Commissioners - Regular Meeting

Okay, we'll call the order, stand for the pledge.

Okay, thank you for attending the Porter County Board of Commissioners meeting today, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026.

Consent agenda.

Approval of payroll, July 17th and July 31st, 2026. Approval of claims, July 16th, July 21st and July 30th, 2026. Approval of minutes, July 14th, 2026. I move we approve the consent agenda. Second.

We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries. Next, we have an announcement. We have a proclamation for the Count's baseball team. Are they here? Do you guys want to step up to the front? Your 2026 Indiana High School Athletic Association Class 1A state champions.

Yeah, have a seat in the front.

Have a seat on the queue there. Coaches, you can take up here. They're putting you on the spot. Did you guys lose a bet, or did you deliberately dye your hair like that? It's a good look. Good summer look. Congratulations to all of you. Yes. Great honor. What a feat. That is, well, in Porter County, seems like once in a generation accomplishment. But congratulations, you guys. That was a tough road. I followed it. It was really, some really, really close games.

It was outstanding.

Yeah.

So we have a proclamation honoring the Couch High School Mustangs baseball team. Again, 2026 Indiana High School Athletic Association Class I state champions. Whereas the Couch High School Mustangs baseball team completed the 2026 season with a record of 32 wins and one loss, the finest season in history of the program. And whereas the Mustangs advanced from the sectional, regional, semi-state rounds of the Indiana High School Athletic Association State Tournament, defeating every opponent placed in front of them along the way. And whereas on Friday, June 19, 2026, the Mustangs defeated Northeast Dubois by the score of 2-0 at Victory Field Indianapolis to win the Indiana High School Athletic Association Class 1 Baseball State Championships. first state championship in any sport in college high school history. That's a big thing.

That is. So you players that are here, any of you seniors? You two are seniors going off to college? Have you, Ted? Nice.

So I see I got a good amount coming back.

You're the Harper person. You're better looking than your old man.

Senior pitcher Billy Miller threw a complete game shutout in the state championship game, allowing only two hits while striking out eight batters. And whereas senior Jesse Overholt was honored with the Phil Gardner Mental Attitude Award for the Class 1A baseball presented annually to the senior state finalists who best exemplifies mental attitude, scholarship, leadership, and athletic ability. Whereas the championship season was possible through the dedication of Mustang players, the leadership of head coach Jason DeHorst and his coaching staff, and the unwavering support of the college community, families, and fans who traveled to Indianapolis and back to celebrate the historic event. Whereas the accomplishments brings great pride not only to the college community, but Porter County as a whole. It reflects charter and hard work, team spirit, and defined Porter County student-athletes. Therefore, it be proclaimed that the Porter County Board of Commissioners must hereby recognize and congratulate the Cowks High School Mustangs baseball team on winning the 2026 Indiana High School Athletic Association Class 1A State Championship and extends its sincere appreciation to the players, coaches, families for the pride and honor that they have brought to Cowks and all of Porter County. Thank you.

Congratulations.

Good job.

Okay. Work hard, good things happen, right guys? Yep. Thank you. Thank all of you guys.

And the other two commissioners don't know this, but I mentioned it to you. Our Belparisa Rotary Club, we will be providing championship rings to the team.

Very nice. Check and see if the diamonds are real. That was a big honor.

I mean, that's just a huge accomplishment, first ever for Couch. And again, many congratulations to the fans and families and the players of Couch and coaching staff. So on behalf of the Board of County Commissioners, thank you very much. That was an excellent honor. It made us all proud. So thank you. Yep. Have a good day. Next, we have great news life, 2026, 2027, upgrade regional partner profile partnership agreement in the amount of $20,350. Motion to. Second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Motion carries. Next we have the health benefits. Good morning, sir. Good morning.

Is your microphone on? Is that light on? We hear you.

Well, we can hear you. I just don't know. How about now? Better now. There we go.

