Area Plan Apc / Bza - Regular Meeting

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This is September 11th, 1.6.

will provide an agenda as well uh the first item on that in the other than the common order is the approval of the last meeting of minutes that they made with the class of union uh and those comments were provided by the meeting uh uh And so, any questions or discussion about those topics? I'll tell you to say aye. Aye. I'm fond of your advice, so it's both of you. The next item is the juvenile grant. We have Jeremiah here to talk about that.

Okay. Never read me a list. Okay. So just some updates on the juvenile grant. Employees currently working with one adult client, kind of like a youthful offender program. They're working to see client, seeing client overcome a barrier such as receiving license back, getting employment, working off her GDP, passing drug screens. They meet with her weekly. Currently, there are two youth in Y-Tri, four in Voices at Greensburg Junior High, South Dakota High School in Greensburg. Our employees partnered with New Directions. It's at the first roundtable conversation on domestic violence in the JAG class of Sweden for high school. Students stated that it is very needed. It needs to be talked about. It's not talked about enough for high schoolers. New numbers state that one in three high school age females will become a victim of dating violence, while the new numbers state that one in six high school males will become a victim of dating violence. They have worked with CIT to bring TBRI training to our community, which is October 7th in May. This is a great benefit for that. Our employees also submitted an application to become a TBRI practitioner so that she can then offer it to the community. They're actively working on incentive policy for court services. And they did apply for a grant through the Community Foundation, which they received. And she currently runs the adult MRT class. And that is going very well.

1,000. I also was told that people could actually redo the grant.

Yes. Yes, January 1. first uh is when we will be able to work to apply for that it's my understanding for the remaining 15 000 for crazy salary it's going to still benefit 100 percent i would just make a comment i deal with the gmail and i have a lot of positive feedback from my gmail clients um

For an example, I had one the other day, we were trying to talk about encouraging her to agree to an informal adjustment, and there was some confusion, and then we talked about that we need to do programming from probation, and she said, oh, you mean like with Gracie? And I said, yes, exactly. And she said, oh, well then, okay. Maybe that's what caused her to be willing to agree to self-service if she likes Gracie. That's huge. So, that's, you know, I think Can't say nothing about you.

And I've heard from our officers, they feel like more supportive than after to go to get you out from, but actually not making software. Very good to hear. Thank you both. It's in the bill line.

They haven't come out yet, but as soon as they do, I'll email that it's everybody like I have the past and then I'll send it to the state. Let's do.

from any old business, any business, your experience, focus, with us, the other day, as I was listening to the commissioners on both the audit funds, and the other day, that's the other setting that I have, that basically goes, we stand on everything, We have several applications to go over. The first one to come up on the agenda is Foundations for Recovery. Louie is here on the map of the foundations. Mr. Louie, would you like to summarize what it is that you are requesting? Do you have any questions about that?

So Foundations for Recovery, you don't know about the whole human recovery list.

We have two houses over on Moscow Road. They are halfway houses, sober living houses. We don't have a program as we speak right now. There's no time limit for them either. We're seeing a couple of gaps in our community. One of the gaps that we're seeing is transitional living after they're done with us because Sometimes they get, you know, say nine months to a year of being in their house.

And they're ready to move forward, but they're not necessarily ready to move out. You know, I mean, one thing, unfortunately, a lot of people have known.

