and I need a motion to approve the
agenda as it's printed.
We're doing the average.
This is a somewhat new format now of
the form line.
The state and our county would like us
to see a little different order.
So based on that.
All right, next one.
Motion to approve the agenda.
The agenda, excuse me.
I'll second that.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Okay.
Now we have public comment and I'll turn
this over to our attorney,
April Gail Parker.
Thank you.
I've got papers cleared out.
I've launched your content for the meeting
from last month.
And I wanted to go ahead and address
those specifically.
If you can go ahead and state your
name.
Rhonda Green.
And then you can start your three minutes.
I passed out information packets.
As reference to your last meeting,
you made several mistakes in your
statement, the attorney did.
My information source on the counties
without zoning came from the Indiana Farm
Bureau.
And Farm Bureau has been actively
promoting county-wide land use and zoning
in Indiana for years,
including learning events,
which I have a copy of right by
it.
I thought Farm Bureau would be a reliable
source,
but I did little research and found that
this site had not been updated since
that Farm Bureau put out there on their
website that they have not updated.
The correct listing of counties from the
Twenty Twenty-Two Indiana Planning and
Zoning Laws Annotated Book published under
the auspices of the Land Use and Zoning
Section, Indiana State Bar Association,
and the Indiana Chapter of the American
Planning Association.
The ten counties in Indiana do not
currently have commissions including Clay,
Crocklin, Dubois,
Gibson, Greene, Lawrence, Martin, Orange,
Pike, and Sullivan.
Dubois County exercises limited
subdivision control under IC three six,
dash seven, dash three, dash two.
Not even if that county does not have
planning or a planning commission
established,
municipalities within that county may
still have planning commissions
exclusively for their jurisdiction.
If there is a current difference in this
list, we will address it again.
The RDA is not county planning and zoning
organization,
even though it was brought up in the
last county commissioner meeting this way.
The only real connection that the RDA
organization has to zoning is that they
gave a grant last year to our illegal
county zoning board to waste on an illegal
ordinance proposal outside of the public
eye and to put together a comprehensive
plan without including the public or our
input.
That doesn't seem like gold star behavior,
so maybe the RDA needs a little more
scrutiny to see if there are other
problems.
Dissolving the county zoning and BCA
boards is to protect the community and the
individuals involved with these boards.
You guys appear to think that openly
breaking the law is cool,
and I can tell you that it is
not.
A lot of damage has already been done
that can't be undone by dissolving these
boards, but by dissolving these boards,
than to stop adding to the garbage.
Do you have any questions?
I've also done a couple copies of Lisa
Fleming stating that it's too hard to
follow the law and when she made sure
that
Todd Ewing was appointed to the board.
And it's not whether you actually served
on the board,
but that you were actually appointed.
Does that make sense?
Okay.
Thank you.
Max Green.
issue of the zoning board membership.
I've never got a real answer on the
uh, uh,
thirty-six dash seven dash four dash two
sixteen where the membership must own
property or reside within the jurisdiction
of the board.
This has been going on for a number
of years.
I had an report from this back up
in twenty-ten.
and when the board was first established i
brought this up in the uh commissioner
meeting and the council meetings or the uh
not anymore meetings but uh this was a
indiana code and uh at that time i
was representing uh mark hartman
We've been on the board since I didn't
know that he was on there,
but he served on the planning board and
the zoning board, a BZA board,
which made him not a legitimate member
because he didn't own property within the
jurisdiction of the board.
And he doesn't own property in the
jurisdiction of the board?
When we looked on the county maps,
it showed that he did not own property
outside of that.
from the county website.
That's the best way to do for doing
our research.
Also,
Andrew Katz is in question on the same
same issue here.
And that was brought up in twenty, twenty,
twenty two.
And it never did get addressed until I
understand he's no longer on the board.
But up until that time,
the board was allowed to continue with the
membership that I believe,
from the information I had from the county
website,
that did not comply with state law.
And that's the long and short of it.
And when the commissioners were aware that
there might be an issue with a zoning
board or a BGA member not meeting the
requirements,
The question is whether all the people who
paid money to come in front of this
board,
whether they would come in front of a
legitimate board or not,
whether they need to be reimbursed.
If there were any cases where they didn't
get a legal hearing,
whether the county needs to address
whether the board has been taken care of
properly or not.
Paid money to come before the board,
the only time anybody paid money to come
before the board is if there was a...
A BZA hearing.
That's correct.
And whether there was an adequate number
of legal members to participate in the
hearing or not is the question.
You have to go to Travis to get
the information unless there's a question
about it.
But that's what comes down to is whether
the public was actually treated fairly in
every case or not,
whether the county needs to make it right
before they go forward to make that
decision.
And same thing with the board membership
as far as party affiliation or because in
the past you can look back to the
records like we did the voting records and
it appears they didn't we had more
Republicans on maybe not this last year
but in the past what we've had since
and that that's uh if you go back
and look at that and also we've asked
for the uh
records on who was on these boards and
when their expiration,
their terms expired.
And according to the state,
they're required to be on a staggered
board.
Okay, your time is up, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you, Max.