Okay. Eric Gibson with High Street Insurance. My office is right down the street. I'm here seeking approval for the medical and prescription drug plan renewal with UMR in Berkeley. So just a little bit of background. Medical trend is about 12% this year. Berkeley, the captive trend is about 9%, which actually just speaks to how well the captive overall is performing. From a stop loss perspective, Excuse me. We did have some marketing struggles getting some other competitive offers in early. So we define a high-cost claimant as any member with over $200,000 in medical claims or above. We currently have six. It's typical, but given the complexity, we've gotten a lot of questions back from the market, additional reporting needed. We're expecting at least one of those to be lasers on any additional offers that come through. So given that information, we're not terribly optimistic it's going to be worth waiting. Like any stop loss offer, the Berkeley renewal that you have in front of you today does have an expiration date. They did give us an extension to this meeting for approval. If it's not approved today, they are going to revise that quote. It's probably going to go up because we know what's coming down the pike as far as claims go. With that, I'll transition to the executive summary that you guys have in front of you. So current plan there on the left, renewal on the right. So the total annual stop loss premium, that's Berkeley. The current is 1.44 million going to 1.58, which is about a 9.8% increase. Annual administration costs, so this is UMR and AFTA. $589,000 currently going to $607,000, which is a 3.1% increase, so total fixed costs. Currently, just over $2 million, going to $2.18, which is a blended fixed cost increase of $7.8. Now, since you guys are self-funded, the vast majority of the dollars that you're spending are actually on claims. So expected claims liability of the current policy is about $9.75, going to $10.2. And this is just underwriters. Nobody has a crystal ball. So this is what they're expecting. So that's an increase of 5.2%. Maximum claims liability, so that means absolute worst case scenario next year, or excuse me, this year is 11.7 million. Next year would be 12.3, which again is a 5.2. So if you add all of that together, the total program expected costs for UMR and Berkeley on the medical and prescription drugs, the current is 11.7 going to 12.4. On a maximum cost basis, you're at 13.8 currently, going to 14.6. This still has a no new laser provision on the policy, as well as a rate cap at the next renewal. So we're very gracious that we negotiated that last year. So they haven't, obviously they can't add a new laser this year, even given the claims.

Can we vote for both of these together? I move that we approve the renewals for both Yomar and Berkeley.

Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you.

Thanks, Eric.

We have next up, Proposals to Appraise 153 Franklin Street, Valuation Services LLC for $3,600, and American Valuation at $2,500.

We actually need two certified appraisals.

Yes.

And then we have to take the average of the two before we can advertise to lease out the property. These are the same companies that actually appraised the sheriff's residence before we leased that out. And we were able to get these quotes for the old, old jail portion of it.

So that's what this is?

Yeah.

Do you want to make a motion?

I move that we approve the proposals to appraise 153 Franklin Street with valuation services for $3,600 and American valuation for $2,500. Second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Motion carries. Skillman. Good morning, Paul.

Department, we've got three past three. We have motion and second all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye motion carries.

By the way, can you just tell us where we are and how close we are to having a ribbon cutting?

So all the walls of the cold storage building have been completed. They are working on the roof now. I actually just stopped there prior to coming here. The roof should probably take another week or two, and we've got some grading, so I would think first week is something that we should do.

Cool.

This is for the highway. I should forget. Totally forgot. I just assumed we already had a ribbon cutting. We haven't.

No.

I saw you guys got grass growing out there, though.

Grass, there's some plants going down. I was talking to Bill about some additional land feed we can do out there. Overall, we've got some. And Jim, that was the groundbreaking. How time flies. I had a senior moment. all right moving on to the uh porter county jail we've got uh five pay applications here uh gary up payout number 15 in the amount to 94 181 57 cents kleckner interior payout number 14 in the amount of fifteen thousand six hundred and seventy three dollars and thirty eight cents stance painting payout number twelve in the amount to eighteen thousand two hundred and eighty seven dollars and fifty cents Quality control systems payout number 14 in the amount of $168,559 one second. H&P Electric payout number 15 in the amount of $19,012.96. I move that we approve.

We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you, Paul. Thanks, Paul. Facilities. Good morning, Phil.

Good morning.

Okay, we'll start with the JDC.

We have a Brooklyn construction that had to do a change order for a payment on the spot. They were required to do it for $293.

I move that we approve.

For how much again?

$293.

Second. We have motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Motion carries.

