Boc - Regular Meeting

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Yeah.

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all right well next we have nikita mr tidd and brooke are you coming up to it now good evening good evening um actually we have two things um on the agenda uh tonight for your consideration as far as appropriation goes The first one deals with the fire alarm, Hanger 200 fire alarm system out at Grissom. I'm trying to remember back. I want to say it was probably late 2024, early 2025. Corey's office was contacted by the Department of Homeland Security. They had done a walkthrough inspection out at Hanger 200, and based on their inspection, they felt that there wasn't adequate number of pull boxes or the alarm system needed some upgrades at that time. So they contacted Corey. Corey reached out to us and we sat down and had some initial meetings with the Department of Homeland Security. I think in some of those initial meetings, I think Sandy was a part of it. I think maybe Brad, you sat in and I know Mark France sat in and I think Commissioner Musselman. I think set in on some of those early discussions. So we kind of got together and started working with a consulting agency to kind of do a design to upgrade those alarm system improvements. We hired CHA to work through the Department of Homeland Security and Corey's office to design and meet what the Department of Homeland Security was suggesting. So we spent, Nikita spent about $66,000 on that process to have designs finalized and submitted to the Department of Homeland Security for their concurrence. At the same time, we work with CORSEN to get an estimate. And what we're talking about is putting additional pool boxes at various locations throughout the hangar. The other thing is a audible alarm and a visual alarm that actually activates inside the base. And then also the other thing was to make sure that if that alarm is pulled, that it makes an announcement to the 911 center, which the previous alarm system didn't do. So working with CHA and Horzen, we came up with the proposal for $100,000 to do those improvements to the system. We did come before the council right about budget year. Last year was on a spreadsheet. At the time, we didn't know exactly what the number was going to be or whether or not the Department of Homeland Security was going to accept what we had tried to so we're here tonight asking the council for consideration um of a hundred thousand dollars i think you have a tied out seeded fund um which would go towards those the completion of those improvements have an answer any questions that the um council may have okay so who So who is in the Hangar 200? I'm sorry, that's Dean Baldwin painting. So it's their painting operation. They've been there for 11 years. Again, they lease the hangar from us, as in a Cato account. So, you know, it's kind of incumbent upon us as the owners of the facility to make sure that the hangar meets certain codes, safety, and those kind of things, which is not really part of the lease.

I don't want to talk to questions. How much a year does Dean Baldwin pay in that lease offhand? I want to say it's...

I'm pretty close. I want to say it's about $500,000. But understand we have debt service to the USDA. service to the usda that still has i'm guessing 17 years left on that service it started out being 7.1 million and it's been paid down to i think just a little bit over uh five million right now i don't have any questions um well now this hundred thousand does it include the

$66,000? No, sir.

We paid that out of pocket to get the design completed and signed off by the Department of Homeland Security. This is just for the installation of those toolboxes, the alarms throughout the hangar, visual and audible, and then the connections of the 911 system. All right.

You want to speak on the why?

Absolutely. Mark Demchik, up from the why to answer any questions that the council may have on this. I'll kind of set the background. This also goes back to a couple of years ago when the state announced the next round of Ready 2.0. The state asked and they made $35 million available for our six county region to submit projects, which we did. We were very successful in Ready 1. We submitted a list of projects in Ready 2. Specifically for Miami County or Ready as a whole, the state was looking for quality of life and quality of place projects, such as the nickel plate crossing housing development that we're doing. And also child care were a couple of major points that they were looking at. We reached out to Mark. Definitely there is a need to expand child care in our community to benefit everybody in the county. Mark at the time went and got an estimate to expand on the west end, I believe, of the existing facility enough to, and I'll let him talk about the specifics of it, But at the time that we put in for, the cost was about 1.5 million. We approached Ready, and that project went in at 1.5. Due to delays with the change in administration and some other things, the announcement of Ready 2.0 was delayed and delayed and delayed. So by that time, we're looking at, well, we're ready. to be made it did came out mark went back to update the budget and that budget jumped to 1.8 million instead of 1.5 we were ready or we were able to go back and get an additional 300 000 of ready funds to meet that 1.8 um well excuse me it came back two million Not 1.8. I wish it was 1.8. Yeah. It came back as 2 million. So it went up the cost by 500,000. We went back to the state. We were able to get an extra 300,000 of ready funds, which made the total ready funds available 1.8 against the $2 million project. We started talking about, is there an opportunity to have a joint partnership between the city and the county to make up that $200,000 difference. So we had initially approached you in the city about $100,000 each to help support this project for improving childcare. Since that time, we were able to go back to Ready because there was another project that fell out from our region and actually get another 100,000 of Ready funds. So right now, the deficit is only, or the shortfall is only 100,000. So instead of asking for 100,000 from the county and 100,000 from the city, we only need 50,000 from the county and 50,000 from the city. The city has already approved that 50,000 batch from its seeded funds. So we had to turn it over to Mark. Mark can explain. what the expansion would include.

