Commissioners - Regular Meeting

stand for the pledge please Mar I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all welcome everybody to the Porter County Board of Commissioners March 11th 2025 meeting we'll start with the agenda no approval of payroll February 28 2025 approval of claim February 20th February 27th and March 6th 2025 approval of minutes February 18th and March 4th 2025 W measur report January 6 through February 16 2025 move we approve the consent agenda second we have a motion for approval as well as a second all those in favor say I I those poos same sign motion approved thank you melan uh Commissioners uh we have a uh appointment to the newly uh formed uh citizens of uh ambulance services [Music] committee like to uh appoint uh Debbie gun we didn't get an application no [Music] you need application we open it up well then we're going to delay it the director of 911 in my opinion he's just sat there um for the for obvious reasons so we can we can um extend this out to to our next meeting unless there's some objections open that back up to get an application in I'll take the blank for

that for not calling her been asking her to quote on in but I I guess because she was she's director I didn't you know I didn't feel that she needed to have well do we want to nominate the commissioner appointment at this time or do we want to hold that as well um no we can we can go ahead and do that okay I nominate Ed Morales for the commission appointment I'll second we've got a nomination for commissioner Ed Morales to uh be our our board's repres a on the anent services committee all those in favor say I I those oppos say sign motion approve and we'll just uh we'll deal with this melan get this on our agenda for our next meeting I'll contact uh uh uh Miss G uh later today and ask her to build an application now opioid settlement Awards recommendations 125,000 total awarded Megan wasinski presented [Music] how are you good how are you how's that baby big yeah yes he is want also call all of the um representatives of the uh awarded institution sure I don't [Music] know we're not asking them to do another presentation we're just going to ask them to take one minute or less and just talk about the their plan uses of these funds that were recommending the only thing we ask is when you when you speak if you speak is to give your name and what organization you're with so we get it right in yeah go ahead okay so um yes we like to thank

everyone for the support of this grant um we uh received application from 10 different organizations uh we invited seven to present um so we feel that the five organizations listed um that meet uh our expectation and goal of this rant uh so we have uh the Caring Place dood schools Marine house porage recovery uh and 320 uh recovery um Chelsea from uh Dulan pool Corporation hi I'm Chelsea BR just bar real quick the reader D version of where this money's coming from why do we why we have it okay so there is a there are several lawsuits against a number of pharmaceutical companies and Retail pharmaceutical institutions like CDs W and so forth and these are opo uh settlement funds that have been awarded to the state and then the state has awarded them to the different counties and we are uh as we established this particular committee we passed a resolution and we have funding not equally every year funding but it's kind of up and down and up and down through 2038 and so basically we looked at the amount of funding that we were going to get through 2038 and we divided it by 14 so that we knew roughly how much we could safely distribute over those 14 years and that's $125,000 and we did form a committee of five individuals one commissioner two from the County Council in Chief citizen appointments and Megan as the only unelected official was nominated to be the president of the committee and she's done just a tremendous J I thank you so much for everything that you've done the

other thing that we decided is that so that it would not be such a burden on everyone but we would have no more than five recipients so we could have zero to five recipients in this go around we actually have five recommended recipients and so as part of the resolution as part of the process they're coming in front of you today just to give you a little recap of how they're going to spend these Sal and then they will also be available at the count council meeting at the end of the month to do imagine if I hadn't ask for the short word go ahead okay uh Chelsea sure um good morning my name is Chelsea brenfield I'm the student Support Services director coordinator excuse me at dunland school corporation and we are so grateful and excited for this opportunity um a majority of our the funding and money is going to go towards our school-based prevention and education um to working and supporting our students um talked a lot about supporting students mental health and how that can lead um to substance use disord so we really want to focus on um helping students have the educational components that they need as well as working on developing a diversion program for students who have experienced um some of these things so we again really appreciate appreciate your support and um look forward to getting this [Music] going hi I am Jessica L I'm with the heing place um again we would like to say thank you to this is a big deal for us um we have over the last um four or five years been partnering with Porter Stark in Women's Recovery and we have um built a really strong women's recovery program and this money is really going to Aid um the services we provide for our clients um

