbrücke mit Spreizfundament und ähnlichem. Da ist man dem Risiko von Auskolkungen ausgesetzt. Es spart ein paar Dollar, aber wie gesagt, wir haben nur 20 Leute. Leute, wir können das nicht ständig im Auge behalten, besonders wenn wir Nachtzeuge hinbekommen. Wir können während eines Sturms nicht 163 Brücken überprüfen. Überprüfen. That's why we simply protect the case foundations. But I still don't trust the whole thing. I want to go out there and see for myself to make sure that everything is fine, but I don't know that yet.
We were lucky. I live on Big Sugar Creek and have experienced it much higher in my life.
Mother Nature can also give us a break.
We were very lucky.
And that's actually all I have. Bill and I will look at something after the meeting. We will have to discuss the benefits for next year at some point. Probably we will talk about it at the next session, which benefits we want to aim for. Bridge traffic, road improvements, improvements. So think about it, where we can be competitive and what we can win. I will soon report to you on this. Ms. Schiller is already working on some of these things. Are there any questions? That's all I have for you this morning. Thank you very much. You have done a great job. Your team's feet.
Ihr quackt nicht von der Ente.
Es ist einfach irgendwie unangenehm, nasse Füße zu haben. Ich weiß nicht, warum.
Danke, Gary.
Danke. Danke. Corey Taylor.
Guten Morgen. Guten Morgen, mein Herr. Guten Morgen. Before you start, we have outside at the door, where probably some screws have to be pulled. I'll get around to it. I have two points for you. The first is a pdf bill. That was for work in the resocialization facility. A washbasin and ... A breakwater basin had to be moved to the water pipes. That was not part of the conversion. It was overdue. The sum for this is 3,990. And my suggestion is the geo-investment of 2,000.
I ask for the application of bill number 11.070 to be approved. We are working on the Henker Community Corrections and the total amount of 3,087,80,80 to exceed, not to exceed.
We have an application and support for the approval of the bill 11.07.70, which is to be paid from the loan of 2021 in the amount of 3.7780.41. All those who agree or all those who agree say please. The application has been accepted. The next bill I have is also a PDF Mechanics bill L6A96. This is for the cleaning, emptying and cleaning of the soil temperatures. The soils used to have a chemical system that was connected to them, which is not active at the moment. We are working on what we can do to reuse some of the existing devices and what we still need. But we now have to clean every day. So this calculation is for the service to empty, clean, refill and replace some seals for 5,099.86. I have to pay for this one from the building maintenance. Maintenance. This is maintenance, yes. Building maintenance. So, yes.
I file the application that we approve the PDF Mechanical Account No. 11169. In the amount of 5,099. Payable from the maintenance. We have an application and a support for the approval of the bill 11169 in the amount of 5,098.
Who agrees, please say yes. The application has been accepted. Just a few updates. We somehow have a broken window on the 4th floor. That's the roof of the court building. We have investigated. I really don't know what happened. No signs that someone broke in. It damages. And the unfortunate thing is that it lies where it lies. I have difficulties finding craftsmen to replace this window. I now have a few approaches. Hopefully I can do this in the next few weeks. It is regrettable that this has happened, where we are preparing for a complete window replacement, but we will take care of it. Is there a way to keep it intact until the complete replacement?
Does it have to be replaced?
Navi and I were able to go up there and attach a piece of plexiglass on the back to at least secure the window so that it doesn't split. We will do that. To find someone who comes up there to do it. The other point is that we have exercised pressure on our client for the verification assistance to approach some things. You haven't done anything yet, have you? It's still not moving as it should. I'm going to make a call. One of them is the director's office, which is a big yes. I make a call every day. So just for information. If you could help to exert some pressure, I would be grateful. That's all I have. Thanks. Thanks, Cory.
Chris Cooper. Good morning.
Good morning. Thank you for your time this morning. Uh, I have the dedication for the box, my subdivision, uh, right of way. Uh, it's on the east side of the 850 East, south of the US. Uh, it's just under one acre, right of way.
Uh, it's a total of about 9.9 for a corner on three pieces of land. I'm here to answer questions.
That's a half right of way.
A 35-foot half right of way. 35-foot half right of way.
Ich stelle den Antrag, dass wir das 35-Fuß-Halbwegerecht genehmigen, bestehend aus 9,915 Acres über drei Grundstücke für die Kester-Menor-Unterteilungswidmung.
We have a request and a supporter to accept the 35-Fuß-Halbwegrecht of 9,915 Acres for the Kester-Menor-Unterteilung. Who is for it, please say yes. The application has been accepted.
Thank you.
I just got a copy.
Most people prefer blue anyway. Das stimmt. Unser Rechnungsprüfer erinnert uns ständig daran.
Sie ist eine typische Prinzipienreiterin.
Sie ist sehr diktatorisch.
Was die Regeln angeht.
Ich denke, deshalb haben wir sie.
Danke. Danke. Kayla ist nicht hier. Sheriff Burkhardt. Guten Morgen. Guten Morgen. Sie sollten... Ich bin hier, um einige Fahrzeuge auszumustern. You should have six separate vehicle letters in your documents, I think, that we have to pattern out because they will be auctioned off at the next weekend. Do you all want to do it all at once?
Well, shall we do it separately?
You can name them, but do everything in a request.
I request that we approve the following vehicles of the Sheriff's Office for design. Uh, for a... I have a Chevy Tau 2020 with the license plate number ending in 3000, so 64. 60? Chevy Tahoe 2 2016 with the license plate number. The last four digits 0492C. Chevy Tahoe 2017. The last four digits of the license plate number are 27. Chevrolet Tahoe 2018. Last four digits 2052. Ford Explorer police unit, construction year 2017. The last four digits of the vehicle number are 5500. And finally a Ford Explorer 2017. Last four digits 6000, 1057. Support. We have vehicles from the sheriff's office that have to be removed. The numbers have already been read out.