So it's total of 4,700 square feet. As Jim said, it's on the west end of our new building, which isn't as new anymore. We've been open four years. We expect to add anywhere from 70 to 90 licensed seats. It really depends on how the inspectors measure all that, where that's going to end. And those are preschool age and school age, which is what we offer right now. I'm happy to answer other questions, and I could talk about the project for longer than I probably should here tonight. But whatever, you know, what other questions you have, I'm happy to answer.

And you have a waiting list right now, so this is going to help.

Yes, and when we first opened the new building, probably six months in, our waiting list was 150 for the current spaces, which we have 101, 103 seats right now. We since have changed our policies so that any new households had to sign up for five days a week instead of just part of the day or part of the week. So that, through attrition, brought our waiting list down to just above 50. It ranges between 30 and 50, depending on the time of year.

Right. So this is definitely a need.

Oh, there's no question at all. That would be five days a week, parents who need five days a week. We think if we can expand this, we'll certainly be able to offer five days a week, but we might be able to offer some more flexible timeframes too once we have the new space.

Are you guys planning on, sorry, are you guys planning on hiring any more individuals with the more kids?

Yeah, so it's going to add three new rooms, so that's probably anywhere from six to eight new staff part-time.

And from an overall leverage standpoint, we're leveraging $1.9 million of state money with only $50,000 each from the city and county. So it's a pretty good return.

So that initial ready was without a local match then, right?

We were able to Actually, some of the things that we have been able to do, like some of the tax abatements and those kind of things that we've done in the past, or some of the other projects like, for example, the pickleball courts or the splash pad or some of those other things we were able to, that could be used as a local match to make up. So up to that point, we didn't have to put any cash into the project. But once we exceeded that 1.8 number, then that's where we have to have the additional 1.9 number. That's what we have to have now.

So this $50,000 is the only really local match part of the local...

In cash. In cash. The other is based on incentives and those kind of things we've done for other properties.

Have you been to the Oak Foundation?

The Healthcare Foundation? This is slightly outside of their mission. This is child care. They're mostly health-oriented. We haven't approached them about this project.

Any more questions?

Great job in what you're doing. Thank you very much.

All right, next on the agenda was Herb. Herb can't make it tonight, so I'm just going to kind of go over what he was going to say. Last meeting, he brought to our attention the backup 911 system that's at EMA is down. They came to test it, and it's broke. So currently, without a backup 911 dispatch area, the kind of issues that we're running into is getting the same system between the Sheriff's Department and EMA to make sure the dispatch can, you know, there's not a different training cycle. There's upgrades. There's a lot going on with that. So moving forward, Motorola will be out this month. Fingers crossed they give us an update. And we have a quote to get it up and running. And we're going to get with Molly at Sheriff's Department. And they get a good backup plan while the time is being. So that is the update on that. Does anybody have any questions on that? So the current backup radio is different from Motorola and it's going to be $245,000 to get that up and running. Um, like I said before, it's just, we wanted something on paper for this meeting. Um, but you know, without getting into, um, I don't want to say we're going to table this case. We're just jumping ahead. But, uh, I think it's more feasible that we look at other options moving forward.