Transportation uh uh group Services after care Continuum care amazing things for our clients so this is a this is a wonderful thing for us and we can't say thank you m [Music] how you doing I'm Jake man Portage Recovery Association I've been president there for over 8 years and uh we just recently received donation for a new 15,000 ft facility in the heart of Portage on l Road and this money is going to go towards the recovery World concept which is making sure that any attic that walks into our doors has every opportunity to succeed not only from uh a close up uh concept but also also through uh faith-based organizations through one-on-one counseling we want to use them of this money for a resource area to uh and people can fill out job applications or update their resumes we want to build a library we want to build a fitness area we want to build a fire pit we want to build a volleyball workt a lot of things that are all inclusive with health and well-being and some of this could go towards potentially bringing some professionals but the idea is to keep things free for our people so this is going to go a long way because a lot of people that walk in our doors they have not so to give them all these tools that they can use to go forward is just like an amazing opportunity I'm not grateful thank you guys again for doing this appreciate it hi I'm Alan grula I'm the excutive director of fre funding recovery and thank you all for the support um what we will do with this fund is we will continue to grow and expand multiple Pathways to Recovery including our art music Fitness Faith nutrition all at no cost to members of the community as well as a program called brain at no cost to any of of our

participants just as Jake was saying continue to try to remove barriers and meet people where they're at so thank you all did you want to speak to um yes um I don't see Mr roter here uh they applied for uh some house repairs and projects within the house um to just make make it more lively and a ni nicer place for the guys to live they um uh have men so we living there so um for house repairs and uh remodeling so um so the committee feels that uh these recommendations reflect our commitment to combating uh the opioid PR locally and on a variety of levels um these organizations make a significant difference in the qu County communities um and addressing that epidemic so yeah I mean in in a lot of ways you're doing lifting that if you weren't there to do it' probably fall on us however one of the things I did want to bring up today is to ask the auditor's office are we do we track how this these monies are being spent as we as we release them we are handling the same way we handle carbon so they have a process in order for them to be R perfect and documentation that need to be buil up well God bless all of you for doing what you do it's it's not easy not easy work I'm glad that uh you know that County government can help us out I'd like to move that we approve these Awards as listed on the agenda for the five recipient second we have a motion as well as a second for approval of the funds are being released this morning all those in

favor say I I I those opposed say sign motion approved congratulations thank you so much thank you for what you do to thean devil boy's already better looking his Z I know much better looking we have an ordinance establishing a nonreverting fund 4606 7 for the settlement and payment of uh of the 2024 General obligation Bond second reading approve second we have a motion as well as a second for approval all those in favor say I I those opposing sign motion approved uh we have an ordinance establishing nonreverting fund 4608 for the construction and management of the 2024 General obligation Bond second reading Mo be approved second we have a motion as well as a second for approval all those in favor say I I those opposed same sign motion approved we have an ordinance establishing a nonreverting fund for the insurance process uh to restore buildings first reading I love these these are some of my special things okay I will have to uh the board uh Commissioners will close our our meeting and open it up to a public meeting to allow comment if uh someone would like to comment either opposing or supporting uh this particular uh uh ordinance um I close the commissioner's meeting open up to a public meeting I start off with asking is there anybody wanting to come up and speak in opposition of this ordinance [Music] second call is there anyone wanting to come before the Board of Commissioners

to speak in opposition of this [Music] ordinance third and final call is there anyone would like to speak in opposition of this ordinance seeing none is there anyone who would like to step forward and speak in favor of this [Music] ordinance second call is there anyone who would like to speak in favor of this [Music] ordinance third and final call is there anyone would like to speak in favor of this ordinance seeing none I'll close the public meeting it back up into the commissioner's meeting and entertainment motion we approve the ordinance establishing noning fund 1120 for insurance procees to restore on first reading second we have a motion for approval as well as the second all those in favor say I I those oppose same sign motion approved we have an mou between the Commissioners and Portage Township Assessor assessor for property audit [Music] Services thank you this um this mou would would have the porage Township Assessor utilizing the same consultants and experts hired by the Porter County Commissioners as recommended by the Porter County assessor uh these are the consultants and experts that would engage and assist with appraisals of or assessment of real and personal property including personal property tax audits each office would maintain their sear statutory responsibilities and the work completed potentially by the Consultants or the experts shall be born by the offices individual offices that needed the work to beud a motion that we approve the between the