Wer dafür ist, sage bitte Ja. Der Antrag ist angenommen. Vielen Dank. Ich habe noch ein weiteres Fahrzeug, das gerade erst dazu gekommen ist, weil es in einen Unfall verwickelt war. I don't really know if we're really making it up because it's a total loss. We have to take it out of our inventory, of course. It wasn't a total loss. It wasn't our fault. It was a total loss. So the insurance company is taking care of it. That's good. Absolutely. But it's a 2025 Tahoe. And the last four of the chassis are a 2045. If we could just make an application for the modification so that the insurance company can pick it up as soon as we have the equipment out. It is a 2025 Tahoe Chevy. 3045 are the last four of the vehicle number.
I request that we approve the modification of the vehicle Chevy Tahoe. The last four digits of the vehicle number are 3045 and it is a 2025 model. I agree.
Es liegt ein Antrag vor, ein Fahrzeug zu mustern. Tahoe 20.
Was war 21?
2011. Die letzten vier Fahrgestellnummern sind 3005. Wer dafür ist, sage bitte ja. Der Antrag ist angenommen. Alles klar. Danke. Ich möchte auch noch kurz eine Information teilen. Wir haben vor kurzem unsere Enterprise Leasingfahrzeuge aus dem ersten Jahr 2021 aussortiert. They were sold together with two Ford pickups. All 11 vehicles plus the two pickups were sold for a total of $131. which serves to cover the leasing costs for the next few months, the program works. So good to get some money back, because some of the 2020 and 2021 models brought in about $20,000. It is amazing what resale value they achieve. I just wanted to tell you that.
Resale value is better than just driving off and
Exactly, but they also have high mileage. I mean, they were Serbs. They had 100,000 miles. They were cars with 100,000 miles. Even then, they bring $20,000 and are sold to other or smaller authorities. Enterprise will take care of that for us. I just wanted to share that. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you.
Give me a moment. I have to sign everything here. John Yaconis. Just a moment. Kayla is here now.
Come on. Just a short business matter this morning. I have a amendment for our section that states that public announcements must contain a legal description. It is extremely expensive for most people to publish this in the newspaper. In addition, most people do not understand the legal description and do not know how it relates to a place in our district. It would make more sense and would save our inhabitants a lot of money if we shortened it to a number for breakfast. Our inhabitants are increasingly familiar with BIKEN and therefore know how they can copy that. Of course, a general description such as the address would still be included. Are there any questions about this amendment?
Danke, dass sie in den Unterlagen enthalten ist. Sehr gerne.
Ich weiß nicht.
Wie lautet die Satzungsnummer?
Ich stelle den Antrag, die Satzung Nummer 2026-8c zu genehmigen. A sentence to change Title 15, Chapter 156 of the Book of Law of Hancock County, Indiana regarding the recording of legal descriptions in public announcements.
Would you like to say goodbye directly on the day of the introduction? Yes, I would only add that we say goodbye on the day of the introduction. Emphasize the rules. Second, application for voting to The ordinance number 2026-8 to be approved. C. An ordinance to change Title 15, Chapter 156 of the ordinance of the Hancock County Indians regarding the recording of legal descriptions in public information and to impose the rules and to approve on the day of the introduction. All in favor say yes. The application has been accepted.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Once again, John Draconist. Well, he's wearing a suit but no tie, so he can't ask for money. I mean...
Thank God we don't have any.
I have to say I love it when 9-11 is on the agenda and everyone comes to support us. So thank you for that. What you have in front of you today is... Couldn't you leave it? I couldn't. So, what you have in front of you today is a contract with a professional funder. That has been waiting for a long time, because we have written grant applications, but it's like dating in high school or college. You can't keep asking questions and always casting a no until you finally realize that it's up to you. So, We have to change something.
What do you mean? Exactly.
So we have to change our way of doing things. And this special person has a fantastic success rate. There are a few seven-digit grants that she has earned. And that's why we want to sign a contract with Grant Greenhouse. And we would pay that from our budget for professional services. This would be for the writing of grant applications and the research. We are specifically focusing on the solar roof for our front parking lot. This will be one of the first projects we are working on. But we still want to work with Grand Greenhouse to achieve more.
And how high is the dollar amount of this contract?
It's 75 dollars per hour.
Not more than, I think, five hours a week. I'm interested to see that this is actually implemented, because for years people have always said that solar panels belong above parking spaces. And here we have the chance to prove it.
If we could get it, that would be fantastic, because it would save us money. We have nothing against paying the city of Greenfield for their electricity bills, but we do it more if we can save tax money. Exactly.
Exactly. It also relieves people from their cars, you know.
That's even better. I don't have to build him a garage or anything like that. I get thought-out parking spaces. So we have the double benefit.
Benefit. I checked the contract. It's pretty clear. No problems.
I make a motion to approve the agreement on funding for the Grand Greenhouse of $75 per hour, if required, with a maximum of five hours per week.
The motion and the second motion are to approve the agreement on funding for the writing of funding applications for $75 per hour. All those in favor say yes. The motion is approved.
And also in line with what Gary P. said, the fact is that our people have done fantastic work with the higher call-up. But you really handled the incoming calls well. Is there anything else for me?
Good luck. Thank you.
Thank you.
Ludinan. For those who do not know it, Rudi is our bodyguard. Good morning. Good morning. I would like to ask the bodyguard's office for your support and advice regarding an excessive object. We currently have a 40-foot cooling fan. We have had it for about four to five years. It is currently under construction at Hancock County. Er wurde dem Hancock Regional Hospital durch einen FEMA-Zuschuss während Corona gegeben. What? Er wurde nie benutzt. Es ist ein gebrauchter Auflieger. Er wurde dann dem Büro des Leichenbeschauers des Counties übergeben. Im Moment sehen wir eigentlich keinen Bedarf mehr dafür. The Indian Ministry of Homeland Security has a nationwide program that has existed since 2005 to support counties and municipalities through emergency management if we ever had a need for a team for mass attack of injured and funeral services. So we just don't have the feeling that there is a need. Therefore, we would like to declare it as excessive. However, we believe that there are a few problems with the property certificate. I have the copy in front of you. So he is not allowed in Hancock County. So if you have a solution for this or an advice on what we have to do to declare him an outsider... Did you say that he went to the hospital first? He went to the hospital. It was never used by the hospital, but during the high phase... CO, just for the case.