Is one of those vendors paying paid communication?

Yes, I think, I believe so. Anybody else have any questions on that? Sorry, I'm not as good as Herb with that. A little outside my scope. All right, Corey, you're up.

Okay.

Okay, good evening, County Council. I am here tonight just to kind of do a brief overview of 2025 and what we did as a department. This is probably three months late. You actually have seen this before, thank the Commission and BDA, so consider yourselves lucky here. But I did want to bring this snapshot to you as you often, I feel like, get asked to spend money or give money away, but then don't often maybe see the fruits of that. And so that's what I wanted to highlight here. So as we look into this year, I would say that 2025 was pretty much a defining year for our department. It was pretty much a year of measurable progress, but also a year of change. So you guys did approve to add on a full-time position, our code enforcement officer. And then you also have approved in our previous part-time building inspector move full-time as well. So those were pretty substantial asks that we came to you with, and I'm appreciative of you granting those. And so I kind of wanted to show you that piece here. So our office in 2025 did change a ton. And especially in my role, you can see some of the different things here. So I would say that my focus shifted from kind of more of that direct operational involvement, where it's strictly day-to-day issuing permits, kind of things like that, towards more of that building systems, clarifying expectations, and ensuring the department could absorb growth here without losing our stability. So you'll see that on page five and six there. I'm not going to read this all to you, but I just want to hit some of the high points there. So please make sure to take a look at that when you have a chance there. But I would say 2025 for me was the most different that my job has ever been in the last five years. Moving on then, on 7 and 8, you can see some of our development activity over time. So just looking at the permits we issued, violation cases, and unsafe building cases. In the past five years, we averaged roughly, in those three categories, we averaged roughly 430 applications that we've processed. Last year, in 2025, we took a big jump and processed 547 applications. So quite a bit more, over 100 more than what we were our average was in the last four years. So the addition of that person, extracurricular enforcement officer and our building inspector going full time was greatly needed, especially as we absorbed the two mile jurisdiction from city of Peru, Bunker Hill, town of Bunker Hill and town of CalPERS as well. As we move into pages 10 and 11, you can see some of the development activity that we did process. So that included 397 building permits that we issued. And that was a 27.2% increase from the year prior. It's a pretty substantial jump in one year. On the left side there, you'll see one of our commercial developments, which was Keller Logistics. It's 150,000 square foot commercial warehouse that was put in. They were great to work with. And then you can see there is a residential development here, a new house and a new family that was able to come in. But a lot of that growth was due to the absorption of that two mile radius that we didn't have before. Moving on to 12 and 13, everybody thinks we're just building permits, and that is not all we do. Far from it. The code enforcement side of things keeps us extremely busy. And so we did have 151 complaints that we received. 125 of those did turn into violations. Thankfully, we were able to, both our code enforcement officer did resolve 99 cases. That's quite a few just slugged through in a whole year time. We did have some that we have in process with our attorney. So that's a continuing effort that's always ongoing. So we do have a resolution rate of roughly 79.2%, which is, I think, a pretty high number to go. On the building side of things, when someone gets the call about a building being unsafe or that they shouldn't be living in it, working in it, et cetera. Who do they call? Me. And so I'm the one that gets to go into those. Unsafe building cases are a lot of time, a lot of effort, a lot of energy and money typically. We did come to you for an appropriation to tear down the old Grissom Inn. So that was one of the unsafe building cases that I've been working on for four years. But looking at that, we did have 29 that were turned in, 25 of them did turn to active cases, and we did resolve 22 overall. So