In recovery, it works some bridges. So when it comes to trying to find housing to live in, You know, they have conventions, they don't have people to help them out, that kind of thing. You know, it kind of makes it difficult for them to continue moving forward. And so the thing that I see is that plus, you know, a programming house as well. But I think that the easiest thing for us right now would be a three-quarter house. A three-quarter house is a step down, a transition, down from what we have now, and they would have a little bit less oversight, and they would have a little bit less requirements. Right now, we require them to go to IOP, household disorders. The program fees that they pay now to us, that includes housing, that includes spring loans for the day, and transportation from work and from meetings. So if this transition living house, then we'll have to go to still be required to go to meetings, three meetings instead of five meetings. But the fees they pay us, that won't pay for food, that won't pay for transportation. So one of the things we're taking care of now is transportation barriers, once and for all. trying to get them to overcome those barriers if they were able to overcome them. Every now and then we get somebody to stay away from suspension. There's not much we can do about that. They have to hire a board to figure it out, but we've been guiding them during the month of August on other things, and help them get their license reinstated, help them to guide them to be able to secure a vehicle, and help them with budgeting so that we're supposed to thank them. When we opened this house down there, We'll be adding 12 more beds to work with me. I understand it's not increased, but are you saying yes to it? But if that transportation barrier is already being a limit to some of the reports that there needs to be on there, is there going to have to be a lot of the transportation? If somebody had a scooter and they wanted to ride through the country, that would be rely on transportation. So I'm not going to say they have to have a license, but preferably have a license. Preferably have the vehicle. And they're already going to have nine months to a year of sobriety underneath your bill. So they're already going to have a job. One of the requirements is they'll have to have a job. So nobody from the street or from jail or prison would be coming out and going straight to there. They would have to go to a program somewhere where they would be able to transition. But we're wanting to add 12 minutes to Westport. With that being said, Jeff Moore, he came with me. He's the pastor of Westport Westland Church, which is, they just built a new church out on West Main Street. They actually changed the name of the new church to connect on the main. It's still a Westland ministry of the Westland Church. You know, they changed the name of it. And they've got their 407. They have their old building at 407 Bennett Street there in Westport, if you know where it is. It's right across the street from the funeral. And, uh, After sitting down with them and brainstorming about a year ago, we decided to move forward with this project. And we remodeled, instead of, in a lot of old church buildings, you see them sitting around a, I have a house over on Sheridan Street, the old Bible Covenant Church right there, down north of the Dixon Dance Studio. It's getting turned into a little part of Australia, but it's set in B. For many, many, many years, you know, unfortunately, that's what happens with a lot of turf. They said, so instead of the turf setting empty. Right in the middle of a question order, he decided to before this project. Remodeling to add. Since you guys are for planning. On the screen with 30, so there's already 4 rooms that are there. three of the rooms we have to move the walls to be compliant with the fire code because of egress. And we just have to move them the distance of all the way and then add five more rooms and five more bedrooms into the house. You know, these guys, once it's up and running, it'll look a little bit different than it does when people are moving into the house because we're going to have to fill the house all the time. You know, the three of the rooms will be two-man rooms. and the rest of the rooms will be single man rooms there'll be a live-in house manager that basically have the efficiency size apartment inside there and the way to look once it's up in operation on the three rooms that are uh two main rooms that'll be drums people moved into it first and then that way something goes out they can very transition into one single bankers But they'll be responsible for their transportation. They'll be responsible for getting to work. And they'll still have house chores. They'll still be required to pass drug screenings. They'll still be required to submit to random searches, whether it's a person or their property, or if they'll be required to take care of them, food. They'll have to provide their own food there. Like I said, it'll be a nice smooth transition before they're ready to move out into it. We'll be able to give them a rental reference as well if they are able to stay for a year. We'll be able to give them a rental reference, which will really help overcome that other barrier from bridges that may have burned, whether it's evasions or whatever it may be. If they stay for a year there and they're with us for a year now, there's two years of continued working solid program recovery. You know, because we wouldn't let just anybody out of the house move up there. We're going to have to meet certain requirements showing these are working solid program recovery. And, you know, we wouldn't have this to just people from foundations. No, as long as they'll work in a program, like, for the argument.

And move it to the place. That was probably a lot all at once.