And isn't there a shelf system that was purchased to get in there too?
There is a part of this system there. We changed that and we got an electric carrier instead of this shelf system. So that was a change. It was approved two years ago.
But the shelf system is not only for storing, but also for lifting.
Der Landkreis hat nie etwas für den Anhänger gekauft. Wir hatten einen Haushaltsposten, um Geld für ein Regalsystem zu verwenden. Als ich Corona wurde, hatte ich das Gefühl, dass es dafür keinen Bedarf gibt, und das ging in ein C-System für unseren Van, den wir derzeit nutzen. Aber es gibt da ein Regalsystem, das mit dem Anhänger kam, aber es ist nicht vollständig.
And I think the following. I just came across an experience outside of the state of Michigan. The hospital must probably sign a kind of certificate that you were the owners. Whether you now have to pay fees for the admission that you did not pay, I cannot tell you. For me it looks like the hospital should say we were the owners, get a title and then hand it over to Hancock County.
Maybe you have the title somewhere.
Well, on the back it says that the Hancock Regional Hospital was the first renewal by a licensed dealer. And then the Hancock Regional Hospital was the second renewal by a licensed dealer. So I don't know if we can do anything about it technically. Did you talk to the hospital?
Vor zwei Jahren. Aber ich kann wieder auf Sie zugehen.
Kann wieder auf Sie zugehen und Sie erneut fragen. Weil ich möchte zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt keine Maßnahmen ergreifen. Einfach nur, weil wir sicherstellen müssen, dass wir rechtlich abgesichert sind.
Und vielleicht wollen Sie den Anhänger für etwas anderes.
Falls nicht, soll ich Sie bitten, ihn an uns zurück zu überschreiben.
Wenn Sie uns den Titel überschreiben, ja, er, er, er, dann können wir weitermachen mit. Und das Ziel wäre dann, ihn als Überschuss zu deklarieren. Absolutely. Very good. Thank you. Thank you.
Andrea McLaughlin.
Err... Head of Staff.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning. Andrea McLaughlin, head of staff. I have a guideline for our employee manual, which is based on vehicle data and driving permits for employees in the district who either use service vehicles or their own vehicles for work in the district and receive mileage certificates for this. I know you all had the opportunity to read it through. I'm just here to see if there are any more questions and if we can.
You did a great job.
Thank you.
In any case, more than enough. I think the coverage sums are in order, the 100, 300, 100. The only thing I would ask the other two commissars is whether this household register must be transferred from the budget of the Homeland Security Agency to that of the personnel department.
It was calculated for the rest of this year. And then we wanted to see if we could make a change in January. It was currently planned in the household of the Homeland Security Agency and talked to Mark Elder. We talked about leaving it on this post. Until the end of the year. Until the end of the year and then in January to make a change from where it is paid to it, to it, to it.
to be transferred to your post.
Okay.
Because his budget is already finished.
So, and you will do the vehicle MWR test.
Ja, ich werde das Fahrerprotokoll führen, damit wir wissen, wann Versicherungsinformationen aktualisiert werden müssen. Die eigentliche Funktionalität der Software liegt bei 911 und Sie sind geschult, diese für uns durchzuführen. Sie bekommen sie also von mir, führen sie aus, ich erhalte die Ergebnisse und dann bestehe ich. Ich sage der Geschäftsführung bestanden oder nicht bestanden. Sie bekommen die Details nicht zu sehen.
Sie machen weiterhin einen tollen Job. Ich meine, unsere Personalabteilung hat sich soweit entwickelt.
Brauchen wir einen Antrag, um dies anzunehmen. Ich antrage, dass wir die neue Bezirksrichtlinie für Kraftfahrzeugdaten, MVR und Fahrerlaubnisse genehmigen.
Zweiter Antrag und zweite Stimme liegen vor, die Richtlinie für Kraftfahrzeugdaten und Fahrerlaubnisse des Bezirks zu genehmigen. F. Alle, die dafür sind, sagen bitte Ja. Der Antrag ist angenommen.
Danke. Ich werde es als Nachtrag in das bestehende Handbuch aufnehmen, das wird diese Woche fertig sein.
Danke.
Und was ist mit Neueinstellungen, Andrea?
Bekommen die einfach nur eine Kopie davon? Ist das unser Vorgehen oder steht es nur im Handbuch?
Es wird im Handbuch stehen und auch an alle Abteilungsleiter verschickt, damit sie es ihren neuen Mitarbeitern aushändigen können, können.
Yes, we have a few points. So... Wir müssen Sie bitten, eine zusätzliche Mittelzuweisung aus Ihrer AED-Linie für Ihre Fahrzeuge zu beantragen, etwa für Ölwechsel und ähnliches. Sie benötigen keine spezielle Genehmigung oder zusätzliche Mittel. Aber wir haben dort noch Geld. Sie kommen nicht ganz hin. Am 2.07. dort. And we only have 3,000 left for the rest of the year. So if you agree, we can make this transfer in the accountant's office for you. How much? What do you think?
How much do we need? I would say if we are here.
I mean, of the 22,000 that have been granted, you have already issued 19,000. So it would probably go and at least 7,000, maybe 7,200.
If we have ten that we can hand out, we will do that for you.