The next ones are for the payouts, because they finished showers. Birding and construction for payout number one for the amount of $37,898. Can we do these all together? Yeah, we can do the payouts together. Okay. Then I got marathon payout number one for $38,684. Marathon for payout number two, $17,440. and Maryland-Pompeii for $10,148. I move that we approve. This was the review of all the showers, and they finished them all and submitted them all at one time.

I move that we approve. Second.

We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Motion carries.

I have mechanical concepts, want to do a change order. We finished the HVAC system, and they ended up coming $20,000 less, so they're giving us $20,000 less.

I move we approve.

Good.

Very nice. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye.

So how are we done with the JDC now?

For the HVAC and the showers.

And what do we have left over there?

They'd still like to get their carpet redone, some flooring, and they'd still like some different rooms painted that hasn't been done.

Have we, do we have any?

budget any plan that's been presented to the commissioners so we understand everything i think no i've been talking with them i'm kind of what told them we want to finish up some of the projects we have right now before we try to keep going forward with anything else so we're doing minor stuff ourselves inside the house that we can now that you're crazy bring up for bond

All right, moving on to courthouse.

We have two cameras that were missed on the fifth floor when we did the assessment to redo all the cameras that I'd like to get done for $7,604 to be paid with from the bond.

I move that we approve.

Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Motion carries.

And then for North County, I'd like to get the sign redone from Legacy for $11,847.75. That's one of the cheapest ones out of the three companies. And they're actually retrofitting the sign that we have to keep it cheaper, putting new, repainting it, and then having to update the lighting and everything, and redo the landscape around it.

The building was renovated, what? three years ago, four years ago. But we didn't touch that sign, no, not at all.

So Phil, do you mean less expensive or do you actually mean cheaper? Because I just want to make sure that we're not getting something cheap. We want to get some, okay.

We want to tear everything down and re-put up and tear 20,000, 30,000 more. This company came and says, well, the sign structure is good. We can take the whole sign down, take it in, sand it down, repaint it, reseal it. and reuse it from there and make it, you know, a third of the cost.

Okay. I move that we approve.

Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Motion carries.

Thanks, Phil.

Thank you, Phil. You too, Phil. Animal shelter. Good morning, John.

Good morning, John. How's it going?

So we have the Animal Control and Animal Shelter Services contract extension for the following towns. Town of Burns Harbor, Town of Couch, Town of Chesterton, Town of Beaver, and City of Valparaiso.

Can we do these all together, Scott?

Yeah.

Okay.

How come Portage is on here?

Yeah, the town has a notice of that.

Would that also include Portage?

It would include all of the municipality contracts. So we just...

Right.

We haven't received those contracts in yet signed. These are the only ones we've had come back signed.

Okay.

Okay, so we can only approve the ones that we have in signed. Right.

Okay. Okay.

I move that we approve the contract extensions for the towns of Burns Harbor, Couch, Chesterton, Hebron, and the City of El Paraiso.

Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you.

Thank you. Scott, did we give some kind of due date as to when those had to be returned?

Yeah, there's two within it because this extension takes from the end of the year, and then there's an additional three years that need to be turned in before budget time. I'll check back to the letter, but this was an extension to go from the end of July to December 31st at the same rate. they've been out for a significant period. This is the first rotation of they got to their meeting and approved and sent it in. We haven't heard about the long-term contract a lot, but as far as the extension, we haven't heard a lot of issues surrounding those.

Okay.

Thanks.

Okay, we're good.

You too.

Health Department, Mr. Paul. Good morning.

Good morning.

We have an ordinance revisiting Porter County Board of Health Tattoo Parlor Body Piercing Facility Recognizations as the second reading.

I move that we approve on the second reading.

Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries. The second we have an ordinance revisiting the Porter County Board of Health fee structure. Second reading.

I move that we approve on second reading.

Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Motion carries.

We have one matter that's still pending and that's the effective date of implementation of these fees. And in talking to the staff, I think we have two characteristics of these fees that should have two separate deadlines for implementation. Those fees that we collect as part of an annual permitting process, we'd like that to start with the permits that we issue for 2027. Secondly, those fees that we collect for services rendered on the spot, we'd like that to be effective as of September 1st of this year. That'll give everybody a chance to do the transitions we have to and get everything in line and ready to go.

Do you see any problem? Okay. Does that have to be part of what we're? No, final process. Okay. Okay.

I just wanted to make it part of the record of your meeting.