quite a bit of work in all of that. 41.2% increase in violations, 8.7% increase in unsafe building cases. So our numbers just keep going up and up and up. The other side of things, so when we're not doing all of those things, violations, building permits, and Code enforcement, we did 199 total applications. That consisted of 31 addresses that we assigned, six new ordinances, 110 parcel splits, five petitions to vacate, a rezoning, two special exceptions, and 44 variances. So we are quite busy in the office. That's a 67.2% increase from the year prior. Again, that's a pretty hard number to stomach, especially with a very small staff, but we're doing it. Now, where it gets to you here, so I just wanted to take a look at the financial overview of our department. So we did adopt a budget of $429,435 in 2025. We spent $246,531.50, so that's roughly 57.4% of our budget that we spent. However, we were able to return $195,545.64, or 25.5% of our budget. so that's always a goal of mine is to make sure we're returning at least something in our budget at least 25 percent and we well exceeded that so I'm happy to be able to hopefully steward that money well that you're entrusting me with the other side of things that we are a little different as a department than most is our revenue and our cost recovery so we have operational revenue from permits and then other revenue that we generate and you can see those totals there We did bring in $104,033 in permits and then other revenue of 7,000, just shy of $8,000. What is different is that we do have enforcement tools that we get to use on properties here in the county. So those would be fines and civil penalties, liens and judgments. And those take a great deal of work, but I'm thankful that we get to use those. So you can see the breakdown of mowing orders, violations, what we assess versus what we collected. and the same with unsafe buildings. But when we look at our total revenue that we generated and then what we recovered in enforcement efforts, we covered 52% of our operating costs as a department in 2025. If we were able to, there are still some liens and judgments out there waiting or not fully paid or haven't been paid at all. If those were to come in, we would cover 89% of our operating costs as a department. which I think is a big thing. Please don't hear what I'm not saying. We're not just arbitrarily or willy-nilly assigning fines. These are in the parameters set for how we're allowed to assign those. So I think that's pretty big. And a number I think we want to continue to move forward is offsetting our operating costs there. So less money that you're having to pay out to cover our time, labor, energy, efforts, everything like that. There on page 17, you can see some of the results of our hard work there. So properties that have been cleaned up with mowing orders, properties cleaned up from violation cases, the Grissom Inn that was all completed and all cleaned up then. And then why does that matter financially? Ultimately, we at the department want to make sure we're effectively using our public funds, and then we're putting an emphasis on compliance and recovery, and then helping to reduce our long-term financial exposure and ultimately creating a sustainable operation as a department. So to round it out there on pages 19 and 20, you can see some of the goals from 24 that I reported against and then 26 goals. are continuing to move that dial forward just a little bit. Ultimately, and just kind of in closing, so our role in our department here, we stand more structured and more disciplined and better positioned to manage our role with clarity and consistency. Our focus moving forward is not constant acceleration, but thoughtful stewardship, ensuring that progress made is sustained in a way that is both responsible and durable. So the work continues thoughtfully, deliberately, and with purpose. So ultimately, I just want to say thank you for granting me that new position, moving our part-time to a full-time. As you can see, we have a ton of work that we're doing constantly. And I couldn't do it without your support, especially in the funds. The last pages there, you can see a monthly snapshot of everything in a little more detail. These books are yours, please take some time to review it. It took a lot of time to develop that probably on my plate. And I don't know if I'll do one quite that in depth going forward, but I'm very proud of the work that we do. And ultimately I couldn't do my job without the three people in my office. So a big shout out to them as well.