That was the 30,000. For view of it, if I can touch on something that I was reading in the minutes from the last week. About some concerns that I read in here because I know you guys are going to ask me. All right, so it says judge vaguely mentioned there were concerns about the location with regard to transportation. And then a minimal amount of close employment. I think that answered those questions. Hopefully, because they will already be. You know, when they're 15 minutes from here and they're 15 minutes from. Most of them would probably already be working here, but they decided to go down to North Florida. I mean, they would have to do that after they went there. And then it said Brian was talking about the recovered works funding. So when I took over foundations back in May of 2014, and I just want to be transparent with you guys. So I want your guys to support. 30,000 foot view. I'll get into a bunch of the details. When I took over foundations, it looked pretty on the outside. And when I took over, we were in the red. And not only were we in the red, foundation, or not foundation, Recovery Works was going through that transition back in 24, in March of 24. They changed up how Recovery Works was operating again, how much funding was coming facilities. So foundations funding was cut to $22 a day. And not only was foundations funding cut to $22 a day, from August to October, I went 88 days. I filed vouchers every week by Thursday for the funding. I went 88 days without getting an ACH deposit. We were in the red. It was, this was handed to me and it was like, okay, I can either shut the doors or I can change how we heard the funding. So we stepped away from the recovery doors. And October 3rd, when that deposit came in, it was somewhere between October and December, we made the decision to say, okay, we're not going to accept the recovery. Us, things changed because we could not afford Over three quarters of the residents in the house, we were getting the recovery works funding from. We have three quarters of 16 people, so that's 12. When you have 12 people that are on the recovery works and that's where you're relying on the funding from, unfortunately, we decided at that time to step away from the recovery works. For the last month and a half, two months, We have been working on getting pre-certified recovery groups.

I know a lot of them know Amy Hicks.

She is, not as we speak, she's actually at the REC program down in Morton County right now. But as we speak, she's physically been working on getting us pre-certified with recovery groups. We're hoping, they told us about 90 days. Within 90 days, once she had contacted them. So we're hoping that sometime within the next two months or so, that would be our certified recovery works. The recovery works won't affect the program in Westport. It will affect the program. Because recovery works, once somebody is enrolled in the recovery works, you're only going to get funding from them for nine months. They're enrolled for a year. The last three months is just kind of like a supervision. They're going to collect the data as they test it. But those first nine months, that's where they're getting their funding. paper program fees act so that will already be used up whether it's at uh what it was used here at foundations or at the art or whatever they would say now if they we're going to get that place uh certified for the government well we're not just going to get the depater county um certified because there might be somebody that um comes in from another recovered place someone that uh has never used the code since they've never used their government so they're going to be eligible But I would say in the upper 90% of the people . So, once again, hopefully in the next two months or so, we will have that standard, because we're going to start .

So recovery works would continue, though, when you shut it down. Foundations would have more funds available to potentially help the Westport housing seller. Why not?

because I am the only employee through Foundations, and at $22 a day, that wasn't paying all bills. It was just not where we were at then. If it was paying all bills now, it wouldn't pay my bill. My first two years that I was at Foundations, the first year I was there, I made $18,000. Last year, I made a little over $15,000. We're in the black down. And with what we're charging, we charge $30 a day, which is what Recovered Works is now paying, is $30 a day. And when I took foundations over, that was the only stream of foundations. Other than the Williamsburg Christian Church would send us a check once a month. Mike, do you know what the percentage is of that? They take it once a month. They take a percentage of their tithes for that Sunday, and it's like 10 or 15% somewhere in there. And they send it to us. It's on average between $350 and $450. So it's nice that we're getting that, but that wasn't changing anything since then. We have brought in community partners, and we have businesses supporting us financially on a monthly basis, and we also have charges for the park and the city.

So now we have, I'll let you know where our balance is, right? Our balance is different though. I mean, basically, of course. Our balance is $11,615.57. So we're asking for $60,000 for the presentation. If you're buying that, we're going to be paying for a house that you guys don't know.