Then I move that we approve those dates as suggested.

Thank you.

As stated.

By Mr. Hollenbeck. So moved. Our second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. Sheriff's Department.

Good morning. Good morning, Sheriff. Good morning.

We have an ordinance amending Chapter 3-3.34 of the Porter County Municipal Code regarding inmate processing fee second reading.

I move that we approve on second reading.

Wholeheartedly approve. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries.

Thank you.

Big guns in today.

Have a good day.

Stormwater Mr Jaybo.

Good morning, good morning Mike morning. First on the list is a professional services agreement with Soil Solutions Inc. This is in regard to the Marquette Greenway Trail. During the development of design, as you know, we worked hand in hand with the National Park Service to develop the alignment of the trail, which I think is by and large going to produce a much more better product than opposed to going underneath the high power lines of NIPSCO. During the process, Certain impacts were made to wetlands, and as you know, wetlands are very prime pieces of property, and especially in the Park Service. But working hand in hand with the Park Service, there were about a total of four acres of impact had we gone the traditional route where we'd buy credits from the DNR or go to a wetland bank, and those credits cost about $195,000 per acre. As it worked out, We did restoration of about 11.7 acres of property. And the cost that So Solutions proposes, that's putting the plugs in the ground that the Park Service will provide, getting their land ready to put install said plugs. And then it's a five-year maintenance because we have to prove that the wetland is survivable and sustainable and all that. So it's a very pricey proposition. Had we done four acres, 195,000, we'd be looking upwards of, what, almost $800,000. And we're going to do it for about 208,100. So, Soil Solutions have been on the team since the inception of the project. They continue to provide us observation services by another contract. And we're recommending that we enter into this contract, which would be a five-year contract, totaling $208,010.

I move that we approve.

Second for discussion. Is 20810, is that coming out of the grant?

no we do initially we do have money that the council gave us for the project so we stashed away a little bit of that and we've been using that we will have to come back to you in the next two three years to finish off the project i think by that time you're paying roughly ninety six hundred dollars a year so the big costs will be up front which will absorb as part of the money the council gave us for the project through lit and foundation holdings

And were we able to capture the entire grant from the Next Level Trail?

No, we've expended everything else already on the Next Level Trail.

Okay. But we were able to capture the full match?

Yes. We will exhaust every penny that the $5 million they gave us, yes.

Okay. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries.

Next is a local public agency and consulting contract. This is in regard to Bridge 99, County Road 400 North over Salt Creek and Union Township. Before you, it's a right-of-way services agreement with Lockmuller Group to acquire up to five parcels. This includes all the steps required by the federal aid or federal highway and INDOT procedures. The total of five parcels not to exceed $45,000. Also, I failed to look at the signature line. It has former Commissioner Blaney's signature line on there. Before you sign today, I will get a clean copy and make it correct.

All right. I move that we approve.

Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries.

The next item is a memorandum of understanding with regard to the committee to study the need for regional fire and emergency services for Southwest Porter County. I'll give a brief introduction, allow Commissioner Morales to speak more to this, but he and I have spent the better part of this year meeting with the various agencies. If you remember, we came up with this MOU that basically set aside, Commissioner Biggs last year wanted to put together the committee to look at this, which I think is deservingly so. We refined his idea to create three committees. We want to be an elected officials committee, which also includes the two school superintendents from Boone and Porter Township. It'll include a pure citizens committee, which they will be the test base, which will run things by and get their input. And lastly, there'll be a technical committee, which is solely technical people, such as the fire departments, with professional subject matter experts coming in from time to time to guide us. Our goal is to create anywhere from two to three funding scenarios, looking at both fire and damages.

Which committee is actually doing the analysis of what it's going to cost and looking at different alternatives from ?

That would be the technical committee that will put that together for consideration by the elected officials and the citizens. And if you want to add anything, Commissioner.