Added to the forum?
I'll waive my time this morning.
Okay, thank you all.
I assume, Mr. Hardaway,
you've had time to review the minutes of
the February meeting,
so could I have a motion to approve,
please?
Good.
Motion to approve the minutes.
I'll second that.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Thank you.
And also the claims and payroll.
Make a motion to accept.
Thank you.
I'll second that.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
All right.
Stephanie Roche.
County Clerk, please come forward.
We have a vacancy on the Gibson Township
Provider Board due to the death of Dorothy
Wiener.
The Democratic Party Chair did miss the
deadline,
the early day deadline to make that
appointment.
So it leads it up to the executive
body to do how our son, Damon,
is interested in the appointment.
And I have checked his voting history,
but this is a Democratic seat vacancy.
And he is eligible to be appointed by
He is here today.
Do you have any questions for him?
I'd just like to say I appreciate you
stepping up and simply for your loss of
others, very,
very important people in our lives,
honestly.
I think it says something about you,
willing to step up and fill that vacancy
that she occupied for so many years.
Thank you.
This time I'll ask for a motion to
approve Damon Fleener from the position of
advisory board, Gibson Township.
I'll make that motion.
Do you have anything to say though?
No,
I appreciate your words there on my end.
I just thought it would be an honor
to continue to work for the township.
So I will swear by then today and
have him complete his economic statement,
and then I will receive the approved
minutes sent to me.
So if you want,
you can go see through and make the
next meeting.
Yeah, we got a motion on the floor.
I'll second that.
All those in favor, say aye.
Aye.
All right.
Countywide bridge inspection and
inventory.
If I could, Don.
Yes, sir.
Come forward.
There won't be a dollar amount in there.
This would just be credentials.
So just read off the interested parties
and then I'll take them for scoring.
Official name, okay.
Aegis.
Jansen in spawns engineering.
American structure point.
H-M-B.
And that's all.
I believe we need a motion to accept
these.
Is that correct, Mr. Boyles?
I believe so, yes.
I'll make a motion to accept all bids
received from the bridge inspection
inventory.
The four-year bridge inspection cycle and
this, no matter who we select,
they'll all get paid the same amount.
This is just a copy of their credentials
and who we want to choose to use.
So we'll go through these and use the
inbound scoring process and then make our
selection and announce it probably at the
next meeting.
Okay, I'll second that.
All in favor say aye.
Aye.
Thank you.
Motion carried.
Okay.
Mr. Paul Lechter,
would you like to come forward and give
us an update on the County Highway
Department project?
Thank you for having me.
In the last couple of weeks,
the weather kind of did break for us.
There in the office,
the electrical and the county IT has been
rough-in to start it from where we're at.
We've been asked to frame in a little
closet by Phil and Rick Wolf and a
couple of little minor add-ons on the
inside to help the flow,
help the path of the electric and the
IT materials.
The sign shed out there has got metal
completely around it.
They were working on the,
they had a spray foam done on the
inside.
They were working on the liner panel for
the roof and the walls on the inside
of it also.
So as soon as they get that done,
the electrical plumbing will be started
there.
I'm supposed to have a meeting with the
electrician today to discuss those items.
The big long truck link tube,
it's drained metal on the ceiling,
metal on the roof sides,
the iron panel on the interior is
installed and it is ready now for the
electrical to get going on it.
fuel shed, an end frame,
metal on the inside.
Rick and I did tweak one of the
interior items where instead of it being
metal,
we have plywood so they can nail and
hang and get those items better, I'll say,
on the inside.
The mechanics garage,
We're still working through the vertical
code issue we got out there with firewall.
We've got one item solved there,
trying to get the last one solved where
they, I'll say, keep hazardous materials.
So we are talking to the state about
that last item and we'll get them to
decide one way or the other what we
need to do.
salt building and salt storage buildings
uh i'm getting rebar here this week it's
going to come about three different loads
thursday or wednesday thursday friday the
state i think he has sent the foundation
to the state this week which foundation
permits pretty quick turnaround so
somebody's got to turn around start with
the foundations for it here in the last
couple weeks we also did uh install some
drainage on the parking lot
and at the detention basin.
And we also built a road on the
south side for Duke Energy for all access
to the telephone phones.
As you've been out there lately,
you've seen that the state came through
and did their clearing between the fence
and the bypass that you all requested.
I guess it's pretty well done,
except for right in the fence itself.
Jackson County REMC.
I believe they've started their extension
from Martinburg Road over to the property.
I think they're using Corey Baker with
that.
He's a subcontractor.
They have started bringing in the fiber
optic.
It looks a lot better now since they
cleared all that brush up there.
It's beginning to shape up.
You are pretty much on schedule with our
timeline, are you not?
Yes.
That's great.
We're just waiting on those company items,
which is a state issue.
Just got to work through that to get
it over the timeline.
What is the timeline?
we did break this you know it's two
pages the office the sign shed the link
to the fuel station stage one the
mechanics garage the salt building
All right.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you.
Mr. Boyle.
I don't believe I have anything for you
today.
Okay.
motion to adjourn I'll make that motion