And I think probably I'll ask the pastor, but I just want to give you a little bit of insight, but we took that old building. I've got 27 years of doing this, but. I've done this a long time. I've got about 30 people right now. That's the recovery. So, if you say, you know, line, well, there's a group of people here. 30, 30 other people have come out of recovery that now have to hold their farm. So, we got to bring all those people together in one place to just start doing a little bit different. So, we started praying and saying, what are we going to do with this little building? And this idea of a three-quarter house, because we've got several halfway houses, and that relationships with all those people, both in Jennings County and in the areas. Like, if you mention my name, they're going to know. I am saying, as I've talked to many of those halfway house people, that there's a lot of good places to send them after them. And many, many people, that's where they relapse in that transitionary period of time. So why Westport? I've said that there's a church down there that would have those people on their part. Like, this is relationships there. Like, we're doing that every Sunday. We actually have a connect person on Sunday nights that need for those purposes. So we're doing that. I must say, if I was on this board, one of the things I would question is what about systemic bill is implemented? Because it's one thing to give them $60,000 to be able to build a program, but next year, how does that work? And Crystal's not doing a real good job of telling me how that has built, but I've watched him for two years. He has built relationships through their dinner. Hundreds of people have been there. But another thing that you're not saying is if there's like churches around them, we've just invested a million dollars in support for those three years. So, we believe what's going on here, we wouldn't invest a million dollars in this year.

That might need to be a little bit more of an understanding of the relationship between these.

Any questions? I was entertaining motion. Except I on a hybrid moment.

Emotion.

Sorry, I think I'm making questions. What's all our member meeting and helps achieve that recovery works? um certification by the division a couple of months um we were required to involve the other house and i know when you and i spoke about the phone i said that was like almost a month um i think i think that would be my motion and the table and so we could see that certification we've required that at the other offices i have a problem renovating a building you guys don't know because if it doesn't work right it will

then we've renovated a building that doesn't benefit the foundation or something. So that's me. And I'm not a part of that. Even though they do have one church, at least.

So the church owns the house? Correct. So they can leave the house for a couple of weeks. Right.

okay and that helps that helps i just it's not an individual that knows and i'm just refreshing my memory on for exactly what the grant said so um self-sustainability wise for this the church is going to credit us on our dream towards um renovation costs right

So our board, we're in the process right now also of founding the property to secure. We're starting to see some other grant funding right now for this other house. And we're going to find a way to, one way or the other, we're going to make this forward. We are going to build a World Bank austerity care account here in Greensboro, here within city. And so we're in the process of pursuing that now. So this right here won't just help foundations as we know it now. It won't just help foundations as we know it in Westport, but it will also help us to be able to, sustainability-wise, to continue to pursue and open up a project house here in Greenfield. And then we'll have a program house. We'll have a halfway house. We'll also have a third quarter house. We'll be filling for . So it's going to help out. And if this gets approved, this will help out in different ways. And it will help them in not just the area of Decatur County, but here in Central Indiana and possibly .

Another option.

This is a bit of a correction.

So, 1,500 all in the months. So, we have a call this a payment, a prepayment of rent for the attorneys and direct money to do the renovations itself. The same thing, but the. Going on the fields. You can pay the rent, pay the list. Certify. And you can be paid a second basis. Church, so that's another reason to stop here because we, we would really need the 60,000 dollars to know what. I've already worked with the condition.

You've already got all the zone that we've already got all the money. It's actually actually paid for all of that. Which is separate. I've all done our detection with all time. So. We are, we're, we're ready to move forward. We are not going to second. Processing. So, my understanding is, I mean, what you guys can do. But I would like to at least have some direction and doesn't happen. You know, if we come back here in December, we'll be looking at March. That's, um.

motion that they would be able to give foundations time and if so by themselves we've got pre-work that you go to an income stream of development there are a second to that i'll send a second further questions or discussions about that somehow we're going home People wanting better application for the December meeting say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Opposed, nary. So it's not a no. I would be strong, maybe. Again, this is what we require. This is what we are requiring that we have a competitive income stream. We may need your gesture to call or pay repayment or grant. Same thing. If I had somebody willing to help us move forward today, finance-wise, .

That's why I'm asking. Like a person? Yeah. Just because, you never know what happens in life.

I think state court accounts would need to check.