And I have two more points. Well, actually one that goes into the other. Unfortunately, the loss of our county auditor Cindy Roberts created an immediate vacancy that they had to react to. I therefore wanted to ask if you could ratify this according to Indiana Code 3.13.11.13. Sie hatten die Befugnis, jemanden als Interimsgutachter zu ernennen. Und das haben Sie mit Ashley Shields getan. Aber ich wollte nur sehen, ob Sie einen entsprechenden Antrag stellen könnten, damit wir das mit den neuen Unterlagen belegen können, die im Büro des Gutachters unterzeichnet werden müssen. Und damit wir den Kodex befolgen. Bis zum Kaukuss am 24. August. If you could make an application and ratify this decision, I would be very grateful. And then I will ask you to make another potential application for a vacancy that could be created in the accountant's office. Should I apply for the calculation roll? First of all, I would like to make the application that we confirm paragraph 3.13.11.13. Mr. Knedige, please. who allows the appointment of a special representative at a vacancy in the office of the auditor through Ashley Shields.
The second application is to be approved under paragraph 3.13.11.13. A step around an official. in the office of the auditor until the election is passed by the caucus. Everyone who is in favor please say yes.
The application has been accepted. In order. And then I would have to ask you to make an application now, so that we are insured. We don't have to do that on August 24th. We will hold a caucus to replace this auditor. I have won the preliminary elections and will be allowed to stand up for the general elections. So it makes sense that if I am appointed by a caucus in advance, this would create a vacancy in my office and Mary Bulmer, who won the nomination for the Accounting Examination Office, is also a candidate for the general election. If we could already nominate her now so that we can continue working if I am appointed by a caucus. And I don't make any assumptions here. If we were on the safe side, we could continue our work and wouldn't have to do it again. And that is in line with the same law, because this would create a vacancy in the office and neither Cindy nor I have a truly retired and compulsory officer. That's why this paragraph is in use.
This is the same paragraph.
The same paragraph. I hereby also make the request that according to IC paragraph 3, 13, 11, 13, 13, Mary Bulmer after the caucus as Interim Rechnungsprüferin to be used.
That's Julian. Second. We act on the basis of paragraph 3.13.11.13 to possibly replace the Rechnungsprüferin after the caucus. And at this point, we will name Mary Bulmer for At this time. Everyone who is in favor, please say so. The application has been accepted.
Thank you. And I don't think we have any further matters to discuss regarding the accounting exam. Have you confirmed your decision regarding the documents?
It's written here. It's written here. So, uh... Nelson Alarm, accounting for the Procurement Service.
I file the application that we, via Nelson Alarm, Do you have the loan for the financial aid? There is a second application in front of us. The offer of 27.27 euros in the amount of 1.2750 dollars to be approved.
that the 2021 GEO loan should be paid for. Should. Everyone who is in favor says the application has been accepted.
I would like to request that we ratify the signature of Gary McDaniel on the property of Jack and Sons with the effect of yesterday, August 17, 2026. Both. For those who do not know it, it was already requested today that the district office of Jack and Sons
Grundstücke die Straße runter gekauft hat. Ich meine, wir haben in der Stadt darüber gesprochen. Wir haben im Landkreis darüber gesprochen. Der Landkreis hatte endlich die Gelegenheit dazu. Wir werden es also kaufen und aufräumen. Es gibt einen Antrag und eine Unterstützung. Meine Unterschrift für den Pachtvertrag für das nächste Jahr zu genehmigen. Alle, die dafür sind, sagen. Der Antrag ist eingenommen. Und ich habe eine Absichtserklärung. Und wir akzeptieren dies nur.
Dies ist keine Genehmigung. Aber jeder weiß, dass dies für ein Rechenzentrum ist. Also brauche ich einen Antrag, um es anzunehmen.
Müssen wir einen Antrag stellen?
Nicht. Also halten Sie einfach fest, dass wir es angenommen haben.
You need one of them officially.
Received.
Take it.
This is how we can check everything and collect information that is made available to the public.
Yes, absolutely.
Do you have anything else?
Just before we record the public statement, we can take a short break.
Before we do that, Gary, I think you asked for the signature for the expansion of the construction site. I just wanted to say, the Patfilm Wing, let that come. I haven't seen it yet. Because, of course, it has to be written out. And I explained to him that this has to happen. I checked it. I should make changes and it's done. So I'll read it to him. It should now simply be written out.
You said you had already done the writing for the cleaning. It's done.
Alles klar. Ich brauche einen Antrag für eine Pause.
Antrag auf eine kleine Unterbrechung.
Zweitens. Antrag zur Sitzungsunterbrechung für ein paar Minuten. Alle dafür sagen ja? So sei es.
Wir werden nun Stellungnahmen der Öffentlichkeit entgegennehmen. Hier liegt ein Notizblock. Bitte notieren Sie Ihren Namen und Ihre Adresse, falls Sie das Wort ergreifen. Fall. Und wir wissen, dass das auf uns zukam. Also, ich meine, wir geben euch immer noch drei Minuten für das, was ihr sagen wollt, aber wenn ihr nur wiederholt, was jemand anderes schon gesagt hat, dann lasst bitte sie reden. Und, ähm... Just say Tito or whatever. I mean, but at the same time I would like to emphasize once again that this declaration of intent is not a yes vote. Many more steps follow and we still have to talk to a lot of people. So I just say understand that it is only a declaration of intent. So I take the first one. Who wants to speak?
You can sign your name after we've spoken, but we've just settled it that way.
My name is Rebecca Chapman, I've been living in Hancock County for 32 years and I'm a Westside woman. One and a half years ago, we all gathered as a community and said no to a planned hyperscale computing center at Tuttles. We're back here and it's only one mile from Tuttles away. Die ökologischen Auswirkungen auf Ihre Farm werden Sie zerstören und Sie sind schon seit 96 Jahren hier. Was es mit den Landwirten macht, während Sie feststellen, dass Rinder tot, Geburten haben. Sie haben spontan Aborte. Es betrifft alle Bereiche der Landwirte und wir sind eine landwirtschaftliche Gemeinde. Ja, es ist toll, unseren Beamten eine goldene Karotte von 22 Millionen Dollar vor die Nase zu halten und zu sagen, oh, wir bezahlen dafür. Wir bezahlen für jenes. Nun, lassen wir sie für mehr bezahlen. Lassen wir sie für das Stromnetz bezahlen. Findet heraus, woher sie das Wasser nehmen wollen und stellt sicher, dass sie nicht... Darf ich fragen, hast du die Absichtserklärung gelesen?