Commissioners and the for Professor for property audit Services second we have a motion for approval as well as a second all those in favor say I I those opposed same sign motion approved um we have a Civic Plus munic Code LLC a full service Supple uh supplementation subscription for the codification of Porter County's ordinances in the amount of $1,500 with a 10% yearly increase you want to the codification through Civics plus is what have holds our county code and as the Commissioners as we just did add funds and ordinances uh or make changes to our Municipal Code then this is where the repository is and this is where the online access is for the citizens to be able to get on and read uh the individual code sections that apply throughout the county last year I believe we did this on a per page basis and I believe the total cost at the end of the year was significantly higher around four times as high as this potential yearly cost so while the 10% yearly increase is obviously something to look at I do think overall being that there a subscription uh for the new code for civil uh Civics Civic plus will be ultimately a money sa uh as opposed to the by P that we did last year and we just never know how many ordinances we're going to do in the year because the ordinances are based upon what we're reacting to that we're dealing with as uh County Business and with any of our contracts if we F the he that we need to go in a different direction it's not a big correct okay it's not a big issue to cancel the

contract I'll let a motion and with that we approve the poster supplementation subscription with the UN code LLC and the amount of $1,500 with a 10% yearly increase second we have a motion for approval as well as a second all those in favor say I I those oppos same sign motion approved we have a request by Tim Stoner to continue renting approximately 10 acres on uh State Road 2 for farming in 2025 Mr Stoner has given the county a check in the amount of $1,400 for 2024 that appr second we have a motion for approval as well as a second all those in favor say I I those oppos same sign motion approved uh GIS 2025 strategic plan good morning good morning [Music] right so you guys should have gotten uh an attachment with the agenda that looks like this so I'm Candace AR and I'm an import benefits advisor with the gis General Insurance Services uh we've been a consultant to the county for a number of years um and when we originally stepped into that role we built and deployed a strategic plan that was aimed at optimizing the employee benefits program from both the member quality of life perspective but then also for cost Effectiveness and cost efficiencies uh so we have a panel in place that meets monthly uh to review the agenda just kind of St through those line items so we're here today just seeking approval on these line items to be reviewed and evaluated in the most meetings as you see we have uh four key Focus areas one of which means plan design the other Employee Engagement

provider management and Health Plan Administration so I provided the outline happy to answer any questions that you might have um more specifically some members of our panel have received email Communications uh regarding Alternative healthc Care options these are line items under Health Plan administration number 67 and 8 towards the bottom and we'd like to gauge whether or not we are of interest for the panel to educate ourselves on and explore um they do have a relatively long runway for implementation so it would be nothing to really consider for 2026 but more for the future one of them we already made a huge huge shift and moving to the HSA and so I know people are always knocking on asking us to look at different options uh that was a really big shift and change for for our employees and if we try to do something right now I think this might just be kind of Overlook at this point and so I would recommend that we can keep these Grand let's let's revisit this next year that would just be my [Music] recommendation what's your recommendation that we just that we hold off that discussion until a year from now because we want to let the dust settle a little bit on us shiting to the HSA and that was a really big shift for a lot of our employees absolutely the Strategic plan is a living geving document just to make sure that we don't lose sight of anything we're able to kind of move strategies around as you know obviously the commissioner SE F because certain members did receive specific email correspondence on these things just wanted to bring it to attention answer

any questions you guys might have and see how like to toce yeah I was one of the panelists that received an email from somebody that I shared with is there any is there any uh if we were to hold off as as Mark as recommend is there any negative impact um no there's really no negative impact those strategies are you know ever evolving right and so just keep in mind that again the implementation and education kind of time time frame right so the runway to deploy certain Solutions is relatively lengthy that's why we would typically start in Q2 exploring anything you know for future Years cuz in Q3 Q4 we're generally busy with the renewals um you know open enrollment we're doing benefit fairs promoting the local wellness program and things for that and these would represent radical changes to the fin so that's why I'm really hesitant for us at this point to consider something that rically changed agreed so today our health plan is under um uh that's our third party administrator their anthem for example is relatively comparable to what we have in place today it would represent a network change but it wouldn't have a drasic impact whereas the other two solutions that were mentioned um one being itra an individual coverage Health reimbursement Arrangement or a reference-based pricing plan would definitely result in significant disruption the the county used to be on on reference based pricing plan and it was not overly um admired and I Ronda can you just come up we had something like one of those two before right and did you just want to state to um the issues that we had with that at