I feel like that would be a development.

Financial institution.

Yeah, financial institutions.

Financial institution.

That's a possibility. Yeah. If I agree with you, I'll take it. State government taxes are frowned upon personally. Yeah. Okay. And then ultimately commissioners have to decide on that and I can't see them doing it. On a personal level.

No, but on the financial institution. On his mortgage from him.

Him's financial institution.

That's what we are all complaining about. Of the mortgage or the owner of the mortgage. So that would be fine.

But it didn't work a certain way. That's why I'm asking that, like we said, we are ready to, we're ready to move forward. And we want to move forward. So, okay. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Have a good time.

The next item is the application of micro services and is most disciplined at our executive session. The application there was out of concern that the second person will talk about Gracie's salary will not be able to provide the council with the advice that's going to happen. So is there a motion pertaining to that request? Anyone want to table this? They can deny it if it's current federal.

Something would happen if it's reapplied. If it was tabled, then they're going to say, well, I'll reapply.

I will say that. I wrote. Like, these little settings about that. I felt like my sense was that can also use. So, all day that we have no instance, they're not. I have said the bodies from the areas.

Yes, thanks for coming. Thank you.

I think this is, I am assuming these are devices that have energy through them. Yeah, so they probably come out of the straight. Funds that wonder they're asking for the basis. Um, oh, uh. Open map for the prices and I think savings on blind. Certainly that you've got the bill. I mean, I assume these are experimental things that no one's ever tried. So, uh, they're widely used. That being said, I think. Um, any questions, any questions or discussion about, um, this approval motion? All right. Uh, and something like 1, so, uh, no, she cares. That is that we would take that now to the issue. Okay, perfect. Okay, thank you very much.

Yes, thank you. You have a great day. Thank you too. So.

So the last item was. Applications on behalf of the members of the church, and we had a discussion, I think we had said at the session, about the damage. Sorry, I think the court was looking to find someone non-specific. I think it was broken down in the name of the church expenses and salaries and things of that nature. less on the actual . The question was, if we were to approve this, why would the public deny the next search for this agent from Mumbai and where would we stand? Everybody knows something and . Second. So I've been emotionally a little second by having a few questions or discussions about that.

And just so you guys know, I volunteered to do that for about a minute, but I'm still listening. Sure. I don't financially. There's no financial incentive.

I'm sure you make your message. Thank you. Motion and a second. We've had a discussion. All in favor of the motion to deny, say aye. Everyone but Jennifer. I believe in variance. That is everything we have. So I will be going to the commissioners next meeting at the hospitals, grant table, foundations, and deny more services in the church. We have a pending grant through the ARC. I think that was $80,000. It was contingent upon the ARC certifying starting to receive recovery and responding. Same thing we talked about, foundation from year to day. That was in March. We are six months later and they have not satisfied the contingency. The discussion and executive session was how much longer do we wait. We asked the commissioners to, for a set amount of time, we asked the commissioners to rescind the award, but to reapply when they are receiving the credit. That is, I guess, what's on the table here. I would make a motion that we ask the commissioners to rescind the offer that they can reapply. It's a motion by Mark, seconded by Bill. Mike, excuse me. Seconded by Bill. Any questions or discussions about that? I would be upset. I'm glad he is abstaining from the vote. And again, we're not saying that we want to reconsider, but I don't know how long we have to tie the funds up. And we're not going to even know where we stand on our names. So I motion and second. All in favor say aye. Aye. I think it was everyone but me. I don't think I've heard anyone opposed. So that motion carries. So I will be taking that to the commissioners. Softly recommending that they rescind it. But they'll be applying when they are actually receiving the appropriate correspondence. That they will take care of that. Next item is 256 meeting, the next meeting, last meeting of the year will be December 4th. 12 to 30, we'll be talking about that meeting with all of them, the impressions. You may be faced with that with other systems. We don't say it here, but I'm going to try and ask. Motion to adjourn. The motion is there a second?

Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Thanks, guys and ladies.