Sie bezahlen für das Stromnetz.
So sagen sie es zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt, so sagen sie es.
Ich glaube Ihnen nicht. Denn überall sonst wo Sie waren, haben Sie gesagt, wir werden dies tun. Wir werden für das Stromnetz bezahlen. Wir werden sicherstellen, dass wir für was bezahlen. Zugang zu diesem Wasser. Woher soll dieses Wasser kommen? Von da draußen?
Der Brief besagt, es sei ein geschlossenes Kreislaufsystem. Sie füllen es also einmal auf und das war's, seh's.
Nein, das ist, das ist falsch. Wissen Sie 33.000? Gallons per week are consumed in a closed circulation system. You have to wash this thing every few months because of the corrosion substances that accumulate because of the coolant that is in it and because of the mud that forms. What happens if this computer center is aged in five to ten years? Because let's be honest, the technology is growing and developing rapidly. Have we done anything to ensure that this company, whether it's Meta, Google, Amazon or whoever else, just says, okay, we're done and then just go? We'll stay with the toxic waste in the plant.
Actually, if I may go in between, we haven't sat around without doing anything since we saw it. We have also worked out our own protective measures and have relied on our advisory board for data centers to discuss these problems. One of my demands was that any toxic waste from a data center outside of Hancock County must be disposed of. I don't know where they're getting this from. I don't care either. But these are things I want to know where they end up. People, please be respectful. You listen to us, so let us listen to you too. Thank you.
I couldn't speak to the end because you commented in between.
There will be other opportunities. Good morning. My name is Catherine Cooper. I come from New Palestine. I would like to remind the board of the quality of life initiative of Hancock County while they make a decision here. It is part of the comprehensive plan and focuses on creating an unmistakable, lively environment in which residents can bloom physically, mentally, socially and economically. And I think almost everyone in this room will agree that a computer center doesn't offer that. Nobody will move to Hancock County just because we have a computer center. Nobody will want to stay here just because we have one. People want to live here because we have clean water, clean air, good schools, green areas for recreation and a good infrastructure have no environmental burden. Rechenzentrum, which was brought here by an international company from Sweden, which, despite its declaration of intent, does not make any investments in our county. It all sounds rosy and is a big sales promise, this letter, but you don't live here anymore. You don't have to live with the consequences. Therefore, I urgently ask you to consider this in your decision. And I would also like to thank the work of the subcommittee for computer centers for the tireless work they have done and mention that they have been put under pressure temporarily. They are being harassed at the moment, which I don't think is fair. I think they should have provided them with the full time. But thank you and please keep that in mind.
Thank you, Catherine.
Hello, good morning. My name is Greg Painter. I am a resident of Hancock County in McCordsville. And in the declaration of intent it says that it will be 2.5 miles away from the next residential area. That's not true. I live 4 miles away from the corner of the property and can see it from my house. Wir in unserer Wohnsiedlung haben einige offensichtliche Bedenken und es entsteht gerade eine weitere Siedlung nur einen Block östlich von uns. Es gibt große Sorgen, wo Daten oder wo Stromleitungen auf das Grundstück geführt werden, weil dort Leitungen verlegt werden müssen, obwohl sie ihren eigenen Strom produzieren, benötigen sie redundante Backup-Systeme. Our concern is the EMF load. And if you produce your own electricity, it will also bring other pollutants with it. And not only air pollution, but also noise, light and so on. And I'm actually surprised that the airport has no concerns about these things, especially because of the light pollution. But I just wanted to give my two cents and let you know that this declaration of duty is not 100% correct.
Are you in Woodhaven?
Thank you. Thank you. Can you please write down your name and address, sir? Good morning. Good morning. I'm Charles Cook. The most important thing first, the district commissioner has the last word, has the last word. I don't care what the planning commission does. This lady has spoken of toxins. Who will move the sewage system? Who will pay for the sewage system? How many empty storage halls do we actually have? But we don't pay taxes. I'm done.
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Cook.
I am Tim Curtis.
Tim Curtis.
I live on the Westwood Hammer Trail in 506. I live in the same neighborhood as Greg Poynter, in the Woodhaven settlement. And as Greg said, we are about half a mile away from the planned financial center, which is far too close to a residential area for me. Our neighborhood is almost 300 houses. My first concern was what actually happens to the additional costs? What happens to the water bills? And what is even more important, what happens to the real estate values when people move away because of the noise caused by the center? We have 300 houses there with an average value of about $360,000. A decline in real estate values by 20 percent. This corresponds to the amount you want to earn with this project in a year. Almost 25 million dollars loss in a single neighborhood if the values drop so much? You file a collection complaint with this? And not just in our neighbourhood, but also in the residential area that is emerging from us in the east and will have even more houses. Even if I'm not 100% against a computer centre in Hamcock County, it's a really bad idea to settle it near residential areas. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Hello, I'm Vanessa Briesendie. I've lived most of my life in Hancock County. For a very long time. And I hate it that we're back here and have to defend ourselves against these computer centers. Nah. In my opinion, and I think many in my age see it that way too, Der große Faktor bei den Rechenzentren und HI ist nicht gut für uns. Rechenzentren sind nicht gut für uns? Die Dame, die hier als erste sprach, hatte keine Zeit mehr und dürfte nicht zu Ende reden. Wir haben diskutiert, ob sich unser County Gedanken darüber gemacht hat. Was passiert, wenn eines dieser Rechenzentren Feuer fängt, was sehr wahrscheinlich ist? Was sehr wahrscheinlich ist? Do our fire departments have the resources to pay for the cleaning and to handle this brand? I have read that they are dangerous. If one of these computer centers is on fire, then right. It's hard to delete. Haben unsere Feuerwehren überhaupt die nötigen Fähigkeiten? Haben wir an die Sicherheit gedacht, besonders in der Nähe von Wohngebieten? Ich arbeite bei Tuttles und mir ist klar, dass das für Sie schrecklich ist. Und Sie müssen bedenken, dass Tuttles ein großes Kapital für Hancock County ist. Beschädigen Sie sie nicht, indem Sie hier Rechenzentren zulassen. Sie sind einfach nichts Gutes für unser County. And as the lady just said, let's think about the things that are good for our county. Let's get these things here, not the bad ones. We don't need a data center. We really don't need a data center. And what you promise does not cover the damage that will arise if you carefully consider everything and really think thoroughly about it. It's not worth the costs. It's not worth it. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
My name is William Edward Bridges Jr., but everyone calls me Bill. I could spend a lot of time sharing information and knowledge with you. It sounds as if you had also started your research in a certain way. You have explained that toxic waste is brought to another district or another place. But the problem is that it is still poisonous.