Questions, comments?

This is a very nice layout. The picture of Brad. Oh, well. Yeah. Honestly, that's a good mug shot, Brad. You look better here than...

I appreciate that. You did a good job. Okay.

Corey, thank you for everything, doing that office and your staff. I haven't been doing this long, but with your leadership in there, it's been amazing to see. So thank you very much.

Thank you. Professional LinkedIn.

Quick question. Do you know when, I know we're heading into budget season, do you know when we will be anticipating getting our budgets to us or the forms for that? I assume those are still due July 1.

I haven't heard anything.

yeah from the budget wage committee so okay i just have to have it before playing typically i would have to have it in front of playing commission before i can submit a file so just wanted to make sure thank you thanks a lot it's going to be hard to follow janice and chad our workbook is

financial sheet, so it's not quite as... Before they start, I got a text from Jim Denniston. He said if someone wanted to stand on a chair at the back camera, unplug from power and plug it back in, that might work, but I don't know.

That's pretty way... Yeah.

He just said it probably just needs a quicker reboot. But... you know, since we're this far into it. I just wanted to let you know.

I'll probably tell, so we'll just keep rolling into it. I got this on recording, too.

Okay. I just wanted to let you know he did respond.

Yep.

Actually, my phone's blowing up for people, but I want to see the audience.

Yeah.

You can hear us. Mm hmm.

And the department annual report. And these are, of course, for you to meet. I won't go over this in detail. We've already done this with the Board of Commissioners, and they're the ones that sign it every year. But again, you need to know how the money is being spent, and this helps with our budget as well. So if you have any questions, but we'll go ahead and start with the first page, which is the financial statement, and that's derived from the receipts and expenditures, of course. So I just got it laid out, basically. You can look and see MBH at the end of the year. And also, you'll have the other copy that you have are fund balance sheets at the end of the year. So that's for every fund that we have. So we have MBH, which is your gas tax, 1176. You can see our year-end fund balance. You can also see the expenditures and the receipts with that. The next page would be restricted fund, which is still gas tax. And that's the, you can see the fund balance report, 965,162.58. And then the next page on your fund balance report, you'll notice Local Road and Street, LRNS. That is license plates tax. $521,707.93. And then next is Hume Bridge. $1,110,874.89. And then you're going to see the next page is wheel tax. Wheel tax is not considered a common fund, even though they want you to have it, because if you don't have it, you're going to get penalized. So it's in the other funds is where it's at. So it's all the way over. And you can see the balance on that one was $1,418,693.53. And then the other fund was the year we, this was CCMG Matching Grant 2024. We finished that project and the vendor got us invoiced at the end of December. And so you have to do a closeout. Any money left over, there was 185,108.68. So I had to give that back to the state. And so that was an overrun. And so that's how that works. So if you have any questions, then you can go through the worksheet of the financial report. You'll see all the receipts. The next page is all your receipts. And there you'll see the wheel tax and then the CCMG. And then keep going and you'll find your expenditures, disbursements. That's broken down how the state of Indiana says we have to break it down in nuts. Keep going. And then if you get to a couple of pages later, you'll see our mileage. So the actual mileage changes. So prior year, you can see that we had asphalt, let's see, was 162. That didn't change. Chip seal. We had 522 the previous year. And then we went to 537 chip seal. And gravel roads went from 102 to 87. So they changed. chipped and sealed some gravel roads. So we're getting that gravel. When I think I first started this, I'm going to say we had like 123. So we really did it hard in the last few years on gravels. And there's no debt. Well, check on those. There's no debt. So we don't have any loans out. And of course, the signatures and that's it. So if you have any additional questions, you want to look at it, and I am We're always in the office. You can come in and we'll talk to you again if you want to know how money's being spent. I will follow up with Corey. As you know, most of you know I'm retiring in June, and we need those budget worksheets because Chad and the new person, they're going to need that additional help. So the sooner the better on those. So do I have any questions about the financial reports? APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, JANICE. THANKS, JAN. APPRECIATE YOU GUYS.

NEXT ON THE AGENDA, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO PUBLIC COMMENTS. open up the public comment. If you'd like to go to the microphone, state your name, if you're a county resident or not, and I would please ask to keep it respectful. I'm not going to put a time limit on there. Just stay in the course of what's being talked about tonight, and I would really appreciate it. So do you want to start it off, sir?