the time and I know things can change over time but we didn't have the best ACC to we didn't have the best of experiences no um the reference based pricing the employees really don't know what what the costs are and so in the meantime they're getting build and they don't know if they're supposed to pay that or not then they're getting turned into collections it's just total nightmare it was it's rather like you know your insurance you know what you're going to pay you're going to pay you know 20% of reach deductible you're not going to pay anything for the rest of the year on the reference base price and we didn't have that yeah so today we rent a network with reference-based pricing you don't rent a network instead you set a reference price price that the program would pay for certain services so average nationally Network discounts are 300% of Medicare reference based pricing typically sets the bar below that the issue being then the difference is often build to members causing undue financial hardship and some provider systems within uh Indiana have moved away from accepting reference base pricing allog together so it could also limit access points so the reason you get those emails is because it it can be a Cost Containment strategy but it does come with significant disruption and potentially negative impact number quality of life so we just like to be very candid and transparent it's not something that we would necessarily recommend um at this point in time do the reasons you said Barb um but again follow the lead of the Commissioners and what you would like the panel for yeah you you know it's almost like when I when I listen to uh your presentation such as this or or just or just had General conversation not not just with

you not not with just GIS but the the industry itself this just seems overly complicated yeah and because of it over because it's it become so overly complicated it's become overly expensive I mean we have you know I I got a call the other day from from uh a person participating on our on our insurance they charged her $250 just for the office just for the office she was in there for 5 minutes but that's I understand that for industry wise that's typical that price yeah for again there's a lot of factors that go into that Network discounts the type of plan that you have um that's why uh you know the Commissioners you know today and past we've implemented things like The Franciscan healthy access clinic so that if it's a a truly a primary care acute care type of need any and everything uh that the employees and their families go to the franciscon clinic for is 100% covered at no cost to that I just I just think that unless you're sitting laying on a surgical table nobody's worth $250 every 5 minutes so I certainly don't get out of bed to advocate for the insurance companies I get out of bed advocate for you know people like you and and the people that we serve uh how long do you think it'll take you to complete all this uh so it's broken out by quarter so we have things that we we've begun tackling in q1 so you guys heard from American Fidelity last uh commissioner meeting regarding a dependent verification audit so that's again a responsible non intrusive way that contain cost we have strategies here for Q2 so we'll be reviewing our Pharmacy Ben benefit manager our third party administrator basically G's role um as a consultant is really to hold our vendors accountable for the results that

they have promised and is to G the return on investment for the point Solutions we have in place to make sure that they're achieving our top two goals which were enhanc the member quality of life you know continuing access to care while containing cost and a responsible you know you and I spoke at the beginning of the year and I told you that that um I felt the commission is you know with the with the assistance of GIS we need to get a little more aggressive I don't know what that means I'm not the expert you are so you got to figure out how to get more aggressive with our plan um just you know try to stay in front of it because it's it's going to continue to get more expensive it's just I mean I don't have to be in the business to see that I mean you see it all the country so although I do have to acknowledge CIS they really really that our increases well below the the national average so but they got another Gear Mark trust me yeah and some gears are comfortable right it comes in the form of a dependent verification audit making sure those on our plan are truly truly eligible um you know so one of the things we do is if if a spouse has access to qualified um group you know coverage through their own employer we ask that they take their own employer plan as primary uh prior to or instead of coming onto the county plan so you know we're verifying that all the dependents on the plan are in fact supposed to be there and you know causing that bill so again some strategies are kind of low hanging grout not as doesn't they don't cost as much discomfort to the employees others such as reference-based pricing is sometimes cance like you're pulling the rug out so it's the pro and con of what are we sacrificing you know for the amount of savings and what is that right balance well you know the thing of it is is you

know we've come to uh a bend in the road here in County government um that we're going to have to make some very tough decisions over in the next 12 months sometime within the next 12 months certainly I would hope um as to how we're going to you know um bring more resources into County government to service you know programs like such as this so you know um that that may mean at the end of the day that employees do feel a little more pension uh that may be it just it is what it is but we cannot you know with everything else going around is that affects how we do business here whether it's the high inflation the higher uh salary costs uh we don't you know we we haven't touched income taxes in our County in 20 years we don't you know I can go on and on it's just we're going to have to make there's some we're going to have to make some tough decisions here so the one thing we haven't seen yet because we just implemented it is switching everybody 100% to the HFA plan and we don't know what that is going to mean to our bottom line we haven't seen it so it'll be really good to see what kind of an effect that is Happ so Candace you're basically outlining here that in Q2 on provider management of this year that's when we are going to be reviewing our PDM our TPA and our Quantum so those are the uh we've got our prescriptions we've got TPA we're looking at UMR and then on the quantum review we're looking at the the what's the word I'm looking for coordination care coordination all of those are going to be reviewed in Q2 based upon on what