I don't know. Sorry. No, you're right. I don't know if you're actually right, but don't let my time take over.
What happened to this lady here?
The point is that we can come back and every developer, we can do it again in one year, in five years, in ten years.
And there are always promises like the technological progress that this and that makes it cleaner, a closed cycle and so on and so on. But the reality is that we are not that far yet. Environmentally, we are still not that far away from the effects on the inhabitants. The ratio of negative to positive costs is simply not true, simply not true. And maybe my ignorance is present. I think in a naive way. That they represent us will be the weave. And it's very easy, we support that. They are supposed to reflect our thoughts, our opinions, our wishes. And this is a clear no. We can come back to it when the technologies are available and you can retrofit every single data center to prove that it works. Until then, thank you very much. Thanks.
Hello, my name is Britney Spencer. I live in Britney Spencer. I live in Huntington Heights and my husband is the vice chairman of the union and fireman in the Buck Creek Township. And of course I worry about the environment, but I also worry a lot about my husband and the other firefighters. Because there are not enough firefighters to help with what we have in the Buck Creek Township. Die Feuerwehrleute haben nicht genug Luft in ihren Tanks, um bis zur Mitte des Amazon-Gebäudes, das wir derzeit haben, oder des Walmart-Gebäudes zu gelangen, bevor ihre Luft ausgeht. So we have all these huge buildings that you can't even supply at the moment if a catastrophe occurs. You are constantly called to all these huge buildings that don't pay taxes. Why do we still have to get these things in the Buck Creek Township? That doesn't make any sense to me. We get $750,000 a year from Hancock County. That's all we get. And we still don't have enough staff for catastrophes in our existing buildings. And you want to build a computer center for which we will have 12 people. That's still not enough. Do you remember what happened in Plainfield? Plainfield was sued when it all happened to you and your catastrophe at the fire department. Plainfield was sued. Just like Walmart sued Plainfield. These are huge things we really have to think about. And as citizens, we don't have enough money out there and we don't get enough money with our growth. Because all the people who work there don't come from Hancock County, they come from everywhere. So they don't bring us jobs, because there are maybe 30 employees in these computer centers. And most of them are from foreign companies that spend most of their work because they only need a few people in the computer center. That's the whole thing with AI. It doesn't need people. It only needs AI. The AI has already broken out of its own system. We are moving too fast with the AI and I hope that Hancock County will continue to remain a more humane agricultural area. Instead of trying to keep up with all this, money is not everything. We can't eat money, you know, we can have all this money, but if we don't have any land and no land to build things on, we're screwed. We're screwed. So thank you anyway. Hello, this is Julie Saddam from Buck Creek Township. You know me from the Citizens Committee for Computer Centers. I just have one thing to say. We never finished our work. I thought our task would be to create the rulebook that shows all concerns and requirements that each planned computer center would have to meet. We never finished that. That's all I have to say.
Thank you. Hello, good morning. I'm Christopher Nutter. I come from Woodhaven, about half a mile from the planned location. We are here with our seven-month-old son, in case you haven't heard of him yet. We heard of him.
I read the declaration of intent and it stated that there will be no increase in electricity bills because they generate their own electricity.
But if that's true, it's probably like the Tesla Center in Tennessee with mobile gas turbines that constantly emit pollutants and chemicals only half a kilometer away from his home where he grows up and is only seven months old. I read something about a mobile nuclear reactor, but I don't think this technology exists. And that would bring its own problems because of the nuclear waste and wastewater. Do you have an idea of what you want to build there? The letter states that you have commissioned it at W. Bash Valley. And that doesn't mean I mean. You will have generators, have. You will have to have generators. I mean, according to our research, there will be a generator that will be tested from time to time in case of emergency. But hopefully you never need it. But we'll see, because that's just the first step. As I said, this is just to make sure we can talk to you. Danke. Danke. Danke.
Guten Morgen.
Guten Morgen.
Wie geht es euch heute? Ich bin Alicia. Ich lebe jetzt seit etwa fünf Jahren im Hancock County. Ich liebe es hier. Ich bin wegen der besseren Schulen und der besseren Gemeinschaft hergezogen, weil ihr wirklich das Beste für eure Leute und die Gemeinde wollt. Und die Gemeinde. Ich hoffe also, dass das immer noch gilt und ich nicht meine ganze Familie entwurzelt und eine weite Strecke hierher gezogen bin, nur um einen Schlag ins Gesicht zu bekommen. Es gibt ein altes Sprechwort, pinkel mir nicht ans Bein und erzähl mir, es regnet. And I hope that the computer centers are not like that. That it's all just, maybe it's just precautionary measures. I just hope that we don't get the result that many other people get. There are increasing bills and there are environmental impacts. I have two children. My daughter is 15 and my son is six years old and he is the future, just like this wonderful baby over there. I hope you also think about their future, because Wir wollten das in der Vergangenheit nicht. Wir wollen es in der Gegenwart nicht. Und wir werden es auch in der Zukunft nicht wollen. Meine Tochter hat schon gesagt, sie käme um 17.30 Uhr. Vielleicht ist sie also heute Abend hier. Ich hoffe, sie kann ihre Meinung dazu auch äußern, dass sie ebenfalls kein Rechenzentrum in ihrer Zukunft will. Und ich hoffe, sie stimmen zu, dass es ihr oder ihrer Gemeinde nicht weiterhilft. Ich möchte nicht in einer Gemeinde bleiben müssen, die sich nicht verbessern will. Deshalb bin ich hergezogen. Ich liebe es hier wirklich. Also vielen Dank für Ihre Zeit und einen schönen Tag noch.