My name is George Morris, a lifelong Miami County resident. We're very detailed and excellent. I do have a suggestion, and that is everybody that gives reports, I think it'd be very beneficial if they could say like how it's benefiting the taxpayers. I say that because a lot of taxpayers can read between the lines of the report of like how it's benefiting them. Some people really, they hear blah, blah, blah expenditures. So I think if they could add in the reports of how that's benefiting the taxpayers, I think it goes a long ways with the people they're serving. Just a suggestion. What I'm really here to talk about tonight is the ordinance for the data centers. I know it's a big topic for everyone. And I just want to say that the other day for 500 people, I don't know how many people were here. I didn't do a head count, but it was a lot of people, a lot of Miami County residents that had some input and mostly opposing any data centers here. I'm on that same boat with them. I don't think it's a good idea just because of what's going to come after. Once the data center's here, it's kind of game over. You know, they can expand. They can revise. And, you know, look at what happened to Hammond in Vienna. You know, it started off the 50,000 square foot facility. Then they applied for revisions and they expanded. And now it's going to be a 500,000 square foot facility. They have to build a whole new power plant to power it. It's a lot of problems. Most of the people in Miami County are completely opposed to it. I think that there needs to be a ban on data centers in Miami County. Miami County be one of the counties that puts a ban on it and says, we like our quiet community. We like our peaceful community. We like our community to be safe from that. They can build it everywhere else. I love our county. I'm not one of those people that ever said, man, when I grow up, I got to get out of this town. I hate this place. It's never been me. A lot of my friends said that. I love our community. I've loved living here, mostly because it's safe and quiet. Mr. Saylors, you were our next door neighbor. I grew up very poor. Mr. Saylors can attest to that. I'm the youngest of nine kids by my mom. My dad had a couple other kids. Won't go there. A lot of times, we didn't have food. I mean that. We just didn't have food. Mr. Saylors and his family took me into their house. I'm the same age as his son, Tony. Went to school with him. They fed me when we didn't have any food. Our county and our community are close knit. People love each other. And I think we need to keep focused on that. Sometimes people get heated over this topic, but ultimately the world's changing all around us. Things are being pushed down our throats and we want to keep Peru. Like we know all of the economics surrounding it. But we want to keep Peru and Miami County the safe place that it is right now. I know a lot of people that moved away when they got older and they moved back. I was 37, 38 years old and so many people moving back to Peru saying, I tried California. I tried New York. I tried all these places. It wasn't home. It wasn't safe. I moved back. I love Miami County. I love Peru, Indiana. I'm staying here now. And that is what I love about our community. Mr. Saylors, thank you for feeding me when I was a kid. For real, I mean it. You and your wife are amazing people. And there's no other place I want to be. And I don't want that to change. I don't want that to change for anyone. I want them to all love where we are. That's all I got to say.

I appreciate that, Mr. Morris. Thank you. So does anybody else want to speak on the data ordinance? I just want to remind everybody it's the county council meeting. You know, we don't get to dictate what comes in the county, what comes out of the county. What we do is going to be make sure taxpayer money is being spent responsible from whatever the commissioners say or do. And that's what we tend to do to make everything as transparent to you as possible to show where your tax money goes. So, you know, we're going to be talking about the data ordinance. I would really not like to tonight since it's not on the agenda. But just moving forward, Anybody else that would like to speak tonight? Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. Pass the packets out after or should I do it before?

Pass out packets to us.

Yeah. Thank you.

Any of the government's money to bring the Kraken on the resident here in Miami County. The package is already. Better.

Yes, sir.

Any of the government's money to bring the right to a resident here in Miami County. I'm sitting back in tonight regarding the property transfers by the church in Nazarene on November 26th, 2024. Indiana code 36-1-11-3. States that town may not approve a disposal of property without conducting a public hearing. I found no records of public hearing regarding parcels 000.0001-017 or 001.008-017. Both transferred for $0 from the First Church of Nazarene to GTIC LLC. I'm asking council to investigate whether state law was followed before these disposals were approved. I've Also submitted this matter to the Indiana State Board if it counts for review. I ask that you table this rezoning bill tonight so SBOA can include their destination.

There's no rezoning bill tonight, sir. No, sir.

Any rezoning update is just a report that was given.

Yes, sir.

And there's no and that's not us either. If you attend another meeting, do you want us back? There's nothing we can do with this at the County Council level. Sure. Yeah. Okay. Hold on. i would still like to put that on the record that's okay sir yes do i have anybody else for the public comment tonight okay with that being said we are going to uh do approval of previous minutes From April 21st, 2026, do I have a motion?

I would ask that we maybe consider a motion to table. I noticed in the minutes there was no insertation on the information that Corey Rozier presented to the council. I would ask that that be revised with the information he presented and resubmitted at the next meeting.