we were supposed to be getting what we got that's when those Pharmacy the TPA the UMR and everything is reviewed so that in Q2 so that we're ready in Q three or four if there's changes that need to be made based upon that review so I just want the Commissioners to understand this if whatever we the Commissioners adopt today that's what this subgroup is going to be rolling your sleeves up and working through on this schedule uh showing Q2 I mean q1 2 and three as we go through this year and then I'm assuming that monthly uh as we go along the completed side will be updated and that we could be sent up to the Commissioners as a whole to keep track of what the subgroup is doing but ultimately I believe the gis GIS is asking is is this approved to work through uh by that subcommittee um and then so everybody knows what's being reviewed and what's up on tap to be looked at is this uh this work that you would be doing here if we approve it is this of outside of your contract with us I mean are you billing us for this it's included in our Consulting agreement so the whole strategic plan everything that we do the evaluation of the vendors no additional cost this is their job yes we've been at this so yeah yeah we continually have been going through this process over the last 3 or four years and to Barb's Point that's why our program is trending below national average and we've truly had some you know great success stories um one of those pinches was the moving of everybody to the HSA plan last year because as a panel we evaluated and determined that the cost of a member on

the HSA plan annually was significantly lower than one on the co- plan so I have a question at one point in time our individuals from the outside notified that there will be bidding in the process to see if the county can get better product better services and that one point TI through the Strategic process yeah so there's various components to our plans we have an unbundled self-funded program um we have guard rails in place to ensure Financial sustainability that's through our stop law program our stop loss reinsurance renews on October 1st of every year so we go out to bid for that roughly 120 days in advance um we bid that out every year um and we take the most competitive offer so as a panel we don't decide in those monthly meetings on any changes we decide what in this example sta block should be recommended and then we come back with work wee need to put that before the Commissioners get formal approval and the stop loss numbers is the in our in our current cases what is it 175 or 150 uh that the Count's responsible for the first 150 first 175 which is corrected uh don't have it in front of me today I do believe it's 175,000 so what stop lot says is it protects us from catastrophic claims so those million dooll claims from you know the Cancers and the transplants things like that the the County's liability is capped at you know per person and but then it's also capped on an aggregate level to prevent us from you know that's 5,000 cut so to speak yeah M me you know on his face seemed really great for the county but when you're talking about

what do we have 1100 1200 people on our program they don't take long for that to jump to Millions you know if you you stay under the stop loss it's still going to jump to Millions that's why we have an aggregate as well so we per each person we can spend no more than the ceiling and then as a whole we can spend no more than than the aggregate so that's how we're able to budget and finance uh within reason and in well insuring Financial sustainability have you heard whether or not that aggregate is is likely to go up um so I mean it goes back to Actuarial analyses and underwriting and you see this what I'm talking about it gets too complicated just give us an answer I mean subject to the risk that exists within the population are stop offre see that's where that's where they get us you know they got all these little you know but rest assured you know we are I do think when we look at Health Plan administration at the bottom box you look at six seven and 8 um there's been lots of talk about these things there's lots of um people attempting to sell these things I'm not sure we I would recommend biting all three off but I do think potentially having the group explore and understand one of those options I don't think is a bad thing for yeah I I agree SC you can pick whether it's seven or eight I'm assuming six is is that just a pure unbundled format for Anthem meaning it's a we buy the anthem product bundled so Anthem has a bundled product they also have is that what you were hangle in that for six or little B A different an product correct so it would be UMR is our third party administrator today we would ask Anthem what would their race be to be our third party administrator we're probably going to do

a little bit of that and when we look at our GPA review for the two so I would suggest the Commissioners decide between seven and eight reference based is eight and the individual health plans is seven I I think the uh the commissioner's office is committee educating itself on those options so that we know what they are so that when we are approached uh in public or by email we have some understanding of what those plans are and how they work um CU it's we're always going to have to be considering things part of it is understanding the plan and how it either does or doesn't work with our people so I I think one of them at least should be bitten off this year to make sure we have a full understanding of what that would be as an option which one would you recommend candas if we were to look at one of [Music] them I would say icas are gaining in popularity while reference-based pricing is you know again being kind of pushed out of the market through other strategies um and and you already have a scar of trying the reference base in it format of that time period In fairness whatever that format was in that time period we tried it it may not have been the best fit for us so we have tried that so maybe the itra would be a good one we we don't have any experience with that or fundamental understanding of how that works so yeah and you know to be clear we don't advocate for any particular plan product solution we advocate for the county and for the taxpayers and the people that you serve and so we bring this you know kind of to the table to evaluate educate ourselves at FL and ultimately you know make a recommendation based on what the needs are of our people with our budget you want to make a recommendation