I mean, it's, you know, it's it's starts to discussion and that's that's where it starts. And that's all it really is at this point, because it's never been discussed. So until we get everybody in the room and discuss the future of firefighting, what that may look like. and what that may cause. You know, this is something that's never been done before, but we know times are changing, especially with all the different legislation that's been changed. So, you know, we're gonna learn as we go, and we're gonna get to a lot of answers that everyone has asked for a long time, exactly what is needed, what does it cost? what does it entail and uh i think it's important that you know we'll have a citizens committee now to also understand exactly what it costs to to do something like this you know it's not it's not a cheap thing but times are changing and um again it's just a it's just a member member of understanding get people in the room and get this discussion started so

And if I could add, just for the record, the sitees, if that's a word, or co-sitees of the thing are Boone Township, Porter Township, Town of Hebron, and today will be Porter County.

And the other thing that I suggest is that you take a look at So you have costs, right? There's going to be costs. And then you have response time. And you have to balance, and really this is where people have to decide what's more important, the lowest cost possible or the highest response time possible, or what's the balance? So I think if you can look at what the cost is per response time and then have people take a look at that and say, okay, well, we have to have this response time. Well, that's what this is going to cost.

Correct. You're absolutely correct. And the model for delivery of emergency services through the volunteer system, I've heard a lot of people say that is not totally sustainable to achieve the goals that you're precisely talk about. So we'll also look at what's the cost if we have to go to maybe a hybrid. of a paid fire service or paid on-call fire service supplemented by volunteers. We're not being biased in any way what the final outcome is going to be. We're just meeting technically. We want the elected officials involved, and we want the citizens involved.

Well, I move that we approve the memorandum of understanding between Porter County, Town of Hebron, Boone Township, and Porter Township to examine the feasibility of a Southwest Porter County Fire District.

Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries.

The next item is a contract with Senator Dalton Municipal Advisors, a professional service and agreement. This would be for as needed services, the part of the motion we just made. It's important that we're going to be using, we've already met with Dave Wislinski from the auditor's office. He's plugged into the process. He'll be involved in every step of the way. but we do need someone like this sender adult to run the numbers so to speak to make sure we're on target I think the goal is the county will provide even better numbers with the auditor and our GIS people involved so we can get these numbers as close as possible and they were also involved when they were the discussions were going on with regard to the territory They did an initial analysis for the west port of fire protection.

So they're familiar with what we're talking about.

And this would just be much bigger.

Pardon? Yeah. I move that we approve.

Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Motion carries.

And our last agenda item, this is the second reading of an ordinance. It's an ordinance of the Porter County Board of Commissioners suspending building permit and variance fees and extending the non-conforming structure rebuild period for structures damaged by the tornado and severe storm event of June 11, 2026.

I move that we approve on second reading.

Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Thank you. Valparaiso Events, Katie Abel. Good morning.

Good morning.

So we have the use of the parking lot behind 157 Franklin for handicap parking and access to the building's roof plates and antenna for two-way radios used on festival day.

And this is, you've been asking this every year, right?

Pardon me?

This is not a new, you do this every year, this request every year?

Yeah.

I move that we approve.

A second with discussion. We have to make sure that we leave 10 of those spots open for the E911 display. So when shift change comes, they have it.

Sure.

Other than that.

And we use the 49 Sheriff's Department for security.

We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Motion carries. Second, we have EZP. EZP. We have placed a sign on the courthouse lawn on Labor Day week in advertising the festival and schedule of events.

We have a motion.

No, I didn't know if he was going to explain what that is.

Oh, we do an A-frame sign out front on the courthouse. We've done it the last few years. And we do it Labor Day weekend.

All right. I move that we approve.

Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries.

You don't need him for the third one, though, right? That's our discussion.

That's our discussion. Okay.

Thank you.

All good. Thanks. Have a good day. Thank you. See you. In this third one, we have an administrative building, parking garage, parking fee.

And I recommend that we do $20 again. It's so much easier. We don't have to make a change. It's just the easiest thing. That's what we did last year, and I recommend that. I move that we charge $20 for parking on popcorn.

This is for the popcorn. Popcorn. Yeah. Second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Aye. Motion carries. Kiwanis Corn Roast Festival, Justin Osborne. They have a request for using the admin building parking garage during Corn Roast Festival August 8th, 2026 from 5 to 10 p.m.

I move that we approve.