I have a motion to

for a revision to table the minutes for a revision of what Corey brought to attention last month. I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. I have a motion from Brad Fruit and a second from Brian Nunn. We'd like to take a vote. Mr. Reynolds? Aye.

Aye.

Aye. Aye.

Aye. Aye.

Motion carries. Thank you. Next on the agenda is items for count-alapse. COUNCIL ACTION WE HAVE A TRANSFER RESOLUTION 05-19-2026 FOR GENERAL FUND THIS IS FOR THE VETERANS OFFICE IT'S GOING TO BE $134 FOR FLAGS AND $400 FOR VSO TRAVEL THIS IS JUST A TRANSFER IN BETWEEN TWO MOTION TO APPROVE I HAVE A MOTION TO SECOND SECOND I HAVE A MOTION FROM BRAD AND A SECOND BY BRIAN i'd like to take that to a vote mr wiles all right hi hi hi hi hi One is going to be $245,000 for the backup 911 system. Due to the information with the system and the logistics on there, I would entertain a motion to table this to the next meeting. Motion.

Second.

I have a motion from Brad and a second from Sandy. I'd like to take that to a vote. Mr. Wiles.

Aye. Aye.

Aye. Aye. Aye.

Aye.

Motion carries. Thank you. Next for appropriation is $40,000 for budget services coming out of County General. This is what was brought up at the council meeting last month. It's for the information of analysis of the new real tax landscape, local income tax analysis, property tax parcel analysis, and the financial sustainability plan. This helps the council

uh navigate budget season with the changes to the bills in the state house um we're just need a lot of help with this to get this done right um yep so i would i would just add on there this is not for them to provide budget services for the county this year that was omitted from that this is going to be to help us with the lit changes and uh the uh potential changes to wheel tax that we need to be in compliance with sb1 so this this does not include

services to do our budget with the county does anybody have a question on that motion to approve i have a motion to approve second second motion we'll give this dave a second i'd like to take that to evoke those are wells hi hi hi hi hi hi Next on the agenda is $8,473.75 from Baker Tilly. As I'm pulling up the invoice, I want to read it to you all. So this invoice is for professional services providing connection with financial planning of the proposed courthouse project. Services they include identify available revenues to scrutinize illustrative bonds through the review of the comprehensive financial plan, financial feasibilities, calls with the county team, and other related services in accordance with the engagement letter dated December 20, 2024. Just to back on this, I did not receive any information on this until the agenda was going out. Until I see what this is for, I would entertain a motion to table this until we get this comprehensive plan I have a motion from Mr. Saylors.

Second.

And I have a second from Mr. Firth to table this until we figure out what's going on with this. I'd like to take that to a vote, Mr. Wiles.

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Motion carries. Thank you.

That's on the agenda is what Mr. Titt from Akita talked about, the Hanger 200 fire alarms coming from the CEDA funds. Is there any questions on that from the council?

What would be the timeline of getting that done once the money is approved?

Probably 90 days, sir.

Thank you, Jim.

Is there a motion to approve?

Second. Sandy seconded.

So I have a motion from Brad and a second from Sandy to approve $100,000 not exceeded for the anger 200 fire alarms. I'd like to take that to vote, Mr. Wiles. Aye.

Aye. Aye.

Aye. Aye. Aye.

Aye.

Motion carries. Thank you. Next is the YMCA Child Care Ready Grant expansion that Mr. Tidd also talked about with Mark from the YMCA where the county matches $50,000.

I would just say, I know it was, I'm not sure what was advertised as county general. I would maybe consider this to be more of a seeded economic development expense. yeah the last report that we got which had a march 31st we had a 5.17 million dollar balance within seated so i would make a motion to approve fifty thousand dollars however i would allocate that from seated not from county general second i have a motion a second before we take that to vote marcy do you have any knowledge can we um so we just do the transfer later okay so that'll be at the next meeting for the transfer but uh so fifty thousand

I'm not a county general, but seated at the next meeting. I have a motion from Brad and a second from Dave. I'd like to take that to a vote. Mr. Wells.

Aye.

Aye. Aye. Nay.