sure well then I that we approve this strategic plan and that we include number seven under the health plan Administration but for this year we strike out Number [Music] Eight Second that we have a um we have a motion for approval as stated by commissioner rignet we have also have a second for approval all those in favor say I I I those oppose same sign motion approve Skillman projects the Jael and the highway we'll start with the Jil morning [Music] oh thank you [Music] very morning uh we have two items for the jail project uh the first item being corellis rooking pay application number six in the amount of $522,000 5 $ 22,27 65 approve pay number six second we have a motion for approval as well as a second all those in favor say I I those oppos same sign motion approve uh item number two for the jail is on March 4th we open bids uh for uh the interior Renovations project um which is basically phase two for the jail um we had 21 biders across seven bid categories what I handed you was the award recommendation letter um stating all the contractors that were low based

bid and uh we completed an alternance meeting with uh some of the Porter County staff along with jail staff uh reviewing all the alternates that were available to us uh at this time skilman is recommending the base bid and alternates 1356 7 and 8 uh alternates 7 and 8 are zero cost of the county these are just uh manufacturers that were suggest that were preferred by the jail staff and number eight is precision controls um for all our automation [Music] systems forward uh with the uh the temperature controls a the automation the temperature control system Joe you have you have an issue with that no that's our recommendation okay so that recommendation come from you from our department yes oh okay I Mis understood it was Jael staff that would have recommended just make sure any any questions by the board no I that we approve the um B recommendations from stman for uh the jail phase two second we have a motion for approval as well as a second all those in favor say I I those oppos same sign motion approved thank you highway highway department uh four pay applications here you've got Dar golf Bloomfield mechanical and circle AR mechanical mov that we approve four pay up with G up construction pay up number three on the amount of 44375 with pay up number one with go in the amount of 39293 pay up number two with BL field mechanical in the amount of

$2,863 54 and p number six with circle arm mechanical in the amount of $2,213 second we have a motion of for approval as read by commissioner rigness as well as a second uh all those in favor say I I those opposed same sign motion approved uh uh real quick uh what do you guys what's your target date now with the Gage for completion overall completion we still shoot for uh kber um but right now we were push back based on some subs for uh the overall building manufacturer we're trying to catch up here we're hoping to finish the administration maintenance and the truck parking by August and then turn over to the uh so before the snow starts line yes yeah great that's super start [Music] snowing well thank you for the good job you do thank you thank you facilities Joseph uh just go ahead uh Joe one through five so we have before you today U Professional Services agreement with r structure point this is for the uh Design Services for the exterior concrete work on the front and back of 157 Franklin this is to um waterproof that area as well as to provide um um correct Ada access to the bu and this is also 155 correct this is 157 and 155 which is voter's entrance and the 157 access we we'll take these one at a time I know that we approved the proposal for professional Engineering Services with American structure point in the amount of$

27,43 for 15557 FR Street second we have a motion for approval as read by commissioner rignet as well as a second all those in favor say I I those oppose same sign motion approved second item is for uh All Phase Electric these are for the um seven LED packs for the uh wall liting at in the jdc v our staff will be replacing a I move that we approve the request to purchase s LED wall taxs with all B Electric and am $1,842 second we have a motion for approval as read by uh commissioner ret we have as well as a second all those in favor say I I those oppos say sign motion approved the next item is uh for Design Services for um the jdc building this is for dlz to provide services to design out and spec out what we're going to be using to uh restore and and reconstruct the showers over at the GBC I sorry I hope that we approve the um request for architectural engineering Services of BLC for the sh at the jdc in the amount of $15,000 second we have a motion as read uh by commissioner Ras for approval all those in favor say I as well as a second and all those in favor say I I those oppose same sign motion approved next item is for Burham construction this is for proposal to um do some repair work that is kind of a critical um issue the jdc staff has asked us to get this done right away uh we agree that this is a very important U part of getting that done so we wanted to give this right away that we approved the proposal to