I am Denise Wuhl and I live in 4049 West 300 North. So I live directly opposite the airport. There is only one cornfield that separates us from it. So we have been there for 30 years. There have been many changes and now a Shell Shell gas station is to be built directly opposite. We have the Walmart buildings, the airport, schools, Amazon. I mean, there are so many things squeezed into this small area that only one bad incident would be necessary to chase everything into the air. And they have so many things directly with each other there. And we just have to take a step back. We don't need a computer center here. You know, it just looks like a terrible place for it. And if we already have one in this county, I know Governor Braun really wants to push it forward. Vielleicht einfach nicht direkt neben Leuten, vielen Tankstellen und einem Flughafen, der auch noch wachsen wird. Ich hoffe nur, dass Sie die Menschen berücksichtigen, denn ich glaube, vieles davon ist wahrscheinlich leicht fertig geplant. Vielen Dank für Ihre Zeit.
Hallo, mein Name ist Rhonda McDaniel. Ich lebe seit 64 Jahren hier. Ich habe ein wenig recherchiert und herausgefunden, dass 530 Gemeinden in den USA, nein, zu Rechenzentren gesagt haben, I've heard that two counties, Marshall and Cass, I think, are revoking computer centers. That's why we can't be one of those counties that just say no, pass a bill, no computer centers, and then we don't have to re-roll it over and over again. Because they know our opinion. They know what the community thinks. You know all the bad things that can happen. I remember the LKW brand on the 70th. Was that the beginning of this year? Maybe last year, all the communities that you had to attract just to delete batteries, who were on a truck in the back. I mean, Hancock couldn't handle it. You had to get firemen everywhere. So I don't know, it's not a win for the community. There is absolutely nothing good about it. And I think we should just say no to everyone categorically. Thank you.
Thank you.
Good morning, Commissar. Um, Kylie Blairlock, I'm from Jackson Township. Uh, Gary, you cut it short. This is the very first step. Um, and just for transparency, so that the public gets a sense of what is coming from now, the many opportunities that people may see in the newspaper, to get in touch and talk. Then, if you could explain a little bit what it will look like in the future. If you know these steps.
There will be permits, there will be public meetings, there will be... I mean, if we take this path, there will be many ways to express ourselves.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Can I come back?
If everyone else had the opportunity to speak... Good morning. My name is Christine Schäfer and I live in Sunset Manor. And I haven't read the declaration of intent, but I can't imagine that the promises you made there... Excuse me. I just don't have a word for it. Because Corporate America is for Corporate America. They want to come here, where there is a lot of free space, and build their big computer centers. And weren't some of the warehouses that were built here already broken promises? Someone is going to make a lot of money and that's just not going to be us.
Good morning.
Commissar. Good morning.
My name is Eddie Hager. I'm a resident of Marion County, but I live right behind the border. But the reason I'm here today is that a very good friend of mine lives half a mile north of the computer center and my nephew lives with his three children one mile east of the computer center. But I'm also here to ring the alarm bells. This is my 11th fight against computer centers. Three are in my district. Two of them are now in court. One will probably be rejected by the environmental compatibility test. And in view of Hancock County alarm strikes and the two fights that I have previously observed, then it is about the technical aspect. Um, Hancock County has neither the means nor the technology to implement guidelines to protect the people here and to protect the district. Um, the computer centers will come to you. They will fight with their hands and feet. Uh, they have ruined New Carlisle before court. What? They can't go once more. New Carlisle can't go once more before court because of the lawsuit against the computer center bankruptcy. Das Rechenzentrum in New Carlisle hat seine Steuern für 2025 eingereicht und erhielt einen Steuerabzug von 611 Millionen Dollar in New Carlisle. 611 Millionen Dollar. Dieses hier ist fast doppelt so groß wie das in New Carlisle. Das ist die Art von Steuern, die jedes andere Unternehmen in diesem Landkreis im Vergleich zu einem Rechenzentrum. zahlen muss, die sollten Sie auch zahlen, die sollten Sie auch zahlen. Sie sollten die gleichen Steuern zahlen wie jeder hier, jeder dort drüben und sogar Sie selbst. Sie zahlen Steuern auf Ihr Gehalt vom Landkreis, nicht wahr? Dann sollte auch das Rechenzentrum die gleichen Steuern zahlen. Wenn ein großes Rechenzentrum wie dieses entsteht, sind Sie nicht zu Ihrem Vorteil hier, hier. Sie sind nicht zum Vorteil dieses Landkreises hier. Sie sind zum Vorteil des amerikanischen Großkapitals hier. New Carlisle is an example. We don't even have to look for an example. Therefore, I would like to encourage you... I appreciate that you listen to the public. I appreciate that you offer the opportunity and are more transparent. Well, I'll say ten of the fights we had were by far not as transparent as they were before. Therefore, I would like to encourage you to continue to be transparent and open to the public and to listen to the residents. Thank you.
Sir, could you please write down your name and address?
I'll ask that too.
That would also have been one of my questions. I can understand that it can be very cringy if everyone who comes forward is against it. Is there anyone here who actually supports this, except you?
My question is... No decisions have been made yet. You are, you are, you are, you are...
Completely right if I am poorly informed, absolutely, I admit that. There was a young lady, I don't remember her name, she came forward and asked, uh, what do the next steps look like? And again, I admit my ignorance. But my question is, and if you answer this question, please add, if you have a room full of voters who are against it, why doesn't that die now?