Aye. Aye. Yes.

Sorry. Motion carries. Thank you. Next on the agenda is adjustment to the salary ordinance. I'm going to read but I got written up on this. So on March 27th of this year, Mr. Wilson, he is the elected recorder from Edmond Recorder's office, emailed the council about being requesting a raise for his two part-time employees. He was under the impression that they would have gotten a raise from last budget season when we did the 3%, but that wasn't the case. A background on the Recorder's budget. This is where he pays, it's the perpetual fund. It's where he pays his part-time employees. Last year, His budget for part-time was $28,000. He only used $22,000 of the $28,000. He increased it during budget season to $30,000 and is on track to use the same as last year, which would leave about $8,000 left in the fund. Since this fund is unique to the Recorder's Office, there is no appropriation need to be made from County General. It is just an adjustment to the salary ordinance. I know Mr. Wilson wasn't here tonight. He came to the last meeting on Monday. You know, I make rounds at the county office once every couple months, and his team in there is absolutely amazing. One of the part-time individuals has transferred and read, I couldn't read the cursive that she writes, for the last 10 years, transferring all these old ledgers to digital copies. And I just want to applaud her because it's absolutely amazing what she does. But with that being said, do I have a motion?

i've got a couple of questions on so on this when we did the budget we only gave the three percent increase for full-time employees not hourly um so i don't see how we can midway you know do a raise for just these particular you know part-time that that is my feeling because when we did the budget this is what the budget was. And I know he'd have to increase, but the increase was just for, you know, his part-time hours worked. So there really shouldn't have even been a 3% added to the part-time wage. And it's really even more than 3% with his numbers. So I feel that we should wait until budget time then consider if we you know want to increase the part-time hourly wage i just don't feel we should be doing this um part way that's that's my thoughts i mean this is phenomenal i mean am i am i wrong and how i just stated how we did the budget and absolutely are you already making a motion to table this until budget season is that your motion um

Do you know what the reasoning was? Because to Sandy's point, these numbers, one's like 10% and the other's 5%. Was there a rhyme or reason for the increase?

I don't think so. We're going from $17.25 to $18.00 and $18.25 to $19.00. I don't think there's a particular increase or reason as to why.

I wish he just gave $0.75 to both.

I think he thought that he was supposed to have been done through budget time.

on the other hand i think we need to be careful just not start doing everything through the middle of the year on salaries so would that be your mention to table this indefinitely sure yes so i have a motion to table this indefinitely from sandy do i have a second i have a second for mr sailors

Just a point of order. Mr. Franks, can we table something indefinitely? I don't believe. I would say just table it until the budget season.

Correction. Table this until budget season. Is that your same motion, same deal? Yes. Is that your same second, Mr. Samuels? All right. We have a motion and a second. Mr. Wiles, would you like to vote?

Aye.

Aye.

Nay. Nay.

Aye. Aye.

Motion carries. Thank you. Next on the agenda is the appointment of Kathy Sotok. I'm sorry if I messed that up, too, for library board. I'm so sorry if I messed that up. But last name Scott is pretty easy.

Sotok, OK.

Thank you. Is there anybody? You're just here. OK.

Hi, good evening. I'm Marianne Farnam. I'm the director at the library, and your board appointment, her term expired, so we're requesting a new person for the next four years. Her term will start June 1st, 2026, and we'll go to May 31st, 2030. My goodness, I can't believe I'm saying that. Kathy is an avid library user. She's in our building almost every day, almost as much as we are, And she also has a really great background in finance, which is always something we look for. So I hope I will consider her position.

Do you have any questions? Sounds like she would be an asset. Yes. I make a motion.

I have a motion to appoint Kathy to the crew library board. Do I have a second?

Second.

I have a second from Brad. Mr. Wiles, would you like to take a vote? Aye.

Aye. Aye.

Aye.

Aye. Aye.

Motion carries. Thank you. Next on the agenda is adjournment. Do I have a motion to adjourn? So moved. I have a motion and a second. Second from Brian. All those in favor say aye.

Aye. Aye.

Thank you for listening.