repair the loading deck at the JC with uring construction in the H of $334,800 for just for the record if I may u we did get a second quote area they were um lower however with the additions that were they recommended verland um it actually is a better Improvement so that's why it's a little bit higher but they were actually their their base quote was a little bit lower this is this is an emergency yes it needs to get done right away because it's it's a danger to the staff and to the people that are using it a motion I made a motion second we have a motion uh for approval as read by commissioner rigness as well as a second all those in favor say I I those oppos same sign motion approved so the next item is with K2 construction um this was a quote for the offices as you may recall we approve the flooring and the uh Council has approved the additional Appropriations for all of this so this is before you today for approval in the amount of 16, 83391 and that we approve theot to renovate Flo offic on the thir floor the C for Victim Assistance with P Construction in the amount of $16,839.23 [Music] Election Department at 155 Franklin 3 weeks ago on February 16th this left the staff um displac and public access to the building impossible um staff has been working uh with the insurance carrier their consultant and mitigation

company to get rid of or to get the water cleaned up and the Damage removed um so not to oppose uh further deterioration of the building um additionally the election Department staff has been working with the insurance interior's consultant and our vendor to coordinate testing for the electronic equipment uh which was impacted by this event in order to efficiently achieve this all of our border equipment will be taken off site to a secure location with the approval of our insurance carrier and the Board of Elections um as we begin this process of restoration I'm asking that the County Board of Commissioners formally declare this an emergency so that we can move ahead as efficiently and effectively as possible um delays could impact the 2026 election cycle um continue to disrupt our staff and cause additional financial hardship to the County General Scott what what does that mean exactly if we do that when this board finds itself in a position that it needs to approve work to be completed to mitigate the disaster and we are not within the time frame to be able to follow the bid or quote law then this board will have to formally declare an emergency uh at that location which would allow this board to circumvent the B and quote requirements and to be able to um go down to the standard with of the statute which Joe is actually in uh 36 1129 the state also has something similar of title five but title 36 we're looking at the one for us this board then declares the emergency which gets you know if something is actually in

danger then you you can do it this board would have to come to the next meeting U formally uh have a motion that we have an emergency and we could retroactively um approve certain invoices um however the statute even in the emergency standpoint the statute still is looking for some version that we are attempting to keep cost down so we're still wanting two quotes unless the emergency is such that we can't even get back so as we go through this process we're going to have to be careful there are some things that are truly emergency and we need to go right now and there are some things that they are in a hurry but we need to get to the next meeting we we can't let's put it this way we can't have everything that's completed and fixed at 157 done under emergency it may be an emergency today but things happening in August shouldn't be an emergency does that make sense absolutely okay so we're just going to have to go through it as the individual issues come up everybody understand that so you still got to get prices oh yeah absolutely and I I said that just a quick draft of the SC Bo but we're still working on that just to kind of keep you guys in the on that thank you to all right thank you thanks uh Carrie uh we have a request for recycling District to host the higher collection event on Saturday May 3rd and Saturday October 11th at the pter County Expo Center I that we approve second we have a motion uh made by commissioner regant to approve as a second by commissioner Morales all those in favor say I I those oppose same sign

Mo now just real quick I don't want to nobody needs to be bringing car batteries or this is Just Tires it'll also be during our house we have Rel event so we have a tire correction and you can bring her as well this is a new format that state now requires should we shouldn't we announce that in our motion that it's not just car It's Not Just Tires car batteries with the tirey the state requires whenever you do a sway collect tires the owner of the land must give us permission to be on site cly just for tires so so again are we collecting Just Tires no we it'll be a hazardous waste and a tire collection of them we have announced January 30th been for the past few months so tires and household hazardous way correct and new this and and car batteries car batteries and paint all paint all those people they can't get rid of paint super seven events okay thank you guys have a wonderful sunny day yeah you too thank you we need to did you motion we storm water development management Mike J you got some guests with you today I do first order of business is second reading of an ordinance for a zoning M Amendment according to the Udo peer is Timothy and ginger Murphy pertaining to the southeast corner of lot 75 in Maran anchor subdivision Porter Township Clarity the lake alizer area from high intensity commercial CH and res IAL Lake District to low density

single District R1 it did come with a fa recommendation from this is your and I'm assuming that this is Timothy and gingerb yes sir good morning I Mo that we approve the ordinance for a zoning map Amendment of the Udo uh for the southeast corner of L 76 marinan acre subdivision Porter Township from high-intensity commercial District and residential Lake District to low density single family residential district R1 on second reading second we have a motion for approval as read by commissioner uh rnet as well as seconded by commissioner Morales all those in favor say I I those oppose same sign motion approved and good luck with your home thank you very much thank you so much you're welcome go ahead Mike second item make sure we're on the same yeah second item in change order 002 make sure you're listed since Bridge number 131 County Road 200 West over D run this is an in Project change order number two this finalizes uh the items the final change order balancing all the contract uh the end result is an increase of the project of 775 26.4 question on this one it just said quantities changed what was it didn't really say what the reason was like the second one did but this one get the reason I we need to go into the weed Mars here but usually when you end a project they bid on bid items it's not a lum some so sometimes you overrun underrun and sometimes you balance out I'd assume there was extra work as well I hope so7