Why turn up time to get back to it? Because there are probably thousands of 89,000 people in this district. We are here for everyone, not just for this room. So we have to consider all of this. So, no, no decision has been made yet. There are other meetings, there are other public hearings and all sorts of things. So I don't even know the end yet. So we just started this process. At the moment, you have a room full of individual voters who are against it, and everyone has valid reasons and plenty of data. But the problem is to get caught up in data that repeats the same thing. It doesn't make sense.
Thank you.
Thank you.
What benefit does it have to have a computer center? Could you actually give us some idea what we...
We don't know yet what advantages there are. We have to deal with the fine details and see what will be presented. Because that's the big thing.
We don't see any benefit in it. That's not good. No benefit for anyone. In the past, in the present, we wanted it that way. We don't want it now. We wanted it then.
You said that. Yes.
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. If you just say the same thing again.
And that will make you angry, but it is what it is. Did you sign a confidentiality agreement?
Will you sign one? Thank you. What kind of incentives are there for people?
I couldn't hear you. What incentives do you offer so that you can come?
Can you speak into the microphone?
What incentives do you offer so that you can come to Hancock County?
As I said, we have the opportunity to talk to you.
Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Amanda Griff. Is there an overview for those who are not very familiar with the processes of the meetings and timetables somewhere in the resources of the district council, when a project is proposed? Is there such a kind of meeting and then there is such a flow diagram?
The planning department oversees this process and there is a procedure for every step. Per Verordnung. Ja, das ist per Verordnung geregelt.
Wenn ich mir das also gestern angesehen hätte, müssten wir dem folgen. Wenn ich ein Flussdiagramm zusammenstellen würde, basierte das auf dem Ablauf der Verordnung. Backnung. Falls ich etwas erstellen würde, das die Öffentlichkeit einsehen kann. Verordnungsablauf. Danke.
Danke.
Und Sie können mit Kayla Amanda zusammenarbeiten, um... Guten Morgen.
Hallo. Nun, ich fühle mich wie ein... I'm a scientist and my opinions are based on facts. I have a lot of unconfirmed. Facts belong to people. does the participating company have to research to see what the intent explanations of earlier companies or earlier intent explanations, which you have built up before, look like, how much you promised, in the areas in which they made promises, how much they kept them. That's something I'd like to know. So I'm not against the construction of a computer center. But in fact, when I read what I've read so far, I'm not against it, because to They only ask for a third of the property of the earlier computer center request. And I like the idea that it is more environmentally friendly. I think we have to remain unambiguous about how this will continue. And as you said, we are only at the beginning of the process. I think in the long run we will learn much more about what is going on here and then the environmental studies and the like will show how big the effects will be. I just wanted to let you know that.
Danke.
Entschuldigung.
Ich bin Janino.
Danke.
Guten Morgen.
Guten Morgen. Mein Name ist Theresa Holland und ich komme aus Greenfield. Ich hätte nur einen Klärungspunkt. Ich würde Ihnen gerne eine Frage stellen, da ich noch viel über verschiedene Dinge lerne. First of all, I would like to praise you for having spent the tax relief for the two companies that were reported on Friday for a year. My question is, The following EQT Real Estate. I probably don't know enough about them. But I have seen that they are the ones who want to build the computer center, in a way as a potential computer center, but with this Swedish company that wants to move in there. Back to those who I think correct me if I'm wrong. My question is this. Is the company EQT Real Estate also involved in one of the warehouses where you have just issued the tax relief for a year? Because I mean to have read that in the same article, actually on the same day as the other two. So I would like to know, my question is, if you the warehouse that you built speculatively, could not be filled. Why should we then trust you to find someone definitive for the construction of a computer center? Thank you.
Thank you.
Does any of you have a question? I mean answer.
The district council actually approves or leases tax easing.
We would like to get along with it, but unfortunately we can't.
So we are not involved in this process.
Well, but it is still part of the facts about who is behind the computer center. And I think it would be important to know the actors, all actors, before it is approved.
I don't know if any warehouses in the area belong to him. I hear from EQT for the first time.
Well, maybe look for the articles in the Freitagszeitung, because they were both there. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you George. Thank you.
He's always here. George Langston, Greenfield, Indiana. I want to come back to something that I mentioned last time when I was standing in front of you, because in the last week or two, and only recently, new information came out. A police officer from Indianapolis says, because of illegal use of the VLOG cameras before dismissal. Okay, that doesn't mean that our office does that. Okay, the second thing that has come up in the last few days is that the manufacturer of VLOG recommends the authorities to save the duration of the photos taken on 7 instead of ...to limit it to 30 days.
You mean the storage list?
Seven days of storage instead of 30. Thanks, George.
And... I lost the thread. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
They're nervous. I know.
Um, can not demand that you, I should say, switch to seven days. That's just a recommendation. But you and the district council are the ones who make the decisions about the regulation that regulates the vlog cameras. And I've been saying for a long time that it's a growing, uh, movement in the whole country that wants to get rid of the vlog cameras because others in other states and judges have classified them as unconstitutional because they are a method for surveillance and you are never safe as long as you drive because the vehicle is captured by these cameras and the last thing I would like to address that came out recently and that you can find on youtube because Several hackers have explained on YouTube that they hacked 80,000 vlog cameras. And now it's in the hands of the hackers and so on. So it's up to you. I'm just trying to keep you up to date. And if you want me to research the actual pages so that I can send you this information, I'll go back in my course and look for it for you. Just let me know. Thanks. Just like the ones I sent you earlier.
Thank you. You're welcome. Should I sign my name? We don't discriminate, George. We don't discriminate. By the way, I agree with what these people are saying. No one else? Then we have a request to make.
A request for a meeting.
A request for support for the meeting. Everyone who is in favor, please say yes.
Many thanks to everyone.
Thank you for coming.
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