Second with discussion. You know, this is another request where, you know, it's a very worthwhile, you know, this organization. It does a lot of good. But so commissioners know that we've had, and this is a non-profit, that we've had other organizations that aren't non-profits ask for that parking to be available for free. I think we're gonna have to have a discussion as a board as to what we're going to, moving forward, what we're going to allow and not allow as far as free parking goes. because it is, I think it is confusing to the general public that, you know, why isn't the garage open? And there's a, say there's a festival going on across the street. Um, and those, but those, those festivals are, from my understanding, they're for profit. You know, they're, they're being paid to be out there. So in the, in the garage, you know, the garage was never built. Um, um, to accommodate parking in downtown Valpo. That garage was built to accommodate the parking needed for people who need to come in here and do business and for the county employees. And to open it up as free parking for downtown Valpo, I think that's a slippery slope. As we just found out, we've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on repairing parking the garage out there. We've got hundreds of thousands yet more to spend to get it back to where it once was. I'm just giving the board a heads up. We need to have some kind of talk. What are we going to do here moving forward? I think it's only fair to the city, but especially to us. We don't get into cherry picking who's going to use that for nothing and who's going to pay. I think it's a healthier approach.

Yeah, perhaps we could put something together with Scott and have that discussion. But as far as the commodities, that's a not-for-profit. They've done that in the past. I've donated to them. They're a great organization. They do great things. but I don't have a problem with the not-for-profit. Now it does, for the for-profit ones, create an issue. But perhaps we could work together on something, Scott. Come up with something.

So we have a motion and a second.

All those in favor signify by saying aye. Motion carries.

And Bill's still here? Bill, you'll be working with Qantas about... Okay.

Thanks. Next, Stonebridge Subdivision, road closure. Mr. Jason?

Yes.

So you have a request. Request to close our drive in Stonebridge Subdivision for paraded homes occurring from September 1st, 2026 through September 28th, 2026, 24 hours a day.

What is the Parade of Homes?

The Parade of Homes will be an on-site. There'll be seven homes that will be displayed. And it's the first single-site Parade of Homes in Porter County in 20-some years. So it's going to be a big event we're anticipating. And due to that, we want to make sure that the traffic that typically will come through.

Stand up here.

Come down Farm View here. And there's a lot of people that live up in the subdivision up here in High Meadows that they, because we're going to be setting up vendor tents and there's a designated parking spot for the event, that they not pass through here during the month of September. There's still access through High Meadows up here. There's still access through for 500 East for the rest of the subdivision. So it'll still be easy access. This road wasn't even here until Stonebridge started it. So just for the month of September for purposes of safety and for planning purposes, we'd like to have that closed. Just that short road. Yes.

So what about the residents in the area other than...

Well, yeah, so the high meadows up here, there's access to the north, and then there's access to the east. And Stonebridge, all the residents are brought here.

Okay.

Yeah, so there's not, we're not blocking any access to Stonebridge other than this one.

Have you alerted the residents and told the residents just to see if what they're?

We have not, no. Okay. Mr. Jabo?

Of course, the highway superintendent is here, but listening for the first time, two things. One, advising the school corporation for routing. And second, and I haven't seen the map, it's got to be available for emergency access.

Right. Is that a school bus route? Do they use that road? Do you know?

I think they drop off at the beginning of the summer. Yeah, they drop off here. And our residents in Stonebridge have been made aware.

Just not formally.

be a tent on that road so there will be emergency access where we have to get through there because on the vip we do have a celebrity we have brian berlinger coming so they needed access as well as emergency action in case something so if a fire engine or an ambulance needs to get down here they can get in and out and then when we get developed turned around on in these cul-de-sacs It's been a while since we had a parade of homes. 2014 was the last one in the county. The big one was 2005.

Yeah. What is the intent of a parade of homes?

We're spotlighting the builders and their work custom to Porter County and the HBA, which represents all of Lake and Porter County. They chose our site because we have a cluster of lots that we're building in the back for residents to come see new designs, the new work, kind of show off Porter County. We're expecting 10 to 15,000 people over the 10 day period. So there's a lot of work going into this and a lot of collaboration

I've driven through there several times. You guys are putting that together. It's really nice.

A motion to approve.

Second.

We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Motion carries. Thank you. Okay, moving on. Is there any other matter which may properly come before the Board of Commissioners? Would anybody like to speak? Larry, anything? Okay, next commissioner's meeting will be August 25th, 2026. Meeting adjourned.