[Music] Pro iine um yeah so the we had overun on bridge uh piling so linear heat increase project and then there were some uh soil that in the project as well and then in addition just throughout the project uh some of the line items has changed that actually measured in the field so this so this is just accumulation of all that correct okay I'm mov up we approv change order 002 final quantity [Music] adjustment go ahead he just wanted in the amount of $ 7752 64 for bridge 131 County 200 West over Damon one with a new contract total of 1,237 184.50 second we have a motion for approval made by commissioner rignet second by commissioner Morales all those in favor say I I I those oppose same sign approve Michael Bridge number 168 over loal again another IND project change order number nine which also finalized construction cost Association associated with project significantly uh speaking this is the utility delay project on if somebody you remember on Perma wrote that was closed for a monly perod oh yes and so this is the settlement through the IND claim process the contractor filed the claim through local level through the district loc their central office in Indianapolis $1 17587 69 was the final claim contract occurred due to delay in the

project um we've identified that there was a utility delay maybe some other factors we are those coming back and we hope to in the future recoup this amount for the cause of the that was not our fault and move that we approve change order 009 in the amount of $175,800 [Music] total of 2, 873283 second we have a motion for approval as made by commissioner uh rnet and seconded by commissioner Morales um I'm going to hold it here discussion who's on on the line for this us or IND contract I'll let Mark explain the detail from the field the contract we signed with end we have to settle all claims of the project our agreement then after we do that then it's up to us to our contract for our relationship with other people that we have all those in favor say I I I those oppos same sign motion approved number four next two items kind of go hand in hand we make a rision on the Fly here but we have these annual contracts with consult various Consultants transportation and storm water for as needed task orders throughout the year in front of you you got a mannual on call agreement for USI consultancy for professional Engineering Services RightWay and Construction Services Tas orders issued on a Case by

case pay Val through the end of the year uh originally we said not to receive 100,000 we're talking with the commissioner staff we'd like to reduce that to $5,000 uh to complete an open task order we got which is item number five so do we need to do both of you can do first the agreement and that we approve the annual call agreement professional engineering surveying RightWay and Construction Services with USI Consultants agreement valid du the end of 20205 $5,000 second we have a motion as uh read by commissioner uh gness for approval as well as a second by commissioner Morales all those in favor say I I I those oppos same sign motion approve then item five is with USI consultant this is a task order 1B they assisted us with item number three up there as far the claim procedure for Road Bridge this is for uh Services already rendered plus the TIY of the thing and their assignment will be shortly in that we approve the unall services T order 1B with USI Consultants vers and iation for bridge8 utility delay issu s $5,000 second we have a motion uh for approval as read by commissioner uh or as made by commissioner rman uh seconded by commissioner moris all those in favor say I I those oppose same sign motion appr now are we going to we going to open that back up we can we have two other Consultants already that we can okay last item that Martin explained

this is a specialty piece of equipment that he the STA need to your duties oh I still got one I apologize I don't think you do I that was last last yeah so six is not we're not addressing ahead we have another oh yeah that's for mure 2 Pro measuring tool for laying out internal construction project so our project manager uh would be using this to measure materials and appeal you know uh any excavations that we per form and the material needs to order to fill any work that you have to do um this is a not as sophisticated GPS equipment for survey that we use this is more of a a contractor grade unit so that way him or his superintendent bridge for and can use any of these tools as well to measure any material you don't have to be certified correct this more intuitive and have I know that we approve um what was just prescribing the amount of $899 second we have a motion for approval as a motion by commissioner rman second by commissioner Morales all those in favor say I I I those oppos sign motion approved thank you commission thank you have good morning you too uh We've Come to uh part of our meeting where is there anyone any other matter which may properly come before the Board of Commissioners anyone like to speak to the board Commissioners we appreciate that nobody wants to speak to us we recess